September 15, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Trevon Diggs saying he wants his brother Stefon to leave the Bills, if Chaim Bloom got a raw deal as Red Sox GM, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dumb birtwo. Can you dig it?
What is your verdict on the latest wrinkle in the
never ending Stefan Digg's story? His brother Tray Vaughn, who
plays for the Dallas Cowboys, has said he wants his
brother out of Buffalo. Also, did Heim Bloom get a
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raw deal as red sox GM he was let go?
And how do you decode Mike Trout's seemingly passive attitude
on his angel's future. Talk a little baseball? Why not?
That's not against the rules? Is it right? Now here?
It is our number two. It is the story that
keeps giving. Every day there's a new revelation. Well come,
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in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallor Show.
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We'll get back to the Philadelphia Eagles and the Minnesota
Vikings coming up a little bit later. We had a
full Malle monologue on that earlier, as that game goes
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the way of the Birds. Although if you bet on
the game, you did not did not end up smiling.
I don't think you were smiling, guys. The game was
a push. It went went off the board. The gambling
market had it at six, although it was if you
got it earlier in the week, it was six and
a half if you're better, but it ended up at six,
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and so the game pushed, and so I get your
money back if you did that unless you bought a point.
The Vikings with four more fumbles in that game, and
the Philadelphia Eagles, who win but yet don't look very impressive.
It's a it's a weird, weird situation situation. But we'll
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have more on that coming up a little bit later
on as we continue here through the overnight. But we're
gonna get to a story off the shores of Lake Erie,
as we have been overwhelmed with Buffalo Bill apologists, and
we go where the news of the day takes us,
and it continues to swirl around a wide receiver in
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Orchard Park, New York. The Stefan Diggs story, its tentacles
are all over the NFL. And now, if you haven't
heard the latest year, perhaps not, let.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Me give you the.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Very small recap of what happened here. So Stefan Diggs
got called out by a Buffalo Bill's team reporter and
then he responded. It seemed like he had a ghost writer,
very worthy thing. He was playing the victim card from
the bottom of the deck, this great travesty. Somebody didn't
like him and they got recorded not liking him, and
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so he had this very sob story on social media.
And now we've learned that the cowboy defender, who happens
to be the brother of Stefan Diggs, Trayvon Diggs, has
now spoken and he wants his brother out of a
Buffalo Bill's uniform after the latest drama o rama in
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Buffalo upset upset that that reporter was caught on a
hot mic candid camera saying that there's no control over
Stefan Diggs. And then of course she apologized because he's
trying to save her job. But we all know the
way this works. You don't accept the apology. You accept
the initial statement because they didn't realize they were being recorded,
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and so they spoke anyway. So Tremano the Cowboys responded
to that. He said, uh tah, they turn on you
so quick. Gotta get Bro somewhere safe. Close quote. Gotta
get Bro somewhere safe, shots fired. Let us discuss the question,
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what is your verdict on this latest wrinkle in the
Stefan Diggs story. So I've got parachute, hormale foods, and
island time, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make chicken wings. Now,
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the modern American chicken wing started in Buffalo. Chickens have
always had wings, but the mass consumption of the chicken
wing you can thank the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. I
was there years ago. I was in Buffalo. I went
to the Anchor Bar and heard so much about it,
and walked in there, and the first thing I saw
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was a photo of the old Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda,
who had stopped by there and probably not paid a
dime for his meal. It was just kind of funny anyway.
All right, So first of all, Trayvon Diggs didn't turn
on the fog machine here. It's not like he's tiptoeing
around this. It's rather clear. It's like vodkas, very clear.
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It's as plain as the schnazola on your face. Buffalo
is not a safe space. Not a safe space. Stefan
Diggs taking friendly fire body blow from a porter who
is supposed to be on the payroll and put players
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on a pedestal. When you are a team employee, say
I never pay attention to these team website stories or
the league website stories. It's all bull crap, right, They're
paid to genuflect to the athletes wants and needs. That's
just the way it is. And for all those Bills
mafia guys who have flooded the phones and the social
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media on this show, who tell me, including Andy the
comic book guy, that Stefon Diggs's story is contrived by
gas bags and media people. It's national media. Nobody in
Buffalo believes as well. You have a Bill's reporter who
said it, but they didn't realize they were on the record.
So you have that, and now you have the brother
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of Stefan Diggs, an active NFL player, implying that he
would like a trade for his brother. So put that
in your pipe and smoke. And the cowboy player, Travai,
he wants his brother to flip the switch, apparently and
enter what they have in college football they don't. I
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guess Travon knows they don't have this in the NFL
the transfer portal, and when Stefan Diggs enters the transfer portal,
I'm guessing. I don't want to speak for the Diggs family,
but they would like the parachute to drop down in
Jerry's world. Now, is it's true that Stefon Diggs, the
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Bills player, and his brother conspired together. Now, we've seen
players relocate because the family. The greatest example recently was
Odell Beckham a couple of years ago, whose old man
went on social media and ripped apart Baker Mayfield, ripped
the Browns apart, and then eventually they got their wish
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and Baker Mayfield stayed briefly in Cleveland and Odell Beckham
did not. But blood is thicker than water. I saw
that on a bumper sticker. And this is the family
business and the family's not happy now. Secondly, on to
turn to baseball. There's an interesting story, a couple of
stories in baseball. I caught my attentions. The season winds
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down and then the hunt for the World Series in
October starts up. So the guillotine fell at fin Way
pack heim Bloom, who heim Bloom was whacked as the
general manager of the stumbling and bumbling Red Sox after
four seasons. The Socks playing the Yankees in a doubleheader
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on Thursday, and while all that was going on, it
was announced that they had removed their general manager. Now
the owner John Henry, pulling the plug on his latest
Yale educated czar of baseball ops. And it was only
a four year run. So did heim Bloom get a
raw deal as the Red Sox GM That's the first quest,
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and I'm shaking my head no on this, Like heim
Bloom oversaw an era of mostly mediocrity in Boston baseball,
and it is a results based business. I think that's
the way it is. I know this one is so.
Heim Bloom was there when they tore down the stars
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that had been there. They merrily carrying out the orders
to trade Mookie bets from ownership it's the problem was
not necessarily trading Mookie Bets if the Red Sox weren't
gonna pay him, but you gotta get something in return,
more than a bunch of flat soda and stale potato chips.
That was a total train heist by the Dodgers. The
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Red Sox traded Mookie Bets and David Price, he stinks,
and cash for Alex Verdugo who's an average outfielder, Connor Wong,
who's inn below average player, and Jeter Downs who's not
even that. And that trade alone justifies giving a pink
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slip to Heim Bloom if he signed off on that
and said, this is the best we can get for
a player who's a generational talent in Mookie Bess. And
then he also gave Trevor's story and his broken down
body one hundred and forty million dollars. He's halready played
for the Red Sox, so when you take a couple
of steps back him Bloom was working at Hormel Foods.
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The Red Sox roster was filled with can spam from
top to bottom. They were signing stopgap players, a bunch
of leftover Dodger guys. They had justin Turner's at the
end of his career. Ken Lee Janssen, guys like that.
But the biggest indictment to the Red Sox former GM
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is the a word. That is the word that gets
you fired every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Apathy.
