July 6, 2023 • 34 mins
In the fourth hour of the Ben Maller Show, Ben talks about how how to interpret Giants QB Daniel Jones asking for $47 million per year... Ben discusses if the Jets are a wildcard team if they get Dalvin Cook. Is Chicago's Justin Fields going to leapfrog up the QB rankings? Lastly, we get another segment of Fact or Fiction.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our d.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Four hour four of the radio show. And some new
revelations regarding the contract negotiations of Danny Dimes in New York.
It turns out he did not ask for chopped onions
from the Giants. And how do you interpret the Giants
quarterback Daniel Jones agent asking for forty seven million dollars
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a year. He didn't get it, but he asked for it.
Are the Jets a wild card team in terms of
the Dalvin Cook sweepstakes? There's a report in the tabloids.
Let's say the Jets are mulling, mulling a run at
Dalvin Cook. And also we go to Chicago. Is Justin
Field's going to leapfrog up the quarterback rankings in the NFL?
(00:51):
As many pundits are saying he is someone.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Not to sleep on.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That Justin Field's gonna be a breakout star. And we'll
talk about that as well. And don't forget Joey Chestnut
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this hour of programming, Have a wonderful, wonderful Thursday, have
a great day today.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And here it is our number four.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Now that is not a dime store type contract. Welcome
in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malor Show.
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(02:15):
here we are together again this hour and our lead
coming from football. We are sixty plus days away from
real football. We are two weeks away, less than two
weeks away from the start of training camp, which means
we are about a month away from the first star
players going snap, crackle pop and being injured and missing
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the beginning of the year, possibly the entire year. Inevitably,
one of these starting quarterbacks in the NFL will get
hurt in training camp. That happens every year at least one,
so we have that to look forward to. But some
random things that caught my attention it some new details
have emerged. For example, on the Daniel Jones contract talks
with the Genets.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Now Daniel Jones got a new contract. We know that.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We also knew that Danny Dimes had asked for a
monster amount of money, but now we're getting more intel.
I think this kind of stuff's interesting, what goes on
behind the scenes and what ends up happening as a
result of the negotiation. So people are spilling the tea
(03:20):
and it's starting to spill into the East River. And
if you didn't see this, maybe not. As the negotiations
commenced this offseason. Daniel Jones, by any account, mediocre, bad
NFL quarterback. Daniel Jones, the guy's been a stiff in
the NFL. Has caught like it is. Daniel Jones his
(03:43):
camp ask the Giants to pay him how much? How
about forty seven million dollars a year. Yeah, let me
repeat that for those of you that are a little
groggy this morning. Yeah, forty seven million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
For those of you in the back of the room.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Now Daniel Jones, who's been an abject failure, wanting that money,
which would have at the time made him the third
highest paid quarterback in the business of football. Jones ask
if he had gotten what he asked for, it would
have placed him in front of Kyler Murray. How's that
contract working out? And the pervert Deshaun Watson. Yeah, all right,
(04:31):
so let us discuss the question, how do you interpret
the Giants quarterback Daniel Jones if this report is true,
asking for forty seven million dollars per year? So I
have astrology, trash Panda, and Forrest Gump, and we will
(04:51):
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make some buttered movie popcorn. I haven't been in
the movie in years. I don't really miss it. The
only thing I miss is a bucket of buttered popcorn,
the kind of bucket that you eat the whole thing,
you literally chop, you chop forty days of your life.
(05:12):
You're done, You're not forty days earlier, but it still
tastes so good. So let's get into this here. To
lead off, my first thought on Daniel Jones asking for
forty seven million a year is that's a whole lot
of hutzpa.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That is next level hutzpa.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Jones agent must have been dabbling in psychedelics, must have
been hanging out with Aaron Rodgers and having the ayahuasca
tea with the resume that Vanilla Vick has to ask
for that though, he must think, well, Kyler Murray stinks
and Deshaun Watson's a creepster.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And they got paid, so I should get paid.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But for everyone else, it's like those guys must be high, baked,
wasted and blown. But it has worked out brilliantly, the
cosmic approach. And now I'm a critic of Daniel Jones.
I think the guy stinks, but his agent good job.
By whoever the agent is astrology for dummies. By asking
(06:09):
for the stars you get. The moon is what you get.
So you're you're willing to settle for less than the moon, sure,
but the moon is your.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
High end of negotiations.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So after the giants had a three Martine lunch, they
ended up reaching a compromise. And we know that Jones
got the same contract that Dak Prescott got and Matthew
Stafford got from their respective teams. It was a humdinger
of a deal, a humongous contract for someone who's not
(06:45):
good at what they do. Now, New York had a
great record last season.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They were a playoff team.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They won a playoff team thanks to a playoff game,
rather thanks to the incompetence of the Vikings defensively. But
Danny Dimes is a bus writer. He's not a bus driver.
Back of the bus. The Giants passing offense, here's my evidence.
Giants passing offense ranked twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Six in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The Texans quarterback by Davis Mills, and the Colts who
had washed up Matt Ryan. How do we know he's
washed up? He's not working at CBS, and they were
better passing the football than the Giants who had that
great record. But the low information fans hees the wins
total and they say, well, Daniel Jones was great. You know,
Jones has not thrown more than fifteen touchdown passes in
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a year since he was a rookie, and that's way
back in twenty nineteen. And his career best yards per
pass attempt last season at six point eight yards, is
below the league average. The average is seven yards per
pass attempt, and he ranked in the bottom ten among
qualified quarterbacks, and here we are. Jones got paid and
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now the Giants will get played. At least they didn't
pay him forty seven million. But as a caller used
to stay on the show back in the day, the
guys ab them that guy's ap them no further. Staying
in the Tri state area, The New York City tabloids
are now spinning that Gang Green is said to be
kicking the wing on free agent running back Dalvin Cook.
(08:15):
Cook is still on the sidelines. We talked earlier about
the pursuit of DeAndre Hopkins, with the Patriots and Titans
being the only suitors for DeAndre Hopkins. But Cook is
still on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He's waiting to.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Cook for somebody, waiting to work for somebody. So the
question here are the Jets? The tabloids are saying they're connected.
Are the Jets a legitimate wild card possibility for Dalvin Cook?
