April 11, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about former Cheating Astro Evan Gattis giving details about the cheating in 2017, how MLB should respond, Cite the Bite, and much more!
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cheating Astro. Evan Gaddis giving details on the cheating in
twenty seventeen. What do you make of the catcher for
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that twenty seventeen astro team, one of the big players
in that team, his admission on what exactly went on
with that twenty seven cheating squad. Where are the Dodger
fans on this one? And how should Major League Baseball
respond to this new revelation from the cheating astril. We'll
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talk about all that and more right now in our
number four and here it is, call it cheat Chat. Well,
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at lead this hour coming from baseball, but it's the
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hot tub time machine version of baseball. An old friend
is back a batting practice fastball right down the middle,
right in our wheelhouse. The single greatest cheating scandal in
modern professional sports has popped back up. It's like whack
a mole entered his back. Those cheating as one, one, two,
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one thousand holes are chirping again. Now, if you didn't
see this, maybe not. Former catcher and the outfielder designated
hitter Evan Goddess speaking his mind. He was a member
of the infamous twenty seventeen dirt Bags in Houston, one
of the most despicable teams in baseball history, and he
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cleared out his thoughts on the cheating ways of those
asks ros. Randomly, it popped up on social media, Goddess
spilling the beans. Spilling the beans st if you didn't
see this and you mikely missed it. So some of
the highlights is a lot to unpack. But among the
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revelations that came out of this on social media, some
of the highlights here. The big one is a full
admission that the Astros knew exactly what Clayton Kershaw was
throwing in Game five of the twenty seventeen World Series.
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And the quote was, I think they knew, meaning the
Dodgers and you used multiple signs. But it's it's been
a while, Goddess said there, I remember knowing what was
coming against char Shaw. That's a quote. I remember knowing
what was coming against Kershaw. As a team, we swung
and missed a handful of times only against him. Now
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here's a fun fact on that regard. So there's one
of the nerds came up with this number. They started
tracking swinging strikes on breaking balls became a thing in
twenty o eight, so fifteen years ago. No major League
baseball pitcher has more than twenty two hundred of those
except for Clayton Kershaw. Clayton Kershaw has over thirty five
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hundreds swings and misses on breaking pitches since twenty oh eight.
Now here's where it gets interesting. In the twenty seventeen
World Series, in Game five of that World Series, Clayton
Kershaw through fifty one breaking balls against the cheating Astros,
a team that was deciphering and knew they had video.
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They knew exactly what was coming. You want to take
a guess how many times the twenty seventeen Astros in
Game five of the World Series swung and missed against
Clayton Kershaw. How about none? Zero, zippo, bupkiss. They did
not have a single swing in miss in game five.
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I wonder how they were able to pull that off.
Buzz buzz, whistle whistle. How did they do it? Cheating schmucks,
You cheating schmucks. You know who you are. But wait,
there's more. But wait, there's more. Goddess went on to say.
He said they were really good at deciphering signs. I
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wonder how they had cameras everywhere and they were deciding
they used the trust dance. He went on, and uh,
he was all over the place with this. He says,
the craziest thing about the cheating year God has said
was that we were facing a guy like you, Darvish
and getting shut out, and we knew what was coming.
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They knew was coming, was the the quote. But wait,
there's more more from the a stro He then did
something a lot of these a holes in Houston do
He implied that the Dodgers. He said, quote, I'm pretty
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sure the Dodgers had a system as well. So, okay,
I've heard this from other people with the answers. Don't
you think if there was any kind of actual substance there,
they would have said what the Dodgers were doing? And
nothing's like they're just throwing it other Well, they were
doing it too. They were doing it too, my fat ass.
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All right, So we can go on and on the
question here, what do you make of Evan Goddess, his
admission and the things he's discussed here about the twenty
seventeen as stros So I've got winery, medicine, cabinet, and
rusty machette, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a Cheetah Cheetah
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Cheetah Cheetah Cheetah. Cheetah is what we're gonna make, all right.
So to lead off, evan goddess is a pimple on
an elephant's ass in baseball history, and this is what
he's known for. Imagine that being your legacy. This is
what this guy's known for. He came into the major
leagues in twenty thirteen, he was out of the major
leagues in twenty eighteen, spent six years in the big leagues,
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and this is what his claim to famous right here, right,
And he ends up doing some kind of Q and
A thing on social media and ninety nine percent of
the questions are about cheating. Why because that's what he's
known for. He's the guy from the twenty seventeen a
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holes And it turns into a trip to the winery.
It's an it's old wine in a new bottle, and
these guys are so embolden they know they got away
with it. It's the perfect crime. And they still have
cheaters to this day. Al Bouvet and Bregman, dirty cheaters
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still playing. That's why real baseball fans don't count last
year's World Series. And these guys don't even try to downplay.
They don't even try to sugarcoade what they did. They
brag about it, they talk about it glowing. Furthermore, where
are the Dodger fans on this one? People get everyone,
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So why are you still bringing up twenty seven two?
That's putting a long time move on. This is why
it's things like this. You never forget. No justice, no peace,
No justice, no peace, And that is my belief. There
was no justice and every real Dodger fan should release
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a primal screen. My guy Roberto is still paying off
those twenty seventeen World Series tickets. It's the greatest scam
in the history a sport. Those a holes were playing
by different rules, they knew what was coming. They still
could not outscore the Dodgers in the twenty seventeen World Series.
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That shows you how much better that Dodger team was
than the a holes. Take about a legacy play for
Clayton Kershaw and how pathetic this turned out to be.
This is a trip to the medicine cabinet. You gotta
get some of that new skin. I'll tell you why,
because the scab ripped off by the Astros, the ass
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holy canal. Now what about the buzzer? Hey up, Jacob
for the buzzer. Evan Goddess talked about that. He didn't
deny it. He did not deny the buzzer. He did
not deny how to buy his buzzer. He said, I
don't know if there's any truth to buzzers. I don't know,
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is not at denial, don't know. Maybe I don't know.
He says, if there was, l Tube wouldn't want it anyway,
he said, he's a reactionary hitter. Well, maybe he wouldn't
want it because he tried it and it didn't work,
or maybe it worked and he hit a home run
against the Yankees in the American Championship Series and he
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didn't want anyone to take his jersey off because he
had a buzzer on. Check him for the buzzer, check
him far the buzzer. But wait, there's more. That's something
here that was said that I think is the big
revelation in all this, and that is the possibility and
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really the probability that the Astros we're doing this on
the road, that it wasn't just at home. That's the
main argument from the despicable fan base in Houston that
it was well, it was just at home. Right, and
Goddess was asked about that, he says, well, we just
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got really good at deciphering signs when runners were on base,
even from first and third, tipping pitches, etc. We were
the best team on the planet at everything. So he
doesn't deny that they were doing it on the road.
