July 20, 2023 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about Saquon Barkley threating to hold-out during regular season games due to his contract situation, talks about the Mets trading Verlander & Scherzer, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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Gripes and Grievance's department, There is one thing we do
very well in sports chatter, and that is flog a
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dead horse, or in this case, a dead running back
as the world turns for running backs. What a great story,
What a great mitzvah. This has been for those of
us that are looking for marginal content to talk about.
All week, it has been one bluster after another bluster
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of hot air from random people around the NFL making
a big stink about the running back salaries and this.
I don't know how you can go on with your
life not being able to help your running back out,
your favorite running back anyway, Saquon Barkley, Sakwon Barkley is
pushing back in the Big Apple. If you did not
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hear what he had to say, maybe not we I
should play some audio here in a second. But Sakwon
Barkley dismissing the very notion that he has limited leverage.
Most people that understand the dynamic of the player versus
the team and how that works and your value realize
that there's not much that can happen here for mister
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Barkley with his contract standoff with the Giants. But he
talked about his options during a guest spot on something
called The Money Matters podcast. Obviously money does not matter
for me because I don't know what that is. But
I think we have the audio. So as Warner Wolf
would say, let's go to the audio tape. Here, say
Kwan Barkley commenting on leverage.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I have no worry about going on a football field
and knowing that I'm not playing for my work or
saying if I have to play under because that's this
is my leverage. My leverage is I could say you
to the giants, I say to my teammates and be
like you want me show you my work. I want
to show you how much how valuable I am and
to the team, I won't show up. I won't play
it down. That's the player I can use. Anybody knows
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me knows that's not something I want to do. But
like it's something that has It's something that crossed my mind.
It's like I never I never thought I would ever
do that, But like now I'm at a point where
it's like Jesus, like I might have to take it
to this level, and like am I willing? Am I
prepared to take it to the level?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I don't know, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
See I say that all the time with the company
I work for. I could just say f you to Fox,
and I could say f you to my my teammates,
the Benetts. You know Dan Dan Patrick's got the Dants.
I've got the Bennets here, and I could just do that.
But anyway, listen, that's the money quote. I could just
say F you to the Giants. So the question on this,
as we discussed the question, do you think that Sakwon
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Barkley would really say F you and take his ball
and go home away from the Giants. So I am
shaking my head. No, I am shaking my head. Now
I've got Paradox, Anheuser Bush Brewing Company, and doctor Pimple Popper,
and we will tie all of these things together into
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a nice, neat package, is what we're gonna do, and
then we'll sell it on the internet and we'll make
some real money. So a Sakuon Barkley is an absolute alligator.
On the he will take a bite out of defenses,
but when it comes to making a compelling argument over
leverage in a contract negotiation, he is a toothless alligator,
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is what he is. Barkley. You just heard the sound bite,
the money SoundBite. Not very convincing to me? Was he
convincing to you? Now? Didn't sound very convincing. Now he
could go the nuclear option, and I recommend if you
do that, go to Miami, get some jet skis, and
chase pretty girls around Miami drinking cocktails. It worked very
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well for the last NFL running back you did that.
What could possibly go wrong? Of course, financially, that would
not be the smartest thing to do. You've got over
ten million dollars plus all the endorsement money that has
your name on it, and you don't get that money back.
You know I'm gonna get more money. That's not quite
how it works. And so Barkley situation with the Giants,
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here's the real rub on this Saquon Barkley situation is
a paradox. He is simultaneously very valuable and also at
the same time unessential to the Giants. Both these things
are true, meaning that when Barkley has played, he has
been a dynamic super nova as a running back. We
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all know that those of us that have a passion
for pigs game. But at the same time, he's unessential
because the Giants could simply pivot and sign Dalvin Cook
or some random dude from Hoboken to play in the backfield,
and they would keep the parade going. And maybe they
wouldn't be quite as great on running the football, but
they'd be okay. As long as a person blocks and
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doesn't screw up and run the wrong route or root,
they'd be okay. Now turning the page. Speaking of running backs,
the Patriots, we talked about this in a previous episode
of the show. The Patriots believed to be the favorite,
at least according to DraftKings as of yesterday, to sign
Dalvin Cook, the aforementioned Dalvin Cook. But the peers the
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Patriots have a wondering eye. They are doing their due diligence.
I love that term due diligence. On the other available players. Now,
we have learned that former Buccaneer running back Leonard Fournette
and an old I am Darryl Henson both worked out
in the Commonwealth in New England. There the bigger name
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is the one we will talk about, so sorry to
the Henderson family, that would be Leonard Fournette, the ex
buck who's now looking for work now thumbs up or
thumbs down on Leonard Fournett being a good fit with
the Patriots. So I am going to go two thumbs down.
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I got two thumbs down on this. And here's why.
Leonard Fournette is like a car that looked pretty good.
You wanted the car a while ago. You thought that's
my car. I love that car, but then you didn't
get the car. And now you have a chance to
buy the car. But it's got engine problems. There's some
chips on the paint. That was essentially fur Nette last
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season with the Buccaneers. The word to describe his performance unreliable.
Now running back apologists, there are many of them. I've
learned this week. We'll say it was not his fault
that the hodgepot of an offensive line for the Buccaneers
was to blame. But using the car analogy to the
next level, you want to make sure you have a
tow truck near your for Nett in seven games last
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season had thirty five or fewer rushing yards seven. You
know how many hundred yard games he had for the Buccaneers.
That would be one one and that was in the
opener when the Bucks played the Cowboys to begin last
last campaign. At this point, Leonard Fournett should be working
for the Anheuser Busch Brewing Company, and he can hang
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out with those Budweiser Clydesdale's. He does not appear to
have the after burners. He's not past the expiration d
eighties twenty eight. Running backs normally die at age thirty.
That's the point of no return. He's getting close because
he's right around that fifteen hundred touch threshold. Remember we
told you the nerds had decided that once you cross
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fifteen hundred combined rushes and catches, that you are now toxic.
There's high levels of toxicity in your body. At that
particular point, he's fifty six touches away, fifty six from
Leonard Fournette crossing the rubicon, which would be what week
four if he is in every down player or close
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to an every down player in the NFL. Now a
positive note, Bill Belichick apparently has the hots four Fournett
wanted to sign him a couple years ago. Plus, we
all know the sweet melody to the Patriots is affordable
the frugal Pats. So there's a shit, there's a shot.
There's a chance there between Dalvin Cook, Leonard Fournette, Darryl Henderson,
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and a host of other running backs that are also
available and can be yours if the price is not right.
Now the last Warriors, So let's go to green Bay.
The Frozen Tundrad did a mallard meet and greet last
year in green Bay. Well, I was actually an Appleton,
which is the next city over there from green Bay.
