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December 12, 2023 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about Shohei Ohtani deferring 97% of his Dodgers salary to 2043 and why the Dodgers agreed to it, the ripple effect it will have around baseball, Maller's Mountain of Money: Don Johnson Edition, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our name Birth three the Hour of Otani, our
obligatory Malard monologue about show, Hey Otani, the biggest name
in baseball?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
What is your perspective on show he Otani.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Deferring ninety seven percent of his Dodger salary to after
he's done playing with the Dodgers. Can you make sense
of the Dodgers agreeing to defer this Otani contract to
the year twenty forty three? And what's the ripple effect

(00:39):
around baseball from sho he Otani getting so much money deferred?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
What does that fall out? We'll get to it and
much more right now here. It is a Otani hour
in our number three. It is the lay away plan
for the ages. Welmeme. In the beginning of another hour

(01:06):
of the Ben Mallard Show. We are in the air.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Everywhere, amigos, as we bleed like a stuffed pig.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Coast, the coast, border, the border.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And beyond on the mast and fantabulously powerful microphones of fs.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Are nating live.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
From under the moonlight, camouflaged by the darkness. Play the Hits,
My man. Play the Hits are headline this hour from Baseball.
It is time for our obligatory Mallard monologue about the
life and times of the seven hundred million dollar mon show,

(01:49):
Hail Tony, How many years before we get the first
billion dollar contract handed out? We're not that far away, right,
with inflation and the value of the dollar and the
toilet because of our politicians, we're not that far away
from the first billion dollar contract being hounded out. But
that's not what this is about. The weekend rumor became

(02:10):
reality now.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
When I ran a.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Gossip website years ago, we often said one of our
mantras that today's rumors are tomorrow's news, and that has
happened yet again.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Story that broke over the weekend not really a rumor.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
It was announced by the person involved, but show Hey
oh Tony is officially locked and loaded. He has not
been introduced yet, but the Dodgers sent out social media
post welcoming show, Hey Otani, he's locked up ten year contract,
record setting seven hundred million dollars. However, as the most

(02:45):
famous man in radio years ago, Paul Harvey would say,
now the rest of the story as what a humdinger
of a story. It turned out to be a lot
of people buzzing about the news that came out on Monday.
You see, while it looks like Otani's gonna get seven
hundred million dollars, when you peel back what's actually happening.

(03:08):
He's actually not going to get seven hundred million dollars,
at least not in today's dollars and cents.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
You see the rest of the story. If you got
to read the fine print, you gotta read the manutius.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Like when you buy a house or a car, they
send you, they have you sign a few things and
put your initials here, and nobody actually reads all of
the paperwork. But if you read the fine print, we
learned that Sho Hailtani will end up waiting more than
a decade to collect the vast majority of his contract,

(03:40):
which is supposed to be paid out over the next
ten years ten years, seven hundred million dollars.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
But no, not so fast, my friend.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
The Dodger deal will defer out of the seventy million
dollars salary each year, Otani will defer sixty eight million.
Let me repeat that for those of you that are
in the back of the room are a little slow
of hearing. Sixty eight out of seventy million will be
pushed aside on a layaway plan.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
He'll get that money later on.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
In monthly installments or yearly installments after the contract is over,
way after the contact is over.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
So what does this mean in layman's terms?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
The Otani announcement that came out, so it means the
money will be paid out from the year twenty thirty
four to twenty forty three without interest. So without interests,
that's the deal, and the reporting is indicating that. Well,
the reason Sho Hay is doing this is because he

(04:41):
wants the Dodgers to be great and have great players.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
And that's the legend.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
When the legend becomes the fact, you go with the
legend the man who shot Liberty Valance.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
So let us discuss the question what is your perspective
on show? Haltani deferring what I did. The math of
this is ninety seven percent of his Dodger contract until
after the ten years are up in La La Land.
So I've got jay Leno, Tomato bisk and Hatfields and

(05:15):
McCoy's and we will combine all of these things together
me and we are going to make hemorrhoids, which is
what Arti Morino has to have when he sees the
amount of money that sho hal Tani is deferring, and
he's like, wait a minute, I could pay a guy
two million dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
See what Arty Marino should have done is offered Otani
nine hundred million dollars and then once the ten years
is up, sell the team, so someone else actually has
to pay the money. That would have been the smart move.
But this is not about the Angels. The question was
your perspective on sho hal Tani deferring ninety seven percent
of his Dodger money until after he's done.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
So this is my first thought is looney Tunes.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right when I saw this, I was like, well, I
knew it was going to be a lot of deferred money.
I thought two hundred million would be deferred. No, I
was completely wrong. I got a little bug eyed when
I saw that number, six hundred and eighty million. In fact,
I thought maybe I was a little groggy because I
had woken up and I was a little out of it.
You know, you wake up, you're a little foggy, You're

