August 25, 2023 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the narrative that Shohei Ohtani's arm injury is "catastrophic for baseball," if there's still a path for Ohtani to get the record breaking contract, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Pigs fly as four this hour one is the show.
Hey Otani arm injury catastrophic for the game of baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The reporting on this is over the top.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Also, is there a path for shoe Heo Tani to
get a record breaking contract despite his bum elbow? And
do Atlanta fans care about Marcelo Zuna and his shady history?
Is the braves are running away with everything in the
nationallygue East And what is the lesson from Steven Strasburg's
career coming to an end.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We'll talk about all of that and more right now here.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It is our.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Number one clutching the baseball shaped pearls. Well come in
the beginning of a brand new edition or the Ben
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From the experiences, the learning experience, Hope.
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Ball as well, with your back at it for the
full red eye flight all night long through the overnightskys,
keep your seatbelt fast and we may have turbulence later on.
But our lead this hour coming from baseball. The fallout
has been rapid and it continues from the elbow injury
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heard round the hardball world. Snap, crackle and pop goes
the Star show. Hey, ol Toddy done as a picture,
not done playing. He's gonna still hit, but he's done
as a picture for this season. Ucl injury. We talked
about that in a previous episode.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Of the show.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The very strong possibility that Tommy John is lurking like
the grim reaper, Tommy John is lurking there off in
the shadows on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So the reaction, though, is the story.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's fascinating, not surprising, but fascinating. And if you haven't
been following along, maybe you had other things going on,
like a life, and you didn't pay attention. But the dramatic,
dramatic messaging, this is devastating, deflating, buzzkill, terrible day for baseball,
worse stay possible.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
For Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We can go on and on, but the general consensus
of the Major League Baseball establishment media is that sho
he Otani's elbow injury is a sink your battleship situation
in baseball, and people very upset, angry, people blaming the Angels.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I don't know if it's the angel's fault.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That Altani's body collapse, but people are so let us
discuss the question. Is this sho hey Otani elbow injury
catastrophic for baseball? As these reports go, I've got Frenchy,
iPhone and dartboard and we will combine all of these
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things together and we're going to make cadaver ligaments, which
is what may be put into show hal Tani's arm.
So hey, listen, listen, it is a it's a bummer,
that's bad news. Bears that shoe heel TONI got hurt.
I'm not here to say that this is not not
something that is negative. But that being said, I don't
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have this as a Greek tragedy.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't the over the top.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Reporting, the breathless reporting where it was like a urinating contest.
And he was like, no, I'm more offended you. I'm
more bothered by this. I'm more hurt by this. That
kind of stuff just makes me want to puke.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Now. I was told by a buddy of.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Mine as a sports writer that that second only to
Bruce Springsteen among baseball writers is sho Hao Tani. The
love the baseball writers have describes for Shoeyotani, and we
enjoyed watching him.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Play when we did and watch every one of his games.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But if you like watching ball, you liked watching the
showtime experience. However, can we interject a bucket of ice
water right across the the brow. So let me let
me use my my French yet ability here.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I'll speak some French.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Ce la vi is the way I would approach the
Otani injury, that's life. Humans are delicate creatures. Otani's body
clearly was.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Not built for the long haul.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
His arm was not, and he already had Tommy John
surgery once. Now he's back at it again. So there's
a there's a glitch in his thing'm a jig and
there's a malfunction.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It happens.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He's not going to be dining at the soup kitchen
and show, hey, we'll he'll be. Okay, he'll be, He'll be,
he'll you'll behind. Is there a path for Otani to
get the record breaking deal the Deli?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes, but it is complicated, right, It's complicated as most
things are. Otani needs to find the slim reaper plan.
Because remember, a couple of years ago in the NBA,
Kevin Durant had a horrific injury for the Golden State Warriors.
He became a free agent and skidaddled to Brooklyn and
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the Nets paid him the full of mine. It was
forty or forty five million, something along those lines while
he rehabbed his injury, not playing for the Nets. So
is it conceivable that Shohei can get a deep pocketed
sugar daddy type team to just pay him and gamble
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that he will be able to pitch again as an
effective major league pitcher. Others have said Oltani's gonna have
to come back as a pitcher, but a relief pitcher.
I'm not sure how that would work. They have the
Otani rule, But as far as I know, the Otani
rule only applies if you start the game, not if
you come in late in the game.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Let's say you pitch.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The eighth inning and you want to go and then
go back and hit. I don't know that that rule
would apply. But the failure rate, here's the other issue,
and there's no way around this. Teams always look at comps.
It's like insurance. Insurance companies look at comps. It's like
life insurance. You're betting that you're you're going to live
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a long time. You're hoping you're gonna live a long time.
The insurance company also is hoping you to live a
long time. Otherwise they don't give you the great life
insurance righty, because if they think you're gonna drop dead
the next day, then that would be a bad business model.
So everyone's like, well, I'm gonna live a long time,
but just in case, just in case, and the older
you get, the you know, the worse it goes. But
the failure rate is overwhelming for players who have had
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to go undergo Tommy John surgery twice in a five
year span.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It is bad, bad, bad, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So but that's what has happened. That doesn't guarantee going
to happen again. But there is no beacon of hope
on the horizon that you can look to and say, well,
you're gonna be like this guy, because this guy came
back and was just as good or better.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
There is not that guy now page two.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Here, let's go to Atlanta, where the top team in
baseball resides and also a former briefly Atlanta pitcher, journeyman
MLB pitcher Jerry Blevins, good old Jerry Blevins. Now he
recently took a cheap shot at the Braves Marcel Ozuna,
and he was commenting on the many legal issues that
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Marcell Ozuna has had. Blevins posting on the socials that
Marcell Ozuna makes the Atlanta Braves impossible to root for.
At Marcel makes a very fun Atlanta Brave team near
impossible root for. That was the actual quote from Blevins,
former Big league relief pitcher. Now Ozuna has a checkered,
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a checkered a resume, someone says, more like a football
player with his resume than a baseball player. But he
has been charged with domestic violence that was recorded, some
of that on camera in twenty twenty one and then
was later withdrawn and was also arrested and charged with
DUI in August.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Of last year.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So you've got Blevin's the former pitcher, saying you can't
root for the bra It's almost impossible root for. And
then you've got other people in the media who are
also saying, you know you're you're onto something. Here's the question,
do Atlanta fans care about Marcelo Zuna's shady history? And
the answer and you know what the answer is. It's
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a bit of a rhetorical question, and I'm shaking my head. No,
of course they don't care. But it's always been that way,
and as far as I'm concerned, it will always be
that way and my life it's always been this way.
I don't see why it's going to change. It's the
same old song and dance. It's hitting the iPhone repeat
function when you're listen to music. The player can be
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the biggest scumbag out there, a social deviant, but as
long as that player is wearing your laundry, we're good.
