June 12, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Chicago Cubs rejecting extension talks for ace pitcher Marcus Stroman, Reds rookie Elly De La Cruz saying he's the fastest man in the world, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number two, Hour two of the Ben Malers
Show podcast. We thank you for subscribing and downloading this podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You are my favorite person for that. So we touch
on baseball this hour.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How do you explain the Cubs rejecting extension talks that
were started by pitcher Marcus Stroman, he's played really well
this year, he wants to stay in Chicago. The Cubs said,
no thanks. What do you make of Red's rookie Ellie
Dela Cruz saying he's the fastest man in the world.
And how crazy was it to watch Yankee broadcaster John
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Sterling get dinged in the head with a foul ball
and then not miss a beat.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Talk about that as well. Here it is our number two.
The not so friendly.
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Confines, at least if you're looking for that new contract.
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Speaker 1 (01:50):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Why not talk a little baseball? There's a few stories
that popped up over the last couple of days as
we head to the midway point this week, the midway
point of the month of June, which means we still
have ten thousand more weeks of the baseball season, the
never ending journey.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
But that is where we will begin.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The north side of Chicago, where Marcus Stroman has been
dealing for the Cubs. Now, you wouldn't know that because
the Cubs, who are not in last place the Cardinals
are in last place, but just above the Cardinals in
the Nation League Central would be the Chicago Cubs, and
by the end of the season they will likely be behind
the Cardinals when it's all said and done. But anyway,
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Marcus Stroman has pitched very well this season for Chicago.
Fury Fantasy baseball nerder. If your a degenerate gambler, chances
are pretty good that you have noticed that. If not,
possibly you have not noticed how effective he has been.
And so he over the weekend did something that people
generally put in the taboo category, and that would be
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airing dirty laundry. Now, as a gas band and blowhard,
I have never had a problem with athletes airing dirty laundry. Fact,
it kind of keeps the business we do here.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Alive and well.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And so get to the point, please, As Marcus Stroman
went into the town square and put all of his
dirty underwear up, all the cubs dirty underwear, and he
hung it right there in the town square for everyone
to see. Stroman went on a social media diatribe Marcus Stroman,
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in which he said that his agent and himself have
contacted the ball club. They've approached the Cubs and said, hey,
you know, we really like it here.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We would like a whole big truck full.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Of money to stay here. We want a lot of
that Cub money, and we want to keep pitching for you.
Of course pay us, and we want an extension his contract.
There's a player option which he will activate and become
a free agent at the end of the year. So
every time Marcus Stroman has contacted the Cubs, the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Have been unavailable. Right, They've been unavailable.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's the classic don't call us, we'll call you situation.
That is how that has gone down so far. So
let us discuss the question. We'll start with this, how
do you explain the Cubs rejecting by far and away
what has been their top starting pitcher in a contract
extension with Marcus Stroman?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
How do you explain that?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I've got Itinerary Puff, the Magic Dragon, and o
MS and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make a long winning streak
something the Cubs likely will not have the rest of
the season, a long winning streak.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So number W.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
All right, we begin with Marcus Stroman, who has been
wonderful for the Cubs. He is a nice oasis in
a sea of po for the Chicago Cubs. Now, there's
been a few other guys that have done okay on
the mound, but the Cubs are not a good baseball team,
and they've gotten progressively worse as things have gone on here,
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and we're only in the month of June. So with
that said, this guy's pitching lights out. He wants to
stay with the Cubs. He likes being a call but
he must love day baseball. He loves it there on
the North Side. Unfortunately, we do not have a love connection.
It takes two to tango. There is no love connection
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between Stroman and the Cubs. And the reason why the
Cubs are not willing to get into a commitment. They
would rather have a nice summer of love, and they'd
like that to end around August first, is what they
would like. Because here's the problem. If you look at
the itinerary of the Chicago Cubs and the itinerary of
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Marcus Stroman, it does not add up.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It does not. Stroman would like to win the Illinois lottery,
and wouldn't we all like to win the Illinois lottery.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The Cubs are very content being a bag of suck.
They're okay with that. The ownership in Chicago, they know
they'll sell a bunch of beer. People go to Wrigley Field,
no matter what. It's been proven over the years, and
so the Cubs, it's as clear as day, are perfectly
fine treading water for several more years because they are
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not in the winning business. They're in the make a
lot of money without winning business. They are content to
tread water in the land of mediocrity, and they're waiting
around for the next crop of cheap talent to harvest
in the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's what they're waiting for.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And if you look at the timeline Marcus Stroman, who's
thirty two years old, which means if you sign him
to let's say a five year or four year extension,
which is likely what he would want, he will then
be tied up with you until he's thirty six or
thirty seven, which, oh, by the way, is the next
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window four or five years from now when the Cubs
will actually feel the competitive team.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Plus, the Cubs are already planning on trading his ass
out of Chicago. The trade deadline is August first. They
moved it a day from July thirty first, which used
to be to August first, So August first is the
trade deadline. The Cubs will trade him and get some
other cheaper pitchers, and they figure, hey, we're not trying
to win. We could put Joe Blow on the mound
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and it doesn't matter. The same number of people show
up to watch cub baseball. So play you know, eighty
five percent of the world's work and the other fifteen
percent come out here. So playground for the blank planks.
All right now page two. Here, let's go over to Cincinnati,
another National League Central Division team, the Cincinnati Reds, because
they're hot shot rookie Elie de la Cruz, a name
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of a star.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Red's playing the Cardinals over.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The weekend and he has popped up on the scene
in a large way. Elie Dela Cruz over the weekend,
in a win against the Cardinals, the twenty one year
old went turbout time. He went turboutastick is what he did. Now,
Dela Cruz keeping the good vibrations going after that opening
against the Dodgers where the Reds celebrated their World Series
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win by winning back to back against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
So he ended again this on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He had the RBI stolen base and an explosion base running,
showing how fast how athletic Li Dela Cruz can be.
He blew past the third base coach who was saying stop, stop,
don't do but right past him and he scored and
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then afterwards declared himself as the fastest man in the world.
I am the fastest man in the world in my
case at bloviating, but in his case it actually running
the bases, and so that of course created a story.
People were like, oh man, this is this guy's so fast,
and Dela Cruz ended up going around the bases in
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eleven point four seconds. He needed only three point one
seconds to go from third to home, and in doing
so he says, Hey, I'm the fastest man in the world.
