March 20, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jose Altuve suffering a broken thumb in the World Baseball Classic, how the Cheating Astros will handle Altuve's absence, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird two hour two
of our radio program Snap Crackle Pop from the World
Baseball Classic. What are your initial thoughts on Jose Altuve's
broken thumb as Daniel Bard doing something that Rob Manford
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was unable to do? And how will the cheating Astros
handle the injury to their former cheating MVP. What does
this latest star getting hurt due to the status going
forward of the World Baseball Classic. We'll talk about that
and more right now in our number two. Justice is
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I leave this hour coming from baseball. Are we doing
a deep time on the World Baseball Class well, not
specifically not to team you US say, which did win?
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And now the trade turner, mister March trade turner. This
guy does not hit well in October, but in March,
this guy's is a clutch, as he's now got to
four home runs in the World Baseball Classic. Did it
again in the most recent game here in the Red
and White and Blue getting it dundon as they bashed
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the team representing Cuba fourteen to two. So they advanced
out of the World Baseball Classic final and they will
face the winner of Vehico and Japan. And I am
I know my guy Roberto will be completely unbiased on that.
You are not pulling out any kind of voodoo dolls
that at all, but we are. We are less than
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two weeks away from opening day and the big story
over the weekend not so much to the USA advancing
to the World Cup World Baseball Cup Championship, but the
injury tent filling up again. And if you did not
hear and possibly not cheating a Stro second baseman Jose
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Altuve needs sir jury, why now he broke his right
thumb and one of the great moments I've witnessed on
a baseball field, Altuve was hit in the hand by
a hero USA reliever Daniel Bard. Way to go, Daniel
Bard doing something that Bud Selick and who never punished
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anybody when he was the commissioner, and Rob Manford, who
replaced him, were unable to especially Rob Manford an inside
fastball from Daniel Bard while playing against Altuve's Venezuelan team
and the World Baseball Classic Saturday Night Snap Crackle Pop.
Altuve has to wait for the swelling to go down
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before he can have the operation. The thumb completely main gold.
The surgery expected within a couple of days. How long
will Altuve be out the cheater They expected him miss
eight to ten weeks, but but someone named Dana Brown,
we don't know who that is, apparently claims to be
the Astros GM said there is no official timetable as
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of now. As of now, how long two Bay is
gonna be out, but it is expected to be at
least a couple of months. So let us discuss the question,
what are your initial thoughts on Jose al Boove as
he's called in the show breaking his thumb. So I've
got nectar, gizmos and roofing nail and we will combine
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all of these things together and we will make the
sweet taste of justice is what we're going to make,
all right. So number one, like, finally some good news
to share out of the world of baseball. Outstanding, wonderful
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job by Daniel Bard, Team USA World Baseball Classic. You
really hate to see it, really hates it. But when
I when I heard this, I had a ChEI air
cat smile. Jose al Tuve. One of the great villains
a professional baseball could not have happened to a better
bad guy. Jose al Tuve. I love it. No, yeah, oh,
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it's so good. I kept watching it over and over
again on Twitter. It's great. He gets it. Every time
it seems better. He's like you lazer, you chump. Oh,
it's so great man. Sometimes bad things happen to bad
people in the world of baseball. It's a bad person baseball,
bad person. It's terrible for the a holes from Houston.
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So it's wonderful for the rest of baseball. It's outstanding.
It's what it is, right, Uh, listen, al Tuve, one
of them. We all know the story. One of the
masterminds of a single greatest North American cheating scandal in
modern sport history. Was he punished in any way, No,
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completely unpunished for his central role in sign stealing during
the twenty seventeen season and beyond, not only the regular season,
but also the postseason and yes, yes, the World Series.
Altobe is one of the great weasels, and pop goes
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the weasel ha ha. He used the elaborate set up,
whether it was a trash can here, a whistle over there,
a buzzer check him, friend of buzzer all of that
buzzer boy helped rob the soul out of baseball and
exposed Rob Manford as an incompetent leader of men. Man
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alive right, he had a round the clock protection by
the Commissioner Baseball and his underlings. It's just a hunk
of metal. It's just an inside fastball. So it turns
out that Daniel Bard is the real commission to baseball.
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Daniel Bard was able to get Josel tub off the
field for at least two months. Rob Manford, No, Rob
Manford gave him a red carpet at the second base.
You know how hard it is to hit out two.
He's got those little tiny hands, got those little baby hands,
and he hit him anyway. Man, it is deliciously satisfying.
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It is the nectar of the gods, is what it
is right here, right, I mean, let's let us eat,
let us drink the shot in freuda, and we'll all
be merry. We're all gonna be married. Right, there's a
hooting nanny of a good time. Now, page two. How
will the cheating astro's handel this injury, Well, it would
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be surprising if al Bovey returns to the A Hole's
lineup before June first, So that is roughly sixty games,
give or take, as the crow flies without the pip
squeak of a second baseman not out there, not in
the lineup now in the house. The cheaters will use
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a combot ish of someone named David Hensley and Mauricio
Dubon to fill a second base to begin the season.
Hensley has sixteen games of big league experience. He's almost
twenty seven, has yet to make a mark. Dubon has
played randomly or the Brewers, Giants and Cheaters over two
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hundred and sixty two career games, and he is a
robust two forty four career hitter. Both these guys have
not made any kind of memorable mark in professional baseball.
But since this is the den of inequity, you can
bet your bottom dollar that Houston will provide those guys
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with all the gizmos they need to succeed. Wink wink,
nod nod, A do hicky here, a thing of a
bob over there, A what you McCall it in your bat?
Whatever you need, all the gadgets. And if all those
gadgets fail, the buzzers, the trash cans, the whistles, the cork,
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then then the a holes will be forced to go
to the swap meet, the flea market, and they're just
gonna have to hang around, hang around, stay within striking distance, treadwater,
keep themselves in contention. But with Baseball adding all these
wild card teams, it is not that difficult, all right,
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final point, So what does the latest star, latest star
getting hurt due to the ever changing kaleidoscope, if you will,
status of the WBC the World Baseball Classic. While we
should point out that there have been oh there's Nolan
Erinado also got hit and he left the game with
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an injury there for Team USA, and there have been
a handful of big ones New York Mets, they're star
closer Diaz out now Al Tube out for a couple
of months. So to answer the question, what does this
latest start getting hurt due to the status of the
World Baseball Classic. It is another roofing nail into the
coffin of star players participating in the World Baseball Classic.
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And I don't care how many of them come out
and say how much fun they're having, doesn't matter. It's
an optional event and that's the reality, right. Major League
Baseball owners are not going to support stars getting hurt
during extracurricular activities. And that's what the World Baseball Classic is.
