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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb p two, our two
talking bass ball. We are a week away from the
trade deadline. There is no waiver trade deadline, so you
have to get your trades in by Tuesday, next Tuesday.
What are the odds that mac Scherzer ends up back
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in Dodger Blue, the Metropolitans dangling out Shurezer and Justin Verlander. Also,
why are the Shohei Otani trade rumors now being called
increasingly slim? And are the Red Sox a contender or
a pretender? Who could they end up trading? We'll talk
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about that as well and other baseball musings right now here.
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daily March to August first, our in depth team coverage
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as the twenty twenty three trading season is underway, but
it will end just seven days left before the clock
reaches zero, and not midnight, because they move the trade
deadline of the afternoon because they hate people to work
the third shift, and so now they do it during
the day because those snobs that work during the day
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shift demanded it. Media losers, But for the rest of us,
we will still talk about the trades here late at night.
Were a couple of minor trades that have taken place
in the Atlanta Braves, who are baseball's top team. The
Bravos traded for a couple of pitchers you've never heard
of for their bullpen. They acquired someone named Pierce Johnson.
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We don't know who that is. He apparently played for
the Rockies. Why would we watch the Rockies? And someone
named Taylor Hearn from the Rangers, a left hander. But
why would the Rangers? Why would the Rangers trade anyone
that's good. Aren't they in position to make a playoff
appearance this year? So why would they trade anyone who's good?
But those guys are headed to Georgia. In return, gave
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up some suspects and cash, cold cash. Not exactly earth
shattering on the trade market, but there have been more
rumblings out of Queens that the Mets are going to
take the advice that we gave out free of charge
recently that they must trade the cheating astro Justin Verlander
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and Mad Max sures that they've got to be gone,
see you later, out of there, And there are rumors
percolating bubbling up above the surface that Verlander is on
the block and the Giants have been mentioned as possibility
several other teams, but the San Francisco Giants most often mentioned.
And as far as Max Scherzer is concerned, I had
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to do a double take when I heard this and
bouncing around here. But the team that is often mentioned
for Max Scherzer the d O d G e RS Dodgers. Yeah,
the team he used to play for. Max Scherzers. The
Dodgers are in desperate need of starting pitching help, as
every time they go out to the mound. Those starting pitchers,
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they need a lifeguard because they drown right there in
the mound at travez Ravine. So let us discuss the question,
what are the odds that mac Scherzer is back in blue,
as in blue Heaven, that he's back in Dodger blue.
What are the chances that happen? So the Malord sports
Book odds on Max Chers are going to the Dodgers
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from the Mets, a couple of big market teams doing
the old switcheroo. I'm gonna set the odds on this
at plus three hundred. Now, if you're not good with math,
or you just don't want to do the math in
your head, that works out to a twenty five percent chance.
About a twenty five percent chance to land Max Scherzer
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with the Dodgers. I've got portal, reverb and spare parts,
and we will combine all of these things together and
those will be the building blocks of this infommercial. Like
Malard monologue, So number one, Mad Max is a cautionary tale.
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I am not excited about this possibility. I am not
I've already lived the Max Scherzer experience, and with the Dodgers,
the team I like and I would not be too excited.
The Dodgers are interested. I believe they are interested. But
if you do the positive negative on one side, you
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have the positive. On the other side of the scale
you have the negative, and which side fills up well?
The positive side. The selling points of Max Schures are
is savvy veteran savvy veteran. That's the selling part. Playoff
experience like that means anything. The Dodgers over the last
ten years have had the most playoff experience of any
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team in baseball, and they regularly go out there in
pew in playoff games. So playoff experience, that's wonderful. It
looks great on your baseball reference page, but it does
not guarantee anything, much like they stay on Wall Street.
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Now, the negatives
for Max Scherzer the fact that he already played for
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the Dodgers and left a terribly sour taste in the
mouth of every true Dodger officionado in the playoffs against
the Atlanta Braves. The Dodgers had a path to come
back and beat the Braves in the playoffs in twenty
twenty one, and Max Scherzer said no moss. He said,
no moss is what he said. Dodgers wanted to pitch
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him in Game six, he said, I can't do it.
