April 16, 2024 • 33 mins
Big Ben talks about Yankees broadcaster John Sterling announcing his retirement, Daniel Jones making comments about his status with the Giants leading up to the draft, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Emma Thompson Edition, and more!
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It's it's that amazing. So we're hanging out tyrack dot
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our lead this hour. There's a couple directions I could
have gone. Since I have editorial control at the bully
pulpit here at Fox Sports Radio, I've decided that our
lead is gonna come from the broadcasting world. It's something
I'm interested in. I was told by a boss years ago.
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You know, you just got to talk about things you're
interested in, and then maybe other people will be interested
in it too. But I think it's an interesting store,
and so that's what I'm gonna talk about. The Yankees
played a game on Monday, Fine, whatever, random game. Yankees
will be less Sterling going forward. Now, if you did
not hear, and perhaps perhaps not, John Sterling, the longtime
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voice of the New York Yankees, has decided I'm done.
I'm retiring. It's all over, effective immediately, not effective at
the end of the season, so he can have his
tucks kissed by everyone for the rest of it. No,
he's done. Turn out the last the parties over. So
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let us discuss now the question what do you make
of John Sterling and his sudden retirement from the Yankee
Broadcast booth. This is a local story of New York,
but John Sterling is known across the country. So what
do we make of it. I've got Yiddish, endangered species,
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and big brother, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make spaghetti and meatballs,
which I think is the only thing that Lorena did
not get in her in her dinner with spaghetti and
meat pals. All right, so a uh. The obvious reaction
is like, this is abrupt, all right? This is it
was it was iced tea, it would be brisk iced tea. Right,
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Maybe what are we doing here? Although Sterling certainly is
not broadcast as many Yankee games as he did in
his salad days, and he's he's on a part time
schedule now the Yankees. They reduced role in recent years,
and it's continued this season despite that. You just assumed
he'd be doing it again. Is what you do when
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you're when you're a broadcaster, It's one of those jobs
you can have and as long as you want, you
know'll just bring it back there. Maybe you only do
the home games and all that, but it's more likely
than not that based on what we have heard this
retirement did not go according to script. I didn't think
John Stilling was ever going to retire a right, and
why bother starting the season. We're in mid April. Why
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would you bother starting the season if you're not planning
on finishing the season. So obviously this is an unceremonious situation.
But as an old Yiddish adage goes, man plans and
God laughs. And so John's work, that was his life's passion.
He is what he was into as far as I know,
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that's all He was into it, like watch old TV
shows at night after games, but he really had no
no hobbies. He just loved being a broadcast. He was
into it now. He did do an interview with the
Fan in New York and on WFN. He said the
decision wasn't hard at all, he said, well, being his
normal jolly self, he said it was something that I've
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wanted for a long time, which nobody I know believes.
Clearly something went haywire. I reached out to several people
to try to figure out what was going on here,
and the one thing that I got from the multiple
people that reached out to via text was that Sterling
in a broadcast. I think it was last week completely
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botched a couple of calls, and that that could have
been the sign from the heavens that it was time
to stop, and that inspired the hasty retreat. Now, whether
that's true or not, that's that speculation. But we are
in the speculation business. We are in the speculation business.
Now we were told essentially he had marbles, marbles in
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his mouth, you know, marble's mouth, which you don't want
when you're broadcast. It's a bad problem. And so either way,
this is the end of a run that spanned multiple generations.
John Sterling the voice of the Yankees, from Don Maddingly
and Steve bye By Balboni to Aaron Judge and Juan Soto,
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and it covered the entire run of Bernie Williams and
Paul O'Neill and players like that, back when the Yankees
had their last run of success, of continued success years
and years ago. And so it's all over there. Sterling
had another career prior to getting with the Yankees. He
was a broadcaster for Turner in Atlanta. He called the
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Atlanta Hawks games, among other assignments, before he became the
voice of the Yankees. But he took over as the
voice of the Yankees in nineteen eighty nine. Nineteen eighty
nine was when John Sterling started as the voice of
the Yankees. He would go on to call over five thousand,
four hundred games in the regular season two hundred plus
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postseason games, and this is thirty six season. But he's done.
They're gonna have a little ceremony this weekend and that's it. Nana, Nana,
good bye. So is John Sterling's retirement a big deals
but big enough. I'm talking about it, And a lot
of people will dismiss this, you know, you know the
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crowd that hates old people. Oh, I don't look he's
too old. He's an old fogy. But I don't hate
old people. I like to learn old people, and I
hope to be an old person. Maybe I already am,
so I don't have that vitriol to people that are older.
And I'm pretty fortunate not to go full Pat O'Brien
here and drop a bunch of names. But I got
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to meet a lot of the people that I wanted
to meet when I got into the radio business, because
I was a radio nerd growing up, and so when
I was a kid these old time broadcasters like Harry
Kallis for the Phillies and Harry Carey for the Cubs.
He's bigger than life people. Ernie Harwell with the Tigers.
I had a chance to run across all of those guys,
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all those cats over the years, and so it was
pretty cool. That's pretty cool. And John Sterling was someone
on that and list so you listen, the eighty five
is gonna be eighty six this year. And he had
worked with Susan Waldman Georgie's Girl for all these years.
And fine, good, you know, eighty five and all that.
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But it is a big deal because broadcasters the style
of John Sterling, for better or worse, are an endangered species.
So you have to appreciate and enjoy the art of
the broadcast of a guy like John Sterling, because it
truly is the last of the Mohicans.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He has been over the top on Yankee home run
calls for so long, right, putting on a show in
back we have some of these home run calls that
we have, any of these home run calls, we can
play just a little taste of John Sterling at his peak.
See if you can find one here. We're putting people
on the spot.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
The Grande Man can, yeah, the Grande Man can.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Oh, that's a great one. The Grande Man can.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Used to be a guy legend here at Fox Sports
Radio named Frank Pollock, and Frank was my engineer for
a couple of years, me and Frank. Frank was a
legend here right. Frank was an absolute legend. He was
a Laker engineer with Chick Hearn, the iconic Chick Curn.
