March 31, 2023 • 36 mins
Big Ben breaks down all the top stories from MLB's Opening Day including the debut of the pitch clock era, Justin Verlander landing on the IL for the New York Mets, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and much more!
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The twenty twenty three regular season got underway in professional baseball.
All thirty big league teams. We're in action. I don't
know how much of this you watched. Perhaps none of it.
Maybe you watched a couple of games. Maybe you watched
five minutes of one game. It started out with a
bang as Aaron Judge at the first home run of
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the new season. The Yankees had an advantage hitting the
first time run. They were playing one of the two
very early games to start the festivities. It was the
Yankees and Giants in the Bronx and had the Atlanta
Braves and the Nationals. The other game that started very
early and compared to all the other games, so we
had action into the late television window on the West coast,
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including the Angels, who have three players making more than
the entire Athletics roster, but somehow managed to lose in
Oakland in their opening But there's a lot to talk about,
lot to unpack, so let us discuss the question here,
what are you going to remember from opening Day twenty
twenty three? So I've got Clydesdale Elementary School and elevator music,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are gonna make a soft pretzel with some gooey
neon cheese sauce on the side. So hey, to answer
the question, what are you going to remember from opening Day?
I'm gonna remember a lot right now, But if you
ask me a month from now, probably nothing. Probably nothing.
But right now, since the question is being asked, we
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do the show now. I loved having a full menu card.
Stayed up to watch the start of the baseball season
the Higantes and the Yankees and watched Aaron Judge at
the home run So that was the beginning. Slept a
little bit, woke up. There was more baseball on, but
that was an act of Arson, as John Hayman would say,
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by Aaron Judge there, I guess his old team, the Giants.
Remember there was one night Aaron Judge but an hour
and a half was a giant, and then he was
no longer a giant. I'm sure John Hayman was very proud.
But Aaron Judge continues to be my favorite player to watch.
I'm not a Yankee fan. My niece is a Yankee fan.
That doesn't really count. They's just from New York. I
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think she just likes the hat because it's trendy still,
but regardless, Aaron Judge. You know why I enjoy watching
Aaron Judge play. I've seen him playing in person a
few times every years. Aaron Judge reminds me of a
young Moneyball Maller back in the day, bigger than all
the other kids. Looks like a glitch when you watch
Aaron Judge play. There's some players that look like a
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glitch because they're so small, but Aaron Judge is the opposite.
And baseball is a sport that is a sport of
miniature ponies, little show ponies, and Aaron Judge is built
like a Clydesdale playing baseball. So it was it was
cool to see that. I was excited to see the
Chicago White Sox takedown a little piece of the Berlin Wall,
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the wall of cheating the Stros. How pathetic was that
they they think they actually won the World Series last year.
We'll someone let the Astrils know nobody won the World
Series last year, cause somebody let them know that that
didn't count because they had a bunch of cheaters still
in the team. Let them know if you're able to
get a hold of them. And as you know on
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this show, I support the Dodgers and whoever is playing
the a holes. Those are my favorite teams. So a
very nice start to the baseball season. See Houston a
loose staying in Texas debut, the maiden voyage of Jacob deGrom,
the greatest pitcher the Mets have had in years, and
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he left to go play deep in the heart attackas
he made his Rangers debut in a slug us. We
had a couple of high scoring games Rangers and Phillies,
the Blue Jays and the Cardinals. But the Phillies Rangers game,
How did de gram pitch saw the game? You know?
But if not, don't ask. Dick Ram was like an
Italian chef. There he was cooking up meat balls, and
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just right down, right down in the middle there he
threw seventy three pitches, gave up six hits and five
earned runs in three and two thirds any so that
works out to an era of over twelve after one start.
Nice beginning, great opening act there for the one hundred
eighty five million dollars ace in Arlington. Also good to
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see the Dodgers pick up where they left off. Always
fun to beat up on the ugly redheaded step children
in the nationally West. The Arizona Diamondbacks bludgeoned by the
Dodgers as Roberto's picked to click my guy. Roberto loves
James Outman, his new favorite Dodger, and he was balling
there at Chavez Ravine for the Dodgers, And it's refreshing
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that the name's changed. The Rosters have turned over over
the years, but rarely, rarely does Arizona ever win at
Dodgers Stadium. They almost never never win at Dodgers Staateum.
Now page two here, so we'll shift away from some
of the opening thoughts from opening day, But tell me
your opinion on the day debut of the real pitch clock.
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We had the soft launch in spring training, but now
this is when these games count. There's time, it matters.
So I would say it was a relatively smooth beginning.
Unless I miss something, and I don't think I did.
It was pretty smooth. I will warn you, though, that
it had the vibes of elementary school. I thought I
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was back in elementary school. Remember when you were in
elementary school and everyone tried to be on their best behavior.
And it was the first day of school. Everyone's got there,
They're back to school attire, their uniforms all look great,
everyone's optimistic, positive, raring to go. That's opening day in
a nutshell. And one of my observations right off the
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time I was flipping around, major League Baseball needs to
fully embrace the clock. If they're going to use the
pitch clock, they need to fully embrace it. Now what
am I getting at? So I'm flipping around. I may
or may not have been using those Russian websites, but
I was going around watching these different baseball games, and
many of the broadcast did not feature the pitch clock
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on the graphics. So I ask you, is it that
hard to add a chiron at the bottom or the
top of the screen that has the pitch clock on it.
Is it that difficult. Yeah, they can do it in
the NBA, in the NFL, I'm pretty confident they can
put that in Major League Baseball broadcast. And as a consumer,
as a viewer of Major League Baseball broadcast, I want
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to see because there's some strategy involved in that, whether
the pitcher's gonna milk the clock all the way to
the end, whether the hitter is gonna gonna panic, and
whatnot based on the clock. And so that when I
become the overlord of Baseball, that will be mandator. When
they finally get rid of Rob Manford they hire me
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as the commissioner or Baseball, then I will put that in.
