July 26, 2023 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about Justin Herbert signing a mega contract extension with the Los Angeles Chargers, the Yankees checking in on Shohei Ohtani, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and much more!
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I'm glad everyone's getting rich. I'd like to get rich.
That would be nice. So our league coming from the NFL,
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
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big news day for the Electric Company of the NFL
the Chargers, as they made aheadlines. 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
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Justin Herbert agreeing to a MEGAMEGA Mega Mega millions contract
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 hundred and sixty
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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 you'll get a ton
of money. The deal was completed a day before the
chargers'll 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 he
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drop a dose right on the midfield logo and he'll
be set for life. So congratulations to them. Through twenty
twenty nine NFL contracts, of course not that reliable. 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
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seven million in full guarantees one hundred and thirty three million,
and there's also injury guarantees. There's a lot of legal
ease in these contracts, and I generally avoid legal ease.
It gives me a headache. I try to avoid it.
Maybe you're into that kind of thing. Good luck, good reading,
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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 what numbers?
You look at has the greatest contract in the NFL.
So that's the question. So I've got Olympics, Chili Bowl,
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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
if he chooses. Good for him. So a we'll start here.
Justin Herbert is being paid because of his place in
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the social hierarchy of the NFL. R It's not necessarily
if you were to say, is he a top five
quarterback in the NFL?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Top ten? Where does he fall in the NFL, It's
not really an issue because it's all as we've heard
over the years, it's all about time. It's about who
you know, not what you know. And it's about the
timing of all of this. And if you look around
and grays around the field there, and you look out
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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
this kind of thing from time to time, the relay
race in the NFL. And Justin Herbert was just given
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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
are getting praised. It's a safe bet, universal appro applause
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from the football pundits. The Bolts are betting that Justin Herbert,
his numbers and every thing will come together here and
mostasticize 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 the numbers, the statue heat is better
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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 in the division in the AFC West
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behind Patrick Mahomes. Like, okay, hey, they got the money.
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 at Whoever's next? I
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just raised the ante. Do the salaries ever go down?
No 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
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not being good in certain areas. You bring that up
and the people that genuflect 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 is like, no, it's Brandon Staley.
It's the coach. It's his fault. That's the guy, or
the defense is inadequate, or the special teams, it's it's
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not the quarterback. Nevertheless, Justin Herbert, he's still got some
snank on him. I'd say a fair amount of stank
based on that playoff loss to Jacksonville, and I haven't
forgotten it. Clearly the Chargers don't give a rats ass
about what happened in that game. But after being given
five takeaways by the Jags, the Chargers had a twenty
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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 puked it up. 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. Zero. You could argue he
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didn't really make any plays when the Chargers went up
twenty seven nothing, it 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
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had to close the game. Justin Herbert was very media 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 teams outscored thirty one to three
to close the game. Now the second part of this,
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and you take a look around the different quarterbacks, everything
getting paid and you know 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
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you look at the stove there and there's a nice
chili bowl simmering on 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
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choreographed financial frenzy madness, is what it is. And the
price tag goes up for the Benals 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
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futs around here and give Joe Burrow a fifth year
option 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 bake goods in the
greater Cincinnati metro area there to try to raise funds
and plenty of money.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Point if they give Joe Burrow a lot of money,
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. For sure. He's much
better than Justin Herbert. Now last word here. So just
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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 the guys out there
that are sleeping intents outside, I waved at them as
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I was getting out of here. And then the news
came down that Saquon Barkley had ended his hostilities with
a Giant. 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. He got two million dollars up front from
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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 does that scorecard look like
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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 5 (12:25):
Do.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You can't declare that this is a massive step 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 like
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a Shakespearean drama. Saquon Barkley is the Parisian soldier raising
the white flag and being given eleven million dollars for
his troubles. A full surrender, no resetting the market, No
being a martyr for other running backs, no, none of that.
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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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So here we are again another hour yapping into these microphones.
And I was at a baseball game. I went to
a baseball game before I came in here, as at
the Dodger Blue Jay game. I love seeing the powder
blues of the Toronto baseball team. And when I was there,
I saw a couple of home runs and blue Jays
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were leading. And as soon as I left, all hell
broke loose, and the Toronto bullpen went out there with
kerosene and just lit the world on fire. And the
Dodgers ended up coming back and beating the blue Jays.
But the Dodgers made a trade. We'll talk about that
in a minute, but that's the story. This is the
story in baseball right now. As our lead does come
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from the diamond, the horse trading. Less than a week,
less than a week to go. The music stops on
August first, that's Tuesday, baseball. I was doing the math
because I'm a loser, so I was doing the math.
I said, there's too many teams that think they have
a chance. Now, the people that run baseball want that,
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everyone that runs a sports league wants the situation where
all these teams have a shot and all it. But
the reality is there are more teams that are mathematically
in the baseball playoff race than are actually good. You
see what I'm saying. Like, for example, if you do
the math, now there are twelve playoff teams in Major
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League Baseball, because you've got the three division leaders that
are in the playoffs, and then the three wild cards
in the America in the Nation League. So there are
twelve of the thirty members of the Cartel of Baseball
that get in. But then you look at the teams
that are within reasonable striking distance of a playoff berth,
and there are by my estimation, seven other teams that
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are in the mix. So that means, if the math
is right, that they think they can leap frog up,
they have a good couple of weeks and some teams
ahead of them fall to the wayside. So that means
that nineteen of the thirty teams, or almost sixty five
percent of the teams in baseball have a path to
the postseason, as we yap on this random day here
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in July. So with that we turn our attention to
Otani Watch the Otani Mart Open for business or is it?
If you have been listening to this show on a
nightly basis, we have had our obligatory Mallard monologues about
the baseball trade deadline met much of that, much of
that about the life and times, the stylings of show
Hey Otani. The picture he's all right as a picture,
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but he's pretty good as a hitter, and the back
and forth, back and forth on what's gonna happen, and
every day there's a new revelation. One of the mantras
of this show is that we don't know what we're
going to talk about when we get ready for the show.
