July 5, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben reacts to bad news for Yankees and Angels fans. Ben tosses out a potential blockbuster trade involving a swap of MLB MVPs. Plus, one local 10k race ends with a wrong turn!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird two talking base
Paul actually talking injuries in baseball. What's your takeaway from
Aaron Judge giving a state of the toe update for
the Yankees? Which direction is this Aaron Judge toe drama going?
And as an added bonus, how do you explain Mike
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Trout going back on the injured list for the Angels?
Amazing factoid on Mike Trout since he signed the four
hundred million dollar contract. You'll hear it here at the
beginning of our two in the malar monologue. Here it
is our number two. Hey, thanks for listening to the
Ben Mahler Show podcast. It's me Ben. Be sure to
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Speaker 1 (01:08):
The Bronx is a burden. Welcome in the beginning of
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in the jury room where we deliberate the news of today.
You could call this judgment day if you will. Our
lead coming from baseball, we've got state of the art.
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That's your state of the toe, I guess would be
the way we were describing updates on a number of
baseball players, including a Burly Bronx slugger. And if you're
not paying attention because you know it's a holiday, although
it's the day after a holiday. Now it's time to
get back to reality. But if you have not heard,
maybe not. Aaron Judge said that he is not sure
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how long he'll be dealing with the after effects of
his mangled big right toe. Is it true that Aaron
Judge will not be playing for the Yankees anytime soon?
It would appear to be the case. Surgery has not
been ruled out, although Judge claims that it will not
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happen during the season. He would wait until the offseason
to have a medical procedure. Judge was injured at a
game at Chavez ravine. He was taken down by a
bullpen gate. Yes, Aaron Judge taken out by a gate
on a bullpen as he attempts to come back this season,
Judge has been playing catch y like you did when
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you were a kid. If you played baseball, you played
catch He's also been hitting off a tee very lightly,
very lightly. But he's not playing baseball. You get paid
a lot. He ain't playing for the Pinstripes right now.
So let us discuss the question, what is your takeaway
from Aaron judge his injury update the state of Aaron Judge?
What is your takeaway from Aaron Judge's injury update for
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the Yankees? So I've got jam, meatballs without spaghetti, and
franchise charter, and we will lock all of these things
together and we are going to make a reality check.
Is which what you're gonna get and what the Yankees
are getting without Aaron Judge, a reality check you're gonna
get having to go back to the grind. So number
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get your binoculars out. Here's what I want you to do, Okay,
I want you to get your binoculars out. I then
want you to look off into the horizon.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
There.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I want you to look out as far as you
gain us night time, look out to the stars, the heavens,
as far as you can possibly see. And when you
look through those binoculars, you know what you're not gonna see.
Number ninety nine in pinstripes. Aaron Judge is not going
to be walking back through that door playing for the
foreseeable future. A man who is built like a Clydesdale
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has been taken out by an inanimate object, a gate,
a wall that does not move unless you push it.
And when he was first hurt, I flashed back. I
always bring this up. We talk about baseball injuries, and
there are so many great baseball injuries over the years.
Baseball players are the softest of the soft when it
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comes to this thing. But when Judge first got hurt,
the Yankees downplayed it got hurt. I think it was
on Saturday, the Yankees played the Sunday night game. Judge
was not in the lineup in that Sunday game, and
the Yankee said they just wanted to give him some
time there, and they missed a couple of days, but
he'll be back, and he wasn't gonna go on the
injured list and of course, a couple days later he
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goes on the Angel List. Needless to say, the rest
is history. It has now been over a month. Over
a month an injury that was initially just a couple
of days, just a bruise. The Yankees, in fact, had
let it be known that Judge had avoided the worst
possible injury, and now his status is indefinite, as an indefinite,
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not going to play. The Yankees are in a jam.
They're not in strawberry jam or peach jam. They're in
a toe jam. And the tutsi of Aaron Rodgers Rogers,
Aaron Judge. I got inon Rodgers with the mind, but
the tutsi on Aaron Judge. That's the thing here. The
Bronx Bombers are holding on to the final wildcard spot
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in the American League. Technically they're tied with the a Holes,
the cheaters from Houston, for the second wild card, but
there's other team's lurking. The Yankees are not guaranteed to
make the postseason, not that it matters, because they have
the East Coast version of Dave Roberts as their manager
in Aaron Boone. So they'll just continue on and on
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and on and on. All right now, page two, Which
direction is this Aaron Judge toe drama going? What direction?
So Aaron Judge said when he addressed reporters before the
Yankees played the Orioles in the Bronx, Judge said that
he can't play until he can run. That was always
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my argument when I played sports. They said, well can
you play? And I said, well, I can't really run
today or tomorrow or the next day, and so I
couldn't play. But he guesstimated Aaron Judge guesstimated that he's
at ten percent. Now, I always love the percentage game
when someone says I'm at ten percent or fifty percent,
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or my favorite is one hundred and ten percent or
one hundred and fifty percent, because you can't go past
one hundred percent. But anyway, he guestimated ten percent. That
is a sign gap. Unable to put the two hundred
and seventy two hundred and eighty two hundred ninety pounds.
However big he is. He looks like he's about two
ninety considering his height, but put that weight on his
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toe for real batting practice, and so that makes him
an albatross for the Bronx bombers, and you look at
the dinner menu and they're serving up meat balls without spaghetti.
It's meat ball surgery. That's in the future for Aaron Judge.
Good luck with that for now. Judge says that the
operations we told his operation was gonna wait until after
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the season, but that is of course subject to change,
depends which way the wind blows. Now, if Aaron Judge
goes under the knife, he will be knocked out for
six months. What does that mean? It means if my
math is right, Let's say Judge has surgery in October,
which to the offseason. So October, November, December, and you
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go through January, you got February, and then you've got March.
So that means that Aaron Judge would still be recovering
in spring training in February and March in the season
now usually begins in late March. Now, keep in mind,
Judge is in the first year of a nine year
contract for three hundred and sixty million dollars, a tremendous
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bonanza for Aaron Judge, an outrageously large contract. Judge had
a contract year last year, and he is now morphed
back in to the injury prone slugger, the guy that
Brian Cashman and the nerds in the front office did
not want to pay because they were concerned about his
health as he ages and gets into the thirty mid
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thirty range in a few years. If he's already getting
hurt now in his early thirties, how's that going to go?
So before this season, Before this season, Aaron Judges had
bunch of injuries, multiple injuries, including that last year he
stayed relatively heavy, but he had in the years prior
to that, a right calf strain, a cracked rib collapse,
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long left side soreness, and a partridge in a pear tree.
He had all of those things. I believe I might
have made one up. All right. Final point, So let's
get away from the Yankees. Here in Anaheim, they are dropping,
They are falling apart. Here man alive, the Halos are crumbling.
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My guess is Joe Madden, the old manager who's no
longer there, got a voodoo doll and he's been poking
the voodoo doll. And now these guys are all falling apart.
But the mid season meltdown is underway at the Big A.
