Hour 2 - Too Much Sox

Ben Maller talks about Alex Cora saying that the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry is taking up too much of the spotlight after back to back Sunday Night TV slots, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two of
our radio show, talking bays Ball and the New York
Yankees and the Boston Red Sox going at it. They
got back together and the Sunday night came at a
doubleheader at Finnway. And is this rivalry taking up too

(00:22):
much of the spotlight? As Boston manager Alex Corus says,
we'll address his quote from over the weekend? Did the
Braves do Charlie Colberton's father dirty on the father day?
Father's Day? Switch Aroo? And we also talk about the Pirates.
The team bus driver got a duy over the weekend

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and the Dodgers embarrassed. But are they embarrassed after being
swept at home at the hands of their rivals, the Giants.
We'll talk about that as well. Right now here. It
is our number two two much the socks? Too much
of the socks? Wel come and the beginning of another

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And it was another showcase weekend for the Yankees and

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the Red Sox. If you were so inclined to pay
attention to consume 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.

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Tristan Kassas with a ground rule RBI double the most
exciting play in baseball unless it's not. And that drove
in or running a couple of RBIs in the nightcap
that was broadcast on National TV, and so the Socks
win that game four to one. They get the sweep
and the doubleheader, which leads us to the recent words
of wisdom of Alex Cora, the skipper in Boston, who's

(03:24):
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 he was not happy the showcase Yankee Red
Sox attention. Did not like the attention, he said, quote

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I think it's too much sometimes back to back Sunday
night games, he says, with all due respect to the ESPN,
Come on, he moaned Cora. There there are other teams
out there and people want to watch them close quote
so court, alluding to the fact that last week the
Yankees and Red Sox played in the Sunday night game,

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and now this week the Yankees and Red Sox back
at it again playing in the Sunday night game. So
let us discuss the question. Alice 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?

(04:26):
I disagree. Now am I into watching the Yankees and
Red Sox PLAYNA? Neither team's that good this year. Let's
be honest, they're not. 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
playoffs themselves. But you're selling the brand. You're selling the brand.

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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, and we are going to make
a stew a sport he stew and we'll see how
that tastes. So Number one, Alex Korra, he knows what's

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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 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

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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 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,

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you know, insurance depending on how who you are and
your health and pre existing conditions. There's a price on
your head how much you can get in life insurance
depending on how hold you on. And they want 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,

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it's not that hard. Yankee Red Sox games are a
premier game that have sex appeal and they get a
large endowment of the TV money. That's how this works here,
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

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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
on the other end of the spectrum. That would be
the bottom of the spectrum. That's what gets chicken feed
that's included. It's like, well, you buy the product, will

(06:57):
toss this in. You get A's and Royals. It's got
no street kit credit. Alice Cora is the main thing
here is not He's not upset because the 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

(07:19):
are traveling to Minnesota, likely still en route to Minnesota
here and a playdate with the Twins. And so that's
why Cora is a moody Patuti it's an inconveniences, it's
bothers some right, and but baseball it's like they're bounty hunters.
They put a bounty on certain games. TV is willing

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to pay the bounty, and as long as TV pays
the bounty, we're good. That's just the way worse. Now. 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 one
of the big home runs for a non descript, reject,

(08:05):
fringe major league player when he was with the Dodgers
briefly 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

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throw out the first pitch on Father's Well, that's great,
little father son bonding at the old 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

(08:47):
Charlie Colbertson before the game. They said, screw you, you're
out of here. You're a bum, get out of here.
And so they designated Colbertson for excitement assignment, which means
that we don't want you anymore or 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.

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Needless to say, that did not happen. Colbertson, who has
been part of the Atlanta Braves since May nineteenth, 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

(09:31):
to be in the ballpark and he was the one
that threw out the first pitch on Father's Day. And
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 bur lea the lead here? Did the

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Braves do Charlie Colbertson's father dirty. So I don't know
that I would go full dirty. I would say it
is tacky. I will use the word tacky is what
I would use here. And the problem with this, right
when you think about the Braves these promotions, you know,
he's trying to sell family fund at the ballpark and

(10:12):
all that good stuff. Clearly the baseball ops department of
the Bravos and the public relations wing of 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

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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.
Charlie Colbertson's from Georgia father nearby, So why not we
don't have to fly some father in here from somewhere else.

