September 5, 2023 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the odds that Julio Urias pitches for the Dodgers ever again after his arrest for felony domestic violence, how this affects the team's playoff rotation, MLB Pick'em, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our one and we're talking baseball,
but really police blodder. Here in our number one big
story that will affect the baseball postseason a month from now,
involving the Dodgers. What are the odds that Julio Urias
will pitch again for the Dodgers? He was arrested over
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the Labor Day weekend. Considered one of the better Dodgers
starting pitchers. Also without Urias, what happens to that Dodgers
playoff rotation? And how does this arrest? Then? We believe
suspension no matter what, even if the charges are dropped,
he'll be suspended. What does this do in terms of
the impact on a future contract and free agency for
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Julio Arias, we'll talk about all of that. Also a
major league baseball player not on the Dodgers who pulled
the Samy Sosa excuse out of the bottom of the deck.
We'll talk about that as well. All of it coming
your way right now here. It is our number one
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police blutter. The postseason landscape altered on Labor Day, a
team that did not play did not play a game
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on Labor Day, leading the baseball news cycle for all
the wrong reasons. If you haven't heard by now, because
you were fattening up on delicious Labor Day foods when
you were not working, call this work. We were doing this.
But anyway, if you didn't hear about it, we learned
that the Los Angeles Dodgers are going to enter the
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rest of the season in the postseason, very likely without
the services of their starting pitcher of Julio Urias, as
he was arrested arrested on a late Sunday night on
a felony domestic violence charge in Los Angeles. It actually
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happened as I was doing my malar monologue to begin
the show. According to the police plotter, the arrest happened
right around the time we kicked off the Labor Day
show Sunday night into Monday morning. Now here's what we know.
Rias was arrested near the downtown soccer Dojo where Lionel
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Messi was entertaining the one percenters of Los Angeles. The
Hollywood crowd, the top athletes all showed up to watch
Inner Miami play in an MLS game against LAFC and
this was a host, so this was an FU to
the commoners. All the celebrities were out there in attendance.
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It made me want to puke. Well, TMZ tells us
that Arias was one of the celebrities out there, and
he and the alleged victim were in a crowd, a
mass of humanity. We think this happened right after the
game had and there were witnesses that claimed that they
saw Julio get a physical with the woman who is
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believed to be his significant other. The witness then contacted
the cops who then put Urias in some jewelry, some nice,
nice jewelry right there. It's called handcuffs, and he was
able to post five thousand dollars. Bill was released shortly
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before five am on Monday morning. According to the La
County Sheriff's Department, the booking records there that TMZ has
great access to. He's doing court on September twenty seventh date.
Dodgers have work scheduled that day, so there's a lot
to unpack in this one. We'll start with the baseball
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part of it and then we'll work away to the
other stuff. So let's discuss the question. We'll start with
the odds. What are the odds that Julio Rias pitches
again for the Dodgers. So I'm gonna set the Malard
Sportsbook odds on this at plus nine hundred, which implies
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about a ten percent chance. I think I'm going high
on that, about a ten percent chance. I've got the Swifties, Gorilla,
and Plexico, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make billable hours, which
our man, Julio Arias, will have plenty of in the
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coming days, weeks, months, and who knows, possibly years, a
lot of billable hours on this case. So a we
begin with the fact that the Dodger pitcher, who has
already visited the devil's playground, this is not his first
trip down this road. This is what's known as a
deja vu situation, not the gentlemen's club. As you look
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at the somewhat recent blotter, and Urias was suspended for
twenty games. In twenty nineteen, he was arrested on suspicion
of domestic battery. There was an incident that happened at
a very well known Los Angeles shopping center near the
Beverly Center in La But if you look at what happened,
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I went back and what I did because I'm a
loser and I have no life. I went back and
I looked at what happened in twenty nineteen, and then
I looked at what is alleged to have happened here
in twenty twenty three. And it's the same pattern of
events according to my notes, and my notes are never wrong.
Witnesses back in twenty nineteen said that Urrias shoved his
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girlfriend to the ground in the parking lot, but there
was no video of that incident, but it was the
witnesses that alerted the authorities there and there were no
physical injuries, so the case was dropped. The lady involved
than that covered for him. So there's a lot of
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unknowns as far as this one. Will whoever was involved
in this, we assume it's his significant other. Will they
cover for him? Again? Is their video of the incident?
Are there actually physical injuries? And there was a charge
of a felony, so you would assume there's some kind
of actual evidence. You'd like to think that now, if
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Julio Urias is shoving women in public, if this actually happened,
and we don't know for sure, we didn't see it,
but if it did happen the way it's being described here,
you wonder what else is going on there behind closed doors.
Either way, in terms of the baseball stuff, he's cooked.
This is a Swifty special. We are never getting back together.
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That's gonna be the Dodger message, a la Taylor Swift.
They're gonna play that to him, we are never getting
back together. Over recent years, for better or worse, the
Dodgers of a franchise have acted like the moral authority
on all of these issues. The greatest example this is
Trevor Bauer. As he had Sully the Dodger uniform, he
was exiled to Japan. The Dodgers are still paying Bauer
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twenty two and a half million dollars as he pitches
in Asia. Now. The difference here, Bauer was never charged
with a crime. A lot of people don't understand. He
was never charged with a crime. Police investigated for many,
many months, they had the case open, and they found
that they could not prosecute a crime. The Dodgers still
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washed their hands with Bauer, even though they would desperately
need him this season in their rotation. They still said,
we can't have this guy. He's Sully the Dodger brand. Now.
They stuck by Urias because he didn't have as big
a contract. I guess they figured things would work out
with him, and you know, you learn from your mistakes. Well,
if this is true the latest report, well he probably
didn't learn from his mistakes, but as of now he's
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facing a feling. The good news for Urias is he's
in Los Angele. Well, you can literally steal like nine
thousand dollars with his stuff and they'll just you know,
they'll let you do whatever you want and you can
commit all kinds of crime. And they have like a
turnstyle in La that you go in, you get your fingerprint,
take your mugshot, go out and pick up your stolen goods,
and go go rob some other store, go burglarize some
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other store. So but in terms of him, I mean,
as far as the Dodgers are concerned, legally, I don't
think he's in too much trouble because you can make
some kind of deal and you can work things out.
