March 13, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jalen Ramsey getting traded from the LA Rams to the Miami Dolphins, a letter grade for both sides of the deal, what Ramsey will bring to Miami, the start of this years Benny Awards, and much more!
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Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one of
our radio show. And play the hits, my man, play
the hits. And that's about the NFL big trade agreed
upon over the weekend. How do you agrade Jalen Ramsey
going from the Rams to the Miami Dolphins and a
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big deal. Rams got a draft pick and a tight
end I've never heard of back in the trade. What
does Jalen Ramsey bring to Miami football, to the Miami Dolphins?
And how do the Rams turn the page away from
their all pro defensive back. Jalen Ramsey will answer all
those questions and much more right now in our number
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trade that has been agreed upon in the NFL. We
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though that we will start handing out the hardware. The
greatest night in overnight sports talk radio. Nobody else has this.
We're the only show that has this. Right now, we
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I'll be kicking off in just minutes, and we're very
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all the nominees. We're all dressed up. There's a certain
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for the Bennies, and boy are we excited about that.
So we'll get to that coming up in a bit.
But we have trade action in the NFL. A big name,
a name we have heard of, is on the move.
The defensive back, shut down defensive back Jalen Ramsey is
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changing laundry. The Dolphins are wheeling and dealing. I don't
if you've heard about this or not. Maybe now we
learned over the weekend the La Rams are saying bye
bye to Jalen Ramsey. They sent him to Miami in
exchange for a third round pick, a tight end someone
named hunter along we don't know who that is, and
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a my tie to be named later. The deal will
be made official on Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday. No, it's always
a big day on Wednesday when trades are official because
that is the new league year. That is when the
new league year begins. And Jaalen Ramsey cranking open social
media saying that he quote prayed for this to happen
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for about a month. Took him a month of prayer
and it happened, not just a couple of days, a
full month before the prayer was answered. Ramsey has not
one not to but three years. Yes, how about a
higher power wanted him in Miami. But Ramsey's got three
years remaining on his contract. The Finns already agreed to
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Garrod Tate the next two years, so that means Ramsey's
only gonna be in Miami for two years. But based
on that that's kind of obvious, all right, So let
us discuss the question, how do you grade the Jaalen
Ramsey trade from the Rams to the Dolphins. So I
have the Malor report card here, Dolphins get in A minus,
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the Rams get a C plus. So that's the malle
report card. I've got Pied Piper, Codependency, and Sorcerer's Workshop
and we will tie all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice, toasty, warm playoff
game in South Florida, which has not happened very often.
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Like that was the last time the Dolphins hosted a
home playoff game. It feels like it's spent a long
time since that took place. So a big day, big
day for the Dolphins. Miami has a football team and
they're in it to win it. The Dolphins who are
lowered down the totem pole in the AFC. You do
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not have to be an insider to know that. You
look at the upper crust of the American Football Conference
at the very top Cansa City, and the Chiefs are
out by a couple of lengths. Then behind them you
got the ben Gals and the Buffalo Bills. The Dolphins
are lagging behind. However, this is a flex the muscle
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situation where it's an act of aggression. Miami is marking
their territory like a dog. Like a dog, They're marking
their territory the Jalen Ramsey bringing the Pied Piper effect,
the eight hundred year old myth. He's a he's a leader,
a leader of man, the face of the defense, invaluable.
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He's got the charisma, he inspires loyalty, just like the
pied piper. And now he's a dolphin a page to
do what exactly? What exactly is going on here with
the love connection between Jalen Ramsey and the Dolphins. So
in addition to the Pied Piper effect, this continues a metamorphosis.
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It's very bizarre what's going on here because Miami is
looking at the end. They're trying to end their codependency
with two A Tongue of Byloa while agreeing to extend
the relationship. It makes no sense. The Dolphins know that
even after picking up the fifth year option on two
A Tongue of Byela for the twenty twenty fourth season,
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they know they cannot rely on tour He's undependable. They've
got to end the codependency. So what are you doing?
He's made out of glass. We all know that he's fragile.
So as a result, Miami is deciding, Hey, you know
what we're gonna We're gonna fatten up the d That's
what we're gonna do. Fatten up the defense right there,
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and so that's what they're doing there. Ramsey is going
to be the face of that side of the football.
But this continues a pattern. It started during the season
last year. The Dolphins picked up an elite edge rusher,
Bradley Chubb, the linebacker from the Broncos during the twenty
twenty two regular season. They then in this offseason, what
do they do the Dolphins? They cried Uncle, Uncle Vic
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vic Fangio. He's a defensive gourger. Just don't want him
as your head coach. And Vic Fangio. Now he's surrounded
in Miami. He's got Jalen Ramsey, Bradley Chubb, he's the
one calling the shots, and they've got Zavian Howard, the
leftover defensive back who is very good. He's also there
Christian Wilkins, who was a high draft pick defensive tackle.
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So they have the ingredients to be a top ten
defense in South Florida, they do the major upgrades, major upgrades. Here.
Miami was twenty fourth in scoring defense last season. They
were nineteenth in total defense. And that tells me that's
not good. So I'm a football insider in the middle
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of the night that day, you're twenty fourth out of
thirty two, that's not good. If you're nineteenth out of
thirty two, that's not good. That's not good at all.
All right, last word here, So how do the Rams
turn the page say bye bye to Jalen Ramsey? His
ass is grass Well, it's clearly a bitter pill to swallow.
Do I believe that it's all over? The Rams are done,
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It's all over. Have a funeral for the Rams. No,
I do not. Ramsey is a good player. He will
continue to be a good player. Hopefully he does very
well with the Dolphins. Was an All Pro in two
of the three full seasons that he spent in Los Angeles,
helped the Rams win Super Bowl fifty six, the greatest
Super Bowl of all time, against the Bengals, and Ramsey
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was the third highest rated defensive back in the NFL
this past season. So it's not like you fell off
the face of the earth that according to the nerds
the geeks over at Pro Football Focus, he finished the
season with four interceptions, eighteen passes defended, and a whole
lot of downtime, as many teams did not even bother
throwing to his side because they figured why would we
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because he's good and the other side it's not so good.
So the Rams what they're doing here. It's not a turnout.
