August 3, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Tigers P Eduardo Rodriguez saying he has nothing against the Dodgers, Steve Cohen's explanation of the Max Scherzer trade, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dumb perform our four out
the door and we go back to the well one
more time. The man has spoken, who is the man
that would be Tiger's starting pitcher at Duardo Rodriguez? Are
you buying or selling what? Duardo Rodriguez said that he
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has nothing against the Doyers. Also, how do you process
Mets owner Steve Cohen's explanation on the mac Scherzer trade
and what he told Max Scherzer. What's gonna happen for
the Mets this offseason? And does this domingrel Herman revelation
with the Yankees make sense. We'll talk about that as well.
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All of it's coming your way right now here. It
is our number four. Enjoy, have a great day today.
It turns out a Tiger really cannot change his or
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active particles from the trade deadline still floating around in
the state of Michigan, specifically in Detroit. If you did
not hear the latest. The starting pitcher who was traded
at the deadline and then decided he didn't want to
be traded. The Tiger starting pitcher at Duardo Rodriguez ex
Red Sox, who used his no trade clause to vetto
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he trade to Los Angeles. Now, he tried to explain
to the Beat writers why he made the decision. He said, quote,
I didn't feel really comfortable with it, he said, what
kind of obvious quote continues, And I decided to stay
here being the Tigers. It's nothing against the Dodgers, he said,
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as the Tiger pitcher A Dwardo Rodriguez stating they're a
really good team over there. I'm just thinking about my
future and my family, and I took the decision to
stay here close quote. He also went on to say
that the family loves Detroit and they didn't want to
leave pretty much what he said. So let us discuss
the question on this one is how do you parse
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the words? How do you parse the words of a
Duardo Rodriguez and his quote here on using the note
trick fuss. So I've got five common words, imagine dragons
and Coney Island, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a wisdom
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tooth is what we're going to make, because there was
some lack of wisdom on this now to lead off
a Duardo Rodriguez explanation, didn't cut the mustard. It did
not cut the mustard. There are many many around the
tigers and his agent, as you would expect, circling the
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wagons to try to defend what happened here. And while
it is allowed, as we pointed out in a previous
episode of the show, is not against the rules. It
just smells. It just smells so bad. It's just a
terrible look. Because when you take a couple of steps back,
this is the old His excuse was the I n Y,
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I am excuse, And that's right in my wheelhouse. Those
five common words are right in my wheelhouse. And you
know what those five common words are you've we've all
been in relationships that have ended or sometimes not even
really gotten started. And what are those fire words? It's
not you, it's me. That's essentially what a drawdo Rodriguez
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to saying it's not the Dodgers, it's me. It's me.
That's what's going on. Yeah, right, This move, while it
is allowed, shows a lack of fire in the belly.
The Tigers are not only a baseball team, they are
miserable failures this season yet again, and the Dodgers gets
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you in the plus, that's the only reasonable takeaway is
that he just lacks the fighting spirit to try to win.
He won with the Red Sox. To Dwardo Rodriguez couple
years ago, he's good. And the other thing he mentioned
in that quote which rubbed me the wrong way because
he partsed the words here he says, I was thinking
about my future, is what he said. So this must
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mean that Rodriguez is not going to opt out of
his Tigers contract. Otherwise this would be one of the
dumbest decisions in the history of free agency, because he
can opt out at the end of the year and
the salaries keep going up and the Tigers are terrible
but the Duardo's had a pretty good year er wise,
has been pretty solid, pitched a pretty good game yesterday
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as well. So go to the Dodgers. They would have
given you luxury accommodations for two months, half those games
on the road, and then you go test the market,
opt out of the contract, and go sign with the
team on the East coast. But one of the rumors
that I've heard is that even though Duardo Rodriguez said
that he didn't want to play in La because a family,
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there was negotiation on working out some kind of financial
agreement or go a contract extension with the Dodgers that
would have caused him to approve the trade. That hasn't
really been talked about too much. But the Dodgers rejected
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the proposal and he spiked the trade, and so we
might never know whether or not that was actually reality.
But he does save some money because he doesn't have
to pay California taxes, but Michigan's got a fair amount
of taxes as well. Now, furthermore, let's go to New
York because it mentioned the little particles that are flying around,
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these radioactive particles. There's a lot of radioactive particles around
the Metropolitans. They traded Max schurz Aer to Texas, traded
Verlander to the Dan of inequity in Houston before the deadline,
and the shures Are trade in particular is the one
that's really gotten people up in arms there and a
major reason for the separation between Schuser and the Mets
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supposedly came down to the fact that the Mets have
plans that do not include trying to improve the roster
in the offseason. Now, owner Steve Cohen relayed his version
of what happened in that conversation. He said, Max Scherzer
asked him straight up if he the Mets owner, would
be all in on free agents. Cohen responded saying I
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couldn't give him that prompt close quote. So how do
you process Steve Cohen's explanation on the Mac Schuerser trade.
So this is like a wobbly suspension bridge. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
To rephrase this, are we supposed to believe that Steve Cohen,
who made billions and still makes tons of money as
a cold blood and blooded titan of Wall Street, that
this guy, this guy now, all of a sudden is
the living embodiment of the imagine dragon song bad liar,
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that he's just a bad liar. That he looked mac
Schuerzer in the eyes and said I am a bad
liar and now you know you're free to go. Doesn't
pass the spell test, right. Cohen supposedly told Scherzer the
plan because he wanted to get rid of mac Schurzer
and Justin Verlander because they're getting old and they're only
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gonna get older. That's how it works. And so he
was lying. I don't know he was a bad liar.
I think he was lying, but he was lying to
tell them something that the sus were to sign off
on a trade. I mean, if he told Sursey, we're
going to offer Otani some of the profits from the
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the the you know, the Brooklyn Bridge, We'll give you some,
give him some of the revenue. Okay, uh fine, I'll stay, sure,
as there probably would have stayed. But the way Cohen
looks at the Mets are like, well, this is addition
by subtraction, we get rid of a couple of older
guys bringing some young blood. And he could have told
a white lie if he wanted to keep mad Max around.
