May 16, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the A's announcing their plans for a Las Vegas Strip ballpark and their outrageous ticket expectations, how MLB in Vegas will play out, Maller's Mountain of Money: Janet Jackson Edition, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, Viva Las Vegas.
We go to Sin City where the Athletics announced plans
for a Las Vegas Strip ballpark right there in the
middle of all the action, the iconic Vegas Strip. What
are your thoughts, your school of thought on these outrageous
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ticket sale expectations coming from the Athletics and people in Vegas?
How does Major League Baseball play out in Lost Wages, Nevada?
And why are the A's so gung ho to move
to Sin City. We'll talk about that and more right
now here. It is our number three, Viva Las Vegas.
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That's what they're saying, the people that work for the
Athletics big announcement. See the details on this. It is
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begin with a spicy hot malard monologue like a trip
to the Keno tables there and our lead, coming from
the business of baseball, is some new developments on the
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relocation situation sweeping the baseball nation. The Athletics, we knew
they were already packing their bags. The story actually broke
late at night while we were on the air. Only
stories about teams relocating or people dying happened when we're
on the air. So heading for greener pastures, which is
actually not true. It's actually greener in the Bay Area
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than it is in Vegas. But the green is the
slot machine, the mean green slot machine, and if you've
not heard the latest, might have missed it. The team
currently called the Oakland A's has reached an agreement with
Bally's and the apparent company of Balley's to build a
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ballpark right there in the heart of the iconic Las
Vegas trip. You probably have been to sind City at
some point, you've seen photos of Las Vegas if you've
not been there, and one of the iconic pieces of Americana,
the Las Vegas Trip and the Tropicana Hotel, which has
been hanging on by its fingernails for years and now
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the nails have not held firm as Bally's court planning
the announcement on Monday. A thirty thousand seat stadium, thirty
five acre site, and the project expected to cost about
one point five billion. You want to take a bet
that it's not one point five billion, that it's more
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than that. I'm going to take the over. I'm going
to say two and a half three billion dollars by
the time they get done. That's my estimate, but not
one and a half billion. The A's are asking Here's
the key part of this. They are asking for close
to four hundred million of the tax paying public's money
in the state of Nevada, and there's gonna be a
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vote on this later in the week to decide whether
or not they get that money.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The new agreement.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It is actually a scaled down proposal, we are told,
but the location is a different location. Originally it was
gonna they were gonna build a ballpark right near the
Raiders Stadium, which is on the other side of the
highway there. But now they're like, no, na, na, no,
we're gonna hang out. We're gonna build this right in
the middle of the action and within walking distance. If
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you just walk down the south end of the strip,
you can walk through the ballpark, which I would think
they'll just keep raising the prices of parking and screw
the people that go to Vegas even more. If this
actually happens, the A's ballpark would hold approximately Here's the
key part, all right, this is the key part. Get
to the point, please, This is the money part of
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the statement. In the prepared statement, the Athletics said the
ballpark would hold approximately thirty thousand fans and they expect
to attract more than two and a half million fans
and visitors per year per year. So in Layman's terms,
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the A's are projecting that they are going to sell
out every game, that there will not be an empty
seat from March until October. So if you do the arithmetic,
the A's if the ballpark's thirty thousand with a lot
of luxury boxes, eighty one home games a year, a
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couple of exhibition games. Let's say they play the Diamondbacks
in the exhibition season because that'll be their Desert rival,
and you get you have to do that to get
to two point four to nine million. So let's discuss, Now,
what is your school of thought here on the outrageous
expectation that the A's are going to draw two and
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a half million fans and a thirty thousand seat ballpark
right in the middle of the iconic Vegas strip. So
I've got yellow brick Road, cannon Ball, Richards, and Sugar Daddy,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make in all you can eat buffet,
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which is something that rarely exists these days in Vegas,
the all you can eat buffet, because they don't want
to give that food away. No, no, no, no no. So,
first of all, when I heard about this story involving
the athletics, My first thought was right out of Roger
Goodell's playbook, Right out of the Olympic playbook. It is
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a tradition unlike any other. You have to justify poaching
hundreds of millions of hard working taxpayers money.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
So what do you do? What do you do? It's simple, You.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Follow the textbook, You go down the yellow brick road.
You do what the Olympics does when they're they're taking
bids on future Olympic games. You do what the NFL
does and Super Bowl host committees. It is called poetic license,
is what it's called. You embellish, you shnazz up, you
use puffery is what you do. And it's such bull crap.
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It fascinates me. There's a lot of things about people
that fascinate me, and the fact that this scam has
been able to be pulled off.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Over and over and over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'd a buddy of mine who works in sports who
told me the reason that teams are able to do
this is because the politicians are always changing. So there's
always a new sucker that gets elected, and they want
to be the one that keeps the team or brings
the professional team to town. And that's why the teams
are able to take advantage of the politicians. It doesn't
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matter whether your team red or team blue. They can
take advantage of the politicians. And they sign off on that.
But there was an economic study done, and they did
this a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They looked at the hard numbers.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Now the NFL claims, I'll use the NFL as an
example because baseball. The A's are using it the playbook
of football. So the NFL claims the Super Bowl brings
in three hundred to five hundred million dollars annually. That's
what they claim. The actual numbers, which according to economic
data Guy went back and crunched the numbers. The financial
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report says that the Super Bowl actually generates anywhere between
thirty and one hundred and thirty million for the host
city in actual real revenue. In other words, it is
ten percent to twenty six percent of what the NFL
says it is. And now the A's, I think they'll
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do better than that. Only think they mean ten percent
or twenty six percent of that estimate. Because the A's
advantage in Vegas is that the casinos will purchase the
luxury boxes for the Wales. There'll be a lot of whales,
not Shamou. You will not see shamoux at a A's game.
I don't believe Shambou will be there. But you will
see some very wealthy gamblers. The casinos they still take
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care of those people. Regular Joe Schmo they don't take
care of. But if you're a high roller there and
you're a big time in the high end tables in Vegas,
the high end rooms, they'll take care of you. But
let's not get crazy here now. Secondly, you examine the
situation with the Athletics. How does Major League Baseball play.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Out in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So when they move, and this is still several years
away from this actually happening, but it'll be the shiny
new object, it'll be the novelty act. It's kind of
like I remember reading a book about the vaudevillian days,
early entertainment in America and the traveling circus and the
side shows, and there was a guy named Cannonball Richards.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Cannon Ball Richards was his name.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Was a novelty act in the early days of American entertainment.
This knucklehead would go around, he'd get on stage, and
as his name indicated, he would get shot with a cannonball.
He'd worked the muscles in his stomach, in his chest,
he was very strong obviously in that area. They could
shoot a cannonball. He wouldn't die. He can only do
it a couple times a day because it actually screwed
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up his body. So cannonball Richards can only do two
shows a day. He can do a morning show and
a night show and that's it. But eventually that wears off.
And you see it, right, the magic the pixie dust
wears off. You'll get people planning their summer vacations to
visit Vegas and watch their team play. It's not as
much like football is more of a sport designed for that.
