September 20, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the NFL announcing they will not discipline Deshaun Watson for shoving an official, size issues with Panthers QB Bryce Young, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two in the NFL
releasing his statement about the shove not heard around the
world because there was no punishment. How do you process
the NFL's prepared statement under Shawn Watson being allowed to
shove an official without getting penalized or in any kind
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of trouble and kicked out of the game. No flag
on that. What do you think of the Bryce Young
size issues. It's a size thing with the Panthers And
there was a survey done this at only six percent
of Jacksonville residents want to pay the tax money for
stadium renovations. In what way does that impact the Jags
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stadium financing. We'll talk about that and whatever else pops
up right now here. It is our number two. It
is elementary, my dear Watson and welcome. In the beginning
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We have had a reverberation around the creepy quarterbacks push
heard around the football world now on Monday Night Football.
We talked about this in the previous episode of the
show during some sideline wrangling after the first of two
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of flagrant to penalties, a face mask call, a foul
against the Cleveland Browns quarterback to Shawn Watson. After the
first of those two face mask penalties, Watson, if you
remember watching the game, he shoved unofficial away from him,
get out away from May and he was not ejected
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from the game. The NFL has since issued a prepared
statement on how a player is allowed to shove a
referee and not be penalized in any way kicked out
of the game. It seems a little fishy. So what
did the NFL say. I don't know if you saw
this or not, maybe not. The NFL released a statement
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the money part of the statement was quote in the
judgment of the officials, the contact did not rise to
the level of a foul close quote. That's the explanation
from big brother in the NFL. So let us discuss
the question, how do you process the NFL's statement on
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Deshaun Watson, essentially allowing him to get a shove at
an official. So I've got Mulligan, man zz top, and
Slushy and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make the happy baby yoga
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pose because we know Deshaun Watson loves the happy baby
yoga pose. So number one this statement by the NFL.
And I don't want to be too hard on the NFL.
This statement is poppycock, is what it is. We are
confused by the NFL's ongoing love affair with Deshaun Watson.
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It would make us pull our hair out if we
had much left. We don't. There is no inadvertent contact exception.
There's no exemption in the NFL rule book. It's very straightforward.
If you make contact with an official like Deshaun Watson did,
it's Nana, nanaa good bye. Here's what the rule says.
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Under no circumstance. Is a player allowed to shove, push,
or strike an official in an offensive, disrespectful, or unsportsman
like manner, the player shall be disqualified from the game
and any such action must be reported to the commissioner,
who may impose further discipline unless you are DeShawn Watson.
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So by not punishing the Browns quarterback, the message is
rather clear. Shawn Watson, in the eyes of the NFL,
is the Mulligan man, and you get a Mulligan, you
get a Mulligan. That's a status in the NFL at
league headquarters. Watson has this invisible force field that protects
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him from all forms of accountability. Deshaun probably right now
is in the Happy Baby Yoga pos smiling and looking
at a photo of Roger Goodell. Is it true? Is
it true that the Browns quarterback has compromising photos of
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NFL executives doing things that they should not be doing.
Why else would he be getting the special treatment? A
serious question. I don't understand what's going on here. Every
time this guy screws up, the NFL essentially pretends, Ah,
that didn't happen, You're okay. He got a slap on
the wrist he was actually promoted. Promoted after running an
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unpermitted petting zoo for random Instagram booty models he was
getting massages from. He just cut a check there, made
that go away. The Cleveland Browns were so horny for
Deshaun Watson that they gave him two hundred thirty million
dollars guaranteed, which is still the most guaranteed money ever
given out to an NFL player, while there were twenty
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plus ongoing accusations of illicit activity against Deshaun Watson. The
Cleveland Browns are such a morally bankrupt franchise they gave
him two order thirty million dollars in the middle of that.
There's no way you can pull for this guy. He's
just a bad dude. And Deshaun Watson on the field
the cherry on top of the crap. Sunday, Deshaun has
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been a poop sandwich with that Sunday. His performance has
been lousy. He's not even a baseline quarterback at this
point in the NFL. It's fascinating, but that's never his fault.
It's never his fault, all right now, Page two here
in Charlotte, after another humiliating offensive performance, I've learned that
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the Panthers have an underlying condition that they are dealing with.
Now what is the underlying condition, you asked, Well, we
are told they are unable to run the basic quarterback
sneak play. It is not in their playbook with Bryce Young.
Why you ask, because, and I'm not making this up,
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because Bryce Young isn't big enough to run the play. Hello. Yeah,
this has been bouncing around the pinball machine of sports chatter.
So let me give you the long and short of it.
So and really the short of it in this one
so third and short situations. And I didn't notice this
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in the Monday night game because I was flipping back
and forth and the Panthers Saints game was so dull,
I didn't really focus in on it much. I kind
of was like falling into daydreamland. Anyway, Apparently the Panthers
were forced to bring in Andy Dalton against the Saint Yeah,
they had to bring him in the red rifle, Andy Dalton,
because he's bigger than their starting quarterback. Now, the reports
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say that this is going to be a long term problem.
There's obviously no way to get Bryce Young much bigger.
So what do you think of the Bryce Young size
issues being that underlying condition for the Panthers. So this
one does not pass the smell test. First of all,
Carolina knew what they were getting. It's not like Bryce
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Young hid the fact that he was a fun sized quarterback.
He was those little mini candy bars. That's what he is.
He's five to ten and he's listed at two hundred
and four pounds. He looks shorter than five to ten,
and it looks like he's closer to one hundred and
seventy pounds than two hundred and four pounds. He just
appears small. Maybe it's an optical illusion. He's actually a
fat ass, but he looks smaller. Nevertheless, I disagree with
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the hypothesis that Carolina is hamstrong here with Bryce Young.
They cannot run the quarterback sneak advice, go old school
zz top, use the tush, the tush a push ay,
all right, That is what I recommend. That is what
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I recommend. That rugby style play is unstoppable. Just just
have your running backs throw, literally throw Bryce Young over
the line to game like he's a volleyball. Bryce Young
has bigger problems though, Like forget the short yardage situation.
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He just looks overmatched. He's been drowning the first couple
of games of the year, and that's not exactly against
elite competition for Bryce Young, It's going to get harder
at some point. It's supposed to get harder at some point. Now,
final final point for us. So we go to Florida.
Interesting story here. There was a poll done of the
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voters in NFL city in Florida, and it revealed that
only six percent of Jacksonville residents want to help foot
the bill for the renovations of the Jaguars Stadium. The
NFL team is asking for a handout. They want a
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billion dollars. Can we please have a billion dollars? Why
is that? Well, we play not eight football games a year.
We play six football games a year here, but we'd
like eight billion dollars. We'd like that. The polling found
that forty seven percent of those that were asked and
responded said that they don't want to pay the money,
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and they don't even want to pay the money if
it meant losing the Jags to a different city like
say London, and over fifty percent said that the city
should sell the stadium to the team and let them
pay for it. Seems like a good idea to me.
