August 7, 2023 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about the potential of Zeke Elliott returning to the Cowboys, the fight between Jose Ramirez & Tim Anderson, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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So our lead this hour to begin the festivus of
talk coming from the NFL, because that's where we focus
this time of the year. I know there's been no
real games. There'll be no games for another few weeks
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until the NFL regular season begins. These exhibition games are drek,
is what they are. But there are are some storylines
that caught my attention that have taken place here over
the last couple days, and one of them involving a
well known free agent running back that would be Zeke Elliott,
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late of the Dallas Cowboys, was fired by the Cowboys
many months ago. He's still unemployed after all this time.
So if you've not been following along with breathless second
by second, reclicking trying to get the latest information, so
we've learned now over the weekend that there has been progress.
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What kind of progress. Well, he hasn't signed a contract,
but Zeke Elliott later the Cowboys drawing interest from the Cowboys,
also the Patriots, we knew that, and the j e
Ts Suck, Suck, Suck. The Jets as well among the
teams interested. If you believe the scuttle butt it Ezekiel Elliott,
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who has been out of work unemployed since March, when
he was unceremoniously dumped out of Jerry's world. He entered
the transfer portal and Jerry said, bye bye, We'll see
you later. We're done. Get out here. And the Jets
they want Zeke, but they don't really want that much.
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They'd rather have Dalvin Cook, but they don't think Dalvin
Cook wants them. Dalvin Cook doesn't seem all they're interested,
so that the Jets is like, it's a backup plan,
It's a Plan B. Zeke is a Plan B. You
don't really want to be a Plan B. But Zeke
is a Plan B for the Jets, it would appear.
And the Patriots are interested, but how much are they
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really interested? Like they work for pennies compared to everyone else,
which is the Patriot way. Why not come on down?
The cowboy angle is the most interesting, and this is
something that we've talked about in previous episodes of the show.
And even though Mike McCarthy and others around the Cowboys
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not named Jerry Jones have implied that there's not a
realistic path back for Zeke to go to Dallas. Here
we are again, So let us discuss the question, should
Zeke Elliott go back to the Cowboys? You to go
thumbs up or thumbs down on that? So I am
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going thumbs down, a big giant, oversized thumb, a throbbing
thumb pointing down is what I'm going with. I've got
recipe book, poet laureate, and mcmillions and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make heartburn. That's what we're gonna because the Cowboys will
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have heartburn and Zeke Elliott will have heartburn if he
goes back into that situation. Like what are we even
having this conversation for at this particular point. So A,
it would be better for all involved, being the malar
think tank that we are here if you do not.
If Zeke, but you don't go back, you have been demoted,
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you have been dethroned. You don't go back there. You
know it's Tony Pollard's team. It's Pollard, He's the star
back there. He's the guy, and he's the new franchise player.
And Jerry's fund zone. That's who they're going with. They
did not want you, they wanted somebody else. They have
moved on here, Do not be pathetic and go back
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and you look outside of Pollard going down with some
kind of injury. Outside of that, okay, then you say,
maybe we would revisit this, but you don't do it.
And the reason you don't do it, the road back
to the Cowboys for Zeke Elliott is booby trapped. It
is absolutely booby trapped. You take that recipe book with
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all the different recipes you got from Jerry and the
different Cowboy people, you pour it in gasoline. You then
light a match, and you then toss the match on
top of the recipe book that's got the Cowboy logo
on it, and burn baby burn. Just that's it. Make
it a ritual. If you have to just get rid
of it. That's it. We're good, thank you very much.
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We need nothing more. That's what should happen here because
Zeke listen, we saw him play with the reason the
Cowboys didn't want anymore is because he's a plodding back
at this point. It's why he's still available as exhibition
games get going this upcoming week here and until proven otherwise,
he's no longer a guy that's in every down back
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that's gonna carry the load. And he's not the player
he was. Ever since he signed that contract and went
to kankun I. Guess before he went he signed the contract,
the production has gone down, down, down, down, down down down.
He ran at times last year saw the Cowboys, and
who didn't see the Cowboys. They're on National TV every
weekend just about and you watch the Cowboys play and
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Zeke Elliott's like, eh, yeah. So he's running in sand
on the beach and he's got con crete shoes on,
the new Nike concrete shoes that he's wearing as he's
running around doing his thing. Wonderful. Just as so he's
essentially a goal line specialist. Now, regardless of that, we
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have been hearing that not only is Zeke Elliott trying
to get back in the NFL, but he is not
going to come back unless he gets a certain amount
of money, which if that's true, then Zeke might as
well just become a TV guy and or do a
radio show or something like that, or get a podcast,
because everyone's got a podcast, even I have a podcast,
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and just work your way through it. That's it, you know,
because you're not you're not gonna get top dollar. It's fair.
The market has said, unless somebody goes down with an
injury and you happen to be a friend of a
coach that wants to have you, it's not going to
work out too well. It's not going to work out
too well. But you can't wait. You can wait for
the rice Crispies, snap crackle pop to take place. But
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my advice would be to do that. That's it, and
you'll be the flavor of the week now. Meanwhile, in Vegas,
we move now from Free Agency Land to Lost Wages, Nevada,
where the Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels attempting to brush
aside what has become a bubbling storyline with the Raiders,
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and that is the performance of Jimmy Garoppolo, the old
forty nine er quarterback making his way in Vegas. Garoppolo
has been practicing and he has sucked in practice. According
to those that have seen the Raiders practice and those
that have heard about the Raiders practice, Garoppolo is not
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only a quarterback, he has been terrible for the Raiders.
How bad he is to be kind turnover prone. One
report said he has thrown seven interceptions in two practices
for the Raiders. So how we're now. Josh McDaniels says
he has no concerns. McDaniel's like, everything's fun, nothing worry
about you. I got no concerns. So the question here,
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with that being in the backdrop here, how worried should
the Raider people be with Jimmy G's training camp. Interceptions
and there's a lot of them. So on the Malord
scale of concern one to ten, with ten being panic
at the disco, I am at a three, A three
for garoppolo. And you know I love a good panic.
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I make my living selling panic in the middle of
the night. But in this case, I don't buy the
noise that, oh this is brutal. It reminds me of
when Patrick Mahomes was with the Chiefs before he became
Patrick Mahomes the Legend. He was throwing a bunch of
interceptions in practice and people were mocking Andy Reid. I
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remember we talked about it on the show. Here goofing
on Andy Reid, like what are you doing here? I
mean this guy, you drafted, this guy tent overall, he's
throwing a lot of interceptions. Bad job by you. Well,
it seemed to be okay, and I would like to
quote the great poet laureate from Georgetown who said, we
in here talking about practice, not a game. Not a game,
We're talking about practice, the great Allen Iverson, who was
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poetic in that particular rant when it comes to this
kind of stuff, because I don't it blows me away
that the amount of attention the practices get. It's one
of those things that's changed in my lifetime, like how
many throws quarterbacks make and who's playing well who's not,
which is just the opinion of the beat writer whatever.