Then he blamed Dave Roberts and the nerds that work
for the Dodgers having a dead arm by not pitching
him enough, said it was their fault. You toss in
the fact that he's about to turn thirty nine years old,
he's got a full no trade clause and a massive
salary in twenty twenty four, and he has his worst
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numbers on the mound this season in a decade, over
a decade. We have not seen this crappy a version
of Max Schurzer in over a decade. And that's the
guy that you're gunning to get that to save your
bacon and all that. I'm sure he'll be fine for
a while, but can you really trust him? Me thinks
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not so much. He thinks not so much. He also
has the Pine Tar cheating scandal, the Rosin scandal from
earlier this year, which happened at Dodger Stadium, So the
negatives outweigh the positives. Nevertheless, if this was a hitter,
I'd give it a two to fifty batting average. Twenty
five percent chance that short term player coming to the
Dodgers if they can work out some kind of agreement
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with the Mets. It's hard to imagine the Mets would
pay any of Scherzer's salary, but knowing the Dodgers, they
might ask, calling the Mets owner, well, I'll give you
some better minor league player in return for paying a
chunk of max ers or salary, beause I'm guessingsurres are
having a crappy year is not going to opt out
of the player option that he has for next year. Now,
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page two, let's go to a very popular topic of conversation.
Show Hey oh Tani are obligatory Mini Mallard monologue on
the life and stylings of the international phenom show heotany
showtime at the Big A for a limited time only.
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So why are the Angels? Why are the Angels' trade
talks the rumors now involving show Hey O Tani being
called increasingly slim? Why is there? So here's my theory
on why this report's now going around because finally, finally
the message that I have heard I mentioned this a
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few days ago is finally making the rounds and other
people are regurgitating the same thing. I'm guessing the people
that told me are the person that told me. He
probably told a bunch of other people. I don't think
I'm special. So they finally picked up on it, and
they're like, okay, so Arti Marino is not looking to
trade show hey Otani. And that's just the way it
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is now. The Angels owner, Ardy Marino, the man of
the art. It's gonna be his decision. This is at
his pay grade. He owns the team. He's gonna be
the one that decides whether the trade the Unicorn or not.
He at this point is going old school Richard Dreyfus
from a classic movie, Let It Ride. That is the
move here for the owner of the Angels. You let
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it ride. And he thinks this offseason the Angels could
have another lucky day. And Otanio decided he wants to
stay with the Halos and he loves Mike Trout and
he really likes living in the OC and he wants
to stay there. And that's it. And so all it takes,
all it takes is Ardi Marino to continue to believe
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what he's what we've told he's believing right now, and Nevertheless,
the Angels are doing their due diligence, even though this
is this reverb is going all over the place that
Marino's like not into doing it, into trading Otani. But
the drama builds because there are conflicting reports that the
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Arizona Diamondbacks and the Baltimore Orioles are interested in Otani. Now,
isn't everyone interested in O'toni? I guess, well, so and
SO is interested in acquiring Why wouldn't every team in
baseball want Otani? Because he can pitch and hit. He's
a better hitter than he is a pitcher. But why
wouldn't you want to have that guy on your team?
So I could start a rumor right now, every team
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in baseball, the Pittsburgh Pirates are interested, right even if
throw any scenario out the Milwaukee Brewers. They hear that
Otani loves the smell of beer barley and he wants
to play for the Brewers, And you can connect O'tani
to anybody. But I maintain I've not heard anything different.
When I hear something different, I'll pass it on. But
the Angels are collecting offers from other teams just in
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case that at the eleventh hour, Arty Marino says, you
know what, Ah, screw it, We'll trade Otani. Then we'll
try to resign him in the offseason, because that always
works out, unless it works out once every decade. The
last time it worked out is I remember the Yankees
traded erald As Chapman to the Cubs. He went to Chicago,
won the World Series, and then Chapman went back to
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the Yankees. But outside of that, I don't recall it
happening anytime since then. Maybe it has and it slipped
my memory. So we'll keep an eye on that, and
just in case Arty has a reversal of fortune or
a reversal of opinion. Now, final point, let's go to
Boston talking some baseball here, because the Red Sox are
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in the thick of the wild card race. There's a
lot of phony contenders. There's a lot of phony contenders.
