Hour 4 - This is War

Ben Maller talks about former Patriot Asante Samuel and his verbal war with Bill Belichick, why Samuel has been fanatical about his distaste for Belichick, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, Benny's Balderdash, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name for four hour four
of our radio show, and we get into the shrinks
chair and time to talk about a relationship that has
gone sour. How do you grade the Asante Samuel war
with Bill Belichick as it continues the verbal bombs flying everywhere?

(00:25):
Why has Asante Samuel been so fanatical about his distaste
for Belichick, his former coach? And explain the logic. We're
gonna change it up. We'll tell you Mac Jones to
explain the logic behind so many media guys being hot
and bothered because mac Jones's name popped up in trade
rumors like this is somehow blasphemy. We'll talk about that

(00:50):
and more. Have a great weekend, but without further ado.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for listening. It's our
number four. Don't forget the fifth hour as well. Here's
our four That might be my coast, but not anymore.
I hate that guy. Why Welcome in the beginning of

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has come from the pigskin world, and I don't know
about you, but I love a good beef, whether it's
a beef brisket or a bad blood situation between people
we've heard of. And with that as the setup, we

(02:17):
have a long simmering feud that has not been on
the back burner. It's been on the front burner. It
involves the greatest coach in NFL history. You know where
I'm going, No, stay tuned. I know you're listening anyway.
So Asante Samuel his kids playing right now, but he

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played in the NFL for a long time. Asante Samuel
has dedicated his social media activity, his accounts into He's
turned them. His entire focus is bashing Belishick. It's like
a Bill Belischick bashing machine is what Asante Samuel's social
media is now. Things have been ratcheted up over the

(03:02):
last few days. Asante Samuel has taken every opportunity he
can to throw dirt at the current Patriots coach and
his former coach. Now, what is my evidence? Let me
give you some examples, he would, just to prove I'm
not blowing smoke. So Asante Samuel recently retweeted a report
about the Patriots shopping Mac Jones this offseason and said,

(03:26):
quote and you all don't want to believe the truth
close quote. He also retweeted former NFL quarterback now gas
bag talking head Robert Griffin the third, who posted about
the rumor as well. Samuel added on by saying, the
silly things he used to get away with because of Brady,

(03:50):
I think it's used, but he used us anyway. Wait
there's more. Assante grumpily responded to some random jamoke who
dared ask him about the situation and remind me again,
what coach has the most Super Bowls in NFL history?

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Was the question from the fan who was heckling Samuel.
He responded, he fired back, coach Brady. He said that
was his Oh, that's a shot fired. But wait, there's more.
He admitted Asante Samuel that this is what he's been
doing for over a decade. He said it started when

(04:35):
he played for the Patriots. Asante Samuel also warned Lamar
Jackson to avoid New England altogether, saying, you don't want
to play for Belichick. So I want to talk about
all this. The question on this one, how do you
grade the Asante Samuel cold war? Which is not so

(04:55):
cold for Asante Samuel With Bill Belichick. I've got boy band,
Easter Bunny and Hasbro? What up Bro? As in Hasbro?
So we'll ligne all of these things up and we
will knock them down like dominoes. Now to kick off,

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My first thought is impressive. That's my first thing. The
fact that Asante Samuel has shown this level of dedication,
this level of grit and moxie. We're talking about fifteen
plus years now that this battle royal has taken place.

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Now it is a situation where Asante Samuel has been
lobbing Molotov cocktails at Bill Belichick over the years. He's
said it's all Tom Brady. He claimed that Belichick bench
players to ensure that they did not hit performance related bonuses.
And so if you would describe this war between Asante Samuel,

(06:04):
it's a verbal confrontation between Samuel and Belichick. I don't
recall any noise coming back to Belichick. I don't. This
is an English boy band with Harry styles. It's one direction.
It's one direction with Samuel. No return fire from Belichick.