That is how it's always been. I don't see that
yet ninety eight maybe ninety nine percent of fans or
just kind of hey whatever, you know, you're worried about
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your own life.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You're just tune in for some games, get to get
a little relief there. In theory, if they're not shoving
some kind of woke crap down your throat.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You just trying to joy a ballgame, that's it. And
then if you happen to have a creeper on your team,
you downplay and you move on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Great example is the Cleveland Browns. The Cleveland brown fan
base tore apart Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers all
those years and just goofed on him. So then they
acquired a guy who's you know, the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson,
who had his own petting zoo that he was running there,
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and they love him.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know, there's no real pushback.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But as far as the media backlash with Marcelo Zuna,
it has not spilled over to the fan base. The
Braves have the top team record wise in baseball, and
it's like in politics and sports, it's the same thing.
The great quote from Donald Trump when he was running
for president the first time, where he said he could
have stood on the middle of Fifth Avenue there and
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shot somebody and he wouldn't lose any voters.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, Marcelo Zuna is a bit of.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
A tool bag, but he hits a lot of home
runs and as long as he's wearing the Atlanta Braves hat,
then he's protected. We're good, all right, last word here,
So let's go to Washington, DC. What do you say
and what is the lesson from the news that Steven
Strasburg's career is now over. He hadn't really pitched much
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in years and he is retiring via injury. So the
lesson on my big board, not your big board, my
big The lesson is projections are the devil's playground. Projections
are like Tokas's. Everyone has them and they all stink.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
As a version of the quote, we're not allowed to say,
but it's flawed science. It's always been flawed science. It
will always be flawed science. And you get the dartboard
out and you have a couple of red breast drinks
like Paul and Rhode Island there, and you blindfold yourself
and then you start throwing darts at the dartboard. Because
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ultimately nobody knows anything. There are many unforeseen variables, like
having a career altering injury and not being able to
pitch for the last three years of your career.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Strasburg's career overall.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Was a success, but it wasn't an all time great career.
He was effective, but he did not come close to
touching the rarefied air.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Of the Goldilock Zone.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
He briefly touched it, but he didn't stay there very long.
It was the first overall picking on nine and he
had a good era. Pitched in two hundred and forty
seven games. I believe it was didn't win a Cy
Young Award. His career crumbled right after the twenty nineteen
World Series, where he happened to be the MVP. He
only started seven more games after that, but Strasburg did
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get the not the Goldilocks Zone, but he got the
Golden Parachute. One hundred and ninety six million and counting
plus endorsements he's also fully vested in the Major League
Baseball pension plan, so he's got that, not that he
needs it. And he's thirty five years old and he
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never has to work again. He never has to work again,
and he'll lived the life of Riley and he can decide,
do I want to go out today and play golf?
Maybe y'a'll go out and play pickleball. But I'd be
a loser if I did that, So why would I
do that?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I don't know. Anyway, It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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As we talk the night away, running it down all
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Taking your phone call.
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Started with a baseball heavy Mallard monologue as show Heil
Tani down for the count pitching for the Angels Arekan
Minnesota says spectacular monologue to start off a Friday. Well,
you know something's in the water there in Minnesota for
reeks in a good mood. I've already forgotten what it
was about, though, I've got a half day going to
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the Great Minnesota Sweat Together. Boss move for the for
the fair is a blank blank. I'm not sure what
that means, but I'm sure it'll be fun for Cat says,
I have not seen the rundown yet, or maybe you are.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Doing a monologue on this later, so maybe you are.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But did you know that college football season is starting
this Saturday?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Does Navy have any chance of beating the fighting Irish
in Ireland? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I'm not in Ireland, but there is a Fox Sports
radio show that is in Ireland, so you can ask
if Jonas Knox So I do not think is Irish,
but you can ask one hundred percent of Late Night
drug Tester writes in he says, so the people upset
with the Angels for having Otani pitch and hit every
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day would rather have him shut down and fed ice
cream cake to keep the stress off his l But
you can't win either way.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I read one of these think pieces and they were
ripping the Angels, and the Angels listen, Angels leave.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
A lot of room to attack.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And I've taken plenty of cheap shots at the Angels
over the year, over the years, but they were three
games out at the trade deadline. They traded for what
supposedly was the top pitcher available on the trade market,
who has gone out and has been a barf bag
since he got to the Angels from the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But they made the effort. So how do they fail?
Show Halotani? I feel them.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I don't understand the logic on that midnight walker from Syracuse. Right,
so he says, dear God, my elbow. Otani did shout
free agency looming, but pitching is out.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
He was looking for.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Cash, that cash that huge contract brings, but three hundred
million has just sprouted.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Wings go.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Matthew Warrior raiderrase fan says ten out of ten on
the Malond monologue, these baseball scribes acting like the show
hal tani injury is some huge blow to baseball our
dead wrong, matt says, when we turn on the postseason,
nothing will have changed, so Tani will not be playing
just like any other year.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Wow, that is a low blow.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
So one of the reasons I do not have empathy
for those that are writing outrage roller coaster when it
comes to Atani is my favorite basketball team. The Los
Angeles Clippers won the sweepstakes. They got a player who
had just won a championship in Canada, and that player
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that was the moment he stopped trying when he won
the Toronto Raptors Championship. Kawhi Leonard, who who has been
a total slug with the Clippers and has been guilty
of mal feasance for the most part, but at the
time they signed him, it was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And they've done everything they could for Kawhi the Claw
anything he wanted in all his buddies, he wants to
play with hand pick trade, seven thousand draft picks and
a budding star. And Shay gilgis Alexander for Paul George
done done. Whatever you want, Kawhi, just make sure occasionally
you leave your villa in San Diego and come play basketball.
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But that's too much to ask.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Shane of des Moines writes and he says, Ben, you
should get a Marconi for turning sir scratch off chicken
ass into chicken salad. Thank you and big news from
the burner account. The burner account's been with the show
for many, many years. If you've heard the show, you've
heard me read many messages from the burner account. He says,
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good monologue, Benjamin, but I have an announcement to your
show's number one burner account has just become the show's
number one truck driving burner account and says, in a
very arrogant NFL wide receiver way, congratulations to me forgetting
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my CDL So, sir scratch off, hope you're not in
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Hashtag roadkill. Well, he would eat that for dinner, Sir
scratch off. There's a little roadkill there. He'd fry that up,
put a little pepper on top of that. You're good
to go. Maybe a little salt. Can't get wrong with that.
The Green Bay Gobbler, you know it's big. If the
Green Bay Gobbler's listening.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
No other show, no other show's got the Green Bay Gobbler,
But this show, Green Bay Gobbler writes, it is to think.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Just think, if Shohil Tany got traded.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
For five hundred million dollars, well he wouldn't have been
traded for five hundred million dollars. But the Dodgers would
have traded for Otani last year and would have probably
given him five hundred million dollars, which they now don't
have to do. It's gonna be fascinating to see what happens. Guy,
I still think Otani's the smart play would be to.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Go back to the Angels on a short contract and
try to figure out if you can pitch or not.
But there will be temptation, inevitably, one of these robber
barons that owns these baseball teams, and those only a
few Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, the big money teams.
The Rangers will be like, you know it's worth the risk,
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Well why not. We'll put our neck out. We'll see
what happens. Well, you know what could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong acquiring a player who has
multiple Tommy John operations?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
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As we continue on, and we will get to the
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So we'll get to all that. But right now, let's
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That's a great I do love that movie. Every time
it comes on, I stop and watch it. We had
some NFL preseason action. These Steelers shut out the Falcons
twenty four nothing Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Congratulations, big win for your Steelers there, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
They're super Bowl. No, not really. The Steelers did play
their ones both offensively and defensively for a little while
the Falcons did not, So you get to expected yes
and there, and there're two who are our twos? Kenny
Pickett was four for four passing eighty six yards, no touchdowns.
