July 26, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Justin Herbert signing a mega extension with the Los Angeles Chargers, who benefits the most from Herbert's deal, the scorecard for Saquon Barkley's contract, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
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the podcast numbers are spiking up, and we thank you
for finding the podcast and hearing what you might have
missed on the overnight. So how do you assess Justin
Herbert's record setting deal as quarterback with the Chargers? Who
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benefits the most from Herbert's deal? And what does the
scorecard look like on the Saquon Barkley contract as he
ends his kurfluffle for now with the Giants. We'll talk
about all that and more here it is our number one.
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is from rich people getting richer, always a fun conversation.
We play for the love of the game. Listen, I'm
glad everyone's getting rich. I'd like to get rich. That
would be nice. So our league, coming from the NFL,
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was a nice day to get a massive cartoon sized
check and several figures not just in the NFL, but
around the sporting world got paid. Will their teams end
up getting played, We don't know. We'll find out over
the course of time. But what we do know a
big news day for the electric company of the NFL,
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the Chargers, as they made a headlines. I assume you've
heard by now, but it is possible that you have
lived in a vacuum and you have not gotten out
and experienced the outside world, and you might have missed
the update. But if you did, we learned that the
Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert agreeing to a MEGAMEGAMEGAMEGA millions contract
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extension with the other Los Angeles football team, the American
Football Conference version of the NFL team at LA. Herbert
gets a five year deal for two one hundred and
sixty two point five million, not all guaranteed, but most
of it is, at least the beginning of the contract
fully guarantee at the start here as he'll get a
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ton of money. The deal was completed a day before
the Chargers will run out on the practice field and
begin the festivities. So he is under contract. Herbert at
age twenty five. He can suck and go out there
and literally drop a douce right on the midfield logo
and he'll be set for life. So congratulations to him.
Through twenty twenty nine. NFL contracts, of course not that reliable,
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but the money part, the guaranteed money part, is there.
It includes a no trade clause like the Chargers were
about to trade him, and one hundred and thirty three
point seven million in full guarantees one hundred and thirty
three million, and there's also injury guarantees. There's a lot
of legal ees in these contracts, and I generally avoid
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legal ease. It gives me a headache. I tried to
avoid it. Maybe you're into that kind of thing. Good luck,
good reading, Grab the contract online, go sit on the
toilet and have a field day. So let us discuss
the question. The question is how do you assess Justin
Herbert's deal with the Chargers. Is he now, based on
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what numbers you look at, has the greatest contract in
the NFL.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So that's the question.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So I've got Olympics, Chili Bowl, and Parisian and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a penthouse in the sky. And Justin
Herbert can afford a penthouse in the sky. He can
afford fifteen penthouses in the sky.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
If he chooses. Good for him. So a we'll start here.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Justin Herbert is being paid because of his place in
the social hierarchy of the NFL. R it's not necessarily
if you were to say, see a top five quarterback
in the NFL, no top ten, where does he fall
in the NFL. It's not really an issue because it's
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all as we've.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Heard over the years, it's all about time.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's about who you know, not what you know, and
it's about the timing of all of this.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And if you look around and.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Grays around the field there, and you look out in
the distance, okay, and you can see off in the
horizon there, there is a method to the madness. And
the method to the madness is that there's a map.
There's a road map. The Chargers are following here. It's
like the Olympics. It's a relay race. We talk about
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this kind of thing from time to time, the relay
race in the NFL. And Justin Herbert was just given
the baton. It is a nice baton. It is a
solid gold baton. And you now have the baton and
you will be able to pass the baton off and
the Chargers. No one's going to criticize this. The Chargers
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are getting praised. It's a safe bet, universal appraw, applause
from the football pundits. The Bolts are betting that Justin Herbert,
his numbers and everything will come together here and mostaticize it.
It'll metastaicize because the Chargers. He's put up good individual numbers,
he's been a statistically dominating player at this point. But
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the numbers, the statue heat is better than the standings
as Justin Herbert started twenty nine games in the Chargers uniform,
the powder blue of the Chargers, and they are one
game above five hundred and that's it. And so you're
paid a guy a lot of money because he was
next in line. You paid him to be number two
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in the division in the West behind Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Like, okay, hey, they got the money.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I mean this thing about you can't get too worked
up into a ladder over money in the NFL. Because
Justin Herbert got paid a ton of money. I think
he's God's gift to the quarterback. No, not really, but
he's next, and we should do the same thing in
my business in overnight sports radio, whoever's next, I just
raise the ante. Do the salaries ever go down? No
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they do not, not for quarterbacks. Running backs they go down,
but not for quarterbacks. They don't go down. And the
thing about Justin Herbert, he has this cloak of protection
which is starting to become annoying. It's never his fault.
There's no accountability in terms of Justin Herbert not being
good in certain areas. You bring that up and the
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people that jenuflect the quarterbacks get all worked up and
there are some rough edges. Justin Herbert's got some great statistics,
but there are some rough evit edges. But you bring
that up, it's like, no, it's Brandon Stalely.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's the coach. It's his fault.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That's the guy, or the defense as inadequate, or the
special teams, it's not the quarterback. Nevertheless, Justin Herbert, he
still got some snank on him. I'd say a fair
amount of stak based on that playoff loss to Jacksonville,
and I haven't forgotten it. I clearly the Chargers don't
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give a rats ass about what happened in that game.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
But after being given.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Five takeaways by the Jags, the Chargers had a twenty
seven nothing Remember this, the playoff goes several months ago.
The Charger had a twenty seven nothing lead in this
playoff game and they then.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Puked it up.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They gave it all back, twenty seven nothing lead in
a playoff game, and Justin Herbert, you know how many
plays he made the rest of the game.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You could argue he didn't really make any plays. And
when the Chargers went up twenty seven nothing, that was
given to them on a silver platter by the Jags.
But after going up twenty seven nothing Justin Herbert. I
went back to look at my notes because I'm a
loser like that, because I remember him not doing anything
in the second half, and the numbers confirmed that they
validated that memory that I had that closed the game.
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Justin Herbert was very media are Great, a passer rating
in the seventies the rest of the game, and had
a fumble, although the team recovered and the la AFC
football team was outscored thirty one to three to close
the game. Now, the second part of this, and you
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take a look around the different quarterbacks, every you know
getting paid and you know who's who's next. So who
benefits the most from Justin Herbert's deal, well outside of
the obvious generations of his family generations of the Herbert family.
But he has now relocated to Easy Street. But then
you look at the stove there and there's a nice
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chili bowl simmering all the stove and Joe Burrow is
licking his chops right now because with Herbert getting paid
and the baton, the golden baton will be passed to
Joe Burrow, he gets to now get his windfall. It's
choreographed financial frenzy madness is what it is. And the
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price tag goes up for the Beals with Joe Burrow,
and that's gonna be an interesting one because they are
known to be very frugal. There's really no way around this, Like,
the only way around it is to delay it. But
that's gonna cost you more money. Because will Cincinnati futs
around here and give Joe Burrow a fifth year option
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and say that's it, we don't have to pay you
for another year. We don't have to give you the extension.