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And maybe they're right, maybe they're completely right, but who
gives a flying f Seriously, here's why I judge players,
and maybe I'm the wrong guy on this, but if
they suck in games, I care about that. It's like
the old line they used to use about your military training.
You get ready for combat, you go to boot camp,
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and you know, do your thing, you work out, you
gotta be in shape, you gotta learn all the things
you need to be in the military. Not that I've
ever been in the military, but I bred about it,
and they said, well, you know, you're they're just shooting blanks,
you know, shooting blas. But when you go out in combat,
there's live actual bullets from one ironstand. So it's it's
much different situation. The last word here. So quickly we
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moved from Vegas and we now go to the Washington,
DC area where fat Albert has spoken. That would be
Albert Hainsworth, a legend. Now he actually said this, I
think in Nashville, the defensive tackle of the team formerly no,
when he played for them, they were the Washington Redskins.
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So he did something that raised some eyebrows. He went unorthodox.
He actually came out defending Dan Snyder. Hello, yeah, he
came out defending Dan Snyder, recently, the former owner of
the Washington football team. Now he said that he did
care that. Albert Hanster said, listen, this guy cared about
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the team. He spoke to over and OutKick on the
high my show over there. He said, we're like super cool.
He stated. Everybody's like Dan's an ahole. Albert Hainsworth said,
but he's not that for a quote. Everyone everyone's like, hey,
he ruined Washington, DC. He ruined the commanders. This guy
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who he was, he loved, Albert Hainsworth said, continuing the quote,
he loved Washington. He's like watching every practice he's doing
all that stuff. Now. Hainsworth did say that he told
Snyder to his face that he did not have the
proper knowledge to run an NFL team, and he pointed
out that he was a billionaire fantasy footballer. But the
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overall sentiment of Albert Hainsworth was a positive one to
Dan Snyder. So what is your takeaway from Albert Hainsworth
going against the tide against the tide to stand by
his man, Dan Snyder. In this perioderiod of time where
Snyder was reprimanded by the NFL forced to sell the team,
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made a gazillion dollars find sixty million dollars. So here
we go. This one simple, simple, simple. If you've been
around a while and you've paid attention, I think you
know why Albert Haynesworth would come out defending Dance Stunner.
Maybe he truly likes him, but I know a reason,
and it's a very good reason. Money talks in fools walk,
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and some would say fools give out money like Dan
Snyder did to Albert Haynesworth. But that's my tell you.
Albert knows who gave him the winning mcmillion's piece there
from the Monopoly game and it was not anyone other
than Dan Snyder. Yeah, he won the instant win game.
He got the piece from Dan Snyder to the tune
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of one hundred million dollars, which in today's night that
was back in nine. In today's money, that's one hundred
and forty two million dollars based on inflation from when
Albert Hainsworth got the contract back in O nine. And
he sucked every second he played for the Washington Redskins.
And but you know it did not suck. His finances
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did not stink, did not stink, and so and the other.
Snyder could not have been a schmuck to everyone. He
clearly treated a bunch of people badly. But there are
ob some people that liked him otherwise. I know Jerry
Jones used to hang out with him all the time,
for example. They were pals.
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So our lead this hour, which maybe should have been
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our lead last hour. But what our lead this hour?
Coming from the sweet science, the fisticuffs, the squared circle.
How many other boxing cliches can I throw in? Well?
What a night? It was just a harmless Saturday night
over the weekend, people out doing things, enjoying themselves, having
a fine time, and we had a ruckus we had
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a rhubarb that took place. What A seen? This was
man alive. Now I was watching some boxing stuff, so
I did not see this live. But immediately my phone
blew up and people say, hey, you see this. Look
at this clip. This is amazing. It's like, oh yeah,
that's pretty good. Oh yeah. I want to see like
different angles. Want to get the different feeds of the broadcast.
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So if you didn't see this somehow, if you've been
living in a shoe box somewhere and you didn't pay attention,
we'll get you caught up to speed. So this happened
the hoe down in Tribe Town. Well they used to
be called the Tribe Now they're named after a bridge,
the Guardian. So anyway, if you didn't see it, The
Guardians all star third baseman Jose Ramirez. Guy's good player
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and he's kind of stuck not getting that much attention
in Cleveland's a good team, but they're not a glamour team.
So you had Hose Ramirez on one side, All Star, a
former All Star who once compared himself to Jackie Robinson
in Tim Anderson of the White Sox. And there was
a play at second base. Now to set this up. Prior.
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Earlier in the game, Tim Anderson on replay, he had
pushed the bag of a Cleveland the hand rather of
a Cleveland base runner off the bag, which is seen
as a taboo in baseball. The Cleveland baseball team, Terry
Francona had challenged the ruling. The Instant Replay Center in
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New York ruled they allowed Anderson to move the hand
of a Cleveland player off the base, which is supposed
not supposed to be allowed. So that was a violation
of the unwritten rules of baseball, and so that was
the backstore in this. So Jose Ramirez is running the
second and Anderson's on the bag to try to make
a play to tag him, and Ramiro there has slid
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in between Anderson's legs and he was upset with Anderson,
and we think he was upset by what had happened
earlier in the game, and he pointed to the head
of Tim Anderson and then they squared off. There was
more action in this than the Jake Paul fight versus
Nate Diaz over the weekend, but it was all about
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a tag play at second base. Now we have the
audio tape Tom Hamilton, one of the great play by
play voices in Major League Baseball. You talk about dramatics, excitement, energy,
He's got all the intangibles, as the cliches go. But
here's Tom Hamilton, the voice of the Cleveland baseball team.
Listen to him describe what happened on this crazy play.
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Hey, the diving vun down the right field line, kicks
into the corner. Brimeriz Onezueto second peg, first slide, say
fed in.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
The score is him and Hiss and another household double
for the bag at first.
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Now Hosey and Anderson square off.
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They're fighting. They're swinging down, Goesanderson, Downsanderson, Oh so good,
so good. Shanley down, Gohost Freis down, gost Frei. Well,
now down goes Anderson. Needless to say, this is the
story everyone's talking about in the baseball world. To let
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us join the partey and have a sore a. What
do you say? So let's discuss the question how did
you score the fight between Jose Ramirez of Cleveland and
Tim Anderson of Chicago. So, using the ten point must system,
this was a ten to eight fight card in favor
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of Jose Ramirez. But you don't even need to go
to the judges' scorecards because this was a TK oh
see you later. I've got Deli, counter Star Trek, and
Don Henley will combine all of these random things together
and we are going to make sense of the unsensible
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is what we're going to make. So number W yes.
Some fights are like splitting hairs. It could go either way.
There's a lot of drama, there's a lot of tensions.
I'm old school. I like the fight game. I'm not
big in the UFC. I'm more of an old school
boxing guy, and I used to love those big fights.