Baseball's not designed for that as much. It's more games.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And plus, if you're.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Going to Vegas, do you want to spend if you're
there three nights in Vegas, do you want to spend
your three nights at an A's game against the Red
Sox or do you want to spend your time gambling?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
For most of that, maybe you'll go to a game,
but you want to gamble, and you plan vacations and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
But in terms of sustainability, I think, good luck on
you gotta win. That's the b the A's, that's a
bush league operation of the A's. The owners a loser.
This guy Fisher as far as running a baseball team out,
maybe it's a nice guy. I don't know the guy,
but running a baseball team, he appears to be incompetent.
And you look around and you look at the Las
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Vegas Raiders. The Raiders were thirtieth in attendance in twenty
twenty two. Do you know that thirtieth in attendance. They
have some of the most expensive tickets in the NFL.
They did not sell out every game. The Raiders finished
twenty sixth in percentage of capacity in the NFL, which
is really a good indicator.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
The Golden Knights out, they're good. They're good.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
They could go to the Stanley Cup Final again. They're
in the conference finals, and the Golden Knights Vegas born
and they sold out all of their home so they won.
The Raiders were mediocre and they did not sell out
their games, even with all the fans coming to town
to see the Vegas scene and NFL and all that.
And the athletics meanwhile, have said they planned to break
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ground on a new ballpark next year. They plan to
open the stadium in twenty twenty seven in Sin City.
The A's lease with the coliseum runs through next season.
So you're saying, what the hell happens after that, Well,
they become baseball nomads and they will most likely play
at a Triple A ballpark, which is not appropriate. They
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should be playing in a Single A ballpark because that's
a single A team, not even a Triple A team.
It's not major league quality. Good luck getting that stadium filled.
In the thirty thousand Seeds Stadium when the A's are
playing the Marlins on a Wednesday afternoon and it's one
hundred and twenty four degrees now, supposedly the stadium is
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going to have a roof, although the story indicated did
not indicate a roof.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But you got to have a roof. It's so hot
in July and August in Vegas. You can't.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You'd only have you play games at eight o'clock nine
o'clock at night if you were going to play in Vegas.
O R Final thought outdoors. Anyway, why are the A's
so gungh to move to Vegas? Well, you can thank
the sugar Daddy, the casino here, the gambling house. The
benefactor is giving the A's the ultimate sweetheart deal. The
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numbers on this are mind blowing. Assuming this goes through
and it gets green lighted, the taxpayers of Nevada will
cut a check for four hundred million, So you get
four hundred million off the top. They are being handed
some of the most expensive real estate in America for
free in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Plus, you're going to sell some kind of mega naming
rights deal. There have been estimates at five hundred, six
hundred and seven hundred eight hundred million dollars that the
A's will get from the naming rights steal. You'll also
have the casinos buying most of the luxury boxes, and
you'll have out of town customers that'll be buying the tickets.
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So from a financial standpoint, it's a no brainer. You
are being rewarded for incompetence. Another thing about American sports,
you are being celebrated for being a failure. The athletics
are a failure. They're an abject failure. John Fisher the
owner joke, and they're being rewarded. They're carpetbaggers and they're
being rewarded. It is the Band Malor Show. You want
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Now for the Riddle of the day, the Mallor Riddle
of the Day.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Now, a lot of these baseball teams have pulled out
props to celebrate home runs. Baseball has endorsed that they're
trying to bring the fun back into baseball. It's been
this way for the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I like it. I think it's cool. Why not.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's fun, fun, fun. So, with that being said, the
Philadelphia Phillies, it has been revealed now the Philadelphia Phillies
have something called a home run blank to celebrate the
long ball. Again, this is the Malory Riddle of the day.
Do not look this up, do not google it. The
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Philadelphia Phillies have something called a home run blank to
celebrate the long ball.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That is the Malory Riddle of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
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He works on radio, but he's taking a vow of silence,
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Speaker 1 (16:48):
That is, and we will have Mallard's amount of money
coming up later in the hour. We began with a
Mallard monologue about the athletics announcement came down Monday, some
details on the plane move to Sin City.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
We'll take some.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Calls on that, but first we'll play off the Mallar
riddle of the day. The Mallar riddle of the day
here it is the Philadelphia Phillies have something called a
home run blank to celebrate long balls during the twenty
twenty three season. They just debuted it recently. So that
is the question. What is the answer, And let's see
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does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Courtesy Flusher is going with a urinal, a home run jurnal.
That would be interesting.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Ferg Dog says they celebrate home runs by playing Patty
Cake with the bat boy. Also a great idea of
Midnight Walker going with home run cheese Steak as his answer.
Donkey Sausage checks in with a swing set as the selection.
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Page down?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Can't read that on the air, and Mallard prop guy
says Rick Dempsey's home run water slide, Well, that was
an iconic episode this week in Baseball Back in the
Day with mel Allen Twip notes around the majors, the
Orioles are sliding in Baltimore. All right, Uh, don't ever
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do that again. Who else do we have? A home
run donut from Calligan Tim in Michigan, a home run
riot from paul Y b.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That's his answer.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Home run manure bag guest by Miguel on fire. Oh,
that's a pretty good idea, Milkman Mike and Colorado says
they celebrate with a home run Fats's fire.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But that's the answer.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Scott in Rhode Island says, the idiot Philly fans celebrate
home runs by climbing a greasy pole. That that is
what they do. Who else do we have? Page down?
Alf the aliot opiner says, they celebrate with a home
run cocktail. That's the answer, Page down, page down. A
stuffed condor guest by Robin Minnesota. Home run stripper from
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Nick in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Kevin.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Now, by the way, Nick's supposed to be at the
Malor meet and greet. Kevin says, Eddie, as he had
a comment about the as we're not doing that right now, Eddie,
do you have an answer. It's the malor riddle of
the day. The Philadelphia Phillies have just debuted recently something
called a home run blank to celebrate when they hit
a long ball.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
A home run battery that you can throw at the
opposing players.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, that would be with the If the Candlestick Park
was still around in San Francisco, they would bring that back.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
But that is incorrect, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Unfortunately, no, the Philadelphia Phillies have found a new creative
way to celebrate dingers, as they have now made home
run rotisserie chickens home run rotisserie chickens.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Say why yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So the story is that a pitcher named Jose Alvarado
came up with the idea he folds He's very good
at folding towels, so he folds towels in the shape
of a nice rotisserie chicken and then hangs the imaginary
rotissary chicken after each home run in the dugout. So
it's no, it's they're hanging. It's a symbolic gesture. They're
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hanging the birds. But the good thing about this is
the people at Peter can't complain because no birds are harmed.
There's no bird injuries. There's no birds being killed. You see,
they're using a towel. After each home run, this guy
has to make a the chicken and out of the
towel he hangs it up there in the dugout and
they do this out in the bullpen and they have
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a fine time. So and I'm looking at some photos
here of the the work.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And this is great. I think we should do this idy.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I think when we do something special on the show,
we should we should hang something from the wall here somewhere.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
This is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard
in my life.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You do not like the fake rotissary chicken being hung
in the Philadelphia Phillies bullpen.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
No, he folds a towel to look like a chicken.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yes, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You know?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
No words?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Well, Eddie at the at the Costco, don't they sell
a lot of those retissaries?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, list or not? Are they cooked on a rotisserie?
