July 27, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Colts owner Jim Irsay breaking his silence on running backs and getting into a back-and-fourth with Jonathan Taylor's agent, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome. It's our numb to hour two of
the radio show Get Right to It podcast format. An
NFL owner has gone on the record, on the record
talking about running backs and salaries and all of that.
Why did Colts owner Jim Mersy break his silence on
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running backs? Who won the back and forth between Jim
Irsay and running back Jonathan Taylor of Indianapolis's agent. And
is the NFL Players Association to blame for the lousy
market for running backs? We'll answer all of those questions
and pose other questions as well. Right now here. It
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is our number two opening up the floodgates. Welcome. In
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buying Shobe. We talked baseball last hour. Get back to
that later as the Angels have announced to all the
insider types that Joe Hailtani is not going to be traded.
The deadline is on Tuesday. Angels did make a trade
just before we cracked the microphone zero trade. The first
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name brand player traded in baseball who's actually good. Lucas Giolito,
the White Sox starting pitcher, goes to Anaheim in a
trade for some suspects. But our lead this hour coming
from the grid iron, well actually kind of the horseshoes
making some headlines here. The ongoing running back pity party
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has taken a twist. Jim Ersay has gone on the record,
Jim Ersay, owner of the Indianapolis football team, and did
you see what he had to say? No, you did
not see what he had to say. Okay, So the
Colts owner, let me be the inside skinny here then
will react to Colts owner Jim Mersey popped up on
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social media and randomly addressed the ongoing drama, O rama
involving running backs. That's my running back in the NFL,
saying Jim are said that the position wanting to renegotiate
the collective Bargaining Agreement the old CBA three years into
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its long term is quote inappropriate, Ersay stated, and that
some agents are selling bad faith. Gotta have faith, gotta
have faith. Bad faith here, bad faith. So those are
the two big nuggets, inappropriate and bad faith from Jimmerson.
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Now that led the agent for Indies star running back
Jonathan Taylor to respond. The agent said, bad faith is
not paying your top offensive player. That was the rebuttal.
So let us discuss the question on this one. Why
did Jim Ersay break his silence on running backs? So
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I have dairy man, Peter Gabriel and toothbrushes, and we
will combine all of these things together and we're going
to make a jumbo sized value meal is what we're
gonna make, all right, So number numbers. Things are getting
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a bit peppery with the owner of the Colts. And
I'm here. I'm here for all of it. I am
I'm here for all of it. Jim, irsay good for
what I do for a living God bless you wonderful.
So my theory on this one is rather simple, that
Ersay has a sneaking suspicion. I'm gonna put my tinfoil
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cap on right now. That Jim Orsay believes Jonathan Taylor
is guilty of malingering the star running back. Ersay upset
Taylor was put on the PUP list, the physically unable
to perform list at the start of Indy's training camp.
It is more likely than not, It is more likely
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than not that if you connect the dots together, Ersay
believes that Taylor is being encouraged to hold a tool
down strike if you will. There were people from the
union that went on the record saying, well, the players
should just show up and not actually play. Fake injuries
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is what they said. Now tayl has plausible deniability and
many people say, you're wrong, band, what are you talking
about here? Because he did have an operation on his
right ankle, Jonathan Taylor back in January. He was expected
to be ready for the start of camp. That's what
we had heard. And after reading the calls for running
backs to fake injuries, Ursay likely putting two and two
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together and thinking that that's four, but maybe it's actually six,
maybe it's only three. Who knows. So I got a
gut feeling that Ersa believes the agent for Jonathan Taylor
is advising him to be the dairy man to milk
the injury. Be like our guy, milkman, Mike there in
Colorado and milk it milk it good, right? And Taylor,
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if you look at last season, he had over one
thousand total scrimmage yards. He did miss a bunch of
games though he missed six games. And is he even
the Colt's best player at this point based on what
he did last year? Ursay? Whatever the case. Here, he
put down the Hennessy and he picked up the smartphone
and unloaded on the guy. So now, secondly, the second
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part of this, who won this? Tit for tat who
won this back and forth between Jim Orsay and Jonathan
Taylor's agent. So I go to the Mallards scorecard on this.
On the Mallards scorecard, I grated it a ten to
nine advantage in favor of the agent. That round goes
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to the rep of Jonathan Taylor. And here's why Jim
Ursay did the thing. You can't do it at the time,
you can't do it. And what is that he blinked,
Jim Irsay blinked. He's the robber baron of the Indianapolis
football team. He's hobnobbing at society balls. He's living the
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oligarch life. I realized he didn't earn it, and he
just happened to win the genetic lottery, and he happened
to inherit the family business and all that. But Jim
Orsay could have kept quiet. We're glad he didn't. NFL
owners will tell you he should have kept quiet. But
less than a week after, Austin Eckler of the Chargers
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said that he wanted answer. I need answers. I demand
answers from NFL owners about why running backs are not
being treated properly in his eyes, well Ersa less than
a week later said okay, hold my beer, here we
go out. He had to jump into the fray, could
not could not stay away from the screen. Doesn't know
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how to stop. Bless his soul, does not know how
to stop. He is the epitome of the old Peter
gabriel Ton. No self control. There is no self control here.
Ersa used a smoke screen to deflect attention over to
the union. Abra cadabra pressed out just like that, all right?
Final point? So is the m Fell Players Association to
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blame for the running back market being where it's at.
As Ersa implied, I would say that is a misnomer.
That is a misnomer that Jim Irsay is using some
what about ism here? What about this? What about that?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Whoa?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What about?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Is the deal? While I will agree it was not
great for the NFL players, it never is my lifetime
getting older, and I don't recall ever there being a
great deal for the players. And that's how most of
these labor deals go because it's a transitory situation. We
don't need to get that into the weeds right now.
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We don't need to go down that garden path. But
you can figure it out. You're smart, you can figure
it out. The new CBA, however, and this is important
to note, is not even remotely germane to the issue
at hand. Right. NFL teams discovered a few years back
that runners are fungible, good or crummy, doesn't matter. Right,
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you're a good running back, you're a great running back.
Whoever you think the top running back is Dereck Henry,
Saquon Barkley, whoever that might be in your big board
or on your big board, inexpensive running backs do not
hurt your chances of having a good running game. They
don't hurt your chances of having a good team. Running
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Backs are like toothbrushes. You should have a toothbrush, you
should brush your teeth, you should have good dental hygiene,
keep your teeth clean and all that. But every three
months or so, that toothbrush that helps keep your teeth clean,
you throw it away because it's worn out. They're disposable,
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disposable toothbrush, and even the top notch runs. I would
argue that Dereck Henry is more like an electric toothbrush.
He's not a throwaway toothbrush. He's an electric tooth brush.
But even the electric toothbrushes, you have to replace the
top of them. You have to. You can't just use
the same electric elect you the top pops off and
you have to put it one on. So online support
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which is not a good indicator of reality. We learned
that in twenty twenty when a lot of people were
hornswaggled by the online sentiment, which was not the same
as the offline sentiment. You know, the thing called the
real world. It continues to be the matrix, but online
it's overwhelming in favor of the running backs and social media,
though I tell you every day there, I'm on there
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for the show. We welcome you to contribute, but it
is the devil's playground. Social media is the matrix. The
real world is where I like to spend my time.
And in the real world, I don't know anyone that's
text me any of my friends. Boy, I can't believe
the running back market. This was really bumming my own.
I haven't heard that. Maybe that person exists and I
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don't know them. It's possible. But the bottom line is,
even with Jim Er say this, while he's probably pissed
off and annoyed munch owners, they're not gonna change anything.