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Now that said, I don't think Otani's gonna sniff playing
for the Mets. Based on what we've heard about Otani
and what he's looking for, I don't think the love
connection is there. Parting shot, let's go over speaking of
New York, let's take the Manhattan bound number seven train,
the express train. We're going to transfer to the northbound
number four train uptown there, and that the Yankees play
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starter Domingo Hermann on the restricted list. He agreed to
voluntarily submit to inpatient treatment for alcohol. He has been
abusing alcohol. Team issued a statement, so they didn't hold
an intervention, or maybe they did hold an intervention. Either way,
he agreed to go to inpatient treatment. So does this
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new revelation make sense regarding Domingo Herman, Well, in hindsight,
it actually does. It's a little cloudy still, but it
does in hindsight. Line some things up that Herman this
season has been on a Coney Island type of performance,
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a cyclone roller coaster. That woodn't roller coaster there because
if you put the bread combs together and you kind
of follow where that takes you. He's been a functional alcoholic,
that would be the way to look at this. Now.
He's been functional but not great this season. Some of
the highlights or low lights of Domingo Harman. He was
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suspended for cheating the sticky icky all over the ball.
He then gave up ten runs in a start. Ten
runs this guy gave up in a game for the Yankees.
He threw a perfect game right after that against a
minor league team, the Triple As from Oak. Herman last
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pitched on Money, but even that with a cloud of
uncertainty because he threw five shutout innings, but he didn't
start the game as a starter. He came out of
the bullpen. He pushed out of the relief after initially
being scratched from his start for what the Yankees said
was arm pit discomfort. Now just facilitating here for a
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little bit. Okay, what could that have been? Was that
a cover? Did he show up to the ballpark drunk
and they had to wait for him to sober up?
Did he have pain in his armpit because that's where
he hid the flask that he had on the team flat.
I don't know, but Domingo Herman's career is hanging on
by a fingernail. I hope he cleans up and gets
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over the alcohol. It's a very tough thing to do.
Many people who struggle. But I've met tons of listeners
over the years that have battled alcohol and gotten over
it and been sober for years and all that. But
Dominga Herman previously was suspended eight games for domestic finals.
That was back in twenty nineteen and the COVID year.
And here's the problem. He's not good enough to make
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up for the other stuff. That's the problem. And so
we'll see what what happens here. And he's getting a
little older, so we'll see if he ever pitches again
for the Yankees or anyone else. But zoo bang, my goodness. Okay,
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
And later this hour we will have Puck the World
with Eddie and straight Ahead for us as well. The
Whales all about the whales. Save the whales, not the
running backs. We'll get to that and your calls at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, JJ says Save
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the Whales is the name of Lizzo's next tour. Well,
lame jokes are actually tomorrow, sir, it's about come on
check and I'm not checked. I'm a little afraid to
check the lame jokes.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Well, I was gonna say, did you see did you
see what? Like Lizzo has been accused of.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh yeah, Coop did a recreation of it. He did,
he played it out. He actually held a banana and
did the whole thing. It was wild. Yes, I cannot
wait to look at the jokes. But anyway, that would
be tomorrow. What else do we have? Page down Bart
sent some video of Hunter Decker or Deeker rather, the
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Iowa state quarterback, goofing around at a bar about a bet.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
He's he's cooked, He's would appear to be done. Skis
those those digital cases, it's so impossible to get out
of them because there's such a direct connection. Very be
very difficult to get out of those things. Well, I'll
just pay this off as I wait for my board
to be reset. So, uh, save the whales, not the
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running backs. There's a contract Kerfluffel in Indianapolis involving Jonathan
Taylor and the Colts. He's not happy, Jim Mersey's upset
and all that. Taylor wants a new contract, he wants
more money. Ersay doesn't want to give him the money.
And so that's usually how these things go. So they're
at loggerheads, and that comes on the heels of a
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story bouncing around that Jim Ersay is backing a twenty
million dollar plan to release an orca a whale from
her enclosure in Miami. And here's the plan. Jim Ursay's
plan is to spend the money to put this whale
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on a cargo plane, fly the whale across the United
States to the Pacific north West into Seattle, and release
the whale into the bay. And so you can get
twenty million dollars to Now, I know how you eat
a whale one bite at a time, but how do
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you move a whale from Miami to Seattle? Very carefully?
Very carefully would be the answer to that, and in
a cargo plane. So twenty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
But there is just can't they just release it in Miami,
you know what I mean? Like the waters off of.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Uh Well, maybe friends aren't in Miami, though maybe maybe
the friends are in Seattle. Whales friends the orc's.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Friends make new friends.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, I'm told there are no salary caps though for whales.
You are allowed to pay whales as much as you want.
So the whale get twenty twenty million dollars, isn't it?
This one of those stories where it sounds great it's
very nice. You're gonna send the whale, and the whale's
gonna end up dying over like Indiana or something like
that in the plane, you know, and then and then
what do you do with that? Or you release it
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and it's been in captivity for so long that it
doesn't know how to handle being out like the big ocean,
and then it becomes problematic and all that. Anyway, let's
go to the phones and we will say hello to
Myron who's in Los Angeles. Hello, Myron, Welcome. It was good, Yeah,
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my room, what's up?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Man?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Go Dodgers. You know they're doing great.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
You know, uh, they.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Just got to keep going and keep on shriving. You know,
that's my whole belief.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I would like to see them. Can they play the
Athletics in the playoffs? That would be good. I'd like
to they play the A's and the Royals in the playoffs.
I think they'll do pretty well.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Yeah, I God blessed the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Man.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
We've been to a lot, you know, and you know,
all we need is used to continue to thrive, know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
There? You go, all right, Well, thank you, Myron. I
appreciate that tremendous phone call. So glad we took that.
Let's go to Jared in Sheboygan. Hello, Jared, welcome, you
were on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Hey, what's up, Dan? I was just wondering if you're
buying into the hype on my MotorCity kiddies this year.
I think golf has some weapons now and our second
best offensive line in the country, and then if we
could get Lizzo to play defensive tackle, we're gonna win
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Well, her music career is gonna be on hold, so
she is available. I think she'll be on time out
for a little bit, but a yeah. I buy the
Lions to a point. And here's the problem though, Jered,
and this is a big problem. I've seen the dark
side of Jared Goff. I know it's in there. He
please played better as a Lion to me than he
did as a Ram, but I know he's still got
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that suck bag in him in the back there, and
so that does scare me to get all in on
the Lions. But if you look at it, before they
play a game based on the rosters, it should be
Lions and Vikings neck and neck. The Packers in third
place and then bringing up the rear of the Chicago Bears.
That's how it should go. But that's why they play
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the least. But we do have Jared a number one
Lion propagandist at Fox Sports Radio that works here in Chris,
who is all about all about positivity. That's the Lions
selling positivity, right, Chris, that's that's your deal.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I'm un ross Saint Brown is a top ten wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Oh he's good. I agree, he's a very good player,
very good player. But now the curse of high expectations.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It is, it is very high expectations. I think you're
still down on Jared Goff.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I just said I was, Yes, yes I am.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I don't think he's a great quarterback, but I think
they've like tried to make him as comfortable as he
can be. But I don't know how far that extends
the playoffs. I just want to see them win a
playoff game first before I have to start worrying about
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They have a pretty good start, even though they play
Kansas City the Lions to open the season, But after that, yeah,
Seattle's a winnable game.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Genos Carolina Raiders. Around the schedule like blow, I don't.