So I feel like a broadcasting there. That's a big deal.
So Frank was a guy that I worked with. I
love Frank, and we would do the Yankee rundown when
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the Yankees would hit up. Back in the day there
were Dynasty and you know in the end of the Dynasty,
and then we'd play these different home run calls. Here's
another example. Oh yeah, now listen, full disclosure, truth and broadcasting,
whatever you want to call it. I casually know John Stilling. Now,
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if you told John Sterling who's Ben Mallark, he would
have no idea who I am. But I've met him
our passive cross several times. I have his phone number.
I've had him on my podcast a couple of times
over the years, and He's always been very generous with
his time and whenever I've called them, and I've called
him at really odd hours working the overnight shift here,
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the graveyard shift, and he's always answered the phone, and
he's got that stoic voice, how can I help you that?
And I didn't do it justice, but he's never turned
me down. And we actually had him on the Fifth
Hour Poctast. It seems like it was last year or
two years ago, but it was in the last couple
of years. And I remember the life lesson he gave
(10:14):
me on that podcast. We were talking about the broadcasting
business and I think I had to do a commercial
or something like that. We came up in conversation. I
forget exactly the context, but he said he said, the
most important thing is to sell the soap. Of all
this crap that you do, all the home run calls
and all the nonsense, you got to sell the soap.
That was his line, his little pearl of wisdom that
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I appreciate it, and he listen, he's not dead. It
sounds like a eulogy. He's not dead. He's just not
calling Yankee games anymore. So the other thing. And we'll
close it out on this note. All right, the last
word on this John Sterling heavy Malard monologue. Why is
it so hard to find a good sportscaster? Maybe I'm
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the guy screaming at the cloud, but like a lot
of the younger crowd, I think are terrible and I
end up turning the sound down a lot when I'm
watching games on TV. I watch a game or two
every night, and I usually have the soundown because I
think they're horrific. But my theory on why it is
so hard to find someone who stands out is because
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of the corporate nature of the industrial complex of professional
sports the world we live in now, right, John Sterling
started when you had first generation mom and pop sports ownership.
Ted Turner owned the Atlanta Braves, and John Sterling did
some stuff with the Braves. He owned the Atlanta Hawks.
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George Steinbrenner. Now I know the Steinbrenner family still owns
the Yankees, but it's not the same. It's not the same.
It's it's old family money, that first generations where you
got to get in there, and so it's a different time.
You cannot get that kind of broadcaster today. It's almost impossible.
Now there might be that rare exception to the rule.
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But it's because big Brother wants vanilla, they want humdrum,
they want safe. Don't stand it out from the crowd,
don't rock the boat, don't offend anyone. Fifty shades of gray,
No neon yellow, no neon green, none of that. And
so I appreciate what John Sterling did. He made it
all about him as the voice of the Yankees, and
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he understood what I believe is the most important thing.
I get asked from time to time by he goes, well,
what's the key to doing broadcasting? And what I've always
fought doing sports radio when I start. It's not so
much now anymore, but when I started, it was always
you gotta give the stats. It's all about the information,
and I've always thought that. I've always said, no, it's
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about the entertainment, right, We're just using sports to entertain
So that's what the most important thing is. And John
Sterling got that right. He got that, And he also
benefited from the fact that the Yankees had amazing teams
for a good chunk of his run. Not in the
early nineties when Stump Merrill was around and all that,
but later on in the mid nineties, and so they
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buying should be. Time to get back to the meat
and potatoes of the festivities. Here we go to the
NFL as we are getting a little bit closer to
the NFL Draft. But this is not a NFL draft
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heavy Mallard monologue at least to start. We begin in
the quarterback room as we slowly inch forward towards the
point of demarcation, with trades here, there and everywhere, so
more chatter about changes coming at the quarterback position, a
lot of it involving the g all right, hey gs,
(15:20):
not so giants, not so good giants. Now, if you
haven't been following along because you actually have a life
and you don't pay attention to this stuff, perhaps you've
missed it. An unnamed NFL executive recently suggested that Daniel
Jones these are my words, not his words, is cooked,
that he is cooked in Gotham, which is actually New Jersey,
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not Gotham. But bear with me, all right, So this
unnamed NFL executive said he'd basically be done as a starter.
Daniel Jones. The Giants have always liked Jones more than
anyone else. This, according to this executive, his days are numbered.
As the search continues for the Giants. They have already
(16:04):
started to try to figure out who's gonna replace Daniel Jones.
They were looking at the draft. They have the number
six pick in the draft. So let us discuss the
question where does Daniel Jones sit with the Giants organization.
So I've got fingernails, Pixar and Texas Chainsaw massacre, three
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things that have never been mixed together. We're gonna mix
them together, and we're gonna see what comes out of
the soup. What kind of soup we get out of that?
So number right now, Daniel Jones is sitting at LaGuardia,
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waiting on standby, waiting on stand by, eager for a
seat in the transfer portal. Into the portal you go.
Even the biggest toadies can tell you that things are
not looking particularly good for the long term status of
that stock. That the price of the stock is going down.
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It's about to become a penny stock. And good luck
on that good luck on that, and he's still recovering.
He had his knee shredded and mangled, the knee leg,
the whole thing torn up, So he's recovering from that.
And while he recovers, the Giants are doing a little
window shopping as they are examining the other quarterbacks available
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in the draft. There the number six overall pick wiches
if you're into Kwinkie Dinks, the same number selection the
Giants used to draft the turnberger Daniel Jones, who they
are for some reason gave a contract to after he
had a career year of I believe fifteen touchdown fastes
and they gave him a contract. Oh stupid, are you?
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They're so dumb? But you know Daniel Jones is cooked.
