June 19, 2023 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about the Phoenix Suns trading for Bradley Beal, Red Sox manager Alex Cora complaining about too much coverage for the Yankees/Sox rivalry, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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want me to be here inside the studio. But anyway,
we've got a big night ahead, big night ahead here
of bloviation through the overnight hours.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And I was gonna start in my head. I said,
you know what, I'm gonna do some golf. I'm gonna
do some golf. Why not.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
There was a major tournament just down the street from
where we do the show from. And then I learned
someone named Wyndham Clark one, and I said, there's no way,
there's no way, on God's screen Earth, there's anything compelling
about Wyndham Clark.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But we did get a trade, and that perked up
my ears a little bit. When I saw the trade,
I was like, now we got something. Now we got something.
We got a trade, and it did in pro bouncy
so our league does come from pro bouncy ball. The
NBA Draft is just a few days away. I know
you're very excited about that, unless you are not, Unless
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you are not excited about that. But the first trade
domino has come tumbling down like a tree out in
the forest. Tim Bradley Beal has been traded. He has
been excommunicated from the Beltway, no longer part of the
Washington Wizards, although it's not official officially, if you haven't
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heard yet, and perhaps you actually disengage over the weekend,
so maybe you missed it. If you did, we have
been told the Washington Wizards have put a spell together
and they are sending and finalizing a trade of Bradley
Beal to the Suns in exchange for the rotting carcass
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of Chris Paul, his contract Landry Shammitt. Yes, and multiple
not first round picks, second round picks, and a pick swap,
which is always my favorite. I like when we swap picks.
So nice to swap picks. Be back at lunch. I
used to swap my tuna fish sandwich for peanut butter
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and jelly. Sometimes I'd make that swap, and I do
that at lunch sometimes back in elementary school. So a
Washington is not expected to keep Chris Paul. Why would they?
He's not very good anymore. And he's old and they're
expected to buy him out there trying to work out
some kind of trade. The math on that is fuzzy.
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There's some fuzzy math on that, and much to my dismay,
much to my heartburn, the Clippers have prominently been mentioned
mentioned in that as a possibility. But don't bear the lea,
my man. It's all about Bradley Beal going to the Suns,
and so let's discuss who won the Bradley Beal trade.
The Sons are the Wizards, all right? So I have
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on my malor report card the Sons get a B
plus and the Wizards in F minus. What I know,
the mayor in Washington back in the day used to
smoke crack. Are the Wizards front office executives doing that
as well? That's the pack of dog pool you got
(04:51):
back for Bradley Beal. Is he missing his right leg?
Maybe his ankle is meant the wrong way. I must
not have seen that. I must not have gotten that memo,
my goodness. So I've got AirPod, greyhound buss and three
martini lunch and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are going to make a nice smooth
landing at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix for Bradley Beal.
So a Bradley Beal is the quintessential good player on
a bad team, but you don't really know what. You
don't know whether or not that will translate on a
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good team. You think you know, but you don't know.
And we've seen examples over the years of guys that
put up great stats. And Bradley Beal was averaging over
thirty points a game at one stretch in his time
in Washington, and then you go to a different situation
and all of a sudden, wow, not so good there.
But he does escape the sorcerer's workshop in Washington. And
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now US team who the Denver Nuggets not a superteam,
the Miami Heat not a super team, played for the
NBA Finals. But now these sons are like, no on that.
We're all in. We're all in on this. So you're
gonna have Kevin Durant on one side, Devin Booker on
the other, and then Bradley Beal and for now DeAndre
Ayton is also in the mix. And so you've got
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that inverted triangle of a roster in Phoenix, and they
think this is the way to Salvation in Arizona, only
to watch it blow up in their face. Do the
Sons are gonna be the gambling favorite to win the championship?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But are they really? Are they?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Do you really trust Kevin Durant or Devin Booker who's
vanished in elimination games back to back years. A coach
killer in Devin Booker in close out game situations, my goodness,
and Bradley Billy. You don't know for sure that this
guy will be able to get it done. But it's
look at the Sun's roster now, and they they're the
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ultimate AirPod shaped club. There's a lot up top, right,
there's a lot up the airpot, a lot up top.
You've got Booker, Durant, Beale and Ayton at one hundred
and sixty three million, and then below those guys will
be the players at the soup kitchen. If you were
playing Monopoly, these Suns would have boardwalk and park place,
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but they'd also have intermingling on the board. They've they'd
have Baltic and Mediterranean avenues on your Monopoly board, so
they'd combine all those together and hope, hope it works out.
But the Suns, they're gonna have four unless they get Ridvayton,
which is still in play here. It's early on. This
is a big week for trades, but at this moment,
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we can do the show in the moment. The Suns
at this time have four MAX contracts and the Collective
Bargaining Agreement the CREBA, they limit a limit the number
of MAX contests you're gonna have, and then they just
kick in the nuts over and over again, and they
poke you in the eyes if you go over the threshold.
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There's aprons, kind of like in a kitchen. There's different aprons,
and the Suns at this point would be above the
second apron, which means they will literally have no one
else on the team other than those four guys. They
will be having auditions. If you would like to play
for the Suns, you might want to send your resume in.
You'll have to wash the jerseys and probably mop the court,
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but you could do it to fill out the Sun's rost.
Are we gonna hear about the Sons culture? Are they
gonna go get a bunch of guys like the Miami
Heat undrafted players They're gonna have to It would appear
based on what I've seen now as we continue this
diet tribe here, how will Bradley Beal fit with Arizona
and the team in Arizona Suns in Phoenix? How's he
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gonna fit in his new environment and all that stuff?
So how does Bradley Beal do in Phoenix? That is
the great unknown. I am not as optimistic as many
of the NBA pundits that I have seen opining on this.
I am skeptical. He's gonna have to get acclimated to
his new environment. That's standard operating procedure. But from the
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Wizard side of things, also, what a terrible trade you
just gave away Bradley bial And I think Bradley Beal's
got some he doesn't play defense, he has three point
shooting's gone down the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But he's gotta be.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Worth more than Landry Shaman and a couple of second
round picks and a pick swap? Is that is that
where we are? And Chris Paul that contract to make
any sense? I mean, for the Sun's side of things,
you make the trade because you're giving up nothing. You're
giving up absolutely nothing, and you're getting somebody that can
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at least play it scor some points for you if
nothing else, will see how the bland works. But that
concoction of players in Phoenix. I gave the Sons a
B plus because on the Mallory report card, I am
not as confident that this guy is going to sit
in the back of the greyhound bus while Kevin Durant
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and Devin Booker ride the bus in the front seat.
They're driving the bus and he's in the back. I'm
not convinced that he's that guy that he's gonna be
willing to do that and be marginalized and floundering is
the third option there. And Beal is getting paid top
dollar and he's supposed to take a tertiary role in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
What could possibly go wrong? Now?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
The good news is all these guys are hurt, including
Bradley Beal. So even though it looks great, you know,
Durant'll missed half the season. He always does these days.