(06:18):
not sure for a few minutes what's going on.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
So I thought, well, you know, but what a good
day for stories? Because I had the Lakers story, how
ridiculous that was. They embarrassed the whole franchise putting up
a fugazi banner for a December title and just ridiculous.
And then this with the Dodgers, And the other thought
I had after I did my double take was does

(06:40):
Otani understand inflation that the value of a dollar today
is not the same value of a dollar five years
from them, that whatever money you got paid ten years
ago is worth a lot more than the money you
getting paid you paid the same salary.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
I've worked for some people that should learn that lesson, because.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Anyway, that is side.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
So the value of money goes down over time. There's
a fun game if you want to play, go to
the inflation calculator. There's a bunch of them on the internet,
and you can say, if I made sixty thousand dollars
in twenty nineteen twenty, what would that be worth in
today's dollars?

Speaker 1 (07:20):
And you can punch in the numbers and all that,
But the six hundred eighty million, So the six hundred
eighty million he's going to get paid starting in twenty
thirty four, twenty thirty five will not be six hundred
eighty million, it'll be less based on today's value because
the dollar will continue to go.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Down, so it's actually a bargain rate. Now Otani is
seen as the ultimate winner. I've already seen and read
a couple of think pieces on the interweb that are
celebrating Otani for his generosity.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
And well, he went above and beyond the greatest act
of charity in the history of professional sport.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
That Otani is going to make two million dollars a
year for the course of his contract and then wait
to get his money. And I said, okay. And then
the more I thought about it, then I started reaching
out to some people and I was like, I don't know,
see the perception again. I bring up the man that
shot Liberty Vunce. When the legend becomes the fact, he

(08:18):
go with the legend. The legend is Otani's gonna make
two million dollars a year for the next ten years,
and he's doing this because.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
He wants a winner. He wants a winner.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
But there is more to it than that. There's always
more to it than that. I'll be that guy. Don't
be that guy, pal, I'll be that guy, all right.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
So let me explain.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
And here's how I understand it, and I reached out
to some people that are smarter than me, which is
pretty much everybody. And here's what I've gotten from snooping around.
So the reality is this Otani is following the Jay
Leno model. Now get all the story. They used to
be these late night TV shows that everyone watched and
then these wokesters took them over and no one watches

(08:59):
them now. But years ago everyone watched late night TV.
It was it was amazing. The whole country watched it.
And one of the last great late night TV hosts
was a guy named Jay Leno.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
And Jay Leno worked at NBC for years. He still
lives in Burbank and.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Has a big garage over there with a bunch of cars,
not far away from where we operate from. So the
former Tonight Show host Jay Leno never spent a penny,
not a penny, I hang out with a penny, not
a penny of his NBC earnings, And he didn't do it.
And we're talking at the peak he was making thirty
million dollars a year, and that's probably seventy eighty million

(09:39):
dollars in today's money because it was a long time ago.
So he's making thirty million dollars a year, he does
spend a dime of it. Instead, he lived off the side, hustle.
Leno did corporate comedy gigs and got paid a ton
of money. He did commercials, got paid a lot of money.
He did stand up comedy and traveled around, got paid
a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
So that's what he lived on. Now he was making
a lot of money. That's what he lived on.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
And so Otani, based on some research here, he's he's
gonna make They estimate between fifty and seventy five million,
and probably more than that. He was making less than
fifty million with the Angels in endorsements, and because the
Dodgers are a bigger brand, the belief is he's gonna

(10:23):
up that by a fair amount and it'll be closer
to seventy five million dollars a year. From selling you
sports drinks, to sneakers, to all the crap that fills landfills,
all that stuff that Otani's gonna be the pitch man
to the stars.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
And he's not only got.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Tokyo in his back pocket, but with the Dodgers and
the increase.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
In the the.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Star power of being a seven hundred million dollar man.
There's more money, so he's not living on the hard
scrabble streets. Secondly, can you make sense? Can you make
sense of the Dodgers side of this? Okay, the Dodgers
agreeing to defer the lion's share of the Otani contract