They're barnstorming, trying to draw in love of country, wrap
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yourself in the flag. Baseball fans to follow the sport
at a time of the year they normally don't follow
the sport. But it's an optional thing, and the World
Baseball Classic is risky business. It's not worth the headache
for ownership. We live in an age when you're not
not supposed to risk yourself for injury unless it's in
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the game, and even spring training, which is by the way,
hate to be the spoiler spoiler alerdy on this meaningless
spring training, right, it's a way for Major League Baseball
ownership to charge almost regular season prices to watch mostly
minor league level players for the majority of these and
get away with it. Now. It used to be spring
training buck. On the old days, spring training was a
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great bargain because they charged a nominal amount of money
and it was a laid back environment in Florida and Arizona.
But now these stadiums are like miniature stadiums from the
big league stadium and they benge over on the way
in and empty out your wallet when you go to
spring training. It's wild. So the owners have found a
way to tack on an extra thirty games of revenue
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from the hundred in the sixty two they get during
the course of the season. But they're not gonna put
up with this, And I don't care that the players
are covered. The teams are covered via insurance. For example,
the cheating Astros will not have to pay Jose Albouves
twenty six million dollars salary until he returns, which will
likely be sometime in June. The insurance policy that that'll
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actually affect the fan because the policy it doesn't help
the owners on the field, it also hurts the fans.
From the standpoint is, what do you think happens when
insurance companies have to pay out on a claim? Day
na na nan. Yes, the premium goes up for future
World Baseball Classics. That'll go up. And who do you
think you're gonna pay that? You think the owners are
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gonna pay that, or you think they're gonna pass that
down to the person who buys nachos and peanuts and
cracker jacks and the other crap at a ball. Of
course they're gonna They're gonna nickel and dime in. They're
gonna raise prices to cover the premiums for future World
Baseball Classics. Now, on a positive note, the injury, we
understand this. I'm gonna I'm out all nigga. I'm he
positive for my friends in Houston on seven ninety listening
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to the show in Houston. So the good news is
from what I understand going back in those that were
close to the cheating scandal, Altuve he injured his right hand,
but his left hand is the one he used to
bang the trash can, so he's still able to help
out with signs and all that he should be able
to help out in that regard. So it's not all
bad news for the cheaters from the den of an equity.
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But if you had Jose Altuve dominating the first two
months of the baseball season, he is out Gonski's. It
is the Ben Maller Show. If you'd like to be
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six nine. We just had the verbal octagon last hour.
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It was a spur of the moment verbal octagon, and
it went to Sean the Hood Guy via disqualification by
Angry Bill. As he was disqualified, we had to dump
him multiple times. He didn't make it to the third round,
which in and of itself was an upset, But in
the end it's a turnout, a lot the parties over
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and so Sean Hood Guy winning and we did not
even have to really go to the judges scorecard on that.
All right, It is the Ben Maller Show eight seven
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Some prime time motivation, some primetime motivation. We'll get to
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are the special ingredient needed influence others to join our
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alive from the Tirat dot Com, Fox Points Radio Studios.
It's Ben Mallar. The Burner account rights in following a
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World Baseball Classic Mallard monologue, hose al Bove suspended by
Daniel Bard for two months of the season. First score
Daniel Bard, the real Commissioner Major League Baseball, The Burner
account says, you're a rare former night Benjamin and I
love it fl tuve fl tuve a fl tuve fl
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tuve a A plus plus plus on the Mallard monologue,
so he says. Shane from Nan says, hey, Ben alf
suggested caller Free Radio on Friday, I'm suggesting Florida Free
Radio for the week. What say you? Pete the machinist says,
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I never celebrate an athlete's injury, but this one, and
it's tough, but I really don't feel bad for him. Also,
Sean Hood Guy had angry bill against the Ropes way
before disqualification. That was awesome. The Midnight Walker, a poet
lorie of the show, says the midget was up. He says, yes,
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the loser stood in a man who would cheat his
grandmother to win. He got drilled in the thumb. Now
he's out for a while. As for me and Big Ben,
well just well we've just got a smile. So from
the Midnight Walker, thank you for that. Mallard prop Guy
writes in he says, another great Malar monologue. What worthy?
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Malarads that you would opine recording the jose Al Tube
accidental hit by pitch this morning, and I says, well,
it's not important. We're here, we're doing the show, we're
doing live, and we're doing it live. Let's go to
the phones, and let's go to the losing locker room.
The better stories and losing locker room, get the dumb
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buddy dump butting ready disqualified from the octagon. We hung
up bot him, but he called back an angry Bill.
Take that in your pooper and poppet. Ye. Amen, it
just got beaten by Sean the Hood Guy. Hello, angry Bill.
Now he's not even there. Hello, angry Bill. Pick up
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the phone, angry Bill. All right, we'll hang up on him.
Let's go to Jed who fled. Hello Jed Man. I mean,
I love racism or the idea of it man and
charcatures of it. But my god, dude, Angry Bill, my god.
I mean, I mean, I'm not saying I'm Sean the
Hood Guy, but I mean I came from the rally
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just last week. But even I know that, my god
dude turned down the hatred. I mean, I don't even understand.
I mean, I was so thankful to God of both
that when you announced he was not from Florida but
it's from New Jersey, because I mean, thank you the Lord,
Thank you Lord. I mean, I think he's an I
think he's an AI bought. I think he's a rage
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field of rage inspired AI bought. Because what the hell is,
what the hell is up with him? Man? I mean,
really as a human being, explain him without without even
considering the favor. I don't want anyone to explain me,
explain him. Good call, that's great, it's fantastic. I'm not there.
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I'm starting to myself. I'm here trouble. This is rich
is nothing new. But I'll just keep it going. Don't
keep you going, transformers not got eat. Yeah, I'm I'm.
I was on the air everywhere the whole time. I
love it. No no earlier this month, no back, you know,
kicked out of a California tennis tournament. I hate fun
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what tennis? I do? Now he can't play in the
Miami Open. Why because he's not legally allowed to enter
the US right now, but still because his code did
nineteen vaccination status. Now I'm sorry that he did not
want to die, you know, suddenly heart attack out of
nowhere and sorry, have to get censored, you know, because
of the missifforation stuff. I'll watch the most important question
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the COVID COVID nineteen, you know, scam dimmick or the
fact that I'm talking about tennis and the signs of
my headero sexuality maybe fading. What do you think? Yeah,
I was wondering what would happen if we just let
you talk and we have the answer. You just start
talking about you start talking. That was that was that
was a science experiment. I was like, if I just
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don't say anything and let I just let him talk,
I let Jed who fled talk? What will he talk about?
And we have the answer. Tennis. You go to tennis.
That's your backup materials. Tennis. We have misinformation because you
started talking, even though you said you were gonna let
Jed talk. Each today, I let you talk. You talk
for two minutes. I let you talk, you talk for
two minutes. Somebody got to be there to Phil. I
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feel angry Bill silence. Just recently, an eighty two year
old was criminally charged with a sale of fake Michael
Jordan's basketball cards, and I wanted to say, that is awesome.
