October 3, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Yankees manager Aaron Boone being expected to return next season, the latest developments in the Trevor Bauer story, Maller's Mountain of Money: Brian Johnson Edition, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb birth three as we
chug along on the podcast here in our number three,
gonna blow your mind talking bay Ball, and while the
wild Card round of the playoffs going on today on
this Tuesday, there is some business to take care of
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outside of the playoff teams. For example, what does Aaron
Boones expected returns say about the status of Yankee Baseball
as he's expected to be back as the manager, And
how do you evaluate the latest developments in the Trevor
Bauers story that he has settled the civil lawsuit and
has now unloaded more evidence that he says vindicates him
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from that story that saw him excommunicated from the Dodgers. Also,
where is the one Soto story going with the Padres.
We'll have details on that and much more right now here.
It is our number three. Tis the start of the
baseball playoffs, But there are no pinstripes at least the
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authentic original pinstripes to be seen anywhere. Welme come and.
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I do. I just like it a lot. I like
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football more, but I love baseball. And it's a great
time of the year with the Baseball Playoffs starting today
today to day to day, they will be baseball action
pretty much all day. I'll be getting up kind of
early today. I'll explain more on that later, but there
will be baseball action to partake it to consume throughout
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the day and the Wildcard round, and we have seen
teams get to the World Series on a semi regular
basis and occasionally win from the Wildcard Round, which has
only been around for a couple of years. Last year,
the Phillies got to the World Series, and since nobody
actually won it, we consider them the champions of Baseball,
the Phillies because the team that they claim won, they're cheaters,
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so that we don't really credit them any Real people
with integrity don't credit them with a win. So one
of these teams that plays today, whether it's the Rangers,
ray Is, Marlins, Phillies, Blue Jays, Twins, Diamondbacks, or Brewers,
by the time the playoffs end, could end up in
the World Series, has a decent shot, decent shot of
ending up in the World Series. But our lead does
not come from that. We're gonna hop around, but we're
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gonna start with the playoff baseball activity involving teams that
aren't in the playoffs, because there's activity the wild card
games going These games are going on, but in the
backdrop there is news and it involves the Pinstripers. If
you have not heard, maybe not, we learned that the
New York Yankees will be running it back, talking about
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setting a low bar. They'll be running it back in
twenty twenty four with.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Air Bood airin Boat Yeah, Aaron Boone, Aaron f and
Boone will return as the manager.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
S and Y tells us the Pinstripers front office will
be meeting in Tampa. They'll have a big pow wow
because that's where the Yankees are running Tampa. These happen
to play their games in New York. But they're gonna
have a mid week get together and they will discuss
what has been a horrific for a year of Yankee baseball.
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But if you're a Yankee hater, it was glorious. And
they're expected to keep Aaron Boone. Now, how do we
know that Boone is expected to be there? And we
would assume that if they're getting rid of him, he
would not be invited to the end of season meetings
where they plan what they're going to do next year.
Boone has been the manager of the Yankee since twenty
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eighteen and he's got one year left on his contract.
Now the question is will the Yankees just allow him
to be a lame duck a manager in distress, or
will they toss on an extra dummy year on the
contract so he is not a lame duck manager. But
let us discuss the question what does Aaron Boone's expected
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return to the Bronx say about the status of Yankee baseball?
So I've got skeed, pete cock and gardening shears, and
we will combine all of these things together and be
a hive of activity, buzzing around a hive of activity. So,
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first of all, my initial thought, this tells us that
with Aaron Boone coming back, it tells us that Aaron
Boone has no power at all. Right, He's nothing more
than a middle manager, as we assumed. But this is validation,
this is confirmation. If Aaron Boone was the one pulling
the strings on this atrocity of a Yankee season, then
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Aaron Boone would have been fired. But Boone is a
good foot soldier. He is a liaison between the gm
Brian Cashman and the players. He doesn't fill out the
lineup card. The pitching changes are telegraphed based on a
unique proprietary blend, a formula designed by the analytical arm
of Yankee Baseball, and he just follows that the three
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ring binder. Yankees manager Aaron Boone, he ought to get
an endorsement from the people over at Sketchers. He can
be the sackman because he's a sock puppet and whatever
the nerd Army tells him to do, he does it.
And his main job is to be the mouthpiece with
the media, to be calm, cool and collected when you're
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addressing the media talking about the status of Yankee Baseball.
So he's the East Coast version of Dave Roberts. That's
what Dave Roberts does for the Dodgers on the West Coast,
all right. Now. Second to lawsuit land we go and
a update a story we have not updated in many,
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many months, former Major League Baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer, who
was excommunicated out of Baseball American Baseball overseas in Japan.
Bauer and a woman who turns out falsely accused him
of sexualist settled their lawsuits without any money getting exchanged.
Not only that, Bauer is free to roam around the
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country and tell all kinds of stories about what happened. Now,
how do we know this? It's all according to a
video that Bauer posted on x It's about a four
minute video. Bauer went point by point revealing new information,
new evidence, alleged messages, and also a video from the
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morning after one of the sexual romps that Bauer had
with a groupie named Lindsey Hill, which depicts the woman
lying in bed next to a sleeping bower and appearing
to smirk without any of the alleged injuries that caused
Trevor Bauer to be kicked out of Dodger Land and
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banished by Major League Baseball. Now, one message that Bauer
included the video claimed that the woman tried to frame
him from money. Alleged that the woman text an unknown
person his net worth is fifty one million, to which
the person alleged replied, biach, you better secure the back.
Bauer also said the video, which is pretty damning for
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the accuser, paints a clear picture of what actually happened
the evening of May fifteenth, and she definitely does not
look injured in the face the way the photos went
around the internet, and also does appear to be smirking
at Bauer, kind of like a victory lap, if you will.
She was very happy with her conquest there. She's a
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conquistador and she was celebrating her accomplishment. Now, how do
you evaluate the latest developments in the Trevor Bauer story.
So the way I look at it, exploring every avenue
available to us, it is hard to disagree with Bauer's
position based on the preponderance of the evidence. And at
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this point, Trevor Bauer is a peacock. Bauer is strutting
around like a glorious peacock with his tail feathers up
for the world to see. Now, the court of social
media got this one wrong. Rob Manford in Major League Baseball.
Out of a bunch of caution, they kept Trevor Bauer
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away and this was personal. Baseball will not admit it,
but Bauer had been a troll of Rob Manford, the
little pint size commissioner of Major League Baseball, and so
Bauer had taken some shots, and this was this is vengeance.
This is vengeance by baseball. They saw an opportunity, took
advantage of it, and Bauer was never charged with a crime.
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He won every legal battle, which was only one judge
in one proceeding over a restraining order, which Bauer pointed
out in the video. In California and actually most places,
it's the most basic thing to get a restraining order.