So what do you make of the reds rookie Ellie
Delacruz saying he's the fastest man in the world.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So he is obviously enjoying this. Good for him. He's
soaking it all in.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But be careful because when you soak it all in
sometimes it becomes like a bull of cereal and it
gets a little soggy after a while.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So you gotta be careful. There's a fine line.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You gotta walk the line if you will when it
comes to this. But if you look at Delacruz, he's
going puff the magic dragon, is what he's doing. He's
puffing up his legend, the bombastic rhetoric. We're all for
it now. Dela Cruz is average speed. They've got a
stat for everything, the nerds over at baseball. Dela Cruz's
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average speed in that base running expedition over the weekend
was thirty point eight feet per second, which is just
a touch faster than the Royals phenom of earlier on
the Bobby Witt Junior experience in Kansas City, whose time
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was thirty point four feet per second that led all
qualifiers there. So Bobby Witt Junior, by the way, did
not get too much excessive coverage anymore. But when he
first popped onto the scene, which was a few months back,
you would have thought this guy was the next great
Royals player since George Brett or any of those guys
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that played in the mid twenty tens, any of those
Cats that was on that last World Series team. But
the Royals who are absolute manure, So no one's talking
about Bobby Witt, who, by the way, is batting a
nice robust two thirty five on pace for twenty five
home runs and seventy RBIs with a dreadful Royal team,
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not the stuff legends are made of. And de la Cruz, though,
flying around the bases like the with a wind behind
his sales there just pushing him along there and you're
going Sonic the Hedgehog and nice to see. But the
Reds are gonna have to win some games here or
people are gonna treat him like Bobby WoT Jr.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I know. They beat the Dodgers, they played the Cardinals.
Everything will be okay, really'll be great. Nothing to see here.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
All right, we'll find out all right, last and final
part of this baseball themed Mavet monologue, We stop and
the boogie down Bronx. Are we going to break down
the Yankees and the Red Sox. No, we are not
going to break down the Yankees and the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
We are not, But we.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Are gonna talk about John Starling, the Yankee play by
play guy John Sterling, who went viral this weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Now, what did John Sterling do?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
The longtime radio voice of the New York Yankees in
the broadcast booth there in the Bronx with seven thousand sponsors.
So it's late in the game on Saturday. The Yankees
are playing the Red Sox and ex Dodger Justin Turner
is at bat. He fouls a ball directly back. It
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travels all the way back to the broadcast booth at
Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And creplunk, creplunk.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
It hits the head of John Sterling as he's doing
the play by play. As he's doing the play by play. Uh,
there's there's video which has gone viral on the internet.
But just to give you the blow by blow, here's
what it sounded like. John Sterling at the mic.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Now the three to two swing, Uh, a pop foul
back here.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Now it really hit me. I didn't know what was
coming back that far.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So once again, it'll be a three to two man
Holmes ready to deal ground ball. At the third Donaldson
squares throws the first in time ball game over Yankees
when the.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yankee I've never actually seen him do the call.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The video is amazing. The video has gone Viral's been
seen millions of times. I do recommend it if you're
if you're blind, I don't know. It's amazing. It's just
he's there and then it it ricocheted and then hit
him right in the in the head. And anyway, so
how crazy was it? There's the question on this one.
How crazy was it to watch Yankee broadcaster John Sterling
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get ding with a foul ball and not miss a beat.
Other than saying ow ow. Other than that, it was wacky.
It was wacky goodness is the way I will describe
it now.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Now Sterling, who I don't I'm not. He's not a friend.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I don't know John Sterling other than a casual. I
call him up once every couple of years and say, hey, John,
will you come on my podcast? And he says, sure,
I'll do it, whatever you want. And he always does it.
He's never said no to that. Whenever I've asked him
for anything. He's always been very kind to me. And
we've only chatted a few times over the years, and
he is a debonair showman as a broadcast right, all
(14:23):
the bull crap and all the rasthmatas. I'm a big,
big fan of John Sterling, the nonsense of John Sterling,
but his advice, as I've had him on the podcast
over the years, his advice to me has always been
the most important thing is you got to sell the soap.
That's the most important thing. You gotta sell the soap.
And here's the thing though, this is some embarrassing for
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Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is thirty one years old. Okay,
this guy is in the prime of his career. He
is facing a standing eight count because of the gate
at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He's likely out a month.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Sterling, God love him, is eighty four years old. He
get hit right in the face, right in the head
with a foul ball. Doesn't miss a pitch, doesn't miss
a pitch.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
He's calling the play by play. This guy's tougher than
Aaron Judge. Think about that now, Why is he tougher
than Aaron Judge? I know why? Three letters? Okay, three
letters here oms you know what that is? Old man's strength.
John Sterling is of the generation. Just rub some dirt
on it. That's it. Just rub some dirt on it.
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Speaker 2 (16:36):
Peton the Machinist writes, and he says, my reaction to
watching John Sterling getting smacked in the head thereby a
foul ball would be similar to my reaction to watching
Moses part the Red Sea stunning, and I'd have to
see it to believe it. Bengo fan Bryan says, Dela
Cruz will be a household name and the Reds will
be a legitimate championship contender in a couple of years,
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loaded with young talent. Okay, and we know as as
you as a Cincinnati fan. No, the Castellini family committed
the winning the ownership group there in Cincinnati. They will
do whatever it takes to keep that core together. They
will not just trade all those guys to the Yankees,
of the Dodgers, of the Red Sox in a couple
of years, one percent that team will all stay together.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
J d.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
In Case says, what kind of play by play guy
misses a dunk to the head.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You have one job, bro, he.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Says, Well, when the balls fouled the way John Sterling
moves on, he's not there to do the blow by
blow on the on where the baseball goes in the crowd.
He just assumed it wasn't going to hit his head,
which it did, right and the right there booms on.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's like that man alive. All right, we'll take your calls.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox the number, and
we'll say hello to Poppy in San Diego. I I'm
pretty sure every pick he gave out on Friday was
completely wrong. I remember he said load up on the
Miami Heat in Game four. I remember that Hello picking
with Poppy.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Hey, well you're completely wrong with those.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
No, no, no, you did you not say Miami was
gonna win on Friday night?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You said that that was one of your picks you
gave it out.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
No, Ben Mallory actually wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I told you.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Guys, if you listened to you UFC twenty nine, I
told you Canadian Vancouver.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh my god, you are you are so full of crap.
You are so full of crap. My god, the Poppy
Poppy people actually listen, Poppy?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Please come on. What's wrong with you? You're wrong?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Everyone that went against me when five that is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No, you're you're just making things up. You're just you're lying.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Your nose is You're not gonna be able to talk
anymore because your nose will block the phone.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
We won't be able to hear you. You know what's funny?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Man Like, you're so old school and old school people
tell the truth and.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You're the opposite.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You're not a man of your word.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
What are you? What are you talking about? Poppy?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You said you said Friday Night, Scott Foster Miami at home,
they're gonna win, and you pick every Mexican boxer in
the UFC. That's how I know. I know you're all
your how your mind operates, Poppy, I know everything through
your head.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Everything's going through your head, Poppy. What happened to the
homecomer advantage?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
And you were trying to make fun of me?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And look what Poppy went, You did not know?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You're lying? You went, oh and five? Did he call?
He called?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I don't remember, Poppy. What hour did you call? Poppy?
You were picking.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He's not gonna tell you because he doesn't want you
to know. These picks were all strewed up. I know
I did.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You're completely wrong. You're lying.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I could see you're laughing right now, Poppy. You're laughing
as you're talking here. No, I said to pick all
the Canadians home.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I would rather pick my nose than listen to your picks.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I would rather pick my nose than hear your picks. Well,
you know what, if you guys want to hear my pick,
people love my picks.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Under you guys can lip it my YouTube.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Oh see, there you go. That's good. You're promoting. Now
you're moving it.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
All your content is going to YouTube so you can
monetize your YouTube. P No, No, you're you're just announced
it right now, Poppy, you've moved everything it.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Pobby, listen to me.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I want you to admit right now, Poppy, or I'm
going to hang up on you that you said admit
right now that you gave out the Miami Heat on Friday.