We start today, and it's kind of go where the
stories take us. And every single day right now, there's
new information out about Show Hey Otani, and a lot
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of it is manure. Yeah, that's a nice smell of manure.
That is a lot of it. That is a lot
of it. So the latest reports, the more connecting of
the dods, the New York Yankees again prominently mentioned as
a possibility, reports saying the Yankees have quote checked in
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close quote on Otani. Of course, that same report says
pretty much everyone's check on Otani. Another connecting the Baltimore Orioles.
That's the second day in a row the Orioles have
been mentioned as a possibility. And so we do this dance,
do the hokey pokey, We do it over and over again.
So let us discuss the question on this one. What
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do you make of the Yankees speculation there involving show
Hey Otani? So I've got pop up Twister and Bazooka Joe,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a bang bang play at
the plate. Are you safer? Are you out? It's up
to instant replay. So number one, yes, Number one. I
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roll my eyes. I roll my eyes to the very
back of my head, which is not advised when I
get the type of stories that we're now getting involving Okani. Now,
the reason I do that, there's two reasons. I've been
had I've had this chair. I've been lucky to have
this chair for a long time. So I've done a
lot of trade deadline stories over the years. That and
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I ran a gossip website many many years ago, long
long before you ever listen to this show problem. And
I ran the gossip website, and I dealt in the
currency of what we're dealing with right now. And I've
heard all of the different variations of what's going on
right now. So of course the Bronx Bombers checked in
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on Otani, and anyone's checking in around baseball in Otani
with Otani other than like the Athletics and the Royals,
they're the only ones. But here's the deal, and I'll
give you the inside skinny on this. Every one of
these front offices in baseball, what they do is they're
they're filled with these these nerds, and they're on the
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social media all the time. That's where all these rumors begin.
And then they pay attention to old media like what
we're doing here and in television, and they follow all
of the gossip and all the speculation and all that.
And so yes, everyone's checked in, even I've checked in
and Otani and I continue to hear and I check it.
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I was like, maybe the things have changed and I've
given old information, but I continue to hear that Artie
Marino is keeping the proverbial scissors in the drawer. He
is not ready to cut the cord from showtime at
the Big A. And the question is will some underling
in Anaheim be able to convince the owner of the
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Angels otherwise? And the answer is no way. From what
I know of Artie Marino, I don't know much about
the guy, but I've I've heard from people that have
known him better than I. I don't really know him
at all, but that Arti Marino is kind of like me.
He's pig headed. He's so pig headed. There was a
writer for the this newspaper called the Eli Times, used
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to be a big newspaper. They had a columnist named TJ. Simers,
and t J. Simers used to take cheap shots at
Arti Marino and the Angels. So Arti Morino was so
vindictive he moved the press box near the pearly gates
to get back at the media, and he put right
near the foul pole. It's actually above the foul pole
at the Big A. That shows you the kind of
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character that Artie Marino has. So that's what we're dealing
with here. Right. So if you get that upset about
somebody you know writing nasty things about him in a newspaper,
what do you think is going on in his head
right now? And as far as the Babe Ruth stuff
that's popped up, you can't trade O'tani. He's Babe Ruth
of this generation and all that. Better than Babe Ruth. Well,
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it's not in apples to apples comparison. It's in apples
to orange comparison. As has been mentioned on these microphones
in the past. The reality is that Babe Ruth, if
he had not been traded by the Red Sox, would
have stayed with the Red Sox his entire career unless
Boston decided to get rid of him. There was no
such thing as free agency. Different with Otani, he can't leave.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
If I'm the Angels, do I trade Otani? But my
move would be to offer him. I've said this in
the past. I'd offer Otani my last and final offer,
best and final offer, and then if he takes it, great,
If not, then I would look to move on. That's
what I would do. But you're not gonna get fair
market return for Otani because you're talking about a couple
of months. That's it. That's all you're gonna get. But
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the stuff that's going on right now with Otani, it's
a pop up It's a pop up game, is what
it is. Not a pop up store. It's a pop
up game. And it's the weasel those weasel words popping
up and we're hearing all of the terms. The Angels
are aggressively listening. We've heard that industry sources one of
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my favorites, Mystery Team, there's a mystery team involved in
o't try what Mystery Team? Yeah, I was like, the
internal discussions, What does that even me? Yeah, I'm going
to get a diet coke at the vent Machine. I'm
gonna talk to somebody I work with. But that's an
internal conversation, good talk. Or it's also possible maybe you're
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somebody that's cleaning the laundry the jockstraps in the laundry
mat there at the ballpark is talking to somebody else
about Oltani. So they're having internal discussions as whatever. Now,
there were some overnight reports that should give optimism to
the five Angel fans that listen to the show. There
are five Angel fans that listen to show, including Koop
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who's on the payroll. There are people speculating the Angels
instead of trading Otani, they're actually looking to trade for
some other players to make the Angels a better team.