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Now that's said, I have no proof of this, it's
just my opinion. But deep down, all of this annois Belichick.
It annoys Bill. He's a proud guy. This was one
of his better defensive players who won a couple of
Super Bowls with the Patriots, trashing Belichick's good name. And

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despite all of the noise, Bill Belichick continues to play
dumb publicly. He's not activating his missiles. And from what
we have heard over the years, Bill Belichick has his
own infrastructure that he's built up, his own network, going

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back to his days as an assistant coach with the
Jets and the Giants and then a head coach with Cleveland,
and he's worked his way through with certain people from
the old Country. A bevy of Bozo's will call them,
who are his messenger pigeons, and those guys. They haven't

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been called upon people such as Peter King, people like that.
Bill Belichick has provided what he provides, prepackaged responses. He
grunts a little bit, he'll give a reporter a death stare,
he'll sigh, and then they'll be silenced. Wash rinse repeat. Now. Furthermore,

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why why has Asante Samuel been so fananical about this
distaste for Belichick? So the word on the street on
this is that Samuel is still bitter and broken about
something that happened in Super Bowl forty two, that he's
mad enough to chew on nails because Bill Belichick did

(08:16):
not have his back. Now, that's the popular theory that's
been going around that this all goes back to that
for those of you that have bad memories, we jump
into the DeLorean and we go back to the future,
the tinder box that started destination February third, twenty eight,

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Valley of the Sun, and that is when the gloves
came off. Late in the game Super Bowl forty two,
the Giants trailed fourteen to ten. This was the undefeated Patriots.
There was just over a minute left. Minute left. The
Giants were facing a second down of five from right

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around midfield. Do you remember what happened next? Do you
remember the play? If you're a hardcore Patriots fan, you remember,
But if you're not, if you don't have any skin
in the game, the overrated not Hall of Fame Giants
quarterback Elijah Manning through a dead duck pass that went

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straight at Asante Samuel, straight at Asante Samuel, just over
a minute to go in the game. What did Asante
Samuel do? Samuel did the thing you can't do at
the time. You can't do it. He literally dropped the ball,
literally and figuratively dropped the ball. On the next play,

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Manning was in the grasp. The officials did not blow
the whistle, cowardly of refusing to call the penalty against
the Giants, allowing Manning to keep playing. He escaped two
Patriot would be defenders. He then threw a pass deep
down field that also should have been intercepted or at

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least an incompletion, but David Tyree managed to beat out
Rodney Harrison to the ball. Tyree caught it. You might remember,
it's been called the greatest play in Super Bowl history
by some the helmet catch, and the Giants continue to
matriculate the ball down the field, they would score the
game clinching touchdown in the single biggest upset in Super

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Bowl history. None of that, None of that happens. The
helmet catch, all of that, None of that happens without
Asante Samuel's boner failing to snatch an easy interception. Asante
Samuel holds onto that ball. The Patriots are seven Super
Bowls in now they've won another, and he ends up

(10:57):
going out there and they have a big party. They
replaced the nineteen seventy two Dolphins, greatest team in NFL history,
nineteen and oh season. All of that in the blink,
him and I vanished because Asante Samuel made an epic,
epic mistake. It was the trapdoor opened up and he
fell into a pitot. All right, so we've we've apparently

(11:23):
lost Ben Maller. I'm sure momentarily we will try and
get Ben back on the phone. The gremlins have struck
here on the Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio.
If you have listened to the show for any length
of time, you know that sometimes this does happen from
time to time. Ben operating out of his home studio tonight,

(11:44):
He's not here physically with us in Sherman Oaks, and
so I don't know, the Internet went down or something
something went wrong. So the Coop, the Loop and and
Mark are going to try and get him hooked up
here moment Terrellly, we're now flying a little bit blind here,
but uh, we have any I don't know, do we

(12:06):
have any calls to go to Coop or somebody we
can we can talk to you to fill in the
time before Ben calls back in or we reconnect with him. Well,
Ed and Arlington has been on hold since like the
beginning of the show, So I mean there's a decent
chance he's asleep. Well let's give it a shot. Let's
let's see what what would compel Ed to be on
hold for so very, very long? And will he be

(12:27):
disappointed that he cannot talk to Ben? Ed and Arlington?
Are you there? Hello? Ed? Hey, Ed? How are Yeah?
It's Eddie. I'm doing fine. Hope you uh hope you
can locate Ben. Maybe you are to have an APB

(12:50):
put out before maybe somebody's abducted him. I think I
know where he is, but but you know, he's in
his house, he's in his home studio. But well, that's
ster or though we don't know how you may have
astonded with him. He may may have been kidnapped. That's
certainly true, because yeah, so what's on your what's on
your mind? Had you've I've told you've been on hold
for a way too long? What's going on? Yeah, well