You said they're at home, They're gonna win at home.
Scott Foster, you you gave that pick out?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Well you know what that mallor, I give a lot
of picks out.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, alright, alright, thank you. I gotta go, go way,
get out of here.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
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Speaker 1 (20:57):
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Speaker 2 (20:58):
Just in the Cincinnati is putting is basically the same
thing as what the Live tour guys did. So he
has so he says, ah, all right, anyway, we will
have coming up more of your calls.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Why not? These are so good?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And you wonder why I don't take a lot of
calls sometimes, Well I just had an example.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Just add an example right there.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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What do you get when you combine a three time
Manager of the Year at a three time National Sports
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It's the Book of Joe podcast.
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Hey, this is Tom Ferducci from Fox Sports, MLB Network
and Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And I'm Joe Madden.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Are we're going to be around to talk a little
bit about managerial decisions, playoff games, and what may have
occurred to the dugout maybe in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I can't wait for this, Joe.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
We're going to dive into what goes on in the
dugout and behind the scenes in Major League.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Baseball, cars, wind, whatever else we want to talk about.
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Listen to the Book of Joe podcast on the iHeartRadio app,
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Speaker 2 (22:00):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
This note from the NFL so Kawan Barkley, running back
New York Giants, was at a football camp and was
asked if he was optimistic about getting a long term
deal done with the New York Giants. He said, quote,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Now.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
The Giants use the franchise tag on him and he
has not signed it, so that means that he will
not be able to participate in the Giants mandatory mini
camp until he comes to an agreement. Two sides have
until July seventeenth to agree on a new deal.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I hope I hope that sekwanba. I pray this Kwan
Barkley gets a lot of money. I mean, he's already
got a lot of I don't believe franchise. I'm very
concerned about athletes make a lot of money. You know
they're concerned about me. You know how many athletes I've
run into. But I really hope those overnight radio guys
make a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Oh zero tons. Very concerned one.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
No, they're very worried about that. They want us to
be around and make a lot of money. Very concerned
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the Reds owners will trade Elie de la Cruz at
the trade deadline. It's what they do. Sharon says, wish
fans could trade owners. Vincent says Poppy even picked all
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the horses to win the Preakness. Yes, all of them,
all of them. Now, some people are asking when Chris
and Houston's going to be here.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I don't know. I have not is Chris coming in
here to visit us? He is he inviting himself in here?
I have not.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
He has not contacted me and said I'm coming on
this date, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So I don't know. As far as I know, he's
not going to be here.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But maybe he's got some side deal with Coop, some
side hustle with Coop, and he's got some plan.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
But as far as I know, think you was here
this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh so he's already gone, Oh all right, then there
you go, and he's he's not gonna be popping in here,
so check the receipts. It is the story of stories
from pro bouncy Ball, not involving the NBA Finals, but
the yet again adult actress. Boy, these porn stars man
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right in our world. Last hour was a fan. People
were trying to figure out who she was at the
heat game. It was some adult actress. And now we
go over to Zion Williamson. The Life and Times of
Zion Williamson. Mariah Mills. I believe that's how you say
the name Mariah Mills. She is who the one that
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feels like her. I don't know, ash, I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I can say what I can't say.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
But she's very curvaceous, she feels like Zion did her
dirty and very upset. They say she he's an only
fan star?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Is it everyone an onlyfan star? And she has had
a full on meltdown. It has continued since last week.
In fact, every half hour on Sunday, almost on the
half hour, she was sending out messages about Zion Williamson.
Zion the Pelicans forward announced last week that he is
having a child with another woman that he claims as
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his girlfriend. Although the adult film star says, hey, wait
a minute, I've been the one that's been taking you,
taking you and never never landing all that stuff. And
so she's had a complete breakdown on social media. Based
on what I'm reading, if she's posting all this stuff,
man wild. And so now she has gone next level.
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She has decided to post the actual what she claims
are the receipts of a financial agreement with Zion Williamson
and who enjoyed her goodies so much that he had
sent ure some some money.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, not all is quiet. Not all is quiet.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
On this story, and she says, I used to watch
basketball wives.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
On TV then when I was younger.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Now the drama has become my life, she said, with
a sad emerging not what I signed up for. Okay,
I guess she wanted something else, And she said, you're right.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I'm mad a Zion.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
This entire situation has you spending all types of unnecessary money.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And then he says that booty at BM. I think
booty Mama is at the that code.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
For something else. I don't know. Booty model, booty model,
I don't know baby mama, baby mama, you could do that.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So the kids hasn't been born yet anyway, toxic, she says,
Then here's the get to the point. Please over the weekend,
she said, thanks for the gifts you gave me last week, Zion.
You sure why you wasted or why you wanted to
make me upset again? It's all good. You have responsibilities now.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You would be mad too if.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
She doesn't really use the King's English yere for some reason.
I don't know why. One hundred and seven thousand monthly allowance. Man,
I would like to be a booty model for Zion
Williams one hundred and seven thousand a month, and she's
claiming this is these are all wire transfers that she has,
she sent out screenshots of and there's a her twenty
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five thousand wire transfer incoming from Zion Williamson. Can you
just use like a cash app or something like that,
you don't need to use twenty thousand, ten thousand, So
she claims one hundred and seven thousand a month? Is
that the going rate? Is that what your average NBA
player has to pay to have this kind of relationship?
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One hundred and seven thousand dollars a month? Man, how
do you think the Pelicans? How do you think the
Pelicans ownership feels right now? This guy's a fat slob.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
He can't play.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
The only thing is, yeah, you're getting great press off
the Yes. Who could have seen this one coming? Well,
you didn't think it would work out, but this is,
this is is just marvelous.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And she's been on a full.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
On frenzy, uh you know, every couple of hours, every
half hour.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And it's it's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
She's sending messages, she's got screenshots of Zion and things he's.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Saying to her. Man craziness.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Isa Zion was spoiling me top money, and and then
she's upset because of course people are goofing on the internet.
They're goofing on her saying she's all messed up because
that's how people operate on the internet. So then she's
getting all defensive, saying, well, Zion's sending me all this money,
because my dairy air must not be that bad. My
beadonka Donk's pretty good because Iion kind of liked it.
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Couci she's a lot older too, she's like ten years older,
but that she started hooking up with Zion was nineteen
years old. It's a lovely, lovely relationship. But you can
see all the receipts right there. They're all available online.
