December 11, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Dodgers signing Shohei Ohtani to a massive $700 million contract, if Ohtani is worth that much money, where the signing puts the Dodgers, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number to the hour of
Old TONI the big News over the weekend. Can you
put into words what this show hey Otani contract means
with the Dodgers? Also his show he Otani's worth seven
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hundred million dollars? And where does this Otani deal put
the Dodgers? Do they have enough? And with Otani leaving,
what is the fallout in Anaheim, his old stomping grounds.
We understand he's planning on living where he's been living,
not far from the Big A. That'll be awkward. We'll
get to all that and more right now here. It
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baseball monologue on an NFL Sunday into Money. So over
the weekend. Now we do the show Monday through Friday,
but because we do an overnight show and where we're located,
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it's really Sunday night through Thursday night, and then we
get done early in the morning on Friday, and we're
off Friday night and Saturday night, and then we come
back on Sunday and do it again. So on Friday,
my phone was blowing up. Otani's going to Canada. He's
going for the putine. Otani's going for the puttine. I said, okay,
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all right, whatever, that's fine, and I was making chocolate.
I was the chocolate tear making these stupid little chocolates.
So I was like, all right, whatever. John Morosi, who
I like John. I've known John a few years. He's
on Fox Sports Radio a lot as a baseball insider,
and he had the store. He's the only one that
had the story Otani was going to Blue Jays because
it wasn't true, but he had it and he went
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with it, and there were people following a plane to
Toronto from Orange County. It turned out to be somebody
else from some reality TV show. It wasn't Otani, but
it was an all you could eat buffet of hot
Otani talk all weekend long. And this considered this a continuation.
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It's the Hour of Otani. The Hour of Otani as
the gigantic news, which we assume you've heard. Maybe you're
not a baseball person, but the news has gone all
over the place I was out. I went to the
store on Saturday. I had to run a few errands,
and people were yapping about. I was overhearing conversations because
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I don't talk to anybody when I go out shopping,
but IVER heard conversations that people were talking about Otani
this and Tony that. But over the weekend show, he
Otani announced on his own social media channels that he
had agreed to give the atomic elbow to the sporting world.
Otani taking his talents up I five in the Golden
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State from the OC to La La Land to play
for the real team in Los Angeles. The only team
in Los Angeles, the Doyers as Otani will be paid
seventy million dollars per year, but actually half that because
he lives in California, the People's Republic of California, so
he will be paying half of his money in taxes.
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Don't feel bad for him. He'll still clear three thirty
five million a year, but seven hundred million total, as
the taxation rate is insane, mind boggling numbers all the
way around. Even with the tax and all that, much
of the money we are told will be doled out
in deferred payments, which means the contract is not worth
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as much as it would appear. Factor that in, as
you know, the inflation situation. We actually did this on
the Fifth Hour podcast. We hope you follow that, me
and Danny g We did a breakdown about how overpriced
Disneyland is and based on inflation, from the price that
Disneyland was when it first opened to what it is today.
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The price of a ticket, a general emission ticket to Disneyland,
based on inflation, what it should be is about twelve dollars.
It's it's probably close to two hundred instead, but it
should be twelve bucks. It should be twelve bucks. Anyway,
you're gonna have some fun with the inflation calculator and
all that. But the big story here, you know, he's
gotta get a bunch of a deferred payments of Tani.
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But we'll just talk about him going to the Dodgers.
That's the story. That's don't bear the lead, my mind.
We're not gonna bear the lead. So as we discuss
the question, can you put into words what this show, hey,
otane contract with the Dodgers means. So I've got powers
ven diagram and poltergeist, and we will combine all of
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these things together and we are going to make a
nice layaway plan, which is what Oltani's getting. A lot
of that money's on layoway, and we'll be old and
he'll be old and he'll get paid and all that.
So Number one, can we just stop the conversation at
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the Dodgers won the off season. Now that might not
mean much to you, and you said it doesn't matter
who wins the off season. Okay, maybe it doesn't, but
they won the off season, so periods stopped. They won
the off season. Dodgers won the off season. They caught
the white whale. They got the white The Dodgers been
trying to get Otani for a couple of years. They've
been plotting to get Otani. They got him. Now, did
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they pay a ridiculous amount more than anyone else? That'll
be coming out in the coming days. We're hearing whispers
that they actually did not pay that much more than
anyone else, that there were other offers that were in
the same general neighborhood, the same zip code as the
seven hundred million dollars. But we keep hearing generational talent
once in a lifetime, ah blah, blah, blah blah. And
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so the Dodgers won the offseason Trophy. Congratulations. Regardless, they
have pantsed the competitors that they're dealing with, the big
money teams in baseball, the Mets, the Yankees, the Red Sox,
the Giants who wanted Otani, the Blue Jays, the teams
that were bidding on Otani, and the mission of the
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offseason I believe, maybe I'm wrong on this. I just
do an overnight show. I think is to improve your team.
The Dodgers have tangibly improved their team, although to be fair,
they did get good production from JD. Martinez, who was
their DH last year. And Otani's going to be paid
seventy million dollars to get four or five plate appearances
a game because he's mostly going to be a DH
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So you're gonna get four or five plate appearances from Otani,
which means if each at bat lasts about a minute,
you're talking about five minutes of actual work a day
that he and maybe some days only four minutes that
o'conne's gonna get some of those at bats. He'll come
and swing at the first pitch, so that'll be like
fifteen seconds. It's just outraged. I was. I was texting
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some people over the weekend during the day on Saturday
when this story came out, and it was like, I
remember when I started out. I did Dodger talk a
long time ago. It was the late nineties, and people
were bitching and moaning about the Dodger payroll, the entire payroll.
Last year I did that was nineteen ninety nine. I
believe the entire payroll for the Dodgers was seventy one million.
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Otani's going to make seventy million alone from the Dodger payroll. Here.
It's just a crazy amount of money, and he might
never pitch again. The guys had to Tommy john medical procedures.
It doesn't even matter. They don't even care. Like the
people I've chatted with through Dodgers, they don't care whether
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he pitches again or not. It's not about that. And
by every objective measurement, though the Dodgers have improved their
team and they it's all about the powers. In this case,
Sho hal Tani has proven. Granted it was the minor
leagues with the Angels who are like in the Pacific
Coast League, but Otani proved he can live up to
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the hype and all that. And there was some doubts
when he came over hyped from Japan whether he would
be as good as advertised. I was skeptical early on,
but he's backed it up with a couple of MVP
Awards and so he has the powers. He's like Mike Myers,
Austin Powers International man of mystery, Sho hail Tani. Yeah, baby,
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but the mystery, there's not that much of a mystery.
