June 21, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy being dumbfounded by a reversed call that went against his team involving catchers interference, MLB players thinking that Ohtani is going to the Dodgers, Too Much or Not Enough, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dub three, our three of
the radio show. And what do you make We'll talk
some baseball here. Bruce Bochi went bonkers. The Rangers got
the Chicago screw job by Major League Baseball, a phantom
catcher's interference call by the league office on replay, and
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Bochie dumbfounded by that catcher's interference call being reversed. And
what do you make of that response by Bochie? Also,
Major League Baseball players have voted they think sho hey
Otani's gonna leave the Angels for the Dodgers. What odds
do we give that happening? And players in general around
baseball would like the pitch clock rules to be relaxed
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or gotten rid of completely for the postseason. Will Major
League Baseball play along? Will they go for that? We'll
talk about that as well right now here. It is
our number three. Generally speaking, Major League Baseball does not
produce much drama during the regular season, but we had
a rare and appropriate meltdown on the diamond, and we
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are here to celebrate the panic at the disco. Well,
come in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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a good story. So our league comes from baseball. No,
normally there would be no reason to dedicate more than
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just the score that Eddie does at the top and
bottom of the hour from a Ranger White Sox regular
season game. Now, the Rangers are having a fine season.
They are back out of the duldrums, and they have
been one of the better teams in the American League
up until this point. Will that last? Only the test
of time will tell. The White Sox have been an
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absolute failure in Chicago. They thought getting rid of Tony
LaRusso would fix all their problems and surprise, surprise, surprise.
That has not been the case. So I'll get to
the point. So random Tuesday night game, Rangers, White Sox,
unusual ending, a lot of fireworks, a lot of angry people, outrage, outrage,
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what was the outrager? Roun all right, so let's let
me explain. So we'll take you to Chicago Southside, the
baddest part of town. Bottom of the eighth inning, and
the White Sox second baseman who's older than dirt, Elvis Andrews,
he was ruled out on the field. He's trying to score.
There was a base hit by the White Sox, and
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he was ruled out on the field. The Chicago White
Sox manager, you've never heard of him. He came out
of the dog guy. He said, I want to challenge that.
I think the guy I think he's in. So they
went to the replay in New York. The replay clearly
showed that it was a close play. But the Rangers
catcher jonah don't call me knox Heim, jonah Heim of
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the Texas Rangers, his glove tagged Elvis Andrew's arm quick
enough that there's no evidence that you could overturn the
because it was the right call on the field, Uh touchet. Well,
obviously you know what happened because we're talking about this.
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So they went to the replay and the third base umpire.
After a lengthy delay, the third base umpire announced, much
to the shock of the Chicago fans all seven of
them were at the game and the broadcasters, that the
replay center in New York had decided that Andrews was safe,
not because he was actually safe, They ruled him safe
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because of catcher obstruction the Buster Posey rule. Now, this
of course led to pandemonium from the Rangers. They were
losing their lunch. Jonah him couldn't believe it. He was
a class house of emotion. He was all upset. Rangers
manager Bruce Bochie enraged and he was upset. He got
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ejected and him was like, I don't understand what I
supposed to do. I don't get it. So the decision
actually was a game deciding play because it gave the
game to the White Sox. They won the game seven
to six, and say, oh, who cares, it's one of
one hundred and sixty two games. But that run in
the eighth inning, bottom of the eighth that was the
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difference in the game, and so Bruce Bochie, the greatest
manager in San Francisco Giants' history. With apologies to Humbaby,
but Bruce Bochie then to say, you know what I'm
gonna do. I'm gonna take an elbow to the replay decision,
and he gave his take on the replay reversal. As
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Warner Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
For that call to be made. I'm dumbfounded. It's absolutely
one of the worst calls I've ever seen, and it
was done by replay. I just don't get it. I
don't care how many times they'll try to explain it.
You can't do that in that situation. It's a shame.
It's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Really, Bochie sounds like a cowboy in my head, would
sound in the Old West, right, the Old West, and
doesn't sound like he's riding a horse and he's coming
in there and he's got you know, this guy's a
gun on his belt. There has got the yeah, all right,
here's more from Bruce Bouchie. Here is Boche. I know
him when he was the Padres manager and nobody thought
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he was all that good. But anyway, here's Bruce Bochie,
you got commenting on the Rangers catcher. He defends he
Brochie's an old catcher. He defends the Rangers catcher.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Listen, there was never any contact with the catcher. It's
a sweet tag. I don't get it. I really don't.
I'm just again, I'm shocked. You know, Jonah did a
great job there. You know, the throw took him to
the left a little bit. Sweet tag. I'm lost on
this one, and you know that's that's a tough one
to take.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So there's Bruce Bochie from the Old West. So let
us discuss the question on this one. What do you
make of Bruce Bochie being dumbfounded by the Ranger catcher's
interference being reversed on the replay in Major League Baseball
headquarters there in Manhattan. So I've got sword, thermometer and
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Piggy and we will combine all of these random things
together and we are going to make a Texas two
step is what we're going to make. So, first of all,
I not that it matters. I like Bruce Bochie. Bruce
Bochi was a very down to earth guy when he
managed the Potter. I worked in San Diego and Bochie
would hang out at the pool hall, played pool with
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Bruce Bochie a couple of times before he started winning
World Series with the Jets. So I like Boachie. But
at the same time, and I agree, it was a
terrible call and all that right, A terrible call. Clearly,
this is ridiculous. It was malfeasance by whoever was in
the replay center at Major League Baseball, Like, what are
you doing? I mean, are you that pathetic of a
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human being that you think that was obstruction by the catcher?
Blind Emmett, Bien Scott, the callers of our show would
see better than these these moron whoever it was in
Major League Baseball, So the replay center botched it malfeasans.
But at the same time, here's the reason I love
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this story so much. Okay, this is justice served by
for Bruce Bochie, for Bochie, this is justice served. And
then he explain why this is why it's justice served
for Bruce Bochie because I am old enough to remember
long ago over I think it was almost a decade. Actually,
it was more than a decade ago that Bruce Bochie
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was managing the Higantes, And when you look at his
past he's got a lot of hootzba, a lot of
hootzba because Bruce Bochie it's all about swords. You live
by the sword, you die by the sword. When he
was managing the Giants, he's learning what goes around comes
around because back in twenty eleven, the Giants were playing
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the Marlins and they the top player, young player for
the Giants was a guy named Buster Posey. He's now retired,
long retired, but Buster Posey was the top player for
the Giants and he got absolutely trucked, taken out by
a freight train from the Marlins, some no name guy
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named Cousins, I forget what his first name was for
the Marlins, but he took out the Giants catcher. And
when I say he took out Buster Posey, he literally
took the man out like his leg was shattered in
pieces out that kind of like the bone was broken.