So in what way does this survey that says only
six percent of Jacksonville residents want to help pay the
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bill for the Jacksonville Jags stadium? In what way does
this impact the stadium financing for the Jags. So, for
whatever it's worth, I will start by saying I agree
with the premise of the people saying don't pay the
people surveyed. Regardless of the fact that I agree, it
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does not matter. The electorate is irrelevant. Every man, woman
and child knows how this is. And we've seen it
time and again. It'll play out here in Jacksonville. If
not Jacksonville, it'll go somewhere else. But the elected leaders
they don't care about the unwashed. They don't care. They
care when they're coming up for election. But nobody's not
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going to vote for a politician because they gave money
to an NFL team. They might be upset about it,
but they'll they're not going to vote against someone because
that Shod Khan, the owner of the team, is worth
I think this is about twelve point one billion dollars.
I believe his family. So these NFL teams, generally speaking,
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have this thing called the slushy and or go they
can just tip into old fashioned political bribery, get in
that slush fund and have a wonderful time. Here's what
you'd normally do. You scratch my back, I'll scratch your back.
I'll give you season tickets. I'll toss in field passes.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You want a luxury box. Okay, you want to go
in that nice pool we have in the end zone.
All right, whatever perks you want. Just remember us when
we want to get those new toilets and that new
jumbo tron in the stadium, and then abbra cadabra, presto,
all of that stadium money magically appears right out of
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thin air. How does that happen? That is fascinating that
that happens. Is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we continue on,
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It's kind of a speakeasy here, but there's a line
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to have you. So there's a line that I have
used on this show for the last couple of years that,
according to the p ones on this show has been
commandeered by one of the most powerful people in sports media.
Something that we have used under the cover of darkness
here for many many years has been commandeered by a
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very powerful person in sports. Now I'm gonna ask you
for confirmation. We'll get to that, and we will do it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
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Speaker 1 (14:24):
Get back to the calls coming up momentarily. We began
this hour with a spicy hot Malard monologue bouncing around
the NFL, starting with Deshaan Watson, Burfy guys, the great
villain of the NFL can't pull for that guy, no way.
Story out of Charlotte, which I got a kick out
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of that. The Panthers, Frank Reich has decided they cannot
run the quarterback sneak play because their quarterback's too small,
so they have to bring the backup in Andy Dalton,
which is great. And then you've got the voters of Jacksonville.
And according to a recent poll, only six percent of
Jacksonville residents who responded here want to pay for the team,
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and almost half the people said they would rather the
team relocate then give them the billion dollars. Yeah, that's
that's outstanding. That that is a ten out of ten.
I love that, not that it's gonna matter in the end.
Chip and the Q's right, since the page down me
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find Chips. There's a bunch of people sending stuff. He
says a plus on the mall monologue. The only thing
I can think is that Watson might be Rogers' secret,
illegitimate love child. Now that would be a story, that
would be a story. Eugene right, since, says Bryce Young.
Eugenia Chicago says, Bryce Young is another Johnny Manziel he's
too short, too light for the NFL. All quarterbacks should
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be six to one or taller to play in the NFL.
Russell Wilson already sucks and he's only thirty four. Well
that's kind of old, isn't it, Eugene, for an NFL quarterback.
I mean, with the exception of a few guys, usually
they go down. The performance goes down around thirty two
to thirty three. So he's actually kind of the norm.
Russell Wilson. Just nobody let the Broncos know about that.
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He says, no more small guys at the quarterback position.
That's rue Gene. Now, Eugene, you've been with me a
long time, so you probably remember that I was a
Johnny Manziel fanboy. I had no idea that I watched
more tape than Johnny Manziel when he played for the
Cleveland Browns. I had no idea that that was actually
going on. I watched that documentary that was on It
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was on Netflix, while I think might still be on there.
I watched a couple weeks ago, maybe a month ago,
and it was fascinating, Like Johnny Monzil didn't give a
rats ass about playing in the NFL. He didn't find
it fun, so he didn't put any work in. And
I believe if Manziel had put the work in, he
would have been at least an average quarterback. But he
didn't give a crap about playing in the NFL. And
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it's like any job, whether you have a I don't
care whether you're a security guard, you're driving a truck,
or you're playing quarterback in the NFL. If you don't
care about your job, you're not going to do good
at your job. You're not super. Marcus Steep says God.
I hope the person who stole from you is that
that former FSR morning host who he ripped her, stephen
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A Smith. I would love a Mallard Melissia feud with
steven A. Well, it is not stephen A. But several
listeners emailed me to say, hey, did you hear a
media mogul commandeering a line that we have used on
this show for years now? What is the nickname that
we have given Deshaun Watson on this show. We have
called in this for probably two years now, over two years,
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creepy quarterback. That's right, that's right, And just come to
my attention, Eddie, that our comrade here, Colin Cowhard went
on a rant and he called Deshaun Watson creepy us.
He said, creepy guy. Is it possible that cow heard,
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maybe heard this show a promo. I don't think he
listens to this show, but maybe he heard a promo
or something. We've been using that line for some time here.
So now I want you to know I'm on good
terms with Colin. He let me fill in for him.
He had nothing to do with me filling in, but
I did fill in for him on his show. You no, no,
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I think there was no one else and they nobody
else wanted to do it, and so then they called me.
I think that's how it worked. But yeah, I'm honored.
I am flattered that Colin Coward, who makes all the
money and all that, he's got all the houses at
every coast, every time zone, he's got a house. Good
for him. He's doing very well for himself. He's got
a big following, and that in some way we might
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have rubbed off on on the herd, and he's used
the term that we use so much here. Creepy midnight
Walker says the creep quarterback and molest of women. His
skills appear to be gone. He's now he now is
a bomb and the Cleveland Brown stink. But the Browns
fans yelled, don't blame the Sean, They say, who else
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do we have? Page down here? Freddy says, a true test.
Let's see if DeShawn Watson can get away with murder. Well,
let's probably wait on that. I don't think we want
to see anyway murdered. I don't think that would be
that would be a good idea. I don't think that
would be a good idea at all. Let's go to
the phones and let's say hello to Dennis, who's in Charleston. Hello, Dennis, welcome.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Cop of the morning there, as one of your previous
callers has said, long time listener, first time callers.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
There with me.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You are the CURB radio hosts since two thousand, moving
to a XTA and twenty fourteen. So anyway, I'm diverse
there a little bit.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh you you were gonna make a great point. I
think we're going to talk about were we going to
talk about buffaloes roaming around?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Which buffaloes? Because there's the college buffalo and then there's
the NFL buffalo.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well, i'd rather start with the College Buffaloes. I'm not
a big college fan. I'm basically an NFL fan, but
mister Sanders has increased my intensity for watching it and
hoping he does well.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So you're not a college football fan, you're a Dion
Sanders fan because you remember him when he played in
the NFL. Oh yeah, it's nostalgia heard. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
He hurt Mike Giants so many times. I wanted to
send him a letter that might distract superiority. I grew
up in New Jersey and I went to colege's therapies.