The chicken?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That's very popular item at Costco? Yeah right, yeah, it's
a rotissary chicken. But it's like how much is that?
It's like five six seven, five bucks? Five bucks? Yeah,
get a little baby chicken.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
It's a lost leader.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Actually, yeah, that in the hot dog at Costco. It's
a lost leader.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I have no I have nothing but love for the
rerotisserie chicken. But this is just weird.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, this is honoring the Kirkland brand rotisserie chicken. It's
a towel shaped like a chicken.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, very very weird.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
If you played baseball, you'd be weird too. Perhaps let's
go to the phones. We'll say hello to Let's go
to Nick. And he's in Berkeley. Hello Nick, he's an
A's fan. I think, well, not anymore? Hello Nick in Berkeley.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
What's up being I'm a Giants fan, man, But you
know what, I grew up in Berkeley. So it cost
me two fifty on ar two fifty to get a
bleach your seat, like a dollar fifty per coke, and
like two fifty for not those man, now those games
by myself. Man, I got Morey Will's autograph. I got
my only foul ball there I got. I shook Dave
Winfield's hand there one time. The aids just totally. I
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mean five six years ago, man, Oakland had three teams.
They got nothing, Man, they got nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Ben, I'm I'm aware, I'm aware of that I am
aware that there is nothing left. There is nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And uh now, of course, if you live near a
Major League Baseball stadium, it will cost you approximately seventeen
dollars just to look at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So for then, I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Then I'll listen to the games on radio, because you
know what, these owners are so greedy. They act like, well,
you know how how is a blue collar worker like
me's supposed to take you know, my daughter and a
couple of her friends, and we can't even go to
the game. And has it cost me like one hundred
and fifty two undred dollars?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
You know what I'm saying, Well, they want you to
rob a bank. Go rob a bank and afford to
go to the games. What's wrong with you? Go rob
a bank? What's wrong with you? Come on, shame mom?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Man?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Look look look these players. Man, they charge what one
fifty for a jersey? And these cats don't even sign
all rafts have talked somebody at batting practice, mall like,
what's wrong with these Trim Madonna's man, you got these
hoopsters and Quinton the agents tell them to lay down,
like don't even play the seventh game or don't even
show up for the playoffs. I mean, what's going on
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with sports? Man? The bases are bigger. It's like, dude,
it's chopper is only pier sport level.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, let's not get crazy here, Okay, I don't think
I might see a therapist there, Nick, I mean, what
do we doing?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I know?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
What?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Come on?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Stuff changed, It's not gonna you know, it's not gonna
say the same, Nick. I mean, we're we're getting older
here now.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I just gotta style right real quick. How does the
referee and this goes to gambling because obviously when you
have seventy more founds than the other team, what's going on? Man?
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Nick? I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I mean, and it's not like the Warriors were just
only shooting three point shots.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
We mentioned Game three, you can look it up. It's
all the NBA. Don't even hide it.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
The shots in the painted area which would indicate near
the basket. We're even Golden State actually had one more
shot and the Lakers attempted twenty more foul shots.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It's it's embarrassing in Sandy.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
I don't know what's going on with that. I'm bitter
about it, but all I can say it, Man, I'm
really looking forward. My giants are hanging in there right now,
but I'm really looking forward to the forty nine Ers, man,
because that's pretty much what I have left the rest
of this year. Man and Oakley. Man, it sucks. Man,
It's so terrible. They have no teams been this is
this is a national hour. I demand two teams.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Okay, all right, all right, you've let it be there,
You've thrown it out into the cosmos, You've let it know.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Let everyone know.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Nick and Berkley is demanding a second team in the
Bay Area and if not, heads are going to rule
and enjoy Nick the forty nine Ers season until week
five when Sam Donell is your starting quarterback, and.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Then you can you can go pound sand.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
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Speaker 4 (25:36):
I have not been defend Have you been defended? It
just hasn't happened yet. I've been to Wrigley is cool,
but I liked a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Actually, when were you at Wrigley though? How long?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
A couple of years ago?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Have they renovated it? Yes? Okay, yes, very nice. I
kind of liked it more when it was CD and
they hadn't.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Read well that that that's you. You're a CD person,
so it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I went back and Jonas was nice enough to hook us.
He's got tickets to the Cubs. He hooked us up
and we sat out in the bleachers and just felt
too corporate.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I liked it when it was just like.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
A why would you say that when you don't sit
in the in the seats with fans.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I I just told you I sat in the bleachers
at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, because it was some sort of special event where
you've got free tickets from Jonas?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You said, yeah, but I still was sitting in the crowd,
a cold, rainy night.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Your corporate and the way more corporate.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So they're playing Marks White Sox. It was last year
in April.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It was raining, as I recall, yes.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
The entire game, it was rating and it was like
forty degrees. Wonderful day to sit outside for four hours.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
What right you want to know about a high school
football player?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You don't care about high school? Okay, I'm good. I
don't need that anyway. All right, it is the Ben
Mahlor Show.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
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We'll say hello to Kenny and he is in Lost
(27:14):
Wages Noviada. Hello, Kenny, Welcome, You're on Fox Sports Rate
It's Ben Mallers Show.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Hey, big man, I remember you from San Diego. Man,
I'm sixty six.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh my god, you have me. I was a little
baby in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Yeah, I work from I worked at Joe Now from
nineteen seventy seven to nineteenth ninety six. I'm pretty sure
that you were on the radio. I was.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I started, well, I don't want to date myself, of course,
as you know, I'm only twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Old, but I was there at the end of your
time in San Diego radio. Who knew. It's a small world, Kenny.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
It is. Anyways, I listened to your speech or whatever
you want to call it on the AE. Let me
tell you a fact. Joe Lombardo is the governor of
that He will not approve one penny for taxes anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You sure about that.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
I'm positive because if he does, he'll never get elected again.
And he knows that.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Well, don't you think they'll just do what they do
in Arizona and they'll charge the rental car people or
the hotel will add.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
To the hotel tax. He won't, He won't. Joe le
Bar is a hardcore right wing Republican.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I'll bet you I'll make a bed with you that
they get that money.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I'll make a bet I'll make up bed with you if.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
They do get that money. Yeah, they'll never get elected here,
all right, well.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Maybe he'll get a job with the as so who
cares he.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
But there's there's no way he's going to approve that.
But if he does, he won't get elected here again,
I guarantee, because that's what he ran on.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Okay, you know, I mean maybe right.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I tend to think when I've heard people say they're
not going to raise the tax or they're not gonna
it always happens.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
It's kind of like when they.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Say he's a hard I didn't vote for him, but
he's a hardl I mean, he's really right wing. I mean,
there's no way.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, there are a right wing and left wing people
that love to raise taxes.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
So yeah, but he's one of Donald Trump's boys. He
ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
All right, you know, I'll follow you back.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And when's the vote supposed to happen later this week?
Kenny's supposed to happen some point later.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
I'll call you back, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I remember you, Kenny, an old San Diego radio guy
back in the glory days.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
That because I found a lifting you about six months ago.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I wonder if that's the same same loser, Yes, the
same guy.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
What station did you work at in San Diego station.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Do you work at I worked at I worked at Aerospace?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You were listening? You were listening?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I think it was I
don't kogo or some ship.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
All right, you got that right? Where we are right?