Holy crap, All right, party shot. So how should major
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League Baseball respond? Well, I think we all know what
major League Baseball must do, Rob Manford should grow a
pair of testicles. It's not too late, Rob, you can
grow a pair of balls. Get some hair on your chest. Okay,
And and this is the rusty machete with blood stains
on it. You have new evidence. You can open up
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the case again. You can reopen the case. You found
the rusty machete with evidence DNA evidence, and you can
retroactively do the right thing. You can save your pathetic
legacy as a spineless, gutless commissioner of baseball. I'm not
gonna say that all will be forgiven, but a lot
of it will be forgiven. You have a chance, Rob Man,
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for it is a mia kulpa. You know what to do.
You take away the twenty seventeen title. You also avoid
the twenty twenty title, you suspend Jose Altuvee, Alex Bregman,
George Springer and all other retired and active members of
the twenty seventeen Astros for five years. Five years, get
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So Major League Baseball last year decided they wanted to
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spice up the home run celebration. So they decided to
take a page at a care at tops book, and
now they have. Most teams in baseball have some kind
of celebratory prop Sure, if you're like baseball, you've seen
this right, might be a trident in Seattle or in
every team's got their own thing Angels last year at
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a cowboy hat. Well, with that as the backdrop, a
story for the Birds, A story for the Birds that
will likely end up getting one Major League Baseball team
to have to change their celebratory dance after a home run.
What is that? We'll get to it and we will
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spicy hot ahole monologue about the show. Scott writes in,
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says Ben, You're completely right to be upset because the
Astros were not the better team in twenty seventeen. The
Dodgers were. Well, Thank you, Scott, I appreciate that. Ivan
writes in, says Benny, who are the champions? Live in reality? Okay,
so I live actually in Realityville. I'm the mayor of Realityville,
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and I'm looking at my big board here, and I
think you can back me up on this, Roberto, It
says void. The twenty two World Series is void. The
same team won the twenty twenty two World Series that
won the nineteen ninety four World Series in the twenty
seventeen World Series. Unfortunately, the history of baseball three years
no team won the World Series nineteen twenty seventeen, twenty
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twenty two. It's very sad that it worked out that way.
We hate for that to happen. Larry writes in. He says, hey,
Ben Kenneth saw Mountain Mallard, the new commissioner of all
sports leagues. Damn right, the KC car hauler. Right, since hopeful,
hopefully tomorrow you'll do a Pete Rose or shoeless Joe
Jackson monologue. Well, if Pete gets on a rant there
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on Twitter, we'll do that. Midnight Walker writes in, from
the Twin Cities, is this great monologue? Man? One of
the reasons we love you is your passion and conviction
are unwavering. He says. The Astros should be punished, but
they won't be man fraud as a coward, and the
cheating Astros will be polishing their fake rings when we're
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long gone, So he said, I've in the terrible He's
all over these he's writing in multiple times. You've already
read his comment on the are, so we will not
read another one. Rocket Vic. Also, now he's not denying
what Goddess is saying, but he's claiming there was alcohol involved.
He says that there was some kind of drinking that
was involved. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
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hello to blind Emmett the Seahawk fan. Hello, blind Emmy.
I know earlier in the Mount of Money that A
Kathy and Madison were saying that she haven't heard from
Dick and Dayton in a while. So I got to say,
is hopefully you know we have a healthy Dick in Dayton. Oh,
I see what you did there. I see what you
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did there, blind Blind Would you like to do a
wellness check on Dick? Is he there? Is he there
right now? I'll put you on with him and I
go out with him. Yeah, all right, let's see. Let's
see here. We'll put you on. Hold on a second
of me, punch you up here. Dick and Dayton say
hello to uh say hello, please, Dick and Dayton, go ahead,
say hello, Hello, Dick. No, I guess he hung up.
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That's too bad. Unfortunately, very rude of him to hang
up like that. Your dream could have come true. They're
blind em it. But unfortunately, I guess dickhead other things
to do. Yeah, you know, Dick's a busy man. But
I kind of call I was gonna play amount of money,
but I didn't get on. But my backup is this
whole Rudy Gobert thing. And it's ironic, this whole Rudy
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Gobert trade, because like I feel like the Timberwolves are
at the same spot they were last year at that
Rudy Gobert, like they're about to make the playing tournament
even though they know won the play and last year
and made to the playoffs. But Rudy Gobert is getting
paid forty two million dollars this year, forty three million
the next year, and then it goes to forty five
to forty six, so like his his value is going up.
And you're saying, you know, how, you know you think
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the suspension's kind of dumb, and you know, I can agree,
Like it was just like a little punch to the
chess type thing. From what I've heard so it's just
like at the same time, though, it's like with all
the drama from like a punch. I'm sure there's people
are like, Oh, I love Rudy, I'm on Rudy Sign.
I'm sure there's a guys who are you know on
the college. You don't even the President's already been said.
We did a monogue about it early. The President's already
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been said. Draymond Green, his punch was much worse. Trust
me on that blind em was much worse to Jordan Pool,
to the jaw of Jordan Pool. The Warriors set the precedent.
They did not suspend Draymond Green for a regular season game,
did not suspend him. So if you don't suspend Raymond
Green for a regular season game, supposedly this for gaysy
playing tournament's more important the regular season game. So you
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certainly don't suspend the great French basketball player who sucks
in big games. Anyway, in Rudy Gobert here, this guy's
been a terrible playoff player. It might be that he's
gone anyway. You know, I'll be level headed Emmett. If
the Minnesota Terris, I should should I say? When Minnesota
beats the Lakers without Rudy Gobert. You know, I will
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be rational. I will not overreact to that. Yeah, Coople
start his trip to Boston a little early. There, he'll
he'll be leaving. He'll be going to the airport on
standby for another flight. Is what we'll be doing. All right.
Then did you see said about Rudy. Oh yeah, because
because Rudy Gobert trashed him so and then Draymond held
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onto that and waited, and then he had the opportunity,
so he talked trash back and I gotta go, thank Mr. Yes,
you gotta thank. I gotta go. So the Baltimore Orioles,
the Baltimore Orioles have cranked things up in the celebratory department.
The Orioles have unveiled a home run celebration. Will this
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get them canceled? It depends depends what mood the commissioner is.
But the Orioles have introduced their new celebration. It is
a Baltimore Oriole beer bong home run celebration. Uh yeah, well,
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I guess it's technically a water bong celebration. How long
before this gets banned? H That's what I'm thinking, Eddie.
This was not right. You can't do this. What about
the children? What about the kids' During Monday's game against
the Athletics, where there were seven people that watched that game,
and one of the oriol players hit a home run
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and was so excited that in the dug out there
they decided to dust off. What I assume is, I
don't know if they've been doing this all year. I
don't think they've done this, although if they have, no
one's no one's noticed. But it was a two to
one game first inning, and here we come. The Orioles
aren't even like running away from it. They were like
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promoting it. The video. I don't know that it went viral.