It started in San Diego all Star outfielder Mike Trout
placed on the injure list with a broken left wrist
snap crackle, pop, and sho Hail Tani leaving his start
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against the Pod squad with an injured blister, so he's
gonna miss the All Star Game. And Anthony Rendon the
dead weight that that guy is. He's also injured, although
not supposed to be that bad allegedly. So how do you,
so let's focus on Mike Trout here, how do you
explain Mike Trout going back on the injured list for
the Angels? So it would appear that this is in
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the DNA of Mike Trout. He says he plans on
playing again this season, but if you look into the
crystal ball, and we have one, you should get one too.
If you look into the crystal ball, Mike Trout is
going to be out at least two months at least,
and that means all of the rest of July and
all of August, sometime in September, but that is dependent
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on if the Angels are still within reasonable striking distance
of the American League Wild card race. Mike Trout's contract
with the Halos, you talk about Aaron Judges contract, well,
Mike Trout's like, hold hold my beer, please let me
have this one. That's also a cautionary tale. Back in
twenty nineteen, Mike Trout signed a twelve year contract for
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four hundred and twenty six million smack Areus to stay
in Anaheim. And he didn't go to the Yankees of
the Red Sox or the Phillies. No, No, he stayed
with the Angels. And since that ink dry before, cast
has been gloomy with a chance of mangled body parts,
and he has had many more injuries than playoff at
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bats in his career. Certainly since he signed the contract,
he has been staying at a campground sleeping in an
injury tent twenty nineteen nerve issue in the foot needed
surgery twenty twenty one cash Strength. He made it for
twenty twenty, but that's just because it was a short season.
Because of COVID twenty twenty two, Trout diagnosed with a
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chronic and rare back condition and that's said to affect
him the rest of his career. Now twenty twenty three,
a broken left wrist. That is four medical maladies that
have taken place to Mike Trout since he signed a
twelve year contract for four hundred and twenty six million dollars.
You can do the math on that. Now he franchised charter.
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They've changed the franchise charter in Anaheim. They've now copied
Murphy's Law. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Mike Trout since he signed the contract, doesn't get a
lot of hype because he's a baseball player. We make
a big deal about basketball players missing time, but Mike Trout,
it's not load management, it's injury management. Trout has missed
almost forty percent of the Angel games since signing the
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twelve year forever contract. The numbers thirty seven percent. I
did the math. Since signing the four hundred million dollar contract,
he has there's been a possibility of play in five
hundred forty six games. That's before this season, by the way,
before this year. So he's missed two hundred and four
of the five hundred and forty six heading into this year,
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and Trout has He's now missed seven year for the
Angels this season, So based on the timeline, you can
add on at least another sixty games. So that means
he's gonna miss around seventy games this season. That's assuming
the risk does not have any setbacks and he comes
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back and play. It ain't my money, it's Ardy Marino's money.
And they had to sign him. They had to sign him,
they got him, and now they get all the benefits
or the non benefits of that. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1 (14:25):
I did an Aaron Judge Baseball Malard monologue here. Mike
Trout also getting a co starring.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Role in Right, You're not wrong on the Trout thing.
He got the contract when he used to not only
hit thirty forty homers a year, but twenty steals a
year and one hundred walks and one hundred runs. And
those things aren't happening anymore. I looked it up. The
last three plus years, Mike Trout stolen bases six total.
He used to get twenty and thirty steals a year.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Is it possible they told them, hey, you're back screwed up.
Don't steal anymore because that's going to do damage to
your back. So is that okay?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Save it for all those playoff at bets. He's literally
been in one playoff series his entire career, when they
got swept by the Royals.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That's the most amazing thing against the Royals. Yeah, the
Royals have been more successful than the Angels with their
in the last decade.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Mike Trout has had one hit his entire postseason career.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And if I remember correctly, it was in a game,
a lopsided game against the Royals and it was like
one of those like it was like down by so
many runs they weren't going to come back.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I just remember that Coop was ready to fire everybody
after that series.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah, well I think they have fired everyone that was there.
Congratu and uh yeah, but Mike Trout four injuries in
was it been five four years?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Five years now? I guess the year five this year.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And as soon as that happened with the swing a
night ago, we were on with Arnie and that was
the first thing I thought of was hamate bone that
you you swing wildly like that and immediately grabbed your wrist.
There's a b in there. It's a small one.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
How about a wild take? All right? I am now
this is this is original content, Steve, I am facilitating
a take.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Are you ready standing by it?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Angels trade shocker, They trade Mike Trout to the Phillies
for Bryce Harper and then sign Otani. How about that
hot take?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
That is quite the hot take because of course Trout Philadelphia, Jersey. Yeah,
that makes all the sense.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
In the orsi Philadelphia. Guy loves Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
More than Rice Harper from Vegas doesn't want the a's
in Vegas. Yeah, but he'd be in the Al West
and keep playing in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Tweet that out person, that's a good take, Mike Trout
for Bryce Harper trade.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Unlikely to make it right now though, because he's hurt Trout,
So you gotta wait on that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, and I'm sure he'll be back to twenty steals
in one hundred walks and one hundred runs scored before.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
If they can play their games andiamsport, they'd be okay there.
That's in Pennsylvania. Why not play Baseball's played games there,
remember they Yeah, at.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The minor league stadium, not the little league part.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh, same thing.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It's all the same.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You know how Ryan Berschinger got the nickname. Keep trying Ryan,
you know the story.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I have no guess.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah. So he was in one of the times he
filled on the show and he tried to log into
the company Twitter account and he reached the quota. He
got locked out of the Twitter account. The Fox Sports
Radio Twitter account was locked down.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
There's a limited number of times you can attempt before
they think you're a criminal.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's right, and so we the people at Twitter. This
was before, back when.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Twitter was like free and desirable.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And yes, before Elon took it over. But anyway, so
he yeah, you keep trying, Ryan, We just keep trying
and eventually you'll get it. And he kept trying, and
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
That's not that's not quite so bad. There was an
unnamed producer on another show that once sent the whole
network off the air.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Oh we know that no, no is this show, and
your voice was played to Seger. Your voice was played
when when there's a nuclear accident and the network shuts down.
You'll be the voice that is played.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
To say I am filler.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yes you are. And you were doing it. It was
it was really funny. You were doing college basketball scoreboards
and it wasn't college basketball season, but that was.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What well, Tank, This reminds me of the story you
once told on yourself where in the early early days
of Fox Sports Radio, this is how long Big Ben
has been here the anchor. There wasn't a full editing
staff to get you the sound of the home runs
and the RBI doubles and stuff that sometimes you were
actually going through the list of sound options that accidentally
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erased the home run. Yes, yes, yes, And there wasn't
anything else to play, so you kept hour after hour
replaying Craig podcasts.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yes, but it was a great RBI single. It was
really an impressive RBI single, and the listeners loved him.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
They absolutely loved it, really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yes, Yes, let's go to the phones. Mark the full
Name Guy is in Medford, Oregon. Hello, Mark the full
Name Guy.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Hello Van Mallard. You're nattering name, Bob of negativity. You
know you got this team, the LA Dodgers. You got
one of the best lineups in the major leagues. You
got one of the best catchers, one of the best
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in fields, in outfields, you had one of the best
pitching staffs. And you're spending all this time rubbing, rubbing
it into these other fans around the country. Are the injuries?