So let me spell this out for you. I have
four letters on the wheel of fortune. N O, P E, Nope,
(08:53):
not buying it. The media is hoping to facilitate the
Jets getting cooked. They're also trying to get clicks, a
little clickbait.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But under that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Scenario, right under the the scenario here the Jets, they
would be the trash pandas of the NFL, they would
be you know, trash pan is a raccoon. They would
be the raccoon scurring around a dumpster to look for
a prize. Like somebody dropped the whole bucket of spaghetti
in the dumpster and you're the raccoon and you eat
that whole thing. It's a low ball situation. But the
(09:25):
problem with that analysis is if the money is the same.
Don't you think if it's the same or it's closed,
Dalvin Cook will be swimming in the Dolphins kitchen. Why
because that's where he's from, and that would be the
That's the team. We know, it's the team he wants
to play for. But that would be perfect. That's where
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he wants to be. Miami has a need. Cook has
been statistically a dominant player, but many NFL teams see
him as a falling knife. Don't try to catch a
falling knife. He crossed the rubicon. What is the rubicon?
The nerds? The nerds say fifteen hundred career touches for
a running back. It doesn't matter how old you are,
(10:11):
but at fifteen hundred touches. You've got germs, and NFL
teams consider that you're in they consider you infested with lice,
So good luck on that. Now, both Dalvin Cook and
DeAndre Hopkins have been unsold on the auctioning block for
a while. Now, it's kind of you have a product
at the store and no one's buying. I mean, it's
(10:34):
not buying all right, parting shot. Now, I have seen
several hype pieces coming from the Windy City as I
peruse the NFL news of the day, and these stories
have been amplifying and beautifying Justin Fields and the Bears.
They could have gotten rid of Fields. They had the
(10:56):
number one overall pick and they traded it to Carolina,
so they punted on the number one pick, and they
decided to double down on Justin Fields. For better or worse.
They stood by their quarterback. Now, there are several factions
in the media that are illustrating a beautiful story of
a breakout season for an upstart quarterback. So is Chicago's
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Justin Fields going to leap frog off the quarterback rankings
in the NFL in the Year of Our Lord twenty
twenty three. The answer would be absolutely not. I'll be
the adult in the room. There is no there there.
I don't see a scenario where this happens. Now. Don't
(11:44):
get me wrong. We like star quarterbacks because they're fun
for us to talk about. Dominant quarterbacks. We would enjoy
seeing fields break out, and we can go back and
mock this. But at this point, based on the information
we have, it becomes the law of instrument. And you
know what the law of instrument is. If you only
have a hammer, you treat everything as a nail. If
(12:07):
you're a pitcher and you only have one pitch, it's
a fastball. You only throw the fastball, right, That's all
you do. If your legs are elite and your arm
is weak, you become like that iconic old movie Forrest Gump, Run,
Forest Run. What's my evidence? Last season? Feels rushed over
(12:28):
eleven hundred yards in the Windy City. The rest of
his body of work was in the gutter. He threw
just seventeen touchdown passes, had eleven interceptions, completed just sixty
percent of his passes. How bad is that only four
qualified passers had lower numbers than justin Field's inaccuracy? So
(12:53):
we are jaded, We realist on this Seeing is believing,
and so if we were a Transformer, we would be
skepticus maximus. That would be who we are in the Transformers.
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With thanks some calls coming up.
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Also later this hour, we're gonna have in a few
minutes puck the world coming your way. Eugene in Chicago
Rights said, Ben, you do realize Justin Fields through for
more touchdowns than Daniel Jones. Yes, and Daniel dostaks ay stakes.
Eugene in Chicago, Justin Fields will win more games this
season than the Rams, Raiders, Broncos and Steelers. You want
(15:40):
to bet on that, Eugene, I'll take some action on that.
I'll take some action, all right. Andrea writes in The
Sports Sorceress aka Andrea the Astrologer, enjoying your show and
the astrology talk. Well, that was a great homage to you. Yes,
a great homage to you. Justin in Cincinnati, says Dave
(16:01):
Martinez is a less accomplished Dave Roberts and more annoying. Yeah,
I saw, I saw that La Dela Cruz hit a
missile of a home run in Washington after Dave Martinez
had his bat checked because he had something at the
end of his bat. And Martinez, but the reason they
(16:23):
had his bat checked is because he was hitting all
over the place. It was dominating that series. Yeah, we'll
have to get to that at some point Dave Martinez
his comments after the game, Art Puffin rights in a
lot of love for Art Puffin. On the show tonight
in the Overnight, he says.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Superb Mallard monologue.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We got psychedelics, Aaron Rogers and the Moon.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm on two.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Out of three. I guess which one. I guess which
one I'm over. Agents have been notified shoot for the moon.
You see it in the NBA, MLB and now the NFL.
Mediocre reliable players getting paid. Yeah, when my contract's up
and I negotiate with Don Martin here at Fox Sports Radio,
and I tell Don I'd like to get a little
(17:09):
bit of that Colin cowhard money. Don, then this is
what happens. Every time he laughs at me, there are
five or six belly laughs the falls from Don Martin.
He then hangs up the phone. That's usually how that goes,
and and then that that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
How it happens. Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
We'll say hello to Emmett, the blind Seahawk fan in Olympia, Washington, Hello,
blind Emmett.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah, what's going on? Ben and Crew? I have a
very important question for the guys here. You co included
what is your favorite NFL player.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Active or no longer act active? My favorite NFL player
right now?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And I don't really have a favorite per se right.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Now, Mark, you got one.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Let's say Jim McMahon.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
He actually won a superher active right now.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I don't think he active, he's active. See, Mark doesn't
have one either. You're not you're in a Chicago guy.
You don't have Justin Fields on there?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Mark, you know who?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Oh Ethan?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
You got one?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, right now, I'd say a J.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Brown. Okay, that's so. The reason I'm asking was I
got into a debate with a guy last night, one
of my friends, and he was asking me my favorite
NBA player and I'm a Blazers fan and my response
wasn't name. I like Curry, but I'm not a Warriors fan.
