June 22, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about MLB commissioner Rob Manfred admitting that he should have punished the Astros players for cheating, if there's anything Manfred can do to correct the injustice, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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one talking baseball. The commissioner of Major League Baseball has
admitted he screwed up the Asstros cheating scandal investigation. How
do you interpret these recent comments by Rob Manford? Is
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there anything the Baseball Commissioner can do to help correct
this injustice of the Asstros cheating scandal? Also, as an
added bonus, what are the chances that the Old Scouts
beat Big Baseball in an age discrimination lawsuit which has
just been filed. We'll talk about that and much more
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right now here. It is our number one. A change
of heart, A surprising change of heart. Welcome in the
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Shoot me. So I was debating. I was like, I
know the NBA Draft this year, it's our Thursday show.
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The draft has arrived. Whoo. And then I realized, well,
wait a minute here, Nana, for our purposes, there's something
much more important than the NBA draft. So we are
going to zig when everyone else zags, and our lead
this hour coming from baseball. Why we have new revelations.
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The book of revelations has been opened involving the cheating
a throws, the scandal. It's back, that's right, still got legs.
It popped back up on our sonar. And if you
have not heard the latest buckle up, we are now
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told that the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, who goes
by the name Rob Manford, has had a change of heart.
Say what, yes, yes, now he is singing from a
different song sheet. The commissioner now saying that he should
should have handled the astro scandal differently. Manford saying that
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he would like a do over on some of the
decisions surrounding the Houston situation. That's the direct quote, some
of the decisions. Now, he was referring to the espionage scandal,
the single greatest scandal to rock North American sport that
went unpunished. In a very worthy interview with Time. Yeah
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that's still a thing Time, but we all need time.
But the magazine which is now just a website. So anyway,
he sat down, did a little chit chat with the
people over a time, and Manford was spilling the take.
Quote is from the commissioner baseball quote. I'm not sure what
I would have approached it with giving players immunity, he said.
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I'm not sure what I would have approached it with
with giving players immunity, he admitted. Once we gave players immunity,
Manford stated, it puts you in a box as to
what exactly you were going to do in terms of punishment.
Quote continues, I might have gone about the investigation process
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without the grant of immunity and see where it takes us.
Starting with Manford said, I'm not going to punish anybody.
Maybe not my best decision ever. Close quote. All right,
so let us discuss the question here, how do you
interpret these latest comments from Baseball's Commissioner Rob Manford. So
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I've got the dripping knife io se and as an
added bonus, the cloud, and we will connect all these
things together and we are going to make an empty suit,
which is what Rob Manford is now. Fortunately, when you
do a talk show, you have to have a decoder ring.
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So I have my super secret decoder ring. And my
first thought here is that Rob Manford's a dope. That's
a rehash of an old take. But it's taken almost
four years because remember the punishment, even though the twenty
seventeen A holes they cheated in twenty seventy and likely
twenty eighteen, and who knows, I think they're still cheating,
that's my opinion. Anyway, they were not punished right away,
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right the punishment came out almost four years ago. And
now he has had become the Jesus Momon, he's seen
the light. But this validates what we have been preaching
from the bully pulpit for many years here at Fox
Sports Radio. The Commission's got no integrity. It's vindication for
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these seven three hundred and seventy nine Mallard monologues that
we have done on the cheating Astros. Rob Manford absolutely,
beyond a doubt, botched this entire chapter of his book
as commissioner. He screwed it up. He absolutely screwed it up.
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He should change his name. I know he likes golf.
How about instead of Rob Manford, Rob Mulligan. How many
times has Rob Manford come out saying, you know, in hindsight,
maybe I should have done something else here? The guy's
an empty mouthpiece. Now, the Commissioner of Baseball's job is
to be a shill for the owners, and that's what
he does. He's the bozo of baseball. But this is
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the darkest period in modern baseball, and worse than the steroid.
Here a stereo, You're a home runs team, cheatingly the
a holes from Houston. But why why? Now? Why is
he now going into the confessional booth Rob Manford? So
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I have a theory on why he gave this quote
right now? It is cathartic. That was the first thought
I had on that's this and I can say I
I made a mistake, and I can look up at
the jumbo tron there. If you look at the jumbo
tron for the commissioner, you look at the Q score.
It's in the toilet, right. He wants some sympathy points
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from the electorate. Now there's always the sucker fan. And
we try not to appeal to the soccer fan. But
there's a sucker fan there. Oh yeah, yeah, give him
a break. Come on. I love when the people from
Houston culp everyone was doing it like that. I guess
you out of out of jail. Spoiler alert. By the way,
a man for not getting any empathy on this show.
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He had one job to do, yet, one job to
do and use the iron fist. And what did Manford do?
We know what he did. He did a Vaudvillian pratfall.
The trap door opened up and he fell down and
he tripped. He falls in a very theatrical, dramatic way.
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This was malfeasance by Major League Baseball's commissioner. He gave
immunity to a team that cheated to win the World Series.
Why did he not have to give immunity why is
this wrongdoing well for many reasons, but the obvious one
is there was a whistle blower. Hello, which is ironic
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because that was one of the tools the A holes
were using to cheat. Whistle whistle, whistle, bang bang on
the trash game. Mike Fires is the guy's name. You
might might have forgotten that he was a big league
pitcher for a long time and he explained everything. He
spilled his guts. He had to cleanse his soul about
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what was going on inside that den of inequity in Hue.
And so you have corroborating evidence to back up what
Mike Fire says. So it's not just that he said.
He said situation. You have evidence. What is that evidence?
The World Series video by Major League Baseball Productions Hello, Yes,
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that is in the video. It shows the dripping knife
with blood all over the DNA matches. Major League Baseball's
own production arm in the Fall Classic video showed the
very setup behind the A holes dugout, including a table,
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trash can, laptop monitor, d N Nate Nang. Yes, just
as Mike Fires had laid out, the evidence is straightforward.
