June 14, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Oakland A's fans showing up to the Coliseum on Tuesday night to change the narrative, the chances that the A's don't move to Vegas, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two. I know Iowa.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Sam's excited for our two Oakland fans holding a reverse
boycott on Tuesday night to change the narrative. Will this
resonate with Major League Baseball corporate? Are the athletic fans
a victim of irresponsible ownership? And also, what are the
chances of the ages actually don't move to Las Vegas.
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We'll talk about that as well. And it's newby Knight,
All new callers. It's all homeless callers here, our number
two enjoy filling up the ballpark. They filled up the ballpark.
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We're spending a lot of plates. We have a disgruntled
DIVA wide Receivers deefon Diggs. We talked about that. If
you missed it full Mallard monologue, it's available on the podcast.
We had a guy from Vegas call up on a
newbie night celebrating. I'm sure we'll get some more calls, hopefully.
I saw some other people on hold. I guess they're
gone now out celebrating in Vegas as the Golden Knights
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win the Stanley Cup and so they are the champions
of hockey. But our lead this hour coming from the
Bay Area, where the next Las Vegas sports franchise is
apparently located.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The Major League Baseball's top.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Team coming into the night, the Tampa Bay Rays taking
on the worst team in baseball heading into the night,
the Athletics formerly of Philadelphia, formerly of Kansas City, and
soon to be formerly of Oakland, or maybe not, maybe
not just a lazy Tuesday night in Oakland. But why
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was this night different than all other nights? Because it
is worthy of a full malor monologue. A Oakland A's
team that makes the bad news Bears look so good,
so so good, And that is our lead story, A
last ditch effort, a ground swell else of support for
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one night to try to send a message to those
evil desk spot executives at Major League Baseball to stop
the Athletics from fleeing northern California and heading to southern Nevada.
And if you didn't see this, we talked about it
in a previous episode, but maybe you were not listening.
Bad job by you, But it does happen anyway, get
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to the point, please, So a group of enraged but
passionate Oakland Backers baseball fans came out in droves to
unite a united front for this scrooge evil owner John Fisher,
who didn't earn a dollar. He inherited old money. That's
old family money John Fisher inherited, and he figures the
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way to make more money from old family money is
to relocate the team. So anyway, the message was simple.
One word sell s l L sell, sell the team,
and I check this out. It was pretty cool to
see because I am old enough to remember when the
A's actually had crowds and they actually had good teams,
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and they were good every year, and it seemed liked
every year. That was a long time ago, but still
back in their salad days of Oakland A's baseball. So
you saw thousands of impassioned, heartbroken A's fans, A lot
of them liquored up an act of solidarity at the
coliseum there in Oakland or whatever it's called these days.
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I can't imagine they have a corporate sponsor. No one
goes to those games other than feral cats and rats.
But anyway, all right, so this reverse boycott. There were
seven thousand shirts they passed out with the word cell.
That's good marketing, they tell you in marketing, just have
your messaging. Has got to be short, one or two words,
that's it. That's the message. Nike's got three words, just
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do it. That's their mark. But it's short, right, keep
it short and keep it simple. So how many people
showed up? Get to the point place, all right, I'll
get to them. The attendance the announced attendants was twenty
seven thousand, seven hundred and fifty nine, although there are
some that believe that the Athletics actually low counted, that
there were actually more people there but the A's short
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change the crowd count.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I was not there, so I do not know.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All I know is I believe the night before the
A's drew less than five thousand fans. So they went
from less than five thousand on a Monday in their
last home game, and then boom, they were up to
twenty seven almost twenty eight thousand fans, And that's above
the average, we are told than twelve other major league teams.
The twenty seven thousand fans that were there, Oakland's got
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the worst attendants in baseball, and normally the only time
they sell tickets is when the Giants are there to
play the A's or the Dodgers come to play the A's,
and then randomly there'll be some other team that will
come in that will have some fanbase. So let's discuss
the question Oakland fans the reverse boycott to change the narrative.
Will this resonate with the powers that be at corporate
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Major League Baseball? So I've got Hobgoblin Sponge and hail
Mary and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make We're gonna make the
Bay Bridge. Which is are they? I guess they won't
go over the Bay Bridge. They're going the other directions,
so they will not travel down the Bay Bridge. When
they leave Oakland, they'll go okay anyway, all right? So
first of all, I would love to say yes, absolute
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major League Baseball. These these people at corporate Baseball, they've
got a heart, you know, deep down when you pull
back all the corporate bull crap uh and all that,
they're actually human beings.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But that's a lie.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That would be a lie, right, Yes, What should happen
is customer Customer relations matter. That without the loyal ravid fan,
which you are. If you went to that game and
you're trying to send a message you're a loyal, passionate fan,
that should matter more than anything. Because when you take
everything away, if you get rid of the fan, all
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you have left is Beer League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You've got a bunch of young adults playing baseball and
no one gives a rats ass about what's going on
on the field. So Rob Manford what he should do
if you had a real commissioner that wasn't a sock puppet.
Rob Manford would hold a news conferency. You know what,
I had a come to Jesus moment watching that A's game,
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and I'm gonna grow some hair in my chest, is
what I'm going to do. And unlike when I had
a chance to punish the cheating asstros, I did nothing.
When the fans demanded, I did nothing. Now I'm going
to do something a real boss. And then and then
I wake up and then I realize none of that
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is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
What will Rob Manford do? He will do nothing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
There's a better chance of elephants, you know that A's
mascot with the other the elephant flying through the air.
All right, there's a better chance of that happening than
Rob Manford doing what I just said. Major League Baseball
has made it perfectly clear time and again under this
administration and this era that the fan doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You are a rube.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
You are.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
That's how they treat you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
They keep raising the prices, they keep sticking it to you, and.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You just say more, more and more and more and
more and more and more.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Anymore, scream and shout let it all out because deep down,
Rob Manford, I am now convinced, is not only the
commissioner of baseball, he is.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
A hob goblin.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Rob Manford hob goblin as the face of major League Baseball.
And he's also got bad hearing. And I believe blind
Emmett the Seahawk fans sees better than Rob Manford. You know,
he's just like your typical Weasley politician with some election
promises that you don't actually go for. He's an empty suit,
all right. And I loved the rhythmic chanting. I think
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that was wonderful. It was like a religious revival. I
don't even get I don't hate. I've never been an
A's fan. I got no skin in the game, but
I was like, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I loved it. Good planning.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
There.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Here's the problem though, in my life, the people I've
talked to who are executives in sports, the message I've
got is the thing that scares people in sports is apathy.
It's not caring. And the people that showed up care.
It matters to them that the A's are going to move,
and you know that typically doesn't move the need and
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the odd thing is the A's have mastered the art
of apathy, and yet that didn't do anything. Now, secondly,
are the athletic fans getting short changed here because of
an irresponsible owner? And I would say absolutely, Ice fans
haven't shown up. I don't think you should be a sucker, though,
if the product is bad and just continue to go.
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I don't agree with that. I think the product's bad,
you shouldn't go. And so I'm not going to rip
them for not showing up, but that the owner of
the Athletics, Jan Fisher, has been guilty of negligence. Well
with the team and the moneyball I've had a theory
on the A's for years. The moneyball thing was a
double edged sword. It was a blessing and a curse.
