June 15, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Sean McDermott now saying that the Stefon Diggs situation has been resolved and claiming that he excused Diggs from minicamp on Tuesday, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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our one It's all about the drama O rama. Do
you dig it Stefon Diggs yet again? Day two of
the Digs Drama in Buffalo? Do you believe Bill's coach
Sean McDermott when he says the Stefan Diggs situation has
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been resolved? And how would you classify Stefon Diggs's status
with Buffalo in this moment? And what happens next with
Stefon Digg's state of affairs with the bills. We'll talk
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our lead this hour coming from the NFL. Why I
am a total sucker for the pre Madonna ballplayer? I am.
I've always been that way, and I've been doing this
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a long time now, So I mean I go through
different generations of the pre Madonna shout out too. I
can't tell you how how many different the monologues we've
done over the years. But this is a follow up
to a story we talked about in a previous episode
of the show. Here we go Buffalo some new developments
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on the fiasco between Stefan Diggs and the Bills. It
is a hum dinger of a story. Buffalo, one of
the favorites to get to the Super Bowl, possibly win
the whole thing. And we have things bubbling up on
the shores of Lake Erie. And this is a rare,
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rare June lake of fact, the blizzard. Now, if you've
not heard, I don't know where you've been batch up
by you, but maybe you have something else going on.
So the Bills receiver Stefan Diggs was back on the
practice field hallelujah, a day after he decided, you know what,
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I don't feel like going out there, and he created
a hullaballoo. Yeah they were all people were freaking out.
Oh man. He skipped the first of it was scheduled
to be three mandatory mini camp sessions. Now Diggs did
get out there and run around and play practice practice football,
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the Buffalo Bills holding the offseason workout there after he
had skipped all the other stuff. He had skipped the
Bill's voluntary workouts because they're voluntary, and other voluntary practice
sessions that all began in mid April. And that leads
us now to some good audio. And I was told
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by one of my bosses bear the lab, my man,
when you got good audio, play the good audio. All
we got is audio, Okay, we'll play the audio. So
Sean mcdermoy who that is the rather generic by the book,
Sean McDermott, the head coach there of the bills. Now
remember he helped pour gasoline on top of the smoldering fire.
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It was a small fire, and then he poured gasoline
on it, saying he was very concerned about Stefan Diggs.
And now he has done a one eighty. He has
done the full one eighty on Stefan Diggs. And as
Warner Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape.
Here is Sean McDermott saying, you know that the absence
that was excused that absence tike a liszt. Let me
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be clear.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Steph did everything that we that he was asked to do.
He was here Monday and executed his physical on time.
Steph reported yesterday Tuesday, and UH reported for meetings at
with time. We had a good conversation, great communication, and
we got to a point yesterday where I just we
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just felt like we all needed a break and some space,
and so I gave Steph permission UH to get some
space and and and UH and head out and UH
and then picked up those conversations after practice. So let
me make a clear it was. It was not Steph
leading unexcused. He was excused by me. And so those conversations,
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UH have got us to a to what I think
and believe is a great spot.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So very concerned to yeah, you know I was excused?
Was that retroactively excused? I'm asking for a friend. Here's
another one from Sean mcderbert, who was asked, why did
you say those two words? You said very concerned. Let's
go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Whenever a player has something going on or misses for
not missing, but he's not here for some reason, I
am concerned.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's my.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Sentiment with any player in particular player as important to
us as Steph, and so I get concerned when players
miss for reasons off the field, for reasons on the field,
whether it be they're injured or whatever it is. That's
just how I am. So when I say very concerned,
I'm very concerned because of the situation with one of
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our players and it was something that we needed to
work through.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So I'm very concerned. But I don't really mean it
like very concerned. It's just a generic boiler played answer.
So let us discuss the question, do you believe Bill's
coach Sean McDermott. We just played a couple of sound
bites for you. Do you believe Sean McDermott when he
says the Stefaan Diggs situation has been resolved, and can
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I get a capital N and a capital oh? As
in the now, I've got Persian style, pre existing condition
and Jiffy lube and we will combine all of these
random things together and we are going to make a
nice castle. Role of nonsense, is that's what this is?
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A cast role of nonsense. So a Sean McDermott what
he was doing, I'll tell you exactly what he was doing.
He I've heard this before from other coaches over the years.
He was attempting to sugarcoat the crap, right, Yeah, it's
still crap. You're just putting sugar on top of it.
It's I find it amusing. I love it. I love
it. It's great. It happens every couple of years, sometimes every year.
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The Bill's coach. You couldn't see this because all we
have is audio. We're doing radio. But the Bill's coach
was squirming and stammering, trying to put the toothpaste back
in the tube without making a mess. Now, if you've
ever taken a tube of toothpaste, I hope you brush
your teeth and you squeeze all the toothpaste out, and
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you put it on the counter in your bathroom and
then attempt to put it back in without cutting open
the tube of toothpaste, just putting it back in through
the place that came out of good luck. Now, my
theory is that McDermott was dealing with a Persian style
rug as in his ass was called of the carpet,
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that there were meetings behind the scenes. He was reprimanded
by the higher ups with the bills, and so all
of a sudden he sang from a different song sheet.
And what we heard and what we saw was piping
hot as Jayscoop would say, Bullpucky repeating the talking points memo.
Everything is positive, right, Stefan Diggs is great. We all
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got together after practice. We smoked the piece pipe. It
was wonderful. We sat around the campfire, we sang Kumbaya.