I don't think anything from the Orioles goes viral, but
you know it was got a fair amount of traction
considering we're talking about the Orioles. And I wasn't seeing
by millions of people, but hundreds of thousands of people
witnessed the celebrat Tory beer bong celebration. We should do
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that when I have a really good segment, we should
do We should have like a little bong thing out here.
We could we could celebrate like the fake beer bong
wouldn't that be great? Have you ever done a beer
bong been? Uh? No, I have not you. Yes, I
have a big beer bong guy. Not big, but yeah,
I've done it before. State. Yeah. I'm more of a
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one bearded guy, time guy, Roberto beer Bon, Oh yeah,
all the time, health parties, parties, Coop. We know Cooper
likes all kinds of bong, So I don't even bother
asking Coop because now I don't think he likes Beard, No,
but he likes ce Bon. Yeah. Yeah. Other. Be sure
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My fun fact, Eddie, My fun fact, Eddie. Are you
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ready for my fun fact? No, Eddie, he's gonna blow
you away with the fun fun fact. Here we go,
Here we go. Congratulations. The you know the pitch clock, Eddie,
coming to baseball right now, right, and it's made the
game's much quicker. But it's also affected sales of alcohol
at major league games. So the Milwaukee Brewers have decided,
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we don't have enough time to sell alcohol, so they've
decided to adjust their beer polissy. At Brewer games, they've
extended alcohol sales until the end of the eighth inning
to allow fairs to get more liquor. That's my fun fact, Eddie,
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the Milwaukee Brewers, they want you to get drunker to
watch their product. That's the broke for a right there,
good job. See fun fact. Well, that's until somebody does
something bad, Eddie, and then they will remove that. It's
a temporary, experimental process. The games are shorter. That means
you're drinking and any longer and you're more drunk when
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you get When years ago, when I was with the Dodgers,
we went into Milwaukee at the Old County Stadium at night.
It smelled like beer in the air in Milwaukee. The barley.
That's the whole state of Milwaukee. Well, it's Milwaukee's actually
a city, Eddie, it's the state of Wisconsin. Right. Yeah.
But that's my fun fact, Eddie. That's my fun fact.
The brewers extending alcohol sales because the games are going
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too quick. Boy, that was fun. That's a great fun fact, Eddie.
It's a great fun fact. The Rangers beat the Royals
eleven to two. Texas starter Andrew Haney times in American
League record with nine consecutive strikeouse. He finished with ten
in the win. Braves walk off with the five for
one over the Reds and ten comes walk off with
the two on one of the Mariners and ten Max
Munsey two homers, seven driven in and the Dodgers nine
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one one over the Giants and Alec Bohm a homer
in six RBI for the Phillies and their fifteen three
win over the Marlins. In the NHL, the may Believes
beat the Panthers two one in overtime. Islanders follow the
Capitals five to two, so Florida's lead is at two points.
Islanders at one point on Pittsburgh for the final playoffs
spot in the East. Jets over the Sharks six to two.
Predators down the Flames three two in a shootout. Winnipeg
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still is a three point lead on Nashville for the
final playoffs spot. In the West. Calgary eliminated from the
playoffs with their loss to the Predators. Back to Ben
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Progressive dot Com. Let's go to Austin, who's not in Austin.
He's in Tennessee, but his name's Austin Austin. What's going on?
Austin not to much man, I want to I don't
even talk about baseball or I'm a league baseball guy.
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But you talk about the Astros and they're alleged uh wins.
But I tell you all about that being a Patriot fan.
With all the alleged wins we had, I guess they say, no, no,
this is this is much the Astros did. The Patriots
look like minor leaguers compared to the Astros. But I
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could ask you a question about baseball. Actually, you need
the Nashville will ever get a team? I do? I
do baseball. Well, see here's the problem. Baseball is gonna
add two expansion teams when if here's what you need
to have happened. You need the Athletics to move to
Vegas because that'll clear the Vegas market. And you need
Tampa well or Tampa to move to Nashville because you could.
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But that's you could have Tampa Bay go to Nashville.
But yet the Nashville market is that you live in
a hiptown Austin. You live in a hip place. People want,
people want to be there, Baseball wants to be there,
and that's where the cool people are now is in Nashville. Yeah,
the sounds are here Saturday or Friday. Yeah, yeah, no
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it geographically it makes sense like you could baseball. It
depends on when the owners want to make more money
and and at what point, which is probably today or yesterday,
they'd like to make more money. But you you get
rid of if the Rays moved to Nashville, that boom,
you got your team, and then the A's moved to Vegas,
and then that opens up Mexico City and maybe somewhere
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else in Canada, I don't know where else in the
United State. Montreal? What was that guy I used to
get when I had my website, was a guy that
used to play for the Expo's name Warren Cremarti, who
used to email me Expo propaganda about getting the ex
He did and uh and but they nobody went to
those games in Montreal. Wouldn't the same thing happen if
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they brought the Expos back? And they better call him
the Expos if they put the team back better So anyway,
I just bow guarded your call, Austin. We just hijacked
your call. You're upset by that or you bothered by that? No? No, sorry,
you say want no ra the razor? No no, you
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want the Razor actually good No, no, you don't want
the Oakland A's. The A's they have more history, but
Tampa Bay's actually and they know what they're doing. They
actually have good teams. It's okay. See it's I thought
you were saying. I thought you were saying the races
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and raised. It sounds all the same to me. You
say Tomato, I say tomorrow, right right. Yeah. But back
to my patriot question. Do you Bill Belichick said we
should we should rely on his last twenty years for
future success. Do you think anybody that can quarterback room
could win us a second round in the playoffs? Well
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not unless they have amazing players like Mac Jones. If
you he saw it, we saw him at Alabama. He's
got great players around him. It'll be okay. But they
don't have great players around him. That's the that's the row.
Thank you, Austin. Appreciate that well. That A's and Rays
very similar. I'm a big proponent, though, of having names
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that fit the city. I assume if the A's Athletics
move to Vegas, they'll be called the Athletics. But it
annoys me that the hockey team in Vegas does not
have and that was an expansion team, the Golden Knights,
that they should have a Vegas name, Slot Machines, One
Armed Bandits or something something like that fits the city.
W NBA does it right again? Yeah, well there there
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you go. The w NBA did it? Did it give
a bit of a Vegas what are they called the
Aces right? Yeah? Which is like a week. I mean
you could go deeper than that. You could you know,
the Black Jacks or something like that. You could go
down that road and racist. I know everything's racist, but
what about the Nashville like you you've got the country
music vibe there, you got that. I think the Nashville
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Sounds is a pretty good name as it is that
the minor league team in Nashville. I think that's a
good name. Utah Jazz great fit. Solid. There's a lot
of solid jazz, like little jazz bars in Salt Lake.
The culture of jazz. It was really the birthplace of jazz,
at least the NBA's version of of jazz. Well, hey,
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you guys, should I know the lakes in LA. I
mean there's a lot of trolley dodgers. Yeah, a lot
of trolley dodgers. I haven't seen many Angels. And even
though that's the team named after the city of Angels,
I don't see a lot of angels. One more crime
than angels. Yeah, there's a lot of criminals. I see
a lot of criminals. Park Lake, Yeah, yeah, beautiful Lake.