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That whole moneyball era because so popular. The A's had
reinvented baseball with their analytics, and they found a way
to win on the cheap. And now that's like expectator,
you know, that's the expectation you're supposed to win on
the cheap. And Billy Bean and what he was able
to do. They made a movie with it. Brad Pitt
was in the movie. For God's sakes, they made a
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Hollywood movie on a strew shoestring budget for the athletics,
and they've continued that that's how they operate. Meanwhile, San Francisco,
the San Francisco Oakland market, I'm in the media business.
That's the sixth biggest market in the United States. It's
bigger than Boston. Okay, there's more people there, and yet
they operate the a's like they're one miss check away
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from hanging out with that guy Chazz that called last
hour at the soup kitchen. I mean, that's it's that situation.
And Saint Louis Is market twenty one, San Diego's market
twenty eight, and they spend a lot of money compared
to that. And so John Fisher, the owner, the screwge owner,
essentially took the sponge, tossed the sponge away, said it's
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too hard. Well, you can't get public money. We you know,
the giants won't let us go to San Jose, and
so screw everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
We're just gonna go to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Meanwhile, there's a there's another option which no one considered
with John Fisher. Build your own stadium, build your own stadium,
your numb nuts, all right, do it? Come on your
knick Kompoop built. You get the money, finance it. That's
what that's what most people have to do. Of course,
sports teams finance it on the public doles.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
What they do. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
He could have he could have worked it out. There's
a way to get it done without having to get
payer money. And if you really wanted to stay there
and make it work, you could have built a beautiful
small ballpark. You could have figured out a way to
get it done. And you chose the easy path, as
most human beings do. They choose the easy path, all right.
The final thought on this dire tribe, what are the
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chances the A's don't move to Vegas. So I've already
told you that to me, apathy's the way to go.
That didn't work. Now they showed that they care the
A's fans, so we'll see if that works. I don't
think it will. But since Vegas is the mecca of
gambling and also the mecha hockey, as they've just celebrated
the Stanley Cup Championship there in Vegas, I will use
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some gambling lingo. The Vegas group is holding the Ace
of Spades. In fact, they have a Royal flush They've
got the Ace, the King, the Queen, the Jack, the ten,
all of the same suit. There the spades, and they're
in good shape. Nevada politicians they hard.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
To do them, plow to stick a dynamic.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
It's not done yet, but they have greenlighted over three
hundred almost fur hundred million dollars to get that stadium done.
It still has to be signed by some other people
before it all becomes kosher in Vegas, but it's heading
that direction.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
What could change this right? What could change the path.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
That we're on?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Okay, I'll answer the question because there's one thing that
can happen, and it is what I call the ultimate
hell Mary to save the athletics from leaving Oakland and
going to Las Vegas. And that is a massive bill
that is delivered to Rob Manford's office, and everyone's gonna
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have to chip in to pay the bill.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And I don't think.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I don't support this, by the way, because I don't
think government gets involved in this stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I don't like when government gives tax payer money out.
I don't like when government puts more red tape out.
But there's a congresswoman from Northern California named Barbara Lee.
I have no idea who that is, but she has
introduced what's called the Moneyball Act, and that would not
be ironic. That could be the thing that saves the
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Athletics from leaving Oakland. Now the Act, here's what it states.
The Moneyball Act. It says here that would require teams
that leave their hometown in Major League Baseball to compensate
the communities they are departing. All right now, it is
I mean specifically, the Act states that any Major League
Baseball team that goes to a new location more than
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twenty five miles from its previous one must provide compensation.
How much compensation not less than the state, local, or
tribal tax revenue levied in the ten years before the
date of relocation. So that would mean that if the
A's are planning on moving in twenty twenty seven, let's say,
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they would have to go back to twenty twenty sixteen
and all the taxes they pay, they'd have to cut
a check for that total amount. Now, just between me
and you and the wall which is over in front
of them, we can get a wall here. It's got
windows on each side, but there's a wall in the middle.
There a lot of the teams don't pay that much
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in taxes. They big businesses find a way around paying
testic but that's still gonna be a lot of money.
And the threat is that if these teams don't pay
the money, they would get rid of the special exemption,
the anti trust exemption, which Baseball has had for over
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Talking about the story in Oakland. The A's won the game.
That's not the story though. The fans showed up. Almost
thirty thousand people see a terrible baseball team with a
screwge owner.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was great, and I love rhythmcchanning and I didn't
play this in the monologue, but we have.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You know, I'm addicted, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
We have all Iowa Sam's in tonight and he doesn't
know all the chance we have over the years of
Urban Mayer. That's one of the big ones we've had
Tube all that stuff, But this one is the A's
fans and let them serenade the ownership group.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
There.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Here's a little taste of how it sound. You'll put
a little bit of this listen.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Sala Tank Sea Tang all right, all right, as awesome,
sell it to sell it over.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
So if the math is right on this, the A's drew.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It takes him about three or four games to get
what they got in one random night as the fans
showed up. It is a newby Night eight seven, seven
ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh Fox.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Also on the Twitter at ban Mallor Eke, who is
not a newbie, he says, Hey, Ben, remember at the
Malor meet up when you said you would give me
a birthday shout out? Ike says, I am so old
that ti Raq will only sell me. Retreads I'm so
old that I call Dusty Baker young fella. He says,
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I am one day older than him. Well, Ike, I
was just being polite to you, as you know at
the Malor meet and greet. I did not actually want
to give you a shout out. I can't do that.
So I cannot wish you a happy birthday, Eke.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
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Speaker 2 (18:43):
Wrong, and you understand how the show works. I met you,
You're a very nice man.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Good meeting.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Was great to meet you and put a face to
your tweets and all that stuff. But I just can't
wish you a happy birthday. I cannot do that because
that would be inappropriate. Let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to Newby, Nuby Nuby Nuby Newby Newby.
That's gonna Sam on a Newby night.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Let me punched the right line.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Hello, Sam, what's going on? Sam in San Francisco?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Hey, what's the man? Oh man, this is so cool.
I never thought i'd talk to you like this. I've
been listening to you for so long. But anyway, you're
spot on. When you were talking about the A's, Manford
doesn't give a crap. I mean, he's a puppet, you know,
for the owners, just like Adell. I don't even know
who's worse, but they're both pretty bad. I mean I
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will give the A's fans props that went out and
tried to send the message, but in the end, he's
just making Fisher's pockets bigger, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
But well, the A's are so slimy. They tried to
make it seem like, well, we're donating all this extra money,
We're gonna donate this to charity. Yeah, I'm sure, I'm
sure that's I'm sure that's it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I mean, I'm not a I'm not an AS fan,
but I grew up in Oakland. I got a a
lot of A's fans. I have friends are age fans.
Excuse me, and I mean for the fact that they
couldn't even sell out tonight just tells you how many
fans that checked out already didn't even want to go
because they didn't want to support the team, you know,
I mean, yeah again, you know, I.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Appreciate the problem.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I mean, the problem is this.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I can't see us if the A's leave. I can't
see a scenario where there's another team that enters Oakland.