The last the parties over. It's not that. It's a
reshuffling of the deck, is what it is. Nothing lasts.
Forever we knew this was happening. It is the circle
of life, the circle of life in the NFL, Ramsey
has gone. Bobby Wagner spent one year with the Ramsey's out.
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Leonard Floyd, sporadically good and often bad pass rush specialist.
He's out. They all exit stage left. In return. Oh,
you draft, You're you're having orgasm. The Rams got a
draft pick. Oh it's so exciting. Oh man, The Rams
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get the seventy seventh pick in the draft and a
tight end named Hunter Long who was a third round
pick out of Boston College. So he came out of
BC in twenty twenty one, so essentially the Rams got
two third round picks for Jalen Ramsey. Long has played
all of sixteen games, and I believe you have made
a bigger impact in the NFL than he has. Then
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Hunter Long has, who has mostly been a blocking special
team's tight end, who has made no impact whatsoever with
the Dolphins. So now now we turn our attention to
Sean McVeigh and less need, who have to go into
the sorcerer's workshop. They have to go into the sorcerer's workshop,
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find a few diamonds in the rough and fill out
the roster, which is going to have a lot of
piecemeal players on the roster, but they will figure things out.
There'll be some bumps, some bruises, but it was all
worth it. Every loss was worth it. I don't care
how long the Rams blow. It was worth it. They
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got to two super Bowls in this run of trading
f them picks and getting players. Two super Bowls. They
won one of them. And you look at some of
these pathetic, disgraceful franchises that never do this kind of thing,
like the Lions and the Browns and teams like that. Said,
of course, so if the rooms are down for a
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few years. That's fine, perfectly okay with that. All good,
and they still have some other players that we've heard
of on the team. You get one thing about being
in la Is. You can't be a faceless, nameless team
or you are doomed. You have to have have to
have some headline players. And they have one on offense
in Cooper Cup, and they have one on defense and
Aaron Donald. And we'll see what the future holds for
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that people punishing Justin for the great cheating scandal that
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Let's welcome in from the Pacific Northwest. He's a college
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He's got a podcast, Blind Emmett the Seahawk Fan, our
first winner. Congratulations blind speech speech speech, speech speech, God,
say thank you the militia. Shout out everyone who's came
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Obviously you Ben, Eddie Coop, Roberto the busy guy. He
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invitations out though and all the you know a lot
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I think the podcast is kind of a different perspective
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these characters that FSR, or these characters on the show
he here every night that or it could bring you
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throwing this weekend. It was pretty cool. Blind guy ax throwing.
What could go wrong? Eddy right themselves? Right? Well, yeah,
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the guy at the place was really cool. Uh. He
helped me out to He was with me when we
had there for an hour and a half. He he
was with me for about an hour. Just he give
me the basics of it. And they're not really that unsafe.
I mean, unless you're a complete idiot, You're you're gonna
be fine. I mean the boards like right in front
of them. I think you might have handed you the
acc and then ran out of the room. I think.
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I don't know, I don't know, I have no idea.
But listen, congratulations, A couple of steps back, all right,
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that big upset did You're like Buster Douglass. This is
Buster Douglass pulling it upset. Amazing job, Emman. Did you
did you cheat? You didn't cheat, did you you? There's
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no cheating, right, you didn't buy a bot accounts to
vote for you? Yes, I wish I had money like that. Shoot,
those things are expensive, I know, so do I I
would have so many more follows of my own pots.
But all right, well, thank you, congratulations. There he goes
blind him at the first winner in an upset a
stunner from the Pacific Northwest as Emmett takes out justin
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in Cincinnati. Are you not going to mention the controversy?
And there's no controversy controversy, there's no controversy, there's no controversy.
No, no no, no, there's no king. I want to know
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There's no controversy. Oh what what? Yeah? I mean, it's
it's all technically legal. Uh you know, but there may
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It's not technically, it's not technically illegal. Andrea has got
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the hell we are. She's getting her friends to vote.
That true. Yeah, man, that's the way to do it.
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You got to crank up the numbers, the vote total. No,
I mean it's campaigning, so you know. Yeah, Hey, every
vote counts. Even if you're not a fan of the show,
it doesn't matter. Your vote counts. All right, Well, congratulations
to to our first winner, blind him at the Seahawk
Fan as he takes it home. And congratulations all the nominees.
We started out with twenty four nominees, some big names
in the different brackets, just Joshed and we had Alfie,
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Alan Opiner, you fee me from Chicago, Eugene and Chicago.
So many guys that were so good on social media
this year, and it's a big part of what we do.
It is a big part. It's really the advantage that
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey,
I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast is called All Ball. We
usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's more
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So back to college basketball. We told you with the
top four seeds were in each region. Some other programs
of notes, a lot of them in the East region.
Duke is your five seed in the East, Kentucky the
sixth seed in the East, in Michigan State the seventh
seed in the East. And North Carolina the preseason ap
number one did not make the field of six eight
and they turned down an invite to the n i T.
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So no North Carolina in postseason. So you always look
at this thing and try to figure out where the
TV people want because it's a TV show, So what
matchups do they want? Later on? You could see if
you look at your bracket eighty in the West bracket,
you have UCLA the number two seed, and if the
Seeds hold, they would play the Zags in they leave
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the third round, right, so the first game of the
second weekend. So that's one matchup you look at. That's
what TV would like to have. Anything else pop out
and you're like, oh, that's a good TV matchup. I
got nothing. You haven't looked at the brackets, Eddy, I
have no until you got it. You didn't look till
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you got it here. That's true, Okay. Duke Kentucky is
another one that's a collision course. Duke's the five seed,
Kentucky's the sixth seed in the East. And if Duke
wins their first two games and Kentucky wins their their
first couple of games, I think, well they would have
to Actually they would meet down the line a little bit,
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so I don't know that would be a third round.
