July 25, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Bengals owner Mike Brown talking about not being able to afford all of their great players, Patrick Mahomes saying the Chiefs are at the beginning of a dynasty, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one of
day two of the week. It is the Ben Mahlershow Podcast.
But you already knew that you've downloaded the podcast. You're
locked in to the podcast right now, and we start
talking football. What did you make of the Cincinnati Bengals
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president intimating that the team cannot afford to keep Joe Burrow,
Jamar Chase and t Higgins. Also, Patrick Mahomes says, the
Chiefs are at the beginning of a dynasty. Is that
in bounds or out of bounds? And why is DeShawn
Watson blaming the media for his negative reputation? Talking about
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all of that and much more right now here, it
is our number one. You can't pay everybody, well, you could,
but well God. In the beginning of an other edition
of the Ben Malor Show, we are in the air
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a columnists in Iowa that ripped me years ago because
I had to take he did not like. And there
are these things called newspapers that they got very upset
with me, called me a chatterbox. So you know what,
I am a chatterbox. That's what we do. We chatter,
So it's not that big a deal. It's not really
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that offensive to me. Now, as we begin here, play
the hits. My man play the hits, as one of
the bosses in the corner office likes to say. And
the NFL getting going. By the end of the week,
everyone will be in training camp. Not everyone in training
camp yet, so it's a most of the teams are,
but there's some hold ads that are waiting for the
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very end, the last possible way to start practicing. But
our lead this hour comes from a team that many
believe will be on the cusp of the Super Bowl,
The Cince Cincinnati Bengals right there at the very top
behind Kansas City. If you look at the totem pole
of success and the American Football Conference, the Bengals these aren't.
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These are not the Sam Wish Bengals or the old
school Bengals from back in the day. And his training
camp gets to full blossom. Later this week, some news
out of Ohio involving the future plans of the Cincinnati
football team and in particular, the Bengals have a quagmire
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on their hands. What is the quagmire, Well, they have
not only Joe Burrow and his contractual future to the
Bengals to decide, also Jamar Chase his deal coming up,
and t Higgins all lined up in the next year
year and a half. They all either got to get
paid or they got to go somewhere else. So the Bengals,
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who have been known as one of the more frugal
franchises in the NFL, it's a mom and pop shop
in Cincinnati. Try the chili and by a souvenir. Knock
yourself out there. If you've not heard the latest. The
reason I'm bringing this up, there's a new revelation. Maybe
you missed it because You're not on the cusp of
the Cincinnati Bengals. You're not. You're just not part of that.
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But I believe we have I think we have somebody.
Now that the screen, by the way, not working, Coop,
so the have to click reset on that. So Coop
told me there's audio and it's on the screen. So
I'm looking at the screen completely blank. No, No, I
can reset it. I can reset. I gotta hit some
buttons and all that. But we have Mike Brown. Do
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we have some We have Mike. We have Mike Brown Audio.
So Mike Brown, this is what's called the setup. Very smooth.
We have a very smooth operation here. So Mike Brown
is the president of the Cincinnati Bengals, and he laid
out what many believe is a gloomy picture regarding the
financial situation of the Cincinnati football team. Let's go to
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the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Think of the cap as a pie, and once you
take out one piece, there's less left for the next guy.
And it just is obvious that when all teams are
essentially paying the same thing, we're all paying up to
the camp is hard to fit everybody in. It's impossible
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to fit everybody in at the rate they wish they
could be paid. Pretty obvious that Joe is the heart
of the matter. After that, we want all the guys
we can get that we may have to go short
in a couple of cases.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
All right, So that was Mike Brown. Somebody give him
some caffeine. Looks like he's about to take a nap there.
It sounds like he needs to sleep a little bit,
wake up, pep up a little bit, whatever the case.
So's that's the general gist of what Mike Brown said.
He also had the money quote, which I couldn't tell
if he said this or not. Maybe he did because
he sounded like he was ready to fall asleep. But
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he talked about being mathematical and you have a bag
of corn, you have ten and hogs, and you're not
gonna be able to please all of the heifers. That's
my word, he said, hogs. So let us discuss the
question when it comes to the Cincinnati football team. What
did you take away from Mike Brown and his commentary
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regarding the future of Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and t
Higgins as it relates to long term in Cincinnati. So
I've got dog whistle goalposts and Mariah Carey. Three things
that have never been put together are gonna put them
together right now and throw them against the wall. So
a Mike Brown is speaking the truth. I do think
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he's speaking the truth. Now, that's his truth. The reality
is if the Bengals want they can keep everybody. There
is a path to salvation to keep everybody. You can
do it. There's a way to get it done. But
that would require taking in less revenue and cutting back
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on how much profit you make, and they don't want
to do that. So that's really what he's saying. And
this is what's known as a heart to heart with
the fan. So heart to heart with the fan that
he listen, you lay it all out and we're not
the Rams. We're not gonna spend big and go crazy
for a couple of years and all that. No, no, no, no, no,
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can't keep everyone. This is a dog whistle. Whistle whistle
whistle is what this is to the fiend that enjoy
the season. But tick tick tick, tick, tick tick tick.
The doomsday clock is a ticking and that yet you're
gonna get rid of this guy and that guy, but
you're not gonna get rid of Joe Burrow. T Higgins.
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You might want to put your house on the market now,
see if you can get some money for it there
and rent because t Higgins is the first one up,
the first one headed towards free agency, and it would
appear that he will be gone. Joe Burrow, They've got
the fifth year option, knowing the way the Bengals operate
their negotiating contract. But at this point you'd have to
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put the smart money on the Bengals just picking up
the fifth year option, buying another year granted at a
good amount of money, but less money than the Bengals
ultimately are going to have to pay. Although long term,
considering outside of the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson, the salaries
keep going up, up, up every time there's a new deal.
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So Joe Burrow's price if you wait a year, will
be higher a year from now in theory, although he's
in a different class than the other quarterbacks. But looking
into the crystal ball, and it's very important if you
get a show like this to have a crystal ball.
The Bengals will pay Burrow. Eventually he'll get the big
money and the front office of the Bengals will need
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therapy when they pay Joe Burrow the big money, but
he's going to get the big money. And then after
that they will pivot to Jamar Ch and offer him
a lot of money. And then maybe he'll take the money,
maybe he won't take the money, and then t Higgins
will be excommunicated from the Bengals den. He'll be out.
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Now page two, Let's go to Kansas City. They are
the presumptive favorite in the American Football Conference. They are
guaranteed it would appear to be in the AFC Championship game.
They have been there year after year after year. But
are they a dynasty? Not the old TV show from
a million years ago. It used to be popular in
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a different era of television. But Patrick Mahomes does not
does not think that the Chiefs are a dynasty, but
he knows what it would take to get that title
of a dynasty be called when I've even saw this
or not. But Mahomes said, quote, I think we're in
the beginning of one. I think in dynasties, I always
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say you got to win three. That's what Mahomes said
from the Chiefs training area there now, Mahomes saying the
Chiefs are at the beginning of a dynasty, but not
at dynasty status. Is that in bounds or is that
out of bounds? So I have it right on the fence,
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and I'm leaning towards out of bounds. I'm leaning towards
out of bounds. And here's why, because the definitions change
for certain things over time. I don't like the definitions
change for certain things over time, but they do have.
And the modern definition of a dynasty, Kansas City does
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qualify under that. Now they're not a stone cold NFL dynasty.