Very he is an honest man.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
We we're actually on now on seven sixty, which is
at that time, back in those days, was the big
talk talk station.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
In San Diego.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mountain. Now it's just a
sports talk station. So go figure, do we have our contestant?
Should we introduce people real quick here and get that
game started here?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yes? We don't need all the bells and whistles, yes,
or you need other people coop? What do you think
that's up to you? For you if you liked those guys,
all right, well let's open it up to the electorate.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number
eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine,
and we are going I can't get over Kenny's honesty.
He was trying to remember the station. That's how I
would have answered the question too, Kenny. That's the same
way I would have answered the question.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
So anyway, we're gonna have mothers amount of money.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
If you want to play, call right now eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
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Speaker 3 (31:27):
Now Malor's Mountain of money. Hello, do you have what
it takes to get to the top?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Probably not, And we won't play Mallard's amount of money?
Right now, let's play the game.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
We welcome in our contestants, and who do we have.
We've got Zach who's in Orlando, and we say hello
to Zach, Hello Zach, Hey, Ben, welcome in Good to
have you. You're gonna play our game, and we also
have Dave, who is in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Hello, Dave, Hey, good morning, Good morning you, Dave.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Good to have you guys on and welcome to the show.
Let's play the game here. Who do you want to
partner up?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
But we'll start with you, Zach in Orlando, Eddie? All right,
Zach and Eddie, that'll be the team that loses. And Dave,
who would you like to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I'll you that's right because you want to win. Dave.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You're a winner and you want to win the game. Dave,
that that is a smart choice by you. What are
the categories for this game?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
All right?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
This is the Janet Jackson edition of Mallard's Mount of Money.
She turns fifty seven years old today.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Man.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
The categories are as follows, what have you done for
me lately? Funny, how time flies? Empty? And call on me? Zach,
you were on first? Which category would you like?
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Call on me?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Call on me?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
All right?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
And Dave, you've got empty? Funny, how time flies? Or
what have you done for me lately?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
What are you doing for me lately?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Alright, So Zach and Eddie, are up first on call
on me. Remember, gentlemen, you need the first and last
name of the athlete in order to get points. You
have forty five seconds on the clock. Zach, are you ready?
I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
All right.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
These athletes came off the bench to lead their team
to success forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Probably the greatest quarterback in the NFL for the Patriots
and Buccaneers, Tom Brady. I was a guy who bag groceries,
then got a chance to play in Saint Louis with
the Rams. Won a superner quarterback for the Carolina Panthers.
He was from Louisiana. Got him to a Super Bowl
they lost. Yes, we hit the home run nineteen eighty
(33:44):
eight for the Dodgers walk off against the A's. Oh okay,
white guy NBA player for the Miami Heats right now, Yes,
little guy for the New York Knicks. Also famous for
getting knocked out as a boxer famously yes, uh former
(34:05):
Boston Red Sox outfielder. His last name is uh No, No,
that's all right. I don't know why Ben was talking
while I was trying.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
He was trying to cheat. I think you cheated.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
The more time you know the clock was going the
entire time. You cheat her by the way, two hundred,
two hundred points. Tyler hero is not playing for the Miami.
He's hurt, so he's not an active player for them.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
That doesn't matter. Who cares.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
No, I was Ben's Ben's trying to cheat right now
by like like taking up too much time. All right,
that was a good showing by Zach and Eddie. That
was two hundred points.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Good job by them. We're gonna go over.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
To He's already feeling that.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
He Yeah, we're gonna we gonna go over to Dave
and Ben. We failed to get two hundred points. I
believe you chose. What have you done for me lately?
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Okay, Uh Dave. These once great athletes could be considered
washed up. Uh forty five seconds on the clock begin
all right?
Speaker 7 (35:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
This guy was a third baseman for the Cardinals. He
was a multiple time All Star.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
He's on the podres right now, third baseman of the Potters.
Last name is like a handyman type name.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I don't know, Pat all right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I won two Yeah, I won two Cy Young Awards
for the Cleveland Indians. He's now in the Red Sox
getting lit up. He's a starting pitcher, Sally what.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
All right?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Pitcher for the Red Sox also, and uh he won
a cy Young with the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Also. I think with the White.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Sox he's not been very good lately, skinny guy string
being pitcher for the White for the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Dave, do you even watch sports? Dave?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Dave's not even there. Dave's not there? Oh he did?
Oh my god, he's not. I did the clues perfectly,
any and.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
He wasn't even there.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
He did the cluse perfectly.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Yeah, good strategy, starting with the hardest ones.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
No, that was listen, he hung up. He wasn't there.
I went the how we went your guys that game?
Because perfect clothes? All right? No, Jed, who fled? Are
you gonna step in? Jed? Who fled? Are you there? Jed?
Al right, we get to go again. We're gonna beat you.
Here we go, all right, Jed?
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Do you want uh funny how time flies are empty?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Waiting? Alright?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Hold on, all right, I'm not playing the game. I
don't like Jed's attitude. I know what's gonna do.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Just wait, you're gonna be part of that guy Dave
hung up?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
What's wrong with Dave so bad? Oh yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
A guy who was a three time All Star for
the Cardinals and then went to the padres right now
and his last day.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
It is like a handyman named Matt Carpenter. That's a
great f and clue.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And why didn't you get it big?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Because he wasn't there ready. He hung off. That's why
he didn't get all right, he's gone Eddy, thank you man.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
It was just like what against the sabotaged by Cooper
Loop Dominant.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
It's like the the Garcia Globetrotters.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Because, by the way, Mark Mark just told me in
my headphones, Mark told me that Coop hung up on
my mar.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Mark doesn't tell you anything stopping.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Mark doesn't speak smile.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Mark hasn't said a word since the last time he's
been on the show.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Have a telepathic communication, all right, We were saying signals.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
It's you know, you never said a word. You said
It wasn't said.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
It was you.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Mark. It's like is hearing voice, you know, you know,
it's like it's like you can air drop. You air
dropped the message to my head. Mark. You were sending
me like an air drop to my head.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
That's a golden ticket for Zack and Orlando.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
That's what happens when Eddy.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Shame on you, David Louisville, and this guy Coops all
this guy knows baseball. He was, Oh yeah, he hadn't
no baseball. That guy didn't know Bay. You went there,
You hung up on him, Coop, Yeah so much, Cooper.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
You that's how bad your clues were.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
And he decided to hangd up because he didn't stop talking.
This man is not stop talking. He's radio smiling right now.
Former Red Sox pitcher that won a s Young Award.
Yeah yeah, good one.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
String Bean ringan dummy played for the White Sox.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Those were great clues. One amazing clues
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, Viva Las Vegas.
We go to Sin City where the Athletics announced plans
for a Las Vegas Strip ballpark right there in the
middle of all the action, the iconic Vegas Strip. What
are your thoughts, your school of thought on these outrageous
(00:22):
ticket sale expectations coming from the Athletics and people in Vegas?
How does Major League Baseball play out in Lost Wages, Nevada?
And why are the A's so gung ho to move
to Sin City. We'll talk about that and more right
now here. It is our number three, Viva Las Vegas.
