March 14, 2023 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about the initial reactions to the start of the NFL's "legal tampering period," Trevor Bauer returning to baseball - but in Japan, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Billy Crystal Edition, and much more!
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Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben
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gonna start out with a big Aaron Rodgers story and
he's going to the Jets, and that didn't happen, not
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yet anyway. But our lead does come from the Pigskin Pelooza.
And there was a show that was on the TV.
It was a game show called Shop Till You Drop
was on for a number of years sporadically, and the
legal tampering period. Oh, I'm so excited. I think it's
it's unfair. I think the NFL should be canceled for
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encouraging tampering. Bad job by then, But the illegal tampering
period opened up on Monday, which is a Smorgsborg of activity,
who wind of moving parts, Players you've never heard of,
who suddenly are very important. I always going to kick
out of this time of the year when there's some
random linebacker that nobody knows who the person is, but
they change teams, and the fan base in the new city, Oh,
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we got the greatest linebacker in the world, and ten
minutes ago you've never heard of the guy. But all
of a sudden, you're a football expert. You got everything
figured out. So I don't know if you've been keeping
track or not. Possibly not all day long into the night.
We have had players going here, there, and everywhere. It's
like an old Beatles song. So let us discuss the
question what stood out at the start of the NFL's
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legal tampering period. So I've got tupperware, witching hour, and
mass exodus, and we will combine all of these things
together and we'll give you one of those giant oversized
cartoon checks, which a number of NFL players are picking up,
giant oversized cartoon checks. It's like that old bit Oprah
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did on TV many years ago. You get a car,
you get a car. You get a car, You get
a car, You get a car, and you in the back,
you get a car. So the first thought I had
was the quarterbacks are all over the place, and they're
not even that good considering a seventeen game season. Even
backups matter. Backup quarterbacks matter, and they get starts in
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a seventeen game season. We have had a bunch of
chop liver, a bunch of leftover quarterbacks agreeing to deals.
Get out the tupperware, the leftover spaghetti and meatballs is
on the move. The flotsam and jetsam of NFL quarterbacks.
Saw Sam Darnald is taking his talents to the forty
nine ers. I'm guessing the forty nine er fans are
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now convinced that Sam Donald, who has sucked his entire career,
will not be a bag of suck when he gets
to the Bay Area. The man who saw a ghost
with the Jets and smelled like a skunk with the
Panthers lands with an NFC heavyweight quick take. This will
will test the boundaries of the Kyle Shanahan is a
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quarterback whisperer and Sam Darnold. If everything goes the way
it's trending, and Brock Purty's not going to be quite
ready at the start of the year, you've got Trey Lance.
It is more probable than not that Sam Darnald we'll
end up starting a game or two for the forty nine.
But wait, there's more case Keenom He's still playing. Yeah,
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I'm shocked by that, though I didn't know. I thought
he retired. Case Keenum is on the movie Exits Buffalo
and he moves on to the Houston Texans on a
two year deal. Mike White, the great White Hope for
the Jets, didn't quite work well. That his last name
Is White. It didn't quite work out, and so he
says bye bye to the Jets and he stays in
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the AFC East. Mike White goes to South Beach to
hang out with the Dolphins, and you think he's gonna
start over ten games in his Dolphin career with too
a tongue of bloa. Who's just a breath away from
being in the concussion protocol. Yeah, so Mike White goes
there as a backup. Jared Stadham said, see you later, Vegas.
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I'm out of here. He went to the Broncos and
he will now be a sprained ankle away from Russell
Wilson and Denver. Jamis Winston could not get a starting
job anywhere, you see, he resigned with the Saints. That
means that he will be waiting for Derek Carter to
take a ride on the vomit comment in the Bayou,
eat too much gumbo and pull boys, and then all
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of a sudden, Winston's back. Or if Derek Carr slips
on the banana peel and there you go, and Jimmy
Garoppolo headed to Lost Wages, Nevada. He leaves the forty
nine ers. We will do a full Mallar monologue of
the Raiders on Jimmy g who has been a great
in Vegas. For these seven games that he plays this
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year for the Raiders, I think the Raiders go seven
and all in those games. No, I think it's a
good rental for the for those I love the people
freaking out here's not the forever quarterback who the f
cares Just shut the hell up. Garoppolo's better than that
stiff that turned Derek Carr. So you got a better quarterback.
He's heard a lot. Deal with it. As long as
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you can make sure he's kind of there for the playoffs,
then you got something. All right. I'm just saying all
right now page two, help me understand why Aaron Rogers
there's nothing there and there's nothing. There's no meat on
the ball with Lamar Jackson, both those guys still twisting
in the wind. So I'll start with the Rogers. And
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I had heard rumblings over the weekend Rodgers was gonna
make an announcement on Tuesday. Well, now we're hitting you
to Tuesday. Didn't do it on Monday. But you gotta
look at Rogers here, and it's like he's milking the cow.
He's sending out weird cryptic messages on Twitter. A Trey
Wingo bit the cheese he goes carried away. That used
to be big at ESPN. Now he just does a
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podcast like every other. I'll be one like him soon.
But a Trey Wingo reported that he's he was hearing
the deal was done to send Rogers to the Jets.
That happened, I think around three o'clock Eastern time. There
was one problem, Ti Ti Ti tick Dad. Nothing happened.
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No announcement by the Jets, no announcement by the Packers,
no announcement by Rogers. The thing we all we all
dread in the business. I'm in radio silence, radio silence.
And so the weight continues as we head towards the
witching hour, which is which is Wednesday. This is our
Tuesday show. So Wednesday is the witching hour, the new
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League year. And for now, for now, Rogers continues to
circle the airport, deciding which cockpit he wants to go
into Green Bay in New York. Gang Green in a
holding pattern. And and then you turn to the curious
case of Lamar Jackson. Now we are told that Lamar
cannot legally they're gonna see it with any teams until Wednesday.
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But since he doesn't have an agent, there's not even
a whisper of any team being interested. No one's advocating
for Lamar Jackson. There's just a lot of angry people.
It's not fair, not fair. Those losers very upset. But
there's not a lot of noise out there. And if
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if Lamar Jackson had an agent, you'd hear seven different
versions of Team X is interested and they're putting together
a package and this. But you look at your big board,
and if you look at your radio here, let me
get out my telestrator, and you look at the teams
that need quarterbacks here, and you go down the list.
The Raiders got Garoppolos, they're off the list. Carolina traded
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for the number one pick, so they're off the list.
We pretty we're pretty sure the Texans are going to
draft a quarterbacks, so they're seemingly off the list. Miami
has agreed to the fifth year option for two a
tongue of Byeloa, which would seemingly take them off the list.
Let me check up here. The Falcons, there was a
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report that said they're not interested. I got them circled
and then the wild card would be the Patriots. But
that would require the Patriots to dust off the cobwebs
off the wallet, which is something that Robert Kraft does
not like to do, and I respect that because I'm
a frugal man myself. So who else is there's anyone?
The Lions, I guess the Lions. You can toss them
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out there, the Detroit Lions. Not a lot, not a
lot there, not a lot. Nobody's trying to persuade Lamar
to sign on the dotted line. It's a it's an
a sexual situation. There's no flirting, there's no footsie, no canoodling,
none of that. It's Ravens and not even a peep
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about anyone else, not even a peep. All right, last
word here? So what else stands out from day number
one of the legal tampering window? The transjunction wire. So
some names we've heard of, These are names that would
move the needle because we've seemingly heard of them. Patrick
Peterson is on the move. He used to be really good.
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He leaves the Vikings for the Pittsburgh Steelers. There's a
mass exodus in Philadelphia. The NFC champions who were leading
the Super Bowl until they weren't. Are seeing players leave
town to the north, to the south, to the east,
and to the west, all jumping at a pile of pasos.
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Here will the last person leaving the Eagle locker room
who's able to turn out the lights the party's over.