But if you look at the modern definition of a dynasty,
it has changed. The Chiefs do qualify as that. And
the Chiefs have been to the AFC Title Game or
better every season Patrick Mahomey has started there, they've been
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in the AFC title games. So they've made five straight
Final Four appearances. And Kansas City has won a pair
of Super Bowls with mahomes at quarterback. So to compare that,
you look at the bloodline of legends. Now, they're not
at Patriot status. The Patriots at one point they had
a twenty year run essentially, but at one point they
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made eight straight Super Bowl slash Conference super Bowl or
slash Conference Championship game over eight years from twenty eleven
to twenty eighteen. But if you look at the other
teams that we considered dynasties in the NFL, the nineteen
nineties Cowboys, with all those star players in Jerry's world,
the most they made was four straight as I understand it,
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they made four straight conference title games in the nineties.
The eighties forty nine Ers had two different quarterbacks, Montana
and Young, and they each made three straight conference championship
games or super Bowls, but no more than that. And
you can even go back to the nineteen seventies Pittsburgh
Steelers and the most they made consecutive was three straight
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conference championship games and or obviously super Bowls in that stretch.
So by that standard, they've already accomplished the five straight
championship games conference championship games, more than the nineties, eighties
and seventies dynasties of the NFL. Now the last word,
let's go to Cleveland. An old punching bag is back,
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the Cleveland Browns practicing in actually West Virginia, not in Cleveland,
but DeShawn Watson. DeShawn Watson who fed the content kitty
and was feeding a lot of kiddies for a couple
of years there, but DeShawn is now speaking up to
the media. He spoke recently the creepy quarterback was in
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mid season FOM and if you did not see this,
we'll give you the highlights. You've got to miss it.
De Shawn Watson played some of the blame on the
very negative public image that he now has. He placed
some of the blame on the m word the media. Yeah,
he said that the team teammates have embraced him. And
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let's get a little audio. Let's listen to Deshaun Watson
here as he talks about the perception his teammates and
the EVO media.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
The whole situation changed me. You know, in this situation
where it's kind of I had to lock in on myself,
you know, channel and really know who I'm you know,
surrounding myself with and just really who who's going to
be there and support me, you know, even when I'm
at my lowest point, and you know, the last few
years was definitely my lowest point of my life. But
you know that that's that's part of life. And uh,
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you know, I just go from it. I learned from it.
I continue to move forward and push forward and continue
to show my real character, my real personality and who
I am.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
All right, Well, we didn't have the media part, which
is what I'm talking about, but he he did blame
the media for the negative persons of his his reputation
over the last couple of years. He talked about his
upbringing and all that. So why why did Deshaun Watson
go to the media card saying that that is to
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blame for a lot of the negativity that's around him.
So it's kind of like a Mariah Carey song fantasy
right ho ol mari here living in never never Land.
Another word would be obtse. We could use the word
obtoose for Watson, who I don't believe is now coached
any longer on what to say to the media. I
think that ended once the litigation. He cut some giant
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cartoon sized checks to pay the people that were accusing
him of playing touchy feely without permission, and Watson talked
about his tough upbringing and all of that, the really
shielding himself from the copious amounts of sexual assaul agations. Now,
to my memory, maybe I'm wrong on this, can correct me.
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I don't think anyone who is a reporter sued Watson
for a bad massage. I think it was all random
women he met on Instagram or other places. I think
that's the case. And Watson had a school bus, maybe
a Greyhound bus, maybe a train car full of women
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who had made accusations, and you get money, you get money.
He paid everybody, and he tried to pay it how
you made everybody? He paid most people, not everyone would
take the check. And the Browns being the gutlass slimeball
franchise of the Cleveland Browns, are they of course rewarded
Watson with two hundred and thirty million dollars. That's the
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Cleveland Browns right there. That's the Brownies way to go,
way to go. And you can bring that snake venom
right there to the Browns locker room. And Deshaun Watson
is like lead in the drinking water, lead in the
pipes is what Watson is for the Brownies. Good luck
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
Eddie likes to pick his spots, but not his nose.
He no longer picks his nose. He stopped at a
couple of Yeah, well, no one can say at night.
Does anyone look in the car at night when you're driving.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
No, during the day, you can't really do it because people.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Could No I do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Do you you're a big nosepicker? What about you bite
your fingernails too? Yeah? Yeah, I'm a big fingernail bier, Yeah,
big time. Unfortunately I stopped for a while because I
need to reload the fingernails, so I can stop for
a couple of weeks and then they'll grow back and
then I'll have fresh nails to bite. So I am
I am be able to stop.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I think we talked about this on this show pretty sure.
During COVID I actually stopped doing it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Out of an abundance of caution. Yeah, I thought you
would give yourself COVID.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Well, no, it's just that you know, you have you
touch things and then you put in your mouth. It's
probably not a great idea. It's probably not a great
idea at any time. But yeah, I figured, you know,
maybe i'd stopped doing it and then and I did.
So there is uh did you get there? There's evidence
that No, I never did get caught.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I never got cold. I'm sure maybe you got it.
You didn't even know you had it. A lot of
people had it didn't even know they had it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Well, I took a bunch of tests anytime I had
any symptoms. So I mean, I guess if you can
have it and have no symptoms, then I guess it's possible,
but I heard people had that. Every time I had symptoms,
I took one of those home tests and never had.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It, all of a sudden stop a year ago. Now
that's stopped. Worry about it stop.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, I worry about it as much as I worry
about any other illness. I hear you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
All right, Well we were here yapping the night away.
And will I run out of hot takes as I
did three hours earlier of hot takes, So this is
gon me seven hours of hot takes.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Nope, hopefully Fred didn't have any hot takes. Just you.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, we combined. But you know I I was delivering
the fastball. You know I brought. I brought the fastball.
I brought the gas gasser. A lot of gassers.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Eugene in Chicago rights and says man, and no is enough.
It's time that Ben Maller, he said, my full name,
Ben Mahler, starts doing some list radio because everyone definitely
would like to know the Ben Mahler top ten quarterbacks
of the NFL season. Eugene, I do not number one. No, No,
(20:19):
I don't do list radio.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Eugene number two.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Now, if you you want me to do it, I
could do Ben's Big Board, Benny's Big Board of NFL
Quarterbacks I number three. I could be convinced that that.
But they don't pay me enough. Those daytime guys do
list radio. I don't get paid enough to do this radio.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Number two.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
You occasionally do list all the nicknames.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's that's not that's not a list, though. It's a
list of all that is poetry, that's verbal poetry? Is
that that poetry in motion?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Number five?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And speaking of that, now that you brought that up,
do you know that I have been called the spin
Master of misinformation, bannering broadcaster them Covid of bs, Curmudgion
of comments, number eight, Chasm of sarcasm, the Tzar number nine,
the dark Night of weeknight sports radio. It's not a
list number Benny, the Brazen King of zing Ball Mallard
(21:15):
number one, Benny number two. That was one. You can't
play a toy Benny, the Bomber, Facetius Fox number two,
the Sultan of in number three, the Shaman of shot
in Freude. Number four, Jumping Jack of wise Crack number five,
in Sight of Overnight number six, Medicine man Mouth. I've
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been called the number seven Nay Bob of negativity, number eight,
the Sage of outrage, the Number Medical of cynical number ten,
the Prince Preposterous Professor of propaganda number one, Hizaarre of hyperbole,
and the Mad Hatter number six that was now this
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is number the Mad Hatter of sports number eight. By request,
Eddie brought it up.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
So I didn't request it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I subconsciously, Eddie, you wanted that, and I gave it
to you. I did list radio, not list radio, Eddie.