So she says one hundred and seven thousand, but we
can verify based on the what she sent out the
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receipts there that it was at least fifty five thousand
dollars and that was all in the last week. Man,
does she have to pay taxes on that?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
How does that work? Do you have to pay taxes
on that? If you get one hundred and seven thousand.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
I think there's a certain number that you're allowed to
receive in gifts before you have to.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I bet you it's less than one hundred thousand.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Eddy.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It's like, but when you go to a casino and
you win money, it's like, is it twenty five hundred
unless you don't have to pay taxes on it?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yeah, I don't know. I've never really won money at
a casino.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
No, but there's a lot and I think they lowered
the limit. It used to be higher. They lowered the
limit because otherwise, you go to a casino and they
give you a tax form. If you win a decent
amount of money, they immediately give you a tax.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Form, so you're screwed. But if you can keep under
that threshold, I'm pretty sure it's five thousand. I think
it's lower than that. Now I'm going to check. I
think I think it was like they lowered it to
twenty five hundred. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought they
lowered it a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Anyway, it is the Ben Malor Show, So good luck there, boy.
This is just amazing reading, though it gets better and better.
And that famous quote, hell hath no fury? Like a
woman scorned is alive and well in this story it
is man.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
COUCHI.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
It is wild we have Mallard of the third degree.
Mallard of the third degree. We'll get to that coming
up time. Now for the instad trivia here, it is
the record for the most strikeouts looking since the year
two thousands, the last twenty two plus seasons. The record
for the most strikeouts looking is held by blank. That
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is for a position player record for the most strikeouts
looking since the year two thousand, so the last generation
is held by blank. That is the instant trivia.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
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It's Ben Maller.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And the Insta Trivia with Mallard of the third Degree
warming up now in the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Here is the Insta Trivia.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
The record for the most strikeouts looking since two thousand
since the year two thousand is held by Blank. We're
looking for the name of a position player. Wally in
Florida's going with Mike Gean Carlos Stanton as his answer.
Who else we have? Bengal Van Bryant says, Andre Ethier
is the answer. Marcel in Brooklyn Ozuna guessed by Miguel
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on Fire. Cowboy Killer says it has to be the
founder of Wendy's Dave Thomas.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Who else do you have?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Page Dwan Bob Sap guessed by Sheen from Des Moines.
Martin Short tossed out by Ferg Dog. I've never met
Ferg Dog, but I bet you he looks like Martin
shirt Short.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Millhouse Van Outen guest by Sirley Scott, Brian Finley on
a Date A guess by Justin in Cincinnati. Eke in Roseville,
Minnesota going with Miggy Cabrera.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Joey Vado guests by Johnny Q. Sean in Portland says
Clayton Kershaw is the answer. Kung Fu Panda guess by
Mark in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Adam Dunn from Mike in Pittsfield. The Eddie Garcia Burner
account says the Instant Tribute answer is powder, but that
is the answer the Major League Baseball logo. Harmon Killebrew
guest by Rob in Minnesota, alf the Alien ol pineer
in Springfield, mass says sledge hammer is the correct answer.
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Sean in the Valley of So this is actually a
good guest. Richie Sexon That guy struck out so much
looking and swinging the great gazoo tossed out by the
nature boy.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Callaghan tim in Michigan going with funeral potatoes from earlier
in the show. A hot conversation about funeral potatoes.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Hobby Bobby says, Chris Davis oriole Legend is the answer,
and JD in case says New York Yankee Broadcasters the answer.
John Deere from Chip in the Cues and Scorpio Niner
in the Bay Area says the irs will be communicating
with Mariah Mills next, I think so. Yes, all right, Eddie,
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do you have an answer to the install trivia?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Yes, it's former Oakland A's catcher Terry Steinbach.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Terry Steinbach, part of those late eighties a's. That is
incorrect the correct answer. The record for most strikeouts looking
since the year two thousand is held by Carlos Beltrot,
a cheating astro, and since two thousand and four hundred
and two four hundred two strikeouts looking. He's obviously not
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playing anymore. He had a brief dalliance as a Yankee
broadcast and then they quickly got rid of him. I
think he's doing some stuff with the Mets.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
But here we go. It's maller. How about that to
the third degree?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
This is one gets grilled the kop Dal loup.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
There have been reports that Buck Showalter's job could be
in jeopardy, but Steve Cohen responded by saying that he
doesn't want to make any reactionary moves with the Mets.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Ben, do you think show Walter is in trouble? Yeah,
here's the reaction.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
The Mets suck, so somebody's gonna have to pay the price.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yes, but Showalter is in trouble. The Mets are.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
They're not living up to expectations. Anytime you have a
big payroll and you don't live up to expectations, this
is not brain surgery. It's Okham's razor. The simplest answers
the obvious one. So Buck Shalder, here's what's gonna happen.
But Shalder's respected around baseball. They don't want to get
rid of him and all that stuff. But he's his
job is online. There are three things that happen when
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a team underperform to the level of the Mets and
their high expectations. Either there's a shock trade involving a
core player like Pete Alonzo or somebody like that, the
pitching and or the hitting coach get fired, or the
manager walks the plank. One of those things is gonna
happen to the Metropolitans. The trade deadline is August the first,
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so that's not that far away. You got about a
month and a couple of weeks and then that's it.
And so the Mets, if they continue down the highway
to Hell, there can be all kinds of trades next.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Well, speaking of the trade deadline, there's been a lot
of speculation about what will happen to show Hey Otani,
but a new report this weekend says that the Angels
do not plan on trading him, even if they are
out of contention by the trade deadline. They say that
they think trading him will hurt their chances at resigning him.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Ben, do you agree? All right? So coub I did
some due diligence here over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I attended an Angel Mariner game, crossed over to the
Orange Curtain to watch the Halo.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Is it the one that they lost?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yes, yes, game on Saturday that they lost over the
week But the stadium I walked around, I'm in.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
The big an a while. It was filled with all
these Japanese sponsors.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Right, I'm thinking the only real advertisers the Angels have
are Japanese countries are companies. They can't trade Otani. They
have no advertisers left. Right, there's like Japanese curry over here,
there's some other product, I mean where it is on
another part of the stadium. So yeah, I mean Otani's
bringing in the money there, and he's.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
The he's the man.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I mean, the Angels are in Nomad's land because they're
not really contenders.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
This is not a good team, but they're not a
bad team.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
And because there's so many wildcard teams, the Angels mathematically
are only a couple of games out of a wildcard
berth in the American League, so there is a path
to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
But what a blow that would be of.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Otani keep him and then he goes and signs with
the Dodgers and then they just get a draft pick next.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Are there's a speculation that Karl Anthony Towns could be
traded sometime within the next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, and they call him cat Cat. Yes, Ben, do
you think it'll happen? And if so, to wear, I
am gonna say yes on this.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
And the reason I'm gonna say yes is because Minnesota
got the Booby Prize of last offseason and Rudy Gobert
from the Utah Jazz. They traded, let me check my
notes here, seven hundred and thirty five draft picks to
get Rudy Gobert from the Utah Jazz, so they have
no draft picks, which I don't care about.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
But they do.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
And Rudy Gobert did not play well with Karl Anthony
Towns when they were on the court together.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
It did not go well.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So the next big event in the NBA after the
finals is Ja Morant being suspended, and then after that
it'll be the the NBA Draft. That's when trades will
get cranked up. So yes, absolutely, Carl Anthony Towns is
in play, here to be traded, and I would expect
them to be traded before the end of the first.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Round of the NBA Draft.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
There it is mallor to the third degree with extended
time coup.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
How did we do pass? That is what I want.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
The game.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I won the game.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Whoa
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number two, Hour two of the Ben Malers
Show podcast. We thank you for subscribing and downloading this podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You are my favorite person for that. So we touch
on baseball this hour.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
How do you explain the Cubs rejecting extension talks that
were started by pitcher Marcus Stroman, he's played really well
this year, he wants to stay in Chicago. The Cubs said,
no thanks. What do you make of Red's rookie Ellie
Dela Cruz saying he's the fastest man in the world.