Jason Hargrave gone defensive tackle, some offensive lineman Andre Diller
had never heard of him. T J Edwards, he made
a bunch of plays for the Eagles last year, and
Marcus Epps all have found new homes. Hargrove eleven sacks
last year. He turned that into eighty four million from
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the Niners, and there's not a single person that's purchased
a ticket to watch him play. Edwards, who had a
big year. T J Edwards a guy you've never heard of,
but one hundred and fifty nine tackles last season. He
ends up getting a bunch of money from Chicago's chatter
that Fletcher Cox is going to leave town. Meanwhile, the
Chargers they're running back Austin Eckler. He's like, I want
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out of here. I don't want to play for the
Faults anymore. You didn't give me more money. I would
like a trade. I'm taking my ball and going out.
Let's scare you. Chargers did sign Eric Kendricks late of
the Vikings and more proof, more proof that one of
the Maller theories on life is correct. The Buffalo Bills
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the latest team to prove the salary cap is made up.
It's fugazy, it's a myth. Little mathematical gymnastics. There, little
math gymnastics by the Buffalo Bills. You didn't see this.
They were way over the salary cap and they took
out their pen, They crossed some teas, they dotted some
eyes and presto, just like that, the Buffalo Bills under
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the salary cap. How did they do it? They took
Josh Allen's contract, von Miller's contract, and they created thirty
two million in salary cap space. Now is Josh Allen
von Miller these guys getting pay cuts? No, they don't
work in radio. No they are they not a dollar less,
not a dollar less or those guys. They turned Josh
Allen's bass salary to in the veteran league minimum. We
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are told, so he'll be technically making the league minimum
salary for a veteran of six years. Stature looks like
a million dollars. All the rest of the money was
turned into a signing bonus pro rated over five years
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And they did
something similar with similar with von Miller. And just because
of that, no money out of pocket for either of
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those guys, and all of a sudden, you've got a
mixtra thirty something million dollars to play with in the
salary cap. The Patriots, as usual, have done nothing interesting.
They very rarely. They did resign Jonathan Jones is a
good player to do a two year extension. Whoopie damn do.
And they traded one of the great free agent bus
remember a couple years ago they spent all that money
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on Hunter Henry and John who Smith and John hu
Smith did nothing. I think you had more of an
impact than the Patriots than the John wh Smith did.
He goes to the Falcons for a seventh round pick
and salary cap relief, which I love I have always.
I don't know about you, but when I was a
little boy, I collected football cards. MY favorite card was
salary cap Relief. I always loved that card. I held
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that card close to my heart. I did call me silly?
I love that card. Yeah yeah, And I voted last
year for MVP Salary cap Relief. That was my MVP book.
I know I'm a little weird. I know. Don't judge me,
don't judge. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio. A After
a long wait, Trevor Bauer says, cant jua to his
new home. Welcome. In the beginning of another hour of
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lead this hour coming from baseball, We'll get back to
the NFL merry go round, Round and round, round and
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round goes the Merry go Round. But we must spend
a couple of good minutes talking about the big baseball
story that they does not involve the World Baseball Classic.
Does not involve the World Baseball Classic. But Trevor Bauer
will be towing the rubber. He'll be back on the
mound as he has found a new home. If you
have not heard yet, perhaps you have not been listening
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and you missed it. The former Cy Young Winner Trevor
Bauer has agreed to a contract with the Yokohama Bass Stars.
Who what are they in the Are they in the
National League East? No? Are they in the American League West? No?
Are they in the Mexican League? Not the Mexican League. Yeah, okay.
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Bauer is going to pitch in Japan, the Nippon Professional
Baseball League. There, he gets a one year contract for
three million dollars to take his talents. Keep in mind
he'll take his talents to Japan. The Dodgers will be
paying him over twenty million dollars a year to pitch
in the Japanese league. He hasn't pitched since June of
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twenty twenty one with the Dodgers. Bauer was then falsely
accused of sexual assault. Baseball suspended them anyway for three
hundred twenty four games. They didn't watch an arbitrator reduce
the suspension and reinstate Bauer. Yet the twenty nine other
teams in Major League Baseball decided that they were too
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afraid to sign Bauer. So let us discuss the question,
what is your takeaway here from Trevor Bauer signing with
the base Stars in the Japanese League. So I've got
Tom Selleck, Wizard of Oz, and Jackson five, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
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going to make a nice plate of sushi, is what
we're going to make, all right. So number one, number
ninety six in your program, but number one in your heart,
Trevor Bauer will flourish in Japan. He is going to dominate.
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Bauer would be one of the top ten fifteen starting
pitchers in professional baseball in the United States. I expect
him to showcase his skills overseas, and I hope he
wins every single start just to make the Dodgers look
like complete donkeys. They are because the locker room wanted
Bauer back. Coaching staff wanted Bauer back, but some losers
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in the ownership slide in the front office decided they
didn't want Bauer back. Bad job by them, and we
would be surprised if Bauer does not outshine his teammates
with the base Stars and in that league, Bauer is
about also to live the Tom Selleck life. I know
it's an outdated reference, but it's an old school baseball
movie called Mister Baseball. It's over thirty years old, this
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movie Mister Baseball, and if you haven't seen it, even
to this day, players from the United States who signed
contracts in Japan, they'll say, hey, you should probably watch
Mister Baseball to kind of figure out what it's like
over and in Japan, what the cultures like. It's a
lot different, certain things you have to do you don't
have to do in the United States. And Bauer. I
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remember the tagline on the VHS box for Mister Baseball,
and it had a photo of Tom Sellick and then
they had the obviously he was in character, and it said,
you know, his name will be the biggest thing to
hit Japan since Godzilla, and so that will be Trevor
Bauer that's how the line went in the movie. But
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we are told Bauer had a tight relationship with executives
for this team that the bass Stars, he had gone
over to visit in twenty nineteen. He actually had offers
from four total teams in the Japanese League. He chose
this one. So nepotism did play a role in the
deal coming together. It is not known. It's not what
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you know, it's who you know. As a reminder that
now a weekend experience together watching from afar how Trevor
Bauer does, because if he does well, there will be
a groundswell effort to get him back into major league baseball.
But the second thing, your page number two, Why did
all of major league baseball run away like he had
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the bubonic plague? Trevor Bauer. So there's a long answer
and a short answer, and the short answer is baseball
is filled with characters from the Wizard of Oz, but
only one character, cowardly Lyons. Baseball has got a lot
of cowards, a lot of these IVY league losers in
the front office. They love the analytics and the numbers,
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they like the group think, but everyone is afraid of
rocking the boat. They don't want to upset the cartel.
From a baseball standpoint, Trevor Bauer could have, would have
should have been the difference, a difference maker on a
team that could elevate a fringe contender into a legiti
him at least a wild card team. You look at
the Texas Rangers, the Angels, teams like that. With Bauer instead,
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he'll be eating Shabu shabu and shashimi in Japan and
the Land of the Rising Sun there. And when you
take a couple of steps back, you see how zany
this story is. Bauer never arrested, never charged with the crime,
and when it comes to important legal rulings that affect
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his freedom or possible freedom, he's batting a thousand. Remember
a judge ruled in Bower's favor when his accuser looked
for a restraining order. The District Attorney's office in Los
Angeles investigated the evidence ruled in Bower's favor that the
woman from San Diego who accused him of rape, that
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that was there was not enough to charge him. There
was no crime that was committed, and there were a
bunch of text messages from her encouraging Trevor Bauer to
push things even further the second time they hooked up
for some rough hanky panky. And then when Major League
Baseball wanted that three hundred twenty four games suspension to
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be upheld per their own policy, there fly by Night
domestic violence policy. There was an independent arbitrator who reduced
the suspension ruling against Major League Baseball. All of that
is there, and yet Bauer has to go to Japan.