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That's what they're saying, the people that work for the
Athletics big announcement. See the details on this. It is
out of this world. Welcome, in the beginning of another
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play those things where the last of the Mohicans, but
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we'll have a little radio game show Mallor's amount of
Money coming up a little later in this I We'll
take plenty of your phone calls until then, but we
begin with a spicy hot malard monologue like a trip
to the Keno tables there and our lead, coming from
the business of baseball, is some new developments on the
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relocation situation sweeping the baseball nation. The Athletics, we knew
they were already packing their bags. The story actually broke
late at night while we were on the air. Only
stories about teams relocating or people dying happened when we're
on the air. So heading for greener pastures, which is
actually not true. It's actually greener in the Bay Area
(02:40):
than it is in Vegas. But the green is the
slot machine, the mean green slot machine, and if you've
not heard the latest, might have missed it. The team
currently called the Oakland A's has reached an agreement with
Bally's and the apparent company of Balley's to build a
(03:00):
ballpark right there in the heart of the iconic Las
Vegas trip. You probably have been to sind City at
some point, you've seen photos of Las Vegas if you've
not been there, and one of the iconic pieces of Americana,
the Las Vegas Trip and the Tropicana Hotel, which has
been hanging on by its fingernails for years and now
(03:22):
the nails have not held firm as Bally's court planning
the announcement on Monday. A thirty thousand seat stadium, thirty
five acre site, and the project expected to cost about
one point five billion. You want to take a bet
that it's not one point five billion, that it's more
(03:43):
than that. I'm going to take the over. I'm going
to say two and a half three billion dollars by
the time they get done. That's my estimate, but not
one and a half billion. The A's are asking Here's
the key part of this. They are asking for close
to four hundred million of the tax paying public's money
in the state of Nevada, and there's gonna be a
(04:04):
vote on this later in the week to decide whether
or not they get that money.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The new agreement.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It is actually a scaled down proposal, we are told,
but the location is a different location. Originally it was
gonna they were gonna build a ballpark right near the
Raiders Stadium, which is on the other side of the
highway there. But now they're like, no, na, na, no,
we're gonna hang out. We're gonna build this right in
the middle of the action and within walking distance. If
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you just walk down the south end of the strip,
you can walk through the ballpark, which I would think
they'll just keep raising the prices of parking and screw
the people that go to Vegas even more. If this
actually happens, the A's ballpark would hold approximately Here's the
key part, all right, this is the key part. Get
to the point, please, This is the money part of
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the statement. In the prepared statement, the Athletics said the
ballpark would hold approximately thirty thousand fans and they expect
to attract more than two and a half million fans
and visitors per year per year. So in Layman's terms,
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the A's are projecting that they are going to sell
out every game, that there will not be an empty
seat from March until October. So if you do the arithmetic,
the A's if the ballpark's thirty thousand with a lot
of luxury boxes, eighty one home games a year, a
(05:36):
couple of exhibition games. Let's say they play the Diamondbacks
in the exhibition season because that'll be their Desert rival,
and you get you have to do that to get
to two point four to nine million. So let's discuss, Now,
what is your school of thought here on the outrageous
expectation that the A's are going to draw two and
(05:57):
a half million fans and a thirty thousand seat ballpark
right in the middle of the iconic Vegas strip. So
I've got yellow brick Road, cannon Ball, Richards, and Sugar Daddy,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make in all you can eat buffet,
(06:18):
which is something that rarely exists these days in Vegas,
the all you can eat buffet, because they don't want
to give that food away. No, no, no, no no. So,
first of all, when I heard about this story involving
the athletics, My first thought was right out of Roger
Goodell's playbook, Right out of the Olympic playbook. It is
(06:39):
a tradition unlike any other. You have to justify poaching
hundreds of millions of hard working taxpayers money.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
So what do you do? What do you do? It's simple, You.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Follow the textbook, You go down the yellow brick road.
You do what the Olympics does when they're they're taking
bids on future Olympic games. You do what the NFL
does and Super Bowl host committees. It is called poetic license,
is what it's called. You embellish, you shnazz up, you
use puffery is what you do. And it's such bull crap.
(07:15):
It fascinates me. There's a lot of things about people
that fascinate me, and the fact that this scam has
been able to be pulled off.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Over and over and over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'd a buddy of mine who works in sports who
told me the reason that teams are able to do
this is because the politicians are always changing. So there's
always a new sucker that gets elected, and they want
to be the one that keeps the team or brings
the professional team to town. And that's why the teams
are able to take advantage of the politicians. It doesn't
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matter whether your team red or team blue. They can
take advantage of the politicians. And they sign off on that.
But there was an economic study done, and they did
this a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They looked at the hard numbers.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Now the NFL claims, I'll use the NFL as an
example because baseball. The A's are using it the playbook
of football. So the NFL claims the Super Bowl brings
in three hundred to five hundred million dollars annually. That's
what they claim. The actual numbers, which according to economic
data Guy went back and crunched the numbers. The financial
(08:24):
report says that the Super Bowl actually generates anywhere between
thirty and one hundred and thirty million for the host
city in actual real revenue. In other words, it is
ten percent to twenty six percent of what the NFL
says it is. And now the A's, I think they'll
(08:45):
do better than that. Only think they mean ten percent
or twenty six percent of that estimate. Because the A's
advantage in Vegas is that the casinos will purchase the
luxury boxes for the Wales. There'll be a lot of whales,
not Shamou. You will not see shamoux at a A's game.
I don't believe Shambou will be there. But you will
see some very wealthy gamblers. The casinos they still take
(09:08):
care of those people. Regular Joe Schmo they don't take
care of. But if you're a high roller there and
you're a big time in the high end tables in Vegas,
the high end rooms, they'll take care of you. But
let's not get crazy here now. Secondly, you examine the
situation with the Athletics. How does Major League Baseball play.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Out in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So when they move, and this is still several years
away from this actually happening, but it'll be the shiny
new object, it'll be the novelty act. It's kind of
like I remember reading a book about the vaudevillian days,
early entertainment in America and the traveling circus and the
side shows, and there was a guy named Cannonball Richards.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Cannon Ball Richards was his name.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Was a novelty act in the early days of American entertainment.
This knucklehead would go around, he'd get on stage, and
as his name indicated, he would get shot with a cannonball.
He'd worked the muscles in his stomach, in his chest,
he was very strong obviously in that area. They could
shoot a cannonball. He wouldn't die. He can only do
it a couple times a day because it actually screwed
(10:13):
up his body. So cannonball Richards can only do two
shows a day. He can do a morning show and
a night show and that's it. But eventually that wears off.
And you see it, right, the magic the pixie dust
wears off. You'll get people planning their summer vacations to
visit Vegas and watch their team play. It's not as
much like football is more of a sport designed for that.
Baseball's not designed for that as much. It's more games.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And plus, if you're.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Going to Vegas, do you want to spend if you're
there three nights in Vegas, do you want to spend
your three nights at an A's game against the Red
Sox or do you want to spend your time gambling?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
For most of that, maybe you'll go to a game,
but you want to gamble, and you plan vacations and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
But in terms of sustainability, I think, good luck on
you gotta win. That's the b the A's, that's a
bush league operation of the A's. The owners a loser.
