August 17, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay balancing his job as broadcaster and talk show host, Taylor Swift rejecting an invite to do the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Fact or Fiction, and more!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our name before and we go right to the
bottom of the American the East, where the New York
Yankees are like eggs, scrambled eggs. They are under five
hundred memory serves me right. That's the worst the Yankees
have been since the mid nineties, and now they're play
by play announcers under fire. How is it possible for
(00:23):
Michael kay to succeed as both the Yankee broadcaster and
a talk show host in New York?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And what does.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This rejection as far as the NFL is concerned. The
NFL rejected by Taylor Swift. What does that say about
Taylor Swift? What does it say about the NFL? The
NFL invited her to perform the Super Bowl halftime show?
And what are your expectations for the NBA's Ben Simmons
based on the new viral workout photos that have been
(00:55):
making the rounds. We'll talking about all that and more
right now here. It is our number five. Have a
wonderful day today. There are some people that handle losing,
and then there are the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
They don't quite get it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well. Come in the beginning of another hour of the
Ben Malors show. We are in the air everywhere, fireside
chatting as we toss and turn coast to coast, port
of the border and beyond on the mast and unimaginably
(01:31):
powerful microphones of fsre ammating.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Live from the bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Just the bullet cherries.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We are broadcasting live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Tire rack dot com will help you get there and
unmatched election fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection and
over ten thousand recommended his stllars tire rack dot com
the way tire buying should be and our lead this
hour coming from baseball. The New York Yankees have the
(02:05):
worst team they've had in a generation. They suck out loud,
and boy is it fun to watch on the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
As a as a.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Non Yankee apologist here on the other side, to watch
the Yankee Empire fight with each other, the palace intrigue
going on.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
In the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
The Yankees' worst team since the early nineties. You had
Aaron judged the other day say that the Yankees aren't
even showing up, and they were twisted into a pretzel
by Charlie Morton. Charlie Morton and a gaggle of other
Atlanta Braves. The Pinstripers are now sixty and sixty one,
(02:47):
last place, looking up at the tucks of the Red Sox,
Blue Jays Orioles and.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Rays in the American League East.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And now now their play by play voice is under
siege because the team blows.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Do you see this? Maybe not?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Michael Kay, a fellow gas bag and blowhard, Michael Kay,
attempted to sugarcoat this monstrosity of a season on his
New York radio show. Now, keep in mind, sixty and
sixty one. If you're like the Pittsburgh Pirates, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
You take that, the Kansas City Royals, you take that.
If you're the Athletics, you'd be like, okay, sixty and
sixty one.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Put you're the Yankees. And when you think about the
amount of.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Investment that the New York Yankees have put out on
player payroll, and they're at the top team in baseball
in terms of dollars and cents and all that, but
they have an active payroll the Yankees of over one
hundred and eighty three million dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That's a lot of cheddar they are.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
If you look at the total overall payroll, not just
the act of payroll, the overall payroll. The Yankees are
actually second, only the Mets are ahead of them, and
the Mets and the Yankees are both headed towards last
place finishes. I imagine that's happened at some point. I
don't remember that happening. It doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
But anyway, Michael, Okay, get to the point. Please. So
(04:21):
Michael Kay attempted and failed to back the Yankees. He
claimed that the reason the team is struggling is because, well,
first of all, DJ Lemayhew.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Got injured last year.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That was a problem, and he talked about the ripple
effect that led to the cheating Asstros, making a mockery
of the Yankees and the Alcs. He then claimed that
the franchise assumed it was in better shape than it
actually was and that led to an offseason that did
not did not seem that exciting. The big signing was
(04:59):
the starting pitcher who has become best friends with the.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Trainer of the team.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's not good either, so Kay said, I think they
thought they were going to be a lot better, but
now we see the flaw in that.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And then when it was pointed out to him.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That he was working as a blocking full back for
the Yankee front office.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Michael Kay then snapped the.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Play by play voice of the New York Yankees on television,
Michael Kay snap saying quote, I'm telling you the truth here.
If you think it's making excuses, good, go crap in
a lake. He stated, I don't care. That's a good line.
Go crapping a lake now. That, of course, led to
a barrage of finger pointing right criticism directed towards k.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So, let us discuss the question. I think it's an
interesting question.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
How is it possible for a guy like Michael Kay
to have success as both Yankee broadcaster and and talk
show host. And I've got ABC's Clay Travis and Pfizer
and we will combine all of these things together and
(06:12):
we are going to make a classic dish on this show,
the Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the babag Nooshe now
to lead off here, It is impossible.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's mission impossible. That is not my opinion.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It is a fact to be good at both Yankee
play by play job and talk show guy impossible cannot
do it. Not my opinion. Fact fact, having worked in
this radio world talk radio for a long time, but
also in my early days when I was around professional
sports as a postgame host for some teams, I was
(06:49):
an eyewitness to the two different worlds. And when you
juxta pose being the Yankee TV voice compared to the
skill set required to be a good talk show. Now,
you can be a boring, dull talk shows and get
away with it, but to actually be a good talk shows,
there's no way you can be a play by play
guy for the Yankees or any other team.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Can't happen. It cannot happen.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's like ice caps, polar opposites, right, they have nothing
in common. It's the ABC's it is the ABC's ergo
the wide world of sports.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
To keep a gig.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
In professional play by play at the big league level,
you are focusing on the thrill of victory, victory, the
thrill of victory, right, thrill of victory in the gas
bag chair which I'm sitting in, you highlight the agony
of defeat, the human drama of athletic competition. That's where
the story is. The story is not in the victory,
(07:47):
and so you can't be doing both. You mix in
the most sensitive people in the world, the people that
own sports franchises. There is no one thinner's skin than
an executive of a sports franchise, and that is a
toxic cocktail. You think that Kevin Durant, for example, is
I eat thin skin. He's nothing. He's a lightweight compared
(08:12):
to the people that own these sports teams. I'm telling you,
it's like playing with dynamite. So it's impossible. Now, Furthermore,
let's turn the page now to pop culture. When you
think pop culture, you think Overnight Sports Radio, the Ben
Maler Show, and here we thank you. So the NFL
has picked up a loss in the pop culture world.
(08:35):
We are told that someone by the name of Taylor
Swift was invited to perform at halftime of the twenty
twenty four Super Bowl in Lost Wages, Nevada, and Taylor
Swift said thanks, but no thanks. She declined the NFL's invitation, said.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No way, I'm not doing that. Screw you.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now, what does this rejection say about Taylor Swift and
what does this say about the NFL? So it tells
us that Taylor Swift truly is at the very top
of the musical food chain and I've had several friends,
the people who work at Fox Sports Radio. Mike Harmon
(09:24):
went to this Eras tour thing. We're in LA for
a while, but that Eras tour is unpaced to end off.
If I read this properly, and I think I did
the most successful musical tour in the history of music.
Now I realized that inflation, things are expensive. I don't
think the face value tickets are that outraged. But anyway,
(09:47):
the Swifties, there are more Swifties than NFL fans. I
should be doing Swifty Radio. Welcome to Swifty Radio. All
the ratings for that would be huge. But she's got
that Svengali effect that people are they mesmerized, they're hypnotized
by her musical skills. Taylor Swift, congratulations, amazing. She's selling
out stadiums. She's selling out more NFL stadiums than the
(10:11):
Dallas Cowboys, and so she does not exactly need a
career boost at this point. Now from the NFL's perspective,
on the other side of the aisle, from the NFL's perspective,
they are getting the Claye Travis treatment, as in, they
outkicked the coverage is what they did here. And you
read into this. I think this is a third time
(10:32):
now that Swift has punted on a Super Bowl invitation.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It is also interesting to note.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That Taylor Swift is scheduled to be in a place
called Japan in February as part of the torts continuing
on the Era's tour. It's not going to end until
November of twenty twenty four. And think about the arrogance
of Roger Goodell and the NFL marketing people. That these
(11:00):
big shots at the NFL think that they're poopy, doesn't stink,
and that they can call Taylor Swift and be like, Hey, Taylor,
I'll tell you a text. I'm gonna make you a
sweetheart offer. Why don't you fly five thousand, five hundred
miles from Tokyo where you're getting paid to sing, to
(11:23):
Vegas and will give you the right to perform for Bumpkus.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You're not going to agree to that.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, Well, I think she'd rather go and have some
sake and go fishing. I think is what she'd rather do.