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Get any kind of controversial? Yeah? All right? Is the
Bannet Mallers Show. When we get back to naming teams
after laundry? Will we ever see another team named after laundry?
You got the Red Sox, the White Sox. If you
were to name a baseball team in Boston or Chicago,
you would not name them after laundry. You would come
up with something else. Well we ever, has there ever
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in the last fifty years has been there's been a
team named after laundry? The Las Vegas wife Beaters? Oh,
how dare you? How there? You? All right? Anyway? It
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Ben Maller, Josh writes, and he says that the Minnesota
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Twins have also increased or extended beer sales in addition
to the Milwaukee brewers. You gotta make that money, man,
gotta make that money. It charged so much for beer
at baseball games. That's where they make tons of dough.
Travis says, fun fact, back to you, that smell in
(32:35):
Milwaukee was a bakery that is in downtown. That's what
he says. But Sheila, she has her own. Everyone's got
fun fact. You're stealing myb terrya Sheila, how dare you?
She says, fun fact back at you. You may have
smelled beer in the air when you were at County
Stadium because there were three breweries within two miles of
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County stadiums. So Sheila says it was the breweries. But
then this other guy, Travis is like, nah, it was
the bakery. It was the bakery in downtown Milwaukee that
I I don't know. It smelled like beer to me,
that's what it smelled like. And we're making beer, so
scratch off. He sent a photo of his breakfast. Do
you see this? He's got four four jumbo shrimp and
(33:23):
three steaks. With some bread not not photoed. That's his
breakfast now, that is the breakfast of champions or just
truck drivers from Arkansas. I love shrimp, but not no,
you don't want that with some looks like he's got.
Is that ketchup or barbecue sauce on the on the steak.
I can't tell a serious I can't tell. I don't
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know what something's on there. So our friend Jay Scoop,
we love Jay Scoop. Jay Scoop is a big part
of the show. He has sent us a lot of
great music over the years we've met him. He comes
to a lot of the events that we do. He's
been a big part of it. He put together the
Seattle event and we did that in twenty nineteen before COVID.
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That was a lot of fun. He showed up last year.
We had a Mallard meet and greet here in la
and he was at that. I hope he can make
it to the one in Minnesota, but I think he
might still be in the Ukraine, and he said that
he's He sent a bunch of videos the many weather
the weather features of the Ukraine. They're driving around and
some videos there appears to be a giant cupcake that
(34:27):
he sent him. He says he misses everyone on the show,
so I have some others, but you know, I don't
want to give too much. I mean, he does send
me some other stuff off here. But but he's he's
doing okay. He's he's safe, he says, as safe as
can be. And he's kind of bouncing all over the place,
not staying in any one location, as you might imagine.
You don't want to stay in one location if they're
(34:48):
shooting missiles back at you. Here we go. That's he
needs that we play random generic sound bite, you know,
in a sports and enterty, a cliche spoken by so
called experts. Try to tell us who's doing the talking.
I need some judges. Right now eight seven seven ninety
(35:10):
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six
three six nine. It is site the Bite, the Great
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(35:30):
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Call right now eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six sixty
three six nine, and let's go to the audio tape.
Someone from the world of sports the last seven to
end days. Let's get something done. Let's get something done.
Let's get something done. That's a lot of words. That's
a lot of words on the phone. Let's get something done.
Let's get something done. Who is this? Is it? Someone
(36:15):
who's a player, a coach, prominent person in the media.
Who is it? Let's get something done? What are we
gonna get done? I hold, I have no idea? Well,
anyone get this right? Eddie? I am going to go
Caller five, Caller five. Eddy's gonna get it right? What
(36:36):
say you will get such a loser? Roberto Winner? Absolutely,
nobody's gonna get this right. Man. Do you know who
it is? Eddie? No? Okay, I get something done? What
about you? Coobo? No one? No one? Caller five, Let's
start out with calling number one a man that somehow
(36:57):
one last is my guy. I had a bad, bad game.
Uncle Moe is in the leadoff chair, Uncle Mo. And'
is that former Boston Red Sox legend Doug Mirrabelly Doug Mirabelly?
Is that Doug Mirabelly. Didn't Doug Mirabelly take the baseball
from the first when he broke the curse of the
(37:20):
Bambino and he took the ball and they wouldn't give
it back? Right? Let make all right, I thank you, No,
not Doug Mirabelly, but thank you for that. Let's go
to Shane in the morn eight seven seven ninety nine. Fox,
keep trying. If you get a busy signal, these knuckleheads
hang up pretty quick, Shane if they don't really answer
Shane and the mone is that Lakers star Tristan Thompson. Yes,
(37:41):
Tristan Thompson signed for the playoffs. But no, all right,
hang up on yourself. It's not Tristan Thompson. Let's go
to Let's go to Joe, who's in the commonwealth Joe site. Actually,
here's the clue. Joe led all Division two schools and
all purpose yards per game as a junior. Joe, you're up,
Let's get something done. Uh and I didn't hear him? RONI,
(38:06):
I don't know Lawrence Moroni? Is it Lawrence Maneau? It
is my laws morony? But thank you, Joe. Time for
caller number four. Isaac is in South Carolina. Isaac site
to bite the great sports radio mystery. This guy led
all Division two schools and all purpose yards per game
as a junior. Let's go with uh, Marshall f Marshall
(38:30):
Falk from San Diego State, that great Division two school. No,
that is incorrect, Let's get something done. Time for another clue.
This person one of only two players in NFL history
to have ten or more rushing touchdowns and five or
more receiving touchdowns in consecutive seasons. Steven in Kansas City
for the wedge statement? Is it Kansas City first Baseman?
(38:51):
Steve Balboni, Austin Act, are you dummy's charge your season?
You don't even know who he is? You Austin Eckler
And she doesn't know who aston Austin Eckler. Oh for
to Eckler
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, hour four of
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cheating Astro. Evan Gaddis giving details on the cheating in
twenty seventeen. What do you make of the catcher for
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that twenty seventeen astro team, one of the big players
in that team, his admission on what exactly went on
with that twenty seven cheating squad. Where are the Dodger
fans on this one? And how should Major League Baseball
respond to this new revelation from the cheating astril. We'll
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talk about all that and more right now in our
number four and here it is, call it cheat Chat. Well,
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at lead this hour coming from baseball, but it's the
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hot tub time machine version of baseball. An old friend
is back a batting practice fastball right down the middle,
right in our wheelhouse. The single greatest cheating scandal in
modern professional sports has popped back up. It's like whack
a mole entered his back. Those cheating as one, one, two,
(02:36):
one thousand holes are chirping again. Now, if you didn't
see this, maybe not. Former catcher and the outfielder designated
hitter Evan Goddess speaking his mind. He was a member
of the infamous twenty seventeen dirt Bags in Houston, one
of the most despicable teams in baseball history, and he
(03:01):
cleared out his thoughts on the cheating ways of those
asks ros. Randomly, it popped up on social media, Goddess
spilling the beans. Spilling the beans st if you didn't
see this and you mikely missed it. So some of
the highlights is a lot to unpack. But among the
(03:22):
revelations that came out of this on social media, some
of the highlights here. The big one is a full
admission that the Astros knew exactly what Clayton Kershaw was
throwing in Game five of the twenty seventeen World Series.
