March 16, 2023 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Tampa Bay Bucs signing Baker Mayfield, if this is Baker's last chance as an NFL starter, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and much more!
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Hello and welcome. It's our name Bear four hour four
and we appreciate the fact that you have been bothered
enough to download our four. The Baker is in the
kitchen or should I say the belt. The Baker is
lending a helping hand inside the quarterback room. What do
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you suppose Baker Mayfield was thinking in picking the Bucks
and vice versa? Would Baker Mayfield have been better off
taking a step back and going to a better team?
And is this Baker Mayfield's last chance as an NFL starter.
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We'll talk about that and much more right now. Buckle up,
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our number four here, it is the Baker on the move.
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the way tire buying shoot be, so change it up
a little bit this are There's been a bunch of
transuctions in the NFL. Nothing still on airing Rogers, as
he has said, he would like to play where that
in New York. The other team in you or not
the team that wins a lot, the Giants, although they
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have won recently, but the Jets and our lead coming
from the wheel of fortune, not Juju. Smith Schuster on
the move, the quarterback shuffle another a random name has
been taken off the scorecard. You can say bye bye
to Baker Mayfield. Yes that's right, if you have not heard,
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and possibly not, we have learned that Baker Mayfield is
on the move again, taking his Duffel bag to Tampa
Bay for an extended stay, but not a long term stay.
It's one of those long term hotels. He'll be staying
at a Mayfield agreeing to a one year contract worth
UP two eight point five million. And as you know,
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up two is a weasel term that is used in
all kinds of advertising because the human mind. We've evolved,
all of us, but we've not evolved enough to pick
up on up two. The base salary for Baker is
four million dollars, still a lot of money. I would
be happy with four million dollars. I'm guessing you would
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be two as well. So Baker Mayfield is going to
compete with the holdover Kyle Trask not to be confused
with Kyle Trash for the starting job, and what used
to be known as Tompa Bay but no longer. So
let us discuss the question, what do you suppose Baker
Mayfield was thinking and the Buccaneers were thinking to form
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this short term relationship. So I've got Charlie Brown, exotic menu,
and saloon, and we will connect all of these things
together and we are going to make some nice sunshine,
which Baker Mayfield get a lot of. He didn't get
a lot of sunshine when he played in Cleveland back
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in the day, but he'll get a lot of sunshine
in Tampa. So the first thought I had is this
is the old supply and demand with a heavy lean.
The scales are leaning towards demand, and there there is
a need for quarterbacks, right There's a need for quarterbacks.
The interest and the price are determined by the market.
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And while there is a bunch of open spaces on
the quarterback board, Baker Mayfield is not in demand. You
don't need me to tell you that. And why is that?
Why is Baker Mayfield Hey, well, you know we'll call you.
Don't call us, guy, and I'll tell you why. The
jig is up. No more inflation in Baker Mayfield is
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dealing with a decline market strinkage for him that it's
shrinking down. Teams have memorized the instruction manual and it's
not pretty. It's not pretty. The bag of tools for
Baker Mayfield, he's been mostly a toolback. A Baker's like
Charlie Brown's friend pig Pen from the old comic to Peanuts,
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A cloud of dirt constantly surrounding his body when he's
on the field. It follows him around, and teammates don't
like him. We know that Odell Beckham's dad worked to
get out of Cleveland to get away from Baker Mayfield
and Baker a lot like Derek Carr. He talks to talk,
but he rarely walks the walk as a professional quarterback.
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That's just been the way that it is played out,
and he needs a whole lot of body wash to
get that stank off him. So Tampa Bay, you look
at their side of things, and they don't They don't
have a lot of flexibility here. They're not a destination.
Nobody wants to walk into Tampa following Tom Brady. And
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so you look at this, it's like, well, half a
loaf is better than none, and Baker Mayfield's half a loaf,
and maybe he'll be all right. And this other guy,
Kyle Trask, we don't really know for sure whether he'll
be the guy now. Secondly, would Baker Mayfield, just between
me and you, would he have been better off taking
a couple of steps back and going down a secondary road.
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So I'm nodding my head yet now I understand that
playing is a lot more fun, and it's easy for
me to say behind these microphones. However, a Baker Mayfield
could have, would have should have humbled himself to play.
Here is to reimagine your career path. That we would
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have advised Baker Mayfield to go to a team like
the Chiefs or the Bills or the Bengals if they
would have him as a high end backup just in
case Patrick Mahomes gets hurt or Josh Allen or Joe Burrow.
You take a couple of steps back to leap frog,
to leap frog forward to a better gig. You can
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always get one of these jobs. An opportunity to impress
coaches in training camp, playing for a team that is
in the gutter, that that is not though a path
to sustainability. And you look at this. The Browns with
Baker Mayfield stunk. They had that one playoff appearance where
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Ben Roethlisberger Throll's interceptions. The Browns won a playoff game,
but other than that, it was not good. The Panthers
were a blight on the landscape. The ram franchise that
was in the sewer by the time Baker Mayfield arrived.
And now he goes to the Buccaneers to follow in
the footsteps of Tom Brady. So that is cooking on
a very exotic menu that features poisonous mushrooms as an
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appetizer and a cocktail of snake venom. That's what you got,
Tom Brady, Global icon iconic sportsman. All of that at
Debonairman franchise is savior and Baker Mayfield's claim to fame
is what being tackled by a beat cop in Arkansas
while hammered running around Fayetteville in college, or he had
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a close encounter with a UFO. But who hasn't had
that On the field, he has been a second rate player.
And the Buccaneers they can bring back We had a
call there earlier that was ripping from Oregon, ripping the Buccaneers.
His dad was a Bucks fan. They can bring back
the creamsicle uniforms. Now officially, I think they're doing that anyway.
In twenty twenty two, Baker Mayfield was the thirty second
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ranked quarterback in the NERDS stat defense adjusted value over average,
which is a way that many of the geeks judged
the modern quarterback. The only quarterbacks that were worth worse
were matt Ryan, Andy, the comic book guy who's a
fan of the show, loves Mattie Ice, and Justin Fields
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of the Bears. That's it. That's the list, and for
some reason, the Bears are tripling down on Justin Fields.
But get to the point, Baker Mayfield had one shining
moment in recent years, and that was a game the
Rams played against the Broncos on Christmas Day when Denver
was a no show. They did not show up in
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that game other than that absolute rubbish, all right, final fault.
So this Baker Mayfield opportunity with the Buccaneers last chance?
Is it Baker Mayfield's last chance as an NFL starter?