The Red Sox are tied with the Yankees for the
last place and two games back in the wild card
race in the American League. So the debate continues. Are
the Red Sox a contender or a pretender? And I'm
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looking around at the Red Sox and I have them
firmly planted in the pretender category. That's just the way
it is now. Boston technically is on the contender side,
but they've they're not realistically a content. They got a
bunch of Renna players that they have spare parts on
the roster. And it is interesting to note that teams
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have been contacting the rests because they like those guys
that are on short contracts. They don't have to pay
them past this year. That's very attractive to frugal baseball teams.
So Ken Lee Janssen, Justin Turner, the ex Dodgers, Key
k Hernandez. There's also Adam Duval who got up to
a great start, then got hurt and been so so
since then. But Adam Duval the outfielder that could be
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headed back to the Atlanta Braves as a possibility. Meanwhile,
I'm gonna go out and limb and say, Shane Bieber,
the Beebes will not be traded. He is no longer
on the trading block. Now the Cleveland pitcher. Now, how
do we know that because the team formerly known as
the Indians have put Bieber on the sixty day injured
list with an elbow inflammation, which means he ain't pitching,
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not until sometime in September, so good luck trading him.
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Let's go to our guy Eddie, not that Eddie, the
other Eddie in Charlotte Thumbs up thumbs down. Are you
ready for the thumbs up thumbs down game?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Hello Eddie, how y'all doing, Ben? How'd you coming along?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
If I was any better, I would be sleeping, but
I'm not. I'm here talking being with it.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Were you coming into the Charlotte, North Carolina area? Were
you recently in North Carolina?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Well, I wasn't in Charlotte. I was in North Carolina.
My wife has some family that lives in North Carolina,
kind of off the beaten path, though not near Charlotte
or Raleigh in a smaller time. But I was there.
I went to a wedding, uh last last year, so
I was. I wasn't your neck of the woods. But
I'll have to make an appearance at some point. I will.
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I will get there.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah, I'll come see you. My first one is okay,
my New York Football Giants thumbs up, thumbs down.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Wait wait, so you cut out? So can the Giants
make the playoffs without Sakuon Barkley?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Is that the question?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Without Uh, yes they can make the play will they know?
But I'm gonna go thumbs up they can. Yes, I'm
going yes they can. Eddie thumbs up, thumbs out. Eddie's
not even listening to the other Eddie. All right, Eddie,
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you put your headphones on. There you go thumbs up
or thumbs down. I guess we have to repeat the question.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Eddie in Charlotte wants to know if the Giants can
make the playoffs without Saquon bark I went thumbs up, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
In the NFC, I'll say, I'll say thumbs all.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Right, anyone, Coop, you want to play the game, some
thumbs up? Thumbs down?
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Coop?
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Do we even know who the who's the backup running
back there? Do we even know that? Does it matter?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Does it matter today? I can't recall who he was,
but they running back today? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Hold on, I get that information here. Yeah one second,
let me get my giant step shot up because that's
that's the kind of content that the backup running back
for the Giants is Matt Brida. They have him as
the back, and he signed James Robinson who failed the
physical with the Patriots. I've heard both those names before.
I'm gonna go thumbs.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Up, okay, Chris thumbs down. But it has nothing to
do with Saquon Barkley. It's that Daniel Jones. He stinks well.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
He does snaky and he stunk last year and they
made the playoffs last year and they gave him how
much money? Eddie and Charlotte.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Did they give that guy I'm not sure. I'm not sure,
but they gave him too much.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Well yeah, I mean, well not for him, but you know,
considering the way he's played. All right, what his next
thumbs up thumbs down? The game that is shaking the
sports radio nation.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Okay, this one involves the newly acquired acquired Washington Commodoors.
