Hour 3 - Into the Hall

Ben Maller talks about Scott Rolen getting into the Hall of Fame, Fred McGriff going in without having a logo on his HoF cap, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our Nameber three talking base ball
a Hall of Fame kind of weekend. How do you
process the Phillies fans rage against Scott Rowland the Hall
of Fame third basement After all these years, it lit

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up a hotspot. The wild fire started again over the weekend.
What did you think of Fred McGriff not having a
logo on his Hall of Fame cap going in naked
at least the cap was And do you buy or
sell the podres Juan Soto not being available here at

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the baseball trade deadline? We talk about all that on
equal terms. Right now here we go. It is our
number three into the Hall. You go, whether you deserve
it or not. You're going to the hall. Welmeme and
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an individual game in baseball, not a storyline there. There
is one we'll get to in a couple of minutes,
but I wanted to start with the Hall of Fame.
It was astown kind of a weekend. The class of
twenty twenty three was enshrined immortal into the hollowed halls
of the ghost ridden Museum of Baseball State New York.

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There and if you did not watch, you probably didn't
like they had things going on. You were camped out
in front of the interweb or the boob tube, and
so you probably aren't doing stuff. But Fred McGriff and
Scott Roland Roland Roland Rowland have officially crossed over into

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the Hall of Fame past the Pearly Gates Baseball Immortality
the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, honoring McGriff
and Roland during a special afternoon induction ceremony there in Cooperstown,
New York. Neither one of these guys was a slam
dunk Hall of Fame or Scott Rowland got just ten

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percent of the Hall of Fame vote the first time
he was on the ballot and somehow picked up an
extra sixty six percent of the votes by not playing
and ended up entering the Hall of Fame. And Fred
McGriff was completely passed over by all of the writers
every vote. He did not get enough votes, but yet
McGriff was unanimously selected to the Hall of Fame by

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a random committee. We had this guy Harvey call up
from New York. Harvey called up last hour. He had
an agenda. He wanted to see Steve Garvey in the
Hall of Fame. And Fred McGriff is an example of
how Garvey can get in the Hall of Fame. All
Garvey needs is to get one of these fugees committees
to approve of him, and he's in. And this Hall

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of Fame committee selected candidates from nineteen eighty to present,
and McGriff's name was on that ballot and he won,
and so he's in the Hall of Fame. Scott Rowland
ended up with seventy six point three percent of the
vote from the writers, the only ones alowed to vote,
not broadcasters, right as stupid? Is that anyway? Hall of

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Fame plaque there for Scott Rowland features the Saint Louis Cardinals,
not the Fighting Fills, the team that he came to
the major leagues with and played. Even though Roland spent
more years had better stats in Pennsylvania, he does not
go to the Hall of Fame with the Pills, instead
with the Redbirds. Now, how do you think this all

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went over with the Philadelphia fan? Yeah, the induction of
Scott Rowland received If you want to be kind, you'll
say mixed reviews. I would go the opposite. I would
say the Philadelphia diehard fan was ready to pounce on

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Scott Roland. The people trying to soft pedal the vitriol.
I'm not in that group. I'm not part of that
group trying to soft pedal what I saw. So let
us discuss the question, how do you process or process?
How do you process the Philly fans rage against the
Scott Roland machine after all these years, I've got dragon's blood,

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cloak and dagger and highly combustible, and we'll connect all
of these things together and we are going to make
a toothache, is what we're gonna make. Which, based on
the reaction of the Philadelphia fan, many of them would
have rather had a toothache than watch Scott Roland get

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in the Hall of Fame. So, first of all, the
Philly fan is known to keep it real. We have
our guy in Philadelphia who has lit himself on fire
and screamed the name of the show, Fats in Philly
and some other people that are listened to the greater
Philadelphia area. But Scott Roland was ready to let bygones

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be bygones. I bet he was right, Yes he was.
I saw this. I saw most of the speech and
some of the interviews prior to the Hall of Fame induction.
The Phillies social media team, who likely were not even
live when Scott Roland was dominating for the Phillies at times, well,
their take on this was to forgive and forget. Using

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a bit of revisionist history, they put Scott Roland the team.
Did I believe in the team hall of Fame or
the wall of fame they have there in Philadelphia. The
rank and file fan, though, the South Philly tasty cake
eating pretzel licking, cheese, steak choking Philadelphia fan right on