And from what my guys are telling me in Boston
that there was a there's been a bunch of apathy
among the Red Sox fans. That the diehard fans are
just that the Finnway has been, by its standards, pretty
much a ghost town and they're indifferent that there's not
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a lot of passion. They know the team's not very good,
and we have complete confidence. He asked the question, is
this a good job of yeah, it's a good job.
The Red Sox have a big payroll. But it doesn't
matter because the Red Sox are just going to hire
another computer whiz some whiz kid who has an Ivy
League degree, and that's just what they do. They just
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will go that direction right quickly. One other thought on baseball,
and I want to head to Anaheim, where we are
now told the Angels have quote seen no indication close
quote that Mike Trout wants to be trade Now this
comes on the heels of a recent report that said
Trout is going to request the true The assumption is
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in a private conversation with the front office, he wants
to know about the direction of the team, and the
assumption is he's gonna ask for a trade. But this
latest report says there's no indication of that happen. So
we have conflicting reports, dueling banjos. How do you decode
Mike Trout's passive attitude if this report is true on
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his Halo future. So I have predictable. I have predictable
as the word here. Mike Trout just doesn't seem all
that motivated to do anything, to play baseball, to complain,
to not complain. He's just He's not a guy that's
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gonna raise a hullabaloo. He's not wired that way. He's
living on island time, chillaxing. Mike Trout is not a
guy who seems to be neurotic about shadow blasting the Halo's.
He just wants to have a pineapple cocktail, sit on
the beach, put some suntan lotion on, and just enjoy life.
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If the team happens to be good, that's more fun.
But if the team sucks, you know, he's just he's
an island time, he's living the island life. But this story,
I will guarantee you that this Mike Trout story is
going to work as freshly chopped firewood. And this will
be on the hot stove League of Baseball fire as
soon as the playoffs end and the usual suspects. Will
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Mike Trout go to the hometown Phillies? Is he gonna
go to the Yankees? How about the Red Sox? Will
the Mets make a splash? Same old, same old, same old.
Everyone will be chomping at the bit to get their
hands on Mike Trout. It is the Ben Mallard Show.
If you would like to comment on any of those
topics of conversation, you can join us here at eight
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seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven
nine nine six six three sixty nine also available. Yeah,
I forgot. I wasn't supposed to give out the number.
Bad job by me, but just free can you dump that?
Iowa Samson? Nobody hears that? All right, Iow Sam's gonna
dump that. So nobody heard that. But we are on
the Twitter machine. If you want to vote, I have
a poll up there on the Twitter machine and you
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can vote. We had a controversy in the Thursday night
game the Vikings and the Eagles ball went out of
bounds over the pylon and the end zone, so it
turned out to be a turnover. That stupid rule in
the NFL. It's so dumb. So it went back to Philadelphia.
And my idea is to add a possession arrow like
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they do in college sports. Just add up possession arrow
and give it a go. Eddie said no, just give
it back to the offense. So you can vote on that.
We will take your comments. You can vote as I
said that direction, and we'll get to all of that. Also,
an NFL star in trouble with Uncle Sam, and something
is going to happen for the New York Yankee that
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has not happened since nineteen eighty nine. Since nineteen eighty nine,
that's a long time. Yes, I think it is. Yes,
I think that is a long time. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
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Speaker 3 (15:58):
It's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Bad news for you, Eddie. The early results not all
precincts are reporting in, but the people have spoken here
Pulse of the people and my plan, the Malor solution
to fixing the NFL end Zone fumble with the Possession
Arrow is winning the popular vote at this point. Interesting,
So you're not doing very well.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I wonder why. I wonder.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I don't know why, but people can vote if you
want it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Would it be that the options are yes thumbs up.
Ben Malard wins an arrow possession. Please, I don't know
could that be the case.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But people listen.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Because you are a liar and a cheat.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Listen. The people are voting, and they're not voting for you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
They're voting you are the Houston A.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Pin that right on the top of my my page there,
so it's read not that I leave a lot on
the show, but you can get that and and I'll
leave that up for some of the podcast people, but
only the podcast people. You should run a that's a
real all that is that is a real right there,
and so thank you and thanks. We had a bunch
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of people last hour that sent stuff in. They said, hey,
you know, I don't all right. Truck driver Ryan and
Maine is all excited him bloom bloom, got let go,
Robin writes in he said, listens every show four hours
most nights. So I appreciate that. Andrea the Sports Sorceress
writes since she says, happy new moon in virgo and
(17:26):
Mercury out of retrograde on September fifteenth, which is today,
so very nice weekend from these sports sorceress. Okay, there
you go, you got that as well. We'll take some calls.
We began this hour ranting about random topics of conversation.
Stefon Diggs brother who plays with the Dallas Cowboys, implied
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that he'd like to see Stefan Diggs traded or leave.
Not you say we'd traded, but leave Buffalo, and this
story continued. He used to smolder, and the Bills looked
terrible in the game against the Jets. It was not
a good situation at all. Ferdcat writes and says, pop
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the champagne. Mike Trout is staying the future looks very
bright in Anaheim. Well, that's only because they get a
lot of sunny days in Anaheim. That's why the future
looks pretty. It's always break through. They don't get a
lot of cloud cover in Anaheim. Late Night Drug Tester says,
an amazing show so far, But I do need to know
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who taught you how to craft a poll? Well, listen,
I've studied a lot of politicians over the years. In fact,
somebody that we used to work with, Eddie. You remember
Elon that used to work here. Yeah, Elon was a
big producer at Fox Sports Radio and we loved Elon.
Nice guy. In the early days of Fox Sports radio.
(18:52):
He left to work with Bill O'Reilly on his old
radio show, the old Fox News guy Bill O'Reilly. But
now Elon is one of the most powerful political posters
in the entire country. This guy's got a lot of
influence over like elections, like national elections and all that.
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And I learned from Elon No I didn't what else
we have. Justin and Cincinnati says, if your Possession Arrow
idea happened, that would be great for the NFL. Thank you, Justin.
I appreciate your support. Justin on my team Supermarket, Steve
Wright Sayce says, I cannot blame Odell Beckham's father for
what happened. I was yelling at my TV last year
watching Beckham run butt naked, white ass open down the
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middle of the field and Baker wouldn't even glance at him. Okay,
let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Poppy in San Diego. Hello Poppy, Hey, Hello, guys.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
You can find me up Pacon with Poppy on YouTube
and Twitter, guys, And some breaking news on from Bryan Finley.
He just said posting on Twitter, Bryan Finley, I.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Don't know who that is, daddy where he worked he
works here.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
I've never met, and I'm gonna tell you. He said,
I'm calling Brian Finnan. You're one of his best colors.
He should start paying you. Brought your great calls. What
do you think about that, Ben Mallard, He's saying I
should get paid.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well, yeah, I think he should pay you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I think Brian Finley should pay you. Everybody got to
pay this year. No, no, he meant Brian Brian. I
don't think he works anybody. He's got a lot of money,
very successful. You know, I grew up in San Diego
right there.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
You know, you know you have Benny. Oh you have
Benny versus a penny guy, don't forget guys, Benny versus
a penny. Ben is making that King King.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Big TV.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Yes, yeah, I'm gonna excited for that. And you know
what I was gonna give you, Ben Mallard, I was
gonna tell you, I'm very excited. I was gonna give
you guys early. You know, Hollywood, Hollywood, you guys, you
guys should get HBO Max and watch Liar Liar. Just
think cool. My mentors on there, you know your mentor?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, so poppy, who cares stop talking for a second.