The subjects for Pittsburgh and the Seedsons got rushing touchdowns
from Najie Harris, Jalen Warren and Anthony McFarland. Colts over
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with the Eagles twenty seven to thirteen. Indie rookie quarterback
Anthony Richardson six of seventeen passing, and.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
By the way, people convinced he's going to lead them
to the super Bowl and he looked, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Pat McAfee said, that's our super Bowl guy. He might
have been hammerd when he said it, but he said.
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It and on the Amazon I hope he.
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Was, because if he wasn't, then never heard of?
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Is what the amount of hype that Anthony Richardson is getting.
Maybe we all be blessed to have people talk nicely
about us when we're bad at our jobs, and maybe
Anthony Richardson will turn out to be.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
A good quarterback. He's not right now, agreed, And it's
going to be a terrible season for the Colts this year, agreed.
But gay, Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Fascinating to see how some of these media dupes a
dopes operate.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
And he did have thirty eight rushing yards, but last
time I checked, he's a quarterback. So you know there's
that Philadelphia did not play their starters in this one,
including quarterback Jalen Hurts to Major League Baseball games. Of no,
we've had a change in the NL wildcard spots. Again,
it's a daily situation right chair, Diamondbacks beat the Reds
three to two. With that win, Arizona into the final
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wildcard spot. Cincinnati is out half game lead for the
Diamondbacks over both the Giants and the Reds. The Red
Sox crushed the Astra seventeen to one. Houston though still
one game back at Texas for first in the AL
Wes because the Arrangers lost to the Twins seven to five.
In a battle of division leaders, you had the Orioles
over the Blue Jays five to three, while the Rays
beat the Rockies five three. Baltimore is still two up
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on Tampa Bay for first in the AL East. Cubs
over the Pirates five to four in ten Chicago, which
holds the number two wildcards spot in the NASH League,
three back of idle Milwaukee in the NL Central Race,
Dodgers wrap up that suspended game against the Guardians from Wednesday.
They beat Cleveland six to one, and then the regularly
scheduled game, so the Dodgers also win over the Guardians
(26:57):
ninety three. Rookie Bets, by the way, was seven for
eight in the two games, which is pretty good. Cleveland
now six back of Minnesota in that ALE Central wasce
and again they have to win the division to get
into the playoffs. They will not be a wild card team.
And in baseball news, age will starts showing Otani, the
al MVB front runner, the Major League Baseball home run leader,
plans on continuing to d h for the team despite
the ligamentary and his elbow that has caused them to
(27:19):
be shut down as a pitcher this season. Is still
no word if you will have the surgery or not.
And speaking of injuries to some of Kop's favorite teams,
I don't know if he said something to Andrew and
she put a hex on his teams or something. But
in the NFL Denver Broncos wide receiver Jerry Judy carted
off the field and practice. He has expected miss several
weeks with a moderate hamstring injury.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay, And when I injure my hamstring and he I
still show up to work.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I don't take the day off. I'm still here.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
How did you injury your hamstring?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Well, in the past, but I have done radio with laryngitis.
You're not supposed to do that. My boss doesn't listen sometimes.
And then I've also done My favorite one was when
I burned my toong eating pizza too fast, and I
sounded like Lou Holtz for about a week. That was
my favorite.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
What a warrior?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Lispie radio I had, which was just wonderful. Trucker Joe says,
congrats to the burner account. Keep it in between the
guardrails unless you see air cries all a lot, he says,
and then run his ass over. Wow, that's Trucker on
Trucker criticism is what that is. And then Trucker Joe
(28:31):
also asked, did Roberto pass his test and get the
CDLB license.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I don't think it's happened. The third test has not
happened as far as I know. Do you know, Eddie,
have you checked in with Roberto?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Last time I checked, he was still awaiting the Yeah,
third swing?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Is it next week or the week after? I think
it might be a couple more weeks then, Yeah. Will
he come back to Fox.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Sports Radio, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
If I'm gonna go know on that?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Noah, No, probably not. I'm not gonna happen there.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Late Night Drug Tester writes in says, your father father
was right buying one lottery ticket does give you a
good chance of winning. Granted it isn't the jackpot prize,
but you could win your dollar back.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Let's go to the phones and let's see here any
meanie mighty mo.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Let's go to the blind Tennessee redneck.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Who is That's what it says on my screen. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I don't know this guy. Let's say hello to the
blind Tennessee redneck. Hello, sir, Hey, you doing thing man?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
First time, longtime tennessy Malard Militia.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, thank you, I appreciate you. Now emotion in the
great state of Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
And again, just for those those people that don't think
you're actually blind. How many fingers am I holding up
right now? Uh?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Just the middle one?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
No, No, I usually do that, but only for blind Scott.
I'm holding up three fingers. That is confirmation. I have
three fingers up. That is confirmation the blind Tennessee redneck
is indeed blind.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
So yes, how can we help you?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Okay? And as two likes to do, he likes to
poke you. So I'm gonna just go right at it
and say, why in the air would you hate Notre
Dame as much as you did?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I don't hate Notre Dame. I just don't. I don't
suck their toes like everyone else in the media. How
about that?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Have they done that now that they hadn't win the
national dam it'ship?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Now they flying touchdown Jesus over to Ireland.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
They making his touchdown, Jesus making the trip.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
We know then Irish fans go with That's.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Why apparently they travel very well. Yes, I've heard that.
I've heard that.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yes, they've been the largest fan base in college football,
largest fan base in college football, Notre Dame.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
I didn't jump on the bandwagon though I've got family.
I'd love to go to school there, but I got
family that went to school there.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh you did, all right? All right? Now? Is this
for a religious reason? Are you Catholic? Or you just
happen to like the tradition.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
If it tells you anything. I got my mom's initials
with the leper cown that taoed on the forearm.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Uhha, there you go. I got you. So you're all in.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
You watch that Rudy movie seventeen thousand times over the.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Years, and then one more probably.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, seventeen thousand and one.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
What's the deal? You can't give many love? I know
everybody's saying, they.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Got what am I supposed to kill them?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Give them kisses, let me throw flowers, Let me throw
flowers out fighting Irish, What did.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
You talk about The LA Clippers was different?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Oh, the La Clippers of the people's team. They represent
the working man. That's actually fall Notre Dame man. They
what did Notre Dame peak like the nineteen sixties fifties?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
He'll know in nineteen ninety three they should have won
in the games.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, it should have, could have, would have?
Speaker 6 (31:57):
All right, what's the last time the Clippers won a championship?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
They will go to the final four. A couple of
years ago. They were in the final four a couple
years ago. In the last ten years, the top team
they run La.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
By the way, it makes a good point about the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
No, he does not. It's a terrible phone call. I
am hanging up on you. Go away, thank you? All right,
go away. I don't know why that guy got on
the air. And we'll never have that happen again. Let's
go to Andre in the Commonwealth, an educator. Is this
the final call from Andre? Does school start next week?