The pitch and the other thing, which is crazy. All
these people. I can't support Major League Baseball of Trevor
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Bauer pitchers, he's a domestic abuser. Well, if you believe that,
maybe maybe he is. If you believe that, you shouldn't
watch Major League baseball. Baseball spoiler alert is filled with
domestic abusers every part of the country, right to Mingo
Herman pitcher New York Yankees or all this Chapman. He's
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with the Royals now, Julio Urius are the Dodgers, Jerry's
familia of Arizona. I can go on and on, and
there's more than that. So why do we draw a
line at Trevor Bauer? Why is Bauer different than those others?
Other guys? Are they served their suspension, they're back in baseball.
Why is Bauer different, Well, Bauer obviously has cooties. Major
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League Baseball does not own enough Kleenex to get rid
of the cooties. Because Bauer, unlike those other guys, didn't
play the game. Bauer is brash, he's domineering. He did
not accept the punishment. He said there was no crime committed.
He didn't get down in jenue flect and begged for forgiveness.
He went scorched earth. He sued anybody and everybody. He could,
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you get a lawsuit, You get a lawsuit. Bauer attacked
media people, prominent media people, including some scribes that are
in the inner circle, certain baseball writers that are like
part of the cartel of Major League base And the
biggest crime that Bauer committed and he was found guilty.
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He was an outspoken critic of Rob Manford, the bozo
commissioner in Major League Baseball, the guy that looked the
other way when the Astros were cheating in the World
Major League Baseball's own production team put the table they
were cheating with in their video, the World Series video.
And Rob Manford, the same man who chose not to
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punish a racist. Who was racist during the twenty seventeen
World Series. Julie Gurray, who, by the way, he is
back in baseball. Buy your Marlins tickets, all seven of you,
and you can support Julie gury ellis signed with the Marlins.
But it wouldn't suspend him during the World Series, allow
him to continue. Made a racist eye gesture in the
dugout during the World Series, caught on Fox camera. That
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same commissioner who Trevor Bauer took shots at. Well, put
all these things together and you have your answer. But
Bauer should be pitching for the Dodgers, he should be
pitching every fifth day for the Dodgers. But still he'll
be pitching for the base Stars. All right, final point,
So what are the odds that Trevor Bauer does end
up back in the big leagues? So I will set
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the Mallard odds on Bauer pitching another game in the
major leagues at minus one fifty. Now, those aren't great odds.
That implies a sixty percent chance. So there's a forty
percent chance we never see Bauer again. But I'm gonna
even a sixty percent chance on my number that Bauer
does pitch again. And it's it's the Jackson five plan.
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It's ABC as easy as one two three, meaning a
Trevor Bauer goes to the Japanese professional Baseball operation that
the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization dominates on the mount. So
that's the first part. Now, b he has to walk
the line. I has to behave himself poda's best behavior
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and all that. And see he has to let the
days on the calendar go buy time, heals all loans.
And then you will see some savvy oligarc of American baseball,
like Steve Cohen, the owner of the Mets, say wait
a minute, I need another starting pitcher and I can
add a cy young winner in Trevor Bauer. And Bauer's
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thirty two years old, so the window is three years.
Once you get thirty five. Past thirty five, it becomes
more of a problem if you've been out of the
big leagues for a while. But that's the plan, that's
the map, right there. Be sure to catch live editions
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get your podcast. It's Meller. How about that? To the
third degree, this is one big ban gets great and
the coop dal loop. There are new reports that say
the Minnesota Vikings are considering trading Dalvin Cook and going
with Alexander Madison as they're starter, in an effort to
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save cap space. Ben, is this the right move? Well,
you know, I do not believe in the salary cap.
So they want to get rid of Dalvin Cook because
they think that his money, he's not going to be
worth the money. They can get as much production out
of Madison as they can as Dalvin Cook. So I
support that, but don't tell me if you're getting rid
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of him because of the salary cap. You always want
to be one step ahead. You want to get rid
of a guy a year too soon than a year
too late. Right as the old Belichick line, and Dalvin
Cook's twenty eight years old. He's got roughly two more
years before his use by date comes up. And you
can have a revolving door it running back. It's been
proven that you can get get it done. The Eagles
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didn't have a great individual running back. Kansas City did
not have a great individual running back, but they had
collective as a team, good running games and they got
to the super Bowl. And so Alexander Madison is a
good player, he's cheaper, he's younger, and that's the recipe
in the NFL next. Paul Pierce said in a podcast
appearance over the weekend that he expects the Denver Nuggets
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to get upset in the first round of the playoffs. Ben,
are you in on this? Well, what was he smoking
your weed there, Coop when he was saying that was
he hanging out? I don't know. Listen, he's working on
his hot take game now. They got whacked over ESPN,
you know, a couple of years ago. So listen, I
think just missed the Bulls. The Nuggets are the number
one seed right now in the West. That means they
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play the winner of the playing tournaments, somebody like Minnesota
or Dallas. They have a fundamental legop going into that,
and there's a lot of the old guard that do
not like to call the Yoki, so they want to
see him lose that he bothers them. He's this dominating
figures in all time grade. He's annoyed. I don't by
I believe the Nuggets. They're not a lock to go
to the finals, but I certainly don't think they'll lose
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in the first round next. So on Sunday night, Mexico
shocked the USA in a route and in the World
Baseball Classic, and then and then on Monday night, USA
mercy ruled Canada. Ben, What is your level of interest
in the WBC. Well, I love the idea of having
a mercy rule. Like, if I like the first two
hours of the show, I've dominated, we should just end
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the show and I could go home. I think the
Mercy rule is a great idea, but I'm not that
into it. I just I don't know. I haven't I
haven't really picked up on the excitement of it. It
doesn't just I remember when they started it was all
contrived and I haven't gotten past that. How do we
doubt cool? You fail this edition they're a baseball guy.
I like real baseball opening Days. That's the Bud Seiler's
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made up World Baseball Classic and all that crap. Fox
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have what it takes to get to the top? Probably? Not?
All right, let's play the game right now. Here we
go Mallar's Mounting of Money, and we welcome in our contestants,
a man who wanted to play this game so much.
He has spent the entire night waiting for this moment,
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and now his dreams are coming true. If he's awake,
let's find out. Matt in the Valley of the Sun, Hello, Matt,
what's up then? What have you been doing all night? Man?
Just listening, hanging out, having a couple of beers, waiting
to getting ready to see if justin Cincinnati actually showed
up trying to bring you down. All right, that's is
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Justin in Cincinnati there. I'm looking around here. I don't
see him. I do not see Justin and I'm not
running I'm not running. I've not seen him on social media.
I think Justin's celebrating his Benny win. I think he's
gone on a bender. Yeah yeah, And I think he's
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gonna find out that I'm gonna be here every week
to win this every week for the rest of the year.
So that was gonna be mine next year. Oh man,
that's some spicy hot talk there. Man. Okay, you want
to play the game anyway, but he's not there. But
you want to play the game, right of course, All right,
of course you've been in. What kind of beer you drinking? Um?
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Bud Lights night bud Light? Okay, everyone's on a budget,
cost effective bud Light, right, No, Roberto says, no, what
about you, Roberto? What's your beer there? Megradello? Yeah, all right,
hold on a second, Matt. You're gonna play the game
in Arizona. And we had have the social media influencer
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Contributor of the Year, Blind Emmett, the Seahawk fan. Hello,
Blind Emmett, Hello Big Ben. I don't think Justin's on
social I think he's protesting because of because of the
social media blind Scott situation. So that's my guess on it.
I think I think Justin's a little a little mad
about that, and I'd be two when there's a fake
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Vegas trip on the line. So we see one an
award though, but I'm ready to play you, Matt, let's
get this. I have no idea what you're talking about.