But the Packers have reported a profit from the operations
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of the team of sixty eight point six million dollars
during the fiscal year of twenty twenty three. The CEO
Mark Murphy laying out all of the numbers, opening the books,
the financial picture, why the annual shareholders meeting going to
take place at lambeau Field coming up on Monday. And
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the Packers collected almost three hundred and seventy five million dollars,
which is one thirty second share of the national revenue
from Fox and NBCCBS and ESPN three hundred and seventy
four million. So you do the math on that. That
means the NFL teams broke up a pie of twelve
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billion between the various teams. So what do you make
of NFL teams getting three hundred and seventy four million
dollars in television revenue each And that does not even
include the merchandise revenue, which goes even higher. So it
shows you what a sweetheart set up the packers had
not for the NFL. It's wonderful to get a glimpse
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behind the curtain. We talk about this every year and
the same conversation takes place, and every year like, whoa,
that's a lot of money, man, And we get to
see just how much cake is in the bakery. And
you can thank a person named Joseph Carr for us
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knowing all of the finances of the NFL. You might
not know who Joseph Carr is. You probably don't, and
if you do, you're a loser. Joseph Carr was the
NFL commissioner in the nineteen twenties. It was a much
different time one hundred years ago, and Green Bay was
set up as a publicly traded operation. The reason that
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happened was the NFL never imagine in their wildest dreams
that they would be any more than a recreational activity
that raised a few bucks. But college football was big.
Think a hundred years ago, college football, boxing, horse racing
were the most popular sports in America, and so the
NFL was like, people will watch a little bit maybe
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we'll make a couple bucks, but you got to bring
back doctor pimple Popper is what you have to do here,
because this is a one hundred year old giant cyst
that continues to ooze out a confidential financial data for
the NFL every season. It will never go away unless
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something drastic takes place right which you don't see on
the horizon there. But the big takeaway here when this
story comes out, ever, you you look at the packers' shareholders,
the people that purchase stock in the Green Bay Packers,
and you realize, what a hustle the packers have pulled
off here, what a scam. That stock is just a novelty.
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We know that. But in the real world, if you
buy stock in a company that turns a operating profit
of sixty eight million dollars, you're likely going to get
as a shareholder a nice dividend out of that. But
if you own packer stock, you have a certificate you
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can put on your wall, which is kind of cool,
but you don't get a check every year because the
business is booming. In Northern Wisconsin, be.
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this hour to begin off the beginning the festivities. This
hour we start in baseball. We are milking the trade deadline,
just eleven days away from the August first cutoff point
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for transactions. The New York Mets are making some waves.
Not on the field, of course, no no, no, no.
The Mets are morbid on the field, but off the
field they're making some headlines. If you've not been following along.
There are other things then show hey Otani to talk
about in regarding trades, and so if you haven't seen it,
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the New York Mets are said to internally be debating
what to do at the trade deadline. Now they're going
to make some moves, but are they going to go
complete koboom and blow the whole thing up or will
they go halfway? The main point of consternation, we are
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told for the Mets is the internal debate about what
to do with long in the tooth pitchers, Justin Verlander
and mac Scherzer. The front office is said to be torn.
I don't know whether they buy that, by the way,
but Stephen Cohen, Steve Cohen, the owner of the Mets.
There he does not want to toss in the sponge
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and give up on the season. And the word on
the street is that the Mets owner is hoping there'll
be some kind of Hail Mary push for the Mets
to get back in contention to close the gap and
get back into the postseason. Now, factions below him are
ready to have a nice big liquidation sale and start
wheeling and dealing. So let's discuss. We're gonna focus in
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on the pitchers here, because those are the big headliners
that are most likely to be traded or possibly be traded.
So the question does it make sense for the Mets
to hold on to Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer or
to trade Chureser and Verlanders. So I've got latitude and longitude,
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Chewy Candy and Statesman, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
great underachieving baseball team, which is what the team in
New York the other team in the actually both teams
in New York would qualify as that. Now Number one,
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the Metro Politans have gotta be the dubbest team in
America if they hold onto these Cats. It was risky
business from the start, the fact that they went out.
We talked about you signed Verlanry had great numbers with
the Cheaters in Houston last year. But you add that
to Schurzer and what are you doing all right now?
(17:20):
Maybe it would have worked out and we would have
looked like donkeys, but it hasn't worked out. You get
a couple of old geezer pitchers there at the front
of your rotation. What could possibly go wrong? Let's see
so Verlander and Schurzer. If you combine their performance this
year and factor in all the other variables in that performance,
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these guys have pitched like ham and Eggers this season,
but they are getting paid. They are getting paid caviar
and find Kobe Beef like those Wall Street Titans. The
Mets have gotten thirty starts. Heading into Wednesday night, the
Mets had gotten thirty starts combined out of the King
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of Queens, the two aces of the rotation, Verlander in Suzer,
the Mets. What's their record out of those thirty starts?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
The Mets record is sixteen and fourteen, two games above
five hundred. That's it. Two games above five hundred and
we are getting towards late July. Now not elite. The
former cheating astro was injured to begin the year. Verlander
and mad Max was caught breaking the rules doctoring baseballs
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with gobs of pine tar and got suspended for that.
It's embarrassing. So my diagnosis here the Mets, what they
should do is just chalk this one up to bad
latitude and longitude. The GPS coordinates for October baseball got
messed up along the way, and so they went off course,
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and normally I would say, don't trade the veteran player.
Don't trade the player. You gotta keep the player because
you're not gonna get enough in return. And I do
believe the Mets will just get pennies on the dollar
unless Stephen Cohen cuts a big check to get somebody
who's highly rated. But even then, when they're highly rated
in the minor leagues, you're a suspect until a suspect
is a prospect until proven otherwise, we like to say
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on the show. So the GPS went off course, and
these guys are only going to get worse. They're not
gonna get better, Like the aging process is undefeated here.
So you move on, take some scratch of tickets and
just hope you find pey dirt somewhere along the way.
Maybe you'll find it at some kind of Mini mart
In La somewhere, I don't know now. Page two, speaking
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of the trade deadline, lot of rumbling and stumbling out
of San Diego, that the Pod squad are going to
disappoint our friend Poppy in San Diego and start unloading
pitching and get rid of several name rand players. The
podres starting pitcher, one of their starting pitchers. Joe Musgrove,
who was also a cheating asstro back in the day,
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he does not believe anything is going to derail the padresct.
How do we know that? He said it now that
the rumors the last week or so have been that
Blake Snell. Bro, I'm risking my life. Bro, I'm not
playing till I get mine that guy, that schmuck, Blake
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Snell and or Josh Hater. Later, the Brew crew are
going to be outbound from San Diego ahead of the
trade deadline. But Musgrove says it doesn't matter. He said, quote,
the Podres are a really good team regardless of what
happens over the next few weeks. He said, they'll have
a really good team. So why why does Joe Musgrove
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think the Podres will still be good if they deal
Josh Hater and Blake Snell. Well, here's the rub on this,
all right, they're not good right now, So how can
they be continue to be good if they're not good
right now? And he doesn't really think that. This is
the classic robotic response, What do you want me to say?