My Friend Vic the Brick Jacobs, LA radio legend would
say that that he is the yokozuna Otani of baseball,
and you can't get a higher ranking than a yokozuna.
You can't now Page two, here is sho Hail Tani
worth the contract? Well, how can you possibly quantify anyone
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being worth seven hundred million dollars? Right, So the premise
of the question is a little fool gaysy, right, I
mean seven hundred million dollars for one per Is he
solving cancer? No? He can hit the curve ball to
the moon is what Otani can do. Good congratulations, But
in the business of baseball you have to nod your head. Yes,
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it's a cartoon world and in the business of baseball.
We had talked to this. I thought the number would
be five hundred million, which would have been the record,
would have been the record. I was going five hundred million.
I didn't see seven hundred million. That's an extra two
hundred million dollars than I thought. And I was shooting
high at five hundred million dollars. Now, why, it simply
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comes down to the ven diagram, the Otani ven diagram,
if you will. Otani is actually based on market share
under paid at seventy million dollars a year, which is
only thirty five million after California tax. It's all about
the metrics. It's all about the metrics. You do the
metrics on this. You've got the subs, unique views, all
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that stuff. It's malor math. Let's do some malormth Now
I've never been to Japan. We have listeners in Japan
that listen to the show, people that have been there, whatever.
So Japan has about one hundred and twenty five million
a little more than one hundred and twenty five million
people that live there. This is a malar math equation.
So there's one hundred and twenty five million people. Not
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all of them are baseball fans, but baseball, i am told,
is near the top in terms of popularity. They love
baseball in Japan. So of one hundred and twenty five
million people, let's say twenty five percent of those people
are Otani fans. Otani sans if you will, they will
follow Atani. So twenty five percent, So you do the math,
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that works out to thirty one point two million people
that will follow Atani. That's thirty one million new customers. Now,
maybe the much lower that, maybe it's only ten percent
of people in Japan truly love Otani. That's a high percentage,
ten percent. So if it's ten percent, that's twelve point
five million, twelve point five million new customers that you
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can charge premium amounts. The games for the Dodgers will
be broadcast on Televion like the Angels games were, but
they'll be broadcast in Japan, and you've got the branding,
the merchandise for Otani uh plus. As we had talked
about with the five hundred million, we speculated from the
business people, the amount of revenue that the Dodgers are
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going to get, it's going to be even higher than
the Angels got from Japanese advertisers. From just the Tokyo
market alone in Japan will be feeding them tons of
tons of money. Now, final point, where does this Otani
deal with the Dodgers? All right? Where does this deal
put the Dodgers? Do they have enough? Do the Dodgers
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have enough? The answer is yes, they have it. Now
They're gonna make some other moves. They've got a bleeping
murderers row. Now. Based on the NERD stats, the Dodgers
have three of the top six players in the sport
and they're all the top of their lineup. This reminds
me maybe this is not a good analogy because they
didn't win. It reminds me of Griffy a Rod and
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Edgar Martinez with the Seattle Mariners. It reminds me of
that I was telling you some other dynamic duos. I
had a friend at the mal or Ugly Sweater party
that said, a big red machine back in the day,
the big Red Machine and all those Hall of famers.
And you think of the Cleveland Indians who also didn't win,
but they had Albert Bell, Jim Tomay and Manny Ramirez.
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The Red Sox had Big Poppy and Manny Great. They won, obviously,
they won several World Series. But the Dodgers have Mookie Betts,
who's playing second base in the leadoff spot show Hail Tani.
We assume would hit second and be the DH and
Freddie Freeman would be third. But a Bing bought a boom,
good afternoon, good evening, and good night. How do you
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do at the beginning of every game? And so that
is the big Blue recond crew. Now it doesn't guarantee
that you're going to succeed. Mookie Betts has bad at
seventy nine in the playoffs the last couple of years,
he sucks. He's tangibly blows in the playoffs. Mookie Bets
and who knows Otani might stink. Also, you don't know,
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but you know you're going to be in the playoffs.
And that's what those nerds always say, right, it's you
just want to be in there, right because weird things happen,
and it doesn't matter you have the greatest record of
the matter, but you want to be in there. Like
the Rangers were not a great team, they won the
World Series. The Diamondbacks got to the World Series. They
were joke, they were bad Televisionbody want to watch the Diamondbacks,
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but they played well for a month, and so they
got to the World Series. And so now Tani the
other part of this year. What happens now with Otan leaving, right,
what's the fallout in Anaheim with his old team there.
From a business standpoint, this is Ardi Morino's worst nightmare,
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because not only is Otani gun, You've got the gruesome twosome.
So Otani leaves the Angels empty handed, they get a
little draft pick, congratulations, But he relocates less than thirty
five miles away the Big A to Dodger Stadium's thirty
one and a half miles, which takes about twelve hours
in traffic. But thirty one and a half miles from
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Chavez Ravine to the Big A. And for the next decade,
Otani is going to be like Poltergeist, haunting the Angels.
And the chances are really really good that at least
one of those years they're going to win the World
Series the Dodgers over the next ten years, and so
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then there'll be billboards and all that of Otani probably
wrinkled all over Anaheim, right off the off ramps there
to the Big A, and he can haunt the Halos.
It is the Ben Malor Show. If you'd like to
talk about any of this, you can join us here.
Speakeasy rules are in effect. But it is a massive deal,
and you think about all of the future contracts and
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this will be the number to beat. You know, how
many how many years is it going to take for
somebody to come along that will get more than seven
hundred million in a North American sport I know soccer
players get ridiculous amounts of money, but in a North
American sports league to get more than Otani will take
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Speaker 1 (17:59):
It's that Mallar. The Hour of Otani continues your FEMI
rights and says, Hey, mal Ard a plus in some
California rolls on the monologue Dave Roberts speaking Japanese was
the age and the Doyers? Oh, Johnning Otani? Oh, So
the question is, is Dave Roberts on your good list? Now? No? No,
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because he I know he's going to screw something up
in the playoffs. It doesn't and doesn't guarantee the Dodgers
are going to win anything anytime soon. Just be in
the playoffs every year. They've been in the playoffs every
year anyway. So they'll hit him a few more home
runs and you'll see how good o'tanni does and all that.