But blind Scott was saying that there were prizes if
you want or something. Is that what was going on? Yeah,
so that that's why people were upset last night. Ben,
I don't know if he's talk about Twitter. Blind Scott
was quote tweeting these things, basically saying it's Emmitt's lifelong
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dread to win a benny. There's a free trip to
Vegas on the line, which unfortunately there was no Vegas trip.
So well, to be fair, I mean there is a
Vegas trip if your parents take you to Vegas. Yeah.
I was the Vegas last summer and it wasn't free,
so it was not Did you enjoy your time in Vegas? Yes?
It was very hot though it was hot, but I
wish I could bet on sports but not a one
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enough yet. Yeah, well, yeah, you see the Vegas bright lights,
the sin city, the whole thing there, because walking around
the casino, though Emmett with all the noise that must
be overwhelming for you. Noises don't bother me, man, I
don't know, like, but don't you like don't you have
like superpower hearing because you're blind? So you're hearing is
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better because you're blind, right, I mean I think there's
that's probably a little bit bys but oh you think
that's bull crap? I thought that was all right, gentlemen.
All right, gentlemen, we don't we don't have time. We
don't have this game. All right, Well, I want to
know more about Emmett. I have time. I want to
know what anyway, man, who would you like to partner
up with? Matt? You got me, Ben, you got Eddie,
Roberto kol Loop. Of course you've been We're gonna keep
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it going, all right, we'll keep the magic going, blind Emmett,
who you like to partner up with? Blind? Emmont Justin Cooper? Okay,
trying to curry favorite with the Coopa loop? And what
are the categories? We have the Billy Crystal edition of
the game. Yes, that's right, he turned seventy five years old.
To my god, but it doesn't it seem like he's
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been seventy five for a while. Okay. Uh. The categories are, uh,
both of these guys, I've never even heard of Billy Crystal.
Uh yeah, do either of you know who Billy? What's that? Eddie?
It was me? Do you consider him a Clippers fan
or no? I said, you know, he's not a very
nice guy. I've seen. I've seen him at a bunch
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of Clipper games. He's not I mean, I'm not approachable either,
but he's he's really not apro like. You know. I've
actually I've said at the table where he's been at,
and he just kind of really kind of give you
the cold shoulder, like, don't talk to me, you know. Anyway.
The categories are city Slickers, Father's Day, My Giant, and
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Monsters Inc. Matt, you run first, Which category would you like?
I'm gonna go with my Giant, My Giant Giant, all right?
And we don't want to talk to hollering James. Oh
hold on a second, that's a bad job. But I
didn't realize he was there blind, Emmett, we crossed the
lines I learned in Ghostbusters. Don't do that, Emmett. Which
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category you like? Why don't we go with the last one?
Monsters Inc? Yes, all right, all right, everyone, hold on,
no one, hang up, everyone, locking your place there, blind
Emmett and Coope. Team's gonna lose Matt in Phoenix and myself. Ben.
It's the Billy Crystal edition of Mallor's Mounting of Money,
and it's entirety and it is next. Be sure to
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catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, And right to the
game we go. It's Mallor's Mountain of Money. Hey, Matt,
we do have a rebuttal from that schmuck Justin. He says,
I'm under attack in life. This chump from Phoenix needs
to build a resume before I'll considered playing, because Eddie, don't,
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I don't know. I don't know how eight wins in
a row is in a resume. I think, Yeah, he's
afraid of you. He doesn't want to lose to you.
Remember he lost, Justin lost. Who's that kid caller we
had a couple of years back. He lost to a
child who no long He's all grown up now Antonio
no longer calls the show. But anyway, all right, let's
play the game. Enough of that. Who cares about justin
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this is about you. Stay focused, Matt. You picked my giant.
It's the Billy Crystal edition. He turned seventy five today.
These NBA players were all teammates of George Morasson at
some point, of course, Crystal, Billy Crystal and George Mirrisson
and that that movie back in the year. Let me
let me preface this before you, just in case you complain.
I checked with both people, everybody who I screened for
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this game that they know NBA. Okay, whatever, they're gonna
get none, right, but that's fine. All right, we'll put
forty five seconds on the clock. Are you ready, Matt? Yes,
I guess all right. This guy had one. All right,
forty five since you run away? Go all right. Famous
at Michigan for calling a time out when the Wolverines
had none. Yes, fear the fro for the Detroit Pistons
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in the NBA. Yes, uh, this guy both teams played
hard for the Trailblazers when they were known as the
jail Blazers out of North Carolina. Yes uh. NBA bust
guard played for the Timberwolves. He's now coaching in China.
He has a museum in China. He played for the
sub No. How about CALVS guard white guy nineteen eighties
(36:28):
went at Georgia Tech good shooter. How about this Kentucky
basketball star, legend, social media influencer right now is big
on Twitter. He was a slam dunk slam dunk guy,
John Wall not a white guy. Oh boy, started strong
and then hit a wall. Yeah, well, these are all
names that these guys weren't even live. Eddy doesn't matter.
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Sixty points, Matt. How old are you, Matt? He's twenty five. Eddy,
know your history, young man? Oh but he was. It
was poor the late nights us. Let's see what you got.
Go ahead, let's see what you got. All right, let's
see what you got. Big guy, we got, we got,
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we got monsters, inc. These are some of the scariest
athletes of all time. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Begin boxer who bit someone's ear off. Yes, middle linebacker
for the Ravens. One of the best middle linebackers of
all time. Yes. Uh, the big unit tall pitcher in baseball. Yes, uh.
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Linebacker for the Giants. He broke Joe Thiseman's leg Lauren Taylor. Yes,
tight end for the Patriots that killed somebody. Yes, he's
a linebacker for the Steelers. He was bald, he had
huge biceps. Huh okay, how would he know? He's blind?
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All defensive climb in that a linebacker that had missing teeth,
the babacker. You're not gonna get this one. Yeah yeah,
he who's describing physically an interesting approach? Harrison James Harrison
was the Steelers lost one hundred and sixty. You've got
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a one hund and Jack Lambert easy category? What are
you easy? He didn't get a last two. You've been
drinking beer all night. We've got city slickers or Father's Day?
Which one do you want there? Man? Uh? Let's Father's Day?
All right? These athletes all have children that are currently
professional athletes. Understand all right? All right? Uh? Forty five
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second on the clock. We're on our way. Go. H
Michael Jordan's teammates Scottie Oh the rocket for the Red Sox.
And also yes, uh about this, he's coaching the seventy
six ers. Now he played for the Atlanta Hawks, coach
the Clippers the Celtics. What a chance? Yes. His son
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plays for the Blue Jays and hits a bunch of
home runs from the Dominican Republic. His dad. Yes, uh Steph,
Steph's father from the Golden State. Yes, a wide receiver
for the running back for the forty nine ers. His
father was a wide receiver for the Broncoes. His father.
How about how about um, let's see here this last
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one of the Blue Jays. Oh yeah, Well, the good
news is you're in the lead. The bad news is
it's not. The better news is we're out of time.
And because we are out of time again, congratulations, we're
out of time. Running back for the New York Giants. Please?
What running back for the New York Giants? Yes? Please, cheater.
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That was with Jay Lo for the Yankees. Alex Rodriguez, Yes,
came into the league with lebron He played for the Nuggets,
then the Knicks. Camel Anthony talking, that was easier, you guys,
mark crime. He hadn't rip chairman. How about bed drive
to end the game? Early time? Time job, But you
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wrap up thet off like a professional broadcast to a
mellerman turn his mike off.
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Fox Sports Radio. You gotta shop till you drop, NFL style.
Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben
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buying should be. So our lead we were thinking we're
gonna start out with a big Aaron Rodgers story and
he's going to the Jets, and that didn't happen, not
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yet anyway. But our lead does come from the Pigskin Pelooza.
And there was a show that was on the TV.