I think that's it. I think that's that's it. If
you have because the Giants are going to protest, right
and unless you have somebody that comes in and has
deep pockets that would just pay for everything, which is
possible but unlikely, and the Giants are gonna say, well,
the A's.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Are gone, so we own the entire market. You're done.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, it's our territory now. And maybe they'll play one
series a year in Oakland or something like that.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Just that's a fantastic point. I mean, maybe it's a
small chance that could take a miracle. I mean, the
Giants almost less San Francisco. Once upon a time in
the nineties. They don't actually became the.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, that's right. They were playing at the Candlestick. They
were gonna blow out of there. They had to get
out of that dump. But yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I love that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
By the way, I'm glad you finally called. You don't
have to wait for newby Night. You can call whenever
you want, Sam every night.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I love the Candlestick story that when the Giants moved
from New York and they were looking to build a stadium,
they they took the group at Candlestick. They took the
Giants owners out to Candlestick and it was like one
o'clock in the afternoon, and it was picturesque.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The weather was great, perfect weather, not windy, just wonderful,
perfect Bay Area weather. What they didn't do is take
them at seven o'clock at night when it turned into
the the frozen tundra.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
They didn't do that.
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Speaker 6 (22:32):
Well, I don't know if in Ottawa they were channing
sell the team, sell the team, but the team has
been sold. The Ottawa Senators have been sold to Saudis
by it, I don't think so, all the sovereign well funded.
That reportedly the highest price in NHL history, nearly a
billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
One billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
It is interesting because the Senator is not exactly the
one of the more sought after teams you would think
in hockey. But a guy named Michael and Lauer Michael and.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I don't know who that Is.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
He was a He was a ten percent owner of
the Montreal Canadians. I don't have to sell that now
to be the owner of the Ottawa Centers. But his
group uh IS is apparently buying this team for a
billion dollars. They still have to go through the Board
of Governors. Blah blah blah. Course they're gonna you caid
Eve me. It's a billion dollars. They're gonna say.
Speaker 10 (23:23):
No.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
When's the last time a team was sold?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
I think the maybe the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Fenway Group
bought the.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
John Henrys a couple of years ago. Lebron owns part
of the Pittsburgh Penguins. He's part of the Okay, the
Finnway Group.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Why doesn't stan Kronki just buy the Senators, I mean
owns the hockey team. I know, but I already I didn't,
no idea. He owned the Avalanche, yeah, and the Nuggets
early rich.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, stan Kronky was rich and then married into the
Walmart money. He's one of the great aristocrats in America.
He's also old, but he's really rich. I mean, he's
had a nice run. He's had a nice run.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
People said he was a bad owner before the last
couple of years. Now all of a sudden, he's he's
a good owner. My fun factor the already are you
ready for have some fun?
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Hold on, let me get ready.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Okay, buckle up, buccaroo, We're about to have the F
word fun.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Oh yes, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I'm not that kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So the key to winning the Stanley Cup, Eddie, is
to take on the Toronto Maple Leafs and lose to
the Toronto Maple Leaves. Now the third consecutive year, the
team that eliminated the Leafs, right, the team that beat
the Leafs ended up going on to lose the Stanley Cup.
So you don't win the Stanley Cup, but you get
to the Stanley Cup. You hat Montreal in twenty twenty
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one and they were eliminated by they eliminated Toronto. They
end up losing the Stanley Cup. Tampa Bay in twenty
twenty two and the Florida Panthers.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So three years in a row.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
If you want to lose the Stanley Cup, but you
get there, do you get like a bone? You get
a bonus if you get there right, because you've you've
made the Stanley Cup and they give you Did they
give you a runners up something?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
No, they don't do that anymore. No, no, all right.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
It is the silver medal.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
No, okay, it is the Ben Malors Show.
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writing that down. Let's go now. She's not a caller,
Eddy boots on the ground. She was there, sell the tape,
(25:31):
sell the team, our unpaid correspondent, longtime athletics supporter.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Andrea.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Yes, hello, man, how are you?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
What was it like Andrew paint the picture?
Speaker 7 (25:43):
What was Yeah? Yeah, I'm still a little horse and
my ears are ringing from the cell of the team chat. Yeah,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Baseball Gods and Goddess is very passionate experience. At the
A's game over twenty seven thousand, Ben showed up and
they gave out seven thousands.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Did you get one of the shirts? Yeah, you got
one of the shirts. She got one of the shirts
aty Yeah, she got a shirt.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Yep, sell the team.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's cool.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Yeah and yeah. So the reverse boycott so over twenty
seven thousand.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And what were some of the chances. Yeah, we heard
some of them, but were there other We'd hear all
of them. What were some of your favorite chants there?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Oh yeah, yeah. They actually printed some of the chants
on a reverse boycott.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
They had a cheat sheet for people.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
They did okay, Oakland sixty eight because that's when the
team moved here. They had a website about what to expect,
and then they gave out posters ben that said what
to do like in the fifth inning. Here, I'll read
it to you.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
This is more choreography than a Broadway show.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
This is amazing, well said.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Okay, here's the cheer plan. Be as loud as possible
as you can tell from my voice. Okay, our players
had to show up the tiny crowds thanks to Fisher,
show them some love. Okay. First batter at the beginning
of the top of each inning, chant sell the team,
Sell the team.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Heard a lot of that. I heard that lot.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
First batter at the beginning of the bottom of each inning,
Stay in Oakland. Okay, and then the first batter at
the beginning of the top of the fifth inning to
honor fifty five years in Oakland and to protest the move.
Everyone stand up, but be completely silent for the entire.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
At that.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Silence that's killing in my business. You get fired radio
silence here, you're out of work. They fire you if
you don't keep talking.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's amazing. Yeah, so this is cool.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So and where the concession stands open because normally there's
like one person selling popcorn at the games.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Yeah, no, they were totally open. They were like not barbecues.
What were they going in the parking lot.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh the tailgated the tailgate.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Yeah, get tailgaters.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, that's a good tailgating ballpark. It used to be
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Yeah, no, it came alive. We even did the wave
if you can believe that. I don't think I've ever
been to a game.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Was it wasn't there a legendary story that the waves
started in Oakland? Or is there controversy.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
About There was contu was either Oakland or the University
of Washington. They both claimed they started the way, but
it was in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
What was the guy's name Crazy Ray or something, yeah something.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah, you're right, crazy George crazy, George crazy, George drum.
We were doing old guys sports radio. Now we're doing
major old guys sports radios.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
I'm seeing something that I'm seeing something different here.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Oh, here's cool.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The part is I'm looking at Wiki Pitia and something
that it was the University of Washington.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
No, no, you're right, you're right what it was, and this
has first recorded wave occurred in Oakland at an athletics
playoff game against the New York Yankees on October fifteenth,
nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh it was eighty one.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I thought it was in the seventies, nineteen eight close,
but the University of Washington also claimed that they had.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
That was October thirty first though, nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Of course. There you go.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
All right, well, Andrew, thank you for the report. I
enjoy your shirt. That might be worth something someday. Who knows,
hope it's.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Not the Magical evening. So thank a happy to report
back to you.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
All right, thank you, Andrew. There she goes our friend Andrea.