So here here's the question, Poppy, did you start your
own IMDb page?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Actually? Uh, let me uh from kut to please retired
Hollywood actor and you know, hopefully you guys do watch
liar liar, because no stop.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I asked you a simple question. Did you start your
IMDb page? If you don't answer, I'm hanging up on you.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
What do you mean if I made it? That's my
professional acting thing.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Did you start that page yourself? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Or no?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You're lying right now? Your nose is drawing, your nose
is going. What do you mean? I want you to
I want you to breathe into the phone right now, Poppy,
what do you want me to do? Breathe into the phone.
Take a deep breath into the phone.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Okay, hey Ben Maller.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
But I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You didn't do it. I'm hanging up on you. I
gave you a chance.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I gotta move on.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Thank you, though.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
It is you.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It's not me, it's you.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
So an NFL star in trouble with Uncle Sam. That
would be Travis Kelsey. Did you see this? Yeah, story
bouncing around Travis Kelsey is getting a lot of attention.
But the Kansas City tied end who's allegedly schmoozing with
the biggest music star around today, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
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Apparently Oh's uncle Sam. The i R s the Internal
Revenue Service more than one hundred thousand dollars in back taxes,
whole goofed. I've got to know this is in the tabloids.
This is why you don't date Taylor Swift. You think
in Touch magazine is going to report about Travis Kelcey
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having a tax lean if he's not messing around with
the Swifty. Of course, not in Touch magazine. I don't
care about Travis Kelcey, but hey, now that he's messing around,
all of a sudden, they're snooping around.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
The good news is that Travis Kelsey's made over seventy
five million dollars, So I would like to think he
hasn't blown all the money. But you don't know what
you don't know, and it's conceivable, right, It's conceivable he
has blown. But I know In a past interview, Kelsey
said that he spent all the money on his rookie
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contract on shoes and watches, and crap like that. So
it is conceivable that he's just really bad with money.
But you'd think you could dig up one hundred thousand
You would.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Think you could dig up one hundred thousand dollars in
the backyard of Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift's house.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
In fact, when Taylor goes to the powder room, yeah,
that's one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
You open up her mirror, you know, drug compartment, there's
one hundred thousand dollars just going to fall out of
there her drug compartments.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, you know what I mean, what kind of drugs
is she on there?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You know, like the mirror you open up and there's medicine.
That's a big story with Sam reporting that Taylor Swift
on drugs.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Well, she certainly doesn't look like it.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But you know, that's what I meant. It's a medicine cabinet.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's what I think. You meant, what you meant, That's
what I guess.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
So yeah, be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Hey, it's Ben, host of the Fifth Hour with Ben
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Speaker 3 (25:13):
Now. I have a check to see if there's a
Mallard monologue on this. But apparently we're doing just about
anything to get some coach prime content.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Coach talking about a lot about nothing. But anyway, Colorado
State is playing Colorado in a rivalry game this weekend,
and the head coach of Cardio State, J Norvel, had
a lot of great things to say about Deon Sanders,
but he did say he said one thing, and everyone's
running with this. Yes. He criticized Dion for wearing sunglasses
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and a hat during interviews, saying, when I talk to
grown ups. I take my hat in, my glasses off.
That's the way my mother taught me. And those all
my god fighting words, Oh my God, and the Dion Sanders,
they're gonna just oh, they're gonna just take it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Astan, there's a trend. Prime, We've got a trend here.
I will address this coming up. It will be part
not the lead, but it will be part of a
upcoming maut and model. Oh good, because I'm trying to
soak in all the Deon Sanders content that I can get.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Talk about making something out of nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I think j Novel, though, is a Colin Cowherd fan,
because cow isn't Cowherd's Michigasi doesn't like people to wear
their hats backwards.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I've been told that I don't. I don't actually listen
to that show.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
But I don't either because I'm sleeping unless I do
the show, and then I have to, you know, I
have to listen, I guess because I'm on the show.
But to me, Colin does an overnight show, and I
remember telling Cowherd's producers that and they were like, what
are you talking.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Well, he had that stance a while back, but now
he's seen you know, Tom Brady wear his hat backwards
at a podium once. Brock Perdy just did it after
he wore the Herky the Hawk head and uh yeah,
now we were what brock perty lost a bet to
George Kittle for the Syhawk game last weekend, where Iowa
won twenty to thirteen and he had to wear the
mascot of our I was head Herky the Hawk as
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he came out for his press conference with the media.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Herky, Herky the Hawk. That's our mask game. The mascot
is Hrky Herky.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's not thank you. It doesn't make much sense to me.
Who came?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Why is?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Why is?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
I've never heard that Bucky. I've never heard that either
Bucky the buck Eye and then Brutus the Badger.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
There's a lot. Don't deflect.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Herky. You don't know what the same is? What about is?
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Yeah, I'm trying to deflect you. I was because Herkey.
I don't know where Herkey comes from, but that's the
name of I was mascot Herky. All these years I've
lived on this earth, and I've never known what's what's
what's your bulldogs nick uh more deflection. What's your bulldog
mascot's name?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
It's Victor E. Bulldog.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That's pretty why they have the V on the side.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
No, it's not Central Ball, and it's green because you
guys grow stuff. There, grow a lot of stuff. Sam
America's bread basket.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You can put a bag ofalizer on the shoulder of
the Resno state uniform because it's all that nice smell
of fertilizer.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
When you drive through driving enough the five, you get
a little whiff that goodsh cow dung.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Just say thank you the next time you eat some
delicious fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
From Iowa where it smells like, you know, pig poo
in certain places.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Brock Purty, though, I saw him at the Super Bowl
last or the media crap at the Super Bowl last year,
and he he looks like he's about twelve years old,
so he should be allowed to wear any kind of
goofy hat he wants. Yes, he's got this. He's got
his thunder thighs too. What's that. Wow, he's got some
thunder thighs. I've never noticed that.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
That's why they call him a baby Bosa on the team,
because he's got like big Bosa legs, but he's he's
only six to one.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
So are you done? Yeah, okay, thank you. Something's gonna
happen for the New York Yankees that has not happened
since nineteen eighty nine. We'll get to that coming up
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an end, but it certainly has been a long time.
That for the first time since nineteen eighty nine, forty
(29:22):
plus years of broadcasting, will not be in the Yankee
Radio booth, as both John Sterling and Georgie's Girl Susan
Waldman are going to miss a Yankee series for the
first time since nineteen eighty nine, one of them will
not be in the Yankee broadcast booth or remotely doing
(29:44):
the games. The Yankees play the Pittsburgh Pirates at beautiful
PNC Park, which is awesome. The team blows but that
ballpark is wonderful, and John Sterling and Susan Waldman will
both be absent for the first time since Night fineteen
eighty nine. Now Sterling not calling as many games because
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he's old. Uh, and that's you know, you cut back,
that's what happens. And Walden has the series off because
of Russia Shan of the Jewish holidays, so she will
not be there as well. And so I have a
bunch of backups. And I think the Yankee fans will
be able to deal with that. I think the maybe
not though, maybe maybe they will not be able to
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deal with that.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Let's go back to the phones and we'll say hello
to Jed who fled? Who is next? Hello?