It's not gonna it's gonna go a different direction. They're
not gonna budge an inch. It is the Ben Maler Show.
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He is manning the phones, but he is more than
just a call screener. He's the liar, liar and the
menace of the Fox Sports Radio network. It's the Coop
the Loop Justin Cooper and he's at u H bronco Fan.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I'm on a steamer.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
At out live from the ti rack dot com Fox
Sports Radio Studios. It's been Maler.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Don't forget next hour ask Ben Iowa Sam going into
the music archives here, deep into the archives at Fox
Sports Radio for this one. We began the hour yapping
about Jim Ers. He has gone on the record blaming
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the union negotiations. Just Josh says, so running backs are
like toothbrushes. Weed Man sees no need for that position. Yes,
he's eliminated that position ink and tearror. Well, I guess
that's for Aspen, so we'll say that for aspend JD
Born to DJ says, slight drop off from the previous
(13:05):
hours monologue, Let's regroup and using the next hour to
bounce Byack. It's an opportunity there. But Chim and the
QUES disagrees with the DJ says a plus on the
mount of monologue, Jim irsay, is a textbook example of
Alzheimer's disease. Their terrible, terrible illness. Who else we have
page down, can't read that on the Let's go, let's
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go to the phones, and we mentioned this guy's ears
must have been burning up. Part of the Fox Sports
Radio Alumni Association. And he used to work here up
all night with Nick Wright, unless that's not the show
that he worked on, but he used to work here
in Nick. Hello, Nick, what's going on? Nick?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Ben? Thank you so much. It's been a minute.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It has been how many years? How many years has
it been, Nick? It's been a while.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh got it's been about three I think? Good lord,
has it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Been that long? Okay? You left in twenty twenty okay, I.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Mean yeah, I went upstairs to the building.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Oh yeah, work, yes, yeah, you left even before then, right,
you left before twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Yeah, so still you know, still in the vicinity, but
not yeah not, it's been a minute.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All right, Well here you are, and you are Coop
tells me you're an Angel, Hank, and you're upset. You
would like the Angels now to move out of Anaheim
and move to Oakland? Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
No, that is that is not correct. No, right, But
the whole thing is just I mean, Coop is the
reason why the Angels are what they are is fans
like Coop, who just who just really think that the
there are four games, there are four games out of
a wild card spot. They have a sixteen percent chance
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making the playoffs. And fans like Coop is why the
Angel is still in business and why moreno, still reign
supreme because of fans like Coop who think they have
a shot. And it's this is gonna be this is
gonna be the anti herschel Walker trade. All right, this
is this is gonna be monumental after after it doesn't
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happen that the Angels are gonna somehow think Angels fans
think that they're gonna make the playoffs and let this
the best baseball player ever walk for absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
No, no, you'll get a draft pick. You'll get a
draft pick.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Oh yeah, a conversational pick. That's great.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, it's not nothing. Hey, listen, here's the thing, Nick,
I was gonna rip you, but you ripped Coop so
I kind of liked that and that was so neat.
So I'm not gonna rip you. So you your your
point is that Coop's a bad fan, and that was
the that's what I took from what you just said.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
No, he's actually a good fan. He's a good fan. Specifically,
is that there's just like this blind hope that they're
one day just gonna be relevant ever and they haven't been.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
But you do you do understand Nick, though that like
last year, the Phillies were pretty much just like the Angels.
They had some good players, they didn't play that well
during the regular season, and then they snuck in the
playoffs as the last wild in the National League and
got to the World Series. So it happened, and that happens.
The Atlanta Braves a few years you were not great
during the regular season. They were like five hundred, below
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five hundred snuck in won the World Series.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I don't want to hear about the Phillies. I don't
want to. I don't care about the part.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The same thing could happen to the Angel That's a point.
That is the Atlanta Braves are they are the great
example because that then when the year they won the
World Series, they were under five hundred, they made some trades.
Eddie Rosario is one of the guys they traded for,
and he was the NLCS MVP, Lucas Giulito, the key piece,
eh side Giolito.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Oh my god. Okay, so the Angels are gonna be
buyers of the deadline and and what what?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And then and then but Nick, see you're assuming the
position that the Angels would trade for minor league players
that would actually turn out to be good players. See,
that's a big leap to make. At least you get
Otani for another couple of months. You've got a shot.
You got a shot. So what shot?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
There's four games out of a wealth.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's nothing. That's a that's a good week is when
they sweep the doubleheader with Detroit today they can pick
up a game and a half and boom. You're you're right,
You're right to it. You're two and a half back?
Am I right? In the math on that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Something like I think I have a six chance right now?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Who cares about? That's a nerd stat. Don't go with
that stat. Who cares about what some idiot or some
algorithms says, Oh, you only have a five percent chance? Yeah,
play the games. I heard that in the movie. You
have to play the games, Ben, I'm.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Telling you right now, it's gonna be when when that
ridiculous herschel Walker stop the anti herschel Walker trade, like
when they when the when the cowboy gave up, gave
up all that stuff or whatever? Anti How do you know?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
How do you know that the angels are going to
trade him and you're gonna get just this bounty?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I just said that. You're repeating my material? How dare
you as okay?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
By the way, I miss you, I miss you?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But well you didn't say you miss me, Nick? Why
don't you miss me? You miss No, you didn't say that.
Though you said you said that to Eddy, you didn't
say that to me.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Well, I mean I called in so I mean something right,
I mean but anyway, but I tell you right now,
the Angels are not gonna sniff the playoffs and they're
gonna let this guy walk for absolutely nothing, and it's gonna,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Life will go on. They'll feel the team next year
and they'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Oh they're gonna be fine. Oh yeah, they're gonna be
They're a twenty game under five hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But what kind of life as a fan is that?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Where you're just sitting there like trashing your team, saying, oh,
we're never we're not gonna do anything, like.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Because they had Mike Trump for ten years and didn't
do anything, and they've been twenty for about what four years?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
So maybe you get some no names, maybe you'll be better.
How about that? Oh yeah, well wow, that's a that's
a pathway. I gotta go NI leave you on any longer.
We gotta pay you. Okay, thank you?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I know ye. All right.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I hope life is I hope life is treated you well. Nick,
Thank you, buddy?
Speaker 6 (18:59):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
All rights shooting. I think he was gonna say it
was for you. I cut him off. Let's go to
let's say Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, welcome Ben, Andre.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Yes, Ben, how are you doing? Thank you for taking
the call per usual. You know, you had a recurring caller,
you know, up before me. So I have a lot
to live up to. But here's what it comes down to, Ben,
The Anaheim Angels are about business. I like what they
did bring it in Giolito, showing that they're not gonna
let Sho hayo Tani walk out of the door for nothing.
(19:33):
It looked like for a lot of analysts and commentators
and national broadcasters like yourself, they're gonna be a doormat
for the La Dodgers. They're just gonna let Sho Hay
cruise on up the highway. I don't know what they
call it out where you are. We got ninety five
north and south over here on the East.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Coast five I five five, so you know, all the
way up.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
To you know, Washington and Oregon and all the rest
of that stuff. But they're not gonna allow not gonna
allow show Hay to just cruise up the highway. They
go to the Dodgers, they're putting their foot down there saying, listen,
we recognize this investment. We're not going to be the
franchise in the twenty first century. Then let's go over
unicorn at the Boston Redstocks did in the beginning of
the nineteenth century.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
So I respect that.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
I don't if it's gonna be successful at the end
of the day, because show Hey said he wants to win,
and the Anaheim Angels are a long way from winning.