(10:53):
Air travels expensive. Well bring him in? Why not knocking you?
I have a fine time now. 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

(11:15):
a ten year players. A two forty eight hitter has
been the big leagues parts of ten years, which means
he's a made man. He's gonna 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

(11:38):
the money, he can wait. And if you wait into
your sixties, they'll pay you six 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

(11:59):
we were not at our watch post keeping track is
the Guardians of Sport. A bus driver transporting the Pittsburg
Pirates the Bucarouse was stopped. He was charged with driving
under the influence. He was driving erradically. Now this story
captivated me. I'm fascinated. I wont like, at what point

(12:20):
did somebody notice? Did anyone on the bus? All those
players got on the bus, Not one of them smelled alcohol,
Not one of them noticed say something's 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

(12:42):
on traffic in Chicago and Milwaukee. And you're on your way,
and you're set up and all that stuff. 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. The bus is doing its own thing.

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This seems problematic. 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, I

(13:24):
get it to I briefly years ago traveled with a
baseball team, 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. It's a

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great gig. 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

(14:09):
League of their Own, 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

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it wasn't the other way around. But of man, of
all the situations, it's wild man. I mentioned the motorcycle
convoy of cops. They're 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. I want to go
get some deep dish pizza before we head over to Milwaukee.

(14:50):
I'll be all right, all right. Last thing here on
the baseball radar, the Sid 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 the Dodgers embarrassed?

(15:14):
Are the Dodgers embarrassed by being swept by the Giants
over the weekend? And I am shaking my head.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
No.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
There was so much arrogance among the Dodger personal They
think they have solved the matrix. They have all the answers,
they know everything, and they don't seem to have any
level of concern. And it's maddening when you watch the
bubb But this was about as bad a weekend as

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the Dodgers have had since Frank McCourt owned the team.
I mean everything on the field, off the field, I
mean just some of the decisions the Dodgers organizations 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,

(16:07):
but the Dodgers chose to go that direction. I don't
understand why they did that. They don't tell me, they
don't don't have me make those decisions, but that that
seemed like a completely unnecessary situation to get involved in.
And then and then you get swept by the Giants
your bullpen. 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. They're trying to move to Vegas.

(16:29):
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

(16:52):
just okay, let's make a deal. Okay, we gotta get
somebody because they're bullpen's so terrible, they gotta make some trades.
But I don't get the sense any concern. They say, ah,
we'll be fine, you know, everything's all right, and that
that's so annoying. It's so annoying. They don't even seem
like they give a crap anyway. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
JD and Casey says Benjamin, that sounded like a great idea,
he says, Can we trade the entire Royals team to
Tijuana in exchange for a competitive team? Well?

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Call him up.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I don't think they want bad baseball in the Mexican
League either, So you might have a problem there and
we'll see. But what's the team that everyone wants to
play for in the Mexican League? It is Can't Kon right,
there's a team in Can't Coon that's the team you
want to play for? Or Tijuana. I think those two
because you know you got a liver a resort. If
you play for the team in Can't kN that'd be

(18:39):
the way to do it. Who else do we have?
Page down here? Matt the Warrior Raider, a's fan says
the Giants were no hit through six innings on Friday
and then scored twenty nine runs the rest of the week.
I'm fairly certain a few of the protesters outside the
stadium could take a Dodger reliever deep eh. I don't

(19:01):
know about that, and it seems like they're in great shape.
The people that were protesting, I don't know if they
could have done that or not, but got a love
of the Dodgers. Get twenty three year old pitcher eighty
nine pitches throwing a no hitter, and you got to
take him out because you throw a ninetieth or ninety
first pitch, your arm falls off and you really want
to get right to that bullpen. If you're Dave Roberts.

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And I know Dave Roberts is just a middle manager
and he's not the one. He has no say. He's
just getting paid a lot of money. And when they succeed,
he gets credit. When they don't succeed, nobody seems to
give a rats ass, but they blame we blame Dave Roberts.
But it's really the the nerds upstairs that are the
ones that are telling Dave Roberts what to do. It's

(19:42):
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third Degree. But right now, let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Nate, who is in Dallas.
Hello Nate, Welcome.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Nate.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
This is the part you talk here, Nate. I heard
him there. I heard Nate. I try to say something.
His phone must be on mute. Let's go to Angry Bill.
This will be a quick call. He'll say something, will
dump him, he'll laugh, We'll hang up on him. That's
how these normally go, these calls go. He has nothing
to say. He'll take a shot at the Dodgers, praise

(20:26):
the Yankees, and then we'll hang up on him. Go ahead,
Angry Bill, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
Well, where does this manager of the Red Sox Alex
Court thinking salary? Outrageous salaries coming from television?