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Jed's going on Ben Taylor Swift to punt for a
well dressed speedhead. Swift is sending in the speedy Now,
there's no doubt about that. Well, I dropped that pop
culture there. Don't know much things, but I google it
her hits, Shake it Off, and homage to Shake and
Bake Mischal Kraft number two. Yet you belong with me?
Just what I tell every single one of my drug
sects every time I lay my eyes on it and
(30:55):
turned what my bind has turned into from extended drug
drug usage a blank space. She's a obvious narcotics user,
and I'm not very interested to find out what her
drug compartment is. If I was, Sam's got an inside
track on that I was.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Sam. Are you happy that this call was inspired by
your statement? You just inspired Jed who fled for this time.
Speaker 9 (31:15):
I believe I get high, which is odd.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Because you were on hold. You were on hold for
a while, and yet you chose to go this direction
rather than the other direction.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Now what I what I like is each coach before
the game should be issued a delta hand of Uno faceguards.
And if there's team fumbles and that team recovers it
and you sow down the reverse CAG before the other coach,
can you get the ball back.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I'm open to it, you know, good idea. I'm open
to it because you can get brand and you can
because I'm like.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
The shovel clocker sport dogs. No, I just didn't. You
should stick the Badmanton Huldney.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Okay, I think you show me that Nigga did, don't
okay me?
Speaker 9 (31:51):
When the shovelclocker sports do is what you chose to
dissy and all of a sudden, he's gonna roll past it.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
On a scale of one to ten, Jed, how annoyed
are you that Dion Sanders is the hottest thing in
college football and he wants nothing to do with Florida State?
Speaker 5 (32:05):
H it is annoyed?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, exactly, all right, hangout, thank you. We're gonna have
mallard of a third degree. Here's the insta trivia. Tyree
Kill of your Miami football team is chasing history. Now.
Blank holds the record for the most receiving yards in
their team's first two games of a season in NFL history.
(32:26):
But Tyreek Hill has a shot of certainly getting in
the top five, if not setting the all time record
with a big game against the Patriots. Tyreek Hill chasing history.
Blank actually holds the record most receiving yards in their
team's first two games of a season in NFL history.
That's the instant trivia. The answer, We'll get to it
and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (33:23):
It's Ben Mallor and time now for the Insta trivia
we will have coming up. Mallard of the Third Degree.
Here's the Insta Trivia. The Dolphins Tyreek Hill, with a
big game against the Patriots, has a chance to set
a record. Blank currently holds the record for the most
receiving yards in their team's first two games of a
(33:43):
season in NFL history. With Tyreek after having that monster
game and the opener two hundred and fifteen yards, has
a shot at getting the record. And that is the question.
What's the answer. By the way, Trucker Joe points out
all the callers over the years, like Marcel and Poppy
and Wayne from Southee that have gotten major media opportunities
(34:04):
because of the show just by calling the show. Yeah, exactly,
it's the shocking revelation. All right, listen, does anyone know
the answer?
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Here?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We've got Justin in Cincinnati going with Jesus as the answer.
Mark in Santa Monica told an interesting story about very
polite Canadian Blue Jay fans. Lynn Swan from Hobby, Bobby Jack,
Guz Green from the aforementioned Trucker, Joe west Chandler tossed
out by Steve the Misplaced San Dieg and Sean in
(34:35):
the Valley of the Sun going with taevon Austin as
his answer. Max Speedy from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota, Ben
Franklin from Jimmy from Maine, Joe Rudy from Robin, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
J R.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Ewing tossed out by Kenneth the sports Lama. Shane from
De Moines says Colin Kaepernick to New Yak who else
do you have? Altoon from poly d Ricky prol Guess
by Kyle that's its answer, Stuwie Griffin from Mark in
Santa Monica. Kyle Pitts guess by Justin and Cincinnati. Eddie,
(35:09):
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Eddie? Ah, Yes, it's former Saint Louis Rams wide receiver
Oz Hakim.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Good name, but not a good answer. The correct answer
a Hall of famer from the old San Diego Chargers,
Charlie Joiner all the way back in nineteen eighty one,
he had three hundred fifty seven combined yards. The first
two weeks of John's Tyreek Gill had two hundred and fifteen.
So he's got a shot of a big game against
the Patriots. Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
To the third degree, This is one big fan gets
grill Kubulu.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Some baseball scribes are suggesting that Julio Rodriguez could make
a case for al MVP if the Mariners are able
to win the AL West. And there's nothing Rodriguez can
do to win the award right.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Well, other than divine intervention or shoheo tani being a
rest in some scandal. Yeah, the show has got that
wrapped up. There used to be a Laker broadcaster who said,
back in the day, it's in the refrigerator, the doors closed,
the lights out, the eggs are cooling, and the butter
is getting hard, and the jello's jiggling and all that crap. Uh,
even if with Otani's body falling apart, he's he was
(36:18):
the top story in baseball most of the baseball season
and the Angels terrible. Don matter, Otani's gonna win the MVP.
The other issue is Julia Rodriguez is in Seattle, and
as Jimmy Johnson called it for most of the East
Coast media, that's southern Alaska and it's off the grid
from the I ninety five media corridors. So good luck
(36:38):
on that.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
Next, the Clippers are gonna try out an alternative to
the season tickets. Steve Balmer called it more of a
season pass that you can share with three or four people,
like you used to be able to do with a
Netflix account. Uh, Ben, do you think this is gonna
catch on throughout the league?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
So I didn't hear anything about this. It sounds like
something that people have already been doing. I mean, people
buy season tickets and they split them up among their
friends or businesses split them up with the employees and stuff.
So it doesn't sound like that unorthodox, and I guess
the team just wants in on it. But Steve Balmer
is a marketing maven that clip joint the into it.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Dome.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
My God, is that gonna be great? So if Bomber
wants it, I'm good with it.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Next, Nick Bosa said that he thinks fans are gonna
take over so far this weekend and that the forty
nine Ers have the best traveling fan base in the league. Ben,
do the forty nine Ers have the best traveling fan base?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well, yes, Coop, because the term best means as good
as all the rest, So yes, they have the best
as good as every other team in the NFL. But no, No,
the Niners have a national fan base, and we have
some fans of this show that travel around a bunch
of Niner games, and it's a byproduct of the nineteen eighties.
But when I think of the greatest traveling teams that
I've seen at NFL games I've been to, I think
of the Steelers, the Cowboys, the Packers. The forty nine
(37:51):
Ers are right around, They're the Raiders, the Eagles. Those
are the teams that stand out there. It is Mallard
of the third degree.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
How do we doubt pass the sedition?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
That is, even with a Clipper question, Even with a
Clipper question, I got the win.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Yeah,
Hello and welcome. It's our dumb birtwo. Can you dig it?
What is your verdict on the latest wrinkle in the
never ending Stefan Digg's story? His brother Tray Vaughn, who
plays for the Dallas Cowboys, has said he wants his
brother out of Buffalo. Also, did Heim Bloom get a
(00:20):
raw deal as red sox GM he was let go?