It is indisputable. You do not need anyone in the
locker room to back it up. It's right there in
front of you, all right. And secondly, is there anything
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Rob Manford can do now, now that he's had this epiphany,
is there anything that he can do to help correct
this great injustice of the astro scandal? And I say yes,
I'm a believer. No justice, no peace, and there was
no justice for Rob Manford in this case with the
A holes. So retroactively, here's what we advise. Two things
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can be done. Right, You take a page out of
the IOC playbook. Not a big fan of the International
Olympic Committee, but I would copy what they do. The
governing body of the Olympic Games, which is tremendously corrupt,
regularly rules that athletes have violated certain guidelines to be
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part of the games. And what do they do They
strip away Olympic medals, sometimes years after the Olympics. So
here's the first thing you do. You start, mister commissioner
by rescinding the hunk of metal. All right, that's the
first thing. You void the twenty seventeen World Series. Now,
I would advise you to retroactively suspend all the players
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that are still left in Major League Baseball that were
part of that team. That likely will not happen. But
when you advise the Hall of Fame, when you talk
to your buddies over there to Hall of Fame, you recommend,
in your opinion, based on the fact that you've seen
the light, none of the players associated with the A
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holes should be eligible for Cooperstown. Now there's only a
handful of players that would even be in consideration at
that level. But Jose Altuve, al Booo, Carlos Beltrop see
you later, Justin Verlander, Sorrey not Sorrey. Yeah, and the
other guys have fallen off. Bregman's not a Hall of
Fame or Correa, that punkin Minnesota, he's not. And while
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I admit these things are mostly token gestures, it is
a starting point. The real commissioner, if we had one,
would have banned all the players. Would have done his
job and banned all the players involved for life. And
also the A holes would have been banned from the
postseason for ten years. And I don't count anything they've
done since then. So to me, there's no reigning world champion.
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I think it's the same thing that happened back in
the in the nineties when there was no World Championship
crown because there was no World Series because of a
workstopp I look at it the same way in anyone
that has integrity. If you have no integrity, you count
the a holes as champions. So that's a sign. That's
a tail, all right, final thought, So on pivot away
from that, Rob Manford has another problem on his hands.
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So Major League Baseball has now been accused of blacklisting
a bunch of old dudes who were scouts. Does he
go to a baseball game, some old guy in the
back there with the radar gun and a clipboard and
a pencil, and they're sitting there and they're doing the thing.
So there's a new lawsuit alleging that baseball used analytics
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and the pandemic as a pretext to coordinate and systemically
discriminate based on age. There's seventeen formally employed veteran scouts
who have gone scorched earth. They have filed suit with
a Denver attorney in US District Court there in Colorado,
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and they've named Rob Manford as a defendant. Also, all
thirty of the Major League teams have been named as defenders. Now,
what are the chances that the scouts beat Big Baseball
in a courtroom in this age discrimination lawsuit. So I
read the lawsuit. Based on what I've read and the
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information I have, I give them a fifteen percent chance.
That's a one fifty batting average in baseball, right, and
the chatter is listen, here's the thing. I do believe
that Major League Baseball systematically took the guillotine and stopped.
They started chopping heads off of the scouts they thought
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were just old geezers, and they used the pandemic as
a smoke screen. I believe that to be true. The
problem is you have to show it. You have to
have direct evidence to prove it. You know, because you
can fire. Here's why you can fire anyone, anytime, for
any reason or no reason at all, is wake up,
you're an a whole boss. You're fired. However, you can't
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violate federal law when it comes to discrimination. Generally speak
and I'm not a lawyer, but I do play one
on the radio. Just do the overnight show. So the
employee has the burden to prove that they would not
have been laid off but because of their age. So
that is a relatively high standard. How are you going
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to prove that scouts are going to need direct or
a whole lot of circumstantial evidence of discrimination. So really
what they need here to win this lawsuit is a
cloud with a silver lining, or go a digital paper trail.
You know what I'm saying. You're feeling me on that,
So meeting text messages between some nerdy GM and higher ups, emails, etc.
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Because I will gere onto you that Major League Baseball
will just argue that all they were doing was modernizing
the workforce and streamlining things. And the scouts they weren't
fired because they were as old as Methuselah. They were
just removed because their job was no longer needed. They
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outsourced the job or eliminated it all together. They just
had a computer do what those guys did. And they
don't really value a bunch of guys that have been
in baseball for thirty and forty years and their opinion
the eyeball test. That's so old school. You're such a
boomer with your eyeball test. It's all about what's in
the algorithm. That's what it's all about, your big dummy.
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That's gonna be their argument. It is the Bend Malor Show.
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was a relatively decent sized trade in the NBAS. The
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Boston Celtics have unloaded one of their core players, although
not the top guy. I means. Marcus Smart was a
big part of the rotation for the Celtics, but he's out.
He goes to Memphis in the three team trade. And
one of the softest players I've ever seen in my life,
Chris tops Porzingis, is now a Celtic, and I'm sure
the Boston fan will appreciate a level of softness you
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have not seen in some time. That will go well,
what could possibly go wrong with that? Nothing at all? Right,
some legendary laundry and a baseball owner seems genuinely confused
by something that is rather obvious. We'll get to that,
and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (17:57):
Rob Manford has admitted he screwed up. He's a fit.
Heil you're at his job. That's how I took it.
And he's admitted now that the a holes should have
been punished, that he gave them a pass. He's now
admitted this. We all knew it and now he's admitted it.
And the A hole fans are not having a good
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time as they deal with this. They are really really
upset that this has happened here. This is a body blow,
body blow, body blow, body blow, Ivan, big fan of
the a holes. He is devastated here. He is having
a meltdown on social media, sending me a bunch of
random gibberish. It's upset. He is big Greg and iowas
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is Rob Manford. Right before he made his Astros comment.
Because a little kid, old people and drunks tell the truth,
he says, little kids, old people and drunks. Okay, I
don't know which one Rob Manford is, but I think
we can assume which one he is. Jeremy says, a
plus plus plus plus plus on the Mallard monologue. Who
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else do we have a page down, a page down
the burner account? The number one burner account says, not
to be confused with number two or number three, says,
will someone take man Fraud behind the building and put
him out of his misery? Pleases Commission. The best thing
he should have done was never say another word about
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the situation. Now he looks even dumber. What a bozo
that is from the Burner account, a Rich writes in,
and he says, any Mallard monologue ripping the cheating Astros
and the cocker roach that is Rob man Fraud is
an automatic A plus also I know P one listeners
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never get shout outs on their birthday, so ill assume
I will not get one. That is correct, Rich, I
help you understand. It's not personal at all, and I
wish I could give you a shout out on your birthday,
but they don't pay me enough for that around here.
That's the rate. When they do, like a morning Zoo show,
they pay you more for that that you do the
shout outs and the shout outs there of the morning
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Zoos show or mid days anything between six am and
six pm. Because there are two different worlds. I was
in a production meeting. It's not Iowa Sam about this.
