July 19, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Yankees troubles as they find themselves in last place and if manager Aaron Boone should be worried about his job, the latest on Shohei Ohtani, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two of
the radio show, and the Bronx is a burning. Right now,
the zoo is open for business. The Yankees in last
place this late in the season for the first time
in a generation. Should manager Aaron Boone be looking over
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his shoulder with the Yankees? Also, what's the temperature around
the Big A when it comes to Shohei o'tani trade gossip?
Is it rational or irrational for Braves fans to be
worried about the ownership shuffling in Georgia? We'll talk about
that and more right now here. It is our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The Bronx is a burning, the worst Yankee team in
a generation. Welcmeum in the beginning of an other hour
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we love a good palace intrigue story. We have that
in baseball. The Yankees continuing their West and sojourn. They
have stopped in Anaheim this week, you know, at Disneyland,
another night and another l for the Halo Show. Hey,
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oh Tani an RBI triple, the Angels cruising past the
Yankees five to one a game the Angels never trailed,
lighting up the scoreboard there and the Halo at the
Big A. But the better story is in the losing
locker room, the last place Yankees. It has been literally
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a generation over a generation, generations twenty five to thirty years,
depending on how you do the math on that, but
about twenty five thirty years. It's been thirty two years
since a Yankee team was in last place in the
American League East this far into the season. And you
know what that means, Well, maybe you don't know what
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that means, but that means there are whispers and people
blowing into microphones at the status of Skipper Aaron Boone.
It's bubbling up around baseball. Would Brian Cashman do the unthinkable?
What do you do the unimaginable? Is Aaron Boone in
trouble in the Bronx after all these years as Yankee manager?
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Inquiring minds would like to know. And so that's the whispery.
Now Boone is at the very front of the dugout.
He's the one supposedly that's in charge. We know he's not,
but he's the one that's being credited with guiding the
Pinstripes through the rocky road. I scream that they're in
right now. So let us discuss the question should Aaron
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Boone be looking over his shoulder when it comes to
his status as the Yankees manager. So I've got teflon,
hiccup and nitty gritty, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
migrain headache, which is what many people that like the
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Yankees have watching the Yankees attempt to swing the bat
sar wing Barra, salwing barra and a sar wing and
a miss h swing and a miss. So number one
to answer the question should Aaron Boone be looking over
his shoulder as Yankee manager. The answer is yes, he
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ought to be updating his LinkedIn page trying to get
his job back at ESPN. But I think they've fired everybody.
I don't know if there's any jobs left over there.
Two hundred and eighty million dollars payroll for the New
York Yankees. Two hundred and eighty million dollars payroll. They
are a last place team. They are over five hundred,
but only a few games over five hundred. Now there
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are only four games over five hundred is the time
we're talking to you in this moment, which is not
that much. There are only a few games above the
Angels in the overall standings when you look at that
last place in the American League East. But the reality is,
while Aaron Boone should be concerned right now that this
might come to an end, this fairy tale ride is
Yankee manager Aaron F and Boone, It's going to end.
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The reality is that Aaron Boone walks around the Yankee
dugout and the clubhouse there in the Bronx and sounds
like a guy who knows he's the Teflon don He
knows that he's got nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
To worry about.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
He's in there humming a few bars of huna matata, right,
He's going on and on from the Lion King. There
a kuna matata doing his thing. There, no worries, no problems,
that whole deal. And this is a different era in
the Bronx. We've said this for years, and the fact
that Aaron Boone is not in any danger, the fact
that Aaron Boone is not in any danger is proof
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that this is a different era in the Bronx. That
he is a protected interest at this point. It's all
about the process. Is all about the process. You gotta
follow the battle plan. And Aaron Boone right now has
a duffel bag of excuses he does right. Well, Oh,
we didn't have Carlos Radon for a while. He's come
back and been terrible. By the way, since he's come
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back to the Yankee rotation, Nestor Cortes has been out
for an extended period of time. Then you got the
big one. Ow my tow, Ow my god, Mike tow.
It hurts out much, Mike too. Aaron Judge injured by
an adamant object at Dodger's State. He's such a klutz
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that he injured his toe and has missed over a month.
The Yankees claim that Aaron Judge is going to be
back in the lineup. But the only way he'll be
back soon but the only way that Aaron Boone is
going to leave his post as the one who's keeping
track of the New York Yankees lineup. The only way
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is if ownership grows a pair and takes a wrecking
ball to Brian Cashman. It's gonna have to be the
daily Double. The only way they get rid of Boone,
I'm convinced is the daily Double. Now, the Yankees didier
their hitting coach, something they have not done in a generation,
so that that's a new thing and it hasn't done
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any The Yankees are twenty eighth and runs per game
since early June over a month. There's only two teams.
There's thirty teams in baseball. There's only two teams that
are scoring fewer runs than the Yankees. That coincides with
Aaron Judge being out a lineup. You get other supposedly
competent big league players who have no idea how to
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hit a breaking ball. Can't tell the difference between a
curveball and a slider. They have no concept it would appear.
And so the only way they get rivere Bone is
if they just blow the whole thing up and there
is a better chance that I end up getting promoted
to a high paying job, then that happens, which and
there's almost no chance of that happening. So but this
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Aaron Bone at this point, he's like a tenured professor.
And I watched these news conference, so well, we've got
the players, say all the positive non said, we got
the players. We're gonna be okay, everything's gon be fun,
all right. Now, turning the page on that, let's stay
in Anaheim. The team that beat the Yankees the Angels.
Since the All Star Break they lost the series to
the a holes from Houston. They've now won the series
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against the Yankees. Even if they lose the getaway game
on Wednesday afternoon here, they've already won the first two
so they've won that series. So at this point, the
Yankees or the Angels are three and two out of
the gates. They're back to five hundred. The trade deadline
is now less than two weeks away. So what is
the temperature around the Big A when it comes to
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shohey O'tani and the trade gossip that is all over
Major League Baseball. So I'm gonna tell you I put
some feelers out because I got no life, and I
know a few people that they don't like to admit
they know me. But I sent some messages out trying
to figure out what was going on, try to get
some inside skinny here on Otani and what's going on,
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and get the pulse in the room. And so the
word that I have gotten is that Arti Marino, the
word is ambivalent. He's ambivalent when it comes to the
Otani trade. He's not convinced that Showhy is guaranteed to
leave like many people in the media are. That's the
word that I'm hearing that he thinks there's still a
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shot that the Angels can keep Otani and sign him
to an extension and keep him with Mike Trout in Anaheim.
Now many would say that's neurosis, but I'm just telling
you what I'm here, that he's not convinced that all
these insiders are right, that Otani's desperately trying to leave here,
that he thinks that this is going to be very
similar to Mike Trout, Mike Trout. People thought he was
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going to go to the Yankees of the Phillies or
somewhere else. He decided to stay and re up and
sign up forever contract with the Angels. In just about
the time that contract was completed, he was diagnosed with
a chronic back injury. So anyway, Arti Marino is reluctant
to also give up on the Komodo Dragon in the room.
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Now the Komodo Dragon the room. When it comes to
the Ottani story is the fact that showtime is on
a historic home run pace that if he were to
continue not get hurt and continue to hit home runs
the way he is, this is a big hiccup for
Arti Marino and the Angels because he has a legitimate
chance to break the home run record which was just
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set last year, the American League home run record by
Aaron Judge. It's got a great chance of passing that.
And who knows. If Otani has a ridiculous month of August.