And how do you decode Mike Trout's seemingly passive attitude
on his angel's future. Talk a little baseball? Why not?
That's not against the rules? Is it right? Now here?
It is our number two. It is the story that
keeps giving. Every day there's a new revelation. Well come,
(00:46):
in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallor Show.
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We'll get back to the Philadelphia Eagles and the Minnesota
Vikings coming up a little bit later. We had a
full Malle monologue on that earlier, as that game goes
(01:49):
the way of the Birds. Although if you bet on
the game, you did not did not end up smiling.
I don't think you were smiling, guys. The game was
a push. It went went off the board. The gambling
market had it at six, although it was if you
got it earlier in the week, it was six and
a half if you're better, but it ended up at six,
(02:10):
and so the game pushed, and so I get your
money back if you did that unless you bought a point.
The Vikings with four more fumbles in that game, and
the Philadelphia Eagles, who win but yet don't look very impressive.
It's a it's a weird, weird situation situation. But we'll
(02:32):
have more on that coming up a little bit later
on as we continue here through the overnight. But we're
gonna get to a story off the shores of Lake Erie,
as we have been overwhelmed with Buffalo Bill apologists, and
we go where the news of the day takes us,
and it continues to swirl around a wide receiver in
(02:52):
Orchard Park, New York. The Stefan Diggs story, its tentacles
are all over the NFL. And now, if you haven't
heard the latest year, perhaps not, let.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Me give you the.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Very small recap of what happened here. So Stefan Diggs
got called out by a Buffalo Bill's team reporter and
then he responded. It seemed like he had a ghost writer,
very worthy thing. He was playing the victim card from
the bottom of the deck, this great travesty. Somebody didn't
like him and they got recorded not liking him, and
(03:26):
so he had this very sob story on social media.
And now we've learned that the cowboy defender, who happens
to be the brother of Stefan Diggs, Trayvon Diggs, has
now spoken and he wants his brother out of a
Buffalo Bill's uniform after the latest drama o rama in
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Buffalo upset upset that that reporter was caught on a
hot mic candid camera saying that there's no control over
Stefan Diggs. And then of course she apologized because he's
trying to save her job. But we all know the
way this works. You don't accept the apology. You accept
the initial statement because they didn't realize they were being recorded,
(04:11):
and so they spoke anyway. So Tremano the Cowboys responded
to that. He said, uh tah, they turn on you
so quick. Gotta get Bro somewhere safe. Close quote. Gotta
get Bro somewhere safe, shots fired. Let us discuss the question,
(04:37):
what is your verdict on this latest wrinkle in the
Stefan Diggs story. So I've got parachute, hormale foods, and
island time, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make chicken wings. Now,
(04:58):
the modern American chicken wing started in Buffalo. Chickens have
always had wings, but the mass consumption of the chicken
wing you can thank the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. I
was there years ago. I was in Buffalo. I went
to the Anchor Bar and heard so much about it,
and walked in there, and the first thing I saw
(05:21):
was a photo of the old Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda,
who had stopped by there and probably not paid a
dime for his meal. It was just kind of funny anyway.
All right, So first of all, Trayvon Diggs didn't turn
on the fog machine here. It's not like he's tiptoeing
around this. It's rather clear. It's like vodkas, very clear.
(05:44):
It's as plain as the schnazola on your face. Buffalo
is not a safe space. Not a safe space. Stefan
Diggs taking friendly fire body blow from a porter who
is supposed to be on the payroll and put players
(06:04):
on a pedestal. When you are a team employee, say
I never pay attention to these team website stories or
the league website stories. It's all bull crap, right, They're
paid to genuflect to the athletes wants and needs. That's
just the way it is. And for all those Bills
mafia guys who have flooded the phones and the social
(06:26):
media on this show, who tell me, including Andy the
comic book guy, that Stefon Diggs's story is contrived by
gas bags and media people. It's national media. Nobody in
Buffalo believes as well. You have a Bill's reporter who
said it, but they didn't realize they were on the record.
So you have that, and now you have the brother
(06:46):
of Stefan Diggs, an active NFL player, implying that he
would like a trade for his brother. So put that
in your pipe and smoke. And the cowboy player, Travai,
he wants his brother to flip the switch, apparently and
enter what they have in college football they don't. I
(07:06):
guess Travon knows they don't have this in the NFL
the transfer portal, and when Stefan Diggs enters the transfer portal,
I'm guessing. I don't want to speak for the Diggs family,
but they would like the parachute to drop down in
Jerry's world. Now, is it's true that Stefon Diggs, the
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Bills player, and his brother conspired together. Now, we've seen
players relocate because the family. The greatest example recently was
Odell Beckham a couple of years ago, whose old man
went on social media and ripped apart Baker Mayfield, ripped
the Browns apart, and then eventually they got their wish
(07:49):
and Baker Mayfield stayed briefly in Cleveland and Odell Beckham
did not. But blood is thicker than water. I saw
that on a bumper sticker. And this is the family
business and the family's not happy now. Secondly, on to
turn to baseball. There's an interesting story, a couple of
stories in baseball. I caught my attentions. The season winds
(08:09):
down and then the hunt for the World Series in
October starts up. So the guillotine fell at fin Way
pack heim Bloom, who heim Bloom was whacked as the
general manager of the stumbling and bumbling Red Sox after
four seasons. The Socks playing the Yankees in a doubleheader
(08:35):
on Thursday, and while all that was going on, it
was announced that they had removed their general manager. Now
the owner John Henry, pulling the plug on his latest
Yale educated czar of baseball ops. And it was only
a four year run. So did heim Bloom get a
raw deal as the Red Sox GM That's the first quest,
(09:01):
and I'm shaking my head no on this, Like heim
Bloom oversaw an era of mostly mediocrity in Boston baseball,
and it is a results based business. I think that's
the way it is. I know this one is so.
Heim Bloom was there when they tore down the stars
(09:24):
that had been there. They merrily carrying out the orders
to trade Mookie bets from ownership it's the problem was
not necessarily trading Mookie Bets if the Red Sox weren't
gonna pay him, but you gotta get something in return,
more than a bunch of flat soda and stale potato chips.
That was a total train heist by the Dodgers. The
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Red Sox traded Mookie Bets and David Price, he stinks,
and cash for Alex Verdugo who's an average outfielder, Connor Wong,
who's inn below average player, and Jeter Downs who's not
even that. And that trade alone justifies giving a pink
(10:08):
slip to Heim Bloom if he signed off on that
and said, this is the best we can get for
a player who's a generational talent in Mookie Bess. And
then he also gave Trevor's story and his broken down
body one hundred and forty million dollars. He's halready played
for the Red Sox, so when you take a couple
of steps back him Bloom was working at Hormel Foods.
(10:31):
The Red Sox roster was filled with can spam from
top to bottom. They were signing stopgap players, a bunch
of leftover Dodger guys. They had justin Turner's at the
end of his career. Ken Lee Janssen, guys like that.
But the biggest indictment to the Red Sox former GM
(10:54):
is the a word. That is the word that gets
you fired every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Apathy.
And from what my guys are telling me in Boston
that there was a there's been a bunch of apathy
among the Red Sox fans. That the diehard fans are
just that the Finnway has been, by its standards, pretty
much a ghost town and they're indifferent that there's not
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a lot of passion. They know the team's not very good,
and we have complete confidence. He asked the question, is
this a good job of yeah, it's a good job.