(32:33):
Inquiring minds would like to know dot dot dot dot.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Yes, Ben's school does start next week, but by far
will this be the final call. I will be continuing
again based on the requirements of my placement in the
mall or militia, so throughout the course of the year,
specifically during football season, but then just straight on, I'm
going to continue to be checking and I look forward
to those school vacation, those checkpoints on the journey. First
(33:00):
of all, you know, for the rest and relaxation. But secondly,
uh it me it's like a one b you know,
so that I can get back to where I belong,
you know, because Ben, like you mentioned that, you've had
people you know, and they're they're on the show and
they're participating, and they're following their passion you know, in
sports media, and then they go off to get quote
unquote real jobs, you know, which is always a danger
because you let your dreams. Uh Like, if you're a filmmaker,
(33:22):
you know, you have your reels and they sit there
and they collect us on the top of the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
You have one minute.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
One minute, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Putting a time limit on.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Yes, okay, Ben, I got a shot clock. I can
I can operate within the shock clock. But the fact
of the matter is, I'm not letting my dreams collect
dust on the top of a refrigerator. I got a
passion for sports media and appreciation for the Ben Mallis Show,
so I'm continuing to be checking in even though I
got to adjust my sleep schedule. When the school year starts,
the clock is thicking. Listen, then you started the show
with Steven South my over in fact of the matter
(34:01):
of Strausburg is not gonna get into Baseball Hall of Fame.
But so with the NBA Ben where everybody gets in
Participation Trophy Hall of Fame, Steven Strausburg will be a
first ballot selecting all right in shriney because basketball is not.
Seriously though, that's taking the call.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
There he goes Andre with a shot clock from Kooperlou
putting the Kebash on the full extended dance remix from
our friend from the Commonwealth. So freight hopping on the
money train. Steven Strasburg is retiring from baseball, but he
will continue to be paid.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Thirty five million dollars a year through the year twenty
twenty six. But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
It's gonna get over eleven million dollars deferred money each year.
He will then receive in twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight,
twenty twenty nine, twenty six point six million dollars in
deferred payments. We are told the contract he signed with
the Washington Nationals was not insured, meaning the Nationals will
(35:04):
be raising the price of hot dogs, popcorn, and other
souvenirs and whatnot at the ballpark there to cover the
contract of Strasburg. You might be saying, well, he retired,
he's not living up to the contract, but he retired
as an injured player, and if you retire because of injury,
you still get your money. The baseball contracts are amazing.
(35:26):
May we all be blessed to sign a baseball contract.
So if I am right on this, I think I am.
What's gonna happen is Strasburg every year is going to
have to report to spring training and then fail the
physical and then he'll collect the money. So it's like monopoly,
pasco collect the money, boom done. And so that's what's
(35:47):
gonna happen for him. So he'll get a trip to Florida,
he'll fail the physical because his body's all messed up,
and then he'll collect twenty plus million dollars.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
He's thirty five years old. Holy crap, what a life time.
Now for the who am I?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I hold the record for the longest gap between three
homer games at over seventeen years. Again, we talked about
three homer games. The other day Aaron Judge hit his
first three homer game. I hold the record longest gap
between three homer games at over seventeen years.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it, and
we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
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Speaker 1 (37:00):
Time down for the who Am I?
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Speaker 1 (37:24):
And here it is, will the MLB pick him? Coming up?
Mama taoy? But firstly, who am I? Game? A blatant
attempt to get you to listen a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I hold the record for the longest gap between three
homer games at over seventeen years in Big League history?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Who am I? That is the question? What's the answer?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And Brad and Montana says the Big Bear Marcel Ozuna
Josh is going Blake Street Bombers andres Colara g as
the answer page down, stuttering Andre from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
We've got Grimace McDonald's Grimace from The Cowboy Killer Pops,
(38:09):
the legendary Willie Stargel guest by Matt the Warrior Raider
former as fan Jonathan ice cream Cake from ferg Cat Boo.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
The Eddie arca Burner account says the lady who said
He's not real is the answer. Omar Infante of the
Royals from the Late Night Drug Tester courtesy Flusher is
going with Vermont's Finest Arnie Spanier as the answer. Wally
in Florida says Michael Jack Schmidt, Stan the Man usual
(38:42):
guest by Jeff the Gangster Donald Trump from Bedito the
Cowboy fan Let's He Saw Man says it has to
be my favorite player as a kid.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
An FSR contributor David Justice, Yeah, I saw David's working
doing some work for the company with Rob Parker from
time to time.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
I did see that Spike Owen legend. I guess by
Alf the Alien Opiner. Do you have an answer, Eddie?
It is not George Washington guests by Jimmy from Maine.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
No, that's a silly guess. I'm gonna go with eighteen
ninety Major League batting Champion Jack Glasscock.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Wow, Eddie, it's interesting you use that name the way
you use it now, that's incorrect. It is also not
wow is not the case.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Carr Haller Army Softball Hall of Fame, Legend, Hall of
pretty good, He said, the correct answer is mister October
Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
Who went seventeen years and seventy eight days between between
hitting three homer games, but he's known as a three
homer guy Yankees Dodgers back in the day.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
All right, here we go, time now four the MLB.
Pickham Iowa, Sam, you were up first chapter.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
I'll take the big fish, Marlin Brexton, Garrett on the mound.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Brandon Woodrow for me, Cooper Lope, Garrett, Cole, Eddie back
to back.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
I'll take Spencer Strider and Matt Olson.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
All right, cool, Mookie Betts. Give me Bobby Witt Junior. Sam,
I'll take a hurry off. I held devers one more,
one more.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Bobby Witt.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
I just picked him.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I just picked him. You're now killing your alright. Anyone
picked Julio Rodriguez yet no I got him. Coople. I
got it in, We got it in, We got it
in the batter Too late, Eddie, too late. It's Ober
Bits
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our name ber One as we begin a Friday
edition of the podcast and the first order of business
is to tell you about the Fifth Hour Podcast, a
shameless promotion for that which you can hear on this
same podcast channel.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Oh, the Fifth Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Has its own podcast channel, let's say spin off of
this show. We do it only on the podcast format.
You can't hear it on terrestrial radio, and it is
available for you to download. And we are scheduled to
have on our Friday podcast someone we've been trying to
get on the show for over a year. A Super
Bowl winning head coach is supposed to join us on
(00:41):
the Fifth Hour Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Today.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We'll find out whether or not he shows up when
Pigs fly as four this hour one is the show.
Hey Otani arm injury catastrophic for the game of baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The reporting on this is over the top.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Also, is there a path for shoe Heo Tani to
get a record breaking contract despite his bum elbow? And
do Atlanta fans care about Marcelo Zuna and his shady history?
Is the braves are running away with everything in the
nationallygue East And what is the lesson from Steven Strasburg's
career coming to an end.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We'll talk about all of that and more right now here.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It is our.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Number one clutching the baseball shaped pearls. Well come in
the beginning of a brand new edition or the Ben
Malor Show. We are in the air everywhere, chilling in
the audio world as we are washed overboard coast, duck coast,
(01:48):
border to border and beyond on the beast and refreshingly
powerful microphones of fsre amminating live.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
From the experiences, the learning experience, Hope.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Ball as well, with your back at it for the
full red eye flight all night long through the overnightskys,
keep your seatbelt fast and we may have turbulence later on.