You can say that Barry Bonds is in his sight
that the all time single season steroid record from Bonds
could be taken down there, and Arti Marino's like, wait
a minute, this guy could do it as an Angel
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with that Angel logo. That would be great for my brand.
Do I really want to give that up? You win
the MVP and all that. Now, the deadline is less
than two weeks away, and from what I've been informed
here the trade chatter while it is going on, it
is in the embryonic stage, and this is going to
go down to the buzzer right there the final day.
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Would be surprising if Otani's traded before the final final
minutes of the trade deadline here and so the Angel's owner,
the sense is he's sitting on the fence though that
he has a case of selective hearing, mister Marino, the
Angel's owner there, And I keep going back to the
Mike Trout things like, well, people said Mike Trout was
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gonna leave, he stayed, and Otani people say it's gonna leave.
And what if he stays and the Angels think they
can make him a competitive offer. I'd love to know
what that is. I don't know what that is. What
is a competitive offer? The Dodgers, the Mets, the Yankees
will be interested. The Red Sox possibly as well be
interested in Otani. So will they find middle ground? But
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we'll see what happens. But that's the latest, and it's
gonna be one hell of a sales pitch from the
Angel's ownership there to Otani and he'll probably have his
ears plugged while they're talking. I don't want to hear you.
No no, no, no, na na. All right, final points.
So there's a changeing ownership in baseball with one of
the better teams in baseball this year, the Atlanta Braves.
A group called Liberty Media announced a split off of
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the Braves baseball franchise as its own publicly traded entity,
as in Wall Street. Here we go, Wall Street. Yes,
very exciting. Now, we are told, and you know, when
it comes to finances, you always turn to the overnight
radio guy. But we are told that this is essentially
a one for one swap of existing shares. So is
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it rational or irrational for Braves fans to be worried
about this ownership shuffle? So I say it's rational. Now.
I saw the quotes coming out of Atlanta and they're
like that, there's nothing to see here. It's just a
paper move, nothing big, nothing to worry about. Status quo
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for the Bravos. That's what the word is. I'm not
so sure. To me, the proof is in the pudding
and what kind of pudding are they gonna put out there?
And the Braves have signed all their key young players
to really long contracts, so they're all set up in
Atlanta that they've all got team friendly contracts even though
they're making a lot of money those young players. The
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proof is if that continues, if they keep those guys,
they don't start trading some of those guys away. The
problem when you get Wall Street involved, and I know
they've still been involved with Wall Street Liberty Media on
Wall Street, but it's a different animal now, and the
problem is do you have to do? You have to
please the stockholders. The reason ESPN laid off all those
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employees and people I knew some of those people they
got whacked over to ESPN is because they're owned by Disney,
and Disney's run by Wall Street, and big companies make changes.
You're just a name on a tote board at big
corporations because you have to appease the stockholders. And so
are the Atlanta Braves as their own standalone entity as
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they get swapped out by Liberty Media going to have
to make sure to opacify the stockholders. That's the question.
And the common fan like you and I, if we
want I'm not bravesman, if I wanted to, I could
buy stock now in the Atlanta Braves. You're a Braves fan,
you could own a piece of the Atlanta Braves. So
will that be as worthless as a stock option of
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the Green Bay Packers? And is this just a way
to artificially generate revenue, a money grab, snatch some extra cash.
I'm asking for a fan. I'm asking for a fan
because and we're a minor of the situation. But the positive,
there is a positive on this is that we're gonna
get even more of the nitty gritty baseball. Like all
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businesses are very hush hush when it comes to the
actual finances, you don't really know. Now we know a
lot about the NFL because of the Green Bay Packers.
We know a lot about the Atlanta Braves and baseball
because of the Liberty Media financial filings a couple of
years ago. How much money the Braves generated in revenue,
for example, when they won the World Series a couple
of years back. But now we're gonna get even more
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information in theory and that's good. How much Mouto de
Nio exactly do the teams get from the national TV
contracts and from the merchandise and all that inside baseball?
How profitable these teams are, which I'm sure is very
exciting for the people that are on the union side
in baseball. It is the Ben Mahler Show. You want
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
Mark in Minnesota says a minus on the Mallard monologue.
The Bronx bummers. They have not been this bad since
they had Danny Tartable taking batting tips from George Costanza.
That's baseball. Nineteen ninety New York Yankees one of the
immortal teams in baseball history. And now I am right, Eddie,
(16:41):
I looked it up. Stump Merril did take over for
Bucky f and Dant in nineteen ninety old the Yankee
knowledge there, and that was what a Yankee team bate
Alvarro Espinoza at shortstop, Jim Lavitz was at third base.
Let's quality baseball there for the Yankees. Steve Sachs was there.
I don't know. I can't believe it didn't work out.
(17:02):
Mel Hall. He's in jail.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh is that right? Yeah, he's in jail for he
used to wear batting gloves in his back pocket of
his pants, just because he didn't actually use the batting gloves,
but he would put him in his pants. Like sticking
out of his look good. Yeah, as was his fascist dings.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
All about the style, All about the style. They had?
Who else they had? Ricky Deon Sanders. Deon Sanders was
on the night. Coach Prime, Yeah, Coach Prime, Steve Sachs,
Bob Garren, Steve Bye bye, bal Bony. Oh boy, some
big names. If you're old guy, those are big names.
That Yankee team won sixty seven games for just in
last place in nineteen ninety and that Yankee team right
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now they're in last place, although they are above five
hundred for the time being. Let's go to the phones
on a newbie night. It is a newbie night, and
let's say hello to Taylor. First time, first time. There's
a first time for everything. Hello Taylor, Welcome, Hey man,
how are you Taylor? If I is any better, I
would be sleeping, but I'm here talking.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
I got two questions. Are you a Yankee fan?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Let me think about that. Am I yank?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
This is my first time calling in so all right?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah no, let me I'm not go know on that.
I'm gonna go No. Not a Yankee fan? Yeah, you're
you're a Yankee fan, Taylor. How long you've been a
Yankee fan.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I'm actually relatively young. I was born in ninety five,
but my dad got me into it. He just passed
away in December and took over his farm. So I
really wanted I just pulled back into my house from
starting some irrigation pumpson. Uh, you have a crop damage
from you want to take care of them, deer.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So your dad like took care of you. Give you
all the insight on how to work over the farm.
I'll give you all the inside info.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Well, not as much as I would have liked to.
Kind of passed away unexpectedly Intocember. So I'm kind of
figuring out as I go.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And how's that been going for you?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Super stressful, I hear you.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, that's a lot of responsibility. Yeah, yeah, you'll figure
it out though. You're a smart guy, tea. You can
figure it out, right, I hope.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
So yeah, there you go, look into the thick of it.
Now all of our crops are coming off. So he
went to a where I'm from Maryland. So he went
to a farmer's market in Paterson, New Jersey. And every
once in a while, well quite a few times, we
just go out and see a Yankee game.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh that's cool. All right, So what do you think, Taylor,
Aaron Boone? Yay r nay on Aaron Boone.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
You know, there's a lot of hot headed Yankee fans,
especially on Facebook. I watched them a lot. They've been
calling for him to be fired, like four or five
years ago.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I see, we have a lot of injuries. I'm just curious.
I mean, my dad always talked about if obviously George
Steinberner isn't alive anymore, but yeah, oh yeah, make big,
big changes pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, if Steinbrenner was still around, the original Steinbrenner, the
Aaron Boone had have been fired like three years ago,
he would have been maybe more than that, So yeah,
he didn't wait around. Used to fire managers all the time,
but it hasn't been that way in a long time. Taylor.