You know, It's never been awesome whenever I was fake
drugged in my you know, drug transaction. Because sometimes they'll
just say you'd be a rocket salt dude, And I'm
telling you as much, I'll like it on my French
fause that as I'm saying, but the guy that did
this with fake basketball carts, that's ingenious. And there's one
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thing left as much less us Well, wasn't the genius
because he got caught, And genius is if he hadn't
gotten caught, then that would have been ingenius. But he
got caught, so and he ripped off the wrong people.
He ripped off some people that are connected in New
York that have money and have influence and have power,
and they were able to get a hold of the
right people at law enforcement who pursued the case. So
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it wasn't a perfect crime because he got caught. Matt
the Warrior, Raider ays fan writes in from the Bay,
He says ten out of ten on the Mallard monologue,
is it too soon denominate Daniel Bard as an honorary
for an honorary Benny, This impeccable control really deserves to
be honored. Not since Kyler Murray's knee got shredded, have
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I seen a little guy get snippered on the field,
says the man, the myth, the legend, Matt the war
You're a raider, A's fan who will soon be able
to say that all of his favorite teams relocated in
a short amount of time. How about that. Let's go
to the phones and let's say hello to Mike in Houston.
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Hello Mike in the belly of the Beast. Hell out, Mike, Welcome,
Good morning Dan. Let's have oh cards on the table here, Ben,
when you get on one of your guy I drive
about my astros. I have a great, big, small mustage.
I really enjoy it, truly. Well good, then you should
be very happy because you have a lot to look
forward to. Well. I enjoy the irrational, contradictory, hypocritical rants,
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but I'd like to try to bring a little balance
to the conversation, even though I think, yeah, I see
what you did. That's code for al tuva. You said
little balance. I like that. That's good. You're doing al
tub jokes. I like that. Keep going wow wow. I
didn't realize I was that clever. Anyways, anyway, and it's
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been documented now that al Tube was not the mastermind
or the cheating scandal. Beltrans, the one that brought it
in from the Yankees core is the one that ran
with it. Hey and Al check him for the buzzer
up checking for the buzzer. Come on, are you really
that golabal? Mike? Come on, come on, like, what are
you doing? Don't be that gullable. Come on, just because
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there's an orchestrated campaign to make al Tube seem like
he did nothing and he was an Eagle scout does
not mean Al Tube was an eagle scout. Okay, don't
be gullible, Please, don't be gullible. Man. I didn't say that.
I did not say that. I'm saying there is absolutely
no proof proved from outside he won an award ball cheating. Hello, Hello, Hello,
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what is this thing on? Can I falk? Okay? It's
been version outside of Euston by New Yorkers who I
don't know why. They didn't want to tell the truth
about where's Major League Baseball's headquarters New York? You've had
you just answer your own question. Go ahead? Oh thanks. Anyways,
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proved there's been absolutely no pros about a tub. Oh
my god. This is what you are when you are.
When you are giving me, Mike, is proved that how
easy the public is manipulated. What you're giving me is
is direct evidence that a campaign orchestrated by Major League
Baseball PR right, orchestrated by base PPR. Let's clean up
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the reputation. We want Al Tube. You know, one of
our faces of the game and all that future Hall
of Famer want to clean up his reputation, so we'll
plant some stories with useful idiots in the media and
guys like Mike and Houston will buy hook line and sinker.
I gotta let you go on that, but thank you, Mike.
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every motivational trick he can use out of the old
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school playbook, the buffs head coach trying to change the
losing ways of the Pac twelve doormatt Colorado Buffalos. What
has he done well? Recently? Dion Sanders went viral he
kicked a player out of workouts for violating the dress
code by wearing white socks. He wore white socks, so
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they had to kick him out. And but wait, but wait,
there's more. During the first day of spring practice. Dion
Sanders also creating some buzz recently when he said all
of the players were going to start off with blank jerseys. Yes,
Dion said they had to earn their jersey number that
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day would be numberless and they would have to earn
their digit. Dion Sanders bringing back the old old school
prime time, which I get a kick out of because
I'm kind of old enough for I watched Dion play
and I remember Deon fought its seemingly fought against all
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of the old school ways when he was playing, but
now as he's a coach, he's bringing it all back.
He said. Quote, I am old school. I come from
the place. You gotta earn it, Dion said. He said,
when my school closed and I wanted to go shopping,
I had to get a job and work and earn that.
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That's why I appreciate those kind of things. Did you
see Dion's also been wearing a cowboy hat. He's going, Oh,
it's so good. Let's go to Andrea. And she's standing
by in Berkeley. She's got her star charts out. She's
a Benny Award winner. Andrea the astrologer. Hello Andrea, welcome,
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Hello man, how are you? If I was any better,
I'd be a buffalo, but not a Colorado Buffalo because
I wouldn't have a number because I haven't earned it yet. Well,
speaking of earned, I saw your delicious cookies on Facebook. Nice,
well done, dare well, thank you, thank you. I have
gotten into baking cookies recently, and the cooking different random things,
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and so when I have some downtime, Andrew, I like
to dabble in that. Yes, no, Taurist definitely likes you know,
good cooking and well, the main reason though, I went
out and the wife got me this like nice cookie
from I won't name the name of the place, I've
said it on my podcast, but it was like a
really nice I love. The cookie was great, but it
was like six or seven dollars, and I said, you
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gotta be kidding me for one cookie. So I'm like,
I gotta find a recipe. I gotta I gotta mimic that.
And so I found one and it tastes just as good,
and I can make it for about thirty cents per cookie.
So yeah, that's great. The Taurist likes their treats. I
have Taurist rising. I have quite a sweet too. I
go wait for May and then I'll really rise, right,
I'm waiting to them month of May. I gotta get
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through the rest of March and April, but then in
May to the moon. Yes to the moon. Well, absolutely speaking,
a Taurus al Tuve wasn't quite as lucky May six,
nineteen ninety. He has Mars and Pisces and Saturn just
went into Pisces rules of skeletal structure, bones, knees, teeth, joints,
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and Mars is your physical being your well being energetically,
so that you know, World Baseball Classic and that injury,
uh you know, to his summies out for the rest
of the season. So really Saturn Mars once every twenty
nine years. Ben, that's a tough one. So you know
that said, just wanted to share that. And on a
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happier note, happy Spring Equinox to the mallar oh is
that today we have the spring equinox tomorrow tomorrow at
twelve twenty four pm. But since on you know, talking now,
it'll be spring equinox, and I want to wish the
Malla Militia happy spring. After I celebrate that, what are
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we supposed to do? Have a cake? What do we do? Yeah,
well here's the thing, free newsletter. Just let them know.
I'd be happy to share my newsletter. And I have
all the mercury retrograde dates. And how we celebrate we
have new moon and aries the next day on Tuesday.
So aries is about fire and new beginnings. So when
we have the vernal equinox and aries, it's about new beginnings.