Devin Booker's not mister reliable anymore. And Bradley Beal has
missed almost thirty five percent of the Washington Wizards games,
almost thirty five percent of the Wizards games in the
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last four year. Last four years, he's not been there
dependable and all that he's missed one hundred and one
regular season games with injuries, some of them real, some
of them load management for Gayzy, made up injuries are
now the last word here. A number of you were
busting my chops as this trade has been bouncing around
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the echo chamber. You're very excited about this because the
other leg of the trade is that the Wizards acquired
the contract of the rotting Chris Paul and that they're
going to flip him to the Clippers because the Wizards
GM is a former Clipper executive. So my perspective, what
do you make of the Clippers being very interested in
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bringing back Chris Paul. Now, I wouldn't trade Clipper Darryl
for Chris Paul. Okay, I would rather have Clipper Daryl.
I know the man can take a punch. I don't
know about Chris Paul. So I'd rather have Clipper Daryl
than Chris Paul. So we'll start with that. But if
you can get at him as a buyout, fine. But
the whole Chris Paul thing is illogical and tells me
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the Clippers are still suffering from neurosis. There's still some
issues there in the front office. Chris Paul at this
point is contaminated. You got the best years of Chris
Paul's career back in the Lob City days, and it
wasn't good enough. You got the greatness of Chris Paul
and it still failed when you had that high falutant
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team with those hammered dunks from Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan.
And to think that you're gonna bring him in at
this point at age thirty eight, and you're gonna add
the old gangster and everything will be fine here. There'll
be no snap, crackle pop. I mean, think about what
the Clippers would be if they add chrisp pall.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I don't think they're going to trade for MS.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Let's say they just get him in a salary contract
buyout and he comes to the Clippers. There's this blind
spot that I look at and I'm like, what are
you doing. It's like the Kryptonites right there.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You know you're.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Allergic to it, and you're still grabbing at the cryptonite.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
With Chris Paul, the man can no longer shoot. He
can't He's shot.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
During the seven playoff games he played against the Clippers
and also the Denver Nuggets for Chris Paul. He shot
forty one percent from the floor, thirty two from three
point range. He struggled to even make foul shots, and
during the regular season his numbers were down. In the
regular season, you look at points, assists, steals, rebounds, all
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the numbers down, and you drop Chris Paul in his
late thirties into the Clipper locker room. And what are
they planning for the playoffs? Are they going to call
their playoff run next year? The Three Martini Lunch because
Kawhi Leonard and Paul George and CP three we'll all
get together. We'll have martiniz and watch the playoffs on
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television while the players play while they're all out with
some kind of injury. Because we know Kawhi Leonard, if
you sneeze on him, he'll be back at his resort
Style Monch his casa in San Diego having a grand
old time. Paul George, by George, if you look at
him the wrong way, he can't play. And CP three
gets out of bed at this point and his legs
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starts acting up.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
So that's what you've got.
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So our lead this hour coming from Baseball, and we'll
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navigate our way through the Big League Gauntlet, as that
is the sport going on right now, Major League Baseball.
The All Star break is not until next month, and
that All Star break in Baseball will be when we
have the Malarpalooza, which is the Midsummer event, the greatest
event in all of sports radio, where you will be
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able to test your skills, song, dance, comedy, you name it.
It'll be coming up in just a few weeks from now,
about a month, about a month from now. But our
lead this hour does come from baseball. And it was
another showcase weekend for the Yankees and the Red Sox.
If you were so inclined to pay attention to consume
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the product. They locked horns yet again, three games series.
They played a double header because of a rainout on Saturday,
so they played two games on Sunday at Finnway, and
the Red Sox win both games Tristan Casas with a
ground rule RBI double, the most exciting play in baseball
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unless it's not, and that drove in running a couple
of RBIs in the nightcap that was broadcast on National TV,
and so the Socks win that game four to one.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
They get the sweep and the.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Doubleheader, which leads us to the recent words of wisdom
of Alex Cora, the skipper in Boston, who's not happy.
He's not happy that the cameras were on the Red
Sox and Yankees yet again. If you did not see this,
did not hear this over the weekend, you might have
missed it. The Red Sox manager Alex Corr, complaining that
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he was not happy the showcase Yankee Red Sox attention.
Did not like the attention, he said, quote I think
it's too much sometimes back to back Sunday night games,
he says, with all due respect to ESPN. Come on,
he moaned cor There there are other teams out there
and people want to watch them close quote so court
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alluding to the fact that last week the Yankees and
Red Sox played in the Sunday night game, and now
this week the Yankees and Red Sox back at it
again playing in the Sunday night game.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Alex Corr giving his opinion that the Red Sox and
the Yankees playing back to back Sunday night games a
bit too much, just a bit too much. Do you
agree or disagree? So I disagree. I disagree. Now am
I into watching the Yankees and Red Sox playing. Neither
team's that good this year. Let's be honest, they're not.
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The Yankees are a middling team. They're not going anywhere.
They'll flop in the playoffs, and then the Red Sox
will be lucky. If they get to the playoffs. They
probably won't even be in the plaoffs themselves. But you're
selling the brand. You're selling the brand. So I've got
bounty hunters left hand and peaches, and we will combine
all of these things together. We'll put them in the pot,
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and we are going to make a stew, a sporty stew,
and we'll see how that tastes. So Number one, Alex Korra,
he knows what's up, right, he knows what's up. He
worked in TV before he went and joined the cheating
Astros and the cheating red Socks before all that, so
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he's got a media background after his playing career. It
has always been this way in the modern era. So
he said, well, I get too much attention. Yes, I
would agree they get too much attention, that there's showcase
too much, but that is by design, okay. And we
all know that every man, woman and child knows how
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this works. It's not that complex. It's very straightforward here
that Major League Baseball assigns a price tag on each game,
similar to insurance. You know, insurance, depending on how old
you are and your health and pre existing conditions. There's
a price on your head how much you can get
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in life insurance depending on how hold you on. And
they want to give you as much life insurance as
you can get when they think you're gonna live. When
they think you're about to die, they don't want to
give you any life insurance because they don't want to
give their money away. But the television in Major League Baseball,
it's not that hard. Yankee Red Sock games are a
premieer game that have sex appeal, and they get a
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large endowment of the TV money.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's that's how this works here.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And it's a sliding scale, and there's other matchups that
get attention, but the Yankees and Red Sox because the
executives at ESPN and a lot of the Fox executives
are from New York and they have ties there and
they love the I ninety five corridor and all that stuff,
and they also get ready. They get ratings, and if
you put an A's Royals game on, that would be
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on the other end of the spectrum, that would be
at the bottom of the spectrum. That's that's what gets
chicken feed. That's included. It's like, well, you buy the product,
will toss this in. You get A's and Royals games.
It's got no street kit credit. Alis Korra is the
main thing here is not He's not upset because the
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Red Sox are playing the Yankees again on a Sunday
night game. He's upset because it affects the travel, the
almighty travel and the Red Sox hitting on a roadie
and they are traveling to Minnesota, likely still on route
to Minnesota here and a playdate with the Twins. And
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so that's why Cora is a moody Patuti. It's an inconvenience.
It's bothers some right, and but Baseball it's like they're
bounty hunters.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
They put a bounty on certain games. TV is willing
to pay the bounty. And as long as TV pays
the bounty, were good. That's just the way worse. Now.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the Braves getting a lot of attention.
I'm guessing this is not the kind of attention they
were hoping for. On Father's Day there the Atlanta Braves
stole the headlines. There's an infielder named Charlie Colbertson who
hit one of the big home runs for a non descript, reject,
fringe major league player when he was with the Dodgers. Briefly,
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in Vin Scully's final game at Dodgers Stadium as a
play by play guy, hit a home run, game winning
home run for the Dodgers, and Vin got to make
that call and all that and that there was that.