It's been status quo for the Yankees, and they are
just kind of going through the motions. Boy, they're boring
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to watch though, right now. Well, good luck on the
farm there, Taylor. Hanging there, man, You'll figure it out
and before you know it, you'll be an expert and
you'll make your dad proud. So hang in there. All right, buddy,
all right, thank you man. There's Taylor the Yankee. Let's
go to uh see here. Oh, mister got all the
answers on a newbie night. It's a newbie night, and
(20:45):
you want to know who's got all the answers. Mister
got all the answers. He lives in Minnesota. Hello, mister,
got all the answers.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Who's going on?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Snicker doodle?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's right, that's right, my new nickname, the snicker that's right.
I'm one of the way.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
How you get snicker doodles to be spicy?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Now, then the stickerdoodle is not. If you want to
make it spicy, put some cayenne pepper on it, Mike, right, yeah, sweet,
of course sweet? Why would I want to? Who wants
a spicy cookie?
Speaker 9 (21:13):
So don't fly want.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
No spicy cookie.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
You're gonna make me get like mad James is something?
Speaker 8 (21:18):
When I talked like I gotta stop.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
No, no, miss you got you got all the answers. Man,
you don't want to talk about snicker doodles.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Let's calm it down.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
I thought you you you're.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Like the Martha Stewart of cookies or something.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Though I'm the Martha Steward of Sports Talk. Yes, that's right, Yes,
I look like Martha Stewart.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
He talking about deer.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
I think the last man was talking about deer.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
I'm glad he took over.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
His father's farm.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
But at the same time, I'm driving down a dark
road and.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
It's scary because these beers pop out everywhere and I
ain't got one of the big trucks. I got a
little bit caught and then next thing you know, one
hops out with a making America great again. Had of
scared of the crap?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Mean, yeah, what about have you ever have you seen
a guy named Hayes? Have you seen a guy named Hayes?
There is that guy would all the time. Yeah, he's scary. Yeah,
Hazes from Canada. I didn't know Edie.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I did not, but I did see that video of
the one of our Australian listeners with the driving down
the road and.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The Ozzi kangaroos are jumping around western Western Australia.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Gotta watch out for this ruse.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah. One of our listeners in the Western Australia is
there's not a lot of people live in Western Australia
because they're not all there. I'm telling a story. So
this guy's driving down a dirt road. Mister got all
the answers. And there were four rules. I counted four
kangaroos that were popping along there on the dirt road.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yeah, hey, so what you all right?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Where's and mister got all the answer. Where's Otani going
to end up?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Oh that's an easy question, okay, Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Dodgers, that's an easy one. All right.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
That would be a knife in Coop's heart.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
That would be devastating.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
You gotta give me something, You gotta give me something, allright.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Who's going to be the next president of the United States?
Twenty twenty four? Here we go over there.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Come on, man, how you gonna go against?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
You know, that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, that's a tough one. You know, maybe.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
I don't even that guy.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
He's a good guy.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I don't even know if you would realize he was
running for president again if you read you know, just
like we'll put your president.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Yeah, trumps hard to be.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
But I mean, man, come on.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You gotta come up with mister. You got all the answer.
I thought you. Mister got all the answers. Mister got
all the answer. I'm curious, all right, how about you
just give me the off the air, give me the
Mega millions, give me, give me the Mega millions numbers
off the air. Can you do that?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I can do that, but give let's stick with sports.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
All right, We'll stick to sports, all right. One of
the Clippers winning their first championship.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Go ahead, all right, he does have all the answers.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, I had to hang.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Up on him there.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I mean, that's a that's an unacceptable answer. The answer
is next season. Well, no, actually the answer is the
first year when they move into the taij Ma Hall
with the most toilets in the NBA, the intoit Dome,
which is going to be amazing. Everyone gets their own
urinal toilets, gonna lead the NBA and urinal cakes. It's
gonna be awesome. Toilet paper, urinal cakes. It's gonna be
(24:32):
dominating because they are very worried, the Clippers about people's
bodily functions. Yeah, and they'll have special filters so the
air is fresh when everyone's farting. It'll be great.
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Speaker 3 (25:30):
So to the NFL sort of did you see that
the latest rankings are out for the next Madden game,
Madden NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I'm a gamer, Come on, I'm a gamer, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
We had history as your guy, Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Aaron did has been.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Given the ninety nine rating, the highest rating a player
can possibly get, for a record seventh time. It was crazy.
Of course. The question is which players tomorrow will be
complaining about.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Their already complaining right now?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We got who's complaining?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Well, they complain all the time.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I haven't seen any yet. I can think we all
come out tomorrow. Right.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I'm gonna guess Austin Eckler, he likes to complain. I
think Austin Eckler is going to complain. How about that?
All right, I'm gonna go. Let's see here complain. Well,
won't be Josh Allen of the Bills. How about to
a tongue about Lowe? Will he complain?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I don't think he's much of a comp's got more
things to worry about.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Lamar Jackson, you'll complain. Maybe Lamar Jackson, maybe wide receiver,
all of the above. Stefan Diggs will complain.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I'm not played Madden in a long long time. Has
been around for a long while.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It has been long plat a couple years ago when
Antonio Brown was on the cover, I played. That was
a few years back.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah, I think the last time I purchased the game.
I think Larry Fitzgerald was on the cover. I remember
back in the been a while mid aughts, was that
the oughts I have to check.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
No video games at the table?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, okay, thank you for that. And it is the
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Forever stained cheating a stro Justin Verlander is about to
(27:34):
be decommissioned by the New York Metropolitans. Verlander, the big
pickup this offseason in his forties, now signed a big
contract with the Mets for a couple of years, and
the New York Metropolitans have watched Justin Verlander go out
and start thirteen games this season. The Mets are three
games under five hundred in games started by Justin Verlander
(27:56):
this year. That is not what they were counting on.
Orlander was asked about this, did he say, A I
want out of here. Do you know how bad the
traffic is getting into City Field? It sucks. I don't
take the subway it blows, and the humidity. I want
to get out of New York. I want to go
to a good team. I don't want to be here anymore.
Or did he say no comment, or did he say
(28:18):
that he is fully in love with the Mets and
wants to say that, Well, the answer is kind of
c I said, he's committed to the Mets, despite the
fact that the Mets don't appear to be all committed
to him. So keep an eye on that. Justin Verlander,
who could be years I saw him pitch the other
(28:39):
day against the Dodgers. He walked a bunch of guys
in that game and got the loss against the Dodgers
over the weekend a few days ago. So who knows
what you got with Verlander? Who is now? He's crossed over.
He had a birthday back in February. Is over forty
years old now, and you are long in the tooth
in baseball and real real world not so much. But
(29:01):
in baseball, good luck, good luck on that. It is
at new Bie Night, Newbie Night, all new callers, and
let's go to the Bay Area. Is it Likey's?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Is that it?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Coop? What are we looking at here?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
This name?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
He well, Coop's not listening, sir? What is your name?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (29:21):
What's up?
Speaker 8 (29:22):
And my name is Leaky?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Leaky's are Leaky's? I thought, well that would be spelled
I think differently than that. I think is that how
you spell your name? L l I Y l A
l I K y.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
S is that he spelled I honestly, I don't think
I've ever spelled my name, man. I just that's what
people call me.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's interesting, yeah, because I would think, like L E
A K. I asked him how he spells it. That's
what he told me.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Yeah, well, I mean that was the first time I
think I've ever spelled it out for someone. I just
I just go by that name.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I don't know never you've never, you've never typed it,
you never texted to somebody, You've never It seems impossible.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
No, No, that's true.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
But I'm not like the guy from Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Man.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
I don't have all the answers. Man, I have all
the questions.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh great, well, we love random questions, that's what we love.