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It's about spring of heads, you know, and just looking
you know, leaving behind the winter. Basically, it's like spring
cleaning for your karma, spring fever, spring training, March madness.
You know, we just have this balance point between winter
solstice and summer solstice and fire sign aries. Man is
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a fresh start and a new beginning for the spring.
Out with the old and in with the new. It's
like a cosmic rebirth. Nice all right, I like that.
And Virgo and service on Twitter. Thank you, Andrea, appreciate you.
All right, I'm gonna celebrate right now. Time now for
the Insta trivia. We have Mallard of the third degree.
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Here's the Insta trivia. Blank led the NFL in performance
based pay last year, raking in an extra eight hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. Blank led the entire NFL in
what they call performance based pay last year, taking in
an extra eight hundred eighty thousand dollars in income because
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they did things they were not expected to do. That
is the Insta trivia. The answer and Mallard of the
third degree. We'll get to it. We'll do it next time.
Heytom got up? Check him for the buzzy, bottom down up.
Come on, Boydom gone real quick, check for the buzzers.
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popular Insta trivia and and way we go. Blank led
the NFL and performance based paid last year, raking in
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an extra eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. That is
the question. Filling the blank and if you know the answer.
You can sent it in via Twitter at Ben Maller
and a number of those answers coming in. Let's see here.
Cowboy Killer says it has to be the Pillsbury Doughboy
that that is the correct answer. Lance Armstrong guest by
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Oscar Ferg Dogg says mister dependible. His roommate Brian Finley.
Who else do we have? Robin Vegas going with the
big red machine cane as his answer. Scarlett Johansson from
the Dixter parody account Geno Smith tossed out by Matt
the Warrior Raider is fan mister nice guy going old
school Cleveland Indian slash California Angel George Hendrick as his answer.
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Who else do we have? Maverick says mister old school
Neon Dion anders We're going streaking Dante says Justin Tucker
is the answer. Angry Bill's Therapist guest by Surley Scott
Benny the Baker from Sean in Portland. If you want
to check out photos of the crap that I baked
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over the weekend, you can check that out on the
show Facebook page Ben Maller's Show and on the Instagram
page Ben Maller on Fox alf the Alien opiner says
new us UFC champion in the curmudgeon Division, Bill Belichick
is the answer. Jamal Williams guest by Ike and Roseville,
Minnesota page down stale student says Stormy Daniels is the answer.
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Callighan tim going with Joey Amalfatano as his answer. Late
night gear Grinder checks in with Kirby Puckett. Chip in
the Queues says Colts legendary quarterback Burt Jones is the answer.
Jonathan in Delaware got it right. Bad job by him
and Gino Smith guest by Ed from Spokane. Who's alive, Eddie?
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Do you have an answer? Eddie? I do. It's former
Houston Oilers quarterback Gifford Nielsen. Yes, Gifford Nielsen is the answer,
unless it's not the correct answer. Free safety who did
play for the Philadelphi Eagles last year, Marcus Epps. He's
now with our Raiders. Signed a free agent contract. Man
an extra eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. That's the
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program that compensates players based on their playing time in
salary levels. It's maller how about that? To the third degree,
This is one big ban gets great and we bring
in the Coop daaloop. Precent. Reports claim that Darren Waller
goes to the Raiders during the bye week, which was
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said to be one of the factors that led to
his trade to the Giants. Ben are you buying this? No,
I'm gonna sell that one. I mean, that's just bologneys.
That's a vacation week. And if you're on vacation, you
don't have to talk to your co workers. It's your
time off and all that. But if you keep it
real here, this is just some after the fact justification
because a lot of the Raider fans are upset that
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Darren Waller was a popular player. They traded him, and
so they're annoyed by that and the Raiders, you know,
you can't you have a problem. Darren Wallers sucked at
a time you cannot suck. He's been injured, he's been
unproductive for the last couple of years, and at his age,
and he's not one of the guys that's a you know,
in the tank with the coaching staff. He's not a
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foxhole guy. For Josh McDaniels, everything indicated to get rid
of him. My favorite part of the story though, is
Jimmy Garoppolo when he was with the Niners, got called
out for ghosting his teammates and coaches during off time.
So that's exactly the guy they just added at quarterback,
the guy that now they're saying, well, we got rid
of Darren Waller because of this, but now Jimmy Garoppolo
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is the same thing with the Niners. Next, coach Eric
Musselman took his last name a little too literally, pulled
his shirt off in the postgame celebration after Arkansas upset
Kansas over the weekend got Chippendale's dancer Bend Musselman go
too far here? No, I say no, this is a
memorable moment. And I remember years ago there was this
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thing called the Women's World Cup and there was a
woman named Brandy chat name. That's the only thing I
remember about that Women's World Cup. She got down to
her athletic bra and celebrated. But that was after the win.
To my knowledge, Arkansas did not win the championship with
their victory over the weekend. Beating Kansas is nice the
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defending champion, but you still have to win some more
games than all that. It's actually the third straight Sweet sixteen,
but I'm very happy, and you're not gonna get me
to trash Eric Musselman. He's a proud member of the
Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. Ten years ago, Eric Musselman
was a paid contributor at Fox Sports Radio to break
down random college and NBA games and was forced to
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talk to people like myself and Amy Van Dyken and
the other people that worked here at that time. So
I'm happy he'll never have to do that again. He's
now a maid man in college basketball, Eric Musselman. And
I'm also old enough to remember when I was a kid,
his dad was the original coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves,
So I'm happy for him, all right. Next, Yes, cooperof
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Artie Marino did his first interview in three years, saying
the Angels can't compete with baseball's biggest spenders because he
claims they can't afford to lose fifty or one hundred
million dollars a year. Yeah, Ben, what's your viewpoint on this?
Artie Marino needs to go see a doctor. He is
full of crap. Artie Marino is full of crap. The
Angels continue to be an embarrassment and that statement should
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send shivers all over the eight Angel fans left my evidence.
By the way, Cooper, you know this. The Padres who
are south of Anaheim and beautiful San Diego. Peter Seidler
is worth three billion dollars. Artie Marino has a net
worth of four billion dollars four point one billion la
OC the second biggest media market in the country. San
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Diego is number twenty eight, I believe, And so the
Padres can do it, but the Angels can't do it,
my fat ass, Artie Marino. My favorite part of that
interview with Artie Marino, though, is he admitted the Angels
are not sending their radio broadcasters on the road this year.
They're doing remote radio broadcast to save money. To save money.
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They're gonna work remotely because it's too expensive to get
hotel rooms and have a seat on the charter jet
for the Angel play by play game talk about a
minor league outfit in Anaheim masquerading is a big league team.
What a joke. You can't even afford to send the
radio guys on the road. How did we do? Couplout?