You know, you're practicing your shot freud when you should
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be shouting from the rooftops that your Dodgers are the
best team in the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
What the Dodgers are not the best team in the
midion League. And it's called a talk show, it's not
a local show. I mean, you want me to just
talk about the Dodgers every night? Is that what you
want me to do? Just do Dodger talk postgame. Just
I'll only talk about the Dodgers. How boring would that be?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Well, I would call in and tell you that the
Dodgers sucking.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, you're you're obviously you're a compromised caller. You are
a San Francisco Higante fan. You are still bitter the
Giants or the Dodgers left Brooklyn. Get because you're okay
with You're okay with the Giants leaving New York, but
the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn you're upset about.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, that's right, the Dodgers, the dumb dumb dums and
they left. Do I have to explain to you for
the one thousand first time, Mark.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Mark, you might want to get over the Dodgers. Hey Mark,
Hey Mark. The Dodgers have been in La longer than
they were in Brooklyn, so you might want to get.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Over No for a long long time. Ben Mallard.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The most amazing thing about baseball, well not the most amazing,
but one of the most amazing things is the Miami
Marlins currently are a wild card team, the Miami Marlins,
and they'd be in the number one wildcard slot. The
Dodgers are in the number two, and the Phillies are
in the number three wild card spot. The Marlins. How
amazing with Luisa Robberts.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh well, the Giants have been like committing Harry Carey
ever since they swept your your Dodgers, which annoys me
to no end.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Well, it's not surprising the Dodger for the Giants and
the Dodgers of the world champions. Every time they get
up to play the Dodgers, and when they don't play
the Dodgers, they fall apart the Giants exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
That that annoys me to no end.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Call them, don't call me. I don't work for the Giants.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Well I don't work for the Giants either.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You know I thought you did and that I should work.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
For the Giants. I probably you are much better job.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Okay, all right, thank you, Mark Away. All right, there
he goes, Mark the full name guy.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Giants tied for the final wild card spot. There are
so many wild card spots these days.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well, technically, as you know the time breakers situation, if
the season ended today by percentage points, the Phillies would
be the wild card team because in the loss column,
you can't make up a loss.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Do you know when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn at Ebbittsfield,
there was parking spaces for seven hundred cars for the
whole stadium. Yes, and the Dodgers never got a new
stadium hence moved.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Although they did talk about building a dome.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
They did in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I think that's where the basketball arena is now.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah? Yeah, anyway, current Rogers I looked at I've have
ten pictures on the injured list, and.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
We just point out I spent I was in New
York last week, and I believe the city is designed
for seven hundred cars that there are more than that,
because it took me an hour and a half to
get from the Lower East side of Manhattan through the
Holland Tunnel, and most of that was watching people walk
their dogs and watching dogs poop and getting further than
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I was in an uber.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And you can't turn around now.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It is only because it goes both the Midtown Tunnel,
which you take when you're coming from JFK, and the
Holland Tunnel, which you take if you're going over to
the airport in Newark, which is actually in a beautiful Elizabeth,
New Jersey. But it goes from six lanes to two lanes,
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So six lanes of bumper to bumper traffic into two lanes.
Who the hell fuck that was?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Who?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Singiusys, who designed the infrastructure in New York City in
Manhattan that said, that's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Oh ben too lane, that's in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh we'll be here all night, but not all week.
Not all week Iowa, Sam, No, one night only, and
then you move on to Des Moines or Iowa City.
Maybe I'll be back. I'll be back You sure about that? Yeah?
I will really?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Sure, you got a round trip ticket. You're not going
to stay there?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Will you be doing in Iowa? Sam? Meet and greet
while you're in Iowa? No, I don't. No, you don't
want to hang out with the unwashed?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
No, I would love to, but if I, if I
had the time. You know, you take these trips. They're
not even really like relaxation or vacation. You're like just
every day is cram full of stuff, you know, So
you want to have.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
A traditional Iowa trip, will just sit there and look
at the corn.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I would love to have three weeks off to watch
the corn grow and meet up with some Iowa compadres.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, yeah, I would, But how's that working out for you?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
The three week? The three week Iowa stin will have
to wait.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
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Speaker 3 (25:15):
Oakland A's won in ten innings at Detroit one nothing.
The A's offense went two for thirty one with twelve
strikeouts and won the game.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That is the first time in one hundred and ten
years that a team the Tigers, had that many strikeouts,
gave up that few runs and lost. Congratulations to the
Detroit That's.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Quite an accomplishment, sitting ovation.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
They've kept track of that stuff since nineteen thirteen, and
no one had ever lost in that situation since nineteen thirty.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
That would be way quick math over one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Well maybe in nineteen twenty it was one hundred and
I think it was one hundred and ten was the
number I saw. Do you want me to get you
the specific out.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
It's just it's a stunning stead and word anshime on
this show.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a long and you're you're a numbers guys.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, of course the Oakland A's are involved in a
lot of those types of stats this season, usually not
on the positive side.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, and the A's will be responsible for fully ruining
Las Vegas when they moved there, and parking on the
strip will be seventy dollars one hundred and ten years.
Here he is. Here's the stat. One hundred and ten years.
The Tigers the only MLB team to strike out twelve
or more batters, allow two or fewer hits and no
earned runs and lose. Since earned runs became an official
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stat in nineteen thirteen, teams in that situation it had
happened a total of three hundred and twenty times in
the regular season and postseason. Here's the fun fact. The
teams combined three hundred nineteen zero and one. There was
a tie. How is there a tie? There's no tying tie.
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I know Tom Hanks talks tying in baseball.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
That's great anyway, all right.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
By the way, as you mentioned Vegas parking, you can't
emphasize that enough. Used to be able to just park
at the MGM and go in and stamp the sports
book and watch Monday night football, and they're just increasingly
almost no places to park well, I am such.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
A tight wad. I found a list of eleven hotels
somewhat close to the strip in Vegas that have free parking.
I think that's down to nine. I think we're down.
And once once they destroy Valley's to build the A's Ballpark,
that's it. They will not be able to park there
for free coause he is going to play eighty one
home games in the summer, and then you got the
hockey in the winter with the Golden Knights.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Across the streets. Basically, yeah, yeah, the baseball maybe I
just walk it's gonna have the capacity of the Tampa
Bay Stadium essentially, so you know, well, they.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Don't even have a design. They don't know what kind
of capacity.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Have you been to the new It's Circa is downtown
Las Vegas? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It is amazing stadium sports book.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
The greatest sports book I've ever been to.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
So if someone's going there, say for the night of
the All Star Game, probably can't get a seat. There
is what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I don't know. I know for the are you are
you going to Vegas?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I might know somebody who's going to be there for
they all start.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay, all right, I know you should go. You have
to show you. It's such a nice hotel. There's so
many vagrants in old downtown. Yeah sure, yeah that there's
so many people that are just like complete losers. So
they actually have you have to have an ID to
get into. You have to be an adult. They don't
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let kids in the hotel, and you have to have
an ID to get there. They check it every door.