But he's also going to be a free agent after
the season, so you can cue the old Looney Tunes
Porky Pig. That's all, folks, that's it now Page two here. So,
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as far as the postseason for the Dodgers, assuming that
I'm right and Rios is not going to pitch in
the playoff rotation, so what does that do for the Dodgers'
playoff rotation. They're going to need to bring in the gorilla,
as in gorilla glue. They are literally and figuratively going
to have to glue together or maybe they can use
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some duct tape the starting rotation. Because another leak has
sprung here, for the Dodgers. You take Julio down by
the schoolyard out of the mix there or Rias is out,
and he was expected to be one of the key
figures in that rotation. Now he's been vaporized by apparently
his own doing and the Dodger postseason rotation. Unless I'm
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wrong on this, and I'm very rarely wrong, we'll have
Bobby Miller, who pitched well against the Braves on Sunday,
he would be he'd be my top option, Clayton Kershaw
at number two, lance Lynn serving up meatballs at number three,
and then after that bullpen game, bullpens slop, it's Dave
Roberts and the Nerds throwing together Hungary and Gulash. That's
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the reality it is. You've got flank, steak, onions, carrots, paprika, potatoes,
all the rest, which is less than ideal. But you
adapt or you die. That's the reality. All right, last
we'd here, So how does this impact? How does this
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impact the future? Financially for the picture I'm talking about. Legally,
he's likely not going to be in that much trouble
because you're rich. You've got an attorney. It's a good attorney.
He's in LA and they don't really care about criminals
in LA anymore. Ever, since twenty twenty, they stopped caring
about crime in Los Angeles. It's like Sodom and Gomora
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in many places. So obviously his stock is plummeting. This
is a nosedive situation, and it is a plexical Burrs special.
He shot himself in the foot. Arius was going to
enter the marketplace as a twenty seven year old free
agent pitcher with loads of big game experience, and now
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he's got double cooties, is what he's got. And you
can thin the herd certain teams who like to say, hey,
we know better than everyone else, and they're not getting
even bit on him. You assume the Dodgers are out
unless they change their position. The Red Sox I have
then on that list, so they're out. But teams like
the Yankees and the Mets and the Podres oh bit
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on them. They don't care that he's got this domestic
violence thing. But even if these charges vanish or are downgraded,
he's going to face a rather large suspension. He got
twenty games back in twenty nineteen, so now in the
eyes of baseball, even if he's these charges go away.
Baseball has proven they will still punish people even when
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they have not been charged with the crime. Power was
not charged with the crime. There have been other incidents
that were flimsy, but Baseball still ended up punishing. We
don't know if there's video or not. If there is video,
it will likely pop up on TMZ in the next
couple of days for a nice hefty check. But if
you look at some of the comps for Urias, you're
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looking at what half of next season where he would
be suspended, and by my calculation, he's cost himself in
the neighborhood of sixty plus million dollars in extra money,
extra money that would have been on the back end
of that contract. But we'll see what happens next in
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but he's not gonna lose as much as show. Hey Otani,
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Speaker 1 (14:54):
Listener Ryan writes in after a baseball heavy Mallar monologue,
the beginning in the night here the arrest of a
Dodgers starting pitcher, Julio Urias sa and Ryan says Rias
needs to hire the artist Shaggy for his defense counsel.
His defense should be it wasn't me, It was not me.
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Jason rights and says he enjoyed the Mallard monologue. Thank
you for that, Jason. Johnny James writes in not to
be confused with just mister James, But Johnny James says
he has nothing to add. Well said yapem in Chicago,
rights In says a Mallard a plus and a deep
dish pizza on the monologue. You Feme's in Chicago? How
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about that, Cody Bellinger and my cubbies, I see a
smooth ride to the NLCS to meet your Dwyers. Good
luck on that. What's in your pizza there, you feme?
What kind of toppings did you put on your pizza there?
What's under that tomato sauce? We might want to check.
Midnight Walker, one of the poets that listen to the show.
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He's in Syracuse, he says, one day you're wearing the
Dodger blue, making millions and having great fun. But once
you raise your hand to a woman, you'll soon be
deservedly done. What an idiot. It's from the mid Night Walker,
who writes in who else do we have? Page down
Big Cat Comics says Ryan Yarborough will get a run
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in the playoffs. At least he's got experence. He's pitched
well with the Dodgers since he came over. But I'm
not completely sold here. I'm not Supermarket Steve writes in
He says, it's incredible to see how the Dodgers, how
well the Dodgers have done over the last ten years,
with all the bad luck that you have had in
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your pitching staff. They mentioned Walker Bueler, who is coming back,
and Bueller could conceivably start in the playoffs. I don't
know how many innings he'd be able to pitch, though,
the way they baby pitchers and they still get hurt.
He mentions, Gonsolin grow a bunch of others there, Bauer
and Arias unable to stop beating women. Supermarket Steve points out, well,
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it's now twice in the span of four years. That's
somewhat troubling. Rick writes in the Rick Flair Tribute account
says Rob Manford should slap Arias with a two year suspension.
And yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't think. I don't
think that's gonna happen. In fact, I'll bet you he
gets suspended less than Trevor Bauer in terms of time.
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Missed the difference here, and you can't get past this
is Trevor Bauer was an outspoken critic of Rob Manford,
ripped apart the Commissioner of Baseball and also sued everybody.
And that is not the case with Julio. Julio has
not We've not heard his opinion of Rob Manford. He
hasn't criticized corporate baseball. So we'll see here. But if
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you look at some of the other suspensions, it's not
not particularly great. Let's go probably had something to do
with that too. Yeah, but there was no there was
no crime that was he wasn't even charged with the crime. Though,
what if the video on this, it doesn't, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
People the you know, in the court of public opinion,
people saw the images, they were horrified from it, and
then you know, baseball reacts.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, but I think it had more to do with
what Bauer had said about the commissioner. As an add on,
let's go to blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan in the
beautiful Pacific Northwest. Hello, blind Emmett? Did Blind Emmett fall asleep? See?
Where did blind Emmett go? I literally just talked to
him thirty seconds ago. I don't know. Maybe he had
to go get a snack. He might have been hungry
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or something like that. He wanted to go get a snack.
I will hang up on him. Uh, And that gives
us time here to get into the show. Hey, Otani
battle plan, So his agent. Otani's agent spoke to a
bunch of baseball scribes in Anaheim, the Angels playing out
the string as they are heading towards their eighth consecutive
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losing sea, which will be the longest stretch in franchise history.
And here's the big takeaway from Otani's agent. Now he
does not have Scott Boris as his agent. It's interesting
to know Scott Boris. You think Otani, you think, wow,
he must have Scott Boris his agent. No, no, no,
he's just not. Boris is not in the picture. On
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this one, and Otani's got a rather nondescript agent who
is representing him, who gave some mixed signals here. But
the one big takeaway is there's no question that Otani
will be a two way player going forward. There was
some chatter that Otani was just going to focus on
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being a hitter, because, let's face it, he's a okay pitcher.