That was verbal poetry, is what's listing them off? I'm
a poet and I don't even know it, and and
we just laid it out for you right there. Fergducks
has a great job today filling in locally there with
Fred you're still the king of la oh and Ben
you did an okay job too, So here you all right?
(22:28):
Very nice? Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Here?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Page down? I can't read that on the air, Ferg
Duck says, Hey, Eddie, how cool was it when Kevin
Costner called up to deny the rumor that he was
caught sleeping with cal Ripken Junior's wife. Yeah, well that's
that's a long time. That was on the Kylie and
Boom show. One of the great stories in the history
of Fox Sports Radio. Kylie and Booms at a midday
(22:52):
show and they talked about the infamous story of Cal
Ripken Jr. And the lights going out at Camden Yards.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Legendary story.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, the all time great stories. I believe all of it.
I think it's one hundred percent true. And Costner called up,
and the fact that he called up to deny it
makes me believe it more. Well, that's interesting, Yeah, that
makes me believe it more a ton more. Bagel Boy
writes and says best monologue ever the Chiefs Dynasty. Indeed,
and then you expose the perb again Marconi worthy now
(23:21):
supermarket Steve got put in in Twitter jail or ex jail.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
He called our friend David Bassay, who we know, the
Dodger reporter and Dodger talk host, as he called him
the umpa lumpa, and the Twitter called that hateful speech
the uppa.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Is he I've never met him? Is he a short fellow? No?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It was aversise. The Dodger blue Jay game went long,
a rare long baseball game. So we got covered up.
We're getting covered up a lot here, ready, yeah, because
they got Women's World Cup soccer.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, that's a good reason to cover up the show
that at least it's a you know, big time event.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Absolutely covered up by that, and then baseball games going along.
JJ from Rent and we love JJ. We want JJ
to call more, JJ, says Yo Ben. Out of all
the thirty two NFL teams, why were the Seahawks cast
out of wearing their nineties jerseys? Well, JJ, you must
have been sleeping that day, JJ, because the Seahawks did
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announce last week that they're going to be playing in
their throwback uniforms and they looked marvelous. I'm not a fashionista,
but I can pretend to be one on the radio.
But the Seattle Seahawks going back to their old school
those pop those brighter colors, right, Yeah, the blue really
popped the green on the uniform, on the pants pops.
It's a solid look.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
But it's not like a radically different uniform. They're just
brighter colors.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
No, it's like if you're old, they're throwbacks because you're old.
But they used to wear them. That's what they used
to wear back when they played. Those are like the
Kingdome days when they wore those uniforms. I believe they
played in the great indoors there in Seattle, and I'm
now at the point of my live where teams wear
throwback uniforms and I remember watching them when I was
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a kid. It makes me hate myself because I think, Wow,
how did that happen? How the heck did that take place?
JJ from Renton says that I am a broke baller. Well,
the broke part is right, and if you saw me pitch,
you know I'm a baller. Jason Jason writes in from
Kansas City. He says ten out of ten on the
(25:26):
Mallard Monologue, Ben, the Ben Gals are showing why they
are known as a cheap organization. Meanwhile, the Browns are
showing why they are a clueless organization by signing Deshaun Watson.
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Speaker 5 (26:16):
From the NFL. Buffalo Bill's running back and return man
Maheem Heines will miss the entire upcoming season.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
How did that happen? Eddie?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Well, he was apparently sitting on a jet ski and
then was struck by another jet ski and suffered an
a cl injury.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
How often is that regular?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
I've never been jet skiing. It looks like a ton
of fun. I don't know, I don't know how often
that happens.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
That's like the motorcycle of the ocean, Eddy, the jet ski.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Yes, I suppose that's true.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I'd like to I'd like to do that too, but
I think I'm too too big. I think I'd kill myself,
so probably shouldn't do it. You never know, maybe the
big guy to it. Yeah, yeah, you would do well either.
So is it?
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Is it a jet ski or a seedoo? What's the difference?
I think that I think a jet ski you stand
up up on and the sea. Do you're you're.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Sitting, I'd like to sit on a seed.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Yeah, I like neither of you guys have ever done
one of those. No, Yeah, there's so much fun.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
They're great.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We live an honest life here Coop doing late night radio.
You know, that's all we do when you come in
and do our job.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Can can you rent those things somewhere? Like if you
go to the lake, can you rent them?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
My cousins used to rent them into Connyeat Lake in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
What's the insurance? Yeah, what's the premium on that? When
you play? You have to pay to rent them? They
must they must break all the time. Right, I'm gonna
be honest.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
I haven't done it since I was like a kid
and I had like my parents paying for it.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
So yeah, lesson was on when I was like fourteen.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Okay, well you.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Beat Hey, let's all go. J just ski Yeah, we'll
record it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That'll go.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Well. Yeah, I guess that's it is that it. I
guess I could try and pronounce that Broncos guy's name
again and screw it up, but.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, just say it fast like you know what it is.
Because only his family knows what it is, and they're
probably not Coop.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Do you know his name?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Your Bronco got coop.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Coop is really good at pronouncing difficult names.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, you were a shot, Coop.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Ioma uazerk.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
He did about as well as I did. So yeah,
ima uasurike.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Oh that's really good. That's probably it.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, I did. I had to listen to it on YouTube.
Believe me.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Take the question mark away from it and you're you
know he said.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
By the way, since we're talking about him, he suspended
for at least a year for betting on NFL games
last season, Broncos defensive end.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Did he win? At least? If he do, he will
see that part.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, I'm guessing probably if he. If he did,
it wasn't worth it.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
No, no, not so much. All right, thank you for that.
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hustle in sport than the green Bay Packers being a
community owned team. Now, I have friends that are Packer fans.
I have friends that own packer stock stock. You can
never cash out exactly. I bring that up because this
week the Packers, just on Monday, had their annual shareholders meeting,
(29:33):
and check this out. This is fascinating. So this comes
from a vice president for the Green Bay football team
that they announced at their annual shareholders meeting at lambeau Field.
There are five million, two hundred and four thousand plus
shares of stock in the team held by five hundred
and thirty eight nine hundred and sixty seven shareholders. But
(29:55):
Darren Ravel was digging through the investment documents and he determined,
based on the documents that the investors got the shareholders got.
The Packer shares possibly have a value of two point
five cents each, and the packers have the right to
choose whether to ever buy them back. You're not allowed
(30:16):
to trade them. You can't give them to someone you
don't you own a certificate. So that means, if you
do the math on this, if that is the number
two point five cents per share of Green Bay Packer stock,
they don't sell for that. By the way, you know
that if you own it, you know what I'm talking about.
The franchise value according to Wall Street, based on that
(30:36):
number would be like one hundred and thirty thousand dollars
would be the value of the Green Bay Packers franchise
according to the stock that is out there. That seems reasonable.
What a hustle you gotta do. The hustle. What a
hustle they have pulled off. Let's go to Andre in
the Commonwealth, a polarizing caller. He's got fans that love him.