But Opening Day was also the word is trivial for
a couple of players. They will be forever immortalized. And
I promise you a couple of years down the line,
we will use this on our show for the who
am I game and the instant trivia that we do
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every night on the show. So come on down, Rafael
Never's congratulations the Red Sox who deserved to lose because
they started Corey Kluber Opening Day. You should always lose
if Corey Kluber at this point in his career is
your opening day starting sure enough on a cold day
and Boston the Sox lost. But the Red Sox star
Rafael Devers, who got paid this offseason. He had a
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couple of hits, had an RBI. But don't bear the lead,
my man. He has been immortalized because on a one
two count in the bottom of the eighth inning oft Finway,
with no runners on base and nobody out, Devers was
called for strike three. You're out. He was ruled out
on a pitch clock violation. Why he did not step
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into the batter's box within the allotted time, So the
umpire rung up and Rafael Rafael Devers becoming the first
player in Major League Baseball ever because they never had
this before. It is impossible to have this, to strike
out on a pitch clock violation. Get out of here,
and for those of you that have not paid any
attention to baseball, bad job by you. The pitch clock
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rule brand new here. You should know that by now
the refresher course, there's a thirty second timer between batters,
a fifteen second timer with the bass is empty, and
a twenty second timer when there's a runner on base,
So there's three different time periods and the umpire can
stop the clock if a few reasons rare and appropriate.
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But Dever's he also has a partner in crime, and
that comes out of Chicago. Because congratulations Marcus Strollman, Journeyman pitcher,
Marcus Strollman x met X Blue j the Cup pitcher.
He was dinged for the first ever pitch clock violation
and beat baseball history. Buy a pitcher, Buy a pitcher
because he took more than twenty seconds between pitches during
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the Cubs win over the Brew crew at Wrigley Field,
and he was not a happy camper after the game.
He was lamenting the fact that it was very tough
for him. The pitch clock. He says, it's a big
adjustment and we got a little tiny violin out. We
were very sad that we had to hear that. All right,
last we're here. So a lot of positive vibrations, good
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vibrations for the start of the baseball season. How can
major League Baseball bottle up the optimism the excitement from
opening Day? And the answer to that, the answer to
that is it's impossible. I'm gonna be Benny Buzzkill on
this one major League Baseball. I like it, I'm into it,
but it is not designed for intense day to day consumption.
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It's like the Boston Marathon. You get excited when you
start the Boston Marathon. After about a mile, you've got
a bit of a dopamine hit still going. But then
you settle in for the rest of the twenty six
point two miles and it's just muscle memory. It's pushing
through the race. You glide along and you build up
to the crescendo when you get close to the finish line.
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But major League Baseball's regular season the way it's designed
on Now, that's another example of why the hardest baseball
season of all time is when the Dodgers won the
World Series in twenty twenty sixty game season. It's not
a marathon. That was a sprint. That's why it's the
hardest of all time. But now we're back to the
regular marathon, and the regular season is elevator music. It
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is background sound, and that's the way it's supposed to be. Right,
you'll live your life. You're a sports fan, you know
that ninety eight percent of the time on a random Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
whatever you're gonna have between now in October, if you
want to watch or listen to a game, I'll listen
to on a radio or watching on television, it'll be available.
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Check in on your team from time to time. You
don't have to be ocd about it for everyone hundred
and every one of the one hundred and sixty two games,
and you can save some of that energy for the
playoff push. And but it is a double edged sword
also because if your team is treading water in July,
you can still get to a World Series like you
have like April, May and June, just to f around
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and fiddle with whatever you want to fiddle with, as
long as you don't fall too far behind. My example
of that would be the Phillies who last year were
they were blah and then they ended up getting in
the World Series, and then the year before also out
of the National leaguest remember the Atlanta Braves saving us
from the cheaters and winning that wonderful pennant there in
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Georgia when they were mediocre midway through the baseball season.
So those are some of my thoughts on the beginning
of the baseball season. Be sure to catch live editions
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the people what the people need when they need it,
and that would be some baseball. It's opening day, it's
opening weekend, now fun times for every man, woman and child.
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And the story that caught my attention that I want
to spend a few minutes y happen with you about.
That's a pretty good story. The beginning of a season
of so much promise for the New York Metropolitans. The
Mets have been given in ice bucket right to the
Schnazola there to begin the season. Now, the Mets opened
up with the Marlins and they won. Brandon Nimmo broke
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a seventh inning tie up he had a two run
double and Max Scherzer, who puked in the playoffs of
the Mets last year, but Scherzer on the mound able
to get the win, as the Mets ended up edging
the Marlins in that game. But prior to the game,
we learned that Justin Verlander, the ex cheating astro. Verlander,
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is beginning his New York Mets career inside the injury tenth.
He will be snuggling up in the trainer's room with
his blankie as he will not be playing. The Metropolitans
placing their forty three million dollars per year starter on
the injury list with a calling it a low grade
strain on a muscle in the arm pit. He's got
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a bad arm pit, and Verlander saying that he had
discomfort in his last spring start, which was last weekend,
and it continued, and so they went and gave him
an MRI. Why not those are cheap. And Verlander was
supposed to pitch make his Metch debut on the Saturday
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Saturday Saturday. He had made an appointment to pitch on Saturday,
but he will not be pitching in that game, and
he will not be pitching anytime soon. All of that
has been put on hold. Now he did speak to reporters.
We have a little taste of this. So Verlander attempting
to downplay the damage of signing a big free agent
contract and then just before opening Day going on the
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injured list. He was trying to downplay all that. As
Warner Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape.
If the fact that I'm going to be able to
continue to throw it is showing how minor of an
injury it is, you know, but still there is something there.
If this is a different point in the season, particularly
late in the year, I think pitching is definitely on
the table of playoffs, and I'm definitely pitching, but you know,
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being the beginning of the season, coming off of screen, training.
It just makes too much sense to not push it
right now. And like I said, risk you know, three
months when it could be much much, much right. Okay,
So that was Verlanders? Is this is the playoffs? I
would pitch of course, if you're the Mets? Do you
want playoffs? Do you want Verlander on the mound? If
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you're you're the Mets, He's not exactly the clutch postseason performer.
So let's talk about this, the question do you believe
Justin Verlin? We just played a sound bite of the
man when he says that this is a minor deal,
and sighting and in a caut and when you're waiting
it out and all that. Do you believe Justin Verland?
Do you believe Verlander when he says this is a
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minor deal? So I am shaking my head now, I
don't believe this guy. I've got police squad neon highlighter
and the law and we'll put all of these things together.
The clock is a ticking tick tick tick tick tick.