If you saw the old baseball movie Bull Durham, you
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gotta know your cliches. You gotta know how to deal
with the riders. That's what this is. Musgrove, as we mentioned,
has a pass. He's tainted cheating a whole. He was
regurgitating the company line and enjoying some of those that
old nineteen eighties chewy candy bunkers. I don't know if you
ever had that. I think it's back by the way.
But you are what your record says you are. As
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we like to point out, the Padres record sucks San
Diego nine and a half games behind that Doyers in
the National League West and six and a half games
behind the Fight and Phills for the final wild card
spot in the National League. They've got big names who
have had little game and baseline production. The offense in
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particular is the main culprit for San Diego why they
are under five hundred and wow that they have television
revenue issues. The Padres are one of the teams that
lost their cable contract. Major League Baseball took it in house,
and while Baseball is painting a nice mosaic, there are
some whispers that the revenue stream has not quite been
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as bountiful as the people at Baseball anticipated, and there
is concern here as they try to figure out what
to do. You might have noticed a number of teams
have decided to go old school. There was a time
before cable television. All these games were on free television,
and the Arizona teams, for example, the Phoenix teams, the
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Diamondbacks going back to that model, and several others going
back to that over the year model as they try
to supplement the lack of funds coming in from the
cable deals that have been broken. So I'll say this though,
for the Padres, I'm jealous of the owner, Peter Seidler.
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That's a good owner, and he seems like the kind
of guy that would be willing just to toss money
into an incinerator to keep the Padres going. We'll see
how much money he wants to toss into that incinerator
before he has a change of heart. Now, final point,
Let's go over to the New York Yankees Aaron Judge
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and show Heyotani. They matched up this week. Aaron Judge
getting hemorrhoids on the bench while Otani was playing for
the Angels. And Otani has a legit chance to break
the Al home run record this year at least based
on the way this season has gone over the last
month and a half for Otani, he said, an Angels
record in June for home runs. He's continued to bash
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the ball here in the month of July. But Judge
doesn't seem too worked up into a ladder, at least
that's what he's saying publicly. He was asked about the
possibility that his record will already be broken. He said, quote,
records are meant to be broken. I've never heard that before.
Do you think he came up with that on his own?
Do you think that's an original quote by Aaron Judge?
Records are meant to be broken? Probably not, he said,
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quote it would be exciting for the game if he
meaning Otani and we went out there and he got
sixty three plus, So we'll see what happens. Close quote Now,
Aaron Judge saying that records are mentally broken an original take?
Are you buying what he is selling? You believe he
really feels that way? Yeah, yeah, So I'm giving this
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one a little stink eye. Yeah I am. I don't
know what you're doing, but I can be a little
stink GUYE playing the Statesman, playing the statesman. This is diplomacy,
is what it is. The ambassador, not the ambassador to Bakersfield.
That's rob But this is the ambassador to Shoe Otani's
heart and the baseball scribes there. He doesn't mean what
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he says. It took over sixty seasons for Roger Morris's
American League record to go.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I realize that a bunch of National League guys passed
Roger Merris by, but the American League record, Roger Morris
had it for sixty one seasons. You don't go out
and set a record and then twelve months later or
less than that, even though the record goes away. That
would be deflating, is what that would be. And Otani
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is certainly within striking distance. He did not hit a
dinger on Wednesday against the Yanks, so he still leads baseball.
Got thirty five home runs in ninety four games, so
that works out to be on pace for sixty home runs.
So if Otani has a couple of good weeks over
the pace, he will then be in line to get
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to Aaron Judge, who was at sixty two home runs
last year and Roger Merris at the sixty one. By
the way, By the way, we heard rumors the other
day that Judge was about to come back to the
fold for the Yankees. Now, Aaron Boone was asked about
that and says, well, everything's great. Judge is making study
progress from his mangled toe taken out by Dodgers Stadium
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took out Aaron Judge. The ghost of Chavez ravine took
out Aaron Judge. But Aaron Boone said, there is no timetable,
no timetable for his return. So yeah, he's no time soon.
I'm going first of August. I'll give him another ten days,
eleven days, first of August, something like that. It is
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the lines are open. We hear from helmet Man last hour.
That was a lot of fun. He's driving a bus right, Well,
he's not driving the bus. He's a bus writer as
he heads back to his home. Tough trip for helmet Man.
He went to the Angel Yankee game to try to
sell crap. He got there after the game had already
gotten going there, it's not good.
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Coop dalo to a tag of Iloa was interviewed on
Tuesday when he said that he believes the Dolphins are
legit contenders and that they can get quote very very scary,
pretty dangerous.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Ben.
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Do you think the Dolphins will be dangerous?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yes, Call the police, Call the police. I'm more worried
about Arnie spaniers dolphin rhetoric on Fox Sports Radio on
the weekends than I am about the Dolphins. No, the
Dolphins have had a good offseason. What do you expect
to a tongue of Vailua to say, Uncle Vic's there
now running the defense and all that the Dolphins are
swimming in talent. You expect him to say they're gonna
be swimming in the sewage disposal tank. Of course not.
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But Tua, ironically enough is the weak spot that if
he gets hurt, the Dolphins will be playing Mike White
or Skuyler Thompson at quarterback. That's a problem. Next, Wow,
listen to you.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
While touring China this week, Jimmy Butler confidently stated that
he will win a championship for the Miami Heat because
he doesn't plan on playing for another NBA team the
rest of his career. Ben, are you buying either of
those claims?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, I'm buying the second one and the first one.
Jimmy Butler says that every season, even when he was
in Minnesota. He said that. That's the boiler plate response.
But Jimmy Butler turns thirty four later this year. He's
got two more years on the contract with Miami and
the second years of player options. So yes, yes, it's
like that. Old quote, plans are useless, but planning is essential. Next.
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Former All Star Shawn Marion was in Vegas earlier this
month for the Summer League. When he was asked about
what he held the most pride in throughout his career.
Marion said that he can honestly say that he changed
the game small ball, positionless basketball.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Ben, do you agree?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
No, I think Mike dan Toni changed the game. He
took advantage that he was about four to five. The
NBA had some new rules, and d'An toni took advantage
of it, and and Sean Marion and Boris Diao and
Amari Stottamy. Those guys were great, but it was more
the coach than the player because he installed it.
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are answers. We get right over to the Koopa loop
for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
All right, we're gonna start off with a good one
from ferg Dog. He wants to know would you be
in the market for a sex spot if you were single? Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, back in the day for sure? Yeah? Absolutely? What
about you, Eddie?
Speaker 8 (30:39):
I don't, I mean, I I think I know what
you're talking about. But is there some news on this?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Is there like the next generation of the blow up?