We'll push it back. And also, will the Bengals have
a bake sale sell baked goods in the greater Cincinnati
metro area there to try to raise funds?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Have plenty of money.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, if they give Joe Burrow a lot of money,
he just cuts into the revenues that the Brown family
gets the ownership group there, that's the problem. They actually
end up saving a couple of bucks and Joe Burrow,
unlike Justin Herbert, where there are questions about Justin Herbert,
there are no questions about Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
For sure. He's much better than Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Now last word here, so just after we got off
the air within an hour of when I turned the
mics off and walked out of the building. I walked
down the hall, through a courtyard into a parking lot,
got in the car, turned it on, left the building,
waved it the guys out there that are sleeping intents outside,
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I waved at them as I was getting out of here.
And then the news came down that Saquon Barkley had
ended his hostilities with the Giants. He agrees to end
the protest. What a protest it was, works out a
one year deal instead of playing on the franchise tag.
He gets a little bit more. You got two million
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dollars up front from what I was reading here, two
million dollars up front in a signing bonus, a one
million dollars available in incentives. So instead of just ten million,
a little over ten million, he gets about an extra
nine hundred thousand dollars, give or take. So who does
the score card favor? What does it look like? What
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does that scorecard look like for Saquon Barkley in this
particular contract. So this is a wwwwwww's big W for
the Giants. The g men get a W. And this
is an l for Barkley. Now it's one of these
weird sports things that you can't really get to.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Do.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You can't declare that this is a massive step in
for the Giants and a huge kick in the nuts
for Barkley because he's getting eleven million. You're not doing
bad in life when you get eleven million. But nonetheless
on the scorecard, it looks like an l that Barkley.
In this chapter of the running Back saga, Oh, it's
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like a Shakespearean drama sequon. Barkley is the Parisian soldier
raising the white flag and being given eleven million.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Dollars for his troubles.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
A full surrender, no resetting the market, no being a
martyr for other running backs, no.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
None of that.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
A revolutionary, not a revolutionary. He did not even get
guarantees from the Giants. We are told that they will
not use the franchise tag again next year. So gets
about a million extra, which in NFL circles is chump change.
You don't even have to crack open the piggy bank
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to worry about that.
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It's Ben Mallor and we began the night ranting and
raving about the big news in the NFL. Justin Herbert
of the Chargers getting paid a ton of money. How
much money is he going to get right away? We'll
tell you that coming up in a minute. Not the
lump sum payment, but it does appear to be a
lump sum payment for me. It would be a lump
sum payment, that's for sure. The Russian kid writes in,
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says Benjamin this monologue, So damn fine.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You couldn't have said any better.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
What a day to be alive when NBA and and
the NFL's top paid players aren't even the best in
their conferences.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, in Boston, Jalen Brown, we're gonna talking about him later.
He got paid by the Celtics. He's not even the
top player on his own team. Jason Tatum's a better
player and Jalen Brown. How many playoff games did he
vanish late in the game for the Celtics in this postseason?
And he's still They gave him the money. He's next,
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He got the money. Spocks Weed rights in and says,
is a Beaver fan. You're absolutely right to point out
Justin Herbert's shortcomings. Not only is he right, no, is
it right? He feeds my desire for rivalry shot in freude.
Never did I think I could work that word into
a tweet or an X What good use of the
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word shot in freudaf Femi rights in, He's got a
hot take now, Femi is the number one uber eats
a driver in Minneapolis. This guy is a baller with
the uber eats. And we met him at the Valor
meet and greet made some bumper stickers. Very nice guy
called us up on the international line when he was
visiting family, getting the royal welcome there in his home country.
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And Femi says another headline grabbing Mallard monologue. If Justin,
not your Justin, is getting fifty three million a year,
then Captain Kirk Cousins might just be getting the greatest
contract in NFL history. If the Vikings do well this
year because Kirk is ten times better than Herbert. Wow,
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that's a that's a hot take. Yeah, that's a take
right there. Keith in NorCal writes it and says that
he had to search for a place to hear the
show as you were being covered up on Sirius XM.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
They had the exciting Japan.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We're getting covered up by, But Japan and Costa Rica
we're getting covered.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Up by Iowa Sam must be thrilled by that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, he encouraged it. The downfall of our show. Iowa
Sam an enemy combatant on the show who's in tonight.
He hates our show. We're getting covered up by. How
many people in America do you think want to hear that?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Maybe a lot? Maybe maybe more than the show.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Japan leads Costa Rica too, noil, I don't think so.
Sixty first minute, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Chris or somebody like that.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Please.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Well, Chris is going to give you more World Cup
takes than I ever will, so no, he's the real enemy.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Can you mention any women's World Cup?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Oh he will if you ask him.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, Iowa Sam's and like I literally got kicked in
the nuts by a female soccer player and Iowa Sam's
cheering for the female soccer players from Japan.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And what Costa Rica?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
How many of our listeners could even pick Costa Rica
out of a map?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Sad if you couldn't. I was a geography major.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It's not about you, Iowa Sam. It's not about you,
Iowa Sam.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
A geography major. Where at the University of Iowa. You
went to the University of Iowa? Yes, why are you here?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Then?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I did not know that?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
What happened? I City?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I went to school, Knives, How's that? How's that working
out for you? It was a long time.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I mean it gave me a great education enough to
know where Costa Rica is?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
And again, how is that working out for you? You
don't even know where Costa Rica is? Eddie?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Wow, I can. Here's a fun fact that ives.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I can pick out every state in America without the outline.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Fun fact.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
You mean you can name all fifty states?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No? No, there's a there's a trivia somebody sent me
this a couple years ago. There's a trivia game you.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Can play and it has the silhouette of the United States.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Without the you can write them in there. Then where you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Click one where each state is okay, and so what
it's You start obviously with the states on the coast,
like California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You go then Louisi.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I'm going around in Louisiana, and you go to Mississippi, Alabama.
You've got Georgia, and then below that you've got floor.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
How am I doing?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I'm doing pretty good, doing pretty good there.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
So you go up from Georgia because you've got you
get the outline after you name it correctly, well, you
you have to click on the right part of the
map and then it fills in. If you got it right,
you have to type it y. So you go to
South Carolina, North Carolina. That sounds fine, Virginia geography major,
you would like that. And then it gets a little
harder after Virginia because you got you know, Delaware is
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kind of squeezing there with Maryland, and they guy, the
Delaware is a hard one because island, well, pro line
is very small. Yeah, Connecticut's obviously be the got Maine,
New England, States, Got Pennsylvania, Yeah, got Ohio, got Indiana.