That might be later on. Just trying to spitball a
couple of matchups. Anyway, we have our brackets and we
are all gonna enter the challenge. Right, there's the company's
gotta a challenge again. They're doing that. Yeah, sure, went
on should promote it, some big money bracket challenge thing
that I probably should have copy for it, but I don't. Yeah, yeah,
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all right. Anyway, it's on their Website's on the company website,
and so anyway we'll be a not It is the
Ben Mathers Show. As we continue on through the overnight
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It is a night unlike all other nights. It is
the Bennies. We celebrate the people that contribute content to
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the show, people just like you. Most people will never
ever call into the show or even send a comment
on social media, but every so often someone does, and
those that do have a chance to be celebrated. Here
at the twenty twenty three Benny's celebrating the last year
in sports radio. Next up the Rookie of the Year.
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The Rookie of the Year, very important category. You always
want new young blood to come in and be part
of the show. The next generation of callers, those that
are the next wave, if you will. I can't have
the same people. It seems like we have the same
people every night, but there are new in the nominees
for Rookie Caller of the Year. This year we have Andy,
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the comic book guy from Pasadena, Alameda Loo. He came
on like a comment during the NBA Finals representing his
Golden State Wars. Poppy in San Diego, a polarizing guy.
Poppy in San Diego, fur Dog in Southern California, and
Andre in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the envelope please
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and the benny goes to fur Dog in Southern California.
Congratulations Fergie. His first Benny win goes to furd Dog
as he takes home the honor beating out a very
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competitive field as it was a neck and neck race
for a while, very close between Poppy and Andre from
the Commonwealth. But in the end, furg Dog pulls away
and takes home the Rookie Caller of the Year. While
we're at it, let's move on to the next category.
The next category we're giving out here is best Game
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Show Contestants. Very important category. We play these cheeseball game
shows and some people think them very seriously and they
call up need to play the game shows. I've been
amazed at the knowledge which is not really useful in
any other part of life. Sports trivia knowledge that some
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people have that love this show. They really know their stuff.
And some are young but they have the knowledge of
an old person. Some are old but they have the
knowledge of a young person. It goes worth both ways.
But the nominees for the Best Game Show Contestant of
the Year the last year here these twenty twenty three Benies.
The nominees are Matt He's an upstart. He's the kid
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from Phoenix. He's been listening to the show for over
ten years. He's one of the nominees. Justin in Cincinnati,
Uncle Mo in Brooklyn, Mitchell in Ohio. That had to
be a gag nominee. And Mason, the millennial from the
Bay Area. We just said Mason in here last week.
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Those are the nominees. Envelope place and the winner for
the Best Game Show Contestant on the Bennies goes to
Justin in Cincinnati. Justin lost earlier in the show. He
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did not win the category for a Great Social Media
Influencer of the Year. This is a huge upset. I
would put this on par with when the Cheating a
Holes in Houston won after their scandal as he Justin's
really the altuve of the show. Edie, of course you
would say that you were part of the scandal with Justin. Buddy.
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Shocking surprise that Justin and Cincinnati involved in a category.
He was suspended six months for wrongful activity. But he
takes home to Benny as the top game show contestant
of the year. And so congratulations to Justin as he
edged out Uncle Mole in Brooklyn, and in a good category.
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They're very competitive, So congratulations to Justin in Cincinnati and
all the nominees, all the nominees. Good job by you.
Here to accept the Betty for the Rookie Caller of
the Year is fird Dog in Southern California. Fird Dog,
Congratulations your first I did it, bet I want to
Betty and really a stunner. Congratulations. You earned it. A
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lot of annoying tweets and calls. You've been spared a
pie of the faith. Oh who's getting the pine now?
You gave your roommate Brian Finlay a pine. He said,
whoever gets worse caller will get the pie of the face. Okay,
so that's the worst. Would you like to thank anyone
here anyone at all. I'd like to thank everyone who
voted for me, especially those who only did so because
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they hate Andre and Poppy. I could have done it
without you and h And lastly, I want to tell
this guy, Colin, I know who didn't think I'd win.
You're a moron. I hope you enjoy being wrong all
the time. Yeah, screw you, Colin, That's what I have
to say. Also, all right, well listen, dog, enjoy the win.
You get two golden tickets, big win, big night for you.
But enjoy the after party two. All right, there he
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goes for a dog. Another happy winner. Man, what a night,
greatest night in sports radio. The Bennies were handing them
out right and left. Stunning, stunning, stunning, unbelievable. Anyway, all right,
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twenty four, we'll give out the Benny Awards for this year.
So these are awards for what people did in the
year twenty twenty two and early in twenty twenty three.
And so we will give out another crop obviously next year,
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and we'll do that right now. Who am I? I
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was the first person to be inducted into both the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the CFL and the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. Again the who am I game?
I was the first person to be inducted into both
the CFL Hall of Fame, the Canadian Football and the
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Pro Football Hall of Fame. Who am I? That is
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It's Ben Maller and here's the who am I? Game?
A blatant attempt to get your listen little bit longer?
The who am I? Game? Here it is. I was
the first person to be inducted into both the Canadian
Football League Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. Who am I? That is the question? What's
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the answer? Stevie Meatball says Bacon was the Ryan in
San Diego says Warren Moon was the the way to
go and Eddie. We have a celebrity listening the Great
Ted Striker from ninety eight seven listening line, I love
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is a striker who I've been, been a friend of
the show for many, many years. Who else do we have?
Page down? Page down? Wrong Picks with Poppy guests by
Benito the Cowboy fan oscar is going with herschel Walker
as his answer. Doug Flutie from Andrew in the Bay Area.
Andre's Gallara Ga from mister nice Guy in Northern California.
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Page down, Mark Trestman from Jason the Rocky Mount, Virginia,
says Mark Maryland Trestman. Who else do we have? Page down?
Future Call of the Year Jed Who flayed is the answer?
From Anthony and Anaheim A lot of Warren Moon guesses.
Shane in Des Moines says the team Governor Kyrie irving
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your future team Governor brock Lesner from Sean in Portland.
Who else do we have? Pinball? Clemens guests by mcguel
on fire It's a great name tweet Sauce got it right,
Good job by them. Who else do we have? Page down?