And Anka Terra says he when is the pay per
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view boxing special featuring Lizo versus Robbie the Mariner fan
going to happen? We're still waiting, well, Lizzo. Lizzo needs
to fill out the PaperWorks so we can get that
thing going there. It's really into her hands. Robbie's ready
to go alf the Alien. O'piner says Coop couldn't care
(19:09):
less about Otani. He's busy taking our money in a DraftKings.
Scrooge rights in and says, yeah, you called it, Ben,
I remember you said Otani would sign with the Dodgers
in the off season before the trade deadline. Good job
by you. Also, will Justin Cooper quit baseball as he
said he would if O'tani went to the Dodgers. I
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don't know. You'd have to ask him. Inca Tara writes
and says a grand slam on the Mallard monologue. Even
though Coop flew the Coop when I was in studio,
proving that he hates blind people, I still want to
hear his angry tirade of deflated moaning regarding the Angels lost. Coop,
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would you like to moan and whine about the loss
of show?
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Hey, yes, I am done with baseball until until the
Angels make the playoffs again.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I'm done so if they make the playoffs this year,
you're back. Yeah, that's all. That's it. Not already Marino
has to sell the team, none of that.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
I mean, I feel like that's what needs to happen
in order for the Angels to make the playoffs. But
if by some miracle they make the playoffs, you know,
I'll get back on board. But I don't want to
waste my time anymore for months out of a year,
for one hundred and sixty two games. Well you don't
watch every Well, you're right, because we're usually out by July, so.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, you know, so it's really like two months and
then yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Yeah, but still I hear it. I remember, remember the
break during summer.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Remember the Nationals lost Bryce Harper to the Phillies and
then they won the World Series.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Somebody already tried, like you sing that to like make
me feel better, don't.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You don't want that.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
No, unless they be fair list and the Angels have
tried with good players and have it one, maybe they
should have non good players and maybe a little like
they've had really a couple of real big star players
every year and still haven't made the play No, you're
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done with base what are you gonna do during the summer.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
It sucks too because I think the Angels are gonna
be at Wrigley Field this season. I was planning on
going and seeing Wrigley.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Can't go. You can be a Cub fan for the
year though. Hang out with you Femi in Chicago, Gene
in Chicago, Doc Mike.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
That's all my fiancee said. She said, let's just go
and root for the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I'm like, yeah, all right. Maybe you can go to
spring training over in Arizona. That's not a far drive.
You go there the Cubs spring training, see some games
in the Cactus League. Cubs come to San Diego in
l A. Can see them a couple of times.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
There you go, Maybe I'll become a Cubs fan. All right?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Are you going to keep your Angel stuff for donated
to like charity, like your Angels hats and all that.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
I'll keep it, but keep me like underneath the other
hats that I own.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
They'll be buried in the back of the Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah, you won't be able to see them.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
But when when you know, when you're at my house.
But what a what a ball of a motion coop?
Your team wins a championship, a fake championship on Saturday,
and they lose another one of your teams lose, lose
their franchise player.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
And then and then the Broncos win a big game.
It's it's been real back and forth.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Wow. Quite the uh quite the weekend. Yeah, congratulations on
that fugazy championship. That's a second fugazi championship Lebron James
has provided the Lakers. It's good.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
It's the it's the first feu gaze championship.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
No, that's too so.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
The first one was actually the hardest championship in the history.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Of that's a that's a lie.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You ask anybody that nose basketball and anybody that plays basketball,
and they'll tell you this parody.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I'm that your parent of my material.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I appreciate that that being said, like, look, that's what
I was actually playing with people watching, not in like
in a resort and Disney. So Congress, I don't say
with this with this thing.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It is cheesy, But how can they keep playing NBA
games They already crowned a champion. I don't understand there
was a champagne celebration.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
I thought Champagne was the.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Reminds me of like your baseball when they'll they'll get
it as the wild card team and the win the
two games in the wildcard round, they'll celebrate, you know what.
It's like so stupid.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
It's like, come on, you can pop champagne when you
get into the wild card when you're like a like
when you're the Angels.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
But the whole thing is kind of stupid. It's like,
you just said, we win the championship. Great, but that
was you know, this made this The NBA didn't even
start till Christmas.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Well, I mean that's kind of the point, though, I
feel like now it's like people I wouldn't have I
probably wouldn't have been watching, you know, a random NBA
game at this time of year. I would have kept
an eye on the score. But I actually, like I
tuned in to watch it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I didn't see a second of it. I didn't see
one second of that game.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Well, I was if it was the Clippers, you would
be hanging up.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Clippers win opening. The Clippers win real championships, and they
will win it this summer, in the summer of twenty four,
James Harden will lead the way. They will see the
light salvation in Clipper Nation and they will hoist the
championship banner at the Into It Dome in the Hood
in Inglewood in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Let's go us.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Love go like, come on more proof again. There are
no real Laker fans and somebody pulling a joke and
you guys still play it because that's that's a real fan.
I say, well, you say Lakers, l Leckers, light Leggers.
If you want more on Clipper Darryl, you can go
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check him out. I think Key's banned, though, from that arena,
because I think there's some legal action. I don't know
for sure. Somebody told me he's not allowed to go
down there because remember remember that that thug security guy
at Crypto punched him, knocked him out. I'll never forget that, Yeah, loser,
So I heard. I don't know for sure, but I
(25:19):
heard there might be lawyers in Glow. So somebody told
me that. But that's as I understand. But maybe maybe
I heard that wrong, maybe my sources.
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coming out of Canada about the Blue Jays and what
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was going on with them, as a report from Seam
moros See that Otani was on a plane to Toronto. Boy,
that's right, now, what's the better f up? The Otani
to Toronto on a on a plane or Arson Judge
going to the Giants? What is the what is the
better f up? By a baseball reporter? Anyway, Otani ends
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up going to the Dodgers that it hasn't been announced it.
People were like, why didn't you good announce? So I
don't know, maybe there's a falling out. Well, who's announcing
anything on a Sunday NFL Sunday. No, and the Dodger
shouldn't announce anything on Monday. You wait till Tuesday or
Wednesday when you have the Florida your yourself and there's
no nothing else to compete with you. Although those Monday
night games are not very good, so maybe you would
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do it on a Monday because there's some dog food
Monday night games. But the report out of Toronto says
the Blue Jays submitted a quote very competitive offer for
Otani that was right there with the seven hundred. Was
that the number that they all agreed on? The seven
hundred like Otani's camps like seven hundred million. You get
the player for seven h million. Your feme in Chicago
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rights since says it be a Cub fan coop, we
will accept your celebrity fandom. You can throw out the
first pitch. There you go. You can throw out the
first pitch at a CUB game. You can sing the
seventh inning stretch. I would love that. Yeah, you'd go
to Chicago for that, right? Absolutely sure, Holy Ferg Dog Rights,
since says Malard, I know basketball and the Lakers Mickey
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Mouse championship is worth even less than the end season tournament.