Oh my god, it was like a religious experience. Now, meanwhile,
the body language of Sean mcdermott' so I go back
to this FBI Handbook, which is my bible when it
comes to people in sports lying and so I look
for clues, I look for indicators that you're lying. And
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so I go to the FBI Handbook online, and right
away I see a couple of major signs that McDermott
was full of blowney sandwiches. McDermott's eyes were darting back
and forth. That is a sign that you are uncomfortable
because you are lying. Also, there was some rapid blinking
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that went on from Sean McDermott. That is also a
sign that you are stressed from lying. And I can
go on and on now page two, how would you
classify Stefon Diggs's status with Buffalo. So here's the way
I look at on this side of the microphone. Tell
me if I'm wrong on this or not. So he's
got everyone on pins and needles. He does. The bills
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are going through a heightened period of tension. It was
cringeworthy to watch McDermott's anxiety as he attempted to massage
the ego Stefon Diggs like jenuflecting, giving him the manny
and the petty in the in the public forum. And
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so Stefan dis He's got a pre existing condition, a
primo woemo, which is the male version of a prima donna,
overly dramatic, the drama king or queen. The entire organization, though,
just get the vibe that they're afraid of saying the
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wrong thing, because saying the wrong thing is the epitome
of poking a fire breathing dragon. It's just good, It's
so good, and I just just love it. And this
happens quite often, and so Sean mcdermot's, as we've said
in previous episodes of the show, he is caught in
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an awkward situation right it stuck between the devil and
the deep bluec because McDermott is on the hot seat
and he knows it. If the Bills do not make
an extended playoff run to the super Bowl, I don't
have to win the super Bowl, but they got to
get to a super Bowl, then the Bills will likely
cut bait and get rid of McDermott. And in order
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for the Bills to get there, in his mind, he
needs his fire breathing dragon, very sensitive things, skinned wide receiver,
the diva Diva digs right to dominate, and that would
help save his job. Now he could get another job
as a coordinator, maybe if somebody would hire him as
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head coach elsewhere. But it's much easier to keep the
job that you have then go get some other job.
Now the last word here, What happens next? What happens
next with Stefon Diggs and the state of affairs around him.
So you've come to the right place as a distant
relative of Nostredamus and friend of Nostradinas. He lives in
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the Greater Seattle area. The Bills are going to have
to go Johnny cash as in walk the line. They're
gonna have to walk the line and do not do
anything out of tort to upset and annoy Stefan Diggs.
And that is an untenable situation. You gotta hope that
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he behaves. And he's like, if you don't do anything
to upset him, But what could upset him? Anything could
upset him. Now, I maintain my original take. I'm standing
by my original take. If I'm the Bills, I trade him,
I take a player who's deemed by many to be
a lesser player, but someone I want in my bunker.
And how do you have a functional team when you
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have to use kid gloves around Stefan Diggs because he's
such a softy he can't take anything. That's what it
appears on the outside. I don't know the guy, but
that's just what it looks like from the outside here.
So the Bills should what they should do is if
that doesn't work, they should always there's always the other option.
He take Stefan Digs over to Jiffy lu and you
get some new spark plucks. Because a bad spark plug,
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what does that do? That causes a backfire in your engine? Right,
that spark plug, if it's not firing properly, that that mixture,
that perfect balance in the the air fuel mixture in
the engine can ignite too early, and you know it
causes the whether it's the intake or the exhaust system
causes the backfire. So that derails your season. But in
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my cartoon bubble in my head, here's what I see, Okay,
I see the buffalo Bill's logo, that nice looking buffal
let's good logo. They got there. So the buffalo there,
the one on the side of the helmet, and it's
got right next to it. Is one of those looney
tunes acme black bowling ball sized bombs, you know, And
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it's I love the cartoons because they're so obvious. Right,
you got the burning fuse and then they write in
what letters bomb on the side, and so that's right
next to the bill's logo, and the Bill's logo is
facing that, and that fuse is burning and you're just
waiting for the fuse to get down and reach the
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large bowling ball sized explosive and then ca boom and
alway is it going to be right? And we'll be
here to chronicle all of that same time, same Fox station.
We'll be here in the wee hours of the night. Now,
last night, if you were with us, we hope you
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It's Ben Maler, Chris into More and he says, man,
I hope your day is going better than mine. He
says he got an application. He's a big bar manager
there in the morning. He says, a guy applied for
a job there and listed himself as a reference. That's
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pretty good. He probably figured you wouldn't read the actual application.
That's that's my assumption, And it's possible he has Chris
multiple personalities, so it is conceivable that one of his
other personalities is different than the one that's going to
work for you. But it's it's hard to get people
that want to work, so maybe that would be the
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perfect guy to hire because he's got different things going
on up there now. J D in Boston writes in
and this guy's a he's a made man, right. He
works at the He don't work at Finway. He works
at the garden there at the Celtics and the Bruins games. Anyway,
he passed a long story. He said, there was a
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Big Poppy look alike who who was roaming in the
stands at Finway taking pictures with a bunch of random fans.
What yeah, yeah, And there's some there's some photos here
the guy walking walking around. So if you go to
Instagram or TikTok, despite a bunch of videos of people
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who think they think they're they're hanging out with Big Poppy,
wouldn't it be great if Big Poppy actually walked around
Finway Park wearing his jersey and glasses, just on a
random midweek night in June.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Have you have you seen pictures of this guy?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, I can send it to you.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Does he look more like Big Poppy than the guy
who impersonated Klay Thompson and like walked in the arena
one time.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, he does look more like that, but not as much.
Remember the Connor McGregor guy. Yeah, if you that guy
really looked like Connor McGregor, like, except he had he
had a key, the glasses on. Yeah, this guy, it
looks it looks like him to me. It's hard to
tell though, I don't know how tall the guy is,
you know, if he's the same height as Popyo. I'll
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send you some photos so you can take a look.
But it looks like him, oh fatter. I think like
if Poppy like ate all of the doughnuts at a Duncan, like,
I think that would be like this Big Poppy, Like
maybe maybe Big Poppy let himself go in retirement, huge
Big Poppin. Yeah, Yeah, he's just he's uh, he's going
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like the Pillsbury dough boy. He's going that that.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Big well, you know, after his playing career would make sense.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
If he yeah, put a few pounds on, he does.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
The glasses probably help.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
He's got glasses on guaranteed, because otherwise he wouldn't wear
the glasses, right, he wouldn't need the glasses. You need
the glasses as a veil to hide from you know,
you hide your lion eyes. Right? Isn't that the line there?
All right? Anyway? The Burner account writes in uh says,
what a maroon? What's the over under on this jerk
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getting fired at the end of the season, Benjamin, I
think he's talking about Stefon Diggs. I don't think guys
like that don't get fired. They just get repackaged. It's
old wine in a new bottle. I think that's how
how it goes. Firgg says, I can forgive you for
leading with Stefon Diggs instead of the Golden Knights yesterday,
but I can't forgive you for leading with Stefon Diggs
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again over today's biggest story, the Oakland A's winning streak
is over. You're better than this, Bin, Well, that was
a mistake. Clear who goofed? I've got to know situation.