But I do respect the mocks at the end of
the day. Here's what it comes down to. Listen, Anaheim,
you got too transcended players. Are you going to level
up and be the smart money at the table and
actually put a winning team around you?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
It shouldn't be rocket science, bens.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I I don't care if baseball is diff in the basketball,
it shouldn't be rocket scized if you have.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
To all time towns.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
So Hao Tany and Mike Trunk could both be on
the all time MLB team. How can you be a
more but atrocious, ridiculously bad franchise, Put some pieces around
them and be respectful rather than what we got going
on over back here in East Bend. Mister Cohen, mister
Steve Cohen, or that money he made on Wall Street
and you know, we don't know how he made it,
but you know.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
His return, Oh we know how?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We know? We don't know Hedge funds.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
But but right now he's not the smart money at
the table in terms of how the Mets are doing.
So Anaheim has a chance to distinguish himself.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
I like it because again, back to.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Square one, looked like they were just gonna be a
first found Angels.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You think the Angels trade for Surezer or Verland or next.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
You know what, I'm starting.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Yourself in the game. And I like, at the end
of the day, here's what it comes down to.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Think about this.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
The other day, we throw around the words unicorn too
much in sports, you know, and it's almost like a
hot take that needs to stop. Otani is a legitimate unicorn. Okay,
all these rests are talking about the Hall of fames,
a real hall of fame like MLB, a fake hall
of fame like basketball. Soo, Haltani is MLB Hall of
Fame level unicorn. We need to respect it and put
pieces around him so that he can flourish.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Thankes taking the time, Ben you there he goes Andre
in the Commonwealth. You know what Otani is. He's a trailblazer,
not a Portland trail blazer. And it's something about this.
The other days at the Dodger game, in the Blue
Jays and Otani. You know when Tiger Woods if you're
old enough to remember when Tiger Woods came into golf,
and they're like, everyone's like kind of mimicking Tiger Woods
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after that. It's a little different with Otani because guys
have been great hitters and pitchers for some time, they
usually not allowed to do both. You can, you gotta pick,
you're the pitcher or your hitter. But what Otani's doing
as a trailblazer is he's opening up, first of all,
he's opening up the doors to baseball to consider that.
And I'll bet you within five ten years we see
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players that are currently in college and high school that
are great hitters and pitchers, and I bet you this
becomes more of a normal thing. And right now the
unicorn and all that, but I bet you we'll see
more players and more teams willing to give players an
opportunity to do to do both. It makes makes a
lot of sense. All right, It is the Ben Malord Show.
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As we continue on here, and we will take some
more of your calls at eight seven seven on Fox.
That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
So is it real or is it Billboard Justice. We'll
get to that. We'll take some more calls. We've got
Mallard of the third degree right now, let's get you
caught up on everything going on in the overnight. That
sound right there means the merman who Nick Wright hates
(23:19):
or no, he loves. He got that wrong. He loves you, Eddie.
You send him Christmas cards and no Neday cards.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
No, I don't. But good to hear from him, even
though he's God. He's negative. My god, what a pessimist.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I'm Benny Bright's side and he's a negative name.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I mean, I get it. The Angels, you know, they're not.
I've been great, but.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
No, hoof, Now, what do you think of the food?
I did some radio with Fred Rogan, who's a big
LA media mogul, the other day, and Fred said, the
food at the Big A sucks. You were at an
Angel Pirates game. Was the food? Okay? Did you partake
in the food or did he not?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I did not partake in food. But because that's that's
my policy, I do not eat food at the ballpark
because usually it's it's mediocre and it's incredibly overpriced.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You know, makes a lot of financial sense.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But they're right outside of where we were sitting. They
had a gourmet mac and cheese booth and it got
my attention. I gave it a look. I would have
liked to have tried it, but I knew we were
going out to eat after we have a policy.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Now years ago and I have not eaten the Big
in a while. But they had great cinnamon buns. Cinnamon.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
They also had rats, Yes, lots and rats.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yes, but they actually added some some extra flavor to
the cinnamon buns.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
The rats did.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, they had this nice alm. It was like an
ol pecan topping. Did you ever have those pop back
in the day. No, I believe that was before before
your time. Okay, they were really good, though it sounds good. Yeah,
they were solid. I do remember the rats though, Yeah.
There now the rats are in the front office.
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College Football Big Twelve unanausally vote to except Colorado into
the conference. Now, the Buffalo still have not formally applied
for Big twelve membership, but that's expected to happen.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So let's do the math.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Well, take place after next season.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Let's do the maths. So you've got UCLA and USC.
After the Big Ten, Colorado goes to the Big twelve.
Do they call it the Pac nine? What are you
going to be? Nine teams left? How many?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I don't know, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It doesn't matter what the Big the Big Ten has been.
You know, do they go back to Sandy? Did they
go back to San Diego State and say would you
like to come? How would you like to be in
the pack? I think you state obvious that is the obvious? Yes, absolutely,
wouldn't that be kind of bummed? You'd be bummed out though?
If they go to the Pac twelve and then every
all the other teams the traditional PAC twelve teams are gone.
There are rumors that that Oregon might end up going
(26:22):
to whatever they're going to call the Big Ten.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
I think they should combine the Pac twelve or whoever's
left with the Big twelve just make a super mega
mega mega con.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I think they should combine it with a Big West
is what they should do. Bring the and Eaters into
the fray.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Now, they'd have to have a football team first.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I can do it.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
San Diego State is a viable school to be I
meant party school.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah right, But nobody down there cares about that program though.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
That's not what They just made a national title game run.
I mean, I think they're the pretty basketball. We're talking
about football football. Football football runs the world. Trust me,
when I were football program solid when I worked Sea.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
But nobody cares down that. They just built a brand
new stadium and they can't put anybody in it.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
When it was too hot. Years ago, they had a
player named Marshall Falk at San Diego s City. The
guy was running for like two hundred and seventy yards
a game and they were like fifty people at Qualcomm
or Jack Murfy Stadium was.
Speaker 9 (27:10):
Multiple two thousand yard rushers in their history.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, they've had some backwards at San Diego State. Yeah,
that ends the Aztec talk and move ahead. We move
ahead in the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Now Ben does the name Devon Witherspoon ring any kind
of a bell?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Well, he is the only player that has been drafted
this year that has yet to sign with his team.
He was the fifth overall pick by the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Corner.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Oh, and he's he's not a training camp. They have
not reached a deal on him. So the loan holdout
if you will, from this year's draft class, Devin Witherson.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
He wants a restraining order on JJ and Renton and
then he'll sign up.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Well, there's a name we haven't heard from aout a while,
The Good Jay.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I like JJ when he would call the show good guy.
He makes. Remember JJ has a weird job. Makes not
a weird job. It's just a unique job. JJ makes
the for the for the military. What do you call
it on the boats?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Anchor the anchors, that's it, But not the anchor itself,
the chain.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
The chain for the anchor which wears out because of
the corrosion from the ocean. And so they have to
replace those things all the time. So that's JJ and
Renton's job, very specialized job is But you would think
that that's a kind of a job you you can't,
You're not going to be in trouble with like AI
replacing a person.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
That makes that the physical hands.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yes, he's a he's an artisan, an anchor, artists hands.