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the other those people that I'm a diehard of diehard
Philadelphia fans needing dragon's blood, which is ulcer medication. That's
a variety of alcir medications. Scott Roland loathed playing for
the fighting Phils and the people that went to Phillies
games hated Scott Roland. By the time they were relationship

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came to an end. That is a fact, that is reality.
I saw it with my own eyes. I heard it
with my own ears doing radio shows. It was a
burr under the saddle, is what it was. How much?
How much are we talking about? Back way back? Let's
go back to twenty oh two. The Philadelphia Phillies were

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negotiating an extension with Scott Roland. He didn't want to
be there. How do we know he didn't want to
be there? He rejected one hundred and forty million dollars.
That was the offer the Phillies had made. He said, no,
I don't want to be there, and eventually he was
traded that season to the Saint Louis Cardinals. Now, in
today's money, Scott rolland because of a beef that he

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had with the Philly fans and ownership in Philadelphia, Scott
Roland cost himself in today's money, two hundred and thirty
seven million dollars. That's how much money today's dollars he
cost himself because of that decision. And Scott Roland was
a good player, he was not a great player. He

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failed to reach the normal benchmarks that we associate with
Cooper stownt Everything's all jumbled now because of the steroid
era in baseball. But Roland did not get to three
thousand hits, and he barely had two thousand hits. He
didn't have even four hundred home runs. He had a
little over three hundred home runs. He was a two
eighty one hitter, played good defense. Normally that guy doesn't

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get in the Hall of Fame. It's an odd selection
the Hall of Fame, though is I was told years
ago by somebody that I have a casual relationship with
who has done some work at the Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame is a business, and they have
to keep paying the bills, and you have to have
certain number of people every year go to Hall of
Fame weekend, and you have to find a way to
get people in. And so if the writers only vote

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one person in, you got to get somebody else and
vice versa. All right, now, second, let's go to the
other side of the Hall of Fame, known as the
crime Dog. Fred McGriff. He went into the Hall of Fame,
he did not have a team logo on the cap
on his plaque for the Hall of Fame. Now, he

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began his career in the Yankee organization, was traded as
a minor leaguer to the Toronto Blue Jays. Played on
some awesome teams in Toronto that had great players around him.
They didn't win the World Series, but they were fun
teams to watch at the old Exhibition Stadium in Toronto,
and then McGriff moved on and went to San Diego

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and Atlanta. I spent nineteen seasons in the major leagues,
and it really rounded up to twenty with six teams.
But what did you think of Fred McGriff not having
a logo? We knew this was gonna happen, But what
did you think of McGriff not having the logo on
his Hall of Fame cap? Now that you've seen the
actual plaque, so looking at the plaque, it is appropriate.

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And I had a similar thought to s several other
people that I looked at that and I flashed back,
and I went over to YouTube and I typed in
the name Tom Amanski on the YouTube and I said,
wait a minute, dan nan nan Nan dang. This was
a cloak and dagger tribute, a tip of the cap

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if you will, to the late night infomercial for Tom
Amanski's defensive videos, the instructional videos on how to play
baseball the right way, and that famous video. If you're
of the age, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Late night television Tom Amanski, and there was Fred McGriff.

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It was a one day shoot. That thing aired for
years and years and years. But rather than honor the
Blue Jays or the Rays or the Brads, I could
make the compelling argument to Toronto Blue Jays for Fred McGriff,
or the Atlanta Braves or even the Podres. But no, no, no, no.
A blank hat is a tribute to I'm Amanski. And

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that is appropriate because Fred McGriff. Not only was Fred
McGriff a baseball player, he lived a life like a
military brat. He was shuffled around here, there and everywhere,
teamed a team, a baseball gypsy traveling around the boondocks,
spent the same amount of time in the National League
as he did in the American League. Played in Toronto

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and Atlanta and Tampa Bay for five years each, three
years in San Diego, and he would have still been
in San Diego. They had one of their classic padre
fire sales, had two with the Cubs, and my favorite
is with the Dodgers, because the Dodgers. I've told this
story before, but when Fred McGriff came to the Dodgers,
they signed him because they thought they could sell some

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extra tickets because McGriff was closing in on five hundred
home runs, so they assumed it was a guarantee. It
was like pitch pitch putt that he was going to
be able to get to five home runs in a
Dodger uniform. So they invested in this little add on
scoreboard they were going to put out to countdown how

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many home runs once McGriff got to ten home runs away,
they were going to put this thing up there, and
it was gonna be awesome, and it was so cool,
and McGriff never they never used it. I'm told it's
still in storage, or at least as of a few
years ago, it was still in storage in the bowels
of Dodger Stadium. I'm guessing they probably got rid of
it at this point. But it's been a long time.