The Red Sox have a big payroll. But it doesn't
matter because the Red Sox are just going to hire
another computer whiz some whiz kid who has an Ivy
League degree, and that's just what they do. They just
(11:39):
will go that direction right quickly. One other thought on baseball,
and I want to head to Anaheim, where we are
now told the Angels have quote seen no indication close
quote that Mike Trout wants to be trade Now this
comes on the heels of a recent report that said
Trout is going to request the true The assumption is
(12:01):
in a private conversation with the front office, he wants
to know about the direction of the team, and the
assumption is he's gonna ask for a trade. But this
latest report says there's no indication of that happen. So
we have conflicting reports, dueling banjos. How do you decode
Mike Trout's passive attitude if this report is true on
(12:23):
his Halo future. So I have predictable. I have predictable
as the word here. Mike Trout just doesn't seem all
that motivated to do anything, to play baseball, to complain,
to not complain. He's just He's not a guy that's
(12:44):
gonna raise a hullabaloo. He's not wired that way. He's
living on island time, chillaxing. Mike Trout is not a
guy who seems to be neurotic about shadow blasting the Halo's.
He just wants to have a pineapple cocktail, sit on
the beach, put some suntan lotion on, and just enjoy life.
(13:10):
If the team happens to be good, that's more fun.
But if the team sucks, you know, he's just he's
an island time, he's living the island life. But this story,
I will guarantee you that this Mike Trout story is
going to work as freshly chopped firewood. And this will
be on the hot stove League of Baseball fire as
soon as the playoffs end and the usual suspects. Will
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Mike Trout go to the hometown Phillies? Is he gonna
go to the Yankees? How about the Red Sox? Will
the Mets make a splash? Same old, same old, same old.
Everyone will be chomping at the bit to get their
hands on Mike Trout. It is the Ben Mallard Show.
If you would like to comment on any of those
topics of conversation, you can join us here at eight
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seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven
nine nine six six three sixty nine also available. Yeah,
I forgot. I wasn't supposed to give out the number.
Bad job by me, but just free can you dump that?
Iowa Samson? Nobody hears that? All right, Iow Sam's gonna
dump that. So nobody heard that. But we are on
the Twitter machine. If you want to vote, I have
a poll up there on the Twitter machine and you
(14:17):
can vote. We had a controversy in the Thursday night
game the Vikings and the Eagles ball went out of
bounds over the pylon and the end zone, so it
turned out to be a turnover. That stupid rule in
the NFL. It's so dumb. So it went back to Philadelphia.
And my idea is to add a possession arrow like
(14:38):
they do in college sports. Just add up possession arrow
and give it a go. Eddie said no, just give
it back to the offense. So you can vote on that.
We will take your comments. You can vote as I
said that direction, and we'll get to all of that. Also,
an NFL star in trouble with Uncle Sam, and something
is going to happen for the New York Yankee that
(15:00):
has not happened since nineteen eighty nine. Since nineteen eighty nine,
that's a long time. Yes, I think it is. Yes,
I think that is a long time. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
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It's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Bad news for you, Eddie. The early results not all
precincts are reporting in, but the people have spoken here
Pulse of the people and my plan, the Malor solution
to fixing the NFL end Zone fumble with the Possession
Arrow is winning the popular vote at this point. Interesting,
So you're not doing very well.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I wonder why. I wonder.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I don't know why, but people can vote if you
want it.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Would it be that the options are yes thumbs up.
Ben Malard wins an arrow possession. Please, I don't know
could that be the case.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But people listen.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Because you are a liar and a cheat.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Listen. The people are voting, and they're not voting for you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
They're voting you are the Houston A.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Pin that right on the top of my my page there,
so it's read not that I leave a lot on
the show, but you can get that and and I'll
leave that up for some of the podcast people, but
only the podcast people. You should run a that's a
real all that is that is a real right there,
and so thank you and thanks. We had a bunch
(17:03):
of people last hour that sent stuff in. They said, hey,
you know, I don't all right. Truck driver Ryan and
Maine is all excited him bloom bloom, got let go,
Robin writes in he said, listens every show four hours
most nights. So I appreciate that. Andrea the Sports Sorceress
writes since she says, happy new moon in virgo and
(17:26):
Mercury out of retrograde on September fifteenth, which is today,
so very nice weekend from these sports sorceress. Okay, there
you go, you got that as well. We'll take some calls.
We began this hour ranting about random topics of conversation.
Stefon Diggs brother who plays with the Dallas Cowboys, implied
(17:50):
that he'd like to see Stefan Diggs traded or leave.
Not you say we'd traded, but leave Buffalo, and this
story continued. He used to smolder, and the Bills looked
terrible in the game against the Jets. It was not
a good situation at all. Ferdcat writes and says, pop
(18:11):
the champagne. Mike Trout is staying the future looks very
bright in Anaheim. Well, that's only because they get a
lot of sunny days in Anaheim. That's why the future
looks pretty. It's always break through. They don't get a
lot of cloud cover in Anaheim. Late Night Drug Tester says,
an amazing show so far, But I do need to know
(18:32):
who taught you how to craft a poll? Well, listen,
I've studied a lot of politicians over the years. In fact,
somebody that we used to work with, Eddie. You remember
Elon that used to work here. Yeah, Elon was a
big producer at Fox Sports Radio and we loved Elon.
Nice guy. In the early days of Fox Sports radio.
(18:52):
He left to work with Bill O'Reilly on his old
radio show, the old Fox News guy Bill O'Reilly. But
now Elon is one of the most powerful political posters
in the entire country. This guy's got a lot of
influence over like elections, like national elections and all that.
(19:14):
And I learned from Elon No I didn't what else
we have. Justin and Cincinnati says, if your Possession Arrow
idea happened, that would be great for the NFL. Thank you, Justin.
I appreciate your support. Justin on my team Supermarket, Steve
Wright Sayce says, I cannot blame Odell Beckham's father for
what happened. I was yelling at my TV last year
watching Beckham run butt naked, white ass open down the
(19:38):
middle of the field and Baker wouldn't even glance at him. Okay,
let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Poppy in San Diego. Hello Poppy, Hey, Hello, guys.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
You can find me up Pacon with Poppy on YouTube
and Twitter, guys, And some breaking news on from Bryan Finley.
He just said posting on Twitter, Bryan Finley, I.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Don't know who that is, daddy where he worked he
works here.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
I've never met, and I'm gonna tell you. He said,
I'm calling Brian Finnan. You're one of his best colors.
He should start paying you. Brought your great calls. What
do you think about that, Ben Mallard, He's saying I
should get paid.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well, yeah, I think he should pay you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I think Brian Finley should pay you. Everybody got to
pay this year. No, no, he meant Brian Brian. I
don't think he works anybody. He's got a lot of money,
very successful. You know, I grew up in San Diego
right there.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
You know, you know you have Benny. Oh you have
Benny versus a penny guy, don't forget guys, Benny versus
a penny. Ben is making that King King.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Big TV.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Yes, yeah, I'm gonna excited for that. And you know
what I was gonna give you, Ben Mallard, I was
gonna tell you, I'm very excited. I was gonna give
you guys early. You know, Hollywood, Hollywood, you guys, you
guys should get HBO Max and watch Liar Liar. Just
think cool. My mentors on there, you know your mentor?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, so poppy, who cares stop talking for a second.