He's a MVP level hitter. And a guy named Nez
Ballelo I believe is his name. I might be butchering
the name. A guy named Nez, I don't know's he's
from CIA. That's a big agency. It's a big, massive agency,
big conglomerate in the agency game. Anyway, this guy Nz
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down by the schoolyard. He spoke to reporters on Monday
afternoon in Anaheim said that Otani will be able to
hit at the start, at the very least, he'll be
able to hit at the start of next season. So
if you sign Oltani, he'll be hitting moonshots for whoever
team he's in, whichever team he signs with, and he
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is going to come back as a pitcher down the line. Now,
what about re signing with the Angels. This is a
theory that we cooked up right away that now that
Otani's hurt, he should sign a short term contract for
a year or two with the Angels, get back on
track in terms of helping his arm and the Tommy
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John surgery which he likely needs, and then re enter
the marketplace in a couple of years as a healthy
pitcher who does not have a torn UCL and a
healthy hitter. But the agent, while he would this guy Nez,
would not address hypotheticals. He said, I'm not getting into
specifics and all that. He says, I appreciate the question,
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but I'm not going to get into that right now.
God forbid. Yeah, he sounds just like that. It sounds
like a cartoon character Eddie, And he says, that's the
first thing, forthest thing from my mind. He said, let's
just deal with the immediate right now. Well, isn't the
immediate O Tani about to become a free agent. The
Angels are playing a much of meaningless games, So there
is also a scenario, he tossed out. While most think
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Tommy John surgery is possible, the agent also that in
the conversation with the media, the agent was speculating that
it might not be full Tommy John surgery. That they
could go the alternative route or route where they end
up using stem cell, and that's relatively new procedure and
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they could try that. I'll have to check with my
medical consultants on how effective that is. But the procedure
is much less invasive than Tommy John surgery. But even
though it has a shorter rehab, there is skepticism whether
it actually works in that you have that done and
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then eventually you still need the Tommy John surgery, so
you're just kicking the can down the road. But we'll
see whether Otani chooses to go with that or not.
It is an interesting, interesting story to keep an eye on,
and we'll certainly talk about this is a big story
this offseason when we get into the hot stove League
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News from the NFL and maybe not good news for
your Los Angeles Rams. Star wide receiver Cooper cup in
Minnesota on Monday to see.
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A juicy Lucy. Is that why he's in Minnesota?
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I think you wish. That's a good idea. If you're
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It doesn't seem like he's going to play anytime soon.
He can eat a lot of juicy loosy.
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It doesn't look like he's gonna play anytime soon. He's
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those of us that remember it's been a long time,
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around because they figured out, wait a minute, like these
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these home runs, and this is a joke. And so
they called a bunch of baseball player to Capitol Hill
in DC, there inside the Beltway, and they had them
testify about the steroids that were going on in Baseball
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and Rafael, Paul Merrill, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa were the
big headliners on that, but there were others as well
that were part of it. But the thing that stood
out in that chapter in baseball history is Sammy Sosa,
who was on a bunch of commercials and was again
I loved that big smile, full of personality. All of
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a sudden, Sammy Sosa right there. This goes way back
infamous home run race him and McGuire in nineteen ninety eight,
and Sammy Sosa hired an interpreter for the trial because
he suddenly could not speak English. Yeah, fascinating. He'd spoke,
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He spoke in English fine, right up until the time
that Congress wanted to talk to him. And suddenly, even
though he was very fluent in English, he needed a
interpreter at the congressional hearings. And it's one of the
hilarious stories in baseball history. I bring that up now
because in Anaheim we go back to anim The Angels blow,
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but man, are they good for content. They're really good
for content. So the Angels have a player who's supposed
to be a third baseman. He doesn't really play third base.
Named Anthony Rendon. This guy was a stud for the
Washington Nationals, helped him win the World Series, was wonderful,
and immediately stopped playing baseball all together. So he's been
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out for a good stretch of time, as has been
the norm in Anaheim. So the baseball Riders went up
to Anthony Rendon in the Angels clubhouse and they said, hey,
we would like a nice injury update. We would like
you to help us out. We need to put a
little note in the column we're putting on the blog.
And so Anthony Rendon, who is a season and major
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league baseball player, been around for many many years. Broke
into the major leagues in twenty thirteen, so he's been
around for a decade, right, a decade. This guy has
been around, and he's played for a bunch of teams
and the big Born in Houston, Texas, Yes, I went
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to Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. And Eddie, what
did our man Anthony mandon't say when asked for an
injury updated? Eddie? He said, go ahead, Eddie, you want
to say no today? Yes? Yes. He then put on
his hoodie and walked out of the clubhouse.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
What a dope?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
What aach hello today on there. Oh, oh, he's such
a schmuck. Oh it's so wonderful. Oh my god, I
gotta you. Then said some point, I gotta try that.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Oh that is, maybe I'll try it with my wife
if she said something I don't really like. No today,
put the hoodie on.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh, it's so wonderful. This guy's such an a hole.
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Oh when he gets the checking rebout, I can I
guarantee you that.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
This guy has been he's guilty of racketeering, extortion with
I don't know whatever term you want to use with
the Angels there, because since signing in Anaheim, he left
the Nationals after the World Series twenty nineteen. He's now
played a total since twenty twenty, including twenty twenty, twenty
twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three. That's four
years they play. I know in twenty twenty they played
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a shortened season, but since then they played the full schedule.
He's played two hundred total games as an Angel. Two
hundred total games as an Angel, and uh, he's suddenly
forgotten how to speaking. Oh my god, is that a
great sorry? And these Angels signed hip to a seven
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year contract. That that means if my my mind is
working properly. I don't know that it is. The Angels
still have him under contract for another three seasons at
thirty eight million dollars per season. The guy can't play,
doesn't want to play, and he has a full note
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trade clause to oh, that is financial incompetence. That it's
negligence by the Angels and by Anthony Rendon. Go ahead, Coop,
defend your guy. Go ahead, defend your guy, Coop, go ahead,
don't mean Coop talk about this.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
That's not leave him alone.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
He's pulling a Kawhi. H. There you go. That's your
your pushback. He's playing well. The difference is Kawhi led
the Clippers to the final four. Anthony Rendon has not
been able to Angel. Yes, oh the final four. They're
playing in the NC Double all the Clippers. Again, this
is not about the Clippers. I know that's a non
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sequitor of Cooper. You've shifted to the Clippers. I want
to come after me. Yeah, I'll come after you. You know,
it would be great if somebody went up to Scott Boris,
because this is a Boris guy, and Boris always has
an excuse for his clients. Right, Cody Bellinger was stealing
money for two years with the Dodgers, and and Boris
had the balls to blame the Dodgers when this guy
was a thief. What's it he's gonna blame You think
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he'll blame the Angels. He'll blame somebody in the training
staff with the Angels. It's all his fault that he's
not healthy. Blah blah blah blah blah. Such a wonderful story.
Oh man, oh I forgot how to speak the language. Okay.
Grew up in Houston, went to high school in Houston,
went to college at Rice. Suddenly forgot the language. Man,
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Is that good? All right? It is the Ben Mahlords show.
As we press on and all on and on, we'll
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I was the last? Now holds the last player manager.
The last player manager in the National League was Pete Rose,
and also the last player manager in all of Major
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eighty six. I was the last American League player manager.