I think the Vikings are in for a really down
year as well. They lost like half their defense this offseason.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Like the defense was terrible. That's why they lost half
their defense. Yeah, but they didn't really, guys, couldn't im
a tackle, dummy.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
But like, when you replace half your defense, shouldn't you
replace some matter pieces?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
No, that's a lateral move if any At worst, it's
a lateral move. Who it doesn't carry over from year
to year. So it's like, I don't Yeah anyway, all right,
are we done with lion talk? How many games of
the years? Chris, Uh, jeez, jeez.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
No, I'm thinking in my head probably.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Ten well games that if you just serve, I don't
do the Mike Francesa thing that you know, f a
n where you just circle the games. But in my head,
I'm I'm I'm looking at the schedule here and I'm
looking at see do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do do. Yeah,
I'm looking at about ten wins. Guarantee, if they just
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win the games they're supposed to wish, they won't. They'll
lose some of those games, so then they'll have to
beat some of the teams they're not supposed to beat
to even and out. But you get to it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You get about somewhere in between, like eight and twelve
is what I would say their range is at.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, hot lion talk, that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
People demand the new hot, sexy, upcoming team with a
man who wants to eat knee caps. You want a
live line on the on the sidelines to calm.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Down, Eddie. That was my lie impersonation. Right, I'll put
you on.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I think you're the one who needs to calm down.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
It's wrong with me. I'm good, good going on there
sounds like a motorcycle.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, please stop.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I agree, all right, then you start talking it it's
your time to start talking. So go ahead, talk, give
some scores, do some nonsense, go ahead, do your thing,
knock yourself out. Here we go, Eddie Garcia. You're gonna
get a double dose, Eddie. But right now, some.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Scores and we start with some baseball games of note.
We had the Cubs rolling over the Reds sixteen to six.
I scored twenty runs against Cincinnati on Tuesday, So the
thirty six runs in two games the most scored in
back to back games with the Cubs since eight In
fact that ninety seven. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
In fact, Eddie, the Cubs have been playing go ahead,
the Cubs have been playing at Wrigley Field since nineteen sixteen,
and they had never done what they just did. There
you go, in the history of Wrigley Field, they'd never
done what they just did.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yeah, because I just said it was eighteen ninety sevens.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You didn't point out that they didn't play at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Everyone knew that. Everyone knew that.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, Chris, did you know that? Chris?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Sure, see you're lying.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Chris, You're lying. By you be.
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Speaker 1 (24:37):
Big take. He did not mention you buried the lead
Eddie the Great Jake Berger ex White Sock now a'm
Marlin and Josh Bell both picked up at the trade
that line big moves and the Marlins they loved their
seven fans so much. They had five dollars burgers at
the game.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
That didn't cost him much.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Doesn't a burger? Isn't a burger? Like shouldn't it cost
him around five bucks?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Not anymore?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I know the old days, Eddie, the old days. It's
a great name. Jake Berger. Not a great player, at
least have been a bunch of home runs this year.
He's like the Max Munsey of the Dodgers. It's a
bunch of home runs in bats.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Around You mean the Marlins. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But he's like Maximus the months he's betting like one
ninety something. But he's got a bunch of home runs
and all that. So that's Jake Berger, which is likely
why he was traded. I'm just saying it is. The
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Speaker 4 (25:57):
All right, thank you man we started with. The Ottawa
Senator is signing veteran forward Vladimir Tarasenko to him five
million dollars. A thirty one year old winger, six time
thirty goal scorer, one of the most notable names remaining
in free agency until he was signed by the Senators,
had played his whole career in Saint Louis, won a
Stanley Cup with him in twenty nineteen before being traded
to the Rangers last season, and now he's with the
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Ottawa Senators. Anaheim Ducks agree on a seven year contract
extension for forty nine million dollars with forward Troy Terry.
He'll make seven million year twa makes him the highest
paid Ducks player per season at the moment. He's two
years removed from a breakout season where he had thirty
seven goals. Boston Bruins signed goaltender Jeremy Swayman. He gets
awarded three point four to seven five million in arbitration.
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Twenty four years old. He was twenty four six and
four last season, and he shared duties in net with
the Raining Trophy winner Linus Lollmark.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
The Bruins had two goaltenders during the regular season, then
in the playoffs they had no goaltenders.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Well, they weren't around too long in the playoffs. Unfortunately
for them, what.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
If they hadn't gagged away the three three to one Yeah,
let exactly.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Minnesota Wild signed goalie Phillip Gustafson three years, eleven point
two five million. He avoided arbitration. He made thirty seven
starts last year twenty two nine to seven, three shutouts
for Minnesota. Arizona Cody signed their first round draft pick,
forward Logan Kooley to three year inch level deal. He
had told the team he was going to return to
the University of Minnesota for another season, but changed his mind.
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He was the third overall pick last year and led
the Golden Gophers as a freshman in goals with twenty
two in thirty nine games. Was second in the country
with sixty points. Finally, this story. I don't know what
to make of this, Okay. The Seattle Kraken removed TikTok
videos marketed to hockey book talks community after forward Alex
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Wenberg and his wife complained about the objectifying of NHL players.
Book talk is a commonly used TikTok hashtag by content
creators who want to discuss, review, or promote books. Now,
a subset of that community focuses on hockey romance novels,
with some users fixating on actual NHL players. That's apparently
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what they did with Alex Wenberg. His wife did not
like it. She published a statement on Instagram saying that
the comments made about her husband had crossed the line
and were predatory and exploiting. Now, the Seattle Kraken, actually
we're promoting this with their book talk community. They have
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been posting videos of Alex Wenberg and other players walking
in slow motion. Uh to entice these.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yes, yes, the bar of bad news. Two things. Yes,
number one, stay off the TikTok and number two, like,
you're married to a guy who's a public figure, not
famous to me.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Apparently wait, apparently he's easy on the eyes for some
for some folks.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
And are you that you're that thin skin? You don't
You're self esteem is that low that you don't have?