He's a chain man.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I'm I don't think he's making those changes with his hands. Well,
you know, he's pushing a button on the computers because
the computer can't do that, right.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, all right, and uh, last time we heard from
JJ and Renton, he had gotten into an auto accident
and he sent photos.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
That's right. Yeah, a little rollover.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
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Jeremy Minnesota says, lame jokes are on Friday. That is correct.
Name jokes are on Friday, late night. Drug test says,
I agree with Andre. Running a baseball team is not
rocket science, but more like organic chemistry. So so he says,
(30:23):
there you go. Let's go to the phones and we'll
say hello to Let's go to Aaron who's in Houston. Aaron, welcome,
it's the Ben Maler Show on Fox. Good to have you.
What's going on, Aaron?
Speaker 5 (30:33):
What's going on? Then? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Aaron? If I was any better, I'd be a Texan,
but not a Houston Texan because there's still gonna be mediocre.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Well that one, Yeah you did.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I'm gonna he said something earlier. Jim Merseay is crazy.
I don't that's something I want to talk about. But
Jim Merseay is fucking I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well you can't. You can't say that either, see I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Yeah, Jim mersiady is crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, you've made that clear. You've gone on the rock.
Let the record show. The honorable Aaron in Houston thinks
Jim er Say is effing crazy.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
I appreciate it. Yes, I wanted to say, I want
to talk.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
About the Rangers.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
But are you driving right now?
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Hear nothing?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh good? Thank god? All right? Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
If Colorado is joining the Big twelve though, yeah, I
do think Colorado needs to come back to the Big twelve.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I mean the Pac twelve is done. Whatever.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
I think Utah and the Arizona schools should go ahead
and join suit.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I think that would make a good Big twelve conference right.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
There, save the Big Twelve. But the Texas and Oklahoma
are gone. That When I think of the Big Twelve,
I think of Oklahoma and Nebraska, and Texas and Nebraska
left years ago, and now the other two were leave.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Well yeah, now the Big Tilt needs to make a
new face, right Well yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I know, well everyone everything's changing, right. These are not
your your dad, these are not the college conferences of
your childhood. Yeah, it's much it's much differ. But I
think that's great. I'm a huge Deon Sanders fan. He
brings attention Rasmataz and so Colorado's because of that, because
of that connection, that's a good, good working relationship.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
But all that being said, I originally wanted to call
and ask. So the Astros are making have been making
a run at the Rangers here of late, for.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
First, But isn't that depressing?
Speaker 8 (32:30):
But honestly, man, what what do you think?
Speaker 5 (32:34):
I mean?
Speaker 8 (32:35):
The Rangers have been holding on, the Astros have been
riddled by injuries, and the Rankers have have have almost
had a miracle season to this point. I mean all
their players have been playing the best.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, all right, So, first of all, two thoughts A
the Rangers are playing. Uh, they're a little above their
skis here. They've played better than the roster. So that's
the first thing. And unfortunately the Yeah Astros have played
because as you mentioned, we got a bunch of players.
But now, but that's part of baseball. It's a war
of attrition. They have played under where they were supposed
(33:10):
to be. So it really depends on and what Bruce
Pochi can continue to get the Rangers to play at
a higher level. And the Rangers will make some trades.
They already got Chapman from the Royals. They'll likely make
another trade or two before the deadline. And so if
those new players work out and they can shore up
the roster, then the Rangers will be able to hold
(33:31):
off your team in Houston. But thank you air all right,
no more cursing. Wash your mouth, that was soap and water. Okay, please,
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get this right. Albert Puhos, Frank Robinson, Mike Trout, and
(34:17):
Blank are the only players in baseball history to win
both Rookie of the Year and MVP awards unanimously. Again,
Albert Pulos, Frank Robinson, Mike Trout, and Blank the only
players in baseball history to win both Rookie of the
Year and the Most Valuable Player Awards unanimously during their careers.
That's the Insta Trivia the answer.
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Speaker 1 (35:17):
And we do have Mallard of the third degree coming
up with time now for the Insta trivia. Here it
is blatant attempt to get you to listen a couple
of minutes longer. Do you know the answer? You think
you know the answer, but do you really know the answer?
Are you sure you know the answer? I don't know
that you do know the answer? Albert Pool hosts Frank Robinson,
Mike Trout, and Blank are the only players in Big
(35:40):
League history to win both Rookie of the Year and
MVP Awards unanimously. Again, Albert Pools, Frank Robinson, Mike Trout,
and Blank the only players in Big League history to
win the Rookie of the Year at MVP Awards unanimously.
And do you know the answer? Can you fill in
the blank? Rick wild Thing, Vaughn guessed by Bean boot
(36:02):
Maker Bob. That's his answer. Raider Freak in North Carolina
says cal Ripken is the way to go. Howard the
Duck from Cowboy Killer. That's his answer, sirle Scott going
with Mark Davis the Future, Missus, Tom Brady, Nathan McKinnon
from Shane from Des Moines, Ryan Tannehill, who is thirty
(36:23):
three today from Late Night Drug Tester. Who else do
we have? Page down? Jeremy in Minnesota. I'm not reading that. Sorry,
that's offensive. Linda Carter from Mister Nice Guy, Gary DiSarcina
tossed out by ferg Dog, Greg Jeffries from alf the
Alien Opiner. They can't miss met Greg Jefferies until he missed.
(36:44):
Mitch McConnell from Justin and Cincinnati. That's about right there. Yeah,
tough day for Mitch. Ryan Sandberg from Sewn and Portland.
Polly d got it right. He must be cheating. Eddie.
Do you have an answer? It's not Tony Womack, but
I love the name from Fields of Greens.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
It's the great Roberto Clemente.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Is it Roberto Clemente?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
No? That is incorrect. It is not Lucas Giolito from
Santa Monica gets by Mark and Santa Monica. The correct
answer a man whose name was part of a song,
Orlando Shepeeda. Orlando Cepeda is the answer. Here we go,
Here we go, get Smeller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
To the third degree? Yeah, this is one, gets gralop
a loop.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
During a press conference on Tuesday, Sean McVay was informed
that Vegas oddsmakers have set the over under for the
Rams wins this season at six and a half. McVeigh said,
they don't believe in US, but are you taking the
over of the other So he's.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Doing the classic nobody believed in US. I love when
coaches and players do that, but I do buy the
McVeigh magic, and he's rejuvenated. The problem is the roster.
That's the problem that the Rams. They do have a
soft schedule. I looked at the Rams schedule when it
came out a few months back, and the Ram have
nine realistically winnable games this year. The Seahawks are not
(38:04):
gonna be as good. The Cardinals blow they play them
twice in the division, The Saints Commanders. I don't think
the Steelers are a great team. The Colts are not
a good team. The Browns are not a good team.
Those are all teams the Rams play. So they got
a bunch of winnable games. If they can win most
of those, say seven to two in that stretch, and
then win a couple of games they're not supposed to win,
(38:24):
then they're on their way. But the problem Matthew Stafford's
in enigma. That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Next, there are new reports that the Atlanta Hawks could
be looking to trade center Clint Capella. Ben, do you
think Copella can be a difference maker for the right team.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Not a difference maker. He's an in and out guy.
He's a double double machine. I like Capella. I'd love
him on the Clippers. Gets a lot of rebounds and points.
But he's not a leading guy. He's he's a good
auxiliary player in the NBA, but he's not gonna push
you and catapult you over the top. Next.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Earlier this week, Mike Rabel made a podcast appearance and
he was asked, yeah, if you could win a fight
against Dan Campbell. Well, obviously Vrabel said that he could,
But who are you taking in this theoretical fight?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I like Rabel. I would take Campbell, though, to win
the fight, Dan Campbell will eat a kneecap. So I
think that trips like Mike Rabel's Superprice got like a
lazy eye right, and you have that going for him.