It was bad. And so this became a huge talking
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point at that time in baseball. Now, it didn't happen
right away, and some Giant apologists in the media say
it wasn't book was a bolster posal. Yes, it was, dummies,
it was the Buster Posy rule, because that was the
thing that pushed pushed the ground swell of support to
change the rules because forever baseball have been played since
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the eighteen seventies and taking out the catcher at the
play at home play was part of the game, one
of the most exciting plays in baseball, and the league decided,
in large part it started with Buster Posey that this
was not great because you're going to take out our
star players, and so we have to put rules in,
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we have to put guardrails in. And that was the
onus that led the inspiration that led to what has
become the Buster Posey role. It took about three years
for that to be finally implemented, but it started because
of him and Bruce Bochie was the Giants manager, and
Bruce Bochie was the one that complained the loudest and
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the Giants organization. So here we are all these years later,
and again what goes around comes around Bruce Bochi's managing
the Texas Rangers and a rule that the team he
was working for advocated for the Giants had it has
now become reality and his team got hosed by the
Buster Posey rule. How wonderful is that two most exciting
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plays in baseball were the play at home plate and
trying to break up a double play at second base
that's also been taken out. That was the Chase Utlely
rule because a Mets infielder was in the wrong position
and got taken out by Chase Utley. But if he
had been the right position, he would not have been
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injured in the way he was, and so they changed
that rule as so Bruce Bochy all up in arms
right now. Secondly, a couple of things in baseball here
that I want to discuss. And we've also learned that
there's a survey that was done by the Athletic and
it's an off the record thing, you know, they don't
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put your name on it and all that stuff, but
they asked a bunch of questions the players. One of
the players that was talked about in this survey was
Shohei Otani and it's buried behind a paywall on the Athletic,
but a group of anonymous players voted and they picked
sho hal Tani which team he'll be on in twenty
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twenty four, and almost sixty percent of those that were
surveyed predicted that sho Haotani would be playing in twenty
twenty four to four the d oh D G e
RS Dodgers. Yeah, then the Angels were second. They were
the second most popular choice, but they only got eleven
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percent of the players vote, followed by the Padres the
Mets they got seven point two percent. The New York
Yankees were on there. Some of the other teams that
got mentioned the Cubs, the Mariners, the Blue Jays, and
the Red Sox. They also received votes. So Major League
Baseball players think that Shohei Otani will make a lateral move.
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He will leave the Orange Curtain, the OC and head
to the of inequity, the pit of homelessness in Los
Angeles to play for the Dodgers next season. So what
kind of odds? What kind of odds do we give
shoe Hey Otani going to the Dodgers. So I'm gonna
be realistic here. The Mallards Sportsbook odds on this at
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plus one seventy five. That implies there's a about a
thirty five percent chance. And the reason I'm only going
thirty five percent, that's a three to fifty batting average
in baseball. The reason I'm not going higher than that
is the thermometer. The thermometer is malfunctioning here trying to
get the temperature in the room. Nobody's got a good
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read on what Otani's gonna do. Everyone's assuming he wants
to stay on the West Coast because when he came
over from Japan, he wanted to be on the West Coast.
So they assume he's still like that. But he's been
in state, he's been in the United States for a while.
He's had a taste of American baseball for a long time.
So does he still want to stay on the West Coast?
I don't know. Does he love Southern California? People say
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he does. Well. If he loves southern California and he
doesn't want to stay with the Angels with the Dodgers,
you could live where you live right now and just
deal with traffic and you could go play for the Dodgers.
But ultimately, does he want to set a record. If
Otani wants to break the bank, then he's going to
have to be willing to get the Mets and the
Red Sox involved in a bidding war, and the Giants
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and the Dodgers and all the big players for Otani,
and the chatter around baseball is so Otani does love
the Boondocks in Anaheim, even though the La Angels, there's
no fane fear, there's no hullabaloo around the Angels, and
they're pretty much isolated from the spotlight. And that the
Dodgers have a lot more buzz, but they're not. They
don't get as much attention as the Yankees do.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And the Dodgers keep raising the price of Dodger dogs.
They could just give that money to Otani, like a
one dollar for every Dodger dog that goes to Otani.
I think that's illegal, but he has the star dust,
he's the Unicorn the Two Ways Player show. Hey Otani,
he'll sell a lot of merchandise. So I give it
a thirty five percent chance that he ends up with
the Dodgers because they're gonna have to do something. They
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didn't do anything other than bring in Noah Cindergard, who
should be pitching Beer League softball somewhere. That was their
big offseason move. And you get Otani, you not only
get a hitter, but you also get a pitcher. So
it's a two for one special and everyone likes it.
It's not a deal, but it's a two for one special.
All right, final thought, real quick. So Major League Baseball
has implemented the clock this year and the players were
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also asked off the record by the athletic No names
were used. They said, what about this pitchclock? Well, they
love the pitch clock, but the players have a gripe
with Major League Baseball. They think that there's too much pressure.
It's too hard in October to concentrate with the pitch clock.
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So they would like the pressure to be dialed back
on the pitch clock. They said the league should either
eliminate the pitchclock in playoff baseball or other people said, hey,
wait a minute, it should be lengthened. We have like
five more seconds instead of I think it's twenty seconds.
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Instead of that, you have twenty five seconds. And so
that is the conversation. So players want the pitch clock
rules adjusted for the playoffs. Will Major League Baseball go
for this? And I am shaking my head. No, they
will not. I do not believe they will go for this.
And why Peggy. It's because of Peggy. They're pig headed,
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that's why. And Rob Manford and his flunkies at Major
League Baseball they love the timer. They're like me, you know,
I'm buy the clock for the clock, plausibly all about
the clock, and so is major League Baseball. They've gotten
great publicity and all that stuff. They can't get enough
of it, and they want these games to end as
soon as possible, as soon as possible. But ultimately the
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decision will be made by the television overlords. They're the
ones that will decide. If TV says I like the
games the way they are, then the games will continue.
But imagine if baseball got rid of the pitchclock and
then we have a six hour game between the Red
Sox and Rays in the opening round of the Baseball playoffs,
so the Yankees are playing the Rangers and it goes
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on and on and on. Oh, that would be a nightmare.
No bueno for baseball. It is the Ben Maler Show.
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riddle of day. A Stephen F. Austin bowling coach. That's right,
we're doing bowling for the riddle of today, A Stephen F.
Austin bowl coach has resigned from his position because of blank. Again,
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position because of blank. That is the malor riddle of
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Back to the calls in a minute, but first time
now for the Mallard Riddle. Of the day, the malor
riddle of the day. Let this too much or not enough?
And here we go a Stephen F. Austin bowling coach
resigned from his position because of blank. Because of blank,
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that is the question. What is the answer? Bengal fan
Bryan says he quit his job to become a school
bus driver. Yes, that is correct. Oh wait, that was Roberto.
Who else do we have? Let's see here? Uh ferg
Dog says for sticking his head in the shine. Oh ball, Oh,
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that would be a problem. Fanley's Funhouse account says for
scuffing balls? Is the answer? Begel Boy says he was
caught watching Zion's Baby Mama only fans while on campus.