You don't need to name every state. I named most
of them. We don't need to named the coastal states. Well,
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that's what I was saying. I was walking, I was
working my way around. That's my strategy. There's a little tip.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Then when you get to Kansas, you're screwed well well.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
In the middle. So you got to work your web.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So you go from what I do is I go
from Texas, then boom, you had Oklahoma, and then above
oak the home you've got Kansas right. And then but
if you go off to the to the right of Kansas,
you've got Missouri. Ye, so you've got Missouri there, and
then on the other side of Missouri you've got Illinois.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Above Missouri you have Iowa.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well above Illinois, you've got Wisconsin right, and then if
you move over from Wisconsin, depending what you know, you
go one direction, you've got you've got Minnesota, but then
the other way you've got Michigan. Because there's a lake.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
You know, you might want to give Women's World Cup
scores over to saying.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I've just pointed out my geography knowledge of the United Stity.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You've got thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Iowa was saying, that's Eddie. That's a guy that went
to the University of Iowa. Hawkeye right, and he credited
me affordable education ability to name random states.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
That's good, very good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, I'll be here all night. Actually i'll be here.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Some people confuse Iowa, Idaho, and Ohio, and I'm still kind.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Of baffled by that. All those eye things, yeah, eyes
and o's all those things.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
How long is this Women's World Cup going on?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
By the way, is too long? On August twentieth?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Maybe August twentieth.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Yeah, it goes for another month, goes for another month,
Holy crap, mid to late August.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Really, yeah, we're gonna all of August pretty much.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Well, but that the nice thing is is that when
that's over, then we have week zero college football starting
in about like six days or four days.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Covered up by college football. I don't care about that.
That doesn't affect the show at all.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Well, you know, other sports go on and other places
in the world, and unfortunately that's how it goes.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, I know you like it, but for the rest
of us, it blows. But you can always hear the show,
and you've obviously if you're listening live to the show,
you've found a way to hear the show. We recommend
the iHeartRadio app, the live stream.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
We never get.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Covered up on the live stream, and you can hear
the show in its entirety, and if you miss any
part of it, you can hear the podcast on demand
whenever you want and limited commercial interruptions. So justin Herbert,
he gets the big contract he charges quarterback. How much
is he going to make the first year of the deal?
How about one hundred read million dollars, But that does
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not begin until twenty twenty five, so he's gonna have
to slum it for the next year and then after that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Chi ching, chi ching, chi ching. There are four different
versions of how much guaranteed money Herbert's gonna get, But
the answer is, God, yeah, the answers a lot. The
answers a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It's but one hundred million dollars for one one season
to have seventeen games, of which he will likely miss
at least one or two of those games with some
kind of injury. So really about a fifteen game season
he'll play, and that is what he's got going on.
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Speaker 5 (24:13):
Well, we had a scary issue involving the son of
Lebron James. Bronni James, who you've probably heard about, suffered
a cardiac arrest during a workout with the USC basketball
team Monday, taken to the hospital. The good news is
he's in stable condition, no longer in the ICU. But
these things always freak me out because this is a
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young guy who's in obviously a good physical condition, and
I'm an old guy who's fat. I keep thinking, how
am I avoiding something terrible happening to me?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But well, you just sit, you don't move, just don't
move your body and you'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I don't know what happened to James. I know the
conspiracy theories, of course.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
There.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
The good news is kind of like with DeMar Hamlin
right with the Bills, he he has this happened where
there's trainers are you know, on staff right there ready
to assist immediately. So that's certainly a good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, I mean years ago, guys would have this happened.
That's it.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I remember Pete Maravich, the great pistol Pete, he was
playing hoops in Louisiana and this never happened before.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Ben's right, but uh it was.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It was.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Hank Gadare old Reggie Lewis with the Celtics, drop dead
playing basketball. But yeah, a lot of people in this
only started a couple of years ago. And I listen,
I try to point out this is actually happens every
so often.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So but anyway, whatever, I don't know what happened to
the guy.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And I assume Brownie James Lebron has a lot of
money so he can afford to get all the tests,
and I don't know. Sometimes they can't detect things though.
Sometimes there's stuff going on, they can't really the text,
So who knows, but we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Hopefully is okay, don't know about resuming his basketball career,
but at this point that's not really you.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Didn't need to play basketball. His father's filthy ridge. You'll
inherit the Lebron James wealth. Come on, man, he can
live over there and where they live, Calabasas or bell Air,
wherever they're at there and just knock themselves out, man,
just live off. The spawn of great players are never great.
Is there an example of a I'm talking great player
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who had a kid who was also a great player.
There have been guys that are kids that have made
it in sports and had careers, but not Bronni James
is not going to have the run that Lebron had.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It would be on the NBA. Like Scottie Pippen's kid.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Now, Scotty wasn't as good as Lebron, but Scotty in
the NBA, he's bounced around. He's kind of a fringe
guy in the NBA. Michael Jordan's kids didn't make it.
There's some.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
NFL guy I guess the Archie Manning was not.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
But Archie wasn't like well, they always say, if he
hadn't played on the terrible Saints teams and gotten his
brains beat in, if you could have gone to a
better situation.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's what I tell people. I tell people at cocktail parties.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
If I wasn't doing overnights, I would make as much
money as you know, Colin Coward.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But you know you don't tell anybody that. No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I don't actually talk to people.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I don't like talking to people anyway. Thank you for that, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
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you want the Twitter machine at Ben Mahler phones are packed.
Let's go to the phones right now. We'll say hello
to Andre in the Commonwealth, a fan favorite. People get
so worked up when you hear Andre, Hello, Andre, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Ben?
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Good? Good to be talking with you. Listen. We got
to start where you are with your lead giants, got
it right? Given Barkley the money, this is interesting in
terms of his franchise. Tag hasn't happened since nineteen ninety four,
or he had the franchise tag, but they made a
deal outside of that goes from ten million to like
eleven million with incentives, whatever the case may be. In
(28:14):
my opinion, he's still under paid based on how running
backs are underpaid, but nonetheless they got it done. He's happy,
and we know that Daniel Dimes, you know, he's you know,
he's only one one half. He's he's a he can't function,
for lack of a better term, without Saquon. He's dependent
is the word that I'm looking for. He depended on
the number two overall pick, Sakuon Barkley to be successful,
(28:34):
and individually we were going to be looking at a
sophomore sum.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I don't know about that, Andre because I saw Tiki Barber,
who's now a full time gas bag, and he said
that his prediction was Daniel Jones will be in the
same class as Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, and then
I think I think they had a drug test Tiki Barber.
After this, he's still getting paid by the Giants. He
must be getting money from the giants to say that
(28:59):
that no one that no one has a functioning brain,
would say Daniel Jones is on a path to be
Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
This is the same Tiki Barbara who said the Giants
had no chance to beat the undefeated Patriots, even though
that loss still hurts us here in the Commonwealth. But
he said the Giants had no chance to beat him.
The coach on the sideline, his name escapes me right now,
went to and oh against against Bill Parcell's there uh again.