There's a guard to let you in.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Wait, it was just like a driver's license.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, just a driver Oh okay, but yeah, I take it.
It's like you can't just flash it. You have to
like take it out. They have to do that flashlight
thing to make sure it's legit. Oh yeah, you should
go there to Sagre. It's it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I'd like to see it. I've seen photos. I've seen
you tweet a photo.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
It is awesome. Yeah, it is stunning. And Brent Musburger,
I don't know if he still owns that one of
the gambling channels. They have studios right next to no.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I went the other stude. Do they still have the
one on South Point when they first started was there?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know, but I know they have studios there,
so I saw when I was sitting there losing my well,
check out shuck it down at nine. You're looking alive.
I love that. We had Musburger on my podcast and
he you know that story how he started why he
said you're looking live? You know how he started doing it?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Well, it started decades ago.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, well sorry, I mean before I was alive. But Musburger,
this is great. So he told me that he had
his buddies from Chicago would bet on the NFL games
right before. You know, it's amazing. But sometimes networks would
show video of it, like snowing in Buffalo on the
pregame show, right, and so gamblers would bet on it
(29:47):
based on the weather, but sometimes it wasn't actually snowing.
So Musburger as a tell to the gamblers, he would say,
you're looking live. This is the weather here, boy is
if you're gonna get your bet in, here's the way.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
So that was a nod to his quote friends in
the desert.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I think that's hilarious. And that became what he was
known for as a sports.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
One of his absolutely and then they had Jimmy the
Greek on his pregame show for years.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
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Junior became became the first Atlanta Brave to reach forty
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steals before the All Star Break since blank. Again, Ronald
Lacuna Junior becoming the first Brave to reach forty steals
before the All Star break since blank. That's the Insta Trivia,
the answer. We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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And we will have coming up in a couple of minutes.
We'll have Mallard of the third Degree. Time now for
the Insta Trivia Ronald the Kona Junior the Atlanta Braves
becoming the first Atlanta player to reach forty steals before
the All Star break since blank, that is the question.
What is the answer? And let's see does anyone know
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the answer? At Ben Mahler on the Twitter machine. That's
at Ben Mahler. And we go to the many, many
random names that are always answered here and let's see
your Captain Caveman guessed by the Cowboy Killer Bake McBride
from Malibu, Rubin wonderful name from the past. Ferk Dog
(32:26):
is going with the greatest competitive eater of all time,
Lardass is his answer. Who else do we have? Greg
Maddox mad Dog from brad and Montana. Bob in Parts
Unknown says Willie mays Hayes is the correct answer. Milk
I think so, Milkman, Mike says, just Hayes in Minnesota
(32:46):
Mike Ford guest by Evan the Depressed Mariner fan, Jody
Davis from the Late Night Drug Tester. Who else do
we have? Sir scratch Off says it's me? Bernie Kozar
tossed up by Maverick Callaghan Tim in Michigan's going with
Sid Rain Matt the Warrior Raider A's fan. Got it right?
Bad job by him. Craig Potkeett guest by Malard prop Gott.
(33:08):
That's because of you. De Sager, Ozzy Albi's from Eke
and Roseville, Minnesota. John Rocker from Shane and des Moines
Sewn in the Valley of the Sun going with Terry Forster.
Bob Horner from the Eddie Garcia Berner account and his mullet.
Who else do we have? Eric Davis guests by Hobby
Bobby the Great Atlanta Brave, Eric Davis, Chipper Jones from
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Don Juan. Who else do we have? Alf the Alien Opiner?
Got it right? Bad job by him and Polly d
John Rocker was also guessed by Shawn. Who else we
have John Smoltz from Bubbsy Page down, Bartolo Cologne from
the rob Manford Berner.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
These are only Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It's only Atlanta Braves. Yes, only at Atlanta Braves. Do
you have an answer, Otis Nixon. You're gonna go Otis
Nixon and Steve the Sager. That is correct. You got
it right. Otis Nixon.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Can't think of anybody else who has stolen.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Basis for that played with the Dodgers briefly back in
the nineties at the end of his career.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
And the glorious nineties in Dodger history.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
If you were to put an all alien team together,
you would have Otis Nixon. Sam Cassell would be part
of that. Yeah, there's a few others, but Otis Nixon.
I think Von Hayes looked like an alien to me.
Remember Von Hayes or.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Just the batting stance.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, the weird weird thing. Has Otis Nixon been staying
out of trouble? I know he had some issues there
for a while. I had some demons at the little
addiction problem and all that.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
Had some arrests, some arrests plural you don't remember plural no, yeah, yeah,
I mean there was like a few years ago he
was like missing and he was found safe.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
There was a story that was maybe like five six
years ago. There was something that popped up, and I
know he had some issues. He was like all of
baseball was doing cocaine in the nineteen eighties and he
was part of that, and then he got in trouble
for that. I think he actually got arrested for it
back in the but Otis Nicks and there you go.
Fun fact. Now the GPS story, we're gonna get to
Mallard of the third degree. So have you ever watched
the peach Tree road Race in Atlanta? Probably not. It
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takes place on the fourth JULYE Well, the reason I
bring this up is a random runner. By the way,
I'm looking at the clock. I think we're gonna push
back Mallard of the third degree for ratings purposes till tomorrow, No, no,
until later, Yeah, on time Mallard by the clock, four
of the clock, plausibly all about the clock. But anyway,
so they had this Peachtree Race road race in Atlanta
(35:37):
on the fourths Lie and the woman who was winning
the race, she was gonna get seven thousand dollars, seven
thousand dollars. She was right near the finish line of
this race, and she turned the wrong way. She went
down the wrong street.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
A running race, and she ran the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah yeah, during a Elite division women's bracket of the
Peachtree Road Race, a ten kilometer race is held annually
on the fourth of July in Atlanta. This woman took
a wrong turn and she cost herself seven thousand dollars
seven thousand smack a rose because she made the wrong turn.
(36:22):
Which is a good story, but not as good as
the all time greatest running story from the Boston Marathon back. Yes,
Rosie Ruiz who.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
She didn't take a wrong turn. No, she just didn't
run the first exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Oh you wonder how that must have happened a bunch
of times earlier.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Then she acted all tired when she crossed the finish
line first.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Oh, it's such a great is such a great thing.
It is such a wonderful And my favorite running story
of all time is Rosie.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Ruiz night didn't run.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Yeah yeah. And I interviewed Usain in Bolt one time
and ask how it was a paid thing. The interview
and Usain Bolt, and I was like, oh man, you
love running and all that. I remember talking about it
what he does in his spare time, and he's like,
I sitting around. I like playing video games. You know,
he just sits around because that's his work. You know,
(37:18):
running is not anymore. But anyway, all right, So that
that ends the track and field portion on your scorecard
of the show at this point. Yes, yay,
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird two talking base
Paul actually talking injuries in baseball. What's your takeaway from
Aaron Judge giving a state of the toe update for
the Yankees? Which direction is this Aaron Judge toe drama going?
And as an added bonus, how do you explain Mike
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Trout going back on the injured list for the Angels?