All my friends agree with me. That is absolutely correct.
That's a great take. That's the take of the night
from Ferg Dog. You win take of the night. Congratulations.
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Speaker 5 (27:54):
Hey Ben? The best thing about Otani coming to the
Dodgers is no mariachi music at Dodger Stadium anymore. They're
going to raise the ticket prices. The stadium is going
to be safer because they get to bring in the
tourists from Japan. And there's no more, no more pandering
to the ghetto.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Ever since the new ownership took over the Dodgers, all
they've done is Pandrew do the ghetto to fill up
the stadium. That's all they do. It's really and now
finally they.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
With all due respect, Tony, I mean people you make
it like if you're you can't afford to go to
Dodger games unless you got a decent amount of money.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Games don't make money. These guys are a bunch of
punks their money to go there.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
All right, thank you? How do you really thank you? Tony?
Is that Paul's cousin in La That might be Red
Brest Paul's cousin, Man you racist. That's got to be racist.
I kind of like mariachi music. I have a bad person.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
I'm a white dude.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I like going to Dodger games. I like mariachi music.
I like barbershop quartet. I think like barbershop clytet is
like the white guy's version of Mary Ochie music. Right,
Mary Ochen music is like the Mexican version of a
barbershop quartet.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Yeah, Like, who doesn't love a good brass section in
a good movie.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
We used to have a guy that was a big
fan of the show that sent us some barbershop quartet stuff,
but we haven't had that in years. And it was
actually the guy that wrote the Chubby Cubby, the song
that got us banned on Chicago radio, the Great Chubby
Cubby Song. When the Cubs were about to go to
the World Series in was that O three. Was it
been twenty years or was it later than that? It
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might have been. I think it was O three, I think,
but the Cubs were playing the Marlins. Oh three, yeah, yeah,
it was three Cubs and Marlins. We were counting down
to the Cubs getting to the World Series and then
all hell broke this but that he had written the
Chubby Cubby song, which was a classic, and that's Barbershop quartet,
and we just love the Barbershop Quartet. And it's just
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very entertaining that guy was complaining about mariachi music that
I got it, Cobby Chubby, because we're looking that's your
new song. Coop your cups, come on talking coops, Cobby
Chubby right now. He's excited. Come to the ballpark and
wear Cobby. Yeah, got Cobby Chubby. And it's really hard
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call a doctor complain about this and ling up guy,
I understand from top to bottom calling the bull band
and Diangos.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Where Wow, this would not irritate people today?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Or should I should? I?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Uh, just like kind of stick with Colorado and become
a Rockies fan.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Why would you want to be a Rockies fan?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I mean a Broncos fan.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's easy.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
They're like right across the street from each other.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
The Angels are better than the Rockies. Might us to
stay with the Angels? Yes, yeah they are. You see
Bob Nightingale, I've known Bob for your Bob ripped baseball writers.
He's he's a baseball scribe, Bob Nightingale, And he said
that baseball writers have become an embarrassment to the journalism community.
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He said, quote, we have made fools of ourselves plenty
of times before in the history of baseball media, but
we have taken this to new heights. Nightingale said, obviously
referencing the John Morosi report, the only one reporting Otani
was in route to sign with the Toronto Blue Jays,
except that Toani was not actually on the plane. Other
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than that he was, he was probably hanging out in
like Newport Beach or something like that. But anyway, the
report was retracted. Now, last year, of course, we got
the wonderful story of Arson Judge going to the Giants.
That was a brilliant report, just absolutely brilliant report last
year that we got at the Winter meetings. And so
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Was it, I wouldn't use the word massive. It was
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when no one pays attention to the NBA. But I
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we didn't really care about it. But yeah, it was
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gonna add to this. They're not gonna get rid of it.
They'll they'll add more bells and whistles next.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
A popular thread on X asks people to describe these
shows Heyo Tani signing in NBA terms. The most popular
response was Katie to the Warriors. Is that an apt comparison?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
No, because the Dodgers have won one World Series, they
have won multiple. I mean, you go Rodman to the Bulls,
but that's not good either, Lebron to the Heat. I
guess I'd go Lebron to the Heat if I had
to choose one of those. Next.
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Yes, neither is the clock compute coupe. Was it bad?
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Old TONI the big News over the weekend. Can you
put into words what this show hey Otani contract means
with the Dodgers? Also his show he Otani's worth seven
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hundred million dollars? And where does this Otani deal put
the Dodgers? Do they have enough? And with Otani leaving,
what is the fallout in Anaheim, his old stomping grounds.
We understand he's planning on living where he's been living,
not far from the Big A. That'll be awkward. We'll
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baseball monologue on an NFL Sunday into Money. So over
the weekend. Now we do the show Monday through Friday,
but because we do an overnight show and where we're located,
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it's really Sunday night through Thursday night, and then we
get done early in the morning on Friday, and we're
off Friday night and Saturday night, and then we come
back on Sunday and do it again. So on Friday,
my phone was blowing up. Otani's going to Canada. He's
going for the putine. Otani's going for the puttine. I said, okay,
(02:30):
all right, whatever, that's fine, and I was making chocolate.
I was the chocolate tear making these stupid little chocolates.
So I was like, all right, whatever. John Morosi, who
I like John. I've known John a few years. He's
on Fox Sports Radio a lot as a baseball insider,
and he had the store. He's the only one that
had the story Otani was going to Blue Jays because
it wasn't true, but he had it and he went
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with it, and there were people following a plane to
Toronto from Orange County. It turned out to be somebody
else from some reality TV show. It wasn't Otani, but
it was an all you could eat buffet of hot
Otani talk all weekend long. And this considered this a continuation.
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It's the Hour of Otani. The Hour of Otani as
the gigantic news, which we assume you've heard. Maybe you're
not a baseball person, but the news has gone all
over the place I was out. I went to the
store on Saturday. I had to run a few errands,
and people were yapping about. I was overhearing conversations because
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I don't talk to anybody when I go out shopping,
but IVER heard conversations that people were talking about Otani
this and Tony that. But over the weekend show, he
Otani announced on his own social media channels that he
had agreed to give the atomic elbow to the sporting world.