Pete Rose was the last in the National League, but
I was the last American League player manager, Who am
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last player manager in Big league based was a National
League guy, Pete Rose way back before our time in
nineteen eighty six with the Cincinnati Reds. I was the
last American league player manager. Who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? Tony says, ex Red Sox, Reds,
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Giants and Dodgers, glue guy Todd Benzinger. I just like
the fact that you remember Todd Benzinger, Tony, That's wonderful.
Jake Taylor guests by Justin and Omaha Mallard. Prop guy
checks in with Frank Robinson the same answer as Owen.
Who else do we have? Page down? Rick Rushell from
Donkey Sausage. Who else do we have? Can't read that
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on there? Carlton Fisk guessed by Rob in Minnesota, Von
Joshua from Seawan in the Valley of the Son, Chris
in Des moin going with one of my favorite players
who was ahead of his time for the old Milwaukee
Brewers in the nineteen eighties, Rob Dear Rob Deer would
have made so much money if he was playing today,
because look look around, and there's a bunch of guys
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like Rob De're all over the place. Hamilton ham Porter
guests by Big greg Or pal and Iowa. Who else
do we have? I can't read that? Jim Cornett guess
by courtesy Flusher. We've got Matthew Matt's Matt from Flint
the Breadman saying Buddy Bell as his answer. And Yogi
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bearra guess by Sean in Portland. Hugh Hefner from The
Cowboy Killer Fergcat says Sam the Eagle is the answer.
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota checks in with Larry Doby. Who
else do we have? I can't read that? We'll go
Frank Robinson guest by Matthew Warrior Raider A's fan, Jay
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Scoop the Great Jay Scoop from Just Josh in Cincinnati,
Sir Trash Panda from Shane of des Moines. Eddie, do
you have an answer? Eddie? We'll have time for a call.
By the way, do you have an answer.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It was Frank Robinson as well.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
It is not. The last American League player manager was
Don Kessinger, who was at the Helm and on the
field for the nineteen seventy nine Chicago White Sox. It
is Don Kessinger. Put that in your pipe and smoke.
Let's go to Eric, who's on Long Island. What's going on? Eric? Welcome,
You're on the Ben Mahler Show on Fox. Apparently Eric
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has hung up. That's unfortunate. Wait for my board to
be reset here eight seven, seven ninety nine on five.
You coolpad labor day off, so it's a little little
rusty here coming back from the labor day. But we'll
get the calls.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
You know, we could actually just instead of rushing, we
could just go straight to the pick em.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Nah. This way too much time, Way too much time
for the MLB pickum. The MLB pickham is designed to
be lean and mean and quick, kind of like Lionel
Messi's bodyguard who ran out on the field. Although he
people are praising Lionel Messi's bodyguard. The video went viral
after the game on Sunday because some guy ran out
in the field to try to get close to Messi
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at that MLS game. But people were like, well it
was you know, he did a great job. He spread
it out there. But the guy didn't make contact with Messi,
so he could have done some damage. This bodyguard who's
become internet famous as he is all over the all
over the place because he follows Messi around wherever Lionel
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Messi goes. This guy's obviously his shadow. And I didn't
see him in the grocery store though, when when Messi
was buying cereal, I didn't see it. But there were
people like, well, this guy should be playing in the
professional sports world. He's that quick after he ran out
in the field and all that. But again the fan
did get close and make some contact with Messi if
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you went, if you go back and look at the
the video, and the guy's a former Navy seal and
MMA fighter and all that. I don't think you make
that much money as a Navy seal. I think the
reason you become a Navy seal is just so you
can brag that you were a Navy seal and you
can make some money and all that afterwards. But that
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video did go viral of the guy running out onto
the pitch there and he follows Messi around. We talked
about this guy a couple of weeks back. But the
guy did he made it there. But the guy did
touch Messi first. And then after that the police came over.
I think they were the police, and they were a
little late to the party. So anyway, all right, let's
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get to it now. We go, no calls, who cares,
we don't need calls. Let's go to it. Let's take
the MLB Pickham and I am going first. Thanks to
the man of Steel for the Chicago Cubs yesterday. A brilliant,
brilliant pitching performance.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
He made himself the first coop yesterday. By the way,
probably didn't that.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Was the rule. Well, they did not have the order,
and that's the way we work, how we work. Oh wow,
Eddie really taking a shot at Shaye. What did he
do to you? By the way, I heard some I
heard some gossip that that that Philly guy's leaving about that.
Did you hear that team Philly leaving? Yeah, the Philly guy,
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the comedian guy, he's out of Here's that one of
the producers. Yeah, you don't even know these guys names.
That's it's it's like the guys that.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
You and I are the grizzled war veterans. These young
rookies come in, they get knocked off. Why learn their name,
They're just gonna get shot. We're survivors.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
That's a fair point, Eddie. This guy was barely here.
He's already gone. It's wild all right. Anyway, here we go.
I'm going to the first team Ouse surprise first pick,
Garrett Cole of the Yankees. All right, Eddie, go ahead,
Eddie Clayton, Coop, Let's do hurry up, Chop chop zach
effln Okay, that's a terrible pick. Mark the back to
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back from Chicago, Mark Lou Whittaker, Davey Lopes, Lou Whittaker,
Sweet Lou Whittaker, and Alan Tramil Coope, go ahead, Coop,
Let's go Eddie, Garcia, Trey Turner, alright, dog Mookie Betts.
And I'll take Ronald Lacuna Junior as well from the
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Atlanta Braves Eddie Pete Alonso, all right, Cooper, Lou, Kyle Tucker.
And with the final pick bringing up the rear, Mark,
who will Mark pick nineteen seventies, nineteen eighties, will he go?
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Nineties?
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Will he go? A modern player America is dying, and oh,
here we go. Mark Catfish Hunter, catfish one of the
all time great nicknames, catfish hunter. Right, do you know
what his first name.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Was, Eddie?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
No, it was a Jim Catfish Huns. Yeah, it was
Jim Jim Hunter, but we just knew him as Catfish.
That's great. Is there anyone right now known by their
nickname and not their real name? Not a lot of people. Well, yeah,
Hello and welcome. It's our one and we're talking baseball,
but really police blodder. Here in our number one big
story that will affect the baseball postseason a month from now,
involving the Dodgers. What are the odds that Julio Urias
will pitch again for the Dodgers? He was arrested over
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the Labor Day weekend. Considered one of the better Dodgers
starting pitchers. Also without Urias, what happens to that Dodgers
playoff rotation? And how does this arrest? Then? We believe
suspension no matter what, even if the charges are dropped,
he'll be suspended. What does this do in terms of
the impact on a future contract and free agency for
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Julio Arias, we'll talk about all of that. Also a
major league baseball player not on the Dodgers who pulled
the Samy Sosa excuse out of the bottom of the deck.