There it was at the a's game. Not a caller, uh,
just an unpaid correspond let's go to Charles on a
Newbie night. Charles is a newbie. He's in Washington. Hello, Charles, welcome.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
What am I really?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You're on the live are Charles? It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
And we'll get here next Oh my lord, I've been
waiting forever. So I've been living in my car.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Wait wait, wait? Are you living in your car.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
For the last month? And the best free things you
can get is the radio dial. The radio dial, so
I turned. I just turned to ninety three to three,
and I get to a parking lot that seems safe
and and you've got a great open well, thank you,
(30:00):
char amazing. And I'm like, I'm like, wow, this guy
is good. So now I'm listening to ninety three three
and I'm listening to all your other guys, and I'm
waiting for the and we'll get to it neck and
I'm nobody there's a.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Fan any And let me tell you this guy.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Uh, you might think you're down your eculary car, but
you're gonna get back on your feet. You're gonna run
fortune five hundred companies someday. Is that correct, Charles?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Right, that is correct? Well, I was very successful in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Oh, you were what now what? I always wonder? You know,
you seem you know there's a different guy. You're obviously homeless,
so you would know better than me. But there's a
lot of homeless where we do the show from and
it seems like there's like a couple of different branches.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
There's the the people.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
That just do a lot of drugs and don't want
to work, and then there's the people that made a
bad investment or maybe they got divorced or something like
that and they lost their money and there, So what
what category?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
What caused you, Charles to end up down.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
On your luck?
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Right now? My branch is the ladder where it's kind
of like the situation just put me on my feet
and put me down, and then I'm like, oh my god,
I don't want to fall through the cracks. And then
I fell through the cracks, and I'm like, well, at
least I got a car to live in, and I'm
gonna I'm going to get back on my feet. But
for the last five weeks you have been my get
to a safe parking lot. Put the show on at eleven.
(31:19):
You can listen to the opening model Hunt because it's
always great, and then you kind of You've lifted my spirit.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
So I'm hopeful that's great.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Listen to this phone call. I really am hoping this
phone call changes my life.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
No, listen, Charles, I'm pulling for you, man.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And we it's not nobdy night, Eddie, it's homeless. It's
now homeless night on the show. It's not nobly night.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But but no this and Charles, I we all you
know we're only a few bad moves away from being homeless.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That's kind of the scary thing, right, I mean, it's
kind of wild.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Then tell me about it. I mean everyone, Yeah, at
fifty one years old, I understand I was successful in
my twenties and my thirties and oh shit.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Oh I can't say that, but that's the right. We
can't say that. But Charles, thank you, man. Be be safe, exactly,
be safe, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
And remember, by the.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Way, you're opening with Stefan Diggs and the coach right on.
We're not talking about practice.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
No exactly, real deal exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Hey, and Charles, now remember the rule is just like
that guy chance, when you get back on your feet,
you still got to listen.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Okay, all the wise, I'm done with you, Okay.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
You know It's funny. I've been addicted to you for
the last five weeks now because it's like you're my
highlight for you know, from eleven.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
For very nice, and you're you're really upsetting all the
regulars who hate when people are nice to me.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So thank you for yes.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
All right, I gotta go, but be safe out there, Charles,
stay safe, and Charles listen.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
To me, all right, but you bet it. Call me
back when you get back on your feet. Okay, oh
I will. I want to hear about it.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
All right. I was successful a long time ago. I'm
gonna be again, and I'm gonna keep listening, all right.
I just love that intro, and that's right because we'll
get to it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
That's right. See, this guy's a big thank you, Charles.
I gotta go. All right, boy, this is great.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
We're talking about practice.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
It's great for my ego, Eddie. This night's really good
for my ego. I'm going any new headphones. My headphones
are about to break. Clive Mallard of the third Degree.
Here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So in college baseball this week, there's a guy named
Quinn Matthews of Stanford. This guy threw one hundred and
fifty six pitches in a game.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
This, Oh my god, how selfish. I know, m selfish bastard.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
His arm's gonna fall off.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
The last pitcher to throw that many pitches in the
Big leagues was Tim Wakefield in nineteen ninety seven. He's
a knuckleball pitcher. The last non knuckleball pitcher to throw
that many pitches in Nolan Ryan. Well, it was blankety.
You gotta fill in the block. See what we did there.
That's the insta trivia the answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
Shout out out in California.
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Speaker 2 (34:39):
We got to go quick here Ton that for the
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(34:59):
to do it Tim Wakefield in nineteen ninety seven, but
he was a knuckleball pitcher. The last non knuckleball pitcher
to do it was Blank And a couple of answers
here we enough time to go through too many of these.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Here.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Let's see r. A.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Dickey guest by Bengal Fan Brian, Bill Spaceman Lee from
Beam boot Maker Bob.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
We have Andy Dufrain guessed by Milkman Mike and Colorado Eddie.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Eddie, I'll stick with my Nolan Ryan guests that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It is Rocket Roger Clemens in nineteen ninety six at
age thirty three for the Red Sox, the last one
to do. There hasn't been a pitcher to go one
hundred and thirty five pitches since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Tim Linzy, come here we go. Let's get it. We
can get it. We can do this.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Maller, how about that to the third degree is one
gets chup jump.
Speaker 10 (35:52):
It is being reported that Baker Mayfield is a clear
favorite in the Tampa quarterback competition and that Kyle Trask
would have to do something extraordinary in order to leap
frog Mayfield on the death chart. But do you think
that Mayfield could have enough success to hold off Trass
the entire season?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
No. In fact, the Buccaneers will play four quarterbacks this year.
Baker Mayfield looks great in practice, he sucks in games.
I think Bucko Bruce is gonna start their mascot three
games this year next.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
There was a report on Tuesday that said the Warriors
are considering major offseason changes and that no player on
Golden State's roster is off limits, aside from Steph Curry, Ben,
Which players do you think will still be on the
team come next season?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, here's who I think it will be on the team.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I think Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green will
be on the team. They'll change, they'll get rid of
anybody else. And these stories, I don't believe it. I'll
believe it when I see one of those guys going
out of the Bay Area, out.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Of San Francisco. I don't buy it. This is clickbait.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
And as long as Steve curR is the coach, they're
gonna ride this jelope until the wheels fall off there
and these guys are getting older for the Warriors, and
so that's gonna happen.
Speaker 10 (36:53):
So next Lebron James said in a recent interview that
he never entered the Slam Dunk contest because it simply
wasn't something that he wanted to accomplish his career. Ah bet,
are you buying that explanation? No, listen, that's pinocchio is
what that is from Lebron. Here's the deal with that.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Nobody who the heck starts their career. By the way, say,
Mike dream is to win the Slam Dunk cutters. Lebron
didn't ender the slam Dunk contest because he didn't need
to ender the slam dunk contest. He was already as
big as he could possibly get. He had already at
his high school. I was doing a website. I was
writing about this guy's a It's a different era. The
slam dunk contest helped catapult Michael Jordan and others, and Lebron.
(37:32):
He was so big, he had nothing to gain. He
had a lot to lose. You imagine if he butter
fingered a wind meal dunk like he did for the Lakers.
How embarrassing that would have been.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
There.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It is malod the third degree, with time to spare.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
How did we do fe?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I won the game in my headphones. No, he told
me I won in my headphones.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
He said, I won
Hello and welcome. It's our number two. I know Iowa.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Sam's excited for our two Oakland fans holding a reverse
boycott on Tuesday night to change the narrative. Will this
resonate with Major League Baseball corporate? Are the athletic fans
a victim of irresponsible ownership? And also, what are the
chances of the ages actually don't move to Las Vegas.