They never invited me to those things.
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You know.
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Some of the people get invited, they pay for them
to go with these fights. I just like watching them.
I just like checking them out. So anyway, this one,
if you look at the tail of the tape, surprisingly
it is an even matchup. Now, I thought that Jose
Ramirez was because he seems chunkier than Tim Anderson. So
I thought, well, there's clearly an advantage. Anderson's a little taller,
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but Ramirez has some size in his build. But you
look at the measurables. Jose Ramirez listed height five to nine.
He's a little fella five nine one hundred and ninety pounds,
and Tim Anderson's listed height is six to one, so
he's got a big height advantage. You would think he'd
have a reach advantage. Anderson one hundred and eighty five pounds,
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so there's only five pounds difference. But obviously there's a
much taller player in Tim Anderson. And when the fight
unfolded for our blind listers, let me, let me describe
what happened. So Tim Anderson was the first to square
up and also the first to go down. He's the
Usually in a fight, if you're the first person to
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throw a punch, you're gonna win. Any of us that
have been in fights, that's usually how it were that
you first, we're gonna throw the punch. Not in this case.
After Ramirez had pointed in the face of the White
Sox shortstop, that was the trigger point. That was the
trigger point, and it was on like don't get gong
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right there, bam, and so Anderson tossed his glove down
like he had been in eight thousand fights, and he
was like a club fighter and he was ready to
go the White Sox shortstop. So you assume that you
throw the glove down and right away, right handed haymaker. Boom,
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just like that right he swung it like he knew
what he was doing. It did not connect. The punch
did not connect, and Jose Ramirez okay. He then went
to the deli counter and what he provided was a
delicious knuckle sandwich right to the chin of Anderson, right
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to the face. Boom, bring in the salami with the
knuckle sandwich right there. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Turn at the last the parties over in my head.
When I saw the replay, I was looking at Tim
Anderson and I remember in these old cartoons they used
to show little birdies going around the head, and I
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thought like Tim Anderson had like a little he's going
around his head because it was like it was crazy.
It was wild all right now, Page two on this
fight topic. So does Jose Ramirez have a future in boxing?
He was kidding around having a good time. As agent
had a photo of him in boxing gloves and they
were having five time. And while I'd love to see it,
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the answer is obviously, I'm shaking my head. No, he's
got no future. You have a better future in boxing.
I have a better future in boxing than Jose Ramirez does.
He does happen to possess a pretty nice skill set,
though he does from what I saw on this very
small sample size, I'll grant you that. But Ramirez was
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able to bob and weave and avoid Tim Anderson's punch,
and Anderson did telegraph it, and to the credit of
Jose Ramirez, he was able to dodge it. He stayed
on his feet. He certainly packed a wallop as he
hit the bullseye on the punch. But regard the main
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reason Jose Ramirez cannot be a boxer is he has
one hundred and forty one million dollar extension with the
Cleveland baseball team. So yeah, you're not gonna get that
money in boxing, and boxing is verboten in all contracts,
standard legal ees in all these contracts, just like sitting
on a jet ski if you're an NFL player for
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the Buffalo Bills also not allowed there. And the only
fighting Ramirez will be in is on field skirmishes. Methinks
that he will not have to fight anyone again because
of this, that no one's gonna want to fight Jose
Ramirez because of the video of this. Now what happens
to Tim Anderson and his reputation. Oh, this is a major,
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major demerit for Tim Anders. This is a guy that
thinks of himself as a player that brings the razzle dazz,
the razmataz and all that oozing with swag. Tim Anders,
he's the coolest guy around and he sent out a
bunch of gibberish on social media. This is for Tim
Anderson a star Trek situation. Beam me up, Scottie, get
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me the hell out of here, please. I would like
to go anywhere else, and of course most people on
the White Sox would like to go somewhere else based
on the way the White Sox season has gone. Mark,
my producer here tonight, is a White Sox. One of
my guys is a White Sox fan, so he also
would like to go somewhere else other than watch the
White Sox and he doesn't even work for the team.
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But I do recommend the White Sox doing an intervention
because Tim Anderson, man this guy. The good news is
he can now have dinner with Jose Batista the Blue
Jays because that this is the greatest baseball rhubarb we
have seen since a few years back, and the video
is notorious as Rude ned o'door of the Rangers clocked,
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absolutely deliberate a little guy, Jose Tista, the batflip guy
for Toronto Joey Batts as he was called, And that
was Jose Batista's punishment for not following me on social
media as he got punched in the face. Unless that's
not true at all. But the good news is Jose
Batista and Tim Anderson can now open up a booth,
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a kissing booth, not with each other, of course, but
they both kissed the canvas or in this case, the
dirt at a major league baseball game. Very few people
can say that that they ended up in the dirt
from a punch. Usually it's a knockdown pitch, a little
chin music, not a punch. All right, final points, Move
away from the fight. I love the fight you want
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to call. I'll talk about the fight the rest of
the show. I don't give a crap. I love to
talk about the fight. Amazing. But there's a story that
has come to my attention free Fall. In free Fall,
in the Angels lost their six consecutive game heartbreak Hotel
when extra innings with the Seattle baseball team at the
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Big and the Angels now under five hundred. They are
back with a losing record. They had been playing pretty
well and they'd won eight out of ten at one point.
The Halos now fifty six and fifty seven on the year,
El Stinko in Anaheim to kick them a little further,
the Halos dropping seven games, now back of Toronto for
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the final wild card spot in the American The Angels
not only have to catch the Blue Jays, they have
to play leap frog past the Red Sox, the Yankees,
and the Mariners, who just kicked them in the nuts
all weekend there in Anaheim. And so what do you make?
What do you make of the angels plight? They're being mocked, ridiculed,
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and shamed because they did not trade Shoho Tani, and
now many are already calling this the last supper for
the Angels because of the fact that they have been
so bad this week since the trade deadline and have
been criticizing me. Well, you're defended the Angels. You said,
don't trade Altani, and I still defend the move. The
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outcome is irrelevant because unless you're gonna promise me, the
Angels are gonna get three future All Star players who
are minor leaguers, and by the way, they weren't. You're
just talking out of your ass, so leave it alone.
And this shows you the neurosis among so many fans here, right,
So predictable, that's the word predictable. Here, it's dirty laundry.
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It's the old Don Henley tune. Kick them while they're
down now. To be fair, the Angels are an easy
target and they deserve to be criticized because they have
played like bums this week. But that's a different topic.