Amazing factoid on Mike Trout since he signed the four
hundred million dollar contract. You'll hear it here at the
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You could call this judgment day if you will. Our
lead coming from baseball, we've got state of the art.
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That's your state of the toe, I guess would be
the way we were describing updates on a number of
baseball players, including a Burly Bronx slugger. And if you're
not paying attention because you know it's a holiday, although
it's the day after a holiday. Now it's time to
get back to reality. But if you have not heard,
maybe not. Aaron Judge said that he is not sure
(02:15):
how long he'll be dealing with the after effects of
his mangled big right toe. Is it true that Aaron
Judge will not be playing for the Yankees anytime soon?
It would appear to be the case. Surgery has not
been ruled out, although Judge claims that it will not
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happen during the season. He would wait until the offseason
to have a medical procedure. Judge was injured at a
game at Chavez ravine. He was taken down by a
bullpen gate. Yes, Aaron Judge taken out by a gate
on a bullpen as he attempts to come back this season,
Judge has been playing catch y like you did when
(03:00):
you were a kid. If you played baseball, you played
catch He's also been hitting off a tee very lightly,
very lightly. But he's not playing baseball. You get paid
a lot. He ain't playing for the Pinstripes right now.
So let us discuss the question, what is your takeaway
from Aaron judge his injury update the state of Aaron Judge?
What is your takeaway from Aaron Judge's injury update for
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the Yankees? So I've got jam, meatballs without spaghetti, and
franchise charter, and we will lock all of these things
together and we are going to make a reality check.
Is which what you're gonna get and what the Yankees
are getting without Aaron Judge, a reality check you're gonna
get having to go back to the grind. So number
(03:50):
get your binoculars out. Here's what I want you to do, Okay,
I want you to get your binoculars out. I then
want you to look off into the horizon.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
There.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I want you to look out as far as you
gain us night time, look out to the stars, the heavens,
as far as you can possibly see. And when you
look through those binoculars, you know what you're not gonna see.
Number ninety nine in pinstripes. Aaron Judge is not going
to be walking back through that door playing for the
foreseeable future. A man who is built like a Clydesdale
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has been taken out by an inanimate object, a gate,
a wall that does not move unless you push it.
And when he was first hurt, I flashed back. I
always bring this up. We talk about baseball injuries, and
there are so many great baseball injuries over the years.
Baseball players are the softest of the soft when it
(04:40):
comes to this thing. But when Judge first got hurt,
the Yankees downplayed it got hurt. I think it was
on Saturday, the Yankees played the Sunday night game. Judge
was not in the lineup in that Sunday game, and
the Yankee said they just wanted to give him some
time there, and they missed a couple of days, but
he'll be back, and he wasn't gonna go on the
injured list and of course, a couple days later he
(05:01):
goes on the Angel List. Needless to say, the rest
is history. It has now been over a month. Over
a month an injury that was initially just a couple
of days, just a bruise. The Yankees, in fact, had
let it be known that Judge had avoided the worst
possible injury, and now his status is indefinite, as an indefinite,
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not going to play. The Yankees are in a jam.
They're not in strawberry jam or peach jam. They're in
a toe jam. And the tutsi of Aaron Rodgers Rogers,
Aaron Judge. I got inon Rodgers with the mind, but
the tutsi on Aaron Judge. That's the thing here. The
Bronx Bombers are holding on to the final wildcard spot
(05:46):
in the American League. Technically they're tied with the a Holes,
the cheaters from Houston, for the second wild card, but
there's other team's lurking. The Yankees are not guaranteed to
make the postseason, not that it matters, because they have
the East Coast version of Dave Roberts as their manager
in Aaron Boone. So they'll just continue on and on
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and on and on. All right now, page two, Which
direction is this Aaron Judge toe drama going? What direction?
So Aaron Judge said when he addressed reporters before the
Yankees played the Orioles in the Bronx, Judge said that
he can't play until he can run. That was always
(06:29):
my argument when I played sports. They said, well can
you play? And I said, well, I can't really run
today or tomorrow or the next day, and so I
couldn't play. But he guesstimated Aaron Judge guesstimated that he's
at ten percent. Now, I always love the percentage game
when someone says I'm at ten percent or fifty percent,
(06:50):
or my favorite is one hundred and ten percent or
one hundred and fifty percent, because you can't go past
one hundred percent. But anyway, he guestimated ten percent. That
is a sign gap. Unable to put the two hundred
and seventy two hundred and eighty two hundred ninety pounds.
However big he is. He looks like he's about two
ninety considering his height, but put that weight on his
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toe for real batting practice, and so that makes him
an albatross for the Bronx bombers, and you look at
the dinner menu and they're serving up meat balls without spaghetti.
It's meat ball surgery. That's in the future for Aaron Judge.
Good luck with that for now. Judge says that the
operations we told his operation was gonna wait until after
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the season, but that is of course subject to change,
depends which way the wind blows. Now, if Aaron Judge
goes under the knife, he will be knocked out for
six months. What does that mean? It means if my
math is right, Let's say Judge has surgery in October,
which to the offseason. So October, November, December, and you
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go through January, you got February, and then you've got March.
So that means that Aaron Judge would still be recovering
in spring training in February and March in the season
now usually begins in late March. Now, keep in mind,
Judge is in the first year of a nine year
contract for three hundred and sixty million dollars, a tremendous
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bonanza for Aaron Judge, an outrageously large contract. Judge had
a contract year last year, and he is now morphed
back in to the injury prone slugger, the guy that
Brian Cashman and the nerds in the front office did
not want to pay because they were concerned about his
health as he ages and gets into the thirty mid
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thirty range in a few years. If he's already getting
hurt now in his early thirties, how's that going to go?
So before this season, Before this season, Aaron Judges had
bunch of injuries, multiple injuries, including that last year he
stayed relatively heavy, but he had in the years prior
to that, a right calf strain, a cracked rib collapse,
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long left side soreness, and a partridge in a pear tree.
He had all of those things. I believe I might
have made one up. All right. Final point, So let's
get away from the Yankees. Here in Anaheim, they are dropping,
They are falling apart. Here man alive, the Halos are crumbling.
(09:30):
My guess is Joe Madden, the old manager who's no
longer there, got a voodoo doll and he's been poking
the voodoo doll. And now these guys are all falling apart.
But the mid season meltdown is underway at the Big A.
It started in San Diego all Star outfielder Mike Trout
placed on the injure list with a broken left wrist
snap crackle, pop, and sho Hail Tani leaving his start
(09:55):
against the Pod squad with an injured blister, so he's
gonna miss the All Star Game. And Anthony Rendon the
dead weight that that guy is. He's also injured, although
not supposed to be that bad allegedly. So how do you,
so let's focus on Mike Trout here, how do you
explain Mike Trout going back on the injured list for
the Angels? So it would appear that this is in
(10:18):
the DNA of Mike Trout. He says he plans on
playing again this season, but if you look into the
crystal ball, and we have one, you should get one too.