(30:58):
They want more Andre, other people that want me taking
off the radio for putting him on the air. But
that's the life of a rock star caller to late
night sports radio. Hello Andre and the Commonwealth.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
What's going on?
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Ben? Thanks for taking the call. Listen. I'm glad to
be in the arena. I just call up. I give
my takes, my honest takes. You know how I feel
coming from the heart, you know, And some people are
gonna be with you, some people are gonna be against you,
and that's just the kind of way it goes. Yesterday
we kind of went back on forth on the WNBA.
We're gonna we're gonna pivot over here. Listen. In terms
of the NFL, you opened up, you know, talking about
(31:34):
NFL teams and Cincinnati Bengals. They got to make sure
that they secure the bag early. They need to get
this deal with Joe Burrow done early. They don't want
to dither. Ben Okay and the Cincinnati Bengals, they're confusing
organization to me in certain ways. Didn't they have the
practice field outside for many years they still might be
practicing outside. There were a team that was known not
(31:56):
to invest in their brand, Okay, but then they got
smoking Joe Burrow, who's turned the entire thing around. So
what they need to do is they need to be smart. Okay,
give him the bag early, get this deal done early.
Whatever the highest number is, he's going to exceed that,
be the highest paid. I think Joe Burrow would be receptive.
I e. Patrick Mahomes because he's about winning at the
(32:16):
end of the day, and from Ohio bend to giving
them a deal where he would be the highest plate paid,
but it's going to give him complexibility down the road,
and that's how they can be successful for the long term.
What is another franchise do the most profitable franchise in
all of the world's Dallas Cowboys. They wait on the quarterback,
but then you pay linebackers and running backs up front.
Makes absolutely no sense. Then what do you have to
(32:37):
do at the end of the day. You give Dak Prescott,
who's the top ten maybe top fifteen quarterback, number one
overall money? Absolutely illogical to Cincinnati Bengals, I'm counting you
to get it right. In conclusion, Ben, in terms of
the money that's going on, I know that you're going
to talk at some point in time about what's going
on with the Saudi Arabian conglomerate trying to give Mbafe
a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
A billion dollars, Well, not well for him in three
hundred million for the team.
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Plans for seven hundred million for him the dog on
one year. It's set the whole world of blaze. Never
mind that the Saudi Arabian family that they're worth like
one point four trillion. We're not gonna get into the
rationale why they should be worth that much in the
country one point four trillion, So what's one billion dollars
to the royal family. But you see on social media
Lebron Jannis saying, look, man, you give me a billion
(33:24):
or seven hundred millions for one year, I'm out of here.
So with an interesting argument, I think what the Saudi
family doing, they're really revolutionizing sports in terms of oh no, they're.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Not revolutionis they're just offering more money that anybody's got
a lot. You can get anyone you want. That's the
way of the world. Andrea, you know that you're a teacher,
right If somebody offered you ten times the amount of
money you're making, you would work for them and you'd
overlook a lot of sins that they might or might
not have done because they offered you the most money.
I gotta leave it there, Andrea. But thank you, ma
Andre from the Commonwealth checking and big WNBA fan. He's
(33:55):
our WNBA insider. Andre. Time now for the always popular,
always popular Who Am I?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And this is where we pretend to be somebody else
and you gotta figure out who is.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
So.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Dodgers backup catcher Austin Barnes currently has an ops plus
of minus fourteen that is the worst ops plus by
any position player with at least one hundred bats in
one hundred and forty years of professional baseball, the second
worst ever. I'm the only other position player to have
(34:30):
that kind of negative statistic in that many at bats
this century. So again, the Dodgers backup catcher Austin Barnes
currently has an ops plus of minus fourteen that we
are told is the worst by any position player with
at least one hundred at bats in one hundred and
forty years of professional baseball, and the second worst ever.
I am the only other position player to have negative
(34:54):
ops plus in that many at bats in this century.
Who am I? If you can decipher all at the answer,
We'll get to it. We'll do it next. Who am I?
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Dodgers backup catcher guy named Austin Barnes. You probably don't
know who that is because when he plays, he's terrible.
Currently has an ops plus of minus fourteen. We are
told that is the worst by any position player with
at least one hundred at bats in one hundred and
forty years, the second worst all time. I'm the only
other position player to have a negative ops plus in
(36:31):
that many at bats in this century. And that is
the question. What is the answer. Let's see, does anyone
know the answer, We go to the Twitter machine to
see if anybody knows the answer. Kyle Kuzma guess by
Shane from Des Moines. Joe Nuxall from Johnny Q. Benny
(36:51):
the Bopper Rister from the Bus his answer Ozzy Waz
and Western Australia going with the iconic fart Boy as
his answer Atlee Hammicker from Larry d. Mariano Duncan from
Shawn in the Valley of the Sun. I, of course
own Mariano Duncan got a hit off of World Series
Champion Mariono Duncan. Edie Amen from Chip in the Cues,
(37:13):
Tommy Kramer tossed up by Rob in Minnesota. The Viking
Legend who did make an appearance at the Maler Meet
and Greet. He was part of that event. Joe Orcelac
Oriol Legend Joe Orceloc from James Who Else? Davey Lobes
guest by Shawn and Portland sub Zero tossed out by
Tortilla Man Tony. Bob Horner the Cardinals version of Bob
(37:37):
Horner from Chris in Des Moines. Drew but Terra guest
by Eke in Rosvio, Minnesota. I'm not gonna go there,
Green Bay Gobbler too soon. Who else do we have?
Marty Cordova in the Tanning Bed Twins legend from Fields
of Green that's his answer, Dodger and Cub legend, Jason
Hayward from the Sawman orson Wells, guest by Cali and
(38:00):
Tim in Michigan, Charles in Charge from alf the Alien Opiner.
Do you have an answer, Eddie, please? I need an answer.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Yes, it's former Texas Rangers superstar Frank kyl Denada.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Easy for you to say Catalanado. The correct answer is
actually Kevin Cash, who's now the manager of the Tampa
Bay Rays. Kevin Cash back in three he was at
minus tu. But they're the only player worse than Austin
Barnes all time. In eighteen eighty three, there was a
catcher named John Humphries. I don't know who that is.
He's dead, so but he was worse. Yes, Condolence says,
(38:37):
let's go to it right now. MLB Pickham like to
thank the Rangers for changing their pitching rotation on me.
But Eddie, you have the first pick. Please go ahead,
shot the batter, all right, go ahead? Their coop dal loop.
Speaker 8 (38:53):
I'm gonna go with Zach Gallen.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
All right, you can do that, and uh, let's go
with uh, go with Corbin Burris. Go ahead, Chris quickly,
Sergei Federov and Rashid Wallace. Good picks, Ronald Thecuno doing
your cope. Uh, Mookie bets, Eddie matt Olson one morning,
Andrew Ellie de la Cruz. All right, Freddy Freeman, we
got it in good, Joy Sanders, we got it in
(39:18):
good I forgot about my pick. You can't forget about
my picking. That's a good pick. You got it in
good job, by your great picture. Good job, everybody. We
got it in time to spare
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one of
day two of the week. It is the Ben Mahlershow Podcast.