So let's get started down Number one. Justin Verlander is
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blowing smoke, is what he's doing. My nostrils are smelling
the manure. I smell the manure from the burning smoke,
and the smoke's burning all over the So I'm not
buying what he is saying. A part of his Verlander
has no credibility. He played for a despicable franchise, the
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the a Holes, the Astros. So anything this guy says,
I think he's a weasel because he was part of that.
But Verlander, you know what he sounds like. He's like,
there's a playoffs. I would play. It's early in this season.
All that. He sounds like he's got a part on
the police squad Lieutenant Frank Dreben from those classic naked
gun comedies. A heart of gold, brain of wood. Nothing
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to see here, Please disperse, Nothing to see here, Please disperse,
Move on, Move on, nothing to see here. As the
fireworks go off in the background, Make no mistake, this
is a kick in the base balls of the match.
And I'll tell you why. After having all spring to
slowly get ready, no distraction for Verlander by pitching in
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the World Baseball Classic or anything like that. Berlander had
plenty of time to slowly get the Gears going for
opening Day, and just before the curtain goes up, he
has to go get an MRI and instead of pitching
this weekend, he'll be getting hemorrhoids from watching on the bench.
And this muscle strain in the armpit, I realize it
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is not Tommy John ligament transition, old surgery and all that.
But is it true that that injury, which the man himself, Verlander,
is soft peddling. Is it true that that injury often
foreshadows another injury, a much worse injury to that particular player.
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And I think if you looked that up and do
the proper research and go to the right places, you'll
you'll find out exactly what I'm talking about. So that
muscle strain is it's a preview like when you go
to see a movie. It's a preview of coming attractions.
And Verlanders said he didn't want to risk worsening the
injury and being out three months because he knows he
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knows that is likely what is going to end up happening. Anyway,
It reminds me of last year an older pitcher named
Clayton Kershaw with the Dodgers. He said early in the season,
while pitching a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins, he
got taken out out of an abundze of caution because
he wanted to save himself so he'd be ready for
the playoffs. He then went out and the Dodgers lost
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their first playoff series to the Padres. So he's like, yeah,
he saved yourself. Wait to go all right now? Page two.
While speaking with the scribes, we played one SoundBite of Verlander,
but he also said that a doctor, we believe a
team doctor, told him that his shoulder was that of
a twenty year old. Keep in mind, Verlander is forty
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years old. He's pitched in the big leagues for seventeen seasons,
I believe. Now, so what did you make if justin
Verlander saying that he was told by a doctor that
he has the shoulder of a twenty year old. So
that is braggadocious nonsense, is what that is? Nonsense. Sentences
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that start with the doctor told me, usually they're either
really good or really bad. Most doctors try to be
motivational speakers. They try to pump up their confidence of
their patients. You're doing a really good job. But riddle
me this man, is it true that if you had
the arm of a twenty year old, you would not
have an armpit problem and you would actually be on
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the mound to start the season. I'm just saying, I'm
just saying, now you wouldn't be sitting out with body
odor coming out of your armpit. We hear the silliness
often at the start of the new season, this kind
of silliness. It's the Neon highlighter gets out and you
highlight the Bsohl best shape of his life. He's in
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the best shape of a live That's normally a spring
training story. It's the jibberish we get in spring training.
It's also often Bologny Verlanders forty years old. When you
ride with older players, you have to deal with the decay,
the wear and tear, the bumps that dense, the paint,
chipping away the arm and being mildewed. Things start to rot.
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As an athlete when you get to a certain point
unless you are on all kinds of pharmaceuticals, and then
you can push that back, push it back, push it back. Now.
Final point, So big picture, the Mets win, they're opener,
But how much pressure with a peat is on the
twenty twenty three Mets to win the whole thing? So
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my answer is going to surprise you. I have an
unpopular opinion I don't believe the Mets have all that
much pressure. I don't. I say it's limited. Even in
a division with the Atlanta Braves and the Phillies, who
are two pretty good teams. The Mets, they're going to
be in the playoffs, even with things that have gone sideways.
Then it's a crapshoot. But you've got the micro and
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the macro the short term and the long term. We
know the Mets are not the Yankees. Mets haven't won
since eighty six. But there's no deadline, and it's not
a race against time. There's no drop dead date where
they crossed the rubicon, and they have an ultimatum. It's
win or we'll just add more payroll. It's not you
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better win or we're gonna cut the payroll. No, you
hear a lot of these, even big market teams say
we have to get under the threshold. We don't want
to pay the tax that does not exist in the
Metropolitans galaxy. Imagine if you will, a world where the
good times just keep rolling. The owner, Steve Cohen, is
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living high on the hog and he's got money to burn,
and he knows he's not gonna be around forever, and
he wants to enjoy this and it's just a toy,
and everyone loves him and they kiss his ass because
they're all Mets fans, and he's the number one Mets fan,
and he's in it for the long haul and he'd
like to win. But if the Mets suck, they'll just
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go out and sign somebody else in free agency or
trade for somebody else. They've got a loaded owner, now
that's it. In this particular scene of the Broadway show,
you look at the Mets and they are certainly having
some issues with the law, the law of diminishing returns,
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also Murphy's law. Both those things are true. It's alive
and well for the pitching staff anyway. Justin Verlander can
now take a number and wait in line and get
some soup in the trainer's room because he will be joined.
During spring training, the Mets lost Edwin Diaz. We saw
that torn attending in his right knee during the World
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Baseball Classic in a celebratory fashion. Jose Quintana, starting pitcher
who the Mets picked up this offseason, also going under
the knife with a stress fracture in his rib cage,
and Diaz is out all season and Quintana is not
going to be around till July. And now Verlander they're
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saying short term injury. But based on what I was reading,
this is one of those things where Verlander likely will
come back to the Mets and then keep an eye
on him. His next couple starts will likely be right
back on the d L. So that sets the tone
for a be draggled start, and the Mets are frazzled
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on the mat. They don't have the closer, They're down
a couple of starters, and the problem is the trickle
down effect. And you know this and I note from
watching watching baseball, right like, things get all foggy, all gummy.
You start using the depth that you have, and the
Mets have some depth. They have some guys that have
major league experience, so just keeping it straight here, So
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the Mets start using that depth and then before you
know it, you've burned through a lot of that and
then you have to go bring in other reinforcements to
replace the reinforcements that you were supposed to save till
later in the year, and it becomes problematic. Be sure
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Here we go, It's Meller. How about that to the
third degree? This is one big band gets grilled Google.