When you go back and look at the body language
of Brian Dable, he wrote ton coach of the Giants,
he gave the look. He gave the look like a
fed up parent that he was just done. Dun Ski's
with Daniel Jones, and the question is which quarterback do
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they have? The puppy dog eyes for inquiring minds would
like to know, But any way you slice it. At
this point in the novel, Daniel Jones Danny Dimes is
holding on to the Giants Gig by his fingernails, and
he has a bad habit of biting his fingernails and
picking at the cuticles, so he's got some issues there. Now.
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Page two, this is where it gets even more bizarre.
So this is more of a visual thing than an
audio thing. But that's never stopped me before, so we'll
do it now. Daniel Jones spoke to random media. A
lot of the teams having their off season workouts. Now, oh,
is how exciting is that? That gets you excited? Right? Yeah?
All right? So anyway, so Daniel Jones spoke with the
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media on Monday. He was asked about the Giants scouting
his replacements. It's an open secret. The Giants are trying
to find someone better than him, which is not that
hard to do, and he gave a boiler plate response.
He said, it's the nature of our business, was the response.
But that is not the story. Don't bury the lead,
(19:23):
my man. All right, that was not the story. It
was the facial expressions that went viral. It's hard for
them not to go viral. Now, I'm gonna try to
describe this for our blind listeners, not that we do
shout outs. But in could terror blind amate the Seahawk
fan the other blind people that have called the show
over the years. So the facial expressions went gaga because Jones,
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I'm gonna describe this the proper way what was going
on with Danny Dimes eyes because the eyes were the
star of the show. He looked like a Pixar character
Buzz Lightyear eating venison, like a deer in the headlights
and a little venice in there. The big eyes, eyes
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opened all the way up and it reminded me of
Adam gaze It's hard not to if you remember Adam
Gasee the Jets coach, when he had the crazy eyes
and it was the same thing. There must be something
in the Tri state area there in New York. It
gives you the crazy eyes. You think it's the Newark
Airport waiting online at the Newark Airport. Maybe that's the problem.
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All right, final point. We now head to Texas speed
Racer and what a story this is. Now two victims.
I don't think we have to say alleged victims because
there's video of this happening, so I don't know we
have to say alleged, But two victims of the high
speed crash involving reigning Super Bowl champion wide receiver from
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Kansas City, Rashie Rice, have sued. They have sued for
ten million dollars. Come on down now. A man and woman,
we are told, have sued Rashie Rice and someone named
Teddy Knox, Theodore Knox that is a wide receiver. We
(21:18):
are told that Southern Messodist Southern Methodist University better known
as SMU. All right, so you've got the players in this.
You've got the man and the woman, you know who
they are. You've got an SMU football player, you probably
don't know who he is either, Teddy Knox. And then
you've got this Rashie Rice. So they're the actors in
this play. So okay, there'll be notes on this letter.
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So they're all involved us in Dallas and the lawsuit
over severe injuries, right, severe injuries that are alleged to
have been suffered at the hands of speed racing by
Rice and Knox. They were racing on the Expressway there
a six car collisions kind of deal. Got a lot
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of talk. So how much trouble here's the question. How
much trouble is chiefs Wide receiver Rashi Rice in over
this street race civil litigation. He's got the criminal and
he's got the civil. So you've heard of, I assume
you've heard of the Texas chainsaw massacre, classic Hollywood flick
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back in the day. Consider this the sequel the Texas
billboard lawyer massacre of your bank account. Because Rice, who
is absolutely ding dong and should have to pay some money. Now,
whether that's ten million dollars or not, that is up
for the court system to decide. But one thing we
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know for sure, the ambulance chasing attorneys have checked in
on this and they are so horny to get that money.
And why not. That's what they do right this is
this is a chance for them to siphon money out
of directly the wall of Rashie Rice. The suit. I
read the suit. It said that the man and woman
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suffered trauma. Among the allegations are trauma to the brain,
lacerations to the face requiring stitches. That's like a cut,
multiple contusions, that's a bruise about the body, disfigurement disfigurement
hello nan nan ning, internal bleeding, and other internal and
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external injuries that may only be fully revealed throughout medical treatment,
ongoing medical treatment. So even though Rice was going one
hundred and nineteen miles an hour, well everyone else was
driving fifty miles an hour street racing, leaving the scene.
The key part of all of that, the key part
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of all that, in order to win a big payout,
this is one thing I've picked up from years of
doing this job. And athletes get sued up the wazoo
all the time because they've got a lot of money.
And one thing I've picked up, and this is not
just for athletes but anyone in general, is in order
to win a giant amount of money in a personal
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injury case, car accident, slip and fall, whatever it might be,
in order to win a lot of money, you need disfigurement.
You need the hand to be chopped off. You need
if you lose your head, you're gonna make a lot
of money. If you lose your head, missing finger, big money,
big money. And a missing finger. You lose a toe,
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that's a little bit of money, lose a foot that's
a lot of money. That's a whole lot of money.
Otherwise you're gonna get peanuts. Because the argument's going to be, well, listen,
we'll give you some pain and suffering, but you're gonna
be fine. And bruises heel, cuts heel, But if you
lose your hand, that doesn't grow back unless there's some
kind of lizard and then maybe it'll grow back. Maybe,
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But that the komodo dragon in the room. With this
Rashi Rice law suit story is the fact that he's
not making ridonculous money, like he didn't have the money.
Even if he were to lose a ten million dollar judgment,
how are you going to collect the money? Cause he's
on a rookie contract, a four year contract for three
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and a half million dollars guaranteed. There's some other money there,
but the guaranteed portions three and a half million, which
is a good amount of money, but it ain't ten million,
so you're not you're not gonna be able to get
that amount of money. Now, they're banking on the fact
that he's gonna go out and make a lot of money,
so they would assume I assume the position they the
lawyer does not want the criminal charges to stick. The
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I think it was a six to eight charges against
Rashie Rice, so they want that to go away. It
likely will be pleded down. Usually they overcharge people like
this and then they plead down to a lesser charge.