We'll talk about that as well. All of it coming
your way right now here. It is our number one
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police blutter. The postseason landscape altered on Labor Day, a
team that did not play did not play a game
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on Labor Day, leading the baseball news cycle for all
the wrong reasons. If you haven't heard by now, because
you were fattening up on delicious Labor Day foods when
you were not working, call this work. We were doing this.
But anyway, if you didn't hear about it, we learned
that the Los Angeles Dodgers are going to enter the
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rest of the season in the postseason, very likely without
the services of their starting pitcher of Julio Urias, as
he was arrested arrested on a late Sunday night on
a felony domestic violence charge in Los Angeles. It actually
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happened as I was doing my malar monologue to begin
the show. According to the police plotter, the arrest happened
right around the time we kicked off the Labor Day
show Sunday night into Monday morning. Now here's what we know.
Rias was arrested near the downtown soccer Dojo where Lionel
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Messi was entertaining the one percenters of Los Angeles. The
Hollywood crowd, the top athletes all showed up to watch
Inner Miami play in an MLS game against LAFC and
this was a host, so this was an FU to
the commoners. All the celebrities were out there in attendance.
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It made me want to puke. Well, TMZ tells us
that Arias was one of the celebrities out there, and
he and the alleged victim were in a crowd, a
mass of humanity. We think this happened right after the
game had and there were witnesses that claimed that they
saw Julio get a physical with the woman who is
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believed to be his significant other. The witness then contacted
the cops who then put Urias in some jewelry, some nice,
nice jewelry right there. It's called handcuffs, and he was
able to post five thousand dollars. Bill was released shortly
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before five am on Monday morning. According to the La
County Sheriff's Department, the booking records there that TMZ has
great access to. He's doing court on September twenty seventh date.
Dodgers have work scheduled that day, so there's a lot
to unpack in this one. We'll start with the baseball
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part of it and then we'll work away to the
other stuff. So let's discuss the question. We'll start with
the odds. What are the odds that Julio Rias pitches
again for the Dodgers. So I'm gonna set the Malard
Sportsbook odds on this at plus nine hundred, which implies
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about a ten percent chance. I think I'm going high
on that, about a ten percent chance. I've got the Swifties, Gorilla,
and Plexico, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make billable hours, which
our man, Julio Arias, will have plenty of in the
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coming days, weeks, months, and who knows, possibly years, a
lot of billable hours on this case. So a we
begin with the fact that the Dodger pitcher, who has
already visited the devil's playground, this is not his first
trip down this road. This is what's known as a
deja vu situation, not the gentlemen's club. As you look
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at the somewhat recent blotter, and Urias was suspended for
twenty games. In twenty nineteen, he was arrested on suspicion
of domestic battery. There was an incident that happened at
a very well known Los Angeles shopping center near the
Beverly Center in La But if you look at what happened,
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I went back and what I did because I'm a
loser and I have no life. I went back and
I looked at what happened in twenty nineteen, and then
I looked at what is alleged to have happened here
in twenty twenty three. And it's the same pattern of
events according to my notes, and my notes are never wrong.
Witnesses back in twenty nineteen said that Urrias shoved his
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girlfriend to the ground in the parking lot, but there
was no video of that incident, but it was the
witnesses that alerted the authorities there and there were no
physical injuries, so the case was dropped. The lady involved
than that covered for him. So there's a lot of
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unknowns as far as this one. Will whoever was involved
in this, we assume it's his significant other. Will they
cover for him? Again? Is their video of the incident?
Are there actually physical injuries? And there was a charge
of a felony, so you would assume there's some kind
of actual evidence. You'd like to think that now, if
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Julio Urias is shoving women in public, if this actually happened,
and we don't know for sure, we didn't see it,
but if it did happen the way it's being described here,
you wonder what else is going on there behind closed doors.
Either way, in terms of the baseball stuff, he's cooked.
This is a Swifty special. We are never getting back together.
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That's gonna be the Dodger message, a la Taylor Swift.
They're gonna play that to him, we are never getting
back together. Over recent years, for better or worse, the
Dodgers of a franchise have acted like the moral authority
on all of these issues. The greatest example this is
Trevor Bauer. As he had Sully the Dodger uniform, he
was exiled to Japan. The Dodgers are still paying Bauer
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twenty two and a half million dollars as he pitches
in Asia. Now. The difference here, Bauer was never charged
with a crime. A lot of people don't understand. He
was never charged with a crime. Police investigated for many,
many months, they had the case open, and they found
that they could not prosecute a crime. The Dodgers still
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washed their hands with Bauer, even though they would desperately
need him this season in their rotation. They still said,
we can't have this guy. He's Sully the Dodger brand. Now.
They stuck by Urias because he didn't have as big
a contract. I guess they figured things would work out
with him, and you know, you learn from your mistakes. Well,
if this is true the latest report, well he probably
didn't learn from his mistakes, but as of now he's
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facing a feling. The good news for Urias is he's
in Los Angele. Well, you can literally steal like nine
thousand dollars with his stuff and they'll just you know,
they'll let you do whatever you want and you can
commit all kinds of crime. And they have like a
turnstyle in La that you go in, you get your fingerprint,
take your mugshot, go out and pick up your stolen goods,
and go go rob some other store, go burglarize some
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other store. So but in terms of him, I mean,
as far as the Dodgers are concerned, legally, I don't
think he's in too much trouble because you can make
some kind of deal and you can work things out.
But he's also going to be a free agent after
the season, so you can cue the old Looney Tunes
Porky Pig. That's all, folks, that's it now Page two here. So,
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as far as the postseason for the Dodgers, assuming that
I'm right and Rios is not going to pitch in
the playoff rotation, so what does that do for the Dodgers'
playoff rotation. They're going to need to bring in the gorilla,
as in gorilla glue. They are literally and figuratively going
to have to glue together or maybe they can use
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some duct tape the starting rotation. Because another leak has
sprung here, for the Dodgers. You take Julio down by
the schoolyard out of the mix there or Rias is out,
and he was expected to be one of the key
figures in that rotation. Now he's been vaporized by apparently
his own doing and the Dodger postseason rotation. Unless I'm
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wrong on this, and I'm very rarely wrong, we'll have
Bobby Miller, who pitched well against the Braves on Sunday,
he would be he'd be my top option, Clayton Kershaw
at number two, lance Lynn serving up meatballs at number three,
and then after that bullpen game, bullpens slop, it's Dave
Roberts and the Nerds throwing together Hungary and Gulash. That's
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the reality it is. You've got flank, steak, onions, carrots, paprika, potatoes,
all the rest, which is less than ideal. But you
adapt or you die. That's the reality. All right, last
we'd here, So how does this impact? How does this
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impact the future? Financially for the picture I'm talking about. Legally,
he's likely not going to be in that much trouble
because you're rich. You've got an attorney. It's a good attorney.