So anyway, Charlie Colbertson's father had been selected to throw
out the first pitch on Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, that's great, little father son bonding at the old.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Ballpark, right, America's pastime, mom apple pie, dad at the ballpark,
that whole thing. Unfortunately, Charlie Colbertson's dad was unable to
throw out the first pitch. Was there some kind of
medical emergency? Did that happen? No, that did not happen.
You see, the Atlanta Braves fired Charlie Colbertson before the game.
They said, screw you, you're out of here. You're a bum,
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get out of here. And so they designated Colbertson for assignment,
which means that we don't want you anymore, your garbage.
And this was right before the father was supposed to
throw out the first pitch, the ceremonial first pitch there
for Father's Day. Needless to say, that did not happen. Colbertson,
who has been part of the Atlanta Braves since May nineteenth,
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although you wouldn't know that because you've played as many games,
you've had as many at bats as Charlie Colbertson has.
So anyway, he was let go and the Braves pivoted
to outfielder Michael Harris the second because his father happened
to be in the ballpark and he was the one
that threw out the first pitch on Father's Day. And
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then Michael Harris went out the sun and went five
for five and had a massive day against the Colorado
Rockies and a blowout win, for whatever that's worth. But
don't bear the lead, my man. We're not gonna bear
the lead. Don't bear the lead the lead here? Did
the Braves do Charlie Colbertson's father dirty? So I don't
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know that I would go full dirty. I would say
it is tacky. I would use the word tacky is
what I would use here. And the problem with this,
right when you think about the Braves all these promotions,
you know, he's trying to sell family fund at the
ballpark and all that good stuff. Clearly, the Baseball Ops
Department of the Bravos and the public relations wing of
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the Atlanta Braves are not singing from the same song sheet. Right,
the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
In Georgia, it would appear otherwise you don't end up
in that situation, like why would you have Charlie Colbertson's
dad threw out the first pitch the guy didn't play.
I mean, my theory is this was a geographically desirable situation.
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Charlie Colbertson's from Georgia, father nearby, So why not we
don't have to fly some father in here from somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Air travels expensive. Well bring him in? Why not knock?
You know, I have a fine time now.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Colbertson is a two forty eight career. I don't feel
too bad for the reason I said it's tacky, but
it's not. I wouldn't go further than saying it's just tacky.
And you know, because Colbertson's fully vested in the Major
League Baseball pension as a ten year players, A two
forty eight hitter has been the big leaguest parts of
ten years, which means he's a made man. He's gonna
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get paid tons of money, and good for him in
that pension. The baseball pension is the way to go.
And as I understand it, when he's forty five years old,
he's in mid thirties now, but he's forty five, he
can start collecting that pension at seventy thousand dollars a year.
If he doesn't need the money, he can wait. And
if you wait into your sixties, they'll pay you six
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figures per year. And I say six figures, I'm not
talking one hundred thousand. I'm talking two hundred thousand or more.
So good to go on that final point. So let's
pivot away. I got a couple of other things here
in baseball. I wanted to talk about the wild story
over the weekend while we were not at our watch
post keeping track is the Guardians of Sport. A bus
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driver transporting the Pittsburg Pirates the buck a ruse was stopped.
He was charged with driving under the influence. He was
driving erradically. Now this story captivated me. I'm fascinated. I wonder,
at what point did somebody notice? Did anyone on the bus?
All those players got on the bus, not one of
them smelled alcohol. Now one of them noticed say something's
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not right here. They just sat back, they put their
headphones on, and they went to sleep. And that's it.
The Pirates were leaving Wrigley Field, Chicago, heading north to Milwaukee.
It's a short trip, doesn't take very long, a couple
hours depending on traffic in Chicago and Milwaukee. And you're
on your way, and you're set up and all that stuff.
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So the Pirates had lost to the Cubs. They get
on the bus, they're on their way to Milwaukee, and
the police escort realizes, wait a minute, the bus isn't
following us, that we're escorting the bus.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
The bus is doing its own thing. This seems problematic.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And they thought that the bus driver must have had
some kind of medical emergency, so they stopped out of
an abundance of caution, only to realize the guy was
completely schnockered. The guy was hammered, and yeah, so they
thought he was having some kind of medical situation. And
as far as what I made of it, get it
to I briefly years ago traveled with a baseball team
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and I saw some of the some of the nonsense,
like these guys get police escorts all over the place.
It's probably even better now than it was then. That
was a long time ago. Everything's taken care of right,
all your wants and needs and all that stuff. And
that's a great gig. If you're a bus driver to
drive a team around, that's a wonderful job.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's a great gig.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It's a badge of honor, it's a feather in your cap.
And I don't know what's going on with this guy's life.
The guy was in his early sixties, the bus driver,
and now he gets dinged with a DUI did remind
me of the League of their Own, although that was
a kid. If you remember the bus driver quit. If you
remember that old baseball movie, The League of their Own,
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the one of the ladies on the team there brought
their son and the son was messing with the bus driver,
and so the bus driver quit. They Rockford Peaches and
they said that's that's it. And then Jimmy Duggan, the
drunk manager of the team, he took over and he
was he was driving. I guess in this scenario he
was just the driver originally, and it wasn't the other
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way around. But of man, of all the situations, it's
wild man. I mentionined the motorcycle convoy of cops that
are leading the bus and they're they're going straight ahead,
they're blocking intersections, and the bus is like, I'll take
a right turn here, and I want to go get
some deep.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Dish pizza before we head over to Milwaukee. I'll be
all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Last thing here on the baseball radar the San Francisco
Giants shoving it down the throat of the Dodgers. A
sweep aaroo in Chavez Ravine that does not happen very often.
The Giants complete the sweep. So the question here are
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the Dodgers embarrassed? Are the Dodgers embarrassed by being swept
by the Giants over the weekend? And I am shaking
my head. No, there was so much arrogance among the
Dodger person They think they have solved the matrix.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
They have all the answers, they.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Know everything, and they don't seem to have any level
of concern. And it's maddening when you watch the bull
But this was about as bad a weekend as the
Dodgers have had since Frank McCourt owned the team. I
mean everything on the field, off the field, I mean
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just some of the decisions the Dodgers organization made just
makes you wonder what the hell's going on over there.
From getting involved in the culture War, having thousands of
people protesting outside Dodger Stadium, something that didn't have to happen,
but the Dodgers chose to go that direction. I don't
understand why they did that. They don't tell me, they
don't have me make those decisions. But that seemed like
(29:50):
a completely unnecessary situation to get involved in. And then
and then you get swept by the Giants. You're bullpened.
There are really twenty nine teams in the big leagues
this year, and I don't count the A's because they're
not trying.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
They're trying to move to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
The Dodgers have the worst bullpen in all of baseball,
the worst bullpen among the teams that are somewhat trying,
they're the worst. In fact, you could also say the
Royals aren't trying, so therefore the Dodgers are even worse
than that. And if I was in charge, I would
just I would pick some team in the Mexican League.
I don't know whether it's Tijuana or somewhere else, and
I just trade my bullpen for their bullpen, right, I
(30:27):
just okay, let's make a deal. Okay, we gotta get
some because they're bullpen's so terrible. They got to make
some trades. But I don't get the sense there's any concern.