The judge really unloaded in court on this accuser. Now,
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Bauer was pitching in Japan after being found guilty by
accusation rather than innocent until proven guilty. So it's very,
very unlikely to me that Bauer will find a gig
in Major League Baseball. I don't see it. He's a
good pitcher. He's certainly good enough to be on a
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major league rotation. Maybe you say he's not a number
one or two starter, but a number three or four starter.
He's had big time performance, he's won a cy Young Award,
and he's also got high levels of toxicity around him.
So even though based on the legal system, which is
the judgment on these things, he didn't do anything illegal,
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was never charged with a crime, never convicted of a crime,
and he has some pretty damning evidence which he laid out,
doesn't matter. Once the legend becomes the fact. It's the
liberty balance thing. Once the legend becomes the fact, you
go with the legend. All right, final thought, So to
San Diego, we go Sunday, and I read recently the
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Padres are leaning internally towards saying bye bye to Juan
Soto as the hot stove League will crank up shortly
after the baseball playoffs come to an end. Soto has
one year left of arbitration before he becomes a free
agent in twenty twenty five. So who knows well team's
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run scared away from wan Soto because of that. We'll
find out soon. So where is the one Soto story?
Going between him and the Padres as we get close
to the witching hour for Juan Soto, so it is
heading towards a little commune called Splitsville. As Juan Soto,
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who's had big stats, he had big numbers this season,
they were empty numbers and he was not beloved in
the Padre locker room. There was said to be a
rift between Juan Soto and Manny Machado, among others, that
there were clicks in the Padre locker room. Now, the
bigger issue here is the razor sharp gardening shears er go,
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the cord cutters, and the Padre television deal which dissolved
part of the Bally's Sports network and that San Diego
channel went away, and so the Padres had to put
together with duct tape and they'd glue together also a
TV package. And so from what we've heard, and it's
been very consistent here that the projections on television revenue
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for the Padres based on what they were supposed to
get from the Bally's deal and what they're now supposed
to get from this new Nickel and dime television deal
is there's a big gap. There's a gap. The size
of the grand Canyon and man, is that a problem
because all of these big contracts were based on the
projections that the TV revenue was going to go up
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and not go down, and they weren't going to be
cut a drift from their TV partner. But here you
are at a crossroads and turned out that many San
Diegans aren't paying extra. At least at the end of
last year, they were not paying extra for pod Squad games.
And if that does not increase soon, why would it.
You're not gonna pay for anything until the season begins,
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which is not until late March early April. Then it
just knows no budget for and at this point it
would be surprising if Sodo stays in a podre uniform.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show and if you would
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at Ben Malor. A programming announcement will have that before
coming up here in a little bit. But time now
for the Mallor Riddle of the day. And here's the
Mallory riddle of the day. We'll go back to that
Monday night football game in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where
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the New York Football Giant fans loudly booed blank every
time it was shown on the jumbo tron during the
Monday night game that they would lose to the Seahawks. Again,
the Mallor riddle of the day, New York Giant fans
loudly booed blank every time every time it was shown
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on the jumbo tron during Monday night football. That is
the Mallory riddle of the day. The answer, we'll get
to it. We'll do it next football.
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Speaker 1 (15:39):
We had a caller earlier named Filmore Mike. He said,
I need some more gangster music. I need some rap music.
Give me some of that, and Iowa Sam what you want? Fillmore, Mike,
Iowa Sam gives you. It does not get any fresher
than this tune right here, A tribute to Hey.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I played some Snoop and I played a little uh
Betty Jane Honey.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Maybe we should have like listeners to ideas, like musical ideas.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
No, I don't think so. I play a lot of
a lot of different stuff, so you know, we make.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The rounds so you're not bothered by the complaints.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Listen. He said, play some snoop or some keep it
West Coast. And I did that. I did, and I'll
go back. Listen, I'll go back.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And that song you just played is from what the
nineteen fifties or sixties by fifties, right.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yeah, But you know we were talking a little Yankees.
You talked a little Joe DiMaggio earlier in the show.
So it's all a little you know, just calling.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Back, timed out for the Mallor Riddle of the day,
the Mallard Riddle of the day, and then we'll get
to the calls. But here's the riddle of the day.
New York Giant fans loudly booing blank every time it
was shown on the jumbo tron during last night's game,
Seattle winning easily over the New York Giants. That is
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the question, is the Malard riddle of the day. Let's
see does anyone know the answer? Let's find out here.
The Great Unwashed the hoy poloid chiming in Stevie Meatballs
and Florida, says Daniel Jones Feminine Hygiene Project product advertisements. Okay,
Brian Dables, big fat head from Bean boot Maker. Bob
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page Down Ferkcat says every time the ad Tom Looney
played a referee in was on the scoreboard. Bud Wiser
from Donkeys Sausage. Late Night drug tester says when they
saw Chicago Deep Dish pizza, they booed. Angry Bill's annual
prostate exam from Milkman. Mike in Colorado courtesy Flusher going
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with the cheerleaders as the answer. Alf the Alien opiner
says they booed the new commercial for pop tarts. That's fake.
Alf pop Tarts would not make Ranch pop tarts because
no one would buy Ranch pop tarks. That's disgusting. Kathy
in Madison hey Mona says blue They were not booing,
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they were blueing. I see what you did there, Paige dwn,
I can't read that. Let's see here they were saying
loo for lou Panela, guessed by a listener. Mason in
Huntington Beach, Freddie writes In says the Giant fans booed
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when scoring because they didn't want to win. Let's see here.
Econ Rosewio, Minnesota, says Brian Dables Chrome Dome. They were
booing that every time Danny Dimes choked the ball away.
From the Art of Sports Talk page Down, Rory says
the Giant fans when they looked up at the scoreboard
the JumboTron. There they booed every time they saw an
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ad for the Iowa Minute. They were very upset there,
completely understandable. Brittany Mahomes guessed by double O Mexican in
sane the ago, I can't read that on the Irrobin
Minnesota just went with Tom Looney JJ cheated. He got
a right bad job by him. Kenneth the sports Lama
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says the Rick Patino kiss cam. That is what caused
them to get up, saying, all right, do you have
an answer Eddie to the Mallord riddle of the day.
New York Giant fans last night loudly booing blank every
time it was shown on the jumbo.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
T line Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Well, what specifically about Taylor's.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Commercial for Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
There you go, you cheated? You saw that, That is
the answer. A Taylor Swift commercial was shown multiple times
on the jumbo tron and fans boom.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Boom.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yes, is there Taylor Swift fatigue among NFL fans at
this point? Developing dot dot dot. I saw Joe Buck
and Troy Aikman refuse to talk about Taylor Swift during
the Monday night broadcast and they had a lot of
time to fill because that was a bad game, but
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they would not bring Taylor Swift's name up. Have we
now reached a point of no return with Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelsey. We'll have to see about that now.