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Though?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Right right?
Speaker 7 (30:47):
They're just they're now like super realistic looking at like.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
How much did they cost? Thousands of dollars?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
I would assume that's a good point.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yeah, yeah, I mean if I were I probably wouldn't
be able to afford it.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
But if I was single probably I guess.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Just between us that I could make a mess. How
do you clean that up? That's a problem. So I'm
just but what about you, Coop?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Yeah, But my answer was going to be basically, if I,
if I was making enough money.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
You wouldn't need a sex body.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
That's a good that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
You could find somebody a regional recipe.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
What about you?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
I was Sam, Yeah, I'd give it a whirl.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
He's got the air I can make it love to
the airfire.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
But you know they're similar the steps on one of
those people on that that submersible that sank or imploded.
He's got a lot of money and he can't find
a date, so maybe he needs a uh a sex doll.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Uh you guys ever seen Lars and the Real Girls?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
And Gossling movie.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Barbie movie.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Interesting.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
That's not quite a like a robotic sex doll. It's
just like a sex doll. But interesting movie. Nonetheless. My
answer to that was yes, I would try it. Okay,
thank you?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Yes, What is next, Coop, Milkman, Mike, I'd like to
know for the crew, if you could choose an eighties
movie to get remade, what would you choose?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Man, there were some great movies in the in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I think what would well?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
It was Animal Animal House was before that, right?
Speaker 7 (32:13):
I think it was like eighty one.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Wasn't all right? Animal House? What about you?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Eddie seventy eight?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Was it seventy eight?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Oh my bad, I gotta change it up.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Go ahead, Eddie dum.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
They've probably redone most of them, I would think, Uh,
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
How about.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Die Hard, Eddie, that's a that's a terrible answer. Why
that's the worst answer you could possibly come up.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
With, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I mean, okay, come on, what ab up coming? Well?
I was gonna be coming to America. They've already done that.
How about Roger Rabbit?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
There you go, all right, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
That's good, right, that was a good cardoon Roger Rabbit.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I don't know that's worse than my ads.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Well, because because yours had sequels that went into the nineties,
so yeah, like yeah, but they weren't that good.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
That's like saying they should is the best one. I
don't know what you're.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh, you know another Paris Bueller's Day Off.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
That was a good Yeah, that is a good Daies
movie called Game and Coop. I would pick the never
Ending Story.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
Hey good, it's still going. You don't need to remake it.
It never ends.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
It's really still good though as it is.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Iowa Sam eighties movie you want to see remade.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
I love this movie as a kid.
Speaker 10 (33:27):
It's a very cheesy film, but I think it would
do well in today's environment.
Speaker 9 (33:31):
It's a Michael J.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
Fox movie called The Secret of My Success, and I
think that it would you could remake it, it would
be pretty good.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
How about planes, trains and automobiles.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
That's a good one, solid all.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
What is next is ask Ben your questions are answers
for the rest of the hours, we let it ride.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
All right, We've had this one or similar questions this
one before, but we've got new new crew members, new listeners.
So Noah from Austin wants to know what is your
favorite and least favorite candy bar?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
So my go to at Halloween every year. My mom
made sure she hooked me up. I love the Baby
Ruth and the Butterfinger. There's not a lot of candy
that I do not like. I guess the the one
almond Joy not a big fan. Not a big fan
of the almond that was always the last one in
the bag when you when we ate the candy, What
(34:23):
about you, Eddie?
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Well, I don't know if it's considered a candy bar,
but the Reese's Peanut butter cup is always my favorite.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Kid at a bar.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
It's not a bar, but I don't know. Okay, if
I have to go bar, i'd go Nesley's Crunch Bar.
I guess as your favorite? Yeah, I mean, if I have
to pick a bar.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
All right.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
I absolutely hate three Musketeers. I don't know what the
hell that stuff is in there.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's too light.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
It's just I do not it isn't that No, No,
it's some kind of whipped.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I don't mind it, but it it's like, you know
the cliche about eating Chinese food. You know, you eat
a three Musketeers and you feel like you have to
like five of them because you're not full. You know
what I'm saying. You know, it doesn't really fill you up.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I don't know, there's really thick.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I just three Musketeers.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
It is.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
It is nugat, but it's fluffy whipped nuggat.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I don't like it that stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I don't like your anti fluffy whiped nugats. Yes, okay,
so bold Mountain to do think it is okay? Now,
I feel like this is really good.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
This is just give us an answer. We don't need
to go deep in it is. Hey, it sounds like
he's got to really go deep into this.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
You know, baby Ruth used to be as a as
a kid, but I don't don't you feel Yeah, they
were great, but I feel like it's kind of I
don't know. I had one recently and it wasn't like
I remembered. I don't know if they changed it or.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
They did change it.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
They did, Okay, so then I gotta go with Snickers.
It's just it's always been there. It's the classic. It
never disappoints. Snickers is great and then at least favorite
anything with coconuts, so I'm enjoy or mounds, those are
both trash.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
The almond Joy was always the last Katy. What about Iowa? Sam? Iowa?
Growing up in Iowa, Sam, what was your go through
corn bar?
Speaker 10 (36:07):
You know, I'm not a big chocolate bar guy, but
I like more like Skittles and starbars. But I would
go with a butterfinger is my favorite. Yeah, get into that.
That's good. It takes a little while to get it.
It's a lot chewing. It's very dense. Uh yeah, coconut
least favorite. So yeah, probably almond Joy.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Okay, we agree on the almond Joy. Eddie is the
rogue actor that does not agree with the You like
Almonjoy Eddie?
Speaker 4 (36:29):
No, I don't like that either, but I really don't
like the Three Musketeers.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
What is next is ask Ben? Your questions are answers.
For the rest of the hours, we try to find
something to do. Rage over. What do we have?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Cowboy Killer wants to know for the crew crushed boy
crushed or cubed ice?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
I love the the little nuggets of ice. I guess
it's crushed the restaurant.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
No, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
I wouldn't consider that crush Those are those are like
little like shaped ice little No, like the little ice balls?
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Yeah, like ice pads.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I love those. I love those, eddie h.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
I love the crushed ice too. I like, you know,
chewing on the ice. So I don't like I don't
like those big ice cubes.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Yeah, Coop, I prefer cubes, But I do like the
little like the what raisin Canes has.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
That that's the best.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
That's that's what we have here at the Malamache. What
about you?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
I was saying, crush it all day long, baby, crush it,
crush it.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You gotta crush it good.
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Gripes and Grievance's department, There is one thing we do
very well in sports chatter, and that is flog a
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dead horse, or in this case, a dead running back
as the world turns for running backs. What a great story,
What a great mitzvah. This has been for those of
us that are looking for marginal content to talk about.
All week, it has been one bluster after another bluster
(01:57):
of hot air from random people around the NFL making
a big stink about the running back salaries and this.