Speaker 1 (20:39):
From you? From you? I think you're the one that's
paying his salary.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yes, yeah, well guess what. I don't think so. But
he's such a moron not to understand where his money's
coming from, and he's criticizing it. Just shut up and
play the game. Who cares? Who's televising again?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Well, he doesn't play the game. It's an inconvenience, Angry Bill,
because he has to leave later that night to go
to the next game. He's upset by that travel.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
That's not an inconvenience. And inconvenience is when you want
to take a dump and you can't. That's an inconvenience.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Okay, is that happening to you right now?

Speaker 5 (21:11):
This guy's just out of his mind to criticize work.
He's probably making at least four million dollars a year
and that's where his money's coming from, but he's criticizing it.
A real smart, smart.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Man he wants other teams. He wants other teams to
have the fun, to enjoy the fun.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
Well, he should be able to pick the watermelons with Roberto.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
All right, all right, there you go. He's had nothing
to say. Okay, thank you, all right, typical call. Yeah,
makes a point and then it says something because he's
got nothing else to say. He's got things to do,
so it hangs up. I've read the script. I know
each of his calls. How they're going to turn out. Yeah,
it's not a surprise. Well this is also not a surprise.

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Case you missed it over the weekend. Bob Huggins, he going,
he going, he is out grab some bench, hetty head
coach at West Virginia in the wake of an allegs
driving under the infants arrest. Of course, he had the
issue with the radio interview earlier. He survived that, but
did not survive this. So Bob Huggins sixty nine years old,

(24:11):
Hall of fame college basketball coach. Maybe maybe done with
college coach.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
He'll coach again, he's sixty nine, He'll go to rehab.
He'll say he had a problem, it's under control now,
and someone will hire him. He wins a lot of games,
and he makes a lot of money. And if you
make a lot of money for academia, they can overlook
some of your shortcomings. He had to be completely hammered

(24:39):
with you that radio interview too, right direct. Yes, he
had been enjoying himself. I believe that day. Just let
you know, because you drink a little bit, he suddenly
the filter goes away. You say what you want, You
say whatever you want. That's it. And so the breath test,
he was a bop popped in Pittsburgh on DUI and

(25:02):
he was way way over where he was supposed to be.
So Bob Huggins out in West Virginia. Where will he
go next? Inquiring minds would like to know. It is
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Speaker 2 (25:49):
Good borning, Ben, Good morning. How's it going over in La? Man?

Speaker 1 (25:53):
If I was any better, the GM of my basketball
team's father would be the agent of Bradley Beal. But
thus that's not the case.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
That's good man. You see how that like the rest
Socks got together, the Yankees, man and the Dodgers got swept. Man.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
I saw that, Yeah, I did. Oh you wanted some baseball?
We do some hot baseball talk here, Dominican.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
You know when it comes to being is it's going
to be based with my brother, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, Well, if you know anybody that can pitch out
of the bullpen, you might want to contact the Dodgers
because there's some openings there. Because those guys are stiffs.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
They should give me a call though. You know I
still got an arm.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Do you are you right handed? Are you right handed
or left handed?

Speaker 2 (26:35):
I'm the right handed man, man, but I used to
play second base and catchers.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
You know that's your what's your outpitch?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Oh? The slider for sure. Man.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
You gotta you gotta learn that. You gotta learn the
lollipop curveball.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah. Honestly, if I take your advice when it comes
to I wish I can learn how to do the knuckleball. Yeah,
you know, I wish you could do the knuckleball, because that's.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
There are no knuckleball pitchers to my knowledge in baseball.
They are all gone. For the last couple of years,
there have been no knuckleball pitchers.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
No exactly exactly you know.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
You know why that is the Maican mic because the
analytics don't like it because it's hard to predict from
game to the game what you're gonna get for a knuckleball,
so the nerds don't like it.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
I wish if I was younger, I'll do the knuckleball
and then I'll be I should be able to throw
a ninety five mouths fast.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh, you would be the most dominated Dominican mic. That's
what I say, right, you're repeating my line. You would
be the most dominating pitcher if you could master the
knuckleball and get two strikes on a hitter. And they're
used to seeing that. You know who did that? No,
he didn't throw the knuckleball. But there was a pitcher
in the old days for the Toronto Blue Jays, and
he was He was a guy that tossed overhand and

