March 29, 2023 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Patrick Mahomes getting upset at the new Thursday Night Football policy, Ohtani becoming the highest-earning MLB player in history, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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the festivities. Here comes out of Tansall City. Well actually
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it came out of the NFL owners meetings, but indirectly
in the greater suburban area around Kansas City. That is
where the MVP of the NFL spends a lot of
his downtime. If you have not heard, maybe not the
rather benign blah quarterback Patrick Wilhomes. Not the greatest sound
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bite in the world. Good player, but he's not the
most interesting cat around. Patrick Willhomes, the Chiefs quarterback. He
is annoyed. How do we know he's annoyed? He's annoyed
with the NFL's new Thursday night football policy was announced
at the NFL shindig in Arizona that they've changed the rules,
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and Mahomes irritated. He did not hide his irritation. In fact,
he posted about it, and he found out that the
NFL will now allow I hope you're sitting down, it's
gonna blow your way. You're probably working your second or
your third job. If you're listening live. The NFL will
now allow teams to be on Thursday night football twice
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per season. Holy crap, butter Cracker Batman that previously teams
were only allowed to be on their once well. Mahomes
did not appear to appreciate the altering of the schedule,
the tweaking of the schedule. The Chiefs quarterback responding to
a post of the news with wait for it, the
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face palming emoji. Let me repeat that for those who
in the back of the room. Patrick Mahomes unloading at
the NFL big brother with the face palm emoji. Who now?
Roger Goodell then responded, Now it's a game of did
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you hear what he said? Did you hear what he said?
So the commissioner, Roger the Hammer Goodell, who's no longer
the hammer, he responded. He was asked about Patrick Mahomes
and his emoji reaction, and Goodell said, quote, I don't
think we're putting Amazon meeting the broadcast partner for Thursday
Night over our players. Goodell stated. He went on and
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said that the data or data depending on how you
learn to say that word, but the data doesn't show
higher injury rate. Goodell stated he says, I hear from
players who also love the ten days after a third
Mourday Night game. We have to try to balance all
of it. Close quote. So let us discuss the question,
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how do you explain the Patrick Mahomes face palm heard
around the NFL world. So I've got counterinsurgency, Jesus and
mini skirt, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a nice neat
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bouquet of mala monologue. So the first thing here, number one,
There we go, all right, So Patrick Mahomes believes this
is an abomination, my writer on my wrong on that.
Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? A
disgraceful act from the NFL now rather than calmly processing
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the news and doing what most of us do and
just sending angry text to co workers and complaining about
the company that you work for. No, No, he went public.
He didn't use diplomacy, he didn't use the deliberate approach
and the proper channels. There. He's in a union, not
a good union, but the NFL Players Association. Mahomes could
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have contacted the shop steward for his team there and
file the complaint with his union head. But instead, and
I thank him for this, Mahomes giving the gift of
content to blowhards and gas bags as he decided to
go with the counter insurgency. Now you might be saying,
what are you talking about? Mallard was just an emoji's
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it seems, it seems rather nonchalant. Who cares to the
untrained eye. But but Nick, no mistake, all right, no
mistakes between me and you. Here what Mahomes did here,
he weaponized the emoji. He weaponized the face palma a
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ripple effect around the NFL. As they say below the
Mason Dixon line. If Mahomes ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
You saw Roger Goodell in a reactionary stance shortly after
the quarterback of the Chiefs sent out that comment. Patrick
Mahomes does not understand the power he wields while munching
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on a water burger. Tom Brady's gone. We think he's
not coming back. Who knows. But Patrick Malholmes is the
face of the NFL, and he whatever he does right,
whatever he does that that's a story. He should be
more proactive. If he's upset with the schedule, complained to
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the people who have the power to alter the schedule,
the union that negotiates these agreements, and the by laws
of the NFL, by the way, am I the only
one that thinks this is a bad look. It's a
mild bad look for mahomes and I'm by that is.
I understand it's par for the course today, but I
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do like the mindset in my head that the great
players says, I don't care about the schedule. I don't
care if we play Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday. Who gives a crap,
will play anytime anywhere in any country against any one,
And I ain't worried about it. But instead it's like
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the face palm emoji, yeah yeah, instead of like I'm
embracing the challenge. This is great. And as far as
Goodell blowing smoke about the mini bye weeks and all that,
it's it's all about the mindset, right, It's mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it don't matter now. Secondly, so
why is the NFL making this adjustment to the Thursday
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night schedule allowing teams to play multipliers? So it's clear
and obvious this is a what we call a quality
control issue. You have to ensure that the product meets
the requirements of the customer and the client. In this case,
oh for two, Oh for two, These Thursday night games
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did not meet even a low bar of a testing standard.
If you look at the flow chart and the scattered diagram,
they're rather obvious here that change was required. The NFL
is a television show and it was producing a bad
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show week after week a dud. And I know the
tipping point. And I'm gonna tell you whom my home
should be upset with because I know exactly who is
to blame for the NFL changing the schedule. I'm about
to tell you. Are you ready for this? Here we go.
There are four people to blame. Matt Ryan, Russell Wilson,
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Carson Wentz and Justin Fields. Those are the four amigos
who you need to blame. Why that was to come
to Jesus Mama. Let's go back to October of twenty
twenty two and we had the Colts play the Broncos
in an overtime thriller that ended twelve to nine. You
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might remember Al Michael's questioning his decision to join the
Amazon broadcast team during that game. And then the following week,
in Week six, we had a classic between Carson Wentz
and Justin Fields, and in that game, the Commanders and
Bears was a twelve second final in favor of Washington.
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So that was the point of no return. You can
thank those players, you can thank those games. And as
a result, the league finally stepped in and they're like, hey,
we gotta do something about this. And you know, it's
a good thing crossed over into stupidity with those games
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back to back waits us to the NFL determined the
owners did that it's in everyone's best interest to get
rid of the flotsam and jetsam, and those are the
teams that are doing the backstroke in the sewer of
the NFL. The franchises that are not bringing the gusto.