Johnny Johnny Ray got it right as well? So did
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polyde Rosio went with Doug Flutie as the answer Johnny
Manzel guess by Ozzy Waz in Western Australia. Eddie, do
you have the answer, Eddie? Well, unfortunately he passed away
over the weekend. Bud Grant, Yes, that is correct, our
tribute to the late great Bud Grant, Viking legend. But
he also coached in the Canadian Football League and had
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a career regular season record one hundred fifty eight ninety
six and five in the NFL, was one hundred and
two fifty six and two in the Canadian Football League
and lived to be ninety five years old. We've had
great stories from our friends in Minnesota. Every year Bud
Grant would have a garage sale and sell a bunch
of old Viking crap and other stuff out. I mean,
just like a regular dough and uh it's pretty pretty neat.
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But he passed away over the weekend. So rest in piece.
There a life well lived by Bud Grant, a Minnesota
Viking legend. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to Chris in Houston, who's retired as a caller,
but who for some reason he must be off from
work on Monday and he's back. Hello, Chris in Houston's vacation. Oh,
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we don't know what that is. We work in radio.
We do not know what vacation. Stop lying, you stop lying?
Then I know what that is. And he gets all
the vacation from any one of the show gets care.
But yeah, I love the la so much. The family
loved it so much. We're coming back in June. You know,
my daughter is graduating. It's nice. Congratulations on that. It's
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a big graduation party, a little trip for the family. Huh, yes, sir, yes, sir,
we're gonna be saying it sa Anti Clarita, Okay, right,
you did. Yeah, you you probably should know where you're staying.
If you're going to be you're going to be staying there.
And are you doing the amusement park thing again or
you're gonna do some other stuff? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, we're
actually going to Universal. Oh okays, six Flags right here
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where you're staying. Yeah, that's a big amusement park if
you like roller coasters. Six Flags, Oh, lou you know
that's okay, I got you water park that Hurricane Harbor there.
Roberto knows it very well. He spent a lot of
time there. I used to us go to Universal Students
that city walk. I would be more city walk because
it's free. I still go to Universe Studios. Yeah, didn't
they just add Mario Haven' Is that what you're going
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Mario Land or something like that? Yes, sir, man, come
on now, we're a big Mario fans. I love Mario. Yeah,
I love it too, But right my daughter is a
huge fan of it. So so we're going out there
and we're gonna have a glass out there. I mean
I might stop by, you know. You know, I like
how you invite yourself. Look at you just invite yourself, Chris.
How dare you typical Houston Astro fan? You just invite
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yourself out there? No, listen if I if I'm here,
you're more than welcome to stop buck all right, let
me know. Hey, hey, you know, you know the one
thing about it is the Astros are gonna be re
repeating this year. I'm saying it right now, you know,
And I love it. I told you, I told you
this a long time agout. I love it. How manfred
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O punk self sit there and trying to downplay it,
and all of a sudden, everybody's running around for oh,
everybody's doing it. I don't want to hear that crap.
It's over with now, we'll take the we'll take to
put it for it and we'll still win another championship.
Let's go, baby, Let's go. Yeah, all right, all right,
hang out, go away, go go to back. You're on
a vacation. Yeah, And I do like that the the
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books that are being written with conveniently stories leaked. Shouldn't
those things have been leaked right away? Shouldn't those things?
I mean, if I don't know, maybe they were coming
from the Astros and the Red Sox. Is it possible
they were leaking stuff? I'm just saying. But all of
the sudden there's these books being right now, everyone was
doing it, and they were doing this thing and the other,
and it's like, okay, now, don't in the heat of
the moment in twenty nineteen. Shouldn't that when that's this
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stuff hit the fan, that's when that stuff comes out?
But no, it's in twenty twenty three, four years after that,
like what are we doing here? And there's people, these
morons who buy it and it bothers me, but you know,
it doesn't bother me. But Benny Awards that doesn't bother me,
because we've got more awards to give out. We're gonna
do that all night long, all night long,
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one of
our radio show. And play the hits, my man, play
the hits. And that's about the NFL big trade agreed
upon over the weekend. How do you agrade Jalen Ramsey
going from the Rams to the Miami Dolphins and a
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big deal. Rams got a draft pick and a tight
end I've never heard of back in the trade. What
does Jalen Ramsey bring to Miami football, to the Miami Dolphins?
And how do the Rams turn the page away from
their all pro defensive back. Jalen Ramsey will answer all
those questions and much more right now in our number
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trade that has been agreed upon in the NFL. We
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We're the only show that has this. Right now, we
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I'll be kicking off in just minutes, and we're very
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all the nominees. We're all dressed up. There's a certain
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for the Bennies, and boy are we excited about that.
So we'll get to that coming up in a bit.
But we have trade action in the NFL. A big name,
a name we have heard of, is on the move.
The defensive back, shut down defensive back Jalen Ramsey is
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changing laundry. The Dolphins are wheeling and dealing. I don't
if you've heard about this or not. Maybe now we
learned over the weekend the La Rams are saying bye
bye to Jalen Ramsey. They sent him to Miami in
exchange for a third round pick, a tight end someone
named hunter along we don't know who that is, and
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a my tie to be named later. The deal will
be made official on Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday. No, it's always
a big day on Wednesday when trades are official because
that is the new league year. That is when the
new league year begins. And Jaalen Ramsey cranking open social
media saying that he quote prayed for this to happen
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for about a month. Took him a month of prayer
and it happened, not just a couple of days, a
full month before the prayer was answered. Ramsey has not
one not to but three years. Yes, how about a
higher power wanted him in Miami. But Ramsey's got three
years remaining on his contract. The Finns already agreed to
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Garrod Tate the next two years, so that means Ramsey's
only gonna be in Miami for two years. But based
on that that's kind of obvious, all right, So let
us discuss the question, how do you grade the Jaalen
Ramsey trade from the Rams to the Dolphins. So I
have the Malor report card here, Dolphins get in A minus,
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the Rams get a C plus. So that's the malle
report card. I've got Pied Piper, Codependency, and Sorcerer's Workshop
and we will tie all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice, toasty, warm playoff
game in South Florida, which has not happened very often.