But you already knew that you've downloaded the podcast. You're
locked in to the podcast right now, and we start
talking football. What did you make of the Cincinnati Bengals
(00:21):
president intimating that the team cannot afford to keep Joe Burrow,
Jamar Chase and t Higgins. Also, Patrick Mahomes says, the
Chiefs are at the beginning of a dynasty. Is that
in bounds or out of bounds? And why is DeShawn
Watson blaming the media for his negative reputation? Talking about
(00:44):
all of that and much more right now here, it
is our number one. You can't pay everybody, well, you could,
but well God. In the beginning of an other edition
of the Ben Malor Show, we are in the air
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(01:53):
a columnists in Iowa that ripped me years ago because
I had to take he did not like. And there
are these things called newspapers that they got very upset
with me, called me a chatterbox. So you know what,
I am a chatterbox. That's what we do. We chatter,
So it's not that big a deal. It's not really
(02:14):
that offensive to me. Now, as we begin here, play
the hits. My man play the hits, as one of
the bosses in the corner office likes to say. And
the NFL getting going. By the end of the week,
everyone will be in training camp. Not everyone in training
camp yet, so it's a most of the teams are,
but there's some hold ads that are waiting for the
(02:35):
very end, the last possible way to start practicing. But
our lead this hour comes from a team that many
believe will be on the cusp of the Super Bowl,
The Cince Cincinnati Bengals right there at the very top
behind Kansas City. If you look at the totem pole
of success and the American Football Conference, the Bengals these aren't.
(02:59):
These are not the Sam Wish Bengals or the old
school Bengals from back in the day. And his training
camp gets to full blossom. Later this week, some news
out of Ohio involving the future plans of the Cincinnati
football team and in particular, the Bengals have a quagmire
(03:22):
on their hands. What is the quagmire, Well, they have
not only Joe Burrow and his contractual future to the
Bengals to decide, also Jamar Chase his deal coming up,
and t Higgins all lined up in the next year
year and a half. They all either got to get
paid or they got to go somewhere else. So the Bengals,
(03:43):
who have been known as one of the more frugal
franchises in the NFL, it's a mom and pop shop
in Cincinnati. Try the chili and by a souvenir. Knock
yourself out there. If you've not heard the latest. The
reason I'm bringing this up, there's a new revelation. Maybe
you missed it because You're not on the cusp of
the Cincinnati Bengals. You're not. You're just not part of that.
(04:07):
But I believe we have I think we have somebody.
Now that the screen, by the way, not working, Coop,
so the have to click reset on that. So Coop
told me there's audio and it's on the screen. So
I'm looking at the screen completely blank. No, No, I
can reset it. I can reset. I gotta hit some
buttons and all that. But we have Mike Brown. Do
(04:27):
we have some We have Mike. We have Mike Brown Audio.
So Mike Brown, this is what's called the setup. Very smooth.
We have a very smooth operation here. So Mike Brown
is the president of the Cincinnati Bengals, and he laid
out what many believe is a gloomy picture regarding the
financial situation of the Cincinnati football team. Let's go to
(04:49):
the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Think of the cap as a pie, and once you
take out one piece, there's less left for the next guy.
And it just is obvious that when all teams are
essentially paying the same thing, we're all paying up to
the camp is hard to fit everybody in. It's impossible
(05:14):
to fit everybody in at the rate they wish they
could be paid. Pretty obvious that Joe is the heart
of the matter. After that, we want all the guys
we can get that we may have to go short
in a couple of cases.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
All right, So that was Mike Brown. Somebody give him
some caffeine. Looks like he's about to take a nap there.
It sounds like he needs to sleep a little bit,
wake up, pep up a little bit, whatever the case.
So's that's the general gist of what Mike Brown said.
He also had the money quote, which I couldn't tell
if he said this or not. Maybe he did because
he sounded like he was ready to fall asleep. But
(05:56):
he talked about being mathematical and you have a bag
of corn, you have ten and hogs, and you're not
gonna be able to please all of the heifers. That's
my word, he said, hogs. So let us discuss the
question when it comes to the Cincinnati football team. What
did you take away from Mike Brown and his commentary
(06:16):
regarding the future of Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and t
Higgins as it relates to long term in Cincinnati. So
I've got dog whistle goalposts and Mariah Carey. Three things
that have never been put together are gonna put them
together right now and throw them against the wall. So
a Mike Brown is speaking the truth. I do think
(06:41):
he's speaking the truth. Now, that's his truth. The reality
is if the Bengals want they can keep everybody. There
is a path to salvation to keep everybody. You can
do it. There's a way to get it done. But
that would require taking in less revenue and cutting back
(07:01):
on how much profit you make, and they don't want
to do that. So that's really what he's saying. And
this is what's known as a heart to heart with
the fan. So heart to heart with the fan that
he listen, you lay it all out and we're not
the Rams. We're not gonna spend big and go crazy
for a couple of years and all that. No, no, no, no, no,
(07:24):
can't keep everyone. This is a dog whistle. Whistle whistle
whistle is what this is to the fiend that enjoy
the season. But tick tick tick, tick, tick tick tick.
The doomsday clock is a ticking and that yet you're
gonna get rid of this guy and that guy, but
you're not gonna get rid of Joe Burrow. T Higgins.
(07:46):
You might want to put your house on the market now,
see if you can get some money for it there
and rent because t Higgins is the first one up,
the first one headed towards free agency, and it would
appear that he will be gone. Joe Burrow, They've got
the fifth year option, knowing the way the Bengals operate
their negotiating contract. But at this point you'd have to
(08:06):
put the smart money on the Bengals just picking up
the fifth year option, buying another year granted at a
good amount of money, but less money than the Bengals
ultimately are going to have to pay. Although long term,
considering outside of the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson, the salaries
keep going up, up, up every time there's a new deal.
(08:29):
So Joe Burrow's price if you wait a year, will
be higher a year from now in theory, although he's
in a different class than the other quarterbacks. But looking
into the crystal ball, and it's very important if you
get a show like this to have a crystal ball.
The Bengals will pay Burrow. Eventually he'll get the big
money and the front office of the Bengals will need
(08:50):
therapy when they pay Joe Burrow the big money, but
he's going to get the big money. And then after
that they will pivot to Jamar Ch and offer him
a lot of money. And then maybe he'll take the money,
maybe he won't take the money, and then t Higgins
will be excommunicated from the Bengals den. He'll be out.
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Now page two, Let's go to Kansas City. They are
the presumptive favorite in the American Football Conference. They are
guaranteed it would appear to be in the AFC Championship game.
They have been there year after year after year. But
are they a dynasty? Not the old TV show from
a million years ago. It used to be popular in
(09:32):
a different era of television. But Patrick Mahomes does not
does not think that the Chiefs are a dynasty, but
he knows what it would take to get that title
of a dynasty be called when I've even saw this
or not. But Mahomes said, quote, I think we're in
the beginning of one. I think in dynasties, I always
(09:55):
say you got to win three. That's what Mahomes said
from the Chiefs training area there now, Mahomes saying the
Chiefs are at the beginning of a dynasty, but not
at dynasty status. Is that in bounds or is that
out of bounds? So I have it right on the fence,
(10:18):
and I'm leaning towards out of bounds. I'm leaning towards
out of bounds. And here's why, because the definitions change
for certain things over time. I don't like the definitions
change for certain things over time, but they do have.
And the modern definition of a dynasty, Kansas City does
(10:40):
qualify under that. Now they're not a stone cold NFL dynasty.
