July 21, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jerry Jones saying this was a great day for the NFL as the NFL approves the sale of the Commanders, what the odds are that Josh Harris puts a championship caliber team together in 5 years, PGA Putt'em, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, hour one of
the podcast. But before we get to our one, this
is where I try to convince you to listen to
a different podcast while you're listening to this one, well,
actually after you listen to this one. So in addition
to the Ben Maler Show, we have a spinoff show
that broadcasts only in the podcast format on the weekend.
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It's called The Fifth Hour with Me Ben Mahler. And
today's episode, which should be available now or will be
available shortly, has not the Big Oh the Little Oh?
Who omar vs Scal If you're a seam head old
baseball player, Omarvis Scale played twenty four years as a shortstop,
one of the greatest defensive shortstops in the history of
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conversation with me on the Fifth Hour podcast. You can
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for download today. Remember that Fifth Hour podcast. Here in
hour number one, thumbs up or thumbs down to Jerry
Jones saying that this was a great day for the
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NFL the sale of the Washington Football team. What are
the odds New owner Josh Harris puts a championship caliber
commander's team on the field in the next five years.
And how do you dissect the NFL fighting Dan Snyder
after he sold the team plus the Raiders, are they
really considering pulling the franchise tag from running back Josh Jacobs.
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We'll talk about that and much more right now here.
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festivities here coming from the owner's suite, not the presidential suite,
the owner's suite, big bold headlines. We got a big sale,
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bouncing all over the pigskin pinball machine. Here in the
news coming from inside the Beltway, even though the team
is outside the Beltway. I assume you have heard by now.
But there is a chance that you have been living
in a phone booth. You found the last phone booth
left in America, and you are living in that phone booth.
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So Dan Snyder hang out. Dan Snyder has been officially
decommissioned as an NFL owner. The purchase of the Commanders
by someone named Josh Harris from Snyder has been approved,
unanimously approved. Nobody said now all the other owners. So Harris,
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who's fifty eight years old. And this guy is filthy
rich thanks to private equity investments that he has been
a part of. And he already has a stake in
the Philadelphia seventy six ers and the Devils of New Jersey.
And now he has a football team. So this guy
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has a little bit of this, a little bit that
all he needs a baseball team he can complete the cycle,
but he hasn't done that yet. But he does have
a six ballion dollar NFL franchise, the record setting amount
as that passes the Walmart family's rob Walton who paid
four point six million to buy the Broncos. Boy inflation
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really hitting these aristocrats when they buy the NFL franchises.
So Harris is the same age as a guy named
Dan Snyder. That's the story here. Dan Snyder also fifty eight,
and he is out, gone see you later. He bought
the Commanders, they were actually the Redskins. That's the team
he bought way back in nineteen ninety nine. I wasn't
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even alive then, and unless I was, and Snyder paid
at the time would seem like an ungodly amount of
money eight hundred million dollars, eight hundred million dollars to me,
by the way, I want the record to show I
still think eight hundred million dollars is an ungodly amount
of money. But nonetheless, so Snyder is out. And who
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else put Jerry Jones to bud his head into this
the Cowboys owner Jerry's world, Jerry Jones saying that this move,
this move by the NFL, well it's a special move.
Rather than me say what Jerry Jones said, Let's listen
to the sweet sound of Jerry Jones voice. Let's go
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to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I think it's fun for the right day for the NFL.
Excited and it's I think a hole martinet excited about
the prospects of going into Washington and giving him some
capital punishment.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh capital punishment, watch out. So let's discuss the question.
I'm sure all of the Washington football fans they're very concerned, man,
all right, So the question thumbs up or thumbs down
to Jerry Jones saying that this is a great day
for the NFL. So I am going to go two
thumbs up on this. But let me explain. I've got
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Grave Dancing, Go Carden State, and Love Potion number nine,
and we'll put all of these things together and we
are going to make one hell of a going away party,
which Dan Snyder is going to be able to throw.
So a it is not a great day for the fan.
I don't think this is a great day for the fan.
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This doesn't change anything. You just have a different oligarch
in charge. And I would argue that out of the
owners of the NFL, those thirty one ownership groups, the
Packers are not owned by an individual, But out of
thirty one ownership groups in the NFL, I would say
that ninety percent of them and I think that's low.
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Have done kinds of debauchery that, if they saw the
light of day, would also be kicked out of the NFL. Right,
and the cool people, you can't be doing that. But
Dan Snyder's out. I'm not sitting you're defending Dan Snyder.
As far as the move, I don't think it's a
great day for the fans, but for the owners. Yeah,
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if I was Jerry Jones, sure, if I own an
NFL team, the news of the sale of this Washington
franchise is orgasmic. It is a vote of confidence. If
the Commandos are worth six billion, how much are the
good team's worth? Man? Now, this quote that we played
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from Jerry Jones shows you how cutthroat Jerry is. I explained, Now,
that's a good day for the NFL. Great day for
the NFL because Jerry's the value the Cowboys went up,
The value of every team went up. But on this one,
Jerry is a samurai, an assassin. Because here's why. If
you know anything about the history of Jerry Jones and
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Dan Snyder, Jerry and Danny Boy are longtime friends. And
now Jerry Jones is out there with tap dance shoes
on grave dancing after Dan Snyder is excommunicated from the NFL,
losing all that clout as an NFL owner. Now, what
are the odds that this guy, Josh Harris puts a
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championship caliber team on the field for the Washington football
fans in the next five years. We'll just limit it
to the next five years, So between now and you
didn't even throw away this year if you want, because
he just took over, but in the next five years.
So I'm gonna set the odds. And that's what he said.
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You know the goal if you take a team, you
suck up to the fan base. You said, we're gonna
put a championship caliber team on the field, and everyone applauds,
the crowd goes wild. The odds it actually happens. I'm
gonna set the odds at plus one thousand. Now what
does that mean? That implies a less than ten percent chance.
And on this one, I think I'm being generous as well.
And I'll tell you why. Harris is one of the
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masterminds of tremendous parties. You hangs out with very important
people and all that, but he has not succeeded at
winning in sport. He hasn't hired the right people. The
Sixers have been abject failures in the playoffs, even though
they tanked that. I believe that was before Josh Harris
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got the team, but they've they had the players from
that and they haven't been able to put it together
in the postseason. And the Devils, I don't recall the
Devils winning anything of late. Maybe I missed it, But
what makes you think he's going to be any different
in the NFL? Isn't it harder in the NFL? Now
six billion for a faceless, nameless team, generic label commanders.
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More on that later, now turning the pitch. Minutes after
the NFL made the announcement that the sale was complete,
and everyone got all excited and the insider guys, the
nerds were going crazy, Ah, we gotta start, we gotta start.
Right after that, just a few minutes the NFL released
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I'm talking about burying the story, not the Friday news.
But we'll have this story and then we'll bury the
other story. But they claimed after many, many months of investigation,
corroborating allegations of harassment, sexual harassment against Dan Snyder and
allegations that he withheld revenue from the NFL. The NFL
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has said, you know what, that's all true, So we're
gonna find Dan Snyder sixty million dollars on the way out.