Bad job by me. That hot A's talk at now,
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I've told the story that I have had an auto
club membership for my family has had it since, you know,
way before I was around. And then I've picked up
that auto club membership and I found something out about
the Auto club that I did not know existed. That
they do cap how many times you can call a
tow truck and the number in a given year is
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I believe the numbers five. And then after that it's
supposed to be like free towing and all that. But
if you keep calling them, they start charging you.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
A little fun fact breaking down there, Ben. Yeah, well
it's not my I didn't break down at all. I
was saying, the car broke down. Yeah, yeah, I've not
broken My knee did hurt. Like last year. That was
a minor breakdown. Robbie the Mariner fan since a shout
out that time Big Poppy had that mistaken identity situation. Yeah,
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all right, let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to c J. Who's in d C. Hello, c J, welcome.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Man, Ben Mell my main man.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
The pleasure island to finally.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Get what's up?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Let me thank you. When I first went to DC,
working nights, there was nothing to do. Then I found her.
So actually, when your par I first got listening, you're
the recording.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Line from Northwood.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, covid YEA working nights.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Very easy, and I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, thank you. What what kind of work do you
do there at night?
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I maintained and grounds at the nation's airport breaking. So
if you're here in town, just look for let me
beat a little black light in there.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You're out there hustling, and that's that's kind of a
big important airport there, CJ. Right, there's a lot of
big wigs that fly out of there.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
There, come right through here.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Look at that. And if you don't do your if
you don't do your job, then they complain, right, they're like,
what's going on here?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
That?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, very very bad.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Exactly. Well listen, CJ, thank you man, I'm glad you're listened.
I'm glad you called in and uh, listen, we will
get you through four hours a night.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
That's I promise we'll get you through those four hours
a night, right, guy. That's a great question. You know Andre. Uh,
he's a teacher and I'm not sure if school's out
in Boston yet. So once school's out, I think Andrea
will call back. But he's yeah, he would, he would
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call up there. That's your guy who everyone rips him.
You love him everyone else.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Wait, not that way, not that way.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No, No, in a totally plutonic way. CJ. You're totally masculine.
I totally get it. I understand. All right, Well, thank you, CJ.
Be safe out there.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It sounds like you're working right now hard there. It
goes our guys CJ in DC. So when I fly in,
I gotta get to d C. I have not done
any time there, going around to the different Smithsonian museums
and all that.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I gotta I want a couple of years ago, really
enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, I'd like to go check it out. Yeah, you
got me that Ben's Chili shirt from there, didn't That
was very nice to you. Ben's Chili bowl, Ben's Chili Bowl. Yeah,
did you eat there?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I did?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Was it good?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It was?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It was really good. That's like a local legendary.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Hard to find parking though around the area, but you
know it's worth it.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, that's that means, you know, you know, it's pretty
good and it's limited parking.
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Speaker 4 (25:28):
Ben, did you hear about the championship parade for your
Vegas Golden Nights?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
No, I was dying to know any what's going on.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Maybe you can maybe you can correct me, any of
the guys here. I have never heard of one of
these championship parades being held on a weekend at night.
But that's what the Vegas Golden Darts are doing Saturday,
seven pm. It starts down Flamingo Road, will extend a
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good Tropicana Avenue and it will end in front of
T Mobile Arena at nine pm. Uh so it's gonna
take up two hours.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's typical Saturday night in Vegas. Two hours to go
a couple.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Of straight Yeah, Vegas Saturday night for a parade.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
This is gonna be Oh, that'll be great. You should
you should go be part of the parade.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Vegas wild. Usually these things are during the day, like
on a.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Tuesday, yeah, or a Thursday. Is like the Nuggets are
having their parade. Today's Today's Thursday. They're having their parade
in the I think the morning or late mornings, the
afternoon and all that.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I mean, I guess they had to get approval from
the right, like like the police.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And wow, I know the mob doesn't run Vegas in
Vegas anymore, but they can still play around with that.
There's still some some old school people there and all that.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
It should be interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, it would be good. Why not, man? And now
people are gonna come to the eight when the ace
is Eddy called up yesterday, I know when he has
had their parade. Did they have it at night or
they probably had it during.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
The day, I bet right, as my memory recalls they were.
They were like on a bus during the day, and
I never saw the crowd. I just saw the bus,
So I think they just kind of drove around the strip.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
People were like, I just had it, says the Las
Vegas Aces commemorated their twenty twenty two championship. They had
a parade on the Strip and a celebration in front
of the Bellagio fountains.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Yeah, there's a decent amount of people there, but I
mean there's just a lot of people in Vegas on
the Strip at any given time anyway, So and then
if some any sort of something is going on, people
just congregate.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It's it's brilliant strategy. It's like, whoever's out there, you
can claim.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Credit for them for them being at the rally at
the parade. Yeah, sure, absolutely. It's like you know, I
go to Manhattan Times Square. And so all these people
are here for me. I'm all, I don't know why
they're here, but they're here for me, and why not?
All right, it is the Ben Malor Show as we
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going to be a death spot as Raider owner, Well,
the answer is absolutely not. Tom Brady revealing recently that
he will be a very passive, very passive member of
the Raiders FAMA late. I'm gonna have a very passive role.
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That is according to a quote Tom Brady gave to
the Associal He Hated Press, he says, this is something
that I'm interested in doing for the rest of my life.
He said, this is not something that I'm into it
for just a year or two. He said, I've got
a lot of responsibility with my Fox job. No, you
(29:17):
have no response. You've done the job, you have no responsibility.
I love Bradsey, I take that very seriously. But if
I'm looking over the course of my life to have
the opportunity to be involved in the NFL as a
dream come true, he said. Yeah. Notice though, that Robert
(29:37):
Kraft did not offer Tom Brady an opportunity to buy
a slice of the Patriot Pie, so he had to
go out to the Raiders. I liked the Brad's like,
I got a lot of responsibility with the Fox job.
He has so much responsibility. He's not doing the Fox
job next season. That's how much responsibility is. That's how
seriously he takes broadcasting on Fox. He's taking next year off.
It's so good.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah. Let's go to the phones and we say hello
to Hayes in Minnesota. Hello Hayes, Hello h Haes. It
was great to meet you. I had a wonderful time
in your city. Everyone was very nice to me. It
was great to see you out at the mouth of
(30:19):
meet and greet.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Actually I called to ask you. When when are you
coming here so so I can me and my assistant
can meet you.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Well, that's a great question. So here's what you need
to do. You need to go on Amazon and buy
a time machine and go back about a month and
on a Saturday night at the Mermaid and then show up.