That is that when I won the game? I want
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I want to think I
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird two hour two
of our radio program Snap Crackle Pop from the World
Baseball Classic. What are your initial thoughts on Jose Altuve's
broken thumb as Daniel Bard doing something that Rob Manford
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was unable to do? And how will the cheating Astros
handle the injury to their former cheating MVP. What does
this latest star getting hurt due to the status going
forward of the World Baseball Classic. We'll talk about that
and more right now in our number two. Justice is
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I leave this hour coming from baseball. Are we doing
a deep time on the World Baseball Class well, not
specifically not to team you US say, which did win?
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And now the trade turner, mister March trade turner. This
guy does not hit well in October, but in March,
this guy's is a clutch, as he's now got to
four home runs in the World Baseball Classic. Did it
again in the most recent game here in the Red
and White and Blue getting it dundon as they bashed
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the team representing Cuba fourteen to two. So they advanced
out of the World Baseball Classic final and they will
face the winner of Vehico and Japan. And I am
I know my guy Roberto will be completely unbiased on that.
You are not pulling out any kind of voodoo dolls
that at all, but we are. We are less than
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two weeks away from opening day and the big story
over the weekend not so much to the USA advancing
to the World Cup World Baseball Cup Championship, but the
injury tent filling up again. And if you did not
hear and possibly not cheating a Stro second baseman Jose
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Altuve needs sir jury, why now he broke his right
thumb and one of the great moments I've witnessed on
a baseball field, Altuve was hit in the hand by
a hero USA reliever Daniel Bard. Way to go, Daniel
Bard doing something that Bud Selick and who never punished
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anybody when he was the commissioner, and Rob Manford, who
replaced him, were unable to especially Rob Manford an inside
fastball from Daniel Bard while playing against Altuve's Venezuelan team
and the World Baseball Classic Saturday Night Snap Crackle Pop.
Altuve has to wait for the swelling to go down
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before he can have the operation. The thumb completely main gold.
The surgery expected within a couple of days. How long
will Altuve be out the cheater They expected him miss
eight to ten weeks, but but someone named Dana Brown,
we don't know who that is, apparently claims to be
the Astros GM said there is no official timetable as
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of now. As of now, how long two Bay is
gonna be out, but it is expected to be at
least a couple of months. So let us discuss the question,
what are your initial thoughts on Jose al Boove as
he's called in the show breaking his thumb. So I've
got nectar, gizmos and roofing nail and we will combine
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all of these things together and we will make the
sweet taste of justice is what we're going to make,
all right. So number one, like, finally some good news
to share out of the world of baseball. Outstanding, wonderful
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job by Daniel Bard, Team USA World Baseball Classic. You
really hate to see it, really hates it. But when
I when I heard this, I had a ChEI air
cat smile. Jose al Tuve. One of the great villains
a professional baseball could not have happened to a better
bad guy. Jose al Tuve. I love it. No, yeah, oh,
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it's so good. I kept watching it over and over
again on Twitter. It's great. He gets it. Every time
it seems better. He's like you lazer, you chump. Oh,
it's so great man. Sometimes bad things happen to bad
people in the world of baseball. It's a bad person baseball,
bad person. It's terrible for the a holes from Houston.
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So it's wonderful for the rest of baseball. It's outstanding.
It's what it is, right, Uh, listen, al Tuve, one
of them. We all know the story. One of the
masterminds of a single greatest North American cheating scandal in
modern sport history. Was he punished in any way, No,
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completely unpunished for his central role in sign stealing during
the twenty seventeen season and beyond, not only the regular season,
but also the postseason and yes, yes, the World Series.
Altobe is one of the great weasels, and pop goes
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the weasel ha ha. He used the elaborate set up,
whether it was a trash can here, a whistle over there,
a buzzer check him, friend of buzzer all of that
buzzer boy helped rob the soul out of baseball and
exposed Rob Manford as an incompetent leader of men. Man
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alive right, he had a round the clock protection by
the Commissioner Baseball and his underlings. It's just a hunk
of metal. It's just an inside fastball. So it turns
out that Daniel Bard is the real commission to baseball.
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Daniel Bard was able to get Josel tub off the
field for at least two months. Rob Manford, No, Rob
Manford gave him a red carpet at the second base.
You know how hard it is to hit out two.
He's got those little tiny hands, got those little baby hands,
and he hit him anyway. Man, it is deliciously satisfying.
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It is the nectar of the gods, is what it
is right here, right, I mean, let's let us eat,
let us drink the shot in freuda, and we'll all
be merry. We're all gonna be married. Right, there's a
hooting nanny of a good time. Now, page two. How
will the cheating astro's handel this injury, Well, it would
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be surprising if al Bovey returns to the A Hole's
lineup before June first, So that is roughly sixty games,
give or take, as the crow flies without the pip
squeak of a second baseman not out there, not in
the lineup now in the house. The cheaters will use
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a combot ish of someone named David Hensley and Mauricio
Dubon to fill a second base to begin the season.
Hensley has sixteen games of big league experience. He's almost
twenty seven, has yet to make a mark. Dubon has
played randomly or the Brewers, Giants and Cheaters over two
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hundred and sixty two career games, and he is a
robust two forty four career hitter. Both these guys have
not made any kind of memorable mark in professional baseball.
But since this is the den of inequity, you can
bet your bottom dollar that Houston will provide those guys
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with all the gizmos they need to succeed. Wink wink,
nod nod, A do hicky here, a thing of a
bob over there, A what you McCall it in your bat?
Whatever you need, all the gadgets. And if all those
gadgets fail, the buzzers, the trash cans, the whistles, the cork,
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then then the a holes will be forced to go
to the swap meet, the flea market, and they're just
gonna have to hang around, hang around, stay within striking distance, treadwater,
keep themselves in contention. But with Baseball adding all these
wild card teams, it is not that difficult, all right,
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final point, So what does the latest star, latest star
getting hurt due to the ever changing kaleidoscope, if you will,
status of the WBC the World Baseball Classic. While we
should point out that there have been oh there's Nolan
Erinado also got hit and he left the game with
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an injury there for Team USA, and there have been
a handful of big ones New York Mets, they're star
closer Diaz out now Al Tube out for a couple
of months. So to answer the question, what does this
latest start getting hurt due to the status of the
World Baseball Classic. It is another roofing nail into the
coffin of star players participating in the World Baseball Classic.
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And I don't care how many of them come out
and say how much fun they're having, doesn't matter. It's
an optional event and that's the reality, right. Major League
Baseball owners are not going to support stars getting hurt
during extracurricular activities. And that's what the World Baseball Classic is.
They're barnstorming, trying to draw in love of country, wrap
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yourself in the flag. Baseball fans to follow the sport
at a time of the year they normally don't follow
the sport. But it's an optional thing, and the World
Baseball Classic is risky business. It's not worth the headache
for ownership. We live in an age when you're not
not supposed to risk yourself for injury unless it's in
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the game, and even spring training, which is by the way,
hate to be the spoiler spoiler alerdy on this meaningless
spring training, right, it's a way for Major League Baseball
ownership to charge almost regular season prices to watch mostly
minor league level players for the majority of these and
get away with it. Now. It used to be spring
training buck. On the old days, spring training was a
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great bargain because they charged a nominal amount of money
and it was a laid back environment in Florida and Arizona.