Do you believe that or not? That this is his
last opportunity? So I am a believer. I am a
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believer on this. It's now or never Baker Mayfield. All right,
he's having a nice drink at the last chance saloon.
All right, he's having a nice drink there. Strike one
with the Browns, Strike two with the Panthers. I'm not
going to even give Baker Mayfield. Strike with the Rams.
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I'll say that was a foul ball. So it's still
a two strike count, oh two count. And now the
Buccaneers are his third and final opportunity. Outside of Mayfield
possessing compromising, incriminating photos, Baker will end up if he
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doesn't doesn't get this thing turned around called his career,
he will end up fighting for scraps, looking for a
makeup chair as a college football boob tube pundit slash
NFL hot take ninja. So again, it's now or your
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dun skis and Mayfield he went from a pricy blue
chip stock when you're the number one overall pick by
Cleveland and now he is a penny stock. Is what
Baker Mayfield is at this point in his career. It
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Oh my god, that's so amazing. Are you ready? Eddie
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sett he's ready. I don't think he's ready. Ready. He
says he hasn't even filled out his bractet like five minutes.
Boomer boom, Oh come on, you can't you got. You
picked Fresno State to win the whole thing. Eddie would no,
you just picked him anyway, It's not it doesn't work
that way. You have to actually picks. I'm waiting for
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Coop to send me something. Once he sends me that
it will have the round robin, but I don't have
the the proper copy. So once I get that, we will,
we will do it. The Mala militia chiming in all
over the place and from near and far. We started
this hour with a Baker Mayfield Mala monologue. The thing
that you needed. You didn't realize you needed it, but
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you got it. Stevey Meat Paul's Rights in from Florida.
He says at this point, Baker Mayfield is a used
tire with barely any tread or thread rather remaining before
the skin. After that, he'll be a quarterback retread for
ten more years. Do you think Baker Mayfel's gonna be
a quarterback retread for ten years? I don't think so.
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I'm gonna go knowing that. Let's see, Sir scratch Off
writes in he said he wanted a birthday shout out earlier.
We didn't give him one. He says, I still don't
think a quarterback can get to know his team in
one year. But I agree with the Mayfield comment you made.
He says, that is from Oreo in Arkansas, which I
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guess is his dog. I think that's his dog. He says,
I do not agree with Roberto blowing up the master,
which is him. So all right, calm down, stair, scratch off.
Everything will be okay. Everything is all right because you
know why, because it's time now for the round robin.
Here we go. That's right, it is time. I'm gonna
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go around the room. In less than seven hours from now,
the partey begins. Now I'll likely be sleeping, as I said,
through the early part of it, and you probably will
be too if you've just you've been up all night.
But it's a chance to look at the college basketball
tournament here and so here's we're gonna look at the
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all the games today, all the games. Everyone's got their bracket.
You filled out your bracket at Fox Sports Radio dot com.
You've checked it out, and is there one game that
you're keeping an eye on? So I'm gonna go first.
I have the host rights, and I'm gonna look at
the game now I should be waking up for the
second half of this game, so I'll be I hope
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it's a close game. But San Diego State the five
twelve matchup in the South Region that is a later
today this afternoon, and the Aztecs are a five point
I believe they're about a five point favorite, give or take.
And everyone's picking Charleston. And I got mixed emotions here
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because my niece goes to Charleston, so she's not like
a big sports fan. But one of my first jobs
in radio, I ran the board for San Diego State.
This is the kind of insight you can only get
right now. But I'm taking the Aztecs. I'm gonna lay
the points everyone's been on Charleston. I think the San
Diego State Aztecs will get it done, so I will
take Poppy's team there, and that is my pigetti. Any
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game you like getting you're looking at here. As far
as the college hoops today, well, you're always interested in
those nine eight matchups, and we've got several of those
coming up later on today. You've got Maryland against West
Virginia in the eight verses nine. You've got Arkansas versus Illinois,
and Iowa against Auburn, all those eight nine matchups coming
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up later today. So Arkansas is eight. I think they're
two point favorite over Illinois. And again, you're a big gambler, idiots,
you know, two point favorite. You're correct? Yes, there you go?
All right, what about you, pie, Roberto? We're doing the
round robin here, Roberto, what are you looking forward to today? Today, tomorrow?
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About how about yesterday? How about that about two days ago? No,
he's thinking about it. Yeah, I'm thinking about it all right. Uh,
Coopa Loop Roberto has no interest in this, well, Coopa
Loop anything you're I think Roberta was thinking it was
like a whole tournament team to watch, like, not just
yes done, Oh well if you want to do that.
I mean I thought we were just like kind of
looking at things going on this first couple of days
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when a lot of people take off from work. I'm
interested in Drake versus Miami because if he can beat
an entire basketball team by himself, that'd be really impressive. Yeah,
there you go. So man's gonna he's gonna replace Dick
Vitel or Sean Farnham right there, Cooper Loop Farne there, Yeah,
our old colleague used to work here back in the day.
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So enjoy all the all the frivolity and all the fun.
It's a newby night. We'll get back to the calls
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right now, and let's see who is next on a
newbie night. Eeny meny mighty mo. And who should we
take here? I am let's see. I don't know if
I want to do that, then we're gonna do another
one here, any meaning money mo. Let's see what pops
up here. Let's go to Chris in Madison. What's going on? Chris? Welcome? Hey,
first time caller. He's a newbie, he's a newbi Welcome.
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But I've been listening since Howard String went off the radio.
Oh really, well, well Howard didn't go off the radio,
he just went on the regular radio. Yeah, I got
you Hi guys. Well cool, well, thanks Chris. I'm glad
you found the show. Hey, I got one question. Now,
how do your siblings? What number are you? Oh? What
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do you think I am? How about that? What do
you think? I say, you're the youngest. I got three boys, So, oh,
you should judging me off your kids. Uh, well, it's
weird because I am not the youngest. I was the
youngest for a while, and then years later I have
a younger I have a younger brother. But for most
of the early part of my life, I was like
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the youngest kid in the family. But I am the middle.
I'm the cream filling in the orio. Oh yeah, no, no,
I just I just love your You're a way of light.
So all right, well, thank you. It's very kind of
you to say, Chris. I appreciate what keeps you up
these hours. I'm a bread guy. I deliver bread. I'm
at the jail right now. I'm building at the jail.
Oh okay, bread and jail bread. How much bread do
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they eat at the jail? Oh? Yeah, I do twice
a week, about eight hundred loaves a week. Eight hundred
loaves of bread a week. And is it? Is it fresh? Bread.