You can rip the performance, but you do not rip
them for trading or not trading. Sho hal Tani. You know,
the fact that they've been a bag of puke is
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a different point of conversation. They tried. You're supposed to
try to win, You're not just supposed to keep pushing
the envelope further and further down the road. Say oh no,
we're gonna be good in five years from now. Yeah, okay,
stop they have they're gonna get Mike tropped back. And
I don't even think it's over yet the Angels, they're
seven games back. It was like it there is a
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path here. And I remember years ago when I covered
the Angels, they had a massive lead, way back again
and ahead of the Seattle Mariners. And and it was
in August, and slowly and surely the Mariners chipped away,
and before you know it, there was a one game
playoff at the Kingdome, the old ballpark there in Seattle,
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and of course the Mariners won that, and that that's
what led to their new ballpark. But you know, the
the featest attitude that people have here, it's pathetic that
you're like, oh, you're ripping them because theydn't trade show
a tony. Now, the next point of demarcation for the
Angels is they're gonna have to make up. They're gonna
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have to play well for two weeks to get back
in this thing. But they can make up three games
in a week, get within four games, and then chip
two away. There are, by my mat there's forty nine
games left, so the next two weeks are crucial. They've
got a trim four to five games over the next
two weeks off that, which is absolutely possible because remember
Toronto plays the Yankees. Toronto plays the Red Sox, so
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those teams are gonna beat each other up in the
American leagues. They're gonna lose games, so there's a path
there for the Angels to get back. I'm Benny bright Side.
I'm Benny bright Side on this and uh and we'll
see you know, fus if Atani resigns with the Angels
and then that's perfect. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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It's Mallard.
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How about that?
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To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled, Eh,
the coop de loop.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Jamar Chase told the media over the weekend that he
told Joe Burrow that he doesn't even want him to
suit up week one. He said, as long as he's
there after week five, they're good. Doesn't want him to
rush back from injury.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Do you think the Bengals would be fine without Burrow
for five weeks?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yes? I also think that Jamar Chase is a dope.
That's what I think. Why don't they just rest him
for the entire season just in case he might get hurt.
In fact, don't even play him on wildcard weekend if
the Bengals are on the wildcard game, which they will
be if they're lucky to make the playoffs without him. No, no,
I think they should save him for at least the
divisional round out of an abundance of caution. What the
hell are we doing? Jamar Chire? Like, Sire, what are
(32:57):
you doing? Bad job by you?
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Do?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You know? The backup court back for the Bengals is
Trevor Simeon. You know who that is? Coop from your
Bronco days or his Bronco days. Come on, it's a joke.
Please next.
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So, Barry Bonds did a podcast interview where he admitted
that he wasn't exactly the best clubhouse guy during his career.
He said he wasn't trying to be a Dick and Dayton.
But ain't no way in hell I'm ever telling anybody
what I do. I'm not gonna tell you what I see.
I'll give you general conversation to help you, but I
don't know how long we're gonna be teammates, is what
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Bond said. Ben, are you buying that explanation.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
No, he was a jerk from the get go, before
he did all the drugs and all that. When with
the pirates, he wouldn't sign autographs for sick kids. He
wouldn't do it. Think about that. He wasn't even anybody
at that point.
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Next, Steve Cohen tried to reassure Mets fans over the weekend, saying, quote,
we promise you we will work hard to feeld a
competitive team in twenty twenty four. Do you believe him?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yes? I believe him because he has to sell season tickets.
So that's what he said. Are they actually gonna do it? No,
but that's what he said. How do we do koop?
He passes? That is I when I started the week
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Hold that thought.
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We give back, we give back, back, back back, right now,
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Who needs the advice, the wisdom, the knowledge of the
malord militia? This is such a crazy story. We must
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give advice to the PAC twelve conference as they are
crumbling down to four teams. After this upcoming season, there
will be just four teams left unless they do something
drastic here. So what is your advice to the PAC
twelve conference? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox is
the number when you hear my voice. We'll start out
with you on line one. Keep it clean? Hello, line one,
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your advice to the PAC twelve. Line one.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
How about the next time we have a competition for America,
we don't send a bunch of girls who eight America?
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That's well, okay, well, that would seem to make sense.
A line two is that a supermarket Steve? Line two? Hello?
Line two. Line two is not there. We'll go to
line three. Hello, Line three, it's the instant advice line
for the PAC twelve. Hello, line three.
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Listen to my man Bernie Fredo on Saturday night.
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Come how much would he pay you? Okay, thank you,
all right, Bernie's paying people now to call a show.
Line number four. Hello, line four, alright, Line five, you're
on the airline five. We're giving advice to the PAC
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twelve conference, although it doesn't sound like it. Hello, line five.
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It's the fudge pack four.
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Tell me what do you think of the ass?
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Okay, thank you, Yes, let's go to you. Line six,
you're on the airline six.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Hello the Pack twelve shit pick Poppy before Poppy picks them.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, well Poppy. Actually, Poppy said that the PAC twelve
next year will be in two years from now, will
be bigger than the SEC and boy with a great
prediction by Poppy. Line number one at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox the number. We're giving advice to
the PAC twelve conferences. They're losing teams down to four
after this upcoming season. Hello, Line two or line.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
One night me alert Magic Johnson's son of Commander's cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Okay, thank you, yes, on line too, Hello, line too,
come check that box on the Bingo card. Line three.
You're on the airline three. We are giving advice to
the Pack twelve conference. Line three. It's it's a lot
of work to make those phony phone calls. At least
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you didn't say boba booe. Hello, line four, you're on
the Airline four, alright, Line line five, we're giving advice
to the pack twelve. Line five, Pack twelve women's soper.
Who gets all right? Then well less and uh, that's
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quite the way to look at it. A line and
not wrong. Line six, Hello, line six. Line six is
not paying a tissue. Oh well, you were a little
late there, you gotta be. You gotta talk right away.
Line six. Line one, you're on the air. We're giving
advice to the pack twelve. Line one. Aaron Rodgers has
a crush on Monte. Okay, yes, thank you, Yes, a
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line too, Hello, Line two.
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Put them up, divide them and call them waers.
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There you go, Sean the hood guy with great advice
as always. Line three, year next this a device line
go mallard, meet and greeting in the south because you
got a pre mouth. Oh thank you, yes, all right?
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Don't wait to sign your next tvv okay Yeah here
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l okay, Yes, Yes, that's gonna work. That always works.
Line number six. Hello, Line six, it's.
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Not sake Ben, it's David.
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I like that guy. All right, we'll do one more,
only one more of it's good. All take credit. If not,
I will blame you Google Oop. Go ahead, Line five,
Line five, you're on the air. Last call for the
PAC twelve. Line five. Go and get in line five,
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So our lead this hour to begin the festivus of
talk coming from the NFL, because that's where we focus
this time of the year. I know there's been no
real games. There'll be no games for another few weeks
(01:48):
until the NFL regular season begins. These exhibition games are drek,
is what they are. But there are are some storylines
that caught my attention that have taken place here over
the last couple days, and one of them involving a
well known free agent running back that would be Zeke Elliott,
(02:10):
late of the Dallas Cowboys, was fired by the Cowboys
many months ago. He's still unemployed after all this time.
So if you've not been following along with breathless second
by second, reclicking trying to get the latest information, so
we've learned now over the weekend that there has been progress.