Can Magic Johnson and crew within the next three years,
get the Commodoors, which they're going to change their name to,
get into a title game. Get Magic do it in
three years. Get the carmodoff to.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
The title game in the next three years, So a
conference title game.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, it's the NFC. And you look at the the
Washington football team has They're in that mix where they
if a few guys get hurt, they could end up
winning like four games, which would get you near the
top of the draft. And the top of the draft
has Caleb Williams. He's supposed to be God's gift to
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the quarterback position. So yes, if they suck out Loud
and Caleb Williams is as good as advertised, I'm going
thumbs up. I'm gonna go thumbs up on that for
Magic Johnson and whatever they're gonna call that team. Eddie
thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs down. It's bad job. You're
very negative. But what about you coople thumbs up, thumbs down,
thumbs down. You know how quickly things change in the NFL?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Chris, Now, yeah, NFC, like we're talking NFC title game.
I'll go thumbs down. However, I will do with the
caveat if they change their name back to the Washington
football team, then thumbs on.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
It has to be his. Washington football guys are very negative.
I'm doing positivity here. You're doing very negative, right, come on,
Eddie and Charlotte. I'm doing positive stuff here. There is
a path, There is a path. Okay, you agree? All right?
What is next? What do we have here? This is
a fun game. Last one? Here we go, last one?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
This one above soccer or football? Uh? That that that
got Messy is that he does not want to play
the Charlotte sc on our turf. Thumbs up with thumbs down.
Should he have that choice?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
All right? So he Eddie, let me there, he translate,
So he MESSI, who's now playing for the team in Miami,
does not he does not want to go to Charlotte.
Is that right, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
He doesn't want to play on our turf? Wants to play?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
What is wrong with your turf?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It's not good?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Not good? All right?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
So thumbs up there. You know, I'll support Messi. I mean,
he's just fusing around with his team in Miami anyway.
He's not really taking it seriously. He's just there because
they gave him a great deal and he wants to
hang out with celebrities, and so he don't want to
get hurt. So'll go. I'll go thumbs up. Why not, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I guess I'll go thumbs up as far as like
a regular season game. But if he decides, I don't know,
if they were to meet in like the playoffs or
something and he didn't play because of the turf, I
wouldn't be along go along with that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Eddie's got standards. Cooblope. I kind of zoned out. What
was the questioning about Messi? Something about Messi playing in Charlotte.
Know Eddie's in Charlotte, so he wants were you gonna
go to this game, Eddie to see Messi? Is that
why you're bummed out? Is that the no?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
But I would like the extra hYP Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, you want the hype? I got you.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I don't think Lebron will show up to that game
we have. Messi's now playing so coopy this thumbs up,
her thumbs thumbs up, thumbs up.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Okay, and Chris, I'm a big soccer guy and massive
thumbs up for this. This is embarrassing that Charlotte still
uses artificial turf for a soccer game. We've seen guys
shred their shred their knees too much on this stuff. Messi,
at his age, doesn't need that. He'd rather much better
for him to go get a pub sub at Public's.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
He is semi retired at this point, Messi, he's just
kind of hanging out, all right. Eddie, good game as always.
We loved the game. Thank you, Eddie. Okay, fun game,
thumbs up, thumbs down. Eddie checking in from Charlotte. Have
a great day there, Eddie. Thank you for contributing content,
writing a bit for the show. Tremendous job by you
and making very personal talking about Charlotte Soccer's. You can't
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get much of MLS, Baby, MLS. That's the way to
do it.
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Speaker 1 (22:41):
I think we'll have the announcement on the Friday show
Thursday and the Friday on the next Mallard Meet and greet,
and we're gonna announce the details on that on Friday.
You're confirmed, Eddie, you'll be at the Malor meet and greet. Right,
you said you would be there. You put it on
your calendar on your phone to be at that event, right.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I'm pretty sure?