That was a seventeen month long investigation by someone named
Mary Joe White. We don't know who that is, but
I guess she was an attorney, and they claimed they
had substantiated the NFL the claims made that there was
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hidden revenue and they did not share it with the
other teams around the NFL, and also sexually harassed some
woman that worked for the team. So how do you
dissect the NFL fining Dan Snyder after he sold the team.
So this is what's known as fortuitous timing, is what
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it's known as the NFL going garden state on this
one guarden state, like the state of New Jersey. They
have an exit tax in New Jersey. Did you know that?
That's there's several of those sits. California has this if
you're really rich. There's many states of that, but New
Jersey is the one that I most associate the exit
tax tax with. And so that is a requirement that
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a tax payment the resident and non resident taxpayers if
they sell their homes and move out of New Jersey,
they have to pay a special exit tax in so
Dan Snyder is exiting, he's selling his home, and he's
got to pay the Garden State like exit tax. And
while sixty million dollars is life changing money for US peasants,
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it's loose change for Danny boy. Right, Crack open the
old piggybank there, toss a few shekels towards Park Avenue
and move on. So if you do the back of
the Napkin Malard math and who doesn't like Back of
the Napkin Mallard math? Dan Snyder buys the Redskins for
eight hundred million dollars. He sells the Redskins for over
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six billion dollars, the NFL picks his pocket for sixty million,
and now before taxes, Snyder is left with what five
point ninety nine billion thoughts and prayers? All right, last word,
let's go to Vegas. I'm gonna change it up and
I'll get away from Washington. There's an interesting story that
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is making its way around, and this is good talk radio.
There is chatter that the Raiders are considering rescinding, taking
back the franchise tag that they have put on Josh Jacobs,
the unhappy running back from Alabama. Jacobs is not happy
and he's let everyone know he's not happy. And if
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the Raiders did that, he would be a free agent. Now,
Jacobs has yet to sign the franchise tag, which would
pay him over ten million dollars. Hello, but the Raiders
can take it back. They can go abra cadabra, hocus pocus,
prestou and it's gone. So question, are the Raiders seriously
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considering pulling the franchise tag from Josh Jacobs? Per the
story bouncing around, I am nod in my head. Yes,
you can't see me, but I'm nodding my head. Yes.
Now my take on this, the Raiders are using love
potion number nine ergo tough love. This is tough love
by the Raiders. This story. You always try to look
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at these things and say, who benefits some story, Who
planted the story? This story was planted by the Las
Vegas football team to useful idiots of the media from
the Silver and Black. It's a negotiating tactic. It's negotiating
in the media. This is a very public ultimatum. It
is a wake up call. It's like, hey, stop pouting.
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Take the franchise tag or else. And it has happened,
not very often, not very often. It happens about fifteen
percent of the time. Three of the I think last
twenty years, it's happened Josh Norman, if I remember correctly,
defensive back, big mouth guy from Carolina, was the last
to do it. But there is president, and you look around.
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Josh McDaniels is just doing a ripoff version, a cheap, shoddy,
ripoff version of the Book of Belichick. And that's how
they've rolled for years in New England. They've never had
a consistent back, at least one player. They've had a
revolving door there. And so the Raiders, if they just
rescinded Josh Jacob's contract, they could throw together a hodgepodge
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of a Mire Abdullah and Brandon Bolden x pat. They
can go out to the dumpster and do some dumpster diving.
How about Dalvin Cook or Kareem Zeke Elliott or Marion
Mack or a bunch of other running backs that have
had some level of success in the NFL. They can
all be yours. The price doesn't even have to be right.
They don't have jobs at this particular point, it is
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It's a big night as we try to close things
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Speaker 1 (16:56):
Iowa Sam's new nickname is Bonus Baby. I think Iowa
Sam's the bonus baby. Something about him. The bonus Baby
berg Dog writes in and says the best part of
the Washington Commander's sale for six billion dollars is knowing
nobody in the running back text group chat will see
a dime for that sale. Yeah, they're very upset by that.
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Just Josh in Cincinnati, a Brigadier general, a well decorated
member of the Mallein Militia. Just Josh over the years,
has produced songs with Jay Scoop. He has written amazing
jokes for the show and done a bunch of other stuff.
He was also our reporter when there was that shooting
outside a Bengal player's house earlier this year, and he
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went over to the rich part of Cincinnati and tried
to see what was going on there for us. He
was our boots on the ground. Just Josh writes in
he says, when you sell your team for six billion
but only get fined ten million, Snyder is the real
Danny Dimes in this story. Yes, Jason in Cansa City,
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right since says nine out of ten on the Malard monologue,
the Raiders might do better with Bruce Jacobs then Josh Jacobs.
Josh Jacobs seems to perform only well against the Denver Broncos,
according to Jason will Good Bruce Jacob's reference and Bruce
last I heard it's still very popular morning guy, and
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in Arizona, I've had him on my podcast. Bruce worked
here for years on the weekends in kind of the
Arnie Spaniard role back in the day. Eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox is the number if you would
like to be part that is eight seven seven nine
nine six six three six ' nine. We will take
your calls coming up here momentarily, but I love this
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story from SEC Media Days. We point out as a
disclaimer that we are not big on college football talk
on this show because it's mostly about football when we're
on and all that, but a good college football story
I'm a fan of. For example, Lane Kiffin, the old
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Miss coach Lane Kiffin. There was asked I don't even
know if he was asked specifically about this, but he
was asked a question and he told a story about
how he avoids interacting with people who recognize it. He's
going to the store there to get a carton of
milk and hey, are you Lane Kiffin?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Did you hear what Lane Kiffin does when someone recognizes
and this is what he said? Maybe he's full of crap.
Who knows? Right, Well, we actually have we have the
audio on this. You gotta hear. This is hilarious. So
this is Lane Kiffin and he's kind of going into it.
He'll tell the story here in this SoundBite. You'll hear
his his strategy. Listen, take a listen, Gwinn.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Everybody was like, oh, we got this in I out
it's great and you know in this portal it's great.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I whoa and I'm not saying I was the only
one saying.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I'm like, whoa, this is a disaster because you just
legalized cheating and you just told him about donors they
can pay the players. That's what you did, and then
you know it's supposed to be set up. Well, it's
really for your name, image, likeness, for your marketing.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's not what's happening. They're getting paid to go to school.
Sin it's paid for playing. Well, that's a good sound bite.
That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
That is that we played it because we had it.
We played the sound by it because we had it.
All right, So take a listen, all right, let's just
get back, stay focused, just bear with me. I was.
Sam's very excited here, very excited, all right. So Laane
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Kiffen tells and he tells a little story about avoiding
interaction with other people who recognize him when he's out
about around town. This he's a big start in Mississippi.