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But McGriff, he didn't get twenty five hundred hits, he
came close. He didn't get to five hundred own runs,
he came close. He played for a bunch of different teams.
As we said, he was an All Star five times.
And now he's a Hall of Fame. Never thought of
him like as a legit Hall of famerybody. He's a
Hall of Famer. Fileful, So let's go over to trade
deadline quickly. Here it is rapidly approaching, and Sunday, I go,

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what are Fred McGriff's old teams? Continues to be at
the very top of the trade chatter. What will they do? Now?
We are told the Padres are still unwi to give
up superstar outfielder Juan Soto. There has been no evidence
that he is available on the market. They are looking
to trade a couple of pitchers who are about to

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become free agents. Allegedly. Do you buy or sell the Padres?
Juan Soto not being available at the deadline, So I
am going to sell this. I am not going to
buy this. I'm gonna sell this.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Now.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
I understand San Diego's owner, Peter Seidler, is the Wolf
of Wall Street, but even he's got limits. This is
a highly combustible situation in the gas Lamp district. And
I'll tell you what. Soto is twenty four years old.
He's got one more season of arbitration, one more and
then he becomes an unrestricted free agent, free to roam

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around the country to go play for the Red Sox
or the Yankees, of the Mets or whoever. Simultaneously, the
Padres television revenue has crumbled. They are one of the
teams that lost their local cable contract. They're trying to
nickel and diamond. They're trying to patch it together via streaming,

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and from what we're hearing, it is not going so well,
not as well as Major League Baseball was hoping for.
They're painting a rosy picture, but that has not exactly
been the case, at least what we are being told here.
So that means if what we're hearing is true, the
revenues will go down quite a bit. Baseball will they
cover the difference. Probably not. There's too many teams that

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have entered into this world. It is a precarious situation.
The Padres' finances were built long term based on television revenue.
Now Peter Seidler, the owner, is a loose cannon, not
Steve Hartman, but he is a loose cannon. But you
can't keep everyone. So I am of the mindset if

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the Padres got a Godfather offer that Soto would be
gone and get more form now than you're gonna get
next year at the trade deadline. And there are rumblings
that Juan Soto and Manny Machado are not They're not
hanging out together, they're not best friends, and that's causing
some tension behind the scenes. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.

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You want to come in on this eight seven, seven
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Time now for the Mallor Riddle of the day, The
Mallor riddle of the day, and here it is. The
NBA has banned a YouTuber from all of after he

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showed up courtside at a WNBA game and blank again.
The NBA has banned a YouTuber from all events after
he showed up recently courtside at a WNBA game and blanked.
That is the Malor riddle of the day. The answer.

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We'll get to it, and we will.

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Speaker 5 (17:05):
It's Ben Mallor, a baseball heavy Mallard monologue and David
in Pennsylvania the fry Daddy who made Iowa Sam very happy.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
With the the air fryer that Iowa Sam got. David says,
f Roland, he doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame.
He belongs in the Hall of Shame. So so, he says,
So take some calls here. Coming up later this hour,
we will have unscreened radio. I got to play off
the Mallard riddle of the day, and then we'll get

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to the calls about the instant of ice line later
in the hour as well. But here's the Mallard riddle
of the day. The NBA banned recently a YouTuber from
all events after he showed up courtside at a WNBA
game and blanked. That is the question. What is the answered?

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Donkey Sausage says, listen to the fifth Hour with Ben Mallor, Well,
that would be that would be something to cause you
great heartache. Jay Scoop says, it's a trick question. It
was both Kendall Jenner and Marcel in the morning. There
you go. Clam says they took a page out Kooper
Loops playbook and dressed up as a tampon. Who else

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do we have page down? A page down? Fudgie in
Boston says the real story here is that someone actually
went to a WNBA game. That is impressive. Foot Dog
says after he threw a Ninja Star at Britney. Griner,
oh boy, stay away from Ninja Stars and Quintana's as well.