He's in LA and they don't really care about criminals
in LA anymore. Ever, since twenty twenty, they stopped caring
about crime in Los Angeles. It's like Sodom and Gomora
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in many places. So obviously his stock is plummeting. This
is a nosedive situation, and it is a plexical Burrs special.
He shot himself in the foot. Arius was going to
enter the marketplace as a twenty seven year old free
agent pitcher with loads of big game experience, and now
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he's got double cooties, is what he's got. And you
can thin the herd certain teams who like to say, hey,
we know better than everyone else, and they're not getting
even bit on him. You assume the Dodgers are out
unless they change their position. The Red Sox I have
then on that list, so they're out. But teams like
the Yankees and the Mets and the Podres oh bit
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on them. They don't care that he's got this domestic
violence thing. But even if these charges vanish or are downgraded,
he's going to face a rather large suspension. He got
twenty games back in twenty nineteen, so now in the
eyes of baseball, even if he's these charges go away.
Baseball has proven they will still punish people even when
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they have not been charged with the crime. Power was
not charged with the crime. There have been other incidents
that were flimsy, but Baseball still ended up punishing. We
don't know if there's video or not. If there is video,
it will likely pop up on TMZ in the next
couple of days for a nice hefty check. But if
you look at some of the comps for Urias, you're
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looking at what half of next season where he would
be suspended, and by my calculation, he's cost himself in
the neighborhood of sixty plus million dollars in extra money,
extra money that would have been on the back end
of that contract. But we'll see what happens next in
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this particular story. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
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y nine. I mentioned that Arios is losing a bunch
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of money in potential free agency in terms of the bonanza,
but he's not gonna lose as much as show. Hey Otani,
there's some new information out tonight about the battle plan
for showtime and the strategy entering the free agent marketplace
for the big Kahuna who's Late of the Angels, And
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Speaker 1 (14:54):
Listener Ryan writes in after a baseball heavy Mallar monologue,
the beginning in the night here the arrest of a
Dodgers starting pitcher, Julio Urias sa and Ryan says Rias
needs to hire the artist Shaggy for his defense counsel.
His defense should be it wasn't me, It was not me.
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Jason rights and says he enjoyed the Mallard monologue. Thank
you for that, Jason. Johnny James writes in not to
be confused with just mister James, But Johnny James says
he has nothing to add. Well said yapem in Chicago,
rights In says a Mallard a plus and a deep
dish pizza on the monologue. You Feme's in Chicago? How
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about that, Cody Bellinger and my cubbies, I see a
smooth ride to the NLCS to meet your Dwyers. Good
luck on that. What's in your pizza there, you feme?
What kind of toppings did you put on your pizza there?
What's under that tomato sauce? We might want to check.
Midnight Walker, one of the poets that listen to the show.
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He's in Syracuse, he says, one day you're wearing the
Dodger blue, making millions and having great fun. But once
you raise your hand to a woman, you'll soon be
deservedly done. What an idiot. It's from the mid Night Walker,
who writes in who else do we have? Page down
Big Cat Comics says Ryan Yarborough will get a run
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in the playoffs. At least he's got experence. He's pitched
well with the Dodgers since he came over. But I'm
not completely sold here. I'm not Supermarket Steve writes in
He says, it's incredible to see how the Dodgers, how
well the Dodgers have done over the last ten years,
with all the bad luck that you have had in
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your pitching staff. They mentioned Walker Bueler, who is coming back,
and Bueller could conceivably start in the playoffs. I don't
know how many innings he'd be able to pitch, though,
the way they baby pitchers and they still get hurt.
He mentions, Gonsolin grow a bunch of others there, Bauer
and Arias unable to stop beating women. Supermarket Steve points out, well,
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it's now twice in the span of four years. That's
somewhat troubling. Rick writes in the Rick Flair Tribute account
says Rob Manford should slap Arias with a two year suspension.
And yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't think. I don't
think that's gonna happen. In fact, I'll bet you he
gets suspended less than Trevor Bauer in terms of time.
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Missed the difference here, and you can't get past this
is Trevor Bauer was an outspoken critic of Rob Manford,
ripped apart the Commissioner of Baseball and also sued everybody.
And that is not the case with Julio. Julio has
not We've not heard his opinion of Rob Manford. He
hasn't criticized corporate baseball. So we'll see here. But if
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you look at some of the other suspensions, it's not
not particularly great. Let's go probably had something to do
with that too. Yeah, but there was no there was
no crime that was he wasn't even charged with the crime. Though,
what if the video on this, it doesn't, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
People the you know, in the court of public opinion,
people saw the images, they were horrified from it, and
then you know, baseball reacts.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, but I think it had more to do with
what Bauer had said about the commissioner. As an add on,
let's go to blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan in the
beautiful Pacific Northwest. Hello, blind Emmett? Did Blind Emmett fall asleep? See?
Where did blind Emmett go? I literally just talked to
him thirty seconds ago. I don't know. Maybe he had
to go get a snack. He might have been hungry
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or something like that. He wanted to go get a snack.
I will hang up on him. Uh, And that gives
us time here to get into the show. Hey, Otani
battle plan, So his agent. Otani's agent spoke to a
bunch of baseball scribes in Anaheim, the Angels playing out
the string as they are heading towards their eighth consecutive
(18:59):
losing sea, which will be the longest stretch in franchise history.
And here's the big takeaway from Otani's agent. Now he
does not have Scott Boris as his agent. It's interesting
to know Scott Boris. You think Otani, you think, wow,
he must have Scott Boris his agent. No, no, no,
he's just not. Boris is not in the picture. On
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this one, and Otani's got a rather nondescript agent who
is representing him, who gave some mixed signals here. But
the one big takeaway is there's no question that Otani
will be a two way player going forward. There was
some chatter that Otani was just going to focus on
(19:40):
being a hitter, because, let's face it, he's a okay pitcher.
He's a MVP level hitter. And a guy named Nez
Ballelo I believe is his name. I might be butchering
the name. A guy named Nez, I don't know's he's
from CIA. That's a big agency. It's a big, massive agency,
big conglomerate in the agency game. Anyway, this guy Nz
(20:03):
down by the schoolyard. He spoke to reporters on Monday
afternoon in Anaheim said that Otani will be able to
hit at the start, at the very least, he'll be
able to hit at the start of next season. So
if you sign Oltani, he'll be hitting moonshots for whoever
team he's in, whichever team he signs with, and he
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is going to come back as a pitcher down the line. Now,
what about re signing with the Angels. This is a
theory that we cooked up right away that now that
Otani's hurt, he should sign a short term contract for
a year or two with the Angels, get back on
track in terms of helping his arm and the Tommy
(20:45):
John surgery which he likely needs, and then re enter
the marketplace in a couple of years as a healthy
pitcher who does not have a torn UCL and a
healthy hitter. But the agent, while he would this guy Nez,
would not address hypotheticals. He said, I'm not getting into
specifics and all that. He says, I appreciate the question,
(21:08):
but I'm not going to get into that right now.