Go figure, now that would be the ultimate. The Angels
go out and trade for another starting pitcher, make a
couple of moves to improve the pitching staff, and try
to fatten things up like a turkey before the slaughter
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at Thanksgiving. Now that would be something. Now, turning the
page on that, Mookie Betts making some headlines and these
quotes by Mouk Bets bouncing around the pinball machine of
sports chatter, raising some eyebrows. He recently said, Mookie Bets
that he had no intention of ever leaving Boston. You
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might remember MOOKI was mister Red Sox until he wasn't
and then ended up traded to Dodger Blue and signed
the massive contract helped the Dodgers end the jinks of
nineteen eighty eight by winning the World Series hardest World
Series in my lifetime twenty twenty during a global pandemic. Anyway,
Mookie Bets did a recent interview. He said, quote, I
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know people don't believe it. Bets opined but I wanted
to stay in Boston my whole career, he stated. Now,
Bets saying this to a former Red Sox comrade, brock
Holt played in Boston for a long time. Bets continued,
he said, that was my life. He said, I knew
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everybody there. It was a short flight to Nashville. It
was perfect. Close quote from Mookie Bets, and he was asked,
you know whether or not the contract if the Red
Sox had offered him the contract the Dodgers offered him,
if he would have signed the deal, he said one
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hundred percent. So the question regarding these comments, as we
parsed the words of Mookie Bets and his delayed reaction
to the trade to the Dodgers, the question is how
should the Red Sox handle Mookie Bets decree those that
are passionate about the Red Sox so it is a
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game of twister, as in twist the knife, twist the
machete in the Red Sox heart right there right because
here's the deal. You look at what happened between Mookie
Bets and the Red Sox. The the answer is there
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was nothing doing. There was nothing doing between the size
because the Red Sox at that point, refused to give
Mookie Betts the forever contract. They were not doing that,
and only within the last couple of months if the
Red Sox were nigged on that franchise charter. And they
just did it a couple months ago with Rafael Devers,
he got the ten year contract. They wouldn't give Mooki
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Betts to the ten year contract. They didn't want to
give Xander Bogart to the ten year contract, but they gave.
They gave Raffi Devers the ten year contract. Now final point,
we did have a trade. We had a trade. Let's
make a dal involving Mookie bets current team and his
former team, the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team acquiring Kei
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k Hernandez, the rotting carcass of Key k Hernandez from
the Red Sox for a couple of fringe minor league relievers,
one of them that literally barfs every time he goes
out on the mound. The other one, I don't even
know who it is. So does the Key k Hernandez
trade matter? Does the trade matter? So it does not
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register on the Richter scale. It gets merely a passing mention,
merely a passing mention. Hernandez played with the Dodgers for
a number of years. He was a pesky player. He's
not a difference maker though he's not, I mean, nor
should he be. He's a backup, fringe major league guy.
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And how do you know that this trade does not
raise to the level of attention grabbing because the Dodgers
gave up a couple of Bazooka Joe's to get Keyk
Hernandez the Red Sox. I'm pretty sure they had a
limo drive KEYK to the airport to get him out
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to Dodger State and get him out of the Commonwealth.
He was that bad an error machine. But the price tag.
The Dodgers gave up a couple of sticks of bubblegum,
and Keyk's got a hole in his glove so bad
at shortstop, the Red Sox had to drag him off
the field as a shortstop. He sucks so much. He's
a career two thirty eight hitters. He was on the
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Dodger team that won the World Series. He got the
playoff numbers are pretty good, but most of his playoff
success actually came with the Red Sox in the playoffs
with the Dodgers. He was okay, a couple of big hits,
but he was not God's gift to October at all.
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Hit that button. I was one yea, that's that's.
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To the third. I agree, this is one big f gets.
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Grail and the Kooper Loop reporters pressed.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Browns owner Jimmy has them on Monday about whether or
not this is a do or die season for Kevin
Stefanski and GM. Andrew Berry has them refused to say, Ben,
do you think it's make a break for these two?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, it's all or nothing. I mean, you look at
the situation especially for Kevin Stefanski, but I say both
of them because either win or you contact a nice
realtor or try to sell the house yourself, which is
very hard to do. But Kevin Stefanski, first of all,
the head coach in Cleveland. He's two games over five
hundred and no playoff appearances the last couple of years.
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The playoff win the Browns had was totally fluky because
Ben Roethlisberger basically handed the game to Cleveland with mental
mistakes in that Pittsburgh Cleveland playoff game several years ago.
And then you look at the GM Andrew Berry, and
while he's not the one that gave the creepy quarterback
Deshaun Watson the contract, he is the one that that
encouraged it for the owner, Jimmy Haslam, and Deshaun Watson
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has been an embarrassment to the entire Browns franchise and
will be as long as he's a Cleveland Browns quarterback.
Andrew Berry was the guy that orchestrated that at the
behest of the owners. So if you're looking for a
fall guy, he'd be a good fall guy.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Next, Austin Rivers was asked about Damian Lillard's trade demand
from the Blazers, and he said that he didn't like
it and that Lillard turned his back on being the
poster boy for Team Loyalty. Ben, do you think the
trade request from Lillard affects his legacy?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
No, No, he doesn't. Look there'll be plenty of guys
that have changed teams and Lillard has he's fed off.
You know, you are the guys that stayed with it.
Kobe Bryant did not want to play for the leag
He tried to get traded to the Bulls. You want
to go to the Bulls, You want to go to
the Clippers. At one point, these guys, things happened. But
look at Minnesota. Is the greatest you had Kevin Garnett
(30:54):
and Kevin Love, who both were very productive players for
the Timberwolves, and both of them have eventually ended up
asking out getting traded. Garnett especially and is his legacy
tarnish because he went to Boston and won a championship
with Kevin Love, going to Cleveland and jumping on the
Lebron train and winning with the Cavaliers. No, Damian Lillard's
(31:17):
intertwined with Portland. He's got business endeavors there and they'll
bring him back and honor him and all that. He's
got a bunch of records for the team. So it's
you know, a little dramatic by Austin Rivers, who should
thank his dad every day that he has a career
in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Next, an assistant of Dion Sanders at Colorado recently said
that Sanders and Nick Saban are actually very similar. One
example he used was that they both tell you the truth,
not what you want to hear, Ben, do you think
Sanders and Sabans share some qualities?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yes, they're both human beings. They both put one sock
on a time. They wipe their toukis when they drop
a deuce, So those are things they have in common.
Unless they use biday then maybe they don't do that.
But nonetheless, yeah, Nick Saban and Dion Sanders are the
ring masters of the circus of hot Air. I love
(32:08):
these guys. They're great for what I do. They people
react to Nick Saban, they react to Deon Sanders. We
need more people like these guys, so good for them.