That would be That would be a problem. Robbie the
Marin defansis are injecting his bowlers with h G h Okay,
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who else do we have? See? Coach was let go
for cleaning one of his players gutters, according to Fields
of Green, pursuing a career in Rubik's Cube solving from
the Late Night drug tester Big Gregor Buddy and Iowa
says he wants to be the new Big Lebowski. You're
not that far off, Sawman says he was caught waxing
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the lane before a match. And who else do you have? Page? Damn,
I can't read that. We'll skip over that one. Miguel
on Fire says because he lost a finger on the
bowling ball return machine. Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie? Ah?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yes, he ate too many French fries at the bowling
alley snack bar.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That would be a problem, now the correct answer, Eddie.
The Steven F. Austin bowling coach resigned from his position
because of a love triangle. Bowling coach?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, how wild?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The Lumberjacks or the lady Jacks. He's a women's bowling
assistant coach. Here's the love triangle. The head coach of
Steven F. Austin's bowling team was his wife, the assistant
coach's wife. He was sleeping with one of the players
on the team. What yeah, yeah, so Steven. Here's the sir,
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So Steven F. Austin the women's bowling team. Who eve
knew this was me? So the coach resigned after the
school discovered he was having an affair with a player
on the team. But the guy's married to the coach
of the head coach of the team. Yeah, yeah, that's
got to be a awkward there, right, yeah, mah, try
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picking up that spare. You think that players in the
in the doghouse with the with the coach. I think
she might enter the transfer portal. I think she might. Yeah,
that's what we call a seven to ten split. Let's hello,
let's see if we can look up the Stephen. You
think there's anything good there, Steven f Austin bowling team.
You think their photos online? This happened back in April,
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so I don't know. Maybe they scrubbed the Internet of
all the all the photos there. Oh no, they've they've
got it. Oh yeah, and good there, Coop, anything stand
out you see here in as far as the players,
oh yeah, first round grade, second round, third round grade?
What are looking at here? I mean, hot, we pick
number one overall pick. I'm just saying like I'm looking
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in like eighty percent of them, like wo oh okay,
mid middle to late second round, high upside, but you know,
big backside, You're not all right anyway. It is the
Ben Valor Show. Let's go to Poppy. Picking with Poppy,
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it only gets better In San Diego. No God, please, no, no, no, no,
this is the part you talk here, Poppy.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
This is.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Changed by you on the other whole time. Poppy, what
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Speaker 5 (24:04):
Give me a hell Yeah From the NFL. Former Bill's
Punch Matt Ariza told HBO's Real Sports he is filing
a lawsuit for defamation against the attorney who represented a
woman who claimed that she was gang raped and that
Horizon was part of it at a party. Turns out
he wasn't even there while he was playing football at
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San Diego State.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So well, he was at the party, but he left
early before the incident took place. Is the way I
understand the story. And he's he's suing It's very hard.
I'm going to talk about this next hour, but it's
very hard to win a defamation lawsuit. He's a public figure,
not a big public figure because he's a punter. Yeah,
but he is a public Interesting he's suing the lawyer
(24:46):
and not the Well, the lawyer's got the money, that's
the one was sue the person has the money. Yeah,
first rule of civil case go for the biggest pocket exactly.
Whoever's got the most money, that's what you sue. And
whoever this the one is the young woman. I'm assuming
she doesn't have any money. She's also suing him, right,
So there, she's already suing him. It's an odd case.
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What is she him for she's claiming. I think she's
changed her case if you if you look at originally
she was accusing him of the as I understand the
rape and then now that she he did some things
he wasn't supposed to do. He was inappropriate with her.
So I don't know, all right, I guess sue for anything, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
That's true?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah? Is that it? That's it My fun fact of
the hour. Do you know who Joe Adele? Is you
familiar with that name?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Joe Adele. I believe that is the singer Adele's brother.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That is correct. Also, as a minor league player used
to be in the big leagues for the Angels. Joe
Adele playing for the Bees, the Salt Lake Bees baseball
and he did something that got our attention. He hit
a home run that went and estimated five hundred and
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fourteen feet. Whoa, yeah, they say it's the longest home
runs ever recorded. Now, years ago, I used to have
this guy, uh Quintin from LA who called me up
and said, when he was a kid, he watched Josh
Gibson hit a home run that was like eight hundred
feet or something like that, but this was five hundred
fourteen feet. There is video of it online and it
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is one of the longest home runs ever hit. He
did it against the sugar Land Space Cowboys. So indeed,
I wonder what song they play it there at the games.
I can't only can only imagine it is the Ben
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Let's go to the phones. Poppy has called back, so
we say hello to our friend Poppy in San Diego.
God please see if he hangs up again. Hello Poppy.
Oh my god, the wrong Oh my god, that's not Poppy.
Hold on, Poppy, that's still I'm so bad, Poppy. Can
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I go back to the other guy?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
It's time the profitable.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh, this is a popular segment on.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
This is.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This is a Poppy impersonator.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
It sounds like I've presented you all the way from
San Diego, California. Here he is for one night and one.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Poppy.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Thank you for that, my professional team. I would like
to say Mighty Mark on the bar, thank you, Mighty Mark.
I missed you.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I like it being proctice and I want to.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Say I want to say thank you very much too much.
Fred Good, Fred, Bruce Pumper. I love that introduction, Bruce Bumper.
But you guys are waiting for the pigs nigging with Poppy,
and you know it's gonna be a great day for
us today the baseball, we're going with the red hot
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and in a row. We're going with the red tengis.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
In a row that that streak. Okay, we're gonna go.
We're gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
We're gonna we're gonna go with that dry beet that.
We're gonna go money line. We're gonna go with the
run line the whole game. We're gonna go the first
five innings the Reds winning guys, and we're gonna go
with Los Angeles Angels. Oh, Tony, Oh.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
You're screwed.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Coop Do You're screwed. The Angels are gonna lose now because.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Roberto, you know, Roberto's you know, gonna be right there
with the tawny, So there's gonna be some good luck
with the angels, guys. And we're also gonna we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
We're gonna go with the staffrance.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Let's go giants.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Oh good, all right, and there and there streak. Okay, no, no,
no that you know.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
The thing is, the giants are hot right now. The padres,
you know, the pa are gonna come hot on the
second half. So we're gonna ride the wheel, so the
wheels fall off with the giants.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Can we talk to that? Can we talk to Mason
the Millennial instead the whole country? You?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yes, you you can talk to Bruce Buffer.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Let me get.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Bruce Bumper.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Bruce Bumper said he can't talk right now.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Mason the Millennial not picking up the photo. Okay, all right,
it's actually Bruce.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Buffer, my friend Ben Maler. So those are my picks, guys.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Okay, good, all right, thank you go. Let's go. Now,
let's go to slug In Lost Wages, Nomada. Hello, slug
welcome everybody.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Mad clown wanna be Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
That's a good reference the mad clown from back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We look at that one, right, Help about this one nine.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
It would be I should get a little music for
this one.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
This is a moment in Malar history.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Here okay, here we go. This is big. You want
a drum roll. We're doing food picks. We're doing food
picks with Slug in Vegas. Here we go, big drum roll, Here,
big reveal. Everyone's wondering what's Slug about to say?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
In Vegas?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Donald Sterling called into a stick up for himself.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Oh I remember that, Yes, that that was an amazing
night on the show. That was wild right in the
middle of that Clipper controversy. Yeah, were you here that night, Eddie? Yeah,
we we have We're not we're not one hundred percent,
but we're pretty confident that Donald Sterling called up in
(31:23):
the middle of the controversy involving the racist claims that
were recorded of Donald Sterling Steviano, Yeah vs. Stiviano and
that'll h He called us up. And it's the ultimate
old guy move because we were on the Clipper station.