He married you. He didn't marry some other fluozy. He
married you.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
He also released a statement condemning this. I'm sure it
had nothing to do with his wife coming out.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And doing it first, and not at all.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
And so the krack and have now walked back their
their promotion of this this thing. And there they've scrubbed
all images and videos from book Talk, which I had
no idea what the hell that was. But book Talk
a part of TikTok. And you got a lot of
money hockey romance novels. How about that?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I had a lot of money on TikTok. Eddie's a
famous TikToker.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I never thought I'd be talking about hockey romance novels
from TikTok.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
My favorite TikTok video yesterday? Did see the video of
the guy in New York City on a bicycle balancing
a full size sofa on top of his head.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I did not see that. Man, It's awesome, all right,
I'm not on TikTok, so I won't be able to
check that out.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Well, I'm not either with somebody send me the video.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
But here's the thing, Well, don't you have to be
on TikTok to watch the No.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You don't online on the on like the laptop. I'm
not on TikTok. But somebody sends you a link, you
can watch it.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Do you think we'll ever see romance novels about overnight
radio talk shows?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh? Come on, those are love thrillers, Eddie. Yeah, the
creepy love thrillers that come out there. Ye, anyway, that.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
The world report.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
So some people believe that everyone has a skill. Everyone's
got a special skill in the world. And imagine if
your a special skill is just being able to ride
a bicycle and balance a sofa on your head, that's
your gift. I mean that's like I bet you people
would pay.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
How do you find that out, though? How do you
find out that's your gift?
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Well?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I did a little research, and this guy's been balancing
microwaves and other things on his head, so he just
kept going up to bigger and bigger things before he
got to a sofa.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Where does this end though? Yeah, it was a car. Yeah,
does he do a car that won't go? Well?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
No, probably not. Of course everyone He's in the middle
of the street in Manhattan and everyone's got their phone out.
No one's actually watching it. They're all just recording it
to document what happened.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
You just you just kind of like mess around and
then realize that you're like really good at something. Like
I used to try and like balance stuff on my
head as a kid.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
What was the what was the biggest thing you ever
balanced on your head?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
See, I didn't like I would go like I I
didn't graduate to bigger items. I would I would take like, uh,
you know those big uh what it's called brooms, you
know with the they've got like the long broom at
the bottom. You know what I'm talking about, Like pushproop, Yes,
the pushproom. Yeah, Like that's probably the biggest thing. I
(31:45):
can think.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I'm watching this video now he's doing it horizontally. I
I didn't. I don't know what I was expecting, but yeah,
this is interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Pretty impressive, Right, that's a skill. You can't really monetize
it too much.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
That's not a very nicely though, to be honest with you,
it's a.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Just in case he dropped it, you can't have.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Yeah, I mean I thought maybe he was, you know,
using this as like a you know, I could move
your sofa for you into your new apartment or something. Nah, No,
he's just doing it for fun.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Used to be this guy named David Letterman who had
a TV show and he had stupid human trick.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
That would have been a great stupid human trick. But
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Wait we go, It's time yet again for fact or fiction.
We welcome in our celebrity panel of judges. They are
lined up and we will have the reading somebody's sleeping
sounds like somebody's sleeping? Hell was that? I have no idea,
but anyway, all right, let's play the game right now.
We welcome in our contestants are panel of judges. Do
(34:41):
we have the power couple ready to go? Of course
we do. We say hello to Leslie and Jack the judge. Hello, Leslie, welcome,
Good morning, Ben, great show.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
I love your monologue.
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Oh thank you, Leslie. I appreciate that. Everything good with
you guys, tip top?
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Thanks are you?
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Are you now you back from the New York area?
Are you back in.
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Thank you, thank you. All right, Hold on a second,
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Hey, Ben, tough week for the show, huh, losing boasters,
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to fill.
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Yeah, it's a devastating week. And you sound kind of
like Ferg Dog, but you're not your Ferg cat. So
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Thank you. West Coast Don is one of our judges. Hello,
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Hey, I'm here. I'm so excited to celebrate the back.
Welcoming back to the NFL.
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Oh, you're back. The NFL's and Don's back because the
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All right, that might be you might die if you
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Hold on, West Coast Don. We have Nick in Portland.
Hello Nick, Hey, how's it going tonight? Welcome in Nick.
You ready to do this? Sure? Am man?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Ready?
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When you are? You've been waiting, You've been waiting for this?
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You read it roun.
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Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yes, sir there you go.
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What's going on? Ron? How you doing, Bud? You ready
to go? Yes, sir, sub far monologue today by the way, yeah, okay,
thank you. Hold on and we have Klondike. Hello, Klondike,
mister Meller. All right, we gotta fly here so everyone
will have a chance. Listen closely. I'll give you the
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three stories. You got to figure out which of the
three is not true, separating fiction for fact. Story number
one buttered up. The Angels didn't trade show Hey Otani,
and they announced that, starting with their upcoming home stand
against the Mariners, a portion of the right field the
bleachers will be named Otani Town as they suck up
to showtime. Story number two, Johnny Manzel is back college
(37:32):
football phenom who tanked in the NFL because he was tanked.
Johnny Manziel back in college station, his old college stopping grounds.
He's opened up a bar called he is opening up
a bar called Johnny Manzel's Money Bar, and he'll be
ready to go state of the art. It'll be open
in time for Texas A and M's opener on September.
(37:53):
The second and story number three, Little side helse A
Levy on Bell former NFL running back. It's trying to
captivate his old fans. There, he's decided to join only fans.
Bell says he's using the platform to get more intimate
with the fans. I bet he will, but he will
not be doing any explicit content. Okay, those are the
(38:15):
three stories. Which of the three is not true? Leslie one,
two or three? Leslie one? Number one, thank you for
being quick, fer Cat. Every Great Weekend was number one?
All right, West Coast don one one. Everyone's copying Leslie
Nick one. Everyone's all right, that's the Rod Mexico, the
(38:36):
the guy that hates the monologue Ron Johnny Manziel's Boh,
there you go, and Klondike. I'm number one, the fake story.
Only the guy that written my monologue's got it wrong.
Everyone else got it right. The story number one, the
Otai story that was the fake. Well they're not naming
the Otani town. That's a fakes
Hello and welcome. It's our dumb perform our four out
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more time. The man has spoken, who is the man
that would be Tiger's starting pitcher at Duardo Rodriguez? Are
you buying or selling what? Duardo Rodriguez said that he
(00:23):
has nothing against the Doyers. Also, how do you process
Mets owner Steve Cohen's explanation on the mac Scherzer trade
and what he told Max Scherzer. What's gonna happen for
the Mets this offseason? And does this domingrel Herman revelation
with the Yankees make sense. We'll talk about that as well.