(00:26):
We'll talk about that as well. And it's newby Knight,
All new callers. It's all homeless callers here, our number
two enjoy filling up the ballpark. They filled up the ballpark.
Welcome and the beginning of another hour of the Ben
(00:47):
Malor Show.
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We are in the a everywhere.
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Kindred spirits as we do our homework coast to coast,
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Smoke Market, oh Man on a newby night, Hot Takes
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on a newby night and a night that Vegas has
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a lot going on. You ever seen that show at
like halftime of a basketball game where they're spinning plates.
(01:45):
We're spending a lot of plates. We have a disgruntled
DIVA wide Receivers deefon Diggs. We talked about that. If
you missed it full Mallard monologue, it's available on the podcast.
We had a guy from Vegas call up on a
newbie night celebrating. I'm sure we'll get some more calls, hopefully.
I saw some other people on hold. I guess they're
gone now out celebrating in Vegas as the Golden Knights
(02:05):
win the Stanley Cup and so they are the champions
of hockey. But our lead this hour coming from the
Bay Area, where the next Las Vegas sports franchise is
apparently located.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The Major League Baseball's top.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Team coming into the night, the Tampa Bay Rays taking
on the worst team in baseball heading into the night,
the Athletics formerly of Philadelphia, formerly of Kansas City, and
soon to be formerly of Oakland, or maybe not, maybe
not just a lazy Tuesday night in Oakland. But why
(02:40):
was this night different than all other nights? Because it
is worthy of a full malor monologue. A Oakland A's
team that makes the bad news Bears look so good,
so so good, And that is our lead story, A
last ditch effort, a ground swell else of support for
(03:01):
one night to try to send a message to those
evil desk spot executives at Major League Baseball to stop
the Athletics from fleeing northern California and heading to southern Nevada.
And if you didn't see this, we talked about it
in a previous episode, but maybe you were not listening.
Bad job by you, But it does happen anyway, get
(03:24):
to the point, please, So a group of enraged but
passionate Oakland Backers baseball fans came out in droves to
unite a united front for this scrooge evil owner John Fisher,
who didn't earn a dollar. He inherited old money. That's
old family money John Fisher inherited, and he figures the
(03:46):
way to make more money from old family money is
to relocate the team. So anyway, the message was simple.
One word sell s l L sell, sell the team,
and I check this out. It was pretty cool to
see because I am old enough to remember when the
A's actually had crowds and they actually had good teams,
(04:08):
and they were good every year, and it seemed liked
every year. That was a long time ago, but still
back in their salad days of Oakland A's baseball. So
you saw thousands of impassioned, heartbroken A's fans, A lot
of them liquored up an act of solidarity at the
coliseum there in Oakland or whatever it's called these days.
(04:30):
I can't imagine they have a corporate sponsor. No one
goes to those games other than feral cats and rats.
But anyway, all right, so this reverse boycott. There were
seven thousand shirts they passed out with the word cell.
That's good marketing, they tell you in marketing, just have
your messaging. Has got to be short, one or two words,
that's it. That's the message. Nike's got three words, just
(04:54):
do it. That's their mark. But it's short, right, keep
it short and keep it simple. So how many people
showed up? Get to the point place, all right, I'll
get to them. The attendance the announced attendants was twenty
seven thousand, seven hundred and fifty nine, although there are
some that believe that the Athletics actually low counted, that
there were actually more people there but the A's short
(05:17):
change the crowd count.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I was not there, so I do not know.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All I know is I believe the night before the
A's drew less than five thousand fans. So they went
from less than five thousand on a Monday in their
last home game, and then boom, they were up to
twenty seven almost twenty eight thousand fans, And that's above
the average, we are told than twelve other major league teams.
The twenty seven thousand fans that were there, Oakland's got
(05:42):
the worst attendants in baseball, and normally the only time
they sell tickets is when the Giants are there to
play the A's or the Dodgers come to play the A's,
and then randomly there'll be some other team that will
come in that will have some fanbase. So let's discuss
the question Oakland fans the reverse boycott to change the narrative.
Will this resonate with the powers that be at corporate
(06:07):
Major League Baseball? So I've got Hobgoblin Sponge and hail
Mary and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make We're gonna make the
Bay Bridge. Which is are they? I guess they won't
go over the Bay Bridge. They're going the other directions,
so they will not travel down the Bay Bridge. When
they leave Oakland, they'll go okay anyway, all right? So
first of all, I would love to say yes, absolute
(06:31):
major League Baseball. These these people at corporate Baseball, they've
got a heart, you know, deep down when you pull
back all the corporate bull crap uh and all that,
they're actually human beings.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But that's a lie.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That would be a lie, right, Yes, What should happen
is customer Customer relations matter. That without the loyal ravid fan,
which you are. If you went to that game and
you're trying to send a message you're a loyal, passionate fan,
that should matter more than anything. Because when you take
everything away, if you get rid of the fan, all
(07:05):
you have left is Beer League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You've got a bunch of young adults playing baseball and
no one gives a rats ass about what's going on
on the field. So Rob Manford what he should do
if you had a real commissioner that wasn't a sock puppet.
Rob Manford would hold a news conferency. You know what,
I had a come to Jesus moment watching that A's game,
(07:30):
and I'm gonna grow some hair in my chest, is
what I'm going to do. And unlike when I had
a chance to punish the cheating asstros, I did nothing.
When the fans demanded, I did nothing. Now I'm going
to do something a real boss. And then and then
I wake up and then I realize none of that
(07:52):
is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
What will Rob Manford do? He will do nothing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
There's a better chance of elephants, you know that A's
mascot with the other the elephant flying through the air.
All right, there's a better chance of that happening than
Rob Manford doing what I just said. Major League Baseball
has made it perfectly clear time and again under this
administration and this era that the fan doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You are a rube.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
You are.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
That's how they treat you.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
They keep raising the prices, they keep sticking it to you, and.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You just say more, more and more and more and
more and more and more.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Anymore, scream and shout let it all out because deep down,
Rob Manford, I am now convinced, is not only the
commissioner of baseball, he is.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
A hob goblin.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Rob Manford hob goblin as the face of major League Baseball.
And he's also got bad hearing. And I believe blind
Emmett the Seahawk fans sees better than Rob Manford. You know,
he's just like your typical Weasley politician with some election
promises that you don't actually go for. He's an empty suit,
all right. And I loved the rhythmic chanting. I think
(09:03):
that was wonderful. It was like a religious revival. I
don't even get I don't hate. I've never been an
A's fan. I got no skin in the game, but
I was like, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I loved it. Good planning.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
There.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Here's the problem though, in my life, the people I've
talked to who are executives in sports, the message I've
got is the thing that scares people in sports is apathy.
It's not caring. And the people that showed up care.
It matters to them that the A's are going to move,
and you know that typically doesn't move the need and
(09:37):
the odd thing is the A's have mastered the art
of apathy, and yet that didn't do anything. Now, secondly,
are the athletic fans getting short changed here because of
an irresponsible owner? And I would say absolutely, Ice fans
haven't shown up. I don't think you should be a sucker, though,
if the product is bad and just continue to go.
(09:58):
I don't agree with that. I think the product's bad,
you shouldn't go. And so I'm not going to rip
them for not showing up, but that the owner of
the Athletics, Jan Fisher, has been guilty of negligence. Well
with the team and the moneyball I've had a theory
on the A's for years. The moneyball thing was a
double edged sword. It was a blessing and a curse.