And he was saying, how that's like blasphemy and that's
just a sin. You should never do that. You have to,
(18:37):
you know, like your guys. Yeah, thank thank you, Mark,
thank you exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I liked that you didn't ask Eddie because you know
Eddie doesn't have any favorite players.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
He's gonna say Justin Herbert and he's a Stewers fan.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
I mean I already know my answers TJ wats or
kiss my assed.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You just told the blind guy to kiss your ass.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Very nice man, I don't care. Wow.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I mean, hey, you could say what he wants to say.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah, I know, I just did no blind away.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Wow. Hey, you're disrespecting blind image.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He disrespected me. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
We have not heard of it from blind Scott in
a while. I wonder if he's in the Who's Gow
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He hasn't called in a while.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And then he'll call, like he'll call every night for
a week, and then he'll vanish to the north end
of Boston and do his thing there.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I am thank you to answer your question.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You can appreciate a player on another team if he's
not on your team, but you can't go too far
with it. You go too far to problem. Let's go
to milkman Mike, who's in Colorado. Hello milkman Mike, welcome.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
Hey, good morning from the High City. Uh. I was
actually holding for Factor fiction.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But oh all right, well hold on and I'll put
you back on holding.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Let's go to Angry Bill.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
We'll get him on and off. He'll say something offensive. There,
he'll be nice at the beginning. Here's how really angry
Bill call goes. He says, hello, guys, how you doing?
Then he gives a point, and then he says something
offensive and gets dump.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Doing guys. Oh well, I guess you know. I'm really
wondering what we should do about this. Then I don't
have a clue, and I need your help to tell
me what we should do about it. And your advice
means so much to me. Can you please tell me
what we should do about it?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What are you getting at you?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
I'm getting at the point of what we should do
about it?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I mean, what should we do about? What should we
do about what?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
That's the point I'm worrying about what we should even
do about what?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I think you should hang up on yourself.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
No, don't do that. Then I'm talking so nicely. I
didn't do it with any bad language. Never use bad language.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You make it up, But I don't make it up.
I don't make the language rules. If I was in charge,
I wouldn't care what you say. Who gives a crap?
But I don't make the rules.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Down, keep it keep it clean, keep it nice, don't
I don't keep it clean, keep it what we're going
to do about it, and we have to decide what
we're gonna do about it, about it. We really have
to decide, me and you, maybe even Eddy, but we
have to really jump in on it and decide what
we're gonna do about this.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
It's very important. This is this is life change. Okay,
is life change?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Its life changing, all right, definitely life changing. But we
have to decide what we're going to do about it.
I need to help.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I think we're going to go left and then we'll
make it right. We'll make a left and a right,
and then we'll go down the yellow brick road.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Well, let's not go left and right. We usually go
forward and back.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You go left and then you make a right and
then it's down the street.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
There's the yellow brick road.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Well, you don't have no yellow brick roads in Jacksonville.
There's no yellow brick roads.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Come on, you haven't driven on every road. You have
not driven on every road and.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
One time in my life, and I want you. I
wanted to give me some help in some direction.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'm giving you advice.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You don't like my you're ungrateful with my advice.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Advice man.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, well you all right, thank you? Okay, jeez, such
a knucklehead, Such a knucklehead.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Oh yeah, yah yeah, yo.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
All right, it is the Ben Malors Show. As we
continue on here, I saw an interesting soccer story. You know,
it's something to get my attention in soccer.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I'm not a soccer guy. I only talk about soccer
during the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But something happened that did catch my attention I thought
was something amusing. It's actually something that Odell Beckham has
done in the past and a few other people in
the NFL, but I don't think I've seen this in
soccer before. It did not go over well in soccer.
It did not go over well in the soccer. So
we'll get to that. But right now, let's get you
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caught up on everything going on in the overnight and.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Right over there you say a load to Eddie Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
All right, thank you, Ben. We start with baseball games
of note, where the Braves bounce back from that nine
game winning streak coming to an end. They get an
eight to one win over the Guardians and increase their
record to fifty eight and twenty eight best in baseball.
Twins shutout the Royals five to nothing. Bind starter Pablo
Lopez complete game four yeh shutout with twelve strikeouts. They
sweep the Royals in that three game series. They now
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have a two game lead on Cleveland for first in
the AL Central. Diamondbacks lose to the Mets two to one.
New York with a rare comeback win two of the
ninths to get the victory. Dodgers beat the Pirates six
to four, so LA is a game in that back
of Arizona for first in the NL West. Reds over
the Nationals nine to two, while the Cups score three
in the ninth to rally and beat the Brewers in
Milwaukee four to three, So it's now Cincinnati with the
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two game lead on Milwaukee atop the NL Central. Rangers
lose to the Red Sox four to two. The Astros
wrap up a three games sweep of the Rocky with
a six to four win. Yannard Diez with two home
runs for Houston as they moved to back of Texas
from the top spot in the AL West. Ray's falling
home to the Phillies eight to four. That's eleven straight
road wins for Philadelphia is a knock off the top
team in the American League. Tampa Bays lost season nine,
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five in a row. Phillo off he starter two one,
Walker earns his tenth win of the year. Padre's beat
the Angels five to three. San Diego Getty its first
three game series sweep of the season with that victory.
As for news for the Angels, all star off with
their Mike Trout surgery on a broken rist. He's out
four to eight weeks. Orioles down the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Six ' to three.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
It was the Marlins taking on the Cardinals, and that
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Speaker 1 (25:17):
Fun fact Eddie, the Miami Marlins has now said a
franchise record for wins before the All Star Break. Congratulations
to the Marlins. Greatest Marlins team of all time. And
I was there when the Marlins won their first World
Series against the Cleveland Indians. That's how long ago that was? Yeah,
(25:37):
Game seven, jose edgar Renteria, and I remember I was
down there. I was covering the World Series.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I was down in the in the.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Bowels of what was then, I think was it Pro
Player Stage?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, Yeah, I was in the bowels of the stadium,
and they had all of the champagne and all of
the tarps up in the Cleveland locker room to sell
a rate the championship. And then they were running around
like banshees as they tried to tear all that stuff
down and take the champagne away because the game would
end up going to extrage. Who was the picture, right,
(26:12):
was it Kyle Wright? Was that the guy's name?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I forget?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
There was a young pitcher at the time for Cleveland,
who's now an old guy. But I remember that World
Series very well. But the Marlins this year better better.