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And the quote was, I think they knew, meaning the
Dodgers and you used multiple signs. But it's it's been
a while, Goddess said there, I remember knowing what was
coming against char Shaw. That's a quote. I remember knowing
what was coming against Kershaw. As a team, we swung
and missed a handful of times only against him. Now
(04:08):
here's a fun fact on that regard. So there's one
of the nerds came up with this number. They started
tracking swinging strikes on breaking balls became a thing in
twenty o eight, so fifteen years ago. No major League
baseball pitcher has more than twenty two hundred of those
except for Clayton Kershaw. Clayton Kershaw has over thirty five
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hundreds swings and misses on breaking pitches since twenty oh eight.
Now here's where it gets interesting. In the twenty seventeen
World Series, in Game five of that World Series, Clayton
Kershaw through fifty one breaking balls against the cheating Astros,
a team that was deciphering and knew they had video.
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They knew exactly what was coming. You want to take
a guess how many times the twenty seventeen Astros in
Game five of the World Series swung and missed against
Clayton Kershaw. How about none? Zero, zippo, bupkiss. They did
not have a single swing in miss in game five.
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I wonder how they were able to pull that off.
Buzz buzz, whistle whistle. How did they do it? Cheating schmucks,
You cheating schmucks. You know who you are. But wait,
there's more. But wait, there's more. Goddess went on to say.
He said they were really good at deciphering signs. I
(05:37):
wonder how they had cameras everywhere and they were deciding
they used the trust dance. He went on, and uh,
he was all over the place with this. He says,
the craziest thing about the cheating year God has said
was that we were facing a guy like you, Darvish
and getting shut out, and we knew what was coming.
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They knew was coming, was the the quote. But wait,
there's more more from the a stro He then did
something a lot of these a holes in Houston do
He implied that the Dodgers. He said, quote, I'm pretty
(06:20):
sure the Dodgers had a system as well. So, okay,
I've heard this from other people with the answers. Don't
you think if there was any kind of actual substance there,
they would have said what the Dodgers were doing? And
nothing's like they're just throwing it other Well, they were
doing it too. They were doing it too, my fat ass.
(06:45):
All right, So we can go on and on the
question here, what do you make of Evan Goddess, his
admission and the things he's discussed here about the twenty
seventeen as stros So I've got winery, medicine, cabinet, and
rusty machette, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a Cheetah Cheetah
(07:05):
Cheetah Cheetah Cheetah. Cheetah is what we're gonna make, all right.
So to lead off, evan goddess is a pimple on
an elephant's ass in baseball history, and this is what
he's known for. Imagine that being your legacy. This is
what this guy's known for. He came into the major
leagues in twenty thirteen, he was out of the major
leagues in twenty eighteen, spent six years in the big leagues,
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and this is what his claim to famous right here, right,
And he ends up doing some kind of Q and
A thing on social media and ninety nine percent of
the questions are about cheating. Why because that's what he's
known for. He's the guy from the twenty seventeen a
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holes And it turns into a trip to the winery.
It's an it's old wine in a new bottle, and
these guys are so embolden they know they got away
with it. It's the perfect crime. And they still have
cheaters to this day. Al Bouvet and Bregman, dirty cheaters
(08:08):
still playing. That's why real baseball fans don't count last
year's World Series. And these guys don't even try to downplay.
They don't even try to sugarcoade what they did. They
brag about it, they talk about it glowing. Furthermore, where
are the Dodger fans on this one? People get everyone,
(08:28):
So why are you still bringing up twenty seven two?
That's putting a long time move on. This is why
it's things like this. You never forget. No justice, no peace,
No justice, no peace, And that is my belief. There
was no justice and every real Dodger fan should release
(08:51):
a primal screen. My guy Roberto is still paying off
those twenty seventeen World Series tickets. It's the greatest scam
in the history a sport. Those a holes were playing
by different rules, they knew what was coming. They still
could not outscore the Dodgers in the twenty seventeen World Series.
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That shows you how much better that Dodger team was
than the a holes. Take about a legacy play for
Clayton Kershaw and how pathetic this turned out to be.
This is a trip to the medicine cabinet. You gotta
get some of that new skin. I'll tell you why,
because the scab ripped off by the Astros, the ass
(09:35):
holy canal. Now what about the buzzer? Hey up, Jacob
for the buzzer. Evan Goddess talked about that. He didn't
deny it. He did not deny the buzzer. He did
not deny how to buy his buzzer. He said, I
don't know if there's any truth to buzzers. I don't know,
(09:59):
is not at denial, don't know. Maybe I don't know.
He says, if there was, l Tube wouldn't want it anyway,
he said, he's a reactionary hitter. Well, maybe he wouldn't
want it because he tried it and it didn't work,
or maybe it worked and he hit a home run
against the Yankees in the American Championship Series and he
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didn't want anyone to take his jersey off because he
had a buzzer on. Check him for the buzzer, check
him far the buzzer. But wait, there's more. That's something
here that was said that I think is the big
revelation in all this, and that is the possibility and
(10:46):
really the probability that the Astros we're doing this on
the road, that it wasn't just at home. That's the
main argument from the despicable fan base in Houston that
it was well, it was just at home. Right, and
Goddess was asked about that, he says, well, we just
(11:07):
got really good at deciphering signs when runners were on base,
even from first and third, tipping pitches, etc. We were
the best team on the planet at everything. So he
doesn't deny that they were doing it on the road.
Holy crap, All right, party shot. So how should major
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League Baseball respond? Well, I think we all know what
major League Baseball must do, Rob Manford should grow a
pair of testicles. It's not too late, Rob, you can
grow a pair of balls. Get some hair on your chest. Okay,
And and this is the rusty machete with blood stains
on it. You have new evidence. You can open up
(11:48):
the case again. You can reopen the case. You found
the rusty machete with evidence DNA evidence, and you can
retroactively do the right thing. You can save your pathetic
legacy as a spineless, gutless commissioner of baseball. I'm not
gonna say that all will be forgiven, but a lot
of it will be forgiven. You have a chance, Rob Man,
(12:09):
for it is a mia kulpa. You know what to do.