But if you look at the modern definition of a dynasty,
it has changed. The Chiefs do qualify as that. And
the Chiefs have been to the AFC Title Game or
better every season Patrick Mahomey has started there, they've been
(11:03):
in the AFC title games. So they've made five straight
Final Four appearances. And Kansas City has won a pair
of Super Bowls with mahomes at quarterback. So to compare that,
you look at the bloodline of legends. Now, they're not
at Patriot status. The Patriots at one point they had
a twenty year run essentially, but at one point they
(11:25):
made eight straight Super Bowl slash Conference super Bowl or
slash Conference Championship game over eight years from twenty eleven
to twenty eighteen. But if you look at the other
teams that we considered dynasties in the NFL, the nineteen
nineties Cowboys, with all those star players in Jerry's world,
the most they made was four straight as I understand it,
(11:49):
they made four straight conference title games in the nineties.
The eighties forty nine Ers had two different quarterbacks, Montana
and Young, and they each made three straight conference championship
games or super Bowls, but no more than that. And
you can even go back to the nineteen seventies Pittsburgh
Steelers and the most they made consecutive was three straight
(12:12):
conference championship games and or obviously super Bowls in that stretch.
So by that standard, they've already accomplished the five straight
championship games conference championship games, more than the nineties, eighties
and seventies dynasties of the NFL. Now the last word,
let's go to Cleveland. An old punching bag is back,
(12:33):
the Cleveland Browns practicing in actually West Virginia, not in Cleveland,
but DeShawn Watson. DeShawn Watson who fed the content kitty
and was feeding a lot of kiddies for a couple
of years there, but DeShawn is now speaking up to
the media. He spoke recently the creepy quarterback was in
(12:53):
mid season FOM and if you did not see this,
we'll give you the highlights. You've got to miss it.
De Shawn Watson played some of the blame on the
very negative public image that he now has. He placed
some of the blame on the m word the media. Yeah,
he said that the team teammates have embraced him. And
(13:14):
let's get a little audio. Let's listen to Deshaun Watson
here as he talks about the perception his teammates and
the EVO media.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
The whole situation changed me. You know, in this situation
where it's kind of I had to lock in on myself,
you know, channel and really know who I'm you know,
surrounding myself with and just really who who's going to
be there and support me, you know, even when I'm
at my lowest point, and you know, the last few
years was definitely my lowest point of my life. But
you know that that's that's part of life. And uh,
(13:46):
you know, I just go from it. I learned from it.
I continue to move forward and push forward and continue
to show my real character, my real personality and who
I am.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
All right, Well, we didn't have the media part, which
is what I'm talking about, but he he did blame
the media for the negative persons of his his reputation
over the last couple of years. He talked about his
upbringing and all that. So why why did Deshaun Watson
go to the media card saying that that is to
(14:15):
blame for a lot of the negativity that's around him.
So it's kind of like a Mariah Carey song fantasy
right ho ol mari here living in never never Land.
Another word would be obtse. We could use the word
obtoose for Watson, who I don't believe is now coached
any longer on what to say to the media. I
think that ended once the litigation. He cut some giant
(14:39):
cartoon sized checks to pay the people that were accusing
him of playing touchy feely without permission, and Watson talked
about his tough upbringing and all of that, the really
shielding himself from the copious amounts of sexual assaul agations. Now,
to my memory, maybe I'm wrong on this, can correct me.
(15:00):
I don't think anyone who is a reporter sued Watson
for a bad massage. I think it was all random
women he met on Instagram or other places. I think
that's the case. And Watson had a school bus, maybe
a Greyhound bus, maybe a train car full of women
(15:21):
who had made accusations, and you get money, you get money.
He paid everybody, and he tried to pay it how
you made everybody? He paid most people, not everyone would
take the check. And the Browns being the gutlass slimeball
franchise of the Cleveland Browns, are they of course rewarded
Watson with two hundred and thirty million dollars. That's the
(15:43):
Cleveland Browns right there. That's the Brownies way to go,
way to go. And you can bring that snake venom
right there to the Browns locker room. And Deshaun Watson
is like lead in the drinking water, lead in the
pipes is what Watson is for the Brownies. Good luck
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(16:04):
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My god, how much money does he have? I think
(16:47):
we know he has a lot of money. Anyway, an
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one hundred and fifty dollars. An NFL team worth less
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
Eddie likes to pick his spots, but not his nose.
He no longer picks his nose. He stopped at a
couple of Yeah, well, no one can say at night.
Does anyone look in the car at night when you're driving.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
No, during the day, you can't really do it because people.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Could No I do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Do you you're a big nosepicker? What about you bite
your fingernails too? Yeah? Yeah, I'm a big fingernail bier, Yeah,
big time. Unfortunately I stopped for a while because I
need to reload the fingernails, so I can stop for
a couple of weeks and then they'll grow back and
then I'll have fresh nails to bite. So I am
I am be able to stop.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I think we talked about this on this show pretty sure.
During COVID I actually stopped doing it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Out of an abundance of caution. Yeah, I thought you
would give yourself COVID.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Well, no, it's just that you know, you have you
touch things and then you put in your mouth. It's
probably not a great idea. It's probably not a great
idea at any time. But yeah, I figured, you know,
maybe i'd stopped doing it and then and I did.
So there is uh did you get there? There's evidence
that No, I never did get caught.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I never got cold. I'm sure maybe you got it.
You didn't even know you had it. A lot of
people had it didn't even know they had it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Well, I took a bunch of tests anytime I had
any symptoms. So I mean, I guess if you can
have it and have no symptoms, then I guess it's possible,
but I heard people had that. Every time I had symptoms,
I took one of those home tests and never had.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It, all of a sudden stop a year ago. Now
that's stopped. Worry about it stop.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, I worry about it as much as I worry
about any other illness. I hear you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
All right, Well we were here yapping the night away.
And will I run out of hot takes as I
did three hours earlier of hot takes, So this is
gon me seven hours of hot takes.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Nope, hopefully Fred didn't have any hot takes. Just you.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, we combined. But you know I I was delivering
the fastball. You know I brought. I brought the fastball.
I brought the gas gasser. A lot of gassers.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Eugene in Chicago rights and says man, and no is enough.
It's time that Ben Maller, he said, my full name,
Ben Mahler, starts doing some list radio because everyone definitely
would like to know the Ben Mahler top ten quarterbacks
of the NFL season. Eugene, I do not number one. No, No,
(20:19):
I don't do list radio.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Eugene number two.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Now, if you you want me to do it, I
could do Ben's Big Board, Benny's Big Board of NFL
Quarterbacks I number three. I could be convinced that that.
But they don't pay me enough. Those daytime guys do
list radio. I don't get paid enough to do this radio.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Number two.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
You occasionally do list all the nicknames.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
That's that's not that's not a list, though. It's a
list of all that is poetry, that's verbal poetry? Is
that that poetry in motion?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Number five?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And speaking of that, now that you brought that up,
do you know that I have been called the spin
Master of misinformation, bannering broadcaster them Covid of bs, Curmudgion
of comments, number eight, Chasm of sarcasm, the Tzar number nine,
the dark Night of weeknight sports radio. It's not a
list number Benny, the Brazen King of zing Ball Mallard
(21:15):
number one, Benny number two. That was one. You can't
play a toy Benny, the Bomber, Facetius Fox number two,
the Sultan of in number three, the Shaman of shot
in Freude. Number four, Jumping Jack of wise Crack number five,
in Sight of Overnight number six, Medicine man Mouth. I've
(21:38):
been called the number seven Nay Bob of negativity, number eight,
the Sage of outrage, the Number Medical of cynical number ten,
the Prince Preposterous Professor of propaganda number one, Hizaarre of hyperbole,
and the Mad Hatter number six that was now this
(21:58):
is number the Mad Hatter of sports number eight. By request,
Eddie brought it up.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
So I didn't request it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I subconsciously, Eddie, you wanted that, and I gave it
to you. I did list radio, not list radio, Eddie.