Fun fact, Yeah, that is a fun fact, Eddie. We
put the fun in the fun fact. It is the
ban at Malord show as we continue on. So now,
speaking of fun, a soccer story that caught my attention,
(26:35):
and you know, something zany had to happen in soccer
for me to bring it up. So there was a
match that took place in Argentina and there were no
goals scored during this particular soccer match.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
But during the event, one of the.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Players decided, you know, I want to entertain the masses
here in Argentina, and so what I'm going to do
is I'm going to, let's let's say, look like I'm
urinating on the field. Well, the referee saw this particular
player and gave him a red card, which means bye bye,
(27:19):
you are ejected. The guy seemed to pull his pants
down and attempted to urinate as as a player from
the other team was being evaluated for an injury. Now
I have not seen confirmation he actually urinated. Odell Beckham
pretended to urinate after scoring a touchdown for the Giants
(27:41):
years ago. I think it was against the Eagles, and
that was a fake urination. This guy, I think actually
had to drain the snake right there at the at
the old soccer pitch. Yeah, I mean it's pretty wild.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Was Beckham the one like the lifting the leg up
like a dog, like.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
A dog urinated. Yeah, he did the dog urination. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So this guy he went a step further, that's the
next level. And the official looked like he was she
was shocked. Well, when you gotta go, you gotta go,
and doctors tell you it's not good to hold your urine.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
It's not it causes problems.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
It's pretty but someone on the staff who got had
to go to the doctor because of that.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Is that true? Yeah? Yeah, I wouldn't leave his post,
That's that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, about eleven minutes left in the game and this
guy pulled down the pants and they had to go.
We have seen this in NFL games, but they would
Now they have the tent where guys would go in
the tent to to to poop.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And to do the other.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But they also in the old days they just used towels.
Remember that they'd wrapped the towels around, heard stories, but.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, there's video of it. It happened.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I've never seen the video, and I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I can say no, it's okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
And remember the famous Lamar Jackson when he had to
go to the bathroom. They thought he was hurt. It
was like a Sunday night game, but he had to pooh.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
And we had the the the wide receiver in Seattle,
who I'm blanking on. He was taking off the cart.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Because he oh, yes, yes, yes, oh that's so good.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
That is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
All right, s Ben Malas show on Fox then ends
the poopy talk and the year and talk. But right
now it's Hockey Sees. What's the best time of the
year for hockey rumors, gossip, speculation, innuendo. And right now
we head over to Eddie Garcia with Puck Beel.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Here we go, Well, with Ben being selfishly out last week,
we did not have a Puck the World report, so
we'll give you some day, give you some quick notes
from last week to get you caught up. As expected,
the Chicago Blackhawks took veenum Connor Bdard number one overall
in the NHL draft. He's supposed to be a can't
miss prospect, generational talent. We'll see there really nothing controversial
or nowhere they're happening on the first round of the draft.
(29:56):
No trades at all. On that opening round of the
NHL Draft, everybody had a pick and that's where they picked.
No moving, no swapping, no nothing. Conor McDavid of the Heart.
Mconor McDavid, admas other has won the Heart Trophy as
your NHL MVP. Now, he got up one hundred and
ninety five of one hundred ninety six possible first place votes.
He was denied a unanimous selection by some more on
(30:17):
in Pittsburgh who did a Mark Jackson and voted him
fifth out.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Of uh Well, Mark Jacker left.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yeah, I know this is this is about as bad though.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Sideline reporter for the team said they'd never seen him
play before, like in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
I don't know, but I assume this guy did it
for publisty and that's why I won't say who he
was right holding back new Ley, the Devil's resigned forward
Timo Meyer eight years, seventy million dollars. LA Kings get
centered Peter Luke Dubah from Winnipeg in a three player
trade good. Yeah, he's supposed to be good eight years
and sixty eight million dollars. They end up signing him
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to a sign and trade deal. Calgary Flame shipped off
leading scorer Tyler to Foley former Kingdo of the New
Jersey Devils for yegor Sharon Govic and a third round
draft pick, and the Boston Bruins delt former league AMvB
Taylor Hall and veteran Nick Filino to the Chicago Blackhawks. Now,
this past weekend was the start of free agency in
the NHL. Not a lot of big deals as far
as money wise being handed out. There were a lot
(31:14):
of players that are changing teams. We'll start with the goalies.
New York Islanders did this sign a big deal with
their star young goalie Elias serrocn eight years, sixty six
million dollars. Pittsburgh Penguins get their goalie Tristan Jarry resigned
him five years twenty six point eight million, Ottawa Senators
signed goalie Jonas Corposalo five years twenty million, and Stanley
Cup hero Aiden Hill of the Vegas Golden Knights two
(31:35):
year deal worth nine point eight million dollars. As far
as some of the Skaters. The Anaheim Ducks signed forward
Alis Klaurin four years twenty five million. Nashville Predators Ryan
O'Reilly gets a four year, eighteen million dollar deal.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Did I read Eddie? The Ducks goaltender does not want.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
To play there anymore.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
They were reports that he's demanding a trade, and then
his agent came out, SETI that's not true.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
That means he's demanding it.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Yeah, Carolina Hurricane signed defen'sman Dmitrio Orloff two years fifteen
point five million, and for Michael Bunting three years thirteen
point five million. You had the Pittsburgh Penguin signing defenseman
Ryan Graves six years twenty seven million, Red Wings give
forward JT. Kopf for five year deal worth twenty five
point five million, and the Toronto Maple Leaves signed forward
Tyler Bertuzzi to a one year, five point five million
(32:16):
dollar deal. Some of the big names that are still available,
We've got forwards Vladimir Tarasenko and Patrick Kane, although Kine
is having some injury issues, gonna have some surgery and whatnot.
Mike Babcock officially back in the NHL. It's the head
coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets won a Stanley Cup
in Detroit, lost in the finals a couple of times
with Detroit, and Anaheim got fired in Toronto. There was
(32:38):
accusations that he was abusive to players, and other people
came out after the fact and accused of him some
things as well. But he's getting a second chance there
in Columbus, and I had to find a weird story
for you, Ben to wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
A weird story.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Eddy a Russian professional ice hockey player arrested on spying charges.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
He was playing in Poland's first division and was arrested
accused of being part of an espionage network.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Ah great.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
The authorities in Poland say that he'd been playing in
that country since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
But he was double dipping yet, I guess saw extra money,
I guess.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
So I don't know what what he was finding out
and uncovering at the ice rink, but barely.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
The famous baseball player.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yes, I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, reading reading about that, there were stories and was
it Russia? He was a spy in.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Where was he?
Speaker 5 (33:32):
I want to say maybe Germany?
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Germany?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
No, I do remember.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Was he a catcher?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yes, yes, I forget the guy's name, Dad, he won't
be upset, but yeah, he's a famous to I have
to look that guy's name up.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's not hard. Just google it.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Just just google it and you can figure it out.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Does that Puck the World that is?
Speaker 5 (33:48):
That's your Puck the World Report?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
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It turns out he did not ask for chopped onions
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a year. He didn't get it, but he asked for it.