So here are teams of what would been my fourteen. Anyway,
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I do wish him the best his son. The sons
are superb. I can't say enough about them.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Pretty pretty talented player. I don't mean I don't know them.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
We haven't seen how well he played, you know, as
he was growing into the game, Yeah, he.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Was like this, listen. I love the Deon story. It's
a great story. I have a feeling it's going to
come to a crashing end the next two weeks because
they play Oregon and USC and they're gonna get smoked
and it's going to be terrible and all that but
for now, it's a great story. I was told by
a friend of mine that were some TV that the
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reason Sixty Minutes expedited that feature on Dion again is
because they wanted to get that in before the Oregon game,
because it's so it's no longer a great story once
they lose by four touchdowns to Oregon this weekend.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So and I was impressed with his mockham of awareness
as he was speaking, his verbiage, his capatity to handle questions.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
What do you mean by he's been media savvy. The
guy's been talking to the media since the eighties. He's
been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
All right, you you have perfect verbiage.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well I do not have no. I curse a lot year,
but I gotta go. You're bawguarding the time. I know
you're a first time caller, but it's not the Dennis
and Charleston Show. But thank you. And I was flashing back.
When I first started in radio, I was a I
worked in San Diego, but I was a reporter. One
of my first gigs I need updates. That's how I
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got into business. And I started covering baseball and Deon
Sanders was playing there was. He was playing for the
Cincinnati Reds at the time I started, and then he
bounced around. I think he went to the Giants and
then I don't know where else, but he was planning
and they would come into Dodgers Stadium where I was
assigned to be a reporter, and Dion was okay. He
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was not a great baseball player, but he was a
wonderful SoundBite, and as someone that needed sound bites, I
always have fond memories of when you need something after
a Reds Dodgers game, just go to Dion Boom done.
He'll give you something and it'll probably be pretty good.
Probably be pretty good.
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So sometimes you know, I add on a little story
here because I think it's relevant, or maybe it's something
that is relevant specific to our show. Okay, So I
saw this story and I thought of you, Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Oh good, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
So I'm obviously invested in the Mountain West Conference with
my alma mater, Fresno State playing there, and coming up
next season, you're gonna have the Pack two with Washa
State and Oregus State still sticking around. And there's a
lot of scuttle but about them absorbing the schools from
the Mountain West keeping that Pac twelve brand, and it's
in their best interest to do this because they can
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get a lot of extra perks, make the yes it
is recognized, well, make the other schools also not take
as much TV money things like that. As the two
remaining schools they could keep more of the TV money,
so on and so forth. Anyway, I did see this apparently
this is being floated around that to the pack two
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Washington State oreganst they could absorb the Mountain West schools
and also have relegation included in this expansion of the
conference where they would have if you finished last in
the conference, you would be replaced by another team that
could come in. You would be out of the Mountain
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West and then or the PAC twelve Pac twelve and
then they would bring in another school, so you would
have something to hold your interest.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Love it the year. I support it one. That's a
great idea.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Obviously they have this in the you know soccer in
some places. Uh so, yeah, they're kicking it around. They're
kicking it around.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Like Washington State puts this all together, and then they
get relegated.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That would be I that would be ironically. They probably
put in some kind of deal that they they couldn't
be relegated for their first.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, because they're they in Oregon State. But that would
be wonderful. It's unconventional and I love it. It's the
one thing that we completely fed up in sports in
America that they have in Europe and it will never
happen in big time professional sports because there's too much
money that would be lost. If you were to relegate
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the Chicago Bears to the Canadian Football League because they
had the worst record last year, and you bumped up
whoever the best record in the Canadian Football League, it
would not.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, And some people are saying, well, you can't do
this because the team that gets relegated all their players
are going to go in the portal and leave them
like they're doing that anyway. Look at Colorado, look at
all the look at all the players that they've brought
in when they were a terrible team and told those
players to leave.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
So so would it be the entire Mountain West? Would
they take everyone in the mountain from the Mountain West? Now?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I think they're looking to get all those teams and
maybe even add a few extra teams.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Too, maybe the Eaters.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
They'd have to get a football program for.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I could get a football team. Come on, man, what
about the Banana Slugs?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, same thing, same thing.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I don't have a football all right, I just throw
one together? What the hell? Why not? All right? Thank you, Eddie.
We'll see what happens with that. But it seems like
a good idea. I fully support it. So you would
get the Pac twelve. Would have Hawaii Wyoming, right, isn't Wyoming?
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
San Jose State.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yep, Boise State, President State, San Diego State, the Battle,
Colorado State.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I support it. How about cal State Northridge? Can they
get a football team that put?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I don't think they got the money for that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
About cal State LA? They used to have a football
team back in the day. Really, yeah, didn't. They're a
former NFL coach that we know because we're old Eddie.
They coached the Redskins. Any was it Alan?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Oh, George Allen State? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh, but I thought that maybe somebody else I was
thinking of. But I thought they had cal State LA
had a football team years ago. Anyway, what are we
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Yeah for for for infe and everything you was freaking man,
you know, And dad gum is damn And I don't
like that word, man, so I used dad gumming anyway.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You know that's a good word. It reminds me. I
used to watch cartoons when I was a kid. And
I think bugs Bunny would say that, let me.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
Tell you something about you and you andies got your
fun fact. Let me tell you a fun fact. You
know you got the l A Rams when they am
out to uh uh California. They kind of had those.
I don't know, man, I got used to their uniforms
all those years, but they come after that blue and yellow.
And me being a painter for a few years before
I got in the driving, I used to paint automotive
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and we built these. Matter of fact, where Sam Walton
first came big was a Newport, Arkansas. He built five
dime store here in Newport. Well, they got this thing
over it called Taylor made Analys. They built Amazes, and
I painted these things. Well, if you go down there
in Las Vegas, you guys look around sometime and you're
down there and you can see these yellow Amazons with
a blue strip. This came from this Newport, Arkansas I was.
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I painted a bunch of those rides down there. And
the reason I'm the.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Reason Iowa Sam. What is he saying here? Iowa SAMs?
But what is he's painting something? What is he painting?
You understand?
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Amasis for the hospitals okay, and the reason.