But now these stadiums are like miniature stadiums from the
big league stadium and they benge over on the way
in and empty out your wallet when you go to
spring training. It's wild. So the owners have found a
way to tack on an extra thirty games of revenue
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from the hundred in the sixty two they get during
the course of the season. But they're not gonna put
up with this, And I don't care that the players
are covered. The teams are covered via insurance. For example,
the cheating Astros will not have to pay Jose Albouves
twenty six million dollars salary until he returns, which will
likely be sometime in June. The insurance policy that that'll
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actually affect the fan because the policy it doesn't help
the owners on the field, it also hurts the fans.
From the standpoint is, what do you think happens when
insurance companies have to pay out on a claim? Day
na na nan. Yes, the premium goes up for future
World Baseball Classics. That'll go up. And who do you
think you're gonna pay that? You think the owners are
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gonna pay that, or you think they're gonna pass that
down to the person who buys nachos and peanuts and
cracker jacks and the other crap at a ball. Of
course they're gonna They're gonna nickel and dime in. They're
gonna raise prices to cover the premiums for future World
Baseball Classics. Now, on a positive note, the injury, we
understand this. I'm gonna I'm out all nigga. I'm he
positive for my friends in Houston on seven ninety listening
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to the show in Houston. So the good news is
from what I understand going back in those that were
close to the cheating scandal, Altuve he injured his right hand,
but his left hand is the one he used to
bang the trash can, so he's still able to help
out with signs and all that he should be able
to help out in that regard. So it's not all
bad news for the cheaters from the den of an equity.
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But if you had Jose Altuve dominating the first two
months of the baseball season, he is out Gonski's. It
is the Ben Maller Show. If you'd like to be
part you can join us here at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine three
six nine. We just had the verbal octagon last hour.
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It was a spur of the moment verbal octagon, and
it went to Sean the Hood Guy via disqualification by
Angry Bill. As he was disqualified, we had to dump
him multiple times. He didn't make it to the third round,
which in and of itself was an upset, But in
the end it's a turnout, a lot the parties over
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and so Sean Hood Guy winning and we did not
even have to really go to the judges scorecard on that.
All right, It is the Ben Maller Show eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox, also on Twitter at Ben Maller.
Some prime time motivation, some primetime motivation. We'll get to
that and we will do it next. Be sure to
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Mallard Militia foot soldiers, we need your helping hand to
game new recruits. Five, posting and tagging Mallard Show related
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are the special ingredient needed influence others to join our
mysterious nocturnal two known as The Ben Dollard Show and
alive from the Tirat dot Com, Fox Points Radio Studios.
It's Ben Mallar. The Burner account rights in following a
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World Baseball Classic Mallard monologue, hose al Bove suspended by
Daniel Bard for two months of the season. First score
Daniel Bard, the real Commissioner Major League Baseball, The Burner
account says, you're a rare former night Benjamin and I
love it fl tuve fl tuve a fl tuve fl
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tuve a A plus plus plus on the Mallard monologue,
so he says. Shane from Nan says, hey, Ben alf
suggested caller Free Radio on Friday, I'm suggesting Florida Free
Radio for the week. What say you? Pete the machinist says,
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I never celebrate an athlete's injury, but this one, and
it's tough, but I really don't feel bad for him. Also,
Sean Hood Guy had angry bill against the Ropes way
before disqualification. That was awesome. The Midnight Walker, a poet
lorie of the show, says the midget was up. He says, yes,
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the loser stood in a man who would cheat his
grandmother to win. He got drilled in the thumb. Now
he's out for a while. As for me and Big Ben,
well just well we've just got a smile. So from
the Midnight Walker, thank you for that. Mallard prop Guy
writes in he says, another great Malar monologue. What worthy?
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Malarads that you would opine recording the jose Al Tube
accidental hit by pitch this morning, and I says, well,
it's not important. We're here, we're doing the show, we're
doing live, and we're doing it live. Let's go to
the phones, and let's go to the losing locker room.
The better stories and losing locker room, get the dumb
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buddy dump butting ready disqualified from the octagon. We hung
up bot him, but he called back an angry Bill.
Take that in your pooper and poppet. Ye. Amen, it
just got beaten by Sean the Hood Guy. Hello, angry Bill.
Now he's not even there. Hello, angry Bill. Pick up
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the phone, angry Bill. All right, we'll hang up on him.
Let's go to Jed who fled. Hello Jed Man. I mean,
I love racism or the idea of it man and
charcatures of it. But my god, dude, Angry Bill, my god.
I mean, I mean, I'm not saying I'm Sean the
Hood Guy, but I mean I came from the rally
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just last week. But even I know that, my god
dude turned down the hatred. I mean, I don't even understand.
I mean, I was so thankful to God of both
that when you announced he was not from Florida but
it's from New Jersey, because I mean, thank you the Lord,
Thank you Lord. I mean, I think he's an I
think he's an AI bought. I think he's a rage
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field of rage inspired AI bought. Because what the hell is,
what the hell is up with him? Man? I mean,
really as a human being, explain him without without even
considering the favor. I don't want anyone to explain me,
explain him. Good call, that's great, it's fantastic. I'm not there.
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I'm starting to myself. I'm here trouble. This is rich
is nothing new. But I'll just keep it going. Don't
keep you going, transformers not got eat. Yeah, I'm I'm.
I was on the air everywhere the whole time. I
love it. No no earlier this month, no back, you know,
kicked out of a California tennis tournament. I hate fun
(18:44):
what tennis? I do? Now he can't play in the
Miami Open. Why because he's not legally allowed to enter
the US right now, but still because his code did
nineteen vaccination status. Now I'm sorry that he did not
want to die, you know, suddenly heart attack out of
nowhere and sorry, have to get censored, you know, because
of the missifforation stuff. I'll watch the most important question
(19:05):
the COVID COVID nineteen, you know, scam dimmick or the
fact that I'm talking about tennis and the signs of
my headero sexuality maybe fading. What do you think? Yeah,
I was wondering what would happen if we just let
you talk and we have the answer. You just start
talking about you start talking. That was that was that
was a science experiment. I was like, if I just
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don't say anything and let I just let him talk,
I let Jed who fled talk? What will he talk about?
And we have the answer. Tennis. You go to tennis.
That's your backup materials. Tennis. We have misinformation because you
started talking, even though you said you were gonna let
Jed talk. Each today, I let you talk. You talk
for two minutes. I let you talk, you talk for
two minutes. Somebody got to be there to Phil. I
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feel angry Bill silence. Just recently, an eighty two year
old was criminally charged with a sale of fake Michael
Jordan's basketball cards, and I wanted to say, that is awesome.