That was verbal poetry, is what's listing them off? I'm
a poet and I don't even know it, and and
we just laid it out for you right there. Fergducks
has a great job today filling in locally there with
Fred you're still the king of la oh and Ben
you did an okay job too, So here you all right?
(22:28):
Very nice? Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Here?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Page down? I can't read that on the air, Ferg
Duck says, Hey, Eddie, how cool was it when Kevin
Costner called up to deny the rumor that he was
caught sleeping with cal Ripken Junior's wife. Yeah, well that's
that's a long time. That was on the Kylie and
Boom show. One of the great stories in the history
of Fox Sports Radio. Kylie and Booms at a midday
(22:52):
show and they talked about the infamous story of Cal
Ripken Jr. And the lights going out at Camden Yards.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Legendary story.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, the all time great stories. I believe all of it.
I think it's one hundred percent true. And Costner called up,
and the fact that he called up to deny it
makes me believe it more. Well, that's interesting, Yeah, that
makes me believe it more a ton more. Bagel Boy
writes and says best monologue ever the Chiefs Dynasty. Indeed,
and then you expose the perb again Marconi worthy now
(23:21):
supermarket Steve got put in in Twitter jail or ex jail.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
He called our friend David Bassay, who we know, the
Dodger reporter and Dodger talk host, as he called him
the umpa lumpa, and the Twitter called that hateful speech
the uppa.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Is he I've never met him? Is he a short fellow? No?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
It was aversise. The Dodger blue Jay game went long,
a rare long baseball game. So we got covered up.
We're getting covered up a lot here, ready, yeah, because
they got Women's World Cup soccer.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, that's a good reason to cover up the show
that at least it's a you know, big time event.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Absolutely covered up by that, and then baseball games going along.
JJ from Rent and we love JJ. We want JJ
to call more, JJ, says Yo Ben. Out of all
the thirty two NFL teams, why were the Seahawks cast
out of wearing their nineties jerseys? Well, JJ, you must
have been sleeping that day, JJ, because the Seahawks did
(24:19):
announce last week that they're going to be playing in
their throwback uniforms and they looked marvelous. I'm not a fashionista,
but I can pretend to be one on the radio.
But the Seattle Seahawks going back to their old school
those pop those brighter colors, right, Yeah, the blue really
popped the green on the uniform, on the pants pops.
It's a solid look.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
But it's not like a radically different uniform. They're just
brighter colors.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
No, it's like if you're old, they're throwbacks because you're old.
But they used to wear them. That's what they used
to wear back when they played. Those are like the
Kingdome days when they wore those uniforms. I believe they
played in the great indoors there in Seattle, and I'm
now at the point of my live where teams wear
throwback uniforms and I remember watching them when I was
(25:04):
a kid. It makes me hate myself because I think, Wow,
how did that happen? How the heck did that take place?
JJ from Renton says that I am a broke baller. Well,
the broke part is right, and if you saw me pitch,
you know I'm a baller. Jason Jason writes in from
Kansas City. He says ten out of ten on the
(25:26):
Mallard Monologue, Ben, the Ben Gals are showing why they
are known as a cheap organization. Meanwhile, the Browns are
showing why they are a clueless organization by signing Deshaun Watson.
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Speaker 5 (26:16):
From the NFL. Buffalo Bill's running back and return man
Maheem Heines will miss the entire upcoming season.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
How did that happen? Eddie?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Well, he was apparently sitting on a jet ski and
then was struck by another jet ski and suffered an
a cl injury.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
How often is that regular?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
I've never been jet skiing. It looks like a ton
of fun. I don't know, I don't know how often
that happens.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
That's like the motorcycle of the ocean, Eddy, the jet ski.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Yes, I suppose that's true.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I'd like to I'd like to do that too, but
I think I'm too too big. I think I'd kill myself,
so probably shouldn't do it. You never know, maybe the
big guy to it. Yeah, yeah, you would do well either.
So is it?
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Is it a jet ski or a seedoo? What's the difference?
I think that I think a jet ski you stand
up up on and the sea. Do you're you're.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Sitting, I'd like to sit on a seed.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Yeah, I like neither of you guys have ever done
one of those. No, Yeah, there's so much fun.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
They're great.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We live an honest life here Coop doing late night radio.
You know, that's all we do when you come in
and do our job.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Can can you rent those things somewhere? Like if you
go to the lake, can you rent them?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
My cousins used to rent them into Connyeat Lake in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
What's the insurance? Yeah, what's the premium on that? When
you play? You have to pay to rent them? They
must they must break all the time. Right, I'm gonna
be honest.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
I haven't done it since I was like a kid
and I had like my parents paying for it.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
So yeah, lesson was on when I was like fourteen.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Okay, well you.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Beat Hey, let's all go. J just ski Yeah, we'll
record it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That'll go.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Well. Yeah, I guess that's it is that it. I
guess I could try and pronounce that Broncos guy's name
again and screw it up, but.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, just say it fast like you know what it is.
Because only his family knows what it is, and they're
probably not Coop.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Do you know his name?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Your Bronco got coop.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Coop is really good at pronouncing difficult names.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, you were a shot, Coop.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Ioma uazerk.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
He did about as well as I did. So yeah,
ima uasurike.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
Oh that's really good. That's probably it.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, I did. I had to listen to it on YouTube.
Believe me.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Take the question mark away from it and you're you
know he said.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
By the way, since we're talking about him, he suspended
for at least a year for betting on NFL games
last season, Broncos defensive end.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Did he win? At least? If he do, he will
see that part.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, I'm guessing probably if he. If he did,
it wasn't worth it.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
No, no, not so much. All right, thank you for that.
It is the Baine Malors Show. We'd like to alert
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and save at Progressive dot com. Is there a better
hustle in sport than the green Bay Packers being a
community owned team. Now, I have friends that are Packer fans.
I have friends that own packer stock stock. You can
never cash out exactly. I bring that up because this
week the Packers, just on Monday, had their annual shareholders meeting,
(29:33):
and check this out. This is fascinating. So this comes
from a vice president for the Green Bay football team
that they announced at their annual shareholders meeting at lambeau Field.
There are five million, two hundred and four thousand plus
shares of stock in the team held by five hundred
and thirty eight nine hundred and sixty seven shareholders. But
(29:55):
Darren Ravel was digging through the investment documents and he determined,
based on the documents that the investors got the shareholders got.
The Packer shares possibly have a value of two point
five cents each, and the packers have the right to
choose whether to ever buy them back. You're not allowed
(30:16):
to trade them. You can't give them to someone you
don't you own a certificate. So that means, if you
do the math on this, if that is the number
two point five cents per share of Green Bay Packer stock,
they don't sell for that. By the way, you know
that if you own it, you know what I'm talking about.