There's two different worlds because you have like the six
am six pm world, and then we have the world
we're in, which is like the Twilight Zone from six
pm to six am. Totally different world, but we have
more fun. We have more fun in our world. So
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I like our world. There's other things I don't like
about it, but nothing's perfect. Nature Boy writes in and
says the least man fraud could have done to send
Al two to a certain island after the astro scandal.
Did nothing? What a loser. Next thing, you know, we'll
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have rapist Wednesdays at the ballpark. Well, I don't think
that'll that'll happen. Ryan points out the evidence. Check him
for the buzzer. Yeah, the tove buzzer, which they conveniently
swept under the rug when he had the buzzer on
to hit the home run to beat the Yankees in
the ALCS and then got all vain all of a sudden,
Wan no one to see the buzzer on his chest.
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Do not, He kept pointing at the buzzer. Don't, don't, don't, no, no, no,
don't touch the buzzer. Don't touch the buzz art just
Josh's thanks to Rob Man for the Astros are the
hunter Biden of Major League Baseball. Justice is truly blind
in America, so he says, we'll take some calls here.
It is a call in show. Is that coming up momentarily?
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But how about this Yankee owner hal Steinbrenner, The apple
does fall far from the tree. Hal Steinbrenner doing a interview,
a friendly interview on the talk station of the TAKS Show,
hosted by a Yankee broadcaster. I'm sure you're not gonna
get asked any tough questions of the guys on your
payroll and he's asking you questions, and hal Steinbrenner said
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he's a little confused by the Yankee fans anger at
the team underachieving now heading into play. On one say,
the Yankees were seven games over five hundred, but there
were ten games out behind Tampa Bay, which happens to
be a location where hal Steinbern lives. He didn't even
live in New York. He lives in Tampa and he
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know that's his deal. He says, I want to know
what the vibe is out there, and I understand they're upset.
He said, I'm a little confused the owner of state
of the Yankees this year, being the third week in June,
why they're so upset. But they're upset and that's going
to get my attention. Well, I'm sure it's gotten his attention.
Then he then he used the most pathetic excuse, Well
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because of the injuries. Yeah, okay, there has never and
I don't want to exaggerate here, there's never been in
the history of sport involving human beings, maybe with androids,
but involving human beings where a team has gone to
the beginning of their season, had the roster aligned made
it through the entire season without multiple players, often key
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players falling apart. That is the reality of the sporting life.
It's those that overcome that, the supposed war of attrition.
That's why the NBA teams jerry manner the schedule and
don't don't play their players throughout the season. Their star
players get time off because they're trying to jerry rig
the schedule, because they want to avoid the war of attrition,
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because they're they're weak that way. But there's hal Steinbrenner,
Dazed and confused. Dazed.
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Yeah, we have some news from the NFL and update
on Dolphin's wide receiver, Tyreek Hill. Authorities in South Florida
have decided not to pursue charges against the Dolphin Star
following an alleged incident at a marina yesterday in Florida.
What I understand, We've got a full Mallar monologue coming
up on this story.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Well, it's not a full full mal.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
What I understand we have a partial Malar model Malar monologue.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, on the game Tyreek Hill, who continues to circumvent
awkward situations. I'd love to know how much money was
paid to make this go away. Well, I guess we'll
find out if there was money paid or not. If
there's a lawsuit, If there's a civil lawsuit against Tyreek
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go we'll see about that. It is the Benmallor Show
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to hear from would be the irs. You do not
want to hear from the irs, and I did see, sir.
They're hiring over seven one hundred new people to take
your your money to make sure you pay all your
taxes on that. That's a great use there of government
resources to screw over people there, make sure nicol and
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dime them for every cent out of their accounts. I
bring this up because a former NFL player is now
facing jail time, jail time for tax evasion. That would
be a guy. If you're old, you remember this guy
because he played a long time in the NFL, one
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of the better defensive players. Part of some good teams,
teams that played in Super Bowls and some of them
won Super Bowls and they had a lot of success
in his day. Bill Romanowski, Ah the spinner. Yeah. Bill
Romanowski is now being sued by the Department of Justice
Tax Division, and they're alleging that the former NFL lineber.
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You see how much money he owes here?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Eddy, It's probably not as much as he spent on
steroids during his career. But how much is here?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
What do you think? How much does it cost? How
much do you have to owe before you get a
lawsuit from the Justice. Department of Justice Tax to.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Me, well, knowing them, probably not much. But I'll play along.
And you know I'm good at these games. When you
ask me to guess amounts of money, I love that.
I'll say five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
All right? That is wrong. The correct answer, Eddy, over
fifteen million dollars in back taxes, but a lot of it.
It's it's penalty and what we understand. So Bill Romanowski
and his wife, they are apparently they did not pay
their taxes and then there's penalties or and also interest
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on top of that. This goes back from nineteen ninety
eight to twenty oh seven, and so they were originally
ordered to pay a bunch of money in twenty thirteen,
so ten years ago. And I guess they decided they
want to pay it, and so they didn't pay it.
And according to the story that's bouncing around here, the
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Justice Department has accused the Romanowski Romanowski's of using corporate
funds that they they have a nutrition business and that
they're using they're using that to pay their pay their
bills and all like their nutrition food and grocery, you know,
the groceries, the pet food and all that.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Do you remember who he's spit in the face of
on Monday Night football?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Uh? No, I remember he punched the guy. Was it
with the Broncos and practiced or was it the Raiders?
I don't think he was the Raiders and it was
his teammate. Yeah, I don't remember who was.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
The guy that it was u JJ Stokes, Oh J.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I remember UCLA Bruins.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You Yeah, it was on Monday night football, Broncos versus
forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah. A good sports radio topic, not as good as
it would have been these days social media and all that,
but it was solid chances that Bill Romanowski has fifteen
million dollars to pay the government for back taxes. Go yeah,
go zero?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Is it better? Now? If you go to jail, do
you not have a spait of money? If you're a Romanowski,
he's in his.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
No, I don't think you get off the hook just
because you go to jail, isn't it really? I don't
think so.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Well, if you if you're a Romani's fifty, if he's
fifty seven. If you said, okay, I'll go to jail
for three years and then I don't have to pay
back the money, would you do that? If you're Romanowski
a million because you go to like a country club
jail anyway? You know, maybe I don't know, you go
to like white collar jail, right, I don't know. I
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don't know, not that I want to go to white
collar jail. I'm just saying so. Lest the Romanowski story,
let's go well, let's go to the phones. And who
do we have here? Any meany miny moe? Pick a
random caller, buy their name. What a grab bag we
have here? What a wonderful grab bag. Let's go to
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Paul in Rhode Island. Hello, Paul in Rhode.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Eye, Hi, Ben Miller, Mike pal Listen, I'm very disturbed
tonight I lost my favorite Celtics player, Marcus smartt.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Oh, that's right, yes, right are you? Are you sitting
shiva for Marcus Smart's Celtic career? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Man, I mean he's never gonna see a championship next year.