And I think that's what she's going to do all
right now, parting shot, Let's pivot to the NBA quickly,
because this is a yearly tradition. It's like punk Satani
Phil or the swallows in Capistrano. Ben Simmons was a
(11:53):
trending topic again and several of you knuckleheads made sure
I saw this story, so I will spend a couple
of on it. Not more than that, but photo making
the rounds and it shows Ben Simmons the nets point guard.
It went viral. Simmons looks to be in great physical shape.
He was not napping, he was not eating cheetos, and
(12:16):
it was described by a hack NBA broadcaster as a
shredded Ben Simmons. It was said he's in a good place.
He spent some quality time with Jock vonn the head
coach there, and some of his teammates. So what are
your expectations for the new trimmed up Ben Simmons based
on the workout photo that is making the way around
(12:41):
the social networks. Yeah, so I've done this topic multiple times.
I've done the Ben Simmons can't miss from three point
video clip.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I've done that one.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I've done the Ben Simmons has turned over a new leaf.
Ben Simmons saw the most amazing shrink in the world
and now is like the Dalai lama Uh done all
those stories. So my expectations for Ben Simmons are extremely high.
I expect the Azzi to get a massive deal with Pfizer.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Now, not for what you think. They're gonna have him.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
As the face of preparation h because Ben Simmons is
going to need medication because he's gonna continue to get
hemorrhoids from sitting out games in Brooklyn. They gonna hang
out there and they the Wokester' part of Brooklyn and
get some pizza or something like that. But off season
stories about Ben Simmons, this guy is like Adonis. He
(13:42):
is a mythical Greek god. Ben Simmons is the all
time goat. It's not Jordan, it's not Lebron. Ben Simmons
stories in the off season he hits every three point shot,
he solves world hunger. Ben Simmons can lift up a
(14:04):
bus with one arm. He's like Superman. And then when
the season begins, Ben Simmons rides the vomit comment.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That's what he does. He becomes a Smurf, but not
Papa Smurf. No, No, he's lowered down on the smurf
food chain.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's what happens. It is the Ben Mahlor Show as
we roll on here through the.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Late night hours.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And we've now had two grand winners. Are you listening,
iowa him. We've had two grand winners who have taken
home a set of four brand new tires in the
Summer of Tire Rack Sweepstakes. And good news for you,
one winner is still up for GPS.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Could that be you do do do? Maybe it whood be?
We'd love for you to win.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I can't win, so I'd rather you win because I
can't win. Our third winner will be picked August twenty
seven to win a set of four tires plus installation
taxes and fees valued it up to fifteen hundred dollars.
Enter daily at Foxsports radio dot com. Every single day
you get a fresh new entry and an additional shot
(15:16):
to win, and it's free to register. You also get
bonus entries into the sweepstakes by doing simple things like
following Fox Sports Radio on social media. Shouldbute them that anyway,
and you should really be listening on Fox Sports Radio's
channel on the iHeart app and you can hear that show.
For some reason, we get covered up by I don't know,
(15:36):
women's World Cup Soccer or something like that. You can
find us on the iHeartRadio app, but to enter and
get rules, visit Foxsports Radio dot com. It's all sponsored
by tire rack dot Com. The way tire buying should be.
As we press on and you know what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna puck the World's what I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna say, you know what, Puck the world. That's what
(15:56):
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, puck the world with Eddie.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
The Ben Malor Shows a sports take Invention Lab by
Night and hands your listening experience Chaperone Big Ben. On Twitter,
He's at Ben Maller. On Facebook, It's Facebook dot com
slash Ben Malor Show, and on Instagram It's at Ben
Maller on Fox. Put your stamp on our proprietary blood
of unique features such as lame jokes and Ask Ben
by contributing content and now live from the Tyrock dot
(16:33):
Com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben mallor.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Mallard prop Guy writes in he works in the wacky
wackyworld of entertainment. He says, it has been reported that
Super Bowl halftime entertainers don't get paid. That is not true,
malarprop Guy says, but they don't get paid money. And
he thinks that Taylor Swift is not worried about her money,
(17:04):
but playing the Super Bowl would negatively impact her band,
crew and staff.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Financially.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
How would that work logistically if they're all in Japan,
they're hanging out in Tokyo and they've got to fly
over and then fly back. I know she's rich and
all that she could afford it. But Bill wrights In says,
Baba Ganouch at five am, come on, bad job by you, Ben,
How about some control in the studio. Should have made pancakes?
(17:33):
Would that have been better for you? Pancakes, extra syrup waffles,
yum me No, right whatever, he's their own.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Why not let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And by the way, we do have the Mallard meet
and greet, and we did have and we didn't get
to him.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Bad job by me.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Maybe I'll put him on the podcast on Friday. But
Andy the Comic book Guy is the host of the
next Mallor Meet Reet. So if you're in the logistical area,
I know when we're national show and.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
All that, which is great. We try to go out
and meet as many people as we can.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I do every year whenever I travel somewhere, I try
to leave a little bit of time. I was in
Maine last week, I was in Boston and made myself
available to people that wanted to come over and say hello,
and it was cool to the people I did run across.
It was great to see everyone. But the southern California
area where we're based out of the LA area, we're
gonna do a Mallard meet and greet if you want
information on that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
If you're logistically it's possible to be there.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
If it's geographically desirable for you, we'd love to see
if you've got nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Going on on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
All the information is available on the show Facebook page,
Ben Malors Show and also on the X platform as well.
So there is that, and let's go to the phones now.
Doc Mike is sending me a bunch of text messages,
but I don't see his name on my board, So
let's go to Angry Bill Hello, angry Bill.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
And gentlemen, and you hurt my feelings last night, and
you said that was my worst phone call ever last night.
You really really hurt my feelings.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'm sorry it is offensive because you've had so many
worse calls than that that that doesn't even rank.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
In the top five terrible phone.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Calls by you.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
But I was wondering if that he listened to last
Friday's show over again. We all have bad days. I
want to bring this thing out on the Yankees. I
don't understand why there has to be such a big
deal about the Yankees losing the way to do. They've
lost and had a crappy team. I sit in April.
(19:38):
They had a crappy team. The GM didn't know what
he was doing, and they relied on one guy. And
when he went down on your dirt bag field in
Los Angeles, then it was perfect stadium.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
My god, I feel I was there.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I was there last night.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
That's a beautiful ballpark, Dodgers Stadium. Just because Aaron judges
a klutch is not the Dodger's fault.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Yeah, well that's that's that's strictly your opinion. They don't
even have it.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's a fact that is a fact.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Name another player that's had that injury in the history
of Dodger Stadium. Go ahead, I'll.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Wait, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
We're go ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Name a player, Name a player, Name a player that
said that that injury they are in judge had name him?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Go ahead, Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Oh yeah, I'm doing about injuries about Dodgers players.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Mister you, mister baseball. You know everything about baseball.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
How about the mountains? Good concursion. I can never get hurt.
I'm a genius when it comes to baseball.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Then we heard that genius.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yes, the smartest man in the world.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We're so lucky.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
That when it comes to baseball.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
We're blessed. You're friends with Rob manfor the fraud Commissioner
of Baseball. You're friends with him too, right, Yeah, that's baseball.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
I had lunch with him, That's about it. Lunch.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Was he in jail? You robbed the bank? Was he
in jailer?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh? Please, you bring up this old stuff. You degregated
my dying brother, put him on the show.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
No, no, no, no, don't do no.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Listen. You told me to contact your brother, So I
contacted your brother, who then ripped the crap out of you,
and I just merely repeated it, and then you got
upset with me. You asked me to reach out to
your brother, and I'm sorry that your brother died, but
he before he passed away, he goofed on you.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
So what him on the show?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You really had a big He didn't see that interested.