I don't know how you can go on with your
life not being able to help your running back out,
your favorite running back anyway, Saquon Barkley, Sakwon Barkley is
pushing back in the Big Apple. If you did not
(02:19):
hear what he had to say, maybe not we I
should play some audio here in a second. But Sakwon
Barkley dismissing the very notion that he has limited leverage.
Most people that understand the dynamic of the player versus
the team and how that works and your value realize
that there's not much that can happen here for mister
(02:41):
Barkley with his contract standoff with the Giants. But he
talked about his options during a guest spot on something
called The Money Matters podcast. Obviously money does not matter
for me because I don't know what that is. But
I think we have the audio. So as Warner Wolf
would say, let's go to the audio tape. Here, say
Kwan Barkley commenting on leverage.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I have no worry about going on a football field
and knowing that I'm not playing for my work or
saying if I have to play under because that's this
is my leverage. My leverage is I could say you
to the giants, I say to my teammates and be
like you want me show you my work. I want
to show you how much how valuable I am and
to the team, I won't show up. I won't play
it down. That's the player I can use. Anybody knows
(03:26):
me knows that's not something I want to do. But
like it's something that has It's something that crossed my mind.
It's like I never I never thought I would ever
do that, But like now I'm at a point where
it's like Jesus, like I might have to take it
to this level, and like am I willing? Am I
prepared to take it to the level?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I don't know, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
See I say that all the time with the company
I work for. I could just say f you to Fox,
and I could say f you to my my teammates,
the Benetts. You know Dan Dan Patrick's got the Dants.
I've got the Bennets here, and I could just do that.
But anyway, listen, that's the money quote. I could just
say F you to the Giants. So the question on this,
as we discussed the question, do you think that Sakwon
(04:09):
Barkley would really say F you and take his ball
and go home away from the Giants. So I am
shaking my head. No, I am shaking my head. Now
I've got Paradox, Anheuser Bush Brewing Company, and doctor Pimple Popper,
and we will tie all of these things together into
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a nice, neat package, is what we're gonna do, and
then we'll sell it on the internet and we'll make
some real money. So a Sakuon Barkley is an absolute alligator.
On the he will take a bite out of defenses,
but when it comes to making a compelling argument over
leverage in a contract negotiation, he is a toothless alligator,
(04:54):
is what he is. Barkley. You just heard the sound bite,
the money SoundBite. Not very convincing to me? Was he
convincing to you? Now? Didn't sound very convincing. Now he
could go the nuclear option, and I recommend if you
do that, go to Miami, get some jet skis, and
chase pretty girls around Miami drinking cocktails. It worked very
(05:14):
well for the last NFL running back you did that.
What could possibly go wrong? Of course, financially, that would
not be the smartest thing to do. You've got over
ten million dollars plus all the endorsement money that has
your name on it, and you don't get that money back.
You know I'm gonna get more money. That's not quite
how it works. And so Barkley situation with the Giants,
(05:37):
here's the real rub on this Saquon Barkley situation is
a paradox. He is simultaneously very valuable and also at
the same time unessential to the Giants. Both these things
are true, meaning that when Barkley has played, he has
been a dynamic super nova as a running back. We
(05:59):
all know that those of us that have a passion
for pigs game. But at the same time, he's unessential
because the Giants could simply pivot and sign Dalvin Cook
or some random dude from Hoboken to play in the backfield,
and they would keep the parade going. And maybe they
wouldn't be quite as great on running the football, but
they'd be okay. As long as a person blocks and
(06:22):
doesn't screw up and run the wrong route or root,
they'd be okay. Now turning the page. Speaking of running backs,
the Patriots, we talked about this in a previous episode
of the show. The Patriots believed to be the favorite,
at least according to DraftKings as of yesterday, to sign
Dalvin Cook, the aforementioned Dalvin Cook. But the peers the
(06:42):
Patriots have a wondering eye. They are doing their due diligence.
I love that term due diligence. On the other available players. Now,
we have learned that former Buccaneer running back Leonard Fournette
and an old I am Darryl Henson both worked out
in the Commonwealth in New England. There the bigger name
(07:06):
is the one we will talk about, so sorry to
the Henderson family, that would be Leonard Fournette, the ex
buck who's now looking for work now thumbs up or
thumbs down on Leonard Fournett being a good fit with
the Patriots. So I am going to go two thumbs down.
(07:26):
I got two thumbs down on this. And here's why.
Leonard Fournette is like a car that looked pretty good.
You wanted the car a while ago. You thought that's
my car. I love that car, but then you didn't
get the car. And now you have a chance to
buy the car. But it's got engine problems. There's some
chips on the paint. That was essentially fur Nette last
(07:48):
season with the Buccaneers. The word to describe his performance unreliable.
Now running back apologists, there are many of them. I've
learned this week. We'll say it was not his fault
that the hodgepot of an offensive line for the Buccaneers
was to blame. But using the car analogy to the
next level, you want to make sure you have a
tow truck near your for Nett in seven games last
(08:12):
season had thirty five or fewer rushing yards seven. You
know how many hundred yard games he had for the Buccaneers.
That would be one one and that was in the
opener when the Bucks played the Cowboys to begin last
last campaign. At this point, Leonard Fournett should be working
for the Anheuser Busch Brewing Company, and he can hang
(08:36):
out with those Budweiser Clydesdale's. He does not appear to
have the after burners. He's not past the expiration d
eighties twenty eight. Running backs normally die at age thirty.
That's the point of no return. He's getting close because
he's right around that fifteen hundred touch threshold. Remember we
told you the nerds had decided that once you cross
(08:58):
fifteen hundred combined rushes and catches, that you are now toxic.
There's high levels of toxicity in your body. At that
particular point, he's fifty six touches away, fifty six from
Leonard Fournette crossing the rubicon, which would be what week
four if he is in every down player or close
(09:20):
to an every down player in the NFL. Now a
positive note, Bill Belichick apparently has the hots four Fournett
wanted to sign him a couple years ago. Plus, we
all know the sweet melody to the Patriots is affordable
the frugal Pats. So there's a shit, there's a shot.
There's a chance there between Dalvin Cook, Leonard Fournette, Darryl Henderson,
(09:40):
and a host of other running backs that are also
available and can be yours if the price is not right.
Now the last Warriors, So let's go to green Bay.
The Frozen Tundrad did a mallard meet and greet last
year in green Bay. Well, I was actually an Appleton,
which is the next city over there from green Bay.