(02:32):
What kind of progress. Well, he hasn't signed a contract,
but Zeke Elliott later the Cowboys drawing interest from the Cowboys,
also the Patriots, we knew that, and the j e
Ts Suck, Suck, Suck. The Jets as well among the
teams interested. If you believe the scuttle butt it Ezekiel Elliott,
(02:54):
who has been out of work unemployed since March, when
he was unceremoniously dumped out of Jerry's world. He entered
the transfer portal and Jerry said, bye bye, We'll see
you later. We're done. Get out here. And the Jets
they want Zeke, but they don't really want that much.
(03:14):
They'd rather have Dalvin Cook, but they don't think Dalvin
Cook wants them. Dalvin Cook doesn't seem all they're interested,
so that the Jets is like, it's a backup plan,
It's a Plan B. Zeke is a Plan B. You
don't really want to be a Plan B. But Zeke
is a Plan B for the Jets, it would appear.
And the Patriots are interested, but how much are they
(03:37):
really interested? Like they work for pennies compared to everyone else,
which is the Patriot way. Why not come on down?
The cowboy angle is the most interesting, and this is
something that we've talked about in previous episodes of the show.
And even though Mike McCarthy and others around the Cowboys
(03:57):
not named Jerry Jones have implied that there's not a
realistic path back for Zeke to go to Dallas. Here
we are again, So let us discuss the question, should
Zeke Elliott go back to the Cowboys? You to go
thumbs up or thumbs down on that? So I am
(04:17):
going thumbs down, a big giant, oversized thumb, a throbbing
thumb pointing down is what I'm going with. I've got
recipe book, poet laureate, and mcmillions and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make heartburn. That's what we're gonna because the Cowboys will
(04:40):
have heartburn and Zeke Elliott will have heartburn if he
goes back into that situation. Like what are we even
having this conversation for at this particular point. So A,
it would be better for all involved, being the malar
think tank that we are here if you do not.
If Zeke, but you don't go back, you have been demoted,
(05:02):
you have been dethroned. You don't go back there. You
know it's Tony Pollard's team. It's Pollard, He's the star
back there. He's the guy, and he's the new franchise player.
And Jerry's fund zone. That's who they're going with. They
did not want you, they wanted somebody else. They have
moved on here, Do not be pathetic and go back
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and you look outside of Pollard going down with some
kind of injury. Outside of that, okay, then you say,
maybe we would revisit this, but you don't do it.
And the reason you don't do it, the road back
to the Cowboys for Zeke Elliott is booby trapped. It
is absolutely booby trapped. You take that recipe book with
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all the different recipes you got from Jerry and the
different Cowboy people, you pour it in gasoline. You then
light a match, and you then toss the match on
top of the recipe book that's got the Cowboy logo
on it, and burn baby burn. Just that's it. Make
it a ritual. If you have to just get rid
of it. That's it. We're good, thank you very much.
(06:11):
We need nothing more. That's what should happen here because
Zeke listen, we saw him play with the reason the
Cowboys didn't want anymore is because he's a plodding back
at this point. It's why he's still available as exhibition
games get going this upcoming week here and until proven otherwise,
he's no longer a guy that's in every down back
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that's gonna carry the load. And he's not the player
he was. Ever since he signed that contract and went
to kankun I. Guess before he went he signed the contract,
the production has gone down, down, down, down, down down down.
He ran at times last year saw the Cowboys, and
who didn't see the Cowboys. They're on National TV every
weekend just about and you watch the Cowboys play and
(06:54):
Zeke Elliott's like, eh, yeah. So he's running in sand
on the beach and he's got con crete shoes on,
the new Nike concrete shoes that he's wearing as he's
running around doing his thing. Wonderful. Just as so he's
essentially a goal line specialist. Now, regardless of that, we
(07:14):
have been hearing that not only is Zeke Elliott trying
to get back in the NFL, but he is not
going to come back unless he gets a certain amount
of money, which if that's true, then Zeke might as
well just become a TV guy and or do a
radio show or something like that, or get a podcast,
because everyone's got a podcast, even I have a podcast,
(07:35):
and just work your way through it. That's it, you know,
because you're not you're not gonna get top dollar. It's fair.
The market has said, unless somebody goes down with an
injury and you happen to be a friend of a
coach that wants to have you, it's not going to
work out too well. It's not going to work out
too well. But you can't wait. You can wait for
the rice Crispies, snap crackle pop to take place. But
(07:58):
my advice would be to do that. That's it, and
you'll be the flavor of the week now. Meanwhile, in Vegas,
we move now from Free Agency Land to Lost Wages, Nevada,
where the Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels attempting to brush
aside what has become a bubbling storyline with the Raiders,
(08:20):
and that is the performance of Jimmy Garoppolo, the old
forty nine er quarterback making his way in Vegas. Garoppolo
has been practicing and he has sucked in practice. According
to those that have seen the Raiders practice and those
that have heard about the Raiders practice, Garoppolo is not
(08:41):
only a quarterback, he has been terrible for the Raiders.
How bad he is to be kind turnover prone. One
report said he has thrown seven interceptions in two practices
for the Raiders. So how we're now. Josh McDaniels says
he has no concerns. McDaniel's like, everything's fun, nothing worry
about you. I got no concerns. So the question here,
(09:05):
with that being in the backdrop here, how worried should
the Raider people be with Jimmy G's training camp. Interceptions
and there's a lot of them. So on the Malord
scale of concern one to ten, with ten being panic
at the disco, I am at a three, A three
for garoppolo. And you know I love a good panic.
(09:27):
I make my living selling panic in the middle of
the night. But in this case, I don't buy the
noise that, oh this is brutal. It reminds me of
when Patrick Mahomes was with the Chiefs before he became
Patrick Mahomes the Legend. He was throwing a bunch of
interceptions in practice and people were mocking Andy Reid. I
(09:49):
remember we talked about it on the show. Here goofing
on Andy Reid, like what are you doing here? I
mean this guy, you drafted, this guy tent overall, he's
throwing a lot of interceptions. Bad job by you. Well,
it seemed to be okay, and I would like to
quote the great poet laureate from Georgetown who said, we
in here talking about practice, not a game. Not a game,
We're talking about practice, the great Allen Iverson, who was
(10:10):
poetic in that particular rant when it comes to this
kind of stuff, because I don't it blows me away
that the amount of attention the practices get. It's one
of those things that's changed in my lifetime, like how
many throws quarterbacks make and who's playing well who's not,
which is just the opinion of the beat writer whatever.
(10:32):
And maybe they're right, maybe they're completely right, but who
gives a flying f Seriously, here's why I judge players,
and maybe I'm the wrong guy on this, but if
they suck in games, I care about that. It's like
the old line they used to use about your military training.