And how crazy was it to watch Yankee broadcaster John
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Sterling get dinged in the head with a foul ball
and then not miss a beat.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Talk about that as well. Here it is our number two.
The not so friendly.
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Confines, at least if you're looking for that new contract.
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Well gum.
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Speaker 1 (01:50):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Why not talk a little baseball? There's a few stories
that popped up over the last couple of days as
we head to the midway point this week, the midway
point of the month of June, which means we still
have ten thousand more weeks of the baseball season, the
never ending journey.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
But that is where we will begin.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The north side of Chicago, where Marcus Stroman has been
dealing for the Cubs. Now, you wouldn't know that because
the Cubs, who are not in last place the Cardinals
are in last place, but just above the Cardinals in
the Nation League Central would be the Chicago Cubs, and
by the end of the season they will likely be behind
the Cardinals when it's all said and done. But anyway,
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Marcus Stroman has pitched very well this season for Chicago.
Fury Fantasy baseball nerder. If your a degenerate gambler, chances
are pretty good that you have noticed that. If not,
possibly you have not noticed how effective he has been.
And so he over the weekend did something that people
generally put in the taboo category, and that would be
(02:56):
airing dirty laundry. Now, as a gas band and blowhard,
I have never had a problem with athletes airing dirty laundry. Fact,
it kind of keeps the business we do here.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Alive and well.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And so get to the point, please, As Marcus Stroman
went into the town square and put all of his
dirty underwear up, all the cubs dirty underwear, and he
hung it right there in the town square for everyone
to see. Stroman went on a social media diatribe Marcus Stroman,
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in which he said that his agent and himself have
contacted the ball club. They've approached the Cubs and said, hey,
you know, we really like it here.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We would like a whole big truck full.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Of money to stay here. We want a lot of
that Cub money, and we want to keep pitching for you.
Of course pay us, and we want an extension his contract.
There's a player option which he will activate and become
a free agent at the end of the year. So
every time Marcus Stroman has contacted the Cubs, the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Have been unavailable. Right, They've been unavailable.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's the classic don't call us, we'll call you situation.
That is how that has gone down so far. So
let us discuss the question. We'll start with this, how
do you explain the Cubs rejecting by far and away
what has been their top starting pitcher in a contract
extension with Marcus Stroman?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
How do you explain that?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I've got Itinerary Puff, the Magic Dragon, and o
MS and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make a long winning streak
something the Cubs likely will not have the rest of
the season, a long winning streak.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So number W.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
All right, we begin with Marcus Stroman, who has been
wonderful for the Cubs. He is a nice oasis in
a sea of po for the Chicago Cubs. Now, there's
been a few other guys that have done okay on
the mound, but the Cubs are not a good baseball team,
and they've gotten progressively worse as things have gone on here,
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and we're only in the month of June. So with
that said, this guy's pitching lights out. He wants to
stay with the Cubs. He likes being a call but
he must love day baseball. He loves it there on
the North Side. Unfortunately, we do not have a love connection.
It takes two to tango. There is no love connection
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between Stroman and the Cubs. And the reason why the
Cubs are not willing to get into a commitment. They
would rather have a nice summer of love, and they'd
like that to end around August first, is what they
would like. Because here's the problem. If you look at
the itinerary of the Chicago Cubs and the itinerary of
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Marcus Stroman, it does not add up.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It does not. Stroman would like to win the Illinois lottery,
and wouldn't we all like to win the Illinois lottery.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The Cubs are very content being a bag of suck.
They're okay with that. The ownership in Chicago, they know
they'll sell a bunch of beer. People go to Wrigley Field,
no matter what. It's been proven over the years, and
so the Cubs, it's as clear as day, are perfectly
fine treading water for several more years because they are
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not in the winning business. They're in the make a
lot of money without winning business. They are content to
tread water in the land of mediocrity, and they're waiting
around for the next crop of cheap talent to harvest
in the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's what they're waiting for.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And if you look at the timeline Marcus Stroman, who's
thirty two years old, which means if you sign him
to let's say a five year or four year extension,
which is likely what he would want, he will then
be tied up with you until he's thirty six or
thirty seven, which, oh, by the way, is the next
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window four or five years from now when the Cubs
will actually feel the competitive team.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
So doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Plus, the Cubs are already planning on trading his ass
out of Chicago. The trade deadline is August first. They
moved it a day from July thirty first, which used
to be to August first, So August first is the
trade deadline. The Cubs will trade him and get some
other cheaper pitchers, and they figure, hey, we're not trying
to win. We could put Joe Blow on the mound
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and it doesn't matter. The same number of people show
up to watch cub baseball. So play you know, eighty
five percent of the world's work and the other fifteen
percent come out here. So playground for the blank planks.
All right now page two. Here, let's go over to Cincinnati,
another National League Central Division team, the Cincinnati Reds, because
they're hot shot rookie Elie de la Cruz, a name
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of a star.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Red's playing the Cardinals over.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The weekend and he has popped up on the scene
in a large way. Elie Dela Cruz over the weekend,
in a win against the Cardinals, the twenty one year
old went turbout time. He went turboutastick is what he did. Now,
Dela Cruz keeping the good vibrations going after that opening
against the Dodgers where the Reds celebrated their World Series
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win by winning back to back against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
So he ended again this on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He had the RBI stolen base and an explosion base running,
showing how fast how athletic Li Dela Cruz can be.
He blew past the third base coach who was saying stop, stop,
don't do but right past him and he scored and
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then afterwards declared himself as the fastest man in the world.
I am the fastest man in the world in my
case at bloviating, but in his case it actually running
the bases, and so that of course created a story.
People were like, oh man, this is this guy's so fast,
and Dela Cruz ended up going around the bases in
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eleven point four seconds. He needed only three point one
seconds to go from third to home, and in doing
so he says, Hey, I'm the fastest man in the world.
So what do you make of the reds rookie Ellie
Delacruz saying he's the fastest man in the world.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So he is obviously enjoying this. Good for him. He's
soaking it all in.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But be careful because when you soak it all in
sometimes it becomes like a bull of cereal and it
gets a little soggy after a while.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So you gotta be careful. There's a fine line.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You gotta walk the line if you will when it
comes to this. But if you look at Delacruz, he's
going puff the magic dragon, is what he's doing. He's
puffing up his legend, the bombastic rhetoric. We're all for
it now. Dela Cruz is average speed. They've got a
stat for everything, the nerds over at baseball. Dela Cruz's
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average speed in that base running expedition over the weekend
was thirty point eight feet per second, which is just
a touch faster than the Royals phenom of earlier on
the Bobby Witt Junior experience in Kansas City, whose time
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was thirty point four feet per second that led all
qualifiers there. So Bobby Witt Junior, by the way, did
not get too much excessive coverage anymore. But when he
first popped onto the scene, which was a few months back,
you would have thought this guy was the next great
Royals player since George Brett or any of those guys
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that played in the mid twenty tens, any of those
Cats that was on that last World Series team. But
the Royals who are absolute manure, So no one's talking
about Bobby Witt, who, by the way, is batting a
nice robust two thirty five on pace for twenty five
home runs and seventy RBIs with a dreadful Royal team,
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not the stuff legends are made of. And de la Cruz, though,
flying around the bases like the with a wind behind
his sales there just pushing him along there and you're
going Sonic the Hedgehog and nice to see. But the
Reds are gonna have to win some games here or
people are gonna treat him like Bobby WoT Jr.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I know. They beat the Dodgers, they played the Cardinals.