They're not bringing the boys to the yard or the
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eyeballs to the TV. And so the NFL what they've
done here rather than just get rid of Thursday Night,
they can't do that, But they got a smooth over
the ruffled feathers at Amazon, because if it wasn't for Amazon,
the TV revenue would not be anywhere near where it
is today. It is. It has been pointed out the
prime deal has not been so primed so far. Amazon
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is in the middle of paying the NFL one hundred
billion dollars over eleven years. You heard that right, one
hundred billion. Crunching the numbers, it works out to seventy
eight million per Thursday night game, whether or not the
game's good or it's twelve nine overtime. Colts brocos, you're
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paying seventy eight million for that, whether ten people watch
or the whole village is watching. And so they were pissed.
The Amazon people were pissed. They're giving you a certain
enough dog food. And so the NFL owners decided they
don't have enough premium teams. There's a shortage on that,
there's a supply chain shortage. So they need to showcase
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the clamor teams more often. And that means Mahomes, he's
worried about the chief schedule. But really what this is
is the teams that are ratings gold, mainly the Dallas Cowboys.
The Dallas Cowboys could be playing Tiddley Winks and they'd
get a massive rating. The Steelers do very well, usually,
the Green Bay Packers do well, and there's a few others.
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A wink in a nod to the Niners and occasionally
the Patriots all right, final points. So do you believe
Roger Gonell, He says, the data doesn't show higher injury
rates on Thursday night games. So I am I'm shaking
my head no on this one. Okay. It's the method
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man approach, as in the scientific method. When they say
trust the science, I always get a little word here
because I always have to say who's behind it? Right?
The NFL data, which is scientifical data, it consists of people.
Science by itself, people disagreeing. Right, that's the whole point
of science. You disagree, you have a theory, you ask
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a question, you have a theory, you study it. Whatever.
That's science. And we do sports radio science. But there's
this thing called data manipulation, which is a high paying job.
You can see how much it pays it google it.
But there are people who are hired to manipulate the
numbers the data and always look for whoever funded, whoever's
coming up with the numbers. Right, As a wise man,
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one said, statistics are kind of like a miniskirt. They
give you a good idea, but they hide a lot
of important stuff. You don't get to see a lot
of important goodies, but you can get the kind of
the outline to see kind of idea what's there, But
you don't really know for sure. Roger Goodell knows this
to be true. The NFL, they employ high priced spin
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doctors who are like Samurais and they spin the plates around.
There's a lot of moving and shaking and noise and
lights and the whole thing. A lot of distractions, but
that's how they do it. That's how that's how they
do business. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Mister Moneybags,
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to begin our number two, the hour you're listening to
right now comes from the big leagues. There are no
more exhibition games in baseball. The regular season begins tomorrow Tomorrow,
on Thursday, the curtain goes up on the twenty twenty
three season. Optimism is in the air everywhere. Major League
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Baseball is looking for its first champion since the Atlanta
Braves one a couple of years ago, and twenty twenty
one last season we had no winner. And you've got
big money teams like the Metropolitans, the Pods squad who
have loaded up teams like the Dodgers, and the cheating
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Astros have downsized a big so some interesting times. And
with that as the backdrop, you have showhey Otani the
year of Otani in your calendar as he's making headlines.
Yeah yet again, yet again? What did he do? Now?
What did he do? Not? I tell you if you
have not heard, we learned that the do everything ballplayer
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for the team in Anaheim, Shohei Otani is about to
set a record this season. In fact, he's already done it.
Once the first pitch is thrown. Shoheiotani is going to
break the glass ceiling for money earned in a single
baseball season. Shohail Tani major League baseball player in Anaheim
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will make a big league record sixty five million dollars.
That is the news bouncing around there. That includes the
Force endorsements. The Wall Street Titans over at Forbes tell
us that the Angels star will be the highest paid
player in the sport, and it's not even close. Now.
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That amount includes the thirty million dollars he's gonna get
paid for his night job playing for the Halos. Otani
is expected to make at least at the very the
floor is thirty five million from endorsements. According to Forbes,
that is up a bunch from the last couple of years.
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The next closest, next closest ball player in terms of
endorsement dollars, you know who it is now, It's actually
Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is the next closest, and he
will put in his bank account an extra four and
a half million dollars while playing for the Yankees this season.
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So let us discuss this is a big story here,
that endorsement money. So what are your thoughts on Shohei
Ohtani making an extra thirty five million from endorsements, product
placement and all that. I've got Bubble gum smelling salts
and only fans, and we will connect all of these
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random things together and we're gonna let the good times
rain down, is what we're gonna do. So, first of all,
Shohail Tani. Right now he's going cowl bunga dude, he's
riding the wave. And we mentioned last hour in basketball,
there was a guy named Kristaps Porzinga is still playing.
He was called the unicorn. Well he wasn't really a unicorn.
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Shohei Otani is the unicorn in the age of only
do one thing, don't do too much, in the age
of specialization and being boxed income partmentalized. We know that Otani.
It's like he's in the little league, you know, and
he played little league. If you played little league and
the top player on the little league team, he was
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your pitcher, he was your top hitter, he was your
top position player. And that's Otani. You pitch one day
and then the rest of the time you're out in
the field, you're in the lineup every day. And he's
such a big deal that last year Baseball even added
a rule for Otani, the showhy Otani Rule in twenty
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twenty two, which is still in play and will likely
be in play forever, where a pitcher who starts the
game as a pitcher can stay in the game as
a hitter as the designated hitter after being pulled out
of the game as a pitcher. And Otani he's the
only guy doing this, so it was a rule for him.
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No one else is doing it right now. And Otani
is a bubble gum player double mint gum right, double
your pleasure, double your fun, and the Peri pitchman. Because
here's the thing I was thinking about this, like Otani
and why is he perfect to have you endorsed products
if you're a business he seems pretty happy, like happy,
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go lucky. He is a political You don't know Otani's
opinions on every social issue in America. He stays in
his lane. He just plays baseball. You can say, there's
reasons for that. He's not from here and in the
language and all you mean, you're on different roads. But
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it is refreshing in the age where so many athletes
who sell products are demanding the microphone to tell us
their perspective and tell us how to live our lives.