And from a guy named Leaky who doesn't even know
how to spell his name, that's impressive.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
But I do, I do.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
I do got some for you, man, I got some.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
I got some good.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You have little money. What do you got?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, you got is that right?
Speaker 8 (30:32):
You got a hot That's what I got.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Oh, we got a hot. Tony take coming out of
the oven right now, piping hot. Here we go, all right?
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Oh, Tommy, I don't think he's going anywhere, man.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Because of one thing I don't know. I don't know
the logistics behind what the owners think either, what teams
are offering, which I'm sure they're offering everything. But I
mean there's an underlying thing that I've only heard a
few people talk about. The angels are tied up with
a bunch of these Japanese corporations with ads I think
(31:14):
sponsors a bunch of these Japanese Uh, underlying.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Leak here I feel Uh, can I couch call you
a leak for short? Can I just call you a leak?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I call you a leak, my friend. Leak here? Are
you repurposing a take that I've had? Is that what
you're doing right now?
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Oh? Is that was this you who brought this up?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Then?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, I feel like you're It's like a take boomerang.
Like I tossed the take out and then you toss
it like a boomerang, it comes back and hits me
right in the face.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
Well, well, I'll hear the Bay Area I listened to
I heard this in in Uh in the morning.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
A couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
So it was it was it around Was it around
one in the morning when you heard it or two
of them?
Speaker 8 (31:55):
No, No, this was like like a morning over here.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
I don't know, it's like noon or something.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Somebody got a guy during the day, a daytime daytime
guy stole my take. Eddie, daytime guy repurposed my take.
It's not right, Eddie shaking and said, no, you can't
believe it. This is take. You know what this is.
This is We need to have a tribunal. A take
tribunal is what we need to have. You can't be
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taking other people's takes.
Speaker 8 (32:26):
Well, no, why.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Didn't you bring up the take today?
Speaker 8 (32:28):
Man, I don't hear you say anything about the take.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
If you would have said something, I would have I
would have.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Today's a new take. I had. Today's a different take.
But I was my take the other day. That's an
old take that somebody used, an old take.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
Well, let me refresh my take.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Okay, change your take. Go ahead, here we go. Come on,
come on, leek, I got for you. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
All right, alright, is he's going to the race.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
The rains are going to give him everything they got.
They got a lot of young prospects. I know, I
know their farm system is good, and I know he's
lacking the resign there more than likely, But I mean,
could you imagine them on the rays.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, that's bad, he say, that's a bad I know
you're trying to facilitate the take. That's a bad take.
You should have gone Brewers because Otani loves the smell
of beer being made at night, and he wants to
play for the brewers because they brew beer there in Milwaukee,
and he wants to smell the nice smell at night
when he's driving around there. He wants to smell that. Yeah,
all right, I gotta go. Thank you Leak. Trenda's call unbelievable,
(33:37):
just making it up as you go. I love it,
all right, thank you, go away. Ben.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
The word take now has lost its meaning. You hear
a word enough times over and over again, and now
it has no meaning.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's because you're in the factory making hot dogs. That's
why you're in the hot dogs.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Fact, they don't even have an appearance anymore.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
Also, Leak's member of the Onion family. You Leak fan.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No, I'm not I fan. You're like Leaks time after
the insta trivia here it is insta trivia time. You
can answer this on the Twitter machine at Ben Maler
will have Mallard of the third degree. Here's the instant trivia.
Blank was the first player in baseball history to finish
his career with more than three hundred home runs but
(34:17):
less than one thousand runs batted in. It never happened
in the history of baseball before this player. Blank was
the first player in baseball history to finish his career
with more than three hundred home runs but somehow less
than one thousand runs batted in. That's the insta trivia.
The answer next.
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Mallard of the third Degree coming up, Mama Telli Tondow
for the Instant Trivia. Baseball goes back to the eighteen seventies.
But Blank was the first player in professional baseball history
to finish his career with more than three hundred home runs,
but somehow less than one thousand runs batted in. It
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had never happened before this player, And you got a
fill in the blank. That is the question. What is
the answer Jeremy's going with. That's Jeremy in Minnesota, says,
the shortest MLB player of all time. Of course Eddie Goodell.
Who else do we have? Page down? Chester Cheetah from
Cowboy Killer Bud Selik tossed out by boot Bean boot
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Maker Bob Repeat Leak from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Page down,
Page down, Placito Polanco, a Phillies legend from Late Night
Drug Tester Leaky Guest by Kathleen Kathleen or Kathy and Madison.
Tino Martinez from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Page down. He
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sopped Choi from Callaghan Tim He's a Dodger legend, big
time legend. Ryan Howard Yes, by Justin in the enchanted Forest,
big game. James Worthy from Shane of des Moines. Bob
Huggins from Rumors of the vill Charlie Sheen tossed out
by our buddy Alf the alien Opiner. Who else do
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we have? Jonathan in Delawares going Jad Martinez? Do you
have an answer?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Eddie Yes, former Brewer and Mariner legend. Richie Sexon.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
That is incorrect. He's on the list, but the first
one to do it is Jay Buner, Jay Buner, Mayriner legend,
Jay Buner and Yankee legend. It's maller how about that?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
To the third degree? This is one big.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Fan gets grilled hoop dal loop.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
ESPN recently published quarterback rankings as picked by executives, coaches,
and scouts from around the NFL. It had Aaron Rodgers
at number four. However, one AFC scout said the ranking
is too high and he should be around eight to twelve.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Where do you have Rogers ranked.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, so I don't know who that was if that
was made up by the rider, but yeah, it's Aaron Rodgers,
like the tenth, tenth to twelfth in that group based
on his performance basically the actual results last year. He
was not as good as Mahomes, Burrow, Allen, Justin Herbert
to a tongue of Iloa was better. Trevor Lawrence, Jalen Hurts,
go down the list, Jared Goff better than Aaron Rodgers, less,
(37:58):
your Kirk Cousins better than Aaron Rodgers. Oh about tenth?
Put him right there and not the MVP version he
had been next.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
Lebron James took to social media to sing the praises
of Kyrie Irving by co signing on another tweet that
called Kyrie the best player with the ball in his
hands we have ever seen ben based on ability alone.
Do you think this argument can be made?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
So Lebron is guilty of recency bias on this. Yeah,
Kyrie's the top ball handler in this generation of NBA players.
But you know how far back do you want to go?
Magic Johnson, Isaiah Thomas, Tim Hardaway, the original Tim Marvey,
Allen Irison was amazing with the basketball, so it really
just depends on generation. Do I think Kyrie is the
greatest of all time? I do not. Next, So, there's.
Speaker 7 (38:42):
Been a slight buzz about WNBA stars Sabrina iron Escu with.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
A question mark.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Yes, she broke the three point contest record with thirty
seven points. It's a smaller ball on the three point
lines closer. She even took to social media to challenge
Steph Curry to a shootout. Curry seemingly accepted, Ben, did
you tune in to watch this?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I would rather stare at the wall over there than
watch I have no interest in this at all. It's
a different game in the w NBA. How did we
know that is a w What do you know about basketball?