So here here's the question, Poppy, did you start your
own IMDb page?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Actually? Uh, let me uh from kut to please retired
Hollywood actor and you know, hopefully you guys do watch
liar liar, because no stop.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I asked you a simple question. Did you start your
IMDb page? If you don't answer, I'm hanging up on you.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
What do you mean if I made it? That's my
professional acting thing.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Did you start that page yourself? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Or no?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You're lying right now? Your nose is drawing, your nose
is going. What do you mean? I want you to
I want you to breathe into the phone right now, Poppy,
what do you want me to do? Breathe into the phone.
Take a deep breath into the phone.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Okay, hey Ben Maller.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
But I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You didn't do it. I'm hanging up on you. I
gave you a chance.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I gotta move on.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Thank you, though.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
It is you.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It's not me, it's you.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
So an NFL star in trouble with Uncle Sam. That
would be Travis Kelsey. Did you see this? Yeah, story
bouncing around Travis Kelsey is getting a lot of attention.
But the Kansas City tied end who's allegedly schmoozing with
the biggest music star around today, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
(22:45):
Apparently Oh's uncle Sam. The i R s the Internal
Revenue Service more than one hundred thousand dollars in back taxes,
whole goofed. I've got to know this is in the tabloids.
This is why you don't date Taylor Swift. You think
in Touch magazine is going to report about Travis Kelcey
(23:07):
having a tax lean if he's not messing around with
the Swifty. Of course, not in Touch magazine. I don't
care about Travis Kelcey, but hey, now that he's messing around,
all of a sudden, they're snooping around.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
The good news is that Travis Kelsey's made over seventy
five million dollars, So I would like to think he
hasn't blown all the money. But you don't know what
you don't know, and it's conceivable, right, It's conceivable he
has blown. But I know In a past interview, Kelsey
said that he spent all the money on his rookie
(23:44):
contract on shoes and watches, and crap like that. So
it is conceivable that he's just really bad with money.
But you'd think you could dig up one hundred thousand
You would.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Think you could dig up one hundred thousand dollars in
the backyard of Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift's house.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
In fact, when Taylor goes to the powder room, yeah,
that's one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
You open up her mirror, you know, drug compartment, there's
one hundred thousand dollars just going to fall out of
there her drug compartments.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, you know what I mean, what kind of drugs
is she on there?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You know, like the mirror you open up and there's medicine.
That's a big story with Sam reporting that Taylor Swift
on drugs.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Well, she certainly doesn't look like it.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But you know, that's what I meant. It's a medicine cabinet.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
That's what I think. You meant, what you meant, That's
what I guess.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
So yeah, be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Hey, it's Ben, host of the Fifth Hour with Ben
Maller would mean a lot to have you join us
on our weekly auditory journey. You're asking, what in God's
name is the Fifth Hour? I'll tell you it's a
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get your podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Now. I have a check to see if there's a
Mallard monologue on this. But apparently we're doing just about
anything to get some coach prime content.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Coach talking about a lot about nothing. But anyway, Colorado
State is playing Colorado in a rivalry game this weekend,
and the head coach of Cardio State, J Norvel, had
a lot of great things to say about Deon Sanders,
but he did say he said one thing, and everyone's
running with this. Yes. He criticized Dion for wearing sunglasses
(25:45):
and a hat during interviews, saying, when I talk to
grown ups. I take my hat in, my glasses off.
That's the way my mother taught me. And those all
my god fighting words, Oh my God, and the Dion Sanders,
they're gonna just oh, they're gonna just take it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Astan, there's a trend. Prime, We've got a trend here.
I will address this coming up. It will be part
not the lead, but it will be part of a
upcoming maut and model. Oh good, because I'm trying to
soak in all the Deon Sanders content that I can get.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Talk about making something out of nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I think j Novel, though, is a Colin Cowherd fan,
because cow isn't Cowherd's Michigasi doesn't like people to wear
their hats backwards.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I've been told that I don't. I don't actually listen
to that show.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
But I don't either because I'm sleeping unless I do
the show, and then I have to, you know, I
have to listen, I guess because I'm on the show.
But to me, Colin does an overnight show, and I
remember telling Cowherd's producers that and they were like, what
are you talking.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Well, he had that stance a while back, but now
he's seen you know, Tom Brady wear his hat backwards
at a podium once. Brock Perdy just did it after
he wore the Herky the Hawk head and uh yeah,
now we were what brock perty lost a bet to
George Kittle for the Syhawk game last weekend, where Iowa
won twenty to thirteen and he had to wear the
mascot of our I was head Herky the Hawk as
(27:01):
he came out for his press conference with the media.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Herky, Herky the Hawk. That's our mask game. The mascot
is Hrky Herky.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's not thank you. It doesn't make much sense to me.
Who came?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Why is?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Why is?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
I've never heard that Bucky. I've never heard that either
Bucky the buck Eye and then Brutus the Badger.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
There's a lot. Don't deflect.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Herky. You don't know what the same is? What about is?
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Yeah, I'm trying to deflect you. I was because Herkey.
I don't know where Herkey comes from, but that's the
name of I was mascot Herky. All these years I've
lived on this earth, and I've never known what's what's
what's your bulldogs nick uh more deflection. What's your bulldog
mascot's name?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
It's Victor E. Bulldog.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That's pretty why they have the V on the side.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
No, it's not Central Ball, and it's green because you
guys grow stuff. There, grow a lot of stuff. Sam
America's bread basket.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You can put a bag ofalizer on the shoulder of
the Resno state uniform because it's all that nice smell
of fertilizer.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
When you drive through driving enough the five, you get
a little whiff that goodsh cow dung.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Just say thank you the next time you eat some
delicious fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
From Iowa where it smells like, you know, pig poo
in certain places.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Brock Purty, though, I saw him at the Super Bowl
last or the media crap at the Super Bowl last year,
and he he looks like he's about twelve years old,
so he should be allowed to wear any kind of
goofy hat he wants. Yes, he's got this. He's got
his thunder thighs too. What's that. Wow, he's got some
thunder thighs. I've never noticed that.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
That's why they call him a baby Bosa on the team,
because he's got like big Bosa legs, but he's he's
only six to one.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
So are you done? Yeah, okay, thank you. Something's gonna
happen for the New York Yankees that has not happened
since nineteen eighty nine. We'll get to that coming up
here and say. This portion of the show brought to
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dot com. So an era is not totally coming to
an end, but it certainly has been a long time.
That for the first time since nineteen eighty nine, forty
(29:22):
plus years of broadcasting, will not be in the Yankee
Radio booth, as both John Sterling and Georgie's Girl Susan
Waldman are going to miss a Yankee series for the
first time since nineteen eighty nine, one of them will
not be in the Yankee broadcast booth or remotely doing
(29:44):
the games. The Yankees play the Pittsburgh Pirates at beautiful
PNC Park, which is awesome. The team blows but that
ballpark is wonderful, and John Sterling and Susan Waldman will
both be absent for the first time since Night fineteen
eighty nine. Now Sterling not calling as many games because
(30:06):
he's old. Uh, and that's you know, you cut back,
that's what happens. And Walden has the series off because
of Russia Shan of the Jewish holidays, so she will
not be there as well. And so I have a
bunch of backups. And I think the Yankee fans will
be able to deal with that. I think the maybe
not though, maybe maybe they will not be able to
(30:26):
deal with that.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Let's go back to the phones and we'll say hello
to Jed who fled? Who is next? Hello?