They say, ah, we'll be fine, you know, everything's all right.
And that's so annoying. It's so annoying.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
They don't even seem like they give a crap.
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Speaker 1 (31:27):
Rich give me the hell.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah, it's Mallard.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:33):
To the third degree, this is.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
The Coop Dallop.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Justin Cooper and much earlier in the baseball season, you
said that you weren't you weren't buying the Pittsburgh Pirates
and thought they'd come back down to earth.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yes, that's happened. Aha.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
But in the meantime, the Cincinnati Reds have shot out
of this earth.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
They are now on an eight game win streak. Do
you think they're for real?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yes, they're gonna bring Pete Rose back and the Joe
Morgan from the other side and all the great Reds
from a million years ago and bring them back. No,
the Reds have a shot, but the same reason the Pirates.
Even though the Pirates have come back to the pack
and they're under five hundred, now, all you have to
do is be within a couple games of five hundred.
(32:18):
Above five hundred, you can get in the playoff spot
in that division. The National League Central, the Brewers aren't
that good, and the Cardinals are horrific this season.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
The Cubs are horrific.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
They're not really trying, They're a middling team, so it
really comes down to the Brewers, and then the Reds
are the pirates. If they get their crap together, have
a shot to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
That's the good news.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
The bad news is your cannon fodder when you get
into the playoffs more likely than not.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
But it is baseball, and odd things do happen in baseball.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Next well, speaking of the Cardinals, former World Series MVP
David Freese said that he was voted into the Cardinals
Hall of Fame recently, but over the weekend he declined
the invite, saying that he did not feel deserving. Ben,
what are your thoughts on this?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, it's bizarre to me, like number one, Like, why
would you not? It's not the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame,
it's the team Hall of Fame. Isn't that what this
is designed for? Like the whole heat for one postseason,
mister Freeze put the Cardinals on his back. He was
the NLCS MVP, he was the World Series MVP, had
(33:24):
some of the biggest hits in October baseball in my life.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That puts you in the Team Hall of Fame. I
don't there.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Must be something else going on that we don't know
about There's gotta be something else going on the guys
from that area.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It's it's like, what an attention horror. I'm gonna make
it all about me. I don't want to go to
the Hall of Fame. Why not?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
He didn't really say why not. I mean he said
that he sent that letter out. He's like talking about
all the great cardinal players.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
All right, Next, then that's all I got for you.
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a past that's I want, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I only needed to questions, Eddie, I only did it too,
gretest win in the history of Malard of the third degree.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, I know you're you're flummixed over there, Eddie. But
the single.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Greatest win I those were such dominating answers.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
That's true that I did not need incomplete. No, no,
that's not an incomplete. That's two and out, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I won the game the fl degree questions mal to
the second degree, that time second degree.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
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Advice hold that though no one's paid attention to me
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If you don't like it, you and no way we go.
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You call up.
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If you hear that little buzz, you're on the air.
It's that simple. It's the instant advice line. So who
needs the wisdom, the knowledge, the advice the great minds
of the Malard militia can provide. Well, there were a
couple of ways I could go. I think the one
that's kind of obvious here we're gonna go with. They
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have one of the highest payrolls in baseball and the
worst bullpen. Advice to the Dodgers' bullpen. They were swept
by the Higantes over the weekend. The Los Angeles Dodgers
Arson squad. They come in with gasoline and a flamethrower.
They have a temyra of over five out of the bullpen.
(35:46):
The only team that's worse is not even a real team.
They're a minor league outfit in Oakland that's trying to
move to Las Vegas. That's the only team in baseball
where they higher earn run average out of the bullpen
this year. So your advice to fix the Dodger bullpen
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox will start
out with.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
You on line one. Hello, line one, you're on the air.
Go line one, wash.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Your hands after using the restroom if you're making ben food.
That's right, Yes, I told that story of the weekend.
I was at a Burger place. Is this Some guy
came out of the bathroom there. He didn't wash his hands.
It was discussing. Hello, you're on the air line too.
We're giving advice line two to the Dodger bullpen. Hello,
line two. Then Jill walks into a club.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
All right, thank you. You have another one. You're on
the air.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
We're giving advice to the Dodger bullpen. It's the instant
advice line.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Why are we ignoring the two thousand pounds elephant in
the room.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I don't know. We're not talking about Lizzo.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Line four, you're on the Airline four burrowing, All right,
get out of here.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You're the guys that bump eight seven seven ninety nine
on Foxes and Numbers the instant Advice line. Hello, line five,
we're giving advice to the Dodgers beleaguered bullpen.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Helly, rookie, if you're having trouble seeing, how about you
take off your sunglasses?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
You more well? That would help. Usually.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Line six, Hello, line six. Line six is not paying attention.
We're going to line one. It's the instant advice line,
unscreened radio for the Dodgers beleaguered bullpen. Worst in baseball
among teams that are actually trying.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Hello, Line one, Yes, man, they need to have this
thing all right.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Line two, you gotta be quicker, sir. I was about
to fall asleep listening to you talk. Sir, Please take
another no dose A line two. Hello, line two, Okay,
thank you, imposter again, that was a fake one. What
are these people ripping off the iconic callers on the
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on the bit? Line three, you're on the airline three. Hello,
Line three, not paying attention. We're going to line four.
If we have three of those in a row, we
end the bit. Hello, line number four Minnesota. Okay, thank you.
That's every buddy from des Moines. Yes a line five,
you're on the airline five.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Yeah. All they need is a big old bag a
hot nut.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, I miss hot nuts. Remember hot nuts?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Used to call them that pitch Yeah, that'll take care
of the dodge of open. You guys don't pitch better.
We're hiring the Pirates bus driver. Hello, line one, you're
on the Airline one.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
You can't be California without bottom BREADO. Okay, whatever you said?
Have one or what all?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Right?
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Line two? Hello, line two, how don't you stop putting
a man named purposon in?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Okay? Well that would help. Also the supermarket see very active.
He loves this segment. Line three. You're on the air
at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. You're just
tuning in. This is unscreened radio. The masses are uniting.
We are forming Voltrod to help out the Dodgers beleaguered
bullpen worst in baseball among teams that are actually trying
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this season. Hello line three, very tile babies special. Okay,
you know what you are lost with Roberto not being here.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
You don't know who to attack. You're just completely gone.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Hello line four, Hello, line four, No, no, no, well,
Sebastian Telfair, that guy can't miss until he did miss splendidly.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Line five, you're on the airline five.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Go. Line five is not paying attention. We're gonna Line six.
Line six definitely not there. Line one, you're on the
airline one.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Hello, more more drag queens. There you go.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I worked so well sure. Line Line line two, Hello,
Line two, advice to the beleaguered Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Line two. No, that's everyone's dream on fathers And that
was the real fun. That was the real fund. That
was not the impost. That was the but let's go
to you online. Three. You're on the airline three.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Go. The Dodgers have to bring back all the pitches
that gave him the home runs to Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
There you are.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
You're the old school one more hurry up, coop picket
last one. Line six you're on the advice of the
Dodger bupping like six, Yeah, you gotta go quicker.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Line six
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think the show's much better with me being here. God forbid,
I was not here. So happy to be here. It
really means a lot. It means a lot that they
want me to be here inside the studio. But anyway,
we've got a big night ahead, big night ahead here
of bloviation through the overnight hours.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And I was gonna start in my head. I said,
you know what, I'm gonna do some golf. I'm gonna
do some golf. Why not.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
There was a major tournament just down the street from
where we do the show from. And then I learned
someone named Wyndham Clark one, and I said, there's no way,
there's no way, on God's screen Earth, there's anything compelling
about Wyndham Clark.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But we did get a trade, and that perked up
my ears a little bit. When I saw the trade,
I was like, now we got something. Now we got something.