Ron Rivera admitted on Wednesday that his future with the
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Commanders is in doubt once the team is sold, but
that he will fight for his job. Ben. Do you
think Rivera has gone as soon as new ownership comes in?
The doomsday clock for Ron riverat number one is at
eleven fifty nine and forty five seconds. The selling point
of Ron Rivera is he's a partisan for Dan Snyder.
He covers for Danny Boy last night checked if you
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buy the Washington football team. You do not needs someone
who's a partisan of the former owner, and he hasn't won.
Washington is twenty two and twenty seven since Ron Rivera
took over as coach. The first rule of buying a team,
you want your guy, your guy to be the coach,
your designer label on the coach's office. Yeah, Ron Rivera
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is done. Next. We don't hear much from LaVar Ball
these days, but he was recently interviewed and he said
that he thinks Bronnie James should skip college and go
play a year in Australia's NBL instead ben as a
sound career advice from the elder Ball. I'm a fan
of LaVar Ball. This is a bad take, bad take
by him, and both those things can be true. LaVar Ball, Right,
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LaVar Ball, his son's path was good for his son.
It's a whole new world. Though Bronnie James is sitting
on an oil reserve. It's estimated when he goes to
college he's gonna make around six million dollars in name,
image and likeness because of his father. The definition of
winning the genetic lottery. My mom, may she rest in
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peace was a teacher. My dad was a ham radio operator.
Unfortunately I made no money from nil. Next, a rule
change submitted by the Eagles would see the NFL adopt
an XFL style alternative to the onside kick. Teams would
instead be allowed to convert a fourth and twenty from
their own twenty to maintain possession after a score. Your thoughts, Ben,
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so I saw this. The rule did not fail, It
did not pass. It was put on ice. They said
they'll go back and look at it again. I was
annoyed that Roger Goodell said the competition committee talked a
lot about keeping the foot in the game, which is
a silly and be dumb. Because the NFL has done
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everything they possibly can to take the kickers balls away
from them. The onside kick is a useless play. I
like this. I like the idea of this. If you
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jokes all the week. Man, Let's get the party starts.
Weed Man there in Miami. Hello, weed Man, Hippie, Hey, Ben,
say hello Lisa, Hi, Lisa, Lisa. He's not talking weed Man.
The hell's as she's buying you new teeth weed Man,
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big news. Congrats, Joe, You're you're getting new teeth. Weed Man. Now, hey,
why do you go to a Marlins game? You go
to a Marlins game for like eight bucks? You should
go to a Marlins game. You don't have any bucks.
Oh that's true. You don't have any bucks, do you?
I don't from the mice. Yeah, maybe they'll give it
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to you. Let's get to the jokes. Why do you have?
These are actual jokes sent in by actual listeners. Why
do you have to throw strikes to Lizzo? I don't
know why. Well, Eddie, you cannot pitch around her. You
can't do it. Albuddy Chip in Maine who sent that
one in. This one was submitted late, but I think
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it's kind of amusing. Turns out, according to Rob A,
Lizzo had a very impressive opening day. She actually hit
multiple grand slams, Eddie, Is that right? Yeah? Then she
walked out of the Dennis all right? Why is it
an automatic run every time Lizzo gets on base? I
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don't know why. Well, she always rounds the bases, Eddy,
she always rounds the bases. Show there is that? Who
is Lizzo's favorite? Ben Mallor show regular caller? I don't
know who's your favorite? Jed? Who fed? Big fan? Big fan?
That Lizzo has a garden in her backyard? Big news.
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That Lizzo's got a garden. That is big news. Yes,
she's calling it the olive garden is what she's calling.
She likes there. That's Brendan from Boston who sent that
one in? Coop? You got any jokes over there, Coop? No? Okay.
Why is Lizzo getting married to a wide receiver? I
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don't know why? Because Brandon cooks, So that's a perfect
That is a great joke. Why did Lizzo break up
with Whoopie Pie Blair in Maine? I don't know. Why
would you want to do that? He's a he's a
small fry Eddy, That's all. What did what did Hawaii.
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Say when Lizzo said she was coming over for a
private luau, Oh no, they said, we've never dug a
pit that big. They said, that's Comedia for that one.
And did you hear that Lizzo is imitating the NBA
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to reduce her carb intake? Is that right? Yes? And
every meal she'll be practicing loaf management Eddie. So that's
a good joke. That's Gordon into Coma. Who set that
one in? Is there? Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the week?
Time Now for the Mini weed Man radio roast? Are
you ready, weed Man? Let's do it all right? Are
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you honored that the people despise you so much they
send jokes in every week? Yeah? This guy Art says
he wrote it and says, you guys really need to
stop putting weed Man on the lame jokes. Oh why
is that? He says? He weed Man, you bring nothing?
According to this guy, What do you have to say
to Art? Weed Man alone? Okay, that's enough for me.
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Why did they decide not to sell solar powered weed
Man hippie dolls? Why did rather? Why did they? Why
did they decide to sell or not? Still don't know.
I don't know why would they do that. Well, they
decided not to sell solar powered weed Man hippie dolls
because they didn't work Heady, So that's why the ship.
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How helpless is weed Man? I don't know how helpless
is he? He is so helpless that Jay Scoop has
decided to leave the Ukraine and instead fly to Miami
to help him out. Alex joke. Why is weed Man
welcomed everywhere? I don't know. Why is he welcomed everywhere?
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Because no matter where he goes, he's always right at home.
That's Alex the cynical. Did you know that weed Man
is a no good, low life sack of crap Eddie? Wow?
I didn't. I didn't know that. No. I just wanted
to make sure you know that's from Tony. That's Tony
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all right. What do Lizzo and weed Man have in common?
I couldn't tell you. They both have a foul mouth,
Eddie a foul mouth. Did you hear that that weed
Did you hear that Eddie Murray? Eddie Murray has the
record for the most sack flies all time in baseball.
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I heard you say that the other day. On a
related note, weed Man hippie has the record for the
most flies around his sack. So there is that boy.
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The twenty twenty three regular season got underway in professional baseball.
All thirty big league teams. We're in action. I don't
know how much of this you watched. Perhaps none of it.