Are the Jets a wild card team in terms of
the Dalvin Cook sweepstakes? There's a report in the tabloids.
Let's say the Jets are mulling, mulling a run at
Dalvin Cook. And also we go to Chicago. Is Justin
Field's going to leapfrog up the quarterback rankings in the NFL?
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As many pundits are saying he is someone.
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here we are together again this hour and our lead
coming from football. We are sixty plus days away from
real football. We are two weeks away, less than two
weeks away from the start of training camp, which means
we are about a month away from the first star
players going snap, crackle pop and being injured and missing
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the beginning of the year, possibly the entire year. Inevitably,
one of these starting quarterbacks in the NFL will get
hurt in training camp. That happens every year at least one,
so we have that to look forward to. But some
random things that caught my attention it some new details
have emerged. For example, on the Daniel Jones contract talks
with the Genets.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Now Daniel Jones got a new contract. We know that.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We also knew that Danny Dimes had asked for a
monster amount of money, but now we're getting more intel.
I think this kind of stuff's interesting, what goes on
behind the scenes and what ends up happening as a
result of the negotiation. So people are spilling the tea
(03:20):
and it's starting to spill into the East River. And
if you didn't see this, maybe not. As the negotiations
commenced this offseason. Daniel Jones, by any account, mediocre, bad
NFL quarterback. Daniel Jones, the guy's been a stiff in
the NFL. Has caught like it is. Daniel Jones his
(03:43):
camp ask the Giants to pay him how much? How
about forty seven million dollars a year. Yeah, let me
repeat that for those of you that are a little
groggy this morning. Yeah, forty seven million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
For those of you in the back of the room.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Now Daniel Jones, who's been an abject failure, wanting that money,
which would have at the time made him the third
highest paid quarterback in the business of football. Jones ask
if he had gotten what he asked for, it would
have placed him in front of Kyler Murray. How's that
contract working out? And the pervert Deshaun Watson. Yeah, all right,
(04:31):
so let us discuss the question, how do you interpret
the Giants quarterback Daniel Jones if this report is true,
asking for forty seven million dollars per year? So I
have astrology, trash Panda, and Forrest Gump, and we will
(04:51):
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make some buttered movie popcorn. I haven't been in
the movie in years. I don't really miss it. The
only thing I miss is a bucket of buttered popcorn,
the kind of bucket that you eat the whole thing,
you literally chop, you chop forty days of your life.
(05:12):
You're done, You're not forty days earlier, but it still
tastes so good. So let's get into this here. To
lead off, my first thought on Daniel Jones asking for
forty seven million a year is that's a whole lot
of hutzpa.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That is next level hutzpa.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Jones agent must have been dabbling in psychedelics, must have
been hanging out with Aaron Rodgers and having the ayahuasca
tea with the resume that Vanilla Vick has to ask
for that though, he must think, well, Kyler Murray stinks
and Deshaun Watson's a creepster.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And they got paid, so I should get paid.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But for everyone else, it's like those guys must be high, baked,
wasted and blown. But it has worked out brilliantly, the
cosmic approach. And now I'm a critic of Daniel Jones.
I think the guy stinks, but his agent good job.
By whoever the agent is astrology for dummies. By asking
(06:09):
for the stars you get. The moon is what you get.
So you're you're willing to settle for less than the moon, sure,
but the moon is your.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
High end of negotiations.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
So after the giants had a three Martine lunch, they
ended up reaching a compromise. And we know that Jones
got the same contract that Dak Prescott got and Matthew
Stafford got from their respective teams. It was a humdinger
of a deal, a humongous contract for someone who's not
(06:45):
good at what they do. Now, New York had a
great record last season.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They were a playoff team.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They won a playoff team thanks to a playoff game,
rather thanks to the incompetence of the Vikings defensively. But
Danny Dimes is a bus writer. He's not a bus driver.
Back of the bus. The Giants passing offense, here's my evidence.
Giants passing offense ranked twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Six in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The Texans quarterback by Davis Mills, and the Colts who
had washed up Matt Ryan. How do we know he's
washed up? He's not working at CBS, and they were
better passing the football than the Giants who had that
great record. But the low information fans hees the wins
total and they say, well, Daniel Jones was great. You know,
Jones has not thrown more than fifteen touchdown passes in
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a year since he was a rookie, and that's way
back in twenty nineteen. And his career best yards per
pass attempt last season at six point eight yards, is
below the league average. The average is seven yards per
pass attempt, and he ranked in the bottom ten among
qualified quarterbacks, and here we are. Jones got paid and
(07:51):
now the Giants will get played. At least they didn't
pay him forty seven million. But as a caller used
to stay on the show back in the day, the
guys ab them that guy's ap them no further. Staying
in the Tri state area, The New York City tabloids
are now spinning that Gang Green is said to be
kicking the wing on free agent running back Dalvin Cook.
(08:15):
Cook is still on the sidelines. We talked earlier about
the pursuit of DeAndre Hopkins, with the Patriots and Titans
being the only suitors for DeAndre Hopkins. But Cook is
still on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
He's waiting to.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Cook for somebody, waiting to work for somebody. So the
question here are the Jets? The tabloids are saying they're connected.
Are the Jets a legitimate wild card possibility for Dalvin Cook?
So let me spell this out for you. I have
four letters on the wheel of fortune. N O, P E, Nope,
(08:53):
not buying it. The media is hoping to facilitate the
Jets getting cooked. They're also trying to get clicks, a
little clickbait.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But under that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Scenario, right under the the scenario here the Jets, they
would be the trash pandas of the NFL, they would
be you know, trash pan is a raccoon. They would
be the raccoon scurring around a dumpster to look for
a prize. Like somebody dropped the whole bucket of spaghetti
in the dumpster and you're the raccoon and you eat
that whole thing. It's a low ball situation. But the
(09:25):
problem with that analysis is if the money is the same.
Don't you think if it's the same or it's closed,
Dalvin Cook will be swimming in the Dolphins kitchen. Why
because that's where he's from, and that would be the
That's the team. We know, it's the team he wants
to play for. But that would be perfect. That's where
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he wants to be. Miami has a need. Cook has
been statistically a dominant player, but many NFL teams see
him as a falling knife. Don't try to catch a
falling knife. He crossed the rubicon. What is the rubicon?