Are you giving them the stale bread because they're in jails.
They get the good stuff. Oh, they get the good stuff. Okay,
you're taking care of them. There is that what level
jail is at is like? Is that medium securities at hi?
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What med? Medium? Meetum media? All right before they go
to prison? Okay, so it's kind of like a halfway
before they go to the main event. I got you. Yeah,
all right, Well, thank you Chris, Chris the bread man
making sure that the people in the jail have the bread.
All right, thank you buddy. All Right, there he goes Chris.
All right. I guess I could have asked to follow
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up what kind of bread they eat the most of?
But I think it's probably just one kind of bread.
I don't think they give him five different exotic types
of bread at the jail. I think you get what
you get, and that's just how it works. Let's say
hello to the Texas trucker. Who's next? Hello, Texas Trucker
on a new by night non regular callers, Hey, guys,
thought y'all do tonight? Welcome, Welcome, welcome. What's on your
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mind here? Texas Trucker? So I know you'all don't don't
do shout outs, So I'm not gonna go ahead and
wish Sir scratch Off a happy birthday today and anniversary. No, no, no,
there's no need to do that. There's no you don't
you don't go crazy here and he said some According
to a caller earlier, Sir scratch Off he belittled my
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good name on Anthony Gargano's show that I can't I
can't speak on. I don't listen to any other show
beside y'all. So oh see that also scratch Off so
radio listening war, he listens to everybody. I don't know
what he does in his spare time. I'm just saying
I hear all right, Well, is that what you called
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up Texas Trucker? Is that? Why? Oh? Okay, get to
the point, Please get to the point. I want to
know how the hell are you doing a deep dive
on Baker Mayfield? But you can't talk nothing about Connor McDavid,
And I know you're not that bright apparently, So go
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look at the ratings of the Stanley Cup Final and
a random Sunday regional NFL broadcast and get back to me. Okay,
you don't need to bring that up. There's no need
to bring play the hits, my man, play the hits.
It's all about it's as a wise man told me
the young my younger days. It's broadcasting, not narrowcasting. All right,
but we will we will care heard that before. We
will pacify you, and we will. We will give you
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some red meat in the trucker's you know, cab there,
We'll give you some hockey. Okay, I'm looking forward a
pup the world. Okay, well, can stop talking. We'll have it.
I want to know why you can't talk about it.
That's not my job. Eddie's the hockey guy. Hey, Roberto's
the music guy. Coop's got his thing. I got my thing.
That's my my role as the football guy in the
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baseball and the basketball guy. That's my role, and occasionally
boxing sports radio. That's right. We talk about sports. We
talk about popular sports. Baker Mayfield hasn't played US sport
years out. Dare you? How dare you? That guy was
the number one pick. More people know who Baker Mayfield
is than Connor McDavid. How about that boom? Shots fired?
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the ratings to a halt and talk hockey. We will
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now talk hockey, and we bring in the man behind
puck the world right over there, the big is Amboni,
Eddie Garcia. All right, thank you, Ben. We are headed
down the home stretch of the NHL season. The teams
have about fourteen games, give or take left in the
regular season. Now have the playoffs ended, are started today?
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The matchups would be in the East, the Bruins against
the Islanders, Hurricanes against the Penguins, Maple Leafs against the Lightning,
and the Devils against the Rangers. Capitols and Panthers are
five points out of a playoff spot foward to the
holding three games in hand on the Islanders, so they
have a chance to make up some ground if they
can win those games that they have extra. In the West,
you've got Golden Knights versus Jets, Stars vers Kracking Kings
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versus Oilers, and wild versus Avalanche. At the moment, the
National Predators or four points behind Winnipeg for that last
wildcard spot, and they have three games in hand on
the Jets, so faint chance for Nashville to try and
get back in a wildcard spot. Boston Bruns continue to
lead the NHL. They've got one hundred and five points.
They beat the Red Wings this past week to become
the only team so far to an officially clinch a
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plaoff spot. Bruins also are the fastest team in Enginel
history to hit the fifty win mark. They did it
in sixty four games. The only officially eliminated team from
the playoffs so far that would be the San Jose Sharks,
and it's an only star. Conom McDavid continues to rack
up big numbers this season. He's at fifty six goals
and one hundred and twenty nine points so far on
the season, by far leading the NHL, and he's going
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to win the MVP. Watched the Gappel Star Alexander Rebetkan
had another goal this week. He's now at eight hundred
and seventeen in his career, eighty seven away from Wayne
Gretzky and the all time NHL goals scoring lead future
all of him. Goalie Johnathan Quick is having an amazing resurgence.
After stinking and being cast off by the Lake, He's
landed in Las Vegas, where he's completely turned things around
four and old record and putting up solid stats as well. Meanwhile,
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Vegas continues to have a great season despite goalie issues.
The Golden Knights lost their number one goalie, Robin led
Her to start the year, and they've had five different
goalies post wins so far this season. Now they're said,
now they got the ex king, they're good and we'll see.
We'll see about that guy. They're ready to go. I'm
Minnesota Wilder current. Later, I thought you were Kings friend.
He's not on the Kings anymore, so I know, but
he's a legend of the Kings. Man when he comes
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back for his jersey retirement him a standing ovation. Right now,
he's playing on another team, a rival team. As a
matter of fact, Minnesota Wild currently riding a franchise record
fourteen game points drink. They're eleven oz and three in
their last fourteen games. However, they have lost their top player,
Crew capriz Off three to four weeks with a lower
body injury. They believe he'll be back for the playoffs.
They better hope so, because if not, a are not
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going to last very long. Carolina Hurricanes have lost forward
Andre's Fetched the cop for the rest of the season
toward Aco in his knee head surgery and he's done
and La Kings leading scorer Kevin Fiala out in definitely
with a knee injury. Philadelphia Flyer he's fired their general
manager and president of hockey operations, Chuck Fletcher, after five
seasons nice The team's gonna miss the playoffs for a
third straight year, first time that's happened since the early nineties.
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Daniel Brier has been named the interim general manager, and
he's gone on records saying he would like the job
full time. But he's getting a little bit of heat
because of his dumbass son doing something I think I
stupid on a video. It was caught his Carson Brier.
He's a hockey player at mercy Hurst University in Erie.
But anyway, he was at a party and somebody was
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there with a wheelchair and he decided, I think I'll
throw this wheelchair down a flight of stairs, and so
he did, and I guess he broke the wheelchair. At
the time, you know, maybe he's had a few drinks
and you know, why not vandalize something when you're drugs
when all the cool kids are dealing. But anyway, it
was caught on video. Like everything in college at Fresno State,
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didn't you shoved some wheelchairs down? I? Actually I did not.