This guy Fisher as far as running a baseball team out,
maybe it's a nice guy. I don't know the guy,
but running a baseball team, he appears to be incompetent.
And you look around and you look at the Las
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Vegas Raiders. The Raiders were thirtieth in attendance in twenty
twenty two. Do you know that thirtieth in attendance. They
have some of the most expensive tickets in the NFL.
They did not sell out every game. The Raiders finished
twenty sixth in percentage of capacity in the NFL, which
is really a good indicator.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
The Golden Knights out, they're good. They're good.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
They could go to the Stanley Cup Final again. They're
in the conference finals, and the Golden Knights Vegas born
and they sold out all of their home so they won.
The Raiders were mediocre and they did not sell out
their games, even with all the fans coming to town
to see the Vegas scene and NFL and all that.
And the athletics meanwhile, have said they planned to break
(11:58):
ground on a new ballpark next year. They plan to
open the stadium in twenty twenty seven in Sin City.
The A's lease with the coliseum runs through next season.
So you're saying, what the hell happens after that, Well,
they become baseball nomads and they will most likely play
at a Triple A ballpark, which is not appropriate. They
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should be playing in a Single A ballpark because that's
a single A team, not even a Triple A team.
It's not major league quality. Good luck getting that stadium filled.
In the thirty thousand Seeds Stadium when the A's are
playing the Marlins on a Wednesday afternoon and it's one
hundred and twenty four degrees now, supposedly the stadium is
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going to have a roof, although the story indicated did
not indicate a roof.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But you got to have a roof. It's so hot
in July and August in Vegas. You can't.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You'd only have you play games at eight o'clock nine
o'clock at night if you were going to play in Vegas.
O R Final thought outdoors. Anyway, why are the A's
so gungh to move to Vegas? Well, you can thank
the sugar Daddy, the casino here, the gambling house. The
benefactor is giving the A's the ultimate sweetheart deal. The
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numbers on this are mind blowing. Assuming this goes through
and it gets green lighted, the taxpayers of Nevada will
cut a check for four hundred million, So you get
four hundred million off the top. They are being handed
some of the most expensive real estate in America for
free in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Plus, you're going to sell some kind of mega naming
rights deal. There have been estimates at five hundred, six
hundred and seven hundred eight hundred million dollars that the
A's will get from the naming rights steal. You'll also
have the casinos buying most of the luxury boxes, and
you'll have out of town customers that'll be buying the tickets.
(13:57):
So from a financial standpoint, it's a no brainer. You
are being rewarded for incompetence. Another thing about American sports,
you are being celebrated for being a failure. The athletics
are a failure. They're an abject failure. John Fisher the
owner joke, and they're being rewarded. They're carpetbaggers and they're
being rewarded. It is the Band Malor Show. You want
(14:19):
to talk about any of that, you can join us
here at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. There
is a line open for the first time all night time.
Now for the Riddle of the day, the Mallor Riddle
of the Day.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Now, a lot of these baseball teams have pulled out
props to celebrate home runs. Baseball has endorsed that they're
trying to bring the fun back into baseball. It's been
this way for the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I like it. I think it's cool. Why not.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's fun, fun, fun. So, with that being said, the
Philadelphia Phillies, it has been revealed now the Philadelphia Phillies
have something called a home run blank to celebrate the
long ball. Again, this is the Malory Riddle of the day.
Do not look this up, do not google it. The
(15:08):
Philadelphia Phillies have something called a home run blank to
celebrate the long ball.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That is the Malory Riddle of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app one two.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Well, the Southern game is sofa.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And if wins in it really doesn't look too good
for the one day calling.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
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(16:22):
not on social media at least as far as we know.
He doesn't want you to talk to him or message him.
He just wants to come in and do his job.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And he's he's a vow of silence guy.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
He works on radio, but he's taking a vow of silence,
which is an odd position to have, but hey, to
each their own. It makes some unique live and let live.
Most people in radio want to talk, but not him.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
That's right, No at l From the Tyrek dot Com
Fox Sports Radio Studios it's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That is, and we will have Mallard's amount of money
coming up later in the hour. We began with a
Mallard monologue about the athletics announcement came down Monday, some
details on the plane move to Sin City.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
We'll take some.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Calls on that, but first we'll play off the Mallar
riddle of the day. The Mallar riddle of the day
here it is the Philadelphia Phillies have something called a
home run blank to celebrate long balls during the twenty
twenty three season. They just debuted it recently. So that
is the question. What is the answer, And let's see
(17:25):
does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Courtesy Flusher is going with a urinal, a home run jurnal.
That would be interesting.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Ferg Dog says they celebrate home runs by playing Patty
Cake with the bat boy. Also a great idea of
Midnight Walker going with home run cheese Steak as his answer.
Donkey Sausage checks in with a swing set as the selection.
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Page down?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Can't read that on the air, and Mallard prop guy
says Rick Dempsey's home run water slide, Well, that was
an iconic episode this week in Baseball Back in the
Day with mel Allen Twip notes around the majors, the
Orioles are sliding in Baltimore. All right, Uh, don't ever
(18:12):
do that again. Who else do we have? A home
run donut from Calligan Tim in Michigan, a home run
riot from paul Y b.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That's his answer.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Home run manure bag guest by Miguel on fire. Oh,
that's a pretty good idea, Milkman Mike and Colorado says
they celebrate with a home run Fats's fire.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But that's the answer.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Scott in Rhode Island says, the idiot Philly fans celebrate
home runs by climbing a greasy pole. That that is
what they do. Who else do we have? Page down?
Alf the aliot opiner says, they celebrate with a home
run cocktail. That's the answer, Page down, page down. A
stuffed condor guest by Robin Minnesota. Home run stripper from
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Nick in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Kevin.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Now, by the way, Nick's supposed to be at the
Malor meet and greet. Kevin says, Eddie, as he had
a comment about the as we're not doing that right now, Eddie,
do you have an answer. It's the malor riddle of
the day. The Philadelphia Phillies have just debuted recently something
called a home run blank to celebrate when they hit
a long ball.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
A home run battery that you can throw at the
opposing players.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, that would be with the If the Candlestick Park
was still around in San Francisco, they would bring that back.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
But that is incorrect, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Unfortunately, no, the Philadelphia Phillies have found a new creative
way to celebrate dingers, as they have now made home
run rotisserie chickens home run rotisserie chickens.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Say why yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So the story is that a pitcher named Jose Alvarado
came up with the idea he folds He's very good
at folding towels, so he folds towels in the shape
of a nice rotisserie chicken and then hangs the imaginary
rotissary chicken after each home run in the dugout. So
it's no, it's they're hanging. It's a symbolic gesture. They're
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hanging the birds. But the good thing about this is
the people at Peter can't complain because no birds are harmed.
There's no bird injuries. There's no birds being killed. You see,
they're using a towel. After each home run, this guy
has to make a the chicken and out of the
towel he hangs it up there in the dugout and
they do this out in the bullpen and they have
(20:31):
a fine time. So and I'm looking at some photos
here of the the work.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
And this is great. I think we should do this idy.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I think when we do something special on the show,
we should we should hang something from the wall here somewhere.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
This is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard
in my life.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You do not like the fake rotissary chicken being hung
in the Philadelphia Phillies bullpen.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
No, he folds a towel to look like a chicken.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yes, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You know?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
No words?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Well, Eddie at the at the Costco, don't they sell
a lot of those retissaries?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, list or not? Are they cooked on a rotisserie?