(13:13):
I couldn't. I couldn't believe Ben devoted so much time
to golf on his talk show tonight. I'm I'm when
it comes to golf, I'm with Mark Twain. Golf has
but a good walk spoiled. I think he said he
did say that. I believe. I think you're right about that. Yeah,
I would agree with you. I'm not big on go well,

(13:33):
but he is the masters. I mean, the Master's pretty
big deal. I mean, you can't blame him, right, Well,
that's true. It is that time of year. But the
reason I called is, speaking of times of year, I
wanted to uh congratulate Ben for all the talk he's
given to major League Baseball since uh, we've just been

(13:55):
graced with the next seven months or so of the
Major League Baseball season. I think it's working out well enough. Yeah,
so you waited on hold for how a couple of
hours to tell Ben thank you for talking about baseball.
That's how they went. Well, Yeah, you know, Ben, you
only when you have an idea of what you're gonna
say when you dial up. That's only a loose guide

(14:18):
because Ben takes just about anything you say and takes
it whatever direction he wants to. Who knows what you
end up really talking about. Yeah, but uh, really, you're
right though, I should have hung up long ago. But
I don't think you guys like it when callers do that,
so we don't date on and just I'm reading my

(14:40):
smartphone here. Did you hear the Mona Dick and Daton
song while you're on hold? Did you hear that? I did?
I hate to to rip on people, uh, people whose talent,
whose musical talent is far in excessive mind and they qualified,
But that was a pretty that's a pretty awful rendition.

(15:03):
That's I think. I think somebody else made this observation earlier.
But it sounded like that was recorded with a commode mike.
I think somebody it did. It did kind of sound
like that. Usually in the bathroom you get some pretty
good acoustics, but did sound a little hollow. I don't
know anyway, I don't know. I think they found an

(15:24):
old cassette recorder and they used it to record to
that it was not studio quality. That is that is true? Well?
Speaking of music, Yeah, speaking of music, I did want
to compliment Coop the Loop on his musical choices earlier
for the bumper music and particularly the Pretenders, Big My,

(15:47):
Big Pretenders. And yeah, oh, I'm sorry to inform you
add that you were giving credit to the wrong person
because Coop is the phone guy, but it's usually it's
usually Roberto, but it's Mark. Mark is in for Roberto tonight.
So Mark is actually the music man tonight. He's the
one who plays this. All right. Well, I applaud Mark

(16:09):
in his taste in music. All right, venders are excellent.
All right. So you you wanted to call in to
compliment Ben, I'm talking baseball. You wanted to compliment Mark
on playing the music. Is there anything you would like
to compliment me on? Uh? Oh, ed Ed. When I
think of you, I think of hockey. Yeah, that's true.
But also I think you, uh you, you provide a

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balance to Ben. Ben's a bit raucous in the man
of the people. You bring a despite your being a
hockey fan. You bring a certain dignified gravitas to the proceedings. Anyways,
Thank you, Ben in that's right, thank you very much.
Well Ed. I'm sorry you had to wait so long
to not talk to Ben, but uh, but good on
you for helping me feel a little time. And then

(16:51):
we'll get Ben back here in a second, all right,
he said, all right, all right, So I'm told that
I think we've got Ben coming back here momentarily, So
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(17:40):
It's Ben Maller. Not just for the record, Eddie. Okay,
you keep saying the Gremlin's attack. The Gremlins did not
attack me, Eddie. This was not a Gremlin attack. I
just want the record to show that what happens, so
let me then you're walking through this. This This was one
of the most frustrating things that's happened. So I'm in
the middle of the Mallard monologue. I'm barking in the microphone.

(18:00):
I'm blabbing away, and all of a sudden, in my headphones,
I hear your voice, right, and you're the Gremlins attacked,
you know, I'm sure theman oaks and I hear all that,
and I'm screaming into the microphone. I'm pounding the table.
I'm kicking the equipment because I never lost the connection. Huh.
And the Gremlins attacked the equipment in the mother ship, Eddie.