So he says that when he's walking through somewhere and
somebody will say, hey, are you Lane Kiffen, His response
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is no, I hate that dude. He sucks, And then
he keeps walking. I love this now. Fortunately I am
in radio, nobody recognizes me, right, No, no one knows
who I am. But I will use this strategy if
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I ever get to a point where I end up
on television or something like that or people, you know,
in a place where people might recognize me, I will
then use that strategy, right, that is outstanding to avoid interaction.
That's like something that would have been on and maybe
it was on that show my favorite TV show which
I think has only got one more season, Curb Your Enthusiasm,
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which I love that show with Larry David. That's the
kind of comedy there. It's like, yeah, are you Sollings? No,
that person's the worst. I wish Old Miss would fire
that coach. That guy is such a scoundrel. He's inbezzling
money is what he's doing. That is what Lane Kiffin's doing.
What a loser? What a bleep and loser? Yeah? All right,
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s been mal show on Fox. Will go and take
some calls coming up momentarily. I promise we will get
to that, and I will tell you I have something
in common with a Minnesota Viking player. That's right, attention,
all of our listeners in Minnesota, a state I love
people very nice to me in Minnesota. I have something
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in common with a Viking, and you may also have
something in common with the Minnesota Viking. We'll get to that,
but right now, let's get you caught up on everything
going on in the overnight with games of note Garcia.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Well, not everything, not everything. I will not be updating
the Switzerland Philippines Women's World Cup game that is going
on right now.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That's disrespectful to Switzerland. Maybe you're racist against Switzerland.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Well I wouldn't say that, but.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
There's more attention if you say that. You know.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
One thing I do enjoy about working here is that
one thing? Well, one of the things, okay, is that
we pretty much are, you know, allowed to report on
what we think is important.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And you have cirm on that. Eddie is editorial control. Correct,
you have editorial control, and I do too. The people
are very nice here. They let me pick what I
want to talk about and as long as people listen,
if they stop listening, they'll fire me. So they're very kind.
It's a good estionship we have.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah. So I do appreciate that that we don't have
to do that. I know that Fox is behind this. Yeah, yeah,
but I did double check make sure there wasn't an
email saying, hey, you may make sure you do this.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
There were. And we have friends that work at the
other place, Eddie, and there are rumors that sometimes they
force them to talk about certain things they don't necessarily
want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Not here, No, apparently not. So if you are looking
for that content, you will have to go elsewhere. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 4 (24:44):
We had another one of those stories of a baseball
player doing something silly to injure himself. Did you see
that Mariners outfielder Jared Kelnick? I believe is how you
pronounce it? I he broke a bonus foot and so
he's gonna be on the Angel List or as the
disabledus as we like to call it here in the
Ben Mallerhouse. Yeah. Uh did you see how he hurt himself?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
How did he hurt himself? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Well, he was upset that he struck out in the
ninth inning of a game on Wednesday, and he decided,
you know what I'm going to do. I'm going to
kick a water cooler. Uh, scoreboard now reads water cooler
one Jared kell Nick zero as he broke a bone
in his left foot kicking the water cooler.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You gotta go, what was it Carlos Perez back in.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
The day that would Yeah, you used the bat?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Oh the bat? Was it? Who threw? Was who he
would throw? It was a Dodger. He didn't throw it.
He used the bat. Yeah, he took a bat to
the Leama time was it lima time? Did he do it?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I remember Dodger you know, the water cooler is just
mining its own business. It's there to refresh you, it's
there to help you, and it's just unfortunate that someone
would want to take out their frustrations on the poor,
innocent water cooler.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
But when I heard a baseball player was injured by
a in adam at object, I thought maybe it was
Aaron Judge. Again, I thought maybe he'd hurt himself.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Now that's a cheap shot.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Cheap shot. Yeah, okay, all.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Right, Damn Wallen in La Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
They make tougher walls at Dodger Stadium. Yeah. This ports
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have something in common with a Minnesota Viking. He's a rookie,
rookie for the Vikings. Jordan Addison is his name. Catching
passes is his game, and he's got a need for speed.
Now what do I have in common? And I think
this guy's gonna be good player. I'm a fan of
Jordan Adison. He was a studded pit and he went
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to usc Man. Is he good? And he was picked
it I think it was the late first round pick
if I remember correctly, back in the April draft. So anyway,
he's a cruising around. He plays with the Vikings, Jordan Addison,
and he's driving and cherry tops, little cherry tops and
what whoo? Yes, the Minnesota State Police, the state patrol
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there in Minnesota, pulls this guy over. Did you see
how fast he was going? Do you see how fast
he was going to take? Guess? Now, these speed limits.
I will defend Jordan Addison on this. These speed limits
in Eddie. The speed limits in Minnesota are too low, Eddie. Okay,
even so, Eddie, the speed limits around Minneapolis are about
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fifty five fifty miles an hour on highways. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Okay, But what he wasn't going seventy five?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well it depends if you're good at me after bat. Yeah,
so he he was going slightly over the speed limit.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
No, no, no, no, no, he was not going slightly
over the speed limit. He was going.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Everything's relative, Eddie, everything's relative. You know what what a
lot rary?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Rugg said, Oh my god, he's going fast.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oh wow, Eddy, you went there. Holy canoli man, what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Oh yeah, I'm the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Well, he was driving around his Lamborghini and he went
one hundred and forty miles an hour. They clocked them out.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And even better, it was at three in the morning.
He might have been listening to our show while he
was driving around on Interstate ninety four right there. That's
just I gotta go back and check my ticket. I
have a souvenir ticket I got from my trip to
Minneapolis there to see if maybe I was on I
ninety four alls. I might have been. I forget what
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what highway was on. I was going to the Mermaid
for the big mallor meet and greet, and I got
pulled over there. And did you think they cut him
a deal? Do you think maybe he was going one
hundred and sixty He said, I will knock that down
to one hundred and forty. And isn't that once you
go over the speed limit by a certain amount, doesn't
that become in a big problem, Like it's not just
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license removed taken away. Yeah, I don't know what the
laws are in Minnesotabout.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
How fast were you going, Ben?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I was going. Here's the funny thing.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I got a buck forty. His car couldn't go buck forty.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I had a red car he could have.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Ben was not in a Lamborghini.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So no, no, that's a reason to drive a crappy car.
At you a loppy because you don't have to worry
about going one hundred and forty miles an hour. But
I was told by a California Highway patrol officer years ago,
he said he pulled me over to give me a ticket.
He said, listen, if you just go seventy nine, I
never pulled anybody over. I don't know any officers that
pull anybody over that go seventy nine or under. So
(29:52):
as long as you goes seventy nine, you're good. So
in California, ever since then, I've gone seventy nine. I
set my my adoma to seventy nine. I've never gotten
a ticket. I've and this has been years in California.
In Minnesota, I was only going about seventy five and
I got I got dinged because the speed limits are
so low in Minnesota. I'm gonna move to Minnesota and
(30:16):
run for office, and the only platform I will have
is to raise the speed limits at least when the
weather's I know, the weather sucks most of the year
in Minnesota. That's why probably the speed limits are low
because it's icy and there's snow and most of the year.