Speaker 9 (30:53):
You know what that is amethyst, amalysis, ambulances, amazons, Okay, ambulances,
all right, but I didn't know ambulances.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Ambulances. Now I get it, Okay, ambulances.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
So when RAMS came out here to California, I was like, man,
am I going to get useless? Blue and yellow? But
really I like it because me and my sister and
we like them sea Hawk blue and green, man a
little bit lime green. But anyway, damn things are running
all over vekas out there and they're bright yellow. And
I paid probably ten to fifteen those analyzes and they're
bright yellow blue.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Stop looking at that.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
So when those people on their deathbed they're going to
the hospital, they can thank you for that nice paint
job on the ambulance. Yes, sir, Yes, dad, gummt, that
gummt you did a great job on that.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
But anyway, man, I just I like the Sea Hawk
blue and green. But anyway, I just won't tell you.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Now do you like the Neon? I like the old
like like the nineties version of the Seahawks uniforms, like
that really bright blue the middle nineties.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
Yeah, that was that when he was out on radio
about the middle nineties nineties.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You don't need to bring up my career in radio,
but I must move on. Thank you, Ago turn your
truck on. Dad Gummett, it is the Maybe it's just
changed his name to Dad Gummett. We can just call
him that. That'd be a funny name, right His name
right now is rather long.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, you know, if you are like a father, because
you know, I'm Dad Gummet. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh, is that a preview of the Iowa Minute coming
up next hour? Might be some bad jokes in there.
The Iowa Minute ratings are going to skyrocket. You might
want to prepare to wake up the kids and the
wife because we're going to have the Iowa Minute next hour.
But straight ahead we have the that's right, Mallard of
the third gree Iowa Sam said, we're going to break
the record for downloads on the show and the ratings
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on the live show. We're going to go through the room.
Here's the interest trivia. Adam Waynwright just became the oldest
picture in Cardinals history to pitch a scoreless outing in
at least seven innings of work. At forty two years
of age and nineteen days he broke my record for
the Redbirds for the oldest picture prior to Adam Waynwright
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to have the record fill in the blank. He broke
Blank's record for the red it's the previous record for
oldest picture. To get that done, that is the insta
trivia the answer. We'll get to it, and we'll have
Malor to the third degree. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (34:02):
Jen writes in and says, hey man, Dion brought the
tomahawk chop to the Atlanta Braves from Florida State. He
may not have been a great player, but he always
lit a spark in every game he played for the Braves.
So joy to watch him from Jen. No, I'm saying
he was a Hall of Fame football player, Jed, And yeah,
he's he was okay as a baseball player, better than
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I was as a baseball player. But it's not like
he was all world as a baseball but he was
great as a football player. And Dion, it was a
mutually beneficial relationship because those of us that were in
the media at that time, we went to Dion because
he was a great sound bite and it was a
pain in the ass for Dion. But he's still living
off the fame that he got in that period of
time and it's working wonder see. Plus he apparently can
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coach a little bit, so that's pretty pretty cool as well.
Time now for the install trivia, and here it is.
Adam Waynwright became the oldest pitcher in Cardinals franchise history,
the pitcher scoreless outing in at least seven innings of
work at age forty two and nineteen days he broke
Blank's record for the Redbirds. That is the question. What
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is the answer? Let's see does anyone know? And we've
got Mallard the third degree which is currently in the microwave.
Grover Alexander guest by Matt the Warrior Raider fan that's
his answer. Who else do we have? A page down
Raider Freak says it's that Dag Gummet wild eyed Southern Boy.
(35:31):
That's who Phil or Joe the two Pitchers that we
were together back in the day. Eddie, I forget there.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You almost were gonna say that.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, I've stopped saying that, Eddie. Now, who else do
we have? Kent Bottonfield, that's a good name from John
the Pie Guy, Kent Bottonfield, Willie Nelson from The Cowboy Killer,
Bob Forsche from Midnight Walker, Baby Ruth guessed by Fergcat.
Who else we have? Steve Scheffler from Alf the Alien Opiner.
(36:03):
That's pretty funny, jo Keen Andrew Harr from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
Some great Cardinals, Bob Gibson from Justin in Cincinnati, Satchel
Page from Robbie the Mariner fan Mark McGuire's Steroid Dealer
from Trucker Joe, Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I do? It is former Redbird Great Bob Tewksbury.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Is it the Tuke Bob's Bob Tewksbury. No, that isn't correct, Eddie.
The correct answer. The previous record was held by a
none other, none other than Jim Cott. Jim Cott back
in nineteen eighty forty one years of age two hundred
and ten days, just slightly older than Grover Alexander.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Here we go, it's smeller. How about that to the
third degree? This is one big Ben gets krill the Kobaloo.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
The Packers may have given the game away late against
the Falcons, but Jordan Love has still thrown for six
touchdowns and zero interceptions through the first two games of
the season. Ben, did the Packers go three for three
on franchise quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
I'm not ready to go there, Coop. As you know,
I'm a prestigious television personality now, but that's a premature take.
The numbers are skewed because of the competition. The Bears
are pathetic. They are who we thought they were. You
want to crown them, crown their asses and the Falcons
are not a top notch defensive here in Chicago looks
like the worst defense of the NFL. Jordan Love, He's fine.
(37:33):
I think he's at least an average quarterback. I'm not
convinced he's a Hall of Fame level player and all that.
We'll see what he does this week against the better
opponent in the New Orleans Saints, and that'll be a
little bit bigger notch in his belt.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Next, the Tampa Bay Rays, formerly of the devil type,
have reached a deal to build a new stadium. With
the Rays and A's getting their new stadium, their stadium
situations figured out. Expansion is expected to be around the
corner which cities do you think we'll get teams?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
So from what I've heard, the one that's clearly going
to get a team is Nashville. And then outside of Nashville,
to toss up baseball, could go to Charlotte, put two
teams in the South. You could go Portland, Oregon. Portland,
Oregon's the biggest TV market without a big league team,
and it can go international, go back to Montreal, go
to Mexico City. There's options, but Nashville is gonna be
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one of the next.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
It's being reported that a new Eastern Conference team has
engaged the Trailblazers and Damian Lillard talks Ben. Who do
you think that team is?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
It should be the Boston Celtics, but it's not gonna
be the Celtics. The Milwaukee Bucks seem to make sense.
Giannis is making noise about leaving. If they could get Lillard,
that would make Giannis a happy camper. There is Mallard
of the thirty three, How did wake now? He passes?
That is a way back in the win column too, Sean.
I'm back in the win column, Sean,
Hello and welcome. It's our number two in the NFL
releasing his statement about the shove not heard around the
world because there was no punishment. How do you process
the NFL's prepared statement under Shawn Watson being allowed to
shove an official without getting penalized or in any kind
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of trouble and kicked out of the game. No flag
on that. What do you think of the Bryce Young
size issues. It's a size thing with the Panthers And
there was a survey done this at only six percent
of Jacksonville residents want to pay the tax money for
stadium renovations. In what way does that impact the Jags
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stadium financing. We'll talk about that and whatever else pops
up right now here. It is our number two. It
is elementary, my dear Watson and welcome. In the beginning
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We have had a reverberation around the creepy quarterbacks push
heard around the football world now on Monday Night Football.