My name will be on the jumbo tron out in
front of the Mermaid. They got bowling there, they've got
a restaurant, they've got the bar. It's a fun entertainment place,
(30:51):
the arcade over there, and uh, and then and then
we can hand out.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Hey, sorry, I can't hold my phone. You're on speaker.
Can you still hear me? No, I'm cleaning tonight. Yeah,
is that right?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
And you're you're working for those who don't know Hay's works.
You work at a a morgue, would that be correct?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
I have this German assistant lady. Now, she's a fan
of the show.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Oh she is? Can I can I say hello to her?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
In fact? Chill? In fact, chill call herself the next
couple of nights, one of the next couple of nights.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh, that's very nice. What's her name? First name?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
I would feel comfortable if she shared that with you.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Okay, so the gentlemans you do not want to give
her her first name. I understand she's got things to hide.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Yes, hey, Ben, I gotta say you do a great job.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
I enjoy listening to you.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
How's life treating you these days? He is everything?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Okay, not too bad, Everything's great. I'm a huge fan
of the guy who answers the phone every time I call.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh you, well, he's a fan of yours. Let me
tell you something.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
But who's his name? I never picked it up.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Cooper Loop is his name? Justin Cooper, And he talks
about you all the time off the air. He's a
big fan. He wants to meet you.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Yeah, man, I don't have any hair anymore. So does
he like guys with no hair?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No hair? Coop? You like dudes with no hair? Coop?
You in that now you're not in? You can put
a wig. You can put a wig on, right, hayes.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
I don't know. I can smile. That might work for him.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah. Do you smile a lot? Are you?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
It's okay?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Comes and go.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Any other odd things happen at work there? You've told
some weird stories over the years.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Any any yeah, yeah, man, I cut the grass now,
so during the day I cut the grass us at
the grave site.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You know, anything happened there, there's just normal cutting the grass,
and it's just grass, right.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
It's just I don't pay attention because I just listened
to your podcast on the app. So I just listened
to it. I get it, I get it done, and
and but yeah, my assistant, we'll call you the next
couple of nights. We're going to be exciting to hear that.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I can't wait. Oh my god, this is so great.
And you have help now, Hayes, you're not just there
by yourself with all the people. Yes, from the.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Lady, she's great. She's like thirty four, thirty six one
of those.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Okay, well either maybe thirty five. How about thirty five
cut the difference?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
No, yeah, yeah, it'll be great. I can't wait for
you to meet.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right, well I look forward to meeting right, Thank you, Hayes.
I got to go. All right. There you are our
friend there. I just imagine him cruising around on that lawnmower.
He's got the podcast on going for it. If you
want to do a meet and greet in Minnesota, you know,
there you go, all right, Anyway, here's the who ami game?
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Who am I? Again? My son and I were the
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Game?
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And here we go. This is where we pretend to
be somebody else in a pathetic attempt to get you
to listen a little bit longer. Thus we call it
the who am I?
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Gabe?
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So my son and I were the last father son
duo to play in Major League Baseball. Simultaneously, who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? Chip and
the cues got it right? Bad job by him? CALLI
and Tim says he Man and the Masters of the
Universe is the way to go. Who do we have here?
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Bengal fan Bryan says Hayes in Minnesota and the thirty
four or thirty six year old German lady from Bengal
Van Bryant, Rob, the Ambassador of Bakersfield actually not cheating.
He went with Herman Munster and Eddie Munster. Bean boot
Maker Bob says, Pedro and his daddy the Yankees. That's
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actually pretty funny. He's daddy. I like that. That's good, Cowboy,
Killer from Parts Unknown says it's it's gotta be tricks
the Rabbit. That's the answer. See Jay. His response there,
he says, is jose Al Bouve and Mini me the
American Dream, Dusty Rhodes and son Cody from the Sawman.
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Chris and the mooy went with Hayes from Minnesota by himself.
Charles is going with fifty cent and his son twenty five.
Miguel on Fire says Felipe Beloo and Moyses salue, Now
that would be something. Who else do we have page
down here? And the Garcia Berner account says I'm fighting
for my life. Bro Sean in Portland goes with Skip
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Bayless and Jerry Jones as the answer. Who else do
we have page down here? Robin Minnesota says Dave Stewart
and Kristen Stewart, And we've got Johnny Ray going with
Eddie and Mike Graham as the answer. All right, Eddie,
(37:36):
do you have an answered? Is not Minnie and Mickey
Minoso guessed by Eke and Roseville Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
I mean, the only father son duo I've ever known
was the Griffies.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
That's it. You know you're going with the Griffies. All right, Eddie,
that is absolutely incorrect. The answer is Tim Rains and
his son, Tim Raines Junior in twenty oh one per
four games they played together and the the if I remember,
the Oils traded for Tim Rains just to have that moment.
He was playing for I think the Marlins at the time. Anyway,
(38:10):
let's just trip. We can get it in. Yeah, sure,
why not? What the hell? We got five seconds? Go
ahead here, first pick. You're up there. Coop might regret this,
but I'm gonna go with Sonny Gray. All right, Eddie
Nathan Ivaldi, Shoe Hey, o Toddy, Sam Tyler Wells the
pitcher by the way, I won more, Sam, Jose Ramirez,
Bo Bishett, Eddie mal Cop back to back, Fernando Tattoos
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our one It's all about the drama O rama. Do
you dig it Stefon Diggs yet again? Day two of
the Digs Drama in Buffalo? Do you believe Bill's coach
Sean McDermott when he says the Stefan Diggs situation has
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with Buffalo in this moment? And what happens next with
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am a total sucker for the pre Madonna ballplayer? I am.
I've always been that way, and I've been doing this
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a long time now, So I mean I go through
different generations of the pre Madonna shout out too. I
can't tell you how how many different the monologues we've
done over the years. But this is a follow up
to a story we talked about in a previous episode
of the show. Here we go Buffalo some new developments
(02:37):
on the fiasco between Stefan Diggs and the Bills. It
is a hum dinger of a story. Buffalo, one of
the favorites to get to the Super Bowl, possibly win
the whole thing. And we have things bubbling up on
the shores of Lake Erie. And this is a rare,
(02:57):
rare June lake of fact, the blizzard. Now, if you've
not heard, I don't know where you've been batch up
by you, but maybe you have something else going on.
