Hour 3 - Polar Bear Plunge

Ben Maller talks about how Pete Alonso's future is looking with the Mets, what happened to Mets closer Edwin Diaz, if the Braves need to make a move for a starter, Insta-Advice Line for Spike Lee, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's the original recipe Our numb birth
three talking bass Ball Here an hour number three and
the story out of New York at a flushing How
is Pete Alonzo's future looking with the Mets? How are
things looking there? Report recently that he turned down a

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massive contract from the Metropolitans. Also, what happened to the
Mets closer Edwin Diaz? He has been demoted to the Braves,
need to make a move for a starting pitcher and
his former Angels infielder David Fletcher being tied to the
Otani bookmaker something or nothing. We'll talk about all that
and more. Give it up for our number three. You

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can call it the Polar Bear Plunge, if you will.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Mahler Show.

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Speaker 1 (01:38):
In Massolmickey thinks that the Celtics could beat the Pacers
ten thousand times in a row, but all they have
to do is win four to advance. Is that is
the Eastern Conference final in basketball, and the Western has Minnesota.
More on that coming up in a bit. Minnesota goes
to Denver and wintle the road teams to and zero.
But our lead this hour from them? Why not? The

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Major League Baseball twib notes this week in Baseball, and
we start out in Flushing Queen's chatter over the weekend
about the Mets that they had engaged with slugger pen Alonzo,
the Polar Bear, regarding a long term contract extension. Peter
Alonzo normally at his best at the home Run Derby,

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the midseason home run Derby. The Mets made an offer
through Alonzo's agent for seven years, one hundred and fifty
eight million dead presidents. Now I would have taken the contract.
You would have taken the contract. You know who didn't
take the contract, Pi Alonzo, he said, FOOI on the

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contract day, I'm not taking you money. So he turned
on seven years, one hundred and fifty eight million dollars.
He's currently batting in the two twenties on pace to
have middling stats for the Metropolitans. Peter Alonzo at this
moment on pace at thirty five home runs, which is
not that impressive when every time he goes to home
plate he tries to hit a home run and eighty

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one RBIs he's on pace for that. So Pete Alonso
not playing particularly well for the Mets. But the big
story here is again he turned down one hundred and
fifty eight million dollar contract. A deal was not reached.
The Mets are looking like they're going to lose the
Polar Bear in free agency at the end of the
twenty twenty four season before the twenty twenty five seasons.

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So let us discuss the question, how is Pete Alonzo's
long term future looking both financially and with the Mets.
So I've got Virgin Atlantic, Joe Rogan, and Woods and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a piece of red meat right

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in the polar Bear's den red Meat. So, first of all,
to answer the question, how are things looking for Pete
Alonso long term and all so with the Mets. With
the Mets, it's very foggy right now. It's very very foggy,
peace soup fog. Financially, it's also not looking great because
we saw in the last year a bunch of big

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name free agents have to settle for one year contracts
or one year contracts with an option. And it's not
like Pete Alonso. Anything that he does is out of
this world, right Peter A. Lonzo is a guy that
goes up every time and tries to hit a home run.
That's it, that's all. And I know that's still in
vogue in baseball. I get that, But still, Sully, you

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can't find guys to go up there and swing from
their heels and try to hit over Now, he's a
little better than most of those guys. I get that.
I'm not naive to that fact. But the fact that
the story got leaked to the tabloids in New York
over the weekend that Alonzo turned down one hundred and
fifty eight million dollar contract to me on this side
of the microphone That is a dead That is a

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dead giveaway because think of it like version Atlantic. You're
on a flight, you're leaving JFK or I don't even
know if they fly into La Guardi, but you're leaving
JFK version of Atlantic, and the pilot gets on the
PA system on the plane and says flight attendants prepare
for takeoff. That's essentially what the Mets ownership is doing

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by leaking this story to the tabloids. The Mets are
preparing the guys on Long Island, the people that love
the Mets, preparing them for the pending departure of Peter Alonzo,
whether he goes to the Cubbies and does the Chubby
Cubby or whether he goes to a mystery team. Outside

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of Alonzo situation, the Mets have other issues here, for example,
as far as like the money, the money's not guaranteed.
He'll get a good amount of money. He'll get a
lot more money than you and I, But Peter Alonso's
even to get more than one hundred and fifty eight
million dollars. He's not playing very well this year. It's
a contract year, and Peter A. Lonzo's not not playing well. Now,
other issue. The Mets are not a good team, They're
not a mediocre team. But Edwin Diaz had been great

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before he got hurt last year, and he has now
been demoted. How low can you go? Edwin Diaz, all
Star closer? Not anymore. The Metropolitans will now go with
the dreaded closer by committee. The closer by committee will Yeah,
so what happened to Edwin Diaz, the Mets closer, Well,

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he has been stuck in purgatory lately. Here Diz brew
a four run lead over the weekend to the Marlins,
who are trying to unload anyone and everyone on the roster.
They're doing a complete breakdown, which is what the Marlins do.
That's what they're known for. And so Diaz blew a
four run lead to the Marlins B squad. And I

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can sum it up this way. If he was a
fast food restaurant, he would be Hardy's. Or if you're
west of the Mississippi, Carls Junior charboiled. Edwin Diaz has
been charboiled. And and you know that that trumpet that
they play, that trumpet song, he's been choking on the
trumpet is what he has been happening here coming off
a knee injury which he suffered in the Fugazi World

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Baseball Classic that caused him to miss all of last season.
And keep in mind, Diez, before he got hurt, signed
a one hundred and five million dollar extension, which makes
him at this point in the story in Albatross, you
see he's not available at least not as a closer.
He's a mop up guy at this point. One hundred