He was more.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I think he's more of like a Howard stern Opian
Anthony guy from back in the old days.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
You know, come on, Ben, give it a break. Such
a child when it comes to things.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The phone, not being a child.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
He was sick at the time, I guess I don't know,
but he didn't seem interested.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
You know, Well that's okay. He was a guyant, dying
guy out in the out in the gutter.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I don't him in from the gun. I would have
had him all.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
You didn't seem You let one of the guys you
have a heart attack on your show, and.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It just happened to have a heart attack while he
was on the air. But that happens, you know, if
you do enough radio, that'll happen.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Anyway. I gotta go, thank you, go away. It's angry Bill.
It is the Ban Mallor Show. We're glad you tune in.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Remember if you missed any of this, it is all
available on demand via the podcast, and that helps us
out as well.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
People big, big corporate people.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I'd say a nasty word, but they might be listening
and they keep track of that, so they judge us.
We have many ways to be judged here, not only
the live show because they say, who the hell's up
at this hour, but then also the podcast, and we
do pretty well.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
We do pretty well.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
The cool thing about the overnight show is that there's
a lot of people that only do the overnights for
a little bit of time and then they move on
to the dreaded day shift. But we've been pretty lucky
over the years that people that do get a taste
of the overnight, when they move to the dreaded day shift,
they still keep listening via the podcast, which we're grateful for.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So that's a little lesson.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
If you get shifted to the granded day shift, you
can still hear the show and there's actually we're not
supposed to say this, but there's fuel commercials.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Hey it's me Rob Parker.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Check out my weekly MLB podcast, Inside the Parker for
twenty two minutes of piping hot baseball talk featuring the
biggest names of newsmakers in the sport. Whether you believe
in analytics or the I tast We've got all the
bases covered. New episodes drop every Thursday, So do yourself
a favor and listen to Inside the Parker with Rob
(23:44):
Parker on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
It is now time for the progressive player of the day.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It comes Fernando.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
He's gonna star.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Five to don't take your eye off him. He may
steal home.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Padre is the TV on the call, Fernando.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
The Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Let him get away, by the way the play by play,
I guess he could.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, he's good. He is good.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Don't take your eye off him. What are the idiots
in Boston thinking to let that guy go?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
What is the idiot picture of the Orioles thinking?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
By not?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
He never even threw the pitch, He never even he
almost didn't even step off the I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
You are watching Doncillo is interesting how do you.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I don't know that that was unbelievable that he stole home.
But anyway, that was our progressive play of the day.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Well remember the other day that picture for the athletics,
there was a play at first this happens, I don't
but you're you're Rosen in the middle of an update, Eddy, You're.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Looking at the plate and the guy, the guy's running.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
He did.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
The guy's running for third, and you just stand there
and watch him. You don't even try and throw it
to the plate.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And he that's he's gonna have. They call that the yips?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Right? Is that going to be a thing with this?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
If I was the manager for Baltimore, would win and
went out there and pulled it now block, Yeah, but
that was our progressive player of the day. Wonderful play.
Progressive making things even easier to help you bundle your
home and car assurance together so you can save on both.
Learn more Progressive dot com or call one eight hundred
Progressive Now. Mike ben Mallerinthetyrach dot com, Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
All right, thanks for that, Eddie, as we press on
through these overnight hours and story, I don't think Eddy
mentioned this but the story that is developing overnight out
of the Dominican Republic, and Hector Gomes, great baseball insider,
a lot of amazing stories. He's the scoop guy for
(25:42):
all the Latin American stories out of baseball, and he's
reporting he actually dropped this just before we cracked the
microphones here in the overnight, that a person very close
to the investigations into the wander Franco case, the Rays
star said it will be very unlikely that wander Franco
will ever play in Major League Baseball again, judging body
(26:05):
results of the investigations, and so that that's the report.
Gomez is the guy that broke the story on wander
Franco getting the two hundred and twenty something million dollar
contract from the Rays, and he said, the person that
told him this is the same person that told him that.
So you know, take that for what it's worth. But
this would be the greatest debacle in the history of
(26:28):
contractual debacles because every major League Baseball contract, every sports
contract has a morals clause in them, and that means
you don't have.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
To pay the money.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
So it's it's a wild and wander Franco has been
accused of dating in air quotes in eighth grader. Yeah,
so it's a it's an issue, and if true, that's
a big it's a big issue, and should point out
if if he has a problem, Wander Franco, if they
(27:05):
do the rays activate the morals clause.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That's because of I mentioned this the other day. I
think it's fascinating. I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I came across it recently that it goes back to
early Hollywood and there was an actor named Fatty Arbuckle
who was accused of a rape and there was a
big rape murder story in the early nineteen twenties one
hundred years ago, over one hundred years ago, and there
was no moral clause, so he had to keep paying him.
(27:33):
The movie studio Universal had to pay him. And so
after that they put in moral clauses in all the
contracts and everyone sports has done and obviously over the years. Anyway,
it is the Ben Maler Show. Let's get back over
to Eddie Garcia right now, as we Puck the World,
the Merman, the hockey Man.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
The Sam Bony.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
All right, thank you Ben. As I mentioned, we had
no Puck the War last week because Ben was gone
so not one, but two weeks worth of Mikeys to
update you on. You're welcome. We had a big three
team trade last week between the Pittsburgh Penguins, the San
Jose Sharks the Montreal Canadians. Big piece of the trade
was reigning Norris Trophy winner and defenseman Eric Carlson going
from the real rebuilding Sharks.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
To the invester in Carlston w KRP and oh.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Boy year old what an old guy reference now.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Coop told me about that he watched it back when
he was a kid.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
The Penguins looking for big wins, looking for he does
it one more run at the Stanley Cups.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Becoming Mike North? Is that what's happening? Heready, I'm becoming
Mike North.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, sure a little bit. Carlson coming off a career
comeback year, first defenseman to be traded after winning a
Norris Trophy since Doug Harvey in nineteen sixty one, and
the thirty three or old became the first defenseman to
have one hundred points in a season since Brian Leech
of the Rangers in ninety one. Ninety two, Washington Capitol
signed truckilland Ford Tom Wilson to a seven year extension
(28:57):
with forty five point five million. He'll be three when
the contract starts. He was a key part of the
twenty eighteenth Stanley cupbody team. His crisbin noted for several
off or not off ice on ice incidents where he
has been suspended five times by the NHL. Not a surprise,
but finally official longtime Boston Bruins for David Crachi, like
his teammate last week. Last month, Patruce Bergron announced his retirement.
(29:19):
Versutal two way center, played over one thousand ag old
game sixteen seasons, won a Stanley Cup with the Bruins,
and I'll played his entire career in Boston. The Edmonton
Oilers have hired the agent of their superstar player, Conor
McDavid as their CEO of hockey operations. His name is
Jeff Jackson, and obviously now he's gonna have to step
away as the MVP, the agent of the reigning league MVP.
(29:41):
A very sad story involving a prospect for the Toronto
Maple Leafs, Rodian Amaroff. He was their first round pick.
He was the fifteenth overall pick in twenty twenty, passed
away after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Two years ago,
somebody named Bob Bonn also passed away. He was eighty
six years old. He was a fourt I'm Stanley Cup
winner with the Mape Beliefs, but he broke his leg
(30:04):
in Game six in the Stanley Cup Finals in nineteen
sixty four. The story says he went and had his
leg frozen, then returned to the game in overtime he
scored the game winning goal. At least, how do you
freeze your leg? How do they do that in nineteen
sixty four?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I guess, yeah, that's like Van the one legged Bama man.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
You have your leg bitten off by an alligator, then
you I guess so.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Veteran NHL defenseman Jeff Petree traded for the third time
in the last thirteen months. Was part of that three
team deal we talked about with Eric Carlson and the
Canadians Senator Detroit Red Wings. This is a homecoming for Petrie.