(11:12):
until the last payout will be twenty forty three me
So on the surface, this is absolutely bananas. It's absolutely
been in it. But it is a I call it
a congressional move, is what I call it. The the
Otani contract gleefully adding debt like your favorite politicians do, right,

(11:35):
they never worry about the debt because they'll be long
out of office now. The Dodger ownership group likely feels
twenty years from now, right, maybe they won't own the team.
Maybe somebody else will own the Dodgers twenty years from now,
and that'll be their problem to pay sixty eight million
dollars a year out in sho hey Otani money. But

(11:55):
unlike the US government, the Dodgers cannot print more money,
although they kind of can't.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
They kind of can't print more money. But they're essentially
taking the can of Campbell's tomato bisks hoop and they're
kicking the can down the road in the payments. And
as I said, you know, Congress, the political class just
prints more money and then that's it. You know, just
give them free money out.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
During the pandemic and then that's fine and inflation doesn't matter.
We'll just print more money.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
But the Dodgers they can't do that. But they kind
of can't, as I said, then explain. So the Dodgers,
as I understand it, they've anticipated this contract will pretty
much be paid for buy Japan by the advertising market
in Japan, the majority of it, so that's from Tokyo
and the other big cities there in Japan, which means

(12:49):
they'll be able to squirrel away that money, gain interest
on the money, knowing they have to pay Altani. But
they can keep that money and invest that in some
hedge funds some other things and make money on top
of money, assuming the hedge funds don't fall apart somebody
on Reddit doesn't destroy the hedge fund but assuming that

(13:11):
it continues.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Not so.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
The robber barons of business. They do not own baseball
teams by being morons, all right, final fun, unless they
inherited the team like the guy that owns the Oakland
as all right, final thought, so what is the ripple effect?
What is the ripple effect around baseball? From the show
Hao Tani story that six hundred and eighty of the
seven hundred million is going to be deferred.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
So I'm glad you asked the ripple effect on this.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
He's getting so much money deferred that how do you
think people are reacting?

Speaker 1 (13:44):
They're pissed off, they're angry, they're they're storming around.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
So I've been reaching out to some of my guys
about this, and so this is setting up.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Now there's already a show Hal.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Tani rule and that if you're in the game as
a pitcher and you come out of the game, you
can stay in there as a designated hitter.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
So they already have an Otani rule. There's likely going
to be a second Otani rule, a second Otani rule
because of this. So I put out some feelers, and the.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Word is that we have a point of demarcation in baseball,
that we're setting ourselves up for another civil war and
baseball on baseball ownership arguments and so essentially, as it
was explained to me, it's like the Hatfields and the
McCoy's you've got the battle line where the small market teams,

(14:38):
the nicol and dine teams like Tampa Bay and the
Cincinnati Reds and the Pirates and teams like.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
That are infuriated at the Dodgers. This is outrageous, this
is blasphemy. You have used a loophole. This is against
the integrity of the rules on how much you're supposed.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
To spend, and you you're finagling with the salary, the
soft salary cap. So you've got the Brewers, Raised Royals,
teams like that that are all up in arms. But
then on the other side, you've got the Dodgers who
are like, hey, that's a great idea.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
We did it. And then you got teams like.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
The Yankees and the big market teams the Mets, who
are like, wait a minute, this is a great idea.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
We should do more of this.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
And so you've got this battle going on, and the
big market teams are like, hey, we would like the
status quo. This is a great idea because the salary
CAP's going to go up, and sixty eight million seems
like a ton of money to pay. But if the
cap continues to go up, and even though baseball died
a hundred years ago.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
It still does pretty well.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
And it's the same thing that goes on in football
where we talk about I'm a salary cap truther. They
figured out cheat codes in the NFL to get around
the salary cap, and in baseball the Dodgers have figured
it out, and they're not the first to do it.
They figured it out a way you can pay a
guy seven hundred million dollars a year, but really, in
the eyes of Baseball only pay him two millions. So
they want to put another of the small market teams

(16:01):
want to put another Otani rule in to close the gap.
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is the malor riddle of the day. Scouts are apparently
trying to flip Costco blank that sold out hours after
going on sale.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Recently, again, people who are opportunists trying to flip Costco
blank that apparently sold out hours after going on sale.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Recently. That is the Mallard riddle of the day. What
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Speaker 2 (19:24):
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page down Costco hot dogs from ferg Dog. Now you
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Kirkland brand that was from Trucker Joe, Kirkland brand, Squeeze

(20:12):
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(20:37):
courtesy Flusher Fruitcakes. Guess by Ike in Roseville, Minnesota.