Everything will be okay, really'll be great. Nothing to see here.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
All right, we'll find out all right, last and final
part of this baseball themed Mavet monologue, We stop and
the boogie down Bronx. Are we going to break down
the Yankees and the Red Sox. No, we are not
going to break down the Yankees and the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
We are not, But we.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Are gonna talk about John Starling, the Yankee play by
play guy John Sterling, who went viral this weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Now, what did John Sterling do?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
The longtime radio voice of the New York Yankees in
the broadcast booth there in the Bronx with seven thousand sponsors.
So it's late in the game on Saturday. The Yankees
are playing the Red Sox and ex Dodger Justin Turner
is at bat. He fouls a ball directly back. It
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travels all the way back to the broadcast booth at
Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And creplunk, creplunk.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
It hits the head of John Sterling as he's doing
the play by play. As he's doing the play by play. Uh,
there's there's video which has gone viral on the internet.
But just to give you the blow by blow, here's
what it sounded like. John Sterling at the mic.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Now the three to two swing, Uh, a pop foul
back here.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Now it really hit me. I didn't know what was
coming back that far.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So once again, it'll be a three to two man
Holmes ready to deal ground ball. At the third Donaldson
squares throws the first in time ball game over Yankees
when the.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yankee I've never actually seen him do the call.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
The video is amazing. The video has gone Viral's been
seen millions of times. I do recommend it if you're
if you're blind, I don't know. It's amazing. It's just
he's there and then it it ricocheted and then hit
him right in the in the head. And anyway, so
how crazy was it? There's the question on this one.
How crazy was it to watch Yankee broadcaster John Sterling
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get ding with a foul ball and not miss a beat.
Other than saying ow ow. Other than that, it was wacky.
It was wacky goodness is the way I will describe
it now.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Now Sterling, who I don't I'm not. He's not a friend.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I don't know John Sterling other than a casual. I
call him up once every couple of years and say, hey, John,
will you come on my podcast? And he says, sure,
I'll do it, whatever you want. And he always does it.
He's never said no to that. Whenever I've asked him
for anything. He's always been very kind to me. And
we've only chatted a few times over the years, and
he is a debonair showman as a broadcast right, all
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the bull crap and all the rasthmatas. I'm a big,
big fan of John Sterling, the nonsense of John Sterling,
but his advice, as I've had him on the podcast
over the years, his advice to me has always been
the most important thing is you got to sell the soap.
That's the most important thing. You gotta sell the soap.
And here's the thing though, this is some embarrassing for
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Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is thirty one years old. Okay,
this guy is in the prime of his career. He
is facing a standing eight count because of the gate
at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He's likely out a month.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Sterling, God love him, is eighty four years old. He
get hit right in the face, right in the head
with a foul ball. Doesn't miss a pitch, doesn't miss
a pitch.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
He's calling the play by play. This guy's tougher than
Aaron Judge. Think about that now, Why is he tougher
than Aaron Judge? I know why? Three letters? Okay, three
letters here oms you know what that is? Old man's strength.
John Sterling is of the generation. Just rub some dirt
on it. That's it. Just rub some dirt on it.
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Keep on going.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
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Speaker 2 (16:36):
Peton the Machinist writes, and he says, my reaction to
watching John Sterling getting smacked in the head thereby a
foul ball would be similar to my reaction to watching
Moses part the Red Sea stunning, and I'd have to
see it to believe it. Bengo fan Bryan says, Dela
Cruz will be a household name and the Reds will
be a legitimate championship contender in a couple of years,
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loaded with young talent. Okay, and we know as as
you as a Cincinnati fan. No, the Castellini family committed
the winning the ownership group there in Cincinnati. They will
do whatever it takes to keep that core together. They
will not just trade all those guys to the Yankees,
of the Dodgers, of the Red Sox in a couple
of years, one percent that team will all stay together.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
J d.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
In Case says, what kind of play by play guy
misses a dunk to the head.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You have one job, bro, he.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Says, Well, when the balls fouled the way John Sterling
moves on, he's not there to do the blow by
blow on the on where the baseball goes in the crowd.
He just assumed it wasn't going to hit his head,
which it did, right and the right there booms on.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's like that man alive. All right, we'll take your calls.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox the number, and
we'll say hello to Poppy in San Diego. I I'm
pretty sure every pick he gave out on Friday was
completely wrong. I remember he said load up on the
Miami Heat in Game four. I remember that Hello picking
with Poppy.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Hey, well you're completely wrong with those.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
No, no, no, you did you not say Miami was
gonna win on Friday night?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You said that that was one of your picks you
gave it out.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
No, Ben Mallory actually wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I told you.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Guys, if you listened to you UFC twenty nine, I
told you Canadian Vancouver.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh my god, you are you are so full of crap.
You are so full of crap. My god, the Poppy
Poppy people actually listen, Poppy?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Please come on. What's wrong with you? You're wrong?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Everyone that went against me when five that is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No, you're you're just making things up. You're just you're lying.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Your nose is You're not gonna be able to talk
anymore because your nose will block the phone.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
We won't be able to hear you. You know what's funny?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Man Like, you're so old school and old school people
tell the truth and.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You're the opposite.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You're not a man of your word.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
What are you? What are you talking about? Poppy?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You said you said Friday Night, Scott Foster Miami at home,
they're gonna win, and you pick every Mexican boxer in
the UFC. That's how I know. I know you're all
your how your mind operates, Poppy, I know everything through
your head.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Everything's going through your head, Poppy. What happened to the
homecomer advantage?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
And you were trying to make fun of me?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
And look what Poppy went, You did not know?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You're lying? You went, oh and five? Did he call?
He called?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I don't remember, Poppy. What hour did you call? Poppy?
You were picking.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
He's not gonna tell you because he doesn't want you
to know. These picks were all strewed up. I know
I did.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You're completely wrong. You're lying.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I could see you're laughing right now, Poppy. You're laughing
as you're talking here. No, I said to pick all
the Canadians home.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I would rather pick my nose than listen to your picks.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I would rather pick my nose than hear your picks. Well,
you know what, if you guys want to hear my pick,
people love my picks.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Under you guys can lip it my YouTube.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Oh see, there you go. That's good. You're promoting. Now
you're moving it.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
All your content is going to YouTube so you can
monetize your YouTube. P No, No, you're you're just announced
it right now, Poppy, you've moved everything it.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Pobby, listen to me.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I want you to admit right now, Poppy, or I'm
going to hang up on you that you said admit
right now that you gave out the Miami Heat on Friday.