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh, and it's pretty went. Pretty sure? Now what does
that mean? Pretty sure?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
What do you I mean if the wife comes up
with some big thing at the last second, then you
know there is that, but it probably won't happen.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
What's the proposed date again?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Why does that work for you? Coop? Do you have
anything going on? I said it off here. You didn't
hear what I said, Cooper?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
What I say?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Nobody else. There's no way you should you do not
go to these things. You know you're not going to
be at this thing.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
That's the that's the one in the location that you
said it might be in.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Right, Yeah, it's geographically desirable for you. Yeah that might work,
am I sure? All right, I'll be big. We'll let
you know. We'll announce that.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
What kind of establishment are we gonna have?
Speaker 5 (23:44):
This?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Has that been determined?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I know the establishment and I want to announce that
all on on Fridays. It's something different. We haven't done
this kind of established we normally do.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
They serve food at this establishment?
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
No? No, I mean we can get some food.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
I'm gonna'm gonna tell you when you're Eddie, But I
don't think it works than your headphones.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You have to take off your headphone. All right, it's
gonna take his headphones off. We're playing.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
This is all very good for on air content.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, this is why we're doing the Overnight show. But
we're talking. We're having a meeting right now about a
malord meet and greed and Eddie has requested food.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah, that's gonna need to be catered.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
That's gonna be catered.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Well, who's gonna pay for the catering? Exactly?
Speaker 8 (24:30):
The Ben Mallar Show.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You know what, I'll tell you what, Eddie, I'll bake
some cookies. How about that. I'll make cookies for you
and the listeners. How about that?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I mean that's nice for one of the side dishes.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I will slave away baking cookies. Yeah, and Alf the
alien o Piner sent me a little hack that I'm
gonna try next time I bake cookies.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
I think you should bring canes?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
You think so?
Speaker 8 (24:58):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Coop, I'll make you pitch in a little bit. There
I go. I'll buy a tray of chicken fingers. How
about that.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I'm gonna talk to the guy who's gonna be our host,
and okay.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
All right, love to get I mean it's you know,
it'll be a short thing. It's not gonna be that long.
He can get a nice meal after that or something
like that. But anyway, all right, it is the bed match.
So again, I'll have the announcement. If you and if
you make me great, it's probably we're less than a
month away from this, right, we're less than a month
away from that particular date, So we have about three
weeks I believe until that. Particularly. Let's call the phones
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and we'll say hello to a man that has been
at many a mallor meet and greet, and he has
the mobile Mallard billboard transversing the highways and byways of
America as he does that on a regular basis. Moving
Man Matt. Hello, Moving Man Matt. Regularly based in Boston,
but you never know where he's gonna end up.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
We're on our way back to Boston. We're trying to
beat all the traffic up. Stopped in New Jersey last
night because apparently I wanted no part of New York.
I guess there was a building on fire on the
Cross Bronx Expressway. So that's not good for traffic.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
No, Well, even when there is no building on fire,
the traffic blows. So you're you're wise. This is a
savvy move. That's why you are a veteran, a seasoned driver.
You know to drive it this time. You do not
have to. You don't have to worry about it. There's
no traffic right now in Manhattan, right, not none.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
There's not none. There could always be, you know, they
decide to pave or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well yeah, well, I mean that's what I deal with
when I'm driving around here because they set it close
to you, Ben, that's right, And added an added bonus
in a live version, not the podcast, because the podcast
is it is just as good, but it's not.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
It's it's uh, you know, if you're not available during
on air hours, Uh, it's a suitable replacement.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, exactly. But what's on your mind here? Movie?
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Man?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Man? And you're heading back? Where you where are you coming?
Are you? Were you in? Where were you before you
turn the round to go back to Boston?
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Well? I was in Madison, Wisconsin. That I was down
in DC and Virginia Beach. So and then I am
flying to lax on Friday to catch one of my
other trailers and deliver it in the LA area.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Is that right? We are you gonna stop by? How
many days are gonna be in LA? You gonna stop
by and visiting in Friday out Sunday on the Red Eye? Man,
I'm thinking that ain't gonna work out I'm thinking that
will not work out so much.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
But that's well not but fa fathy move. Used my Miles,
Ben and I have been waiting for this experience. Used
my Miles with an uh, this is just I'm proud of.