Born and raised in Michigan. You I remember his dad
was a pitcher for the Tigers, Dan Petrie.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I do remember Dan Petrie.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
The Tiger's push for the Angels also had a big
nineteen eighties porn mustache if I remember.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Corregt that that's correct, of course. And now you probably
don't remember the name Ivan Thedotov, but you might remember
this story.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I remember in the Great Though.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
He was a twenty six year old goalie who wanted
to play for the Philadelphia Flyers. Said he was going
to go to the US and then suddenly he was
drafted into the Russian military and take it to a
remote military base in northern Russia.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Oh wait a minute, Oh, I think I do remember that. Yes, yes,
we talked about Yes we did.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
This good story.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
So apparently he's now back out of the army and
ready to return to playing hockey. The International Ice Hockey
Federation ruled in favor of the Flyers, saying he's still
under contract by the team. That we'll see if Russia
does allow him to finally come to the US. He's
supposedly the best goaltender in the world not playing in
North America. Carolina Hurricanes extend you got some stories to it.
(31:37):
I'm sure he does. Carolina Hurricanes extended their lease at
their arena in Raleigh for twenty years through the twenty
forty three forty four season.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
All these other teams are like what, you losers, you
should get a new stadium every twenty years.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
No, that's very true, but they're gonna have major renovations
to their arena. It's also shared by North Carolina State
University's basketball team. So the city and the count year
donating three hundred million and the team is putting an
eight hundred million over a twenty year span. They've been
in the PNC Arena since nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Y pici of tickets will go up, Well.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
They always go up. They never go down. Caldoral Avalanche
defenseman Cale mccarr, the cover boy for EA Sports NHL
twenty four, considered the best young defenseman in the NHL,
won the Rookie of the Year Noras Trophy as the
top defenseman, and was the cons My Trophy winners Playoff
MVP in the AVS Stanley Cup Championship run season before last.
And that is your put the world reports.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, I don't have any add on to that other
than I ran into our mutual friend NHL Studio host
Network Radio Studios, the great Ted Solboy, Yeah, friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
And had him on the LA podcast earlier.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah hepped, he's dropped your name.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, he said, he said, Eddie reached out to me,
so I said, really, okay, there you go.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Talked about the anniversary of the Wayne Gretzky trade to
the Los Angeles Games.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I love Ted because I was trying to focus. I
was trying to get ready for I was at the
Dodger game the other night. I'm trying to get ready
and I had headphones. To me, that's a sign. Don't
approach headphones. Yeah. Ted taps you on the shoulder, starts talking.
Good for him, doesn't stop for half an hour. It's
just just outstanding. I'm like, I never approach anyone with
(33:19):
head I don't approach people anyway. But if they have
headphones in, I'm like, oh, I don't want to talk
no top.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, but anyway, we.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Are moments away from fact or fiction. If you would
like to be one of our celebrity panelists and one
of our judges, I.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Should have a little extra time for factor fiction.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Call right now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
That's the fact, Chap, that's the fact Jack.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR tell Live.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Science tells us that nocturnal creatures have enhanced senses, including
excellent hearing, making it easier for them to enjoy the
Ben Malor Show. For those work in the dreaded day shift,
we offer the podcast Listen when you want and how
you want to the Ben Mallor Show. It is guilt
free and recession proof. Available on the iHeart app and
wherever you get your podcasts. Spread the good word, subscribe
and give us a spicy hot review and I'll lie
(34:21):
from the tiraq dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Mallor.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Please trans a bit of media.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Is it fact or fiction? Let's face some raw facts
on the Ben Mallor Show.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, no way, we go factor fiction time. We have
a celebrity panel of judges that have assembled the form
Vultron from around the country and we'll give you three stories.
You gotta listen closely. All of the story has to
be true. If part of it is not true, that
would be fictional. And we have to separate fiction from fact.
That's welcome in our judges. We start out with the
Power a couple. They are globe trekkers. Most of the
(35:03):
time they're in Florida, but summertime Long Island.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Let's sail out to Leslie and Jack the judge. Hello, Leslie, good.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
Morning, Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
How are you? I'm wealthy?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I'm getting over my cold?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Thank you? And this time I did not get Larry
and Johnson the the the garlic worked. I've been sucking
on garlic there, Leslie. It's it's helped me so that
and chicken soup. Right, that's all you need, I think?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, perfect? Are you back in Florida?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Are you still in No?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
No, today's the last swimming lessons for my grandson and
he's learned to swim.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
I'm so happy.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I'll look at that.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
You're proud, and you're now he'll go on to the
Olympics and alright, hold on a second, Leslie, very night,
look at that. Spend your summer teaching your grand kid
how to swim.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
And Jeff is in Houston. Hello, Jeff, welcome.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
Hey guys, how's it going? So best line in w
krip and Cincinnati, mister Carlson throwing the turkeys out the
helicopter saying for the as God as my witness, I
thought turkeys could fly.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
You're not wrong. One of the great moments in television history,
right there, Jeff. I completely agree with you. It's one
of the reasons I'm doing this stupid job is because
of that show. Thank you, hold On sech Cowboy, John
brad and Winsor Ontario Cowboy.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Happy eighty second and sixty fifth Birthy, respectively. The former
MLB slugger John bout Powell, one of my four one
of my favorite country singers.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Alan Jackson, Okay, yeah, thank you. I'm Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Milkman, Hey.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Breaking news. The pine Gale shopping mall has just been
bombed with live turkeys.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
See Eddie. Everyone's listening there. You know they all love.
WKRP in Cincinnati, Yeah, I know, looking at me.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
John in in Vegas, Hello John, John is gone? Dylan, Hello,
Dylan in Boston.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Dylan?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Ben Good to be with you, brother, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Sir, appreciate that. Welcome here. No WKRP quotes. You have
no idea what that is, do you? Dolan?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
No benda Cincinnati, never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I understand it's not a real station. All right, here
we go.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
It's a fake, made up it was a TV show
million years ago.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And yeah, you're probably that means you're just cool.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And young, Dylan, you don't know it.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
And I'm getting old anyway. Story number one.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Figure out which of these is not totally true. Story
number one NBA K NBA two K twenty four released
a trailer and to get people fired up for the
upcoming NBA season. The trailers showed Jordan Poole now the Wizards,
calling for an ISO on Draymond Green. You might remember
Draymond Coldcock Jordan pool there during a Warrior's.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Practice last year.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Story number two a Native American group calling called the
Native American Guardians Association. They've started a petition, it's over
one hundred thousand signatures. They demanding that the Redskin nickname
come back to the NFL team in Washington, DC. The
group said the name has never was never intended to
be a derogatory or offensive.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
And they want the name back.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
And there's also another petition to bring back the Cleveland
Indians name as well.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I would have no problem in the names coming back.
I think there's other people that would. And story number three.
Jeffrey Lourie, the Marlins owner in the past, ripped Derek Jeter,
might have seen that this week for removing the home
run structure from the ballpark in Miami, saying that Jeter
destroyed the ballpark. Well, good news. Now the new owner
of the Marlins, Bruce Sherman, announced that he's planning next
(38:43):
season to bring back that art monstrosity in center field
inside the ballpark, just like it was before. So in
your face, Derek Jeter. All right, So those are the
three stories. Which of the three is not true? Separating
fiction from fact? Back to the judges, we go, Leslie
one two or three? Leslie?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Who number two?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Leslie says, all right, thank you, Leslie, good luck on
your trip back to Florida. Jeff one two or three,
Jeff three number three. Jeff is going with cowboy John
bett Our, fine Canadian lad. Two number two milkman Mike
in Colorado. By the way, Bucker, it's number two, number two.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Dylan quickly Dylan one two or three? Dylan, which one's
not true? Number one? All right, believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
The fake story that last part of the Derek Jeter
story number three that the last part that Marlins are
not bringing back that inside.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
The ballpark no way, that was the fake one. Thank
you all. That's the fact.