We talked about this in the previous episode of the
show during some sideline wrangling after the first of two
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of flagrant to penalties, a face mask call, a foul
against the Cleveland Browns quarterback to Shawn Watson. After the
first of those two face mask penalties, Watson, if you
remember watching the game, he shoved unofficial away from him,
get out away from May and he was not ejected
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from the game. The NFL has since issued a prepared
statement on how a player is allowed to shove a
referee and not be penalized in any way kicked out
of the game. It seems a little fishy. So what
did the NFL say. I don't know if you saw
this or not, maybe not. The NFL released a statement
(02:58):
the money part of the statement was quote in the
judgment of the officials, the contact did not rise to
the level of a foul close quote. That's the explanation
from big brother in the NFL. So let us discuss
the question, how do you process the NFL's statement on
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Deshaun Watson, essentially allowing him to get a shove at
an official. So I've got Mulligan, man zz top, and
Slushy and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make the happy baby yoga
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pose because we know Deshaun Watson loves the happy baby
yoga pose. So number one this statement by the NFL.
And I don't want to be too hard on the NFL.
This statement is poppycock, is what it is. We are
confused by the NFL's ongoing love affair with Deshaun Watson.
(04:04):
It would make us pull our hair out if we
had much left. We don't. There is no inadvertent contact exception.
There's no exemption in the NFL rule book. It's very straightforward.
If you make contact with an official like Deshaun Watson did,
it's Nana, nanaa good bye. Here's what the rule says.
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Under no circumstance. Is a player allowed to shove, push,
or strike an official in an offensive, disrespectful, or unsportsman
like manner, the player shall be disqualified from the game
and any such action must be reported to the commissioner,
who may impose further discipline unless you are DeShawn Watson.
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So by not punishing the Browns quarterback, the message is
rather clear. Shawn Watson, in the eyes of the NFL,
is the Mulligan man, and you get a Mulligan, you
get a Mulligan. That's a status in the NFL at
league headquarters. Watson has this invisible force field that protects
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him from all forms of accountability. Deshaun probably right now
is in the Happy Baby Yoga pos smiling and looking
at a photo of Roger Goodell. Is it true? Is
it true that the Browns quarterback has compromising photos of
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NFL executives doing things that they should not be doing.
Why else would he be getting the special treatment? A
serious question. I don't understand what's going on here. Every
time this guy screws up, the NFL essentially pretends, Ah,
that didn't happen, You're okay. He got a slap on
the wrist he was actually promoted. Promoted after running an
(05:54):
unpermitted petting zoo for random Instagram booty models he was
getting massages from. He just cut a check there, made
that go away. The Cleveland Browns were so horny for
Deshaun Watson that they gave him two hundred thirty million
dollars guaranteed, which is still the most guaranteed money ever
given out to an NFL player, while there were twenty
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plus ongoing accusations of illicit activity against Deshaun Watson. The
Cleveland Browns are such a morally bankrupt franchise they gave
him two order thirty million dollars in the middle of that.
There's no way you can pull for this guy. He's
just a bad dude. And Deshaun Watson on the field
the cherry on top of the crap. Sunday, Deshaun has
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been a poop sandwich with that Sunday. His performance has
been lousy. He's not even a baseline quarterback at this
point in the NFL. It's fascinating, but that's never his fault.
It's never his fault, all right now, Page two here
in Charlotte, after another humiliating offensive performance, I've learned that
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the Panthers have an underlying condition that they are dealing with.
Now what is the underlying condition, you asked, Well, we
are told they are unable to run the basic quarterback
sneak play. It is not in their playbook with Bryce Young.
Why you ask, because, and I'm not making this up,
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because Bryce Young isn't big enough to run the play. Hello. Yeah,
this has been bouncing around the pinball machine of sports chatter.
So let me give you the long and short of it.
So and really the short of it in this one
so third and short situations. And I didn't notice this
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in the Monday night game because I was flipping back
and forth and the Panthers Saints game was so dull,
I didn't really focus in on it much. I kind
of was like falling into daydreamland. Anyway, Apparently the Panthers
were forced to bring in Andy Dalton against the Saint Yeah,
they had to bring him in the red rifle, Andy Dalton,
because he's bigger than their starting quarterback. Now, the reports
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say that this is going to be a long term problem.
There's obviously no way to get Bryce Young much bigger.
So what do you think of the Bryce Young size
issues being that underlying condition for the Panthers. So this
one does not pass the smell test. First of all,
Carolina knew what they were getting. It's not like Bryce
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Young hid the fact that he was a fun sized quarterback.
He was those little mini candy bars. That's what he is.
He's five to ten and he's listed at two hundred
and four pounds. He looks shorter than five to ten,
and it looks like he's closer to one hundred and
seventy pounds than two hundred and four pounds. He just
appears small. Maybe it's an optical illusion. He's actually a
fat ass, but he looks smaller. Nevertheless, I disagree with
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the hypothesis that Carolina is hamstrong here with Bryce Young.
They cannot run the quarterback sneak advice, go old school
zz top, use the tush, the tush a push ay,
all right, That is what I recommend. That is what
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I recommend. That rugby style play is unstoppable. Just just
have your running backs throw, literally throw Bryce Young over
the line to game like he's a volleyball. Bryce Young
has bigger problems though, Like forget the short yardage situation.
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He just looks overmatched. He's been drowning the first couple
of games of the year, and that's not exactly against
elite competition for Bryce Young, It's going to get harder
at some point. It's supposed to get harder at some point. Now,
final final point for us. So we go to Florida.
Interesting story here. There was a poll done of the
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voters in NFL city in Florida, and it revealed that
only six percent of Jacksonville residents want to help foot
the bill for the renovations of the Jaguars Stadium. The
NFL team is asking for a handout. They want a
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billion dollars. Can we please have a billion dollars? Why
is that? Well, we play not eight football games a year.
We play six football games a year here, but we'd
like eight billion dollars. We'd like that. The polling found
that forty seven percent of those that were asked and
responded said that they don't want to pay the money,
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and they don't even want to pay the money if
it meant losing the Jags to a different city like
say London, and over fifty percent said that the city
should sell the stadium to the team and let them
pay for it. Seems like a good idea to me.
So in what way does this survey that says only
six percent of Jacksonville residents want to help pay the
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bill for the Jacksonville Jags stadium? In what way does
this impact the stadium financing for the Jags. So, for
whatever it's worth, I will start by saying I agree
with the premise of the people saying don't pay the
people surveyed. Regardless of the fact that I agree, it
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does not matter. The electorate is irrelevant. Every man, woman
and child knows how this is. And we've seen it
time and again. It'll play out here in Jacksonville. If
not Jacksonville, it'll go somewhere else. But the elected leaders
they don't care about the unwashed. They don't care. They
care when they're coming up for election. But nobody's not
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going to vote for a politician because they gave money
to an NFL team. They might be upset about it,
but they'll they're not going to vote against someone because
that Shod Khan, the owner of the team, is worth
I think this is about twelve point one billion dollars.