But our lead this hour coming from baseball. The fallout
has been rapid and it continues from the elbow injury
(02:29):
heard round the hardball world. Snap, crackle and pop goes
the Star show. Hey, ol Toddy done as a picture,
not done playing. He's gonna still hit, but he's done
as a picture for this season. Ucl injury. We talked
about that in a previous episode.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Of the show.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The very strong possibility that Tommy John is lurking like
the grim reaper, Tommy John is lurking there off in
the shadows on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So the reaction, though, is the story.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's fascinating, not surprising, but fascinating. And if you haven't
been following along, maybe you had other things going on,
like a life, and you didn't pay attention. But the dramatic,
dramatic messaging, this is devastating, deflating, buzzkill, terrible day for baseball,
worse stay possible.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
For Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We can go on and on, but the general consensus
of the Major League Baseball establishment media is that sho
he Otani's elbow injury is a sink your battleship situation
in baseball, and people very upset, angry, people blaming the Angels.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I don't know if it's the angel's fault.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That Altani's body collapse, but people are so let us
discuss the question. Is this sho hey Otani elbow injury
catastrophic for baseball? As these reports go, I've got Frenchy,
iPhone and dartboard and we will combine all of these
(04:07):
things together and we're going to make cadaver ligaments, which
is what may be put into show hal Tani's arm.
So hey, listen, listen, it is a it's a bummer,
that's bad news. Bears that shoe heel TONI got hurt.
I'm not here to say that this is not not
something that is negative. But that being said, I don't
(04:28):
have this as a Greek tragedy.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I don't the over the top.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Reporting, the breathless reporting where it was like a urinating contest.
And he was like, no, I'm more offended you. I'm
more bothered by this. I'm more hurt by this. That
kind of stuff just makes me want to puke.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Now. I was told by a buddy of.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Mine as a sports writer that that second only to
Bruce Springsteen among baseball writers is sho Hao Tani. The
love the baseball writers have describes for Shoeyotani, and we
enjoyed watching him.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Play when we did and watch every one of his games.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
But if you like watching ball, you liked watching the
showtime experience. However, can we interject a bucket of ice
water right across the the brow. So let me let
me use my my French yet ability here.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I'll speak some French.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Ce la vi is the way I would approach the
Otani injury, that's life. Humans are delicate creatures. Otani's body
clearly was.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Not built for the long haul.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
His arm was not, and he already had Tommy John
surgery once. Now he's back at it again. So there's
a there's a glitch in his thing'm a jig and
there's a malfunction.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It happens.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He's not going to be dining at the soup kitchen
and show, hey, we'll he'll be. Okay, he'll be, He'll be,
he'll you'll behind. Is there a path for Otani to
get the record breaking deal the Deli?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yes, but it is complicated, right, It's complicated as most
things are. Otani needs to find the slim reaper plan.
Because remember, a couple of years ago in the NBA,
Kevin Durant had a horrific injury for the Golden State Warriors.
He became a free agent and skidaddled to Brooklyn and
(06:20):
the Nets paid him the full of mine. It was
forty or forty five million, something along those lines while
he rehabbed his injury, not playing for the Nets. So
is it conceivable that Shohei can get a deep pocketed
sugar daddy type team to just pay him and gamble
(06:42):
that he will be able to pitch again as an
effective major league pitcher. Others have said Oltani's gonna have
to come back as a pitcher, but a relief pitcher.
I'm not sure how that would work. They have the
Otani rule, But as far as I know, the Otani
rule only applies if you start the game, not if
you come in late in the game.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Let's say you pitch.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The eighth inning and you want to go and then
go back and hit. I don't know that that rule
would apply. But the failure rate, here's the other issue,
and there's no way around this. Teams always look at comps.
It's like insurance. Insurance companies look at comps. It's like
life insurance. You're betting that you're you're going to live
(07:21):
a long time. You're hoping you're gonna live a long time.
The insurance company also is hoping you to live a
long time. Otherwise they don't give you the great life
insurance righty, because if they think you're gonna drop dead
the next day, then that would be a bad business model.
So everyone's like, well, I'm gonna live a long time,
but just in case, just in case, and the older
you get, the you know, the worse it goes. But
the failure rate is overwhelming for players who have had
(07:44):
to go undergo Tommy John surgery twice in a five
year span.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It is bad, bad, bad, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So but that's what has happened. That doesn't guarantee going
to happen again. But there is no beacon of hope
on the horizon that you can look to and say, well,
you're gonna be like this guy, because this guy came
back and was just as good or better.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
There is not that guy now page two.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Here, let's go to Atlanta, where the top team in
baseball resides and also a former briefly Atlanta pitcher, journeyman
MLB pitcher Jerry Blevins, good old Jerry Blevins. Now he
recently took a cheap shot at the Braves Marcel Ozuna,
and he was commenting on the many legal issues that
(08:37):
Marcell Ozuna has had. Blevins posting on the socials that
Marcell Ozuna makes the Atlanta Braves impossible to root for.
At Marcel makes a very fun Atlanta Brave team near
impossible root for. That was the actual quote from Blevins,
former Big league relief pitcher. Now Ozuna has a checkered,
(09:00):
a checkered a resume, someone says, more like a football
player with his resume than a baseball player. But he
has been charged with domestic violence that was recorded, some
of that on camera in twenty twenty one and then
was later withdrawn and was also arrested and charged with
DUI in August.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Of last year.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So you've got Blevin's the former pitcher, saying you can't
root for the bra It's almost impossible root for. And
then you've got other people in the media who are
also saying, you know you're you're onto something. Here's the question,
do Atlanta fans care about Marcelo Zuna's shady history? And
the answer and you know what the answer is. It's
(09:41):
a bit of a rhetorical question, and I'm shaking my head. No,
of course they don't care. But it's always been that way,
and as far as I'm concerned, it will always be
that way and my life it's always been this way.
I don't see why it's going to change. It's the
same old song and dance. It's hitting the iPhone repeat
function when you're listen to music. The player can be
(10:03):
the biggest scumbag out there, a social deviant, but as
long as that player is wearing your laundry, we're good.
That is how it's always been. I don't see that
yet ninety eight maybe ninety nine percent of fans or
just kind of hey whatever, you know, you're worried about
(10:24):
your own life.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You're just tune in for some games, get to get
a little relief there. In theory, if they're not shoving
some kind of woke crap down your throat.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You just trying to joy a ballgame, that's it. And
then if you happen to have a creeper on your team,
you downplay and you move on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Great example is the Cleveland Browns. The Cleveland brown fan
base tore apart Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers all
those years and just goofed on him. So then they
acquired a guy who's you know, the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson,
who had his own petting zoo that he was running there,
(11:03):
and they love him.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know, there's no real pushback.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But as far as the media backlash with Marcelo Zuna,
it has not spilled over to the fan base. The
Braves have the top team record wise in baseball, and
it's like in politics and sports, it's the same thing.