You get ready for combat, you go to boot camp,
(10:53):
and you know, do your thing, you work out, you
gotta be in shape, you gotta learn all the things
you need to be in the military. Not that I've
ever been in the military, but I bred about it,
and they said, well, you know, you're they're just shooting blanks,
you know, shooting blas. But when you go out in combat,
there's live actual bullets from one ironstand. So it's it's
much different situation. The last word here. So quickly we
(11:14):
moved from Vegas and we now go to the Washington,
DC area where fat Albert has spoken. That would be
Albert Hainsworth, a legend. Now he actually said this, I
think in Nashville, the defensive tackle of the team formerly no,
when he played for them, they were the Washington Redskins.
(11:34):
So he did something that raised some eyebrows. He went unorthodox.
He actually came out defending Dan Snyder. Hello, yeah, he
came out defending Dan Snyder, recently, the former owner of
the Washington football team. Now he said that he did
care that. Albert Hanster said, listen, this guy cared about
(11:57):
the team. He spoke to over and OutKick on the
high my show over there. He said, we're like super cool.
He stated. Everybody's like Dan's an ahole. Albert Hainsworth said,
but he's not that for a quote. Everyone everyone's like, hey,
he ruined Washington, DC. He ruined the commanders. This guy
(12:18):
who he was, he loved, Albert Hainsworth said, continuing the quote,
he loved Washington. He's like watching every practice he's doing
all that stuff. Now. Hainsworth did say that he told
Snyder to his face that he did not have the
proper knowledge to run an NFL team, and he pointed
out that he was a billionaire fantasy footballer. But the
(12:41):
overall sentiment of Albert Hainsworth was a positive one to
Dan Snyder. So what is your takeaway from Albert Hainsworth
going against the tide against the tide to stand by
his man, Dan Snyder. In this perioderiod of time where
Snyder was reprimanded by the NFL forced to sell the team,
(13:05):
made a gazillion dollars find sixty million dollars. So here
we go. This one simple, simple, simple. If you've been
around a while and you've paid attention, I think you
know why Albert Haynesworth would come out defending Dance Stunner.
Maybe he truly likes him, but I know a reason,
and it's a very good reason. Money talks in fools walk,
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and some would say fools give out money like Dan
Snyder did to Albert Haynesworth. But that's my tell you.
Albert knows who gave him the winning mcmillion's piece there
from the Monopoly game and it was not anyone other
than Dan Snyder. Yeah, he won the instant win game.
He got the piece from Dan Snyder to the tune
(13:46):
of one hundred million dollars, which in today's night that
was back in nine. In today's money, that's one hundred
and forty two million dollars based on inflation from when
Albert Hainsworth got the contract back in O nine. And
he sucked every second he played for the Washington Redskins.
And but you know it did not suck. His finances
(14:08):
did not stink, did not stink, and so and the other.
Snyder could not have been a schmuck to everyone. He
clearly treated a bunch of people badly. But there are
ob some people that liked him otherwise. I know Jerry
Jones used to hang out with him all the time,
for example. They were pals.
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So our lead this hour, which maybe should have been
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our lead last hour. But what our lead this hour?
Coming from the sweet science, the fisticuffs, the squared circle.
How many other boxing cliches can I throw in? Well?
What a night? It was just a harmless Saturday night
over the weekend, people out doing things, enjoying themselves, having
a fine time, and we had a ruckus we had
(16:08):
a rhubarb that took place. What A seen? This was
man alive. Now I was watching some boxing stuff, so
I did not see this live. But immediately my phone
blew up and people say, hey, you see this. Look
at this clip. This is amazing. It's like, oh yeah,
that's pretty good. Oh yeah. I want to see like
different angles. Want to get the different feeds of the broadcast.
(16:31):
So if you didn't see this somehow, if you've been
living in a shoe box somewhere and you didn't pay attention,
we'll get you caught up to speed. So this happened
the hoe down in Tribe Town. Well they used to
be called the Tribe Now they're named after a bridge,
the Guardian. So anyway, if you didn't see it, The
Guardians all star third baseman Jose Ramirez. Guy's good player
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and he's kind of stuck not getting that much attention
in Cleveland's a good team, but they're not a glamour team.
So you had Hose Ramirez on one side, All Star, a
former All Star who once compared himself to Jackie Robinson
in Tim Anderson of the White Sox. And there was
a play at second base. Now to set this up. Prior.
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Earlier in the game, Tim Anderson on replay, he had
pushed the bag of a Cleveland the hand rather of
a Cleveland base runner off the bag, which is seen
as a taboo in baseball. The Cleveland baseball team, Terry
Francona had challenged the ruling. The Instant Replay Center in
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New York ruled they allowed Anderson to move the hand
of a Cleveland player off the base, which is supposed
not supposed to be allowed. So that was a violation
of the unwritten rules of baseball, and so that was
the backstore in this. So Jose Ramirez is running the
second and Anderson's on the bag to try to make
a play to tag him, and Ramiro there has slid
(18:02):
in between Anderson's legs and he was upset with Anderson,
and we think he was upset by what had happened
earlier in the game, and he pointed to the head
of Tim Anderson and then they squared off. There was
more action in this than the Jake Paul fight versus
Nate Diaz over the weekend, but it was all about
(18:23):
a tag play at second base. Now we have the
audio tape Tom Hamilton, one of the great play by
play voices in Major League Baseball. You talk about dramatics, excitement, energy,
He's got all the intangibles, as the cliches go. But
here's Tom Hamilton, the voice of the Cleveland baseball team.
Listen to him describe what happened on this crazy play.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Hey, the diving vun down the right field line, kicks
into the corner. Brimeriz Onezueto second peg, first slide, say
fed in.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
The score is him and Hiss and another household double
for the bag at first.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Now Hosey and Anderson square off.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
They're fighting. They're swinging down, Goesanderson, Downsanderson, Oh so good,
so good. Shanley down, Gohost Freis down, gost Frei. Well,
now down goes Anderson. Needless to say, this is the
story everyone's talking about in the baseball world. To let
(19:27):
us join the partey and have a sore a. What
do you say? So let's discuss the question how did
you score the fight between Jose Ramirez of Cleveland and
Tim Anderson of Chicago. So, using the ten point must system,
this was a ten to eight fight card in favor
(19:47):
of Jose Ramirez. But you don't even need to go
to the judges' scorecards because this was a TK oh
see you later. I've got Deli, counter Star Trek, and
Don Henley will combine all of these random things together
and we are going to make sense of the unsensible
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is what we're going to make. So number W yes.
Some fights are like splitting hairs. It could go either way.
There's a lot of drama, there's a lot of tensions.
I'm old school. I like the fight game. I'm not
big in the UFC. I'm more of an old school
boxing guy, and I used to love those big fights.
They never invited me to those things.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Some of the people get invited, they pay for them
to go with these fights. I just like watching them.