If you look into the crystal ball, Mike Trout is
going to be out at least two months at least,
and that means all of the rest of July and
all of August, sometime in September, but that is dependent
(10:39):
on if the Angels are still within reasonable striking distance
of the American League Wild card race. Mike Trout's contract
with the Halos, you talk about Aaron Judges contract, well,
Mike Trout's like, hold hold my beer, please let me
have this one. That's also a cautionary tale. Back in
twenty nineteen, Mike Trout signed a twelve year contract for
(11:00):
four hundred and twenty six million smack Areus to stay
in Anaheim. And he didn't go to the Yankees of
the Red Sox or the Phillies. No, No, he stayed
with the Angels. And since that ink dry before, cast
has been gloomy with a chance of mangled body parts,
and he has had many more injuries than playoff at
(11:25):
bats in his career. Certainly since he signed the contract,
he has been staying at a campground sleeping in an
injury tent twenty nineteen nerve issue in the foot needed
surgery twenty twenty one cash Strength. He made it for
twenty twenty, but that's just because it was a short season.
Because of COVID twenty twenty two, Trout diagnosed with a
(11:46):
chronic and rare back condition and that's said to affect
him the rest of his career. Now twenty twenty three,
a broken left wrist. That is four medical maladies that
have taken place to Mike Trout since he signed a
twelve year contract for four hundred and twenty six million dollars.
You can do the math on that. Now he franchised charter.
(12:11):
They've changed the franchise charter in Anaheim. They've now copied
Murphy's Law. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Mike Trout since he signed the contract, doesn't get a
lot of hype because he's a baseball player. We make
a big deal about basketball players missing time, but Mike Trout,
it's not load management, it's injury management. Trout has missed
almost forty percent of the Angel games since signing the
(12:35):
twelve year forever contract. The numbers thirty seven percent. I
did the math. Since signing the four hundred million dollar contract,
he has there's been a possibility of play in five
hundred forty six games. That's before this season, by the way,
before this year. So he's missed two hundred and four
of the five hundred and forty six heading into this year,
(12:57):
and Trout has He's now missed seven year for the
Angels this season, So based on the timeline, you can
add on at least another sixty games. So that means
he's gonna miss around seventy games this season. That's assuming
the risk does not have any setbacks and he comes
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back and play. It ain't my money, it's Ardy Marino's money.
And they had to sign him. They had to sign him,
they got him, and now they get all the benefits
or the non benefits of that. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1 (14:25):
I did an Aaron Judge Baseball Malard monologue here. Mike
Trout also getting a co starring.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Role in Right, You're not wrong on the Trout thing.
He got the contract when he used to not only
hit thirty forty homers a year, but twenty steals a
year and one hundred walks and one hundred runs. And
those things aren't happening anymore. I looked it up. The
last three plus years, Mike Trout stolen bases six total.
He used to get twenty and thirty steals a year.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Is it possible they told them, hey, you're back screwed up.
Don't steal anymore because that's going to do damage to
your back. So is that okay?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Save it for all those playoff at bets. He's literally
been in one playoff series his entire career, when they
got swept by the Royals.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
That's the most amazing thing against the Royals. Yeah, the
Royals have been more successful than the Angels with their
in the last decade.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Mike Trout has had one hit his entire postseason career.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And if I remember correctly, it was in a game,
a lopsided game against the Royals and it was like
one of those like it was like down by so
many runs they weren't going to come back.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I just remember that Coop was ready to fire everybody
after that series.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah, well I think they have fired everyone that was there.
Congratu and uh yeah, but Mike Trout four injuries in
was it been five four years?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Five years now? I guess the year five this year.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And as soon as that happened with the swing a
night ago, we were on with Arnie and that was
the first thing I thought of was hamate bone that
you you swing wildly like that and immediately grabbed your wrist.
There's a b in there. It's a small one.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
How about a wild take? All right? I am now
this is this is original content, Steve, I am facilitating
a take.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Are you ready standing by it?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Angels trade shocker, They trade Mike Trout to the Phillies
for Bryce Harper and then sign Otani. How about that
hot take?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
That is quite the hot take because of course Trout Philadelphia, Jersey. Yeah,
that makes all the sense.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
In the orsi Philadelphia. Guy loves Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
More than Rice Harper from Vegas doesn't want the a's
in Vegas. Yeah, but he'd be in the Al West
and keep playing in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Tweet that out person, that's a good take, Mike Trout
for Bryce Harper trade.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Unlikely to make it right now though, because he's hurt Trout,
So you gotta wait on that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, and I'm sure he'll be back to twenty steals
in one hundred walks and one hundred runs scored before.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
If they can play their games andiamsport, they'd be okay there.
That's in Pennsylvania. Why not play Baseball's played games there,
remember they Yeah, at.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The minor league stadium, not the little league part.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh, same thing.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It's all the same.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
You know how Ryan Berschinger got the nickname. Keep trying Ryan,
you know the story.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I have no guess.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah. So he was in one of the times he
filled on the show and he tried to log into
the company Twitter account and he reached the quota. He
got locked out of the Twitter account. The Fox Sports
Radio Twitter account was locked down.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
There's a limited number of times you can attempt before
they think you're a criminal.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's right, and so we the people at Twitter. This
was before, back when.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Twitter was like free and desirable.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And yes, before Elon took it over. But anyway, so
he yeah, you keep trying, Ryan, We just keep trying
and eventually you'll get it. And he kept trying, and
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
That's not that's not quite so bad. There was an
unnamed producer on another show that once sent the whole
network off the air.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Oh we know that no, no is this show, and
your voice was played to Seger. Your voice was played
when when there's a nuclear accident and the network shuts down.
You'll be the voice that is played.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
To say I am filler.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yes you are. And you were doing it. It was
it was really funny. You were doing college basketball scoreboards
and it wasn't college basketball season, but that was.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What well, Tank, This reminds me of the story you
once told on yourself where in the early early days
of Fox Sports Radio, this is how long Big Ben
has been here the anchor. There wasn't a full editing
staff to get you the sound of the home runs
and the RBI doubles and stuff that sometimes you were
actually going through the list of sound options that accidentally
(18:43):
erased the home run. Yes, yes, yes, And there wasn't
anything else to play, so you kept hour after hour
replaying Craig podcasts.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yes, but it was a great RBI single. It was
really an impressive RBI single, and the listeners loved him.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
They absolutely loved it, really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yes, Yes, let's go to the phones. Mark the full
Name Guy is in Medford, Oregon. Hello, Mark the full
Name Guy.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Hello Van Mallard. You're nattering name, Bob of negativity. You
know you got this team, the LA Dodgers. You got
one of the best lineups in the major leagues. You
got one of the best catchers, one of the best
(19:34):
in fields, in outfields, you had one of the best
pitching staffs. And you're spending all this time rubbing, rubbing
it into these other fans around the country. Are the injuries?