I mentioned this earlier. I don't think I pited it off.
Browbeat was the tease on this. Anthony Davis the unibrown
says he holds a grudge towards the Denver Nuggets over
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the Lakers Daddy. Taunt that the Denver Nugget fans and
there were a lot of there are a lot of
trash talk from the Nuggets and whatnot, but the Lakers
Daddy champarly. That robbed Anthony Davis the wrong way so
much so I think we'll take the first month of
the season off. It was Vic Lombardi Denver, a longtime
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Denver sportscaster, who introduced Mike Malone as the Lakers Daddy
to the crowd there at the celebration Daddy Championship celebration
in that offended Anthony Davis. He said, I love this,
very motivational, very motivational. He said, yes, oh that's fine.
He can be motivational. But the Nuggets are a better
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team than the Lakers, and they'll be a better team
this year also, so good luck on that, and we'll see.
Anthony Davis has managed to play somewhat healthy here for
a stretch, which means the grim reaper of injury is
right around the corner. That's normally how that's normally how
that works. We will take your phone calls. It is
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a speak easy addition as I wait for my board
to be reset. Also coming up later this hour, we
will have Malar's Mountain of Money, and we will need
some contestants for Malor's Mountain of money. In a statistic
which was easily predictable, easily predictable, they announced the ratings
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of Major League Baseball umpires, and they went through the ratings.
They went through all the ratings and all that, and
the one that is rated the worst in Major League
Baseball Circle of the Year twenty twenty three during the
regular season, according to something called the Umpire Auditor, which
keeps track of all this. I'm sure it's AI, but
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they announced that Angel Hernandez is the worst in blue
Angel Hernandez, which suck again. He popped up the most times,
which is appropriate. He finished the regular season with the
lowest lowest rated umpire minimum ten games, did not even
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start umpiring until August because he had a back injury.
But he had one hundred and sixty one bad calls
in ten games, including the lowest rated game that they
kept track, So he likely will not be calling any
more games for baseball this Season's hard to imagine that
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Baseball would give him a playoff assignment. But that's impressive
that you don't umpire a game in April or May
or June or July. You start in August and you
get one hundred and sixty one blown calls in ten games.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
He's just rusty Ben.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, that's that's impressive.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
It's a couple months to warm up.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, they should send him to the Mexican League and
have him umpire there and then he can go to
the Dominican League after that. Umpire there. Yeah you Mexico. Yeah. Now,
Big Lou's very upset with the IOWA Sam. Big Lou
sent me several messages. He's a p one legend on
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the show. He would like you to bring back the
racist drop to the show. Okay, he feels like you
need to mix that in. Now, the key to the
racist drop is you play that when it's not racist. See,
that's the comedy value in the racist drop. If you
play it when things are actually racist, Well, what's the
point of that. You play it out of context because
we live in a time Iowa, sam where everything is
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considered racist. So that's the bit. See that's the gag right.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
There with the drop.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah racist.
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Hey, this is Tom Berducci from Fox Sports, MLB Network
and Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And I'm Joe Madden, and we're going to be around
to talk a little bit about managerial decisions and what
may have occurred to the dugout maybe in the nineteen eighties.
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I can't wait for this, Joe.
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We're going to dive into what goes on in the
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League Baseball, cars, wind whatever else we want to talk about.
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Speaker 4 (24:53):
We had this referenced earlier briefly in one of the
bits we were doing. Former Patriots and forty nine Ers
tight end Russ Francis killed in a plane crash on Sunday.
He was a three time pro bowler, part of the
forty nine ers Super Bowl winning team as.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
A Patriot than a forty nine Er.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
But yeah, they were terrible though when he was on
the Patriots, they were not good. Forty nine Ers were
the good team.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Had Patriot on his helmet. He started with the Patriots,
ended his career with the Patriots, but he did play
for the Niners.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
So unfortunate obviously passing away in a plane crash.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
All right, thank you for that, Eddie. As we continue
on and following up the Angel Hernandez story, they said
that umpires this year in baseball they missed over twenty
one thousand calls on balls and strikes during the regular season,
but considering the volume of pitchers, that was the greatest
season yet since they kept track of all the numbers.
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There in baseball, twenty one thousand ball and strike calls.
That went to the opposite of what the computer said
they should have done. Now, a programming note. Later today,
I'll be doing double duty and I will be doing
a local show in LA on our flagship in Los
Angeles AM five to seventy. I'll be working with the
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Dean of LA Sports, Fred Rogan, so I'll be on
with him, which is noon to three Pacific time, which
is right when I normally sleep, right when I normally sleep.
So we'll see if I survive that. And you know,
the company appreciating my hard work. They realize that why
give Mallor a night off, Let's have him do the
overnight show again. No days off, so I will be
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back unlike Kawhi Leonard, no load management, so I will
be heavily caffeinated and I will be back there. So
I'm not gonna miss any time here. But you can't
listen to that on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
If you're so inclined.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It'll be a very LA heavy show, a lot of
I'm sure hot Dodger talk, and who knows what else
but that little bonus coverage, little bonus coverage during the
day that you still have the TV show on the weekend,
Benny versus the Penny, and and let you know, I
believe I beat the penny for the first time this
season this past weekend, I believe I did better than
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the Penny, although I've not heard officially, just based on
my back of the Knakin drawing of the games I
picked versus the games the Penny picked, I believe I
did finally beat the Penny. But I still have a
ways to go, because we respectable and you have to
finish a certain number of games above five hundred or
else it does not quite work. Anyway, Let's introduce our contestants.
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We have a full board of people that would like
to play Malard's Mountain Money, so we'll do that right now.
Let's say hello to let's see he any Meanie, miney Moe.
Let's say hello to Morgan, who's in Seattle. Hello Morgan.
With the good news Morgan is you don't have to
be distracted by watching the Seattle Mariners play in the playoff? Yeah,
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I know, all right? What keeps you up here late? Morgan?
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You know?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Medicated? And Tomia, Oh welcome.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I'm just getting some stuff done tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
All right. Nobody bothers you when you're up late, mess
around exactly all right, Morgan, very good. Who do you
want to partner up with You can play with me,
Ben Eddie, Iowa Sam or Koupulu?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
What do we do?
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Iowa Sam? Interesting?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Okay, first smellers. Amount of money.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
It's gonna pop his cherry right there. Morgan's gonna help
him out. And we have any meanie money. Well, let's
say hello, let's have an M and M matchup. We
have Matt in Minnesota. Hello, Matt in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Matt's a ball of energy, this guy, he's a dynamo.