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active particles from the trade deadline still floating around in
the state of Michigan, specifically in Detroit. If you did
not hear the latest. The starting pitcher who was traded
at the deadline and then decided he didn't want to
be traded. The Tiger starting pitcher at Duardo Rodriguez ex
Red Sox, who used his no trade clause to vetto
(03:18):
he trade to Los Angeles. Now, he tried to explain
to the Beat writers why he made the decision. He said, quote,
I didn't feel really comfortable with it, he said, what
kind of obvious quote continues, And I decided to stay
here being the Tigers. It's nothing against the Dodgers, he said,
(03:42):
as the Tiger pitcher A Dwardo Rodriguez stating they're a
really good team over there. I'm just thinking about my
future and my family, and I took the decision to
stay here close quote. He also went on to say
that the family loves Detroit and they didn't want to
leave pretty much what he said. So let us discuss
the question on this one is how do you parse
(04:07):
the words? How do you parse the words of a
Duardo Rodriguez and his quote here on using the note
trick fuss. So I've got five common words, imagine dragons
and Coney Island, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a wisdom
(04:28):
tooth is what we're going to make, because there was
some lack of wisdom on this now to lead off
a Duardo Rodriguez explanation, didn't cut the mustard. It did
not cut the mustard. There are many many around the
tigers and his agent, as you would expect, circling the
(04:49):
wagons to try to defend what happened here. And while
it is allowed, as we pointed out in a previous
episode of the show, is not against the rules. It
just smells. It just smells so bad. It's just a
terrible look. Because when you take a couple of steps back,
this is the old His excuse was the I n Y,
(05:09):
I am excuse, And that's right in my wheelhouse. Those
five common words are right in my wheelhouse. And you
know what those five common words are you've we've all
been in relationships that have ended or sometimes not even
really gotten started. And what are those fire words? It's
not you, it's me. That's essentially what a drawdo Rodriguez
(05:31):
to saying it's not the Dodgers, it's me. It's me.
That's what's going on. Yeah, right, This move, while it
is allowed, shows a lack of fire in the belly.
The Tigers are not only a baseball team, they are
miserable failures this season yet again, and the Dodgers gets
(05:53):
you in the plus, that's the only reasonable takeaway is
that he just lacks the fighting spirit to try to win.
He won with the Red Sox. To Dwardo Rodriguez couple
years ago, he's good. And the other thing he mentioned
in that quote which rubbed me the wrong way because
he partsed the words here he says, I was thinking
about my future, is what he said. So this must
(06:16):
mean that Rodriguez is not going to opt out of
his Tigers contract. Otherwise this would be one of the
dumbest decisions in the history of free agency, because he
can opt out at the end of the year and
the salaries keep going up and the Tigers are terrible
but the Duardo's had a pretty good year er wise,
has been pretty solid, pitched a pretty good game yesterday
(06:39):
as well. So go to the Dodgers. They would have
given you luxury accommodations for two months, half those games
on the road, and then you go test the market,
opt out of the contract, and go sign with the
team on the East coast. But one of the rumors
that I've heard is that even though Duardo Rodriguez said
that he didn't want to play in La because a family,
(07:01):
there was negotiation on working out some kind of financial
agreement or go a contract extension with the Dodgers that
would have caused him to approve the trade. That hasn't
really been talked about too much. But the Dodgers rejected
(07:21):
the proposal and he spiked the trade, and so we
might never know whether or not that was actually reality.
But he does save some money because he doesn't have
to pay California taxes, but Michigan's got a fair amount
of taxes as well. Now, furthermore, let's go to New
York because it mentioned the little particles that are flying around,
(07:42):
these radioactive particles. There's a lot of radioactive particles around
the Metropolitans. They traded Max schurz Aer to Texas, traded
Verlander to the Dan of inequity in Houston before the deadline,
and the shures Are trade in particular is the one
that's really gotten people up in arms there and a
major reason for the separation between Schuser and the Mets
(08:05):
supposedly came down to the fact that the Mets have
plans that do not include trying to improve the roster
in the offseason. Now, owner Steve Cohen relayed his version
of what happened in that conversation. He said, Max Scherzer
asked him straight up if he the Mets owner, would
be all in on free agents. Cohen responded saying I
(08:30):
couldn't give him that prompt close quote. So how do
you process Steve Cohen's explanation on the Mac Schuerser trade.
So this is like a wobbly suspension bridge. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
To rephrase this, are we supposed to believe that Steve Cohen,
who made billions and still makes tons of money as
a cold blood and blooded titan of Wall Street, that
this guy, this guy now, all of a sudden is
the living embodiment of the imagine dragon song bad liar,
(09:08):
that he's just a bad liar. That he looked mac
Schuerzer in the eyes and said I am a bad
liar and now you know you're free to go. Doesn't
pass the spell test, right. Cohen supposedly told Scherzer the
plan because he wanted to get rid of mac Schurzer
and Justin Verlander because they're getting old and they're only
(09:31):
gonna get older. That's how it works. And so he
was lying. I don't know he was a bad liar.
I think he was lying, but he was lying to
tell them something that the sus were to sign off
on a trade. I mean, if he told Sursey, we're
going to offer Otani some of the profits from the
(09:52):
the the you know, the Brooklyn Bridge, We'll give you some,
give him some of the revenue. Okay, uh fine, I'll stay, sure,
as there probably would have stayed. But the way Cohen
looks at the Mets are like, well, this is addition
by subtraction, we get rid of a couple of older
guys bringing some young blood. And he could have told
a white lie if he wanted to keep mad Max around.
(10:15):
Now that said, I don't think Otani's gonna sniff playing
for the Mets. Based on what we've heard about Otani
and what he's looking for, I don't think the love
connection is there. Parting shot, let's go over speaking of
New York, let's take the Manhattan bound number seven train,
the express train. We're going to transfer to the northbound
number four train uptown there, and that the Yankees play
(10:37):
starter Domingo Hermann on the restricted list. He agreed to
voluntarily submit to inpatient treatment for alcohol. He has been
abusing alcohol. Team issued a statement, so they didn't hold
an intervention, or maybe they did hold an intervention. Either way,
he agreed to go to inpatient treatment. So does this
(11:01):
new revelation make sense regarding Domingo Herman, Well, in hindsight,
it actually does. It's a little cloudy still, but it
does in hindsight. Line some things up that Herman this
season has been on a Coney Island type of performance,
(11:21):
a cyclone roller coaster. That woodn't roller coaster there because
if you put the bread combs together and you kind
of follow where that takes you. He's been a functional alcoholic,
that would be the way to look at this. Now.