It was a game show called Shop Till You Drop
was on for a number of years sporadically, and the
legal tampering period. Oh, I'm so excited. I think it's
it's unfair. I think the NFL should be canceled for
(01:52):
encouraging tampering. Bad job by then, But the illegal tampering
period opened up on Monday, which is a Smorgsborg of activity,
who wind of moving parts, Players you've never heard of,
who suddenly are very important. I always going to kick
out of this time of the year when there's some
random linebacker that nobody knows who the person is, but
they change teams, and the fan base in the new city, Oh,
(02:14):
we got the greatest linebacker in the world, and ten
minutes ago you've never heard of the guy. But all
of a sudden, you're a football expert. You got everything
figured out. So I don't know if you've been keeping
track or not. Possibly not all day long into the night.
We have had players going here, there, and everywhere. It's
like an old Beatles song. So let us discuss the
question what stood out at the start of the NFL's
(02:37):
legal tampering period. So I've got tupperware, witching hour, and
mass exodus, and we will combine all of these things
together and we'll give you one of those giant oversized
cartoon checks, which a number of NFL players are picking up,
giant oversized cartoon checks. It's like that old bit Oprah
(03:01):
did on TV many years ago. You get a car,
you get a car. You get a car, You get
a car, You get a car, and you in the back,
you get a car. So the first thought I had
was the quarterbacks are all over the place, and they're
not even that good considering a seventeen game season. Even
backups matter. Backup quarterbacks matter, and they get starts in
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a seventeen game season. We have had a bunch of
chop liver, a bunch of leftover quarterbacks agreeing to deals.
Get out the tupperware, the leftover spaghetti and meatballs is
on the move. The flotsam and jetsam of NFL quarterbacks.
Saw Sam Darnald is taking his talents to the forty
nine ers. I'm guessing the forty nine er fans are
(03:47):
now convinced that Sam Donald, who has sucked his entire career,
will not be a bag of suck when he gets
to the Bay Area. The man who saw a ghost
with the Jets and smelled like a skunk with the
Panthers lands with an NFC heavyweight quick take. This will
will test the boundaries of the Kyle Shanahan is a
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quarterback whisperer and Sam Darnold. If everything goes the way
it's trending, and Brock Purty's not going to be quite
ready at the start of the year, you've got Trey Lance.
It is more probable than not that Sam Darnald we'll
end up starting a game or two for the forty nine.
But wait, there's more case Keenom He's still playing. Yeah,
(04:30):
I'm shocked by that, though I didn't know. I thought
he retired. Case Keenum is on the movie Exits Buffalo
and he moves on to the Houston Texans on a
two year deal. Mike White, the great White Hope for
the Jets, didn't quite work well. That his last name
Is White. It didn't quite work out, and so he
says bye bye to the Jets and he stays in
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the AFC East. Mike White goes to South Beach to
hang out with the Dolphins, and you think he's gonna
start over ten games in his Dolphin career with too
a tongue of bloa. Who's just a breath away from
being in the concussion protocol. Yeah, so Mike White goes
there as a backup. Jared Stadham said, see you later, Vegas.
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I'm out of here. He went to the Broncos and
he will now be a sprained ankle away from Russell
Wilson and Denver. Jamis Winston could not get a starting
job anywhere, you see, he resigned with the Saints. That
means that he will be waiting for Derek Carter to
take a ride on the vomit comment in the Bayou,
eat too much gumbo and pull boys, and then all
(05:36):
of a sudden, Winston's back. Or if Derek Carr slips
on the banana peel and there you go, and Jimmy
Garoppolo headed to Lost Wages, Nevada. He leaves the forty
nine ers. We will do a full Mallar monologue of
the Raiders on Jimmy g who has been a great
in Vegas. For these seven games that he plays this
(05:56):
year for the Raiders, I think the Raiders go seven
and all in those games. No, I think it's a
good rental for the for those I love the people
freaking out here's not the forever quarterback who the f
cares Just shut the hell up. Garoppolo's better than that
stiff that turned Derek Carr. So you got a better quarterback.
He's heard a lot. Deal with it. As long as
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you can make sure he's kind of there for the playoffs,
then you got something. All right. I'm just saying all
right now page two, help me understand why Aaron Rogers
there's nothing there and there's nothing. There's no meat on
the ball with Lamar Jackson, both those guys still twisting
in the wind. So I'll start with the Rogers. And
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I had heard rumblings over the weekend Rodgers was gonna
make an announcement on Tuesday. Well, now we're hitting you
to Tuesday. Didn't do it on Monday. But you gotta
look at Rogers here, and it's like he's milking the cow.
He's sending out weird cryptic messages on Twitter. A Trey
Wingo bit the cheese he goes carried away. That used
to be big at ESPN. Now he just does a
(06:58):
podcast like every other. I'll be one like him soon.
But a Trey Wingo reported that he's he was hearing
the deal was done to send Rogers to the Jets.
That happened, I think around three o'clock Eastern time. There
was one problem, Ti Ti Ti tick Dad. Nothing happened.
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No announcement by the Jets, no announcement by the Packers,
no announcement by Rogers. The thing we all we all
dread in the business. I'm in radio silence, radio silence.
And so the weight continues as we head towards the
witching hour, which is which is Wednesday. This is our
Tuesday show. So Wednesday is the witching hour, the new
(07:44):
League year. And for now, for now, Rogers continues to
circle the airport, deciding which cockpit he wants to go
into Green Bay in New York. Gang Green in a
holding pattern. And and then you turn to the curious
case of Lamar Jackson. Now we are told that Lamar
cannot legally they're gonna see it with any teams until Wednesday.
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But since he doesn't have an agent, there's not even
a whisper of any team being interested. No one's advocating
for Lamar Jackson. There's just a lot of angry people.
It's not fair, not fair. Those losers very upset. But
there's not a lot of noise out there. And if
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if Lamar Jackson had an agent, you'd hear seven different
versions of Team X is interested and they're putting together
a package and this. But you look at your big board,
and if you look at your radio here, let me
get out my telestrator, and you look at the teams
that need quarterbacks here, and you go down the list.
The Raiders got Garoppolos, they're off the list. Carolina traded
(08:51):
for the number one pick, so they're off the list.
We pretty we're pretty sure the Texans are going to
draft a quarterbacks, so they're seemingly off the list. Miami
has agreed to the fifth year option for two a
tongue of Byeloa, which would seemingly take them off the list.
Let me check up here. The Falcons, there was a
(09:13):
report that said they're not interested. I got them circled
and then the wild card would be the Patriots. But
that would require the Patriots to dust off the cobwebs
off the wallet, which is something that Robert Kraft does
not like to do, and I respect that because I'm
a frugal man myself. So who else is there's anyone?
The Lions, I guess the Lions. You can toss them
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out there, the Detroit Lions. Not a lot, not a
lot there, not a lot. Nobody's trying to persuade Lamar
to sign on the dotted line. It's a it's an
a sexual situation. There's no flirting, there's no footsie, no canoodling,
none of that. It's Ravens and not even a peep
(09:54):
about anyone else, not even a peep. All right, last
word here? So what else stands out from day number
one of the legal tampering window? The transjunction wire. So
some names we've heard of, These are names that would
move the needle because we've seemingly heard of them. Patrick
Peterson is on the move. He used to be really good.
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He leaves the Vikings for the Pittsburgh Steelers. There's a
mass exodus in Philadelphia. The NFC champions who were leading
the Super Bowl until they weren't. Are seeing players leave
town to the north, to the south, to the east,
and to the west, all jumping at a pile of pasos.
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Here will the last person leaving the Eagle locker room
who's able to turn out the lights the party's over.
Jason Hargrave gone defensive tackle, some offensive lineman Andre Diller
had never heard of him. T J Edwards, he made
a bunch of plays for the Eagles last year, and
Marcus Epps all have found new homes. Hargrove eleven sacks
last year. He turned that into eighty four million from
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the Niners, and there's not a single person that's purchased
a ticket to watch him play. Edwards, who had a
big year. T J Edwards a guy you've never heard of,
but one hundred and fifty nine tackles last season. He
ends up getting a bunch of money from Chicago's chatter
that Fletcher Cox is going to leave town. Meanwhile, the
Chargers they're running back Austin Eckler. He's like, I want
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out of here. I don't want to play for the
Faults anymore. You didn't give me more money. I would
like a trade. I'm taking my ball and going out.