This is a mallon maneuver. Okay, for the price of
a coach ticket and Miles, I have the premiere first
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class laid down seat.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Wow, that's awesome. Is that bogie is nice? That is
a solid move though bougie action there. See, you'll be
enjoying you and the flight from Boston to LA is
a longer flight, so you can really soak all that up. Right,
You're going against the jet stream, so you're you're locked
in there.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Nice and I have that both ways, so the red
eye'll be I'll be nice and relaxed while I get
home Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Be great. Now, Typically I fly on prominence, but when
I saw this option available, I've been waiting for this.
I've been waiting for an opportunity for this.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, that's great, but I don't I don't fly first class.
You're you're living the bougie life there big time. Absolutely,
that's sod. Let me know how that goes. I'm not.
I walked through the first class to get back to
the coach. When i'm I walk on the plane, I
see the cease. They look really nice.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
So I need to be able to put myself in
position to this meet and greet. If the whole team is.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Going to be there, well, well you keeping. I am
guaranteeing I will be there, Eddie. If his wife comes
up with something better, he might not be there.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
If you if you big cookies, I can bring pickles
if that'll help get Eddie there?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Eddie, cookie you want pickles?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
The opposite? Actually, if there, I will not be there.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
What a diva is? Such a diva? All right? Well
we can make it like a pot luck. We could
have everyone bring an item and a food item. Well,
what do you there? You go authentic clam showder what Eddie?
What would you bring Eddie? Mac and cheese or something myself? Coop,
what are you gonna make? Special brownies?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You can bring those for the people?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
No, you will not be doing Okay, interesting.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
So you're talking three weeks?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, yeah, I'll put you on a Coop will tell
you the date? How about that? Ye, you'll know before
everyone else. Alright, hold one, put you on. It is
the Ben Mouse Show. You can pick them up. Pick
up line whatever, line line one. Let him know the
Ben mal Show on Fox. So couple of stories we
need to get to here. The myth building building up.
(29:56):
The myth happened in Milwaukee Elie de la Cruz of
the Cincinnati Reds. Where you seeing the highest you watch
the highlights, do you see what happened in this particular
game here? So Eli Didla Cruz in his first at
bat almost hit a home run. He almost hit home run.
The Milwaukee Brewers scoreboard operators thought, ah, let's have a
(30:19):
good time. So on the scoreboard when Dela Cruz came
up the next time, it said in the first inning,
he flied to center. And then they had player trivia
almost hit a home run in the first inning, but didn't.
All right, So this is the third inning of the
Reds Brewers game. Ellie did La Cruz back up, and
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he then hits a four hundred and fifty six foot
home run that almost went out of the stadium. Hard
to hit a ball out of that stadium. It's got
a roof. Although the roof was open, and so the
legend of La de la Cruz continuing there as the
next phenom in baseball, so good that he'll be in
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Cincinnati for seven years and then he'll go somewhere else
unless the Reds find a new owner that will actually
pay him the kind of money he's gonna get. And
we had quite the scene in Philadelphia Trey Turner, who
signed a forever contract with the Fight in Phils and
the Phillies playing the Baltimore Orioles and Trey Turner had
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a game to forget a terrible performance by Trey Turner,
the ex Dodger. He was ejected after a called third strike.
He had made two errors at shortstop in the game,
but the main reason he was ejected it appears to
be because of aggressive tossing of the gear towards the
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bat boy. So he was called out on a pitch
that he thought was not a strike. He went to
talk to the umpire and the replay and I looked low,
but the catcher framed it for the Orioles, and so
according to the graphic it should have been a ball,
but it was close and a sinker ninety four miles
an hour. So Trade Turner talking the umpire, he's throwing
his equipment, having a rational conversation, and the umpire this
(32:11):
guy said, now ye're rejected. You are ejected. Trade Turner
get out of here, and Trey Turner would like to
get out of here. For the Philly The Phillies are
on the fringes of being a playoff team, right, They're
in the race and the playoffs and all that. But
Trey Turner, who had been a career three hundred hitter,
(32:33):
he'd beat it over three hundred or around three hundred
pretty much every year since, you know, the last four
four years, five years or so, hitting two forty nine
for the Phillies this year. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
As we continue on, and we will take your calls
in a bit. Also we have coming up Mallor to
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the third degree. We'll get to Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Time.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Now for the Insta trivia, the rare and appropriate GoF
Insta trivia. Here it is Brian Harmon, the distant relative
of Mike Harmon who works there. But Brian Harmon at
thirteen under par one what we call the British Open.