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two of
the radio show, and the Bronx is a burning. Right now,
the zoo is open for business. The Yankees in last
place this late in the season for the first time
in a generation. Should manager Aaron Boone be looking over
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his shoulder with the Yankees? Also, what's the temperature around
the Big A when it comes to Shohei o'tani trade gossip?
Is it rational or irrational for Braves fans to be
worried about the ownership shuffling in Georgia? We'll talk about
that and more right now here. It is our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The Bronx is a burning, the worst Yankee team in
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we love a good palace intrigue story. We have that
in baseball. The Yankees continuing their West and sojourn. They
have stopped in Anaheim this week, you know, at Disneyland,
another night and another l for the Halo Show. Hey,
(02:11):
oh Tani an RBI triple, the Angels cruising past the
Yankees five to one a game the Angels never trailed,
lighting up the scoreboard there and the Halo at the
Big A. But the better story is in the losing
locker room, the last place Yankees. It has been literally
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a generation over a generation, generations twenty five to thirty years,
depending on how you do the math on that, but
about twenty five thirty years. It's been thirty two years
since a Yankee team was in last place in the
American League East this far into the season. And you
know what that means, Well, maybe you don't know what
(02:53):
that means, but that means there are whispers and people
blowing into microphones at the status of Skipper Aaron Boone.
It's bubbling up around baseball. Would Brian Cashman do the unthinkable?
What do you do the unimaginable? Is Aaron Boone in
trouble in the Bronx after all these years as Yankee manager?
(03:17):
Inquiring minds would like to know. And so that's the whispery.
Now Boone is at the very front of the dugout.
He's the one supposedly that's in charge. We know he's not,
but he's the one that's being credited with guiding the
Pinstripes through the rocky road. I scream that they're in
right now. So let us discuss the question should Aaron
(03:40):
Boone be looking over his shoulder when it comes to
his status as the Yankees manager. So I've got teflon,
hiccup and nitty gritty, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
migrain headache, which is what many people that like the
(04:01):
Yankees have watching the Yankees attempt to swing the bat
sar wing Barra, salwing barra and a sar wing and
a miss h swing and a miss. So number one
to answer the question should Aaron Boone be looking over
his shoulder as Yankee manager. The answer is yes, he
(04:21):
ought to be updating his LinkedIn page trying to get
his job back at ESPN. But I think they've fired everybody.
I don't know if there's any jobs left over there.
Two hundred and eighty million dollars payroll for the New
York Yankees. Two hundred and eighty million dollars payroll. They
are a last place team. They are over five hundred,
but only a few games over five hundred. Now there
(04:41):
are only four games over five hundred is the time
we're talking to you in this moment, which is not
that much. There are only a few games above the
Angels in the overall standings when you look at that
last place in the American League East. But the reality is,
while Aaron Boone should be concerned right now that this
might come to an end, this fairy tale ride is
Yankee manager Aaron F and Boone, It's going to end.
(05:06):
The reality is that Aaron Boone walks around the Yankee
dugout and the clubhouse there in the Bronx and sounds
like a guy who knows he's the Teflon don He
knows that he's got nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
To worry about.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
He's in there humming a few bars of huna matata, right,
He's going on and on from the Lion King. There
a kuna matata doing his thing. There, no worries, no problems,
that whole deal. And this is a different era in
the Bronx. We've said this for years, and the fact
that Aaron Boone is not in any danger, the fact
that Aaron Boone is not in any danger is proof
(05:44):
that this is a different era in the Bronx. That
he is a protected interest at this point. It's all
about the process. Is all about the process. You gotta
follow the battle plan. And Aaron Boone right now has
a duffel bag of excuses he does right. Well, Oh,
we didn't have Carlos Radon for a while. He's come
back and been terrible. By the way, since he's come
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back to the Yankee rotation, Nestor Cortes has been out
for an extended period of time. Then you got the
big one. Ow my tow, Ow my god, Mike tow.
It hurts out much, Mike too. Aaron Judge injured by
an adamant object at Dodger's State. He's such a klutz
(06:25):
that he injured his toe and has missed over a month.
The Yankees claim that Aaron Judge is going to be
back in the lineup. But the only way he'll be
back soon but the only way that Aaron Boone is
going to leave his post as the one who's keeping
track of the New York Yankees lineup. The only way
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is if ownership grows a pair and takes a wrecking
ball to Brian Cashman. It's gonna have to be the
daily Double. The only way they get rid of Boone,
I'm convinced is the daily Double. Now, the Yankees didier
their hitting coach, something they have not done in a generation,
so that that's a new thing and it hasn't done
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any The Yankees are twenty eighth and runs per game
since early June over a month. There's only two teams.
There's thirty teams in baseball. There's only two teams that
are scoring fewer runs than the Yankees. That coincides with
Aaron Judge being out a lineup. You get other supposedly
competent big league players who have no idea how to
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hit a breaking ball. Can't tell the difference between a
curveball and a slider. They have no concept it would appear.
And so the only way they get rivere Bone is
if they just blow the whole thing up and there
is a better chance that I end up getting promoted
to a high paying job, then that happens, which and
there's almost no chance of that happening. So but this
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Aaron Bone at this point, he's like a tenured professor.
And I watched these news conference, so well, we've got
the players, say all the positive non said, we got
the players. We're gonna be okay, everything's gon be fun,
all right. Now, turning the page on that, let's stay
in Anaheim. The team that beat the Yankees the Angels.
Since the All Star Break they lost the series to
the a holes from Houston. They've now won the series
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against the Yankees. Even if they lose the getaway game
on Wednesday afternoon here, they've already won the first two
so they've won that series. So at this point, the
Yankees or the Angels are three and two out of
the gates. They're back to five hundred. The trade deadline
is now less than two weeks away. So what is
the temperature around the Big A when it comes to
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shohey O'tani and the trade gossip that is all over
Major League Baseball. So I'm gonna tell you I put
some feelers out because I got no life, and I
know a few people that they don't like to admit
they know me. But I sent some messages out trying
to figure out what was going on, try to get
some inside skinny here on Otani and what's going on,
(08:55):
and get the pulse in the room. And so the
word that I have gotten is that Arti Marino, the
word is ambivalent. He's ambivalent when it comes to the
Otani trade. He's not convinced that Showhy is guaranteed to
leave like many people in the media are. That's the
word that I'm hearing that he thinks there's still a
(09:16):
shot that the Angels can keep Otani and sign him
to an extension and keep him with Mike Trout in Anaheim.
Now many would say that's neurosis, but I'm just telling
you what I'm here, that he's not convinced that all
these insiders are right, that Otani's desperately trying to leave here,
that he thinks that this is going to be very
similar to Mike Trout, Mike Trout. People thought he was
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going to go to the Yankees of the Phillies or
somewhere else. He decided to stay and re up and
sign up forever contract with the Angels. In just about
the time that contract was completed, he was diagnosed with
a chronic back injury. So anyway, Arti Marino is reluctant
to also give up on the Komodo Dragon in the room.
(09:59):
Now the Komodo Dragon the room. When it comes to
the Ottani story is the fact that showtime is on
a historic home run pace that if he were to
continue not get hurt and continue to hit home runs
the way he is, this is a big hiccup for
Arti Marino and the Angels because he has a legitimate
chance to break the home run record which was just
(10:20):
set last year, the American League home run record by
Aaron Judge. It's got a great chance of passing that.
And who knows. If Otani has a ridiculous month of August.
You can say that Barry Bonds is in his sight
that the all time single season steroid record from Bonds
could be taken down there, and Arti Marino's like, wait
a minute, this guy could do it as an Angel
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with that Angel logo. That would be great for my brand.