I believe his family. So these NFL teams, generally speaking,
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have this thing called the slushy and or go they
can just tip into old fashioned political bribery, get in
that slush fund and have a wonderful time. Here's what
you'd normally do. You scratch my back, I'll scratch your back.
I'll give you season tickets. I'll toss in field passes.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You want a luxury box. Okay, you want to go
in that nice pool we have in the end zone.
All right, whatever perks you want. Just remember us when
we want to get those new toilets and that new
jumbo tron in the stadium, and then abbra cadabra, presto,
all of that stadium money magically appears right out of
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thin air. How does that happen? That is fascinating that
that happens. Is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we continue on,
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It's kind of a speakeasy here, but there's a line
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to have you. So there's a line that I have
used on this show for the last couple of years that,
according to the p ones on this show has been
commandeered by one of the most powerful people in sports media.
Something that we have used under the cover of darkness
here for many many years has been commandeered by a
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very powerful person in sports. Now I'm gonna ask you
for confirmation. We'll get to that, and we will do it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
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Get back to the calls coming up momentarily. We began
this hour with a spicy hot Malard monologue bouncing around
the NFL, starting with Deshaan Watson, Burfy guys, the great
villain of the NFL can't pull for that guy, no way.
Story out of Charlotte, which I got a kick out
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of that. The Panthers, Frank Reich has decided they cannot
run the quarterback sneak play because their quarterback's too small,
so they have to bring the backup in Andy Dalton,
which is great. And then you've got the voters of Jacksonville.
And according to a recent poll, only six percent of
Jacksonville residents who responded here want to pay for the team,
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and almost half the people said they would rather the
team relocate then give them the billion dollars. Yeah, that's
that's outstanding. That that is a ten out of ten.
I love that, not that it's gonna matter in the end.
Chip and the Q's right, since the page down me
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find Chips. There's a bunch of people sending stuff. He
says a plus on the mall monologue. The only thing
I can think is that Watson might be Rogers' secret,
illegitimate love child. Now that would be a story, that
would be a story. Eugene right, since, says Bryce Young.
Eugenia Chicago says, Bryce Young is another Johnny Manziel he's
too short, too light for the NFL. All quarterbacks should
(15:53):
be six to one or taller to play in the NFL.
Russell Wilson already sucks and he's only thirty four. Well
that's kind of old, isn't it, Eugene, for an NFL quarterback.
I mean, with the exception of a few guys, usually
they go down. The performance goes down around thirty two
to thirty three. So he's actually kind of the norm.
Russell Wilson. Just nobody let the Broncos know about that.
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He says, no more small guys at the quarterback position.
That's rue Gene. Now, Eugene, you've been with me a
long time, so you probably remember that I was a
Johnny Manziel fanboy. I had no idea that I watched
more tape than Johnny Manziel when he played for the
Cleveland Browns. I had no idea that that was actually
going on. I watched that documentary that was on It
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was on Netflix, while I think might still be on there.
I watched a couple weeks ago, maybe a month ago,
and it was fascinating, Like Johnny Monzil didn't give a
rats ass about playing in the NFL. He didn't find
it fun, so he didn't put any work in. And
I believe if Manziel had put the work in, he
would have been at least an average quarterback. But he
didn't give a crap about playing in the NFL. And
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it's like any job, whether you have a I don't
care whether you're a security guard, you're driving a truck,
or you're playing quarterback in the NFL. If you don't
care about your job, you're not going to do good
at your job. You're not super. Marcus Steep says God.
I hope the person who stole from you is that
that former FSR morning host who he ripped her, stephen
(17:20):
A Smith. I would love a Mallard Melissia feud with
steven A. Well, it is not stephen A. But several
listeners emailed me to say, hey, did you hear a
media mogul commandeering a line that we have used on
this show for years now? What is the nickname that
we have given Deshaun Watson on this show. We have
called in this for probably two years now, over two years,
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creepy quarterback. That's right, that's right, And just come to
my attention, Eddie, that our comrade here, Colin Cowhard went
on a rant and he called Deshaun Watson creepy us.
He said, creepy guy. Is it possible that cow heard,
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maybe heard this show a promo. I don't think he
listens to this show, but maybe he heard a promo
or something. We've been using that line for some time here.
So now I want you to know I'm on good
terms with Colin. He let me fill in for him.
He had nothing to do with me filling in, but
I did fill in for him on his show. You no, no,
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I think there was no one else and they nobody
else wanted to do it, and so then they called me.
I think that's how it worked. But yeah, I'm honored.
I am flattered that Colin Coward, who makes all the
money and all that, he's got all the houses at
every coast, every time zone, he's got a house. Good
for him. He's doing very well for himself. He's got
a big following, and that in some way we might
(18:50):
have rubbed off on on the herd, and he's used
the term that we use so much here. Creepy midnight
Walker says the creep quarterback and molest of women. His
skills appear to be gone. He's now he now is
a bomb and the Cleveland Brown stink. But the Browns
fans yelled, don't blame the Sean, They say, who else
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do we have? Page down here? Freddy says, a true test.
Let's see if DeShawn Watson can get away with murder. Well,
let's probably wait on that. I don't think we want
to see anyway murdered. I don't think that would be
that would be a good idea. I don't think that
would be a good idea at all. Let's go to
the phones and let's say hello to Dennis, who's in Charleston. Hello, Dennis, welcome.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Cop of the morning there, as one of your previous
callers has said, long time listener, first time callers.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
There with me.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You are the CURB radio hosts since two thousand, moving
to a XTA and twenty fourteen. So anyway, I'm diverse
there a little bit.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh you you were gonna make a great point. I
think we're going to talk about were we going to
talk about buffaloes roaming around?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Which buffaloes? Because there's the college buffalo and then there's
the NFL buffalo.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well, i'd rather start with the College Buffaloes. I'm not
a big college fan. I'm basically an NFL fan, but
mister Sanders has increased my intensity for watching it and
hoping he does well.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So you're not a college football fan, you're a Dion
Sanders fan because you remember him when he played in
the NFL. Oh yeah, it's nostalgia heard. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
He hurt Mike Giants so many times. I wanted to
send him a letter that might distract superiority. I grew
up in New Jersey and I went to colege's therapies.