Otani taking his talents up I five in the Golden
(03:55):
State from the OC to La La Land to play
for the real team in Los Angeles. The only team
in Los Angeles, the Doyers as Otani will be paid
seventy million dollars per year, but actually half that because
he lives in California, the People's Republic of California, so
he will be paying half of his money in taxes.
(04:18):
Don't feel bad for him. He'll still clear three thirty
five million a year, but seven hundred million total, as
the taxation rate is insane, mind boggling numbers all the
way around. Even with the tax and all that, much
of the money we are told will be doled out
in deferred payments, which means the contract is not worth
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as much as it would appear. Factor that in, as
you know, the inflation situation. We actually did this on
the Fifth Hour podcast. We hope you follow that, me
and Danny g We did a breakdown about how overpriced
Disneyland is and based on inflation, from the price that
Disneyland was when it first opened to what it is today.
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The price of a ticket, a general emission ticket to Disneyland,
based on inflation, what it should be is about twelve dollars.
It's it's probably close to two hundred instead, but it
should be twelve bucks. It should be twelve bucks. Anyway,
you're gonna have some fun with the inflation calculator and
all that. But the big story here, you know, he's
gotta get a bunch of a deferred payments of Tani.
(05:27):
But we'll just talk about him going to the Dodgers.
That's the story. That's don't bear the lead, my mind.
We're not gonna bear the lead. So as we discuss
the question, can you put into words what this show, hey,
otane contract with the Dodgers means. So I've got powers
ven diagram and poltergeist, and we will combine all of
(05:52):
these things together and we are going to make a
nice layaway plan, which is what Oltani's getting. A lot
of that money's on layoway, and we'll be old and
he'll be old and he'll get paid and all that.
So Number one, can we just stop the conversation at
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the Dodgers won the off season. Now that might not
mean much to you, and you said it doesn't matter
who wins the off season. Okay, maybe it doesn't, but
they won the off season, so periods stopped. They won
the off season. Dodgers won the off season. They caught
the white whale. They got the white The Dodgers been
trying to get Otani for a couple of years. They've
been plotting to get Otani. They got him. Now, did
(06:39):
they pay a ridiculous amount more than anyone else? That'll
be coming out in the coming days. We're hearing whispers
that they actually did not pay that much more than
anyone else, that there were other offers that were in
the same general neighborhood, the same zip code as the
seven hundred million dollars. But we keep hearing generational talent
once in a lifetime, ah blah, blah, blah blah. And
(07:01):
so the Dodgers won the offseason Trophy. Congratulations. Regardless, they
have pantsed the competitors that they're dealing with, the big
money teams in baseball, the Mets, the Yankees, the Red Sox,
the Giants who wanted Otani, the Blue Jays, the teams
that were bidding on Otani, and the mission of the
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offseason I believe, maybe I'm wrong on this. I just
do an overnight show. I think is to improve your team.
The Dodgers have tangibly improved their team, although to be fair,
they did get good production from JD. Martinez, who was
their DH last year. And Otani's going to be paid
seventy million dollars to get four or five plate appearances
a game because he's mostly going to be a DH
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So you're gonna get four or five plate appearances from Otani,
which means if each at bat lasts about a minute,
you're talking about five minutes of actual work a day
that he and maybe some days only four minutes that
o'conne's gonna get some of those at bats. He'll come
and swing at the first pitch, so that'll be like
fifteen seconds. It's just outraged. I was. I was texting
(08:11):
some people over the weekend during the day on Saturday
when this story came out, and it was like, I
remember when I started out. I did Dodger talk a
long time ago. It was the late nineties, and people
were bitching and moaning about the Dodger payroll, the entire payroll.
Last year I did that was nineteen ninety nine. I
believe the entire payroll for the Dodgers was seventy one million.
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Otani's going to make seventy million alone from the Dodger payroll. Here.
It's just a crazy amount of money, and he might
never pitch again. The guys had to Tommy john medical procedures.
It doesn't even matter. They don't even care. Like the
people I've chatted with through Dodgers, they don't care whether
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he pitches again or not. It's not about that. And
by every objective measurement, though the Dodgers have improved their
team and they it's all about the powers. In this case,
Sho hal Tani has proven. Granted it was the minor
leagues with the Angels who are like in the Pacific
Coast League, but Otani proved he can live up to
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the hype and all that. And there was some doubts
when he came over hyped from Japan whether he would
be as good as advertised. I was skeptical early on,
but he's backed it up with a couple of MVP
Awards and so he has the powers. He's like Mike Myers,
Austin Powers International man of mystery, Sho hail Tani. Yeah, baby,
(09:40):
but the mystery, there's not that much of a mystery.
My Friend Vic the Brick Jacobs, LA radio legend would
say that that he is the yokozuna Otani of baseball,
and you can't get a higher ranking than a yokozuna.
You can't now Page two, here is sho Hail Tani
worth the contract? Well, how can you possibly quantify anyone
(10:02):
being worth seven hundred million dollars? Right, So the premise
of the question is a little fool gaysy, right, I
mean seven hundred million dollars for one per Is he
solving cancer? No? He can hit the curve ball to
the moon is what Otani can do. Good congratulations, But
in the business of baseball you have to nod your head. Yes,
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it's a cartoon world and in the business of baseball.
We had talked to this. I thought the number would
be five hundred million, which would have been the record,
would have been the record. I was going five hundred million.
I didn't see seven hundred million. That's an extra two
hundred million dollars than I thought. And I was shooting
high at five hundred million dollars. Now, why, it simply
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comes down to the ven diagram, the Otani ven diagram,
if you will. Otani is actually based on market share
under paid at seventy million dollars a year, which is
only thirty five million after California tax. It's all about
the metrics. It's all about the metrics. You do the
metrics on this. You've got the subs, unique views, all
(11:08):
that stuff. It's malor math. Let's do some malormth Now
I've never been to Japan. We have listeners in Japan
that listen to the show, people that have been there, whatever.
So Japan has about one hundred and twenty five million
a little more than one hundred and twenty five million
people that live there. This is a malar math equation.