Do I really want to give that up? You win
the MVP and all that. Now, the deadline is less
than two weeks away, and from what I've been informed
here the trade chatter while it is going on, it
is in the embryonic stage, and this is going to
go down to the buzzer right there the final day.
(11:02):
Would be surprising if Otani's traded before the final final
minutes of the trade deadline here and so the Angel's owner,
the sense is he's sitting on the fence though that
he has a case of selective hearing, mister Marino, the
Angel's owner there, And I keep going back to the
Mike Trout things like, well, people said Mike Trout was
(11:23):
gonna leave, he stayed, and Otani people say it's gonna leave.
And what if he stays and the Angels think they
can make him a competitive offer. I'd love to know
what that is. I don't know what that is. What
is a competitive offer? The Dodgers, the Mets, the Yankees
will be interested. The Red Sox possibly as well be
interested in Otani. So will they find middle ground? But
(11:46):
we'll see what happens. But that's the latest, and it's
gonna be one hell of a sales pitch from the
Angel's ownership there to Otani and he'll probably have his
ears plugged while they're talking. I don't want to hear you.
No no, no, no, na na. All right, final points.
So there's a changeing ownership in baseball with one of
the better teams in baseball this year, the Atlanta Braves.
A group called Liberty Media announced a split off of
(12:08):
the Braves baseball franchise as its own publicly traded entity,
as in Wall Street. Here we go, Wall Street. Yes,
very exciting. Now, we are told, and you know, when
it comes to finances, you always turn to the overnight
radio guy. But we are told that this is essentially
a one for one swap of existing shares. So is
(12:32):
it rational or irrational for Braves fans to be worried
about this ownership shuffle? So I say it's rational. Now.
I saw the quotes coming out of Atlanta and they're
like that, there's nothing to see here. It's just a
paper move, nothing big, nothing to worry about. Status quo
(12:53):
for the Bravos. That's what the word is. I'm not
so sure. To me, the proof is in the pudding
and what kind of pudding are they gonna put out there?
And the Braves have signed all their key young players
to really long contracts, so they're all set up in
Atlanta that they've all got team friendly contracts even though
they're making a lot of money those young players. The
(13:15):
proof is if that continues, if they keep those guys,
they don't start trading some of those guys away. The
problem when you get Wall Street involved, and I know
they've still been involved with Wall Street Liberty Media on
Wall Street, but it's a different animal now, and the
problem is do you have to do? You have to
please the stockholders. The reason ESPN laid off all those
(13:36):
employees and people I knew some of those people they
got whacked over to ESPN is because they're owned by Disney,
and Disney's run by Wall Street, and big companies make changes.
You're just a name on a tote board at big
corporations because you have to appease the stockholders. And so
are the Atlanta Braves as their own standalone entity as
(13:57):
they get swapped out by Liberty Media going to have
to make sure to opacify the stockholders. That's the question.
And the common fan like you and I, if we
want I'm not bravesman, if I wanted to, I could
buy stock now in the Atlanta Braves. You're a Braves fan,
you could own a piece of the Atlanta Braves. So
will that be as worthless as a stock option of
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the Green Bay Packers? And is this just a way
to artificially generate revenue, a money grab, snatch some extra cash.
I'm asking for a fan. I'm asking for a fan
because and we're a minor of the situation. But the positive,
there is a positive on this is that we're gonna
get even more of the nitty gritty baseball. Like all
(14:40):
businesses are very hush hush when it comes to the
actual finances, you don't really know. Now we know a
lot about the NFL because of the Green Bay Packers.
We know a lot about the Atlanta Braves and baseball
because of the Liberty Media financial filings a couple of
years ago. How much money the Braves generated in revenue,
for example, when they won the World Series a couple
of years back. But now we're gonna get even more
(15:01):
information in theory and that's good. How much Mouto de
Nio exactly do the teams get from the national TV
contracts and from the merchandise and all that inside baseball?
How profitable these teams are, which I'm sure is very
exciting for the people that are on the union side
in baseball. It is the Ben Mahler Show. You want
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
Mark in Minnesota says a minus on the Mallard monologue.
The Bronx bummers. They have not been this bad since
they had Danny Tartable taking batting tips from George Costanza.
That's baseball. Nineteen ninety New York Yankees one of the
immortal teams in baseball history. And now I am right, Eddie,
(16:41):
I looked it up. Stump Merril did take over for
Bucky f and Dant in nineteen ninety old the Yankee
knowledge there, and that was what a Yankee team bate
Alvarro Espinoza at shortstop, Jim Lavitz was at third base.
Let's quality baseball there for the Yankees. Steve Sachs was there.
I don't know. I can't believe it didn't work out.
(17:02):
Mel Hall. He's in jail.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh is that right? Yeah, he's in jail for he
used to wear batting gloves in his back pocket of
his pants, just because he didn't actually use the batting gloves,
but he would put him in his pants. Like sticking
out of his look good. Yeah, as was his fascist dings.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
All about the style, All about the style. They had?
Who else they had? Ricky Deon Sanders. Deon Sanders was
on the night. Coach Prime, Yeah, Coach Prime, Steve Sachs,
Bob Garren, Steve Bye bye, bal Bony. Oh boy, some
big names. If you're old guy, those are big names.
That Yankee team won sixty seven games for just in
last place in nineteen ninety and that Yankee team right
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now they're in last place, although they are above five
hundred for the time being. Let's go to the phones
on a newbie night. It is a newbie night, and
let's say hello to Taylor. First time, first time. There's
a first time for everything. Hello Taylor, Welcome, Hey man,
how are you Taylor? If I is any better, I
would be sleeping, but I'm here talking.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
I got two questions. Are you a Yankee fan?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Let me think about that. Am I yank?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
This is my first time calling in so all right?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah no, let me I'm not go know on that.
I'm gonna go No. Not a Yankee fan? Yeah, you're
you're a Yankee fan, Taylor. How long you've been a
Yankee fan.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I'm actually relatively young. I was born in ninety five,
but my dad got me into it. He just passed
away in December and took over his farm. So I
really wanted I just pulled back into my house from
starting some irrigation pumpson. Uh, you have a crop damage
from you want to take care of them, deer.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So your dad like took care of you. Give you
all the insight on how to work over the farm.
I'll give you all the inside info.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Well, not as much as I would have liked to.
Kind of passed away unexpectedly Intocember. So I'm kind of
figuring out as I go.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And how's that been going for you?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Super stressful, I hear you.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, that's a lot of responsibility. Yeah, yeah, you'll figure
it out though. You're a smart guy, tea. You can
figure it out, right, I hope.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
So yeah, there you go, look into the thick of it.
Now all of our crops are coming off. So he
went to a where I'm from Maryland. So he went
to a farmer's market in Paterson, New Jersey. And every
once in a while, well quite a few times, we
just go out and see a Yankee game.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh that's cool. All right, So what do you think, Taylor,
Aaron Boone? Yay r nay on Aaron Boone.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
You know, there's a lot of hot headed Yankee fans,
especially on Facebook. I watched them a lot. They've been
calling for him to be fired, like four or five
years ago.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I see, we have a lot of injuries. I'm just curious.
I mean, my dad always talked about if obviously George
Steinberner isn't alive anymore, but yeah, oh yeah, make big,
big changes pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, if Steinbrenner was still around, the original Steinbrenner, the
Aaron Boone had have been fired like three years ago,
he would have been maybe more than that, So yeah,
he didn't wait around. Used to fire managers all the time,
but it hasn't been that way in a long time. Taylor.