Maybe you watched a couple of games. Maybe you watched
five minutes of one game. It started out with a
bang as Aaron Judge at the first home run of
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the new season. The Yankees had an advantage hitting the
first time run. They were playing one of the two
very early games to start the festivities. It was the
Yankees and Giants in the Bronx and had the Atlanta
Braves and the Nationals. The other game that started very
early and compared to all the other games, so we
had action into the late television window on the West coast,
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including the Angels, who have three players making more than
the entire Athletics roster, but somehow managed to lose in
Oakland in their opening But there's a lot to talk about,
lot to unpack, so let us discuss the question here,
what are you going to remember from opening Day twenty
twenty three? So I've got Clydesdale Elementary School and elevator music,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are gonna make a soft pretzel with some gooey
neon cheese sauce on the side. So hey, to answer
the question, what are you going to remember from opening Day?
I'm gonna remember a lot right now, But if you
ask me a month from now, probably nothing. Probably nothing.
But right now, since the question is being asked, we
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do the show now. I loved having a full menu card.
Stayed up to watch the start of the baseball season
the Higantes and the Yankees and watched Aaron Judge at
the home run So that was the beginning. Slept a
little bit, woke up. There was more baseball on, but
that was an act of Arson, as John Hayman would say,
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by Aaron Judge there, I guess his old team, the Giants.
Remember there was one night Aaron Judge but an hour
and a half was a giant, and then he was
no longer a giant. I'm sure John Hayman was very proud.
But Aaron Judge continues to be my favorite player to watch.
I'm not a Yankee fan. My niece is a Yankee fan.
That doesn't really count. They's just from New York. I
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think she just likes the hat because it's trendy still,
but regardless, Aaron Judge. You know why I enjoy watching
Aaron Judge play. I've seen him playing in person a
few times every years. Aaron Judge reminds me of a
young Moneyball Maller back in the day, bigger than all
the other kids. Looks like a glitch when you watch
Aaron Judge play. There's some players that look like a
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glitch because they're so small, but Aaron Judge is the opposite.
And baseball is a sport that is a sport of
miniature ponies, little show ponies, and Aaron Judge is built
like a Clydesdale playing baseball. So it was it was
cool to see that. I was excited to see the
Chicago White Sox takedown a little piece of the Berlin Wall,
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the wall of cheating the Stros. How pathetic was that
they they think they actually won the World Series last year.
We'll someone let the Astrils know nobody won the World
Series last year, cause somebody let them know that that
didn't count because they had a bunch of cheaters still
in the team. Let them know if you're able to
get a hold of them. And as you know on
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this show, I support the Dodgers and whoever is playing
the a holes. Those are my favorite teams. So a
very nice start to the baseball season. See Houston a
loose staying in Texas debut, the maiden voyage of Jacob deGrom,
the greatest pitcher the Mets have had in years, and
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he left to go play deep in the heart attackas
he made his Rangers debut in a slug us. We
had a couple of high scoring games Rangers and Phillies,
the Blue Jays and the Cardinals. But the Phillies Rangers game,
How did de gram pitch saw the game? You know?
But if not, don't ask. Dick Ram was like an
Italian chef. There he was cooking up meat balls, and
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just right down, right down in the middle there he
threw seventy three pitches, gave up six hits and five
earned runs in three and two thirds any so that
works out to an era of over twelve after one start.
Nice beginning, great opening act there for the one hundred
eighty five million dollars ace in Arlington. Also good to
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see the Dodgers pick up where they left off. Always
fun to beat up on the ugly redheaded step children
in the nationally West. The Arizona Diamondbacks bludgeoned by the
Dodgers as Roberto's picked to click my guy. Roberto loves
James Outman, his new favorite Dodger, and he was balling
there at Chavez Ravine for the Dodgers, And it's refreshing
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that the name's changed. The Rosters have turned over over
the years, but rarely, rarely does Arizona ever win at
Dodgers Stadium. They almost never never win at Dodgers Staateum.
Now page two here, so we'll shift away from some
of the opening thoughts from opening day, But tell me
your opinion on the day debut of the real pitch clock.
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We had the soft launch in spring training, but now
this is when these games count. There's time, it matters.
So I would say it was a relatively smooth beginning.
Unless I miss something, and I don't think I did.
It was pretty smooth. I will warn you, though, that
it had the vibes of elementary school. I thought I
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was back in elementary school. Remember when you were in
elementary school and everyone tried to be on their best behavior.
And it was the first day of school. Everyone's got there,
They're back to school attire, their uniforms all look great,
everyone's optimistic, positive, raring to go. That's opening day in
a nutshell. And one of my observations right off the
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time I was flipping around, major League Baseball needs to
fully embrace the clock. If they're going to use the
pitch clock, they need to fully embrace it. Now what
am I getting at? So I'm flipping around. I may
or may not have been using those Russian websites, but
I was going around watching these different baseball games, and
many of the broadcast did not feature the pitch clock
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on the graphics. So I ask you, is it that
hard to add a chiron at the bottom or the
top of the screen that has the pitch clock on it.
Is it that difficult. Yeah, they can do it in
the NBA, in the NFL, I'm pretty confident they can
put that in Major League Baseball broadcast. And as a consumer,
as a viewer of Major League Baseball broadcast, I want
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to see because there's some strategy involved in that, whether
the pitcher's gonna milk the clock all the way to
the end, whether the hitter is gonna gonna panic, and
whatnot based on the clock. And so that when I
become the overlord of Baseball, that will be mandator. When
they finally get rid of Rob Manford they hire me
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as the commissioner or Baseball, then I will put that in.
But Opening Day was also the word is trivial for
a couple of players. They will be forever immortalized. And
I promise you a couple of years down the line,
we will use this on our show for the who
am I game and the instant trivia that we do
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every night on the show. So come on down, Rafael
Never's congratulations the Red Sox who deserved to lose because
they started Corey Kluber Opening Day. You should always lose
if Corey Kluber at this point in his career is
your opening day starting sure enough on a cold day
and Boston the Sox lost. But the Red Sox star
Rafael Devers, who got paid this offseason. He had a
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couple of hits, had an RBI. But don't bear the lead,
my man. He has been immortalized because on a one
two count in the bottom of the eighth inning oft Finway,
with no runners on base and nobody out, Devers was
called for strike three. You're out. He was ruled out
on a pitch clock violation. Why he did not step
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into the batter's box within the allotted time, So the
umpire rung up and Rafael Rafael Devers becoming the first
player in Major League Baseball ever because they never had
this before. It is impossible to have this, to strike
out on a pitch clock violation. Get out of here,
and for those of you that have not paid any
attention to baseball, bad job by you. The pitch clock
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rule brand new here. You should know that by now
the refresher course, there's a thirty second timer between batters,
a fifteen second timer with the bass is empty, and
a twenty second timer when there's a runner on base,
So there's three different time periods and the umpire can
stop the clock if a few reasons rare and appropriate.