Welcome to the show, Matt. You're gonna play? And what
keeps you up to these hours? There?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Matt getting up before shift work in the military.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So ear early riser man, I hear you? All right,
very what branch of the military?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Air Force?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Oh nice? Very cool? How long you been in?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
About fourteen years now?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh wow, that's a long run. Are you in for
the long haul here? It's gonna be you know, twenty
years plus? You're close?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
All right?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You got it?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yep, take more years to go and I'll retire.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Awesome. All right, well, very cool. Thank you for your service.
A Matt, who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
You?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Play with me? Ben Eddie or the Koople loop.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We gotta go Eddie.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
All right, that's the matchup. Very nice. What are the
categories here? Coople loops? We'll get that out of the
way and have these guys can compete against each other.
Morgan and Iowa Sam and Matt is with Eddie. All right.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
This is the Brian Johnson edition. Lead singer of ac
DC turns seventy six years old this week. The categories
are back in Black, Hell's Bells, Brainshake, and Thunderstruck. And
I believe Morgan was on the air first. So Morgan,
which category would you like?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Let's go back and play back.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
In Black all right, and Matt, how about you, Let's
do the instruct thunderstruck all right?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Understruck? All right, guys, hold on a sec. Don't hang up,
stay in place, stay on the set where you are.
And we were going to have the first ever matchup
between Iowa, Sam and Eddie along with Morgan who's in Seattle,
and Matt our friend from the Air Force in Minnesota.
And we'll get to that. It's Mallard's amount of money
and we will.
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Speaker 1 (31:18):
Anyway, we go with the Mallows Mountain Moneys play the
game right now. We have Matt in Minnesota. He's in
the Air Forces with Eddie and Morgan in Seattle, trying
to get some work done late at night there, and
he's teamed up with Iowa Sam Let see Bryan Johnson
edition here, Malos, Mountain Money and Morgan. You are going first, right, Kooperloop,
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But which category did they pick?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
They picked?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Back in Black, Back in Black all right, very good.
We'll put forty five seconds on the clock of these athletes,
all recently passed away, Morgan, all recently passed away, very
ghoulish category. Forty five seconds on the clock, and you're
on your way and go.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
I'll see, all right, Morgan. He played for the Cleveland Browns.
His name is synonymous with the team running back in
the nineteen sixties. That's correct, all right, this guy had
the immaculate conception, played for the Steelers. Just passed away
last year. Oh nope, Brad Shaw, think of another receiver.
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What's that?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It's not pretty, Quel Harris, But yeah, that's it. Yea,
it is actually okay as your running back.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Oh he was running back. I'm sorry. Yeah, he did
have the catch though. This man, he was a knuckleball
pitcher for the Pirates in the Red Sox. You just
passed away. In the last couple of days, Kurt Schilling
had spilled the news about it.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, boy, he really went that Iowa speed
there with his I was saying, no sense of urgency
at all, My god.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Learn the ropes. I guess there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Did you get the Wakefield would No? He did not.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Before the buzzer.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
No, thirty points and you were actually cheated on the
first one. You can't. I don't think you're allowed to
say what he said.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
I said synonymous with the team.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You can't say that. You said the guy's name.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
No, he said the team name.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
That's the name, that's the guy's name.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
I'm not allowed to do that.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
When I've done it. You guys have attacked. I was saying,
didn't he said Cleveland Brown He didn't. He said brown.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
He did say the Cleveland Browns, but that he did
just because living just because the guy is the same
name as the team. Try Morgan hanging there, man hanging there?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I was. Let me let me something. Eddie Garcia is
such a despicable rat that he lying trying to make
me look bad.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
What a scumpback back with a vengeance.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Don't overreact too much.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
All right, Eddie, you're up? How about a twenty second
clock for Matt?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
How about you shut up?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Wow, Matt and Netty have thunderstruck.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Marie?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
There are you ready?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Let's do it?
Speaker 5 (34:11):
All right? These athletes were all on teams that suffered
big upsets. Forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Current Warriors star great three point shooter I have to
Oh boy, former former wide receiver for the Vikings and Patriots.
He's now on TV. He said, no NBA, What the
hell am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Now?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
They're all the rest are NBA guys. Former NBA player
for the Knicks, Georgetown legend. Yes, oh it could be.
Could be a former unl V star basketball player. Could
be a former Kansity Chiefs running back. They have the
same name, all right. Former NBA player from Germany. His
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last name sounds very close to a seafood blank scamp.
He played for the Sonics.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That's a terrible job, but you should have picked me.
That's a bad job by Eddie.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
He said he doesn't know NBA.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Step Steph Curry either and death lift shrimp.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Wow, what a matchup we've got here?
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Sixty sixty point So uh, Matt and Eddie do have
the lead. But we go back over to Morgan and Sam.
Oh my god, we have a lead. Yes, Uh, don't
have any sense of urgency, Morgan, do you want do
you want Hell's bells or brain shake.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Us?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
All right, Hell's bells?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
These athletes struck fear into their opponents forty five seconds
begin all right, yeah, you bit a guy zero off
in the boxing ring. Oh, all right, he played for
the Ravens linebacker, won a Super Bowl. All right, this
guy was the big unit. He one time killed a
bird with an errant pitch. Uh. This he was a
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safety for the Steelers, won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
He's a Polynesian descent.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
This guy played for the Nebraska corn Huskers, a big
defensive tackle still in the league. Uh he is I
think camp from Cameroon.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Uh what orgon?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (36:31):
This guy was nicknamed the Nigerian Nightmare. He was a
running back. Played for the Chiefs late eighties, early nineties. Yeah,
you missed Nadamakon Sue and Christian Okoye.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I would think I was saying you might have wanted
to have brought up the fact that he stopped guys
in the head.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
But no, no Nebraska man from but he's from Portland.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Albert Hainsworth stomped somebody to all right, well you've a
better showing. You had one hundred, you have one hundred
and thirty points to.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Wow, it's not that good.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
I'm trying, all right. So now we go over to
Matt and Eddie your last category is brain shake.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
These athletes have all had problems with concussions. Forty five
seconds on the clock.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Begin old Oakland Raiders Hall of Fame quarterback the Snake
from Alabama. All right, Chargers linebacker Polynesian committed suicide number
fifty five. Also for the Patriots, the Dolphins out of usc.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
UH.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Carolina Panthers linebacker out of Boston College at A got
knocked out on Monday Night football and crying took him
off the field. All right, a little bit, let's say
Monday Monday Night football legendary broadcaster. Uh for the New
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York Giants.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Oh, Eddie, I'm going foway save against How bad is
Garcia at this game? My god, Matt, that was so bad.