Shout out Lebron James. And when Lebron's not asked about something.
He demands Why it wasn't I asked about it. I
don't understand. You don't hear Otani doing that now. Secondly,
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how will this news of the windfall the bonanza for
Shohei Otani be taken around baseball because you know it's
being talked about. Hey, do you see that story? Do
you see that story about Otani out of Forbes? So
the way I look at this, it is a slap
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in the face to Aaron Judge, Mike Trout and the
roughly seven hundred and fifty plus I think it's up
to seven hundred and eighty players in the sport of
Baseball's baseball is facing a standing eight count in terms
of marketability. Baseball is not dying, it's not dad. Baseball
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is fine financially, but this smelling Salts Madison Avenue is
telling you your business model is not working. Here. You've
got Aaron Judge who just set the American League record
for home runs. I know it's not the steroid record,
and Bonds and McGuire and Sosa have the steroid record
and all that, but Judge has the non steroid record.
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As far as we know. And he is making now
eighty seven percent less in endorsements while playing for the
mighty New York Yankees. Blasphemy and Showhiltani getting eight times
eight times the next closest in endorsements. I understand most
of Otani's extra money is coming from baseball crazy Japan,
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and that is the number one go to pasttime in Japan.
Is baseball compared to America. Nevertheless, the playing field should
not be that lop sided. I don't buy you got
NBA stars. You've got NFL stars that are on television
all the time selling us different products. But baseball has
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a fundamental problem. Its reach is lacking in modern culture
by design. My point is a baseball slow and they're
trying to speed it up. It's by design. So I
have a solution. You got a problem, You gotta come
up with a solution. The owners, the guardians of the game,
the player should unite. Easier said than done, and go
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away from the regional model and become more of a
legitimate national sport, which it used to be. They went
away from that. The proper marketing. You can do it,
savvy pr you can change perspectives. It happens. It happens quickly,
and you can bird dog those other sports. Major League
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Baseball is starting to do some of that. If you
have noticed, there are some obvious things that baseball is
doing now that they never would have done before. It
is an effort to try to become more of a
national sport. For example, they have manufactured social media events
they've choreographed. Last week, we had the announcement. I think
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it was on Friday of last week they announced, maybe
it was Thursday. They announced everyone's starting pitcher pitcher opening
day the same day, Teda, here you are, here's our
starting pitcher, even though most of the pitchers were already
known because of the way the rotations went in spring training. Also,
you might have seen some of this online if you
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follow baseball online. The candid camera shots of baseball players
being added to the big league roster, players that were
on the bubble to be sent to the minor leagues,
and they put the hidden camera candid camera in the
manager's office and they tell the player, you're getting called
up to the big leagues. You made the team, and
then that goes viral. All right, final five So does
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this indorsement money sixty five million? But thirty five million
endorsements for Otani. Thirty five million indorsements. Does the endorsement
money change Shohei Otani's future plans? And I am nodding
my head, Yes, I am. This is massive. And here's
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why Otani is not beholden to his corporate overlords at
Major Baseball. He's a masked this massive wealth playing in
sleepy Anaheim. Bad Team Man, bad f and team. It's
not a popular baseball team. It's a team that hasn't
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made the playoffs. They have the longest drought active in
professional baseball. Otani's never played a playoff game in the
major leagues. And here he is raking in thirty five
million dollars and he'll be making even more, even more
from that his side hustle than his main gig. He's
major League Baseball's only fans model, raking in massive amounts
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of money independently from baseball with a smile and a wink.
And he's not even wearing his birthday suit. He's not
even shaking but dunka duncan and so, but it's wild.
He just holds up products like he's an old NASCAR
driver from back in the day. It's a game change.
So what that means is that Otani, who likes the
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quiet life and an time appears to like the quiet life,
he does not need to play for one of the
cool kids in baseball. He doesn't know. You can get
a lot of money, even more money from the Yankees,
of the Dodgers, of the Red Sox or something like that.
But right now, again, he's playing on a team that's
not that good in a place that doesn't really pay
that much attention to him, and he's making all this money.
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I know it's from Japan, but he can make that
money in Japan anywhere in the big leagues. And so
that means Otani would open it up to some other
teams like on the West Coast of Mariners, the Giants,
teams like that, and you get all that extra frosting
you don't need. You don't need to worry as much
about the contract you're gonna get from the big league
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team unless it's all pure greed, which you can't underestimate.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna vote in the direction that
this endorsement money so big. This is NBA star like,
this is NFL starting quarterback, like for Otani, very unusual
for professional baseball in the United States these days to
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have that, and so that does alter the scales in
favor of Otani. And just like you do whatever he wants,
they don't care. It's like the contract's nice and it's
hard to turn down and extra five hundred million dollars.
But at the same time, you got all that money
coming in from banks, from sporting good companies and memorabilia companies,
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and you name it, and he's gonna sell it. Be
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third degree. This is one big band gets grilled despite
signing Jimmy Garoppolo. Josh McDaniel said on Monday that the
Raiders aren't ruling out drafting a quarterback in the first
round of the draft. Ben if you were a Raiders fan,
would you want them to take a quarterback in the
first round? Well, yeah, because Jimmy Garoppolo. It's kind of
like you have an injury. You put a band aid on,
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and he'll play well. When he plays, he'll get hurt.
But you know what happens when you leave a bandage
on for too long. It actually slows the healing process
and you encourage an infection. I would like to see
Will Levis in Raider Land, the guy that eats bananas
without taking the skin off and Mayo and his coffee.
I'd like to see that guy with the Raiders next.