You take away the twenty seventeen title. You also avoid
the twenty twenty title, you suspend Jose Altuvee, Alex Bregman,
George Springer and all other retired and active members of
the twenty seventeen Astros for five years. Five years, get
(12:31):
rid of all of them, all right, spend Maller's show
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So Major League Baseball last year decided they wanted to
(12:55):
spice up the home run celebration. So they decided to
take a page at a care at tops book, and
now they have. Most teams in baseball have some kind
of celebratory prop Sure, if you're like baseball, you've seen
this right, might be a trident in Seattle or in
every team's got their own thing Angels last year at
(13:18):
a cowboy hat. Well, with that as the backdrop, a
story for the Birds, A story for the Birds that
will likely end up getting one Major League Baseball team
to have to change their celebratory dance after a home run.
What is that? We'll get to it and we will
(13:38):
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spicy hot ahole monologue about the show. Scott writes in,
(14:22):
says Ben, You're completely right to be upset because the
Astros were not the better team in twenty seventeen. The
Dodgers were. Well, Thank you, Scott, I appreciate that. Ivan
writes in, says Benny, who are the champions? Live in reality? Okay,
so I live actually in Realityville. I'm the mayor of Realityville,
(14:42):
and I'm looking at my big board here, and I
think you can back me up on this, Roberto, It
says void. The twenty two World Series is void. The
same team won the twenty twenty two World Series that
won the nineteen ninety four World Series in the twenty
seventeen World Series. Unfortunately, the history of baseball three years
no team won the World Series nineteen twenty seventeen, twenty
(15:05):
twenty two. It's very sad that it worked out that way.
We hate for that to happen. Larry writes in. He says, hey,
Ben Kenneth saw Mountain Mallard, the new commissioner of all
sports leagues. Damn right, the KC car hauler. Right, since hopeful,
hopefully tomorrow you'll do a Pete Rose or shoeless Joe
Jackson monologue. Well, if Pete gets on a rant there
(15:27):
on Twitter, we'll do that. Midnight Walker writes in, from
the Twin Cities, is this great monologue? Man? One of
the reasons we love you is your passion and conviction
are unwavering. He says. The Astros should be punished, but
they won't be man fraud as a coward, and the
cheating Astros will be polishing their fake rings when we're
(15:52):
long gone, So he said, I've in the terrible He's
all over these he's writing in multiple times. You've already
read his comment on the are, so we will not
read another one. Rocket Vic. Also, now he's not denying
what Goddess is saying, but he's claiming there was alcohol involved.
He says that there was some kind of drinking that
was involved. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
(16:14):
hello to blind Emmett the Seahawk fan. Hello, blind Emmy.
I know earlier in the Mount of Money that A
Kathy and Madison were saying that she haven't heard from
Dick and Dayton in a while. So I got to say,
is hopefully you know we have a healthy Dick in Dayton. Oh,
I see what you did there. I see what you
(16:35):
did there, blind Blind Would you like to do a
wellness check on Dick? Is he there? Is he there
right now? I'll put you on with him and I
go out with him. Yeah, all right, let's see. Let's
see here. We'll put you on. Hold on a second
of me, punch you up here. Dick and Dayton say
hello to uh say hello, please, Dick and Dayton, go ahead,
say hello, Hello, Dick. No, I guess he hung up.
(17:01):
That's too bad. Unfortunately, very rude of him to hang
up like that. Your dream could have come true. They're
blind em it. But unfortunately, I guess dickhead other things
to do. Yeah, you know, Dick's a busy man. But
I kind of call I was gonna play amount of money,
but I didn't get on. But my backup is this
whole Rudy Gobert thing. And it's ironic, this whole Rudy
(17:23):
Gobert trade, because like I feel like the Timberwolves are
at the same spot they were last year at that
Rudy Gobert, like they're about to make the playing tournament
even though they know won the play and last year
and made to the playoffs. But Rudy Gobert is getting
paid forty two million dollars this year, forty three million
the next year, and then it goes to forty five
to forty six, so like his his value is going up.
And you're saying, you know, how, you know you think
(17:44):
the suspension's kind of dumb, and you know, I can agree,
Like it was just like a little punch to the
chess type thing. From what I've heard so it's just
like at the same time, though, it's like with all
the drama from like a punch. I'm sure there's people
are like, Oh, I love Rudy, I'm on Rudy Sign.
I'm sure there's a guys who are you know on
the college. You don't even the President's already been said.
We did a monogue about it early. The President's already
(18:06):
been said. Draymond Green, his punch was much worse. Trust
me on that blind em was much worse to Jordan Pool,
to the jaw of Jordan Pool. The Warriors set the precedent.
They did not suspend Draymond Green for a regular season game,
did not suspend him. So if you don't suspend Raymond
Green for a regular season game, supposedly this for gaysy
playing tournament's more important the regular season game. So you
(18:28):
certainly don't suspend the great French basketball player who sucks
in big games. Anyway, in Rudy Gobert here, this guy's
been a terrible playoff player. It might be that he's
gone anyway. You know, I'll be level headed Emmett. If
the Minnesota Terris, I should should I say? When Minnesota
beats the Lakers without Rudy Gobert. You know, I will
(18:50):
be rational. I will not overreact to that. Yeah, Coople
start his trip to Boston a little early. There, he'll
he'll be leaving. He'll be going to the airport on
standby for another flight. Is what we'll be doing. All right.
Then did you see said about Rudy. Oh yeah, because
because Rudy Gobert trashed him so and then Draymond held
(19:12):
onto that and waited, and then he had the opportunity,
so he talked trash back and I gotta go, thank Mr. Yes,
you gotta thank. I gotta go. So the Baltimore Orioles,
the Baltimore Orioles have cranked things up in the celebratory department.
The Orioles have unveiled a home run celebration. Will this
(19:38):
get them canceled? It depends depends what mood the commissioner is.
But the Orioles have introduced their new celebration. It is
a Baltimore Oriole beer bong home run celebration. Uh yeah, well,
(19:59):
I guess it's technically a water bong celebration. How long
before this gets banned? H That's what I'm thinking, Eddie.
This was not right. You can't do this. What about
the children? What about the kids' During Monday's game against
the Athletics, where there were seven people that watched that game,
and one of the oriol players hit a home run
(20:21):
and was so excited that in the dug out there
they decided to dust off. What I assume is, I
don't know if they've been doing this all year. I
don't think they've done this, although if they have, no
one's no one's noticed. But it was a two to
one game first inning, and here we come. The Orioles
aren't even like running away from it. They were like
(20:42):
promoting it. The video. I don't know that it went viral.
I don't think anything from the Orioles goes viral, but
you know it was got a fair amount of traction
considering we're talking about the Orioles. And I wasn't seeing
by millions of people, but hundreds of thousands of people
witnessed the celebrat Tory beer bong celebration. We should do
(21:03):
that when I have a really good segment, we should
do We should have like a little bong thing out here.