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Like that was the last time the Dolphins hosted a
home playoff game. It feels like it's spent a long
time since that took place. So a big day, big
day for the Dolphins. Miami has a football team and
they're in it to win it. The Dolphins who are
lowered down the totem pole in the AFC. You do
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not have to be an insider to know that. You
look at the upper crust of the American Football Conference
at the very top Cansa City, and the Chiefs are
out by a couple of lengths. Then behind them you
got the ben Gals and the Buffalo Bills. The Dolphins
are lagging behind. However, this is a flex the muscle
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situation where it's an act of aggression. Miami is marking
their territory like a dog. Like a dog, They're marking
their territory the Jalen Ramsey bringing the Pied Piper effect,
the eight hundred year old myth. He's a he's a leader,
a leader of man, the face of the defense, invaluable.
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He's got the charisma, he inspires loyalty, just like the
pied piper. And now he's a dolphin a page to
do what exactly? What exactly is going on here with
the love connection between Jalen Ramsey and the Dolphins. So
in addition to the Pied Piper effect, this continues a metamorphosis.
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It's very bizarre what's going on here because Miami is
looking at the end. They're trying to end their codependency
with two A Tongue of Byloa while agreeing to extend
the relationship. It makes no sense. The Dolphins know that
even after picking up the fifth year option on two
A Tongue of Byela for the twenty twenty fourth season,
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they know they cannot rely on tour He's undependable. They've
got to end the codependency. So what are you doing?
He's made out of glass. We all know that he's fragile.
So as a result, Miami is deciding, Hey, you know
what we're gonna We're gonna fatten up the d That's
what we're gonna do. Fatten up the defense right there,
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and so that's what they're doing there. Ramsey is going
to be the face of that side of the football.
But this continues a pattern. It started during the season
last year. The Dolphins picked up an elite edge rusher,
Bradley Chubb, the linebacker from the Broncos during the twenty
twenty two regular season. They then in this offseason, what
do they do the Dolphins? They cried Uncle, Uncle Vic
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vic Fangio. He's a defensive gourger. Just don't want him
as your head coach. And Vic Fangio. Now he's surrounded
in Miami. He's got Jalen Ramsey, Bradley Chubb, he's the
one calling the shots, and they've got Zavian Howard, the
leftover defensive back who is very good. He's also there
Christian Wilkins, who was a high draft pick defensive tackle.
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So they have the ingredients to be a top ten
defense in South Florida, they do the major upgrades, major upgrades. Here.
Miami was twenty fourth in scoring defense last season. They
were nineteenth in total defense. And that tells me that's
not good. So I'm a football insider in the middle
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of the night that day, you're twenty fourth out of
thirty two, that's not good. If you're nineteenth out of
thirty two, that's not good. That's not good at all.
All right, last word here, So how do the Rams
turn the page say bye bye to Jalen Ramsey? His
ass is grass Well, it's clearly a bitter pill to swallow.
Do I believe that it's all over? The Rams are done,
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It's all over. Have a funeral for the Rams. No,
I do not. Ramsey is a good player. He will
continue to be a good player. Hopefully he does very
well with the Dolphins. Was an All Pro in two
of the three full seasons that he spent in Los Angeles,
helped the Rams win Super Bowl fifty six, the greatest
Super Bowl of all time, against the Bengals, and Ramsey
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was the third highest rated defensive back in the NFL
this past season. So it's not like you fell off
the face of the earth that according to the nerds
the geeks over at Pro Football Focus, he finished the
season with four interceptions, eighteen passes defended, and a whole
lot of downtime, as many teams did not even bother
throwing to his side because they figured why would we
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because he's good and the other side it's not so good.
So the Rams what they're doing here. It's not a turnout.
The last the parties over. It's not that. It's a
reshuffling of the deck, is what it is. Nothing lasts.
Forever we knew this was happening. It is the circle
of life, the circle of life in the NFL, Ramsey
has gone. Bobby Wagner spent one year with the Ramsey's out.
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Leonard Floyd, sporadically good and often bad pass rush specialist.
He's out. They all exit stage left. In return. Oh,
you draft, You're you're having orgasm. The Rams got a
draft pick. Oh it's so exciting. Oh man, The Rams
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get the seventy seventh pick in the draft and a
tight end named Hunter Long who was a third round
pick out of Boston College. So he came out of
BC in twenty twenty one, so essentially the Rams got
two third round picks for Jalen Ramsey. Long has played
all of sixteen games, and I believe you have made
a bigger impact in the NFL than he has. Then
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Hunter Long has, who has mostly been a blocking special
team's tight end, who has made no impact whatsoever with
the Dolphins. So now now we turn our attention to
Sean McVeigh and less need, who have to go into
the sorcerer's workshop. They have to go into the sorcerer's workshop,
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find a few diamonds in the rough and fill out
the roster, which is going to have a lot of
piecemeal players on the roster, but they will figure things out.
There'll be some bumps, some bruises, but it was all
worth it. Every loss was worth it. I don't care
how long the Rams blow. It was worth it. They
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got to two super Bowls in this run of trading
f them picks and getting players. Two super Bowls. They
won one of them. And you look at some of
these pathetic, disgraceful franchises that never do this kind of thing,
like the Lions and the Browns and teams like that. Said,
of course, so if the rooms are down for a
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few years. That's fine, perfectly okay with that. All good,
and they still have some other players that we've heard
of on the team. You get one thing about being
in la Is. You can't be a faceless, nameless team
or you are doomed. You have to have have to
have some headline players. And they have one on offense
in Cooper Cup, and they have one on defense and
Aaron Donald. And we'll see what the future holds for
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the Rams. It is the Bannet Maller Show. If you
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On a night where we hand out the Bennies, it's
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and those g D Moonman Awards, but all of those
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(13:04):
the Benny's. Congratulations to all the winners tonight. Then You've
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like Anthony and Annheim, who has become a giant character
of himself. You've got Trucker Joe, who says big news,
truck or Joe officially back rolling out some point today
he's back on the road, the great Trucker Joe. How
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do you not know who truck or Joe is? Who
Chris and Houston writes and he's retired from the show,
He says, Hey, Mallard, even though I'm retired from calling,
I'm still a back to back Caller of the Year
runner up. And good luck to everyone. I'm tuned in
with my Penny Loafer Shining says the ps Ben I'll
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be back in La in June. Is that a warning
or is he asking for an invitation? I don't know.
Quire Mines would like to know Shane and the Mooin's upset.