Let's scare you. Chargers did sign Eric Kendricks late of
the Vikings and more proof, more proof that one of
the Maller theories on life is correct. The Buffalo Bills
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the latest team to prove the salary cap is made up.
It's fugazy, it's a myth. Little mathematical gymnastics. There, little
math gymnastics by the Buffalo Bills. You didn't see this.
They were way over the salary cap and they took
out their pen, They crossed some teas, they dotted some
eyes and presto, just like that, the Buffalo Bills under
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the salary cap. How did they do it? They took
Josh Allen's contract, von Miller's contract, and they created thirty
two million in salary cap space. Now is Josh Allen
von Miller these guys getting pay cuts? No, they don't
work in radio. No they are they not a dollar less,
not a dollar less or those guys. They turned Josh
Allen's bass salary to in the veteran league minimum. We
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are told, so he'll be technically making the league minimum
salary for a veteran of six years. Stature looks like
a million dollars. All the rest of the money was
turned into a signing bonus pro rated over five years
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And they did
something similar with similar with von Miller. And just because
of that, no money out of pocket for either of
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those guys, and all of a sudden, you've got a
mixtra thirty something million dollars to play with in the
salary cap. The Patriots, as usual, have done nothing interesting.
They very rarely. They did resign Jonathan Jones is a
good player to do a two year extension. Whoopie damn do.
And they traded one of the great free agent bus
remember a couple years ago they spent all that money
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on Hunter Henry and John who Smith and John hu
Smith did nothing. I think you had more of an
impact than the Patriots than the John wh Smith did.
He goes to the Falcons for a seventh round pick
and salary cap relief, which I love I have always.
I don't know about you, but when I was a
little boy, I collected football cards. MY favorite card was
salary cap Relief. I always loved that card. I held
(13:34):
that card close to my heart. I did call me silly?
I love that card. Yeah yeah, And I voted last
year for MVP Salary cap Relief. That was my MVP book.
I know I'm a little weird. I know. Don't judge me,
don't judge. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
(13:55):
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio. A After
a long wait, Trevor Bauer says, cant jua to his
new home. Welcome. In the beginning of another hour of
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lead this hour coming from baseball, We'll get back to
the NFL merry go round, Round and round, round and
(15:00):
round goes the Merry go Round. But we must spend
a couple of good minutes talking about the big baseball
story that they does not involve the World Baseball Classic.
Does not involve the World Baseball Classic. But Trevor Bauer
will be towing the rubber. He'll be back on the
mound as he has found a new home. If you
have not heard yet, perhaps you have not been listening
(15:23):
and you missed it. The former Cy Young Winner Trevor
Bauer has agreed to a contract with the Yokohama Bass Stars.
Who what are they in the Are they in the
National League East? No? Are they in the American League West? No?
Are they in the Mexican League? Not the Mexican League. Yeah, okay.
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Bauer is going to pitch in Japan, the Nippon Professional
Baseball League. There, he gets a one year contract for
three million dollars to take his talents. Keep in mind
he'll take his talents to Japan. The Dodgers will be
paying him over twenty million dollars a year to pitch
in the Japanese league. He hasn't pitched since June of
(16:07):
twenty twenty one with the Dodgers. Bauer was then falsely
accused of sexual assault. Baseball suspended them anyway for three
hundred twenty four games. They didn't watch an arbitrator reduce
the suspension and reinstate Bauer. Yet the twenty nine other
teams in Major League Baseball decided that they were too
(16:29):
afraid to sign Bauer. So let us discuss the question,
what is your takeaway here from Trevor Bauer signing with
the base Stars in the Japanese League. So I've got
Tom Selleck, Wizard of Oz, and Jackson five, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
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going to make a nice plate of sushi, is what
we're going to make, all right. So number one, number
ninety six in your program, but number one in your heart,
Trevor Bauer will flourish in Japan. He is going to dominate.
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Bauer would be one of the top ten fifteen starting
pitchers in professional baseball in the United States. I expect
him to showcase his skills overseas, and I hope he
wins every single start just to make the Dodgers look
like complete donkeys. They are because the locker room wanted
Bauer back. Coaching staff wanted Bauer back, but some losers
(17:29):
in the ownership slide in the front office decided they
didn't want Bauer back. Bad job by them, and we
would be surprised if Bauer does not outshine his teammates
with the base Stars and in that league, Bauer is
about also to live the Tom Selleck life. I know
it's an outdated reference, but it's an old school baseball
movie called Mister Baseball. It's over thirty years old, this
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movie Mister Baseball, and if you haven't seen it, even
to this day, players from the United States who signed
contracts in Japan, they'll say, hey, you should probably watch
Mister Baseball to kind of figure out what it's like
over and in Japan, what the cultures like. It's a
lot different, certain things you have to do you don't
have to do in the United States. And Bauer. I
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remember the tagline on the VHS box for Mister Baseball,
and it had a photo of Tom Sellick and then
they had the obviously he was in character, and it said,
you know, his name will be the biggest thing to
hit Japan since Godzilla, and so that will be Trevor
Bauer that's how the line went in the movie. But
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we are told Bauer had a tight relationship with executives
for this team that the bass Stars, he had gone
over to visit in twenty nineteen. He actually had offers
from four total teams in the Japanese League. He chose
this one. So nepotism did play a role in the
deal coming together. It is not known. It's not what
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you know, it's who you know. As a reminder that
now a weekend experience together watching from afar how Trevor
Bauer does, because if he does well, there will be
a groundswell effort to get him back into major league baseball.
But the second thing, your page number two, Why did
all of major league baseball run away like he had
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the bubonic plague? Trevor Bauer. So there's a long answer
and a short answer, and the short answer is baseball
is filled with characters from the Wizard of Oz, but
only one character, cowardly Lyons. Baseball has got a lot
of cowards, a lot of these IVY league losers in
the front office. They love the analytics and the numbers,
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they like the group think, but everyone is afraid of
rocking the boat. They don't want to upset the cartel.
From a baseball standpoint, Trevor Bauer could have, would have
should have been the difference, a difference maker on a
team that could elevate a fringe contender into a legiti
him at least a wild card team. You look at
the Texas Rangers, the Angels, teams like that. With Bauer instead,
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he'll be eating Shabu shabu and shashimi in Japan and
the Land of the Rising Sun there. And when you
take a couple of steps back, you see how zany
this story is. Bauer never arrested, never charged with the crime,
and when it comes to important legal rulings that affect
(20:28):
his freedom or possible freedom, he's batting a thousand. Remember
a judge ruled in Bower's favor when his accuser looked
for a restraining order. The District Attorney's office in Los
Angeles investigated the evidence ruled in Bower's favor that the
woman from San Diego who accused him of rape, that
(20:53):
that was there was not enough to charge him. There
was no crime that was committed, and there were a
bunch of text messages from her encouraging Trevor Bauer to
push things even further the second time they hooked up
for some rough hanky panky. And then when Major League
Baseball wanted that three hundred twenty four games suspension to
(21:16):
be upheld per their own policy, there fly by Night
domestic violence policy. There was an independent arbitrator who reduced
the suspension ruling against Major League Baseball. All of that
is there, and yet Bauer has to go to Japan.
The pitch and the other thing, which is crazy. All
these people. I can't support Major League Baseball of Trevor
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Bauer pitchers, he's a domestic abuser. Well, if you believe that,
maybe maybe he is. If you believe that, you shouldn't
watch Major League baseball. Baseball spoiler alert is filled with
domestic abusers every part of the country, right to Mingo
Herman pitcher New York Yankees or all this Chapman. He's
(21:59):
with the Royals now, Julio Urius are the Dodgers, Jerry's
familia of Arizona. I can go on and on, and
there's more than that. So why do we draw a
line at Trevor Bauer? Why is Bauer different than those others?