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Jed's going on Ben Taylor Swift to punt for a
well dressed speedhead. Swift is sending in the speedy Now,
there's no doubt about that. Well, I dropped that pop
culture there. Don't know much things, but I google it
her hits, Shake it Off, and homage to Shake and
Bake Mischal Kraft number two. Yet you belong with me?
Just what I tell every single one of my drug
sects every time I lay my eyes on it and
(30:55):
turned what my bind has turned into from extended drug
drug usage a blank space. She's a obvious narcotics user,
and I'm not very interested to find out what her
drug compartment is. If I was, Sam's got an inside
track on that I was.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Sam. Are you happy that this call was inspired by
your statement? You just inspired Jed who fled for this time.
Speaker 9 (31:15):
I believe I get high, which is odd.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Because you were on hold. You were on hold for
a while, and yet you chose to go this direction
rather than the other direction.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Now what I what I like is each coach before
the game should be issued a delta hand of Uno faceguards.
And if there's team fumbles and that team recovers it
and you sow down the reverse CAG before the other coach,
can you get the ball back.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I'm open to it, you know, good idea. I'm open
to it because you can get brand and you can
because I'm like.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
The shovel clocker sport dogs. No, I just didn't. You
should stick the Badmanton Huldney.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
Okay, I think you show me that Nigga did, don't
okay me?
Speaker 9 (31:51):
When the shovelclocker sports do is what you chose to
dissy and all of a sudden, he's gonna roll past it.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
On a scale of one to ten, Jed, how annoyed
are you that Dion Sanders is the hottest thing in
college football and he wants nothing to do with Florida State?
Speaker 5 (32:05):
H it is annoyed?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, exactly, all right, hangout, thank you. We're gonna have
mallard of a third degree. Here's the insta trivia. Tyree
Kill of your Miami football team is chasing history. Now.
Blank holds the record for the most receiving yards in
their team's first two games of a season in NFL history.
(32:26):
But Tyreek Hill has a shot of certainly getting in
the top five, if not setting the all time record
with a big game against the Patriots. Tyreek Hill chasing history.
Blank actually holds the record most receiving yards in their
team's first two games of a season in NFL history.
That's the instant trivia. The answer, We'll get to it
and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
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Speaker 3 (32:58):
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You up this overnight, Dingy, stay afloat and annoy the
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(33:20):
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Speaker 1 (33:23):
It's Ben Mallor and time now for the Insta trivia
we will have coming up. Mallard of the Third Degree.
Here's the Insta Trivia. The Dolphins Tyreek Hill, with a
big game against the Patriots, has a chance to set
a record. Blank currently holds the record for the most
receiving yards in their team's first two games of a
(33:43):
season in NFL history. With Tyreek after having that monster
game and the opener two hundred and fifteen yards, has
a shot at getting the record. And that is the question.
What's the answer. By the way, Trucker Joe points out
all the callers over the years, like Marcel and Poppy
and Wayne from Southee that have gotten major media opportunities
(34:04):
because of the show just by calling the show. Yeah, exactly,
it's the shocking revelation. All right, listen, does anyone know
the answer?
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Here?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We've got Justin in Cincinnati going with Jesus as the answer.
Mark in Santa Monica told an interesting story about very
polite Canadian Blue Jay fans. Lynn Swan from Hobby, Bobby Jack,
Guz Green from the aforementioned Trucker, Joe west Chandler tossed
out by Steve the Misplaced San Dieg and Sean in
(34:35):
the Valley of the Sun going with taevon Austin as
his answer. Max Speedy from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota, Ben
Franklin from Jimmy from Maine, Joe Rudy from Robin, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
J R.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Ewing tossed out by Kenneth the sports Lama. Shane from
De Moines says Colin Kaepernick to New Yak who else
do you have? Altoon from poly d Ricky prol Guess
by Kyle that's its answer, Stuwie Griffin from Mark in
Santa Monica. Kyle Pitts guess by Justin and Cincinnati. Eddie,
(35:09):
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Eddie? Ah, Yes, it's former Saint Louis Rams wide receiver
Oz Hakim.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Good name, but not a good answer. The correct answer
a Hall of famer from the old San Diego Chargers,
Charlie Joiner all the way back in nineteen eighty one,
he had three hundred fifty seven combined yards. The first
two weeks of John's Tyreek Gill had two hundred and fifteen.
So he's got a shot of a big game against
the Patriots. Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
To the third degree, This is one big fan gets
grill Kubulu.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Some baseball scribes are suggesting that Julio Rodriguez could make
a case for al MVP if the Mariners are able
to win the AL West. And there's nothing Rodriguez can
do to win the award right.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Well, other than divine intervention or shoheo tani being a
rest in some scandal. Yeah, the show has got that
wrapped up. There used to be a Laker broadcaster who said,
back in the day, it's in the refrigerator, the doors closed,
the lights out, the eggs are cooling, and the butter
is getting hard, and the jello's jiggling and all that crap. Uh,
even if with Otani's body falling apart, he's he was
(36:18):
the top story in baseball most of the baseball season
and the Angels terrible. Don matter, Otani's gonna win the MVP.
The other issue is Julia Rodriguez is in Seattle, and
as Jimmy Johnson called it for most of the East
Coast media, that's southern Alaska and it's off the grid
from the I ninety five media corridors. So good luck
(36:38):
on that.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
Next, the Clippers are gonna try out an alternative to
the season tickets. Steve Balmer called it more of a
season pass that you can share with three or four people,
like you used to be able to do with a
Netflix account. Uh, Ben, do you think this is gonna
catch on throughout the league?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
So I didn't hear anything about this. It sounds like
something that people have already been doing. I mean, people
buy season tickets and they split them up among their
friends or businesses split them up with the employees and stuff.
So it doesn't sound like that unorthodox, and I guess
the team just wants in on it. But Steve Balmer
is a marketing maven that clip joint the into it.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Dome.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
My God, is that gonna be great? So if Bomber
wants it, I'm good with it.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Next, Nick Bosa said that he thinks fans are gonna
take over so far this weekend and that the forty
nine Ers have the best traveling fan base in the league. Ben,
do the forty nine Ers have the best traveling fan base?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well, yes, Coop, because the term best means as good
as all the rest, So yes, they have the best
as good as every other team in the NFL. But no, No,
the Niners have a national fan base, and we have
some fans of this show that travel around a bunch
of Niner games, and it's a byproduct of the nineteen eighties.
But when I think of the greatest traveling teams that
I've seen at NFL games I've been to, I think
of the Steelers, the Cowboys, the Packers. The forty nine
(37:51):
Ers are right around, They're the Raiders, the Eagles. Those
are the teams that stand out there. It is Mallard
of the third degree.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
How do we doubt pass the sedition?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
That is, even with a Clipper question, Even with a
Clipper question, I got the win.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Yeah,
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