We got a trade, and it did in pro bouncy
so our league does come from pro bouncy ball. The
NBA Draft is just a few days away. I know
you're very excited about that, unless you are not, Unless
(02:35):
you are not excited about that. But the first trade
domino has come tumbling down like a tree out in
the forest. Tim Bradley Beal has been traded. He has
been excommunicated from the Beltway, no longer part of the
Washington Wizards, although it's not official officially, if you haven't
(02:59):
heard yet, and perhaps you actually disengage over the weekend,
so maybe you missed it. If you did, we have
been told the Washington Wizards have put a spell together
and they are sending and finalizing a trade of Bradley
Beal to the Suns in exchange for the rotting carcass
(03:23):
of Chris Paul, his contract Landry Shammitt. Yes, and multiple
not first round picks, second round picks, and a pick swap,
which is always my favorite. I like when we swap picks.
So nice to swap picks. Be back at lunch. I
used to swap my tuna fish sandwich for peanut butter
(03:44):
and jelly. Sometimes I'd make that swap, and I do
that at lunch sometimes back in elementary school. So a
Washington is not expected to keep Chris Paul. Why would they?
He's not very good anymore. And he's old and they're
expected to buy him out there trying to work out
some kind of trade. The math on that is fuzzy.
(04:06):
There's some fuzzy math on that, and much to my dismay,
much to my heartburn, the Clippers have prominently been mentioned
mentioned in that as a possibility. But don't bear the lea,
my man. It's all about Bradley Beal going to the Suns,
and so let's discuss who won the Bradley Beal trade.
The Sons are the Wizards, all right? So I have
(04:29):
on my malor report card the Sons get a B
plus and the Wizards in F minus. What I know,
the mayor in Washington back in the day used to
smoke crack. Are the Wizards front office executives doing that
as well? That's the pack of dog pool you got
(04:51):
back for Bradley Beal. Is he missing his right leg?
Maybe his ankle is meant the wrong way. I must
not have seen that. I must not have gotten that memo,
my goodness. So I've got AirPod, greyhound buss and three
martini lunch and we will combine all of these things
(05:12):
together and we are going to make a nice smooth
landing at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix for Bradley Beal.
So a Bradley Beal is the quintessential good player on
a bad team, but you don't really know what. You
don't know whether or not that will translate on a
(05:35):
good team. You think you know, but you don't know.
And we've seen examples over the years of guys that
put up great stats. And Bradley Beal was averaging over
thirty points a game at one stretch in his time
in Washington, and then you go to a different situation
and all of a sudden, wow, not so good there.
But he does escape the sorcerer's workshop in Washington. And
(05:59):
now US team who the Denver Nuggets not a superteam,
the Miami Heat not a super team, played for the
NBA Finals. But now these sons are like, no on that.
We're all in. We're all in on this. So you're
gonna have Kevin Durant on one side, Devin Booker on
the other, and then Bradley Beal and for now DeAndre
Ayton is also in the mix. And so you've got
(06:22):
that inverted triangle of a roster in Phoenix, and they
think this is the way to Salvation in Arizona, only
to watch it blow up in their face. Do the
Sons are gonna be the gambling favorite to win the championship?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
But are they really? Are they?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Do you really trust Kevin Durant or Devin Booker who's
vanished in elimination games back to back years. A coach
killer in Devin Booker in close out game situations, my goodness,
and Bradley Billy. You don't know for sure that this
guy will be able to get it done. But it's
look at the Sun's roster now, and they they're the
(07:03):
ultimate AirPod shaped club. There's a lot up top, right,
there's a lot up the airpot, a lot up top.
You've got Booker, Durant, Beale and Ayton at one hundred
and sixty three million, and then below those guys will
be the players at the soup kitchen. If you were
playing Monopoly, these Suns would have boardwalk and park place,
(07:27):
but they'd also have intermingling on the board. They've they'd
have Baltic and Mediterranean avenues on your Monopoly board, so
they'd combine all those together and hope, hope it works out.
But the Suns, they're gonna have four unless they get Ridvayton,
which is still in play here. It's early on. This
is a big week for trades, but at this moment,
(07:47):
we can do the show in the moment. The Suns
at this time have four MAX contracts and the Collective
Bargaining Agreement the CREBA, they limit a limit the number
of MAX contests you're gonna have, and then they just
kick in the nuts over and over again, and they
poke you in the eyes if you go over the threshold.
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There's aprons, kind of like in a kitchen. There's different aprons,
and the Suns at this point would be above the
second apron, which means they will literally have no one
else on the team other than those four guys. They
will be having auditions. If you would like to play
for the Suns, you might want to send your resume in.
You'll have to wash the jerseys and probably mop the court,
(08:32):
but you could do it to fill out the Sun's rost.
Are we gonna hear about the Sons culture? Are they
gonna go get a bunch of guys like the Miami
Heat undrafted players They're gonna have to It would appear
based on what I've seen now as we continue this
diet tribe here, how will Bradley Beal fit with Arizona
and the team in Arizona Suns in Phoenix? How's he
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gonna fit in his new environment and all that stuff?
So how does Bradley Beal do in Phoenix? That is
the great unknown. I am not as optimistic as many
of the NBA pundits that I have seen opining on this.
I am skeptical. He's gonna have to get acclimated to
his new environment. That's standard operating procedure. But from the
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Wizard side of things, also, what a terrible trade you
just gave away Bradley bial And I think Bradley Beal's
got some he doesn't play defense, he has three point
shooting's gone down the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But he's gotta be.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Worth more than Landry Shaman and a couple of second
round picks and a pick swap? Is that is that
where we are? And Chris Paul that contract to make
any sense? I mean, for the Sun's side of things,
you make the trade because you're giving up nothing. You're
giving up absolutely nothing, and you're getting somebody that can
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at least play it scor some points for you if
nothing else, will see how the bland works. But that
concoction of players in Phoenix. I gave the Sons a
B plus because on the Mallory report card, I am
not as confident that this guy is going to sit
in the back of the greyhound bus while Kevin Durant
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and Devin Booker ride the bus in the front seat.
They're driving the bus and he's in the back. I'm
not convinced that he's that guy that he's gonna be
willing to do that and be marginalized and floundering is
the third option there. And Beal is getting paid top
dollar and he's supposed to take a tertiary role in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
What could possibly go wrong? Now?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
The good news is all these guys are hurt, including
Bradley Beal. So even though it looks great, you know,
Durant'll missed half the season. He always does these days.