He went down to the Jaguars, nittgreat Tom.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Tom coffin block. It was against Belichick Tom.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
In the Super Bowl. People didn't like his style, but
it garners results. And Tiki Barbera said the Giants had
no chance to winning that game. So he's his name
is Mudd and a lot of.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Unproparab Well, you're supposed to say that, though you're supposed
to say no chance.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
To win the game and all that.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's like, that's like the cliche thing to say, right,
you downplay the chance in an upset. That's the that's
the hand It says it in the handbook Andre The
Sports Handbook says you're supposed to down.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And play your chances of an upset and it's the
it's the Art of War.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's from the Art of War, which was like less
than one hundred pages of the Art of War and
sons Zoo.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
But Tatiki obviously didn't read it. He says, if your
enemy is of fickle temper, then you should irritate him.
You shouldn't give him bulletin board material teaking.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
If you're a bulletin board nobody, let me tell you something,
Andre No, none of these guys read bulletin board materially.
They put memos up in these lockers. I've been in
these locker rooms. They put memos up, and just like
every other business, nobody actually checks out the memos. They
just it's junk mail, it's spam. It goes to the
spam fold. They walk by those memos on a different thing.
(30:39):
They don't look at those memos. Bulletin boardic him on.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
I got I got you bet. Michael Strahan obviously did
take a look at the memo, and uh and Tuck
and OCEI min Euro because they were in the back
there that they ran Tom Brady off the field, they
took away I run there.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Was all there was an illegal passplay. The Tyree catch
was not a catcher. It was in the grasp against
Elijah Manning, the Giants quarterback was not called uh. And
then you also had a certain defensive back for the
Patriots that dropped what would have been a game ceiling
interception and now has chosen to become the greatest troll
of Bill Belichick of all time, A Sante Samuel.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
So anyway, point if it's and but we're candy and nuts,
we don't have a merry Christmas. Vicky Barber support the
dog on New York Football.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Johan, Yes, all right, go, thank you. All right, there
he goes our friend Andrea. Now, all you guys that
despise Andre can send me a message in those that
you love Andrea, you can tell me that as well.
A wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, so confident, a confident Joe, Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
We mentioned this.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
We did a monologue part of a Malard monologue on this.
In a previous episode of the show. We talked about
how Joe Burrow and t Higgins and the core of
the Cincinnati Bengals they're all coming up in the next
couple of years with new contracts and jamar Is gonna
be one of the highest paid receivers, if not the
(32:02):
highest paid receiver. And Burrow is gonna be at the
very top. He's he's got next and t Higgins and
Joe Burrow was asked about the situation with the Bengals
and what do you think?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
He said, Well, he spun it.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
He said he is confident, confident that the Bengals will
be able to keep everybody. I thought Joe Burrow grew
up in Ohio, shouldn't he know that the Bengals don't
keep everybody.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
That's a bad job.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I know you're supposed to say that, and that's the
cliche thing to say, but come on, the Bengals every
once in a while they get some good players. But
this is the most good players the Bengals have had
at any one time in my life. And they're not
gonna keep them all. And that's okay, and that's fine,
but don't tell me you're confident. There's no confidence. It
(32:46):
is the Ben Malach. We'll get the big brother snooping around.
Time now for the who am I game? And here
is the WHOMI game. Entering the week, only two players,
two big league players had strikeout rates under ten percent.
That's among players with a minimum of four hundred played appearance,
there's only two had a strikeout rate under ten percent.
(33:08):
One of them, obviously is Luisa Rise and the Marlins,
and the other is me again.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Entering the week, only two big.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
League players had strikeout rates under ten percent minimum four
hundred played appearances. Luis a Rise of the Marlins obviously
and me. Who am I the answer?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
We'll get to it, We'll do it next.
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Speaker 2 (34:07):
Suer market Steve writes in he says, I freak out
anytime I hear about a freak illness that can happen
at any time. Well, yeah, your head will explode if
you think about all the different ways you could drop dead.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Why bother? You just don't don't do anything. You know,
live in a bubble. But you know, I gotta live
your life, right.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It's like the worst thing you can do, though, is
go on the interweb, the world Wide Web.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
If you have like a cough or something.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Yeah, don't go to web md or anything like that.
You're gonna die of everything.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You have a fatal illness no matter what it is.
You stubbed your toe, you're gonna get gang green. Your
whole leg is gonna be chopped off, and then it'll
grow the rest of your body and.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Then you'll die. It'll just move on. That's the way
it goes anyway.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Time now.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Four On that positive note, the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else. Here's
the who am I?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Game?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
So entering the week, only two big league players had
strikeout rates under ten percent minimum four hundred plate appearances.
One of them is Luisa Rise of the Marlins, and
the other one is me.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
And let's see does anyone know the answer. We go
to the.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Masses, the great Unwashed Miguel on Fire going with DJ Hernandez. Well,
quite a family there, Aaron Hernandez relatives living up to
the family name. Late Night Drug Tester going with Padres
backup catcher Carlos Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Robin Vegas is the answer. From Chris into Moin, I
think what else do we have? Page down Justin Ferg Dog.
Fergdog says, the best quarterback in football Justin Herbie is
the answer. Sean in the Valley of the Sun going
with David Klingler as his answer. Cowboy Killer says Ernest
Placito Polanco's bald head from Jordan in Ohio. Page down,
(36:07):
Rodney Dangerfield. There's a relevant reference from alf the Alien Opiner. Yeah,
Fields of Green going with Mark Bellhorn Red Sox legend
Callaghan Tim in Michigan going with Dave Hanson. I have
a great Dave Hanson story, but I don't have time
to tell it right now. He was buddies with Hanson.
He played former big league player back in the day.
(36:28):
Chris in des Moines, guested by Bernard Guilkey. That is
his answer, Tiki Barbie from the Malard prop guy that's
hit his selection, Poopy Bin Laden from Ozzy was Eddie,
do you have an answer?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Eddie?
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Yeah, so I'm gonna go with former Brave and EXPO
infielder Mike Mordecai.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Oh well, what a wonderful name that is, Mike Mordecai.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
But that's wrong, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
The correct answer none other than Jose Ramerez of the
team used to be called the Indians. Now they've got
they're named after a bridge. They're named after a bridge
in Cleveland. Time now for the m l B. Pick
him daily Fantasy fun and we'll pick a pitcher and
(37:15):
a couple of position players. Eddie, you are up first,
quick quick and he's closing the gap.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
Austin Riley.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
That is a terrible first pick, Spencer, Spencer Strider. Thank
you for that.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
That's a gift. Maybe he'll actually pitch today.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Zach Gallon, Sam quickly.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Not Texas Rangers, the Phillies. One more.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I will take your guy, Carl's Korea of the Bud.
All right, I'll take Freddie Freeman, Eddie back to back quickly.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Let's go with Matt Olson and Marcus Strowman.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Cody Bellinger. We got it in, we got it we
got it in.