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Justin in Cincinnati says he knows the answer because he
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Fields of Green Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie
to the mallor riddle of the day?

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Kirkland brand weed.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Kirkland brand weed. Okay, is that correct? No, it is
not not correct. Scalpers have been trying to flip Costco
golf clubs, golf clubs that sold out hours just hours
after going.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Going for sale.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Here people loving these apparently quite the hot item there,
and they were selling them for four hundred and ninety
nine dollars. But I think the secondary market is selling
them for.

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Much more than that. So anyway, golf clubs is the
answers go to the phones.

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Hello, Jed who fled?

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our buddy, Mike. One of the great Dolphin fans to
call show. This guy Anthony and Anaheim, but he didn't
call the show much. But Mike is a Dolphin fan.
He's been a Dolphin fan since before dolphins existed. Hello,
Mike and Troy, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Mike man once again the Dolphins for the elect and
according they played three good teams Bills, Goals, the Kids,
and che Chiefs and they all God loss and work again.
They should a plane.

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Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Well, the difference is though the Titans are not a
good team. You're right.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
The Dolphins have lost to teams that we perceive to
be good teams, but the Tennessee Titans are not that.
The Tennessee Titans are a team that lost back to
back to Pittsburgh who has no quarterback. In Tampa Bay
that has new court and no quarterback got swept the
Titans did by the Indianapolis Colts lost to the Cleveland

(23:25):
Browns in a blowout earlier this year.

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That was with a creepy quarterback. I can go on
and on if you want. I can go on and
on if you want.

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Mike, Well, you know I heard the word for key.

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You show I like that.

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That's right, all right, Thank you, Troy. You are our
Mike in Troy. Excuse me, Mike called you by the
name of the town you're in. You're right, Luba goal.

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Some quarterback injury news from the NFL charges quarterback Justin
Herbert gonna undergo surgery later today for his fractured right index.

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Fell lasted Eddie for the charges and certainly looks like
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Why play him?

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has been last hour. You tease the story about an
NFL game being lost by a clip wire. You never

(25:55):
told us which game? That is apparently correct. Well, I
blame Kooper loop because he hit my buttons and I
was planning on talking about that, and then Coop wanted
to fight me. He wanted to defend the honor of
that fugazy, ridiculous nonsense stupid banner putting up the Lakers
putting up for a December championship, which is not anyway.

(26:18):
But the answer to the question the Ram Ravens game.
At the end of the game, there were several moments
where the Rams screwed up getting the play in at
a call of timeout, had to burn a time out,
and so the explanation. Now, maybe the Rams are lying here,
but the Rams are claiming that it was technological failure,

(26:41):
that either somebody messed with the communication system for the Rams,
somebody I don't know, maybe sports with Coleman our buddy
in Baltimore ft a round and messed with the technology
and clipped the wire, or or it was the weather.
Or the Rams are lying, But the claim from Sean

(27:01):
McVay and Matthew Stafford is the reason that they screwed
up the play and the clock and all that is
because they couldn't hear that Matthew Stafford couldn't hear. Now,
may we recommend that Matthew Stafford go down to to
Costco get a Kirkland brand hearing aid. We recommend my
dad had that. I got that the last few years.

(27:22):
I were very proud of my dad to wear the
Kirkland brand. Hearing aid there at the end, and so.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
You could you can make that move. You can make
that move as well.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
But anyway, so the rams claiming that they knew what
they were doing, but it was just the technology didn't work.
I don't know that i'd buy that, because wouldn't the
rams have made us stink during the game in the moment.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Saying we can't hear, we can't hear. So it seems
like that I don't know, there's might spinning it to
me because in the heat of battle, you would have
had a Melton kind of like somebody's gonna have here
on this game.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Now, Snailor's mountain of money?

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Do you have what it takes to get to the top?

Speaker 5 (28:14):
Probably not?

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Is Iowa Sam's tribute to Doug Gottlieb there the long pause,
thank you for that, Iowa same.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
He's on Iowa time. So of course I am broadcasting
from home. That might be the problem there. I would
never go into those those studios or those losers.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Anyway. All right, let's play the game right now. Let's
welcome in our contestants.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
We have.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Jed who fled? Who's you want to play? Jed? Yes,
and you know what I said that a dog with
long calls. All right, hold on sec right, let's let's
have Andy. Who's in Venice Beach, in beautiful Venice Beach,

(28:59):
So cal what's going on? Andy?