Prime Time's got you know, got a limited amount of
time because it was ag I mean, then a coach
he's eighty and he's got health problems. So you gotta
win a bunch of games and he'll get up to
that little Debbies level where Nick Saban is and what.
(32:29):
He's not gonna get to that level, but he'll be respecting.
He did good at the lower level. Now Dion's in
the PAC twelve, so we'll see how he does in Colorado.
But they have some things in common, but not all
that much there. It is Mallard of the third degree?
How did we do? And he passes? That is a win?
I like Ricardo, I passed Eddie.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
No, is that too soon?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I'm kidding.
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Speaker 1 (33:05):
We've endured too many of this.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Is it too much or not enough enough?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Already? And away we go? Good news. The computer is
spinning round and rounded, so the it's not working anyway.
Let's play the game with the show must go on
too much or not enough? The Frank in Vegas edition.
This guy Frank, what a boss? Dominated ran the board.
We walk him in our contestant. I believe his name
(33:31):
is Steve. Is that correct? In can Za City? Hello Steve, welcome,
Hey man, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Hey? You tell me Steve? What's the what's the good word?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Brownie? Little Brownie almost dropping dead? That was?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
What do you say? I'm excited about it? No, I
mean this is terrible. I mean, what do you want?
His young dad.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Jamie Fox story where a j bens is he had
to take the jab bro and then he Jamie Fox
took the jab and they got paralyzed and almost blind.
So well, he's not the local health official, but.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I've seen I've seen Jamie Fox and he seems to
be doing better. I know he was sick for a while,
but he's I saw him moving around.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
It wouldn't it be nice, man, to talk about actual
issues instead of doing a third rate Philadelphia sports talk
radio ripoff guy, you know with your boot licking thicker bands.
You know I love Tony Bruno, But.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, I hear you. All right, let's go out. You
would you like to play what is that? Coop?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Who is that? Guy?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Would you like to play? Who is this line? Too?
You're on the airline too? Hello? What happened to line too?
There he is? Oh, is that Jed who fled? Jed?
Would you like to play the game?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Jed, don't make me hang up on your dude. I
love job, but I hate too much enough. That's why
me too much.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I don't want to have with that guy. Steve in
Kansas City's having all right, Here we go, the treatsman.
Calm down, all right, here we go. Story number or
question number one? Question number one, Jet who Fled is
going to play the game. So before Tuesday night, the
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Mariners had lost four hundred straight road games. Enough that
your answer I'm just using all right? Is that right?
Not enough? That is to a number one, use the fall.
I do not even need to ask the full question.
It had been five hundred eighty straight road games since
(35:36):
they made a four run comeback in the eighth inning
or later. Question number two for Jet who Fled, he
needs to get two more right to win the game.
Only three quarterbacks have had more passing yards through their
first three seasons than Justin Herbert. Is that too much
or not enough? You say not enough?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
I'm gonna countering to it. I'm gonna go too much.
I'm gonna too much. He's no final answer for the
figh answers. You can't think, but I'm reading there for
the dollar.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
This is absurd. There are no quarterbacks. There are no
quarterbacks who have had more passing yards than Herbert through
their three first three seasons. Question number three, You need
one more right to win the game. Scottie Rowland got
into the Hall of Fame earlier this week. There are
only four third basemen all time with more gold gloves
(36:33):
in their trophy case than Scott Rowland. Is that too
much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
I was.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
I don't even thinking trying to figure out who this
guy is my brain. Not enough?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You sure about that?
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Ye? Go? Too much?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Dude, I listen.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You know you're flipping real quick there on that. What's
your final answer?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Because I know your response whatever I just said a second,
I can't remember. I think it was not enough?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Not enough? You sure about that? That's the streak ends
it's too much. There are only three with more gold gloves.
They are Nolan Aeronauto, Mike Schmidt, and Brooks Robinson, the old.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I got number two rocks. I'm out of bread now,
freezing harder than usual. Let's go. I can do it.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I can do it, Jed calls while he's on the treadmill.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Now, I'm using a flip phone, sneaking. Get a flip
phone because it's the surface, but it fits to bottom mouth.
Not good.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
He's in the act of fleet breath. Okay. Question number
four for Jed who fled This past weekend, Sal Frelick
of the Brewers became the fifth player over the last
twenty five seasons with three hits and the game winning
RBI and his big league debut. Is that too much
(37:48):
or not enough for the win?
Speaker 4 (37:51):
What we did of Andrea and the chargest and angry
peel way too much?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
You said, that's too much?
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Yes it is. Did not hear the breathing? Too much?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Okay? Too much? Is that the correct answer? Now, Jed?
What happened? Not enough that he's the sixth player to
do so, so that.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Is not it was the other one.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
He was the other answer.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
He was answer, Oh, now you're now you're you've boxed
yourself into a corner.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
Now, yeah, yeah, dars Mars gonna cut my head off
there the forces tailing me. My medicois is what I'm not?
The same minute comes.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Down, Take a breath.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
It comes.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It comes down to question number five. I took, I
said breath. I said breath. You're looking question five. Quickly.
Heading into this season, there are ten active players with
seventy or more career touchdowns. Is that too much or
not enough for the win?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I guess guess you gotta see colored people say probably not. Yea,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Be fun sure about that. Not enough you really to go?
Not enough? Okay, not enough, he wants to go. Not enough, Financer, No,
it's too much. It's too much. Jed lost the game.
He lost the game. Jennifer
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I'm glad everyone's getting rich. I'd like to get rich.