(31:44):
Everyone's ripping him, so he's listening. He calls up to
defend himself and yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Was also here that day and I was very very
upset when Slug told me that it was nine years
ago today.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I can't believe it's been nine years. Yeah, and we
took that part because but I'm telling you, no, we
think we think yeah, I mean we we think it
was too I mean, that guy never called before, he's
never called Saints, he had one topic. It's got all
the ingredients of the person involved making the phone call.
(32:22):
Plus it sounds just like I mean it's We played
some audio Sterling right after that, and it sounded just
like he sounds in his interviews.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
So just like, great moment that is.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
That is one of the great things that's ever happened
on the show. That's what I forgot about that. Yeah,
that's pretty well.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
You do your bacon on the weekend bacon.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
When I get home at night.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
That's a single life. You're living a bachelor lot. And uh,
of course that's a different kind of baking. I don't
I don't do that in a week all right, thank you, Yeah,
all right, thank you. So Louk, there you go. It
is the Bane Show. Yeah, true story. If you weren't
with the show back then, right in the middle of
that Chris Paul lob City clip controversy, the NBA force
Sterling to sell the team. Ultimately that's what happened. But
(33:06):
right in the middle of that, when TMC started reporting it,
we talked about it and guy called up. I think
he said he was from like Palm Springs or something,
if I remember correctly, but it was it was somebody
that sounded just like Donald Sterling, that wanted to defend
Donald Sterling when no one else wanted to defend Donald Sterling,
the guy that used to own the Clippers at that time.
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It's another Ben Maller game.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We've endured too many of these.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Is it too much or not enough enough?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Already too much or not enough? Us? Welcome in our contestants.
From our contestants, I should say, from North Carolina, we
say hello to Chris. Hello, Chris, good morning. Oh hold
on a second, there you go, there you are, Chris.
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Man?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
I'm driving to work?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah? What kind of work you got going on?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I do a factory work? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Just how many hours? How many hours you put in
the factory. I'm about forty to fifty a week.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
What kind of stuff are you making at that factory?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
We're making scientific freeze. You're a refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
There you go. I like freezer's and refrigerators. Let's play
the game here. Good luck to you, Chris. You've got
to get three right to win the game. If you
get all five right, well, you're in a different class.
You're a superstar if you get all all of them right.
Question number one, La Dela Cruz, you know who that is, Chris. No, oh,
(35:22):
that's a bad sign. He's a baseball player. La Dela
Cruz and Will Benson, they played for the Cincinnati Reds,
the fifth pair of teammates in MLB history to hit
their first and second home runs in the same game.
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Chris says too much without knowing who he's even talking about.
Let's see does that work? That is right? Good job
by you, and the answer is too much. They are
the third pair of teammates to do so. Question number two.
Spencer Streider became the fourth pitcher since nineteen oh one
to throw three hundred strikeout in his first thirty five
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career starts. Is that too much or not enough for
the Atlanta Braves starting pitcher?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
No, No enough?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Switch it up. You want to not enough? Let's find out. No,
that is in correct, that is wrong. The answer is
too much. He's only the second pitcher to accomplish that,
joining Dwight Gooden. Not Nolan Ryan good Ah, yeah, yeah,
you knew that. Come on, Christ all right, question number three.
Here we go and we go to basketball. Since the
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twenty fifteen sixteen NBA season, Bradley Beal has had twenty
five forty point games. Is that too much or not
enough for the newest member of the Phoenix Suns. Not enough,
says not enough. Let's find out is that right? That
is right? Good job by you, your second correct answer.
(36:52):
One more right answer and you win the game. Not enough.
Beal has had thirty forty point games. It's great to
be able to take all the shots on a terrible
basketball team. That's eighth most in the NBA in that
stretch for Bradlee Beal, So to right one wrong? Question
number four for Chris on his way to the factory
to make refrigerators and freezers and all that. Here we go.
(37:14):
Austin Eckler. You know who that is?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You do? Who's Austin Ecler football player? Look at that?
You know your stuff, all right? You know what team
he plays for?
Speaker 4 (37:29):
What in the Vikings?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
No, that's all right, basically team in Los Angeles, but
not the Rams, the other team this, yeah, all right,
Austin the Chargers. Austin Eckler had the most yards after
a catch in the NFL last season with six hundred
and ninety five. Is that too much or not enough?
Not enough? This is for the win right now? Is
(37:52):
that your final answer? Yes, okay, let's find out that's
soon as Chris proves a very important life lesson. Chris,
you just proved you you don't have to even know
who you're talking about to win this game. That is
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the beauty of the game. It's just simple, too much
or not enough? And Austin Eckler the Chargers led the
NFL eight hundred and fifty seven yards after catch Christian McCaffrey,
who used to play in your neck of the woods
and the Carolina's there, but now with the forty nine
Ers was second. Chris, have a wonderful day. You get
(38:33):
a golden ticket. Congratulations, you got a call that day?
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Gay yet thank you?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
All right, say I have a wonderful day. There you
go where he goes. Only he knows is Chris is
the big winner of the game. Now, we knew long
ago that you don't have to know anything about sports
to win that game, because we had the single, single
greatest game show moment in the history of the show
was when our friend hollering James, who has no longer
(38:59):
called the show because his phone broke and he can't
get it fixed. Apparently the cord to charge the phone
is broken. But hollering James called up Fast Asleep and
we based his answers based on snoring, and he won
too much or not enough, and so you wake up
by the end either no, he anyway up. But it's
it's a magical night. It was one of the great
(39:20):
moments in show history. It was so good. It's better
when he sleeps. Eh, snore, snore, Yes,
Hello and welcome. It's our dub three, our three of
the radio show. And what do you make We'll talk
some baseball here. Bruce Bochi went bonkers. The Rangers got
the Chicago screw job by Major League Baseball, a phantom
catcher's interference call by the league office on replay, and
(00:22):
Bochie dumbfounded by that catcher's interference call being reversed. And
what do you make of that response by Bochie? Also,
Major League Baseball players have voted they think sho hey
Otani's gonna leave the Angels for the Dodgers. What odds
do we give that happening? And players in general around
baseball would like the pitch clock rules to be relaxed
(00:46):
or gotten rid of completely for the postseason. Will Major
League Baseball play along? Will they go for that? We'll
talk about that as well right now here. It is
our number three. Generally speaking, Major League Baseball does not
produce much drama during the regular season, but we had
a rare and appropriate meltdown on the diamond, and we
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are here to celebrate the panic at the disco. Well,
come in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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buying should be. So our lead this hour. This is
a good story. So our league comes from baseball. No,
normally there would be no reason to dedicate more than
(02:13):
just the score that Eddie does at the top and
bottom of the hour from a Ranger White Sox regular
season game. Now, the Rangers are having a fine season.