The chicken?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That's very popular item at Costco? Yeah right, yeah, it's
a rotissary chicken. But it's like how much is that?
It's like five six seven, five bucks? Five bucks? Yeah,
get a little baby chicken.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
It's a lost leader.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Actually, yeah, that in the hot dog at Costco. It's
a lost leader.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I have no I have nothing but love for the
rerotisserie chicken. But this is just weird.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, this is honoring the Kirkland brand rotisserie chicken. It's
a towel shaped like a chicken.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, very very weird.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
If you played baseball, you'd be weird too. Perhaps let's
go to the phones. We'll say hello to Let's go
to Nick. And he's in Berkeley. Hello Nick, he's an
A's fan. I think, well, not anymore? Hello Nick in Berkeley.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
What's up being I'm a Giants fan, man, But you
know what, I grew up in Berkeley. So it cost
me two fifty on ar two fifty to get a
bleach your seat, like a dollar fifty per coke, and
like two fifty for not those man, now those games
by myself. Man, I got Morey Will's autograph. I got
my only foul ball there I got. I shook Dave
Winfield's hand there one time. The aids just totally. I
(22:08):
mean five six years ago, man, Oakland had three teams.
They got nothing, Man, they got nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Ben, I'm I'm aware, I'm aware of that I am
aware that there is nothing left. There is nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And uh now, of course, if you live near a
Major League Baseball stadium, it will cost you approximately seventeen
dollars just to look at the stadium.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
So for then, I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Then I'll listen to the games on radio, because you
know what, these owners are so greedy. They act like, well,
you know how how is a blue collar worker like
me's supposed to take you know, my daughter and a
couple of her friends, and we can't even go to
the game. And has it cost me like one hundred
and fifty two undred dollars?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
You know what I'm saying, Well, they want you to
rob a bank. Go rob a bank and afford to
go to the games. What's wrong with you? Go rob
a bank? What's wrong with you? Come on, shame mom?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Man?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Look look look these players. Man, they charge what one
fifty for a jersey? And these cats don't even sign
all rafts have talked somebody at batting practice, mall like,
what's wrong with these Trim Madonna's man, you got these
hoopsters and Quinton the agents tell them to lay down,
like don't even play the seventh game or don't even
show up for the playoffs. I mean, what's going on
(23:12):
with sports? Man? The bases are bigger. It's like, dude,
it's chopper is only pier sport level.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, let's not get crazy here, Okay, I don't think
I might see a therapist there, Nick, I mean, what
do we doing?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I know?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
What?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Come on?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Stuff changed, It's not gonna you know, it's not gonna
say the same, Nick. I mean, we're we're getting older
here now.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I just gotta style right real quick. How does the
referee and this goes to gambling because obviously when you
have seventy more founds than the other team, what's going on? Man?
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Nick? I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I mean, and it's not like the Warriors were just
only shooting three point shots.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
We mentioned Game three, you can look it up. It's
all the NBA. Don't even hide it.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
The shots in the painted area which would indicate near
the basket. We're even Golden State actually had one more
shot and the Lakers attempted twenty more foul shots.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It's it's embarrassing in Sandy.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
I don't know what's going on with that. I'm bitter
about it, but all I can say it, Man, I'm
really looking forward. My giants are hanging in there right now,
but I'm really looking forward to the forty nine Ers, man,
because that's pretty much what I have left the rest
of this year. Man and Oakley. Man, it sucks. Man,
It's so terrible. They have no teams been this is
this is a national hour. I demand two teams.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Okay, all right, all right, you've let it be there,
You've thrown it out into the cosmos, You've let it know.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Let everyone know.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Nick and Berkley is demanding a second team in the
Bay Area and if not, heads are going to rule
and enjoy Nick the forty nine Ers season until week
five when Sam Donell is your starting quarterback, and.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Then you can you can go pound sand.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
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We usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's
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We talked to coaches, we talked to players, we tell
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Speaker 4 (25:25):
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Speaker 4 (25:36):
I have not been defend Have you been defended? It
just hasn't happened yet. I've been to Wrigley is cool,
but I liked a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Actually, when were you at Wrigley though? How long?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
A couple of years ago?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Have they renovated it? Yes? Okay, yes, very nice. I
kind of liked it more when it was CD and
they hadn't.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Read well that that that's you. You're a CD person,
so it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I went back and Jonas was nice enough to hook us.
He's got tickets to the Cubs. He hooked us up
and we sat out in the bleachers and just felt
too corporate.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I liked it when it was just like.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
A why would you say that when you don't sit
in the in the seats with fans.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I I just told you I sat in the bleachers
at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, because it was some sort of special event where
you've got free tickets from Jonas?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You said, yeah, but I still was sitting in the crowd,
a cold, rainy night.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Your corporate and the way more corporate.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So they're playing Marks White Sox. It was last year
in April.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It was raining, as I recall, yes.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
The entire game, it was rating and it was like
forty degrees. Wonderful day to sit outside for four hours.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
What right you want to know about a high school
football player?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You don't care about high school? Okay, I'm good. I
don't need that anyway. All right, it is the Ben
Mahlor Show.
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We'll say hello to Kenny and he is in Lost
(27:14):
Wages Noviada. Hello, Kenny, Welcome, You're on Fox Sports Rate
It's Ben Mallers Show.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Hey, big man, I remember you from San Diego. Man,
I'm sixty six.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh my god, you have me. I was a little
baby in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Yeah, I work from I worked at Joe Now from
nineteen seventy seven to nineteenth ninety six. I'm pretty sure
that you were on the radio. I was.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I started, well, I don't want to date myself, of course,
as you know, I'm only twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Old, but I was there at the end of your
time in San Diego radio. Who knew. It's a small world, Kenny.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
It is. Anyways, I listened to your speech or whatever
you want to call it on the AE. Let me
tell you a fact. Joe Lombardo is the governor of
that He will not approve one penny for taxes anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
You sure about that.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
I'm positive because if he does, he'll never get elected again.
And he knows that.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Well, don't you think they'll just do what they do
in Arizona and they'll charge the rental car people or
the hotel will add.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
To the hotel tax. He won't, He won't. Joe le
Bar is a hardcore right wing Republican.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I'll bet you I'll make a bed with you that
they get that money.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I'll make a bet I'll make up bed with you if.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
They do get that money. Yeah, they'll never get elected here,
all right, well.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Maybe he'll get a job with the as so who
cares he.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
But there's there's no way he's going to approve that.
But if he does, he won't get elected here again,
I guarantee, because that's what he ran on.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Okay, you know, I mean maybe right.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I tend to think when I've heard people say they're
not going to raise the tax or they're not gonna
it always happens.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
It's kind of like when they.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Say he's a hard I didn't vote for him, but
he's a hardl I mean, he's really right wing. I mean,
there's no way.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, there are a right wing and left wing people
that love to raise taxes.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
So yeah, but he's one of Donald Trump's boys. He
ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
All right, you know, I'll follow you back.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And when's the vote supposed to happen later this week?