The nerds? The nerds say fifteen hundred career touches for
a running back. It doesn't matter how old you are,
(10:11):
but at fifteen hundred touches. You've got germs, and NFL
teams consider that you're in they consider you infested with lice,
So good luck on that. Now, both Dalvin Cook and
DeAndre Hopkins have been unsold on the auctioning block for
a while. Now, it's kind of you have a product
at the store and no one's buying. I mean, it's
(10:34):
not buying all right, parting shot. Now, I have seen
several hype pieces coming from the Windy City as I
peruse the NFL news of the day, and these stories
have been amplifying and beautifying Justin Fields and the Bears.
They could have gotten rid of Fields. They had the
(10:56):
number one overall pick and they traded it to Carolina,
so they punted on the number one pick, and they
decided to double down on Justin Fields. For better or worse.
They stood by their quarterback. Now, there are several factions
in the media that are illustrating a beautiful story of
a breakout season for an upstart quarterback. So is Chicago's
(11:22):
Justin Fields going to leap frog off the quarterback rankings
in the NFL in the Year of Our Lord twenty
twenty three. The answer would be absolutely not. I'll be
the adult in the room. There is no there there.
I don't see a scenario where this happens. Now. Don't
(11:44):
get me wrong. We like star quarterbacks because they're fun
for us to talk about. Dominant quarterbacks. We would enjoy
seeing fields break out, and we can go back and
mock this. But at this point, based on the information
we have, it becomes the law of instrument. And you
know what the law of instrument is. If you only
have a hammer, you treat everything as a nail. If
(12:07):
you're a pitcher and you only have one pitch, it's
a fastball. You only throw the fastball, right, That's all
you do. If your legs are elite and your arm
is weak, you become like that iconic old movie Forrest Gump, Run,
Forest Run. What's my evidence? Last season? Feels rushed over
(12:28):
eleven hundred yards in the Windy City. The rest of
his body of work was in the gutter. He threw
just seventeen touchdown passes, had eleven interceptions, completed just sixty
percent of his passes. How bad is that only four
qualified passers had lower numbers than justin Field's inaccuracy? So
(12:53):
we are jaded, We realist on this Seeing is believing,
and so if we were a Transformer, we would be
skepticus maximus. That would be who we are in the Transformers.
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Also later this hour, we're gonna have in a few
minutes puck the world coming your way. Eugene in Chicago
Rights said, Ben, you do realize Justin Fields through for
more touchdowns than Daniel Jones. Yes, and Daniel dostaks ay stakes.
Eugene in Chicago, Justin Fields will win more games this
season than the Rams, Raiders, Broncos and Steelers. You want
(15:40):
to bet on that, Eugene, I'll take some action on that.
I'll take some action, all right. Andrea writes in The
Sports Sorceress aka Andrea the Astrologer, enjoying your show and
the astrology talk. Well, that was a great homage to you. Yes,
a great homage to you. Justin in Cincinnati, says Dave
(16:01):
Martinez is a less accomplished Dave Roberts and more annoying. Yeah,
I saw, I saw that La Dela Cruz hit a
missile of a home run in Washington after Dave Martinez
had his bat checked because he had something at the
end of his bat. And Martinez, but the reason they
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had his bat checked is because he was hitting all
over the place. It was dominating that series. Yeah, we'll
have to get to that at some point Dave Martinez
his comments after the game, Art Puffin rights in a
lot of love for Art Puffin. On the show tonight
in the Overnight, he says.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Superb Mallard monologue.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We got psychedelics, Aaron Rogers and the Moon.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm on two.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Out of three. I guess which one. I guess which
one I'm over. Agents have been notified shoot for the moon.
You see it in the NBA, MLB and now the NFL.
Mediocre reliable players getting paid. Yeah, when my contract's up
and I negotiate with Don Martin here at Fox Sports Radio,
and I tell Don I'd like to get a little
(17:09):
bit of that Colin cowhard money. Don, then this is
what happens. Every time he laughs at me, there are
five or six belly laughs the falls from Don Martin.
He then hangs up the phone. That's usually how that goes,
and and then that that's kind of.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
How it happens. Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
We'll say hello to Emmett, the blind Seahawk fan in Olympia, Washington, Hello,
blind Emmett.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah, what's going on? Ben and Crew? I have a
very important question for the guys here. You co included
what is your favorite NFL player.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Active or no longer act active? My favorite NFL player
right now?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And I don't really have a favorite per se right.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Now, Mark, you got one.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Let's say Jim McMahon.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
He actually won a superher active right now.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I don't think he active, he's active. See, Mark doesn't
have one either. You're not you're in a Chicago guy.
You don't have Justin Fields on there?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Mark, you know who?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Oh Ethan?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
You got one?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, right now, I'd say a J.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Brown. Okay, that's so. The reason I'm asking was I
got into a debate with a guy last night, one
of my friends, and he was asking me my favorite
NBA player and I'm a Blazers fan and my response
wasn't name. I like Curry, but I'm not a Warriors fan.
And he was saying, how that's like blasphemy and that's
just a sin. You should never do that. You have to,
(18:37):
you know, like your guys. Yeah, thank thank you, Mark,
thank you exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I liked that you didn't ask Eddie because you know
Eddie doesn't have any favorite players.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
He's gonna say Justin Herbert and he's a Stewers fan.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
I mean I already know my answers TJ wats or
kiss my assed.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You just told the blind guy to kiss your ass.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Very nice man, I don't care. Wow.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I mean, hey, you could say what he wants to say.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah, I know, I just did no blind away.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Wow. Hey, you're disrespecting blind image.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He disrespected me. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
We have not heard of it from blind Scott in
a while. I wonder if he's in the Who's Gow
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He hasn't called in a while.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And then he'll call, like he'll call every night for
a week, and then he'll vanish to the north end
of Boston and do his thing there.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I am thank you to answer your question.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You can appreciate a player on another team if he's
not on your team, but you can't go too far
with it. You go too far to problem. Let's go
to milkman Mike, who's in Colorado. Hello milkman Mike, welcome.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
Hey, good morning from the High City. Uh. I was
actually holding for Factor fiction.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But oh all right, well hold on and I'll put
you back on holding.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Let's go to Angry Bill.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
We'll get him on and off. He'll say something offensive. There,
he'll be nice at the beginning. Here's how really angry
Bill call goes. He says, hello, guys, how you doing?