And he doesn't have a criminal record as far as
we know, and so it's likely not going to be
that big a deal. But there are some felonies and
that's that is a big deal. But just send a
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nice donation to some organization and your problems will go away.
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How about that?
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To the third degree, this is one big event, gets Graillo.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
A lot of people on social media are poking fun
at the first round matchup between the Cleveland Cavaliers and
the Orlando Magic, calling it an NBA TV series. Now,
benh Yeah, is that the least compelling of the first
round playoff matchups?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Oh, there's a lot of crap coop in the first
round that's not gonna make particularly great television. Cleveland Orlando's bad,
But I argue the the Milwaukee Indiana series not that compelling.
Neither's Minnesota in Phoenix in terms of national appeal and
all that, there's a lot of bad matchups.
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Next, speaking to the media, On Sunday, DeVante Adams was
asked about the rumblings that he could seek a trade.
He said, if I wanted to be gone, i'd be
gone by now. This is where I want to be.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
So does that put an end to the chatter? No,
of course not.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You know how this works cool because he's gonna have
a hissy fit. He's gonna have a meltdown over something.
The Raiders will lose a game here or there, assuming
he makes it to the season, and so there's always
as long as Aaron Rodgers is with the Jets, there's
always the possibility he's gonna go somewhere else. So he
will not only play for the Raiders Devonte Adams the
rest of his career.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Next, Andrew McCutchen hit his three hundredth home run on Sunday,
but he also became only the thirteenth player in history
with two thousand hits, four hundred doubles, forty five triples,
three hundred home runs, and two hundred stolen bass of Ben,
how is his Hall of Fame case looking as of
right now?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He's a good player, He's not a Hall of Famer.
He like reminds me like Chilie Davis, good player, not
a Hall of famer. A Sean Green, good player, not
a Hall of Famer. How do we know you passed that?
Speaker 7 (27:46):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I won? Like those rims, I won. I got player,
ribs and potato.
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Hey, we play the game right now? Is walcome in
our contestants. We are short on time, so we'll get
right to the game. We say hello to Kelly Donut Kelly,
Hello Kelly and Nashville. Hi, Ben, Hello Kelly. Who do
you want to partner with? Kelly? With Kelly? You got
me Ben, Eddie or Coop?
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Now then I'm going with you?
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Good, we're gonna win. That's fine. Eric, you're gonna lose.
You're in Indiana. Eric, you want to play with Eddie
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I'm gonna go with Eddie, all right.
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Well that's fine. That's a bad choice, but that's all right. Oh, boy,
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He's fine, don't worry.
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Guy's got a real job. Ed, okay, game, all right,
here we go. Cool. What are the categories here?
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This is the Emma Thompson edition. The actress turned sixty
five on Monday, happy Birthday. The categories are Henry the Fifth,
in the Name of the Father, Nanny McPhee, and I
Am Legend.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Kelly, you were on the air first, which category would
you like in the name of the Father?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
In the name of the Father, I believe, she said,
all right, very good, And what about you.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Eric, let's go.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Okay, no idea.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Do you want Henry the Fifth, Nanny McPhee or I
am Legend end?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
All right, okay, all right, we'll put in the name
of the Father, Kelly, are you ready here? We'll put
Eric on holds because he's got a lot on noise,
but don't hang up. Eric's go all right, here we go, Kelly.
Forty five second o'clock. These athletes all have children that
followed in their footsteps. Prime Time the Colorado coach coach
of the Milwaukee Bucks. Uh, he's a yes, known as
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the Glove for the SuperSonics back in the day. Yeah,
you better get that one right, big center from Russia
for the Portland Trailblazers. His son is a star for
the Sacramento Kings right now, Russians. No, how about the
center for the Lakers in the eighties? Is his son
is Steph Curry's running mate with the Golden State Warriors
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Thompson's chests. Well that's not He's probably called dad. But no,
how about star Slugger? I feel like that clock.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Started early, Eddie, It did start early.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That's bullcraft. Start the timer forty. I'm getting screwed over here.
She's got so many ribs and belly here.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
I guess the good news for you? Ben is another
guy hung up?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Oh he did?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
How is that good news for him? That's good news
for me.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
We could just take whoever is online three. It'd be
a mystery man.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Let me guess, Jed who fled?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Let's see here, I'll take him.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Actually, hello, line three, you're back only one. You gotta
play with the guys. On ahead, Let's see what you got, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Come on all right, James, James, your category is I
am legend?
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
These athletes all recently got elected to the Hall of Fame.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin, You better get
this one.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Hall of Fame catcher for the Twins from Minnesota. Hall
of Fame catcher for the Twins.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
He was, he grew up in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
He gets you from the late eighties, early nineties.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Who's the Hall of Famer recently from the Twins?
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Holler and James, Yes, so good.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
If he can't get that one, he can't get it,
don't give up. Eddie Holl Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Rocky Slugger played quarterback at Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I'm Rady. Joe Mower. It's Joe Moweur, you idiots, not
Joe Mower. It's the Native Soda Minnesota all it doesn't matter.
He's from Saint Paul. Listen, go again, you got I
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want to hear more of this, James, You want Joe
want Nanny McPhee or Henry Henry the Fifth?
Speaker 6 (32:42):
James, which category do you want? Do you want Henry
the Fifth or Nanny McPhee?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
All right, this would be very easy.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
These these athletes all war number five. All right, James,
these athletes All War number five forty five seconds again.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
James, what's my last name? Okay, this former quarterback of
the forty nine ers has the same last name as me.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh what, who got it? Jose Garcia? He also Jose Barca.
That is not any parts for us. We did not
get shutouts. That is a lie, Jeff Garcia. You like
we won, Kelly, we won. We beat two people the
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same time. I'll get that. I don't believe
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our lead this hour. There's a couple directions I could
have gone. Since I have editorial control at the bully
pulpit here at Fox Sports Radio, I've decided that our
lead is gonna come from the broadcasting world. It's something
I'm interested in. I was told by a boss years ago.