But I was there. The weather was great. It was
beautiful every way. Look, there's lakes. It was picturesque, trees
everywhere was wonderful. And the damned speed limits terrible, terrible, terrible,
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terrible terrible. Let's go to the Black Irishman in Omaha. Hello,
Black Irishman.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah, hey, money, he's awake.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The man's awake.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
You stop, man, Come on, man, you're killing me.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Hey, mister moneyball Mallard.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You doing.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
You told me to stop, and now you want me
to talk? Make your mind up? How about that?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Hey man?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Hey uh Boobyton Minnesota, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Bike man for real. But I'm gonna tell you man,
I got your hat.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
You got the hat? Is that right? You got the hat?
All right? Nice? We had to bet me. If you
don't know, the Black Irishman was a famous call on
the show, and we actually had a wager and you
you're coming through paying off the wager after seven years.
This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Hey man, I got it.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
When I went to Kansas City, I dropped my daughter
off in Kansa City for the summer. I got a
hat and I got it one too. Oh thank you.
What is she doing in Kansas City for the summer?
What is she up to?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And what are aunt Tie and my cousin?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Okay, very cool little summer on KC. Nice.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I won't tell you something.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Man, you made me forget because you was taking so
long to get my call. Now you see you're taking
a shot at me, black irishman, how dare you? I
want you to make amazing make an amazing point right now.
I want you to dazzle the listener with an amazing
take right now. You've got it in your black irishman.
I know you've got it in you.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I wonder how come you I want how come you
always talking that gibberish?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Instead of taking phone calls?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Hey, let let let the two girls call in.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Man, you're sitting there.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Okay, we we have about four women that call the show.
So where are the where are the women at? You
want me to do? You want me to go like
nineties radio? Open up the ladies line? You want me
to open up the ladies line? Is that what you like?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
There? That one chick to call us about the horoscopes?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Man, I'm a Burgo man, I'm stilling there.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Okay, Yes, that's her name, the chick that talks about
the horoscopes, that's her name. Amen.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Amen, I'm gonna say a whole bunch of things down
for like Talco right now.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Okay, Well, maybe call back later if you feel like talking.
I got anyway. I gotta go. I got things to do.
I gotta go. But thank you, you know worked out
better for me. We'll have the PGA Pudham. We'll get
to that coming up. Mama Telly. Here's the who am
I game. I was the last active player in any
of the major North American professional sports leagues to have
(33:16):
played in the nineteen eighties. There's a reason I'm doing
this question. But I was the last active player in
any of the major North American professional sports leagues that's hockey, basketball, baseball, football,
to have played in the nineteen eighties. Who am I?
The answer, I'll tell you, and we'll have the PGA potam.
We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (34:11):
We're gonna have the PGA putam. Some call it the Open,
we call it the British Open. I do untell management
time out for the who am I? Game. I was
the very last active player in any of the major
North American professional sports leagues, that's NFL, NHL, NBA, major
League Baseball to have played in the nineteen eighties. Who
(34:35):
am I? Who? That is the question and what is
the answer and see does anyone know the answer? Cowboy
Killer going with Underdog. That's the answer. Late Night trug
tester says Kellen Winslow. The second is the last to play,
last player in the eighty year old category.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
There.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I think he's referencing something else. How dare you Longball? Larry?
Guessed by the American therapist Aaron Judges tow from gmying
in Chicago, The Art of Sports Talk, says Eric Lindras.
Eric Lindross is the answer. Fred Roberts, guest by Real
John the Pie Guy, who is also triggered by the
(35:15):
threads app He's upset by that Fields of Green going
with cliff Robinson, the Great Clifford Robinson, a good player
back back in the day for the Blazers and others.
The Garcia Burner account says the answer is Chuck Norris,
Hulk Hogan Hula from Milkman, Mike and Colorado Miguel on
Fire one of the most unique answers, while one of
the most unique players William McGee Look him up. Paul
(35:40):
Korea guessed by Robbie the Mariner fan Tiger Blood Benito
the Cowboy Fans answer. Jamie Moyer from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
The Philly rob tribute account says f Altuve and Ethan
Miller is the answer. Todd Hollinsworth guess by Anathan in Delaware,
(36:03):
Richard Simmons from Stevie Meatballs in Florida. The Casey Car
Haller going with the late Great Rush Limbaugh as his answer.
Mark says nuke Lalouche legend for the Bull Durham baseball
team back in the day, Yarmer Yager from Chip and
the Ques, The Black Irishman guest by Kathy in Madison,
(36:25):
Mike Sharperson Wow from Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Eddie,
do you have an answer? Eddy?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I'm sorry? Is his oldest active or autumn last.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
The last active player in any of the North American
sports leagues who played in the nineteen ages. So the
last one left.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I don't playing anymore. Adam Vanitaria ooh, that is incorrect.
The correct answer Eddi Omar viscll Omar. He played twenty
four years.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Ayod run Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
From nineteen eighty nine came up with the Mariners at
the Kingdome to twenty twelve with the Blue Jays and
and fun fact, Eddie. He'll be on the Fifth Hour
podcast today later today. The great old Marvis Gal He
is third all time for hits by a shortstop. The
only short stops that have more career hits are Derek
Jeter and Honus Wagner. Put that in your pipe and
(37:16):
smoke it. Time now for the m l B.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Oh that's right. Excuse me, that was old. That was
old copy the NAA. No, that's not page. I'll get
it right, a vegge the PGA bottom. Is that right, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
That's what you said earlier.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
That's what I said earlier. Yeah, that's the Open and
they're going on right. It's going on right now. The
second round is underway. I'm told Eddie is going first.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Go ahead, Eddie, all right, let's go with Roy McElroy.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It's a terrible pick, Sam.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
I couldn't find the music, so I'm playing Kenny Loggins.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
This is traditional golf music, yes, Kenny.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Schick, especially the Open championship. Hurry, I'm gonna go with
a former British Open champion, Zach Johnson from Iowa.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
That is a I don't know if he's Jordan's Speith.
You're gonna have Jordan Speed. I'll take Scottie Scheffler and
Tommy Fleetwood back to you, Cooper Loop on the p
G A putam Adriana Guy, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Sam Colin moorek oh okay, Edie back to back, Brooks kopka.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Oh good pick and uh.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Let's see Cameron Smith, Camera Smith
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Sam, oh my god, Coop anybody Keegan Bradley, Keegan Bradley
got
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, hour one of
the podcast. But before we get to our one, this
is where I try to convince you to listen to
a different podcast while you're listening to this one, well,
actually after you listen to this one. So in addition
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that broadcasts only in the podcast format on the weekend.
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It's called The Fifth Hour with Me Ben Mahler. And
today's episode, which should be available now or will be
available shortly, has not the Big Oh the Little Oh?