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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the podcast numbers are spiking up, and we thank you
for finding the podcast and hearing what you might have
missed on the overnight. So how do you assess Justin
Herbert's record setting deal as quarterback with the Chargers? Who
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benefits the most from Herbert's deal? And what does the
scorecard look like on the Saquon Barkley contract as he
ends his kurfluffle for now with the Giants. We'll talk
about all that and more here it is our number one.
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is from rich people getting richer, always a fun conversation.
We play for the love of the game. Listen, I'm
glad everyone's getting rich. I'd like to get rich. That
would be nice. So our league, coming from the NFL,
(02:10):
was a nice day to get a massive cartoon sized
check and several figures not just in the NFL, but
around the sporting world got paid. Will their teams end
up getting played, We don't know. We'll find out over
the course of time. But what we do know a
big news day for the electric company of the NFL,
(02:30):
the Chargers, as they made a headlines. I assume you've
heard by now, but it is possible that you have
lived in a vacuum and you have not gotten out
and experienced the outside world, and you might have missed
the update. But if you did, we learned that the
Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert agreeing to a MEGAMEGAMEGAMEGA millions contract
(02:55):
extension with the other Los Angeles football team, the American
Football Conference version of the NFL team at LA. Herbert
gets a five year deal for two one hundred and
sixty two point five million, not all guaranteed, but most
of it is, at least the beginning of the contract
fully guarantee at the start here as he'll get a
(03:17):
ton of money. The deal was completed a day before
the Chargers will run out on the practice field and
begin the festivities. So he is under contract. Herbert at
age twenty five. He can suck and go out there
and literally drop a douce right on the midfield logo
and he'll be set for life. So congratulations to him.
Through twenty twenty nine. NFL contracts, of course not that reliable,
(03:42):
but the money part, the guaranteed money part, is there.
It includes a no trade clause like the Chargers were
about to trade him, and one hundred and thirty three
point seven million in full guarantees one hundred and thirty
three million, and there's also injury guarantees. There's a lot
of legal ees in these contracts, and I generally avoid
(04:04):
legal ease. It gives me a headache. I tried to
avoid it. Maybe you're into that kind of thing. Good luck,
good reading, Grab the contract online, go sit on the
toilet and have a field day. So let us discuss
the question. The question is how do you assess Justin
Herbert's deal with the Chargers. Is he now, based on
(04:26):
what numbers you look at, has the greatest contract in
the NFL.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So that's the question.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So I've got Olympics, Chili Bowl, and Parisian and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a penthouse in the sky. And Justin
Herbert can afford a penthouse in the sky. He can
afford fifteen penthouses in the sky.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
If he chooses. Good for him. So a we'll start here.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Justin Herbert is being paid because of his place in
the social hierarchy of the NFL. R it's not necessarily
if you were to say, see a top five quarterback
in the NFL, no top ten, where does he fall
in the NFL. It's not really an issue because it's
(05:15):
all as we've.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Heard over the years, it's all about time.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's about who you know, not what you know, and
it's about the timing of all of this.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And if you look around and.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Grays around the field there, and you look out in
the distance, okay, and you can see off in the
horizon there, there is a method to the madness. And
the method to the madness is that there's a map.
There's a road map. The Chargers are following here. It's
like the Olympics. It's a relay race. We talk about
(05:48):
this kind of thing from time to time, the relay
race in the NFL. And Justin Herbert was just given
the baton. It is a nice baton. It is a
solid gold baton. And you now have the baton and
you will be able to pass the baton off and
the Chargers. No one's going to criticize this. The Chargers
(06:10):
are getting praised. It's a safe bet, universal appraw, applause
from the football pundits. The Bolts are betting that Justin Herbert,
his numbers and everything will come together here and mostaticize it.
It'll metastaicize because the Chargers. He's put up good individual numbers,
he's been a statistically dominating player at this point. But
(06:34):
the numbers, the statue heat is better than the standings
as Justin Herbert started twenty nine games in the Chargers uniform,
the powder blue of the Chargers, and they are one
game above five hundred and that's it. And so you're
paid a guy a lot of money because he was
next in line. You paid him to be number two
(06:58):
in the division in the West behind Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Like, okay, hey, they got the money.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I mean this thing about you can't get too worked
up into a ladder over money in the NFL. Because
Justin Herbert got paid a ton of money. I think
he's God's gift to the quarterback. No, not really, but
he's next, and we should do the same thing in
my business in overnight sports radio, whoever's next, I just
raise the ante. Do the salaries ever go down? No
(07:24):
they do not, not for quarterbacks. Running backs they go down,
but not for quarterbacks. They don't go down. And the
thing about Justin Herbert, he has this cloak of protection
which is starting to become annoying. It's never his fault.
There's no accountability in terms of Justin Herbert not being
good in certain areas. You bring that up and the
(07:45):
people that jenuflect the quarterbacks get all worked up and
there are some rough edges. Justin Herbert's got some great statistics,
but there are some rough evit edges. But you bring
that up, it's like, no, it's Brandon Stalely.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's the coach. It's his fault.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That's the guy, or the defense as inadequate, or the
special teams, it's not the quarterback. Nevertheless, Justin Herbert, he
still got some snank on him. I'd say a fair
amount of stak based on that playoff loss to Jacksonville,
and I haven't forgotten it. I clearly the Chargers don't
(08:21):
give a rats ass about what happened in that game.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
But after being given.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Five takeaways by the Jags, the Chargers had a twenty
seven nothing Remember this, the playoff goes several months ago.
The Charger had a twenty seven nothing lead in this
playoff game and they then.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Puked it up.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They gave it all back, twenty seven nothing lead in
a playoff game, and Justin Herbert, you know how many
plays he made the rest of the game.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You could argue he didn't really make any plays. And
when the Chargers went up twenty seven nothing, that was
given to them on a silver platter by the Jags.
But after going up twenty seven nothing Justin Herbert. I
went back to look at my notes because I'm a
loser like that, because I remember him not doing anything
in the second half, and the numbers confirmed that they
validated that memory that I had that closed the game.
(09:14):
Justin Herbert was very media are Great, a passer rating
in the seventies the rest of the game, and had
a fumble, although the team recovered and the la AFC
football team was outscored thirty one to three to close
the game. Now, the second part of this, and you
(09:35):
take a look around the different quarterbacks, every you know
getting paid and you know who's who's next. So who
benefits the most from Justin Herbert's deal, well outside of
the obvious generations of his family generations of the Herbert family.
But he has now relocated to Easy Street. But then
you look at the stove there and there's a nice
(09:57):
chili bowl simmering all the stove and Joe Burrow is
licking his chops right now because with Herbert getting paid
and the baton, the golden baton will be passed to
Joe Burrow, he gets to now get his windfall. It's
choreographed financial frenzy madness is what it is. And the
(10:20):
price tag goes up for the Beals with Joe Burrow,
and that's gonna be an interesting one because they are
known to be very frugal. There's really no way around this, Like,
the only way around it is to delay it. But
that's gonna cost you more money. Because will Cincinnati futs
around here and give Joe Burrow a fifth year option
(10:43):
and say that's it, we don't have to pay you
for another year. We don't have to give you the extension.