(27:47):
he wasn't very good. He didn't really make it. And
they taught him how to toss underhand, and for several
years he was like the top pitcher in the American
League out of the bullpen, this guy named Mark ichorn Umember. Yeah, yeah,
and he was he was nothing. He was a stiff
when he threw overhand. They taught him how to throw underhand,
and he threw as slow as he could possibly throw,

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and it used to drive hitters insane. They were so
upset they could not make contact.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
When you say underhand, you like submarine submarine?

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember him, man and what so?

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, but what are the Dodgers gonna do? Man, I
honestly things they're in trouble.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Nah, I don't think they're in trouble because they figured
out they'll make Yeah, the Diamondbacks will fall back. The
Giants are playing over their heads. Also, they're not that good.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
They have the MVP, they have the m v P
Carroll Okay, well.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, but you got to do it the whole seat.
You don't get an MVP in June. You gotta do
it in July and August. And that's always the hard
part after the All Star breaking late July and August.
If we're having this conversation in late August and the
Diamondbacks are still playing the way they are in the Giants, okay, fine,
I don't believe that will be the case. And I
think they will fall back and and the Dodgers will
will end up making a couple of trades at the
August first deadline.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Some money, I'll bet you some money to the Diamondbacks
are going to be relevant. Okay, what does that mean?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
That's a fact? What is relevant. Mean, you could say,
even if they lose every game the rest of the year,
they're relevant.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Well, they're going to be in the playoff hunt, that's
for sure.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Okay, everyone, there's three wildcard teams. I think I'm in
the playoff hunt and I don't even play. They're letting
everyone in the baseball playoffs these days.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Nobody want to say, how do you bet MEFO? I go, okay,
all right, here we go.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Hey, then, hey, what's going on? Welcome? Hey, what's your
what's your name?

Speaker 2 (29:34):
This is Nicole.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm a born in bed Bread Red Sox fan from
Boston and.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
You're you're hanging out with Dominican Mic. The guy's a legend,
that Dominican Mic guy. Well, Dominican Mike and I.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Have been in in term for a minute here.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
But actually I learned that Blind Scott and I are from.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
The same high school. But I think he's a couple
for years younger than me.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, okay, Blind Sky is from the North End. That's
where he lives on the North End.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
There.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Nobody's from Sandwich High.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Oh yeah, where I went?

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Okay, what was the what was the mascot at Sandwich High?
The Blue Knights I think you should You should have
been like Hogy or the Sandwich Hogy's or something would
have been a funny you know mascot.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
So everybody always takes pictures of the Sandwich police sign.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, yeah, that's good because it's double double entendre there.
So I'm like, I'm looking at the notable alumni from
Sandwich High School. It says here someone named Sam Brown.
I don't know who that is. He's a comedian and actor.
You ever heard of Sam Brown?

Speaker 4 (30:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
This is Duff Goldman Pastry. Yeah, oh he's uh yeah, yeah,
I know, Duff Golden Ace of Cakes. Television showing the
Food Network. You're familiar with this cake making?

Speaker 8 (31:02):
Yeah, I mean I used to watch Food Network back
in the day.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well you coop it, Nika, she went there and she
doesn't know who? Who else?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Four?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
You got more important? I get out of here, go
all right. They're making mics like I spent too much
time here. I have company I must spend some time with.
And I don't blame him. I don't blame him for
that at all. I much rather spend time with that
person than me anyway. It is the Ben Malard Show,
as we continue on. We have Mallard of the third degree.

(31:35):
Here's the instad trivia. Here it is the instant tribute.
Blank was a top five quarterback select It played twenty
five games, only won four of those twenty five games,
never passed for more than two hundred yards or led
a team to more than seventeen points, despite being a

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top five pick in the NFL draft, and only had
one with a passer rating of eighty or better. That
is the ins dot trivia, the answer and Mallard of
the third degree. We'll get to it. We will do
it next.