The great quote from Donald Trump when he was running
for president the first time, where he said he could
have stood on the middle of Fifth Avenue there and
(11:28):
shot somebody and he wouldn't lose any voters.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well, Marcelo Zuna is a bit of.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
A tool bag, but he hits a lot of home
runs and as long as he's wearing the Atlanta Braves hat,
then he's protected. We're good, all right, last word here,
So let's go to Washington, DC. What do you say
and what is the lesson from the news that Steven
Strasburg's career is now over. He hadn't really pitched much
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in years and he is retiring via injury. So the
lesson on my big board, not your big board, my
big The lesson is projections are the devil's playground. Projections
are like Tokas's. Everyone has them and they all stink.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
As a version of the quote, we're not allowed to say,
but it's flawed science. It's always been flawed science. It
will always be flawed science. And you get the dartboard
out and you have a couple of red breast drinks
like Paul and Rhode Island there, and you blindfold yourself
and then you start throwing darts at the dartboard. Because
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ultimately nobody knows anything. There are many unforeseen variables, like
having a career altering injury and not being able to
pitch for the last three years of your career.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Strasburg's career overall.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Was a success, but it wasn't an all time great career.
He was effective, but he did not come close to
touching the rarefied air.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Of the Goldilock Zone.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
He briefly touched it, but he didn't stay there very long.
It was the first overall picking on nine and he
had a good era. Pitched in two hundred and forty
seven games. I believe it was didn't win a Cy
Young Award. His career crumbled right after the twenty nineteen
World Series, where he happened to be the MVP. He
only started seven more games after that, but Strasburg did
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get the not the Goldilocks Zone, but he got the
Golden Parachute. One hundred and ninety six million and counting
plus endorsements he's also fully vested in the Major League
Baseball pension plan, so he's got that, not that he
needs it. And he's thirty five years old and he
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never has to work again. He never has to work again,
and he'll lived the life of Riley and he can decide,
do I want to go out today and play golf?
Maybe y'a'll go out and play pickleball. But I'd be
a loser if I did that, So why would I
do that?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I don't know. Anyway, It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
If you'd like to comment on any of this, you
can join us here at eight seven seven ninety nine
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on entertainment will be coming up later on as well,
and whatever else happens.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
But if you'd like to be.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Part, I'd love to hear some new voices, and you
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Speaker 1 (14:44):
If you would like to be part be part of
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Speaker 3 (14:49):
It is?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yes, amazing, amazing, amazing, unless it is not. We're gonna
call this one freight hopping on the money train. Freight
hopping on the money train. We'll get to that and
we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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from the tirak dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
As we talk the night away, running it down all
night long and.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Taking your phone call.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Started with a baseball heavy Mallard monologue as show Heil
Tani down for the count pitching for the Angels Arekan
Minnesota says spectacular monologue to start off a Friday. Well,
you know something's in the water there in Minnesota for
reeks in a good mood. I've already forgotten what it
was about, though, I've got a half day going to
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the Great Minnesota Sweat Together. Boss move for the for
the fair is a blank blank. I'm not sure what
that means, but I'm sure it'll be fun for Cat says,
I have not seen the rundown yet, or maybe you are.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Doing a monologue on this later, so maybe you are.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But did you know that college football season is starting
this Saturday?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Does Navy have any chance of beating the fighting Irish
in Ireland? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I'm not in Ireland, but there is a Fox Sports
radio show that is in Ireland, so you can ask
if Jonas Knox So I do not think is Irish,
but you can ask one hundred percent of Late Night
drug Tester writes in he says, so the people upset
with the Angels for having Otani pitch and hit every
(17:04):
day would rather have him shut down and fed ice
cream cake to keep the stress off his l But
you can't win either way.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I read one of these think pieces and they were
ripping the Angels, and the Angels listen, Angels leave.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
A lot of room to attack.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And I've taken plenty of cheap shots at the Angels
over the year, over the years, but they were three
games out at the trade deadline. They traded for what
supposedly was the top pitcher available on the trade market,
who has gone out and has been a barf bag
since he got to the Angels from the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But they made the effort. So how do they fail?
Show Halotani? I feel them.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I don't understand the logic on that midnight walker from Syracuse. Right,
so he says, dear God, my elbow. Otani did shout
free agency looming, but pitching is out.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
He was looking for.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Cash, that cash that huge contract brings, but three hundred
million has just sprouted.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Wings go.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Matthew Warrior raiderrase fan says ten out of ten on
the Malond monologue, these baseball scribes acting like the show
hal tani injury is some huge blow to baseball our
dead wrong, matt says, when we turn on the postseason,
nothing will have changed, so Tani will not be playing
just like any other year.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Wow, that is a low blow.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
So one of the reasons I do not have empathy
for those that are writing outrage roller coaster when it
comes to Atani is my favorite basketball team. The Los
Angeles Clippers won the sweepstakes. They got a player who
had just won a championship in Canada, and that player
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that was the moment he stopped trying when he won
the Toronto Raptors Championship. Kawhi Leonard, who who has been
a total slug with the Clippers and has been guilty
of mal feasance for the most part, but at the
time they signed him, it was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And they've done everything they could for Kawhi the Claw
anything he wanted in all his buddies, he wants to
play with hand pick trade, seven thousand draft picks and
a budding star. And Shay gilgis Alexander for Paul George
done done. Whatever you want, Kawhi, just make sure occasionally
you leave your villa in San Diego and come play basketball.
(19:34):
But that's too much to ask.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Shane of des Moines writes and he says, Ben, you
should get a Marconi for turning sir scratch off chicken
ass into chicken salad. Thank you and big news from
the burner account. The burner account's been with the show
for many, many years. If you've heard the show, you've
heard me read many messages from the burner account. He says,
(19:57):
good monologue, Benjamin, but I have an announcement to your
show's number one burner account has just become the show's
number one truck driving burner account and says, in a
very arrogant NFL wide receiver way, congratulations to me forgetting
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my CDL So, sir scratch off, hope you're not in
the road when I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Hashtag roadkill. Well, he would eat that for dinner, Sir
scratch off. There's a little roadkill there. He'd fry that up,
put a little pepper on top of that. You're good
to go. Maybe a little salt. Can't get wrong with that.
The Green Bay Gobbler, you know it's big. If the
Green Bay Gobbler's listening.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
No other show, no other show's got the Green Bay Gobbler,
But this show, Green Bay Gobbler writes, it is to think.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Just think, if Shohil Tany got traded.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
For five hundred million dollars, well he wouldn't have been
traded for five hundred million dollars. But the Dodgers would
have traded for Otani last year and would have probably
given him five hundred million dollars, which they now don't
have to do. It's gonna be fascinating to see what happens. Guy,
I still think Otani's the smart play would be to.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Go back to the Angels on a short contract and
try to figure out if you can pitch or not.
But there will be temptation, inevitably, one of these robber
barons that owns these baseball teams, and those only a
few Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, the big money teams.
The Rangers will be like, you know it's worth the risk,
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Well why not. We'll put our neck out. We'll see
what happens. Well, you know what could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong acquiring a player who has
multiple Tommy John operations?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
If that's the case, which it does appear that is
going to be the case. There coming up here in
a little bit, it is the Ben Malors Show. As
we continue on, and did you know it is the
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Speaker 1 (22:54):
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should be something my dad used to tell me. He
had played the lottery every.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Week, but he only bought one ticket to the lottery,
and he claimed that he had just as much a
chance as anyone else with one ticket. That, yeah, you
didn't need to buy eight hundred ticks.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
The funny about that, my dad was like a math.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Major in college. He was very smart with math. But
when you know, the lottery is like a stupid tax.