(18:24):
So there's an issue with one of the pieces of
equipment in the main studio. So we had to switch
to a different You don't need to give you inside
radio stuff, but we had to switch is that the
first time that's happened. Usually it is no. That's these
things get used a lot, Eddie. I don't know if
you know that, so, uh, yeah, it's not the first time,
but it's I think it's the first time it's happened
with me. That's what I mean. But but I've heard

(18:45):
other shows have had that. We don't care about other shows.
I really care about this. No, I'm screaming, I'm I'm here.
I mean I'm yellow. So you're lucky enough to hear
that edit Arlington call. Then I tuned that out. I
love I love it, but I just you know, I
can only handle so much Texas Ranger talk. We didn't

(19:08):
actually talk Texas Rangers, which is oh good thing, even
though they're I think for first place you talked about Easter,
his favorite candy on East Well. He wanted to compliment
you on talking baseball, and then he wanted to compliment
Coop on playing the music. But then I told him
Coop doesn't play the music. It's Mark okay, And then
I said, what do you want to compliment me on?
And I can't remember he said something something nice. He
said said, I keep you in check or something like that.

(19:30):
I don't know so as much as the Mallard militia,
the p Ones, who are my biggest supporters, they really
despise when I talk golf. They love when something goes down.
Yeah he did, he did say he was he was
disappointed you talked about golf. He didn't like golf ed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
It's a it's a It's really a wonderful tribute if

(19:51):
you really know how much value you bring to to
the show, when you look at all the comments and
how excited they are that you're not on the show,
that you've been attacked by some kind of of kremlin
here and it's unfortunately didn't have a camera on you,
because I would. I would. I was throwing things on

(20:15):
my studio here. I was. I was so pissed because
I'm talking and I'm hearing you and you're like, Maler's
not there. Well, this happened. Sometimes I'm hearing everything and
I'm like, Eddie, I'm here, Eddie, I'm screaming, Eddie, I'm
yelling your name and nothing. And then Coop called me
up and said, hey, dummy, what happened. I'm not gonna

(20:36):
hear everything. What do you think anyway, all right, it's
the Ben Allah Show. And I don't know if anyone's
called or not, but people are upset. I did see this.
Keith is Ocho, Texo in Texas is upset. He says,
I'm disappointed Eddie did not do a pregnant pause into
a live read going into that that commercial block. Did

(20:57):
you do that, Eddie? Did you? You did not know?
Would you like me to do that? Eddie? Oh? Yeah,
I would actually would you do that for me? You
want me to clean that up a little bit? Yeah,
because I'm told they pay good money for these commercials,
but it doesn't sound like a commercial. Does not sound
like a commercial. And a reminder this Saturday, hopefully the

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we'll we'll reset here, get back on track because Eddie,
you're not on time, Garcia, bad job by you. Eddie,
you did a whole block bat job by you. But
we'll get back on track with the clock and we'll
have Cooper Loop with hooray for Holly would the Coop

(23:30):
Scoop on Entertainment will try to squeeze a call in
as well, and we also have Balderdash later this hour.
But let's get over to the Mermaid right over there.
Games of note, Garcia, Yeah, I should have had Coop
come on in preview Coop Scoop on Entertainment instead of that.
Edi missed opportunity. Missed opportunity, Now you'll never get it back.

(23:55):
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It is the Ben Mallers Show. As we press on,
and I want to congratulate a friend of the show.

(24:37):
I'm blocked from this guy on social media, Blake Snell.
He started that game in Atlanta for the pod Squad.
Blake Snell went three and two thirds innings. He give
up four runs and six hits, and now his era,
Blake Snell's earn run average is seven point eight eight. Bro,
I'm risking my live raw. Remember this dumbaster in covid.

(25:00):
Oh my god, what a dumb dumb blake Snell loser.
I'm so glad he sucks now, it's wonderful dumb. Anyway,
all right, let's see here. Who do we want to
take a call here? Actually, we have the Coop Scoop
on entertainment right now, Cooper Loope, you want to enlighten
us with entertainment news. Hooray for Holly Would, Hooray for

(25:22):
Holly Would. Here's the Kobal loop. Thank you, Ben, Yes, cool,
you're welcome, Thanks for saying thank you. Of course, we're
gonna start off. We're gonna start off in the theaters
with a couple of movies that are already out. In fact,
today was it was weird week this week because these
movies premiered on Wednesday. So that's why I kind of