An your clean suck.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Matt did a great job, he said he didn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Matt, your clues suck.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
But I was sat on a junior son.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Tremendous job. Bad job by you, Eddie, good job, I
will say
Hello and welcome. It's our numb birth three as we
chug along on the podcast here in our number three,
gonna blow your mind talking bay Ball, and while the
wild Card round of the playoffs going on today on
this Tuesday, there is some business to take care of
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outside of the playoff teams. For example, what does Aaron
Boones expected returns say about the status of Yankee Baseball
as he's expected to be back as the manager, And
how do you evaluate the latest developments in the Trevor
Bauers story that he has settled the civil lawsuit and
has now unloaded more evidence that he says vindicates him
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from that story that saw him excommunicated from the Dodgers. Also,
where is the one Soto story going with the Padres.
We'll have details on that and much more right now here.
It is our number three. Tis the start of the
baseball playoffs, But there are no pinstripes at least the
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authentic original pinstripes to be seen anywhere. Welme come and.
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football more, but I love baseball. And it's a great
time of the year with the Baseball Playoffs starting today
today to day to day, they will be baseball action
pretty much all day. I'll be getting up kind of
early today. I'll explain more on that later, but there
will be baseball action to partake it to consume throughout
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the day and the Wildcard round, and we have seen
teams get to the World Series on a semi regular
basis and occasionally win from the Wildcard Round, which has
only been around for a couple of years. Last year,
the Phillies got to the World Series, and since nobody
actually won it, we consider them the champions of Baseball,
the Phillies because the team that they claim won, they're cheaters,
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so that we don't really credit them any Real people
with integrity don't credit them with a win. So one
of these teams that plays today, whether it's the Rangers,
ray Is, Marlins, Phillies, Blue Jays, Twins, Diamondbacks, or Brewers,
by the time the playoffs end, could end up in
the World Series, has a decent shot, decent shot of
ending up in the World Series. But our lead does
not come from that. We're gonna hop around, but we're
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gonna start with the playoff baseball activity involving teams that
aren't in the playoffs, because there's activity the wild card
games going These games are going on, but in the
backdrop there is news and it involves the Pinstripers. If
you have not heard, maybe not, we learned that the
New York Yankees will be running it back, talking about
(03:38):
setting a low bar. They'll be running it back in
twenty twenty four with.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Air Bood airin Boat Yeah, Aaron Boone, Aaron f and
Boone will return as the manager.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
S and Y tells us the Pinstripers front office will
be meeting in Tampa. They'll have a big pow wow
because that's where the Yankees are running Tampa. These happen
to play their games in New York. But they're gonna
have a mid week get together and they will discuss
what has been a horrific for a year of Yankee baseball.
(04:11):
But if you're a Yankee hater, it was glorious. And
they're expected to keep Aaron Boone. Now, how do we
know that Boone is expected to be there? And we
would assume that if they're getting rid of him, he
would not be invited to the end of season meetings
where they plan what they're going to do next year.
Boone has been the manager of the Yankee since twenty
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eighteen and he's got one year left on his contract.
Now the question is will the Yankees just allow him
to be a lame duck a manager in distress, or
will they toss on an extra dummy year on the
contract so he is not a lame duck manager. But
let us discuss the question what does Aaron Boone's expected
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return to the Bronx say about the status of Yankee baseball?
So I've got skeed, pete cock and gardening shears, and
we will combine all of these things together and be
a hive of activity, buzzing around a hive of activity. So,
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first of all, my initial thought, this tells us that
with Aaron Boone coming back, it tells us that Aaron
Boone has no power at all. Right, He's nothing more
than a middle manager, as we assumed. But this is validation,
this is confirmation. If Aaron Boone was the one pulling
the strings on this atrocity of a Yankee season, then
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Aaron Boone would have been fired. But Boone is a
good foot soldier. He is a liaison between the gm
Brian Cashman and the players. He doesn't fill out the
lineup card. The pitching changes are telegraphed based on a
unique proprietary blend, a formula designed by the analytical arm
of Yankee Baseball, and he just follows that the three
(06:00):
ring binder. Yankees manager Aaron Boone, he ought to get
an endorsement from the people over at Sketchers. He can
be the sackman because he's a sock puppet and whatever
the nerd Army tells him to do, he does it.
And his main job is to be the mouthpiece with
the media, to be calm, cool and collected when you're
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addressing the media talking about the status of Yankee Baseball.
So he's the East Coast version of Dave Roberts. That's
what Dave Roberts does for the Dodgers on the West Coast,
all right. Now. Second to lawsuit land we go and
a update a story we have not updated in many,
(06:44):
many months, former Major League Baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer, who
was excommunicated out of Baseball American Baseball overseas in Japan.
Bauer and a woman who turns out falsely accused him
of sexualist settled their lawsuits without any money getting exchanged.
Not only that, Bauer is free to roam around the
(07:09):
country and tell all kinds of stories about what happened. Now,
how do we know this? It's all according to a
video that Bauer posted on x It's about a four
minute video. Bauer went point by point revealing new information,
new evidence, alleged messages, and also a video from the
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morning after one of the sexual romps that Bauer had
with a groupie named Lindsey Hill, which depicts the woman
lying in bed next to a sleeping bower and appearing
to smirk without any of the alleged injuries that caused
Trevor Bauer to be kicked out of Dodger Land and
(07:52):
banished by Major League Baseball. Now, one message that Bauer
included the video claimed that the woman tried to frame
him from money. Alleged that the woman text an unknown
person his net worth is fifty one million, to which
the person alleged replied, biach, you better secure the back.
Bauer also said the video, which is pretty damning for
(08:15):
the accuser, paints a clear picture of what actually happened
the evening of May fifteenth, and she definitely does not
look injured in the face the way the photos went
around the internet, and also does appear to be smirking
at Bauer, kind of like a victory lap, if you will.
She was very happy with her conquest there. She's a
(08:35):
conquistador and she was celebrating her accomplishment. Now, how do
you evaluate the latest developments in the Trevor Bauer story.
So the way I look at it, exploring every avenue
available to us, it is hard to disagree with Bauer's
position based on the preponderance of the evidence. And at
(08:56):
this point, Trevor Bauer is a peacock. Bauer is strutting
around like a glorious peacock with his tail feathers up
for the world to see. Now, the court of social
media got this one wrong. Rob Manford in Major League Baseball.
Out of a bunch of caution, they kept Trevor Bauer
(09:16):
away and this was personal. Baseball will not admit it,
but Bauer had been a troll of Rob Manford, the
little pint size commissioner of Major League Baseball, and so
Bauer had taken some shots, and this was this is vengeance.
This is vengeance by baseball. They saw an opportunity, took
advantage of it, and Bauer was never charged with a crime.
(09:37):
He won every legal battle, which was only one judge
in one proceeding over a restraining order, which Bauer pointed
out in the video. In California and actually most places,
it's the most basic thing to get a restraining order.