Who omar vs Scal If you're a seam head old
baseball player, Omarvis Scale played twenty four years as a shortstop,
one of the greatest defensive shortstops in the history of
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the game, and he popped on randomly to have a
conversation with me on the Fifth Hour podcast. You can
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for download today. Remember that Fifth Hour podcast. Here in
hour number one, thumbs up or thumbs down to Jerry
Jones saying that this was a great day for the
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NFL the sale of the Washington Football team. What are
the odds New owner Josh Harris puts a championship caliber
commander's team on the field in the next five years.
And how do you dissect the NFL fighting Dan Snyder
after he sold the team plus the Raiders, are they
really considering pulling the franchise tag from running back Josh Jacobs.
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We'll talk about that and much more right now here.
It is our number one Hail to the new guy,
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festivities here coming from the owner's suite, not the presidential suite,
the owner's suite, big bold headlines. We got a big sale,
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bouncing all over the pigskin pinball machine. Here in the
news coming from inside the Beltway, even though the team
is outside the Beltway. I assume you have heard by now.
But there is a chance that you have been living
in a phone booth. You found the last phone booth
left in America, and you are living in that phone booth.
(03:03):
So Dan Snyder hang out. Dan Snyder has been officially
decommissioned as an NFL owner. The purchase of the Commanders
by someone named Josh Harris from Snyder has been approved,
unanimously approved. Nobody said now all the other owners. So Harris,
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who's fifty eight years old. And this guy is filthy
rich thanks to private equity investments that he has been
a part of. And he already has a stake in
the Philadelphia seventy six ers and the Devils of New Jersey.
And now he has a football team. So this guy
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has a little bit of this, a little bit that
all he needs a baseball team he can complete the cycle,
but he hasn't done that yet. But he does have
a six ballion dollar NFL franchise, the record setting amount
as that passes the Walmart family's rob Walton who paid
four point six million to buy the Broncos. Boy inflation
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really hitting these aristocrats when they buy the NFL franchises.
So Harris is the same age as a guy named
Dan Snyder. That's the story here. Dan Snyder also fifty eight,
and he is out, gone see you later. He bought
the Commanders, they were actually the Redskins. That's the team
he bought way back in nineteen ninety nine. I wasn't
(04:38):
even alive then, and unless I was, and Snyder paid
at the time would seem like an ungodly amount of
money eight hundred million dollars, eight hundred million dollars to me,
by the way, I want the record to show I
still think eight hundred million dollars is an ungodly amount
of money. But nonetheless, so Snyder is out. And who
(04:58):
else put Jerry Jones to bud his head into this
the Cowboys owner Jerry's world, Jerry Jones saying that this move,
this move by the NFL, well it's a special move.
Rather than me say what Jerry Jones said, Let's listen
to the sweet sound of Jerry Jones voice. Let's go
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to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I think it's fun for the right day for the NFL.
Excited and it's I think a hole martinet excited about
the prospects of going into Washington and giving him some
capital punishment.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh capital punishment, watch out. So let's discuss the question.
I'm sure all of the Washington football fans they're very concerned, man,
all right, So the question thumbs up or thumbs down
to Jerry Jones saying that this is a great day
for the NFL. So I am going to go two
thumbs up on this. But let me explain. I've got
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Grave Dancing, Go Carden State, and Love Potion number nine,
and we'll put all of these things together and we
are going to make one hell of a going away party,
which Dan Snyder is going to be able to throw.
So a it is not a great day for the fan.
I don't think this is a great day for the fan.
(06:19):
This doesn't change anything. You just have a different oligarch
in charge. And I would argue that out of the
owners of the NFL, those thirty one ownership groups, the
Packers are not owned by an individual, But out of
thirty one ownership groups in the NFL, I would say
that ninety percent of them and I think that's low.
(06:42):
Have done kinds of debauchery that, if they saw the
light of day, would also be kicked out of the NFL. Right,
and the cool people, you can't be doing that. But
Dan Snyder's out. I'm not sitting you're defending Dan Snyder.
As far as the move, I don't think it's a
great day for the fans, but for the owners. Yeah,
(07:04):
if I was Jerry Jones, sure, if I own an
NFL team, the news of the sale of this Washington
franchise is orgasmic. It is a vote of confidence. If
the Commandos are worth six billion, how much are the
good team's worth? Man? Now, this quote that we played
(07:25):
from Jerry Jones shows you how cutthroat Jerry is. I explained, Now,
that's a good day for the NFL. Great day for
the NFL because Jerry's the value the Cowboys went up,
The value of every team went up. But on this one,
Jerry is a samurai, an assassin. Because here's why. If
you know anything about the history of Jerry Jones and
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Dan Snyder, Jerry and Danny Boy are longtime friends. And
now Jerry Jones is out there with tap dance shoes
on grave dancing after Dan Snyder is excommunicated from the NFL,
losing all that clout as an NFL owner. Now, what
are the odds that this guy, Josh Harris puts a
(08:08):
championship caliber team on the field for the Washington football
fans in the next five years. We'll just limit it
to the next five years, So between now and you
didn't even throw away this year if you want, because
he just took over, but in the next five years.
So I'm gonna set the odds. And that's what he said.
(08:28):
You know the goal if you take a team, you
suck up to the fan base. You said, we're gonna
put a championship caliber team on the field, and everyone applauds,
the crowd goes wild. The odds it actually happens. I'm
gonna set the odds at plus one thousand. Now what
does that mean? That implies a less than ten percent chance.
And on this one, I think I'm being generous as well.
And I'll tell you why. Harris is one of the
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masterminds of tremendous parties. You hangs out with very important
people and all that, but he has not succeeded at
winning in sport. He hasn't hired the right people. The
Sixers have been abject failures in the playoffs, even though
they tanked that. I believe that was before Josh Harris
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got the team, but they've they had the players from
that and they haven't been able to put it together
in the postseason. And the Devils, I don't recall the
Devils winning anything of late. Maybe I missed it, But
what makes you think he's going to be any different
in the NFL? Isn't it harder in the NFL? Now
six billion for a faceless, nameless team, generic label commanders.
(09:35):
More on that later, now turning the pitch. Minutes after
the NFL made the announcement that the sale was complete,
and everyone got all excited and the insider guys, the
nerds were going crazy, Ah, we gotta start, we gotta start.
Right after that, just a few minutes the NFL released
(09:56):
I'm talking about burying the story, not the Friday news.
But we'll have this story and then we'll bury the
other story. But they claimed after many, many months of investigation,
corroborating allegations of harassment, sexual harassment against Dan Snyder and
allegations that he withheld revenue from the NFL. The NFL
(10:20):
has said, you know what, that's all true, So we're
gonna find Dan Snyder sixty million dollars on the way out.
That was a seventeen month long investigation by someone named
Mary Joe White. We don't know who that is, but
I guess she was an attorney, and they claimed they
had substantiated the NFL the claims made that there was
(10:43):
hidden revenue and they did not share it with the
other teams around the NFL, and also sexually harassed some
woman that worked for the team. So how do you
dissect the NFL fining Dan Snyder after he sold the team.