We could we could celebrate like the fake beer bong
wouldn't that be great? Have you ever done a beer
bong been? Uh? No, I have not you. Yes, I
have a big beer bong guy. Not big, but yeah,
I've done it before. State. Yeah. I'm more of a
(21:24):
one bearded guy, time guy, Roberto beer Bon, Oh yeah,
all the time, health parties, parties, Coop. We know Cooper
likes all kinds of bong, So I don't even bother
asking Coop because now I don't think he likes Beard, No,
but he likes ce Bon. Yeah. Yeah. Other. Be sure
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(21:45):
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(22:06):
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My fun fact, Eddie, My fun fact, Eddie. Are you
(22:30):
ready for my fun fact? No, Eddie, he's gonna blow
you away with the fun fun fact. Here we go,
Here we go. Congratulations. The you know the pitch clock, Eddie,
coming to baseball right now, right, and it's made the
game's much quicker. But it's also affected sales of alcohol
at major league games. So the Milwaukee Brewers have decided,
(22:53):
we don't have enough time to sell alcohol, so they've
decided to adjust their beer polissy. At Brewer games, they've
extended alcohol sales until the end of the eighth inning
to allow fairs to get more liquor. That's my fun fact, Eddie,
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the Milwaukee Brewers, they want you to get drunker to
watch their product. That's the broke for a right there,
good job. See fun fact. Well, that's until somebody does
something bad, Eddie, and then they will remove that. It's
a temporary, experimental process. The games are shorter. That means
you're drinking and any longer and you're more drunk when
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you get When years ago, when I was with the Dodgers,
we went into Milwaukee at the Old County Stadium at night.
It smelled like beer in the air in Milwaukee. The barley.
That's the whole state of Milwaukee. Well, it's Milwaukee's actually
a city, Eddie, it's the state of Wisconsin. Right. Yeah.
But that's my fun fact, Eddie. That's my fun fact.
The brewers extending alcohol sales because the games are going
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too quick. Boy, that was fun. That's a great fun fact, Eddie.
It's a great fun fact. The Rangers beat the Royals
eleven to two. Texas starter Andrew Haney times in American
League record with nine consecutive strikeouse. He finished with ten
in the win. Braves walk off with the five for
one over the Reds and ten comes walk off with
the two on one of the Mariners and ten Max
Munsey two homers, seven driven in and the Dodgers nine
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one one over the Giants and Alec Bohm a homer
in six RBI for the Phillies and their fifteen three
win over the Marlins. In the NHL, the may Believes
beat the Panthers two one in overtime. Islanders follow the
Capitals five to two, so Florida's lead is at two points.
Islanders at one point on Pittsburgh for the final playoffs
spot in the East. Jets over the Sharks six to two.
Predators down the Flames three two in a shootout. Winnipeg
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still is a three point lead on Nashville for the
final playoffs spot. In the West. Calgary eliminated from the
playoffs with their loss to the Predators. Back to Ben
Maller and the Tirack dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios
coming up, wait site the Bite, the great sports radio
mystery that'll be coming up for you in a bit.
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Progressive dot Com. Let's go to Austin, who's not in Austin.
He's in Tennessee, but his name's Austin Austin. What's going on?
Austin not to much man, I want to I don't
even talk about baseball or I'm a league baseball guy.
(25:23):
But you talk about the Astros and they're alleged uh wins.
But I tell you all about that being a Patriot fan.
With all the alleged wins we had, I guess they say, no, no,
this is this is much the Astros did. The Patriots
look like minor leaguers compared to the Astros. But I
(25:43):
could ask you a question about baseball. Actually, you need
the Nashville will ever get a team? I do? I
do baseball. Well, see here's the problem. Baseball is gonna
add two expansion teams when if here's what you need
to have happened. You need the Athletics to move to
Vegas because that'll clear the Vegas market. And you need
Tampa well or Tampa to move to Nashville because you could.
(26:05):
But that's you could have Tampa Bay go to Nashville.
But yet the Nashville market is that you live in
a hiptown Austin. You live in a hip place. People want,
people want to be there, Baseball wants to be there,
and that's where the cool people are now is in Nashville. Yeah,
the sounds are here Saturday or Friday. Yeah, yeah, no
(26:26):
it geographically it makes sense like you could baseball. It
depends on when the owners want to make more money
and and at what point, which is probably today or yesterday,
they'd like to make more money. But you you get
rid of if the Rays moved to Nashville, that boom,
you got your team, and then the A's moved to Vegas,
and then that opens up Mexico City and maybe somewhere
(26:51):
else in Canada, I don't know where else in the
United State. Montreal? What was that guy I used to
get when I had my website, was a guy that
used to play for the Expo's name Warren Cremarti, who
used to email me Expo propaganda about getting the ex
He did and uh and but they nobody went to
those games in Montreal. Wouldn't the same thing happen if
(27:14):
they brought the Expos back? And they better call him
the Expos if they put the team back better So anyway,
I just bow guarded your call, Austin. We just hijacked
your call. You're upset by that or you bothered by that? No? No, sorry,
you say want no ra the razor? No no, you
(27:34):
want the Razor actually good No, no, you don't want
the Oakland A's. The A's they have more history, but
Tampa Bay's actually and they know what they're doing. They
actually have good teams. It's okay. See it's I thought
you were saying. I thought you were saying the races
(27:56):
and raised. It sounds all the same to me. You
say Tomato, I say tomorrow, right right. Yeah. But back
to my patriot question. Do you Bill Belichick said we
should we should rely on his last twenty years for
future success. Do you think anybody that can quarterback room
could win us a second round in the playoffs? Well
(28:17):
not unless they have amazing players like Mac Jones. If
you he saw it, we saw him at Alabama. He's
got great players around him. It'll be okay. But they
don't have great players around him. That's the that's the row.
Thank you, Austin. Appreciate that well. That A's and Rays
very similar. I'm a big proponent, though, of having names
(28:40):
that fit the city. I assume if the A's Athletics
move to Vegas, they'll be called the Athletics. But it
annoys me that the hockey team in Vegas does not
have and that was an expansion team, the Golden Knights,
that they should have a Vegas name, Slot Machines, One
Armed Bandits or something something like that fits the city.
W NBA does it right again? Yeah, well there there
(29:03):
you go. The w NBA did it? Did it give
a bit of a Vegas what are they called the
Aces right? Yeah? Which is like a week. I mean
you could go deeper than that. You could you know,
the Black Jacks or something like that. You could go
down that road and racist. I know everything's racist, but
what about the Nashville like you you've got the country
music vibe there, you got that. I think the Nashville
(29:26):
Sounds is a pretty good name as it is that
the minor league team in Nashville. I think that's a
good name. Utah Jazz great fit. Solid. There's a lot
of solid jazz, like little jazz bars in Salt Lake.
The culture of jazz. It was really the birthplace of jazz,
at least the NBA's version of of jazz. Well, hey,
(29:46):
you guys, should I know the lakes in LA. I
mean there's a lot of trolley dodgers. Yeah, a lot
of trolley dodgers. I haven't seen many Angels. And even
though that's the team named after the city of Angels,
I don't see a lot of angels. One more crime
than angels. Yeah, there's a lot of criminals. I see
a lot of criminals. Park Lake, Yeah, yeah, beautiful Lake.