(10:19):
That whole moneyball era because so popular. The A's had
reinvented baseball with their analytics, and they found a way
to win on the cheap. And now that's like expectator,
you know, that's the expectation you're supposed to win on
the cheap. And Billy Bean and what he was able
to do. They made a movie with it. Brad Pitt
was in the movie. For God's sakes, they made a
(10:39):
Hollywood movie on a strew shoestring budget for the athletics,
and they've continued that that's how they operate. Meanwhile, San Francisco,
the San Francisco Oakland market, I'm in the media business.
That's the sixth biggest market in the United States. It's
bigger than Boston. Okay, there's more people there, and yet
they operate the a's like they're one miss check away
(11:02):
from hanging out with that guy Chazz that called last
hour at the soup kitchen. I mean, that's it's that situation.
And Saint Louis Is market twenty one, San Diego's market
twenty eight, and they spend a lot of money compared
to that. And so John Fisher, the owner, the screwge owner,
essentially took the sponge, tossed the sponge away, said it's
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too hard. Well, you can't get public money. We you know,
the giants won't let us go to San Jose, and
so screw everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
We're just gonna go to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Meanwhile, there's a there's another option which no one considered
with John Fisher. Build your own stadium, build your own stadium,
your numb nuts, all right, do it? Come on your
knick Kompoop built. You get the money, finance it. That's
what that's what most people have to do. Of course,
sports teams finance it on the public doles.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
What they do. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
He could have he could have worked it out. There's
a way to get it done without having to get
payer money. And if you really wanted to stay there
and make it work, you could have built a beautiful
small ballpark. You could have figured out a way to
get it done. And you chose the easy path, as
most human beings do. They choose the easy path, all right.
The final thought on this dire tribe, what are the
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chances the A's don't move to Vegas. So I've already
told you that to me, apathy's the way to go.
That didn't work. Now they showed that they care the
A's fans, so we'll see if that works. I don't
think it will. But since Vegas is the mecca of
gambling and also the mecha hockey, as they've just celebrated
the Stanley Cup Championship there in Vegas, I will use
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some gambling lingo. The Vegas group is holding the Ace
of Spades. In fact, they have a Royal flush They've
got the Ace, the King, the Queen, the Jack, the ten,
all of the same suit. There the spades, and they're
in good shape. Nevada politicians they hard.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
To do them, plow to stick a dynamic.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
It's not done yet, but they have greenlighted over three
hundred almost fur hundred million dollars to get that stadium done.
It still has to be signed by some other people
before it all becomes kosher in Vegas, but it's heading
that direction.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
What could change this right? What could change the path.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
That we're on?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Okay, I'll answer the question because there's one thing that
can happen, and it is what I call the ultimate
hell Mary to save the athletics from leaving Oakland and
going to Las Vegas. And that is a massive bill
that is delivered to Rob Manford's office, and everyone's gonna
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have to chip in to pay the bill.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And I don't think.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I don't support this, by the way, because I don't
think government gets involved in this stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I don't like when government gives tax payer money out.
I don't like when government puts more red tape out.
But there's a congresswoman from Northern California named Barbara Lee.
I have no idea who that is, but she has
introduced what's called the Moneyball Act, and that would not
be ironic. That could be the thing that saves the
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Athletics from leaving Oakland. Now the Act, here's what it states.
The Moneyball Act. It says here that would require teams
that leave their hometown in Major League Baseball to compensate
the communities they are departing. All right now, it is
I mean specifically, the Act states that any Major League
Baseball team that goes to a new location more than
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twenty five miles from its previous one must provide compensation.
How much compensation not less than the state, local, or
tribal tax revenue levied in the ten years before the
date of relocation. So that would mean that if the
A's are planning on moving in twenty twenty seven, let's say,
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they would have to go back to twenty twenty sixteen
and all the taxes they pay, they'd have to cut
a check for that total amount. Now, just between me
and you and the wall which is over in front
of them, we can get a wall here. It's got
windows on each side, but there's a wall in the middle.
There a lot of the teams don't pay that much
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in taxes. They big businesses find a way around paying
testic but that's still gonna be a lot of money.
And the threat is that if these teams don't pay
the money, they would get rid of the special exemption,
the anti trust exemption, which Baseball has had for over
one hundred years. It is The Ben Malor Show eight
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All new callers. I see you guys on haul. We're
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from the ti raq dot com Fox Sports Radio studios
on a Newbey night, it's Ben Mahler.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Talking about the story in Oakland. The A's won the game.
That's not the story though. The fans showed up. Almost
thirty thousand people see a terrible baseball team with a
screwge owner.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It was great, and I love rhythmcchanning and I didn't
play this in the monologue, but we have.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You know, I'm addicted, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
We have all Iowa Sam's in tonight and he doesn't
know all the chance we have over the years of
Urban Mayer. That's one of the big ones we've had
Tube all that stuff, But this one is the A's
fans and let them serenade the ownership group.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
There.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Here's a little taste of how it sound. You'll put
a little bit of this listen.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Sala Tank Sea Tang all right, all right, as awesome,
sell it to sell it over.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
So if the math is right on this, the A's drew.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
It takes him about three or four games to get
what they got in one random night as the fans
showed up. It is a newby Night eight seven, seven
ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Oh Fox.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Also on the Twitter at ban Mallor Eke, who is
not a newbie, he says, Hey, Ben, remember at the
Malor meet up when you said you would give me
a birthday shout out? Ike says, I am so old
that ti Raq will only sell me. Retreads I'm so
old that I call Dusty Baker young fella. He says,
(18:30):
I am one day older than him. Well, Ike, I
was just being polite to you, as you know at
the Malor meet and greet. I did not actually want
to give you a shout out. I can't do that.
So I cannot wish you a happy birthday, Eke.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
That would be.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Wrong, and you understand how the show works. I met you,
You're a very nice man.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Good meeting.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Was great to meet you and put a face to
your tweets and all that stuff. But I just can't
wish you a happy birthday. I cannot do that because
that would be inappropriate. Let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to Newby, Nuby Nuby Nuby Newby Newby.
That's gonna Sam on a Newby night.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Let me punched the right line.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Hello, Sam, what's going on? Sam in San Francisco?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Hey, what's the man? Oh man, this is so cool.
I never thought i'd talk to you like this. I've
been listening to you for so long. But anyway, you're
spot on. When you were talking about the A's, Manford
doesn't give a crap. I mean, he's a puppet, you know,
for the owners, just like Adell. I don't even know
who's worse, but they're both pretty bad. I mean I
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will give the A's fans props that went out and
tried to send the message, but in the end, he's
just making Fisher's pockets bigger, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
But well, the A's are so slimy. They tried to
make it seem like, well, we're donating all this extra money,
We're gonna donate this to charity. Yeah, I'm sure, I'm
sure that's I'm sure that's it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I mean, I'm not a I'm not an AS fan,
but I grew up in Oakland. I got a a
lot of A's fans. I have friends are age fans.
Excuse me, and I mean for the fact that they
couldn't even sell out tonight just tells you how many
fans that checked out already didn't even want to go
because they didn't want to support the team, you know,
I mean, yeah again, you know, I.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Appreciate the problem.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I mean, the problem is this.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I can't see us if the A's leave. I can't
see a scenario where there's another team that enters Oakland.