So there's one hundred and twenty five million people. Not
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all of them are baseball fans, but baseball, i am told,
is near the top in terms of popularity. They love
baseball in Japan. So of one hundred and twenty five
million people, let's say twenty five percent of those people
are Otani fans. Otani sans if you will, they will
follow Atani. So twenty five percent, So you do the math,
(11:51):
that works out to thirty one point two million people
that will follow Atani. That's thirty one million new customers. Now,
maybe the much lower that, maybe it's only ten percent
of people in Japan truly love Otani. That's a high percentage,
ten percent. So if it's ten percent, that's twelve point
five million, twelve point five million new customers that you
(12:16):
can charge premium amounts. The games for the Dodgers will
be broadcast on Televion like the Angels games were, but
they'll be broadcast in Japan, and you've got the branding,
the merchandise for Otani uh plus. As we had talked
about with the five hundred million, we speculated from the
business people, the amount of revenue that the Dodgers are
(12:38):
going to get, it's going to be even higher than
the Angels got from Japanese advertisers. From just the Tokyo
market alone in Japan will be feeding them tons of
tons of money. Now, final point, where does this Otani
deal with the Dodgers? All right? Where does this deal
put the Dodgers? Do they have enough? Do the Dodgers
(12:59):
have enough? The answer is yes, they have it. Now
They're gonna make some other moves. They've got a bleeping
murderers row. Now. Based on the NERD stats, the Dodgers
have three of the top six players in the sport
and they're all the top of their lineup. This reminds
me maybe this is not a good analogy because they
didn't win. It reminds me of Griffy a Rod and
(13:21):
Edgar Martinez with the Seattle Mariners. It reminds me of
that I was telling you some other dynamic duos. I
had a friend at the mal or Ugly Sweater party
that said, a big red machine back in the day,
the big Red Machine and all those Hall of famers.
And you think of the Cleveland Indians who also didn't win,
but they had Albert Bell, Jim Tomay and Manny Ramirez.
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The Red Sox had Big Poppy and Manny Great. They won, obviously,
they won several World Series. But the Dodgers have Mookie Betts,
who's playing second base in the leadoff spot show Hail Tani.
We assume would hit second and be the DH and
Freddie Freeman would be third. But a Bing bought a boom,
good afternoon, good evening, and good night. How do you
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do at the beginning of every game? And so that
is the big Blue recond crew. Now it doesn't guarantee
that you're going to succeed. Mookie Betts has bad at
seventy nine in the playoffs the last couple of years,
he sucks. He's tangibly blows in the playoffs. Mookie Bets
and who knows Otani might stink. Also, you don't know,
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but you know you're going to be in the playoffs.
And that's what those nerds always say, right, it's you
just want to be in there, right because weird things happen,
and it doesn't matter you have the greatest record of
the matter, but you want to be in there. Like
the Rangers were not a great team, they won the
World Series. The Diamondbacks got to the World Series. They
were joke, they were bad Televisionbody want to watch the Diamondbacks,
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but they played well for a month, and so they
got to the World Series. And so now Tani the
other part of this year. What happens now with Otan leaving, right,
what's the fallout in Anaheim with his old team there.
From a business standpoint, this is Ardi Morino's worst nightmare,
(15:11):
because not only is Otani gun, You've got the gruesome twosome.
So Otani leaves the Angels empty handed, they get a
little draft pick, congratulations, But he relocates less than thirty
five miles away the Big A to Dodger Stadium's thirty
one and a half miles, which takes about twelve hours
in traffic. But thirty one and a half miles from
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Chavez Ravine to the Big A. And for the next decade,
Otani is going to be like Poltergeist, haunting the Angels.
And the chances are really really good that at least
one of those years they're going to win the World
Series the Dodgers over the next ten years, and so
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then there'll be billboards and all that of Otani probably
wrinkled all over Anaheim, right off the off ramps there
to the Big A, and he can haunt the Halos.
It is the Ben Malor Show. If you'd like to
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Speakeasy rules are in effect. But it is a massive deal,
and you think about all of the future contracts and
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this will be the number to beat. You know, how
many how many years is it going to take for
somebody to come along that will get more than seven
hundred million in a North American sport I know soccer
players get ridiculous amounts of money, but in a North
American sports league to get more than Otani will take
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It's that Mallar. The Hour of Otani continues your FEMI
rights and says, Hey, mal Ard a plus in some
California rolls on the monologue Dave Roberts speaking Japanese was
the age and the Doyers? Oh, Johnning Otani? Oh, So
the question is, is Dave Roberts on your good list? Now? No? No,
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because he I know he's going to screw something up
in the playoffs. It doesn't and doesn't guarantee the Dodgers
are going to win anything anytime soon. Just be in
the playoffs every year. They've been in the playoffs every
year anyway. So they'll hit him a few more home
runs and you'll see how good o'tanni does and all that.
And Anka Terra says he when is the pay per
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view boxing special featuring Lizo versus Robbie the Mariner fan
going to happen? We're still waiting, well, Lizzo. Lizzo needs
to fill out the PaperWorks so we can get that
thing going there. It's really into her hands. Robbie's ready
to go alf the Alien. O'piner says Coop couldn't care
(19:09):
less about Otani. He's busy taking our money in a DraftKings.
Scrooge rights in and says, yeah, you called it, Ben,
I remember you said Otani would sign with the Dodgers
in the off season before the trade deadline. Good job
by you. Also, will Justin Cooper quit baseball as he
said he would if O'tani went to the Dodgers. I
(19:31):
don't know. You'd have to ask him. Inca Tara writes
and says a grand slam on the Mallard monologue. Even
though Coop flew the Coop when I was in studio,
proving that he hates blind people, I still want to
hear his angry tirade of deflated moaning regarding the Angels lost. Coop,
(19:54):
would you like to moan and whine about the loss
of show?
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Hey, yes, I am done with baseball until until the
Angels make the playoffs again.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I'm done so if they make the playoffs this year,
you're back. Yeah, that's all. That's it. Not already Marino
has to sell the team, none of that.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
I mean, I feel like that's what needs to happen
in order for the Angels to make the playoffs. But
if by some miracle they make the playoffs, you know,
I'll get back on board. But I don't want to
waste my time anymore for months out of a year,
for one hundred and sixty two games. Well you don't
watch every Well, you're right, because we're usually out by July, so.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, you know, so it's really like two months and
then yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Yeah, but still I hear it. I remember, remember the
break during summer.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Remember the Nationals lost Bryce Harper to the Phillies and
then they won the World Series.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Somebody already tried, like you sing that to like make
me feel better, don't.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You don't want that.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
No, unless they be fair list and the Angels have
tried with good players and have it one, maybe they
should have non good players and maybe a little like
they've had really a couple of real big star players
every year and still haven't made the play No, you're
(21:26):
done with base what are you gonna do during the summer.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
It sucks too because I think the Angels are gonna
be at Wrigley Field this season. I was planning on
going and seeing Wrigley.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Can't go. You can be a Cub fan for the
year though. Hang out with you Femi in Chicago, Gene
in Chicago, Doc Mike.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
That's all my fiancee said. She said, let's just go
and root for the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I'm like, yeah, all right. Maybe you can go to
spring training over in Arizona. That's not a far drive.