Devin Booker's not mister reliable anymore. And Bradley Beal has
missed almost thirty five percent of the Washington Wizards games,
almost thirty five percent of the Wizards games in the
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last four year. Last four years, he's not been there
dependable and all that he's missed one hundred and one
regular season games with injuries, some of them real, some
of them load management for Gayzy, made up injuries are
now the last word here. A number of you were
busting my chops as this trade has been bouncing around
(11:20):
the echo chamber. You're very excited about this because the
other leg of the trade is that the Wizards acquired
the contract of the rotting Chris Paul and that they're
going to flip him to the Clippers because the Wizards
GM is a former Clipper executive. So my perspective, what
do you make of the Clippers being very interested in
(11:43):
bringing back Chris Paul. Now, I wouldn't trade Clipper Darryl
for Chris Paul. Okay, I would rather have Clipper Daryl.
I know the man can take a punch. I don't
know about Chris Paul. So I'd rather have Clipper Daryl
than Chris Paul. So we'll start with that. But if
you can get at him as a buyout, fine. But
the whole Chris Paul thing is illogical and tells me
(12:05):
the Clippers are still suffering from neurosis. There's still some
issues there in the front office. Chris Paul at this
point is contaminated. You got the best years of Chris
Paul's career back in the Lob City days, and it
wasn't good enough. You got the greatness of Chris Paul
and it still failed when you had that high falutant
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team with those hammered dunks from Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan.
And to think that you're gonna bring him in at
this point at age thirty eight, and you're gonna add
the old gangster and everything will be fine here. There'll
be no snap, crackle pop. I mean, think about what
the Clippers would be if they add chrisp pall.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I don't think they're going to trade for MS.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Let's say they just get him in a salary contract
buyout and he comes to the Clippers. There's this blind
spot that I look at and I'm like, what are
you doing. It's like the Kryptonites right there.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
You know you're.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Allergic to it, and you're still grabbing at the cryptonite.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
With Chris Paul, the man can no longer shoot. He
can't He's shot.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
During the seven playoff games he played against the Clippers
and also the Denver Nuggets for Chris Paul. He shot
forty one percent from the floor, thirty two from three
point range. He struggled to even make foul shots, and
during the regular season his numbers were down. In the
regular season, you look at points, assists, steals, rebounds, all
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the numbers down, and you drop Chris Paul in his
late thirties into the Clipper locker room. And what are
they planning for the playoffs? Are they going to call
their playoff run next year? The Three Martini Lunch because
Kawhi Leonard and Paul George and CP three we'll all
get together. We'll have martiniz and watch the playoffs on
(13:59):
television while the players play while they're all out with
some kind of injury. Because we know Kawhi Leonard, if
you sneeze on him, he'll be back at his resort
Style Monch his casa in San Diego having a grand
old time. Paul George, by George, if you look at
him the wrong way, he can't play. And CP three
gets out of bed at this point and his legs
(14:21):
starts acting up.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
So that's what you've got.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
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able to test your skills, song, dance, comedy, you name it.
It'll be coming up in just a few weeks from now,
about a month, about a month from now. But our
lead this hour does come from baseball. And it was
another showcase weekend for the Yankees and the Red Sox.
If you were so inclined to pay attention to consume
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the product. They locked horns yet again, three games series.
They played a double header because of a rainout on Saturday,
so they played two games on Sunday at Finnway, and
the Red Sox win both games Tristan Casas with a
ground rule RBI double, the most exciting play in baseball
(16:40):
unless it's not, and that drove in running a couple
of RBIs in the nightcap that was broadcast on National TV,
and so the Socks win that game four to one.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
They get the sweep and the.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Doubleheader, which leads us to the recent words of wisdom
of Alex Cora, the skipper in Boston, who's not happy.
He's not happy that the cameras were on the Red
Sox and Yankees yet again. If you did not see this,
did not hear this over the weekend, you might have
missed it. The Red Sox manager Alex Corr, complaining that
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he was not happy the showcase Yankee Red Sox attention.
Did not like the attention, he said, quote I think
it's too much sometimes back to back Sunday night games,
he says, with all due respect to ESPN. Come on,
he moaned cor There there are other teams out there
and people want to watch them close quote so court
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alluding to the fact that last week the Yankees and
Red Sox played in the Sunday night game, and now
this week the Yankees and Red Sox back at it
again playing in the Sunday night game.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Alex Corr giving his opinion that the Red Sox and
the Yankees playing back to back Sunday night games a
bit too much, just a bit too much. Do you
agree or disagree? So I disagree. I disagree. Now am
I into watching the Yankees and Red Sox playing. Neither
team's that good this year. Let's be honest, they're not.
(18:10):
The Yankees are a middling team. They're not going anywhere.
They'll flop in the playoffs, and then the Red Sox
will be lucky. If they get to the playoffs. They
probably won't even be in the plaoffs themselves. But you're
selling the brand. You're selling the brand. So I've got
bounty hunters left hand and peaches, and we will combine
all of these things together. We'll put them in the pot,
(18:32):
and we are going to make a stew, a sporty stew,
and we'll see how that tastes. So Number one, Alex Korra,
he knows what's up, right, he knows what's up. He
worked in TV before he went and joined the cheating
Astros and the cheating red Socks before all that, so
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he's got a media background after his playing career. It
has always been this way in the modern era. So
he said, well, I get too much attention. Yes, I
would agree they get too much attention, that there's showcase
too much, but that is by design, okay. And we
all know that every man, woman and child knows how
(19:15):
this works. It's not that complex. It's very straightforward here
that Major League Baseball assigns a price tag on each game,
similar to insurance. You know, insurance, depending on how old
you are and your health and pre existing conditions. There's
a price on your head how much you can get
(19:35):
in life insurance depending on how hold you on. And
they want to give you as much life insurance as
you can get when they think you're gonna live. When
they think you're about to die, they don't want to
give you any life insurance because they don't want to
give their money away. But the television in Major League Baseball,
it's not that hard. Yankee Red Sock games are a
premieer game that have sex appeal, and they get a
(19:58):
large endowment of the TV money.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's that's how this works here.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And it's a sliding scale, and there's other matchups that
get attention, but the Yankees and Red Sox because the
executives at ESPN and a lot of the Fox executives
are from New York and they have ties there and
they love the I ninety five corridor and all that stuff,
and they also get ready. They get ratings, and if
you put an A's Royals game on, that would be
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on the other end of the spectrum, that would be
at the bottom of the spectrum. That's that's what gets
chicken feed. That's included. It's like, well, you buy the product,
will toss this in. You get A's and Royals games.
It's got no street kit credit. Alis Korra is the
main thing here is not He's not upset because the
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Red Sox are playing the Yankees again on a Sunday
night game. He's upset because it affects the travel, the
almighty travel and the Red Sox hitting on a roadie
and they are traveling to Minnesota, likely still on route
to Minnesota here and a playdate with the Twins. And
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so that's why Cora is a moody Patuti. It's an inconvenience.
It's bothers some right, and but Baseball it's like they're
bounty hunters.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
They put a bounty on certain games. TV is willing
to pay the bounty. And as long as TV pays
the bounty, were good. That's just the way worse. Now.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the Braves getting a lot of attention.
I'm guessing this is not the kind of attention they
were hoping for. On Father's Day there the Atlanta Braves
stole the headlines. There's an infielder named Charlie Colbertson who
hit one of the big home runs for a non descript, reject,
fringe major league player when he was with the Dodgers. Briefly,
(21:44):
in Vin Scully's final game at Dodgers Stadium as a
play by play guy, hit a home run, game winning
home run for the Dodgers, and Vin got to make
that call and all that and that there was that.