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Miguel on Fire rights in and says played a game
of horse during a ten second time out. That's a
no no. That is a no no. Richard says he
joined the blind Scott Hotty fan club party of One
Justin in Cincinnati says that is a trick question. As

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you know, Ben, nobody goes to w NBA games, all right,
alf the Alien Opiner says the YouTuber was trolling players
with his ron Co pocket Fishermen. Yeah, all right, I
have a great fishing story. I was at the beach
this weekend. I saw something I'd never seen before, Johnny
Q writes, In says the guy farted. Who else do

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we have page down? Page down? He showed up courtside
at Lebronda as Lebronda James from Just Josh in Cincinnati
courtesy Flusher says he fell asleep. Trucker Joe says, this
YouTuber started drinking water from Camp Lejune, and that's that's
what happened. Eddie. Do you have an answer, Eddie? Do

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you have an answer?

Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yes, he tried to pick up a sword and he
dropped it and they cut himself.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
In the Thank you, Eddie, appreciate it for reminding me.
Thank you for reminding me of that, as I still
have my stitches in my leg for another week. The
correct answer, Eddie, if you missed that. The stories on
the podcast this past weekend The Saturday Podcast, but the
answer to the Malrola Day in the NBA banned a
YouTuber from all events after he showed up court side
at the WNBA game wearing pajamas and mocking the players

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courtside there as he slept. Oh this was so this
is pretty funny. I don't know who this guy is,
but pretty pretty amusing that he did that. And I
don't know how many people watched the video. It's Jadan Adams,
I guess is the cat's name. I think he had.

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He had the pajamas on, he had a blankie, and
he had like the traditional pajama hat with the fuzzy
thing at the end of it. So it was pretty funny.
And he just like laid down on three seats and
just started sleeping right there.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
Apparently this is the same guy who remember he was
at an NBA game and he got a haircut.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Oh yes, I do remember that. There's like Atlanta Hawks
game or something like that. Yeah, so this is the
final blow. Now, now he's been banned indefinitely from all houses.
Life gonna go on not being able to attend WNBA
and NBA games. Will he be all right? I guess
they'll have to go to baseball games and do that,
or or football games or hockey games. Addy, But there

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you go. So he got banned from the premises. If
you will take some calls, eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox is the number. Let's go to Andre in
the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
What's going on? Ben? First of all, we got to
establish something that WNBA basketball is good basketball. If you're
a basketball Fishonado kind of like myself, that's.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
A that's a tough hill to die on. There Andre.
But if you want to die on that hill, more
power to you. Mommy.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, man, I'm dying on that hill. I got to
give a shout out to the Brianna Stewart, to Diana Parrasis,
to Maya Moorees, even though she's cleaned up away from
the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of you know,
this is all the yukon a lum you know. And
I think i'll conclude my w NBA take is we
have Aliah Boston who's from the Commonwealth, from out the

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Greater Boston area, a graduate of Worcester Academy. He's number
one overall pick and doing well. So, you know, for
the casual sports fan, the w NBA might kind of
be past day, but for those from the basketball tradition,
we got to tip our hat to the late great
David Sturt and his leadership and also Adam Silver.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yes, and I would also add to that all the
owners that have lost billions from the w NBA over
the years, I think we should tip the cap to
them also that they've been willing to lose that much
money and have no ratings compared to the other sporting
events that are on television in America. So I think
it's a great credit to them that they've continued to
feed money to the w NBA and no one is watching.

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In comparison to the other sports, they've been unable. They've
been around for over twenty years the WNBA, I believe now,
and they have not been unable to get an audience
on television. It's fascinating.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Well, they have an audience, Ben, But.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
You have an audience, it's not a big one. I think.
I think we have as many people listening to this
show in the middle of the night as watching an
average w NBA game, which is kind of embarrassing. All right,
it's kind of embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Malon militia. The Malon militia is probably gonna be more
than a WNBA fan base. Nobody is denying the fact
that the league has been existing so for over a
core century and never turned to profit. That's not the point, Ben,
It's who you brought into the field. Okay. This is
the whole thing with social media. We're not gonna charge
you any money up front, Okay, but what you're gonna
We're gonna bring you into the onto the reservation, and
that in of itself is gonna be a rising tied

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to lift all boat. The amount of girls playing youth basketball,
the amount of investment in the youth game. That's where
the WNBA.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Well, I'm fine with you playing basketball on that, but
the WNB is an abject failure. I mean from a
financial standpoint, and it's a for profit business unless it's
a charity. Maybe it is. They should make like the
w NBA a charity and then it would be okay.
But I mean, I'm just speaking facts. People can't handle
the facts, the facts.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
If you're putting for you're putting forth one percent one perspective, Ben,
I'm gonna dumb to take Jeff Beazeos perspective of Amazon.
Lose money for the first twenty years, build up the infrastructure,
and then you have the rockets. So the amount of
people that come into game because of w NBA. So
what agree to disagree? They've been But my overall point
in calling we're going to agree on something. It's called
the hall of fame, Ben, it's not called the whole

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of good. So stop rolling and spread McGriff if it
takes you to the ten times to get to the
Hall of fame, will get what you're not a hall
of fame. All right, I'm somebody that you know, sports
a nut, and so I work, you know, in capacity
with these different organizations. Ben, is Rob Bronkowski a hall
of famer?