Actually he didn't. No, I didn't do that. Guy, Are
you it? What about you? Saddleback wheelchair tossing? I cannot
talk about that. I had allowed to talk about that. Well, anyway,
he's he's just issued the standard apology. I'm deeply sorry
for my behavior and no excuse for my actions. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. So I saw Gary
Betman said he's not an expansion mode. He said it.
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Didn't see that, Thank god. I mean, come on, come on,
they need the money anytime they need the money. Well,
everybody needs the money that we don't want fifty teams
in the anything back to Quebec. Nordie said he bring
the Nordis back. And no, only people are crying for
that or the people in Quebec. Nobody else cares about
that looking out for them. And what about the did
you get that? You done? Because you didn't get to
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the other story. What's the other story? The Ryan Reynolds story? Now,
what's going on with him? You didn't see that? There
was rumors a couple months ago he wanted to buy Senators.
So t Mobile is gonna buy Mint Mobile, which is
Ryan men. Yeah, he's coming. It's a one point three
billion dollar deal. Is that enough money to buy an
(30:02):
NHL team? It's enough to get your clothes. Combined with
the Hollywood money, that could be all right? How did
these how do these people end up? Like? Who is it?
Fifty cent? What did he make all his money? Water?
Remember the water? What was it? He made a ton
of money so high end bottle of water? Is that right?
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I didn't know that. You guys have no idea what
I'm talking about. Roberto. You know about the water? Nah,
that's the same one Mike Trott and missing it? Vitamin water? Yeah,
it was vitamin water. As he made a ton of
money with vitamin water. Why can't somebody say, hey, malloy,
why don't you invest in this and we'll make money.
But they did tell you some stuff and you said, nah,
he missed out right, I was right. It took me
some years, Eddie, but I'm right, all right. They told me,
(30:43):
they tried to sell me on the crypto stuff. But
now it's gonna anyway, all right, thank you? It is
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do it fact or fiction time. We'll give you three
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three is not true. Separate rating fiction from fact. The
all sound goofy and silly and let's welcome in our
celebrity Panela, Judges and I looked at the contract and
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loophole in the contract where they are allowed to call in.
So we start out with Leslie the power couple on
a Newby Night, Hello Leslie, with Jack the Judge. Hello, Ben,
thank you for this wonderful contract. Well you've earned it
many years of service, and there's a proviso in there
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that allows you on newby Nights to still call in.
It's amazing. You've got a really good agent. You really do, Leslie,
thank you, Thank you. Benst Are you celebrating Saint Patty's
Day with all kinds of green this weekend? Well not
as much as i'd like. I'd like to be in
New York with my cousins to kill gannons, looking down
(32:55):
our noses on the parade from a luxury hotel, But
I don't do it on Fridays or Mondays too many.
I hear you, I hear you. Yeah, it's also great.
Have you ever been in Chicago? They have the green,
they die the water green in the Chicago River. It's
pretty cool anyway, Hold on, sec Leslie. We have Sledge
in the Green Bay. Speaking of green Hello, Sledge, Welcome. Hi,
(33:20):
how's it going, Sledge good? I been listening to in
the garage for the last half hour when I got
home from work, because I was listening on iHeart. But
I can't call in because it's a minute. There's a minute.
It's along the lake because people say bad words. Well
say how to my brother Sledge. He lives over in Appleton,
(33:41):
so he lives right near you there in the greater
Green Bay are Yeah, we does we know, we know,
we know everybody. Yeah, well, of course I was there.
I met everyone that lived in town. I was in
Green Bay last year. I met everyone, and I probably
met you. I don't even remember. Yeah, all right, hold
on a sex sludge a sledge rather Sledge listens on
the iHeart app God bless you. And we have Don,
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who's across the way there in Madison, Wisconsin. Hello, Don, Welcome, Welcome.
I've been here before, but this one. Yeah, I called back.
Oh you did, oh there you go? I remember, Yeah,
we talked about her and now he's he's in Japan.
That you got kicked out of America to go play
baseball in Japan. So there you go. You'll be back
(34:22):
to thirteen million dollars. Well, actually the Dodgers are paying
like twenty million this year, I believe. Anyway. All right,
hold on a sec, Don the baseball man there in Madison.
We have Andrew in Boston. Hello, Andrew. Welcome, Andrew wacome thy,
thank you very much for having me on. Really appreciate it.
(34:43):
All right, thanks you. You're digging out of the snow there, Andrew.
Everything good? Yeah, yeah, there's uh, not any snow here
in Boston. We had some out there in Central mass
but everything's pretty clean and clear out here. Beautiful. All right. Well,
hold on a sec, Andrew. I think that's all we
have time for, so let's get to the game. Here
we go, Gentlemen and ladies, Ring my Bell. Story number
one Adrian Peterson, former NFL running back. He was in
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an exhibition match against Levion Bell boxing match, and now
Bell is training to compete in a new combat sport,
slap fighting. Bell set to make his debut in Dana
White's Power Slap in early May. Alright. Story number two,
Aaron Rogers's trying to play for the Jets. He's also
(35:28):
going to be the keynote speaker at the twenty twenty
three Psychedelic Science Conference coming up this summer. It's been
dubbed the largest psychedelic gathering in history. And story number
three Boston Red Sox. I don't know if i'd call
him a star, but ex dodger Keik Hernandez with the
Red Sox admitted during the twenty twenty National Link Divisional
Series while with La he pooped his pants and so
(35:51):
he's now got an endorsement deal with Dude wipes. Yeah,
he just gave him a plug? Why not? All right?
Unless we made that up, believe or not. Only one
of those stories is not true. Let's go around the
room find out who knows the answer? Leslie one, two
or three? Leslie? Oh, these are the toughest questions ever
(36:12):
for you newbies. But I have to go with number one.
Number one, all right? Thank you, Leslie. A sledge quickly,
sledge true? Two all right, thank you? Slug Don and
Madison one two or three? Baseball Don number three? All right, Andrew,
number three, number three is now it's number one number one,
(36:34):
the Adrian Peterson story. It was the fake one, Yeah,
that was actually Number two was the bother. It's gotta murder,
gotta go,
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bear four hour four
and we appreciate the fact that you have been bothered
enough to download our four. The Baker is in the
kitchen or should I say the belt. The Baker is
lending a helping hand inside the quarterback room. What do
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you suppose Baker Mayfield was thinking in picking the Bucks
and vice versa? Would Baker Mayfield have been better off
taking a step back and going to a better team?