So the Bills receiver Stefan Diggs was back on the
practice field hallelujah, a day after he decided, you know what,
(03:18):
I don't feel like going out there, and he created
a hullaballoo. Yeah they were all people were freaking out.
Oh man. He skipped the first of it was scheduled
to be three mandatory mini camp sessions. Now Diggs did
get out there and run around and play practice practice football,
(03:38):
the Buffalo Bills holding the offseason workout there after he
had skipped all the other stuff. He had skipped the
Bill's voluntary workouts because they're voluntary, and other voluntary practice
sessions that all began in mid April. And that leads
us now to some good audio. And I was told
(03:58):
by one of my bosses bear the lab, my man,
when you got good audio, play the good audio. All
we got is audio, Okay, we'll play the audio. So
Sean mcdermoy who that is the rather generic by the book,
Sean McDermott, the head coach there of the bills. Now
remember he helped pour gasoline on top of the smoldering fire.
(04:24):
It was a small fire, and then he poured gasoline
on it, saying he was very concerned about Stefan Diggs.
And now he has done a one eighty. He has
done the full one eighty on Stefan Diggs. And as
Warner Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape.
Here is Sean McDermott saying, you know that the absence
that was excused that absence tike a liszt. Let me
(04:47):
be clear.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Steph did everything that we that he was asked to do.
He was here Monday and executed his physical on time.
Steph reported yesterday Tuesday, and UH reported for meetings at
with time. We had a good conversation, great communication, and
we got to a point yesterday where I just we
(05:09):
just felt like we all needed a break and some space,
and so I gave Steph permission UH to get some
space and and and UH and head out and UH
and then picked up those conversations after practice. So let
me make a clear it was. It was not Steph
leading unexcused. He was excused by me. And so those conversations,
(05:32):
UH have got us to a to what I think
and believe is a great spot.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So very concerned to yeah, you know I was excused?
Was that retroactively excused? I'm asking for a friend. Here's
another one from Sean mcderbert, who was asked, why did
you say those two words? You said very concerned. Let's
go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Whenever a player has something going on or misses for
not missing, but he's not here for some reason, I
am concerned.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's my.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Sentiment with any player in particular player as important to
us as Steph, and so I get concerned when players
miss for reasons off the field, for reasons on the field,
whether it be they're injured or whatever it is. That's
just how I am. So when I say very concerned,
I'm very concerned because of the situation with one of
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our players and it was something that we needed to
work through.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So I'm very concerned. But I don't really mean it
like very concerned. It's just a generic boiler played answer.
So let us discuss the question, do you believe Bill's
coach Sean McDermott. We just played a couple of sound
bites for you. Do you believe Sean McDermott when he
says the Stefaan Diggs situation has been resolved, and can
(06:51):
I get a capital N and a capital oh? As
in the now, I've got Persian style, pre existing condition
and Jiffy lube and we will combine all of these
random things together and we are going to make a
nice castle. Role of nonsense, is that's what this is?
(07:14):
A cast role of nonsense. So a Sean McDermott what
he was doing, I'll tell you exactly what he was doing.
He I've heard this before from other coaches over the years.
He was attempting to sugarcoat the crap, right, Yeah, it's
still crap. You're just putting sugar on top of it.
It's I find it amusing. I love it. I love
it. It's great. It happens every couple of years, sometimes every year.
(07:34):
The Bill's coach. You couldn't see this because all we
have is audio. We're doing radio. But the Bill's coach
was squirming and stammering, trying to put the toothpaste back
in the tube without making a mess. Now, if you've
ever taken a tube of toothpaste, I hope you brush
your teeth and you squeeze all the toothpaste out, and
(07:56):
you put it on the counter in your bathroom and
then attempt to put it back in without cutting open
the tube of toothpaste, just putting it back in through
the place that came out of good luck. Now, my
theory is that McDermott was dealing with a Persian style
rug as in his ass was called of the carpet,
(08:19):
that there were meetings behind the scenes. He was reprimanded
by the higher ups with the bills, and so all
of a sudden he sang from a different song sheet.
And what we heard and what we saw was piping
hot as Jayscoop would say, Bullpucky repeating the talking points memo.
Everything is positive, right, Stefan Diggs is great. We all
(08:42):
got together after practice. We smoked the piece pipe. It
was wonderful. We sat around the campfire, we sang Kumbaya.
Oh my god, it was like a religious experience. Now, meanwhile,
the body language of Sean mcdermott' so I go back
to this FBI Handbook, which is my bible when it
comes to people in sports lying and so I look
for clues, I look for indicators that you're lying. And
(09:03):
so I go to the FBI Handbook online, and right
away I see a couple of major signs that McDermott
was full of blowney sandwiches. McDermott's eyes were darting back
and forth. That is a sign that you are uncomfortable
because you are lying. Also, there was some rapid blinking
(09:26):
that went on from Sean McDermott. That is also a
sign that you are stressed from lying. And I can
go on and on now page two, how would you
classify Stefon Diggs's status with Buffalo. So here's the way
I look at on this side of the microphone. Tell
me if I'm wrong on this or not. So he's
got everyone on pins and needles. He does. The bills
(09:51):
are going through a heightened period of tension. It was
cringeworthy to watch McDermott's anxiety as he attempted to massage
the ego Stefon Diggs like jenuflecting, giving him the manny
and the petty in the in the public forum. And
(10:11):
so Stefan dis He's got a pre existing condition, a
primo woemo, which is the male version of a prima donna,
overly dramatic, the drama king or queen. The entire organization, though,
just get the vibe that they're afraid of saying the
(10:31):
wrong thing, because saying the wrong thing is the epitome
of poking a fire breathing dragon. It's just good, It's
so good, and I just just love it. And this
happens quite often, and so Sean mcdermot's, as we've said
in previous episodes of the show, he is caught in
(10:53):
an awkward situation right it stuck between the devil and
the deep bluec because McDermott is on the hot seat
and he knows it. If the Bills do not make
an extended playoff run to the super Bowl, I don't
have to win the super Bowl, but they got to
get to a super Bowl, then the Bills will likely
cut bait and get rid of McDermott. And in order
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for the Bills to get there, in his mind, he
needs his fire breathing dragon, very sensitive things, skinned wide receiver,
the diva Diva digs right to dominate, and that would
help save his job. Now he could get another job
as a coordinator, maybe if somebody would hire him as
(11:37):
head coach elsewhere. But it's much easier to keep the
job that you have then go get some other job.