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Last week, he gave him monologue saying that you didn't
think Damian Lillard should be shut down for the rest
of the season. Right then two days ago it was
reported that Lillard will likely be shut down for the
rest of the season, and it's now being reported that
it traded this offseason. Is likely Ben, where's your favorite
spot for Lillard to land? So this is obviously we
had a guy from Portland call up the other night,
and I'm doubling down on my take. Boston. The Celtics
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have a disgruntled player in Jalen Brown. The Celtics are
a heavyweight in the Eastern Conference, so Brown wants out
of the Commonwealth. He can go across over on the
Oregon Trail off to the Blazers. Lillard can go back
to Boston and team up with Jason Tatum. It just
makes way too much sense. And I'm pretty confident Portland
does not want Lillard to haunt them in the Western Conference,
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so send him to Eastern Conference Miami, Boston, New York.
But I say the Celtics are the favorite next. Andy
Reid again reiterated that he has no desire to retire,
but he's taking it year by year. Ben Pete Carroll's
the NFL's oldest coach at seventy one, will be seventy
two when the season starts. Do you think Andy Reid
makes it to seventy as a coach? Not? Well, that's
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the first thing you gotta make is say sixty five
right now? You know he worked as an usher at
Dodger Stadium when he was in high school. Wow, that's
a fun fact about Andy Reid. I'm pulling for Andy. Yeah. Well,
he's got no hobbies. He's like Belichick, he's got nothing
else going on. Why not? He could end up in
the top three all time. He's he's fifth right now
and wins, and he's closing in on the top four.
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So why not go for it? How do we do
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Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, Password
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the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Miller and away.
We got his password, the word Game of the Stars,
each and every weekend about this time. If you like it,
if you don't like it, we only play it once
a week, so who the heck cares. Let's welcome in
our contestants for this edition of Password the word Game
of starts. We welcome in. Let's see hear any meany
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mighty mo. We have unassisted in Washington. Hello, unassisted welcome in, unassisted?
How you doing this morning? Where you headed down on
Partland show? I got you? Are you gonna be able
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to the phone? Gonna stick up? You're gonna be able
to do this? The connection strong enough there for you? Unassisted?
I don't know. Okay, what do you think here? We
think we should gamble with this or go somewhere else?
What do you think here, Coop? I mean it's the
connection sounds fine. He's just on speakerphone or bluetooth or whatever.
All right, all right, we'll give it a shot on
this hold honest, unassisted, And we have someone who's played
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before for in Pennsylvania. We'll call him Chief Richard. Hello, Chief,
Good morning, Ben, welcome back, Chief. Are you ready to
go here? Sir? I'm ready? Ben. How's life for the Chief?
Oh it's very good? How about you? Oh? Living the dream?
Come on? What are you talking about here? Please? Did
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you just hear we had Marcel and Blair head to
head a couple of legends? I've been listening. Yeah, all right, Chief,
Hold on a sec. Let's go back to un assistant. Unassistant,
who would you like to partner up with? On password?
The word Game of the Stars A better goal with
the loop suit. All right, good, you pick Cooper loop.
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Very good, Hold on a sec, Chief Richard, who would
you like to partner up with their chief? Everybody wants
to play with the winner, So I'm gonna play with you, Ben.
That's right, all right, all right, we'll play. I will
be your teammate here, Chief Richard, and I need the words.
As soon as I get the words, we'll play the
game and then we'll have an amazing time. It's gonna
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be great. We have a list of words. I don't
even know them, one to ten, and then whoever takes
a number, well, there's a word associated with that number,
and so we'll get started unassisted. Please pick a number
I had. Now have the list of words. Go ahead on, assistant. Yeah,
you're stealing my material, how dare you? That's all right?
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Go ahead, Coop. Number one is the word, and we
are trying to find the mystery word. Thus it's called
password the word Game of the Stars. Um, let's go, um,
come on, chop, chop, come on, trick, Oh Jad, what
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do you say? I have no idea? What do you say? Oh? Game? Game? No? No, no, no,
how about Chief, let's go with gag Chief, Yeah, I'm here. Yeah,
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this is the part you got to answer there? Yeah,
what do you think? Come on? Oh boy, all right,
he's got nothing. What do you say? No, no, cheese,
I'll go ahead back to you, Coople little, it's past
word the word Game of the stars, I got unassisted.
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And then my guy, Chief, let's go with joke stut
no no, oh boy, that was a good it was
a good guests. Huh, let's see here, I'm trying to think. Uh,
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I can't do that. How about let's go with hoax hoax?
What's your name? What is it? Hoax? H o a
X hoax? Oh, drama's building is? Will we get one
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word right now? All right, Chief, you're over two and
Coope one more? You want to give it one more shot?
Let's go with um yeah, antick? Oh what did you say?
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What do you say? No? No, no, no, that's not right.
Hold what do you mean he'd say? He didn't say
he didn't say it. What do you needn say it?
What did you what are you say anything else? I
did not say the word I assisted. What are you saying?
I should say? Spell it for us? Yea, yeah, he
didn't say it. You guys, get him the point. No,
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your connection does suck. M But why don't we throw
the word out? It's prank. The prank a gag of hoax.
It's a prank. All right, let's go to you, chief,
pick a number two to ten? Please? Oh boy? All right, Uh,
let's go with let's see here. I think I don't
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know if I can use that. Uh, let's see that.
I don't know if I can use the word I
want to use, but I don't think that's a different word.
So how about I see it's got it in it
so I can't do it? How about U? Settler? Settler?
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Bad food? Go ahead, Chief, go ahead? What is it? Settler?
Se t t l e R settler? Oh this is
going well, I'm glad we leave, we leave? No, go ahead? Cool,
all right, let's go with a traveler. Yeah here, no, no,
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how about uh asylum? What the hell anything? Chief? Asylum?