So anyway, Charlie Colbertson's father had been selected to throw
out the first pitch on Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, that's great, little father son bonding at the old.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Ballpark, right, America's pastime, mom apple pie, dad at the ballpark,
that whole thing. Unfortunately, Charlie Colbertson's dad was unable to
throw out the first pitch. Was there some kind of
medical emergency? Did that happen? No, that did not happen.
You see, the Atlanta Braves fired Charlie Colbertson before the game.
They said, screw you, you're out of here. You're a bum,
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get out of here. And so they designated Colbertson for assignment,
which means that we don't want you anymore, your garbage.
And this was right before the father was supposed to
throw out the first pitch, the ceremonial first pitch there
for Father's Day. Needless to say, that did not happen. Colbertson,
who has been part of the Atlanta Braves since May nineteenth,
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although you wouldn't know that because you've played as many games,
you've had as many at bats as Charlie Colbertson has.
So anyway, he was let go and the Braves pivoted
to outfielder Michael Harris the second because his father happened
to be in the ballpark and he was the one
that threw out the first pitch on Father's Day. And
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then Michael Harris went out the sun and went five
for five and had a massive day against the Colorado
Rockies and a blowout win, for whatever that's worth. But
don't bear the lead, my man. We're not gonna bear
the lead. Don't bear the lead the lead here? Did
the Braves do Charlie Colbertson's father dirty? So I don't
(23:31):
know that I would go full dirty. I would say
it is tacky. I would use the word tacky is
what I would use here. And the problem with this,
right when you think about the Braves all these promotions,
you know, he's trying to sell family fund at the
ballpark and all that good stuff. Clearly, the Baseball Ops
Department of the Bravos and the public relations wing of
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the Atlanta Braves are not singing from the same song sheet. Right,
the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
In Georgia, it would appear otherwise you don't end up
in that situation, like why would you have Charlie Colbertson's
dad threw out the first pitch the guy didn't play.
I mean, my theory is this was a geographically desirable situation.
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Charlie Colbertson's from Georgia, father nearby, So why not we
don't have to fly some father in here from somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Air travels expensive. Well bring him in? Why not knock?
You know, I have a fine time now.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Colbertson is a two forty eight career. I don't feel
too bad for the reason I said it's tacky, but
it's not. I wouldn't go further than saying it's just tacky.
And you know, because Colbertson's fully vested in the Major
League Baseball pension as a ten year players, A two
forty eight hitter has been the big leaguest parts of
ten years, which means he's a made man. He's gonna
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get paid tons of money, and good for him in
that pension. The baseball pension is the way to go.
And as I understand it, when he's forty five years old,
he's in mid thirties now, but he's forty five, he
can start collecting that pension at seventy thousand dollars a year.
If he doesn't need the money, he can wait. And
if you wait into your sixties, they'll pay you six
(25:19):
figures per year. And I say six figures, I'm not
talking one hundred thousand. I'm talking two hundred thousand or more.
So good to go on that final point. So let's
pivot away. I got a couple of other things here
in baseball. I wanted to talk about the wild story
over the weekend while we were not at our watch
post keeping track is the Guardians of Sport. A bus
(25:41):
driver transporting the Pittsburg Pirates the buck a ruse was stopped.
He was charged with driving under the influence. He was
driving erradically. Now this story captivated me. I'm fascinated. I wonder,
at what point did somebody notice? Did anyone on the bus?
All those players got on the bus, not one of
them smelled alcohol. Now one of them noticed say something's
(26:01):
not right here. They just sat back, they put their
headphones on, and they went to sleep. And that's it.
The Pirates were leaving Wrigley Field, Chicago, heading north to Milwaukee.
It's a short trip, doesn't take very long, a couple
hours depending on traffic in Chicago and Milwaukee. And you're
on your way, and you're set up and all that stuff.
(26:24):
So the Pirates had lost to the Cubs. They get
on the bus, they're on their way to Milwaukee, and
the police escort realizes, wait a minute, the bus isn't
following us, that we're escorting the bus.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
The bus is doing its own thing. This seems problematic.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And they thought that the bus driver must have had
some kind of medical emergency, so they stopped out of
an abundance of caution, only to realize the guy was
completely schnockered. The guy was hammered, and yeah, so they
thought he was having some kind of medical situation. And
as far as what I made of it, get it
to I briefly years ago traveled with a baseball team
(27:03):
and I saw some of the some of the nonsense,
like these guys get police escorts all over the place.
It's probably even better now than it was then. That
was a long time ago. Everything's taken care of right,
all your wants and needs and all that stuff. And
that's a great gig. If you're a bus driver to
drive a team around, that's a wonderful job.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's a great gig.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It's a badge of honor, it's a feather in your cap.
And I don't know what's going on with this guy's life.
The guy was in his early sixties, the bus driver,
and now he gets dinged with a DUI did remind
me of the League of their Own, although that was
a kid. If you remember the bus driver quit. If you
remember that old baseball movie, The League of their Own,
(27:45):
the one of the ladies on the team there brought
their son and the son was messing with the bus driver,
and so the bus driver quit. They Rockford Peaches and
they said that's that's it. And then Jimmy Duggan, the
drunk manager of the team, he took over and he
was he was driving. I guess in this scenario he
was just the driver originally, and it wasn't the other
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way around. But of man, of all the situations, it's
wild man. I mentionined the motorcycle convoy of cops that
are leading the bus and they're they're going straight ahead,
they're blocking intersections, and the bus is like, I'll take
a right turn here, and I want to go get
some deep.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Dish pizza before we head over to Milwaukee. I'll be
all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Last thing here on the baseball radar the San Francisco
Giants shoving it down the throat of the Dodgers. A
sweep aaroo in Chavez Ravine that does not happen very often.
The Giants complete the sweep. So the question here are
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the Dodgers embarrassed? Are the Dodgers embarrassed by being swept
by the Giants over the weekend? And I am shaking
my head. No, there was so much arrogance among the
Dodger person They think they have solved the matrix.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
They have all the answers, they.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Know everything, and they don't seem to have any level
of concern. And it's maddening when you watch the bull
But this was about as bad a weekend as the
Dodgers have had since Frank McCourt owned the team. I
mean everything on the field, off the field, I mean
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just some of the decisions the Dodgers organization made just
makes you wonder what the hell's going on over there.
From getting involved in the culture War, having thousands of
people protesting outside Dodger Stadium, something that didn't have to happen,
but the Dodgers chose to go that direction. I don't
understand why they did that. They don't tell me, they
don't have me make those decisions. But that seemed like
(29:50):
a completely unnecessary situation to get involved in. And then
and then you get swept by the Giants. You're bullpened.
There are really twenty nine teams in the big leagues
this year, and I don't count the A's because they're
not trying.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
They're trying to move to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
The Dodgers have the worst bullpen in all of baseball,
the worst bullpen among the teams that are somewhat trying,
they're the worst. In fact, you could also say the
Royals aren't trying, so therefore the Dodgers are even worse
than that. And if I was in charge, I would
just I would pick some team in the Mexican League.
I don't know whether it's Tijuana or somewhere else, and
I just trade my bullpen for their bullpen, right, I
(30:27):
just okay, let's make a deal. Okay, we gotta get
some because they're bullpen's so terrible. They got to make
some trades. But I don't get the sense there's any concern.