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But Dever's he also has a partner in crime, and
that comes out of Chicago. Because congratulations Marcus Strollman, Journeyman pitcher,
Marcus Strollman x met X Blue j the Cup pitcher.
He was dinged for the first ever pitch clock violation
and beat baseball history. Buy a pitcher, Buy a pitcher
because he took more than twenty seconds between pitches during
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the Cubs win over the Brew crew at Wrigley Field,
and he was not a happy camper after the game.
He was lamenting the fact that it was very tough
for him. The pitch clock. He says, it's a big
adjustment and we got a little tiny violin out. We
were very sad that we had to hear that. All right,
last we're here. So a lot of positive vibrations, good
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vibrations for the start of the baseball season. How can
major League Baseball bottle up the optimism the excitement from
opening Day? And the answer to that, the answer to
that is it's impossible. I'm gonna be Benny Buzzkill on
this one major League Baseball. I like it, I'm into it,
but it is not designed for intense day to day consumption.
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It's like the Boston Marathon. You get excited when you
start the Boston Marathon. After about a mile, you've got
a bit of a dopamine hit still going. But then
you settle in for the rest of the twenty six
point two miles and it's just muscle memory. It's pushing
through the race. You glide along and you build up
to the crescendo when you get close to the finish line.
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But major League Baseball's regular season the way it's designed
on Now, that's another example of why the hardest baseball
season of all time is when the Dodgers won the
World Series in twenty twenty sixty game season. It's not
a marathon. That was a sprint. That's why it's the
hardest of all time. But now we're back to the
regular marathon, and the regular season is elevator music. It
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is background sound, and that's the way it's supposed to be. Right,
you'll live your life. You're a sports fan, you know
that ninety eight percent of the time on a random Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
whatever you're gonna have between now in October, if you
want to watch or listen to a game, I'll listen
to on a radio or watching on television, it'll be available.
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Check in on your team from time to time. You
don't have to be ocd about it for everyone hundred
and every one of the one hundred and sixty two games,
and you can save some of that energy for the
playoff push. And but it is a double edged sword
also because if your team is treading water in July,
you can still get to a World Series like you
have like April, May and June, just to f around
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and fiddle with whatever you want to fiddle with, as
long as you don't fall too far behind. My example
of that would be the Phillies who last year were
they were blah and then they ended up getting in
the World Series, and then the year before also out
of the National leaguest remember the Atlanta Braves saving us
from the cheaters and winning that wonderful pennant there in
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Georgia when they were mediocre midway through the baseball season.
So those are some of my thoughts on the beginning
of the baseball season. Be sure to catch live editions
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and that would be some baseball. It's opening day, it's
opening weekend, now fun times for every man, woman and child.
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And the story that caught my attention that I want
to spend a few minutes y happen with you about.
That's a pretty good story. The beginning of a season
of so much promise for the New York Metropolitans. The
Mets have been given in ice bucket right to the
Schnazola there to begin the season. Now, the Mets opened
up with the Marlins and they won. Brandon Nimmo broke
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a seventh inning tie up he had a two run
double and Max Scherzer, who puked in the playoffs of
the Mets last year, but Scherzer on the mound able
to get the win, as the Mets ended up edging
the Marlins in that game. But prior to the game,
we learned that Justin Verlander, the ex cheating astro. Verlander,
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is beginning his New York Mets career inside the injury tenth.
He will be snuggling up in the trainer's room with
his blankie as he will not be playing. The Metropolitans
placing their forty three million dollars per year starter on
the injury list with a calling it a low grade
strain on a muscle in the arm pit. He's got
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a bad arm pit, and Verlander saying that he had
discomfort in his last spring start, which was last weekend,
and it continued, and so they went and gave him
an MRI. Why not those are cheap. And Verlander was
supposed to pitch make his Metch debut on the Saturday
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Saturday Saturday. He had made an appointment to pitch on Saturday,
but he will not be pitching in that game, and
he will not be pitching anytime soon. All of that
has been put on hold. Now he did speak to reporters.
We have a little taste of this. So Verlander attempting
to downplay the damage of signing a big free agent
contract and then just before opening Day going on the
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injured list. He was trying to downplay all that. As
Warner Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape.
If the fact that I'm going to be able to
continue to throw it is showing how minor of an
injury it is, you know, but still there is something there.
If this is a different point in the season, particularly
late in the year, I think pitching is definitely on
the table of playoffs, and I'm definitely pitching, but you know,
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being the beginning of the season, coming off of screen, training.
It just makes too much sense to not push it
right now. And like I said, risk you know, three
months when it could be much much, much right. Okay,
So that was Verlanders? Is this is the playoffs? I
would pitch of course, if you're the Mets? Do you
want playoffs? Do you want Verlander on the mound? If
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you're you're the Mets, He's not exactly the clutch postseason performer.
So let's talk about this, the question do you believe
Justin Verlin? We just played a sound bite of the
man when he says that this is a minor deal,
and sighting and in a caut and when you're waiting
it out and all that. Do you believe Justin Verland?
Do you believe Verlander when he says this is a
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minor deal? So I am shaking my head now, I
don't believe this guy. I've got police squad neon highlighter
and the law and we'll put all of these things together.
The clock is a ticking tick tick tick tick tick.
So let's get started down Number one. Justin Verlander is
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blowing smoke, is what he's doing. My nostrils are smelling
the manure. I smell the manure from the burning smoke,
and the smoke's burning all over the So I'm not
buying what he is saying. A part of his Verlander
has no credibility. He played for a despicable franchise, the
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the a Holes, the Astros. So anything this guy says,
I think he's a weasel because he was part of that.
But Verlander, you know what he sounds like. He's like,
there's a playoffs. I would play. It's early in this season.
All that. He sounds like he's got a part on
the police squad Lieutenant Frank Dreben from those classic naked
gun comedies. A heart of gold, brain of wood. Nothing
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to see here, Please disperse, Nothing to see here, Please disperse,
Move on, Move on, nothing to see here. As the
fireworks go off in the background, Make no mistake, this
is a kick in the base balls of the match.