You go there the Cubs spring training, see some games
in the Cactus League. Cubs come to San Diego in
l A. Can see them a couple of times.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
There you go, Maybe I'll become a Cubs fan. All right?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Are you going to keep your Angel stuff for donated
to like charity, like your Angels hats and all that.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
I'll keep it, but keep me like underneath the other
hats that I own.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
They'll be buried in the back of the Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah, you won't be able to see them.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
But when when you know, when you're at my house.
But what a what a ball of a motion coop?
Your team wins a championship, a fake championship on Saturday,
and they lose another one of your teams lose, lose
their franchise player.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
And then and then the Broncos win a big game.
It's it's been real back and forth.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Wow. Quite the uh quite the weekend. Yeah, congratulations on
that fugazy championship. That's a second fugazi championship Lebron James
has provided the Lakers. It's good.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
It's the it's the first feu gaze championship.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
No, that's too so.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
The first one was actually the hardest championship in the history.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Of that's a that's a lie.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You ask anybody that nose basketball and anybody that plays basketball,
and they'll tell you this parody.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I'm that your parent of my material.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I appreciate that that being said, like, look, that's what
I was actually playing with people watching, not in like
in a resort and Disney. So Congress, I don't say
with this with this thing.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It is cheesy, But how can they keep playing NBA
games They already crowned a champion. I don't understand there
was a champagne celebration.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
I thought Champagne was the.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Reminds me of like your baseball when they'll they'll get
it as the wild card team and the win the
two games in the wildcard round, they'll celebrate, you know what.
It's like so stupid.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
It's like, come on, you can pop champagne when you
get into the wild card when you're like a like
when you're the Angels.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
But the whole thing is kind of stupid. It's like,
you just said, we win the championship. Great, but that
was you know, this made this The NBA didn't even
start till Christmas.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Well, I mean that's kind of the point, though, I
feel like now it's like people I wouldn't have I
probably wouldn't have been watching, you know, a random NBA
game at this time of year. I would have kept
an eye on the score. But I actually, like I
tuned in to watch it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I didn't see a second of it. I didn't see
one second of that game.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Well, I was if it was the Clippers, you would
be hanging up.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Clippers win opening. The Clippers win real championships, and they
will win it this summer, in the summer of twenty four,
James Harden will lead the way. They will see the
light salvation in Clipper Nation and they will hoist the
championship banner at the Into It Dome in the Hood
in Inglewood in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Let's go us.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Love go like, come on more proof again. There are
no real Laker fans and somebody pulling a joke and
you guys still play it because that's that's a real fan.
I say, well, you say Lakers, l Leckers, light Leggers.
If you want more on Clipper Darryl, you can go
(24:59):
check him out. I think Key's banned, though, from that arena,
because I think there's some legal action. I don't know
for sure. Somebody told me he's not allowed to go
down there because remember remember that that thug security guy
at Crypto punched him, knocked him out. I'll never forget that, Yeah, loser,
So I heard. I don't know for sure, but I
(25:19):
heard there might be lawyers in Glow. So somebody told
me that. But that's as I understand. But maybe maybe
I heard that wrong, maybe my sources.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
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Speaker 1 (25:33):
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Progressive dot com. The Hour of o Tani some reports
coming out of Canada about the Blue Jays and what
(25:57):
was going on with them, as a report from Seam
moros See that Otani was on a plane to Toronto. Boy,
that's right, now, what's the better f up? The Otani
to Toronto on a on a plane or Arson Judge
going to the Giants? What is the what is the
better f up? By a baseball reporter? Anyway, Otani ends
(26:18):
up going to the Dodgers that it hasn't been announced it.
People were like, why didn't you good announce? So I
don't know, maybe there's a falling out. Well, who's announcing
anything on a Sunday NFL Sunday. No, and the Dodger
shouldn't announce anything on Monday. You wait till Tuesday or
Wednesday when you have the Florida your yourself and there's
no nothing else to compete with you. Although those Monday
night games are not very good, so maybe you would
(26:39):
do it on a Monday because there's some dog food
Monday night games. But the report out of Toronto says
the Blue Jays submitted a quote very competitive offer for
Otani that was right there with the seven hundred. Was
that the number that they all agreed on? The seven
hundred like Otani's camps like seven hundred million. You get
the player for seven h million. Your feme in Chicago
(27:02):
rights since says it be a Cub fan coop, we
will accept your celebrity fandom. You can throw out the
first pitch. There you go. You can throw out the
first pitch at a CUB game. You can sing the
seventh inning stretch. I would love that. Yeah, you'd go
to Chicago for that, right? Absolutely sure, Holy Ferg Dog Rights,
since says Malard, I know basketball and the Lakers Mickey
(27:24):
Mouse championship is worth even less than the end season tournament.
All my friends agree with me. That is absolutely correct.
That's a great take. That's the take of the night
from Ferg Dog. You win take of the night. Congratulations.
We'd also like to lead all the affiliates down the line.
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(27:47):
big news, big news, new Draft Kings commercial. Hello Tony
in La La Land. What's going on? Tony?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Hey Ben? The best thing about Otani coming to the
Dodgers is no mariachi music at Dodger Stadium anymore. They're
going to raise the ticket prices. The stadium is going
to be safer because they get to bring in the
tourists from Japan. And there's no more, no more pandering
to the ghetto.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Ever since the new ownership took over the Dodgers, all
they've done is Pandrew do the ghetto to fill up
the stadium. That's all they do. It's really and now
finally they.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
With all due respect, Tony, I mean people you make
it like if you're you can't afford to go to
Dodger games unless you got a decent amount of money.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Games don't make money. These guys are a bunch of
punks their money to go there.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
All right, thank you? How do you really thank you? Tony?
Is that Paul's cousin in La That might be Red
Brest Paul's cousin, Man you racist. That's got to be racist.
I kind of like mariachi music. I have a bad person.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
I'm a white dude.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I like going to Dodger games. I like mariachi music.