(30:06):
Get any kind of controversial? Yeah? All right? Is the
Bannet Mallers Show. When we get back to naming teams
after laundry? Will we ever see another team named after laundry?
You got the Red Sox, the White Sox. If you
were to name a baseball team in Boston or Chicago,
you would not name them after laundry. You would come
up with something else. Well we ever, has there ever
(30:29):
in the last fifty years has been there's been a
team named after laundry? The Las Vegas wife Beaters? Oh,
how dare you? How there? You? All right? Anyway? It
is the Bannet Mallers Show site the Bike the Great
sports radio mystery site, the But we also have an
update if you've been following the show. One of our
great listeners and super fans of the show, Jay Scoop,
(30:50):
he is in the Ukraine. He is a ex military
guy here in the United States who's in the Marines,
and he's helping out the cause in the Ukraine, and
he's he's giving us updates and we'll get an update
from the front lines. There are our man Jay Scoop,
who is putting his life on the line there to
help out the cause there and the Ukraine will get
(31:11):
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from the Tirac dot com. Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller, Josh writes, and he says that the Minnesota
(32:15):
Twins have also increased or extended beer sales in addition
to the Milwaukee brewers. You gotta make that money, man,
gotta make that money. It charged so much for beer
at baseball games. That's where they make tons of dough.
Travis says, fun fact, back to you, that smell in
(32:35):
Milwaukee was a bakery that is in downtown. That's what
he says. But Sheila, she has her own. Everyone's got
fun fact. You're stealing myb terrya Sheila, how dare you?
She says, fun fact back at you. You may have
smelled beer in the air when you were at County
Stadium because there were three breweries within two miles of
(32:57):
County stadiums. So Sheila says it was the breweries. But
then this other guy, Travis is like, nah, it was
the bakery. It was the bakery in downtown Milwaukee that
I I don't know. It smelled like beer to me,
that's what it smelled like. And we're making beer, so
scratch off. He sent a photo of his breakfast. Do
you see this? He's got four four jumbo shrimp and
(33:23):
three steaks. With some bread not not photoed. That's his
breakfast now, that is the breakfast of champions or just
truck drivers from Arkansas. I love shrimp, but not no,
you don't want that with some looks like he's got.
Is that ketchup or barbecue sauce on the on the steak.
I can't tell a serious I can't tell. I don't
(33:44):
know what something's on there. So our friend Jay Scoop,
we love Jay Scoop. Jay Scoop is a big part
of the show. He has sent us a lot of
great music over the years we've met him. He comes
to a lot of the events that we do. He's
been a big part of it. He put together the
Seattle event and we did that in twenty nineteen before COVID.
(34:05):
That was a lot of fun. He showed up last year.
We had a Mallard meet and greet here in la
and he was at that. I hope he can make
it to the one in Minnesota, but I think he
might still be in the Ukraine, and he said that
he's He sent a bunch of videos the many weather
the weather features of the Ukraine. They're driving around and
some videos there appears to be a giant cupcake that
(34:27):
he sent him. He says he misses everyone on the show,
so I have some others, but you know, I don't
want to give too much. I mean, he does send
me some other stuff off here. But but he's he's
doing okay. He's he's safe, he says, as safe as
can be. And he's kind of bouncing all over the place,
not staying in any one location, as you might imagine.
You don't want to stay in one location if they're
(34:48):
shooting missiles back at you. Here we go. That's he
needs that we play random generic sound bite, you know,
in a sports and enterty, a cliche spoken by so
called experts. Try to tell us who's doing the talking.
I need some judges. Right now eight seven seven ninety
(35:10):
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six
three six nine. It is site the Bite, the Great
Sports Radio Mystery. If you would like to play, We're
gonna play a sound bite from the world of sports
right now from the last seven to ten days. You've
got to listen very closely and then try to figure
out who it is and just use your amazing superpower,
(35:30):
your ability to hear. And you've listened already to the show.
You're taking part in what I believe is the greatest
form of media, radio, audio, content, theater, the mind. You
don't need photos. You're just listening and you're enjoying the
show while you're driving or doing something else. And so
we thank you for that. But I need some judges.
(35:51):
Call right now eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six sixty
three six nine, and let's go to the audio tape.
Someone from the world of sports the last seven to
end days. Let's get something done. Let's get something done.
Let's get something done. That's a lot of words. That's
a lot of words on the phone. Let's get something done.
Let's get something done. Who is this? Is it? Someone
(36:15):
who's a player, a coach, prominent person in the media.
Who is it? Let's get something done? What are we
gonna get done? I hold, I have no idea? Well,
anyone get this right? Eddie? I am going to go
Caller five, Caller five. Eddy's gonna get it right? What
(36:36):
say you will get such a loser? Roberto Winner? Absolutely,
nobody's gonna get this right. Man. Do you know who
it is? Eddie? No? Okay, I get something done? What
about you? Coobo? No one? No one? Caller five, Let's
start out with calling number one a man that somehow
(36:57):
one last is my guy. I had a bad, bad game.
Uncle Moe is in the leadoff chair, Uncle Mo. And'
is that former Boston Red Sox legend Doug Mirrabelly Doug Mirabelly?
Is that Doug Mirabelly. Didn't Doug Mirabelly take the baseball
from the first when he broke the curse of the
(37:20):
Bambino and he took the ball and they wouldn't give
it back? Right? Let make all right, I thank you, No,
not Doug Mirabelly, but thank you for that. Let's go
to Shane in the morn eight seven seven ninety nine. Fox,
keep trying. If you get a busy signal, these knuckleheads
hang up pretty quick, Shane if they don't really answer
Shane and the mone is that Lakers star Tristan Thompson. Yes,
(37:41):
Tristan Thompson signed for the playoffs. But no, all right,
hang up on yourself. It's not Tristan Thompson. Let's go
to Let's go to Joe, who's in the commonwealth Joe site. Actually,
here's the clue. Joe led all Division two schools and
all purpose yards per game as a junior. Joe, you're up,
Let's get something done. Uh and I didn't hear him? RONI,
(38:06):
I don't know Lawrence Moroni? Is it Lawrence Maneau? It
is my laws morony? But thank you, Joe. Time for
caller number four. Isaac is in South Carolina. Isaac site
to bite the great sports radio mystery. This guy led
all Division two schools and all purpose yards per game
as a junior. Let's go with uh, Marshall f Marshall
(38:30):
Falk from San Diego State, that great Division two school. No,
that is incorrect, Let's get something done. Time for another clue.
This person one of only two players in NFL history
to have ten or more rushing touchdowns and five or
more receiving touchdowns in consecutive seasons. Steven in Kansas City
for the wedge statement? Is it Kansas City first Baseman?
(38:51):
Steve Balboni, Austin Act, are you dummy's charge your season?
You don't even know who he is? You Austin Eckler
And she doesn't know who aston Austin Eckler. Oh for
to Eckler
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