They are back out of the duldrums, and they have
been one of the better teams in the American League
up until this point. Will that last? Only the test
of time will tell. The White Sox have been an
(02:35):
absolute failure in Chicago. They thought getting rid of Tony
LaRusso would fix all their problems and surprise, surprise, surprise.
That has not been the case. So I'll get to
the point. So random Tuesday night game, Rangers, White Sox,
unusual ending, a lot of fireworks, a lot of angry people, outrage, outrage,
(03:01):
what was the outrager? Roun all right, so let's let
me explain. So we'll take you to Chicago Southside, the
baddest part of town. Bottom of the eighth inning, and
the White Sox second baseman who's older than dirt, Elvis Andrews,
he was ruled out on the field. He's trying to score.
There was a base hit by the White Sox, and
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he was ruled out on the field. The Chicago White
Sox manager, you've never heard of him. He came out
of the dog guy. He said, I want to challenge that.
I think the guy I think he's in. So they
went to the replay in New York. The replay clearly
showed that it was a close play. But the Rangers
catcher jonah don't call me knox Heim, jonah Heim of
(03:48):
the Texas Rangers, his glove tagged Elvis Andrew's arm quick
enough that there's no evidence that you could overturn the
because it was the right call on the field, Uh touchet. Well,
obviously you know what happened because we're talking about this.
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So they went to the replay and the third base umpire.
After a lengthy delay, the third base umpire announced, much
to the shock of the Chicago fans all seven of
them were at the game and the broadcasters, that the
replay center in New York had decided that Andrews was safe,
not because he was actually safe, They ruled him safe
(04:32):
because of catcher obstruction the Buster Posey rule. Now, this
of course led to pandemonium from the Rangers. They were
losing their lunch. Jonah him couldn't believe it. He was
a class house of emotion. He was all upset. Rangers
manager Bruce Bochie enraged and he was upset. He got
(04:54):
ejected and him was like, I don't understand what I
supposed to do. I don't get it. So the decision
actually was a game deciding play because it gave the
game to the White Sox. They won the game seven
to six, and say, oh, who cares, it's one of
one hundred and sixty two games. But that run in
the eighth inning, bottom of the eighth that was the
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difference in the game, and so Bruce Bochie, the greatest
manager in San Francisco Giants' history. With apologies to Humbaby,
but Bruce Bochie then to say, you know what I'm
gonna do. I'm gonna take an elbow to the replay decision,
and he gave his take on the replay reversal. As
(05:35):
Warner Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
For that call to be made. I'm dumbfounded. It's absolutely
one of the worst calls I've ever seen, and it
was done by replay. I just don't get it. I
don't care how many times they'll try to explain it.
You can't do that in that situation. It's a shame.
It's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Really, Bochie sounds like a cowboy in my head, would
sound in the Old West, right, the Old West, and
doesn't sound like he's riding a horse and he's coming
in there and he's got you know, this guy's a
gun on his belt. There has got the yeah, all right,
here's more from Bruce Bouchie. Here is Boche. I know
him when he was the Padres manager and nobody thought
(06:18):
he was all that good. But anyway, here's Bruce Bochie,
you got commenting on the Rangers catcher. He defends he
Brochie's an old catcher. He defends the Rangers catcher.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Listen, there was never any contact with the catcher. It's
a sweet tag. I don't get it. I really don't.
I'm just again, I'm shocked. You know, Jonah did a
great job there. You know, the throw took him to
the left a little bit. Sweet tag. I'm lost on
this one, and you know that's that's a tough one
to take.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So there's Bruce Bochie from the Old West. So let
us discuss the question on this one. What do you
make of Bruce Bochie being dumbfounded by the Ranger catcher's
interference being reversed on the replay in Major League Baseball
headquarters there in Manhattan. So I've got sword, thermometer and
(07:09):
Piggy and we will combine all of these random things
together and we are going to make a Texas two
step is what we're going to make. So, first of all,
I not that it matters. I like Bruce Bochie. Bruce
Bochi was a very down to earth guy when he
managed the Potter. I worked in San Diego and Bochie
would hang out at the pool hall, played pool with
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Bruce Bochie a couple of times before he started winning
World Series with the Jets. So I like Boachie. But
at the same time, and I agree, it was a
terrible call and all that right, A terrible call. Clearly,
this is ridiculous. It was malfeasance by whoever was in
the replay center at Major League Baseball, Like, what are
you doing? I mean, are you that pathetic of a
(07:54):
human being that you think that was obstruction by the catcher?
Blind Emmett, Bien Scott, the callers of our show would
see better than these these moron whoever it was in
Major League Baseball, So the replay center botched it malfeasans.
But at the same time, here's the reason I love
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this story so much. Okay, this is justice served by
for Bruce Bochie, for Bochie, this is justice served. And
then he explain why this is why it's justice served
for Bruce Bochie because I am old enough to remember
long ago over I think it was almost a decade. Actually,
it was more than a decade ago that Bruce Bochie
(08:38):
was managing the Higantes, And when you look at his
past he's got a lot of hootzba, a lot of
hootzba because Bruce Bochie it's all about swords. You live
by the sword, you die by the sword. When he
was managing the Giants, he's learning what goes around comes
around because back in twenty eleven, the Giants were playing
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the Marlins and they the top player, young player for
the Giants was a guy named Buster Posey. He's now retired,
long retired, but Buster Posey was the top player for
the Giants and he got absolutely trucked, taken out by
a freight train from the Marlins, some no name guy
(09:19):
named Cousins, I forget what his first name was for
the Marlins, but he took out the Giants catcher. And
when I say he took out Buster Posey, he literally
took the man out like his leg was shattered in
pieces out that kind of like the bone was broken.