No settler? Crazy? No? Oh my god, we pitched a
shut out here. This is amazing vagrant. No. Yeah, yeah,
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that's a winner. That's the buzzer. Now the game was
I ended the game. That's a winner. But I ended
the game, so the game ended on that. I ended
the game and the game's over, so
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the festivities. Here comes out of Tansall City. Well actually
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it came out of the NFL owners meetings, but indirectly
in the greater suburban area around Kansas City. That is
where the MVP of the NFL spends a lot of
his downtime. If you have not heard, maybe not the
rather benign blah quarterback Patrick Wilhomes. Not the greatest sound
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bite in the world. Good player, but he's not the
most interesting cat around. Patrick Willhomes, the Chiefs quarterback. He
is annoyed. How do we know he's annoyed? He's annoyed
with the NFL's new Thursday night football policy was announced
at the NFL shindig in Arizona that they've changed the rules,
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and Mahomes irritated. He did not hide his irritation. In fact,
he posted about it, and he found out that the
NFL will now allow I hope you're sitting down, it's
gonna blow your way. You're probably working your second or
your third job. If you're listening live. The NFL will
now allow teams to be on Thursday night football twice
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per season. Holy crap, butter Cracker Batman that previously teams
were only allowed to be on their once well. Mahomes
did not appear to appreciate the altering of the schedule,
the tweaking of the schedule. The Chiefs quarterback responding to
a post of the news with wait for it, the
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face palming emoji. Let me repeat that for those who
in the back of the room. Patrick Mahomes unloading at
the NFL big brother with the face palm emoji. Who now?
Roger Goodell then responded, Now it's a game of did
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you hear what he said? Did you hear what he said?
So the commissioner, Roger the Hammer Goodell, who's no longer
the hammer, he responded. He was asked about Patrick Mahomes
and his emoji reaction, and Goodell said, quote, I don't
think we're putting Amazon meeting the broadcast partner for Thursday
Night over our players. Goodell stated. He went on and
(03:44):
said that the data or data depending on how you
learn to say that word, but the data doesn't show
higher injury rate. Goodell stated he says, I hear from
players who also love the ten days after a third
Mourday Night game. We have to try to balance all
of it. Close quote. So let us discuss the question,
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how do you explain the Patrick Mahomes face palm heard
around the NFL world. So I've got counterinsurgency, Jesus and
mini skirt, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a nice neat
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bouquet of mala monologue. So the first thing here, number one,
There we go, all right, So Patrick Mahomes believes this
is an abomination, my writer on my wrong on that.
Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? A
disgraceful act from the NFL now rather than calmly processing
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the news and doing what most of us do and
just sending angry text to co workers and complaining about
the company that you work for. No, No, he went public.
He didn't use diplomacy, he didn't use the deliberate approach
and the proper channels. There. He's in a union, not
a good union, but the NFL Players Association. Mahomes could
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have contacted the shop steward for his team there and
file the complaint with his union head. But instead, and
I thank him for this, Mahomes giving the gift of
content to blowhards and gas bags as he decided to
go with the counter insurgency. Now you might be saying,
what are you talking about? Mallard was just an emoji's
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it seems, it seems rather nonchalant. Who cares to the
untrained eye. But but Nick, no mistake, all right, no
mistakes between me and you. Here what Mahomes did here,
he weaponized the emoji. He weaponized the face palma a
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ripple effect around the NFL. As they say below the
Mason Dixon line. If Mahomes ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
You saw Roger Goodell in a reactionary stance shortly after
the quarterback of the Chiefs sent out that comment. Patrick
Mahomes does not understand the power he wields while munching
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on a water burger. Tom Brady's gone. We think he's
not coming back. Who knows. But Patrick Malholmes is the
face of the NFL, and he whatever he does right,
whatever he does that that's a story. He should be
more proactive. If he's upset with the schedule, complained to
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the people who have the power to alter the schedule,
the union that negotiates these agreements, and the by laws
of the NFL, by the way, am I the only
one that thinks this is a bad look. It's a
mild bad look for mahomes and I'm by that is.
I understand it's par for the course today, but I
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do like the mindset in my head that the great
players says, I don't care about the schedule. I don't
care if we play Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday. Who gives a crap,
will play anytime anywhere in any country against any one,
And I ain't worried about it. But instead it's like
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the face palm emoji, yeah yeah, instead of like I'm
embracing the challenge. This is great. And as far as
Goodell blowing smoke about the mini bye weeks and all that,
it's it's all about the mindset, right, It's mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it don't matter now. Secondly, so
why is the NFL making this adjustment to the Thursday
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night schedule allowing teams to play multipliers? So it's clear
and obvious this is a what we call a quality
control issue. You have to ensure that the product meets
the requirements of the customer and the client. In this case,
oh for two, Oh for two, These Thursday night games
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did not meet even a low bar of a testing standard.
If you look at the flow chart and the scattered diagram,
they're rather obvious here that change was required. The NFL
is a television show and it was producing a bad
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show week after week a dud. And I know the
tipping point. And I'm gonna tell you whom my home
should be upset with because I know exactly who is
to blame for the NFL changing the schedule. I'm about
to tell you. Are you ready for this? Here we go.
There are four people to blame. Matt Ryan, Russell Wilson,
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Carson Wentz and Justin Fields. Those are the four amigos
who you need to blame. Why that was to come
to Jesus Mama. Let's go back to October of twenty
twenty two and we had the Colts play the Broncos
in an overtime thriller that ended twelve to nine. You
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might remember Al Michael's questioning his decision to join the
Amazon broadcast team during that game. And then the following week,
in Week six, we had a classic between Carson Wentz
and Justin Fields, and in that game, the Commanders and
Bears was a twelve second final in favor of Washington.
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So that was the point of no return. You can
thank those players, you can thank those games. And as
a result, the league finally stepped in and they're like, hey,
we gotta do something about this. And you know, it's
a good thing crossed over into stupidity with those games
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back to back waits us to the NFL determined the
owners did that it's in everyone's best interest to get
rid of the flotsam and jetsam, and those are the
teams that are doing the backstroke in the sewer of
the NFL. The franchises that are not bringing the gusto.