It's been status quo for the Yankees, and they are
just kind of going through the motions. Boy, they're boring
(20:24):
to watch though, right now. Well, good luck on the
farm there, Taylor. Hanging there, man, You'll figure it out
and before you know it, you'll be an expert and
you'll make your dad proud. So hang in there. All right, buddy,
all right, thank you man. There's Taylor the Yankee. Let's
go to uh see here. Oh, mister got all the
answers on a newbie night. It's a newbie night, and
(20:45):
you want to know who's got all the answers. Mister
got all the answers. He lives in Minnesota. Hello, mister,
got all the answers.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Who's going on?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Snicker doodle?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's right, that's right, my new nickname, the snicker that's right.
I'm one of the way.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
How you get snicker doodles to be spicy?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Now, then the stickerdoodle is not. If you want to
make it spicy, put some cayenne pepper on it, Mike, right, yeah, sweet,
of course sweet? Why would I want to? Who wants
a spicy cookie?
Speaker 9 (21:13):
So don't fly want.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
No spicy cookie.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
You're gonna make me get like mad James is something?
Speaker 8 (21:18):
When I talked like I gotta stop.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
No, no, miss you got you got all the answers. Man,
you don't want to talk about snicker doodles.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Let's calm it down.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
I thought you you you're.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Like the Martha Stewart of cookies or something.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Though I'm the Martha Steward of Sports Talk. Yes, that's right, Yes,
I look like Martha Stewart.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
He talking about deer.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
I think the last man was talking about deer.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
I'm glad he took over.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
His father's farm.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
But at the same time, I'm driving down a dark
road and.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
It's scary because these beers pop out everywhere and I
ain't got one of the big trucks. I got a
little bit caught and then next thing you know, one
hops out with a making America great again. Had of
scared of the crap?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Mean, yeah, what about have you ever have you seen
a guy named Hayes? Have you seen a guy named Hayes?
There is that guy would all the time. Yeah, he's scary. Yeah,
Hazes from Canada. I didn't know Edie.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I did not, but I did see that video of
the one of our Australian listeners with the driving down
the road and.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
The Ozzi kangaroos are jumping around western Western Australia.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Gotta watch out for this ruse.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah. One of our listeners in the Western Australia is
there's not a lot of people live in Western Australia
because they're not all there. I'm telling a story. So
this guy's driving down a dirt road. Mister got all
the answers. And there were four rules. I counted four
kangaroos that were popping along there on the dirt road.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yeah, hey, so what you all right?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Where's and mister got all the answer. Where's Otani going
to end up?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Oh that's an easy question, okay, Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Dodgers, that's an easy one. All right.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
That would be a knife in Coop's heart.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
That would be devastating.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
You gotta give me something, You gotta give me something, allright.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Who's going to be the next president of the United States?
Twenty twenty four? Here we go over there.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Come on, man, how you gonna go against?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
You know, that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, that's a tough one. You know, maybe.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
I don't even that guy.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
He's a good guy.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I don't even know if you would realize he was
running for president again if you read you know, just
like we'll put your president.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Yeah, trumps hard to be.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
But I mean, man, come on.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You gotta come up with mister. You got all the answer.
I thought you. Mister got all the answers. Mister got
all the answer. I'm curious, all right, how about you
just give me the off the air, give me the
Mega millions, give me, give me the Mega millions numbers
off the air. Can you do that?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I can do that, but give let's stick with sports.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
All right, We'll stick to sports, all right. One of
the Clippers winning their first championship.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Go ahead, all right, he does have all the answers.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, I had to hang.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Up on him there.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I mean, that's a that's an unacceptable answer. The answer
is next season. Well, no, actually the answer is the
first year when they move into the taij Ma Hall
with the most toilets in the NBA, the intoit Dome,
which is going to be amazing. Everyone gets their own
urinal toilets, gonna lead the NBA and urinal cakes. It's
gonna be awesome. Toilet paper, urinal cakes. It's gonna be
(24:32):
dominating because they are very worried, the Clippers about people's
bodily functions. Yeah, and they'll have special filters so the
air is fresh when everyone's farting. It'll be great.
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Speaker 3 (25:30):
So to the NFL sort of did you see that
the latest rankings are out for the next Madden game,
Madden NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I'm a gamer, Come on, I'm a gamer, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
We had history as your guy, Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Aaron did has been.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Given the ninety nine rating, the highest rating a player
can possibly get, for a record seventh time. It was crazy.
Of course. The question is which players tomorrow will be
complaining about.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Their already complaining right now?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We got who's complaining?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Well, they complain all the time.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I haven't seen any yet. I can think we all
come out tomorrow. Right.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I'm gonna guess Austin Eckler, he likes to complain. I
think Austin Eckler is going to complain. How about that?
All right, I'm gonna go. Let's see here complain. Well,
won't be Josh Allen of the Bills. How about to
a tongue about Lowe? Will he complain?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I don't think he's much of a comp's got more
things to worry about.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Lamar Jackson, you'll complain. Maybe Lamar Jackson, maybe wide receiver,
all of the above. Stefan Diggs will complain.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I'm not played Madden in a long long time. Has
been around for a long while.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It has been long plat a couple years ago when
Antonio Brown was on the cover, I played. That was
a few years back.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah, I think the last time I purchased the game.
I think Larry Fitzgerald was on the cover. I remember
back in the been a while mid aughts, was that
the oughts I have to check.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
No video games at the table?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
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Forever stained cheating a stro Justin Verlander is about to
(27:34):
be decommissioned by the New York Metropolitans. Verlander, the big
pickup this offseason in his forties, now signed a big
contract with the Mets for a couple of years, and
the New York Metropolitans have watched Justin Verlander go out
and start thirteen games this season. The Mets are three
games under five hundred in games started by Justin Verlander
(27:56):
this year. That is not what they were counting on.
Orlander was asked about this, did he say, A I
want out of here. Do you know how bad the
traffic is getting into City Field? It sucks. I don't
take the subway it blows, and the humidity. I want
to get out of New York. I want to go
to a good team. I don't want to be here anymore.
Or did he say no comment, or did he say
(28:18):
that he is fully in love with the Mets and
wants to say that, Well, the answer is kind of
c I said, he's committed to the Mets, despite the
fact that the Mets don't appear to be all committed
to him. So keep an eye on that. Justin Verlander,
who could be years I saw him pitch the other
(28:39):
day against the Dodgers. He walked a bunch of guys
in that game and got the loss against the Dodgers
over the weekend a few days ago. So who knows
what you got with Verlander? Who is now? He's crossed over.
He had a birthday back in February. Is over forty
years old now, and you are long in the tooth
in baseball and real real world not so much. But
(29:01):
in baseball, good luck, good luck on that. It is
at new Bie Night, Newbie Night, all new callers, and
let's go to the Bay Area. Is it Likey's?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Is that it?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Coop? What are we looking at here?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
This name?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
He well, Coop's not listening, sir? What is your name?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (29:21):
What's up?
Speaker 8 (29:22):
And my name is Leaky?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Leaky's are Leaky's? I thought, well that would be spelled
I think differently than that. I think is that how
you spell your name? L l I Y l A
l I K y.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
S is that he spelled I honestly, I don't think
I've ever spelled my name, man. I just that's what
people call me.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's interesting, yeah, because I would think, like L E
A K. I asked him how he spells it. That's
what he told me.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Yeah, well, I mean that was the first time I
think I've ever spelled it out for someone. I just
I just go by that name.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I don't know never you've never, you've never typed it,
you never texted to somebody, You've never It seems impossible.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
No, No, that's true.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
But I'm not like the guy from Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Man.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
I don't have all the answers. Man, I have all
the questions.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh great, well, we love random questions, that's what we love.