That would be nice. So our league coming from the NFL,
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
(02:05):
big news day for the Electric Company of the NFL
the Chargers, as they made aheadlines. 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
(02:27):
Justin Herbert agreeing to a MEGAMEGA Mega Mega millions contract
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 hundred and sixty
(02:47):
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 you'll get a ton
of money. The deal was completed a day before the
chargers'll 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 he
(03:09):
drop a dose right on the midfield logo and he'll
be set for life. So congratulations to them. Through twenty
twenty nine NFL contracts, of course not that reliable. 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
(03:30):
seven million in full guarantees one hundred and thirty three million,
and there's also injury guarantees. There's a lot of legal
ease in these contracts, and I generally avoid legal ease.
It gives me a headache. I try to avoid it.
Maybe you're into that kind of thing. Good luck, good reading,
(03:50):
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 what numbers?
You look at has the greatest contract in the NFL.
So that's the question. So I've got Olympics, Chili Bowl,
(04:14):
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
if he chooses. Good for him. So a we'll start here.
Justin Herbert is being paid because of his place in
(04:38):
the social hierarchy of the NFL. R It's not necessarily
if you were to say, is he a top five
quarterback in the NFL?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Top ten? Where does he fall in the NFL, It's
not really an issue because it's all as we've heard
over the years, it's all about time. It's about who
you know, not what you know. And it's about the
timing of all of this. And if you look around
and grays around the field there, and you look out
(05:10):
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
this kind of thing from time to time, the relay
race in the NFL. And Justin Herbert was just given
(05:32):
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
are getting praised. It's a safe bet, universal appro applause
(05:53):
from the football pundits. The Bolts are betting that Justin Herbert,
his numbers and every thing will come together here and
mostasticize 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 the numbers, the statue heat is better
(06:16):
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 in the division in the AFC West
(06:39):
behind Patrick Mahomes. Like, okay, hey, they got the money.
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 at Whoever's next? I
(06:59):
just raised the ante. Do the salaries ever go down?
No 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
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not being good in certain areas. You bring that up
and the people that genuflect 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 is like, no, it's Brandon Staley.
It's the coach. It's his fault. That's the guy, or
the defense is inadequate, or the special teams, it's it's
(07:44):
not the quarterback. Nevertheless, Justin Herbert, he's still got some
snank on him. I'd say a fair amount of stank
based on that playoff loss to Jacksonville, and I haven't
forgotten it. Clearly the Chargers don't give a rats ass
about what happened in that game. But after being given
five takeaways by the Jags, the Chargers had a twenty
(08:08):
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 puked it up. 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. Zero. You could argue he
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didn't really make any plays when the Chargers went up
twenty seven nothing, it 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
(08:51):
had to close the game. Justin Herbert was very media 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 teams outscored thirty one to three
to close the game. Now the second part of this,
(09:13):
and you take a look around the different quarterbacks, everything
getting paid and you know 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
(09:33):
you look at the stove there and there's a nice
chili bowl simmering on 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
(09:53):
choreographed financial frenzy madness, is what it is. And the
price tag goes up for the Benals 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
(10:16):
futs around here and give Joe Burrow a fifth year
option 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 bake goods in the
greater Cincinnati metro area there to try to raise funds
and plenty of money.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Point if they give Joe Burrow a lot of money,
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. For sure. He's much
better than Justin Herbert. Now last word here. So just
(11:00):
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 the guys out there
that are sleeping intents outside, I waved at them as
(11:20):
I was getting out of here. And then the news
came down that Saquon Barkley had ended his hostilities with
a Giant. 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. He got two million dollars up front from
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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 does that scorecard look like
(12:03):
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 5 (12:25):
Do.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You can't declare that this is a massive step 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 like
(12:50):
a Shakespearean drama. Saquon Barkley is the Parisian soldier raising
the white flag and being given eleven million dollars for
his troubles. A full surrender, no resetting the market, No
being a martyr for other running backs, no, none of that.
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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
(13:32):
to worry about that.
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Me.
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So here we are again another hour yapping into these microphones.
And I was at a baseball game. I went to
a baseball game before I came in here, as at
the Dodger Blue Jay game. I love seeing the powder
blues of the Toronto baseball team. And when I was there,
I saw a couple of home runs and blue Jays
(14:57):
were leading. And as soon as I left, all hell
broke loose, and the Toronto bullpen went out there with
kerosene and just lit the world on fire. And the
Dodgers ended up coming back and beating the blue Jays.
But the Dodgers made a trade. We'll talk about that
in a minute, but that's the story. This is the
story in baseball right now. As our lead does come
(15:18):
from the diamond, the horse trading. Less than a week,
less than a week to go. The music stops on
August first, that's Tuesday, baseball. I was doing the math
because I'm a loser, so I was doing the math.
I said, there's too many teams that think they have
a chance. Now, the people that run baseball want that,
(15:39):
everyone that runs a sports league wants the situation where
all these teams have a shot and all it. But
the reality is there are more teams that are mathematically
in the baseball playoff race than are actually good. You
see what I'm saying. Like, for example, if you do
the math, now there are twelve playoff teams in Major
(15:59):
League Baseball, because you've got the three division leaders that
are in the playoffs, and then the three wild cards
in the America in the Nation League. So there are
twelve of the thirty members of the Cartel of Baseball
that get in. But then you look at the teams
that are within reasonable striking distance of a playoff berth,
and there are by my estimation, seven other teams that
(16:22):
are in the mix. So that means, if the math
is right, that they think they can leap frog up,
they have a good couple of weeks and some teams
ahead of them fall to the wayside. So that means
that nineteen of the thirty teams, or almost sixty five
percent of the teams in baseball have a path to
the postseason, as we yap on this random day here
(16:45):
in July. So with that we turn our attention to
Otani Watch the Otani Mart Open for business or is it?
If you have been listening to this show on a
nightly basis, we have had our obligatory Mallard monologues about
the baseball trade deadline met much of that, much of
that about the life and times, the stylings of show
Hey Otani. The picture he's all right as a picture,
(17:09):
but he's pretty good as a hitter, and the back
and forth, back and forth on what's gonna happen, and
every day there's a new revelation. One of the mantras
of this show is that we don't know what we're
going to talk about when we get ready for the show.