And is this Baker Mayfield's last chance as an NFL starter.
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We'll talk about that and much more right now. Buckle up,
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the way tire buying shoot be, so change it up
a little bit this are There's been a bunch of
transuctions in the NFL. Nothing still on airing Rogers, as
he has said, he would like to play where that
in New York. The other team in you or not
the team that wins a lot, the Giants, although they
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have won recently, but the Jets and our lead coming
from the wheel of fortune, not Juju. Smith Schuster on
the move, the quarterback shuffle another a random name has
been taken off the scorecard. You can say bye bye
to Baker Mayfield. Yes that's right, if you have not heard,
(02:27):
and possibly not, we have learned that Baker Mayfield is
on the move again, taking his Duffel bag to Tampa
Bay for an extended stay, but not a long term stay.
It's one of those long term hotels. He'll be staying
at a Mayfield agreeing to a one year contract worth
UP two eight point five million. And as you know,
(02:50):
up two is a weasel term that is used in
all kinds of advertising because the human mind. We've evolved,
all of us, but we've not evolved enough to pick
up on up two. The base salary for Baker is
four million dollars, still a lot of money. I would
be happy with four million dollars. I'm guessing you would
(03:12):
be two as well. So Baker Mayfield is going to
compete with the holdover Kyle Trask not to be confused
with Kyle Trash for the starting job, and what used
to be known as Tompa Bay but no longer. So
let us discuss the question, what do you suppose Baker
Mayfield was thinking and the Buccaneers were thinking to form
(03:37):
this short term relationship. So I've got Charlie Brown, exotic menu,
and saloon, and we will connect all of these things
together and we are going to make some nice sunshine,
which Baker Mayfield get a lot of. He didn't get
a lot of sunshine when he played in Cleveland back
(03:58):
in the day, but he'll get a lot of sunshine
in Tampa. So the first thought I had is this
is the old supply and demand with a heavy lean.
The scales are leaning towards demand, and there there is
a need for quarterbacks, right There's a need for quarterbacks.
The interest and the price are determined by the market.
(04:20):
And while there is a bunch of open spaces on
the quarterback board, Baker Mayfield is not in demand. You
don't need me to tell you that. And why is that?
Why is Baker Mayfield Hey, well, you know we'll call you.
Don't call us, guy, and I'll tell you why. The
jig is up. No more inflation in Baker Mayfield is
(04:44):
dealing with a decline market strinkage for him that it's
shrinking down. Teams have memorized the instruction manual and it's
not pretty. It's not pretty. The bag of tools for
Baker Mayfield, he's been mostly a toolback. A Baker's like
Charlie Brown's friend pig Pen from the old comic to Peanuts,
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A cloud of dirt constantly surrounding his body when he's
on the field. It follows him around, and teammates don't
like him. We know that Odell Beckham's dad worked to
get out of Cleveland to get away from Baker Mayfield
and Baker a lot like Derek Carr. He talks to talk,
but he rarely walks the walk as a professional quarterback.
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That's just been the way that it is played out,
and he needs a whole lot of body wash to
get that stank off him. So Tampa Bay, you look
at their side of things, and they don't They don't
have a lot of flexibility here. They're not a destination.
Nobody wants to walk into Tampa following Tom Brady. And
(05:51):
so you look at this, it's like, well, half a
loaf is better than none, and Baker Mayfield's half a loaf,
and maybe he'll be all right. And this other guy,
Kyle Trask, we don't really know for sure whether he'll
be the guy now. Secondly, would Baker Mayfield, just between
me and you, would he have been better off taking
a couple of steps back and going down a secondary road.
(06:16):
So I'm nodding my head yet now I understand that
playing is a lot more fun, and it's easy for
me to say behind these microphones. However, a Baker Mayfield
could have, would have should have humbled himself to play.
Here is to reimagine your career path. That we would
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have advised Baker Mayfield to go to a team like
the Chiefs or the Bills or the Bengals if they
would have him as a high end backup just in
case Patrick Mahomes gets hurt or Josh Allen or Joe Burrow.
You take a couple of steps back to leap frog,
to leap frog forward to a better gig. You can
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always get one of these jobs. An opportunity to impress
coaches in training camp, playing for a team that is
in the gutter, that that is not though a path
to sustainability. And you look at this. The Browns with
Baker Mayfield stunk. They had that one playoff appearance where
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Ben Roethlisberger Throll's interceptions. The Browns won a playoff game,
but other than that, it was not good. The Panthers
were a blight on the landscape. The ram franchise that
was in the sewer by the time Baker Mayfield arrived.
And now he goes to the Buccaneers to follow in
the footsteps of Tom Brady. So that is cooking on
a very exotic menu that features poisonous mushrooms as an
(07:43):
appetizer and a cocktail of snake venom. That's what you got,
Tom Brady, Global icon iconic sportsman. All of that at
Debonairman franchise is savior and Baker Mayfield's claim to fame
is what being tackled by a beat cop in Arkansas
while hammered running around Fayetteville in college, or he had
(08:07):
a close encounter with a UFO. But who hasn't had
that On the field, he has been a second rate player.
And the Buccaneers they can bring back We had a
call there earlier that was ripping from Oregon, ripping the Buccaneers.
His dad was a Bucks fan. They can bring back
the creamsicle uniforms. Now officially, I think they're doing that anyway.
In twenty twenty two, Baker Mayfield was the thirty second
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ranked quarterback in the NERDS stat defense adjusted value over average,
which is a way that many of the geeks judged
the modern quarterback. The only quarterbacks that were worth worse
were matt Ryan, Andy, the comic book guy who's a
fan of the show, loves Mattie Ice, and Justin Fields
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of the Bears. That's it. That's the list, and for
some reason, the Bears are tripling down on Justin Fields.
But get to the point, Baker Mayfield had one shining
moment in recent years, and that was a game the
Rams played against the Broncos on Christmas Day when Denver
was a no show. They did not show up in
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that game other than that absolute rubbish, all right, final fault.
So this Baker Mayfield opportunity with the Buccaneers last chance?
Is it Baker Mayfield's last chance as an NFL starter?
Do you believe that or not? That this is his
last opportunity? So I am a believer. I am a
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believer on this. It's now or never Baker Mayfield. All right,
he's having a nice drink at the last chance saloon.
All right, he's having a nice drink there. Strike one
with the Browns, Strike two with the Panthers. I'm not
going to even give Baker Mayfield. Strike with the Rams.