It was bad. And so this became a huge talking
(09:41):
point at that time in baseball. Now, it didn't happen
right away, and some Giant apologists in the media say
it wasn't book was a bolster posal. Yes, it was, dummies,
it was the Buster Posy rule, because that was the
thing that pushed pushed the ground swell of support to
change the rules because forever baseball have been played since
(10:05):
the eighteen seventies and taking out the catcher at the
play at home play was part of the game, one
of the most exciting plays in baseball, and the league decided,
in large part it started with Buster Posey that this
was not great because you're going to take out our
star players, and so we have to put rules in,
(10:26):
we have to put guardrails in. And that was the
onus that led the inspiration that led to what has
become the Buster Posey role. It took about three years
for that to be finally implemented, but it started because
of him and Bruce Bochie was the Giants manager, and
Bruce Bochie was the one that complained the loudest and
(10:46):
the Giants organization. So here we are all these years later,
and again what goes around comes around Bruce Bochi's managing
the Texas Rangers and a rule that the team he
was working for advocated for the Giants had it has
now become reality and his team got hosed by the
Buster Posey rule. How wonderful is that two most exciting
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plays in baseball were the play at home plate and
trying to break up a double play at second base
that's also been taken out. That was the Chase Utlely
rule because a Mets infielder was in the wrong position
and got taken out by Chase Utley. But if he
had been the right position, he would not have been
(11:29):
injured in the way he was, and so they changed
that rule as so Bruce Bochy all up in arms
right now. Secondly, a couple of things in baseball here
that I want to discuss. And we've also learned that
there's a survey that was done by the Athletic and
it's an off the record thing, you know, they don't
(11:49):
put your name on it and all that stuff, but
they asked a bunch of questions the players. One of
the players that was talked about in this survey was
Shohei Otani and it's buried behind a paywall on the Athletic,
but a group of anonymous players voted and they picked
sho hal Tani which team he'll be on in twenty
(12:10):
twenty four, and almost sixty percent of those that were
surveyed predicted that sho Haotani would be playing in twenty
twenty four to four the d oh D G e
RS Dodgers. Yeah, then the Angels were second. They were
the second most popular choice, but they only got eleven
(12:33):
percent of the players vote, followed by the Padres the
Mets they got seven point two percent. The New York
Yankees were on there. Some of the other teams that
got mentioned the Cubs, the Mariners, the Blue Jays, and
the Red Sox. They also received votes. So Major League
Baseball players think that Shohei Otani will make a lateral move.
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He will leave the Orange Curtain, the OC and head
to the of inequity, the pit of homelessness in Los
Angeles to play for the Dodgers next season. So what
kind of odds? What kind of odds do we give
shoe Hey Otani going to the Dodgers. So I'm gonna
be realistic here. The Mallards Sportsbook odds on this at
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plus one seventy five. That implies there's a about a
thirty five percent chance. And the reason I'm only going
thirty five percent, that's a three to fifty batting average
in baseball. The reason I'm not going higher than that
is the thermometer. The thermometer is malfunctioning here trying to
get the temperature in the room. Nobody's got a good
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read on what Otani's gonna do. Everyone's assuming he wants
to stay on the West Coast because when he came
over from Japan, he wanted to be on the West Coast.
So they assume he's still like that. But he's been
in state, he's been in the United States for a while.
He's had a taste of American baseball for a long time.
So does he still want to stay on the West Coast?
I don't know. Does he love Southern California? People say
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he does. Well. If he loves southern California and he
doesn't want to stay with the Angels with the Dodgers,
you could live where you live right now and just
deal with traffic and you could go play for the Dodgers.
But ultimately, does he want to set a record. If
Otani wants to break the bank, then he's going to
have to be willing to get the Mets and the
Red Sox involved in a bidding war, and the Giants
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and the Dodgers and all the big players for Otani,
and the chatter around baseball is so Otani does love
the Boondocks in Anaheim, even though the La Angels, there's
no fane fear, there's no hullabaloo around the Angels, and
they're pretty much isolated from the spotlight. And that the
Dodgers have a lot more buzz, but they're not. They
don't get as much attention as the Yankees do.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And the Dodgers keep raising the price of Dodger dogs.
They could just give that money to Otani, like a
one dollar for every Dodger dog that goes to Otani.
I think that's illegal, but he has the star dust,
he's the Unicorn the Two Ways Player show. Hey Otani,
he'll sell a lot of merchandise. So I give it
a thirty five percent chance that he ends up with
the Dodgers because they're gonna have to do something. They
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didn't do anything other than bring in Noah Cindergard, who
should be pitching Beer League softball somewhere. That was their
big offseason move. And you get Otani, you not only
get a hitter, but you also get a pitcher. So
it's a two for one special and everyone likes it.
It's not a deal, but it's a two for one special.
All right, final thought, real quick. So Major League Baseball
has implemented the clock this year and the players were
(15:29):
also asked off the record by the athletic No names
were used. They said, what about this pitchclock? Well, they
love the pitch clock, but the players have a gripe
with Major League Baseball. They think that there's too much pressure.
It's too hard in October to concentrate with the pitch clock.
(15:50):
So they would like the pressure to be dialed back
on the pitch clock. They said the league should either
eliminate the pitchclock in playoff baseball or other people said, hey,
wait a minute, it should be lengthened. We have like
five more seconds instead of I think it's twenty seconds.
(16:11):
Instead of that, you have twenty five seconds. And so
that is the conversation. So players want the pitch clock
rules adjusted for the playoffs. Will Major League Baseball go
for this? And I am shaking my head. No, they
will not. I do not believe they will go for this.
And why Peggy. It's because of Peggy. They're pig headed,
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that's why. And Rob Manford and his flunkies at Major
League Baseball they love the timer. They're like me, you know,
I'm buy the clock for the clock, plausibly all about
the clock, and so is major League Baseball. They've gotten
great publicity and all that stuff. They can't get enough
of it, and they want these games to end as
soon as possible, as soon as possible. But ultimately the
(16:57):
decision will be made by the television overlords. They're the
ones that will decide. If TV says I like the
games the way they are, then the games will continue.
But imagine if baseball got rid of the pitchclock and
then we have a six hour game between the Red
Sox and Rays in the opening round of the Baseball playoffs,
so the Yankees are playing the Rangers and it goes
(17:19):
on and on and on. Oh, that would be a nightmare.
No bueno for baseball. It is the Ben Maler Show.
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(18:08):
a Steven F. Austin bowling coach has resigned from his
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Hell yeah, go see lions and I'll live.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
From the tyrack dot Com. Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Back to the calls in a minute, but first time
now for the Mallard Riddle. Of the day, the malor
riddle of the day. Let this too much or not enough?
And here we go a Stephen F. Austin bowling coach
resigned from his position because of blank. Because of blank,
(19:18):
that is the question. What is the answer? Bengal fan
Bryan says he quit his job to become a school
bus driver. Yes, that is correct. Oh wait, that was Roberto.
Who else do we have? Let's see here? Uh ferg
Dog says for sticking his head in the shine. Oh ball, Oh,
(19:38):
that would be a problem. Fanley's Funhouse account says for
scuffing balls? Is the answer? Begel Boy says he was
caught watching Zion's Baby Mama only fans while on campus.