But the Packers have reported a profit from the operations
(10:05):
of the team of sixty eight point six million dollars
during the fiscal year of twenty twenty three. The CEO
Mark Murphy laying out all of the numbers, opening the books,
the financial picture, why the annual shareholders meeting going to
take place at lambeau Field coming up on Monday. And
(10:27):
the Packers collected almost three hundred and seventy five million dollars,
which is one thirty second share of the national revenue
from Fox and NBCCBS and ESPN three hundred and seventy
four million. So you do the math on that. That
means the NFL teams broke up a pie of twelve
(10:52):
billion between the various teams. So what do you make
of NFL teams getting three hundred and seventy four million
dollars in television revenue each And that does not even
include the merchandise revenue, which goes even higher. So it
shows you what a sweetheart set up the packers had
not for the NFL. It's wonderful to get a glimpse
(11:13):
behind the curtain. We talk about this every year and
the same conversation takes place, and every year like, whoa,
that's a lot of money, man, And we get to
see just how much cake is in the bakery. And
you can thank a person named Joseph Carr for us
(11:34):
knowing all of the finances of the NFL. You might
not know who Joseph Carr is. You probably don't, and
if you do, you're a loser. Joseph Carr was the
NFL commissioner in the nineteen twenties. It was a much
different time one hundred years ago, and Green Bay was
set up as a publicly traded operation. The reason that
(11:58):
happened was the NFL never imagine in their wildest dreams
that they would be any more than a recreational activity
that raised a few bucks. But college football was big.
Think a hundred years ago, college football, boxing, horse racing
were the most popular sports in America, and so the
NFL was like, people will watch a little bit maybe
(12:19):
we'll make a couple bucks, but you got to bring
back doctor pimple Popper is what you have to do here,
because this is a one hundred year old giant cyst
that continues to ooze out a confidential financial data for
the NFL every season. It will never go away unless
(12:40):
something drastic takes place right which you don't see on
the horizon there. But the big takeaway here when this
story comes out, ever, you you look at the packers' shareholders,
the people that purchase stock in the Green Bay Packers,
and you realize, what a hustle the packers have pulled
off here, what a scam. That stock is just a novelty.
(13:03):
We know that. But in the real world, if you
buy stock in a company that turns a operating profit
of sixty eight million dollars, you're likely going to get
as a shareholder a nice dividend out of that. But
if you own packer stock, you have a certificate you
(13:25):
can put on your wall, which is kind of cool,
but you don't get a check every year because the
business is booming. In Northern Wisconsin, be.
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hour we start in baseball. We are milking the trade deadline,
just eleven days away from the August first cutoff point
(14:48):
for transactions. The New York Mets are making some waves.
Not on the field, of course, no no, no, no.
The Mets are morbid on the field, but off the
field they're making some headlines. If you've not been following along.
There are other things then show hey Otani to talk
about in regarding trades, and so if you haven't seen it,
(15:10):
the New York Mets are said to internally be debating
what to do at the trade deadline. Now they're going
to make some moves, but are they going to go
complete koboom and blow the whole thing up or will
they go halfway? The main point of consternation, we are
(15:30):
told for the Mets is the internal debate about what
to do with long in the tooth pitchers, Justin Verlander
and mac Scherzer. The front office is said to be torn.
I don't know whether they buy that, by the way,
but Stephen Cohen, Steve Cohen, the owner of the Mets.
There he does not want to toss in the sponge
(15:52):
and give up on the season. And the word on
the street is that the Mets owner is hoping there'll
be some kind of Hail Mary push for the Mets
to get back in contention to close the gap and
get back into the postseason. Now, factions below him are
ready to have a nice big liquidation sale and start
wheeling and dealing. So let's discuss. We're gonna focus in
(16:15):
on the pitchers here, because those are the big headliners
that are most likely to be traded or possibly be traded.
So the question does it make sense for the Mets
to hold on to Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer or
to trade Chureser and Verlanders. So I've got latitude and longitude,
(16:37):
Chewy Candy and Statesman, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
great underachieving baseball team, which is what the team in
New York the other team in the actually both teams
in New York would qualify as that. Now Number one,
(16:59):
the Metro Politans have gotta be the dubbest team in
America if they hold onto these Cats. It was risky
business from the start, the fact that they went out.
We talked about you signed Verlanry had great numbers with
the Cheaters in Houston last year. But you add that
to Schurzer and what are you doing all right now?
(17:20):
Maybe it would have worked out and we would have
looked like donkeys, but it hasn't worked out. You get
a couple of old geezer pitchers there at the front
of your rotation. What could possibly go wrong? Let's see
so Verlander and Schurzer. If you combine their performance this
year and factor in all the other variables in that performance,
(17:41):
these guys have pitched like ham and Eggers this season,
but they are getting paid. They are getting paid caviar
and find Kobe Beef like those Wall Street Titans. The
Mets have gotten thirty starts. Heading into Wednesday night, the
Mets had gotten thirty starts combined out of the King
(18:02):
of Queens, the two aces of the rotation, Verlander in Suzer,
the Mets. What's their record out of those thirty starts?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
The Mets record is sixteen and fourteen, two games above
five hundred. That's it. Two games above five hundred and
we are getting towards late July. Now not elite. The
former cheating astro was injured to begin the year. Verlander
and mad Max was caught breaking the rules doctoring baseballs
(18:35):
with gobs of pine tar and got suspended for that.
It's embarrassing. So my diagnosis here the Mets, what they
should do is just chalk this one up to bad
latitude and longitude. The GPS coordinates for October baseball got
messed up along the way, and so they went off course,
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and normally I would say, don't trade the veteran player.
Don't trade the player. You gotta keep the player because
you're not gonna get enough in return. And I do
believe the Mets will just get pennies on the dollar
unless Stephen Cohen cuts a big check to get somebody
who's highly rated. But even then, when they're highly rated
in the minor leagues, you're a suspect until a suspect
is a prospect until proven otherwise, we like to say
(19:17):
on the show. So the GPS went off course, and
these guys are only going to get worse. They're not
gonna get better, Like the aging process is undefeated here.
So you move on, take some scratch of tickets and
just hope you find pey dirt somewhere along the way.
Maybe you'll find it at some kind of Mini mart
In La somewhere, I don't know now. Page two, speaking
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of the trade deadline, lot of rumbling and stumbling out
of San Diego, that the Pod squad are going to
disappoint our friend Poppy in San Diego and start unloading
pitching and get rid of several name rand players. The
podres starting pitcher, one of their starting pitchers. Joe Musgrove,
who was also a cheating asstro back in the day,
(20:04):
he does not believe anything is going to derail the padresct.
How do we know that? He said it now that
the rumors the last week or so have been that
Blake Snell. Bro, I'm risking my life. Bro, I'm not
playing till I get mine that guy, that schmuck, Blake
(20:25):
Snell and or Josh Hater. Later, the Brew crew are
going to be outbound from San Diego ahead of the
trade deadline. But Musgrove says it doesn't matter. He said, quote,
the Podres are a really good team regardless of what
happens over the next few weeks. He said, they'll have
a really good team. So why why does Joe Musgrove
(20:48):
think the Podres will still be good if they deal
Josh Hater and Blake Snell. Well, here's the rub on this,
all right, they're not good right now, So how can
they be continue to be good if they're not good
right now? And he doesn't really think that. This is
the classic robotic response, What do you want me to say?