And from a guy named Leaky who doesn't even know
how to spell his name, that's impressive.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
But I do, I do.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
I do got some for you, man, I got some.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
I got some good.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You have little money. What do you got?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, you got is that right?
Speaker 8 (30:32):
You got a hot That's what I got.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Oh, we got a hot. Tony take coming out of
the oven right now, piping hot. Here we go, all right?
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Oh, Tommy, I don't think he's going anywhere, man.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Because of one thing I don't know. I don't know
the logistics behind what the owners think either, what teams
are offering, which I'm sure they're offering everything. But I
mean there's an underlying thing that I've only heard a
few people talk about. The angels are tied up with
a bunch of these Japanese corporations with ads I think
(31:14):
sponsors a bunch of these Japanese Uh, underlying.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Leak here I feel Uh, can I couch call you
a leak for short? Can I just call you a leak?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I call you a leak, my friend. Leak here? Are
you repurposing a take that I've had? Is that what
you're doing right now?
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Oh? Is that was this you who brought this up?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Then?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, I feel like you're It's like a take boomerang.
Like I tossed the take out and then you toss
it like a boomerang, it comes back and hits me
right in the face.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
Well, well, I'll hear the Bay Area I listened to
I heard this in in Uh in the morning.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
A couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
So it was it was it around Was it around
one in the morning when you heard it or two
of them?
Speaker 8 (31:55):
No, No, this was like like a morning over here.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
I don't know, it's like noon or something.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Somebody got a guy during the day, a daytime daytime
guy stole my take. Eddie, daytime guy repurposed my take.
It's not right, Eddie shaking and said, no, you can't
believe it. This is take. You know what this is.
This is We need to have a tribunal. A take
tribunal is what we need to have. You can't be
(32:23):
taking other people's takes.
Speaker 8 (32:26):
Well, no, why.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Didn't you bring up the take today?
Speaker 8 (32:28):
Man, I don't hear you say anything about the take.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
If you would have said something, I would have I
would have.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Today's a new take. I had. Today's a different take.
But I was my take the other day. That's an
old take that somebody used, an old take.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
Well, let me refresh my take.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Okay, change your take. Go ahead, here we go. Come on,
come on, leek, I got for you. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
All right, alright, is he's going to the race.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
The rains are going to give him everything they got.
They got a lot of young prospects. I know, I
know their farm system is good, and I know he's
lacking the resign there more than likely, But I mean,
could you imagine them on the rays.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, that's bad, he say, that's a bad I know
you're trying to facilitate the take. That's a bad take.
You should have gone Brewers because Otani loves the smell
of beer being made at night, and he wants to
play for the brewers because they brew beer there in Milwaukee,
and he wants to smell the nice smell at night
when he's driving around there. He wants to smell that. Yeah,
all right, I gotta go. Thank you Leak. Trenda's call unbelievable,
(33:37):
just making it up as you go. I love it,
all right, thank you, go away. Ben.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
The word take now has lost its meaning. You hear
a word enough times over and over again, and now
it has no meaning.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's because you're in the factory making hot dogs. That's
why you're in the hot dogs.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Fact, they don't even have an appearance anymore.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
Also, Leak's member of the Onion family. You Leak fan.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No, I'm not I fan. You're like Leaks time after
the insta trivia here it is insta trivia time. You
can answer this on the Twitter machine at Ben Maler
will have Mallard of the third degree. Here's the instant trivia.
Blank was the first player in baseball history to finish
his career with more than three hundred home runs but
(34:17):
less than one thousand runs batted in. It never happened
in the history of baseball before this player. Blank was
the first player in baseball history to finish his career
with more than three hundred home runs but somehow less
than one thousand runs batted in. That's the insta trivia.
The answer next.
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For that amount of money, I'd get like a Penis
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Mallard of the third Degree coming up, Mama Telli Tondow
for the Instant Trivia. Baseball goes back to the eighteen seventies.
But Blank was the first player in professional baseball history
to finish his career with more than three hundred home runs,
but somehow less than one thousand runs batted in. It
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had never happened before this player, And you got a
fill in the blank. That is the question. What is
the answer Jeremy's going with. That's Jeremy in Minnesota, says,
the shortest MLB player of all time. Of course Eddie Goodell.
Who else do we have? Page down? Chester Cheetah from
Cowboy Killer Bud Selik tossed out by boot Bean boot
(36:06):
Maker Bob Repeat Leak from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Page down,
Page down, Placito Polanco, a Phillies legend from Late Night
Drug Tester Leaky Guest by Kathleen Kathleen or Kathy and Madison.
Tino Martinez from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Page down. He
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sopped Choi from Callaghan Tim He's a Dodger legend, big
time legend. Ryan Howard Yes, by Justin in the enchanted Forest,
big game. James Worthy from Shane of des Moines. Bob
Huggins from Rumors of the vill Charlie Sheen tossed out
by our buddy Alf the alien Opiner. Who else do
(36:50):
we have? Jonathan in Delawares going Jad Martinez? Do you
have an answer?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Eddie Yes, former Brewer and Mariner legend. Richie Sexon.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
That is incorrect. He's on the list, but the first
one to do it is Jay Buner, Jay Buner, Mayriner legend,
Jay Buner and Yankee legend. It's maller how about that?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
To the third degree? This is one big.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Fan gets grilled hoop dal loop.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
ESPN recently published quarterback rankings as picked by executives, coaches,
and scouts from around the NFL. It had Aaron Rodgers
at number four. However, one AFC scout said the ranking
is too high and he should be around eight to twelve.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Where do you have Rogers ranked.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, so I don't know who that was if that
was made up by the rider, but yeah, it's Aaron Rodgers,
like the tenth, tenth to twelfth in that group based
on his performance basically the actual results last year. He
was not as good as Mahomes, Burrow, Allen, Justin Herbert
to a tongue of Iloa was better. Trevor Lawrence, Jalen Hurts,
go down the list, Jared Goff better than Aaron Rodgers, less,
(37:58):
your Kirk Cousins better than Aaron Rodgers. Oh about tenth?
Put him right there and not the MVP version he
had been next.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
Lebron James took to social media to sing the praises
of Kyrie Irving by co signing on another tweet that
called Kyrie the best player with the ball in his
hands we have ever seen ben based on ability alone.
Do you think this argument can be made?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
So Lebron is guilty of recency bias on this. Yeah,
Kyrie's the top ball handler in this generation of NBA players.
But you know how far back do you want to go?
Magic Johnson, Isaiah Thomas, Tim Hardaway, the original Tim Marvey,
Allen Irison was amazing with the basketball, so it really
just depends on generation. Do I think Kyrie is the
greatest of all time? I do not. Next, So, there's.
Speaker 7 (38:42):
Been a slight buzz about WNBA stars Sabrina iron Escu with.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
A question mark.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Yes, she broke the three point contest record with thirty
seven points. It's a smaller ball on the three point
lines closer. She even took to social media to challenge
Steph Curry to a shootout. Curry seemingly accepted, Ben, did
you tune in to watch this?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I would rather stare at the wall over there than
watch I have no interest in this at all. It's
a different game in the w NBA. How did we
know that is a w What do you know about basketball?
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