Then he gives a point, and then he says something
offensive and gets dump.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Doing guys. Oh well, I guess you know. I'm really
wondering what we should do about this. Then I don't
have a clue, and I need your help to tell
me what we should do about it. And your advice
means so much to me. Can you please tell me
what we should do about it?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What are you getting at you?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
I'm getting at the point of what we should do
about it?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I mean, what should we do about? What should we
do about what?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
That's the point I'm worrying about what we should even
do about what?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I think you should hang up on yourself.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
No, don't do that. Then I'm talking so nicely. I
didn't do it with any bad language. Never use bad language.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You make it up, But I don't make it up.
I don't make the language rules. If I was in charge,
I wouldn't care what you say. Who gives a crap?
But I don't make the rules.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Down, keep it keep it clean, keep it nice, don't
I don't keep it clean, keep it what we're going
to do about it, and we have to decide what
we're gonna do about it, about it. We really have
to decide, me and you, maybe even Eddy, but we
have to really jump in on it and decide what
we're gonna do about this.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
It's very important. This is this is life change. Okay,
is life change?
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Its life changing, all right, definitely life changing. But we
have to decide what we're going to do about it.
I need to help.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I think we're going to go left and then we'll
make it right. We'll make a left and a right,
and then we'll go down the yellow brick road.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Well, let's not go left and right. We usually go
forward and back.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
But no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You go left and then you make a right and
then it's down the street.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
There's the yellow brick road.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Well, you don't have no yellow brick roads in Jacksonville.
There's no yellow brick roads.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Come on, you haven't driven on every road. You have
not driven on every road and.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
One time in my life, and I want you. I
wanted to give me some help in some direction.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'm giving you advice.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You don't like my you're ungrateful with my advice.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Advice man.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, well you all right, thank you? Okay, jeez, such
a knucklehead, Such a knucklehead.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Oh yeah, yah yeah, yo.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
All right, it is the Ben Malors Show. As we
continue on here, I saw an interesting soccer story. You know,
it's something to get my attention in soccer.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I'm not a soccer guy. I only talk about soccer
during the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
But something happened that did catch my attention I thought
was something amusing. It's actually something that Odell Beckham has
done in the past and a few other people in
the NFL, but I don't think I've seen this in
soccer before. It did not go over well in soccer.
It did not go over well in the soccer. So
we'll get to that. But right now, let's get you
(23:03):
caught up on everything going on in the overnight and.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Right over there you say a load to Eddie Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
All right, thank you, Ben. We start with baseball games
of note, where the Braves bounce back from that nine
game winning streak coming to an end. They get an
eight to one win over the Guardians and increase their
record to fifty eight and twenty eight best in baseball.
Twins shutout the Royals five to nothing. Bind starter Pablo
Lopez complete game four yeh shutout with twelve strikeouts. They
sweep the Royals in that three game series. They now
(23:31):
have a two game lead on Cleveland for first in
the AL Central. Diamondbacks lose to the Mets two to one.
New York with a rare comeback win two of the
ninths to get the victory. Dodgers beat the Pirates six
to four, so LA is a game in that back
of Arizona for first in the NL West. Reds over
the Nationals nine to two, while the Cups score three
in the ninth to rally and beat the Brewers in
Milwaukee four to three, So it's now Cincinnati with the
(23:52):
two game lead on Milwaukee atop the NL Central. Rangers
lose to the Red Sox four to two. The Astros
wrap up a three games sweep of the Rocky with
a six to four win. Yannard Diez with two home
runs for Houston as they moved to back of Texas
from the top spot in the AL West. Ray's falling
home to the Phillies eight to four. That's eleven straight
road wins for Philadelphia is a knock off the top
team in the American League. Tampa Bays lost season nine,
(24:14):
five in a row. Phillo off he starter two one,
Walker earns his tenth win of the year. Padre's beat
the Angels five to three. San Diego Getty its first
three game series sweep of the season with that victory.
As for news for the Angels, all star off with
their Mike Trout surgery on a broken rist. He's out
four to eight weeks. Orioles down the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Six ' to three.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
It was the Marlins taking on the Cardinals, and that
brings us to our progressive play of the day.
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Speaker 2 (24:38):
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Speaker 1 (24:41):
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Speaker 8 (24:43):
Hampton's gonna score, Dolly Court Di Couril, He's gonna try
to score. He's gonna scorre. The Marlets just walked off.
The Cardinals hit the bottom.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
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Speaker 5 (25:02):
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Speaker 1 (25:17):
Fun fact Eddie, the Miami Marlins has now said a
franchise record for wins before the All Star Break. Congratulations
to the Marlins. Greatest Marlins team of all time. And
I was there when the Marlins won their first World
Series against the Cleveland Indians. That's how long ago that was? Yeah,
(25:37):
Game seven, jose edgar Renteria, and I remember I was
down there. I was covering the World Series.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I was down in the in the.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Bowels of what was then, I think was it Pro
Player Stage?
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think it was.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, Yeah, I was in the bowels of the stadium,
and they had all of the champagne and all of
the tarps up in the Cleveland locker room to sell
a rate the championship. And then they were running around
like banshees as they tried to tear all that stuff
down and take the champagne away because the game would
end up going to extrage. Who was the picture, right,
(26:12):
was it Kyle Wright? Was that the guy's name?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I forget?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
There was a young pitcher at the time for Cleveland,
who's now an old guy. But I remember that World
Series very well. But the Marlins this year better better.
Fun fact, Yeah, that is a fun fact, Eddie. We
put the fun in the fun fact. It is the
ban at Malord show as we continue on. So now,
speaking of fun, a soccer story that caught my attention,
(26:35):
and you know, something zany had to happen in soccer
for me to bring it up. So there was a
match that took place in Argentina and there were no
goals scored during this particular soccer match.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
But during the event, one of the.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Players decided, you know, I want to entertain the masses
here in Argentina, and so what I'm going to do
is I'm going to, let's let's say, look like I'm
urinating on the field. Well, the referee saw this particular
player and gave him a red card, which means bye bye,
(27:19):
you are ejected. The guy seemed to pull his pants
down and attempted to urinate as as a player from
the other team was being evaluated for an injury. Now
I have not seen confirmation he actually urinated. Odell Beckham
pretended to urinate after scoring a touchdown for the Giants
(27:41):
years ago. I think it was against the Eagles, and
that was a fake urination. This guy, I think actually
had to drain the snake right there at the at
the old soccer pitch. Yeah, I mean it's pretty wild.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Was Beckham the one like the lifting the leg up
like a dog, like.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
A dog urinated. Yeah, he did the dog urination. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So this guy he went a step further, that's the
next level. And the official looked like he was she
was shocked. Well, when you gotta go, you gotta go,
and doctors tell you it's not good to hold your urine.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
It's not it causes problems.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
It's pretty but someone on the staff who got had
to go to the doctor because of that.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Is that true? Yeah? Yeah, I wouldn't leave his post,
That's that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, about eleven minutes left in the game and this
guy pulled down the pants and they had to go.