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Put me in court.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
I'm ready to play.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
You know your stuff there. You're not gonna let us
down here. You got to know your stuff, so much stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I know you have a lot of stuff. You're king
of stuff.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Put me in go with I'm full of stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
You're not gonna circumcise the mosquito? Are you?

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Just stuff me up and let's do it?

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (29:26):
All right, very good, you guys, don't hold hang on
in case one of these guys we you know Jed,
and we might just have to hang up on them.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
You never know, Jed. Who do you want to Who
do you want to partner up with? Jed?

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Hopefully won't hang up on me.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
I'm gonna go with Justin Cooper. Shoot attempting to suck
up to Justin Cooper by having human as changed.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
So yes, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
I don't know if that made no sense.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Andy, you are in Venice Beach, you are going to play?
Who do you want to partner up? With Andy.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
In uh in a loving memory of the greatest game
the NFL scene this year three zero Battle of the
Trenches Defensive Battle.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
We're gold Iowa, Sam, Wow, whoa Eddie?

Speaker 1 (30:12):
We're out, Eddie. We're both out of the game. Eddie.
This is a shocker of the production room. Do you
know Sam? Andy? Are you friends with him in real life?

Speaker 3 (30:24):
We're penpals.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Okay, all right? Well one are the categories here? Coop
as that should be? This should be good. I bite
my fingernails over here.

Speaker 10 (30:33):
This is a Mallards amount of money. The Don Johnson addition,
he turned seventy four years oldest.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
He was so cool forty years ago. Advice man, that's true.

Speaker 10 (30:42):
And the categories are Miami vice, Jingo, unchained, the other
woman and knives out and Jed who fled?

Speaker 1 (30:53):
You were on first? I'm gonna lock him in, Jeed, Jed?
Which one do you want?

Speaker 7 (30:58):
Jed?

Speaker 10 (30:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Like the other woman?

Speaker 9 (31:01):
The other woman?

Speaker 1 (31:02):
All right?

Speaker 9 (31:03):
And Andy? Which category would you like?

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Let's go knives out?

Speaker 1 (31:09):
All right? Okay, hold on, it's a long game.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
We are going to have Malard's amount of money in
its entirety for the rest of the hour, for the
rest I can even, I can leave, right, I don't
need to be here. I mean, I'm not I'm not
playing the game. Okay, so I don't have to be here. No, Iowa,
Sam tells me I have to be here.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I can't leave. He told me he'll call, He'll he'll
rap me out, He'll knarock on me if I leave. Okay,
he'll snitch Malard's mountain of money. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
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Speaker 1 (32:18):
Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Mallor.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
And we get to the game. It's Mallard's Mountain Money
the Don Johnson Edition. The teams are set Jed who
fled with Cooper Loop. Jed who fled is a regular,
but I ain't very regular.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
He's our favorite knucklehead from Florida.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
And we have and.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Take a breath.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Andy, who's in Venice Beach, Famous Venice Beach. He's teamed
up with Iowa Sam and he Coop, you were up first,
witch Keuttery the other woman?

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Is that the correct? These athletes are all known to
have cheated on their wives, cheated on their wives.

Speaker 9 (32:58):
Narrows it down.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Pretty much anybody, anybody in sports. All Right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
We'll put forty five sections on the clock. We need
first and last name. You're on your way go.

Speaker 10 (33:08):
One of the best golfers of all time, Miami heat Star.
He's married to Gabrielle Union.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Join.

Speaker 9 (33:15):
Wait, this guy was the best running back in usc history.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Okay, sentence no. No.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
He was drafted number one overall to the or number
two overall to Norlands Saints. Yes, this guy was a
Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks star.

Speaker 9 (33:35):
His wife's name was La law Pass. Okay. He was
a third baseman for the Atlanta Braves.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
And yes.

Speaker 9 (33:50):
Uh, this guy had like fifteen kids.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Only that's got more than ninety points. Ben, how did
you get Tiger? Was Dwayne Wade, Reggie Bush and Chipper Jones?
All right, so little, that's whatever. That's not that impressive.
That's embarrassing. Oh yeah, yeah, it's embarrassing your math skills.