He says, I'll give you only a C plus on
the opening Mallar monologue, the monologue should have covered the
only topic in sports that matters the Bennies. Yeah, that
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would have been a little tough. I do have I
have bosses. Ford Doug says, I'm throwing a pie in
someone's face tonight and it might be yours. Ben, Well,
we have security here. No one will be running on stage.
We are not going to have a Will Smith situation
like last year at the Academy. Where is that will
not be happening? Ozziwa says, Does that mean the Rams
(14:29):
are in rebuild mode? No, Tad, someone named Tad is upset.
We've offended someone named Tad. He's upset, Tad says, Geez Mallard.
I tuned in to get your selection Sunday Insight and
you are banging on about some other sport which season
does not begin for half a year. Well, Tad, that's
(14:49):
a bad take by you. You are the definition of
an uneducated fan. The most exciting part of the NFL
calendar for many begins on Wednesday, the start of the
new league year. This is when the moving and the
shaking takes place, and it's much more interesting conversation on
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radio than you see Santa Barbara versus Baylor, or Utah
State versus MISSOO. With all due respect to those fine institutions,
I'm just calling it like this, but let's give out
the first award. We have the proper open. Here we go,
let's get part Let's get the party started right now.
Here we go live from Sherman Oaks, California and the
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And now here's your host or the evening, Ben mall
Thank you my co host. Yes, yes, I'm a lizard person.
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Eddie the Award Show. I've not aged at all. I
just live in the magic radio box. Eddie, of course
is my sidekick. We've got Roberto over there, Cooper Loop
and the first Benny, the Ben Maller Show Social Media
Contributor of the Year, Big One. Here we go, the
Envelo Please and the winner of the Ben Maller Show
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Social Media Contributor of the Year, Blind Emmett Shocker to
start the night, Eddie stutter as Justin in Cincinnati is
punked by the upstar blind Emmett. Is it true, Eddie
(16:41):
that people punishing Justin for the great cheating scandal that
you were involved in last year? I don't know. Emmett
got the votes and a stunner and that that punk
Robbie the Marina fan who said no, Well, Robbie's like, oh,
you know, that's not really Emmet's skill set. That's not
his his four ten social media. Well, the people have spoken,
(17:03):
the electorate is spoken. Eddie and blind Emmid by a
wide margin ends up winning the first Benny Congratulate and
we coming and he's here to accept his Benny congrat
Let's welcome in from the Pacific Northwest. He's a college
student in Washington State. He loves the show. He's blind.
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He's got a podcast, Blind Emmett the Seahawk Fan, our
first winner. Congratulations blind speech speech speech, speech speech, God,
say thank you the militia. Shout out everyone who's came
on my podcast. You know you guys on the show.
Obviously you Ben, Eddie Coop, Roberto the busy guy. He
has a daughter, so he gets the pass. Roberto. The
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invitations out though and all the you know a lot
of the guys behind the scenes that's filling for you
guys in your waves came on too. And also shout
out to the militia for voting you. Like I said, so,
I think the podcast is kind of a different perspective
to social media because you get to learn about, you know,
these characters that FSR, or these characters on the show
he here every night that or it could bring you
(18:06):
back to memories from old shows like Eddie was talking
about with on my podcast the uh the William Shatner story. So, uh,
there you go. But yeah, Ben, I actually went ax
throwing this weekend. It was pretty cool. Blind guy ax throwing.
What could go wrong? Eddy right themselves? Right? Well, yeah,
(18:28):
the guy at the place was really cool. Uh. He
helped me out to He was with me when we
had there for an hour and a half. He he
was with me for about an hour. Just he give
me the basics of it. And they're not really that unsafe.
I mean, unless you're a complete idiot, You're you're gonna
be fine. I mean the boards like right in front
of them. I think you might have handed you the
acc and then ran out of the room. I think.
(18:48):
I don't know, I don't know, I have no idea.
But listen, congratulations, A couple of steps back, all right,
all right, you're very long with he Congratulations, you win
the first benny. You get two golden tickets for that
that big upset did You're like Buster Douglass. This is
Buster Douglass pulling it upset. Amazing job, Emman. Did you
did you cheat? You didn't cheat, did you you? There's
(19:10):
no cheating, right, you didn't buy a bot accounts to
vote for you? Yes, I wish I had money like that. Shoot,
those things are expensive, I know, so do I I
would have so many more follows of my own pots.
But all right, well, thank you, congratulations. There he goes
blind him at the first winner in an upset a
stunner from the Pacific Northwest as Emmett takes out justin
(19:32):
in Cincinnati. Are you not going to mention the controversy?
And there's no controversy controversy, there's no controversy, there's no controversy.
No, no no, no, there's no king. I want to know
about the controvert. You don't need it. He's manufacturing controversy.
There's no controversy. Oh what what? Yeah? I mean, it's
it's all technically legal. Uh you know, but there may
(19:52):
have been somebody that recruited non listeners of the show
to vote. Oh that's that's allowed. Yeah, I'm saying it's not.
It's not technically, it's not technically illegal. Andrea has got
all her friends voting, and then they don't know who
the hell we are. She's getting her friends to vote.
That true. Yeah, man, that's the way to do it.
(20:13):
You got to crank up the numbers, the vote total. No,
I mean it's campaigning, so you know. Yeah, Hey, every
vote counts. Even if you're not a fan of the show,
it doesn't matter. Your vote counts. All right, Well, congratulations
to to our first winner, blind him at the Seahawk
Fan as he takes it home. And congratulations all the nominees.
We started out with twenty four nominees, some big names
in the different brackets, just Joshed and we had Alfie,
(20:37):
Alan Opiner, you fee me from Chicago, Eugene and Chicago.
So many guys that were so good on social media
this year, and it's a big part of what we do.
It is a big part. It's really the advantage that
we have doing the show live as opposed to just
being a podcast where you're you're recorded, you don't know
when it's recorded, you don't know what. But during the
show live, we have real time feedback and people add
(20:57):
hopefully make the show better. And we think all you
guys that do contribute, but only one person could be
the winner, and that is blind Emmett the Seahawk Fan.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey,
I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast is called All Ball. We
usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's more
(21:19):
about the stories about what made these people love their
sport and all the interesting interactions along the way. We
talked to coaches, we talked to players, We tell you stories.