You know, you're practicing your shot freud when you should
(19:56):
be shouting from the rooftops that your Dodgers are the
best team in the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
What the Dodgers are not the best team in the
midion League. And it's called a talk show, it's not
a local show. I mean, you want me to just
talk about the Dodgers every night? Is that what you
want me to do? Just do Dodger talk postgame. Just
I'll only talk about the Dodgers. How boring would that be?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Well, I would call in and tell you that the
Dodgers sucking.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, you're you're obviously you're a compromised caller. You are
a San Francisco Higante fan. You are still bitter the
Giants or the Dodgers left Brooklyn. Get because you're okay
with You're okay with the Giants leaving New York, but
the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn you're upset about.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, that's right, the Dodgers, the dumb dumb dums and
they left. Do I have to explain to you for
the one thousand first time, Mark.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Mark, you might want to get over the Dodgers. Hey Mark,
Hey Mark. The Dodgers have been in La longer than
they were in Brooklyn, so you might want to get.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Over No for a long long time. Ben Mallard.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The most amazing thing about baseball, well not the most amazing,
but one of the most amazing things is the Miami
Marlins currently are a wild card team, the Miami Marlins,
and they'd be in the number one wildcard slot. The
Dodgers are in the number two, and the Phillies are
in the number three wild card spot. The Marlins. How
amazing with Luisa Robberts.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh well, the Giants have been like committing Harry Carey
ever since they swept your your Dodgers, which annoys me
to no end.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Well, it's not surprising the Dodger for the Giants and
the Dodgers of the world champions. Every time they get
up to play the Dodgers, and when they don't play
the Dodgers, they fall apart the Giants exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
That that annoys me to no end.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Call them, don't call me. I don't work for the Giants.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Well I don't work for the Giants either.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
You know I thought you did and that I should work.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
For the Giants. I probably you are much better job.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Okay, all right, thank you, Mark Away. All right, there
he goes, Mark the full name guy.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Giants tied for the final wild card spot. There are
so many wild card spots these days.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well, technically, as you know the time breakers situation, if
the season ended today by percentage points, the Phillies would
be the wild card team because in the loss column,
you can't make up a loss.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Do you know when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn at Ebbittsfield,
there was parking spaces for seven hundred cars for the
whole stadium. Yes, and the Dodgers never got a new
stadium hence moved.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Although they did talk about building a dome.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
They did in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I think that's where the basketball arena is now.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah? Yeah, anyway, current Rogers I looked at I've have
ten pictures on the injured list, and.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
We just point out I spent I was in New
York last week, and I believe the city is designed
for seven hundred cars that there are more than that,
because it took me an hour and a half to
get from the Lower East side of Manhattan through the
Holland Tunnel, and most of that was watching people walk
their dogs and watching dogs poop and getting further than
(23:27):
I was in an uber.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And you can't turn around now.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It is only because it goes both the Midtown Tunnel,
which you take when you're coming from JFK, and the
Holland Tunnel, which you take if you're going over to
the airport in Newark, which is actually in a beautiful Elizabeth,
New Jersey. But it goes from six lanes to two lanes,
(23:53):
So six lanes of bumper to bumper traffic into two lanes.
Who the hell fuck that was?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Who?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Singiusys, who designed the infrastructure in New York City in
Manhattan that said, that's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Oh ben too lane, that's in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh we'll be here all night, but not all week.
Not all week Iowa, Sam, No, one night only, and
then you move on to Des Moines or Iowa City.
Maybe I'll be back. I'll be back You sure about that? Yeah?
I will really?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Sure, you got a round trip ticket. You're not going
to stay there?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Will you be doing in Iowa? Sam? Meet and greet
while you're in Iowa? No, I don't. No, you don't
want to hang out with the unwashed?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
No, I would love to, but if I, if I
had the time. You know, you take these trips. They're
not even really like relaxation or vacation. You're like just
every day is cram full of stuff, you know, So
you want to have.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
A traditional Iowa trip, will just sit there and look
at the corn.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I would love to have three weeks off to watch
the corn grow and meet up with some Iowa compadres.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, yeah, I would, But how's that working out for you?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
The three week? The three week Iowa stin will have
to wait.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Oakland A's won in ten innings at Detroit one nothing.
The A's offense went two for thirty one with twelve
strikeouts and won the game.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That is the first time in one hundred and ten
years that a team the Tigers, had that many strikeouts,
gave up that few runs and lost. Congratulations to the
Detroit That's.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Quite an accomplishment, sitting ovation.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
They've kept track of that stuff since nineteen thirteen, and
no one had ever lost in that situation since nineteen thirty.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
That would be way quick math over one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Well maybe in nineteen twenty it was one hundred and
I think it was one hundred and ten was the
number I saw. Do you want me to get you
the specific out.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
It's just it's a stunning stead and word anshime on
this show.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a long and you're you're a numbers guys.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, of course the Oakland A's are involved in a
lot of those types of stats this season, usually not
on the positive side.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, and the A's will be responsible for fully ruining
Las Vegas when they moved there, and parking on the
strip will be seventy dollars one hundred and ten years.
Here he is. Here's the stat. One hundred and ten years.
The Tigers the only MLB team to strike out twelve
or more batters, allow two or fewer hits and no
earned runs and lose. Since earned runs became an official
(26:31):
stat in nineteen thirteen, teams in that situation it had
happened a total of three hundred and twenty times in
the regular season and postseason. Here's the fun fact. The
teams combined three hundred nineteen zero and one. There was
a tie. How is there a tie? There's no tying tie.
(26:52):
I know Tom Hanks talks tying in baseball.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
That's great anyway, all right.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
By the way, as you mentioned Vegas parking, you can't
emphasize that enough. Used to be able to just park
at the MGM and go in and stamp the sports
book and watch Monday night football, and they're just increasingly
almost no places to park well, I am such.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
A tight wad. I found a list of eleven hotels
somewhat close to the strip in Vegas that have free parking.
I think that's down to nine. I think we're down.
And once once they destroy Valley's to build the A's Ballpark,
that's it. They will not be able to park there
for free coause he is going to play eighty one
home games in the summer, and then you got the
hockey in the winter with the Golden Knights.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Across the streets. Basically, yeah, yeah, the baseball maybe I
just walk it's gonna have the capacity of the Tampa
Bay Stadium essentially, so you know, well, they.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Don't even have a design. They don't know what kind
of capacity.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Have you been to the new It's Circa is downtown
Las Vegas? Right?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It is amazing stadium sports book.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
The greatest sports book I've ever been to.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
So if someone's going there, say for the night of
the All Star Game, probably can't get a seat. There
is what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I don't know. I know for the are you are
you going to Vegas?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I might know somebody who's going to be there for
they all start.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay, all right, I know you should go. You have
to show you. It's such a nice hotel. There's so
many vagrants in old downtown. Yeah sure, yeah that there's
so many people that are just like complete losers. So
they actually have you have to have an ID to
get into. You have to be an adult. They don't
(28:27):
let kids in the hotel, and you have to have
an ID to get there. They check it every door.
There's a guard to let you in.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Wait, it was just like a driver's license.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, just a driver Oh okay, but yeah, I take it.