So this is what's known as fortuitous timing, is what
(11:06):
it's known as the NFL going garden state on this
one guarden state, like the state of New Jersey. They
have an exit tax in New Jersey. Did you know that?
That's there's several of those sits. California has this if
you're really rich. There's many states of that, but New
Jersey is the one that I most associate the exit
tax tax with. And so that is a requirement that
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a tax payment the resident and non resident taxpayers if
they sell their homes and move out of New Jersey,
they have to pay a special exit tax in so
Dan Snyder is exiting, he's selling his home, and he's
got to pay the Garden State like exit tax. And
while sixty million dollars is life changing money for US peasants,
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it's loose change for Danny boy. Right, Crack open the
old piggybank there, toss a few shekels towards Park Avenue
and move on. So if you do the back of
the Napkin Malard math and who doesn't like Back of
the Napkin Mallard math? Dan Snyder buys the Redskins for
eight hundred million dollars. He sells the Redskins for over
(12:18):
six billion dollars, the NFL picks his pocket for sixty million,
and now before taxes, Snyder is left with what five
point ninety nine billion thoughts and prayers? All right, last word,
let's go to Vegas. I'm gonna change it up and
I'll get away from Washington. There's an interesting story that
(12:38):
is making its way around, and this is good talk radio.
There is chatter that the Raiders are considering rescinding, taking
back the franchise tag that they have put on Josh Jacobs,
the unhappy running back from Alabama. Jacobs is not happy
and he's let everyone know he's not happy. And if
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the Raiders did that, he would be a free agent. Now,
Jacobs has yet to sign the franchise tag, which would
pay him over ten million dollars. Hello, but the Raiders
can take it back. They can go abra cadabra, hocus pocus,
prestou and it's gone. So question, are the Raiders seriously
(13:22):
considering pulling the franchise tag from Josh Jacobs? Per the
story bouncing around, I am nod in my head. Yes,
you can't see me, but I'm nodding my head. Yes.
Now my take on this, the Raiders are using love
potion number nine ergo tough love. This is tough love
by the Raiders. This story. You always try to look
(13:46):
at these things and say, who benefits some story, Who
planted the story? This story was planted by the Las
Vegas football team to useful idiots of the media from
the Silver and Black. It's a negotiating tactic. It's negotiating
in the media. This is a very public ultimatum. It
is a wake up call. It's like, hey, stop pouting.
(14:10):
Take the franchise tag or else. And it has happened,
not very often, not very often. It happens about fifteen
percent of the time. Three of the I think last
twenty years, it's happened Josh Norman, if I remember correctly,
defensive back, big mouth guy from Carolina, was the last
to do it. But there is president, and you look around.
(14:30):
Josh McDaniels is just doing a ripoff version, a cheap, shoddy,
ripoff version of the Book of Belichick. And that's how
they've rolled for years in New England. They've never had
a consistent back, at least one player. They've had a
revolving door there. And so the Raiders, if they just
rescinded Josh Jacob's contract, they could throw together a hodgepodge
(14:51):
of a Mire Abdullah and Brandon Bolden x pat. They
can go out to the dumpster and do some dumpster diving.
How about Dalvin Cook or Kareem Zeke Elliott or Marion
Mack or a bunch of other running backs that have
had some level of success in the NFL. They can
all be yours. The price doesn't even have to be right.
They don't have jobs at this particular point, it is
(15:14):
the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are just getting started here.
It's a big night as we try to close things
out for the work week here in style. Will have
lame jokes of the week coming up in hour three,
the Coop Scoop on entertainment an hour four, and some
surprises along the way. Avoiding small talk, We're gonna get
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Iowa Sam's new nickname is Bonus Baby. I think Iowa
Sam's the bonus baby. Something about him. The bonus Baby
berg Dog writes in and says the best part of
the Washington Commander's sale for six billion dollars is knowing
nobody in the running back text group chat will see
a dime for that sale. Yeah, they're very upset by that.
(17:20):
Just Josh in Cincinnati, a Brigadier general, a well decorated
member of the Mallein Militia. Just Josh over the years,
has produced songs with Jay Scoop. He has written amazing
jokes for the show and done a bunch of other stuff.
He was also our reporter when there was that shooting
outside a Bengal player's house earlier this year, and he
(17:42):
went over to the rich part of Cincinnati and tried
to see what was going on there for us. He
was our boots on the ground. Just Josh writes in
he says, when you sell your team for six billion
but only get fined ten million, Snyder is the real
Danny Dimes in this story. Yes, Jason in Cansa City,
(18:02):
right since says nine out of ten on the Malard monologue,
the Raiders might do better with Bruce Jacobs then Josh Jacobs.
Josh Jacobs seems to perform only well against the Denver Broncos,
according to Jason will Good Bruce Jacob's reference and Bruce
last I heard it's still very popular morning guy, and
(18:25):
in Arizona, I've had him on my podcast. Bruce worked
here for years on the weekends in kind of the
Arnie Spaniard role back in the day. Eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox is the number if you would
like to be part that is eight seven seven nine
nine six six three six ' nine. We will take
your calls coming up here momentarily, but I love this
(18:47):
story from SEC Media Days. We point out as a
disclaimer that we are not big on college football talk
on this show because it's mostly about football when we're
on and all that, but a good college football story
I'm a fan of. For example, Lane Kiffin, the old
(19:09):
Miss coach Lane Kiffin. There was asked I don't even
know if he was asked specifically about this, but he
was asked a question and he told a story about
how he avoids interacting with people who recognize it. He's
going to the store there to get a carton of
milk and hey, are you Lane Kiffin?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Did you hear what Lane Kiffin does when someone recognizes
and this is what he said? Maybe he's full of crap.
Who knows? Right, Well, we actually have we have the
audio on this. You gotta hear. This is hilarious. So
this is Lane Kiffin and he's kind of going into it.
He'll tell the story here in this SoundBite. You'll hear
his his strategy. Listen, take a listen, Gwinn.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Everybody was like, oh, we got this in I out
it's great and you know in this portal it's great.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I whoa and I'm not saying I was the only
one saying.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
I'm like, whoa, this is a disaster because you just
legalized cheating and you just told him about donors they
can pay the players. That's what you did, and then
you know it's supposed to be set up. Well, it's
really for your name, image, likeness, for your marketing.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's not what's happening. They're getting paid to go to school.
Sin it's paid for playing. Well, that's a good sound bite.
That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
That is that we played it because we had it.
We played the sound by it because we had it.
All right, So take a listen, all right, let's just
get back, stay focused, just bear with me. I was.
Sam's very excited here, very excited, all right. So Laane
(20:33):
Kiffen tells and he tells a little story about avoiding
interaction with other people who recognize him when he's out
about around town. This he's a big start in Mississippi.
So he says that when he's walking through somewhere and
somebody will say, hey, are you Lane Kiffen, His response
(20:56):
is no, I hate that dude. He sucks, And then
he keeps walking. I love this now. Fortunately I am
in radio, nobody recognizes me, right, No, no one knows
who I am. But I will use this strategy if
(21:19):
I ever get to a point where I end up
on television or something like that or people, you know,
in a place where people might recognize me, I will
then use that strategy, right, that is outstanding to avoid interaction.