But I'll take Dan Campbell for the win from the lines,
How did wait now, Cole? You pass?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I won the game?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Hey, I won the game again. It's a win for me.
Hello, and welcome. It's our numb to hour two of
the radio show Get Right to It podcast format. An
NFL owner has gone on the record, on the record
talking about running backs and salaries and all of that.
Why did Colts owner Jim Mersy break his silence on
(00:22):
running backs? Who won the back and forth between Jim
Irsay and running back Jonathan Taylor of Indianapolis's agent. And
is the NFL Players Association to blame for the lousy
market for running backs? We'll answer all of those questions
and pose other questions as well. Right now here. It
(00:43):
is our number two opening up the floodgates. Welcome. In
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that later as the Angels have announced to all the
insider types that Joe Hailtani is not going to be traded.
The deadline is on Tuesday. Angels did make a trade
just before we cracked the microphone zero trade. The first
(01:47):
name brand player traded in baseball who's actually good. Lucas Giolito,
the White Sox starting pitcher, goes to Anaheim in a
trade for some suspects. But our lead this hour coming
from the grid iron, well actually kind of the horseshoes
making some headlines here. The ongoing running back pity party
(02:07):
has taken a twist. Jim Ersay has gone on the record,
Jim Ersay, owner of the Indianapolis football team, and did
you see what he had to say? No, you did
not see what he had to say. Okay, So the
Colts owner, let me be the inside skinny here then
will react to Colts owner Jim Mersey popped up on
(02:27):
social media and randomly addressed the ongoing drama, O rama
involving running backs. That's my running back in the NFL,
saying Jim are said that the position wanting to renegotiate
the collective Bargaining Agreement the old CBA three years into
(02:48):
its long term is quote inappropriate, Ersay stated, and that
some agents are selling bad faith. Gotta have faith, gotta
have faith. Bad faith here, bad faith. So those are
the two big nuggets, inappropriate and bad faith from Jimmerson.
(03:09):
Now that led the agent for Indies star running back
Jonathan Taylor to respond. The agent said, bad faith is
not paying your top offensive player. That was the rebuttal.
So let us discuss the question on this one. Why
did Jim Ersay break his silence on running backs? So
(03:33):
I have dairy man, Peter Gabriel and toothbrushes, and we
will combine all of these things together and we're going
to make a jumbo sized value meal is what we're
gonna make, all right, So number numbers. Things are getting
(03:55):
a bit peppery with the owner of the Colts. And
I'm here. I'm here for all of it. I am
I'm here for all of it. Jim, irsay good for
what I do for a living God bless you wonderful.
So my theory on this one is rather simple, that
Ersay has a sneaking suspicion. I'm gonna put my tinfoil
(04:16):
cap on right now. That Jim Orsay believes Jonathan Taylor
is guilty of malingering the star running back. Ersay upset
Taylor was put on the PUP list, the physically unable
to perform list at the start of Indy's training camp.
It is more likely than not, It is more likely
(04:37):
than not that if you connect the dots together, Ersay
believes that Taylor is being encouraged to hold a tool
down strike if you will. There were people from the
union that went on the record saying, well, the players
should just show up and not actually play. Fake injuries
(04:59):
is what they said. Now tayl has plausible deniability and
many people say, you're wrong, band, what are you talking
about here? Because he did have an operation on his
right ankle, Jonathan Taylor back in January. He was expected
to be ready for the start of camp. That's what
we had heard. And after reading the calls for running
backs to fake injuries, Ursay likely putting two and two
(05:22):
together and thinking that that's four, but maybe it's actually six,
maybe it's only three. Who knows. So I got a
gut feeling that Ersa believes the agent for Jonathan Taylor
is advising him to be the dairy man to milk
the injury. Be like our guy, milkman, Mike there in
Colorado and milk it milk it good, right? And Taylor,
(05:46):
if you look at last season, he had over one
thousand total scrimmage yards. He did miss a bunch of
games though he missed six games. And is he even
the Colt's best player at this point based on what
he did last year? Ursay? Whatever the case. Here, he
put down the Hennessy and he picked up the smartphone
and unloaded on the guy. So now, secondly, the second
(06:09):
part of this, who won this? Tit for tat who
won this back and forth between Jim Orsay and Jonathan
Taylor's agent. So I go to the Mallards scorecard on this.
On the Mallards scorecard, I grated it a ten to
nine advantage in favor of the agent. That round goes
(06:31):
to the rep of Jonathan Taylor. And here's why Jim
Ursay did the thing. You can't do it at the time,
you can't do it. And what is that he blinked,
Jim Irsay blinked. He's the robber baron of the Indianapolis
football team. He's hobnobbing at society balls. He's living the
(06:52):
oligarch life. I realized he didn't earn it, and he
just happened to win the genetic lottery, and he happened
to inherit the family business and all that. But Jim
Orsay could have kept quiet. We're glad he didn't. NFL
owners will tell you he should have kept quiet. But
less than a week after, Austin Eckler of the Chargers
(07:13):
said that he wanted answer. I need answers. I demand
answers from NFL owners about why running backs are not
being treated properly in his eyes, well Ersa less than
a week later said okay, hold my beer, here we
go out. He had to jump into the fray, could
not could not stay away from the screen. Doesn't know
(07:37):
how to stop. Bless his soul, does not know how
to stop. He is the epitome of the old Peter
gabriel Ton. No self control. There is no self control here.
Ersa used a smoke screen to deflect attention over to
the union. Abra cadabra pressed out just like that, all right?
Final point? So is the m Fell Players Association to
(08:03):
blame for the running back market being where it's at.
As Ersa implied, I would say that is a misnomer.
That is a misnomer that Jim Irsay is using some
what about ism here? What about this? What about that?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Whoa?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What about?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Is the deal? While I will agree it was not
great for the NFL players, it never is my lifetime
getting older, and I don't recall ever there being a
great deal for the players. And that's how most of
these labor deals go because it's a transitory situation. We
don't need to get that into the weeds right now.
(08:43):
We don't need to go down that garden path. But
you can figure it out. You're smart, you can figure
it out. The new CBA, however, and this is important
to note, is not even remotely germane to the issue
at hand. Right. NFL teams discovered a few years back
that runners are fungible, good or crummy, doesn't matter. Right,
(09:06):
you're a good running back, you're a great running back.
Whoever you think the top running back is Dereck Henry,
Saquon Barkley, whoever that might be in your big board
or on your big board, inexpensive running backs do not
hurt your chances of having a good running game. They
don't hurt your chances of having a good team. Running
(09:27):
Backs are like toothbrushes. You should have a toothbrush, you
should brush your teeth, you should have good dental hygiene,
keep your teeth clean and all that. But every three
months or so, that toothbrush that helps keep your teeth clean,
you throw it away because it's worn out. They're disposable,
(09:47):
disposable toothbrush, and even the top notch runs. I would
argue that Dereck Henry is more like an electric toothbrush.
He's not a throwaway toothbrush. He's an electric tooth brush.
But even the electric toothbrushes, you have to replace the
top of them. You have to. You can't just use
the same electric elect you the top pops off and
you have to put it one on. So online support
(10:12):
which is not a good indicator of reality. We learned
that in twenty twenty when a lot of people were
hornswaggled by the online sentiment, which was not the same
as the offline sentiment. You know, the thing called the
real world. It continues to be the matrix, but online
it's overwhelming in favor of the running backs and social media,
though I tell you every day there, I'm on there
(10:35):
for the show. We welcome you to contribute, but it
is the devil's playground. Social media is the matrix. The
real world is where I like to spend my time.