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Rob?

Speaker 2 (24:44):
The answer is yet it's wes welcome a hall of famer.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Ben, I'd say yes.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
You got to think about it for more than three
four five seconds. The answer is no, They're not a
Hall of famer for lonely weei okay, And so what's
happening in baseball? Ben? This is a serious thing because
the after pall Hall of Fame. Back to my basketball roots.
I'm gonna defend WNBA to the hill, but I will
not depend it's a basketball hall of fame. It's an
absolute joke. You're gonna tell me a lot bloody d

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Box is a hall of famer?

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yes, absolute high hall of famer the Russian high school coach,
or the hall of fame in all.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Of professional sports. And the reason that this conversation is
important then is because baseball is the most serious hall
of fame in professional sports. They get it right. Football
is a little bit less than baseball. And then basketball
doesn't even belonging the conversation.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Well, that's part of that is because the NBA doesn't
want to spend the money. They didn't want to spend
the money. They could have had their own hall of fame.
They're like, Ah, the people they're like, we'll just use
the Pro Basketball, We'll use the Hall of Fame in Springfield.
But they could have come over with their own hall
of fame. They just want to spend the most. Major
League Baseball is the same way. They could have their
own Hall of Fame. They're not, and it gives them
plausible deniability. All the sports leagues none of them actually

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control their Hall of fame, so they can say, well,
you know, we advise, but we're not the one ones
that actually decide these things.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Okay. Your plausible deniability is not standing up in court, okay,
because you let people like Bloody devox in, and it
just nullifies the entire purpose. NBA Hall of Fame is
a lifetime achievement of World War and for people to
feel good in their golden aide.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's not all right, thank you, Andre, all right, go
watch some WNBA highlights, pal, thank you.

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Speaker 4 (26:59):
We have our first two week that I'm aware of. Anyway.
In training camp in the NFL, did you see the
Browns wide receiver Amari Cooper had to exit practice on
Sunday suffering what the team called a tweak.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh, tweak, and so he is.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
He's sitting out training camp right now.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
You see the Cleveland Browns are beginning training camp in
West Virginia at that resort. We were talking about a
couple of weeks. No, I did not, Yeah, they're having
training camp there.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yeah. I did see a funny tweet they had of
Deshaun Watson. He was throwing a pass into one of
those nets that's got like these little targets on it,
like kind of these pockets and he was like four
feet away.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
He hit the target.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Good for him, and they tweeted it out apparently like hey,
look what he's doing like that was something impressive.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Whatever happened those lawsuits I thought were continuing. What happened
with those though? I have not heard any any update
on that. I thought these civil cases were going on,
But I well, I've not been getting information. Has there
been a media blackout on that? I don't think they've
been settled, not that I'm aware of now. Yeah, Okay,
maybe I missed it.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
All right, it's been Malthers show. And I also saw
this is kind of weird, the Angel media gathered on. Yes,
I saw that at Angel Stadium there was a group
commemorative photo taken justin kase Shohe Otani is traded from
the Angels the last home game. Why would you do this?

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Like I know, is it for the like the all
the extra Japanese press.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
That's what it appeared to be. I saw a copy
of the photograph, and I've been out there and I
actually had to leave the Big A. I went out
there to an Angel Dodger game, and Otani was doing
his thing I could not get a seat. I could not.
I couldn't even get a seat in the audility. There
was nothing.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
I just I think it's traded. All those people in
the auxiliary press box are going to go wherever he's traded.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
So it's do they cover anything else in the Japanese
sports sectionion, It's like all the time. How many there
are thirty I know how many newspapers. There must be
tons of newspapers in Japan and websites that comings guy's wild.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Yeah, you talked about the aver. I was at the
For people who don't know, I was at the Angels Pirates.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Game on Sunday and see my friend Robbie.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
I did not. I do not see friend Robbie. But
I did enjoy on the big screen them playing, you know,
the Japanese commercials, and they one of them was for
Japan's number one kid treat.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Trying first out thought they were selling churos and I'm like,
wait a minute, why are there cats on me?