That would be That would be a problem. Robbie the
Marin defansis are injecting his bowlers with h G h Okay,
(20:01):
who else do we have? See? Coach was let go
for cleaning one of his players gutters, according to Fields
of Green, pursuing a career in Rubik's Cube solving from
the Late Night drug tester Big Gregor Buddy and Iowa
says he wants to be the new Big Lebowski. You're
not that far off, Sawman says he was caught waxing
(20:24):
the lane before a match. And who else do you have? Page? Damn,
I can't read that. We'll skip over that one. Miguel
on Fire says because he lost a finger on the
bowling ball return machine. Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie? Ah?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yes, he ate too many French fries at the bowling
alley snack bar.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That would be a problem, now the correct answer, Eddie.
The Steven F. Austin bowling coach resigned from his position
because of a love triangle. Bowling coach?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, how wild?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
The Lumberjacks or the lady Jacks. He's a women's bowling
assistant coach. Here's the love triangle. The head coach of
Steven F. Austin's bowling team was his wife, the assistant
coach's wife. He was sleeping with one of the players
on the team. What yeah, yeah, so Steven. Here's the sir,
(21:25):
So Steven F. Austin the women's bowling team. Who eve
knew this was me? So the coach resigned after the
school discovered he was having an affair with a player
on the team. But the guy's married to the coach
of the head coach of the team. Yeah, yeah, that's
got to be a awkward there, right, yeah, mah, try
(21:45):
picking up that spare. You think that players in the
in the doghouse with the with the coach. I think
she might enter the transfer portal. I think she might. Yeah,
that's what we call a seven to ten split. Let's hello,
let's see if we can look up the Stephen. You
think there's anything good there, Steven f Austin bowling team.
You think their photos online? This happened back in April,
(22:08):
so I don't know. Maybe they scrubbed the Internet of
all the all the photos there. Oh no, they've they've
got it. Oh yeah, and good there, Coop, anything stand
out you see here in as far as the players,
oh yeah, first round grade, second round, third round grade?
What are looking at here? I mean, hot, we pick
number one overall pick. I'm just saying like I'm looking
(22:30):
in like eighty percent of them, like wo oh okay,
mid middle to late second round, high upside, but you know,
big backside, You're not all right anyway. It is the
Ben Valor Show. Let's go to Poppy. Picking with Poppy,
(22:51):
it only gets better In San Diego. No God, please, no, no, no, no,
this is the part you talk here, Poppy.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
This is.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Changed by you on the other whole time. Poppy, what
are you doing? You knucklehe It's probably call him back.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
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Speaker 5 (24:04):
Give me a hell Yeah From the NFL. Former Bill's
Punch Matt Ariza told HBO's Real Sports he is filing
a lawsuit for defamation against the attorney who represented a
woman who claimed that she was gang raped and that
Horizon was part of it at a party. Turns out
he wasn't even there while he was playing football at
(24:24):
San Diego State.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So well, he was at the party, but he left
early before the incident took place. Is the way I
understand the story. And he's he's suing It's very hard.
I'm going to talk about this next hour, but it's
very hard to win a defamation lawsuit. He's a public figure,
not a big public figure because he's a punter. Yeah,
but he is a public Interesting he's suing the lawyer
(24:46):
and not the Well, the lawyer's got the money, that's
the one was sue the person has the money. Yeah,
first rule of civil case go for the biggest pocket exactly.
Whoever's got the most money, that's what you sue. And
whoever this the one is the young woman. I'm assuming
she doesn't have any money. She's also suing him, right,
So there, she's already suing him. It's an odd case.
(25:08):
What is she him for she's claiming. I think she's
changed her case if you if you look at originally
she was accusing him of the as I understand the
rape and then now that she he did some things
he wasn't supposed to do. He was inappropriate with her.
So I don't know, all right, I guess sue for anything, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
That's true?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah? Is that it? That's it My fun fact of
the hour. Do you know who Joe Adele? Is you
familiar with that name?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Joe Adele. I believe that is the singer Adele's brother.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That is correct. Also, as a minor league player used
to be in the big leagues for the Angels. Joe
Adele playing for the Bees, the Salt Lake Bees baseball
and he did something that got our attention. He hit
a home run that went and estimated five hundred and
(26:03):
fourteen feet. Whoa, yeah, they say it's the longest home
runs ever recorded. Now, years ago, I used to have
this guy, uh Quintin from LA who called me up
and said, when he was a kid, he watched Josh
Gibson hit a home run that was like eight hundred
feet or something like that, but this was five hundred
fourteen feet. There is video of it online and it
(26:25):
is one of the longest home runs ever hit. He
did it against the sugar Land Space Cowboys. So indeed,
I wonder what song they play it there at the games.
I can't only can only imagine it is the Ben
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we getting a bait king with Benny's segment? Oh no,
that was Roberto did that. I do my baking on
the weekends. That's my thing, my hobby, bake up some
some random things. So that's what I do on the weekends.
(27:11):
Let's go to the phones. Poppy has called back, so
we say hello to our friend Poppy in San Diego.
God please see if he hangs up again. Hello Poppy.
Oh my god, the wrong Oh my god, that's not Poppy.
Hold on, Poppy, that's still I'm so bad, Poppy. Can
(27:37):
I go back to the other guy?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
It's time the profitable.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Oh, this is a popular segment on.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
This is.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
This is a Poppy impersonator.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
It sounds like I've presented you all the way from
San Diego, California. Here he is for one night and one.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Poppy.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Thank you for that, my professional team. I would like
to say Mighty Mark on the bar, thank you, Mighty Mark.
I missed you.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I like it being proctice and I want to.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Say I want to say thank you very much too much.
Fred Good, Fred, Bruce Pumper. I love that introduction, Bruce Bumper.
But you guys are waiting for the pigs nigging with Poppy,
and you know it's gonna be a great day for
us today the baseball, we're going with the red hot
(28:51):
and in a row. We're going with the red tengis.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
In a row that that streak. Okay, we're gonna go.
We're gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
We're gonna we're gonna go with that dry beet that.