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You know, you just got to talk about things you're
interested in, and then maybe other people will be interested
in it too. But I think it's an interesting store,
and so that's what I'm gonna talk about. The Yankees
played a game on Monday, Fine, whatever, random game. Yankees
will be less Sterling going forward. Now, if you did
not hear, and perhaps perhaps not, John Sterling, the longtime
(02:18):
voice of the New York Yankees, has decided I'm done.
I'm retiring. It's all over, effective immediately, not effective at
the end of the season, so he can have his
tucks kissed by everyone for the rest of it. No,
he's done. Turn out the last the parties over. So
(02:40):
let us discuss now the question what do you make
of John Sterling and his sudden retirement from the Yankee
Broadcast booth. This is a local story of New York,
but John Sterling is known across the country. So what
do we make of it. I've got Yiddish, endangered species,
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and big brother, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make spaghetti and meatballs,
which I think is the only thing that Lorena did
not get in her in her dinner with spaghetti and
meat pals. All right, so a uh. The obvious reaction
is like, this is abrupt, all right? This is it
was it was iced tea, it would be brisk iced tea. Right,
(03:22):
Maybe what are we doing here? Although Sterling certainly is
not broadcast as many Yankee games as he did in
his salad days, and he's he's on a part time
schedule now the Yankees. They reduced role in recent years,
and it's continued this season despite that. You just assumed
he'd be doing it again. Is what you do when
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you're when you're a broadcaster, It's one of those jobs
you can have and as long as you want, you
know'll just bring it back there. Maybe you only do
the home games and all that, but it's more likely
than not that based on what we have heard this
retirement did not go according to script. I didn't think
John Stilling was ever going to retire a right, and
why bother starting the season. We're in mid April. Why
(04:06):
would you bother starting the season if you're not planning
on finishing the season. So obviously this is an unceremonious situation.
But as an old Yiddish adage goes, man plans and
God laughs. And so John's work, that was his life's passion.
He is what he was into as far as I know,
(04:27):
that's all He was into it, like watch old TV
shows at night after games, but he really had no
no hobbies. He just loved being a broadcast. He was
into it now. He did do an interview with the
Fan in New York and on WFN. He said the
decision wasn't hard at all, he said, well, being his
normal jolly self, he said it was something that I've
(04:47):
wanted for a long time, which nobody I know believes.
Clearly something went haywire. I reached out to several people
to try to figure out what was going on here,
and the one thing that I got from the multiple
people that reached out to via text was that Sterling
in a broadcast. I think it was last week completely
(05:07):
botched a couple of calls, and that that could have
been the sign from the heavens that it was time
to stop, and that inspired the hasty retreat. Now, whether
that's true or not, that's that speculation. But we are
in the speculation business. We are in the speculation business.
Now we were told essentially he had marbles, marbles in
(05:29):
his mouth, you know, marble's mouth, which you don't want
when you're broadcast. It's a bad problem. And so either way,
this is the end of a run that spanned multiple generations.
John Sterling the voice of the Yankees, from Don Maddingly
and Steve bye By Balboni to Aaron Judge and Juan Soto,
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and it covered the entire run of Bernie Williams and
Paul O'Neill and players like that, back when the Yankees
had their last run of success, of continued success years
and years ago. And so it's all over there. Sterling
had another career prior to getting with the Yankees. He
was a broadcaster for Turner in Atlanta. He called the
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Atlanta Hawks games, among other assignments, before he became the
voice of the Yankees. But he took over as the
voice of the Yankees in nineteen eighty nine. Nineteen eighty
nine was when John Sterling started as the voice of
the Yankees. He would go on to call over five thousand,
four hundred games in the regular season two hundred plus
(06:31):
postseason games, and this is thirty six season. But he's done.
They're gonna have a little ceremony this weekend and that's it. Nana, Nana,
good bye. So is John Sterling's retirement a big deals
but big enough. I'm talking about it, And a lot
of people will dismiss this, you know, you know the
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crowd that hates old people. Oh, I don't look he's
too old. He's an old fogy. But I don't hate
old people. I like to learn old people, and I
hope to be an old person. Maybe I already am,
so I don't have that vitriol to people that are older.
And I'm pretty fortunate not to go full Pat O'Brien
here and drop a bunch of names. But I got
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to meet a lot of the people that I wanted
to meet when I got into the radio business, because
I was a radio nerd growing up, and so when
I was a kid these old time broadcasters like Harry
Kallis for the Phillies and Harry Carey for the Cubs.
He's bigger than life people. Ernie Harwell with the Tigers.
I had a chance to run across all of those guys,
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all those cats over the years, and so it was
pretty cool. That's pretty cool. And John Sterling was someone
on that and list so you listen, the eighty five
is gonna be eighty six this year. And he had
worked with Susan Waldman Georgie's Girl for all these years.
And fine, good, you know, eighty five and all that.
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But it is a big deal because broadcasters the style
of John Sterling, for better or worse, are an endangered species.
So you have to appreciate and enjoy the art of
the broadcast of a guy like John Sterling, because it
truly is the last of the Mohicans.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He has been over the top on Yankee home run
calls for so long, right, putting on a show in
back we have some of these home run calls that
we have, any of these home run calls, we can
play just a little taste of John Sterling at his peak.
See if you can find one here. We're putting people
on the spot.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
The Grande Man can, yeah, the Grande Man can.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Oh, that's a great one. The Grande Man can.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Used to be a guy legend here at Fox Sports
Radio named Frank Pollock, and Frank was my engineer for
a couple of years, me and Frank. Frank was a
legend here right. Frank was an absolute legend. He was
a Laker engineer with Chick Hearn, the iconic Chick Curn.
So I feel like a broadcasting there. That's a big deal.