I think that's it. I think that's that's it. If
you have because the Giants are going to protest, right
and unless you have somebody that comes in and has
deep pockets that would just pay for everything, which is
possible but unlikely, and the Giants are gonna say, well,
the A's.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Are gone, so we own the entire market. You're done.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, it's our territory now. And maybe they'll play one
series a year in Oakland or something like that.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Just that's a fantastic point. I mean, maybe it's a
small chance that could take a miracle. I mean, the
Giants almost less San Francisco. Once upon a time in
the nineties. They don't actually became the.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, that's right. They were playing at the Candlestick. They
were gonna blow out of there. They had to get
out of that dump. But yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I love that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
By the way, I'm glad you finally called. You don't
have to wait for newby Night. You can call whenever
you want, Sam every night.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I love the Candlestick story that when the Giants moved
from New York and they were looking to build a stadium,
they they took the group at Candlestick. They took the
Giants owners out to Candlestick and it was like one
o'clock in the afternoon, and it was picturesque.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The weather was great, perfect weather, not windy, just wonderful,
perfect Bay Area weather. What they didn't do is take
them at seven o'clock at night when it turned into
the the frozen tundra.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
They didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
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Speaker 9 (22:03):
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and Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
And I'm Joe Madden.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We're going to be around to talk a little bit
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Speaker 9 (22:15):
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We're going to dive into what goes on in the
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Speaker 6 (22:21):
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Speaker 6 (22:32):
Well, I don't know if in Ottawa they were channing
sell the team, sell the team, but the team has
been sold. The Ottawa Senators have been sold to Saudis
by it, I don't think so, all the sovereign well funded.
That reportedly the highest price in NHL history, nearly a
billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
One billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
It is interesting because the Senator is not exactly the
one of the more sought after teams you would think
in hockey. But a guy named Michael and Lauer Michael and.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I don't know who that Is.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
He was a He was a ten percent owner of
the Montreal Canadians. I don't have to sell that now
to be the owner of the Ottawa Centers. But his
group uh IS is apparently buying this team for a
billion dollars. They still have to go through the Board
of Governors. Blah blah blah. Course they're gonna you caid
Eve me. It's a billion dollars. They're gonna say.
Speaker 10 (23:23):
No.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
When's the last time a team was sold?
Speaker 6 (23:27):
I think the maybe the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Fenway Group
bought the.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
John Henrys a couple of years ago. Lebron owns part
of the Pittsburgh Penguins. He's part of the Okay, the
Finnway Group.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Why doesn't stan Kronki just buy the Senators, I mean
owns the hockey team. I know, but I already I didn't,
no idea. He owned the Avalanche, yeah, and the Nuggets
early rich.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, stan Kronky was rich and then married into the
Walmart money. He's one of the great aristocrats in America.
He's also old, but he's really rich. I mean, he's
had a nice run. He's had a nice run.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
People said he was a bad owner before the last
couple of years. Now all of a sudden, he's he's
a good owner. My fun factor the already are you
ready for have some fun?
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Hold on, let me get ready.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Okay, buckle up, buccaroo, We're about to have the F
word fun.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Oh yes, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I'm not that kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So the key to winning the Stanley Cup, Eddie, is
to take on the Toronto Maple Leafs and lose to
the Toronto Maple Leaves. Now the third consecutive year, the
team that eliminated the Leafs, right, the team that beat
the Leafs ended up going on to lose the Stanley Cup.
So you don't win the Stanley Cup, but you get
to the Stanley Cup. You hat Montreal in twenty twenty
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one and they were eliminated by they eliminated Toronto. They
end up losing the Stanley Cup. Tampa Bay in twenty
twenty two and the Florida Panthers.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So three years in a row.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
If you want to lose the Stanley Cup, but you
get there, do you get like a bone? You get
a bonus if you get there right, because you've you've
made the Stanley Cup and they give you Did they
give you a runners up something?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
No, they don't do that anymore. No, no, all right.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
It is the silver medal.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
No, okay, it is the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
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sell the team, our unpaid correspondent, longtime athletics supporter.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Andrea.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Yes, hello, man, how are you?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
What was it like Andrew paint the picture?
Speaker 7 (25:43):
What was Yeah? Yeah, I'm still a little horse and
my ears are ringing from the cell of the team chat. Yeah,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Baseball Gods and Goddess is very passionate experience. At the
A's game over twenty seven thousand, Ben showed up and
they gave out seven thousands.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Did you get one of the shirts? Yeah, you got
one of the shirts. She got one of the shirts
aty Yeah, she got a shirt.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Yep, sell the team.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's cool.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Yeah and yeah. So the reverse boycott so over twenty
seven thousand.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And what were some of the chances. Yeah, we heard
some of them, but were there other We'd hear all
of them. What were some of your favorite chants there?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Oh yeah, yeah. They actually printed some of the chants
on a reverse boycott.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
They had a cheat sheet for people.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
They did okay, Oakland sixty eight because that's when the
team moved here. They had a website about what to expect,
and then they gave out posters ben that said what
to do like in the fifth inning. Here, I'll read
it to you.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
This is more choreography than a Broadway show.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
This is amazing, well said.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Okay, here's the cheer plan. Be as loud as possible
as you can tell from my voice. Okay, our players
had to show up the tiny crowds thanks to Fisher,
show them some love. Okay. First batter at the beginning
of the top of each inning, chant sell the team,
Sell the team.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Heard a lot of that. I heard that lot.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
First batter at the beginning of the bottom of each inning,
Stay in Oakland. Okay, and then the first batter at
the beginning of the top of the fifth inning to
honor fifty five years in Oakland and to protest the move.
Everyone stand up, but be completely silent for the entire.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
At that.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Silence that's killing in my business. You get fired radio
silence here, you're out of work. They fire you if
you don't keep talking.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's amazing. Yeah, so this is cool.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So and where the concession stands open because normally there's
like one person selling popcorn at the games.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Yeah, no, they were totally open. They were like not barbecues.
What were they going in the parking lot.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh the tailgated the tailgate.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Yeah, get tailgaters.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, that's a good tailgating ballpark. It used to be
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Yeah, no, it came alive. We even did the wave
if you can believe that. I don't think I've ever
been to a game.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Was it wasn't there a legendary story that the waves
started in Oakland? Or is there controversy.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
About There was contu was either Oakland or the University
of Washington. They both claimed they started the way, but
it was in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
What was the guy's name Crazy Ray or something, yeah something.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah, you're right, crazy George crazy, George crazy, George drum.
We were doing old guys sports radio. Now we're doing
major old guys sports radios.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
I'm seeing something that I'm seeing something different here.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Oh, here's cool.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The part is I'm looking at Wiki Pitia and something
that it was the University of Washington.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
No, no, you're right, you're right what it was, and this
has first recorded wave occurred in Oakland at an athletics
playoff game against the New York Yankees on October fifteenth,
nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh it was eighty one.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
I thought it was in the seventies, nineteen eight close,
but the University of Washington also claimed that they had.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
That was October thirty first though, nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Of course. There you go.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
All right, well, Andrew, thank you for the report. I
enjoy your shirt. That might be worth something someday. Who knows,
hope it's.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Not the Magical evening. So thank a happy to report
back to you.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
All right, thank you, Andrew. There she goes our friend Andrea.