That's like something that would have been on and maybe
it was on that show my favorite TV show which
I think has only got one more season, Curb Your Enthusiasm,
(21:40):
which I love that show with Larry David. That's the
kind of comedy there. It's like, yeah, are you Sollings? No,
that person's the worst. I wish Old Miss would fire
that coach. That guy is such a scoundrel. He's inbezzling
money is what he's doing. That is what Lane Kiffin's doing.
What a loser? What a bleep and loser? Yeah? All right,
(22:02):
s been mal show on Fox. Will go and take
some calls coming up momentarily. I promise we will get
to that, and I will tell you I have something
in common with a Minnesota Viking player. That's right, attention,
all of our listeners in Minnesota, a state I love
people very nice to me in Minnesota. I have something
(22:24):
in common with a Viking, and you may also have
something in common with the Minnesota Viking. We'll get to that,
but right now, let's get you caught up on everything
going on in the overnight with games of note Garcia.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Well, not everything, not everything. I will not be updating
the Switzerland Philippines Women's World Cup game that is going
on right now.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That's disrespectful to Switzerland. Maybe you're racist against Switzerland.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Well I wouldn't say that, but.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
There's more attention if you say that. You know.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
One thing I do enjoy about working here is that
one thing? Well, one of the things, okay, is that
we pretty much are, you know, allowed to report on
what we think is important.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And you have cirm on that. Eddie is editorial control. Correct,
you have editorial control, and I do too. The people
are very nice here. They let me pick what I
want to talk about and as long as people listen,
if they stop listening, they'll fire me. So they're very kind.
It's a good estionship we have.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yeah. So I do appreciate that that we don't have
to do that. I know that Fox is behind this. Yeah, yeah,
but I did double check make sure there wasn't an
email saying, hey, you may make sure you do this.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
There were. And we have friends that work at the
other place, Eddie, and there are rumors that sometimes they
force them to talk about certain things they don't necessarily
want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Not here, No, apparently not. So if you are looking
for that content, you will have to go elsewhere. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Hey, what's up everybody?
Speaker 6 (24:04):
It's me three time pro bowler LeVar Arrington, and I
couldn't be more excited to announce a podcast called Up
on Game?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
What is Up on Game? You ask? Along with my
fellow pro bowler TJ.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Huschman Zada and Super Bowl champion Yup, that's right, Plexico Burris.
You can only name a show with that type of
talent on it.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Up on Game.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
We're going to be sharing our real life experiences loaded
with teachable moments. Listen to Up on Game with Me,
LeVar Arrington, TJ. Huschman, Zada, and Plexico Burrs on the
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Speaker 4 (24:44):
We had another one of those stories of a baseball
player doing something silly to injure himself. Did you see
that Mariners outfielder Jared Kelnick? I believe is how you
pronounce it? I he broke a bonus foot and so
he's gonna be on the Angel List or as the
disabledus as we like to call it here in the
Ben Mallerhouse. Yeah. Uh did you see how he hurt himself?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
How did he hurt himself? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Well, he was upset that he struck out in the
ninth inning of a game on Wednesday, and he decided,
you know what I'm going to do. I'm going to
kick a water cooler. Uh, scoreboard now reads water cooler
one Jared kell Nick zero as he broke a bone
in his left foot kicking the water cooler.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You gotta go, what was it Carlos Perez back in.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
The day that would Yeah, you used the bat?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Oh the bat? Was it? Who threw? Was who he
would throw? It was a Dodger. He didn't throw it.
He used the bat. Yeah, he took a bat to
the Leama time was it lima time? Did he do it?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I remember Dodger you know, the water cooler is just
mining its own business. It's there to refresh you, it's
there to help you, and it's just unfortunate that someone
would want to take out their frustrations on the poor,
innocent water cooler.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
But when I heard a baseball player was injured by
a in adam at object, I thought maybe it was
Aaron Judge. Again, I thought maybe he'd hurt himself.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Now that's a cheap shot.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Cheap shot. Yeah, okay, all.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Right, Damn Wallen in La Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
They make tougher walls at Dodger Stadium. Yeah. This ports
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(26:38):
have something in common with a Minnesota Viking. He's a rookie,
rookie for the Vikings. Jordan Addison is his name. Catching
passes is his game, and he's got a need for speed.
Now what do I have in common? And I think
this guy's gonna be good player. I'm a fan of
Jordan Adison. He was a studded pit and he went
(26:59):
to usc Man. Is he good? And he was picked
it I think it was the late first round pick
if I remember correctly, back in the April draft. So anyway,
he's a cruising around. He plays with the Vikings, Jordan Addison,
and he's driving and cherry tops, little cherry tops and
what whoo? Yes, the Minnesota State Police, the state patrol
(27:25):
there in Minnesota, pulls this guy over. Did you see
how fast he was going? Do you see how fast
he was going to take? Guess? Now, these speed limits.
I will defend Jordan Addison on this. These speed limits
in Eddie. The speed limits in Minnesota are too low, Eddie. Okay,
even so, Eddie, the speed limits around Minneapolis are about
(27:46):
fifty five fifty miles an hour on highways. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Okay, But what he wasn't going seventy five?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well it depends if you're good at me after bat. Yeah,
so he he was going slightly over the speed limit.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
No, no, no, no, no, he was not going slightly
over the speed limit. He was going.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Everything's relative, Eddie, everything's relative. You know what what a
lot rary?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Rugg said, Oh my god, he's going fast.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oh wow, Eddy, you went there. Holy canoli man, what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Oh yeah, I'm the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Well, he was driving around his Lamborghini and he went
one hundred and forty miles an hour. They clocked them out.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And even better, it was at three in the morning.
He might have been listening to our show while he
was driving around on Interstate ninety four right there. That's
just I gotta go back and check my ticket. I
have a souvenir ticket I got from my trip to
Minneapolis there to see if maybe I was on I
ninety four alls. I might have been. I forget what
(28:55):
what highway was on. I was going to the Mermaid
for the big mallor meet and greet, and I got
pulled over there. And did you think they cut him
a deal? Do you think maybe he was going one
hundred and sixty He said, I will knock that down
to one hundred and forty. And isn't that once you
go over the speed limit by a certain amount, doesn't
that become in a big problem, Like it's not just
(29:16):
license removed taken away. Yeah, I don't know what the
laws are in Minnesotabout.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
How fast were you going, Ben?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I was going. Here's the funny thing.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I got a buck forty. His car couldn't go buck forty.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I had a red car he could have.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Ben was not in a Lamborghini.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So no, no, that's a reason to drive a crappy car.
At you a loppy because you don't have to worry
about going one hundred and forty miles an hour. But
I was told by a California Highway patrol officer years ago,
he said he pulled me over to give me a ticket.