You know, It's never been awesome whenever I was fake
drugged in my you know, drug transaction. Because sometimes they'll
just say you'd be a rocket salt dude, And I'm
telling you as much, I'll like it on my French
fause that as I'm saying, but the guy that did
this with fake basketball carts, that's ingenious. And there's one
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thing left as much less us Well, wasn't the genius
because he got caught, And genius is if he hadn't
gotten caught, then that would have been ingenius. But he
got caught, so and he ripped off the wrong people.
He ripped off some people that are connected in New
York that have money and have influence and have power,
and they were able to get a hold of the
right people at law enforcement who pursued the case. So
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it wasn't a perfect crime because he got caught. Matt
the Warrior, Raider ays fan writes in from the Bay,
He says ten out of ten on the Mallard monologue,
is it too soon denominate Daniel Bard as an honorary
for an honorary Benny, This impeccable control really deserves to
be honored. Not since Kyler Murray's knee got shredded, have
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I seen a little guy get snippered on the field,
says the man, the myth, the legend, Matt the war
You're a raider, A's fan who will soon be able
to say that all of his favorite teams relocated in
a short amount of time. How about that. Let's go
to the phones and let's say hello to Mike in Houston.
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Hello Mike in the belly of the Beast. Hell out, Mike, Welcome,
Good morning Dan. Let's have oh cards on the table here, Ben,
when you get on one of your guy I drive
about my astros. I have a great, big, small mustage.
I really enjoy it, truly. Well good, then you should
be very happy because you have a lot to look
forward to. Well. I enjoy the irrational, contradictory, hypocritical rants,
(21:41):
but I'd like to try to bring a little balance
to the conversation, even though I think, yeah, I see
what you did. That's code for al tuva. You said
little balance. I like that. That's good. You're doing al
tub jokes. I like that. Keep going wow wow. I
didn't realize I was that clever. Anyways, anyway, and it's
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been documented now that al Tube was not the mastermind
or the cheating scandal. Beltrans, the one that brought it
in from the Yankees core is the one that ran
with it. Hey and Al check him for the buzzer
up checking for the buzzer. Come on, are you really
that golabal? Mike? Come on, come on, like, what are
you doing? Don't be that gullable. Come on, just because
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there's an orchestrated campaign to make al Tube seem like
he did nothing and he was an Eagle scout does
not mean Al Tube was an eagle scout. Okay, don't
be gullible, Please, don't be gullible. Man. I didn't say that.
I did not say that. I'm saying there is absolutely
no proof proved from outside he won an award ball cheating. Hello, Hello, Hello,
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what is this thing on? Can I falk? Okay? It's
been version outside of Euston by New Yorkers who I
don't know why. They didn't want to tell the truth
about where's Major League Baseball's headquarters New York? You've had
you just answer your own question. Go ahead? Oh thanks. Anyways,
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proved there's been absolutely no pros about a tub. Oh
my god. This is what you are when you are.
When you are giving me, Mike, is proved that how
easy the public is manipulated. What you're giving me is
is direct evidence that a campaign orchestrated by Major League
Baseball PR right, orchestrated by base PPR. Let's clean up
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the reputation. We want Al Tube. You know, one of
our faces of the game and all that future Hall
of Famer want to clean up his reputation, so we'll
plant some stories with useful idiots in the media and
guys like Mike and Houston will buy hook line and sinker.
I gotta let you go on that, but thank you, Mike.
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at Progressive dot com. And Dion Sanders going old school
at Colorado. He ticks over the Buffalo's program. Dion trying
every motivational trick he can use out of the old
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school playbook, the buffs head coach trying to change the
losing ways of the Pac twelve doormatt Colorado Buffalos. What
has he done well? Recently? Dion Sanders went viral he
kicked a player out of workouts for violating the dress
code by wearing white socks. He wore white socks, so
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they had to kick him out. And but wait, but wait,
there's more. During the first day of spring practice. Dion
Sanders also creating some buzz recently when he said all
of the players were going to start off with blank jerseys. Yes,
Dion said they had to earn their jersey number that
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day would be numberless and they would have to earn
their digit. Dion Sanders bringing back the old old school
prime time, which I get a kick out of because
I'm kind of old enough for I watched Dion play
and I remember Deon fought its seemingly fought against all
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of the old school ways when he was playing, but
now as he's a coach, he's bringing it all back.
He said. Quote, I am old school. I come from
the place. You gotta earn it, Dion said. He said,
when my school closed and I wanted to go shopping,
I had to get a job and work and earn that.
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That's why I appreciate those kind of things. Did you
see Dion's also been wearing a cowboy hat. He's going, Oh,
it's so good. Let's go to Andrea. And she's standing
by in Berkeley. She's got her star charts out. She's
a Benny Award winner. Andrea the astrologer. Hello Andrea, welcome,
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Hello man, how are you? If I was any better,
I'd be a buffalo, but not a Colorado Buffalo because
I wouldn't have a number because I haven't earned it yet. Well,
speaking of earned, I saw your delicious cookies on Facebook. Nice,
well done, dare well, thank you, thank you. I have
gotten into baking cookies recently, and the cooking different random things,
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and so when I have some downtime, Andrew, I like
to dabble in that. Yes, no, Taurist definitely likes you know,
good cooking and well, the main reason though, I went
out and the wife got me this like nice cookie
from I won't name the name of the place, I've
said it on my podcast, but it was like a
really nice I love. The cookie was great, but it
was like six or seven dollars, and I said, you
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gotta be kidding me for one cookie. So I'm like,
I gotta find a recipe. I gotta I gotta mimic that.
And so I found one and it tastes just as good,
and I can make it for about thirty cents per cookie.
So yeah, that's great. The Taurist likes their treats. I
have Taurist rising. I have quite a sweet too. I
go wait for May and then I'll really rise, right,
I'm waiting to them month of May. I gotta get
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through the rest of March and April, but then in
May to the moon. Yes to the moon. Well, absolutely speaking,
a Taurus al Tuve wasn't quite as lucky May six,
nineteen ninety. He has Mars and Pisces and Saturn just
went into Pisces rules of skeletal structure, bones, knees, teeth, joints,
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and Mars is your physical being your well being energetically,
so that you know, World Baseball Classic and that injury,
uh you know, to his summies out for the rest
of the season. So really Saturn Mars once every twenty
nine years. Ben, that's a tough one. So you know
that said, just wanted to share that. And on a
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happier note, happy Spring Equinox to the mallar oh is
that today we have the spring equinox tomorrow tomorrow at
twelve twenty four pm. But since on you know, talking now,
it'll be spring equinox, and I want to wish the
Malla Militia happy spring. After I celebrate that, what are
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we supposed to do? Have a cake? What do we do? Yeah,
well here's the thing, free newsletter. Just let them know.
I'd be happy to share my newsletter. And I have
all the mercury retrograde dates. And how we celebrate we
have new moon and aries the next day on Tuesday.