Other guys? Are they served their suspension, they're back in baseball.
Why is Bauer different, Well, Bauer obviously has cooties. Major
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League Baseball does not own enough Kleenex to get rid
of the cooties. Because Bauer, unlike those other guys, didn't
play the game. Bauer is brash, he's domineering. He did
not accept the punishment. He said there was no crime committed.
He didn't get down in jenue flect and begged for forgiveness.
He went scorched earth. He sued anybody and everybody. He could,
(22:45):
you get a lawsuit, You get a lawsuit. Bauer attacked
media people, prominent media people, including some scribes that are
in the inner circle, certain baseball writers that are like
part of the cartel of Major League base And the
biggest crime that Bauer committed and he was found guilty.
(23:06):
He was an outspoken critic of Rob Manford, the bozo
commissioner in Major League Baseball, the guy that looked the
other way when the Astros were cheating in the World
Major League Baseball's own production team put the table they
were cheating with in their video, the World Series video.
And Rob Manford, the same man who chose not to
(23:27):
punish a racist. Who was racist during the twenty seventeen
World Series. Julie Gurray, who, by the way, he is
back in baseball. Buy your Marlins tickets, all seven of you,
and you can support Julie gury ellis signed with the Marlins.
But it wouldn't suspend him during the World Series, allow
him to continue. Made a racist eye gesture in the
dugout during the World Series, caught on Fox camera. That
(23:48):
same commissioner who Trevor Bauer took shots at. Well, put
all these things together and you have your answer. But
Bauer should be pitching for the Dodgers, he should be
pitching every fifth day for the Dodgers. But still he'll
be pitching for the base Stars. All right, final point,
So what are the odds that Trevor Bauer does end
up back in the big leagues? So I will set
(24:09):
the Mallard odds on Bauer pitching another game in the
major leagues at minus one fifty. Now, those aren't great odds.
That implies a sixty percent chance. So there's a forty
percent chance we never see Bauer again. But I'm gonna
even a sixty percent chance on my number that Bauer
does pitch again. And it's it's the Jackson five plan.
(24:30):
It's ABC as easy as one two three, meaning a
Trevor Bauer goes to the Japanese professional Baseball operation that
the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization dominates on the mount. So
that's the first part. Now, b he has to walk
the line. I has to behave himself poda's best behavior
(24:51):
and all that. And see he has to let the
days on the calendar go buy time, heals all loans.
And then you will see some savvy oligarc of American baseball,
like Steve Cohen, the owner of the Mets, say wait
a minute, I need another starting pitcher and I can
add a cy young winner in Trevor Bauer. And Bauer's
(25:16):
thirty two years old, so the window is three years.
Once you get thirty five. Past thirty five, it becomes
more of a problem if you've been out of the
big leagues for a while. But that's the plan, that's
the map, right there. Be sure to catch live editions
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eleven pm Pacific. Hey, I'm Doug Gottlie. The podcast is
(25:39):
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But it's more about the stories about what made these
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We tell you stories. You download it, you listen to it.
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(26:04):
get your podcast. It's Meller. How about that? To the
third degree, this is one big ban gets great and
the coop dal loop. There are new reports that say
the Minnesota Vikings are considering trading Dalvin Cook and going
with Alexander Madison as they're starter, in an effort to
(26:25):
save cap space. Ben, is this the right move? Well,
you know, I do not believe in the salary cap.
So they want to get rid of Dalvin Cook because
they think that his money, he's not going to be
worth the money. They can get as much production out
of Madison as they can as Dalvin Cook. So I
support that, but don't tell me if you're getting rid
(26:45):
of him because of the salary cap. You always want
to be one step ahead. You want to get rid
of a guy a year too soon than a year
too late. Right as the old Belichick line, and Dalvin
Cook's twenty eight years old. He's got roughly two more
years before his use by date comes up. And you
can have a revolving door it running back. It's been
proven that you can get get it done. The Eagles
(27:07):
didn't have a great individual running back. Kansas City did
not have a great individual running back, but they had
collective as a team, good running games and they got
to the super Bowl. And so Alexander Madison is a
good player, he's cheaper, he's younger, and that's the recipe
in the NFL next. Paul Pierce said in a podcast
appearance over the weekend that he expects the Denver Nuggets
(27:29):
to get upset in the first round of the playoffs. Ben,
are you in on this? Well, what was he smoking
your weed there, Coop when he was saying that was
he hanging out? I don't know. Listen, he's working on
his hot take game now. They got whacked over ESPN,
you know, a couple of years ago. So listen, I
think just missed the Bulls. The Nuggets are the number
one seed right now in the West. That means they
(27:50):
play the winner of the playing tournaments, somebody like Minnesota
or Dallas. They have a fundamental legop going into that,
and there's a lot of the old guard that do
not like to call the Yoki, so they want to
see him lose that he bothers them. He's this dominating
figures in all time grade. He's annoyed. I don't by
I believe the Nuggets. They're not a lock to go
to the finals, but I certainly don't think they'll lose
(28:10):
in the first round next. So on Sunday night, Mexico
shocked the USA in a route and in the World
Baseball Classic, and then and then on Monday night, USA
mercy ruled Canada. Ben, What is your level of interest
in the WBC. Well, I love the idea of having
a mercy rule. Like, if I like the first two
hours of the show, I've dominated, we should just end
(28:31):
the show and I could go home. I think the
Mercy rule is a great idea, but I'm not that
into it. I just I don't know. I haven't I
haven't really picked up on the excitement of it. It
doesn't just I remember when they started it was all
contrived and I haven't gotten past that. How do we
doubt cool? You fail this edition they're a baseball guy.
I like real baseball opening Days. That's the Bud Seiler's
(28:54):
made up World Baseball Classic and all that crap. Fox
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(29:15):
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably? Not?
All right, let's play the game right now. Here we
go Mallar's Mounting of Money, and we welcome in our contestants,
a man who wanted to play this game so much.
He has spent the entire night waiting for this moment,
(29:35):
and now his dreams are coming true. If he's awake,
let's find out. Matt in the Valley of the Sun, Hello, Matt,
what's up then? What have you been doing all night? Man?
Just listening, hanging out, having a couple of beers, waiting
to getting ready to see if justin Cincinnati actually showed
up trying to bring you down. All right, that's is
(29:57):
Justin in Cincinnati there. I'm looking around here. I don't
see him. I do not see Justin and I'm not
running I'm not running. I've not seen him on social media.
I think Justin's celebrating his Benny win. I think he's
gone on a bender. Yeah yeah, And I think he's
(30:20):
gonna find out that I'm gonna be here every week
to win this every week for the rest of the year.
So that was gonna be mine next year. Oh man,
that's some spicy hot talk there. Man. Okay, you want
to play the game anyway, but he's not there. But
you want to play the game, right of course, All right,
of course you've been in. What kind of beer you drinking? Um?
(30:41):
Bud Lights night bud Light? Okay, everyone's on a budget,
cost effective bud Light, right, No, Roberto says, no, what
about you, Roberto? What's your beer there? Megradello? Yeah, all right,
hold on a second, Matt. You're gonna play the game
in Arizona. And we had have the social media influencer
(31:04):
Contributor of the Year, Blind Emmett, the Seahawk fan. Hello,
Blind Emmett, Hello Big Ben. I don't think Justin's on
social I think he's protesting because of because of the
social media blind Scott situation. So that's my guess on it.
I think I think Justin's a little a little mad
about that, and I'd be two when there's a fake
(31:25):
Vegas trip on the line. So we see one an
award though, but I'm ready to play you, Matt, let's
get this. I have no idea what you're talking about.