If you saw the old baseball movie Bull Durham, you
(21:09):
gotta know your cliches. You gotta know how to deal
with the riders. That's what this is. Musgrove, as we mentioned,
has a pass. He's tainted cheating a whole. He was
regurgitating the company line and enjoying some of those that
old nineteen eighties chewy candy bunkers. I don't know if you
ever had that. I think it's back by the way.
But you are what your record says you are. As
(21:30):
we like to point out, the Padres record sucks San
Diego nine and a half games behind that Doyers in
the National League West and six and a half games
behind the Fight and Phills for the final wild card
spot in the National League. They've got big names who
have had little game and baseline production. The offense in
(21:54):
particular is the main culprit for San Diego why they
are under five hundred and wow that they have television
revenue issues. The Padres are one of the teams that
lost their cable contract. Major League Baseball took it in house,
and while Baseball is painting a nice mosaic, there are
some whispers that the revenue stream has not quite been
(22:16):
as bountiful as the people at Baseball anticipated, and there
is concern here as they try to figure out what
to do. You might have noticed a number of teams
have decided to go old school. There was a time
before cable television. All these games were on free television,
and the Arizona teams, for example, the Phoenix teams, the
(22:37):
Diamondbacks going back to that model, and several others going
back to that over the year model as they try
to supplement the lack of funds coming in from the
cable deals that have been broken. So I'll say this though,
for the Padres, I'm jealous of the owner, Peter Seidler.
(22:58):
That's a good owner, and he seems like the kind
of guy that would be willing just to toss money
into an incinerator to keep the Padres going. We'll see
how much money he wants to toss into that incinerator
before he has a change of heart. Now, final point,
Let's go over to the New York Yankees Aaron Judge
(23:19):
and show Heyotani. They matched up this week. Aaron Judge
getting hemorrhoids on the bench while Otani was playing for
the Angels. And Otani has a legit chance to break
the Al home run record this year at least based
on the way this season has gone over the last
month and a half for Otani, he said, an Angels
record in June for home runs. He's continued to bash
(23:41):
the ball here in the month of July. But Judge
doesn't seem too worked up into a ladder, at least
that's what he's saying publicly. He was asked about the
possibility that his record will already be broken. He said, quote,
records are meant to be broken. I've never heard that before.
Do you think he came up with that on his own?
Do you think that's an original quote by Aaron Judge?
Records are meant to be broken? Probably not, he said,
(24:04):
quote it would be exciting for the game if he
meaning Otani and we went out there and he got
sixty three plus, So we'll see what happens. Close quote Now,
Aaron Judge saying that records are mentally broken an original take?
Are you buying what he is selling? You believe he
really feels that way? Yeah, yeah, So I'm giving this
(24:27):
one a little stink eye. Yeah I am. I don't
know what you're doing, but I can be a little
stink GUYE playing the Statesman, playing the statesman. This is diplomacy,
is what it is. The ambassador, not the ambassador to Bakersfield.
That's rob But this is the ambassador to Shoe Otani's
heart and the baseball scribes there. He doesn't mean what
(24:51):
he says. It took over sixty seasons for Roger Morris's
American League record to go.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I realize that a bunch of National League guys passed
Roger Merris by, but the American League record, Roger Morris
had it for sixty one seasons. You don't go out
and set a record and then twelve months later or
less than that, even though the record goes away. That
would be deflating, is what that would be. And Otani
(25:21):
is certainly within striking distance. He did not hit a
dinger on Wednesday against the Yanks, so he still leads baseball.
Got thirty five home runs in ninety four games, so
that works out to be on pace for sixty home runs.
So if Otani has a couple of good weeks over
the pace, he will then be in line to get
(25:42):
to Aaron Judge, who was at sixty two home runs
last year and Roger Merris at the sixty one. By
the way, By the way, we heard rumors the other
day that Judge was about to come back to the
fold for the Yankees. Now, Aaron Boone was asked about
that and says, well, everything's great. Judge is making study
progress from his mangled toe taken out by Dodgers Stadium
(26:04):
took out Aaron Judge. The ghost of Chavez ravine took
out Aaron Judge. But Aaron Boone said, there is no timetable,
no timetable for his return. So yeah, he's no time soon.
I'm going first of August. I'll give him another ten days,
eleven days, first of August, something like that. It is
(26:25):
the Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like to be part,
the lines are open. We hear from helmet Man last hour.
That was a lot of fun. He's driving a bus right, Well,
he's not driving the bus. He's a bus writer as
he heads back to his home. Tough trip for helmet Man.
He went to the Angel Yankee game to try to
sell crap. He got there after the game had already
gotten going there, it's not good.
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Coop dalo to a tag of Iloa was interviewed on
Tuesday when he said that he believes the Dolphins are
legit contenders and that they can get quote very very scary,
pretty dangerous.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Do you think the Dolphins will be dangerous?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yes, Call the police, Call the police. I'm more worried
about Arnie spaniers dolphin rhetoric on Fox Sports Radio on
the weekends than I am about the Dolphins. No, the
Dolphins have had a good offseason. What do you expect
to a tongue of Vailua to say, Uncle Vic's there
now running the defense and all that the Dolphins are
swimming in talent. You expect him to say they're gonna
be swimming in the sewage disposal tank. Of course not.
(28:18):
But Tua, ironically enough is the weak spot that if
he gets hurt, the Dolphins will be playing Mike White
or Skuyler Thompson at quarterback. That's a problem. Next, Wow,
listen to you.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
While touring China this week, Jimmy Butler confidently stated that
he will win a championship for the Miami Heat because
he doesn't plan on playing for another NBA team the
rest of his career. Ben, are you buying either of
those claims?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, I'm buying the second one and the first one.
Jimmy Butler says that every season, even when he was
in Minnesota. He said that. That's the boiler plate response.
But Jimmy Butler turns thirty four later this year. He's
got two more years on the contract with Miami and
the second years of player options. So yes, yes, it's
like that. Old quote, plans are useless, but planning is essential. Next.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Former All Star Shawn Marion was in Vegas earlier this
month for the Summer League. When he was asked about
what he held the most pride in throughout his career.
Marion said that he can honestly say that he changed
the game small ball, positionless basketball.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Ben, do you agree?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
No, I think Mike dan Toni changed the game. He
took advantage that he was about four to five. The
NBA had some new rules, and d'An toni took advantage
of it, and and Sean Marion and Boris Diao and
Amari Stottamy. Those guys were great, but it was more
the coach than the player because he installed it.
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Speaker 1 (30:09):
Now, Oh, way we go it. It's not now for
ask Ben. For the rest of the hour, your questions
are answers. We get right over to the Koopa loop
for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
All right, we're gonna start off with a good one
from ferg Dog. He wants to know would you be
in the market for a sex spot if you were single? Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, back in the day for sure? Yeah? Absolutely? What
about you, Eddie?