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our name before and we go right to the
bottom of the American the East, where the New York
Yankees are like eggs, scrambled eggs. They are under five
hundred memory serves me right. That's the worst the Yankees
have been since the mid nineties, and now they're play
by play announcers under fire. How is it possible for
(00:23):
Michael kay to succeed as both the Yankee broadcaster and
a talk show host in New York?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And what does.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This rejection as far as the NFL is concerned. The
NFL rejected by Taylor Swift. What does that say about
Taylor Swift? What does it say about the NFL? The
NFL invited her to perform the Super Bowl halftime show?
And what are your expectations for the NBA's Ben Simmons
based on the new viral workout photos that have been
(00:55):
making the rounds. We'll talking about all that and more
right now here. It is our number five. Have a
wonderful day today. There are some people that handle losing,
and then there are the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
They don't quite get it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well. Come in the beginning of another hour of the
Ben Malors show. We are in the air everywhere, fireside
chatting as we toss and turn coast to coast, port
of the border and beyond on the mast and unimaginably
(01:31):
powerful microphones of fsre ammating.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Live from the bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Just the bullet cherries.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We are broadcasting live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Tire rack dot com will help you get there and
unmatched election fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection and
over ten thousand recommended his stllars tire rack dot com
the way tire buying should be and our lead this
hour coming from baseball. The New York Yankees have the
(02:05):
worst team they've had in a generation. They suck out loud,
and boy is it fun to watch on the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
As a as a.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Non Yankee apologist here on the other side, to watch
the Yankee Empire fight with each other, the palace intrigue
going on.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
In the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
The Yankees' worst team since the early nineties. You had
Aaron judged the other day say that the Yankees aren't
even showing up, and they were twisted into a pretzel
by Charlie Morton. Charlie Morton and a gaggle of other
Atlanta Braves. The Pinstripers are now sixty and sixty one,
(02:47):
last place, looking up at the tucks of the Red Sox,
Blue Jays Orioles and.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Rays in the American League East.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And now now their play by play voice is under
siege because the team blows.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Do you see this? Maybe not?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Michael Kay, a fellow gas bag and blowhard, Michael Kay,
attempted to sugarcoat this monstrosity of a season on his
New York radio show. Now, keep in mind, sixty and
sixty one. If you're like the Pittsburgh Pirates, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
You take that, the Kansas City Royals, you take that.
If you're the Athletics, you'd be like, okay, sixty and
sixty one.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Put you're the Yankees. And when you think about the
amount of.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Investment that the New York Yankees have put out on
player payroll, and they're at the top team in baseball
in terms of dollars and cents and all that, but
they have an active payroll the Yankees of over one
hundred and eighty three million dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That's a lot of cheddar they are.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
If you look at the total overall payroll, not just
the act of payroll, the overall payroll. The Yankees are
actually second, only the Mets are ahead of them, and
the Mets and the Yankees are both headed towards last
place finishes. I imagine that's happened at some point. I
don't remember that happening. It doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
But anyway, Michael, Okay, get to the point. Please. So
(04:21):
Michael Kay attempted and failed to back the Yankees. He
claimed that the reason the team is struggling is because, well,
first of all, DJ Lemayhew.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Got injured last year.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That was a problem, and he talked about the ripple
effect that led to the cheating Asstros, making a mockery
of the Yankees and the Alcs. He then claimed that
the franchise assumed it was in better shape than it
actually was and that led to an offseason that did
not did not seem that exciting. The big signing was
(04:59):
the starting pitcher who has become best friends with the.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Trainer of the team.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's not good either, so Kay said, I think they
thought they were going to be a lot better, but
now we see the flaw in that.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And then when it was pointed out to him.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That he was working as a blocking full back for
the Yankee front office.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Michael Kay then snapped the.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Play by play voice of the New York Yankees on television,
Michael Kay snap saying quote, I'm telling you the truth here.
If you think it's making excuses, good, go crap in
a lake. He stated, I don't care. That's a good line.
Go crapping a lake now. That, of course, led to
a barrage of finger pointing right criticism directed towards k.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So, let us discuss the question. I think it's an
interesting question.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
How is it possible for a guy like Michael Kay
to have success as both Yankee broadcaster and and talk
show host. And I've got ABC's Clay Travis and Pfizer
and we will combine all of these things together and
(06:12):
we are going to make a classic dish on this show,
the Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the babag Nooshe now
to lead off here, It is impossible.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's mission impossible. That is not my opinion.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It is a fact to be good at both Yankee
play by play job and talk show guy impossible cannot
do it. Not my opinion. Fact fact, having worked in
this radio world talk radio for a long time, but
also in my early days when I was around professional
sports as a postgame host for some teams, I was
(06:49):
an eyewitness to the two different worlds. And when you
juxta pose being the Yankee TV voice compared to the
skill set required to be a good talk show. Now,
you can be a boring, dull talk shows and get
away with it, but to actually be a good talk shows,
there's no way you can be a play by play
guy for the Yankees or any other team.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Can't happen. It cannot happen.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's like ice caps, polar opposites, right, they have nothing
in common. It's the ABC's it is the ABC's ergo
the wide world of sports.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
To keep a gig.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
In professional play by play at the big league level,
you are focusing on the thrill of victory, victory, the
thrill of victory, right, thrill of victory in the gas
bag chair which I'm sitting in, you highlight the agony
of defeat, the human drama of athletic competition. That's where
the story is. The story is not in the victory,
(07:47):
and so you can't be doing both. You mix in
the most sensitive people in the world, the people that
own sports franchises. There is no one thinner's skin than
an executive of a sports franchise, and that is a
toxic cocktail. You think that Kevin Durant, for example, is
I eat thin skin. He's nothing. He's a lightweight compared
(08:12):
to the people that own these sports teams. I'm telling you,
it's like playing with dynamite. So it's impossible. Now, Furthermore,
let's turn the page now to pop culture. When you
think pop culture, you think Overnight Sports Radio, the Ben
Maler Show, and here we thank you. So the NFL
has picked up a loss in the pop culture world.
(08:35):
We are told that someone by the name of Taylor
Swift was invited to perform at halftime of the twenty
twenty four Super Bowl in Lost Wages, Nevada, and Taylor
Swift said thanks, but no thanks. She declined the NFL's invitation, said.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No way, I'm not doing that. Screw you.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now, what does this rejection say about Taylor Swift and
what does this say about the NFL? So it tells
us that Taylor Swift truly is at the very top
of the musical food chain and I've had several friends,
the people who work at Fox Sports Radio. Mike Harmon
(09:24):
went to this Eras tour thing. We're in LA for
a while, but that Eras tour is unpaced to end off.
If I read this properly, and I think I did
the most successful musical tour in the history of music.
Now I realized that inflation, things are expensive. I don't
think the face value tickets are that outraged. But anyway,
(09:47):
the Swifties, there are more Swifties than NFL fans. I
should be doing Swifty Radio. Welcome to Swifty Radio. All
the ratings for that would be huge. But she's got
that Svengali effect that people are they mesmerized, they're hypnotized
by her musical skills. Taylor Swift, congratulations, amazing. She's selling
out stadiums. She's selling out more NFL stadiums than the
(10:11):
Dallas Cowboys, and so she does not exactly need a
career boost at this point. Now from the NFL's perspective,
on the other side of the aisle, from the NFL's perspective,
they are getting the Claye Travis treatment, as in, they
outkicked the coverage is what they did here. And you
read into this. I think this is a third time
(10:32):
now that Swift has punted on a Super Bowl invitation.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It is also interesting to note.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That Taylor Swift is scheduled to be in a place
called Japan in February as part of the torts continuing
on the Era's tour. It's not going to end until
November of twenty twenty four. And think about the arrogance
of Roger Goodell and the NFL marketing people. That these
(11:00):
big shots at the NFL think that they're poopy, doesn't stink,
and that they can call Taylor Swift and be like, Hey, Taylor,
I'll tell you a text. I'm gonna make you a
sweetheart offer. Why don't you fly five thousand, five hundred
miles from Tokyo where you're getting paid to sing, to
(11:23):
Vegas and will give you the right to perform for Bumpkus.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You're not going to agree to that.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, Well, I think she'd rather go and have some
sake and go fishing. I think is what she'd rather do.