(34:17):
I'm I'm not used to embarrassing myself. I'm not I'm
concerned about all right, moving on, moving on.

Speaker 9 (34:22):
All right, Andy, let's do this.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Okay, which category did you pick? The knives? All right?

Speaker 2 (34:30):
These sports figures have all committed acts of betrayal.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
There seems to be a theme here. We need first
and last name. Are Are you there?

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Andy?

Speaker 9 (34:38):
You ready to go?

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yes? All right, You're on your way and go all right,
all right, Andy?

Speaker 11 (34:44):
This he was a owner of the uh Cleveland Browns
for many years, and he established the Baltimore Ravens.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Oh god, pat all right?

Speaker 11 (34:52):
This was He was an outfielder for the Boston Red
Sox won a World Series with them. May Or Mirrat
uh no, uh uh white player uh early two thousand?

Speaker 5 (35:04):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (35:09):
All right.

Speaker 11 (35:09):
He was a kicker for the Patriots and the Colts.
One of the best kickers of all time.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Hey, he's on the board. What do you say you
said military got it?

Speaker 9 (35:18):
He's the current co coach of ole Miss football.

Speaker 10 (35:21):
U uh uh.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Us, Yes, wow, I.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
I love it. Yeah, no sense of urgency. No, he's
very he's on IOWA time. Iowa saw about the hardest questions.
So maybe that Art Modell you did not get Art
Modell or Johnny Damon. I didn't know Johnny. I thought
you didn't. Just I can barely hear his things. I
can hear him.

Speaker 11 (35:49):
Doesn't describe Johnny Damon white guy, white outfielder.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
That would be news to uh give him, give him
and they got lang can't then give it to him.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
But wow, look at Jenner or generosity of it was
way after the bell.

Speaker 10 (36:05):
Well, I mean, you know, after Sam's performance, I feel
my performance, I was, we will on your points.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Do you want to double the time because I think
I was saying still would not get it right even
if you double the time gave him. Be nice first
time playing.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
It's not my first time playing. It's not me.

Speaker 11 (36:21):
My partner has to get them from It's not your
first time that you outfield championship for the red size.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Only two thousands. Yeah, you should think of Johnny Damon Imediate.
We have one outfielder in Finway, so that's a stuff here.
No one's listening after that.

Speaker 9 (36:41):
Performance, Andy, do you want jangle and chained or Miami vice?

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Oh? Jingo and.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Good choice with what I was saying, by the way,
and good job.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
All right.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
These sports figures all had notable revenge games or playoff series.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Here we go.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (37:02):
Green Bay Packers quarterback number four won a Super Bowl
in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, greatfar.

Speaker 11 (37:09):
Uh we got a great quarterback for the forty nine
Ers won four Super Bowls.

Speaker 9 (37:16):
Alrighty Uh.

Speaker 11 (37:18):
Coach for the Raiders had the email scandal. We kind
of blacklisted him from Uh Tucky.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
His name is Chucky?

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Got got uh not god.

Speaker 11 (37:27):
Coach for the god Buccaneers. Uh okay, Uh, let's see uh.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Come on one hundred one easy man, let me help
you ask she shoved a Roddy catcher for the Red Sox?

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Who shoved a ry? Where was Joe Montana? I had
we got Joe Montana? Where is that at on my list?
I don't have that on my list.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
I just talked loud, all right?

Speaker 1 (38:00):
What was what was Joe, how many points at twenty alright,
you got thirty quarter, you got one hundred and thirty.
You're actually in the lead somehow, because ten point lead,
forty five seconds on the clock with Miami all born
in Miami.

Speaker 10 (38:17):
You're on your way, Coop go Uh the Bengals wide
receiver that grabbed the pomp poms, Oh doctor, Yep, that's tied.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
This guy is the rookie.

Speaker 9 (38:29):
Quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
He got hurt.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Anthony.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Yes, that's it.

Speaker 10 (38:37):
You would uhi wide receiver for the brown player. They
do that wide receiver for the Browns. He was from
the Raiders. Also, I think he's the same same last
name as me.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
He's giving up. I think I think he's yeah, yeah,
all right. It's hard to run this thing. And the
same excuses exclude out.

Speaker 10 (39:05):
Take the loss like a massive clues you don't have
to hit the hell after each right answer.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
He was the worst clues I've ever heard he gave.
It was so bad.

Speaker 9 (39:13):
White outfielder got those clues.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
That was worse than the Lakers banner they put up
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