I know we got a seven foot two lumberjack like Denver,
but I'll tell you he's never gonna sniff and if
he's gonna be the policeman.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Paul, Paul, He's not a lumberjack. He's a seven foot
two ballerina, is what he is.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I said in trade,
we got the benefit of it. Another three point shooter,
an under the rim guy, I said. Another lumberjack like Denver.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
He's not a man, not a lumberjack. He's seven foot Paul. Listen,
if you blow air in his direction, he will fall over.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'll bet you. I bet you all right, let's bet
right now, right now, let's do it.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
I'll bet you two thousand dollars a month from now
until the end of the of of the when the
season starts.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
This guy's a month okay, the.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Guy they got it was it was okay, I just
wanted Marcus to be part of this ten year the
almost ten years been. What I'm saying is they should
have got somebody else.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Why why you like him missing those open three point shots?
You want to have him on the team for more
of that.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
By the skin of his teeth, he most eliminated the
sixth game. Okay, he missed that shot. But what I'm
getting at is this, he's the piece of the guy
that puts his foot down in that locker room. And
who you know who's gonna benefit from that. John's gonna
crawl like a little baby because Marcus Mott's gonna go
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over there and be the policeman in that locker room.
But what I was getting at, if you.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Don't police officer, get a you're part of me.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
What I was getting at is this guy was part
of the package. The two Jays him okay and uncle Al. Okay,
Now we got this other guy in here. Okay, But
I'm I'm definitely sure it was so close okay to
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winning NBA and Boston that they picked the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I'll say it again, you're too emotional. What are you doing?
I like the way that I like that, Marcus. I
like the style of play. But are you telling me
the Celtics are going to fall apart because Marcus Smart's
gonna be wearing a Grizzlies uniform. I don't buy that.
That's ridiculous. It'll be a brand new team. They'll have
different people stepping into that role. And for every good
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game Marcus had in the playoffs, I feel like you
had two or three terrible games.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Direct change in the game. You're correct, but but you
must respect what the rest of the league is doing.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I don't Why don't have to respect the rest of
the league. They don't respect me. Why should I respect them?
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Because you you have a job, because I.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Don't need I don't have a job because of those teams.
They haven't hired me. I've never been any money because
of those teams. Listen, there's one. I gotta let you go,
all right, I go. Here's the thing, Okay, we p
all of sports radio proved a couple of years ago.
If you were alive during the pandemic, we did sports
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talk radio for one hundred and thirty four days with
no sports. We don't need the NBA, we don't need
the NFL. We don't need baseball. We can talk talk
talk talk talk, talk, talk talk, and we had the
highest ratings we've ever had in the middle of the pandemic.
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Ben Maler, tremendous reading skills, Eddie again, a solid, solid job.
Way to go, way to go. Absolutely crying Craig, the
original crying Craig writes in from Boston. Not the original?
What's that?
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The original?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, he says, he's the original crying crag. Believe he's
all grown up now, Eddie. He said persingis is You
say persingis is soft? He isn't soft. You clearly haven't
seen Tatum play for the Celtics all, trust me. Yeah,
he makes Jason Tatum look like an absolute iron man.
That is what he he makes me look like. Anyway,
here's the who am I game? Entering the week. My
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batting average on balls and play is up to the
one hundred and forty eight points over last season, by
far the highest and biggest improvement among all qualified hitters.
In the post shift era. Who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? And uh Vic the
brick feel at you? Guessed by the Cowboy Killer Grimace
(36:08):
from Benito the Cowboy fan Quentin McCracken. There's a good name,
Late Night drug tester Jonah Hine guessed by malaprop Guy
Jamie Quirk from Matt the Warrior Raider. Former A's fan
Cade McNamara tossed out by Ferg Dog. That's his answer.
Who else do we have? Page down? Honey Boo Boo
from Scott in Rhode Island, Little Nikki from Milkman, Mike
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in Colorado, The Hawaiian Flying Hawaiian Shane Victorino Sawman his
contribution to the show. Who else do we have? Page down?
Page down? I don't know who that is. We'll skip
over that. Coco Crisp from Calligan, Tim Pumpsy Green from
Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Derek Bell tossed out by Chris
(36:52):
in Des Moines. Royce Smalley from Rob in Minnesota. A
serie racist drop from Big Lou Eddie. Do you have
an answer?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Yes, it's former astros or star Morgan Endsburg.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Is it Morgan Ennsburg? Is that the answer that is
not That is not the answer, Eddie. The correct answer
from your Texas Rangers. A former Dodger, Corey Seeger is
averaged up one hundred and forty eight points year to
year because they got rid of the shift. He's benefited
more than anybody in baseball time. Now four the MLB
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pick him, And unfortunately I cannot say who the smartest
person in the room is and all that because oh
wait a minute, I won. I want to guy, even
with Otani, who lost doesn't matter when, yes, right, I
am sure to take. I'm gonna take Shane McClanahan with
the first pick. Shane mcclann h he had a reason
that you won.
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Go ahead, Eddie, let's go with uh. Bryce Elder, hurry up,
Coop Luisa Rise.
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You guys are so slow, Sam back to back, Randy
Arose Arena and Justin Luca go hurry up, chop chop um.
You guys are not preparing. Eddie Jose Ramirez and Eddie Rosario,
Eddie Pazzi, Albie's who Mike is Stremsky take more time next, Hilaire,
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don't hurry up at all.
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one talking baseball. The commissioner of Major League Baseball has
admitted he screwed up the Asstros cheating scandal investigation. How
do you interpret these recent comments by Rob Manford? Is
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there anything the Baseball Commissioner can do to help correct
this injustice of the Asstros cheating scandal? Also, as an
added bonus, what are the chances that the Old Scouts
beat Big Baseball in an age discrimination lawsuit which has
just been filed. We'll talk about that and much more
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right now here. It is our number one. A change
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Shoot me. So I was debating. I was like, I
know the NBA Draft this year, it's our Thursday show.