But he played the lottery. He loved and he was
convinced he was gonna win it.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You know, if you'd only lived a little longer, he
probably would have won it. He checked out a little early.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
If he had stuck around a few more years, he
might have won it, and then I would have inherited
the money.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But it didn't happen anyway. It is the Ben mal Show.
As we continue on, and we will get to the
freight hopping on the money train. We'll take some of
these phone calls. I do see you guys on hold,
So we'll get to all that. But right now, let's
get you cut up on everything going on in the overnight.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And now a man who did have technical issues earlier,
but hopefully everything's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
The Merman games of note Garcia.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Can you hear me now?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yes, the first day of radio school, Eddie, they tell
you to turn the mic on.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I did turn the micro me.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Are you saying that was an Iowa Sam problem?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Is that what you're saying I cannot confirm, Iowa, Sam
under the.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Buses, I cannot confirm.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Come on, that had you up ready to go.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Oh the tension, let's call it an Apollo thirteen kind
of internal glitch, you know, a busted washer.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I don't think where our lives are in danger anyway.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
There's no oxygen tanks lacking uh mixing, Start the tanks.
That's a great movie.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
That's a great I do love that movie. Every time
it comes on, I stop and watch it. We had
some NFL preseason action. These Steelers shut out the Falcons
twenty four nothing Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Congratulations, big win for your Steelers there, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
They're super Bowl. No, not really. The Steelers did play
their ones both offensively and defensively for a little while
the Falcons did not, So you get to expected yes
and there, and there're two who are our twos? Kenny
Pickett was four for four passing eighty six yards, no touchdowns.
The subjects for Pittsburgh and the Seedsons got rushing touchdowns
from Najie Harris, Jalen Warren and Anthony McFarland. Colts over
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with the Eagles twenty seven to thirteen. Indie rookie quarterback
Anthony Richardson six of seventeen passing, and.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
By the way, people convinced he's going to lead them
to the super Bowl and he looked, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Pat McAfee said, that's our super Bowl guy. He might
have been hammerd when he said it, but he said.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It and on the Amazon I hope he.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Was, because if he wasn't, then never heard of?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Is what the amount of hype that Anthony Richardson is getting.
Maybe we all be blessed to have people talk nicely
about us when we're bad at our jobs, and maybe
Anthony Richardson will turn out to be.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
A good quarterback. He's not right now, agreed, And it's
going to be a terrible season for the Colts this year, agreed.
But gay, Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Fascinating to see how some of these media dupes a
dopes operate.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
And he did have thirty eight rushing yards, but last
time I checked, he's a quarterback. So you know there's
that Philadelphia did not play their starters in this one,
including quarterback Jalen Hurts to Major League Baseball games. Of no,
we've had a change in the NL wildcard spots. Again,
it's a daily situation right chair, Diamondbacks beat the Reds
three to two. With that win, Arizona into the final
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wildcard spot. Cincinnati is out half game lead for the
Diamondbacks over both the Giants and the Reds. The Red
Sox crushed the Astra seventeen to one. Houston though still
one game back at Texas for first in the AL
Wes because the Arrangers lost to the Twins seven to five.
In a battle of division leaders, you had the Orioles
over the Blue Jays five to three, while the Rays
beat the Rockies five three. Baltimore is still two up
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on Tampa Bay for first in the AL East. Cubs
over the Pirates five to four in ten Chicago, which
holds the number two wildcards spot in the NASH League,
three back of idle Milwaukee in the NL Central Race,
Dodgers wrap up that suspended game against the Guardians from Wednesday.
They beat Cleveland six to one, and then the regularly
scheduled game, so the Dodgers also win over the Guardians
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ninety three. Rookie Bets, by the way, was seven for
eight in the two games, which is pretty good. Cleveland
now six back of Minnesota in that ALE Central wasce
and again they have to win the division to get
into the playoffs. They will not be a wild card team.
And in baseball news, age will starts showing Otani, the
al MVB front runner, the Major League Baseball home run leader,
plans on continuing to d h for the team despite
the ligamentary and his elbow that has caused them to
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be shut down as a pitcher this season. Is still
no word if you will have the surgery or not.
And speaking of injuries to some of Kop's favorite teams,
I don't know if he said something to Andrew and
she put a hex on his teams or something. But
in the NFL Denver Broncos wide receiver Jerry Judy carted
off the field and practice. He has expected miss several
weeks with a moderate hamstring injury.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay, And when I injure my hamstring and he I
still show up to work.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I don't take the day off. I'm still here.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
How did you injury your hamstring?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Well, in the past, but I have done radio with laryngitis.
You're not supposed to do that. My boss doesn't listen sometimes.
And then I've also done My favorite one was when
I burned my toong eating pizza too fast, and I
sounded like Lou Holtz for about a week. That was
my favorite.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
What a warrior?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Lispie radio I had, which was just wonderful. Trucker Joe says,
congrats to the burner account. Keep it in between the
guardrails unless you see air cries all a lot, he says,
and then run his ass over. Wow, that's Trucker on
Trucker criticism is what that is. And then Trucker Joe
(28:31):
also asked, did Roberto pass his test and get the
CDLB license.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I don't think it's happened. The third test has not
happened as far as I know. Do you know, Eddie,
have you checked in with Roberto?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Last time I checked, he was still awaiting the Yeah,
third swing?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Is it next week or the week after? I think
it might be a couple more weeks then, Yeah. Will
he come back to Fox.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Sports Radio, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
If I'm gonna go know on that?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Noah, No, probably not. I'm not gonna happen there.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Late Night Drug Tester writes in says, your father father
was right buying one lottery ticket does give you a
good chance of winning. Granted it isn't the jackpot prize,
but you could win your dollar back.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Let's go to the phones and let's see here any
meanie mighty mo.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Let's go to the blind Tennessee redneck.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Who is That's what it says on my screen. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I don't know this guy. Let's say hello to the
blind Tennessee redneck. Hello, sir, Hey, you doing thing man?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
First time, longtime tennessy Malard Militia.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, thank you, I appreciate you. Now emotion in the
great state of Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
And again, just for those those people that don't think
you're actually blind. How many fingers am I holding up
right now? Uh?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Just the middle one?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
No, No, I usually do that, but only for blind Scott.
I'm holding up three fingers. That is confirmation. I have
three fingers up. That is confirmation the blind Tennessee redneck
is indeed blind.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
So yes, how can we help you?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Okay? And as two likes to do, he likes to
poke you. So I'm gonna just go right at it
and say, why in the air would you hate Notre
Dame as much as you did?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I don't hate Notre Dame. I just don't. I don't
suck their toes like everyone else in the media. How
about that?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Have they done that now that they hadn't win the
national dam it'ship?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Now they flying touchdown Jesus over to Ireland.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
They making his touchdown, Jesus making the trip.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
We know then Irish fans go with That's.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Why apparently they travel very well. Yes, I've heard that.
I've heard that.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yes, they've been the largest fan base in college football,
largest fan base in college football, Notre Dame.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
I didn't jump on the bandwagon though I've got family.