Now the last word here, What happens next? What happens
next with Stefon Diggs and the state of affairs around him.
So you've come to the right place as a distant
relative of Nostredamus and friend of Nostradinas. He lives in
(11:57):
the Greater Seattle area. The Bills are going to have
to go Johnny cash as in walk the line. They're
gonna have to walk the line and do not do
anything out of tort to upset and annoy Stefan Diggs.
And that is an untenable situation. You gotta hope that
(12:18):
he behaves. And he's like, if you don't do anything
to upset him, But what could upset him? Anything could
upset him. Now, I maintain my original take. I'm standing
by my original take. If I'm the Bills, I trade him,
I take a player who's deemed by many to be
a lesser player, but someone I want in my bunker.
And how do you have a functional team when you
(12:42):
have to use kid gloves around Stefan Diggs because he's
such a softy he can't take anything. That's what it
appears on the outside. I don't know the guy, but
that's just what it looks like from the outside here.
So the Bills should what they should do is if
that doesn't work, they should always there's always the other option.
He take Stefan Digs over to Jiffy lu and you
get some new spark plucks. Because a bad spark plug,
(13:04):
what does that do? That causes a backfire in your engine? Right,
that spark plug, if it's not firing properly, that that mixture,
that perfect balance in the the air fuel mixture in
the engine can ignite too early, and you know it
causes the whether it's the intake or the exhaust system
causes the backfire. So that derails your season. But in
(13:28):
my cartoon bubble in my head, here's what I see, Okay,
I see the buffalo Bill's logo, that nice looking buffal
let's good logo. They got there. So the buffalo there,
the one on the side of the helmet, and it's
got right next to it. Is one of those looney
tunes acme black bowling ball sized bombs, you know, And
(13:53):
it's I love the cartoons because they're so obvious. Right,
you got the burning fuse and then they write in
what letters bomb on the side, and so that's right
next to the bill's logo, and the Bill's logo is
facing that, and that fuse is burning and you're just
waiting for the fuse to get down and reach the
(14:13):
large bowling ball sized explosive and then ca boom and
alway is it going to be right? And we'll be
here to chronicle all of that same time, same Fox station.
We'll be here in the wee hours of the night. Now,
last night, if you were with us, we hope you
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people that called up last night. It was great. And
not everyone was able to get on the air. Some
people were in a hole, they hung up, whatever thing's happened.
But we are back to a normal night, which means
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It's Ben Maler, Chris into More and he says, man,
I hope your day is going better than mine. He
says he got an application. He's a big bar manager
there in the morning. He says, a guy applied for
a job there and listed himself as a reference. That's
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pretty good. He probably figured you wouldn't read the actual application.
That's that's my assumption, And it's possible he has Chris
multiple personalities, so it is conceivable that one of his
other personalities is different than the one that's going to
work for you. But it's it's hard to get people
that want to work, so maybe that would be the
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on up there now. J D in Boston writes in
and this guy's a he's a made man, right. He
works at the He don't work at Finway. He works
at the garden there at the Celtics and the Bruins games. Anyway,
he passed a long story. He said, there was a
(17:57):
Big Poppy look alike who who was roaming in the
stands at Finway taking pictures with a bunch of random fans.
What yeah, yeah, And there's some there's some photos here
the guy walking walking around. So if you go to
Instagram or TikTok, despite a bunch of videos of people
(18:18):
who think they think they're they're hanging out with Big Poppy,
wouldn't it be great if Big Poppy actually walked around
Finway Park wearing his jersey and glasses, just on a
random midweek night in June.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Have you have you seen pictures of this guy?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, I can send it to you.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Does he look more like Big Poppy than the guy
who impersonated Klay Thompson and like walked in the arena
one time.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, he does look more like that, but not as much.
Remember the Connor McGregor guy. Yeah, if you that guy
really looked like Connor McGregor, like, except he had he
had a key, the glasses on. Yeah, this guy, it
looks it looks like him to me. It's hard to
tell though, I don't know how tall the guy is,
you know, if he's the same height as Popyo. I'll
(19:10):
send you some photos so you can take a look.
But it looks like him, oh fatter. I think like
if Poppy like ate all of the doughnuts at a Duncan, like,
I think that would be like this Big Poppy, Like
maybe maybe Big Poppy let himself go in retirement, huge
Big Poppin. Yeah, Yeah, he's just he's uh, he's going
(19:30):
like the Pillsbury dough boy. He's going that that.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Big well, you know, after his playing career would make sense.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
If he yeah, put a few pounds on, he does.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
The glasses probably help.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
He's got glasses on guaranteed, because otherwise he wouldn't wear
the glasses, right, he wouldn't need the glasses. You need
the glasses as a veil to hide from you know,
you hide your lion eyes. Right? Isn't that the line there?
All right? Anyway? The Burner account writes in uh says,
what a maroon? What's the over under on this jerk
(20:06):
getting fired at the end of the season, Benjamin, I
think he's talking about Stefon Diggs. I don't think guys
like that don't get fired. They just get repackaged. It's
old wine in a new bottle. I think that's how
how it goes. Firgg says, I can forgive you for
leading with Stefon Diggs instead of the Golden Knights yesterday,
but I can't forgive you for leading with Stefon Diggs
(20:29):
again over today's biggest story, the Oakland A's winning streak
is over. You're better than this, Bin, Well, that was
a mistake. Clear who goofed? I've got to know situation.
Bad job by me. That hot A's talk at now,
that was amazing. We are on Twitter at Ben Maler.
(20:50):
If you want to be part of the show a
late night drug test. You can be part of it
that way, and late night drug test. And I learned
something new each monologue you give. With the all that
auto mechanic knowledge, I'm surprised the moldmobile ever breaks down. Yeah, well,
the old malamobiles. If you listen to the Fifth Hour podcast.