So here are teams of what would been my fourteen. Anyway,
(21:12):
I do wish him the best his son. The sons
are superb. I can't say enough about them.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Pretty pretty talented player. I don't mean I don't know them.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
We haven't seen how well he played, you know, as
he was growing into the game, Yeah, he.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Was like this, listen. I love the Deon story. It's
a great story. I have a feeling it's going to
come to a crashing end the next two weeks because
they play Oregon and USC and they're gonna get smoked
and it's going to be terrible and all that but
for now, it's a great story. I was told by
a friend of mine that were some TV that the
(21:59):
reason Sixty Minutes expedited that feature on Dion again is
because they wanted to get that in before the Oregon game,
because it's so it's no longer a great story once
they lose by four touchdowns to Oregon this weekend.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So and I was impressed with his mockham of awareness
as he was speaking, his verbiage, his capatity to handle questions.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
What do you mean by he's been media savvy. The
guy's been talking to the media since the eighties. He's
been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
All right, you you have perfect verbiage.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well I do not have no. I curse a lot year,
but I gotta go. You're bawguarding the time. I know
you're a first time caller, but it's not the Dennis
and Charleston Show. But thank you. And I was flashing back.
When I first started in radio, I was a I
worked in San Diego, but I was a reporter. One
of my first gigs I need updates. That's how I
(23:01):
got into business. And I started covering baseball and Deon
Sanders was playing there was. He was playing for the
Cincinnati Reds at the time I started, and then he
bounced around. I think he went to the Giants and
then I don't know where else, but he was planning
and they would come into Dodgers Stadium where I was
assigned to be a reporter, and Dion was okay. He
(23:21):
was not a great baseball player, but he was a
wonderful SoundBite, and as someone that needed sound bites, I
always have fond memories of when you need something after
a Reds Dodgers game, just go to Dion Boom done.
He'll give you something and it'll probably be pretty good.
Probably be pretty good.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
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So sometimes you know, I add on a little story
here because I think it's relevant, or maybe it's something
that is relevant specific to our show. Okay, So I
saw this story and I thought of you, Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Oh good, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
So I'm obviously invested in the Mountain West Conference with
my alma mater, Fresno State playing there, and coming up
next season, you're gonna have the Pack two with Washa
State and Oregus State still sticking around. And there's a
lot of scuttle but about them absorbing the schools from
the Mountain West keeping that Pac twelve brand, and it's
in their best interest to do this because they can
(25:04):
get a lot of extra perks, make the yes it
is recognized, well, make the other schools also not take
as much TV money things like that. As the two
remaining schools they could keep more of the TV money,
so on and so forth. Anyway, I did see this apparently
this is being floated around that to the pack two
(25:24):
Washington State oreganst they could absorb the Mountain West schools
and also have relegation included in this expansion of the
conference where they would have if you finished last in
the conference, you would be replaced by another team that
could come in. You would be out of the Mountain
(25:45):
West and then or the PAC twelve Pac twelve and
then they would bring in another school, so you would
have something to hold your interest.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Love it the year. I support it one. That's a
great idea.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Obviously they have this in the you know soccer in
some places. Uh so, yeah, they're kicking it around. They're
kicking it around.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Like Washington State puts this all together, and then they
get relegated.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
That would be I that would be ironically. They probably
put in some kind of deal that they they couldn't
be relegated for their first.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, because they're they in Oregon State. But that would
be wonderful. It's unconventional and I love it. It's the
one thing that we completely fed up in sports in
America that they have in Europe and it will never
happen in big time professional sports because there's too much
money that would be lost. If you were to relegate
(26:38):
the Chicago Bears to the Canadian Football League because they
had the worst record last year, and you bumped up
whoever the best record in the Canadian Football League, it
would not.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, And some people are saying, well, you can't do
this because the team that gets relegated all their players
are going to go in the portal and leave them
like they're doing that anyway. Look at Colorado, look at
all the look at all the players that they've brought
in when they were a terrible team and told those
players to leave.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
So so would it be the entire Mountain West? Would
they take everyone in the mountain from the Mountain West? Now?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I think they're looking to get all those teams and
maybe even add a few extra teams.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Too, maybe the Eaters.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
They'd have to get a football program for.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I could get a football team. Come on, man, what
about the Banana Slugs?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, same thing, same thing.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I don't have a football all right, I just throw
one together? What the hell? Why not? All right? Thank you, Eddie.
We'll see what happens with that. But it seems like
a good idea. I fully support it. So you would
get the Pac twelve. Would have Hawaii Wyoming, right, isn't Wyoming?
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
San Jose State.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yep, Boise State, President State, San Diego State, the Battle,
Colorado State.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I support it. How about cal State Northridge? Can they
get a football team that put?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I don't think they got the money for that.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
About cal State LA? They used to have a football
team back in the day. Really, yeah, didn't. They're a
former NFL coach that we know because we're old Eddie.
They coached the Redskins. Any was it Alan?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Oh, George Allen State? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh, but I thought that maybe somebody else I was
thinking of. But I thought they had cal State LA
had a football team years ago. Anyway, what are we
doing here? It is the Ben Maler Show. We're doing
a talk show. We're talking. It's talk show. We talk,
you talk, I talk. We make the whole world go round.
It is wonderful. Oh, it's such a great gift talk radio.
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In and the Speak Easy edition of the Ben Malor Show,
(28:57):
we say Hello to the wild Eyed sub formerly known
by his other name, Sir scratch Off, and before that
he was known by another name. Hello, sir, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Man?
Speaker 8 (29:11):
I turned that truck off? What I'll tell you?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
What?
Speaker 8 (29:14):
Hey? Did you learn? Did you learn that new word?
Out touched you last night?
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Now?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Let me tell you something, dad gum I did learn
that word. Let me tell you that right now? Did
I do it right? Did I do it right?
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Come on, five, brother, I'll tell you what. I give
you five new words, and you would be ever saying
anything bad.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You're gonna give me a full Southern lexicon like an Arkansas.
I'm gonna I'm gonna know all the language of Arkansas
from you.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
Yeah for for for infe and everything you was freaking man,
you know, And dad gum is damn And I don't
like that word, man, so I used dad gumming anyway.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You know that's a good word. It reminds me. I
used to watch cartoons when I was a kid. And
I think bugs Bunny would say that, let me.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
Tell you something about you and you andies got your
fun fact. Let me tell you a fun fact. You
know you got the l A Rams when they am
out to uh uh California. They kind of had those.
I don't know, man, I got used to their uniforms
all those years, but they come after that blue and yellow.
And me being a painter for a few years before
I got in the driving, I used to paint automotive
(30:13):
and we built these. Matter of fact, where Sam Walton
first came big was a Newport, Arkansas. He built five
dime store here in Newport. Well, they got this thing
over it called Taylor made Analys. They built Amazes, and
I painted these things. Well, if you go down there
in Las Vegas, you guys look around sometime and you're
down there and you can see these yellow Amazons with
a blue strip. This came from this Newport, Arkansas I was.
(30:37):
I painted a bunch of those rides down there. And
the reason I'm the.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Reason Iowa Sam. What is he saying here? Iowa SAMs?