And in the real world, I don't know anyone that's
text me any of my friends. Boy, I can't believe
the running back market. This was really bumming my own.
I haven't heard that. Maybe that person exists and I
(10:55):
don't know them. It's possible. But the bottom line is,
even with Jim Er say this, while he's probably pissed
off and annoyed munch owners, they're not gonna change anything.
It's not gonna it's gonna go a different direction. They're
not gonna budge an inch. It is the Ben Maler Show.
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Don't forget next hour ask Ben Iowa Sam going into
the music archives here, deep into the archives at Fox
Sports Radio for this one. We began the hour yapping
about Jim Ers. He has gone on the record blaming
(12:43):
the union negotiations. Just Josh says, so running backs are
like toothbrushes. Weed Man sees no need for that position. Yes,
he's eliminated that position ink and tearror. Well, I guess
that's for Aspen, so we'll say that for aspend JD
Born to DJ says, slight drop off from the previous
(13:05):
hours monologue, Let's regroup and using the next hour to
bounce Byack. It's an opportunity there. But Chim and the
QUES disagrees with the DJ says a plus on the
mount of monologue, Jim irsay, is a textbook example of
Alzheimer's disease. Their terrible, terrible illness. Who else we have
page down, can't read that on the Let's go, let's
(13:25):
go to the phones, and we mentioned this guy's ears
must have been burning up. Part of the Fox Sports
Radio Alumni Association. And he used to work here up
all night with Nick Wright, unless that's not the show
that he worked on, but he used to work here
in Nick. Hello, Nick, what's going on? Nick?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Ben? Thank you so much. It's been a minute.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It has been how many years? How many years has
it been, Nick? It's been a while.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh got it's been about three I think? Good lord,
has it.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Been that long? Okay? You left in twenty twenty okay, I.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Mean yeah, I went upstairs to the building.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Oh yeah, work, yes, yeah, you left even before then, right,
you left before twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Yeah, so still you know, still in the vicinity, but
not yeah not, it's been a minute.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
All right, Well here you are, and you are Coop
tells me you're an Angel, Hank, and you're upset. You
would like the Angels now to move out of Anaheim
and move to Oakland? Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
No, that is that is not correct. No, right, But
the whole thing is just I mean, Coop is the
reason why the Angels are what they are is fans
like Coop, who just who just really think that the
there are four games, there are four games out of
a wild card spot. They have a sixteen percent chance
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making the playoffs. And fans like Coop is why the
Angel is still in business and why moreno, still reign
supreme because of fans like Coop who think they have
a shot. And it's this is gonna be this is
gonna be the anti herschel Walker trade. All right, this
is this is gonna be monumental after after it doesn't
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happen that the Angels are gonna somehow think Angels fans
think that they're gonna make the playoffs and let this
the best baseball player ever walk for absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
No, no, you'll get a draft pick. You'll get a
draft pick.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Oh yeah, a conversational pick. That's great.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, it's not nothing. Hey, listen, here's the thing, Nick,
I was gonna rip you, but you ripped Coop so
I kind of liked that and that was so neat.
So I'm not gonna rip you. So you your your
point is that Coop's a bad fan, and that was
the that's what I took from what you just said.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
No, he's actually a good fan. He's a good fan. Specifically,
is that there's just like this blind hope that they're
one day just gonna be relevant ever and they haven't been.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
But you do you do understand Nick, though that like
last year, the Phillies were pretty much just like the Angels.
They had some good players, they didn't play that well
during the regular season, and then they snuck in the
playoffs as the last wild in the National League and
got to the World Series. So it happened, and that happens.
The Atlanta Braves a few years you were not great
during the regular season. They were like five hundred, below
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five hundred snuck in won the World Series.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I don't want to hear about the Phillies. I don't
want to. I don't care about the part.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The same thing could happen to the Angel That's a point.
That is the Atlanta Braves are they are the great
example because that then when the year they won the
World Series, they were under five hundred, they made some trades.
Eddie Rosario is one of the guys they traded for,
and he was the NLCS MVP, Lucas Giulito, the key piece,
eh side Giolito.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Oh my god. Okay, so the Angels are gonna be
buyers of the deadline and and what what?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
And then and then but Nick, see you're assuming the
position that the Angels would trade for minor league players
that would actually turn out to be good players. See,
that's a big leap to make. At least you get
Otani for another couple of months. You've got a shot.
You got a shot. So what shot?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
There's four games out of a wealth.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's nothing. That's a that's a good week is when
they sweep the doubleheader with Detroit today they can pick
up a game and a half and boom. You're you're right,
You're right to it. You're two and a half back?
Am I right? In the math on that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Something like I think I have a six chance right now?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Who cares about? That's a nerd stat. Don't go with
that stat. Who cares about what some idiot or some
algorithms says, Oh, you only have a five percent chance? Yeah,
play the games. I heard that in the movie. You
have to play the games, Ben, I'm.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Telling you right now, it's gonna be when when that
ridiculous herschel Walker stop the anti herschel Walker trade, like
when they when the when the cowboy gave up, gave
up all that stuff or whatever? Anti How do you know?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
How do you know that the angels are going to
trade him and you're gonna get just this bounty?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I just said that. You're repeating my material? How dare
you as okay?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
By the way, I miss you, I miss you?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But well you didn't say you miss me, Nick? Why
don't you miss me? You miss No, you didn't say that.
Though you said you said that to Eddy, you didn't
say that to me.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Well, I mean I called in so I mean something right,
I mean but anyway, but I tell you right now,
the Angels are not gonna sniff the playoffs and they're
gonna let this guy walk for absolutely nothing, and it's gonna,
you know what.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Life will go on. They'll feel the team next year
and they'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Oh they're gonna be fine. Oh yeah, they're gonna be
They're a twenty game under five hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But what kind of life as a fan is that?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Where you're just sitting there like trashing your team, saying, oh,
we're never we're not gonna do anything, like.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Because they had Mike Trump for ten years and didn't
do anything, and they've been twenty for about what four years?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
So maybe you get some no names, maybe you'll be better.
How about that? Oh yeah, well wow, that's a that's
a pathway. I gotta go NI leave you on any longer.
We gotta pay you. Okay, thank you?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I know ye. All right.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I hope life is I hope life is treated you well. Nick,
Thank you, buddy?
Speaker 6 (18:59):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
All rights shooting. I think he was gonna say it
was for you. I cut him off. Let's go to
let's say Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, welcome Ben, Andre.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Yes, Ben, how are you doing? Thank you for taking
the call per usual. You know, you had a recurring caller,
you know, up before me. So I have a lot
to live up to. But here's what it comes down to, Ben,
The Anaheim Angels are about business. I like what they
did bring it in Giolito, showing that they're not gonna
let Sho hayo Tani walk out of the door for nothing.
(19:33):
It looked like for a lot of analysts and commentators
and national broadcasters like yourself, they're gonna be a doormat
for the La Dodgers. They're just gonna let Sho Hay
cruise on up the highway. I don't know what they
call it out where you are. We got ninety five
north and south over here on the East.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Coast five I five five, so you know, all the
way up.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
To you know, Washington and Oregon and all the rest
of that stuff. But they're not gonna allow not gonna
allow show Hay to just cruise up the highway. They
go to the Dodgers, they're putting their foot down there saying, listen,
we recognize this investment. We're not going to be the
franchise in the twenty first century. Then let's go over
unicorn at the Boston Redstocks did in the beginning of
the nineteenth century.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
So I respect that.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
I don't if it's gonna be successful at the end
of the day, because show Hey said he wants to win,
and the Anaheim Angels are a long way from winning.