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The draft has arrived. Whoo. And then I realized, well,
wait a minute here, Nana, for our purposes, there's something
much more important than the NBA draft. So we are
going to zig when everyone else zags, and our lead
this hour coming from baseball. Why we have new revelations.
(02:31):
The book of revelations has been opened involving the cheating
a throws, the scandal. It's back, that's right, still got legs.
It popped back up on our sonar. And if you
have not heard the latest buckle up, we are now
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told that the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, who goes
by the name Rob Manford, has had a change of heart.
Say what, yes, yes, now he is singing from a
different song sheet. The commissioner now saying that he should
should have handled the astro scandal differently. Manford saying that
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he would like a do over on some of the
decisions surrounding the Houston situation. That's the direct quote, some
of the decisions. Now, he was referring to the espionage scandal,
the single greatest scandal to rock North American sport that
went unpunished. In a very worthy interview with Time. Yeah
(03:44):
that's still a thing Time, but we all need time.
But the magazine which is now just a website. So anyway,
he sat down, did a little chit chat with the
people over a time, and Manford was spilling the take.
Quote is from the commissioner baseball quote. I'm not sure what
I would have approached it with giving players immunity, he said.
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I'm not sure what I would have approached it with
with giving players immunity, he admitted. Once we gave players immunity,
Manford stated, it puts you in a box as to
what exactly you were going to do in terms of punishment.
Quote continues, I might have gone about the investigation process
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without the grant of immunity and see where it takes us.
Starting with Manford said, I'm not going to punish anybody.
Maybe not my best decision ever. Close quote. All right,
so let us discuss the question here, how do you
interpret these latest comments from Baseball's Commissioner Rob Manford. So
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I've got the dripping knife io se and as an
added bonus, the cloud, and we will connect all these
things together and we are going to make an empty suit,
which is what Rob Manford is now. Fortunately, when you
do a talk show, you have to have a decoder ring.
(05:10):
So I have my super secret decoder ring. And my
first thought here is that Rob Manford's a dope. That's
a rehash of an old take. But it's taken almost
four years because remember the punishment, even though the twenty
seventeen A holes they cheated in twenty seventy and likely
twenty eighteen, and who knows, I think they're still cheating,
that's my opinion. Anyway, they were not punished right away,
(05:34):
right the punishment came out almost four years ago. And
now he has had become the Jesus Momon, he's seen
the light. But this validates what we have been preaching
from the bully pulpit for many years here at Fox
Sports Radio. The Commission's got no integrity. It's vindication for
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these seven three hundred and seventy nine Mallard monologues that
we have done on the cheating Astros. Rob Manford absolutely,
beyond a doubt, botched this entire chapter of his book
as commissioner. He screwed it up. He absolutely screwed it up.
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He should change his name. I know he likes golf.
How about instead of Rob Manford, Rob Mulligan. How many
times has Rob Manford come out saying, you know, in hindsight,
maybe I should have done something else here? The guy's
an empty mouthpiece. Now, the Commissioner of Baseball's job is
to be a shill for the owners, and that's what
he does. He's the bozo of baseball. But this is
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the darkest period in modern baseball, and worse than the steroid.
Here a stereo, You're a home runs team, cheatingly the
a holes from Houston. But why why? Now? Why is
he now going into the confessional booth Rob Manford? So
(07:00):
I have a theory on why he gave this quote
right now? It is cathartic. That was the first thought
I had on that's this and I can say I
I made a mistake, and I can look up at
the jumbo tron there. If you look at the jumbo
tron for the commissioner, you look at the Q score.
It's in the toilet, right. He wants some sympathy points
(07:24):
from the electorate. Now there's always the sucker fan. And
we try not to appeal to the soccer fan. But
there's a sucker fan there. Oh yeah, yeah, give him
a break. Come on. I love when the people from
Houston culp everyone was doing it like that. I guess
you out of out of jail. Spoiler alert. By the way,
a man for not getting any empathy on this show.
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He had one job to do, yet, one job to
do and use the iron fist. And what did Manford do?
We know what he did. He did a Vaudvillian pratfall.
The trap door opened up and he fell down and
he tripped. He falls in a very theatrical, dramatic way.
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This was malfeasance by Major League Baseball's commissioner. He gave
immunity to a team that cheated to win the World Series.
Why did he not have to give immunity why is
this wrongdoing well for many reasons, but the obvious one
is there was a whistle blower. Hello, which is ironic
(08:35):
because that was one of the tools the A holes
were using to cheat. Whistle whistle, whistle, bang bang on
the trash game. Mike Fires is the guy's name. You
might might have forgotten that he was a big league
pitcher for a long time and he explained everything. He
spilled his guts. He had to cleanse his soul about
(08:56):
what was going on inside that den of inequity in Hue.
And so you have corroborating evidence to back up what
Mike Fire says. So it's not just that he said.
He said situation. You have evidence. What is that evidence?
The World Series video by Major League Baseball Productions Hello, Yes,
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that is in the video. It shows the dripping knife
with blood all over the DNA matches. Major League Baseball's
own production arm in the Fall Classic video showed the
very setup behind the A holes dugout, including a table,
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trash can, laptop monitor, d N Nate Nang. Yes, just
as Mike Fires had laid out, the evidence is straightforward.
It is indisputable. You do not need anyone in the
locker room to back it up. It's right there in
front of you, all right. And secondly, is there anything
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Rob Manford can do now, now that he's had this epiphany,
is there anything that he can do to help correct
this great injustice of the astro scandal? And I say yes,
I'm a believer. No justice, no peace, and there was
no justice for Rob Manford in this case with the
A holes. So retroactively, here's what we advise. Two things
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can be done. Right, You take a page out of
the IOC playbook. Not a big fan of the International
Olympic Committee, but I would copy what they do. The
governing body of the Olympic Games, which is tremendously corrupt,
regularly rules that athletes have violated certain guidelines to be
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part of the games. And what do they do They
strip away Olympic medals, sometimes years after the Olympics. So
here's the first thing you do. You start, mister commissioner
by rescinding the hunk of metal. All right, that's the
first thing. You void the twenty seventeen World Series. Now,
I would advise you to retroactively suspend all the players
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that are still left in Major League Baseball that were
part of that team. That likely will not happen. But
when you advise the Hall of Fame, when you talk
to your buddies over there to Hall of Fame, you recommend,
in your opinion, based on the fact that you've seen
the light, none of the players associated with the A
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holes should be eligible for Cooperstown. Now there's only a
handful of players that would even be in consideration at
that level. But Jose Altuve, al Booo, Carlos Beltrop see
you later, Justin Verlander, Sorrey not Sorrey. Yeah, and the
other guys have fallen off. Bregman's not a Hall of
Fame or Correa, that punkin Minnesota, he's not. And while
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I admit these things are mostly token gestures, it is
a starting point. The real commissioner, if we had one,
would have banned all the players. Would have done his
job and banned all the players involved for life. And
also the A holes would have been banned from the
postseason for ten years. And I don't count anything they've
done since then. So to me, there's no reigning world champion.