And I think that's what she's going to do all
right now, parting shot, Let's pivot to the NBA quickly,
because this is a yearly tradition. It's like punk Satani
Phil or the swallows in Capistrano. Ben Simmons was a
(11:53):
trending topic again and several of you knuckleheads made sure
I saw this story, so I will spend a couple
of on it. Not more than that, but photo making
the rounds and it shows Ben Simmons the nets point guard.
It went viral. Simmons looks to be in great physical shape.
He was not napping, he was not eating cheetos, and
(12:16):
it was described by a hack NBA broadcaster as a
shredded Ben Simmons. It was said he's in a good place.
He spent some quality time with Jock vonn the head
coach there, and some of his teammates. So what are
your expectations for the new trimmed up Ben Simmons based
on the workout photo that is making the way around
(12:41):
the social networks. Yeah, so I've done this topic multiple times.
I've done the Ben Simmons can't miss from three point
video clip.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I've done that one.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I've done the Ben Simmons has turned over a new leaf.
Ben Simmons saw the most amazing shrink in the world
and now is like the Dalai lama Uh done all
those stories. So my expectations for Ben Simmons are extremely high.
I expect the Azzi to get a massive deal with Pfizer.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Now, not for what you think. They're gonna have him.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
As the face of preparation h because Ben Simmons is
going to need medication because he's gonna continue to get
hemorrhoids from sitting out games in Brooklyn. They gonna hang
out there and they the Wokester' part of Brooklyn and
get some pizza or something like that. But off season
stories about Ben Simmons, this guy is like Adonis. He
(13:42):
is a mythical Greek god. Ben Simmons is the all
time goat. It's not Jordan, it's not Lebron. Ben Simmons
stories in the off season he hits every three point shot,
he solves world hunger. Ben Simmons can lift up a
(14:04):
bus with one arm. He's like Superman. And then when
the season begins, Ben Simmons rides the vomit comment.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That's what he does. He becomes a Smurf, but not
Papa Smurf. No, No, he's lowered down on the smurf
food chain.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's what happens. It is the Ben Mahlor Show as
we roll on here through the.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Late night hours.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And we've now had two grand winners. Are you listening,
iowa him. We've had two grand winners who have taken
home a set of four brand new tires in the
Summer of Tire Rack Sweepstakes. And good news for you,
one winner is still up for GPS.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Could that be you do do do? Maybe it whood be?
We'd love for you to win.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I can't win, so I'd rather you win because I
can't win. Our third winner will be picked August twenty
seven to win a set of four tires plus installation
taxes and fees valued it up to fifteen hundred dollars.
Enter daily at Foxsports radio dot com. Every single day
you get a fresh new entry and an additional shot
(15:16):
to win, and it's free to register. You also get
bonus entries into the sweepstakes by doing simple things like
following Fox Sports Radio on social media. Shouldbute them that anyway,
and you should really be listening on Fox Sports Radio's
channel on the iHeart app and you can hear that show.
For some reason, we get covered up by I don't know,
(15:36):
women's World Cup Soccer or something like that. You can
find us on the iHeartRadio app, but to enter and
get rules, visit Foxsports Radio dot com. It's all sponsored
by tire rack dot Com. The way tire buying should be.
As we press on and you know what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna puck the World's what I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna say, you know what, Puck the world. That's what
(15:56):
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, puck the world with Eddie.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
The Ben Malor Shows a sports take Invention Lab by
Night and hands your listening experience Chaperone Big Ben. On Twitter,
He's at Ben Maller. On Facebook, It's Facebook dot com
slash Ben Malor Show, and on Instagram It's at Ben
Maller on Fox. Put your stamp on our proprietary blood
of unique features such as lame jokes and Ask Ben
by contributing content and now live from the Tyrock dot
(16:33):
Com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben mallor.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Mallard prop Guy writes in he works in the wacky
wackyworld of entertainment. He says, it has been reported that
Super Bowl halftime entertainers don't get paid. That is not true,
malarprop Guy says, but they don't get paid money. And
he thinks that Taylor Swift is not worried about her money,
(17:04):
but playing the Super Bowl would negatively impact her band,
crew and staff.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Financially.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
How would that work logistically if they're all in Japan,
they're hanging out in Tokyo and they've got to fly
over and then fly back. I know she's rich and
all that she could afford it. But Bill wrights In says,
Baba Ganouch at five am, come on, bad job by you, Ben,
How about some control in the studio. Should have made pancakes?
(17:33):
Would that have been better for you? Pancakes, extra syrup waffles,
yum me No, right whatever, he's their own.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Why not let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And by the way, we do have the Mallard meet
and greet, and we did have and we didn't get
to him.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Bad job by me.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Maybe I'll put him on the podcast on Friday. But
Andy the Comic book Guy is the host of the
next Mallor Meet Reet. So if you're in the logistical area,
I know when we're national show and.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
All that, which is great. We try to go out
and meet as many people as we can.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I do every year whenever I travel somewhere, I try
to leave a little bit of time. I was in
Maine last week, I was in Boston and made myself
available to people that wanted to come over and say hello,
and it was cool to the people I did run across.
It was great to see everyone. But the southern California
area where we're based out of the LA area, we're
gonna do a Mallard meet and greet if you want
information on that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
If you're logistically it's possible to be there.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
If it's geographically desirable for you, we'd love to see
if you've got nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Going on on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
All the information is available on the show Facebook page,
Ben Malors Show and also on the X platform as well.
So there is that, and let's go to the phones now.
Doc Mike is sending me a bunch of text messages,
but I don't see his name on my board, So
let's go to Angry Bill Hello, angry Bill.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
And gentlemen, and you hurt my feelings last night, and
you said that was my worst phone call ever last night.
You really really hurt my feelings.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'm sorry it is offensive because you've had so many
worse calls than that that that doesn't even rank.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
In the top five terrible phone.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Calls by you.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
But I was wondering if that he listened to last
Friday's show over again. We all have bad days. I
want to bring this thing out on the Yankees. I
don't understand why there has to be such a big
deal about the Yankees losing the way to do. They've
lost and had a crappy team. I sit in April.
(19:38):
They had a crappy team. The GM didn't know what
he was doing, and they relied on one guy. And
when he went down on your dirt bag field in
Los Angeles, then it was perfect stadium.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
My god, I feel I was there.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I was there last night.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
That's a beautiful ballpark, Dodgers Stadium. Just because Aaron judges
a klutch is not the Dodger's fault.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Yeah, well that's that's that's strictly your opinion. They don't
even have it.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's a fact that is a fact.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Name another player that's had that injury in the history
of Dodger Stadium. Go ahead, I'll.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Wait, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
We're go ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Name a player, Name a player, Name a player that
said that that injury they are in judge had name him?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Go ahead, Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Oh yeah, I'm doing about injuries about Dodgers players.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Mister you, mister baseball. You know everything about baseball.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
How about the mountains? Good concursion. I can never get hurt.
I'm a genius when it comes to baseball.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Then we heard that genius.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yes, the smartest man in the world.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We're so lucky.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
That when it comes to baseball.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
We're blessed. You're friends with Rob manfor the fraud Commissioner
of Baseball. You're friends with him too, right, Yeah, that's baseball.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
I had lunch with him, That's about it. Lunch.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Was he in jail? You robbed the bank? Was he
in jailer?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh? Please, you bring up this old stuff. You degregated
my dying brother, put him on the show.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
No, no, no, no, don't do no.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Listen. You told me to contact your brother, So I
contacted your brother, who then ripped the crap out of you,
and I just merely repeated it, and then you got
upset with me. You asked me to reach out to
your brother, and I'm sorry that your brother died, but
he before he passed away, he goofed on you.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
So what him on the show?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You really had a big He didn't see that interested.