So Frank was a guy that I worked with. I
love Frank, and we would do the Yankee rundown when
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the Yankees would hit up. Back in the day there
were Dynasty and you know in the end of the Dynasty,
and then we'd play these different home run calls. Here's
another example. Oh yeah, now listen, full disclosure, truth and broadcasting,
whatever you want to call it. I casually know John Stilling. Now,
(09:27):
if you told John Sterling who's Ben Mallark, he would
have no idea who I am. But I've met him
our passive cross several times. I have his phone number.
I've had him on my podcast a couple of times
over the years, and He's always been very generous with
his time and whenever I've called them, and I've called
him at really odd hours working the overnight shift here,
(09:50):
the graveyard shift, and he's always answered the phone, and
he's got that stoic voice, how can I help you that?
And I didn't do it justice, but he's never turned
me down. And we actually had him on the Fifth
Hour Poctast. It seems like it was last year or
two years ago, but it was in the last couple
of years. And I remember the life lesson he gave
(10:14):
me on that podcast. We were talking about the broadcasting
business and I think I had to do a commercial
or something like that. We came up in conversation. I
forget exactly the context, but he said he said, the
most important thing is to sell the soap. Of all
this crap that you do, all the home run calls
and all the nonsense, you got to sell the soap.
That was his line, his little pearl of wisdom that
(10:37):
I appreciate it, and he listen, he's not dead. It
sounds like a eulogy. He's not dead. He's just not
calling Yankee games anymore. So the other thing. And we'll
close it out on this note. All right, the last
word on this John Sterling heavy Malard monologue. Why is
it so hard to find a good sportscaster? Maybe I'm
(10:58):
the guy screaming at the cloud, but like a lot
of the younger crowd, I think are terrible and I
end up turning the sound down a lot when I'm
watching games on TV. I watch a game or two
every night, and I usually have the soundown because I
think they're horrific. But my theory on why it is
so hard to find someone who stands out is because
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of the corporate nature of the industrial complex of professional
sports the world we live in now, right, John Sterling
started when you had first generation mom and pop sports ownership.
Ted Turner owned the Atlanta Braves, and John Sterling did
some stuff with the Braves. He owned the Atlanta Hawks.
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George Steinbrenner. Now I know the Steinbrenner family still owns
the Yankees, but it's not the same. It's not the same.
It's it's old family money, that first generations where you
got to get in there, and so it's a different time.
You cannot get that kind of broadcaster today. It's almost impossible.
Now there might be that rare exception to the rule.
(12:03):
But it's because big Brother wants vanilla, they want humdrum,
they want safe. Don't stand it out from the crowd,
don't rock the boat, don't offend anyone. Fifty shades of gray,
No neon yellow, no neon green, none of that. And
so I appreciate what John Sterling did. He made it
all about him as the voice of the Yankees, and
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he understood what I believe is the most important thing.
I get asked from time to time by he goes, well,
what's the key to doing broadcasting? And what I've always
fought doing sports radio when I start. It's not so
much now anymore, but when I started, it was always
you gotta give the stats. It's all about the information,
and I've always thought that. I've always said, no, it's
(12:47):
about the entertainment, right, We're just using sports to entertain
So that's what the most important thing is. And John
Sterling got that right. He got that, And he also
benefited from the fact that the Yankees had amazing teams
for a good chunk of his run. Not in the
early nineties when Stump Merrill was around and all that,
but later on in the mid nineties, and so they
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and potatoes of the festivities. Here we go to the
NFL as we are getting a little bit closer to
the NFL Draft. But this is not a NFL draft
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heavy Mallard monologue at least to start. We begin in
the quarterback room as we slowly inch forward towards the
point of demarcation, with trades here, there and everywhere, so
more chatter about changes coming at the quarterback position, a
lot of it involving the g all right, hey gs,
(15:20):
not so giants, not so good giants. Now, if you
haven't been following along because you actually have a life
and you don't pay attention to this stuff, perhaps you've
missed it. An unnamed NFL executive recently suggested that Daniel
Jones these are my words, not his words, is cooked,
that he is cooked in Gotham, which is actually New Jersey,
(15:41):
not Gotham. But bear with me, all right, So this
unnamed NFL executive said he'd basically be done as a starter.
Daniel Jones. The Giants have always liked Jones more than
anyone else. This, according to this executive, his days are numbered.
As the search continues for the Giants. They have already
(16:04):
started to try to figure out who's gonna replace Daniel Jones.
They were looking at the draft. They have the number
six pick in the draft. So let us discuss the
question where does Daniel Jones sit with the Giants organization.
So I've got fingernails, Pixar and Texas Chainsaw massacre, three
(16:27):
things that have never been mixed together. We're gonna mix
them together, and we're gonna see what comes out of
the soup. What kind of soup we get out of that?
So number right now, Daniel Jones is sitting at LaGuardia,
(16:48):
waiting on standby, waiting on stand by, eager for a
seat in the transfer portal. Into the portal you go.
Even the biggest toadies can tell you that things are
not looking particularly good for the long term status of
that stock. That the price of the stock is going down.
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It's about to become a penny stock. And good luck
on that good luck on that, and he's still recovering.
He had his knee shredded and mangled, the knee leg,
the whole thing torn up, So he's recovering from that.
And while he recovers, the Giants are doing a little
window shopping as they are examining the other quarterbacks available
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in the draft. There the number six overall pick wiches
if you're into Kwinkie Dinks, the same number selection the
Giants used to draft the turnberger Daniel Jones, who they
are for some reason gave a contract to after he
had a career year of I believe fifteen touchdown fastes
and they gave him a contract. Oh stupid, are you?
(17:56):
They're so dumb? But you know Daniel Jones is cooked.
When you go back and look at the body language
of Brian Dable, he wrote ton coach of the Giants,
he gave the look. He gave the look like a
fed up parent that he was just done. Dun Ski's
with Daniel Jones, and the question is which quarterback do
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they have? The puppy dog eyes for inquiring minds would
like to know, But any way you slice it. At
this point in the novel, Daniel Jones Danny Dimes is
holding on to the Giants Gig by his fingernails, and
he has a bad habit of biting his fingernails and
picking at the cuticles, so he's got some issues there. Now.