They say, ah, we'll be fine, you know, everything's all right.
And that's so annoying. It's so annoying.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
They don't even seem like they give a crap.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
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Speaker 1 (31:27):
Rich give me the hell.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah, it's Mallard.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:33):
To the third degree, this is.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
The Coop Dallop.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Justin Cooper and much earlier in the baseball season, you
said that you weren't you weren't buying the Pittsburgh Pirates
and thought they'd come back down to earth.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yes, that's happened. Aha.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
But in the meantime, the Cincinnati Reds have shot out
of this earth.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
They are now on an eight game win streak. Do
you think they're for real?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yes, they're gonna bring Pete Rose back and the Joe
Morgan from the other side and all the great Reds
from a million years ago and bring them back. No,
the Reds have a shot, but the same reason the Pirates.
Even though the Pirates have come back to the pack
and they're under five hundred, now, all you have to
do is be within a couple games of five hundred.
(32:18):
Above five hundred, you can get in the playoff spot
in that division. The National League Central, the Brewers aren't
that good, and the Cardinals are horrific this season.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
The Cubs are horrific.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
They're not really trying, They're a middling team, so it
really comes down to the Brewers, and then the Reds
are the pirates. If they get their crap together, have
a shot to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
That's the good news.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
The bad news is your cannon fodder when you get
into the playoffs more likely than not.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
But it is baseball, and odd things do happen in baseball.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Next well, speaking of the Cardinals, former World Series MVP
David Freese said that he was voted into the Cardinals
Hall of Fame recently, but over the weekend he declined
the invite, saying that he did not feel deserving. Ben,
what are your thoughts on this?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, it's bizarre to me, like number one, Like, why
would you not? It's not the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame,
it's the team Hall of Fame. Isn't that what this
is designed for? Like the whole heat for one postseason,
mister Freeze put the Cardinals on his back. He was
the NLCS MVP, he was the World Series MVP, had
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some of the biggest hits in October baseball in my life.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That puts you in the Team Hall of Fame. I
don't there.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Must be something else going on that we don't know
about There's gotta be something else going on the guys
from that area.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It's it's like, what an attention horror. I'm gonna make
it all about me. I don't want to go to
the Hall of Fame. Why not?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
He didn't really say why not. I mean he said
that he sent that letter out. He's like talking about
all the great cardinal players.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
All right, Next, then that's all I got for you.
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a past that's I want, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I only needed to questions, Eddie, I only did it too,
gretest win in the history of Malard of the third degree.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, I know you're you're flummixed over there, Eddie. But
the single.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Greatest win I those were such dominating answers.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
That's true that I did not need incomplete. No, no,
that's not an incomplete. That's two and out, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I won the game the fl degree questions mal to
the second degree, that time second degree.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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listen live. Hey you sports figure, guy or girl, here
were you talking to some here some.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Advice hold that though no one's paid attention to me
for ten whole seconds, and.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
If you don't like it, you and no way we go.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
It's the insta advice line onscreened radio. The safety that
is off. There is no middle person. It's just me
and you.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
You call up.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
If you hear that little buzz, you're on the air.
It's that simple. It's the instant advice line. So who
needs the wisdom, the knowledge, the advice the great minds
of the Malard militia can provide. Well, there were a
couple of ways I could go. I think the one
that's kind of obvious here we're gonna go with. They
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have one of the highest payrolls in baseball and the
worst bullpen. Advice to the Dodgers' bullpen. They were swept
by the Higantes over the weekend. The Los Angeles Dodgers
Arson squad. They come in with gasoline and a flamethrower.
They have a temyra of over five out of the bullpen.
(35:46):
The only team that's worse is not even a real team.
They're a minor league outfit in Oakland that's trying to
move to Las Vegas. That's the only team in baseball
where they higher earn run average out of the bullpen
this year. So your advice to fix the Dodger bullpen
at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox will start
out with.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
You on line one. Hello, line one, you're on the air.
Go line one, wash.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Your hands after using the restroom if you're making ben food.
That's right, Yes, I told that story of the weekend.
I was at a Burger place. Is this Some guy
came out of the bathroom there. He didn't wash his hands.
It was discussing. Hello, you're on the air line too.
We're giving advice line two to the Dodger bullpen. Hello,
line two. Then Jill walks into a club.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
All right, thank you. You have another one. You're on
the air.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
We're giving advice to the Dodger bullpen. It's the instant
advice line.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Why are we ignoring the two thousand pounds elephant in
the room.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I don't know. We're not talking about Lizzo.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Line four, you're on the Airline four burrowing, All right,
get out of here.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You're the guys that bump eight seven seven ninety nine
on Foxes and Numbers the instant Advice line. Hello, line five,
we're giving advice to the Dodgers beleaguered bullpen.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Helly, rookie, if you're having trouble seeing, how about you
take off your sunglasses?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
You more well? That would help. Usually.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Line six, Hello, line six. Line six is not paying attention.
We're going to line one. It's the instant advice line,
unscreened radio for the Dodgers beleaguered bullpen. Worst in baseball
among teams that are actually trying.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Hello, Line one, Yes, man, they need to have this
thing all right.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Line two, you gotta be quicker, sir. I was about
to fall asleep listening to you talk. Sir, Please take
another no dose A line two. Hello, line two, Okay,
thank you, imposter again, that was a fake one. What
are these people ripping off the iconic callers on the
(37:45):
on the bit? Line three, you're on the airline three. Hello,
Line three, not paying attention. We're going to line four.
If we have three of those in a row, we
end the bit. Hello, line number four Minnesota. Okay, thank you.
That's every buddy from des Moines. Yes a line five,
you're on the airline five.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Yeah. All they need is a big old bag a
hot nut.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, I miss hot nuts. Remember hot nuts?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Used to call them that pitch Yeah, that'll take care
of the dodge of open. You guys don't pitch better.
We're hiring the Pirates bus driver. Hello, line one, you're
on the Airline one.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
You can't be California without bottom BREADO. Okay, whatever you said?
Have one or what all?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Right?
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Line two? Hello, line two, how don't you stop putting
a man named purposon in?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Okay? Well that would help. Also the supermarket see very active.
He loves this segment. Line three. You're on the air
at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. You're just
tuning in. This is unscreened radio. The masses are uniting.
We are forming Voltrod to help out the Dodgers beleaguered
bullpen worst in baseball among teams that are actually trying
(38:59):
this season. Hello line three, very tile babies special. Okay,
you know what you are lost with Roberto not being here.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
You don't know who to attack. You're just completely gone.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Hello line four, Hello, line four, No, no, no, well,
Sebastian Telfair, that guy can't miss until he did miss splendidly.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Line five, you're on the airline five.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Go. Line five is not paying attention. We're gonna Line six.
Line six definitely not there. Line one, you're on the
airline one.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Hello, more more drag queens. There you go.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I worked so well sure. Line Line line two, Hello,
Line two, advice to the beleaguered Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Line two. No, that's everyone's dream on fathers And that
was the real fun. That was the real fund. That
was not the impost. That was the but let's go
to you online. Three. You're on the airline three.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Go. The Dodgers have to bring back all the pitches
that gave him the home runs to Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
There you are.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
You're the old school one more hurry up, coop picket
last one. Line six you're on the advice of the
Dodger bupping like six, Yeah, you gotta go quicker.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Line six
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