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(32:46):
Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Mallor.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Coming up next hour, whether you like it or not,
another hour of marginal overnight sports Radio. The Insta Advice
Line coming up next hour. Our four will have the
Malon Militia feud. In just moments away we will have
Mallard the Third Degree. There's a theme put my name
on everything that way. We brand the show that way.

(33:13):
And time now for the Insta Trivia. Blank was a
top five quarterback selected played twenty five games in the NFL,
only one four, his team only won four, never threw
from more than two hundred yards or led his team
to more than seventeen points. Despite being a top five
pick and only one game with a passer rating of
eighty or better. That is the question. What is the answer.

(33:37):
Let's see does anyone know the answer? And mister nice
guy says, Princess Unicorn is the answer. You got to
focus on work, mister Kniskey, you're getting distracted. Clint Longley
from Matt the Warrior Raider a's fan. Who else do
we have? Doctor Britt Baker, DMD from Rob in Vegas

(34:00):
snuff a Luffogus mister Luffagus from Cowboy Killer Page down.
Jordan's going with Tom Brady if he never had Bill
Belichick and was drafted by or drafted in the top five?
Who else do we have? I can't read that? Are
you Everyone's favorite? Matt Matt in Phoenix guessed by Sheen

(34:22):
in Des Moines, Whitetail the Dog from Christina in Spokane, Oh,
Ed and Christina they're still around? How about that? Miss
Cleo from alf the Alien Opiner, Robbie the Mariner fan
going with Bengals Legend Achillie Smith as his answer. Maverick

(34:43):
says Lee Roy Jethro Gibbs, long Live Alexa Bliss from
The Maverick Purple Drank. JaMarcus Russell tossed out by Miguel
on Fire. Mike from Pittsfield going with Josh Rosen Calligan
Tim in Michigan, got it right, bad job him? Mattleinert
from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota, Ed and Spokane went with

(35:06):
weed Man, Hippie or blind Scott as the answer. Nicole
from Boston guessed by Kathy and Madison. Eddie. What's the
answer there, Eddie?

Speaker 4 (35:15):
It's former Seattle Seahawks legend Rick Meyer.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Rick Meyer. Find a name from the past, but not
the answer, Eddie, the correct answer, knock it off. Ryan
Leaf of the old San Diego Chargers in nineteen ninety eight,
drafted just after Peyton Manning. Ryan Leaf never never had

(35:39):
a passer who had one game brother his passer riting
of eighty or better and never threw for more than
two hundred yards. Very impressive career for Ryan Leave. And
now he's a commentator on television. So that great. Here
we go, it's Mallard. How about that?

Speaker 3 (35:54):
To the third degree, this is the Coop Dwoop.

Speaker 8 (36:01):
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 1 (36:10):
Yes, that's happened. Aha.

Speaker 8 (36:12):
But in the meantime, the Cincinnati Reds have shot out
of this earth. They're now on an eight game win streak.
Do you think they're for real?

Speaker 1 (36:19):
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.

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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. The
Cubs are horrific. 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,

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have a shot to be in the playoffs. That's the
good news. The bad news is your cannon fodder when
you get into the playoffs more likely than not. But
it is baseball, and odd things do happen in baseball.

Speaker 8 (37:11):
Next well, speaking of the Cardinals, former World Series MVP
David Freeze 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.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Ben, what are your thoughts on this? Yeah, it's bizarre
to me, Like number one, 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,

(37:43):
he was the World Series MVP. Had some of the
biggest hits in October baseball in my life. That puts
you in the Team Hall of Fame. There must be
something else going on that we don't know about. There's
got to be something else going on. The guys from
that area. It's it's like, what an attention horror. I'm
gonna make it all about me. I don't want to

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go to the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
He didn't really say why not. I mean he said
he sent that letter out. He's like talking about all
the great Cardinal players, all right.

Speaker 8 (38:12):
Next, then that's all I got for you. I'm gonna
I'm gonna give you a pass.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
That's I won, Eddie.

Speaker 9 (38:17):
I only needed two questions, Eddie, I only need it too.
Greatest win in the history of Mallard of the third degree. Yeah,
I know you're you're flummixed over there, Eddie, But the
single greatest win I those were such dominating.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Answers that's true. That I did not need No, no,
that's not an incomplete that's two. And now Eddie I
won the game the fl degree questions Mallard of the
second degree that time. Second degree. Alright,