You said they're at home, They're gonna win at home.
Scott Foster, you you gave that pick out?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Well you know what that mallor, I give a lot
of picks out.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, alright, alright, thank you. I gotta go, go way,
get out of here.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Nine six six three six nine.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Just in the Cincinnati is putting is basically the same
thing as what the Live tour guys did. So he
has so he says, ah, all right, anyway, we will
have coming up more of your calls.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Why not? These are so good?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And you wonder why I don't take a lot of
calls sometimes, Well I just had an example.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Just add an example right there.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
What do you get when you combine a three time
Manager of the Year at a three time National Sports
writer of the Year.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
It's the Book of Joe podcast.
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Hey, this is Tom Ferducci from Fox Sports, MLB Network
and Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And I'm Joe Madden.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Are we're going to be around to talk a little
bit about managerial decisions, playoff games, and what may have
occurred to the dugout maybe in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I can't wait for this, Joe.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
We're going to dive into what goes on in the
dugout and behind the scenes in Major League.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Baseball, cars, wind, whatever else we want to talk about.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Listen to the Book of Joe podcast on the iHeartRadio app,
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Speaker 2 (22:00):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
This note from the NFL so Kawan Barkley, running back
New York Giants, was at a football camp and was
asked if he was optimistic about getting a long term
deal done with the New York Giants. He said, quote,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Now.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
The Giants use the franchise tag on him and he
has not signed it, so that means that he will
not be able to participate in the Giants mandatory mini
camp until he comes to an agreement. Two sides have
until July seventeenth to agree on a new deal.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I hope I hope that sekwanba. I pray this Kwan
Barkley gets a lot of money. I mean, he's already
got a lot of I don't believe franchise. I'm very
concerned about athletes make a lot of money. You know
they're concerned about me. You know how many athletes I've
run into. But I really hope those overnight radio guys
make a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Oh zero tons. Very concerned one.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
No, they're very worried about that. They want us to
be around and make a lot of money. Very concerned
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the Reds owners will trade Elie de la Cruz at
the trade deadline. It's what they do. Sharon says, wish
fans could trade owners. Vincent says Poppy even picked all
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the horses to win the Preakness. Yes, all of them,
all of them. Now, some people are asking when Chris
and Houston's going to be here.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I don't know. I have not is Chris coming in
here to visit us? He is he inviting himself in here?
I have not.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
He has not contacted me and said I'm coming on
this date, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So I don't know. As far as I know, he's
not going to be here.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But maybe he's got some side deal with Coop, some
side hustle with Coop, and he's got some plan.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
But as far as I know, think you was here
this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh so he's already gone, Oh all right, then there
you go, and he's he's not gonna be popping in here,
so check the receipts. It is the story of stories
from pro bouncy Ball, not involving the NBA Finals, but
the yet again adult actress. Boy, these porn stars man
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right in our world. Last hour was a fan. People
were trying to figure out who she was at the
heat game. It was some adult actress. And now we
go over to Zion Williamson. The Life and Times of
Zion Williamson. Mariah Mills. I believe that's how you say
the name Mariah Mills. She is who the one that
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feels like her. I don't know, ash, I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I can say what I can't say.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
But she's very curvaceous, she feels like Zion did her
dirty and very upset. They say she he's an only
fan star?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Is it everyone an onlyfan star? And she has had
a full on meltdown. It has continued since last week.
In fact, every half hour on Sunday, almost on the
half hour, she was sending out messages about Zion Williamson.
Zion the Pelicans forward announced last week that he is
having a child with another woman that he claims as
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his girlfriend. Although the adult film star says, hey, wait
a minute, I've been the one that's been taking you,
taking you and never never landing all that stuff. And
so she's had a complete breakdown on social media. Based
on what I'm reading, if she's posting all this stuff,
man wild. And so now she has gone next level.
(25:48):
She has decided to post the actual what she claims
are the receipts of a financial agreement with Zion Williamson
and who enjoyed her goodies so much that he had
sent ure some some money.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, not all is quiet. Not all is quiet.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
On this story, and she says, I used to watch
basketball wives.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
On TV then when I was younger.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Now the drama has become my life, she said, with
a sad emerging not what I signed up for. Okay,
I guess she wanted something else, And she said, you're right.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I'm mad a Zion.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
This entire situation has you spending all types of unnecessary money.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And then he says that booty at BM. I think
booty Mama is at the that code.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
For something else. I don't know. Booty model, booty model,
I don't know baby mama, baby mama, you could do that.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So the kids hasn't been born yet anyway, toxic, she says,
Then here's the get to the point. Please over the weekend,
she said, thanks for the gifts you gave me last week, Zion.
You sure why you wasted or why you wanted to
make me upset again? It's all good. You have responsibilities now.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You would be mad too if.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
She doesn't really use the King's English yere for some reason.
I don't know why. One hundred and seven thousand monthly allowance. Man,
I would like to be a booty model for Zion
Williams one hundred and seven thousand a month, and she's
claiming this is these are all wire transfers that she has,
she sent out screenshots of and there's a her twenty
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five thousand wire transfer incoming from Zion Williamson. Can you
just use like a cash app or something like that,
you don't need to use twenty thousand, ten thousand, So
she claims one hundred and seven thousand a month? Is
that the going rate? Is that what your average NBA
player has to pay to have this kind of relationship?
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One hundred and seven thousand dollars a month? Man, how
do you think the Pelicans? How do you think the
Pelicans ownership feels right now? This guy's a fat slob.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
He can't play.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
The only thing is, yeah, you're getting great press off
the Yes. Who could have seen this one coming? Well,
you didn't think it would work out, but this is,
this is is just marvelous.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And she's been on a full.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
On frenzy, uh you know, every couple of hours, every
half hour.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And it's it's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
She's sending messages, she's got screenshots of Zion and things he's.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Saying to her. Man craziness.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Isa Zion was spoiling me top money, and and then
she's upset because of course people are goofing on the internet.
They're goofing on her saying she's all messed up because
that's how people operate on the internet. So then she's
getting all defensive, saying, well, Zion's sending me all this money,
because my dairy air must not be that bad. My
beadonka Donk's pretty good because Iion kind of liked it.
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Couci she's a lot older too, she's like ten years older,
but that she started hooking up with Zion was nineteen
years old. It's a lovely, lovely relationship. But you can
see all the receipts right there. They're all available online.
So she says one hundred and seven thousand, but we
can verify based on the what she sent out the
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receipts there that it was at least fifty five thousand
dollars and that was all in the last week. Man,
does she have to pay taxes on that?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
How does that work? Do you have to pay taxes
on that? If you get one hundred and seven thousand.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
I think there's a certain number that you're allowed to
receive in gifts before you have to.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I bet you it's less than one hundred thousand.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Eddy.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It's like, but when you go to a casino and
you win money, it's like, is it twenty five hundred
unless you don't have to pay taxes on it?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yeah, I don't know. I've never really won money at
a casino.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
No, but there's a lot and I think they lowered
the limit. It used to be higher. They lowered the
limit because otherwise, you go to a casino and they
give you a tax form. If you win a decent
amount of money, they immediately give you a tax.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Form, so you're screwed. But if you can keep under
that threshold, I'm pretty sure it's five thousand. I think
it's lower than that. Now I'm going to check. I
think I think it was like they lowered it to
twenty five hundred. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought they
lowered it a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Anyway, it is the Ben Malor Show, So good luck there, boy.