We start today, and it's kind of go where the
stories take us. And every single day right now, there's
new information out about Show Hey Otani, and a lot
(17:31):
of it is manure. Yeah, that's a nice smell of manure.
That is a lot of it. That is a lot
of it. So the latest reports, the more connecting of
the dods, the New York Yankees again prominently mentioned as
a possibility, reports saying the Yankees have quote checked in
(17:53):
close quote on Otani. Of course, that same report says
pretty much everyone's check on Otani. Another connecting the Baltimore Orioles.
That's the second day in a row the Orioles have
been mentioned as a possibility. And so we do this dance,
do the hokey pokey, We do it over and over again.
So let us discuss the question on this one. What
(18:18):
do you make of the Yankees speculation there involving show
Hey Otani? So I've got pop up Twister and Bazooka Joe,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a bang bang play at
the plate. Are you safer? Are you out? It's up
to instant replay. So number one, yes, Number one. I
(18:44):
roll my eyes. I roll my eyes to the very
back of my head, which is not advised when I
get the type of stories that we're now getting involving Okani. Now,
the reason I do that, there's two reasons. I've been
had I've had this chair. I've been lucky to have
this chair for a long time. So I've done a
lot of trade deadline stories over the years. That and
(19:07):
I ran a gossip website many many years ago, long
long before you ever listen to this show problem. And
I ran the gossip website, and I dealt in the
currency of what we're dealing with right now. And I've
heard all of the different variations of what's going on
right now. So of course the Bronx Bombers checked in
(19:29):
on Otani, and anyone's checking in around baseball in Otani
with Otani other than like the Athletics and the Royals,
they're the only ones. But here's the deal, and I'll
give you the inside skinny on this. Every one of
these front offices in baseball, what they do is they're
they're filled with these these nerds, and they're on the
(19:50):
social media all the time. That's where all these rumors begin.
And then they pay attention to old media like what
we're doing here and in television, and they follow all
of the gossip and all the speculation and all that.
And so yes, everyone's checked in, even I've checked in
and Otani and I continue to hear and I check it.
(20:14):
I was like, maybe the things have changed and I've
given old information, but I continue to hear that Artie
Marino is keeping the proverbial scissors in the drawer. He
is not ready to cut the cord from showtime at
the Big A. And the question is will some underling
in Anaheim be able to convince the owner of the
(20:35):
Angels otherwise? And the answer is no way. From what
I know of Artie Marino, I don't know much about
the guy, but I've I've heard from people that have
known him better than I. I don't really know him
at all, but that Arti Marino is kind of like me.
He's pig headed. He's so pig headed. There was a
writer for the this newspaper called the Eli Times, used
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to be a big newspaper. They had a columnist named TJ. Simers,
and t J. Simers used to take cheap shots at
Arti Marino and the Angels. So Arti Morino was so
vindictive he moved the press box near the pearly gates
to get back at the media, and he put right
near the foul pole. It's actually above the foul pole
at the Big A. That shows you the kind of
(21:17):
character that Artie Marino has. So that's what we're dealing
with here. Right. So if you get that upset about
somebody you know writing nasty things about him in a newspaper,
what do you think is going on in his head
right now? And as far as the Babe Ruth stuff
that's popped up, you can't trade O'tani. He's Babe Ruth
of this generation and all that. Better than Babe Ruth. Well,
(21:39):
it's not in apples to apples comparison. It's in apples
to orange comparison. As has been mentioned on these microphones
in the past. The reality is that Babe Ruth, if
he had not been traded by the Red Sox, would
have stayed with the Red Sox his entire career unless
Boston decided to get rid of him. There was no
such thing as free agency. Different with Otani, he can't leave.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
If I'm the Angels, do I trade Otani? But my
move would be to offer him. I've said this in
the past. I'd offer Otani my last and final offer,
best and final offer, and then if he takes it, great,
If not, then I would look to move on. That's
what I would do. But you're not gonna get fair
market return for Otani because you're talking about a couple
of months. That's it. That's all you're gonna get. But
(22:24):
the stuff that's going on right now with Otani, it's
a pop up It's a pop up game, is what
it is. Not a pop up store. It's a pop
up game. And it's the weasel those weasel words popping
up and we're hearing all of the terms. The Angels
are aggressively listening. We've heard that industry sources one of
(22:45):
my favorites, Mystery Team, there's a mystery team involved in
o't try what Mystery Team? Yeah, I was like, the
internal discussions, What does that even me? Yeah, I'm going
to get a diet coke at the vent Machine. I'm
gonna talk to somebody I work with. But that's an
internal conversation, good talk. Or it's also possible maybe you're
(23:09):
somebody that's cleaning the laundry the jockstraps in the laundry
mat there at the ballpark is talking to somebody else
about Oltani. So they're having internal discussions as whatever. Now,
there were some overnight reports that should give optimism to
the five Angel fans that listen to the show. There
are five Angel fans that listen to show, including Koop
(23:29):
who's on the payroll. There are people speculating the Angels
instead of trading Otani, they're actually looking to trade for
some other players to make the Angels a better team.