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Well, this is what this is what I brought up,
and this is my one of my theories on this. Now,
I don't think Ardi Marino's gonna trade Otani for a
lot of reasons, but one of the reasons is that
those commercials like those, those will go somewhere else unless
they're all paid for already for the entire year and
not a monthly payment plan. There's so many commercials for
different Japanese country companies in the Big A that it's

(30:04):
very bizarre. Those are sold in America too. By the way, Mike,
my cats love love us. I've never seen those like
those commercials at a Dodger game or any other game
I've been to ever. But anyway, the media part of
me does not want Otani to go to the Dodgers, Eddie,
because I don't know that I'll ever get a seat
again at a Dodger game. You might be banned. They

(30:24):
might kick me out of Dodger Stadium. If Otani goes
to the Dodgers, I might very selfish. I got to
look out for my own. Why does he go to
the Pirates? You can go play with your team, Eddie.
About that, we'd love to have him Pittsburgh. Yeah, Otani
loves the confluence of the different ms.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
That many times.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
Yes, now you know what I've noticed, and I don't
know if it's if it's because you know obviously there
are other Japanese players in baseball, nobody like and right,
And I don't know if that's why. But I've seen
a lot of the times when the Angels are on
the road, I'll see Japanese ads behind the batter's box,

(31:02):
and so I don't know if there it's following him,
you know what I mean, Like, you know, if it's
specific for when the Angels are visiting, or if they
just don't Well, I.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Was told that there are more people watching Otani in
Japan than in America, Like it's not even close. Like
the amount of people watching these games in Japan is insane.
So it would make sense that if you're an advertiser
in Japan and you've got many more millions people there
that are watching, that you would pay for advertising at
an Orioles game or a Rangers game or why not?

(31:36):
Makes makes sense?

Speaker 6 (31:38):
All right?

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the NFL running backs need advice. It's been a hot
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zoom chit chat will pow wow. Over the weekend, there
the zoom meeting to try to figure out how to
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(35:16):
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Let's go to the phones. We'll start out with you
online one. Hello, line one, you were on the air.
Your advice to NFL running backs Line number one on
how to get more money.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Deshaun can hit a target from four feet away. There's
the lame joke there, and I'm.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Not gonna go all right, thank you for that. That's
our friend from des Moinne there. Line two. Advice to
NFL running backs Line two quickly please, Hey.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
Miss Marino, if you trade O'tani, you better watch it
back because Cooper's coming after you.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Oh yeah, I'm sure he's very concerned about that. Justin
Cooper will throw bong at him. Let's go to line three.
You're next on the air. Line three, we're giving advice
to NFL running backst a zoom meeting over the weekend
to try to figure out how to make more money.
It didn't work. Hello, Line three, sign my petition to
Ben oh w NBA talk from Fox Sports. Raiss, Okay,
thank you, yes, good luck for dog. I hope you

(36:32):
get a lot. I know justin signing that right now
as we speak. Line four, you're on the air. I believe.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Line four, Hello, Yeah, they got to beds.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
It's a great piece of advice there for NFL running backs,
swimsuit ballet dancers. Line number five, Hello, line five, Hey,
tell them sit.

Speaker 7 (36:52):
Out the season.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
You see how many first downs they get?

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Okay, see that. We got to get him in here,
sean the hood. Guys, what we got to do. We
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Go to line one. You're on the air eight seven,
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(37:20):
recorded drops on the show. Line two, Hello, Line number two,
you're their line too. Hello, okay, yes, cardia sana, no carniosana,
no peace. Okay, come down. Line two, you're next. Hello,
Line two, show me the money. Okay, show me the money.

(37:43):
I've heard that somewhere. Line three, you're next. We're giving
advice to NFL running backs. They had a zoom meeting
over the weekend and nothing was resolved. They want more money. Hello,
line three, run run, Okay, thank you, lie, alright, alright,
line four Hello, line four. Line four is not there

(38:06):
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Let's skip over
the line number five. Hello, line number five. So that's
one player toigates their entire annual salary.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Eradicating poverty in five major cities.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Okay, there we go. We canna rotic. We gonna eradicate
poverty in five major cities. Line up. That's line five.
Line five is next, Hello, line five, it's ringing, Hello,
line five.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Get all your.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Money as an nil player in college.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
There you go. You gotta go back to college. That's
where the money is. The incident vice line