(12:15):
I think it's the same thing that happened back in
the in the nineties when there was no World Championship
crown because there was no World Series because of a
workstopp I look at it the same way in anyone
that has integrity. If you have no integrity, you count
the a holes as champions. So that's a sign. That's
a tail, all right, final thought, So on pivot away
from that, Rob Manford has another problem on his hands.
(12:37):
So Major League Baseball has now been accused of blacklisting
a bunch of old dudes who were scouts. Does he
go to a baseball game, some old guy in the
back there with the radar gun and a clipboard and
a pencil, and they're sitting there and they're doing the thing.
So there's a new lawsuit alleging that baseball used analytics
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and the pandemic as a pretext to coordinate and systemically
discriminate based on age. There's seventeen formally employed veteran scouts
who have gone scorched earth. They have filed suit with
a Denver attorney in US District Court there in Colorado,
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and they've named Rob Manford as a defendant. Also, all
thirty of the Major League teams have been named as defenders. Now,
what are the chances that the scouts beat Big Baseball
in a courtroom in this age discrimination lawsuit. So I
read the lawsuit. Based on what I've read and the
(13:42):
information I have, I give them a fifteen percent chance.
That's a one fifty batting average in baseball, right, and
the chatter is listen, here's the thing. I do believe
that Major League Baseball systematically took the guillotine and stopped.
They started chopping heads off of the scouts they thought
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were just old geezers, and they used the pandemic as
a smoke screen. I believe that to be true. The
problem is you have to show it. You have to
have direct evidence to prove it. You know, because you
can fire. Here's why you can fire anyone, anytime, for
any reason or no reason at all, is wake up,
you're an a whole boss. You're fired. However, you can't
(14:27):
violate federal law when it comes to discrimination. Generally speak
and I'm not a lawyer, but I do play one
on the radio. Just do the overnight show. So the
employee has the burden to prove that they would not
have been laid off but because of their age. So
that is a relatively high standard. How are you going
(14:48):
to prove that scouts are going to need direct or
a whole lot of circumstantial evidence of discrimination. So really
what they need here to win this lawsuit is a
cloud with a silver lining, or go a digital paper trail.
You know what I'm saying. You're feeling me on that,
So meeting text messages between some nerdy GM and higher ups, emails, etc.
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Because I will gere onto you that Major League Baseball
will just argue that all they were doing was modernizing
the workforce and streamlining things. And the scouts they weren't
fired because they were as old as Methuselah. They were
just removed because their job was no longer needed. They
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outsourced the job or eliminated it all together. They just
had a computer do what those guys did. And they
don't really value a bunch of guys that have been
in baseball for thirty and forty years and their opinion
the eyeball test. That's so old school. You're such a
boomer with your eyeball test. It's all about what's in
the algorithm. That's what it's all about, your big dummy.
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That's gonna be their argument. It is the Bend Malor Show.
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will save the pro bouncy ball for later. And it
was a relatively decent sized trade in the NBAS. The
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Boston Celtics have unloaded one of their core players, although
not the top guy. I means. Marcus Smart was a
big part of the rotation for the Celtics, but he's out.
He goes to Memphis in the three team trade. And
one of the softest players I've ever seen in my life,
Chris tops Porzingis, is now a Celtic, and I'm sure
the Boston fan will appreciate a level of softness you
(16:46):
have not seen in some time. That will go well,
what could possibly go wrong with that? Nothing at all? Right,
some legendary laundry and a baseball owner seems genuinely confused
by something that is rather obvious. We'll get to that,
and we will do it next.
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Rob Manford has admitted he screwed up. He's a fit.
Heil you're at his job. That's how I took it.
And he's admitted now that the a holes should have
been punished, that he gave them a pass. He's now
admitted this. We all knew it and now he's admitted it.
And the A hole fans are not having a good
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time as they deal with this. They are really really
upset that this has happened here. This is a body blow,
body blow, body blow, body blow, Ivan, big fan of
the a holes. He is devastated here. He is having
a meltdown on social media, sending me a bunch of
random gibberish. It's upset. He is big Greg and iowas
(18:41):
is Rob Manford. Right before he made his Astros comment.
Because a little kid, old people and drunks tell the truth,
he says, little kids, old people and drunks. Okay, I
don't know which one Rob Manford is, but I think
we can assume which one he is. Jeremy says, a
plus plus plus plus plus on the Mallard monologue. Who
(19:03):
else do we have a page down, a page down
the burner account? The number one burner account says, not
to be confused with number two or number three, says,
will someone take man Fraud behind the building and put
him out of his misery? Pleases Commission. The best thing
he should have done was never say another word about
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the situation. Now he looks even dumber. What a bozo
that is from the Burner account, a Rich writes in,
and he says, any Mallard monologue ripping the cheating Astros
and the cocker roach that is Rob man Fraud is
an automatic A plus also I know P one listeners
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never get shout outs on their birthday, so ill assume
I will not get one. That is correct, Rich, I
help you understand. It's not personal at all, and I
wish I could give you a shout out on your birthday,
but they don't pay me enough for that around here.
That's the rate. When they do, like a morning Zoo show,
they pay you more for that that you do the
shout outs and the shout outs there of the morning
(20:07):
Zoos show or mid days anything between six am and
six pm. Because there are two different worlds. I was
in a production meeting. It's not Iowa Sam about this.
There's two different worlds because you have like the six
am six pm world, and then we have the world
we're in, which is like the Twilight Zone from six
pm to six am. Totally different world, but we have
more fun. We have more fun in our world. So
(20:28):
I like our world. There's other things I don't like
about it, but nothing's perfect. Nature Boy writes in and
says the least man fraud could have done to send
Al two to a certain island after the astro scandal.