(09:52):
I'll say that was a foul ball. So it's still
a two strike count, oh two count. And now the
Buccaneers are his third and final opportunity. Outside of Mayfield
possessing compromising, incriminating photos, Baker will end up if he
(10:13):
doesn't doesn't get this thing turned around called his career,
he will end up fighting for scraps, looking for a
makeup chair as a college football boob tube pundit slash
NFL hot take ninja. So again, it's now or your
(10:34):
dun skis and Mayfield he went from a pricy blue
chip stock when you're the number one overall pick by
Cleveland and now he is a penny stock. Is what
Baker Mayfield is at this point in his career. It
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Ben Maller and we're gonna have the Madness round Robin.
Oh my god, that's so amazing. Are you ready? Eddie
(12:46):
sett he's ready. I don't think he's ready. Ready. He
says he hasn't even filled out his bractet like five minutes.
Boomer boom, Oh come on, you can't you got. You
picked Fresno State to win the whole thing. Eddie would no,
you just picked him anyway, It's not it doesn't work
that way. You have to actually picks. I'm waiting for
(13:07):
Coop to send me something. Once he sends me that
it will have the round robin, but I don't have
the the proper copy. So once I get that, we will,
we will do it. The Mala militia chiming in all
over the place and from near and far. We started
this hour with a Baker Mayfield Mala monologue. The thing
that you needed. You didn't realize you needed it, but
(13:28):
you got it. Stevey Meat Paul's Rights in from Florida.
He says at this point, Baker Mayfield is a used
tire with barely any tread or thread rather remaining before
the skin. After that, he'll be a quarterback retread for
ten more years. Do you think Baker Mayfel's gonna be
a quarterback retread for ten years? I don't think so.
(13:51):
I'm gonna go knowing that. Let's see, Sir scratch Off
writes in he said he wanted a birthday shout out earlier.
We didn't give him one. He says, I still don't
think a quarterback can get to know his team in
one year. But I agree with the Mayfield comment you made.
He says, that is from Oreo in Arkansas, which I
(14:14):
guess is his dog. I think that's his dog. He says,
I do not agree with Roberto blowing up the master,
which is him. So all right, calm down, stair, scratch off.
Everything will be okay. Everything is all right because you
know why, because it's time now for the round robin.
Here we go. That's right, it is time. I'm gonna
(14:38):
go around the room. In less than seven hours from now,
the partey begins. Now I'll likely be sleeping, as I said,
through the early part of it, and you probably will
be too if you've just you've been up all night.
But it's a chance to look at the college basketball
tournament here and so here's we're gonna look at the
(15:01):
all the games today, all the games. Everyone's got their bracket.
You filled out your bracket at Fox Sports Radio dot com.
You've checked it out, and is there one game that
you're keeping an eye on? So I'm gonna go first.
I have the host rights, and I'm gonna look at
the game now I should be waking up for the
second half of this game, so I'll be I hope
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it's a close game. But San Diego State the five
twelve matchup in the South Region that is a later
today this afternoon, and the Aztecs are a five point
I believe they're about a five point favorite, give or take.
And everyone's picking Charleston. And I got mixed emotions here
(15:43):
because my niece goes to Charleston, so she's not like
a big sports fan. But one of my first jobs
in radio, I ran the board for San Diego State.
This is the kind of insight you can only get
right now. But I'm taking the Aztecs. I'm gonna lay
the points everyone's been on Charleston. I think the San
Diego State Aztecs will get it done, so I will
take Poppy's team there, and that is my pigetti. Any
(16:05):
game you like getting you're looking at here. As far
as the college hoops today, well, you're always interested in
those nine eight matchups, and we've got several of those
coming up later on today. You've got Maryland against West
Virginia in the eight verses nine. You've got Arkansas versus Illinois,
and Iowa against Auburn, all those eight nine matchups coming
(16:26):
up later today. So Arkansas is eight. I think they're
two point favorite over Illinois. And again, you're a big gambler, idiots,
you know, two point favorite. You're correct? Yes, there you go?
All right, what about you, pie, Roberto? We're doing the
round robin here, Roberto, what are you looking forward to today? Today, tomorrow?
(16:47):
About how about yesterday? How about that about two days ago? No,
he's thinking about it. Yeah, I'm thinking about it all right. Uh,
Coopa Loop Roberto has no interest in this, well, Coopa
Loop anything you're I think Roberta was thinking it was
like a whole tournament team to watch, like, not just
yes done, Oh well if you want to do that.
I mean I thought we were just like kind of
looking at things going on this first couple of days
(17:10):
when a lot of people take off from work. I'm
interested in Drake versus Miami because if he can beat
an entire basketball team by himself, that'd be really impressive. Yeah,
there you go. So man's gonna he's gonna replace Dick
Vitel or Sean Farnham right there, Cooper Loop Farne there, Yeah,
our old colleague used to work here back in the day.
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It was the the Madness Round Robin is what it was.
So enjoy all the all the frivolity and all the fun.
It's a newby night. We'll get back to the calls
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right now, and let's see who is next on a
newbie night. Eeny meny mighty mo. And who should we
take here? I am let's see. I don't know if
I want to do that, then we're gonna do another
one here, any meaning money mo. Let's see what pops
up here. Let's go to Chris in Madison. What's going on? Chris? Welcome? Hey,
first time caller. He's a newbie, he's a newbi Welcome.
(18:17):
But I've been listening since Howard String went off the radio.
Oh really, well, well Howard didn't go off the radio,
he just went on the regular radio. Yeah, I got
you Hi guys. Well cool, well, thanks Chris. I'm glad
you found the show. Hey, I got one question. Now,
how do your siblings? What number are you? Oh? What
(18:39):
do you think I am? How about that? What do
you think? I say, you're the youngest. I got three boys, So, oh,
you should judging me off your kids. Uh, well, it's
weird because I am not the youngest. I was the
youngest for a while, and then years later I have
a younger I have a younger brother. But for most
of the early part of my life, I was like
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the youngest kid in the family. But I am the middle.
I'm the cream filling in the orio. Oh yeah, no, no,
I just I just love your You're a way of light.
So all right, well, thank you. It's very kind of
you to say, Chris. I appreciate what keeps you up
these hours. I'm a bread guy. I deliver bread. I'm
at the jail right now. I'm building at the jail.
Oh okay, bread and jail bread. How much bread do
(19:24):
they eat at the jail? Oh? Yeah, I do twice
a week, about eight hundred loaves a week. Eight hundred
loaves of bread a week. And is it? Is it fresh? Bread.
Are you giving them the stale bread because they're in jails.