He's been functional but not great this season. Some of
the highlights or low lights of Domingo Harman. He was
(11:43):
suspended for cheating the sticky icky all over the ball.
He then gave up ten runs in a start. Ten
runs this guy gave up in a game for the Yankees.
He threw a perfect game right after that against a
minor league team, the Triple As from Oak. Herman last
(12:04):
pitched on Money, but even that with a cloud of
uncertainty because he threw five shutout innings, but he didn't
start the game as a starter. He came out of
the bullpen. He pushed out of the relief after initially
being scratched from his start for what the Yankees said
was arm pit discomfort. Now just facilitating here for a
(12:26):
little bit. Okay, what could that have been? Was that
a cover? Did he show up to the ballpark drunk
and they had to wait for him to sober up?
Did he have pain in his armpit because that's where
he hid the flask that he had on the team flat.
I don't know, but Domingo Herman's career is hanging on
by a fingernail. I hope he cleans up and gets
(12:47):
over the alcohol. It's a very tough thing to do.
Many people who struggle. But I've met tons of listeners
over the years that have battled alcohol and gotten over
it and been sober for years and all that. But
Dominga Herman previously was suspended eight games for domestic finals.
That was back in twenty nineteen and the COVID year.
And here's the problem. He's not good enough to make
(13:11):
up for the other stuff. That's the problem. And so
we'll see what what happens here. And he's getting a
little older, so we'll see if he ever pitches again
for the Yankees or anyone else. But zoo bang, my goodness. Okay,
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Whales all about the whales. Save the whales, not the
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the Whales is the name of Lizzo's next tour. Well,
lame jokes are actually tomorrow, sir, it's about come on
check and I'm not checked. I'm a little afraid to
check the lame jokes.
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Well, I was gonna say, did you see did you
see what? Like Lizzo has been accused of.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh yeah, Coop did a recreation of it. He did,
he played it out. He actually held a banana and
did the whole thing. It was wild. Yes, I cannot
wait to look at the jokes. But anyway, that would
be tomorrow. What else do we have? Page down Bart
sent some video of Hunter Decker or Deeker rather, the
(15:40):
Iowa state quarterback, goofing around at a bar about a bet.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
He's he's cooked, He's would appear to be done. Skis
those those digital cases, it's so impossible to get out
of them because there's such a direct connection. Very be
very difficult to get out of those things. Well, I'll
just pay this off as I wait for my board
to be reset. So, uh, save the whales, not the
(16:07):
running backs. There's a contract Kerfluffel in Indianapolis involving Jonathan
Taylor and the Colts. He's not happy, Jim Mersey's upset
and all that. Taylor wants a new contract, he wants
more money. Ersay doesn't want to give him the money.
And so that's usually how these things go. So they're
at loggerheads, and that comes on the heels of a
(16:29):
story bouncing around that Jim Ersay is backing a twenty
million dollar plan to release an orca a whale from
her enclosure in Miami. And here's the plan. Jim Ursay's
plan is to spend the money to put this whale
(16:52):
on a cargo plane, fly the whale across the United
States to the Pacific north West into Seattle, and release
the whale into the bay. And so you can get
twenty million dollars to Now, I know how you eat
a whale one bite at a time, but how do
(17:14):
you move a whale from Miami to Seattle? Very carefully?
Very carefully would be the answer to that, and in
a cargo plane. So twenty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
But there is just can't they just release it in Miami,
you know what I mean? Like the waters off of.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Uh Well, maybe friends aren't in Miami, though maybe maybe
the friends are in Seattle. Whales friends the orc's.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Friends make new friends.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, I'm told there are no salary caps though for whales.
You are allowed to pay whales as much as you want.
So the whale get twenty twenty million dollars, isn't it?
This one of those stories where it sounds great it's
very nice. You're gonna send the whale, and the whale's
gonna end up dying over like Indiana or something like
that in the plane, you know, and then and then
what do you do with that? Or you release it
(18:05):
and it's been in captivity for so long that it
doesn't know how to handle being out like the big ocean,
and then it becomes problematic and all that. Anyway, let's
go to the phones and we will say hello to
Myron who's in Los Angeles. Hello, Myron, Welcome. It was good, Yeah,
(18:28):
my room, what's up?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Man?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Go Dodgers. You know they're doing great.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
You know, uh, they.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Just got to keep going and keep on shriving. You know,
that's my whole belief.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I would like to see them. Can they play the
Athletics in the playoffs? That would be good. I'd like
to they play the A's and the Royals in the playoffs.
I think they'll do pretty well.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Yeah, I God blessed the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Man.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
We've been to a lot, you know, and you know,
all we need is used to continue to thrive, know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
There? You go, all right, Well, thank you, Myron. I
appreciate that tremendous phone call. So glad we took that.
Let's go to Jared in Sheboygan. Hello, Jared, welcome, you
were on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Hey, what's up, Dan? I was just wondering if you're
buying into the hype on my MotorCity kiddies this year.
I think golf has some weapons now and our second
best offensive line in the country, and then if we
could get Lizzo to play defensive tackle, we're gonna win
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Well, her music career is gonna be on hold, so
she is available. I think she'll be on time out
for a little bit, but a yeah. I buy the
Lions to a point. And here's the problem though, Jered,
and this is a big problem. I've seen the dark
side of Jared Goff. I know it's in there. He
please played better as a Lion to me than he
did as a Ram, but I know he's still got
(19:55):
that suck bag in him in the back there, and
so that does scare me to get all in on
the Lions. But if you look at it, before they
play a game based on the rosters, it should be
Lions and Vikings neck and neck. The Packers in third
place and then bringing up the rear of the Chicago Bears.
That's how it should go. But that's why they play
(20:17):
the least. But we do have Jared a number one
Lion propagandist at Fox Sports Radio that works here in Chris,
who is all about all about positivity. That's the Lions
selling positivity, right, Chris, that's that's your deal.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I'm un ross Saint Brown is a top ten wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Oh he's good. I agree, he's a very good player,
very good player. But now the curse of high expectations.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It is, it is very high expectations. I think you're
still down on Jared Goff.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I just said I was, Yes, yes I am.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I don't think he's a great quarterback, but I think
they've like tried to make him as comfortable as he
can be. But I don't know how far that extends
the playoffs. I just want to see them win a
playoff game first before I have to start worrying about
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They have a pretty good start, even though they play
Kansas City the Lions to open the season, But after that, yeah,
Seattle's a winnable game.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Genos Carolina Raiders. Around the schedule like blow, I don't.