He was more.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I think he's more of like a Howard stern Opian
Anthony guy from back in the old days.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
You know, come on, Ben, give it a break. Such
a child when it comes to things.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The phone, not being a child.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
He was sick at the time, I guess I don't know,
but he didn't seem interested.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
You know, Well that's okay. He was a guyant, dying
guy out in the out in the gutter.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I don't him in from the gun. I would have
had him all.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
You didn't seem You let one of the guys you
have a heart attack on your show, and.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It just happened to have a heart attack while he
was on the air. But that happens, you know, if
you do enough radio, that'll happen.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Anyway. I gotta go, thank you, go away. It's angry Bill.
It is the Ban Mallor Show. We're glad you tune in.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Remember if you missed any of this, it is all
available on demand via the podcast, and that helps us
out as well.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
People big, big corporate people.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I'd say a nasty word, but they might be listening
and they keep track of that, so they judge us.
We have many ways to be judged here, not only
the live show because they say, who the hell's up
at this hour, but then also the podcast, and we
do pretty well.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
We do pretty well.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
The cool thing about the overnight show is that there's
a lot of people that only do the overnights for
a little bit of time and then they move on
to the dreaded day shift. But we've been pretty lucky
over the years that people that do get a taste
of the overnight, when they move to the dreaded day shift,
they still keep listening via the podcast, which we're grateful for.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So that's a little lesson.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
If you get shifted to the granded day shift, you
can still hear the show and there's actually we're not
supposed to say this, but there's fuel commercials.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Hey it's me Rob Parker.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Check out my weekly MLB podcast, Inside the Parker for
twenty two minutes of piping hot baseball talk featuring the
biggest names of newsmakers in the sport. Whether you believe
in analytics or the I tast We've got all the
bases covered. New episodes drop every Thursday, So do yourself
a favor and listen to Inside the Parker with Rob
(23:44):
Parker on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
It is now time for the progressive player of the day.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It comes Fernando.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
He's gonna star.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Five to don't take your eye off him. He may
steal home.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Padre is the TV on the call, Fernando.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
The Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Let him get away, by the way the play by play,
I guess he could.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, he's good. He is good.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Don't take your eye off him. What are the idiots
in Boston thinking to let that guy go?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
What is the idiot picture of the Orioles thinking?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
By not?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
He never even threw the pitch, He never even he
almost didn't even step off the I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
You are watching Doncillo is interesting how do you.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I don't know that that was unbelievable that he stole home.
But anyway, that was our progressive play of the day.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Well remember the other day that picture for the athletics,
there was a play at first this happens, I don't
but you're you're Rosen in the middle of an update, Eddy, You're.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Looking at the plate and the guy, the guy's running.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
He did.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
The guy's running for third, and you just stand there
and watch him. You don't even try and throw it
to the plate.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And he that's he's gonna have. They call that the yips?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Right? Is that going to be a thing with this?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
If I was the manager for Baltimore, would win and
went out there and pulled it now block, Yeah, but
that was our progressive player of the day. Wonderful play.
Progressive making things even easier to help you bundle your
home and car assurance together so you can save on both.
Learn more Progressive dot com or call one eight hundred
Progressive Now. Mike ben Mallerinthetyrach dot com, Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
All right, thanks for that, Eddie, as we press on
through these overnight hours and story, I don't think Eddy
mentioned this but the story that is developing overnight out
of the Dominican Republic, and Hector Gomes, great baseball insider,
a lot of amazing stories. He's the scoop guy for
(25:42):
all the Latin American stories out of baseball, and he's
reporting he actually dropped this just before we cracked the
microphones here in the overnight, that a person very close
to the investigations into the wander Franco case, the Rays
star said it will be very unlikely that wander Franco
will ever play in Major League Baseball again, judging body
(26:05):
results of the investigations, and so that that's the report.
Gomez is the guy that broke the story on wander
Franco getting the two hundred and twenty something million dollar
contract from the Rays, and he said, the person that
told him this is the same person that told him that.
So you know, take that for what it's worth. But
this would be the greatest debacle in the history of
(26:28):
contractual debacles because every major League Baseball contract, every sports
contract has a morals clause in them, and that means
you don't have.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
To pay the money.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
So it's it's a wild and wander Franco has been
accused of dating in air quotes in eighth grader. Yeah,
so it's a it's an issue, and if true, that's
a big it's a big issue, and should point out
if if he has a problem, Wander Franco, if they
(27:05):
do the rays activate the morals clause.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That's because of I mentioned this the other day. I
think it's fascinating. I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I came across it recently that it goes back to
early Hollywood and there was an actor named Fatty Arbuckle
who was accused of a rape and there was a
big rape murder story in the early nineteen twenties one
hundred years ago, over one hundred years ago, and there
was no moral clause, so he had to keep paying him.
(27:33):
The movie studio Universal had to pay him. And so
after that they put in moral clauses in all the
contracts and everyone sports has done and obviously over the years. Anyway,
it is the Ben Maler Show. Let's get back over
to Eddie Garcia right now, as we Puck the World,
the Merman, the hockey Man.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
The Sam Bony.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
All right, thank you Ben. As I mentioned, we had
no Puck the War last week because Ben was gone
so not one, but two weeks worth of Mikeys to
update you on. You're welcome. We had a big three
team trade last week between the Pittsburgh Penguins, the San
Jose Sharks the Montreal Canadians. Big piece of the trade
was reigning Norris Trophy winner and defenseman Eric Carlson going
from the real rebuilding Sharks.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
To the invester in Carlston w KRP and oh.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Boy year old what an old guy reference now.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Coop told me about that he watched it back when
he was a kid.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
The Penguins looking for big wins, looking for he does
it one more run at the Stanley Cups.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Becoming Mike North? Is that what's happening? Heready, I'm becoming
Mike North.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, sure a little bit. Carlson coming off a career
comeback year, first defenseman to be traded after winning a
Norris Trophy since Doug Harvey in nineteen sixty one, and
the thirty three or old became the first defenseman to
have one hundred points in a season since Brian Leech
of the Rangers in ninety one. Ninety two, Washington Capitol
signed truckilland Ford Tom Wilson to a seven year extension
(28:57):
with forty five point five million. He'll be three when
the contract starts. He was a key part of the
twenty eighteenth Stanley cupbody team. His crisbin noted for several
off or not off ice on ice incidents where he
has been suspended five times by the NHL. Not a surprise,
but finally official longtime Boston Bruins for David Crachi, like
his teammate last week. Last month, Patruce Bergron announced his retirement.
(29:19):
Versutal two way center, played over one thousand ag old
game sixteen seasons, won a Stanley Cup with the Bruins,
and I'll played his entire career in Boston. The Edmonton
Oilers have hired the agent of their superstar player, Conor
McDavid as their CEO of hockey operations. His name is
Jeff Jackson, and obviously now he's gonna have to step
away as the MVP, the agent of the reigning league MVP.
(29:41):
A very sad story involving a prospect for the Toronto
Maple Leafs, Rodian Amaroff. He was their first round pick.
He was the fifteenth overall pick in twenty twenty, passed
away after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Two years ago,
somebody named Bob Bonn also passed away. He was eighty
six years old. He was a fourt I'm Stanley Cup
winner with the Mape Beliefs, but he broke his leg
(30:04):
in Game six in the Stanley Cup Finals in nineteen
sixty four. The story says he went and had his
leg frozen, then returned to the game in overtime he
scored the game winning goal. At least, how do you
freeze your leg? How do they do that in nineteen
sixty four?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I guess, yeah, that's like Van the one legged Bama man.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
You have your leg bitten off by an alligator, then
you I guess so.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Veteran NHL defenseman Jeff Petree traded for the third time
in the last thirteen months. Was part of that three
team deal we talked about with Eric Carlson and the
Canadians Senator Detroit Red Wings. This is a homecoming for Petrie.