But blind Scott was saying that there were prizes if
you want or something. Is that what was going on? Yeah,
so that that's why people were upset last night. Ben,
I don't know if he's talk about Twitter. Blind Scott
was quote tweeting these things, basically saying it's Emmitt's lifelong
(31:47):
dread to win a benny. There's a free trip to
Vegas on the line, which unfortunately there was no Vegas trip.
So well, to be fair, I mean there is a
Vegas trip if your parents take you to Vegas. Yeah.
I was the Vegas last summer and it wasn't free,
so it was not Did you enjoy your time in Vegas? Yes?
It was very hot though it was hot, but I
wish I could bet on sports but not a one
(32:08):
enough yet. Yeah, well, yeah, you see the Vegas bright lights,
the sin city, the whole thing there, because walking around
the casino, though Emmett with all the noise that must
be overwhelming for you. Noises don't bother me, man, I
don't know, like, but don't you like don't you have
like superpower hearing because you're blind? So you're hearing is
(32:30):
better because you're blind, right, I mean I think there's
that's probably a little bit bys but oh you think
that's bull crap? I thought that was all right, gentlemen.
All right, gentlemen, we don't we don't have time. We
don't have this game. All right, Well, I want to
know more about Emmett. I have time. I want to
know what anyway, man, who would you like to partner
up with? Matt? You got me, Ben, you got Eddie,
Roberto kol Loop. Of course you've been We're gonna keep
(32:52):
it going, all right, we'll keep the magic going, blind Emmett,
who you like to partner up with? Blind? Emmont Justin Cooper? Okay,
trying to curry favorite with the Coopa loop? And what
are the categories? We have the Billy Crystal edition of
the game. Yes, that's right, he turned seventy five years old.
To my god, but it doesn't it seem like he's
(33:13):
been seventy five for a while. Okay. Uh. The categories are, uh,
both of these guys, I've never even heard of Billy Crystal.
Uh yeah, do either of you know who Billy? What's that? Eddie?
It was me? Do you consider him a Clippers fan
or no? I said, you know, he's not a very
nice guy. I've seen. I've seen him at a bunch
(33:34):
of Clipper games. He's not I mean, I'm not approachable either,
but he's he's really not apro like. You know. I've
actually I've said at the table where he's been at,
and he just kind of really kind of give you
the cold shoulder, like, don't talk to me, you know. Anyway.
The categories are city Slickers, Father's Day, My Giant, and
(33:55):
Monsters Inc. Matt, you run first, Which category would you like?
I'm gonna go with my Giant, My Giant Giant, all right?
And we don't want to talk to hollering James. Oh
hold on a second, that's a bad job. But I
didn't realize he was there blind, Emmett, we crossed the
lines I learned in Ghostbusters. Don't do that, Emmett. Which
(34:17):
category you like? Why don't we go with the last one?
Monsters Inc? Yes, all right, all right, everyone, hold on,
no one, hang up, everyone, locking your place there, blind
Emmett and Coope. Team's gonna lose Matt in Phoenix and myself. Ben.
It's the Billy Crystal edition of Mallor's Mounting of Money,
and it's entirety and it is next. Be sure to
(34:41):
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, And right to the
game we go. It's Mallor's Mountain of Money. Hey, Matt,
we do have a rebuttal from that schmuck Justin. He says,
I'm under attack in life. This chump from Phoenix needs
to build a resume before I'll considered playing, because Eddie, don't,
(35:01):
I don't know. I don't know how eight wins in
a row is in a resume. I think, Yeah, he's
afraid of you. He doesn't want to lose to you.
Remember he lost, Justin lost. Who's that kid caller we
had a couple of years back. He lost to a
child who no long He's all grown up now Antonio
no longer calls the show. But anyway, all right, let's
play the game. Enough of that. Who cares about justin
(35:22):
this is about you. Stay focused, Matt. You picked my giant.
It's the Billy Crystal edition. He turned seventy five today.
These NBA players were all teammates of George Morasson at
some point, of course, Crystal, Billy Crystal and George Mirrisson
and that that movie back in the year. Let me
let me preface this before you, just in case you complain.
I checked with both people, everybody who I screened for
(35:44):
this game that they know NBA. Okay, whatever, they're gonna
get none, right, but that's fine. All right, we'll put
forty five seconds on the clock. Are you ready, Matt? Yes,
I guess all right. This guy had one. All right,
forty five since you run away? Go all right. Famous
at Michigan for calling a time out when the Wolverines
had none. Yes, fear the fro for the Detroit Pistons
(36:05):
in the NBA. Yes, uh, this guy both teams played
hard for the Trailblazers when they were known as the
jail Blazers out of North Carolina. Yes uh. NBA bust
guard played for the Timberwolves. He's now coaching in China.
He has a museum in China. He played for the
sub No. How about CALVS guard white guy nineteen eighties
(36:28):
went at Georgia Tech good shooter. How about this Kentucky
basketball star, legend, social media influencer right now is big
on Twitter. He was a slam dunk slam dunk guy,
John Wall not a white guy. Oh boy, started strong
and then hit a wall. Yeah, well, these are all
names that these guys weren't even live. Eddy doesn't matter.
(36:50):
Sixty points, Matt. How old are you, Matt? He's twenty five. Eddy,
know your history, young man? Oh but he was. It
was poor the late nights us. Let's see what you got.
Go ahead, let's see what you got. All right, let's
see what you got. Big guy, we got, we got,
(37:12):
we got monsters, inc. These are some of the scariest
athletes of all time. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Begin boxer who bit someone's ear off. Yes, middle linebacker
for the Ravens. One of the best middle linebackers of
all time. Yes. Uh, the big unit tall pitcher in baseball. Yes, uh.
(37:34):
Linebacker for the Giants. He broke Joe Thiseman's leg Lauren Taylor. Yes,
tight end for the Patriots that killed somebody. Yes, he's
a linebacker for the Steelers. He was bald, he had
huge biceps. Huh okay, how would he know? He's blind?
(37:54):
All defensive climb in that a linebacker that had missing teeth,
the babacker. You're not gonna get this one. Yeah yeah,
he who's describing physically an interesting approach? Harrison James Harrison
was the Steelers lost one hundred and sixty. You've got
(38:15):
a one hund and Jack Lambert easy category? What are
you easy? He didn't get a last two. You've been
drinking beer all night. We've got city slickers or Father's Day?
Which one do you want there? Man? Uh? Let's Father's Day?
All right? These athletes all have children that are currently
professional athletes. Understand all right? All right? Uh? Forty five
(38:38):
second on the clock. We're on our way. Go. H
Michael Jordan's teammates Scottie Oh the rocket for the Red Sox.
And also yes, uh about this, he's coaching the seventy
six ers. Now he played for the Atlanta Hawks, coach
the Clippers the Celtics. What a chance? Yes. His son
(38:59):
plays for the Blue Jays and hits a bunch of
home runs from the Dominican Republic. His dad. Yes, uh Steph,
Steph's father from the Golden State. Yes, a wide receiver
for the running back for the forty nine ers. His
father was a wide receiver for the Broncoes. His father.
How about how about um, let's see here this last
(39:23):
one of the Blue Jays. Oh yeah, Well, the good
news is you're in the lead. The bad news is
it's not. The better news is we're out of time.
And because we are out of time again, congratulations, we're
out of time. Running back for the New York Giants. Please?
What running back for the New York Giants? Yes? Please, cheater.
(39:45):
That was with Jay Lo for the Yankees. Alex Rodriguez, Yes,
came into the league with lebron He played for the Nuggets,
then the Knicks. Camel Anthony talking, that was easier, you guys,
mark crime. He hadn't rip chairman. How about bed drive
to end the game? Early time? Time job, But you
(40:14):
wrap up thet off like a professional broadcast to a
mellerman turn his mike off.
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