They're not bringing the boys to the yard or the
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eyeballs to the TV. And so the NFL what they've
done here rather than just get rid of Thursday Night,
they can't do that, But they got a smooth over
the ruffled feathers at Amazon, because if it wasn't for Amazon,
the TV revenue would not be anywhere near where it
is today. It is. It has been pointed out the
prime deal has not been so primed so far. Amazon
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is in the middle of paying the NFL one hundred
billion dollars over eleven years. You heard that right, one
hundred billion. Crunching the numbers, it works out to seventy
eight million per Thursday night game, whether or not the
game's good or it's twelve nine overtime. Colts brocos, you're
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paying seventy eight million for that, whether ten people watch
or the whole village is watching. And so they were pissed.
The Amazon people were pissed. They're giving you a certain
enough dog food. And so the NFL owners decided they
don't have enough premium teams. There's a shortage on that,
there's a supply chain shortage. So they need to showcase
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the clamor teams more often. And that means Mahomes, he's
worried about the chief schedule. But really what this is
is the teams that are ratings gold, mainly the Dallas Cowboys.
The Dallas Cowboys could be playing Tiddley Winks and they'd
get a massive rating. The Steelers do very well, usually,
the Green Bay Packers do well, and there's a few others.
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A wink in a nod to the Niners and occasionally
the Patriots all right, final points. So do you believe
Roger Gonell, He says, the data doesn't show higher injury
rates on Thursday night games. So I am I'm shaking
my head no on this one. Okay. It's the method
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man approach, as in the scientific method. When they say
trust the science, I always get a little word here
because I always have to say who's behind it? Right?
The NFL data, which is scientifical data, it consists of people.
Science by itself, people disagreeing. Right, that's the whole point
of science. You disagree, you have a theory, you ask
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a question, you have a theory, you study it. Whatever.
That's science. And we do sports radio science. But there's
this thing called data manipulation, which is a high paying job.
You can see how much it pays it google it.
But there are people who are hired to manipulate the
numbers the data and always look for whoever funded, whoever's
coming up with the numbers. Right, As a wise man,
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one said, statistics are kind of like a miniskirt. They
give you a good idea, but they hide a lot
of important stuff. You don't get to see a lot
of important goodies, but you can get the kind of
the outline to see kind of idea what's there, But
you don't really know for sure. Roger Goodell knows this
to be true. The NFL, they employ high priced spin
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doctors who are like Samurais and they spin the plates around.
There's a lot of moving and shaking and noise and
lights and the whole thing. A lot of distractions, but
that's how they do it. That's how that's how they
do business. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
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to begin our number two, the hour you're listening to
right now comes from the big leagues. There are no
more exhibition games in baseball. The regular season begins tomorrow Tomorrow,
on Thursday, the curtain goes up on the twenty twenty
three season. Optimism is in the air everywhere. Major League
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Baseball is looking for its first champion since the Atlanta
Braves one a couple of years ago, and twenty twenty
one last season we had no winner. And you've got
big money teams like the Metropolitans, the Pods squad who
have loaded up teams like the Dodgers, and the cheating
(15:11):
Astros have downsized a big so some interesting times. And
with that as the backdrop, you have showhey Otani the
year of Otani in your calendar as he's making headlines.
Yeah yet again, yet again? What did he do? Now?
What did he do? Not? I tell you if you
have not heard, we learned that the do everything ballplayer
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for the team in Anaheim, Shohei Otani is about to
set a record this season. In fact, he's already done it.
Once the first pitch is thrown. Shoheiotani is going to
break the glass ceiling for money earned in a single
baseball season. Shohail Tani major League baseball player in Anaheim
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will make a big league record sixty five million dollars.
That is the news bouncing around there. That includes the
Force endorsements. The Wall Street Titans over at Forbes tell
us that the Angels star will be the highest paid
player in the sport, and it's not even close. Now.
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That amount includes the thirty million dollars he's gonna get
paid for his night job playing for the Halos. Otani
is expected to make at least at the very the
floor is thirty five million from endorsements. According to Forbes,
that is up a bunch from the last couple of years.
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The next closest, next closest ball player in terms of
endorsement dollars, you know who it is now, It's actually
Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is the next closest, and he
will put in his bank account an extra four and
a half million dollars while playing for the Yankees this season.
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So let us discuss this is a big story here,
that endorsement money. So what are your thoughts on Shohei
Ohtani making an extra thirty five million from endorsements, product
placement and all that. I've got Bubble gum smelling salts
and only fans, and we will connect all of these
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random things together and we're gonna let the good times
rain down, is what we're gonna do. So, first of all,
Shohail Tani. Right now he's going cowl bunga dude, he's
riding the wave. And we mentioned last hour in basketball,
there was a guy named Kristaps Porzinga is still playing.
He was called the unicorn. Well he wasn't really a unicorn.
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Shohei Otani is the unicorn in the age of only
do one thing, don't do too much, in the age
of specialization and being boxed income partmentalized. We know that Otani.
It's like he's in the little league, you know, and
he played little league. If you played little league and
the top player on the little league team, he was
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your pitcher, he was your top hitter, he was your
top position player. And that's Otani. You pitch one day
and then the rest of the time you're out in
the field, you're in the lineup every day. And he's
such a big deal that last year Baseball even added
a rule for Otani, the showhy Otani Rule in twenty
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twenty two, which is still in play and will likely
be in play forever, where a pitcher who starts the
game as a pitcher can stay in the game as
a hitter as the designated hitter after being pulled out
of the game as a pitcher. And Otani he's the
only guy doing this, so it was a rule for him.
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No one else is doing it right now. And Otani
is a bubble gum player double mint gum right, double
your pleasure, double your fun, and the Peri pitchman. Because
here's the thing I was thinking about this, like Otani
and why is he perfect to have you endorsed products
if you're a business he seems pretty happy, like happy,
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go lucky. He is a political You don't know Otani's
opinions on every social issue in America. He stays in
his lane. He just plays baseball. You can say, there's
reasons for that. He's not from here and in the
language and all you mean, you're on different roads. But
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it is refreshing in the age where so many athletes
who sell products are demanding the microphone to tell us
their perspective and tell us how to live our lives.