(21:10):
I've told the story that I have had an auto
club membership for my family has had it since, you know,
way before I was around. And then I've picked up
that auto club membership and I found something out about
the Auto club that I did not know existed. That
they do cap how many times you can call a
tow truck and the number in a given year is
(21:35):
I believe the numbers five. And then after that it's
supposed to be like free towing and all that. But
if you keep calling them, they start charging you.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
A little fun fact breaking down there, Ben. Yeah, well
it's not my I didn't break down at all. I
was saying, the car broke down. Yeah, yeah, I've not
broken My knee did hurt. Like last year. That was
a minor breakdown. Robbie the Mariner fan since a shout
out that time Big Poppy had that mistaken identity situation. Yeah,
(22:06):
all right, let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to c J. Who's in d C. Hello, c J, welcome.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Man, Ben Mell my main man.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
The pleasure island to finally.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Get what's up?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Let me thank you. When I first went to DC,
working nights, there was nothing to do. Then I found her.
So actually, when your par I first got listening, you're
the recording.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Line from Northwood.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, covid YEA working nights.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Very easy, and I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, thank you. What what kind of work do you
do there at night?
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I maintained and grounds at the nation's airport breaking. So
if you're here in town, just look for let me
beat a little black light in there.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
You're out there hustling, and that's that's kind of a
big important airport there, CJ. Right, there's a lot of
big wigs that fly out of there.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
There, come right through here.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Look at that. And if you don't do your if
you don't do your job, then they complain, right, they're like,
what's going on here?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
That?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, very very bad.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Exactly. Well listen, CJ, thank you man, I'm glad you're listened.
I'm glad you called in and uh, listen, we will
get you through four hours a night.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
That's I promise we'll get you through those four hours
a night, right, guy. That's a great question. You know Andre. Uh,
he's a teacher and I'm not sure if school's out
in Boston yet. So once school's out, I think Andrea
will call back. But he's yeah, he would, he would
(23:55):
call up there. That's your guy who everyone rips him.
You love him everyone else.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Wait, not that way, not that way.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No, No, in a totally plutonic way. CJ. You're totally masculine.
I totally get it. I understand. All right, Well, thank you, CJ.
Be safe out there.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
It sounds like you're working right now hard there. It
goes our guys CJ in DC. So when I fly in,
I gotta get to d C. I have not done
any time there, going around to the different Smithsonian museums
and all that.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I gotta I want a couple of years ago, really
enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, I'd like to go check it out. Yeah, you
got me that Ben's Chili shirt from there, didn't That
was very nice to you. Ben's Chili bowl, Ben's Chili Bowl. Yeah,
did you eat there?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I did?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Was it good?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It was?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It was really good. That's like a local legendary.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Hard to find parking though around the area, but you
know it's worth it.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, that's that means, you know, you know, it's pretty
good and it's limited parking.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
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and Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
And I'm Joe Madden, and we're going to be around
to talk a little bit about managerial decisions and what
may have accredited to dugot maybe in the nineteen eighties.
It's the Book of Joe podcast. I can't wait for this, Joe.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
We're going to dive into what goes on in the
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Baseball, cars, wind whatever else we want to talk about.
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Speaker 4 (25:28):
Ben, did you hear about the championship parade for your
Vegas Golden Nights?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
No, I was dying to know any what's going on.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Maybe you can maybe you can correct me, any of
the guys here. I have never heard of one of
these championship parades being held on a weekend at night.
But that's what the Vegas Golden Darts are doing Saturday,
seven pm. It starts down Flamingo Road, will extend a
(25:58):
good Tropicana Avenue and it will end in front of
T Mobile Arena at nine pm. Uh so it's gonna
take up two hours.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's typical Saturday night in Vegas. Two hours to go
a couple.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Of straight Yeah, Vegas Saturday night for a parade.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
This is gonna be Oh, that'll be great. You should
you should go be part of the parade.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Vegas wild. Usually these things are during the day, like
on a.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Tuesday, yeah, or a Thursday. Is like the Nuggets are
having their parade. Today's Today's Thursday. They're having their parade
in the I think the morning or late mornings, the
afternoon and all that.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I mean, I guess they had to get approval from
the right, like like the police.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And wow, I know the mob doesn't run Vegas in
Vegas anymore, but they can still play around with that.
There's still some some old school people there and all that.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
It should be interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, it would be good. Why not, man? And now
people are gonna come to the eight when the ace
is Eddy called up yesterday, I know when he has
had their parade. Did they have it at night or
they probably had it during.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
The day, I bet right, as my memory recalls they were.
They were like on a bus during the day, and
I never saw the crowd. I just saw the bus,
So I think they just kind of drove around the strip.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
People were like, I just had it, says the Las
Vegas Aces commemorated their twenty twenty two championship. They had
a parade on the Strip and a celebration in front
of the Bellagio fountains.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Yeah, there's a decent amount of people there, but I
mean there's just a lot of people in Vegas on
the Strip at any given time anyway, So and then
if some any sort of something is going on, people
just congregate.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It's it's brilliant strategy. It's like, whoever's out there, you
can claim.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Credit for them for them being at the rally at
the parade. Yeah, sure, absolutely. It's like you know, I
go to Manhattan Times Square. And so all these people
are here for me. I'm all, I don't know why
they're here, but they're here for me, and why not?
All right, it is the Ben Malor Show as we
continue on here chopping down the overnight hours, and we
(28:09):
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(28:32):
going to be a death spot as Raider owner, Well,
the answer is absolutely not. Tom Brady revealing recently that
he will be a very passive, very passive member of
the Raiders FAMA late. I'm gonna have a very passive role.
(28:55):
That is according to a quote Tom Brady gave to
the Associal He Hated Press, he says, this is something
that I'm interested in doing for the rest of my life.
He said, this is not something that I'm into it
for just a year or two. He said, I've got
a lot of responsibility with my Fox job. No, you
(29:17):
have no response. You've done the job, you have no responsibility.
I love Bradsey, I take that very seriously. But if
I'm looking over the course of my life to have
the opportunity to be involved in the NFL as a
dream come true, he said. Yeah. Notice though, that Robert
(29:37):
Kraft did not offer Tom Brady an opportunity to buy
a slice of the Patriot Pie, so he had to
go out to the Raiders. I liked the Brad's like,
I got a lot of responsibility with the Fox job.
He has so much responsibility. He's not doing the Fox
job next season. That's how much responsibility is. That's how
seriously he takes broadcasting on Fox. He's taking next year off.