So aries is about fire and new beginnings. So when
we have the vernal equinox and aries, it's about new beginnings.
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It's about spring of heads, you know, and just looking
you know, leaving behind the winter. Basically, it's like spring
cleaning for your karma, spring fever, spring training, March madness.
You know, we just have this balance point between winter
solstice and summer solstice and fire sign aries. Man is
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a fresh start and a new beginning for the spring.
Out with the old and in with the new. It's
like a cosmic rebirth. Nice all right, I like that.
And Virgo and service on Twitter. Thank you, Andrea, appreciate you.
All right, I'm gonna celebrate right now. Time now for
the Insta trivia. We have Mallard of the third degree.
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Here's the Insta trivia. Blank led the NFL in performance
based pay last year, raking in an extra eight hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. Blank led the entire NFL in
what they call performance based pay last year, taking in
an extra eight hundred eighty thousand dollars in income because
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they did things they were not expected to do. That
is the Insta trivia. The answer and Mallard of the
third degree. We'll get to it. We'll do it next time.
Heytom got up? Check him for the buzzy, bottom down up.
Come on, Boydom gone real quick, check for the buzzers.
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popular Insta trivia and and way we go. Blank led
the NFL and performance based paid last year, raking in
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an extra eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. That is
the question. Filling the blank and if you know the answer.
You can sent it in via Twitter at Ben Maller
and a number of those answers coming in. Let's see here.
Cowboy Killer says it has to be the Pillsbury Doughboy
that that is the correct answer. Lance Armstrong guest by
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Oscar Ferg Dogg says mister dependible. His roommate Brian Finley.
Who else do we have? Robin Vegas going with the
big red machine cane as his answer. Scarlett Johansson from
the Dixter parody account Geno Smith tossed out by Matt
the Warrior Raider is fan mister nice guy going old
school Cleveland Indian slash California Angel George Hendrick as his answer.
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Who else do we have? Maverick says mister old school
Neon Dion anders We're going streaking Dante says Justin Tucker
is the answer. Angry Bill's Therapist guest by Surley Scott
Benny the Baker from Sean in Portland. If you want
to check out photos of the crap that I baked
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over the weekend, you can check that out on the
show Facebook page Ben Maller's Show and on the Instagram
page Ben Maller on Fox alf the Alien opiner says
new us UFC champion in the curmudgeon Division, Bill Belichick
is the answer. Jamal Williams guest by Ike and Roseville,
Minnesota page down stale student says Stormy Daniels is the answer.
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Callighan tim going with Joey Amalfatano as his answer. Late
night gear Grinder checks in with Kirby Puckett. Chip in
the Queues says Colts legendary quarterback Burt Jones is the answer.
Jonathan in Delaware got it right. Bad job by him
and Gino Smith guest by Ed from Spokane. Who's alive, Eddie?
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Do you have an answer? Eddie? I do. It's former
Houston Oilers quarterback Gifford Nielsen. Yes, Gifford Nielsen is the answer,
unless it's not the correct answer. Free safety who did
play for the Philadelphi Eagles last year, Marcus Epps. He's
now with our Raiders. Signed a free agent contract. Man
an extra eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. That's the
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program that compensates players based on their playing time in
salary levels. It's maller how about that? To the third degree,
This is one big ban gets great and we bring
in the Coop daaloop. Precent. Reports claim that Darren Waller
goes to the Raiders during the bye week, which was
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said to be one of the factors that led to
his trade to the Giants. Ben are you buying this? No,
I'm gonna sell that one. I mean, that's just bologneys.
That's a vacation week. And if you're on vacation, you
don't have to talk to your co workers. It's your
time off and all that. But if you keep it
real here, this is just some after the fact justification
because a lot of the Raider fans are upset that
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Darren Waller was a popular player. They traded him, and
so they're annoyed by that and the Raiders, you know,
you can't you have a problem. Darren Wallers sucked at
a time you cannot suck. He's been injured, he's been
unproductive for the last couple of years, and at his age,
and he's not one of the guys that's a you know,
in the tank with the coaching staff. He's not a
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foxhole guy. For Josh McDaniels, everything indicated to get rid
of him. My favorite part of the story though, is
Jimmy Garoppolo when he was with the Niners, got called
out for ghosting his teammates and coaches during off time.
So that's exactly the guy they just added at quarterback,
the guy that now they're saying, well, we got rid
of Darren Waller because of this, but now Jimmy Garoppolo
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is the same thing with the Niners. Next, coach Eric
Musselman took his last name a little too literally, pulled
his shirt off in the postgame celebration after Arkansas upset
Kansas over the weekend got Chippendale's dancer Bend Musselman go
too far here? No, I say no, this is a
memorable moment. And I remember years ago there was this
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thing called the Women's World Cup and there was a
woman named Brandy chat name. That's the only thing I
remember about that Women's World Cup. She got down to
her athletic bra and celebrated. But that was after the win.
To my knowledge, Arkansas did not win the championship with
their victory over the weekend. Beating Kansas is nice the
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defending champion, but you still have to win some more
games than all that. It's actually the third straight Sweet sixteen,
but I'm very happy, and you're not gonna get me
to trash Eric Musselman. He's a proud member of the
Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. Ten years ago, Eric Musselman
was a paid contributor at Fox Sports Radio to break
down random college and NBA games and was forced to
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talk to people like myself and Amy Van Dyken and
the other people that worked here at that time. So
I'm happy he'll never have to do that again. He's
now a maid man in college basketball, Eric Musselman. And
I'm also old enough to remember when I was a kid,
his dad was the original coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves,
So I'm happy for him, all right. Next, Yes, cooperof
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Artie Marino did his first interview in three years, saying
the Angels can't compete with baseball's biggest spenders because he
claims they can't afford to lose fifty or one hundred
million dollars a year. Yeah, Ben, what's your viewpoint on this?
Artie Marino needs to go see a doctor. He is
full of crap. Artie Marino is full of crap. The
Angels continue to be an embarrassment and that statement should
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send shivers all over the eight Angel fans left my evidence.
By the way, Cooper, you know this. The Padres who
are south of Anaheim and beautiful San Diego. Peter Seidler
is worth three billion dollars. Artie Marino has a net
worth of four billion dollars four point one billion la
OC the second biggest media market in the country. San
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Diego is number twenty eight, I believe, And so the
Padres can do it, but the Angels can't do it,
my fat ass, Artie Marino. My favorite part of that
interview with Artie Marino, though, is he admitted the Angels
are not sending their radio broadcasters on the road this year.
They're doing remote radio broadcast to save money. To save money.
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They're gonna work remotely because it's too expensive to get
hotel rooms and have a seat on the charter jet
for the Angel play by play game talk about a
minor league outfit in Anaheim masquerading is a big league team.
What a joke. You can't even afford to send the
radio guys on the road. How did we do? Couplout?
That is that when I won the game? I want
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