I think the Vikings are in for a really down
year as well. They lost like half their defense this offseason.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Like the defense was terrible. That's why they lost half
their defense. Yeah, but they didn't really, guys, couldn't im
a tackle, dummy.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
But like, when you replace half your defense, shouldn't you
replace some matter pieces?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
No, that's a lateral move if any At worst, it's
a lateral move. Who it doesn't carry over from year
to year. So it's like, I don't Yeah anyway, all right,
are we done with lion talk? How many games of
the years? Chris, Uh, jeez, jeez.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
No, I'm thinking in my head probably.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Ten well games that if you just serve, I don't
do the Mike Francesa thing that you know, f a
n where you just circle the games. But in my head,
I'm I'm I'm looking at the schedule here and I'm
looking at see do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do do. Yeah,
I'm looking at about ten wins. Guarantee, if they just
(22:17):
win the games they're supposed to wish, they won't. They'll
lose some of those games, so then they'll have to
beat some of the teams they're not supposed to beat
to even and out. But you get to it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
You get about somewhere in between, like eight and twelve
is what I would say their range is at.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, hot lion talk, that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
People demand the new hot, sexy, upcoming team with a
man who wants to eat knee caps. You want a
live line on the on the sidelines to calm.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Down, Eddie. That was my lie impersonation. Right, I'll put
you on.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I think you're the one who needs to calm down.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
It's wrong with me. I'm good, good going on there
sounds like a motorcycle.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, please stop.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I agree, all right, then you start talking it it's
your time to start talking. So go ahead, talk, give
some scores, do some nonsense, go ahead, do your thing,
knock yourself out. Here we go, Eddie Garcia. You're gonna
get a double dose, Eddie. But right now, some.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Scores and we start with some baseball games of note.
We had the Cubs rolling over the Reds sixteen to six.
I scored twenty runs against Cincinnati on Tuesday, So the
thirty six runs in two games the most scored in
back to back games with the Cubs since eight In
fact that ninety seven. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
In fact, Eddie, the Cubs have been playing go ahead,
the Cubs have been playing at Wrigley Field since nineteen sixteen,
and they had never done what they just did. There
you go, in the history of Wrigley Field, they'd never
done what they just did.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yeah, because I just said it was eighteen ninety sevens.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
You didn't point out that they didn't play at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Everyone knew that. Everyone knew that.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, Chris, did you know that? Chris?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Sure, see you're lying.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Chris, You're lying. By you be.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
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Speaker 1 (24:37):
Big take. He did not mention you buried the lead
Eddie the Great Jake Berger ex White Sock now a'm
Marlin and Josh Bell both picked up at the trade
that line big moves and the Marlins they loved their
seven fans so much. They had five dollars burgers at
the game.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
That didn't cost him much.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Doesn't a burger? Isn't a burger? Like shouldn't it cost
him around five bucks?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Not anymore?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I know the old days, Eddie, the old days. It's
a great name. Jake Berger. Not a great player, at
least have been a bunch of home runs this year.
He's like the Max Munsey of the Dodgers. It's a
bunch of home runs in bats.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Around You mean the Marlins. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But he's like Maximus the months he's betting like one
ninety something. But he's got a bunch of home runs
and all that. So that's Jake Berger, which is likely
why he was traded. I'm just saying it is. The
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Progressive dot Com. It's hockey season somewhere. Actually it's hockey
season nowhere, but right now here is Eddie with the
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Speaker 4 (25:57):
All right, thank you man we started with. The Ottawa
Senator is signing veteran forward Vladimir Tarasenko to him five
million dollars. A thirty one year old winger, six time
thirty goal scorer, one of the most notable names remaining
in free agency until he was signed by the Senators,
had played his whole career in Saint Louis, won a
Stanley Cup with him in twenty nineteen before being traded
to the Rangers last season, and now he's with the
(26:19):
Ottawa Senators. Anaheim Ducks agree on a seven year contract
extension for forty nine million dollars with forward Troy Terry.
He'll make seven million year twa makes him the highest
paid Ducks player per season at the moment. He's two
years removed from a breakout season where he had thirty
seven goals. Boston Bruins signed goaltender Jeremy Swayman. He gets
awarded three point four to seven five million in arbitration.
(26:42):
Twenty four years old. He was twenty four six and
four last season, and he shared duties in net with
the Raining Trophy winner Linus Lollmark.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
The Bruins had two goaltenders during the regular season, then
in the playoffs they had no goaltenders.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Well, they weren't around too long in the playoffs. Unfortunately
for them, what.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
If they hadn't gagged away the three three to one Yeah,
let exactly.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Minnesota Wild signed goalie Phillip Gustafson three years, eleven point
two five million. He avoided arbitration. He made thirty seven
starts last year twenty two nine to seven, three shutouts
for Minnesota. Arizona Cody signed their first round draft pick,
forward Logan Kooley to three year inch level deal. He
had told the team he was going to return to
the University of Minnesota for another season, but changed his mind.
(27:25):
He was the third overall pick last year and led
the Golden Gophers as a freshman in goals with twenty
two in thirty nine games. Was second in the country
with sixty points. Finally, this story. I don't know what
to make of this, Okay. The Seattle Kraken removed TikTok
videos marketed to hockey book talks community after forward Alex
(27:48):
Wenberg and his wife complained about the objectifying of NHL players.
Book talk is a commonly used TikTok hashtag by content
creators who want to discuss, review, or promote books. Now,
a subset of that community focuses on hockey romance novels,
with some users fixating on actual NHL players. That's apparently
(28:11):
what they did with Alex Wenberg. His wife did not
like it. She published a statement on Instagram saying that
the comments made about her husband had crossed the line
and were predatory and exploiting. Now, the Seattle Kraken, actually
we're promoting this with their book talk community. They have
(28:32):
been posting videos of Alex Wenberg and other players walking
in slow motion. Uh to entice these.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yes, yes, the bar of bad news. Two things. Yes,
number one, stay off the TikTok and number two, like,
you're married to a guy who's a public figure, not
famous to me.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Apparently wait, apparently he's easy on the eyes for some
for some folks.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
And are you that you're that thin skin? You don't
You're self esteem is that low that you don't have?