I just like checking them out. So anyway, this one,
if you look at the tail of the tape, surprisingly
it is an even matchup. Now, I thought that Jose
Ramirez was because he seems chunkier than Tim Anderson. So
I thought, well, there's clearly an advantage. Anderson's a little taller,
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but Ramirez has some size in his build. But you
look at the measurables. Jose Ramirez listed height five to nine.
He's a little fella five nine one hundred and ninety pounds,
and Tim Anderson's listed height is six to one, so
he's got a big height advantage. You would think he'd
have a reach advantage. Anderson one hundred and eighty five pounds,
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so there's only five pounds difference. But obviously there's a
much taller player in Tim Anderson. And when the fight
unfolded for our blind listers, let me, let me describe
what happened. So Tim Anderson was the first to square
up and also the first to go down. He's the
Usually in a fight, if you're the first person to
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throw a punch, you're gonna win. Any of us that
have been in fights, that's usually how it were that
you first, we're gonna throw the punch. Not in this case.
After Ramirez had pointed in the face of the White
Sox shortstop, that was the trigger point. That was the
trigger point, and it was on like don't get gong
(21:54):
right there, bam, and so Anderson tossed his glove down
like he had been in eight thousand fights, and he
was like a club fighter and he was ready to
go the White Sox shortstop. So you assume that you
throw the glove down and right away, right handed haymaker. Boom,
(22:15):
just like that right he swung it like he knew
what he was doing. It did not connect. The punch
did not connect, and Jose Ramirez okay. He then went
to the deli counter and what he provided was a
delicious knuckle sandwich right to the chin of Anderson, right
(22:35):
to the face. Boom, bring in the salami with the
knuckle sandwich right there. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Turn at the last the parties over in my head.
When I saw the replay, I was looking at Tim
Anderson and I remember in these old cartoons they used
to show little birdies going around the head, and I
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thought like Tim Anderson had like a little he's going
around his head because it was like it was crazy.
It was wild all right now, Page two on this
fight topic. So does Jose Ramirez have a future in boxing?
He was kidding around having a good time. As agent
had a photo of him in boxing gloves and they
were having five time. And while I'd love to see it,
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the answer is obviously, I'm shaking my head. No, he's
got no future. You have a better future in boxing.
I have a better future in boxing than Jose Ramirez does.
He does happen to possess a pretty nice skill set,
though he does from what I saw on this very
small sample size, I'll grant you that. But Ramirez was
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able to bob and weave and avoid Tim Anderson's punch,
and Anderson did telegraph it, and to the credit of
Jose Ramirez, he was able to dodge it. He stayed
on his feet. He certainly packed a wallop as he
hit the bullseye on the punch. But regard the main
(24:00):
reason Jose Ramirez cannot be a boxer is he has
one hundred and forty one million dollar extension with the
Cleveland baseball team. So yeah, you're not gonna get that
money in boxing, and boxing is verboten in all contracts,
standard legal ees in all these contracts, just like sitting
on a jet ski if you're an NFL player for
(24:21):
the Buffalo Bills also not allowed there. And the only
fighting Ramirez will be in is on field skirmishes. Methinks
that he will not have to fight anyone again because
of this, that no one's gonna want to fight Jose
Ramirez because of the video of this. Now what happens
to Tim Anderson and his reputation. Oh, this is a major,
(24:47):
major demerit for Tim Anders. This is a guy that
thinks of himself as a player that brings the razzle dazz,
the razmataz and all that oozing with swag. Tim Anders,
he's the coolest guy around and he sent out a
bunch of gibberish on social media. This is for Tim
Anderson a star Trek situation. Beam me up, Scottie, get
(25:13):
me the hell out of here, please. I would like
to go anywhere else, and of course most people on
the White Sox would like to go somewhere else based
on the way the White Sox season has gone. Mark,
my producer here tonight, is a White Sox. One of
my guys is a White Sox fan, so he also
would like to go somewhere else other than watch the
White Sox and he doesn't even work for the team.
(25:35):
But I do recommend the White Sox doing an intervention
because Tim Anderson, man this guy. The good news is
he can now have dinner with Jose Batista the Blue
Jays because that this is the greatest baseball rhubarb we
have seen since a few years back, and the video
is notorious as Rude ned o'door of the Rangers clocked,
(25:57):
absolutely deliberate a little guy, Jose Tista, the batflip guy
for Toronto Joey Batts as he was called, And that
was Jose Batista's punishment for not following me on social
media as he got punched in the face. Unless that's
not true at all. But the good news is Jose
Batista and Tim Anderson can now open up a booth,
(26:18):
a kissing booth, not with each other, of course, but
they both kissed the canvas or in this case, the
dirt at a major league baseball game. Very few people
can say that that they ended up in the dirt
from a punch. Usually it's a knockdown pitch, a little
chin music, not a punch. All right, final points, Move
away from the fight. I love the fight you want
(26:38):
to call. I'll talk about the fight the rest of
the show. I don't give a crap. I love to
talk about the fight. Amazing. But there's a story that
has come to my attention free Fall. In free Fall,
in the Angels lost their six consecutive game heartbreak Hotel
when extra innings with the Seattle baseball team at the
(26:59):
Big and the Angels now under five hundred. They are
back with a losing record. They had been playing pretty
well and they'd won eight out of ten at one point.
The Halos now fifty six and fifty seven on the year,
El Stinko in Anaheim to kick them a little further,
the Halos dropping seven games, now back of Toronto for
(27:22):
the final wild card spot in the American The Angels
not only have to catch the Blue Jays, they have
to play leap frog past the Red Sox, the Yankees,
and the Mariners, who just kicked them in the nuts
all weekend there in Anaheim. And so what do you make?
What do you make of the angels plight? They're being mocked, ridiculed,
(27:45):
and shamed because they did not trade Shoho Tani, and
now many are already calling this the last supper for
the Angels because of the fact that they have been
so bad this week since the trade deadline and have
been criticizing me. Well, you're defended the Angels. You said,
don't trade Altani, and I still defend the move. The
(28:07):
outcome is irrelevant because unless you're gonna promise me, the
Angels are gonna get three future All Star players who
are minor leaguers, and by the way, they weren't. You're
just talking out of your ass, so leave it alone.
And this shows you the neurosis among so many fans here, right,
So predictable, that's the word predictable. Here, it's dirty laundry.
(28:32):
It's the old Don Henley tune. Kick them while they're
down now. To be fair, the Angels are an easy
target and they deserve to be criticized because they have
played like bums this week. But that's a different topic.