And I'll tell you why. After having all spring to
slowly get ready, no distraction for Verlander by pitching in
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the World Baseball Classic or anything like that. Berlander had
plenty of time to slowly get the Gears going for
opening Day, and just before the curtain goes up, he
has to go get an MRI and instead of pitching
this weekend, he'll be getting hemorrhoids from watching on the bench.
And this muscle strain in the armpit, I realize it
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is not Tommy John ligament transition, old surgery and all that.
But is it true that that injury, which the man himself, Verlander,
is soft peddling. Is it true that that injury often
foreshadows another injury, a much worse injury to that particular player.
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And I think if you looked that up and do
the proper research and go to the right places, you'll
you'll find out exactly what I'm talking about. So that
muscle strain is it's a preview like when you go
to see a movie. It's a preview of coming attractions.
And Verlanders said he didn't want to risk worsening the
injury and being out three months because he knows he
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knows that is likely what is going to end up happening. Anyway,
It reminds me of last year an older pitcher named
Clayton Kershaw with the Dodgers. He said early in the season,
while pitching a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins, he
got taken out out of an abundze of caution because
he wanted to save himself so he'd be ready for
the playoffs. He then went out and the Dodgers lost
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their first playoff series to the Padres. So he's like, yeah,
he saved yourself. Wait to go all right now? Page two.
While speaking with the scribes, we played one SoundBite of Verlander,
but he also said that a doctor, we believe a
team doctor, told him that his shoulder was that of
a twenty year old. Keep in mind, Verlander is forty
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years old. He's pitched in the big leagues for seventeen seasons,
I believe. Now, so what did you make if justin
Verlander saying that he was told by a doctor that
he has the shoulder of a twenty year old. So
that is braggadocious nonsense, is what that is? Nonsense. Sentences
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that start with the doctor told me, usually they're either
really good or really bad. Most doctors try to be
motivational speakers. They try to pump up their confidence of
their patients. You're doing a really good job. But riddle
me this man, is it true that if you had
the arm of a twenty year old, you would not
have an armpit problem and you would actually be on
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the mound to start the season. I'm just saying, I'm
just saying, now you wouldn't be sitting out with body
odor coming out of your armpit. We hear the silliness
often at the start of the new season, this kind
of silliness. It's the Neon highlighter gets out and you
highlight the Bsohl best shape of his life. He's in
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the best shape of a live That's normally a spring
training story. It's the jibberish we get in spring training.
It's also often Bologny Verlanders forty years old. When you
ride with older players, you have to deal with the decay,
the wear and tear, the bumps that dense, the paint,
chipping away the arm and being mildewed. Things start to rot.
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As an athlete when you get to a certain point
unless you are on all kinds of pharmaceuticals, and then
you can push that back, push it back, push it back. Now.
Final point, So big picture, the Mets win, they're opener,
But how much pressure with a peat is on the
twenty twenty three Mets to win the whole thing? So
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my answer is going to surprise you. I have an
unpopular opinion I don't believe the Mets have all that
much pressure. I don't. I say it's limited. Even in
a division with the Atlanta Braves and the Phillies, who
are two pretty good teams. The Mets, they're going to
be in the playoffs, even with things that have gone sideways.
Then it's a crapshoot. But you've got the micro and
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the macro the short term and the long term. We
know the Mets are not the Yankees. Mets haven't won
since eighty six. But there's no deadline, and it's not
a race against time. There's no drop dead date where
they crossed the rubicon, and they have an ultimatum. It's
win or we'll just add more payroll. It's not you
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better win or we're gonna cut the payroll. No, you
hear a lot of these, even big market teams say
we have to get under the threshold. We don't want
to pay the tax that does not exist in the
Metropolitans galaxy. Imagine if you will, a world where the
good times just keep rolling. The owner, Steve Cohen, is
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living high on the hog and he's got money to burn,
and he knows he's not gonna be around forever, and
he wants to enjoy this and it's just a toy,
and everyone loves him and they kiss his ass because
they're all Mets fans, and he's the number one Mets fan,
and he's in it for the long haul and he'd
like to win. But if the Mets suck, they'll just
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go out and sign somebody else in free agency or
trade for somebody else. They've got a loaded owner, now
that's it. In this particular scene of the Broadway show,
you look at the Mets and they are certainly having
some issues with the law, the law of diminishing returns,
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also Murphy's law. Both those things are true. It's alive
and well for the pitching staff anyway. Justin Verlander can
now take a number and wait in line and get
some soup in the trainer's room because he will be joined.
During spring training, the Mets lost Edwin Diaz. We saw
that torn attending in his right knee during the World
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Baseball Classic in a celebratory fashion. Jose Quintana, starting pitcher
who the Mets picked up this offseason, also going under
the knife with a stress fracture in his rib cage,
and Diaz is out all season and Quintana is not
going to be around till July. And now Verlander they're
(25:47):
saying short term injury. But based on what I was reading,
this is one of those things where Verlander likely will
come back to the Mets and then keep an eye
on him. His next couple starts will likely be right
back on the d L. So that sets the tone
for a be draggled start, and the Mets are frazzled
(26:08):
on the mat. They don't have the closer, They're down
a couple of starters, and the problem is the trickle
down effect. And you know this and I note from
watching watching baseball, right like, things get all foggy, all gummy.
You start using the depth that you have, and the
Mets have some depth. They have some guys that have
major league experience, so just keeping it straight here, So
(26:29):
the Mets start using that depth and then before you
know it, you've burned through a lot of that and
then you have to go bring in other reinforcements to
replace the reinforcements that you were supposed to save till
later in the year, and it becomes problematic. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show. Weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hi, this is
(26:50):
Jay Glazer. And you may know me for the world
of football or fighting or even shows like HBO's Ballers.
Well you don't know is for my entire life. I
have lived in something I refer to as the gray
depression anxiety. So now I'm coming out with a new podcast, Unbreakable,
a mental health podcast with Jay Glazer, where each week,
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(27:12):
give it words. Listen to Unbreakable with Jay Glazer on
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Here we go, It's Meller. How about that to the
third degree? This is one big band gets grilled Google.
Ron Rivera admitted on Wednesday that his future with the
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Commanders is in doubt once the team is sold, but
that he will fight for his job. Ben. Do you
think Rivera has gone as soon as new ownership comes in?