Did nothing? What a loser. Next thing, you know, we'll
(20:50):
have rapist Wednesdays at the ballpark. Well, I don't think
that'll that'll happen. Ryan points out the evidence. Check him
for the buzzer. Yeah, the tove buzzer, which they conveniently
swept under the rug when he had the buzzer on
to hit the home run to beat the Yankees in
the ALCS and then got all vain all of a sudden,
Wan no one to see the buzzer on his chest.
(21:12):
Do not, He kept pointing at the buzzer. Don't, don't, don't, no, no, no,
don't touch the buzzer. Don't touch the buzz art just
Josh's thanks to Rob Man for the Astros are the
hunter Biden of Major League Baseball. Justice is truly blind
in America, so he says, we'll take some calls here.
It is a call in show. Is that coming up momentarily?
(21:34):
But how about this Yankee owner hal Steinbrenner, The apple
does fall far from the tree. Hal Steinbrenner doing a interview,
a friendly interview on the talk station of the TAKS Show,
hosted by a Yankee broadcaster. I'm sure you're not gonna
get asked any tough questions of the guys on your
payroll and he's asking you questions, and hal Steinbrenner said
(21:57):
he's a little confused by the Yankee fans anger at
the team underachieving now heading into play. On one say,
the Yankees were seven games over five hundred, but there
were ten games out behind Tampa Bay, which happens to
be a location where hal Steinbern lives. He didn't even
live in New York. He lives in Tampa and he
(22:18):
know that's his deal. He says, I want to know
what the vibe is out there, and I understand they're upset.
He said, I'm a little confused the owner of state
of the Yankees this year, being the third week in June,
why they're so upset. But they're upset and that's going
to get my attention. Well, I'm sure it's gotten his attention.
Then he then he used the most pathetic excuse, Well
(22:42):
because of the injuries. Yeah, okay, there has never and
I don't want to exaggerate here, there's never been in
the history of sport involving human beings, maybe with androids,
but involving human beings where a team has gone to
the beginning of their season, had the roster aligned made
it through the entire season without multiple players, often key
(23:05):
players falling apart. That is the reality of the sporting life.
It's those that overcome that, the supposed war of attrition.
That's why the NBA teams jerry manner the schedule and
don't don't play their players throughout the season. Their star
players get time off because they're trying to jerry rig
the schedule, because they want to avoid the war of attrition,
(23:27):
because they're they're weak that way. But there's hal Steinbrenner,
Dazed and confused. Dazed.
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on Dolphin's wide receiver, Tyreek Hill. Authorities in South Florida
have decided not to pursue charges against the Dolphin Star
following an alleged incident at a marina yesterday in Florida.
What I understand, We've got a full Mallar monologue coming
up on this story.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Well, it's not a full full mal.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
What I understand we have a partial Malar model Malar monologue.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, on the game Tyreek Hill, who continues to circumvent
awkward situations. I'd love to know how much money was
paid to make this go away. Well, I guess we'll
find out if there was money paid or not. If
there's a lawsuit, If there's a civil lawsuit against Tyreek
(25:06):
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(25:51):
to hear from would be the irs. You do not
want to hear from the irs, and I did see, sir.
They're hiring over seven one hundred new people to take
your your money to make sure you pay all your
taxes on that. That's a great use there of government
resources to screw over people there, make sure nicol and
(26:12):
dime them for every cent out of their accounts. I
bring this up because a former NFL player is now
facing jail time, jail time for tax evasion. That would
be a guy. If you're old, you remember this guy
because he played a long time in the NFL, one
(26:32):
of the better defensive players. Part of some good teams,
teams that played in Super Bowls and some of them
won Super Bowls and they had a lot of success
in his day. Bill Romanowski, Ah the spinner. Yeah. Bill
Romanowski is now being sued by the Department of Justice
Tax Division, and they're alleging that the former NFL lineber.
(26:56):
You see how much money he owes here?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Eddy, It's probably not as much as he spent on
steroids during his career. But how much is here?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
What do you think? How much does it cost? How
much do you have to owe before you get a
lawsuit from the Justice. Department of Justice Tax to.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Me, well, knowing them, probably not much. But I'll play along.
And you know I'm good at these games. When you
ask me to guess amounts of money, I love that.
I'll say five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
All right? That is wrong. The correct answer, Eddy, over
fifteen million dollars in back taxes, but a lot of it.
It's it's penalty and what we understand. So Bill Romanowski
and his wife, they are apparently they did not pay
their taxes and then there's penalties or and also interest
(27:45):
on top of that. This goes back from nineteen ninety
eight to twenty oh seven, and so they were originally
ordered to pay a bunch of money in twenty thirteen,
so ten years ago. And I guess they decided they
want to pay it, and so they didn't pay it.
And according to the story that's bouncing around here, the
(28:06):
Justice Department has accused the Romanowski Romanowski's of using corporate
funds that they they have a nutrition business and that
they're using they're using that to pay their pay their
bills and all like their nutrition food and grocery, you know,
the groceries, the pet food and all that.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Do you remember who he's spit in the face of
on Monday Night football?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Uh? No, I remember he punched the guy. Was it
with the Broncos and practiced or was it the Raiders?
I don't think he was the Raiders and it was
his teammate. Yeah, I don't remember who was.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
The guy that it was u JJ Stokes, Oh J.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I remember UCLA Bruins.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You Yeah, it was on Monday night football, Broncos versus
forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah. A good sports radio topic, not as good as
it would have been these days social media and all that,
but it was solid chances that Bill Romanowski has fifteen
million dollars to pay the government for back taxes. Go yeah,
go zero?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Is it better? Now? If you go to jail, do
you not have a spait of money? If you're a Romanowski,
he's in his.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
No, I don't think you get off the hook just
because you go to jail, isn't it really? I don't
think so.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Well, if you if you're a Romani's fifty, if he's
fifty seven. If you said, okay, I'll go to jail
for three years and then I don't have to pay
back the money, would you do that? If you're Romanowski
a million because you go to like a country club
jail anyway? You know, maybe I don't know, you go
to like white collar jail, right, I don't know. I
(29:35):
don't know, not that I want to go to white
collar jail. I'm just saying so. Lest the Romanowski story,
let's go well, let's go to the phones. And who
do we have here? Any meany miny moe? Pick a
random caller, buy their name. What a grab bag we
have here? What a wonderful grab bag. Let's go to
(29:55):
Paul in Rhode Island. Hello, Paul in Rhode.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Eye, Hi, Ben Miller, Mike pal Listen, I'm very disturbed
tonight I lost my favorite Celtics player, Marcus smartt.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Oh, that's right, yes, right are you? Are you sitting
shiva for Marcus Smart's Celtic career? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Man, I mean he's never gonna see a championship next year.