Shout out Lebron James. And when Lebron's not asked about something.
He demands Why it wasn't I asked about it. I
don't understand. You don't hear Otani doing that now. Secondly,
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how will this news of the windfall the bonanza for
Shohei Otani be taken around baseball because you know it's
being talked about. Hey, do you see that story? Do
you see that story about Otani out of Forbes? So
the way I look at this, it is a slap
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in the face to Aaron Judge, Mike Trout and the
roughly seven hundred and fifty plus I think it's up
to seven hundred and eighty players in the sport of
Baseball's baseball is facing a standing eight count in terms
of marketability. Baseball is not dying, it's not dad. Baseball
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is fine financially, but this smelling Salts Madison Avenue is
telling you your business model is not working. Here. You've
got Aaron Judge who just set the American League record
for home runs. I know it's not the steroid record,
and Bonds and McGuire and Sosa have the steroid record
and all that, but Judge has the non steroid record.
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As far as we know. And he is making now
eighty seven percent less in endorsements while playing for the
mighty New York Yankees. Blasphemy and Showhiltani getting eight times
eight times the next closest in endorsements. I understand most
of Otani's extra money is coming from baseball crazy Japan,
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and that is the number one go to pasttime in Japan.
Is baseball compared to America. Nevertheless, the playing field should
not be that lop sided. I don't buy you got
NBA stars. You've got NFL stars that are on television
all the time selling us different products. But baseball has
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a fundamental problem. Its reach is lacking in modern culture
by design. My point is a baseball slow and they're
trying to speed it up. It's by design. So I
have a solution. You got a problem, You gotta come
up with a solution. The owners, the guardians of the game,
the player should unite. Easier said than done, and go
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away from the regional model and become more of a
legitimate national sport, which it used to be. They went
away from that. The proper marketing. You can do it,
savvy pr you can change perspectives. It happens. It happens quickly,
and you can bird dog those other sports. Major League
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Baseball is starting to do some of that. If you
have noticed, there are some obvious things that baseball is
doing now that they never would have done before. It
is an effort to try to become more of a
national sport. For example, they have manufactured social media events
they've choreographed. Last week, we had the announcement. I think
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it was on Friday of last week they announced, maybe
it was Thursday. They announced everyone's starting pitcher pitcher opening
day the same day, Teda, here you are, here's our
starting pitcher, even though most of the pitchers were already
known because of the way the rotations went in spring training. Also,
you might have seen some of this online if you
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follow baseball online. The candid camera shots of baseball players
being added to the big league roster, players that were
on the bubble to be sent to the minor leagues,
and they put the hidden camera candid camera in the
manager's office and they tell the player, you're getting called
up to the big leagues. You made the team, and
then that goes viral. All right, final five So does
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this indorsement money sixty five million? But thirty five million
endorsements for Otani. Thirty five million indorsements. Does the endorsement
money change Shohei Otani's future plans? And I am nodding
my head, Yes, I am. This is massive. And here's
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why Otani is not beholden to his corporate overlords at
Major Baseball. He's a masked this massive wealth playing in
sleepy Anaheim. Bad Team Man, bad f and team. It's
not a popular baseball team. It's a team that hasn't
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made the playoffs. They have the longest drought active in
professional baseball. Otani's never played a playoff game in the
major leagues. And here he is raking in thirty five
million dollars and he'll be making even more, even more
from that his side hustle than his main gig. He's
major League Baseball's only fans model, raking in massive amounts
(24:37):
of money independently from baseball with a smile and a wink.
And he's not even wearing his birthday suit. He's not
even shaking but dunka duncan and so, but it's wild.
He just holds up products like he's an old NASCAR
driver from back in the day. It's a game change.
So what that means is that Otani, who likes the
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quiet life and an time appears to like the quiet life,
he does not need to play for one of the
cool kids in baseball. He doesn't know. You can get
a lot of money, even more money from the Yankees,
of the Dodgers, of the Red Sox or something like that.
But right now, again, he's playing on a team that's
not that good in a place that doesn't really pay
that much attention to him, and he's making all this money.
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I know it's from Japan, but he can make that
money in Japan anywhere in the big leagues. And so
that means Otani would open it up to some other
teams like on the West Coast of Mariners, the Giants,
teams like that, and you get all that extra frosting
you don't need. You don't need to worry as much
about the contract you're gonna get from the big league
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team unless it's all pure greed, which you can't underestimate.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna vote in the direction that
this endorsement money so big. This is NBA star like,
this is NFL starting quarterback, like for Otani, very unusual
for professional baseball in the United States these days to
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have that, and so that does alter the scales in
favor of Otani. And just like you do whatever he wants,
they don't care. It's like the contract's nice and it's
hard to turn down and extra five hundred million dollars.
But at the same time, you got all that money
coming in from banks, from sporting good companies and memorabilia companies,
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and you name it, and he's gonna sell it. Be
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Well you don't know is for my entire life. I
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third degree. This is one big band gets grilled despite
signing Jimmy Garoppolo. Josh McDaniel said on Monday that the
Raiders aren't ruling out drafting a quarterback in the first
round of the draft. Ben if you were a Raiders fan,
would you want them to take a quarterback in the
first round? Well, yeah, because Jimmy Garoppolo. It's kind of
like you have an injury. You put a band aid on,
(27:33):
and he'll play well. When he plays, he'll get hurt.
But you know what happens when you leave a bandage
on for too long. It actually slows the healing process
and you encourage an infection. I would like to see
Will Levis in Raider Land, the guy that eats bananas
without taking the skin off and Mayo and his coffee.
I'd like to see that guy with the Raiders next.