The doomsday clock for Ron riverat number one is at
eleven fifty nine and forty five seconds. The selling point
of Ron Rivera is he's a partisan for Dan Snyder.
He covers for Danny Boy last night checked if you
(27:57):
buy the Washington football team. You do not needs someone
who's a partisan of the former owner, and he hasn't won.
Washington is twenty two and twenty seven since Ron Rivera
took over as coach. The first rule of buying a team,
you want your guy, your guy to be the coach,
your designer label on the coach's office. Yeah, Ron Rivera
(28:21):
is done. Next. We don't hear much from LaVar Ball
these days, but he was recently interviewed and he said
that he thinks Bronnie James should skip college and go
play a year in Australia's NBL instead ben as a
sound career advice from the elder Ball. I'm a fan
of LaVar Ball. This is a bad take, bad take
by him, and both those things can be true. LaVar Ball, Right,
(28:45):
LaVar Ball, his son's path was good for his son.
It's a whole new world. Though Bronnie James is sitting
on an oil reserve. It's estimated when he goes to
college he's gonna make around six million dollars in name,
image and likeness because of his father. The definition of
winning the genetic lottery. My mom, may she rest in
(29:07):
peace was a teacher. My dad was a ham radio operator.
Unfortunately I made no money from nil. Next, a rule
change submitted by the Eagles would see the NFL adopt
an XFL style alternative to the onside kick. Teams would
instead be allowed to convert a fourth and twenty from
their own twenty to maintain possession after a score. Your thoughts, Ben,
(29:28):
so I saw this. The rule did not fail, It
did not pass. It was put on ice. They said
they'll go back and look at it again. I was
annoyed that Roger Goodell said the competition committee talked a
lot about keeping the foot in the game, which is
a silly and be dumb. Because the NFL has done
(29:48):
everything they possibly can to take the kickers balls away
from them. The onside kick is a useless play. I
like this. I like the idea of this. If you
have a good passing off, it's great. How did we do? Cool?
You pass this edition? That is a weather to end
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Knock Knock who's there. Blame week, Blame Week two. It's
Big Band's lame joke of the week. Lame jokes, lame
(30:33):
jokes all the week. Man, Let's get the party starts.
Weed Man there in Miami. Hello, weed Man, Hippie, Hey, Ben,
say hello Lisa, Hi, Lisa, Lisa. He's not talking weed Man.
The hell's as she's buying you new teeth weed Man,
(30:54):
big news. Congrats, Joe, You're you're getting new teeth. Weed Man. Now, hey,
why do you go to a Marlins game? You go
to a Marlins game for like eight bucks? You should
go to a Marlins game. You don't have any bucks.
Oh that's true. You don't have any bucks, do you?
I don't from the mice. Yeah, maybe they'll give it
(31:16):
to you. Let's get to the jokes. Why do you have?
These are actual jokes sent in by actual listeners. Why
do you have to throw strikes to Lizzo? I don't
know why. Well, Eddie, you cannot pitch around her. You
can't do it. Albuddy Chip in Maine who sent that
one in. This one was submitted late, but I think
(31:36):
it's kind of amusing. Turns out, according to Rob A,
Lizzo had a very impressive opening day. She actually hit
multiple grand slams, Eddie, Is that right? Yeah? Then she
walked out of the Dennis all right? Why is it
an automatic run every time Lizzo gets on base? I
(31:59):
don't know why. Well, she always rounds the bases, Eddy,
she always rounds the bases. Show there is that? Who
is Lizzo's favorite? Ben Mallor show regular caller? I don't
know who's your favorite? Jed? Who fed? Big fan? Big fan?
That Lizzo has a garden in her backyard? Big news.
(32:22):
That Lizzo's got a garden. That is big news. Yes,
she's calling it the olive garden is what she's calling.
She likes there. That's Brendan from Boston who sent that
one in? Coop? You got any jokes over there, Coop? No? Okay.
Why is Lizzo getting married to a wide receiver? I
(32:44):
don't know why? Because Brandon cooks, So that's a perfect
That is a great joke. Why did Lizzo break up
with Whoopie Pie Blair in Maine? I don't know. Why
would you want to do that? He's a he's a
small fry Eddy, That's all. What did what did Hawaii.
(33:10):
Say when Lizzo said she was coming over for a
private luau, Oh no, they said, we've never dug a
pit that big. They said, that's Comedia for that one.
And did you hear that Lizzo is imitating the NBA
(33:32):
to reduce her carb intake? Is that right? Yes? And
every meal she'll be practicing loaf management Eddie. So that's
a good joke. That's Gordon into Coma. Who set that
one in? Is there? Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the week?
Time Now for the Mini weed Man radio roast? Are
you ready, weed Man? Let's do it all right? Are
(33:54):
you honored that the people despise you so much they
send jokes in every week? Yeah? This guy Art says
he wrote it and says, you guys really need to
stop putting weed Man on the lame jokes. Oh why
is that? He says? He weed Man, you bring nothing?
According to this guy, What do you have to say
to Art? Weed Man alone? Okay, that's enough for me.
(34:21):
Why did they decide not to sell solar powered weed
Man hippie dolls? Why did rather? Why did they? Why
did they decide to sell or not? Still don't know.
I don't know why would they do that. Well, they
decided not to sell solar powered weed Man hippie dolls
because they didn't work Heady, So that's why the ship.
(34:43):
How helpless is weed Man? I don't know how helpless
is he? He is so helpless that Jay Scoop has
decided to leave the Ukraine and instead fly to Miami
to help him out. Alex joke. Why is weed Man
welcomed everywhere? I don't know. Why is he welcomed everywhere?
(35:06):
Because no matter where he goes, he's always right at home.
That's Alex the cynical. Did you know that weed Man
is a no good, low life sack of crap Eddie? Wow?
I didn't. I didn't know that. No. I just wanted
to make sure you know that's from Tony. That's Tony
(35:26):
all right. What do Lizzo and weed Man have in common?
I couldn't tell you. They both have a foul mouth,
Eddie a foul mouth. Did you hear that that weed
Did you hear that Eddie Murray? Eddie Murray has the
record for the most sack flies all time in baseball.
(35:48):
I heard you say that the other day. On a
related note, weed Man hippie has the record for the
most flies around his sack. So there is that boy.
Where can you find wheels that can help you get
away from the FTX lawsuits? That's tireshack dot comedy. That's hurt,
Thank a weed man. Lame jokes in the week
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