We have seen this in NFL games, but they would
Now they have the tent where guys would go in
the tent to to to poop.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And to do the other.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But they also in the old days they just used towels.
Remember that they'd wrapped the towels around, heard stories, but.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, there's video of it. It happened.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I've never seen the video, and I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I can say no, it's okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
And remember the famous Lamar Jackson when he had to
go to the bathroom. They thought he was hurt. It
was like a Sunday night game, but he had to pooh.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
And we had the the the wide receiver in Seattle,
who I'm blanking on. He was taking off the cart.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Because he oh, yes, yes, yes, oh that's so good.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
That is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
All right, s Ben Malas show on Fox then ends
the poopy talk and the year and talk. But right
now it's Hockey Sees. What's the best time of the
year for hockey rumors, gossip, speculation, innuendo. And right now
we head over to Eddie Garcia with Puck Beel.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Here we go, Well, with Ben being selfishly out last week,
we did not have a Puck the World report, so
we'll give you some day, give you some quick notes
from last week to get you caught up. As expected,
the Chicago Blackhawks took veenum Connor Bdard number one overall
in the NHL draft. He's supposed to be a can't
miss prospect, generational talent. We'll see there really nothing controversial
or nowhere they're happening on the first round of the draft.
(29:56):
No trades at all. On that opening round of the
NHL Draft, everybody had a pick and that's where they picked.
No moving, no swapping, no nothing. Conor McDavid of the Heart.
Mconor McDavid, admas other has won the Heart Trophy as
your NHL MVP. Now, he got up one hundred and
ninety five of one hundred ninety six possible first place votes.
He was denied a unanimous selection by some more on
(30:17):
in Pittsburgh who did a Mark Jackson and voted him
fifth out.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Of uh Well, Mark Jacker left.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yeah, I know this is this is about as bad though.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Sideline reporter for the team said they'd never seen him
play before, like in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
I don't know, but I assume this guy did it
for publisty and that's why I won't say who he
was right holding back new Ley, the Devil's resigned forward
Timo Meyer eight years, seventy million dollars. LA Kings get
centered Peter Luke Dubah from Winnipeg in a three player
trade good. Yeah, he's supposed to be good eight years
and sixty eight million dollars. They end up signing him
(30:53):
to a sign and trade deal. Calgary Flame shipped off
leading scorer Tyler to Foley former Kingdo of the New
Jersey Devils for yegor Sharon Govic and a third round
draft pick, and the Boston Bruins delt former league AMvB
Taylor Hall and veteran Nick Filino to the Chicago Blackhawks. Now,
this past weekend was the start of free agency in
the NHL. Not a lot of big deals as far
as money wise being handed out. There were a lot
(31:14):
of players that are changing teams. We'll start with the goalies.
New York Islanders did this sign a big deal with
their star young goalie Elias serrocn eight years, sixty six
million dollars. Pittsburgh Penguins get their goalie Tristan Jarry resigned
him five years twenty six point eight million, Ottawa Senators
signed goalie Jonas Corposalo five years twenty million, and Stanley
Cup hero Aiden Hill of the Vegas Golden Knights two
(31:35):
year deal worth nine point eight million dollars. As far
as some of the Skaters. The Anaheim Ducks signed forward
Alis Klaurin four years twenty five million. Nashville Predators Ryan
O'Reilly gets a four year, eighteen million dollar deal.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Did I read Eddie? The Ducks goaltender does not want.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
To play there anymore.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
They were reports that he's demanding a trade, and then
his agent came out, SETI that's not true.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
That means he's demanding it.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Yeah, Carolina Hurricane signed defen'sman Dmitrio Orloff two years fifteen
point five million, and for Michael Bunting three years thirteen
point five million. You had the Pittsburgh Penguin signing defenseman
Ryan Graves six years twenty seven million, Red Wings give
forward JT. Kopf for five year deal worth twenty five
point five million, and the Toronto Maple Leaves signed forward
Tyler Bertuzzi to a one year, five point five million
(32:16):
dollar deal. Some of the big names that are still available,
We've got forwards Vladimir Tarasenko and Patrick Kane, although Kine
is having some injury issues, gonna have some surgery and whatnot.
Mike Babcock officially back in the NHL. It's the head
coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets won a Stanley Cup
in Detroit, lost in the finals a couple of times
with Detroit, and Anaheim got fired in Toronto. There was
(32:38):
accusations that he was abusive to players, and other people
came out after the fact and accused of him some
things as well. But he's getting a second chance there
in Columbus, and I had to find a weird story
for you, Ben to wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
A weird story.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Eddy a Russian professional ice hockey player arrested on spying charges.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
He was playing in Poland's first division and was arrested
accused of being part of an espionage network.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Ah great.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
The authorities in Poland say that he'd been playing in
that country since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
But he was double dipping yet, I guess saw extra money,
I guess.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
So I don't know what what he was finding out
and uncovering at the ice rink, but barely.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
The famous baseball player.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yes, I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, reading reading about that, there were stories and was
it Russia? He was a spy in.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Where was he?
Speaker 5 (33:32):
I want to say maybe Germany?
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Germany?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
No, I do remember.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Was he a catcher?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yes, yes, I forget the guy's name, Dad, he won't
be upset, but yeah, he's a famous to I have
to look that guy's name up.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's not hard. Just google it.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Just just google it and you can figure it out.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Does that Puck the World that is?
Speaker 5 (33:48):
That's your Puck the World Report?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
All right, thank you for that, Eddie, appreciate that. As
we roll on through the overnight, I need some judges.
If you'd like to be one of my celebrity judges,
there is a line open for you and you can
join the fun. Here the number eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six
sixty three sixty nine. I just signed up for this
(34:10):
thing called Threads, by the way, so I'm on there.
It's Ben Mahler on Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
If you're on there.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
They said they've got like ten million people that signed up,
and so it's very exciting. It's it's I'm up to
forty seven followers now in the span of a couple hours.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Boy, that's great. We have forty seven
Speaker 1 (34:26):
People that are on there that are listening to show
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