He married you. He didn't marry some other fluozy. He
married you.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
He also released a statement condemning this. I'm sure it
had nothing to do with his wife coming out.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And doing it first, and not at all.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
And so the krack and have now walked back their
their promotion of this this thing. And there they've scrubbed
all images and videos from book Talk, which I had
no idea what the hell that was. But book Talk
a part of TikTok. And you got a lot of
money hockey romance novels. How about that?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I had a lot of money on TikTok. Eddie's a
famous TikToker.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I never thought I'd be talking about hockey romance novels
from TikTok.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
My favorite TikTok video yesterday? Did see the video of
the guy in New York City on a bicycle balancing
a full size sofa on top of his head.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I did not see that. Man, It's awesome, all right,
I'm not on TikTok, so I won't be able to
check that out.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Well, I'm not either with somebody send me the video.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
But here's the thing, Well, don't you have to be
on TikTok to watch the No.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You don't online on the on like the laptop. I'm
not on TikTok. But somebody sends you a link, you
can watch it.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Do you think we'll ever see romance novels about overnight
radio talk shows?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh? Come on, those are love thrillers, Eddie. Yeah, the
creepy love thrillers that come out there. Ye, anyway, that.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
The world report.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
So some people believe that everyone has a skill. Everyone's
got a special skill in the world. And imagine if
your a special skill is just being able to ride
a bicycle and balance a sofa on your head, that's
your gift. I mean that's like I bet you people
would pay.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
How do you find that out, though? How do you
find out that's your gift?
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Well?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I did a little research, and this guy's been balancing
microwaves and other things on his head, so he just
kept going up to bigger and bigger things before he
got to a sofa.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Where does this end though? Yeah, it was a car. Yeah,
does he do a car that won't go? Well?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
No, probably not. Of course everyone He's in the middle
of the street in Manhattan and everyone's got their phone out.
No one's actually watching it. They're all just recording it
to document what happened.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
You just you just kind of like mess around and
then realize that you're like really good at something. Like
I used to try and like balance stuff on my
head as a kid.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
What was the what was the biggest thing you ever
balanced on your head?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
See, I didn't like I would go like I I
didn't graduate to bigger items. I would I would take like, uh,
you know those big uh what it's called brooms, you
know with the they've got like the long broom at
the bottom. You know what I'm talking about, Like pushproop, Yes,
the pushproom. Yeah, Like that's probably the biggest thing. I
(31:45):
can think.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I'm watching this video now he's doing it horizontally. I
I didn't. I don't know what I was expecting, but yeah,
this is interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Pretty impressive, Right, that's a skill. You can't really monetize
it too much.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
That's not a very nicely though, to be honest with you,
it's a.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Just in case he dropped it, you can't have.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Yeah, I mean I thought maybe he was, you know,
using this as like a you know, I could move
your sofa for you into your new apartment or something. Nah, No,
he's just doing it for fun.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Used to be this guy named David Letterman who had
a TV show and he had stupid human trick.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
That would have been a great stupid human trick. But
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Speaker 1 (34:01):
Please trans a bit of media.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Is it fact for fiction?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Let's face some raw facts show.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Wait we go, It's time yet again for fact or fiction.
We welcome in our celebrity panel of judges. They are
lined up and we will have the reading somebody's sleeping
sounds like somebody's sleeping? Hell was that? I have no idea,
but anyway, all right, let's play the game right now.
We welcome in our contestants are panel of judges. Do
(34:41):
we have the power couple ready to go? Of course
we do. We say hello to Leslie and Jack the judge. Hello, Leslie, welcome,
Good morning, Ben, great show.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
I love your monologue.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Oh thank you, Leslie. I appreciate that. Everything good with
you guys, tip top?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Thanks are you?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Are you now you back from the New York area?
Are you back in.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
No, we're staying on Long Island to go to the
beach and get my son grandsons swimming.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Oh nice, you're gonna teach your grants. That's a wonderful
get him out in there.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Oh yeah, very good.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
All right, Well, good luck with that, Good luck with that,
Thank you, thank you. All right, Hold on a second,
and we have not Ferg Dog. The debut of Ferg Cat. Hello,
Ferg Cat.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Hey, Ben, tough week for the show, huh, losing boasters,
scratch up and for dog. Those are some big shoes
to fill.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah, it's a devastating week. And you sound kind of
like Ferg Dog, but you're not your Ferg cat. So
that's weird. It's odd. Just a coincidence, total coincidence, I understand.
Thank you. West Coast Don is one of our judges. Hello,
West Coast Don.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Hey, I'm here. I'm so excited to celebrate the back.
Welcoming back to the NFL.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Oh, you're back. The NFL's and Don's back because the
NFL's back.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Yeah, that's right. I'm not going to sleep to the game.
Come on, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
All right, that might be you might die if you
stay awake until the games start. All right, thank you?
Hold on, West Coast Don. We have Nick in Portland.
Hello Nick, Hey, how's it going tonight? Welcome in Nick.
You ready to do this? Sure? Am man?
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
When you are? You've been waiting, You've been waiting for this?
All right, Nick, very good? Hold on a sec there,
and the Boston Klondike I believe Hello Boston Klondike. No,
that's not what it is.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
You read it roun.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I read it wrong? Where did I read? Oh? That's Ron? Oh?
Is this Ron Mexico?
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Yes, sir there you go.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
What's going on? Ron? How you doing, Bud? You ready
to go? Yes, sir, sub far monologue today by the way, yeah, okay,
thank you. Hold on and we have Klondike. Hello, Klondike,
mister Meller. All right, we gotta fly here so everyone
will have a chance. Listen closely. I'll give you the
(37:07):
three stories. You got to figure out which of the
three is not true, separating fiction for fact. Story number
one buttered up. The Angels didn't trade show Hey Otani,
and they announced that, starting with their upcoming home stand
against the Mariners, a portion of the right field the
bleachers will be named Otani Town as they suck up
to showtime. Story number two, Johnny Manzel is back college
(37:32):
football phenom who tanked in the NFL because he was tanked.
Johnny Manziel back in college station, his old college stopping grounds.
He's opened up a bar called he is opening up
a bar called Johnny Manzel's Money Bar, and he'll be
ready to go state of the art. It'll be open
in time for Texas A and M's opener on September.
(37:53):
The second and story number three, Little side helse A
Levy on Bell former NFL running back. It's trying to
captivate his old fans. There, he's decided to join only fans.
Bell says he's using the platform to get more intimate
with the fans. I bet he will, but he will
not be doing any explicit content. Okay, those are the
(38:15):
three stories. Which of the three is not true? Leslie one,
two or three? Leslie one? Number one, thank you for
being quick, fer Cat. Every Great Weekend was number one?
All right, West Coast don one one. Everyone's copying Leslie
Nick one. Everyone's all right, that's the Rod Mexico, the
(38:36):
the guy that hates the monologue Ron Johnny Manziel's Boh,
there you go, and Klondike. I'm number one, the fake story.
Only the guy that written my monologue's got it wrong.
Everyone else got it right. The story number one, the
Otai story that was the fake. Well they're not naming
the Otani town. That's a fakes
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