I know we got a seven foot two lumberjack like Denver,
but I'll tell you he's never gonna sniff and if
he's gonna be the policeman.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Paul, Paul, He's not a lumberjack. He's a seven foot
two ballerina, is what he is.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I said in trade,
we got the benefit of it. Another three point shooter,
an under the rim guy, I said. Another lumberjack like Denver.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
He's not a man, not a lumberjack. He's seven foot Paul. Listen,
if you blow air in his direction, he will fall over.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'll bet you. I bet you all right, let's bet
right now, right now, let's do it.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
I'll bet you two thousand dollars a month from now
until the end of the of of the when the
season starts.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
This guy's a month okay, the.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Guy they got it was it was okay, I just
wanted Marcus to be part of this ten year the
almost ten years been. What I'm saying is they should
have got somebody else.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Why why you like him missing those open three point shots?
You want to have him on the team for more
of that.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
By the skin of his teeth, he most eliminated the
sixth game. Okay, he missed that shot. But what I'm
getting at is this, he's the piece of the guy
that puts his foot down in that locker room. And
who you know who's gonna benefit from that. John's gonna
crawl like a little baby because Marcus Mott's gonna go
(32:01):
over there and be the policeman in that locker room.
But what I was getting at, if you.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Don't police officer, get a you're part of me.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
What I was getting at is this guy was part
of the package. The two Jays him okay and uncle Al. Okay,
Now we got this other guy in here. Okay, But
I'm I'm definitely sure it was so close okay to
(32:31):
winning NBA and Boston that they picked the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I'll say it again, you're too emotional. What are you doing?
I like the way that I like that, Marcus. I
like the style of play. But are you telling me
the Celtics are going to fall apart because Marcus Smart's
gonna be wearing a Grizzlies uniform. I don't buy that.
That's ridiculous. It'll be a brand new team. They'll have
different people stepping into that role. And for every good
(32:59):
game Marcus had in the playoffs, I feel like you
had two or three terrible games.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Direct change in the game. You're correct, but but you
must respect what the rest of the league is doing.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I don't Why don't have to respect the rest of
the league. They don't respect me. Why should I respect them?
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Because you you have a job, because I.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Don't need I don't have a job because of those teams.
They haven't hired me. I've never been any money because
of those teams. Listen, there's one. I gotta let you go,
all right, I go. Here's the thing, Okay, we p
all of sports radio proved a couple of years ago.
If you were alive during the pandemic, we did sports
(33:41):
talk radio for one hundred and thirty four days with
no sports. We don't need the NBA, we don't need
the NFL. We don't need baseball. We can talk talk
talk talk talk, talk, talk talk, and we had the
highest ratings we've ever had in the middle of the pandemic.
All right, it is the Ben Malord Show. As we
continue on further and further into the night, we're gonna
(34:02):
have Malor. I'll have an MLB pick him, I should say,
Here's the who am I?
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Got Mallard of a third degree? Next hour, here's the
who am I? Game? Entering this week, my batting average
on balls in play was up one hundred and forty
eight points over last season, by far the biggest improvement
among all qualified hitters in the post shift era.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
The answer? We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Who are you? Who am I?
Speaker 2 (34:28):
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Speaker 1 (35:12):
Ben Maler, tremendous reading skills, Eddie again, a solid, solid job.
Way to go, way to go. Absolutely crying Craig, the
original crying Craig writes in from Boston. Not the original?
What's that?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
The original?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, he says, he's the original crying crag. Believe he's
all grown up now, Eddie. He said persingis is You
say persingis is soft? He isn't soft. You clearly haven't
seen Tatum play for the Celtics all, trust me. Yeah,
he makes Jason Tatum look like an absolute iron man.
That is what he he makes me look like. Anyway,
here's the who am I game? Entering the week. My
(35:47):
batting average on balls and play is up to the
one hundred and forty eight points over last season, by
far the highest and biggest improvement among all qualified hitters.
In the post shift era. Who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? And uh Vic the
brick feel at you? Guessed by the Cowboy Killer Grimace
(36:08):
from Benito the Cowboy fan Quentin McCracken. There's a good name,
Late Night drug tester Jonah Hine guessed by malaprop Guy
Jamie Quirk from Matt the Warrior Raider. Former A's fan
Cade McNamara tossed out by Ferg Dog. That's his answer.
Who else do we have? Page down? Honey Boo Boo
from Scott in Rhode Island, Little Nikki from Milkman, Mike
(36:32):
in Colorado, The Hawaiian Flying Hawaiian Shane Victorino Sawman his
contribution to the show. Who else do we have? Page down?
Page down? I don't know who that is. We'll skip
over that. Coco Crisp from Calligan, Tim Pumpsy Green from
Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Derek Bell tossed out by Chris
(36:52):
in Des Moines. Royce Smalley from Rob in Minnesota. A
serie racist drop from Big Lou Eddie. Do you have
an answer?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Yes, it's former astros or star Morgan Endsburg.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Is it Morgan Ennsburg? Is that the answer that is
not That is not the answer, Eddie. The correct answer
from your Texas Rangers. A former Dodger, Corey Seeger is
averaged up one hundred and forty eight points year to
year because they got rid of the shift. He's benefited
more than anybody in baseball time. Now four the MLB
(37:28):
pick him, And unfortunately I cannot say who the smartest
person in the room is and all that because oh
wait a minute, I won. I want to guy, even
with Otani, who lost doesn't matter when, yes, right, I
am sure to take. I'm gonna take Shane McClanahan with
the first pick. Shane mcclann h he had a reason
that you won.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Go ahead, Eddie, let's go with uh. Bryce Elder, hurry up,
Coop Luisa Rise.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
You guys are so slow, Sam back to back, Randy
Arose Arena and Justin Luca go hurry up, chop chop um.
You guys are not preparing. Eddie Jose Ramirez and Eddie Rosario,
Eddie Pazzi, Albie's who Mike is Stremsky take more time next, Hilaire,
(38:16):
don't hurry up at all.
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