The franchise value according to Wall Street, based on that
(30:36):
number would be like one hundred and thirty thousand dollars
would be the value of the Green Bay Packers franchise
according to the stock that is out there. That seems reasonable.
What a hustle you gotta do. The hustle. What a
hustle they have pulled off. Let's go to Andre in
the Commonwealth, a polarizing caller. He's got fans that love him.
(30:58):
They want more Andre, other people that want me taking
off the radio for putting him on the air. But
that's the life of a rock star caller to late
night sports radio. Hello Andre and the Commonwealth.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
What's going on?
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Ben? Thanks for taking the call. Listen. I'm glad to
be in the arena. I just call up. I give
my takes, my honest takes. You know how I feel
coming from the heart, you know, And some people are
gonna be with you, some people are gonna be against you,
and that's just the kind of way it goes. Yesterday
we kind of went back on forth on the WNBA.
We're gonna we're gonna pivot over here. Listen. In terms
of the NFL, you opened up, you know, talking about
(31:34):
NFL teams and Cincinnati Bengals. They got to make sure
that they secure the bag early. They need to get
this deal with Joe Burrow done early. They don't want
to dither. Ben Okay and the Cincinnati Bengals, they're confusing
organization to me in certain ways. Didn't they have the
practice field outside for many years they still might be
practicing outside. There were a team that was known not
(31:56):
to invest in their brand, Okay, but then they got
smoking Joe Burrow, who's turned the entire thing around. So
what they need to do is they need to be smart. Okay,
give him the bag early, get this deal done early.
Whatever the highest number is, he's going to exceed that,
be the highest paid. I think Joe Burrow would be receptive.
I e. Patrick Mahomes because he's about winning at the
(32:16):
end of the day, and from Ohio bend to giving
them a deal where he would be the highest plate paid,
but it's going to give him complexibility down the road,
and that's how they can be successful for the long term.
What is another franchise do the most profitable franchise in
all of the world's Dallas Cowboys. They wait on the quarterback,
but then you pay linebackers and running backs up front.
Makes absolutely no sense. Then what do you have to
(32:37):
do at the end of the day. You give Dak Prescott,
who's the top ten maybe top fifteen quarterback, number one
overall money? Absolutely illogical to Cincinnati Bengals, I'm counting you
to get it right. In conclusion, Ben, in terms of
the money that's going on, I know that you're going
to talk at some point in time about what's going
on with the Saudi Arabian conglomerate trying to give Mbafe
a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
A billion dollars, Well, not well for him in three
hundred million for the team.
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Plans for seven hundred million for him the dog on
one year. It's set the whole world of blaze. Never
mind that the Saudi Arabian family that they're worth like
one point four trillion. We're not gonna get into the
rationale why they should be worth that much in the
country one point four trillion, So what's one billion dollars
to the royal family. But you see on social media
Lebron Jannis saying, look, man, you give me a billion
(33:24):
or seven hundred millions for one year, I'm out of here.
So with an interesting argument, I think what the Saudi
family doing, they're really revolutionizing sports in terms of oh no, they're.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Not revolutionis they're just offering more money that anybody's got
a lot. You can get anyone you want. That's the
way of the world. Andrea, you know that you're a teacher,
right If somebody offered you ten times the amount of
money you're making, you would work for them and you'd
overlook a lot of sins that they might or might
not have done because they offered you the most money.
I gotta leave it there, Andrea. But thank you, ma
Andre from the Commonwealth checking and big WNBA fan. He's
(33:55):
our WNBA insider. Andre. Time now for the always popular,
always popular Who Am I?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And this is where we pretend to be somebody else
and you gotta figure out who is.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
So.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Dodgers backup catcher Austin Barnes currently has an ops plus
of minus fourteen that is the worst ops plus by
any position player with at least one hundred bats in
one hundred and forty years of professional baseball, the second
worst ever. I'm the only other position player to have
(34:30):
that kind of negative statistic in that many at bats
this century. So again, the Dodgers backup catcher Austin Barnes
currently has an ops plus of minus fourteen that we
are told is the worst by any position player with
at least one hundred at bats in one hundred and
forty years of professional baseball, and the second worst ever.
I am the only other position player to have negative
(34:54):
ops plus in that many at bats in this century.
Who am I? If you can decipher all at the answer,
We'll get to it. We'll do it next. Who am I?
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(36:08):
Dodgers backup catcher guy named Austin Barnes. You probably don't
know who that is because when he plays, he's terrible.
Currently has an ops plus of minus fourteen. We are
told that is the worst by any position player with
at least one hundred at bats in one hundred and
forty years, the second worst all time. I'm the only
other position player to have a negative ops plus in
(36:31):
that many at bats in this century. And that is
the question. What is the answer. Let's see, does anyone
know the answer, We go to the Twitter machine to
see if anybody knows the answer. Kyle Kuzma guess by
Shane from Des Moines. Joe Nuxall from Johnny Q. Benny
(36:51):
the Bopper Rister from the Bus his answer Ozzy Waz
and Western Australia going with the iconic fart Boy as
his answer Atlee Hammicker from Larry d. Mariano Duncan from
Shawn in the Valley of the Sun. I, of course
own Mariano Duncan got a hit off of World Series
Champion Mariono Duncan. Edie Amen from Chip in the Cues,
(37:13):
Tommy Kramer tossed up by Rob in Minnesota. The Viking
Legend who did make an appearance at the Maler Meet
and Greet. He was part of that event. Joe Orcelac
Oriol Legend Joe Orceloc from James Who Else? Davey Lobes
guest by Shawn and Portland sub Zero tossed out by
Tortilla Man Tony. Bob Horner the Cardinals version of Bob
(37:37):
Horner from Chris in Des Moines. Drew but Terra guest
by Eke in Rosvio, Minnesota. I'm not gonna go there,
Green Bay Gobbler too soon. Who else do we have?
Marty Cordova in the Tanning Bed Twins legend from Fields
of Green that's his answer, Dodger and Cub legend, Jason
Hayward from the Sawman orson Wells, guest by Cali and
(38:00):
Tim in Michigan, Charles in Charge from alf the Alien Opiner.
Do you have an answer, Eddie, please? I need an answer.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Yes, it's former Texas Rangers superstar Frank kyl Denada.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Easy for you to say Catalanado. The correct answer is
actually Kevin Cash, who's now the manager of the Tampa
Bay Rays. Kevin Cash back in three he was at
minus tu. But they're the only player worse than Austin
Barnes all time. In eighteen eighty three, there was a
catcher named John Humphries. I don't know who that is.
He's dead, so but he was worse. Yes, Condolence says,
(38:37):
let's go to it right now. MLB Pickham like to
thank the Rangers for changing their pitching rotation on me.
But Eddie, you have the first pick. Please go ahead,
shot the batter, all right, go ahead? Their coop dal loop.
Speaker 8 (38:53):
I'm gonna go with Zach Gallen.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
All right, you can do that, and uh, let's go
with uh, go with Corbin Burris. Go ahead, Chris quickly,
Sergei Federov and Rashid Wallace. Good picks, Ronald Thecuno doing
your cope. Uh, Mookie bets, Eddie matt Olson one morning,
Andrew Ellie de la Cruz. All right, Freddy Freeman, we
got it in good, Joy Sanders, we got it in
(39:18):
good I forgot about my pick. You can't forget about
my picking. That's a good pick. You got it in
good job, by your great picture. Good job, everybody. We
got it in time to spare
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