It's so good.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah. Let's go to the phones and we say hello
to Hayes in Minnesota. Hello Hayes, Hello h Haes. It
was great to meet you. I had a wonderful time
in your city. Everyone was very nice to me. It
was great to see you out at the mouth of
(30:19):
meet and greet.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Actually I called to ask you. When when are you
coming here so so I can me and my assistant
can meet you.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Well, that's a great question. So here's what you need
to do. You need to go on Amazon and buy
a time machine and go back about a month and
on a Saturday night at the Mermaid and then show up.
My name will be on the jumbo tron out in
front of the Mermaid. They got bowling there, they've got
a restaurant, they've got the bar. It's a fun entertainment place,
(30:51):
the arcade over there, and uh, and then and then
we can hand out.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Hey, sorry, I can't hold my phone. You're on speaker.
Can you still hear me? No, I'm cleaning tonight. Yeah,
is that right?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
And you're you're working for those who don't know Hay's works.
You work at a a morgue, would that be correct?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
I have this German assistant lady. Now, she's a fan
of the show.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Oh she is? Can I can I say hello to her?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
In fact? Chill? In fact, chill call herself the next
couple of nights, one of the next couple of nights.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh, that's very nice. What's her name? First name?
Speaker 5 (31:33):
I would feel comfortable if she shared that with you.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Okay, so the gentlemans you do not want to give
her her first name. I understand she's got things to hide.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Yes, hey, Ben, I gotta say you do a great job.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
I enjoy listening to you.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
How's life treating you these days? He is everything?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Okay, not too bad, Everything's great. I'm a huge fan
of the guy who answers the phone every time I call.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh you, well, he's a fan of yours. Let me
tell you something.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
But who's his name? I never picked it up.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Cooper Loop is his name? Justin Cooper, And he talks
about you all the time off the air. He's a
big fan. He wants to meet you.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Yeah, man, I don't have any hair anymore. So does
he like guys with no hair?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No hair? Coop? You like dudes with no hair? Coop?
You in that now you're not in? You can put
a wig. You can put a wig on, right, hayes.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
I don't know. I can smile. That might work for him.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah. Do you smile a lot? Are you?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
It's okay?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Comes and go.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Any other odd things happen at work there? You've told
some weird stories over the years.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Any any yeah, yeah, man, I cut the grass now,
so during the day I cut the grass us at
the grave site.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You know, anything happened there, there's just normal cutting the grass,
and it's just grass, right.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
It's just I don't pay attention because I just listened
to your podcast on the app. So I just listened
to it. I get it, I get it done, and
and but yeah, my assistant, we'll call you the next
couple of nights. We're going to be exciting to hear that.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I can't wait. Oh my god, this is so great.
And you have help now, Hayes, you're not just there
by yourself with all the people. Yes, from the.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Lady, she's great. She's like thirty four, thirty six one
of those.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Okay, well either maybe thirty five. How about thirty five
cut the difference?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
No, yeah, yeah, it'll be great. I can't wait for
you to meet.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right, well I look forward to meeting right, Thank you, Hayes.
I got to go. All right. There you are our
friend there. I just imagine him cruising around on that lawnmower.
He's got the podcast on going for it. If you
want to do a meet and greet in Minnesota, you know,
there you go, all right, Anyway, here's the who ami game?
(34:06):
The who am I? Game? My son and I were
the last father son duo to play in Major League baseball. Simultaneously.
Who am I? Again? My son and I were the
last father son duo to play in Major League baseball simultaneously.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
That is the question the answer. We'll get to it next.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Who am?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
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(35:04):
which is coming up in our three of tonight's program,
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Speaker 1 (35:13):
And we'll have coming up for you the MLB Pick.
We'll do golf tomorrow. We'd like to learn all the
affiliates down the line that are not listening right now
that we will have golf tomorrow. Oh you're so excited
by that. I know it's amazing. But time now for
who am I?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
And here we go. This is where we pretend to
be somebody else in a pathetic attempt to get you
to listen a little bit longer. Thus we call it
the who am I?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Gabe?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
So my son and I were the last father son
duo to play in Major League Baseball. Simultaneously, who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? Chip and
the cues got it right? Bad job by him? CALLI
and Tim says he Man and the Masters of the
Universe is the way to go. Who do we have here?
(36:07):
Bengal fan Bryan says Hayes in Minnesota and the thirty
four or thirty six year old German lady from Bengal
Van Bryant, Rob, the Ambassador of Bakersfield actually not cheating.
He went with Herman Munster and Eddie Munster. Bean boot
Maker Bob says, Pedro and his daddy the Yankees. That's
(36:28):
actually pretty funny. He's daddy. I like that. That's good, Cowboy,
Killer from Parts Unknown says it's it's gotta be tricks
the Rabbit. That's the answer. See Jay. His response there,
he says, is jose Al Bouve and Mini me the
American Dream, Dusty Rhodes and son Cody from the Sawman.
(36:52):
Chris and the mooy went with Hayes from Minnesota by himself.
Charles is going with fifty cent and his son twenty five.
Miguel on Fire says Felipe Beloo and Moyses salue, Now
that would be something. Who else do we have page
down here? And the Garcia Berner account says I'm fighting
for my life. Bro Sean in Portland goes with Skip
(37:16):
Bayless and Jerry Jones as the answer. Who else do
we have page down here? Robin Minnesota says Dave Stewart
and Kristen Stewart, And we've got Johnny Ray going with
Eddie and Mike Graham as the answer. All right, Eddie,
(37:36):
do you have an answered? Is not Minnie and Mickey
Minoso guessed by Eke and Roseville Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
I mean, the only father son duo I've ever known
was the Griffies.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
That's it. You know you're going with the Griffies. All right, Eddie,
that is absolutely incorrect. The answer is Tim Rains and
his son, Tim Raines Junior in twenty oh one per
four games they played together and the the if I remember,
the Oils traded for Tim Rains just to have that moment.
He was playing for I think the Marlins at the time. Anyway,
(38:10):
let's just trip. We can get it in. Yeah, sure,
why not? What the hell? We got five seconds? Go
ahead here, first pick. You're up there. Coop might regret this,
but I'm gonna go with Sonny Gray. All right, Eddie
Nathan Ivaldi, Shoe Hey, o Toddy, Sam Tyler Wells the
pitcher by the way, I won more, Sam, Jose Ramirez,
Bo Bishett, Eddie mal Cop back to back, Fernando Tattoos
(38:34):
Junior and Eddie Ramirez, Nick Castellanos. We got it next,
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