Kenny's supposed to happen some point later.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
I'll call you back, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I remember you, Kenny, an old San Diego radio guy
back in the glory days.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
That because I found a lifting you about six months ago.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I wonder if that's the same same loser, Yes, the
same guy.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
What station did you work at in San Diego station.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Do you work at I worked at I worked at Aerospace?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You were listening? You were listening?
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I think it was I
don't kogo or some ship.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
All right, you got that right? Where we are right?
Very he is an honest man.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
We we're actually on now on seven sixty, which is
at that time, back in those days, was the big
talk talk station.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
In San Diego.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mountain. Now it's just a
sports talk station. So go figure, do we have our contestant?
Should we introduce people real quick here and get that
game started here?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yes? We don't need all the bells and whistles, yes,
or you need other people coop? What do you think
that's up to you? For you if you liked those guys,
all right, well let's open it up to the electorate.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number
eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine,
and we are going I can't get over Kenny's honesty.
He was trying to remember the station. That's how I
would have answered the question too, Kenny. That's the same
way I would have answered the question.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
So anyway, we're gonna have mothers amount of money.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
If you want to play, call right now eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
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(31:23):
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Speaker 3 (31:27):
Now Malor's Mountain of money. Hello, do you have what
it takes to get to the top?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Probably not, And we won't play Mallard's amount of money?
Right now, let's play the game.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
We welcome in our contestants, and who do we have.
We've got Zach who's in Orlando, and we say hello
to Zach, Hello Zach, Hey, Ben, welcome in Good to
have you. You're gonna play our game, and we also
have Dave, who is in Louisville.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Hello, Dave, Hey, good morning, Good morning you, Dave.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Good to have you guys on and welcome to the show.
Let's play the game here. Who do you want to
partner up?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
But we'll start with you, Zach in Orlando, Eddie? All right,
Zach and Eddie, that'll be the team that loses. And Dave,
who would you like to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I'll you that's right because you want to win. Dave.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
You're a winner and you want to win the game. Dave,
that that is a smart choice by you. What are
the categories for this game?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
All right?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
This is the Janet Jackson edition of Mallard's Mount of Money.
She turns fifty seven years old today.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Man.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
The categories are as follows, what have you done for
me lately? Funny, how time flies? Empty? And call on me? Zach,
you were on first? Which category would you like?
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Call on me?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Call on me?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
All right?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
And Dave, you've got empty? Funny, how time flies? Or
what have you done for me lately?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
What are you doing for me lately?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Alright, So Zach and Eddie, are up first on call
on me. Remember, gentlemen, you need the first and last
name of the athlete in order to get points. You
have forty five seconds on the clock. Zach, are you ready?
I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
All right.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
These athletes came off the bench to lead their team
to success forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Probably the greatest quarterback in the NFL for the Patriots
and Buccaneers, Tom Brady. I was a guy who bag groceries,
then got a chance to play in Saint Louis with
the Rams. Won a superner quarterback for the Carolina Panthers.
He was from Louisiana. Got him to a Super Bowl
they lost. Yes, we hit the home run nineteen eighty
(33:44):
eight for the Dodgers walk off against the A's. Oh okay,
white guy NBA player for the Miami Heats right now, Yes,
little guy for the New York Knicks. Also famous for
getting knocked out as a boxer famously yes, uh former
(34:05):
Boston Red Sox outfielder. His last name is uh No, No,
that's all right. I don't know why Ben was talking
while I was trying.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
He was trying to cheat. I think you cheated.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
The more time you know the clock was going the
entire time. You cheat her by the way, two hundred,
two hundred points. Tyler hero is not playing for the Miami.
He's hurt, so he's not an active player for them.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
That doesn't matter. Who cares.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
No, I was Ben's Ben's trying to cheat right now
by like like taking up too much time. All right,
that was a good showing by Zach and Eddie. That
was two hundred points.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Good job by them. We're gonna go over.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
To He's already feeling that.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
He Yeah, we're gonna we gonna go over to Dave
and Ben. We failed to get two hundred points. I
believe you chose. What have you done for me lately?
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Okay, Uh Dave. These once great athletes could be considered
washed up. Uh forty five seconds on the clock begin
all right?
Speaker 7 (35:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
This guy was a third baseman for the Cardinals. He
was a multiple time All Star.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
He's on the podres right now, third baseman of the Potters.
Last name is like a handyman type name.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I don't know, Pat all right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I won two Yeah, I won two Cy Young Awards
for the Cleveland Indians. He's now in the Red Sox
getting lit up. He's a starting pitcher, Sally what.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
All right?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Pitcher for the Red Sox also, and uh he won
a cy Young with the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Also. I think with the White.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Sox he's not been very good lately, skinny guy string
being pitcher for the White for the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Dave, do you even watch sports? Dave?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Dave's not even there. Dave's not there? Oh he did?
Oh my god, he's not. I did the clues perfectly,
any and.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
He wasn't even there.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
He did the cluse perfectly.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Yeah, good strategy, starting with the hardest ones.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
No, that was listen, he hung up. He wasn't there.
I went the how we went your guys that game?
Because perfect clothes? All right? No, Jed, who fled? Are
you gonna step in? Jed? Who fled? Are you there? Jed?
Al right, we get to go again. We're gonna beat you.
Here we go, all right, Jed?
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Do you want uh funny how time flies are empty?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Waiting? Alright?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Hold on, all right, I'm not playing the game. I
don't like Jed's attitude. I know what's gonna do.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Just wait, you're gonna be part of that guy Dave
hung up?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
What's wrong with Dave so bad? Oh yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
A guy who was a three time All Star for
the Cardinals and then went to the padres right now
and his last day.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
It is like a handyman named Matt Carpenter. That's a
great f and clue.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And why didn't you get it big?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Because he wasn't there ready. He hung off. That's why
he didn't get all right, he's gone Eddy, thank you man.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
It was just like what against the sabotaged by Cooper
Loop Dominant.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
It's like the the Garcia Globetrotters.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Because, by the way, Mark Mark just told me in
my headphones, Mark told me that Coop hung up on
my mar.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Mark doesn't tell you anything stopping.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Mark doesn't speak smile.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Mark hasn't said a word since the last time he's
been on the show.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Have a telepathic communication, all right, We were saying signals.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
It's you know, you never said a word. You said
It wasn't said.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
It was you.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Mark. It's like is hearing voice, you know, you know,
it's like it's like you can air drop. You air
dropped the message to my head. Mark. You were sending
me like an air drop to my head.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
That's a golden ticket for Zack and Orlando.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
That's what happens when Eddy.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Shame on you, David Louisville, and this guy Coops all
this guy knows baseball. He was, Oh yeah, he hadn't
no baseball. That guy didn't know Bay. You went there,
You hung up on him, Coop, Yeah so much, Cooper.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
You that's how bad your clues were.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
And he decided to hangd up because he didn't stop talking.
This man is not stop talking. He's radio smiling right now.
Former Red Sox pitcher that won a s Young Award.
Yeah yeah, good one.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
String Bean ringan dummy played for the White Sox.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Those were great clues. One amazing clues
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