But I do respect the mocks at the end of
the day. Here's what it comes down to. Listen, Anaheim,
you got too transcended players. Are you going to level
up and be the smart money at the table and
actually put a winning team around you?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
It shouldn't be rocket science, bens.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I I don't care if baseball is diff in the basketball,
it shouldn't be rocket scized if you have.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
To all time towns.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
So Hao Tany and Mike Trunk could both be on
the all time MLB team. How can you be a
more but atrocious, ridiculously bad franchise, Put some pieces around
them and be respectful rather than what we got going
on over back here in East Bend. Mister Cohen, mister
Steve Cohen, or that money he made on Wall Street
and you know, we don't know how he made it,
but you know.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
His return, Oh we know how?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
We know? We don't know Hedge funds.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
But but right now he's not the smart money at
the table in terms of how the Mets are doing.
So Anaheim has a chance to distinguish himself.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
I like it because again, back to.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Square one, looked like they were just gonna be a
first found Angels.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You think the Angels trade for Surezer or Verland or next.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
You know what, I'm starting.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Yourself in the game. And I like, at the end
of the day, here's what it comes down to.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Think about this.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
The other day, we throw around the words unicorn too
much in sports, you know, and it's almost like a
hot take that needs to stop. Otani is a legitimate unicorn. Okay,
all these rests are talking about the Hall of fames,
a real hall of fame like MLB, a fake hall
of fame like basketball. Soo, Haltani is MLB Hall of
Fame level unicorn. We need to respect it and put
pieces around him so that he can flourish.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Thankes taking the time, Ben you there he goes Andre
in the Commonwealth. You know what Otani is. He's a trailblazer,
not a Portland trail blazer. And it's something about this.
The other days at the Dodger game, in the Blue
Jays and Otani. You know when Tiger Woods if you're
old enough to remember when Tiger Woods came into golf,
and they're like, everyone's like kind of mimicking Tiger Woods
(22:08):
after that. It's a little different with Otani because guys
have been great hitters and pitchers for some time, they
usually not allowed to do both. You can, you gotta pick,
you're the pitcher or your hitter. But what Otani's doing
as a trailblazer is he's opening up, first of all,
he's opening up the doors to baseball to consider that.
And I'll bet you within five ten years we see
(22:32):
players that are currently in college and high school that
are great hitters and pitchers, and I bet you this
becomes more of a normal thing. And right now the
unicorn and all that, but I bet you we'll see
more players and more teams willing to give players an
opportunity to do to do both. It makes makes a
lot of sense. All right, It is the Ben Malord Show.
(22:55):
As we continue on here, and we will take some
more of your calls at eight seven seven on Fox.
That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
So is it real or is it Billboard Justice. We'll
get to that. We'll take some more calls. We've got
Mallard of the third degree right now, let's get you
caught up on everything going on in the overnight. That
sound right there means the merman who Nick Wright hates
(23:19):
or no, he loves. He got that wrong. He loves you, Eddie.
You send him Christmas cards and no Neday cards.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
No, I don't. But good to hear from him, even
though he's God. He's negative. My god, what a pessimist.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I'm Benny Bright's side and he's a negative name.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I mean, I get it. The Angels, you know, they're not.
I've been great, but.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
No, hoof, Now, what do you think of the food?
I did some radio with Fred Rogan, who's a big
LA media mogul, the other day, and Fred said, the
food at the Big A sucks. You were at an
Angel Pirates game. Was the food? Okay? Did you partake
in the food or did he not?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I did not partake in food. But because that's that's
my policy, I do not eat food at the ballpark
because usually it's it's mediocre and it's incredibly overpriced.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You know, makes a lot of financial sense.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But they're right outside of where we were sitting. They
had a gourmet mac and cheese booth and it got
my attention. I gave it a look. I would have
liked to have tried it, but I knew we were
going out to eat after we have a policy.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Now years ago and I have not eaten the Big
in a while. But they had great cinnamon buns. Cinnamon.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
They also had rats, Yes, lots and rats.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yes, but they actually added some some extra flavor to
the cinnamon buns.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
The rats did.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, they had this nice alm. It was like an
ol pecan topping. Did you ever have those pop back
in the day. No, I believe that was before before
your time. Okay, they were really good, though it sounds good. Yeah,
they were solid. I do remember the rats though, Yeah.
There now the rats are in the front office.
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Speaker 3 (25:37):
College Football Big Twelve unanausally vote to except Colorado into
the conference. Now, the Buffalo still have not formally applied
for Big twelve membership, but that's expected to happen.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So let's do the math.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Well, take place after next season.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Let's do the maths. So you've got UCLA and USC.
After the Big Ten, Colorado goes to the Big twelve.
Do they call it the Pac nine? What are you
going to be? Nine teams left? How many?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I don't know, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It doesn't matter what the Big the Big Ten has been.
You know, do they go back to Sandy? Did they
go back to San Diego State and say would you
like to come? How would you like to be in
the pack? I think you state obvious that is the obvious? Yes, absolutely,
wouldn't that be kind of bummed? You'd be bummed out though?
If they go to the Pac twelve and then every
all the other teams the traditional PAC twelve teams are gone.
There are rumors that that Oregon might end up going
(26:22):
to whatever they're going to call the Big Ten.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
I think they should combine the Pac twelve or whoever's
left with the Big twelve just make a super mega
mega mega con.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I think they should combine it with a Big West
is what they should do. Bring the and Eaters into
the fray.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Now, they'd have to have a football team first.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I can do it.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
San Diego State is a viable school to be I
meant party school.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah right, But nobody down there cares about that program though.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
That's not what They just made a national title game run.
I mean, I think they're the pretty basketball. We're talking
about football football. Football football runs the world. Trust me,
when I were football program solid when I worked Sea.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
But nobody cares down that. They just built a brand
new stadium and they can't put anybody in it.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
When it was too hot. Years ago, they had a
player named Marshall Falk at San Diego s City. The
guy was running for like two hundred and seventy yards
a game and they were like fifty people at Qualcomm
or Jack Murfy Stadium was.
Speaker 9 (27:10):
Multiple two thousand yard rushers in their history.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, they've had some backwards at San Diego State. Yeah,
that ends the Aztec talk and move ahead. We move
ahead in the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Now Ben does the name Devon Witherspoon ring any kind
of a bell?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Well, he is the only player that has been drafted
this year that has yet to sign with his team.
He was the fifth overall pick by the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Corner.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Oh, and he's he's not a training camp. They have
not reached a deal on him. So the loan holdout
if you will, from this year's draft class, Devin Witherson.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
He wants a restraining order on JJ and Renton and
then he'll sign up.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Well, there's a name we haven't heard from aout a while,
The Good Jay.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I like JJ when he would call the show good guy.
He makes. Remember JJ has a weird job. Makes not
a weird job. It's just a unique job. JJ makes
the for the for the military. What do you call
it on the boats?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Anchor the anchors, that's it, But not the anchor itself,
the chain.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
The chain for the anchor which wears out because of
the corrosion from the ocean. And so they have to
replace those things all the time. So that's JJ and
Renton's job, very specialized job is But you would think
that that's a kind of a job you you can't,
You're not going to be in trouble with like AI
replacing a person.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
That makes that the physical hands.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yes, he's a he's an artisan, an anchor, artists hands.