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Page two, this is where it gets even more bizarre.
So this is more of a visual thing than an
audio thing. But that's never stopped me before, so we'll
do it now. Daniel Jones spoke to random media. A
lot of the teams having their off season workouts. Now, oh,
is how exciting is that? That gets you excited? Right? Yeah?
All right? So anyway, so Daniel Jones spoke with the
(19:02):
media on Monday. He was asked about the Giants scouting
his replacements. It's an open secret. The Giants are trying
to find someone better than him, which is not that
hard to do, and he gave a boiler plate response.
He said, it's the nature of our business, was the response.
But that is not the story. Don't bury the lead,
(19:23):
my man. All right, that was not the story. It
was the facial expressions that went viral. It's hard for
them not to go viral. Now, I'm gonna try to
describe this for our blind listeners, not that we do
shout outs. But in could terror blind amate the Seahawk
fan the other blind people that have called the show
over the years. So the facial expressions went gaga because Jones,
(19:49):
I'm gonna describe this the proper way what was going
on with Danny Dimes eyes because the eyes were the
star of the show. He looked like a Pixar character
Buzz Lightyear eating venison, like a deer in the headlights
and a little venice in there. The big eyes, eyes
(20:13):
opened all the way up and it reminded me of
Adam gaze It's hard not to if you remember Adam
Gasee the Jets coach, when he had the crazy eyes
and it was the same thing. There must be something
in the Tri state area there in New York. It
gives you the crazy eyes. You think it's the Newark
Airport waiting online at the Newark Airport. Maybe that's the problem.
(20:34):
All right, final point. We now head to Texas speed
Racer and what a story this is. Now two victims.
I don't think we have to say alleged victims because
there's video of this happening, so I don't know we
have to say alleged, But two victims of the high
speed crash involving reigning Super Bowl champion wide receiver from
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Kansas City, Rashie Rice, have sued. They have sued for
ten million dollars. Come on down now. A man and woman,
we are told, have sued Rashie Rice and someone named
Teddy Knox, Theodore Knox that is a wide receiver. We
(21:18):
are told that Southern Messodist Southern Methodist University better known
as SMU. All right, so you've got the players in this.
You've got the man and the woman, you know who
they are. You've got an SMU football player, you probably
don't know who he is either, Teddy Knox. And then
you've got this Rashie Rice. So they're the actors in
this play. So okay, there'll be notes on this letter.
(21:38):
So they're all involved us in Dallas and the lawsuit
over severe injuries, right, severe injuries that are alleged to
have been suffered at the hands of speed racing by
Rice and Knox. They were racing on the Expressway there
a six car collisions kind of deal. Got a lot
(22:00):
of talk. So how much trouble here's the question. How
much trouble is chiefs Wide receiver Rashi Rice in over
this street race civil litigation. He's got the criminal and
he's got the civil. So you've heard of, I assume
you've heard of the Texas chainsaw massacre, classic Hollywood flick
(22:22):
back in the day. Consider this the sequel the Texas
billboard lawyer massacre of your bank account. Because Rice, who
is absolutely ding dong and should have to pay some money. Now,
whether that's ten million dollars or not, that is up
for the court system to decide. But one thing we
(22:45):
know for sure, the ambulance chasing attorneys have checked in
on this and they are so horny to get that money.
And why not. That's what they do right this is
this is a chance for them to siphon money out
of directly the wall of Rashie Rice. The suit. I
read the suit. It said that the man and woman
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suffered trauma. Among the allegations are trauma to the brain,
lacerations to the face requiring stitches. That's like a cut,
multiple contusions, that's a bruise about the body, disfigurement disfigurement
hello nan nan ning, internal bleeding, and other internal and
(23:26):
external injuries that may only be fully revealed throughout medical treatment,
ongoing medical treatment. So even though Rice was going one
hundred and nineteen miles an hour, well everyone else was
driving fifty miles an hour street racing, leaving the scene.
The key part of all of that, the key part
(23:48):
of all that, in order to win a big payout,
this is one thing I've picked up from years of
doing this job. And athletes get sued up the wazoo
all the time because they've got a lot of money.
And one thing I've picked up, and this is not
just for athletes but anyone in general, is in order
to win a giant amount of money in a personal
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injury case, car accident, slip and fall, whatever it might be,
in order to win a lot of money, you need disfigurement.
You need the hand to be chopped off. You need
if you lose your head, you're gonna make a lot
of money. If you lose your head, missing finger, big money,
big money. And a missing finger. You lose a toe,
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that's a little bit of money, lose a foot that's
a lot of money. That's a whole lot of money.
Otherwise you're gonna get peanuts. Because the argument's going to be, well, listen,
we'll give you some pain and suffering, but you're gonna
be fine. And bruises heel, cuts heel, But if you
lose your hand, that doesn't grow back unless there's some
kind of lizard and then maybe it'll grow back. Maybe,
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But that the komodo dragon in the room. With this
Rashi Rice law suit story is the fact that he's
not making ridonculous money, like he didn't have the money.
Even if he were to lose a ten million dollar judgment,
how are you going to collect the money? Cause he's
on a rookie contract, a four year contract for three
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and a half million dollars guaranteed. There's some other money there,
but the guaranteed portions three and a half million, which
is a good amount of money, but it ain't ten million,
so you're not you're not gonna be able to get
that amount of money. Now, they're banking on the fact
that he's gonna go out and make a lot of money,
so they would assume I assume the position they the
lawyer does not want the criminal charges to stick. The
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I think it was a six to eight charges against
Rashie Rice, so they want that to go away. It
likely will be pleded down. Usually they overcharge people like
this and then they plead down to a lesser charge.