You download it, you listen to it. I think you'll
like it. Listen to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on
the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or ever you get your podcast.
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So back to college basketball. We told you with the
top four seeds were in each region. Some other programs
of notes, a lot of them in the East region.
Duke is your five seed in the East, Kentucky the
sixth seed in the East, in Michigan State the seventh
seed in the East. And North Carolina the preseason ap
number one did not make the field of six eight
and they turned down an invite to the n i T.
(22:03):
So no North Carolina in postseason. So you always look
at this thing and try to figure out where the
TV people want because it's a TV show, So what
matchups do they want? Later on? You could see if
you look at your bracket eighty in the West bracket,
you have UCLA the number two seed, and if the
Seeds hold, they would play the Zags in they leave
(22:24):
the third round, right, so the first game of the
second weekend. So that's one matchup you look at. That's
what TV would like to have. Anything else pop out
and you're like, oh, that's a good TV matchup. I
got nothing. You haven't looked at the brackets, Eddy, I
have no until you got it. You didn't look till
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you got it here. That's true, Okay. Duke Kentucky is
another one that's a collision course. Duke's the five seed,
Kentucky's the sixth seed in the East. And if Duke
wins their first two games and Kentucky wins their their
first couple of games, I think, well they would have
to Actually they would meet down the line a little bit,
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so I don't know that would be a third round.
That might be later on. Just trying to spitball a
couple of matchups. Anyway, we have our brackets and we
are all gonna enter the challenge. Right, there's the company's
gotta a challenge again. They're doing that. Yeah, sure, went
on should promote it, some big money bracket challenge thing
that I probably should have copy for it, but I don't. Yeah, yeah,
(23:28):
all right. Anyway, it's on their Website's on the company website,
and so anyway we'll be a not It is the
Ben Mathers Show. As we continue on through the overnight
hours here taking your phone calls and giving out the awards.
It is a night unlike all other nights. It is
the Bennies. We celebrate the people that contribute content to
(23:50):
the show, people just like you. Most people will never
ever call into the show or even send a comment
on social media, but every so often someone does, and
those that do have a chance to be celebrated. Here
at the twenty twenty three Benny's celebrating the last year
in sports radio. Next up the Rookie of the Year.
(24:12):
The Rookie of the Year, very important category. You always
want new young blood to come in and be part
of the show. The next generation of callers, those that
are the next wave, if you will. I can't have
the same people. It seems like we have the same
people every night, but there are new in the nominees
for Rookie Caller of the Year. This year we have Andy,
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the comic book guy from Pasadena, Alameda Loo. He came
on like a comment during the NBA Finals representing his
Golden State Wars. Poppy in San Diego, a polarizing guy.
Poppy in San Diego, fur Dog in Southern California, and
Andre in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the envelope please
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and the benny goes to fur Dog in Southern California.
Congratulations Fergie. His first Benny win goes to furd Dog
as he takes home the honor beating out a very
(25:28):
competitive field as it was a neck and neck race
for a while, very close between Poppy and Andre from
the Commonwealth. But in the end, furg Dog pulls away
and takes home the Rookie Caller of the Year. While
we're at it, let's move on to the next category.
The next category we're giving out here is best Game
(25:48):
Show Contestants. Very important category. We play these cheeseball game
shows and some people think them very seriously and they
call up need to play the game shows. I've been
amazed at the knowledge which is not really useful in
any other part of life. Sports trivia knowledge that some
(26:10):
people have that love this show. They really know their stuff.
And some are young but they have the knowledge of
an old person. Some are old but they have the
knowledge of a young person. It goes worth both ways.
But the nominees for the Best Game Show Contestant of
the Year the last year here these twenty twenty three Benies.
The nominees are Matt He's an upstart. He's the kid
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from Phoenix. He's been listening to the show for over
ten years. He's one of the nominees. Justin in Cincinnati,
Uncle Mo in Brooklyn, Mitchell in Ohio. That had to
be a gag nominee. And Mason, the millennial from the
Bay Area. We just said Mason in here last week.
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Those are the nominees. Envelope place and the winner for
the Best Game Show Contestant on the Bennies goes to
Justin in Cincinnati. Justin lost earlier in the show. He
(27:17):
did not win the category for a Great Social Media
Influencer of the Year. This is a huge upset. I
would put this on par with when the Cheating a
Holes in Houston won after their scandal as he Justin's
really the altuve of the show. Edie, of course you
would say that you were part of the scandal with Justin. Buddy.
(27:39):
Shocking surprise that Justin and Cincinnati involved in a category.
He was suspended six months for wrongful activity. But he
takes home to Benny as the top game show contestant
of the year. And so congratulations to Justin as he
edged out Uncle Mole in Brooklyn, and in a good category.
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They're very competitive, So congratulations to Justin in Cincinnati and
all the nominees, all the nominees. Good job by you.
Here to accept the Betty for the Rookie Caller of
the Year is fird Dog in Southern California. Fird Dog,
Congratulations your first I did it, bet I want to
Betty and really a stunner. Congratulations. You earned it. A
(28:25):
lot of annoying tweets and calls. You've been spared a
pie of the faith. Oh who's getting the pine now?
You gave your roommate Brian Finlay a pine. He said,
whoever gets worse caller will get the pie of the face. Okay,
so that's the worst. Would you like to thank anyone
here anyone at all. I'd like to thank everyone who
voted for me, especially those who only did so because
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they hate Andre and Poppy. I could have done it
without you and h And lastly, I want to tell
this guy, Colin, I know who didn't think I'd win.
You're a moron. I hope you enjoy being wrong all
the time. Yeah, screw you, Colin, That's what I have
to say. Also, all right, well listen, dog, enjoy the win.
You get two golden tickets, big win, big night for you.
But enjoy the after party two. All right, there he
(29:07):
goes for a dog. Another happy winner. Man, what a night,
greatest night in sports radio. The Bennies were handing them
out right and left. Stunning, stunning, stunning, unbelievable. Anyway, all right,
we'll take your calls eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox is the number eight seven seven nine nine six
(29:29):
sixty three six nine if you would like to be
part of the program, and we'll give out the who
am I game as well, and you can answer that
on Twitter. And if you're like, hey, I want to
win a Benny, well you can start your campaign right
now for the next Penny Awards show, which will be
in same time, around this time of the year twenty
(29:49):
twenty four, we'll give out the Benny Awards for this year.