We'll push it back. And also, will the Bengals have
a bake sale sell baked goods in the greater Cincinnati
metro area there to try to raise funds?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Have plenty of money.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, if they give Joe Burrow a lot of money,
he just cuts into the revenues that the Brown family
gets the ownership group there, that's the problem. They actually
end up saving a couple of bucks and Joe Burrow,
unlike Justin Herbert, where there are questions about Justin Herbert,
there are no questions about Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
For sure. He's much better than Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Now last word here, so just after we got off
the air within an hour of when I turned the
mics off and walked out of the building. I walked
down the hall, through a courtyard into a parking lot,
got in the car, turned it on, left the building,
waved it the guys out there that are sleeping intents outside,
(11:40):
I waved at them as I was getting out of here.
And then the news came down that Saquon Barkley had
ended his hostilities with the Giants. He agrees to end
the protest. What a protest it was, works out a
one year deal instead of playing on the franchise tag.
He gets a little bit more. You got two million
(12:01):
dollars up front from what I was reading here, two
million dollars up front in a signing bonus, a one
million dollars available in incentives. So instead of just ten million,
a little over ten million, he gets about an extra
nine hundred thousand dollars, give or take. So who does
the score card favor? What does it look like? What
(12:23):
does that scorecard look like for Saquon Barkley in this
particular contract. So this is a wwwwwww's big W for
the Giants. The g men get a W. And this
is an l for Barkley. Now it's one of these
weird sports things that you can't really get to.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Do.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You can't declare that this is a massive step in
for the Giants and a huge kick in the nuts
for Barkley because he's getting eleven million. You're not doing
bad in life when you get eleven million. But nonetheless
on the scorecard, it looks like an l that Barkley.
In this chapter of the running Back saga, Oh, it's
(13:11):
like a Shakespearean drama sequon. Barkley is the Parisian soldier
raising the white flag and being given eleven million.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Dollars for his troubles.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
A full surrender, no resetting the market, no being a
martyr for other running backs, no.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
None of that.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
A revolutionary, not a revolutionary. He did not even get
guarantees from the Giants. We are told that they will
not use the franchise tag again next year. So gets
about a million extra, which in NFL circles is chump change.
You don't even have to crack open the piggy bank
(13:54):
to worry about that.
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Speaker 2 (15:30):
It's Ben Mallor and we began the night ranting and
raving about the big news in the NFL. Justin Herbert
of the Chargers getting paid a ton of money. How
much money is he going to get right away? We'll
tell you that coming up in a minute. Not the
lump sum payment, but it does appear to be a
lump sum payment for me. It would be a lump
sum payment, that's for sure. The Russian kid writes in,
(15:53):
says Benjamin this monologue, So damn fine.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You couldn't have said any better.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
What a day to be alive when NBA and and
the NFL's top paid players aren't even the best in
their conferences.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, in Boston, Jalen Brown, we're gonna talking about him later.
He got paid by the Celtics. He's not even the
top player on his own team. Jason Tatum's a better
player and Jalen Brown. How many playoff games did he
vanish late in the game for the Celtics in this postseason?
And he's still They gave him the money. He's next,
(16:26):
He got the money. Spocks Weed rights in and says,
is a Beaver fan. You're absolutely right to point out
Justin Herbert's shortcomings. Not only is he right, no, is
it right? He feeds my desire for rivalry shot in freude.
Never did I think I could work that word into
a tweet or an X What good use of the
(16:49):
word shot in freudaf Femi rights in, He's got a
hot take now, Femi is the number one uber eats
a driver in Minneapolis. This guy is a baller with
the uber eats. And we met him at the Valor
meet and greet made some bumper stickers. Very nice guy
called us up on the international line when he was
visiting family, getting the royal welcome there in his home country.
(17:10):
And Femi says another headline grabbing Mallard monologue. If Justin,
not your Justin, is getting fifty three million a year,
then Captain Kirk Cousins might just be getting the greatest
contract in NFL history. If the Vikings do well this
year because Kirk is ten times better than Herbert. Wow,
(17:31):
that's a that's a hot take. Yeah, that's a take
right there. Keith in NorCal writes it and says that
he had to search for a place to hear the
show as you were being covered up on Sirius XM.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
They had the exciting Japan.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We're getting covered up by, But Japan and Costa Rica
we're getting covered.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Up by Iowa Sam must be thrilled by that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, he encouraged it. The downfall of our show. Iowa
Sam an enemy combatant on the show who's in tonight.
He hates our show. We're getting covered up by. How
many people in America do you think want to hear that?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Maybe a lot? Maybe maybe more than the show.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Japan leads Costa Rica too, noil, I don't think so.
Sixty first minute, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Chris or somebody like that.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Please.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Well, Chris is going to give you more World Cup
takes than I ever will, so no, he's the real enemy.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Can you mention any women's World Cup?
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Oh he will if you ask him.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, Iowa Sam's and like I literally got kicked in
the nuts by a female soccer player and Iowa Sam's
cheering for the female soccer players from Japan.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And what Costa Rica?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
How many of our listeners could even pick Costa Rica
out of a map?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Sad if you couldn't. I was a geography major.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It's not about you, Iowa Sam. It's not about you,
Iowa Sam.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
A geography major. Where at the University of Iowa. You
went to the University of Iowa? Yes, why are you here?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Then?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I did not know that?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
What happened? I City?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I went to school, Knives, How's that? How's that working
out for you? It was a long time.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I mean it gave me a great education enough to
know where Costa Rica is?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
And again, how is that working out for you? You
don't even know where Costa Rica is? Eddie?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Wow, I can. Here's a fun fact that ives.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I can pick out every state in America without the outline.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Fun fact.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
You mean you can name all fifty states?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No? No, there's a there's a trivia somebody sent me
this a couple years ago. There's a trivia game you.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Can play and it has the silhouette of the United States.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Without the you can write them in there. Then where you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Click one where each state is okay, and so what
it's You start obviously with the states on the coast,
like California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You go then Louisi.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I'm going around in Louisiana, and you go to Mississippi, Alabama.
You've got Georgia, and then below that you've got floor.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
How am I doing?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I'm doing pretty good, doing pretty good there.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
So you go up from Georgia because you've got you
get the outline after you name it correctly, well, you
you have to click on the right part of the
map and then it fills in. If you got it right,
you have to type it y. So you go to
South Carolina, North Carolina. That sounds fine, Virginia geography major,
you would like that. And then it gets a little
harder after Virginia because you got you know, Delaware is
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kind of squeezing there with Maryland, and they guy, the
Delaware is a hard one because island, well, pro line
is very small. Yeah, Connecticut's obviously be the got Maine,
New England, States, Got Pennsylvania, Yeah, got Ohio, got Indiana.