They get the good stuff. Oh, they get the good stuff. Okay,
you're taking care of them. There is that what level
jail is at is like? Is that medium securities at hi?
(19:45):
What med? Medium? Meetum media? All right before they go
to prison? Okay, so it's kind of like a halfway
before they go to the main event. I got you. Yeah,
all right, Well, thank you Chris, Chris the bread man
making sure that the people in the jail have the bread.
All right, thank you buddy. All Right, there he goes Chris.
All right. I guess I could have asked to follow
(20:05):
up what kind of bread they eat the most of?
But I think it's probably just one kind of bread.
I don't think they give him five different exotic types
of bread at the jail. I think you get what
you get, and that's just how it works. Let's say
hello to the Texas trucker. Who's next? Hello, Texas Trucker
on a new by night non regular callers, Hey, guys,
thought y'all do tonight? Welcome, Welcome, welcome. What's on your
(20:27):
mind here? Texas Trucker? So I know you'all don't don't
do shout outs, So I'm not gonna go ahead and
wish Sir scratch Off a happy birthday today and anniversary. No, no, no,
there's no need to do that. There's no you don't
you don't go crazy here and he said some According
to a caller earlier, Sir scratch Off he belittled my
(20:48):
good name on Anthony Gargano's show that I can't I
can't speak on. I don't listen to any other show
beside y'all. So oh see that also scratch Off so
radio listening war, he listens to everybody. I don't know
what he does in his spare time. I'm just saying
I hear all right, Well, is that what you called
(21:08):
up Texas Trucker? Is that? Why? Oh? Okay, get to
the point, Please get to the point. I want to
know how the hell are you doing a deep dive
on Baker Mayfield? But you can't talk nothing about Connor McDavid,
And I know you're not that bright apparently, So go
(21:32):
look at the ratings of the Stanley Cup Final and
a random Sunday regional NFL broadcast and get back to me. Okay,
you don't need to bring that up. There's no need
to bring play the hits, my man, play the hits.
It's all about it's as a wise man told me
the young my younger days. It's broadcasting, not narrowcasting. All right,
but we will we will care heard that before. We
will pacify you, and we will. We will give you
(21:55):
some red meat in the trucker's you know, cab there,
We'll give you some hockey. Okay, I'm looking forward a
pup the world. Okay, well, can stop talking. We'll have it.
I want to know why you can't talk about it.
That's not my job. Eddie's the hockey guy. Hey, Roberto's
the music guy. Coop's got his thing. I got my thing.
That's my my role as the football guy in the
(22:16):
baseball and the basketball guy. That's my role, and occasionally
boxing sports radio. That's right. We talk about sports. We
talk about popular sports. Baker Mayfield hasn't played US sport
years out. Dare you? How dare you? That guy was
the number one pick. More people know who Baker Mayfield
is than Connor McDavid. How about that boom? Shots fired?
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I get out of here. I'm done with you. Be
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to pacify the Texas trucker who wanted me to bring
the ratings to a halt and talk hockey. We will
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now talk hockey, and we bring in the man behind
puck the world right over there, the big is Amboni,
Eddie Garcia. All right, thank you, Ben. We are headed
down the home stretch of the NHL season. The teams
have about fourteen games, give or take left in the
regular season. Now have the playoffs ended, are started today?
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The matchups would be in the East, the Bruins against
the Islanders, Hurricanes against the Penguins, Maple Leafs against the Lightning,
and the Devils against the Rangers. Capitols and Panthers are
five points out of a playoff spot foward to the
holding three games in hand on the Islanders, so they
have a chance to make up some ground if they
can win those games that they have extra. In the West,
you've got Golden Knights versus Jets, Stars vers Kracking Kings
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versus Oilers, and wild versus Avalanche. At the moment, the
National Predators or four points behind Winnipeg for that last
wildcard spot, and they have three games in hand on
the Jets, so faint chance for Nashville to try and
get back in a wildcard spot. Boston Bruns continue to
lead the NHL. They've got one hundred and five points.
They beat the Red Wings this past week to become
the only team so far to an officially clinch a
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plaoff spot. Bruins also are the fastest team in Enginel
history to hit the fifty win mark. They did it
in sixty four games. The only officially eliminated team from
the playoffs so far that would be the San Jose Sharks,
and it's an only star. Conom McDavid continues to rack
up big numbers this season. He's at fifty six goals
and one hundred and twenty nine points so far on
the season, by far leading the NHL, and he's going
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to win the MVP. Watched the Gappel Star Alexander Rebetkan
had another goal this week. He's now at eight hundred
and seventeen in his career, eighty seven away from Wayne
Gretzky and the all time NHL goals scoring lead future
all of him. Goalie Johnathan Quick is having an amazing resurgence.
After stinking and being cast off by the Lake, He's
landed in Las Vegas, where he's completely turned things around
four and old record and putting up solid stats as well. Meanwhile,
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Vegas continues to have a great season despite goalie issues.
The Golden Knights lost their number one goalie, Robin led
Her to start the year, and they've had five different
goalies post wins so far this season. Now they're said,
now they got the ex king, they're good and we'll see.
We'll see about that guy. They're ready to go. I'm
Minnesota Wilder current. Later, I thought you were Kings friend.
He's not on the Kings anymore, so I know, but
he's a legend of the Kings. Man when he comes
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back for his jersey retirement him a standing ovation. Right now,
he's playing on another team, a rival team. As a
matter of fact, Minnesota Wild currently riding a franchise record
fourteen game points drink. They're eleven oz and three in
their last fourteen games. However, they have lost their top player,
Crew capriz Off three to four weeks with a lower
body injury. They believe he'll be back for the playoffs.
They better hope so, because if not, a are not
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going to last very long. Carolina Hurricanes have lost forward
Andre's Fetched the cop for the rest of the season
toward Aco in his knee head surgery and he's done
and La Kings leading scorer Kevin Fiala out in definitely
with a knee injury. Philadelphia Flyer he's fired their general
manager and president of hockey operations, Chuck Fletcher, after five
seasons nice The team's gonna miss the playoffs for a
third straight year, first time that's happened since the early nineties.
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Daniel Brier has been named the interim general manager, and
he's gone on records saying he would like the job
full time. But he's getting a little bit of heat
because of his dumbass son doing something I think I
stupid on a video. It was caught his Carson Brier.
He's a hockey player at mercy Hurst University in Erie.