You can rip the performance, but you do not rip
them for trading or not trading. Sho hal Tani. You know,
the fact that they've been a bag of puke is
(28:52):
a different point of conversation. They tried. You're supposed to
try to win, You're not just supposed to keep pushing
the envelope further and further down the road. Say oh no,
we're gonna be good in five years from now. Yeah, okay,
stop they have they're gonna get Mike tropped back. And
I don't even think it's over yet the Angels, they're
seven games back. It was like it there is a
(29:13):
path here. And I remember years ago when I covered
the Angels, they had a massive lead, way back again
and ahead of the Seattle Mariners. And and it was
in August, and slowly and surely the Mariners chipped away,
and before you know it, there was a one game
playoff at the Kingdome, the old ballpark there in Seattle,
(29:34):
and of course the Mariners won that, and that that's
what led to their new ballpark. But you know, the
the featest attitude that people have here, it's pathetic that
you're like, oh, you're ripping them because theydn't trade show
a tony. Now, the next point of demarcation for the
Angels is they're gonna have to make up. They're gonna
(29:55):
have to play well for two weeks to get back
in this thing. But they can make up three games
in a week, get within four games, and then chip
two away. There are, by my mat there's forty nine
games left, so the next two weeks are crucial. They've
got a trim four to five games over the next
two weeks off that, which is absolutely possible because remember
Toronto plays the Yankees. Toronto plays the Red Sox, so
(30:19):
those teams are gonna beat each other up in the
American leagues. They're gonna lose games, so there's a path
there for the Angels to get back. I'm Benny bright Side.
I'm Benny bright Side on this and uh and we'll
see you know, fus if Atani resigns with the Angels
and then that's perfect. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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Quite the card shark over here. We'll get to that.
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We'll take your calls, the whole thing, and we will
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Speaker 2 (31:04):
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Speaker 2 (32:11):
It's Mallard.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled, Eh,
the coop de loop.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Jamar Chase told the media over the weekend that he
told Joe Burrow that he doesn't even want him to
suit up week one. He said, as long as he's
there after week five, they're good. Doesn't want him to
rush back from injury.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Do you think the Bengals would be fine without Burrow
for five weeks?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yes? I also think that Jamar Chase is a dope.
That's what I think. Why don't they just rest him
for the entire season just in case he might get hurt.
In fact, don't even play him on wildcard weekend if
the Bengals are on the wildcard game, which they will
be if they're lucky to make the playoffs without him. No, no,
I think they should save him for at least the
divisional round out of an abundance of caution. What the
hell are we doing? Jamar Chire? Like, Sire, what are
(32:57):
you doing? Bad job by you?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Do?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You know? The backup court back for the Bengals is
Trevor Simeon. You know who that is? Coop from your
Bronco days or his Bronco days. Come on, it's a joke.
Please next.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
So, Barry Bonds did a podcast interview where he admitted
that he wasn't exactly the best clubhouse guy during his career.
He said he wasn't trying to be a Dick and Dayton.
But ain't no way in hell I'm ever telling anybody
what I do. I'm not gonna tell you what I see.
I'll give you general conversation to help you, but I
don't know how long we're gonna be teammates, is what
(33:29):
Bond said. Ben, are you buying that explanation.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
No, he was a jerk from the get go, before
he did all the drugs and all that. When with
the pirates, he wouldn't sign autographs for sick kids. He
wouldn't do it. Think about that. He wasn't even anybody
at that point.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Next, Steve Cohen tried to reassure Mets fans over the weekend, saying, quote,
we promise you we will work hard to feeld a
competitive team in twenty twenty four. Do you believe him?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yes? I believe him because he has to sell season tickets.
So that's what he said. Are they actually gonna do it? No,
but that's what he said. How do we do koop?
He passes? That is I when I started the week
with w wwwwww.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
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Speaker 1 (34:25):
Here were you talking to some here?
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Some instant advice?
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Hold that thought.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds,
and if you don't like it, you.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
And no.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
We go. Is time now for the inset advice? Line
unscreened radio, the wisdom, the knowledge of the great unwashed.
We give back, we give back, back, back back, right now,
get it through your six goal or your six goal rather?
Who needs the advice, the wisdom, the knowledge of the
malord militia? This is such a crazy story. We must
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give advice to the PAC twelve conference as they are
crumbling down to four teams. After this upcoming season, there
will be just four teams left unless they do something
drastic here. So what is your advice to the PAC
twelve conference? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox is
the number when you hear my voice. We'll start out
with you on line one. Keep it clean? Hello, line one,
(35:24):
your advice to the PAC twelve. Line one.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
How about the next time we have a competition for America,
we don't send a bunch of girls who eight America?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's well, okay, well, that would seem to make sense.
A line two is that a supermarket Steve? Line two? Hello?
Line two. Line two is not there. We'll go to
line three. Hello, Line three, it's the instant advice line
for the PAC twelve. Hello, line three.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Listen to my man Bernie Fredo on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Come how much would he pay you? Okay, thank you,
all right, Bernie's paying people now to call a show.
Line number four. Hello, line four, alright, Line five, you're
on the airline five. We're giving advice to the PAC
(36:10):
twelve conference, although it doesn't sound like it. Hello, line five.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
It's the fudge pack four.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Tell me what do you think of the ass?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Okay, thank you, Yes, let's go to you. Line six,
you're on the airline six.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Hello the Pack twelve shit pick Poppy before Poppy picks them.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, well Poppy. Actually, Poppy said that the PAC twelve
next year will be in two years from now, will
be bigger than the SEC and boy with a great
prediction by Poppy. Line number one at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox the number. We're giving advice to
the PAC twelve conferences. They're losing teams down to four
after this upcoming season. Hello, Line two or line.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
One night me alert Magic Johnson's son of Commander's cheerleader.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Okay, thank you, yes, on line too, Hello, line too,
come check that box on the Bingo card. Line three.
You're on the airline three. We are giving advice to
the Pack twelve conference. Line three. It's it's a lot
of work to make those phony phone calls. At least
(37:19):
you didn't say boba booe. Hello, line four, you're on
the Airline four, alright, Line line five, we're giving advice
to the pack twelve. Line five, Pack twelve women's soper.
Who gets all right? Then well less and uh, that's
(37:39):
quite the way to look at it. A line and
not wrong. Line six, Hello, line six. Line six is
not paying a tissue. Oh well, you were a little
late there, you gotta be. You gotta talk right away.
Line six. Line one, you're on the air. We're giving
advice to the pack twelve. Line one. Aaron Rodgers has
a crush on Monte. Okay, yes, thank you, Yes, a
(38:00):
line too, Hello, Line two.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Put them up, divide them and call them waers.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
There you go, Sean the hood guy with great advice
as always. Line three, year next this a device line
go mallard, meet and greeting in the south because you
got a pre mouth. Oh thank you, yes, all right?
Line four, Hello, Line four with live televisions business and dying.
Don't wait to sign your next tvv okay Yeah here
yes a line number five. Hello, Line five, la la
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l okay, Yes, Yes, that's gonna work. That always works.
Line number six. Hello, Line six, it's.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Not sake Ben, it's David.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I like that guy. All right, we'll do one more,
only one more of it's good. All take credit. If not,
I will blame you Google Oop. Go ahead, Line five,
Line five, you're on the air. Last call for the
PAC twelve. Line five. Go and get in line five,
because all you guys cursed. That's why you all cursed.
Bat job by you
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