You don't need to name every state. I named most
of them. We don't need to named the coastal states. Well,
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that's what I was saying. I was walking, I was
working my way around. That's my strategy. There's a little tip.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Then when you get to Kansas, you're screwed well well.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
In the middle. So you got to work your web.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So you go from what I do is I go
from Texas, then boom, you had Oklahoma, and then above
oak the home you've got Kansas right. And then but
if you go off to the to the right of Kansas,
you've got Missouri. Ye, so you've got Missouri there, and
then on the other side of Missouri you've got Illinois.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Above Missouri you have Iowa.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well above Illinois, you've got Wisconsin right, and then if
you move over from Wisconsin, depending what you know, you
go one direction, you've got you've got Minnesota, but then
the other way you've got Michigan. Because there's a lake.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
You know, you might want to give Women's World Cup
scores over to saying.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I've just pointed out my geography knowledge of the United Stity.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You've got thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Iowa was saying, that's Eddie. That's a guy that went
to the University of Iowa. Hawkeye right, and he credited
me affordable education ability to name random states.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
That's good, very good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, I'll be here all night. Actually i'll be here.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Some people confuse Iowa, Idaho, and Ohio, and I'm still kind.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Of baffled by that. All those eye things, yeah, eyes
and o's all those things.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
How long is this Women's World Cup going on?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
By the way, is too long? On August twentieth?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Maybe August twentieth.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Yeah, it goes for another month, goes for another month,
Holy crap, mid to late August.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Really, yeah, we're gonna all of August pretty much.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Well, but that the nice thing is is that when
that's over, then we have week zero college football starting
in about like six days or four days.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Covered up by college football. I don't care about that.
That doesn't affect the show at all.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Well, you know, other sports go on and other places
in the world, and unfortunately that's how it goes.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, I know you like it, but for the rest
of us, it blows. But you can always hear the show,
and you've obviously if you're listening live to the show,
you've found a way to hear the show. We recommend
the iHeartRadio app, the live stream.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
We never get.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Covered up on the live stream, and you can hear
the show in its entirety, and if you miss any
part of it, you can hear the podcast on demand
whenever you want and limited commercial interruptions. So justin Herbert,
he gets the big contract he charges quarterback. How much
is he going to make the first year of the deal?
How about one hundred read million dollars, But that does
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not begin until twenty twenty five, so he's gonna have
to slum it for the next year and then after that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Chi ching, chi ching, chi ching. There are four different
versions of how much guaranteed money Herbert's gonna get, But
the answer is, God, yeah, the answers a lot. The
answers a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It's but one hundred million dollars for one one season
to have seventeen games, of which he will likely miss
at least one or two of those games with some
kind of injury. So really about a fifteen game season
he'll play, and that is what he's got going on.
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Speaker 5 (24:13):
Well, we had a scary issue involving the son of
Lebron James. Bronni James, who you've probably heard about, suffered
a cardiac arrest during a workout with the USC basketball
team Monday, taken to the hospital. The good news is
he's in stable condition, no longer in the ICU. But
these things always freak me out because this is a
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young guy who's in obviously a good physical condition, and
I'm an old guy who's fat. I keep thinking, how
am I avoiding something terrible happening to me?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But well, you just sit, you don't move, just don't
move your body and you'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I don't know what happened to James. I know the
conspiracy theories, of course.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
There.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
The good news is kind of like with DeMar Hamlin
right with the Bills, he he has this happened where
there's trainers are you know, on staff right there ready
to assist immediately. So that's certainly a good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, I mean years ago, guys would have this happened.
That's it.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I remember Pete Maravich, the great pistol Pete, he was
playing hoops in Louisiana and this never happened before.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Ben's right, but uh it was.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It was.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Hank Gadare old Reggie Lewis with the Celtics, drop dead
playing basketball. But yeah, a lot of people in this
only started a couple of years ago. And I listen,
I try to point out this is actually happens every
so often.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So but anyway, whatever, I don't know what happened to
the guy.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And I assume Brownie James Lebron has a lot of
money so he can afford to get all the tests,
and I don't know. Sometimes they can't detect things though.
Sometimes there's stuff going on, they can't really the text,
So who knows, but we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Hopefully is okay, don't know about resuming his basketball career,
but at this point that's not really you.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Didn't need to play basketball. His father's filthy ridge. You'll
inherit the Lebron James wealth. Come on, man, he can
live over there and where they live, Calabasas or bell Air,
wherever they're at there and just knock themselves out, man,
just live off. The spawn of great players are never great.
Is there an example of a I'm talking great player
(26:24):
who had a kid who was also a great player.
There have been guys that are kids that have made
it in sports and had careers, but not Bronni James
is not going to have the run that Lebron had.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It would be on the NBA. Like Scottie Pippen's kid.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Now, Scotty wasn't as good as Lebron, but Scotty in
the NBA, he's bounced around. He's kind of a fringe
guy in the NBA. Michael Jordan's kids didn't make it.
There's some.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
NFL guy I guess the Archie Manning was not.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
But Archie wasn't like well, they always say, if he
hadn't played on the terrible Saints teams and gotten his
brains beat in, if you could have gone to a
better situation.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's what I tell people. I tell people at cocktail parties.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
If I wasn't doing overnights, I would make as much
money as you know, Colin Coward.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But you know you don't tell anybody that. No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I don't actually talk to people.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I don't like talking to people anyway. Thank you for that, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
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you want the Twitter machine at Ben Mahler phones are packed.
Let's go to the phones right now. We'll say hello
to Andre in the Commonwealth, a fan favorite. People get
so worked up when you hear Andre, Hello, Andre, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Ben?
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Good? Good to be talking with you. Listen. We got
to start where you are with your lead giants, got
it right? Given Barkley the money, this is interesting in
terms of his franchise. Tag hasn't happened since nineteen ninety four,
or he had the franchise tag, but they made a
deal outside of that goes from ten million to like
eleven million with incentives, whatever the case may be. In
(28:14):
my opinion, he's still under paid based on how running
backs are underpaid, but nonetheless they got it done. He's happy,
and we know that Daniel Dimes, you know, he's you know,
he's only one one half. He's he's a he can't function,
for lack of a better term, without Saquon. He's dependent
is the word that I'm looking for. He depended on
the number two overall pick, Sakuon Barkley to be successful,
(28:34):
and individually we were going to be looking at a
sophomore sum.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I don't know about that, Andre because I saw Tiki Barber,
who's now a full time gas bag, and he said
that his prediction was Daniel Jones will be in the
same class as Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, and then
I think I think they had a drug test Tiki Barber.
After this, he's still getting paid by the Giants. He
must be getting money from the giants to say that
(28:59):
that no one that no one has a functioning brain,
would say Daniel Jones is on a path to be
Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
This is the same Tiki Barbara who said the Giants
had no chance to beat the undefeated Patriots, even though
that loss still hurts us here in the Commonwealth. But
he said the Giants had no chance to beat him.