Born and raised in Michigan. You I remember his dad
was a pitcher for the Tigers, Dan Petrie.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I do remember Dan Petrie.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
The Tiger's push for the Angels also had a big
nineteen eighties porn mustache if I remember.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Corregt that that's correct, of course. And now you probably
don't remember the name Ivan Thedotov, but you might remember
this story.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I remember in the Great Though.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
He was a twenty six year old goalie who wanted
to play for the Philadelphia Flyers. Said he was going
to go to the US and then suddenly he was
drafted into the Russian military and take it to a
remote military base in northern Russia.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Oh wait a minute, Oh, I think I do remember that. Yes, yes,
we talked about Yes we did.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
This good story.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
So apparently he's now back out of the army and
ready to return to playing hockey. The International Ice Hockey
Federation ruled in favor of the Flyers, saying he's still
under contract by the team. That we'll see if Russia
does allow him to finally come to the US. He's
supposedly the best goaltender in the world not playing in
North America. Carolina Hurricanes extend you got some stories to it.
(31:37):
I'm sure he does. Carolina Hurricanes extended their lease at
their arena in Raleigh for twenty years through the twenty
forty three forty four season.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
All these other teams are like what, you losers, you
should get a new stadium every twenty years.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
No, that's very true, but they're gonna have major renovations
to their arena. It's also shared by North Carolina State
University's basketball team. So the city and the count year
donating three hundred million and the team is putting an
eight hundred million over a twenty year span. They've been
in the PNC Arena since nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Y pici of tickets will go up, Well.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
They always go up. They never go down. Caldoral Avalanche
defenseman Cale mccarr, the cover boy for EA Sports NHL
twenty four, considered the best young defenseman in the NHL,
won the Rookie of the Year Noras Trophy as the
top defenseman, and was the cons My Trophy winners Playoff
MVP in the AVS Stanley Cup Championship run season before last.
And that is your put the world reports.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, I don't have any add on to that other
than I ran into our mutual friend NHL Studio host
Network Radio Studios, the great Ted Solboy, Yeah, friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
And had him on the LA podcast earlier.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah hepped, he's dropped your name.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, he said, he said, Eddie reached out to me,
so I said, really, okay, there you go.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Talked about the anniversary of the Wayne Gretzky trade to
the Los Angeles Games.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I love Ted because I was trying to focus. I
was trying to get ready for I was at the
Dodger game the other night. I'm trying to get ready
and I had headphones. To me, that's a sign. Don't
approach headphones. Yeah. Ted taps you on the shoulder, starts talking.
Good for him, doesn't stop for half an hour. It's
just just outstanding. I'm like, I never approach anyone with
(33:19):
head I don't approach people anyway. But if they have
headphones in, I'm like, oh, I don't want to talk
no top.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, but anyway, we.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Are moments away from fact or fiction. If you would
like to be one of our celebrity panelists and one
of our judges, I.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Should have a little extra time for factor fiction.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Call right now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
That's the fact, Chap, that's the fact Jack.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR tell Live.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Science tells us that nocturnal creatures have enhanced senses, including
excellent hearing, making it easier for them to enjoy the
Ben Malor Show. For those work in the dreaded day shift,
we offer the podcast Listen when you want and how
you want to the Ben Mallor Show. It is guilt
free and recession proof. Available on the iHeart app and
wherever you get your podcasts. Spread the good word, subscribe
and give us a spicy hot review and I'll lie
(34:21):
from the tiraq dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Mallor.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Please trans a bit of media.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Is it fact or fiction? Let's face some raw facts
on the Ben Mallor Show.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, no way, we go factor fiction time. We have
a celebrity panel of judges that have assembled the form
Vultron from around the country and we'll give you three stories.
You gotta listen closely. All of the story has to
be true. If part of it is not true, that
would be fictional. And we have to separate fiction from fact.
That's welcome in our judges. We start out with the
Power a couple. They are globe trekkers. Most of the
(35:03):
time they're in Florida, but summertime Long Island.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Let's sail out to Leslie and Jack the judge. Hello, Leslie, good.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
Morning, Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
How are you? I'm wealthy?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I'm getting over my cold?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Thank you? And this time I did not get Larry
and Johnson the the the garlic worked. I've been sucking
on garlic there, Leslie. It's it's helped me so that
and chicken soup. Right, that's all you need, I think?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, perfect? Are you back in Florida?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Are you still in No?
Speaker 3 (35:41):
No, today's the last swimming lessons for my grandson and
he's learned to swim.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
I'm so happy.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I'll look at that.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
You're proud, and you're now he'll go on to the
Olympics and alright, hold on a second, Leslie, very night,
look at that. Spend your summer teaching your grand kid
how to swim.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
And Jeff is in Houston. Hello, Jeff, welcome.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
Hey guys, how's it going? So best line in w
krip and Cincinnati, mister Carlson throwing the turkeys out the
helicopter saying for the as God as my witness, I
thought turkeys could fly.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
You're not wrong. One of the great moments in television history,
right there, Jeff. I completely agree with you. It's one
of the reasons I'm doing this stupid job is because
of that show. Thank you, hold On sech Cowboy, John
brad and Winsor Ontario Cowboy.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Happy eighty second and sixty fifth Birthy, respectively. The former
MLB slugger John bout Powell, one of my four one
of my favorite country singers.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Alan Jackson, Okay, yeah, thank you. I'm Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Milkman, Hey.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Breaking news. The pine Gale shopping mall has just been
bombed with live turkeys.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
See Eddie. Everyone's listening there. You know they all love.
WKRP in Cincinnati, Yeah, I know, looking at me.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
John in in Vegas, Hello John, John is gone? Dylan, Hello,
Dylan in Boston.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Dylan?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Ben Good to be with you, brother, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Sir, appreciate that. Welcome here. No WKRP quotes. You have
no idea what that is, do you? Dolan?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
No benda Cincinnati, never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I understand it's not a real station. All right, here
we go.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
It's a fake, made up it was a TV show
million years ago.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And yeah, you're probably that means you're just cool.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And young, Dylan, you don't know it.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
And I'm getting old anyway. Story number one.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Figure out which of these is not totally true. Story
number one NBA K NBA two K twenty four released
a trailer and to get people fired up for the
upcoming NBA season. The trailers showed Jordan Poole now the Wizards,
calling for an ISO on Draymond Green. You might remember
Draymond Coldcock Jordan pool there during a Warrior's.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Practice last year.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Story number two a Native American group calling called the
Native American Guardians Association. They've started a petition, it's over
one hundred thousand signatures. They demanding that the Redskin nickname
come back to the NFL team in Washington, DC. The
group said the name has never was never intended to
be a derogatory or offensive.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
And they want the name back.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
And there's also another petition to bring back the Cleveland
Indians name as well.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I would have no problem in the names coming back.
I think there's other people that would. And story number three.
Jeffrey Lourie, the Marlins owner in the past, ripped Derek Jeter,
might have seen that this week for removing the home
run structure from the ballpark in Miami, saying that Jeter
destroyed the ballpark. Well, good news. Now the new owner
of the Marlins, Bruce Sherman, announced that he's planning next
(38:43):
season to bring back that art monstrosity in center field
inside the ballpark, just like it was before. So in
your face, Derek Jeter. All right, So those are the
three stories. Which of the three is not true? Separating
fiction from fact? Back to the judges, we go, Leslie
one two or three? Leslie?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Who number two?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Leslie says, all right, thank you, Leslie, good luck on
your trip back to Florida. Jeff one two or three,
Jeff three number three. Jeff is going with cowboy John
bett Our, fine Canadian lad. Two number two milkman Mike
in Colorado. By the way, Bucker, it's number two, number two.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Dylan quickly Dylan one two or three? Dylan, which one's
not true? Number one? All right, believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
The fake story that last part of the Derek Jeter
story number three that the last part that Marlins are
not bringing back that inside.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
The ballpark no way, that was the fake one. Thank
you all. That's the fact.
Host
Ben Maller
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!