He's a chain man.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I'm I don't think he's making those changes with his hands. Well,
you know, he's pushing a button on the computers because
the computer can't do that, right.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, all right, and uh, last time we heard from
JJ and Renton, he had gotten into an auto accident
and he sent photos.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
That's right. Yeah, a little rollover.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
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Jeremy Minnesota says, lame jokes are on Friday. That is correct.
Name jokes are on Friday, late night. Drug test says,
I agree with Andre. Running a baseball team is not
rocket science, but more like organic chemistry. So so he says,
(30:23):
there you go. Let's go to the phones and we'll
say hello to Let's go to Aaron who's in Houston. Aaron, welcome,
it's the Ben Maler Show on Fox. Good to have you.
What's going on, Aaron?
Speaker 5 (30:33):
What's going on? Then? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Aaron? If I was any better, I'd be a Texan,
but not a Houston Texan because there's still gonna be mediocre.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Well that one, Yeah you did.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I'm gonna he said something earlier. Jim Merseay is crazy.
I don't that's something I want to talk about. But
Jim Merseay is fucking I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well you can't. You can't say that either, see I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Yeah, Jim mersiady is crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, you've made that clear. You've gone on the rock.
Let the record show. The honorable Aaron in Houston thinks
Jim er Say is effing crazy.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
I appreciate it. Yes, I wanted to say, I want
to talk.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
About the Rangers.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
But are you driving right now?
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Hear nothing?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh good? Thank god? All right? Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
If Colorado is joining the Big twelve though, yeah, I
do think Colorado needs to come back to the Big twelve.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I mean the Pac twelve is done. Whatever.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
I think Utah and the Arizona schools should go ahead
and join suit.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
I think that would make a good Big twelve conference right.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
There, save the Big Twelve. But the Texas and Oklahoma
are gone. That When I think of the Big Twelve,
I think of Oklahoma and Nebraska, and Texas and Nebraska
left years ago, and now the other two were leave.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Well yeah, now the Big Tilt needs to make a
new face, right Well yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I know, well everyone everything's changing, right. These are not
your your dad, these are not the college conferences of
your childhood. Yeah, it's much it's much differ. But I
think that's great. I'm a huge Deon Sanders fan. He
brings attention Rasmataz and so Colorado's because of that, because
of that connection, that's a good, good working relationship.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
But all that being said, I originally wanted to call
and ask. So the Astros are making have been making
a run at the Rangers here of late, for.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
First, But isn't that depressing?
Speaker 8 (32:30):
But honestly, man, what what do you think?
Speaker 5 (32:34):
I mean?
Speaker 8 (32:35):
The Rangers have been holding on, the Astros have been
riddled by injuries, and the Rankers have have have almost
had a miracle season to this point. I mean all
their players have been playing the best.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, all right, So, first of all, two thoughts A
the Rangers are playing. Uh, they're a little above their
skis here. They've played better than the roster. So that's
the first thing. And unfortunately the Yeah Astros have played
because as you mentioned, we got a bunch of players.
But now, but that's part of baseball. It's a war
of attrition. They have played under where they were supposed
(33:10):
to be. So it really depends on and what Bruce
Pochi can continue to get the Rangers to play at
a higher level. And the Rangers will make some trades.
They already got Chapman from the Royals. They'll likely make
another trade or two before the deadline. And so if
those new players work out and they can shore up
the roster, then the Rangers will be able to hold
(33:31):
off your team in Houston. But thank you air all right,
no more cursing. Wash your mouth, that was soap and water. Okay, please,
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Albert Pulos, Frank Robinson, Mike Trout, and Blank the only
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And we do have Mallard of the third degree coming
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of minutes longer. Do you know the answer? You think
you know the answer, but do you really know the answer?
Are you sure you know the answer? I don't know
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Mike Trout, and Blank are the only players in Big
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League history to win both Rookie of the Year and
MVP Awards unanimously. Again, Albert Pools, Frank Robinson, Mike Trout,
and Blank the only players in Big League history to
win the Rookie of the Year at MVP Awards unanimously.
And do you know the answer? Can you fill in
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Maker Bob. That's his answer. Raider Freak in North Carolina
says cal Ripken is the way to go. Howard the
Duck from Cowboy Killer. That's his answer, sirle Scott going
with Mark Davis the Future, Missus, Tom Brady, Nathan McKinnon
from Shane from Des Moines, Ryan Tannehill, who is thirty
(36:23):
three today from Late Night Drug Tester. Who else do
we have? Page down? Jeremy in Minnesota. I'm not reading that. Sorry,
that's offensive. Linda Carter from Mister Nice Guy, Gary DiSarcina
tossed out by ferg Dog, Greg Jeffries from alf the
Alien Opiner. They can't miss met Greg Jefferies until he missed.
(36:44):
Mitch McConnell from Justin and Cincinnati. That's about right there. Yeah,
tough day for Mitch. Ryan Sandberg from Sewn and Portland.
Polly d got it right. He must be cheating. Eddie.
Do you have an answer? It's not Tony Womack, but
I love the name from Fields of Greens.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
It's the great Roberto Clemente.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Is it Roberto Clemente?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
No? That is incorrect. It is not Lucas Giolito from
Santa Monica gets by Mark and Santa Monica. The correct
answer a man whose name was part of a song,
Orlando Shepeeda. Orlando Cepeda is the answer. Here we go,
Here we go, get Smeller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
To the third degree? Yeah, this is one, gets gralop
a loop.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
During a press conference on Tuesday, Sean McVay was informed
that Vegas oddsmakers have set the over under for the
Rams wins this season at six and a half. McVeigh said,
they don't believe in US, but are you taking the
over of the other So he's.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Doing the classic nobody believed in US. I love when
coaches and players do that, but I do buy the
McVeigh magic, and he's rejuvenated. The problem is the roster.
That's the problem that the Rams. They do have a
soft schedule. I looked at the Rams schedule when it
came out a few months back, and the Ram have
nine realistically winnable games this year. The Seahawks are not
(38:04):
gonna be as good. The Cardinals blow they play them
twice in the division, The Saints Commanders. I don't think
the Steelers are a great team. The Colts are not
a good team. The Browns are not a good team.
Those are all teams the Rams play. So they got
a bunch of winnable games. If they can win most
of those, say seven to two in that stretch, and
then win a couple of games they're not supposed to win,
(38:24):
then they're on their way. But the problem Matthew Stafford's
in enigma. That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Next, there are new reports that the Atlanta Hawks could
be looking to trade center Clint Capella. Ben, do you
think Copella can be a difference maker for the right team.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Not a difference maker. He's an in and out guy.
He's a double double machine. I like Capella. I'd love
him on the Clippers. Gets a lot of rebounds and points.
But he's not a leading guy. He's he's a good
auxiliary player in the NBA, but he's not gonna push
you and catapult you over the top. Next.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Earlier this week, Mike Rabel made a podcast appearance and
he was asked, yeah, if you could win a fight
against Dan Campbell. Well, obviously Vrabel said that he could,
But who are you taking in this theoretical fight?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I like Rabel. I would take Campbell, though, to win
the fight, Dan Campbell will eat a kneecap. So I
think that trips like Mike Rabel's Superprice got like a
lazy eye right, and you have that going for him.
But I'll take Dan Campbell for the win from the lines,
How did wait now, Cole? You pass?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I won the game?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Hey, I won the game again. It's a win for me.
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