We're gonna go money line. We're gonna go with the
run line the whole game. We're gonna go the first
five innings the Reds winning guys, and we're gonna go
with Los Angeles Angels. Oh, Tony, Oh.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
You're screwed.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Coop Do You're screwed. The Angels are gonna lose now because.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Roberto, you know, Roberto's you know, gonna be right there
with the tawny, So there's gonna be some good luck
with the angels, guys. And we're also gonna we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
We're gonna go with the staffrance.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Let's go giants.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Oh good, all right, and there and there streak. Okay, no, no,
no that you know.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
The thing is, the giants are hot right now. The padres,
you know, the pa are gonna come hot on the
second half. So we're gonna ride the wheel, so the
wheels fall off with the giants.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Can we talk to that? Can we talk to Mason
the Millennial instead the whole country? You?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yes, you you can talk to Bruce Buffer.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Let me get.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Bruce Bumper.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Bruce Bumper said he can't talk right now.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Mason the Millennial not picking up the photo. Okay, all right,
it's actually Bruce.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Buffer, my friend Ben Maler. So those are my picks, guys.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Okay, good, all right, thank you go. Let's go. Now,
let's go to slug In Lost Wages, Nomada. Hello, slug
welcome everybody.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Mad clown wanna be Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
That's a good reference the mad clown from back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We look at that one, right, Help about this one nine.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
It would be I should get a little music for
this one.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
This is a moment in Malar history.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Here okay, here we go. This is big. You want
a drum roll. We're doing food picks. We're doing food
picks with Slug in Vegas. Here we go, big drum roll, Here,
big reveal. Everyone's wondering what's Slug about to say?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
In Vegas?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Donald Sterling called into a stick up for himself.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Oh I remember that, Yes, that that was an amazing
night on the show. That was wild right in the
middle of that Clipper controversy. Yeah, were you here that night, Eddie? Yeah,
we we have We're not we're not one hundred percent,
but we're pretty confident that Donald Sterling called up in
(31:23):
the middle of the controversy involving the racist claims that
were recorded of Donald Sterling Steviano, Yeah vs. Stiviano and
that'll h He called us up. And it's the ultimate
old guy move because we were on the Clipper station.
(31:44):
Everyone's ripping him, so he's listening. He calls up to
defend himself and yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Was also here that day and I was very very
upset when Slug told me that it was nine years
ago today.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I can't believe it's been nine years. Yeah, and we
took that part because but I'm telling you, no, we
think we think yeah, I mean we we think it
was too I mean, that guy never called before, he's
never called Saints, he had one topic. It's got all
the ingredients of the person involved making the phone call.
(32:22):
Plus it sounds just like I mean it's We played
some audio Sterling right after that, and it sounded just
like he sounds in his interviews.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
So just like, great moment that is.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
That is one of the great things that's ever happened
on the show. That's what I forgot about that. Yeah,
that's pretty well.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
You do your bacon on the weekend bacon.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
When I get home at night.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
That's a single life. You're living a bachelor lot. And uh,
of course that's a different kind of baking. I don't
I don't do that in a week all right, thank you, Yeah,
all right, thank you. So Louk, there you go. It
is the Bane Show. Yeah, true story. If you weren't
with the show back then, right in the middle of
that Chris Paul lob City clip controversy, the NBA force
Sterling to sell the team. Ultimately that's what happened. But
(33:06):
right in the middle of that, when TMC started reporting it,
we talked about it and guy called up. I think
he said he was from like Palm Springs or something,
if I remember correctly, but it was it was somebody
that sounded just like Donald Sterling, that wanted to defend
Donald Sterling when no one else wanted to defend Donald Sterling,
the guy that used to own the Clippers at that time.
(33:26):
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(34:16):
I'll lie from the tire Rock dot Com, Fox Sports
Radio Studios. It's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
It's another Ben Maller game.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We've endured too many of these.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Is it too much or not enough enough?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Already too much or not enough? Us? Welcome in our contestants.
From our contestants, I should say, from North Carolina, we
say hello to Chris. Hello, Chris, good morning. Oh hold
on a second, there you go, there you are, Chris.
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Man?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
I'm driving to work?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah? What kind of work you got going on?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I do a factory work? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Just how many hours? How many hours you put in
the factory. I'm about forty to fifty a week.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
What kind of stuff are you making at that factory?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
We're making scientific freeze. You're a refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
There you go. I like freezer's and refrigerators. Let's play
the game here. Good luck to you, Chris. You've got
to get three right to win the game. If you
get all five right, well, you're in a different class.
You're a superstar if you get all all of them right.
Question number one, La Dela Cruz, you know who that is, Chris. No, oh,
(35:22):
that's a bad sign. He's a baseball player. La Dela
Cruz and Will Benson, they played for the Cincinnati Reds,
the fifth pair of teammates in MLB history to hit
their first and second home runs in the same game.
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Chris says too much without knowing who he's even talking about.
Let's see does that work? That is right? Good job
by you, and the answer is too much. They are
the third pair of teammates to do so. Question number two.
Spencer Streider became the fourth pitcher since nineteen oh one
to throw three hundred strikeout in his first thirty five
(36:01):
career starts. Is that too much or not enough for
the Atlanta Braves starting pitcher?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
No, No enough?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Switch it up. You want to not enough? Let's find out. No,
that is in correct, that is wrong. The answer is
too much. He's only the second pitcher to accomplish that,
joining Dwight Gooden. Not Nolan Ryan good Ah, yeah, yeah,
you knew that. Come on, Christ all right, question number three.
Here we go and we go to basketball. Since the
(36:31):
twenty fifteen sixteen NBA season, Bradley Beal has had twenty
five forty point games. Is that too much or not
enough for the newest member of the Phoenix Suns. Not enough,
says not enough. Let's find out is that right? That
is right? Good job by you, your second correct answer.
(36:52):
One more right answer and you win the game. Not enough.
Beal has had thirty forty point games. It's great to
be able to take all the shots on a terrible
basketball team. That's eighth most in the NBA in that
stretch for Bradlee Beal, So to right one wrong? Question
number four for Chris on his way to the factory
to make refrigerators and freezers and all that. Here we go.
(37:14):
Austin Eckler. You know who that is?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You do? Who's Austin Ecler football player? Look at that?
You know your stuff, all right? You know what team
he plays for?
Speaker 4 (37:29):
What in the Vikings?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
No, that's all right, basically team in Los Angeles, but
not the Rams, the other team this, yeah, all right,
Austin the Chargers. Austin Eckler had the most yards after
a catch in the NFL last season with six hundred
and ninety five. Is that too much or not enough?
Not enough? This is for the win right now? Is
(37:52):
that your final answer? Yes, okay, let's find out that's
soon as Chris proves a very important life lesson. Chris,
you just proved you you don't have to even know
who you're talking about to win this game. That is
(38:12):
the beauty of the game. It's just simple, too much
or not enough? And Austin Eckler the Chargers led the
NFL eight hundred and fifty seven yards after catch Christian McCaffrey,
who used to play in your neck of the woods
and the Carolina's there, but now with the forty nine
Ers was second. Chris, have a wonderful day. You get
(38:33):
a golden ticket. Congratulations, you got a call that day?
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Gay yet thank you?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
All right, say I have a wonderful day. There you
go where he goes. Only he knows is Chris is
the big winner of the game. Now, we knew long
ago that you don't have to know anything about sports
to win that game, because we had the single, single
greatest game show moment in the history of the show
was when our friend hollering James, who has no longer
(38:59):
called the show because his phone broke and he can't
get it fixed. Apparently the cord to charge the phone
is broken. But hollering James called up Fast Asleep and
we based his answers based on snoring, and he won
too much or not enough, and so you wake up
by the end either no, he anyway up. But it's
it's a magical night. It was one of the great
(39:20):
moments in show history. It was so good. It's better
when he sleeps. Eh, snore, snore, Yes,
Host
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