So these are awards for what people did in the
year twenty twenty two and early in twenty twenty three.
And so we will give out another crop obviously next year,
and we'll have the who am I game as well,
and we'll do that right now. Who am I? I
(30:10):
was the first person to be inducted into both the
Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the CFL and the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. Again the who am I game?
I was the first person to be inducted into both
the CFL Hall of Fame, the Canadian Football and the
(30:30):
Pro Football Hall of Fame. Who am I? That is
the question. The answer we'll get to that coming up.
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Who am I? The answer? Next? Fox Sports Radio has
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(31:34):
It's Ben Maller and here's the who am I? Game?
A blatant attempt to get your listen little bit longer?
The who am I? Game? Here it is. I was
the first person to be inducted into both the Canadian
Football League Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. Who am I? That is the question? What's
(31:54):
the answer? Stevie Meatball says Bacon was the Ryan in
San Diego says Warren Moon was the the way to
go and Eddie. We have a celebrity listening the Great
Ted Striker from ninety eight seven listening line, I love
(32:15):
is a striker who I've been, been a friend of
the show for many, many years. Who else do we have?
Page down? Page down? Wrong Picks with Poppy guests by
Benito the Cowboy fan oscar is going with herschel Walker
as his answer. Doug Flutie from Andrew in the Bay Area.
Andre's Gallara Ga from mister nice Guy in Northern California.
(32:40):
Page down, Mark Trestman from Jason the Rocky Mount, Virginia,
says Mark Maryland Trestman. Who else do we have? Page down?
Future Call of the Year Jed Who flayed is the answer?
From Anthony and Anaheim A lot of Warren Moon guesses.
Shane in Des Moines says the team Governor Kyrie irving
(33:02):
your future team Governor brock Lesner from Sean in Portland.
Who else do we have? Pinball? Clemens guests by mcguel
on fire It's a great name tweet Sauce got it right,
Good job by them. Who else do we have? Page down?
Johnny Johnny Ray got it right as well? So did
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polyde Rosio went with Doug Flutie as the answer Johnny
Manzel guess by Ozzy Waz in Western Australia. Eddie, do
you have the answer, Eddie? Well, unfortunately he passed away
over the weekend. Bud Grant, Yes, that is correct, our
tribute to the late great Bud Grant, Viking legend. But
he also coached in the Canadian Football League and had
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a career regular season record one hundred fifty eight ninety
six and five in the NFL, was one hundred and
two fifty six and two in the Canadian Football League
and lived to be ninety five years old. We've had
great stories from our friends in Minnesota. Every year Bud
Grant would have a garage sale and sell a bunch
of old Viking crap and other stuff out. I mean,
just like a regular dough and uh it's pretty pretty neat.
(34:09):
But he passed away over the weekend. So rest in piece.
There a life well lived by Bud Grant, a Minnesota
Viking legend. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to Chris in Houston, who's retired as a caller,
but who for some reason he must be off from
work on Monday and he's back. Hello, Chris in Houston's vacation. Oh,
(34:31):
we don't know what that is. We work in radio.
We do not know what vacation. Stop lying, you stop lying?
Then I know what that is. And he gets all
the vacation from any one of the show gets care.
But yeah, I love the la so much. The family
loved it so much. We're coming back in June. You know,
my daughter is graduating. It's nice. Congratulations on that. It's
(34:53):
a big graduation party, a little trip for the family. Huh, yes, sir, yes, sir,
we're gonna be saying it sa Anti Clarita, Okay, right,
you did. Yeah, you you probably should know where you're staying.
If you're going to be you're going to be staying there.
And are you doing the amusement park thing again or
you're gonna do some other stuff? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, we're
actually going to Universal. Oh okays, six Flags right here
(35:17):
where you're staying. Yeah, that's a big amusement park if
you like roller coasters. Six Flags, Oh, lou you know
that's okay, I got you water park that Hurricane Harbor there.
Roberto knows it very well. He spent a lot of
time there. I used to us go to Universal Students
that city walk. I would be more city walk because
it's free. I still go to Universe Studios. Yeah, didn't
they just add Mario Haven' Is that what you're going
(35:39):
Mario Land or something like that? Yes, sir, man, come
on now, we're a big Mario fans. I love Mario. Yeah,
I love it too, But right my daughter is a
huge fan of it. So so we're going out there
and we're gonna have a glass out there. I mean
I might stop by, you know. You know, I like
how you invite yourself. Look at you just invite yourself, Chris.
How dare you typical Houston Astro fan? You just invite
(36:03):
yourself out there? No, listen if I if I'm here,
you're more than welcome to stop buck all right, let
me know. Hey, hey, you know, you know the one
thing about it is the Astros are gonna be re
repeating this year. I'm saying it right now, you know,
And I love it. I told you, I told you
this a long time agout. I love it. How manfred
(36:23):
O punk self sit there and trying to downplay it,
and all of a sudden, everybody's running around for oh,
everybody's doing it. I don't want to hear that crap.
It's over with now, we'll take the we'll take to
put it for it and we'll still win another championship.
Let's go, baby, Let's go. Yeah, all right, all right,
hang out, go away, go go to back. You're on
a vacation. Yeah, And I do like that the the
(36:46):
books that are being written with conveniently stories leaked. Shouldn't
those things have been leaked right away? Shouldn't those things?
I mean, if I don't know, maybe they were coming
from the Astros and the Red Sox. Is it possible
they were leaking stuff? I'm just saying. But all of
the sudden there's these books being right now, everyone was
doing it, and they were doing this thing and the other,
and it's like, okay, now, don't in the heat of
the moment in twenty nineteen. Shouldn't that when that's this
(37:09):
stuff hit the fan, that's when that stuff comes out?
But no, it's in twenty twenty three, four years after that,
like what are we doing here? And there's people, these
morons who buy it and it bothers me, but you know,
it doesn't bother me. But Benny Awards that doesn't bother me,
because we've got more awards to give out. We're gonna
do that all night long, all night long,
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