The judge really unloaded in court on this accuser. Now,
(09:58):
Bauer was pitching in Japan after being found guilty by
accusation rather than innocent until proven guilty. So it's very,
very unlikely to me that Bauer will find a gig
in Major League Baseball. I don't see it. He's a
good pitcher. He's certainly good enough to be on a
(10:19):
major league rotation. Maybe you say he's not a number
one or two starter, but a number three or four starter.
He's had big time performance, he's won a cy Young Award,
and he's also got high levels of toxicity around him.
So even though based on the legal system, which is
the judgment on these things, he didn't do anything illegal,
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was never charged with a crime, never convicted of a crime,
and he has some pretty damning evidence which he laid out,
doesn't matter. Once the legend becomes the fact. It's the
liberty balance thing. Once the legend becomes the fact, you
go with the legend. All right, final thought, So to
San Diego, we go Sunday, and I read recently the
(11:02):
Padres are leaning internally towards saying bye bye to Juan
Soto as the hot stove League will crank up shortly
after the baseball playoffs come to an end. Soto has
one year left of arbitration before he becomes a free
agent in twenty twenty five. So who knows well team's
(11:22):
run scared away from wan Soto because of that. We'll
find out soon. So where is the one Soto story?
Going between him and the Padres as we get close
to the witching hour for Juan Soto, so it is
heading towards a little commune called Splitsville. As Juan Soto,
(11:44):
who's had big stats, he had big numbers this season,
they were empty numbers and he was not beloved in
the Padre locker room. There was said to be a
rift between Juan Soto and Manny Machado, among others, that
there were clicks in the Padre locker room. Now, the
bigger issue here is the razor sharp gardening shears er go,
(12:06):
the cord cutters, and the Padre television deal which dissolved
part of the Bally's Sports network and that San Diego
channel went away, and so the Padres had to put
together with duct tape and they'd glue together also a
TV package. And so from what we've heard, and it's
been very consistent here that the projections on television revenue
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for the Padres based on what they were supposed to
get from the Bally's deal and what they're now supposed
to get from this new Nickel and dime television deal
is there's a big gap. There's a gap. The size
of the grand Canyon and man, is that a problem
because all of these big contracts were based on the
projections that the TV revenue was going to go up
(12:51):
and not go down, and they weren't going to be
cut a drift from their TV partner. But here you
are at a crossroads and turned out that many San
Diegans aren't paying extra. At least at the end of
last year, they were not paying extra for pod Squad games.
And if that does not increase soon, why would it.
You're not gonna pay for anything until the season begins,
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which is not until late March early April. Then it
just knows no budget for and at this point it
would be surprising if Sodo stays in a podre uniform.
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Mallory riddle of the day. We'll go back to that
Monday night football game in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where
(14:16):
the New York Football Giant fans loudly booed blank every
time it was shown on the jumbo tron during the
Monday night game that they would lose to the Seahawks. Again,
the Mallor riddle of the day, New York Giant fans
loudly booed blank every time every time it was shown
(14:42):
on the jumbo tron during Monday night football. That is
the Mallory riddle of the day. The answer, we'll get
to it. We'll do it next football.
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We had a caller earlier named Filmore Mike. He said,
I need some more gangster music. I need some rap music.
Give me some of that, and Iowa Sam what you want? Fillmore, Mike,
Iowa Sam gives you. It does not get any fresher
than this tune right here, A tribute to Hey.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I played some Snoop and I played a little uh
Betty Jane Honey.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Maybe we should have like listeners to ideas, like musical ideas.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
No, I don't think so. I play a lot of
a lot of different stuff, so you know, we make.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The rounds so you're not bothered by the complaints.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Listen. He said, play some snoop or some keep it
West Coast. And I did that. I did, and I'll
go back. Listen, I'll go back.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And that song you just played is from what the
nineteen fifties or sixties by fifties, right.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yeah, But you know we were talking a little Yankees.
You talked a little Joe DiMaggio earlier in the show.
So it's all a little you know, just calling.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Back, timed out for the Mallor Riddle of the day,
the Mallard Riddle of the day, and then we'll get
to the calls. But here's the riddle of the day.
New York Giant fans loudly booing blank every time it
was shown on the jumbo tron during last night's game,
Seattle winning easily over the New York Giants. That is
(16:59):
the question, is the Malard riddle of the day. Let's
see does anyone know the answer? Let's find out here.
The Great Unwashed the hoy poloid chiming in Stevie Meatballs
and Florida, says Daniel Jones Feminine Hygiene Project product advertisements. Okay,
Brian Dables, big fat head from Bean boot Maker. Bob
(17:24):
page Down Ferkcat says every time the ad Tom Looney
played a referee in was on the scoreboard. Bud Wiser
from Donkeys Sausage. Late Night drug tester says when they
saw Chicago Deep Dish pizza, they booed. Angry Bill's annual
prostate exam from Milkman. Mike in Colorado courtesy Flusher going
(17:45):
with the cheerleaders as the answer. Alf the Alien opiner
says they booed the new commercial for pop tarts. That's fake.
Alf pop Tarts would not make Ranch pop tarts because
no one would buy Ranch pop tarks. That's disgusting. Kathy
in Madison hey Mona says blue They were not booing,
(18:12):
they were blueing. I see what you did there, Paige dwn,
I can't read that. Let's see here they were saying
loo for lou Panela, guessed by a listener. Mason in
Huntington Beach, Freddie writes In says the Giant fans booed
(18:32):
when scoring because they didn't want to win. Let's see here.
Econ Rosewio, Minnesota, says Brian Dables Chrome Dome. They were
booing that every time Danny Dimes choked the ball away.
From the Art of Sports Talk page Down, Rory says
the Giant fans when they looked up at the scoreboard
the JumboTron. There they booed every time they saw an
(18:54):
ad for the Iowa Minute. They were very upset there,
completely understandable. Brittany Mahomes guessed by double O Mexican in
sane the ago, I can't read that on the Irrobin
Minnesota just went with Tom Looney JJ cheated. He got
a right bad job by him. Kenneth the sports Lama
(19:15):
says the Rick Patino kiss cam. That is what caused
them to get up, saying, all right, do you have
an answer Eddie to the Mallord riddle of the day.
New York Giant fans last night loudly booing blank every
time it was shown on the jumbo.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
T line Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Well, what specifically about Taylor's.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Commercial for Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
There you go, you cheated? You saw that, That is
the answer. A Taylor Swift commercial was shown multiple times
on the jumbo tron and fans boom.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Boom.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yes, is there Taylor Swift fatigue among NFL fans at
this point? Developing dot dot dot. I saw Joe Buck
and Troy Aikman refuse to talk about Taylor Swift during
the Monday night broadcast and they had a lot of
time to fill because that was a bad game, but
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they would not bring Taylor Swift's name up. Have we
now reached a point of no return with Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelsey. We'll have to see about that now.