(25:44):
kind of missed it last week. Oh it's Easter weekend.
That's because they Okay, yeah, that's it's probably why weekend
kids all like kids on spring break. And right, yeah, well,
two big movies, two movies that I'm excited about. One
of them, I've already seen the Super Mario Brothers movie.
I did. I did go and see that. The scale
of goodness, one to ten, what did they get? I

(26:06):
am going to give it and eight point five that good? Yes,
So listen, it's not like it's not like them. It's
like a great film with you know, a super compelling story.
It's pretty basic, but the nostalgia factor is through the
roof and the movie is just filled with you know,

(26:30):
Easter eggs. And if you grew up a gamer or
a fan of Nintendo at all, I think you're gonna
love the movie. It's I mean, I was a big,
you know, super Nintendo player, Nintendo sixty four. I was
all about you know, Mario and and all that stuff.
And it's and Donkey Kong and it's a great it's
it's it's fun. It's a very fun movie in my opinion.

(26:50):
Just think twenty years from now, they'll be making movies,
nostalgic movies about TikTok. That's happening. It's gonna happen. Twenty
years from now, they'll be doing all the other people
who are in like you're their their teens or twenties now,
when they're in their forties, will be watching Instagram and
TikTok movies. Well that sounds awful. It sounds terrible. Yeah,

(27:12):
I hope I'm dead by that point. Um so then, uh,
we also have Air. That's right there. I'm a fan
Air the movie, Air the Nike movie. Oh yeah, is
that worth my time? Have you seen that? I have
not seen it yet. I will be seeing Yes, I
will be seeing it this weekend. That it is. It

(27:34):
is directed by Ben Affleck, who also stars in the
movie as uh what is that guy's name? Phil Knight?
Thank you Phil Knight. Um. Matt Damon Jason Bateman are
also in the in the movie, and it's getting great reviews.
Uh so I am excited to see that it is stified. Friend.

(27:54):
Do you know who is playing Michael Jordan? I do not,
No one Michael Jordan is not in the movie or
a Michael Jordan's character. Really, yeah, how can you? I
don't know. I thought that was very odd as well.
They should Michael B. Jordan played Michael Jordan. That would
have been great Jordan and Jordan. I'm shocked. You know

(28:15):
who Michael B. Jordan is to be honest, Well, we
we had to. We had to tell him. Oh yeah,
it was. It was during the previous entertainment. I am
plugged it in Hollywood. I'm a maid man. Woh wow. Yeah.
Interesting looking at the cast here, and uh, did they
just talk about Jordan's Yes, well, his parents parents are yeah.

(28:38):
Uh it was Alfree Alphree Woodard playing his mom. Is
that right, Viola da Sorry? Yes, In fact, I did
read that that was the one demand that Michael Jordan
had was that Viola Davis play his mother. Chris Tucker
and Marlon Lands are in the movie as well. Interesting.
All right, Yeah, anyway, I will see that this weekend

(29:00):
and I'll probably report back to you next week. But
I am. I'm super excited about that. And moving on
one last thing. We have a new comedy on Hulu.
Uh it is getting good reviews. That is called Tiny
Beautiful Things and The Kyler Murray's Story. Huh uh. It
is a it's a mini series that stars Catherine Hahn,

(29:22):
who I like a lot. She Uh, you appreciate her work, Yes,
she's good, she's skilled. She well, yeah, she's she's an
older actress, but you know, like a fine wine older actress.
Oh yes, in my opinion, I don't know. I just
find her. Did you ever under sexy? Did you ever
see one division? I did not. She's very good in that. Okay, Yeah,

(29:44):
she's because she's great and everything she's INU. She plays
a she takes a new job as an advice columnist
just as her own life begins falling apart, and hilarity sues. Yes,
and that is that, Scoop Scoop on Entertainment. I thank
you for Kop, and I thank you Coop and anyone
on hold. If you want to ask the people on hold, Coop,
go through and see if they want to play all
then I know we had some people lined up and unfortunately,

(30:06):
because of some things that were out of our control,
it all went to hell in a hand basket, Eddie.
Fun fact for you. I want to congratulate your Pittsburgh Pirates.
People like to take shots to the Pirates and say
the Pittsburgh Pirates are a bush League operation. They are,
They're a nickel and dime operations. There. Did you see
that the people that work at PNC Park in Pittsburgh,

(30:28):
the ones that sell the peanuts and the cracker jacks
and the nachos and the hot dogs, and the PNC
Park ushers union did report the Pirates offered a wage increase.
You're about this, Eddie, No, sir, This is big. This
is going to change the lives of the people that
work at the stands selling all the different items in Pittsburgh.