God forbid. Yeah, he sounds just like that. It sounds
like a cartoon character Eddie, And he says, that's the
first thing, forthest thing from my mind. He said, let's
just deal with the immediate right now. Well, isn't the
immediate O Tani about to become a free agent. The
Angels are playing a much of meaningless games, So there
is also a scenario, he tossed out. While most think
(21:31):
Tommy John surgery is possible, the agent also that in
the conversation with the media, the agent was speculating that
it might not be full Tommy John surgery. That they
could go the alternative route or route where they end
up using stem cell, and that's relatively new procedure and
(21:55):
they could try that. I'll have to check with my
medical consultants on how effective that is. But the procedure
is much less invasive than Tommy John surgery. But even
though it has a shorter rehab, there is skepticism whether
it actually works in that you have that done and
(22:15):
then eventually you still need the Tommy John surgery, so
you're just kicking the can down the road. But we'll
see whether Otani chooses to go with that or not.
It is an interesting, interesting story to keep an eye on,
and we'll certainly talk about this is a big story
this offseason when we get into the hot stove League
(22:36):
in baseball.
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your Los Angeles Rams. Star wide receiver Cooper cup in
Minnesota on Monday to see.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
A juicy Lucy. Is that why he's in Minnesota?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I think you wish. That's a good idea. If you're
going to go to Minnesota, you should do that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It doesn't seem like he's going to play anytime soon.
He can eat a lot of juicy loosy.
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It doesn't look like he's gonna play anytime soon. He's
checking getting checked out for his hamstring issue. He had
a setback in his recovery this week, so the former
Offensive Player of the Year in the NFL Super Bowl
MVP unlikely to start the season for the Rams, who
will be in Seattle for Week one of the NFL season.
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those of us that remember it's been a long time,
there was a very popular baseball player for the Chicago
Cubs named Sammy Sosa. This guy had an electric smile,
an electric bat. Samy Sosa was just beloved you a
bunch of home runs. He was at one of the stars,
one of the big stars of the steroid here. And
then when the people over on Capitol Hill started snooping
(24:49):
around because they figured out, wait a minute, like these
guys are all frauds. They're all on steroids hitting all
these home runs, and this is a joke. And so
they called a bunch of baseball player to Capitol Hill
in DC, there inside the Beltway, and they had them
testify about the steroids that were going on in Baseball
(25:12):
and Rafael, Paul Merrill, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa were the
big headliners on that, but there were others as well
that were part of it. But the thing that stood
out in that chapter in baseball history is Sammy Sosa,
who was on a bunch of commercials and was again
I loved that big smile, full of personality. All of
(25:34):
a sudden, Sammy Sosa right there. This goes way back
infamous home run race him and McGuire in nineteen ninety eight,
and Sammy Sosa hired an interpreter for the trial because
he suddenly could not speak English. Yeah, fascinating. He'd spoke,
(25:58):
He spoke in English fine, right up until the time
that Congress wanted to talk to him. And suddenly, even
though he was very fluent in English, he needed a
interpreter at the congressional hearings. And it's one of the
hilarious stories in baseball history. I bring that up now
because in Anaheim we go back to anim The Angels blow,
(26:18):
but man, are they good for content. They're really good
for content. So the Angels have a player who's supposed
to be a third baseman. He doesn't really play third base.
Named Anthony Rendon. This guy was a stud for the
Washington Nationals, helped him win the World Series, was wonderful,
and immediately stopped playing baseball all together. So he's been
(26:39):
out for a good stretch of time, as has been
the norm in Anaheim. So the baseball Riders went up
to Anthony Rendon in the Angels clubhouse and they said, hey,
we would like a nice injury update. We would like
you to help us out. We need to put a
little note in the column we're putting on the blog.
And so Anthony Rendon, who is a season and major
(27:01):
league baseball player, been around for many many years. Broke
into the major leagues in twenty thirteen, so he's been
around for a decade, right, a decade. This guy has
been around, and he's played for a bunch of teams
and the big Born in Houston, Texas, Yes, I went
(27:22):
to Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. And Eddie, what
did our man Anthony mandon't say when asked for an
injury updated? Eddie? He said, go ahead, Eddie, you want
to say no today? Yes? Yes. He then put on
his hoodie and walked out of the clubhouse.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
What a dope?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
What aach hello today on there. Oh, oh, he's such
a schmuck. Oh it's so wonderful. Oh my god, I
gotta you. Then said some point, I gotta try that.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Oh that is, maybe I'll try it with my wife
if she said something I don't really like. No today,
put the hoodie on.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh, it's so wonderful. This guy's such an a hole.
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Oh when he gets the checking rebout, I can I
guarantee you that.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
This guy has been he's guilty of racketeering, extortion with
I don't know whatever term you want to use with
the Angels there, because since signing in Anaheim, he left
the Nationals after the World Series twenty nineteen. He's now
played a total since twenty twenty, including twenty twenty, twenty
twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three. That's four
years they play. I know in twenty twenty they played
(28:41):
a shortened season, but since then they played the full schedule.
He's played two hundred total games as an Angel. Two
hundred total games as an Angel, and uh, he's suddenly
forgotten how to speaking. Oh my god, is that a
great sorry? And these Angels signed hip to a seven
(29:02):
year contract. That that means if my my mind is
working properly. I don't know that it is. The Angels
still have him under contract for another three seasons at
thirty eight million dollars per season. The guy can't play,
doesn't want to play, and he has a full note
(29:24):
trade clause to oh, that is financial incompetence. That it's
negligence by the Angels and by Anthony Rendon. Go ahead, Coop,
defend your guy. Go ahead, defend your guy, Coop, go ahead,
don't mean Coop talk about this.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
That's not leave him alone.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
He's pulling a Kawhi. H. There you go. That's your
your pushback. He's playing well. The difference is Kawhi led
the Clippers to the final four. Anthony Rendon has not
been able to Angel. Yes, oh the final four. They're
playing in the NC Double all the Clippers. Again, this
is not about the Clippers. I know that's a non
(30:08):
sequitor of Cooper. You've shifted to the Clippers. I want
to come after me. Yeah, I'll come after you. You know,
it would be great if somebody went up to Scott Boris,
because this is a Boris guy, and Boris always has
an excuse for his clients. Right, Cody Bellinger was stealing
money for two years with the Dodgers, and and Boris
had the balls to blame the Dodgers when this guy
was a thief. What's it he's gonna blame You think
(30:29):
he'll blame the Angels. He'll blame somebody in the training
staff with the Angels. It's all his fault that he's
not healthy. Blah blah blah blah blah. Such a wonderful story.
Oh man, oh I forgot how to speak the language. Okay.
Grew up in Houston, went to high school in Houston,
went to college at Rice. Suddenly forgot the language. Man,
(30:54):
Is that good? All right? It is the Ben Mahlords show.
As we press on and all on and on, we'll
have the MLB pick him. Here's the who am I game? Now?