I mentioned this earlier. I don't think I pited it off.
Browbeat was the tease on this. Anthony Davis the unibrown
says he holds a grudge towards the Denver Nuggets over
(20:33):
the Lakers Daddy. Taunt that the Denver Nugget fans and
there were a lot of there are a lot of
trash talk from the Nuggets and whatnot, but the Lakers
Daddy champarly. That robbed Anthony Davis the wrong way so
much so I think we'll take the first month of
the season off. It was Vic Lombardi Denver, a longtime
(20:54):
Denver sportscaster, who introduced Mike Malone as the Lakers Daddy
to the crowd there at the celebration Daddy Championship celebration
in that offended Anthony Davis. He said, I love this,
very motivational, very motivational. He said, yes, oh that's fine.
He can be motivational. But the Nuggets are a better
(21:16):
team than the Lakers, and they'll be a better team
this year also, so good luck on that, and we'll see.
Anthony Davis has managed to play somewhat healthy here for
a stretch, which means the grim reaper of injury is
right around the corner. That's normally how that's normally how
that works. We will take your phone calls. It is
(21:38):
a speak easy addition as I wait for my board
to be reset. Also coming up later this hour, we
will have Malar's Mountain of Money, and we will need
some contestants for Malor's Mountain of money. In a statistic
which was easily predictable, easily predictable, they announced the ratings
(22:02):
of Major League Baseball umpires, and they went through the ratings.
They went through all the ratings and all that, and
the one that is rated the worst in Major League
Baseball Circle of the Year twenty twenty three during the
regular season, according to something called the Umpire Auditor, which
keeps track of all this. I'm sure it's AI, but
(22:24):
they announced that Angel Hernandez is the worst in blue
Angel Hernandez, which suck again. He popped up the most times,
which is appropriate. He finished the regular season with the
lowest lowest rated umpire minimum ten games, did not even
(22:45):
start umpiring until August because he had a back injury.
But he had one hundred and sixty one bad calls
in ten games, including the lowest rated game that they
kept track, So he likely will not be calling any
more games for baseball this Season's hard to imagine that
(23:06):
Baseball would give him a playoff assignment. But that's impressive
that you don't umpire a game in April or May
or June or July. You start in August and you
get one hundred and sixty one blown calls in ten games.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
He's just rusty Ben.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, that's that's impressive.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
It's a couple months to warm up.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, they should send him to the Mexican League and
have him umpire there and then he can go to
the Dominican League after that. Umpire there. Yeah you Mexico. Yeah. Now,
Big Lou's very upset with the IOWA Sam. Big Lou
sent me several messages. He's a p one legend on
(23:49):
the show. He would like you to bring back the
racist drop to the show. Okay, he feels like you
need to mix that in. Now, the key to the
racist drop is you play that when it's not racist. See,
that's the comedy value in the racist drop. If you
play it when things are actually racist, Well, what's the
point of that. You play it out of context because
we live in a time Iowa, sam where everything is
(24:11):
considered racist. So that's the bit. See that's the gag right.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
There with the drop.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah racist.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
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Speaker 4 (24:53):
We had this referenced earlier briefly in one of the
bits we were doing. Former Patriots and forty nine Ers
tight end Russ Francis killed in a plane crash on Sunday.
He was a three time pro bowler, part of the
forty nine ers Super Bowl winning team as.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
A Patriot than a forty nine Er.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
But yeah, they were terrible though when he was on
the Patriots, they were not good. Forty nine Ers were
the good team.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Had Patriot on his helmet. He started with the Patriots,
ended his career with the Patriots, but he did play
for the Niners.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
So unfortunate obviously passing away in a plane crash.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
All right, thank you for that, Eddie. As we continue
on and following up the Angel Hernandez story, they said
that umpires this year in baseball they missed over twenty
one thousand calls on balls and strikes during the regular season,
but considering the volume of pitchers, that was the greatest
season yet since they kept track of all the numbers.
(25:49):
There in baseball, twenty one thousand ball and strike calls.
That went to the opposite of what the computer said
they should have done. Now, a programming note. Later today,
I'll be doing double duty and I will be doing
a local show in LA on our flagship in Los
Angeles AM five to seventy. I'll be working with the
(26:12):
Dean of LA Sports, Fred Rogan, so I'll be on
with him, which is noon to three Pacific time, which
is right when I normally sleep, right when I normally sleep.
So we'll see if I survive that. And you know,
the company appreciating my hard work. They realize that why
give Mallor a night off, Let's have him do the
overnight show again. No days off, so I will be
(26:33):
back unlike Kawhi Leonard, no load management, so I will
be heavily caffeinated and I will be back there. So
I'm not gonna miss any time here. But you can't
listen to that on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
If you're so inclined.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
It'll be a very LA heavy show, a lot of
I'm sure hot Dodger talk, and who knows what else
but that little bonus coverage, little bonus coverage during the
day that you still have the TV show on the weekend,
Benny versus the Penny, and and let you know, I
believe I beat the penny for the first time this
season this past weekend, I believe I did better than
(27:07):
the Penny, although I've not heard officially, just based on
my back of the Knakin drawing of the games I
picked versus the games the Penny picked, I believe I
did finally beat the Penny. But I still have a
ways to go, because we respectable and you have to
finish a certain number of games above five hundred or
else it does not quite work. Anyway, Let's introduce our contestants.
(27:30):
We have a full board of people that would like
to play Malard's Mountain Money, so we'll do that right now.
Let's say hello to let's see he any Meanie, miney Moe.
Let's say hello to Morgan, who's in Seattle. Hello Morgan.
With the good news Morgan is you don't have to
be distracted by watching the Seattle Mariners play in the playoff? Yeah,
(27:54):
I know, all right? What keeps you up here late? Morgan?
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You know?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Medicated? And Tomia, Oh welcome.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I'm just getting some stuff done tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
All right. Nobody bothers you when you're up late, mess
around exactly all right, Morgan, very good. Who do you
want to partner up with You can play with me,
Ben Eddie, Iowa Sam or Koupulu?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
What do we do?
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Iowa Sam? Interesting?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Okay, first smellers. Amount of money.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
It's gonna pop his cherry right there. Morgan's gonna help
him out. And we have any meanie money. Well, let's
say hello, let's have an M and M matchup. We
have Matt in Minnesota. Hello, Matt in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Matt's a ball of energy, this guy, he's a dynamo.