Go figure, now that would be the ultimate. The Angels
go out and trade for another starting pitcher, make a
couple of moves to improve the pitching staff, and try
to fatten things up like a turkey before the slaughter
(23:51):
at Thanksgiving. Now that would be something. Now, turning the
page on that, Mookie Betts making some headlines and these
quotes by Mouk Bets bouncing around the pinball machine of
sports chatter, raising some eyebrows. He recently said, Mookie Bets
that he had no intention of ever leaving Boston. You
(24:13):
might remember MOOKI was mister Red Sox until he wasn't
and then ended up traded to Dodger Blue and signed
the massive contract helped the Dodgers end the jinks of
nineteen eighty eight by winning the World Series hardest World
Series in my lifetime twenty twenty during a global pandemic. Anyway,
Mookie Bets did a recent interview. He said, quote, I
(24:34):
know people don't believe it. Bets opined but I wanted
to stay in Boston my whole career, he stated. Now,
Bets saying this to a former Red Sox comrade, brock
Holt played in Boston for a long time. Bets continued,
he said, that was my life. He said, I knew
(24:56):
everybody there. It was a short flight to Nashville. It
was perfect. Close quote from Mookie Bets, and he was asked,
you know whether or not the contract if the Red
Sox had offered him the contract the Dodgers offered him,
if he would have signed the deal, he said one
(25:18):
hundred percent. So the question regarding these comments, as we
parsed the words of Mookie Bets and his delayed reaction
to the trade to the Dodgers, the question is how
should the Red Sox handle Mookie Bets decree those that
are passionate about the Red Sox so it is a
(25:38):
game of twister, as in twist the knife, twist the
machete in the Red Sox heart right there right because
here's the deal. You look at what happened between Mookie
Bets and the Red Sox. The the answer is there
(25:58):
was nothing doing. There was nothing doing between the size
because the Red Sox at that point, refused to give
Mookie Betts the forever contract. They were not doing that,
and only within the last couple of months if the
Red Sox were nigged on that franchise charter. And they
just did it a couple months ago with Rafael Devers,
he got the ten year contract. They wouldn't give Mooki
(26:18):
Betts to the ten year contract. They didn't want to
give Xander Bogart to the ten year contract, but they gave.
They gave Raffi Devers the ten year contract. Now final point,
we did have a trade. We had a trade. Let's
make a dal involving Mookie bets current team and his
former team, the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team acquiring Kei
(26:39):
k Hernandez, the rotting carcass of Key k Hernandez from
the Red Sox for a couple of fringe minor league relievers,
one of them that literally barfs every time he goes
out on the mound. The other one, I don't even
know who it is. So does the Key k Hernandez
trade matter? Does the trade matter? So it does not
(27:01):
register on the Richter scale. It gets merely a passing mention,
merely a passing mention. Hernandez played with the Dodgers for
a number of years. He was a pesky player. He's
not a difference maker though he's not, I mean, nor
should he be. He's a backup, fringe major league guy.
(27:23):
And how do you know that this trade does not
raise to the level of attention grabbing because the Dodgers
gave up a couple of Bazooka Joe's to get Keyk
Hernandez the Red Sox. I'm pretty sure they had a
limo drive KEYK to the airport to get him out
(27:44):
to Dodger State and get him out of the Commonwealth.
He was that bad an error machine. But the price tag.
The Dodgers gave up a couple of sticks of bubblegum,
and Keyk's got a hole in his glove so bad
at shortstop, the Red Sox had to drag him off
the field as a shortstop. He sucks so much. He's
a career two thirty eight hitters. He was on the
(28:05):
Dodger team that won the World Series. He got the
playoff numbers are pretty good, but most of his playoff
success actually came with the Red Sox in the playoffs
with the Dodgers. He was okay, a couple of big hits,
but he was not God's gift to October at all.
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Speaker 1 (28:55):
Hit that button. I was one yea, that's that's.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
To the third. I agree, this is one big f gets.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Grail and the Kooper Loop reporters pressed.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Browns owner Jimmy has them on Monday about whether or
not this is a do or die season for Kevin
Stefanski and GM. Andrew Berry has them refused to say, Ben,
do you think it's make a break for these two?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, it's all or nothing. I mean, you look at
the situation especially for Kevin Stefanski, but I say both
of them because either win or you contact a nice
realtor or try to sell the house yourself, which is
very hard to do. But Kevin Stefanski, first of all,
the head coach in Cleveland. He's two games over five
hundred and no playoff appearances the last couple of years.
(29:40):
The playoff win the Browns had was totally fluky because
Ben Roethlisberger basically handed the game to Cleveland with mental
mistakes in that Pittsburgh Cleveland playoff game several years ago.
And then you look at the GM Andrew Berry, and
while he's not the one that gave the creepy quarterback
Deshaun Watson the contract, he is the one that that
encouraged it for the owner, Jimmy Haslam, and Deshaun Watson
(30:05):
has been an embarrassment to the entire Browns franchise and
will be as long as he's a Cleveland Browns quarterback.
Andrew Berry was the guy that orchestrated that at the
behest of the owners. So if you're looking for a
fall guy, he'd be a good fall guy.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Next, Austin Rivers was asked about Damian Lillard's trade demand
from the Blazers, and he said that he didn't like
it and that Lillard turned his back on being the
poster boy for Team Loyalty. Ben, do you think the
trade request from Lillard affects his legacy?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
No, No, he doesn't. Look there'll be plenty of guys
that have changed teams and Lillard has he's fed off.
You know, you are the guys that stayed with it.
Kobe Bryant did not want to play for the leag
He tried to get traded to the Bulls. You want
to go to the Bulls, You want to go to
the Clippers. At one point, these guys, things happened. But
look at Minnesota. Is the greatest you had Kevin Garnett
(30:54):
and Kevin Love, who both were very productive players for
the Timberwolves, and both of them have eventually ended up
asking out getting traded. Garnett especially and is his legacy
tarnish because he went to Boston and won a championship
with Kevin Love, going to Cleveland and jumping on the
Lebron train and winning with the Cavaliers. No, Damian Lillard's
(31:17):
intertwined with Portland. He's got business endeavors there and they'll
bring him back and honor him and all that. He's
got a bunch of records for the team. So it's
you know, a little dramatic by Austin Rivers, who should
thank his dad every day that he has a career
in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Next, an assistant of Dion Sanders at Colorado recently said
that Sanders and Nick Saban are actually very similar. One
example he used was that they both tell you the truth,
not what you want to hear, Ben, do you think
Sanders and Sabans share some qualities?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yes, they're both human beings. They both put one sock
on a time. They wipe their toukis when they drop
a deuce, So those are things they have in common.