I was the last? Now holds the last player manager.
The last player manager in the National League was Pete Rose,
and also the last player manager in all of Major
(31:14):
League Baseball with the Cincinnati Reds way back in nineteen
eighty six. I was the last American League player manager.
Pete Rose was the last in the National League, but
I was the last American League player manager, Who am
I the answer? We'll get to it and we will
do it next.
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Speaker 2 (32:14):
And time now for the.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Game?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
This is where I pretend to be somebody else. Thus
we call it the who am I Game? It's a
simple concept. Who and here we go? Do you know
the answer? By the way, before I give you the
who am I?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Game?
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and we'll see if you know the answer. So the
last player manager in Big league based was a National
League guy, Pete Rose way back before our time in
nineteen eighty six with the Cincinnati Reds. I was the
last American league player manager. Who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? Tony says, ex Red Sox, Reds,
(33:19):
Giants and Dodgers, glue guy Todd Benzinger. I just like
the fact that you remember Todd Benzinger, Tony, That's wonderful.
Jake Taylor guests by Justin and Omaha Mallard. Prop guy
checks in with Frank Robinson the same answer as Owen.
Who else do we have? Page down? Rick Rushell from
Donkey Sausage. Who else do we have? Can't read that
(33:41):
on there? Carlton Fisk guessed by Rob in Minnesota, Von
Joshua from Seawan in the Valley of the Son, Chris
in Des moin going with one of my favorite players
who was ahead of his time for the old Milwaukee
Brewers in the nineteen eighties, Rob Dear Rob Deer would
have made so much money if he was playing today,
because look look around, and there's a bunch of guys
(34:04):
like Rob De're all over the place. Hamilton ham Porter
guests by Big greg Or pal and Iowa. Who else
do we have? I can't read that? Jim Cornett guess
by courtesy Flusher. We've got Matthew Matt's Matt from Flint
the Breadman saying Buddy Bell as his answer. And Yogi
(34:24):
bearra guess by Sean in Portland. Hugh Hefner from The
Cowboy Killer Fergcat says Sam the Eagle is the answer.
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota checks in with Larry Doby. Who
else do we have? I can't read that? We'll go
Frank Robinson guest by Matthew Warrior Raider A's fan, Jay
(34:48):
Scoop the Great Jay Scoop from Just Josh in Cincinnati,
Sir Trash Panda from Shane of des Moines. Eddie, do
you have an answer? Eddie? We'll have time for a call.
By the way, do you have an answer.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
It was Frank Robinson as well.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
It is not. The last American League player manager was
Don Kessinger, who was at the Helm and on the
field for the nineteen seventy nine Chicago White Sox. It
is Don Kessinger. Put that in your pipe and smoke.
Let's go to Eric, who's on Long Island. What's going on? Eric? Welcome,
You're on the Ben Mahler Show on Fox. Apparently Eric
(35:30):
has hung up. That's unfortunate. Wait for my board to
be reset here eight seven, seven ninety nine on five.
You coolpad labor day off, so it's a little little
rusty here coming back from the labor day. But we'll
get the calls.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
You know, we could actually just instead of rushing, we
could just go straight to the pick em.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Nah. This way too much time, Way too much time
for the MLB pickum. The MLB pickham is designed to
be lean and mean and quick, kind of like Lionel
Messi's bodyguard who ran out on the field. Although he
people are praising Lionel Messi's bodyguard. The video went viral
after the game on Sunday because some guy ran out
in the field to try to get close to Messi
(36:13):
at that MLS game. But people were like, well it
was you know, he did a great job. He spread
it out there. But the guy didn't make contact with Messi,
so he could have done some damage. This bodyguard who's
become internet famous as he is all over the all
over the place because he follows Messi around wherever Lionel
(36:34):
Messi goes. This guy's obviously his shadow. And I didn't
see him in the grocery store though, when when Messi
was buying cereal, I didn't see it. But there were
people like, well, this guy should be playing in the
professional sports world. He's that quick after he ran out
in the field and all that. But again the fan
did get close and make some contact with Messi if
(36:56):
you went, if you go back and look at the
the video, and the guy's a former Navy seal and
MMA fighter and all that. I don't think you make
that much money as a Navy seal. I think the
reason you become a Navy seal is just so you
can brag that you were a Navy seal and you
can make some money and all that afterwards. But that
(37:18):
video did go viral of the guy running out onto
the pitch there and he follows Messi around. We talked
about this guy a couple of weeks back. But the
guy did he made it there. But the guy did
touch Messi first. And then after that the police came over.
I think they were the police, and they were a
little late to the party. So anyway, all right, let's
(37:40):
get to it now. We go, no calls, who cares,
we don't need calls. Let's go to it. Let's take
the MLB Pickham and I am going first. Thanks to
the man of Steel for the Chicago Cubs yesterday. A brilliant,
brilliant pitching performance.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
He made himself the first coop yesterday. By the way,
probably didn't that.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Was the rule. Well, they did not have the order,
and that's the way we work, how we work. Oh wow,
Eddie really taking a shot at Shaye. What did he
do to you? By the way, I heard some I
heard some gossip that that that Philly guy's leaving about that.
Did you hear that team Philly leaving? Yeah, the Philly guy,
(38:24):
the comedian guy, he's out of Here's that one of
the producers. Yeah, you don't even know these guys names.
That's it's it's like the guys that.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
You and I are the grizzled war veterans. These young
rookies come in, they get knocked off. Why learn their name,
They're just gonna get shot. We're survivors.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
That's a fair point, Eddie. This guy was barely here.
He's already gone. It's wild all right. Anyway, here we go.
I'm going to the first team Ouse surprise first pick,
Garrett Cole of the Yankees. All right, Eddie, go ahead,
Eddie Clayton, Coop, Let's do hurry up, Chop chop zach
effln Okay, that's a terrible pick. Mark the back to
(39:08):
back from Chicago, Mark Lou Whittaker, Davey Lopes, Lou Whittaker,
Sweet Lou Whittaker, and Alan Tramil Coope, go ahead, Coop,
Let's go Eddie, Garcia, Trey Turner, alright, dog Mookie Betts.
And I'll take Ronald Lacuna Junior as well from the
(39:30):
Atlanta Braves Eddie Pete Alonso, all right, Cooper, Lou, Kyle Tucker.
And with the final pick bringing up the rear, Mark,
who will Mark pick nineteen seventies, nineteen eighties, will he go?
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Nineties?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Will he go? A modern player America is dying, and oh,
here we go. Mark Catfish Hunter, catfish one of the
all time great nicknames, catfish hunter. Right, do you know
what his first name.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Was, Eddie?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
No, it was a Jim Catfish Huns. Yeah, it was
Jim Jim Hunter, but we just knew him as Catfish.
That's great. Is there anyone right now known by their
nickname and not their real name? Not a lot of people. Well, yeah,
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