(30:50):
The Pirates have offered a five cent raise in twenty
twenty four and a ten cent raise in twenty twenty five.
My god, what in the world will they do? Why
would you even bother? I think I've worked at radio
stations that give less razors than that, to be fair.
But but anyway, I mean that that you know, come on,

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that's the Pirates for you, that's the Buckos. And well
that's on one end of the money spectrum. How about
this one from Sportaco. They report that remember this guy
Jimmer for debt BYU summer. Yeah, he won the Wooden
Award Jimmer for debt and he is now launching a
fifty million dollar investment fund, a venture capital fund. Jimmer

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for deet that b y U guide it shot three
point shots and all that. That was his claim to fame.
Didn't make it in the NBA, had a cup of
coffee in the NBA. Didn't make it. And now he's
apparently involved in a fifty million dollar hedge fund. Not
hedge fund, but the investment venture capital situation. All right,
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Progressive dot com. Let's welcome in our contestants. On this
edition of Baldadash. We have Nick in Berkeley, who's gonna
play in northern California. Hello Nick, Welcome, Look at a bend. Nick,
you got the pipes. Nick, you got the pipes. My man,
all right, hold on sack, You're gonna play the game.

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A Chris Chris and Massachusetts. Hello Chris the Commonwealth. Hello,
hey man, thanks for the ask. Cameul you know, thank
you very much. I hate thank you. I'm ready to go.
You missed. I was gonna Ran. I had some thoughts
that I was gonna spill my guts about Mac Jones.
But and I was. I'll tell you, Chris, because I

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didn't get to say what I wanted to say because
I was my equipment. The equipment at the mothership was attacked.
But real quick, you know, I say, all these people
who are upset, like, how could Mac Jones name be
in a trade room. He's not even that good. I
don't understand what the outrage is like. He's a he's
a mediocre quarterback. So far, it's so dumb, these NFL

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insider guys. Oh, I can't believe this. All right, let's
play the game. We have waddash the category number one
Alumni Association, Category two. Starting off right, Your name is
your buzzer? Nick in Berkeley, pick a category plays Nick
starting off right? All right, starting off right. These athletes
all played a big part of a championship team as

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a rookie. As a rookie, your name is your buzzer
two hundred dollars as a rookie. Way back in nineteen
thirty six, this Hall of famer hit three forty six
in the World Series to help the Yankees to their
first of four straight World Series. He would later go
on to set the record for the longest hitting street

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Chrish Chris, Oh my god, mckimann, tell no, no, oh Nick,
you want to give her shot? No, never a Yankee,
but wash your mouth. That was so no, No, you're wrong.

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Nobody knows this guy. That guy's been There was a song,
Oh my god, everyone right now listening is screaming, but
you don't, you don't get the points. But what is it? Chris,
it's Jolton Joe. Oh my god, Oh my god. Yeah,

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I know all right here. Four hundred bucks is gonna
get even better. Though he had technically played in Argentina
and Italy, it was this player's rookie year in the
NBA when he helped lead the San Antonio Spurs to
their second championship. Chris, Yeah, that is correct, man, hooge

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your nobly yes, that is correct, man noble, got that right.
So four heard bucks. We keep going on, starting off
right for six hundred. Everyone in the stadium wanted a
different play call, but this rookie defensive back was glad
it was a pass from the one yard line as
he intercepted it to steal a world for his team.

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M Chris, Chris, Chris, guys, it's it's oh my god,
you got you're killing us. Now we're out of time. Nick,
you want to steal Nick Man something Jones, My god,

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you guys are unbelievable. Malcolm Butler, I'll give you a
pass on Joe Demashio. But Malcolm Butler was not that
long ago. Let's see if Chris from Massachusetts last one
thousand dollars field There was twenty four years old when
he led off for the Red Sox and hit four
thirty eight with a five hundred on basebas and threw

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out the World Series. He would go on to leave
the al and stolen bases three times. Oh God, not
even a clue, Not even a clue, Red Sox fan Chris,
It's Jacob Ellsburg. Jacoby Ellsbury, Jacoby Ellsburg Hill. My god,

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what a way to end the week. Holy crap.