They just called the Open this past weekend. In doing so,
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In doing so, he became the fifth left handed golfer
to win a major title, the first since Blank. Brian Harmon.
He won what we call the British Open this past weekend.
In doing so, he became the fifth left handed golfer
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answer to the insta trivia Let's see here page down
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says mister Bob Hope. Bernie Sanders from pollyb el Zorro
guest by Cowboy Killer, Jabari Hitchcock the World Famous from
Dustin in Parts Unknown Jesse Orosco guests by mister nice
Guy John Day from Miguel on Fire Ronnie Foscio tossed
out by Ferg Dog. That looks like a board that
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I used back back in the day. Who else do
we have? Page down golf legend Dwarf was guessed by
Milkman Mike and Colorado. Ronda Roussi from the Philly Rob
Tribute account Wally in Floora going with Phil as his answer, Uh,
Paige down, Paige Nan, Lefty Frizzelle from Alf the Alien
Opiner Callagan, Tim and Michigan went with Fred Rogan. Do
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you have an answer, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Let's go with the guy they called Lefty, Phil Nicholson.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Phil Micholson fin aanswer, Eddie that is incorrect. The correct
answer Bubba Watson back in twenty twelve, Bubba Watson the
last left thet It's Michelson Watson, Mike Weir and Sir
Bob Charles. Whoever that is. It's Maller.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
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gets great?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
All right, cool below, what do we got here?
Speaker 9 (36:39):
Cope reyes Hoskins towards a c Allen spring training and
was supposed to be done for the entire season. Well
now he's hoping to return to the Philly if the
Phillies make the playoffs, Ben, do you think they'll make
the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yes, they should make the playoffs. They were in the
World Series last year. It was a bit of a
fluke run. But that is a playoff team. That is
a team that's got big name players, the name brand
guys Bryce Harper, Nick Castellano's a bunch of other guys
we've heard of. The pitching has been patchwork in Philadelphia,
but you look around the National League and there's no
(37:11):
excuse for the Phillies not to make the playoffs in
the wildcard race with that extra team, and you look
at teams like the Giants and the Marlins that are
starting to fall away, the Diamondbacks. The Phillies should be
in the playoffs. Yes, they should be next.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
Despite benefiting from the transfer portal, Lane Kiffin recently went
on a rant essentially blaming it for putting college football
in a state of disaster.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
This master very dramatic.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Do you agree with him?
Speaker 2 (37:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I disagree with Lane Kiviv. It's added an extra layer
of intrigue for college football because it's a whirling dervish
now to try to keep track of who's on a roster.
It's like Grand Central Station with the cummings and the
goings of players depending how much money they get in
nil deals. But if I was Lane kiff and I
would be grumbling, and all these coaches are upset because
it's it makes it harder. The job is harder now
(37:58):
it sucks. They used to have complete control.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Next an x NFLGM recently said that he thinks Jordan
Love is going to be the best quarterback of the
NFC North Ben who is going to be the best
quarterback in that division this season?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, that's why that executive is a former general manager.
Whoever said that? That is the former GM. But no, right,
it's neck and neck. Jared Goff played better than Kirk
Cousins last year, so if he plays like that again,
you'd put him right there. Cousins number two, and then
Jordan Loves got a chance to be number three On
the list because in terms of the actual quarterback position,
(38:34):
justin Fields blows. Okay, he's he's great running the ball,
but that's not a quarterback. Quarterbacks throwing the ball. Running
the ball is extra gravy and all that, and so
Field's got to approve a lot so love it most
could be the third best quarterback barring a collapse by
Jared Goff. There it is male at a third degree?
How did we know he passes? That is why win
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a the buzzer. I won the game at the buzzer.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
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