But anyway, he was at a party and somebody was
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there with a wheelchair and he decided, I think I'll
throw this wheelchair down a flight of stairs, and so
he did, and I guess he broke the wheelchair. At
the time, you know, maybe he's had a few drinks
and you know, why not vandalize something when you're drugs
when all the cool kids are dealing. But anyway, it
was caught on video. Like everything in college at Fresno State,
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didn't you shoved some wheelchairs down? I? Actually I did not.
Actually he didn't. No, I didn't do that. Guy, Are
you it? What about you? Saddleback wheelchair tossing? I cannot
talk about that. I had allowed to talk about that. Well, anyway,
he's he's just issued the standard apology. I'm deeply sorry
for my behavior and no excuse for my actions. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. So I saw Gary
Betman said he's not an expansion mode. He said it.
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Didn't see that, Thank god. I mean, come on, come on,
they need the money anytime they need the money. Well,
everybody needs the money that we don't want fifty teams
in the anything back to Quebec. Nordie said he bring
the Nordis back. And no, only people are crying for
that or the people in Quebec. Nobody else cares about
that looking out for them. And what about the did
you get that? You done? Because you didn't get to
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the other story. What's the other story? The Ryan Reynolds story? Now,
what's going on with him? You didn't see that? There
was rumors a couple months ago he wanted to buy Senators.
So t Mobile is gonna buy Mint Mobile, which is
Ryan men. Yeah, he's coming. It's a one point three
billion dollar deal. Is that enough money to buy an
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NHL team? It's enough to get your clothes. Combined with
the Hollywood money, that could be all right? How did
these how do these people end up? Like? Who is it?
Fifty cent? What did he make all his money? Water?
Remember the water? What was it? He made a ton
of money so high end bottle of water? Is that right?
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I didn't know that. You guys have no idea what
I'm talking about. Roberto. You know about the water? Nah,
that's the same one Mike Trott and missing it? Vitamin water? Yeah,
it was vitamin water. As he made a ton of
money with vitamin water. Why can't somebody say, hey, malloy,
why don't you invest in this and we'll make money.
But they did tell you some stuff and you said, nah,
he missed out right, I was right. It took me
some years, Eddie, but I'm right, all right. They told me,
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they tried to sell me on the crypto stuff. But
now it's gonna anyway, all right, thank you? It is
The Bennet Maller Show. As we continue on and we're
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Please transmit omedia. Is it fact or fiction? Let's face
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some raw facts on the Ben Maller Show. Alight, let's
do it fact or fiction time. We'll give you three
stories and you got to figure out which of the
three is not true. Separate rating fiction from fact. The
all sound goofy and silly and let's welcome in our
celebrity Panela, Judges and I looked at the contract and
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we have these guys on the payroll. There is a
loophole in the contract where they are allowed to call in.
So we start out with Leslie the power couple on
a Newby Night, Hello Leslie, with Jack the Judge. Hello, Ben,
thank you for this wonderful contract. Well you've earned it
many years of service, and there's a proviso in there
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that allows you on newby Nights to still call in.
It's amazing. You've got a really good agent. You really do, Leslie,
thank you, Thank you. Benst Are you celebrating Saint Patty's
Day with all kinds of green this weekend? Well not
as much as i'd like. I'd like to be in
New York with my cousins to kill gannons, looking down
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our noses on the parade from a luxury hotel, But
I don't do it on Fridays or Mondays too many.
I hear you, I hear you. Yeah, it's also great.
Have you ever been in Chicago? They have the green,
they die the water green in the Chicago River. It's
pretty cool anyway, Hold on, sec Leslie. We have Sledge
in the Green Bay. Speaking of green Hello, Sledge, Welcome. Hi,
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how's it going, Sledge good? I been listening to in
the garage for the last half hour when I got
home from work, because I was listening on iHeart. But
I can't call in because it's a minute. There's a minute.
It's along the lake because people say bad words. Well
say how to my brother Sledge. He lives over in Appleton,
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so he lives right near you there in the greater
Green Bay are Yeah, we does we know, we know,
we know everybody. Yeah, well, of course I was there.
I met everyone that lived in town. I was in
Green Bay last year. I met everyone, and I probably
met you. I don't even remember. Yeah, all right, hold
on a sex sludge a sledge rather Sledge listens on
the iHeart app God bless you. And we have Don,
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who's across the way there in Madison, Wisconsin. Hello, Don, Welcome, Welcome.
I've been here before, but this one. Yeah, I called back.
Oh you did, oh there you go? I remember, Yeah,
we talked about her and now he's he's in Japan.
That you got kicked out of America to go play
baseball in Japan. So there you go. You'll be back
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to thirteen million dollars. Well, actually the Dodgers are paying
like twenty million this year, I believe. Anyway. All right,
hold on a sec, Don the baseball man there in Madison.
We have Andrew in Boston. Hello, Andrew. Welcome, Andrew wacome thy,
thank you very much for having me on. Really appreciate it.
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All right, thanks you. You're digging out of the snow there, Andrew.
Everything good? Yeah, yeah, there's uh, not any snow here
in Boston. We had some out there in Central mass
but everything's pretty clean and clear out here. Beautiful. All right. Well,
hold on a sec, Andrew. I think that's all we
have time for, so let's get to the game. Here
we go, Gentlemen and ladies, Ring my Bell. Story number
one Adrian Peterson, former NFL running back. He was in
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an exhibition match against Levion Bell boxing match, and now
Bell is training to compete in a new combat sport,
slap fighting. Bell set to make his debut in Dana
White's Power Slap in early May. Alright. Story number two,
Aaron Rogers's trying to play for the Jets. He's also
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going to be the keynote speaker at the twenty twenty
three Psychedelic Science Conference coming up this summer. It's been
dubbed the largest psychedelic gathering in history. And story number
three Boston Red Sox. I don't know if i'd call
him a star, but ex dodger Keik Hernandez with the
Red Sox admitted during the twenty twenty National Link Divisional
Series while with La he pooped his pants and so
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he's now got an endorsement deal with Dude wipes. Yeah,
he just gave him a plug? Why not? All right?
Unless we made that up, believe or not. Only one
of those stories is not true. Let's go around the
room find out who knows the answer? Leslie one, two
or three? Leslie? Oh, these are the toughest questions ever
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for you newbies. But I have to go with number one.
Number one, all right? Thank you, Leslie. A sledge quickly,
sledge true? Two all right, thank you? Slug Don and
Madison one two or three? Baseball Don number three? All right, Andrew,
number three, number three is now it's number one number one,
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the Adrian Peterson story. It was the fake one, Yeah,
that was actually Number two was the bother. It's gotta murder,
gotta go,
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