Speaker 8 (30:39):
I don't, I mean, I I think I know what
you're talking about. But is there some news on this?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Is there like the next generation of the blow up?
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Though?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Right right?
Speaker 7 (30:47):
They're just they're now like super realistic looking at like.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
How much did they cost? Thousands of dollars?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
I would assume that's a good point.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yeah, yeah, I mean if I were I probably wouldn't
be able to afford it.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
But if I was single probably I guess.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Just between us that I could make a mess. How
do you clean that up? That's a problem. So I'm
just but what about you, Coop?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Yeah, But my answer was going to be basically, if I,
if I was making enough money.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
You wouldn't need a sex body.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
That's a good that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
You could find somebody a regional recipe.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
What about you?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
I was Sam, Yeah, I'd give it a whirl.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
He's got the air I can make it love to
the airfire.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
But you know they're similar the steps on one of
those people on that that submersible that sank or imploded.
He's got a lot of money and he can't find
a date, so maybe he needs a uh a sex doll.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Uh you guys ever seen Lars and the Real Girls?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
And Gossling movie.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Barbie movie.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Interesting.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
That's not quite a like a robotic sex doll. It's
just like a sex doll. But interesting movie. Nonetheless. My
answer to that was yes, I would try it. Okay,
thank you?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Yes, What is next, Coop, Milkman, Mike, I'd like to
know for the crew, if you could choose an eighties
movie to get remade, what would you choose?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Man, there were some great movies in the in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I think what would well?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
It was Animal Animal House was before that, right?
Speaker 7 (32:13):
I think it was like eighty one.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Wasn't all right? Animal House? What about you?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Eddie seventy eight?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Was it seventy eight?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Oh my bad, I gotta change it up.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Go ahead, Eddie dum.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
They've probably redone most of them, I would think, Uh,
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
How about.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Die Hard, Eddie, that's a that's a terrible answer. Why
that's the worst answer you could possibly come up.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
With, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I mean, okay, come on, what ab up coming? Well?
I was gonna be coming to America. They've already done that.
How about Roger Rabbit?
Speaker 4 (32:47):
There you go, all right, that's a good one.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
That's good, right, that was a good cardoon Roger Rabbit.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I don't know that's worse than my ads.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Well, because because yours had sequels that went into the nineties,
so yeah, like yeah, but they weren't that good.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
That's like saying they should is the best one. I
don't know what you're.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Oh, you know another Paris Bueller's Day Off.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
That was a good Yeah, that is a good Daies
movie called Game and Coop. I would pick the never
Ending Story.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
Hey good, it's still going. You don't need to remake it.
It never ends.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
It's really still good though as it is.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Iowa Sam eighties movie you want to see remade.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
I love this movie as a kid.
Speaker 10 (33:27):
It's a very cheesy film, but I think it would
do well in today's environment.
Speaker 9 (33:31):
It's a Michael J.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
Fox movie called The Secret of My Success, and I
think that it would you could remake it, it would
be pretty good.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
How about planes, trains and automobiles.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
That's a good one, solid all.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
What is next is ask Ben your questions are answers
for the rest of the hours, we let it ride.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
All right, We've had this one or similar questions this
one before, but we've got new new crew members, new listeners.
So Noah from Austin wants to know what is your
favorite and least favorite candy bar?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
So my go to at Halloween every year. My mom
made sure she hooked me up. I love the Baby
Ruth and the Butterfinger. There's not a lot of candy
that I do not like. I guess the the one
almond Joy not a big fan. Not a big fan
of the almond that was always the last one in
the bag when you when we ate the candy, What
(34:23):
about you, Eddie?
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Well, I don't know if it's considered a candy bar,
but the Reese's Peanut butter cup is always my favorite.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Kid at a bar.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
It's not a bar, but I don't know. Okay, if
I have to go bar, i'd go Nesley's Crunch Bar.
I guess as your favorite? Yeah, I mean, if I have
to pick a bar.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
All right.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
I absolutely hate three Musketeers. I don't know what the
hell that stuff is in there.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It's too light.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
It's just I do not it isn't that No, No,
it's some kind of whipped.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I don't mind it, but it it's like, you know
the cliche about eating Chinese food. You know, you eat
a three Musketeers and you feel like you have to
like five of them because you're not full. You know
what I'm saying. You know, it doesn't really fill you up.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I don't know, there's really thick.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I just three Musketeers.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
It is.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
It is nugat, but it's fluffy whipped nuggat.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I don't like it that stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
I don't like your anti fluffy whiped nugats. Yes, okay,
so bold Mountain to do think it is okay? Now,
I feel like this is really good.
Speaker 9 (35:25):
This is just give us an answer. We don't need
to go deep in it is. Hey, it sounds like
he's got to really go deep into this.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
You know, baby Ruth used to be as a as
a kid, but I don't don't you feel Yeah, they
were great, but I feel like it's kind of I
don't know. I had one recently and it wasn't like
I remembered. I don't know if they changed it or.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
They did change it.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
They did, Okay, so then I gotta go with Snickers.
It's just it's always been there. It's the classic. It
never disappoints. Snickers is great and then at least favorite
anything with coconuts, so I'm enjoy or mounds, those are
both trash.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
The almond Joy was always the last Katy. What about Iowa? Sam? Iowa?
Growing up in Iowa, Sam, what was your go through
corn bar?
Speaker 10 (36:07):
You know, I'm not a big chocolate bar guy, but
I like more like Skittles and starbars. But I would
go with a butterfinger is my favorite. Yeah, get into that.
That's good. It takes a little while to get it.
It's a lot chewing. It's very dense. Uh yeah, coconut
least favorite. So yeah, probably almond Joy.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Okay, we agree on the almond Joy. Eddie is the
rogue actor that does not agree with the You like
Almonjoy Eddie?
Speaker 4 (36:29):
No, I don't like that either, but I really don't
like the Three Musketeers.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
What is next is ask Ben? Your questions are answers.
For the rest of the hours, we try to find
something to do. Rage over. What do we have?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Cowboy Killer wants to know for the crew crushed boy
crushed or cubed ice?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
I love the the little nuggets of ice. I guess
it's crushed the restaurant.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
No, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
I wouldn't consider that crush Those are those are like
little like shaped ice little No, like the little ice balls?
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Yeah, like ice pads.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I love those. I love those, eddie h.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
I love the crushed ice too. I like, you know,
chewing on the ice. So I don't like I don't
like those big ice cubes.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Yeah, Coop, I prefer cubes, But I do like the
little like the what raisin Canes has.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
That that's the best.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
That's that's what we have here at the Malamache. What
about you?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
I was saying, crush it all day long, baby, crush it,
crush it.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You gotta crush it good.
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