The coach on the sideline, his name escapes me right now,
went to and oh against against Bill Parcell's there uh again.
He went down to the Jaguars, nittgreat Tom.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Tom coffin block. It was against Belichick Tom.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
In the Super Bowl. People didn't like his style, but
it garners results. And Tiki Barbera said the Giants had
no chance to winning that game. So he's his name
is Mudd and a lot of.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Unproparab Well, you're supposed to say that, though you're supposed
to say no chance.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
To win the game and all that.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's like, that's like the cliche thing to say, right,
you downplay the chance in an upset. That's the that's
the hand It says it in the handbook Andre The
Sports Handbook says you're supposed to down.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And play your chances of an upset and it's the
it's the Art of War.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's from the Art of War, which was like less
than one hundred pages of the Art of War and
sons Zoo.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
But Tatiki obviously didn't read it. He says, if your
enemy is of fickle temper, then you should irritate him.
You shouldn't give him bulletin board material teaking.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
If you're a bulletin board nobody, let me tell you something,
Andre No, none of these guys read bulletin board materially.
They put memos up in these lockers. I've been in
these locker rooms. They put memos up, and just like
every other business, nobody actually checks out the memos. They
just it's junk mail, it's spam. It goes to the
spam fold. They walk by those memos on a different thing.
(30:39):
They don't look at those memos. Bulletin boardic him on.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
I got I got you bet. Michael Strahan obviously did
take a look at the memo, and uh and Tuck
and OCEI min Euro because they were in the back
there that they ran Tom Brady off the field, they
took away I run there.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Was all there was an illegal passplay. The Tyree catch
was not a catcher. It was in the grasp against
Elijah Manning, the Giants quarterback was not called uh. And
then you also had a certain defensive back for the
Patriots that dropped what would have been a game ceiling
interception and now has chosen to become the greatest troll
of Bill Belichick of all time, A Sante Samuel.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
So anyway, point if it's and but we're candy and nuts,
we don't have a merry Christmas. Vicky Barber support the
dog on New York Football.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Johan, Yes, all right, go, thank you. All right, there
he goes our friend Andrea. Now, all you guys that
despise Andre can send me a message in those that
you love Andrea, you can tell me that as well.
A wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, so confident, a confident Joe, Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
We mentioned this.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
We did a monologue part of a Malard monologue on this.
In a previous episode of the show. We talked about
how Joe Burrow and t Higgins and the core of
the Cincinnati Bengals they're all coming up in the next
couple of years with new contracts and jamar Is gonna
be one of the highest paid receivers, if not the
(32:02):
highest paid receiver. And Burrow is gonna be at the
very top. He's he's got next and t Higgins and
Joe Burrow was asked about the situation with the Bengals
and what do you think?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
He said, Well, he spun it.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
He said he is confident, confident that the Bengals will
be able to keep everybody. I thought Joe Burrow grew
up in Ohio, shouldn't he know that the Bengals don't
keep everybody.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
That's a bad job.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I know you're supposed to say that, and that's the
cliche thing to say, but come on, the Bengals every
once in a while they get some good players. But
this is the most good players the Bengals have had
at any one time in my life. And they're not
gonna keep them all. And that's okay, and that's fine,
but don't tell me you're confident. There's no confidence. It
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is the Ben Malach. We'll get the big brother snooping around.
Time now for the who am I game? And here
is the WHOMI game. Entering the week, only two players,
two big league players had strikeout rates under ten percent.
That's among players with a minimum of four hundred played appearance,
there's only two had a strikeout rate under ten percent.
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One of them, obviously is Luisa Rise and the Marlins,
and the other is me again.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Entering the week, only two big.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
League players had strikeout rates under ten percent minimum four
hundred played appearances. Luis a Rise of the Marlins obviously
and me. Who am I the answer?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
We'll get to it, We'll do it next.
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dot com. Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Mahlor.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Suer market Steve writes in he says, I freak out
anytime I hear about a freak illness that can happen
at any time. Well, yeah, your head will explode if
you think about all the different ways you could drop dead.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Why bother? You just don't don't do anything. You know,
live in a bubble. But you know, I gotta live
your life, right.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
It's like the worst thing you can do, though, is
go on the interweb, the world Wide Web.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
If you have like a cough or something.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Yeah, don't go to web md or anything like that.
You're gonna die of everything.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You have a fatal illness no matter what it is.
You stubbed your toe, you're gonna get gang green. Your
whole leg is gonna be chopped off, and then it'll
grow the rest of your body and.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Then you'll die. It'll just move on. That's the way
it goes anyway.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Time now.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Four On that positive note, the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else. Here's
the who am I?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Game?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
So entering the week, only two big league players had
strikeout rates under ten percent minimum four hundred plate appearances.
One of them is Luisa Rise of the Marlins, and
the other one is me.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
And let's see does anyone know the answer. We go
to the.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Masses, the great Unwashed Miguel on Fire going with DJ Hernandez. Well,
quite a family there, Aaron Hernandez relatives living up to
the family name. Late Night Drug Tester going with Padres
backup catcher Carlos Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Robin Vegas is the answer. From Chris into Moin, I
think what else do we have? Page down Justin Ferg Dog.
Fergdog says, the best quarterback in football Justin Herbie is
the answer. Sean in the Valley of the Sun going
with David Klingler as his answer. Cowboy Killer says Ernest
Placito Polanco's bald head from Jordan in Ohio. Page down,
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Rodney Dangerfield. There's a relevant reference from alf the Alien Opiner. Yeah,
Fields of Green going with Mark Bellhorn Red Sox legend
Callaghan Tim in Michigan going with Dave Hanson. I have
a great Dave Hanson story, but I don't have time
to tell it right now. He was buddies with Hanson.
He played former big league player back in the day.
(36:28):
Chris in des Moines, guested by Bernard Guilkey. That is
his answer, Tiki Barbie from the Malard prop guy that's
hit his selection, Poopy Bin Laden from Ozzy was Eddie,
do you have an answer?
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Eddie?
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Yeah, so I'm gonna go with former Brave and EXPO
infielder Mike Mordecai.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Oh well, what a wonderful name that is, Mike Mordecai.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
But that's wrong, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
The correct answer none other than Jose Ramerez of the
team used to be called the Indians. Now they've got
they're named after a bridge. They're named after a bridge
in Cleveland. Time now for the m l B. Pick
him daily Fantasy fun and we'll pick a pitcher and
(37:15):
a couple of position players. Eddie, you are up first,
quick quick and he's closing the gap.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
Austin Riley.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
That is a terrible first pick, Spencer, Spencer Strider. Thank
you for that.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
That's a gift. Maybe he'll actually pitch today.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Zach Gallon, Sam quickly.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Not Texas Rangers, the Phillies. One more.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I will take your guy, Carl's Korea of the Bud.
All right, I'll take Freddie Freeman, Eddie back to back quickly.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
Let's go with Matt Olson and Marcus Strowman.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
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