I like barbershop quartet. I think like barbershop clytet is
like the white guy's version of Mary Ochie music. Right,
Mary Ochen music is like the Mexican version of a
barbershop quartet.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Yeah, Like, who doesn't love a good brass section in
a good movie.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
We used to have a guy that was a big
fan of the show that sent us some barbershop quartet stuff,
but we haven't had that in years. And it was
actually the guy that wrote the Chubby Cubby, the song
that got us banned on Chicago radio, the Great Chubby
Cubby Song. When the Cubs were about to go to
the World Series in was that O three. Was it
been twenty years or was it later than that? It
(29:36):
might have been. I think it was O three, I think,
but the Cubs were playing the Marlins. Oh three, yeah, yeah,
it was three Cubs and Marlins. We were counting down
to the Cubs getting to the World Series and then
all hell broke this but that he had written the
Chubby Cubby song, which was a classic, and that's Barbershop quartet,
and we just love the Barbershop Quartet. And it's just
(29:58):
very entertaining that guy was complaining about mariachi music that
I got it, Cobby Chubby, because we're looking that's your
new song. Coop your cups, come on talking coops, Cobby
Chubby right now. He's excited. Come to the ballpark and
wear Cobby. Yeah, got Cobby Chubby. And it's really hard
(30:21):
call a doctor complain about this and ling up guy,
I understand from top to bottom calling the bull band
and Diangos.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Where Wow, this would not irritate people today?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Or should I should? I?
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Uh, just like kind of stick with Colorado and become
a Rockies fan.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Why would you want to be a Rockies fan?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I mean a Broncos fan.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's easy.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
They're like right across the street from each other.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
The Angels are better than the Rockies. Might us to
stay with the Angels? Yes, yeah they are. You see
Bob Nightingale, I've known Bob for your Bob ripped baseball writers.
He's he's a baseball scribe, Bob Nightingale, And he said
that baseball writers have become an embarrassment to the journalism community.
(31:09):
He said, quote, we have made fools of ourselves plenty
of times before in the history of baseball media, but
we have taken this to new heights. Nightingale said, obviously
referencing the John Morosi report, the only one reporting Otani
was in route to sign with the Toronto Blue Jays,
except that Toani was not actually on the plane. Other
(31:30):
than that he was, he was probably hanging out in
like Newport Beach or something like that. But anyway, the
report was retracted. Now, last year, of course, we got
the wonderful story of Arson Judge going to the Giants.
That was a brilliant report, just absolutely brilliant report last
year that we got at the Winter meetings. And so
(31:55):
Nightingale is all worked up by that as we press
on the Ben Malord Show. As we continue on here,
we'll take your calls and all that. We have Mallard
to the third degree, Mallard of the third degree, and
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like a video game. Cheek co when's running around Deebo
Samuel Niners becoming the second player in NFL history with
(32:41):
at least one hundred receiving yards, one touchdown reception, and
one rushing touchdown in consecutive games. He's only the second
player to do it. He joins blank again, that's the
instant trivia. Forty nine Ers star d Bow same the
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Speaker 1 (33:48):
Hey are here is the who am my game? Actually's
the Insta Triba. Here's the Insta Trivia. Forty nine Ers
star Deebo Samuel is the second player in NFL history
to have at least one hundred receiving yards, one touchdown,
one reception for a touchdown, and rushing touchdown consecutive games. Again,
(34:09):
Deebo Samuel, Niners star, just the second player in NFL
history with at least one hundred receiving yards, one touchdown
reception and one rushing touchdown in consecutive games. He joins, blank,
that is the question. What is the answer and who
do we have? Mister nice Guy's going with Gary Lavelle
of the nineteen seventies Giants, Pinocchio from Alf the Alien
(34:35):
o Pineer page down A Chargers superfan Eddie Garcia, Yes
by Cowboy Killer. Teresa says, Jerry Rice has got to
be Jerry Rice. Who else? Page down? Pay can't read that?
John Taylor from the Art of Sports Talk. But John
Taylor was really good too, but nobody talks about him
(34:57):
because Jerry Rice was kind of better. Vander Jack the
idiot kicker from sewn in Portland? Who else you have?
Page down? Natron means from Rob in Minnesota. Desmond Howard
touched up by Rory that's his answer. Kool Aid McKinstry
from the Mexican John Dunton, Big Lou from the LBC
(35:20):
says Sterling Sharp is the answer. Legendary Viking first round
pick Troy Williamson from Joe in Okinawa. Steve the misplaced
San Diego going with John Jefferson, Charger legend as his answer.
Who else? Page down? A lot of people love the
Chubby Cubby song the younger generation. They didn't hear it
(35:42):
back in the day. It's classic tune. Eddie, Do you
have an answer, Eddie? Please? I need yes.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers legend Jock Ques.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Green fine a name Eddie, but that is unfortunately interactive.
Correct answer. It's not Tim Brown. It's Timmy Brown of
the name sixty Philadelphia football team. So it's been sixty
three years since the player has done what Deebo Samuel
did over the weekend last couple of weeks. Here we go,
(36:14):
here we go, it's Kopa lop.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Well.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
The Lakers, of course, won the inaugural NBA In Season Tournament,
and aside from.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
The congratulations coup, thank you, greatest fake championship you've ever won.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Aside from the dotty courts, most people seem to think
that the tournament overall was a massive success for the NBA.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Was it, I wouldn't use the word massive. It was
a success. It accomplished the goal that creates some interest
when no one pays attention to the NBA. But I
didn't watch a second of the championship game, so for me,
I wasn't working that day. I didn't care at a party,
we didn't really care about it. But yeah, it was
a success, and they'll do it again. And they're only
(37:01):
gonna add to this. They're not gonna get rid of it.
They'll they'll add more bells and whistles next.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
A popular thread on X asks people to describe these
shows Heyo Tani signing in NBA terms. The most popular
response was Katie to the Warriors. Is that an apt comparison?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
No, because the Dodgers have won one World Series, they
have won multiple. I mean, you go Rodman to the Bulls,
but that's not good either, Lebron to the Heat. I
guess I'd go Lebron to the Heat if I had
to choose one of those. Next.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
Last week, Ohio State quarterback Kyle mccourd entered the transfer portal,
and no one was more surprised than Urban Meyer. In
a podcast appearance over the weekend, Meyer said, the decision
does not compute.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yes, neither is the clock compute coupe. Was it bad?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Was a bad decision?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (37:47):
You failed? You fail?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
That fail. You gotta talk quicker quick questions, quick quick, quick, quick,
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