I'd love to go to school there, but I got
family that went to school there.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh you did, all right? All right? Now? Is this
for a religious reason? Are you Catholic? Or you just
happen to like the tradition.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
If it tells you anything. I got my mom's initials
with the leper cown that taoed on the forearm.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Uhha, there you go. I got you. So you're all in.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
You watch that Rudy movie seventeen thousand times over the.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Years, and then one more probably.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, seventeen thousand and one.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
What's the deal? You can't give many love? I know
everybody's saying, they.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Got what am I supposed to kill them?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Give them kisses, let me throw flowers, Let me throw
flowers out fighting Irish, What did.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
You talk about The LA Clippers was different?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Oh, the La Clippers of the people's team. They represent
the working man. That's actually fall Notre Dame man. They
what did Notre Dame peak like the nineteen sixties fifties?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
He'll know in nineteen ninety three they should have won
in the games.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, it should have, could have, would have?
Speaker 6 (31:57):
All right, what's the last time the Clippers won a championship?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
They will go to the final four. A couple of
years ago. They were in the final four a couple
years ago. In the last ten years, the top team
they run La.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
By the way, it makes a good point about the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
No, he does not. It's a terrible phone call. I
am hanging up on you. Go away, thank you? All right,
go away. I don't know why that guy got on
the air. And we'll never have that happen again. Let's
go to Andre in the Commonwealth, an educator. Is this
the final call from Andre? Does school start next week?
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Inquiring minds would like to know dot dot dot dot.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Yes, Ben's school does start next week, but by far
will this be the final call. I will be continuing
again based on the requirements of my placement in the
mall or militia, so throughout the course of the year,
specifically during football season, but then just straight on, I'm
going to continue to be checking and I look forward
to those school vacation, those checkpoints on the journey. First
(33:00):
of all, you know, for the rest and relaxation. But secondly,
uh it me it's like a one b you know,
so that I can get back to where I belong,
you know, because Ben, like you mentioned that, you've had
people you know, and they're they're on the show and
they're participating, and they're following their passion you know, in
sports media, and then they go off to get quote
unquote real jobs, you know, which is always a danger
because you let your dreams. Uh Like, if you're a filmmaker,
(33:22):
you know, you have your reels and they sit there
and they collect us on the top of the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
You have one minute.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
One minute, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Putting a time limit on.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Yes, okay, Ben, I got a shot clock. I can
I can operate within the shock clock. But the fact
of the matter is, I'm not letting my dreams collect
dust on the top of a refrigerator. I got a
passion for sports media and appreciation for the Ben Mallis Show,
so I'm continuing to be checking in even though I
got to adjust my sleep schedule. When the school year starts,
the clock is thicking. Listen, then you started the show
with Steven South my over in fact of the matter
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of Strausburg is not gonna get into Baseball Hall of Fame.
But so with the NBA Ben where everybody gets in
Participation Trophy Hall of Fame, Steven Strausburg will be a
first ballot selecting all right in shriney because basketball is not.
Seriously though, that's taking the call.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
There he goes Andre with a shot clock from Kooperlou
putting the Kebash on the full extended dance remix from
our friend from the Commonwealth. So freight hopping on the
money train. Steven Strasburg is retiring from baseball, but he
will continue to be paid.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Thirty five million dollars a year through the year twenty
twenty six. But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
It's gonna get over eleven million dollars deferred money each year.
He will then receive in twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight,
twenty twenty nine, twenty six point six million dollars in
deferred payments. We are told the contract he signed with
the Washington Nationals was not insured, meaning the Nationals will
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be raising the price of hot dogs, popcorn, and other
souvenirs and whatnot at the ballpark there to cover the
contract of Strasburg. You might be saying, well, he retired,
he's not living up to the contract, but he retired
as an injured player, and if you retire because of injury,
you still get your money. The baseball contracts are amazing.
(35:26):
May we all be blessed to sign a baseball contract.
So if I am right on this, I think I am.
What's gonna happen is Strasburg every year is going to
have to report to spring training and then fail the
physical and then he'll collect the money. So it's like monopoly,
pasco collect the money, boom done. And so that's what's
(35:47):
gonna happen for him. So he'll get a trip to Florida,
he'll fail the physical because his body's all messed up,
and then he'll collect twenty plus million dollars.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
He's thirty five years old. Holy crap, what a life time.
Now for the who am I?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I hold the record for the longest gap between three
homer games at over seventeen years. Again, we talked about
three homer games. The other day Aaron Judge hit his
first three homer game. I hold the record longest gap
between three homer games at over seventeen years.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it, and
we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
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Speaker 4 (36:37):
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Speaker 1 (37:24):
And here it is, will the MLB pick him? Coming up?
Mama taoy? But firstly, who am I? Game? A blatant
attempt to get you to listen a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I hold the record for the longest gap between three
homer games at over seventeen years in Big League history?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Who am I? That is the question? What's the answer?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And Brad and Montana says the Big Bear Marcel Ozuna
Josh is going Blake Street Bombers andres Colara g as
the answer page down, stuttering Andre from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
We've got Grimace McDonald's Grimace from The Cowboy Killer Pops,
(38:09):
the legendary Willie Stargel guest by Matt the Warrior Raider
former as fan Jonathan ice cream Cake from ferg Cat Boo.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
The Eddie arca Burner account says the lady who said
He's not real is the answer. Omar Infante of the
Royals from the Late Night Drug Tester courtesy Flusher is
going with Vermont's Finest Arnie Spanier as the answer. Wally
in Florida says Michael Jack Schmidt, Stan the Man usual
(38:42):
guest by Jeff the Gangster Donald Trump from Bedito the
Cowboy fan Let's He Saw Man says it has to
be my favorite player as a kid.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
An FSR contributor David Justice, Yeah, I saw David's working
doing some work for the company with Rob Parker from
time to time.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
I did see that Spike Owen legend. I guess by
Alf the Alien Opiner. Do you have an answer, Eddie?
It is not George Washington guests by Jimmy from Maine.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
No, that's a silly guess. I'm gonna go with eighteen
ninety Major League batting Champion Jack Glasscock.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Wow, Eddie, it's interesting you use that name the way
you use it now, that's incorrect. It is also not
wow is not the case.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Carr Haller Army Softball Hall of Fame, Legend, Hall of
pretty good, He said, the correct answer is mister October
Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
Who went seventeen years and seventy eight days between between
hitting three homer games, but he's known as a three
homer guy Yankees Dodgers back in the day.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
All right, here we go, time now four the MLB.
Pickham Iowa, Sam, you were up first chapter.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
I'll take the big fish, Marlin Brexton, Garrett on the mound.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Brandon Woodrow for me, Cooper Lope, Garrett, Cole, Eddie back
to back.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
I'll take Spencer Strider and Matt Olson.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
All right, cool, Mookie Betts. Give me Bobby Witt Junior. Sam,
I'll take a hurry off. I held devers one more,
one more.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Bobby Witt.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
I just picked him.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I just picked him. You're now killing your alright. Anyone
picked Julio Rodriguez yet no I got him. Coople. I
got it in, We got it in, We got it
in the batter Too late, Eddie, too late. It's Ober
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