Unless they use biday then maybe they don't do that.
But nonetheless, yeah, Nick Saban and Dion Sanders are the
ring masters of the circus of hot Air. I love
(32:08):
these guys. They're great for what I do. They people
react to Nick Saban, they react to Deon Sanders. We
need more people like these guys, so good for them.
Prime Time's got you know, got a limited amount of
time because it was ag I mean, then a coach
he's eighty and he's got health problems. So you gotta
win a bunch of games and he'll get up to
that little Debbies level where Nick Saban is and what.
(32:29):
He's not gonna get to that level, but he'll be respecting.
He did good at the lower level. Now Dion's in
the PAC twelve, so we'll see how he does in Colorado.
But they have some things in common, but not all
that much there. It is Mallard of the third degree?
How did we do? And he passes? That is a win?
I like Ricardo, I passed Eddie.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
No, is that too soon?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
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Speaker 1 (33:05):
We've endured too many of this.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Is it too much or not enough enough?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Already? And away we go? Good news. The computer is
spinning round and rounded, so the it's not working anyway.
Let's play the game with the show must go on
too much or not enough? The Frank in Vegas edition.
This guy Frank, what a boss? Dominated ran the board.
We walk him in our contestant. I believe his name
(33:31):
is Steve. Is that correct? In can Za City? Hello Steve, welcome,
Hey man, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Hey? You tell me Steve? What's the what's the good word?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Brownie? Little Brownie almost dropping dead? That was?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
What do you say? I'm excited about it? No, I
mean this is terrible. I mean, what do you want?
His young dad.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Jamie Fox story where a j bens is he had
to take the jab bro and then he Jamie Fox
took the jab and they got paralyzed and almost blind.
So well, he's not the local health official, but.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I've seen I've seen Jamie Fox and he seems to
be doing better. I know he was sick for a while,
but he's I saw him moving around.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
It wouldn't it be nice, man, to talk about actual
issues instead of doing a third rate Philadelphia sports talk
radio ripoff guy, you know with your boot licking thicker bands.
You know I love Tony Bruno, But.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, I hear you. All right, let's go out. You
would you like to play what is that? Coop?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Who is that? Guy?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Would you like to play? Who is this line? Too?
You're on the airline too? Hello? What happened to line too?
There he is? Oh, is that Jed who fled? Jed?
Would you like to play the game?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Jed, don't make me hang up on your dude. I
love job, but I hate too much enough. That's why
me too much.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I don't want to have with that guy. Steve in
Kansas City's having all right, Here we go, the treatsman.
Calm down, all right, here we go. Story number or
question number one? Question number one, Jet who Fled is
going to play the game. So before Tuesday night, the
(35:15):
Mariners had lost four hundred straight road games. Enough that
your answer I'm just using all right? Is that right?
Not enough? That is to a number one, use the fall.
I do not even need to ask the full question.
It had been five hundred eighty straight road games since
(35:36):
they made a four run comeback in the eighth inning
or later. Question number two for Jet who Fled, he
needs to get two more right to win the game.
Only three quarterbacks have had more passing yards through their
first three seasons than Justin Herbert. Is that too much
or not enough? You say not enough?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
I'm gonna countering to it. I'm gonna go too much.
I'm gonna too much. He's no final answer for the
figh answers. You can't think, but I'm reading there for
the dollar.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
This is absurd. There are no quarterbacks. There are no
quarterbacks who have had more passing yards than Herbert through
their three first three seasons. Question number three, You need
one more right to win the game. Scottie Rowland got
into the Hall of Fame earlier this week. There are
only four third basemen all time with more gold gloves
(36:33):
in their trophy case than Scott Rowland. Is that too
much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
I was.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
I don't even thinking trying to figure out who this
guy is my brain. Not enough?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You sure about that?
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Ye? Go? Too much?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Dude, I listen.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You know you're flipping real quick there on that. What's
your final answer?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Because I know your response whatever I just said a second,
I can't remember. I think it was not enough?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Not enough? You sure about that? That's the streak ends
it's too much. There are only three with more gold gloves.
They are Nolan Aeronauto, Mike Schmidt, and Brooks Robinson, the old.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I got number two rocks. I'm out of bread now,
freezing harder than usual. Let's go. I can do it.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I can do it, Jed calls while he's on the treadmill.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Now, I'm using a flip phone, sneaking. Get a flip
phone because it's the surface, but it fits to bottom mouth.
Not good.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
He's in the act of fleet breath. Okay. Question number
four for Jed who fled This past weekend, Sal Frelick
of the Brewers became the fifth player over the last
twenty five seasons with three hits and the game winning
RBI and his big league debut. Is that too much
(37:48):
or not enough for the win?
Speaker 4 (37:51):
What we did of Andrea and the chargest and angry
peel way too much?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
You said, that's too much?
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Yes it is. Did not hear the breathing? Too much?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Okay? Too much? Is that the correct answer? Now, Jed?
What happened? Not enough that he's the sixth player to
do so, so that.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Is not it was the other one.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
He was the other answer.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
He was answer, Oh, now you're now you're you've boxed
yourself into a corner.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
Now, yeah, yeah, dars Mars gonna cut my head off
there the forces tailing me. My medicois is what I'm not?
The same minute comes.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Down, Take a breath.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
It comes.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It comes down to question number five. I took, I
said breath. I said breath. You're looking question five. Quickly.
Heading into this season, there are ten active players with
seventy or more career touchdowns. Is that too much or
not enough for the win?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I guess guess you gotta see colored people say probably not. Yea,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Be fun sure about that. Not enough you really to go?
Not enough? Okay, not enough, he wants to go. Not enough, Financer, No,
it's too much. It's too much. Jed lost the game.
He lost the game. Jennifer
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