He said, listen, if you just go seventy nine, I
never pulled anybody over. I don't know any officers that
pull anybody over that go seventy nine or under. So
(29:52):
as long as you goes seventy nine, you're good. So
in California, ever since then, I've gone seventy nine. I
set my my adoma to seventy nine. I've never gotten
a ticket. I've and this has been years in California.
In Minnesota, I was only going about seventy five and
I got I got dinged because the speed limits are
so low in Minnesota. I'm gonna move to Minnesota and
(30:16):
run for office, and the only platform I will have
is to raise the speed limits at least when the
weather's I know, the weather sucks most of the year
in Minnesota. That's why probably the speed limits are low
because it's icy and there's snow and most of the year.
But I was there. The weather was great. It was
beautiful every way. Look, there's lakes. It was picturesque, trees
everywhere was wonderful. And the damned speed limits terrible, terrible, terrible,
(30:41):
terrible terrible. Let's go to the Black Irishman in Omaha. Hello,
Black Irishman.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah, hey, money, he's awake.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The man's awake.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
You stop, man, Come on, man, you're killing me.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Hey, mister moneyball Mallard.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You doing.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
You told me to stop, and now you want me
to talk? Make your mind up? How about that?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Hey man?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Hey uh Boobyton Minnesota, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Bike man for real. But I'm gonna tell you man,
I got your hat.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
You got the hat? Is that right? You got the hat?
All right? Nice? We had to bet me. If you
don't know, the Black Irishman was a famous call on
the show, and we actually had a wager and you
you're coming through paying off the wager after seven years.
This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Hey man, I got it.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
When I went to Kansas City, I dropped my daughter
off in Kansa City for the summer. I got a
hat and I got it one too. Oh thank you.
What is she doing in Kansas City for the summer?
What is she up to?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And what are aunt Tie and my cousin?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Okay, very cool little summer on KC. Nice.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I won't tell you something.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Man, you made me forget because you was taking so
long to get my call. Now you see you're taking
a shot at me, black irishman, how dare you? I
want you to make amazing make an amazing point right now.
I want you to dazzle the listener with an amazing
take right now. You've got it in your black irishman.
I know you've got it in you.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I wonder how come you I want how come you
always talking that gibberish?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Instead of taking phone calls?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Hey, let let let the two girls call in.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Man, you're sitting there.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Okay, we we have about four women that call the show.
So where are the where are the women at? You
want me to do? You want me to go like
nineties radio? Open up the ladies line? You want me
to open up the ladies line? Is that what you like?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
There? That one chick to call us about the horoscopes?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Man, I'm a Burgo man, I'm stilling there.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Okay, Yes, that's her name, the chick that talks about
the horoscopes, that's her name. Amen.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Amen, I'm gonna say a whole bunch of things down
for like Talco right now.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Okay, Well, maybe call back later if you feel like talking.
I got anyway. I gotta go. I got things to do.
I gotta go. But thank you, you know worked out
better for me. We'll have the PGA Pudham. We'll get
to that coming up. Mama Telly. Here's the who am
I game. I was the last active player in any
of the major North American professional sports leagues to have
(33:16):
played in the nineteen eighties. There's a reason I'm doing
this question. But I was the last active player in
any of the major North American professional sports leagues that's hockey, basketball, baseball, football,
to have played in the nineteen eighties. Who am I?
The answer, I'll tell you, and we'll have the PGA potam.
We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
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Speaker 1 (34:11):
We're gonna have the PGA putam. Some call it the Open,
we call it the British Open. I do untell management
time out for the who am I? Game. I was
the very last active player in any of the major
North American professional sports leagues, that's NFL, NHL, NBA, major
League Baseball to have played in the nineteen eighties. Who
(34:35):
am I? Who? That is the question and what is
the answer and see does anyone know the answer? Cowboy
Killer going with Underdog. That's the answer. Late Night trug
tester says Kellen Winslow. The second is the last to play,
last player in the eighty year old category.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
There.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I think he's referencing something else. How dare you Longball? Larry?
Guessed by the American therapist Aaron Judges tow from gmying
in Chicago, The Art of Sports Talk, says Eric Lindras.
Eric Lindross is the answer. Fred Roberts, guest by Real
John the Pie Guy, who is also triggered by the
(35:15):
threads app He's upset by that Fields of Green going
with cliff Robinson, the Great Clifford Robinson, a good player
back back in the day for the Blazers and others.
The Garcia Burner account says the answer is Chuck Norris,
Hulk Hogan Hula from Milkman, Mike and Colorado Miguel on
Fire one of the most unique answers, while one of
the most unique players William McGee Look him up. Paul
(35:40):
Korea guessed by Robbie the Mariner fan Tiger Blood Benito
the Cowboy Fans answer. Jamie Moyer from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
The Philly rob tribute account says f Altuve and Ethan
Miller is the answer. Todd Hollinsworth guess by Anathan in Delaware,
(36:03):
Richard Simmons from Stevie Meatballs in Florida. The Casey Car
Haller going with the late Great Rush Limbaugh as his answer.
Mark says nuke Lalouche legend for the Bull Durham baseball
team back in the day, Yarmer Yager from Chip and
the Ques, The Black Irishman guest by Kathy in Madison,
(36:25):
Mike Sharperson Wow from Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Eddie,
do you have an answer? Eddy?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I'm sorry? Is his oldest active or autumn last.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
The last active player in any of the North American
sports leagues who played in the nineteen ages. So the
last one left.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I don't playing anymore. Adam Vanitaria ooh, that is incorrect.
The correct answer Eddi Omar viscll Omar. He played twenty
four years.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Ayod run Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
From nineteen eighty nine came up with the Mariners at
the Kingdome to twenty twelve with the Blue Jays and
and fun fact, Eddie. He'll be on the Fifth Hour
podcast today later today. The great old Marvis Gal He
is third all time for hits by a shortstop. The
only short stops that have more career hits are Derek
Jeter and Honus Wagner. Put that in your pipe and
(37:16):
smoke it. Time now for the m l B.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Oh that's right. Excuse me, that was old. That was
old copy the NAA. No, that's not page. I'll get
it right, a vegge the PGA bottom. Is that right, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
That's what you said earlier.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
That's what I said earlier. Yeah, that's the Open and
they're going on right. It's going on right now. The
second round is underway. I'm told Eddie is going first.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Go ahead, Eddie, all right, let's go with Roy McElroy.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It's a terrible pick, Sam.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
I couldn't find the music, so I'm playing Kenny Loggins.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
This is traditional golf music, yes, Kenny.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Schick, especially the Open championship. Hurry, I'm gonna go with
a former British Open champion, Zach Johnson from Iowa.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
That is a I don't know if he's Jordan's Speith.
You're gonna have Jordan Speed. I'll take Scottie Scheffler and
Tommy Fleetwood back to you, Cooper Loop on the p
G A putam Adriana Guy, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Sam Colin moorek oh okay, Edie back to back, Brooks kopka.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Oh good pick and uh.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Let's see Cameron Smith, Camera Smith
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Sam, oh my god, Coop anybody Keegan Bradley, Keegan Bradley
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