This is just amazing reading, though it gets better and better.
And that famous quote, hell hath no fury? Like a
woman scorned is alive and well in this story it
is man.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
COUCHI.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
It is wild we have Mallard of the third degree.
Mallard of the third degree. We'll get to that coming
up time. Now for the instad trivia here, it is
the record for the most strikeouts looking since the year
two thousands, the last twenty two plus seasons. The record
for the most strikeouts looking is held by blank. That
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is for a position player record for the most strikeouts
looking since the year two thousand, so the last generation
is held by blank. That is the instant trivia.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
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Ali from the Tyrack dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios.
It's Ben Maller.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And the Insta Trivia with Mallard of the third Degree
warming up now in the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Here is the Insta Trivia.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
The record for the most strikeouts looking since two thousand
since the year two thousand is held by Blank. We're
looking for the name of a position player. Wally in
Florida's going with Mike Gean Carlos Stanton as his answer.
Who else we have? Bengal Van Bryant says, Andre Ethier
is the answer. Marcel in Brooklyn Ozuna guessed by Miguel
(32:36):
on Fire. Cowboy Killer says it has to be the
founder of Wendy's Dave Thomas.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Who else do you have?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Page Dwan Bob Sap guessed by Sheen from Des Moines.
Martin Short tossed out by Ferg Dog. I've never met
Ferg Dog, but I bet you he looks like Martin
shirt Short.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Millhouse Van Outen guest by Sirley Scott, Brian Finley on
a Date A guess by Justin in Cincinnati. Eke in Roseville,
Minnesota going with Miggy Cabrera.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Joey Vado guests by Johnny Q. Sean in Portland says
Clayton Kershaw is the answer. Kung Fu Panda guess by
Mark in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Adam Dunn from Mike in Pittsfield. The Eddie Garcia Burner
account says the Instant Tribute answer is powder, but that
is the answer the Major League Baseball logo. Harmon Killebrew
guest by Rob in Minnesota, alf the Alien ol pineer
in Springfield, mass says sledge hammer is the correct answer.
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Sean in the Valley of So this is actually a
good guest. Richie Sexon That guy struck out so much
looking and swinging the great gazoo tossed out by the
nature boy.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Callaghan tim in Michigan going with funeral potatoes from earlier
in the show. A hot conversation about funeral potatoes.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Hobby Bobby says, Chris Davis oriole Legend is the answer,
and JD in case says New York Yankee Broadcasters the answer.
John Deere from Chip in the Cues and Scorpio Niner
in the Bay Area says the irs will be communicating
with Mariah Mills next, I think so. Yes, all right, Eddie,
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do you have an answer to the install trivia?
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Yes, it's former Oakland A's catcher Terry Steinbach.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Terry Steinbach, part of those late eighties a's. That is
incorrect the correct answer. The record for most strikeouts looking
since the year two thousand is held by Carlos Beltrot,
a cheating astro, and since two thousand and four hundred
and two four hundred two strikeouts looking. He's obviously not
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playing anymore. He had a brief dalliance as a Yankee
broadcast and then they quickly got rid of him. I
think he's doing some stuff with the Mets.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
But here we go. It's maller. How about that to
the third degree?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
This is one gets grilled the kop Dal loup.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
There have been reports that Buck Showalter's job could be
in jeopardy, but Steve Cohen responded by saying that he
doesn't want to make any reactionary moves with the Mets.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Ben, do you think show Walter is in trouble? Yeah,
here's the reaction.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
The Mets suck, so somebody's gonna have to pay the price.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yes, but Showalter is in trouble. The Mets are.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
They're not living up to expectations. Anytime you have a
big payroll and you don't live up to expectations, this
is not brain surgery. It's Okham's razor. The simplest answers
the obvious one. So Buck Shalder, here's what's gonna happen.
But Shalder's respected around baseball. They don't want to get
rid of him and all that stuff. But he's his
job is online. There are three things that happen when
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a team underperform to the level of the Mets and
their high expectations. Either there's a shock trade involving a
core player like Pete Alonzo or somebody like that, the
pitching and or the hitting coach get fired, or the
manager walks the plank. One of those things is gonna
happen to the Metropolitans. The trade deadline is August the first,
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so that's not that far away. You got about a
month and a couple of weeks and then that's it.
And so the Mets, if they continue down the highway
to Hell, there can be all kinds of trades next.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Well, speaking of the trade deadline, there's been a lot
of speculation about what will happen to show Hey Otani,
but a new report this weekend says that the Angels
do not plan on trading him, even if they are
out of contention by the trade deadline. They say that
they think trading him will hurt their chances at resigning him.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Ben, do you agree? All right? So coub I did
some due diligence here over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I attended an Angel Mariner game, crossed over to the
Orange Curtain to watch the Halo.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Is it the one that they lost?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yes, yes, game on Saturday that they lost over the
week But the stadium I walked around, I'm in.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
The big an a while. It was filled with all
these Japanese sponsors.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Right, I'm thinking the only real advertisers the Angels have
are Japanese countries are companies. They can't trade Otani. They
have no advertisers left. Right, there's like Japanese curry over here,
there's some other product, I mean where it is on
another part of the stadium. So yeah, I mean Otani's
bringing in the money there, and he's.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
The he's the man.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I mean, the Angels are in Nomad's land because they're
not really contenders.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
This is not a good team, but they're not a
bad team.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
And because there's so many wildcard teams, the Angels mathematically
are only a couple of games out of a wildcard
berth in the American League, so there is a path
to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
But what a blow that would be of.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Otani keep him and then he goes and signs with
the Dodgers and then they just get a draft pick next.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Are there's a speculation that Karl Anthony Towns could be
traded sometime within the next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, and they call him cat Cat. Yes, Ben, do
you think it'll happen? And if so, to wear, I
am gonna say yes on this.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
And the reason I'm gonna say yes is because Minnesota
got the Booby Prize of last offseason and Rudy Gobert
from the Utah Jazz. They traded, let me check my
notes here, seven hundred and thirty five draft picks to
get Rudy Gobert from the Utah Jazz, so they have
no draft picks, which I don't care about.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
But they do.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
And Rudy Gobert did not play well with Karl Anthony
Towns when they were on the court together.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
It did not go well.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
So the next big event in the NBA after the
finals is Ja Morant being suspended, and then after that
it'll be the the NBA Draft. That's when trades will
get cranked up. So yes, absolutely, Carl Anthony Towns is
in play, here to be traded, and I would expect
them to be traded before the end of the first.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Round of the NBA Draft.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
There it is mallor to the third degree with extended
time coup.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
How did we do pass? That is what I want.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
The game.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I won the game.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Whoa
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Ben Maller
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