And he doesn't have a criminal record as far as
we know, and so it's likely not going to be
that big a deal. But there are some felonies and
that's that is a big deal. But just send a
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nice donation to some organization and your problems will go away.
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Speaker 1 (26:11):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
To the third degree, this is one big event, gets Graillo.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
A lot of people on social media are poking fun
at the first round matchup between the Cleveland Cavaliers and
the Orlando Magic, calling it an NBA TV series. Now,
benh Yeah, is that the least compelling of the first
round playoff matchups?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Oh, there's a lot of crap coop in the first
round that's not gonna make particularly great television. Cleveland Orlando's bad,
But I argue the the Milwaukee Indiana series not that compelling.
Neither's Minnesota in Phoenix in terms of national appeal and
all that, there's a lot of bad matchups.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Next, speaking to the media, On Sunday, DeVante Adams was
asked about the rumblings that he could seek a trade.
He said, if I wanted to be gone, i'd be
gone by now. This is where I want to be.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
So does that put an end to the chatter? No,
of course not.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You know how this works cool because he's gonna have
a hissy fit. He's gonna have a meltdown over something.
The Raiders will lose a game here or there, assuming
he makes it to the season, and so there's always
as long as Aaron Rodgers is with the Jets, there's
always the possibility he's gonna go somewhere else. So he
will not only play for the Raiders Devonte Adams the
rest of his career.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Next, Andrew McCutchen hit his three hundredth home run on Sunday,
but he also became only the thirteenth player in history
with two thousand hits, four hundred doubles, forty five triples,
three hundred home runs, and two hundred stolen bass of Ben,
how is his Hall of Fame case looking as of
right now?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He's a good player, He's not a Hall of Famer.
He like reminds me like Chilie Davis, good player, not
a Hall of famer. A Sean Green, good player, not
a Hall of Famer. How do we know you passed that?
Speaker 7 (27:46):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I won? Like those rims, I won. I got player,
ribs and potato.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
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Probably not.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Hey, we play the game right now? Is walcome in
our contestants. We are short on time, so we'll get
right to the game. We say hello to Kelly Donut Kelly,
Hello Kelly and Nashville. Hi, Ben, Hello Kelly. Who do
you want to partner with? Kelly? With Kelly? You got
me Ben, Eddie or Coop?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Now then I'm going with you?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Good, we're gonna win. That's fine. Eric, you're gonna lose.
You're in Indiana. Eric, you want to play with Eddie
as your teammate or Coop?
Speaker 5 (28:40):
I'm gonna go with Eddie, all right.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Well that's fine. That's a bad choice, but that's all right. Oh, boy,
there's a lot of ambient noise.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Can I pick somebody else to hear us?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
He's fine, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Guy's got a real job. Ed, okay, game, all right,
here we go. Cool. What are the categories here?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
All right?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
This is the Emma Thompson edition. The actress turned sixty
five on Monday, happy Birthday. The categories are Henry the Fifth,
in the Name of the Father, Nanny McPhee, and I
Am Legend.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Kelly, you were on the air first, which category would
you like in the name of the Father?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
In the name of the Father, I believe, she said,
all right, very good, And what about you.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Eric, let's go.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Okay, no idea.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Do you want Henry the Fifth, Nanny McPhee or I
am Legend end?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
All right, okay, all right, we'll put in the name
of the Father, Kelly, are you ready here? We'll put
Eric on holds because he's got a lot on noise,
but don't hang up. Eric's go all right, here we go, Kelly.
Forty five second o'clock. These athletes all have children that
followed in their footsteps. Prime Time the Colorado coach coach
of the Milwaukee Bucks. Uh, he's a yes, known as
(30:01):
the Glove for the SuperSonics back in the day. Yeah,
you better get that one right, big center from Russia
for the Portland Trailblazers. His son is a star for
the Sacramento Kings right now, Russians. No, how about the
center for the Lakers in the eighties? Is his son
is Steph Curry's running mate with the Golden State Warriors
(30:27):
Thompson's chests. Well that's not He's probably called dad. But no,
how about star Slugger? I feel like that clock.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
Started early, Eddie, It did start early.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That's bullcraft. Start the timer forty. I'm getting screwed over here.
She's got so many ribs and belly here.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
I guess the good news for you? Ben is another
guy hung up?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Oh he did?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
How is that good news for him? That's good news
for me.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
We could just take whoever is online three. It'd be
a mystery man.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Let me guess, Jed who fled?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Let's see here, I'll take him.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Actually, hello, line three, you're back only one. You gotta
play with the guys. On ahead, Let's see what you got, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Come on all right, James, James, your category is I
am legend?
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
These athletes all recently got elected to the Hall of Fame.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin, You better get
this one.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Hall of Fame catcher for the Twins from Minnesota. Hall
of Fame catcher for the Twins.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
He was, he grew up in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
He gets you from the late eighties, early nineties.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Who's the Hall of Famer recently from the Twins?
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Holler and James, Yes, so good.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
If he can't get that one, he can't get it,
don't give up. Eddie Holl Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Rocky Slugger played quarterback at Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I'm Rady. Joe Mower. It's Joe Moweur, you idiots, not
Joe Mower. It's the Native Soda Minnesota all it doesn't matter.
He's from Saint Paul. Listen, go again, you got I
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want to hear more of this, James, You want Joe
want Nanny McPhee or Henry Henry the Fifth?
Speaker 6 (32:42):
James, which category do you want? Do you want Henry
the Fifth or Nanny McPhee?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
All right, this would be very easy.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
These these athletes all war number five. All right, James,
these athletes All War number five forty five seconds again.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
James, what's my last name? Okay, this former quarterback of
the forty nine ers has the same last name as me.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh what, who got it? Jose Garcia? He also Jose Barca.
That is not any parts for us. We did not
get shutouts. That is a lie, Jeff Garcia. You like
we won, Kelly, we won. We beat two people the
(33:34):
same time. I'll get that. I don't believe
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