Welcome to the show, Matt. You're gonna play? And what
keeps you up to these hours? There?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Matt getting up before shift work in the military.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So ear early riser man, I hear you? All right,
very what branch of the military?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Air Force?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Oh nice? Very cool? How long you been in?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
About fourteen years now?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh wow, that's a long run. Are you in for
the long haul here? It's gonna be you know, twenty
years plus? You're close?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
All right?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You got it?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yep, take more years to go and I'll retire.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Awesome. All right, well, very cool. Thank you for your service.
A Matt, who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
You?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Play with me? Ben Eddie or the Koople loop.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We gotta go Eddie.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
All right, that's the matchup. Very nice. What are the
categories here? Coople loops? We'll get that out of the
way and have these guys can compete against each other.
Morgan and Iowa Sam and Matt is with Eddie. All right.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
This is the Brian Johnson edition. Lead singer of ac
DC turns seventy six years old this week. The categories
are back in Black, Hell's Bells, Brainshake, and Thunderstruck. And
I believe Morgan was on the air first. So Morgan,
which category would you like?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Let's go back and play back.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
In Black all right, and Matt, how about you, Let's
do the instruct thunderstruck all right?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Understruck? All right, guys, hold on a sec. Don't hang up,
stay in place, stay on the set where you are.
And we were going to have the first ever matchup
between Iowa, Sam and Eddie along with Morgan who's in Seattle,
and Matt our friend from the Air Force in Minnesota.
And we'll get to that. It's Mallard's amount of money
and we will.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
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(31:03):
Fox Sports Radio Studios, It's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Now Malor's Mountain of Money. Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Anyway, we go with the Mallows Mountain Moneys play the
game right now. We have Matt in Minnesota. He's in
the Air Forces with Eddie and Morgan in Seattle, trying
to get some work done late at night there, and
he's teamed up with Iowa Sam Let see Bryan Johnson
edition here, Malos, Mountain Money and Morgan. You are going first, right, Kooperloop,
(31:39):
But which category did they pick?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
They picked?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Back in Black, Back in Black all right, very good.
We'll put forty five seconds on the clock of these athletes,
all recently passed away, Morgan, all recently passed away, very
ghoulish category. Forty five seconds on the clock, and you're
on your way and go.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
I'll see, all right, Morgan. He played for the Cleveland Browns.
His name is synonymous with the team running back in
the nineteen sixties. That's correct, all right, this guy had
the immaculate conception, played for the Steelers. Just passed away
last year. Oh nope, Brad Shaw, think of another receiver.
(32:24):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
It's not pretty, Quel Harris, But yeah, that's it. Yea,
it is actually okay as your running back.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Oh he was running back. I'm sorry. Yeah, he did
have the catch though. This man, he was a knuckleball
pitcher for the Pirates in the Red Sox. You just
passed away. In the last couple of days, Kurt Schilling
had spilled the news about it.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, boy, he really went that Iowa speed
there with his I was saying, no sense of urgency
at all, My god.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Learn the ropes. I guess there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Did you get the Wakefield would No? He did not.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Before the buzzer.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
No, thirty points and you were actually cheated on the
first one. You can't. I don't think you're allowed to
say what he said.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
I said synonymous with the team.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You can't say that. You said the guy's name.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
No, he said the team name.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
That's the name, that's the guy's name.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
I'm not allowed to do that.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
When I've done it. You guys have attacked. I was saying,
didn't he said Cleveland Brown He didn't. He said brown.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
He did say the Cleveland Browns, but that he did
just because living just because the guy is the same
name as the team. Try Morgan hanging there, man hanging there?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I was. Let me let me something. Eddie Garcia is
such a despicable rat that he lying trying to make
me look bad.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
What a scumpback back with a vengeance.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Don't overreact too much.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
All right, Eddie, you're up? How about a twenty second
clock for Matt?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
How about you shut up?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Wow, Matt and Netty have thunderstruck.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Marie?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
There are you ready?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Let's do it?
Speaker 5 (34:11):
All right? These athletes were all on teams that suffered
big upsets. Forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Current Warriors star great three point shooter I have to
Oh boy, former former wide receiver for the Vikings and Patriots.
He's now on TV. He said, no NBA, What the
hell am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Now?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
They're all the rest are NBA guys. Former NBA player
for the Knicks, Georgetown legend. Yes, oh it could be.
Could be a former unl V star basketball player. Could
be a former Kansity Chiefs running back. They have the
same name, all right. Former NBA player from Germany. His
(34:56):
last name sounds very close to a seafood blank scamp.
He played for the Sonics.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That's a terrible job, but you should have picked me.
That's a bad job by Eddie.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
He said he doesn't know NBA.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Step Steph Curry either and death lift shrimp.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Wow, what a matchup we've got here?
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Sixty sixty point So uh, Matt and Eddie do have
the lead. But we go back over to Morgan and Sam.
Oh my god, we have a lead. Yes, Uh, don't
have any sense of urgency, Morgan, do you want do
you want Hell's bells or brain shake.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Us?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
All right, Hell's bells?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
These athletes struck fear into their opponents forty five seconds
begin all right, yeah, you bit a guy zero off
in the boxing ring. Oh, all right, he played for
the Ravens linebacker, won a Super Bowl. All right, this
guy was the big unit. He one time killed a
bird with an errant pitch. Uh. This he was a
(36:09):
safety for the Steelers, won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
He's a Polynesian descent.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
This guy played for the Nebraska corn Huskers, a big
defensive tackle still in the league. Uh he is I
think camp from Cameroon.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Uh what orgon?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (36:31):
This guy was nicknamed the Nigerian Nightmare. He was a
running back. Played for the Chiefs late eighties, early nineties. Yeah,
you missed Nadamakon Sue and Christian Okoye.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I would think I was saying you might have wanted
to have brought up the fact that he stopped guys
in the head.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
But no, no Nebraska man from but he's from Portland.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Albert Hainsworth stomped somebody to all right, well you've a
better showing. You had one hundred, you have one hundred
and thirty points to.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Wow, it's not that good.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
I'm trying, all right. So now we go over to
Matt and Eddie your last category is brain shake.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
These athletes have all had problems with concussions. Forty five
seconds on the clock.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Begin old Oakland Raiders Hall of Fame quarterback the Snake
from Alabama. All right, Chargers linebacker Polynesian committed suicide number
fifty five. Also for the Patriots, the Dolphins out of usc.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
UH.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Carolina Panthers linebacker out of Boston College at A got
knocked out on Monday Night football and crying took him
off the field. All right, a little bit, let's say
Monday Monday Night football legendary broadcaster. Uh for the New
(38:04):
York Giants.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Oh, Eddie, I'm going foway save against How bad is
Garcia at this game? My god, Matt, that was so bad.
An your clean suck.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Matt did a great job, he said he didn't know anything.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Matt, your clues suck.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
But I was sat on a junior son.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Tremendous job. Bad job by you, Eddie, good job, I
will say
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