But what is he's painting something? What is he painting?
You understand?
Speaker 8 (30:50):
Amasis for the hospitals okay, and the reason.
Speaker 9 (30:53):
You know what that is amethyst, amalysis, ambulances, amazons, Okay, ambulances,
all right, but I didn't know ambulances.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Ambulances. Now I get it, Okay, ambulances.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
So when RAMS came out here to California, I was like, man,
am I going to get useless? Blue and yellow? But
really I like it because me and my sister and
we like them sea Hawk blue and green, man a
little bit lime green. But anyway, damn things are running
all over vekas out there and they're bright yellow. And
I paid probably ten to fifteen those analyzes and they're
bright yellow blue.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Stop looking at that.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
So when those people on their deathbed they're going to
the hospital, they can thank you for that nice paint
job on the ambulance. Yes, sir, Yes, dad, gummt, that
gummt you did a great job on that.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
But anyway, man, I just I like the Sea Hawk
blue and green. But anyway, I just won't tell you.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Now do you like the Neon? I like the old
like like the nineties version of the Seahawks uniforms, like
that really bright blue the middle nineties.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
Yeah, that was that when he was out on radio
about the middle nineties nineties.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
You don't need to bring up my career in radio,
but I must move on. Thank you, Ago turn your
truck on. Dad Gummett, it is the Maybe it's just
changed his name to Dad Gummett. We can just call
him that. That'd be a funny name, right His name
right now is rather long.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Well, you know, if you are like a father, because
you know, I'm Dad Gummet. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh, is that a preview of the Iowa Minute coming
up next hour? Might be some bad jokes in there.
The Iowa Minute ratings are going to skyrocket. You might
want to prepare to wake up the kids and the
wife because we're going to have the Iowa Minute next hour.
But straight ahead we have the that's right, Mallard of
the third gree Iowa Sam said, we're going to break
the record for downloads on the show and the ratings
(32:34):
on the live show. We're going to go through the room.
Here's the interest trivia. Adam Waynwright just became the oldest
picture in Cardinals history to pitch a scoreless outing in
at least seven innings of work. At forty two years
of age and nineteen days he broke my record for
the Redbirds for the oldest picture prior to Adam Waynwright
(32:55):
to have the record fill in the blank. He broke
Blank's record for the red it's the previous record for
oldest picture. To get that done, that is the insta
trivia the answer. We'll get to it, and we'll have
Malor to the third degree. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (34:02):
Jen writes in and says, hey man, Dion brought the
tomahawk chop to the Atlanta Braves from Florida State. He
may not have been a great player, but he always
lit a spark in every game he played for the Braves.
So joy to watch him from Jen. No, I'm saying
he was a Hall of Fame football player, Jed, And yeah,
he's he was okay as a baseball player, better than
(34:23):
I was as a baseball player. But it's not like
he was all world as a baseball but he was
great as a football player. And Dion, it was a
mutually beneficial relationship because those of us that were in
the media at that time, we went to Dion because
he was a great sound bite and it was a
pain in the ass for Dion. But he's still living
off the fame that he got in that period of
time and it's working wonder see. Plus he apparently can
(34:46):
coach a little bit, so that's pretty pretty cool as well.
Time now for the install trivia, and here it is.
Adam Waynwright became the oldest pitcher in Cardinals franchise history,
the pitcher scoreless outing in at least seven innings of
work at age forty two and nineteen days he broke
Blank's record for the Redbirds. That is the question. What
(35:09):
is the answer? Let's see does anyone know? And we've
got Mallard the third degree which is currently in the microwave.
Grover Alexander guest by Matt the Warrior Raider fan that's
his answer. Who else do we have? A page down
Raider Freak says it's that Dag Gummet wild eyed Southern Boy.
(35:31):
That's who Phil or Joe the two Pitchers that we
were together back in the day. Eddie, I forget there.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You almost were gonna say that.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, I've stopped saying that, Eddie. Now, who else do
we have? Kent Bottonfield, that's a good name from John
the Pie Guy, Kent Bottonfield, Willie Nelson from The Cowboy Killer,
Bob Forsche from Midnight Walker, Baby Ruth guessed by Fergcat.
Who else we have? Steve Scheffler from Alf the Alien Opiner.
(36:03):
That's pretty funny, jo Keen Andrew Harr from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
Some great Cardinals, Bob Gibson from Justin in Cincinnati, Satchel
Page from Robbie the Mariner fan Mark McGuire's Steroid Dealer
from Trucker Joe, Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I do? It is former Redbird Great Bob Tewksbury.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Is it the Tuke Bob's Bob Tewksbury. No, that isn't correct, Eddie.
The correct answer. The previous record was held by a
none other, none other than Jim Cott. Jim Cott back
in nineteen eighty forty one years of age two hundred
and ten days, just slightly older than Grover Alexander.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Here we go, it's smeller. How about that to the
third degree? This is one big Ben gets krill the Kobaloo.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
The Packers may have given the game away late against
the Falcons, but Jordan Love has still thrown for six
touchdowns and zero interceptions through the first two games of
the season. Ben, did the Packers go three for three
on franchise quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
I'm not ready to go there, Coop. As you know,
I'm a prestigious television personality now, but that's a premature take.
The numbers are skewed because of the competition. The Bears
are pathetic. They are who we thought they were. You
want to crown them, crown their asses and the Falcons
are not a top notch defensive here in Chicago looks
like the worst defense of the NFL. Jordan Love, He's fine.
(37:33):
I think he's at least an average quarterback. I'm not
convinced he's a Hall of Fame level player and all that.
We'll see what he does this week against the better
opponent in the New Orleans Saints, and that'll be a
little bit bigger notch in his belt.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Next, the Tampa Bay Rays, formerly of the devil type,
have reached a deal to build a new stadium. With
the Rays and A's getting their new stadium, their stadium
situations figured out. Expansion is expected to be around the
corner which cities do you think we'll get teams?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
So from what I've heard, the one that's clearly going
to get a team is Nashville. And then outside of Nashville,
to toss up baseball, could go to Charlotte, put two
teams in the South. You could go Portland, Oregon. Portland,
Oregon's the biggest TV market without a big league team,
and it can go international, go back to Montreal, go
to Mexico City. There's options, but Nashville is gonna be
(38:23):
one of the next.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
It's being reported that a new Eastern Conference team has
engaged the Trailblazers and Damian Lillard talks Ben. Who do
you think that team is?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
It should be the Boston Celtics, but it's not gonna
be the Celtics. The Milwaukee Bucks seem to make sense.
Giannis is making noise about leaving. If they could get Lillard,
that would make Giannis a happy camper. There is Mallard
of the thirty three, How did wake now? He passes?
That is a way back in the win column too, Sean.
I'm back in the win column, Sean,
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