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Last week, he gave him monologue saying that you didn't
think Damian Lillard should be shut down for the rest
of the season. Right then two days ago it was
reported that Lillard will likely be shut down for the
rest of the season, and it's now being reported that
it traded this offseason. Is likely Ben, where's your favorite
spot for Lillard to land? So this is obviously we
had a guy from Portland call up the other night,
and I'm doubling down on my take. Boston. The Celtics
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have a disgruntled player in Jalen Brown. The Celtics are
a heavyweight in the Eastern Conference, so Brown wants out
of the Commonwealth. He can go across over on the
Oregon Trail off to the Blazers. Lillard can go back
to Boston and team up with Jason Tatum. It just
makes way too much sense. And I'm pretty confident Portland
does not want Lillard to haunt them in the Western Conference,
(28:41):
so send him to Eastern Conference Miami, Boston, New York.
But I say the Celtics are the favorite next. Andy
Reid again reiterated that he has no desire to retire,
but he's taking it year by year. Ben Pete Carroll's
the NFL's oldest coach at seventy one, will be seventy
two when the season starts. Do you think Andy Reid
makes it to seventy as a coach? Not? Well, that's
(29:04):
the first thing you gotta make is say sixty five
right now? You know he worked as an usher at
Dodger Stadium when he was in high school. Wow, that's
a fun fact about Andy Reid. I'm pulling for Andy. Yeah. Well,
he's got no hobbies. He's like Belichick, he's got nothing
else going on. Why not? He could end up in
the top three all time. He's he's fifth right now
and wins, and he's closing in on the top four.
(29:25):
So why not go for it? How do we do
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Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, Password
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the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Miller and away.
We got his password, the word Game of the Stars,
each and every weekend about this time. If you like it,
if you don't like it, we only play it once
a week, so who the heck cares. Let's welcome in
our contestants for this edition of Password the word Game
of starts. We welcome in. Let's see hear any meany
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mighty mo. We have unassisted in Washington. Hello, unassisted welcome in, unassisted?
How you doing this morning? Where you headed down on
Partland show? I got you? Are you gonna be able
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to the phone? Gonna stick up? You're gonna be able
to do this? The connection strong enough there for you? Unassisted?
I don't know. Okay, what do you think here? We
think we should gamble with this or go somewhere else?
What do you think here, Coop? I mean it's the
connection sounds fine. He's just on speakerphone or bluetooth or whatever.
All right, all right, we'll give it a shot on
this hold honest, unassisted, And we have someone who's played
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before for in Pennsylvania. We'll call him Chief Richard. Hello, Chief,
Good morning, Ben, welcome back, Chief. Are you ready to
go here? Sir? I'm ready? Ben. How's life for the Chief?
Oh it's very good? How about you? Oh? Living the dream?
Come on? What are you talking about here? Please? Did
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you just hear we had Marcel and Blair head to
head a couple of legends? I've been listening. Yeah, all right, Chief,
Hold on a sec. Let's go back to un assistant. Unassistant,
who would you like to partner up with? On password?
The word Game of the Stars A better goal with
the loop suit. All right, good, you pick Cooper loop.
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Very good, Hold on a sec, Chief Richard, who would
you like to partner up with their chief? Everybody wants
to play with the winner, So I'm gonna play with you, Ben.
That's right, all right, all right, we'll play. I will
be your teammate here, Chief Richard, and I need the words.
As soon as I get the words, we'll play the
game and then we'll have an amazing time. It's gonna
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be great. We have a list of words. I don't
even know them, one to ten, and then whoever takes
a number, well, there's a word associated with that number,
and so we'll get started unassisted. Please pick a number
I had. Now have the list of words. Go ahead on, assistant. Yeah,
you're stealing my material, how dare you? That's all right?
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Go ahead, Coop. Number one is the word, and we
are trying to find the mystery word. Thus it's called
password the word Game of the Stars. Um, let's go, um,
come on, chop, chop, come on, trick, Oh Jad, what
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do you say? I have no idea? What do you say? Oh? Game? Game? No? No, no, no,
how about Chief, let's go with gag Chief, Yeah, I'm here. Yeah,
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this is the part you got to answer there? Yeah,
what do you think? Come on? Oh boy, all right,
he's got nothing. What do you say? No, no, cheese,
I'll go ahead back to you, Coople little, it's past
word the word Game of the stars, I got unassisted.
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And then my guy, Chief, let's go with joke stut
no no, oh boy, that was a good it was
a good guests. Huh, let's see here, I'm trying to think. Uh,
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I can't do that. How about let's go with hoax hoax?
What's your name? What is it? Hoax? H o a
X hoax? Oh, drama's building is? Will we get one
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word right now? All right, Chief, you're over two and
Coope one more? You want to give it one more shot?
Let's go with um yeah, antick? Oh what did you say?
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What do you say? No? No, no, no, that's not right.
Hold what do you mean he'd say? He didn't say
he didn't say it. What do you needn say it?
What did you what are you say anything else? I
did not say the word I assisted. What are you saying?
I should say? Spell it for us? Yea, yeah, he
didn't say it. You guys, get him the point. No,
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your connection does suck. M But why don't we throw
the word out? It's prank. The prank a gag of hoax.
It's a prank. All right, let's go to you, chief,
pick a number two to ten? Please? Oh boy? All right, Uh,
let's go with let's see here. I think I don't
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know if I can use that. Uh, let's see that.
I don't know if I can use the word I
want to use, but I don't think that's a different word.
So how about I see it's got it in it
so I can't do it? How about U? Settler? Settler?
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Bad food? Go ahead, Chief, go ahead? What is it? Settler?
Se t t l e R settler? Oh this is
going well, I'm glad we leave, we leave? No, go ahead? Cool,
all right, let's go with a traveler. Yeah here, no, no,
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how about uh asylum? What the hell anything? Chief? Asylum?
No settler? Crazy? No? Oh my god, we pitched a
shut out here. This is amazing vagrant. No. Yeah, yeah,
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that's a winner. That's the buzzer. Now the game was
I ended the game. That's a winner. But I ended
the game, so the game ended on that. I ended
the game and the game's over, so
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