There it was at the a's game. Not a caller, uh,
just an unpaid correspond let's go to Charles on a
Newbie night. Charles is a newbie. He's in Washington. Hello, Charles, welcome.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
What am I really?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You're on the live are Charles? It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
And we'll get here next Oh my lord, I've been
waiting forever. So I've been living in my car.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Wait wait, wait? Are you living in your car.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
For the last month? And the best free things you
can get is the radio dial. The radio dial, so
I turned. I just turned to ninety three to three,
and I get to a parking lot that seems safe
and and you've got a great open well, thank you,
(30:00):
char amazing. And I'm like, I'm like, wow, this guy
is good. So now I'm listening to ninety three three
and I'm listening to all your other guys, and I'm
waiting for the and we'll get to it neck and
I'm nobody there's a.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Fan any And let me tell you this guy.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Uh, you might think you're down your eculary car, but
you're gonna get back on your feet. You're gonna run
fortune five hundred companies someday. Is that correct, Charles?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Right, that is correct? Well, I was very successful in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Oh, you were what now what? I always wonder? You know,
you seem you know there's a different guy. You're obviously homeless,
so you would know better than me. But there's a
lot of homeless where we do the show from and
it seems like there's like a couple of different branches.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
There's the the people.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
That just do a lot of drugs and don't want
to work, and then there's the people that made a
bad investment or maybe they got divorced or something like
that and they lost their money and there, So what
what category?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
What caused you, Charles to end up down.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
On your luck?
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Right now? My branch is the ladder where it's kind
of like the situation just put me on my feet
and put me down, and then I'm like, oh my god,
I don't want to fall through the cracks. And then
I fell through the cracks, and I'm like, well, at
least I got a car to live in, and I'm
gonna I'm going to get back on my feet. But
for the last five weeks you have been my get
to a safe parking lot. Put the show on at eleven.
(31:19):
You can listen to the opening model Hunt because it's
always great, and then you kind of You've lifted my spirit.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
So I'm hopeful that's great.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Listen to this phone call. I really am hoping this
phone call changes my life.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
No, listen, Charles, I'm pulling for you, man.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And we it's not nobdy night, Eddie, it's homeless. It's
now homeless night on the show. It's not nobly night.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But but no this and Charles, I we all you
know we're only a few bad moves away from being homeless.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
That's kind of the scary thing, right, I mean, it's
kind of wild.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Then tell me about it. I mean everyone, Yeah, at
fifty one years old, I understand I was successful in
my twenties and my thirties and oh shit.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Oh I can't say that, but that's the right. We
can't say that. But Charles, thank you, man. Be be safe, exactly,
be safe, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
And remember, by the.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Way, you're opening with Stefan Diggs and the coach right on.
We're not talking about practice.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
No exactly, real deal exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Hey, and Charles, now remember the rule is just like
that guy chance, when you get back on your feet,
you still got to listen.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Okay, all the wise, I'm done with you, Okay.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
You know It's funny. I've been addicted to you for
the last five weeks now because it's like you're my
highlight for you know, from eleven.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
For very nice, and you're you're really upsetting all the
regulars who hate when people are nice to me.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So thank you for yes.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
All right, I gotta go, but be safe out there, Charles,
stay safe, and Charles listen.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
To me, all right, but you bet it. Call me
back when you get back on your feet. Okay, oh
I will. I want to hear about it.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
All right. I was successful a long time ago. I'm
gonna be again, and I'm gonna keep listening, all right.
I just love that intro, and that's right because we'll
get to it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
That's right. See, this guy's a big thank you, Charles.
I gotta go. All right, boy, this is great.
Speaker 8 (33:07):
We're talking about practice.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
It's great for my ego, Eddie. This night's really good
for my ego. I'm going any new headphones. My headphones
are about to break. Clive Mallard of the third Degree.
Here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So in college baseball this week, there's a guy named
Quinn Matthews of Stanford. This guy threw one hundred and
fifty six pitches in a game.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
This, Oh my god, how selfish. I know, m selfish bastard.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
His arm's gonna fall off.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
The last pitcher to throw that many pitches in the
Big leagues was Tim Wakefield in nineteen ninety seven. He's
a knuckleball pitcher. The last non knuckleball pitcher to throw
that many pitches in Nolan Ryan. Well, it was blankety.
You gotta fill in the block. See what we did there.
That's the insta trivia the answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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(34:59):
to do it Tim Wakefield in nineteen ninety seven, but
he was a knuckleball pitcher. The last non knuckleball pitcher
to do it was Blank And a couple of answers
here we enough time to go through too many of these.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Here.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Let's see r. A.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Dickey guest by Bengal Fan Brian, Bill Spaceman Lee from
Beam boot Maker Bob.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
We have Andy Dufrain guessed by Milkman Mike and Colorado Eddie.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Eddie, I'll stick with my Nolan Ryan guests that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It is Rocket Roger Clemens in nineteen ninety six at
age thirty three for the Red Sox, the last one
to do. There hasn't been a pitcher to go one
hundred and thirty five pitches since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Tim Linzy, come here we go. Let's get it. We
can get it. We can do this.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Maller, how about that to the third degree is one
gets chup jump.
Speaker 10 (35:52):
It is being reported that Baker Mayfield is a clear
favorite in the Tampa quarterback competition and that Kyle Trask
would have to do something extraordinary in order to leap
frog Mayfield on the death chart. But do you think
that Mayfield could have enough success to hold off Trass
the entire season?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
No. In fact, the Buccaneers will play four quarterbacks this year.
Baker Mayfield looks great in practice, he sucks in games.
I think Bucko Bruce is gonna start their mascot three
games this year next.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
There was a report on Tuesday that said the Warriors
are considering major offseason changes and that no player on
Golden State's roster is off limits, aside from Steph Curry, Ben,
Which players do you think will still be on the
team come next season?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, here's who I think it will be on the team.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I think Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green will
be on the team. They'll change, they'll get rid of
anybody else. And these stories, I don't believe it. I'll
believe it when I see one of those guys going
out of the Bay Area, out.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Of San Francisco. I don't buy it. This is clickbait.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
And as long as Steve curR is the coach, they're
gonna ride this jelope until the wheels fall off there
and these guys are getting older for the Warriors, and
so that's gonna happen.
Speaker 10 (36:53):
So next Lebron James said in a recent interview that
he never entered the Slam Dunk contest because it simply
wasn't something that he wanted to accomplish his career. Ah bet,
are you buying that explanation? No, listen, that's pinocchio is
what that is from Lebron. Here's the deal with that.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Nobody who the heck starts their career. By the way, say,
Mike dream is to win the Slam Dunk cutters. Lebron
didn't ender the slam Dunk contest because he didn't need
to ender the slam dunk contest. He was already as
big as he could possibly get. He had already at
his high school. I was doing a website. I was
writing about this guy's a It's a different era. The
slam dunk contest helped catapult Michael Jordan and others, and Lebron.
(37:32):
He was so big, he had nothing to gain. He
had a lot to lose. You imagine if he butter
fingered a wind meal dunk like he did for the Lakers.
How embarrassing that would have been.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
There.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It is malod the third degree, with time to spare.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
How did we do fe?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I won the game in my headphones. No, he told
me I won in my headphones.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
He said, I won
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