It's like you can't just flash it. You have to
like take it out. They have to do that flashlight
thing to make sure it's legit. Oh yeah, you should
go there to Sagre. It's it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I'd like to see it. I've seen photos. I've seen
you tweet a photo.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
It is awesome. Yeah, it is stunning. And Brent Musburger,
I don't know if he still owns that one of
the gambling channels. They have studios right next to no.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I went the other stude. Do they still have the
one on South Point when they first started was there?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know, but I know they have studios there,
so I saw when I was sitting there losing my well,
check out shuck it down at nine. You're looking alive.
I love that. We had Musburger on my podcast and
he you know that story how he started why he
said you're looking live? You know how he started doing it?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Well, it started decades ago.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, well sorry, I mean before I was alive. But Musburger,
this is great. So he told me that he had
his buddies from Chicago would bet on the NFL games
right before. You know, it's amazing. But sometimes networks would
show video of it, like snowing in Buffalo on the
pregame show, right, and so gamblers would bet on it
(29:47):
based on the weather, but sometimes it wasn't actually snowing.
So Musburger as a tell to the gamblers, he would say,
you're looking live. This is the weather here, boy is
if you're gonna get your bet in, here's the way.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
So that was a nod to his quote friends in
the desert.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I think that's hilarious. And that became what he was
known for as a sports.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
One of his absolutely and then they had Jimmy the
Greek on his pregame show for years.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, all right, it is the Ben Mahlord Show. We
will have mallord to the third degree. We'll get to
that coming up. Here went along on that time. Now
for the Insta Trivia, and here it is. We'll go
to baseball again. Ronald Acuna Junior Acuna Matata. Ronald Lacuna
Junior became became the first Atlanta Brave to reach forty
(30:33):
steals before the All Star Break since blank. Again, Ronald
Lacuna Junior becoming the first Brave to reach forty steals
before the All Star break since blank. That's the Insta Trivia,
the answer. We'll get to it. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Hey I'm Doug Got. The podcast is called All Ball.
We usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's
more about the stories about what made these people love
their sport and all the interesting interactions along the way.
We talked to coaches, we talked to players, We tell
you stories. You download it, you listen to it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I think you like it.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Listen to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
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It's pain free and easy to do. Simply follow Ben
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Now more blabbering with Big Ben.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
And we will have coming up in a couple of minutes.
We'll have Mallard of the third Degree. Time now for
the Insta Trivia Ronald the Kona Junior the Atlanta Braves
becoming the first Atlanta player to reach forty steals before
the All Star break since blank, that is the question.
What is the answer? And let's see does anyone know
(32:04):
the answer? At Ben Mahler on the Twitter machine. That's
at Ben Mahler. And we go to the many, many
random names that are always answered here and let's see
your Captain Caveman guessed by the Cowboy Killer Bake McBride
from Malibu, Rubin wonderful name from the past. Ferk Dog
(32:26):
is going with the greatest competitive eater of all time,
Lardass is his answer. Who else do we have? Greg
Maddox mad Dog from brad and Montana. Bob in Parts
Unknown says Willie mays Hayes is the correct answer. Milk
I think so, Milkman, Mike says, just Hayes in Minnesota
(32:46):
Mike Ford guest by Evan the Depressed Mariner fan, Jody
Davis from the Late Night Drug Tester. Who else do
we have? Sir scratch Off says it's me? Bernie Kozar
tossed up by Maverick Callaghan Tim in Michigan's going with
Sid Rain Matt the Warrior Raider A's fan. Got it right?
Bad job by him. Craig Potkeett guest by Malard prop Gott.
(33:08):
That's because of you. De Sager, Ozzy Albi's from Eke
and Roseville, Minnesota. John Rocker from Shane and des Moines
Sewn in the Valley of the Sun going with Terry Forster.
Bob Horner from the Eddie Garcia Berner account and his mullet.
Who else do we have? Eric Davis guests by Hobby
Bobby the Great Atlanta Brave, Eric Davis, Chipper Jones from
(33:29):
Don Juan. Who else do we have? Alf the Alien Opiner?
Got it right? Bad job by him and Polly d
John Rocker was also guessed by Shawn. Who else we
have John Smoltz from Bubbsy Page down, Bartolo Cologne from
the rob Manford Berner.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
These are only Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It's only Atlanta Braves. Yes, only at Atlanta Braves. Do
you have an answer, Otis Nixon. You're gonna go Otis
Nixon and Steve the Sager. That is correct. You got
it right. Otis Nixon.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Can't think of anybody else who has stolen.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Basis for that played with the Dodgers briefly back in
the nineties at the end of his career.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
And the glorious nineties in Dodger history.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
If you were to put an all alien team together,
you would have Otis Nixon. Sam Cassell would be part
of that. Yeah, there's a few others, but Otis Nixon.
I think Von Hayes looked like an alien to me.
Remember Von Hayes or.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Just the batting stance.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, the weird weird thing. Has Otis Nixon been staying
out of trouble? I know he had some issues there
for a while. I had some demons at the little
addiction problem and all that.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
Had some arrests, some arrests plural you don't remember plural no, yeah, yeah,
I mean there was like a few years ago he
was like missing and he was found safe.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
There was a story that was maybe like five six
years ago. There was something that popped up, and I
know he had some issues. He was like all of
baseball was doing cocaine in the nineteen eighties and he
was part of that, and then he got in trouble
for that. I think he actually got arrested for it
back in the but Otis Nicks and there you go.
Fun fact. Now the GPS story, we're gonna get to
Mallard of the third degree. So have you ever watched
the peach Tree road Race in Atlanta? Probably not. It
(35:17):
takes place on the fourth JULYE Well, the reason I
bring this up is a random runner. By the way,
I'm looking at the clock. I think we're gonna push
back Mallard of the third degree for ratings purposes till tomorrow, No, no,
until later, Yeah, on time Mallard by the clock, four
of the clock, plausibly all about the clock. But anyway,
so they had this Peachtree Race road race in Atlanta
(35:37):
on the fourths Lie and the woman who was winning
the race, she was gonna get seven thousand dollars, seven
thousand dollars. She was right near the finish line of
this race, and she turned the wrong way. She went
down the wrong street.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
A running race, and she ran the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah yeah, during a Elite division women's bracket of the
Peachtree Road Race, a ten kilometer race is held annually
on the fourth of July in Atlanta. This woman took
a wrong turn and she cost herself seven thousand dollars
seven thousand smack a rose because she made the wrong turn.
(36:22):
Which is a good story, but not as good as
the all time greatest running story from the Boston Marathon back. Yes,
Rosie Ruiz who.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
She didn't take a wrong turn. No, she just didn't
run the first exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Oh you wonder how that must have happened a bunch
of times earlier.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Then she acted all tired when she crossed the finish
line first.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Oh, it's such a great is such a great thing.
It is such a wonderful And my favorite running story
of all time is Rosie.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Ruiz night didn't run.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Yeah yeah. And I interviewed Usain in Bolt one time
and ask how it was a paid thing. The interview
and Usain Bolt, and I was like, oh man, you
love running and all that. I remember talking about it
what he does in his spare time, and he's like,
I sitting around. I like playing video games. You know,
he just sits around because that's his work. You know,
(37:18):
running is not anymore. But anyway, all right, So that
that ends the track and field portion on your scorecard
of the show at this point. Yes, yay,
Host
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