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and five million dollar mop up relief pitcher. That's wonderful.
And no, I'm not going to say that's the Mets.
I'll leave that to other people. I'd like to use
that line. Anything about the jets of the mess, that's
the juts, that's the Mats. I don't do that. I'm
not doing that now. Fractured confidence though, all right. Secondly,
we go to the atl where they have a great airport,
and we are hearing that the Atlanta Braves are I

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love this. Keeping a close eye on Ray's right handed pitcher,
Zach Efflin say, why now is it the right eye
or the left eye or they cross eyed? I don't know,
but Zach Eflin, so Atlanta considering making a move for
a starting pitcher. Do the Braves need to turn on

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the trade machine here and acquire a starting pitcher, whether
it's Zach Eflin or someone else. So on this one,
I'm gonna nod my head. Yes, I'm gonna nod my
head yes here. And I'm never wrong about baseball. The
Atlanta Braves, who fancy themselves one of the top teams
in the National League, and most would agree with that,
but you look at the way it's played. I know
we're only a couple months into the baseball season just

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about here, but you look at the Brave roster and
there are some signs of concern there in Atlanta. The
Phillies have gone gangbusters start the year, but they've only
played seven games now against teams that have you winning records,
so we're not sure whether they're a front or not.
But the Dodgers are legit for the most part. Right
we'll see if they can avoid the gag in the playoffs.

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But talent wise, the Atlanta Braves think they're right there,
Mono Amano with the Phillies and the Dodgers in the
National League. But here's the problem. I look at that
Brave pitching staff and maybe Tommy in Atlanta who's driving
his truck around might feel differently. He's a brave, but
I look at the braves, I'm like, there's no fear
factor there. Chris Sale is the number one pitcher, He's

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the ace. Chris Sale. He's thirty five and he's pitched well.
He has pitch well for Atlanta. Do you think that's
sustainable considering how many injuries he had the last couple
of years with the Red Sox and he's at thirty
five year old pitcher Charlie Morton past the age of forty,
and he's a cheating a hole from twenty seventeen. Max

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Freed he's all right. I can stop stopping your tracks
to watch Max Freed. Bryce Elder he's okay. And Ronaldo
Lopez that's the brave starting rotation. That's not that great.
But you don't need great star well, you don't need
great starters, but you gotta have at least one guy
that when that polarician's pitching, you're like, oh, this guy's

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lights out right. And they don't really move the needle.
They don't. Not that I don't say here and be
a hypocrite, Not that Zach Efflin would get you all
Tingley when he's on the mound. You acquired him if
you're Atlanta, But he would be a slight upgrade over
Charlie Morton or Rinaldo Lopez. The 's somebody like that

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at the back of the rotation. I would go bigger, though.
I'm looking at Arizona and they look like they're not
gonna sniff the playoffs by the time they're done. They
mediocre Arizona team. I don't know. They were in the
World Series les year. I get that, but they signed
Jordan Montgomery to a one year contract with an option.
If you're Atlanta, why not go after Jordan Montgomery. You
gotta wait a little bit till the skids completely fall

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off the diamondback machine there, but you've got that, and
then Sonny Gray a little bit. I think that guy
has suffers from tight Touka syndrome, but I would take
a shot from him. He's with the Cardinals right now.
Final thought, we head now to the Big A. Another
story that broke over the weekend while we were away.
Not only did we have a golfer drag a cop

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in Louisville at Valhalla, we also had new details come
out about that Otani gambling story, and the report said
that David Fletcher, who's now trying to become a knuckleball
pitcher in the Atlanta Brave organization. But David Fletcher, who
was a teammate with Shohei Otani in anaheim Ei their

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time with the Halos twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three,
and in cording to the story, he bet on sports
with the same bookie who took wagers from Otani's former
interpreter Wink Wink nod nod Epe Misuhara. So that story
came out. So the question now Fletcher said to have

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bet on games with this guy, Matthew Boyer Bauer, the
illegal bookie. His name is not important, but is former
Angel infielder and current Atlanta Minor League minor league pitcher
David Fletcher being tied to the Otani bookmaker something or nothing,

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as many in the baseball media were pretending like this
was nothing, it's no big deal, who cares what? But
it's obviously something. Now nobody really gives a rats ass
about David Fletcher. With all due respect, this is about Otani, right,
and it's like the story from Otani's camp and Major
League Baseball signed off on it. The story was, listen,
there's nothing here. Otani knew nothing, he saw nothing, he

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did nothing, and he was just an innocent guy there.
There was nothing that went on. But now you look
at all this stuff, it's obviously something. I'm talking about
it here. It's more circumstantial evidence that there's some kind
of cover up going on to I know exactly what happened. No,

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I don't. But keep in mind, Major League Baseball is
the same organ that investigated the cheating I almost said it,
the cheating ass one thousand and two, one thousands. Baseball
investigated them while they were cheating, said everything's good, they're kosher,
nothing going on. It was only after a whistleblower came
out and spilled the beans on the a holes that

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Baseball was forced to do something. And when I say
forced to do something, they did nothing. They didn't take
away the championship from the cheaters. They didn't punish that
little punk Altouve or Bregman or any of those guys.
They got away with it. Now a single player that
was on the field in uniform that was taking part
of it got in trouble. That's majorly busball. So here
we have another example. Baseball did like a two day

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investigation of Otani. He's good. Nothing to see here, We're
all right. Now, there's more information coming out. Otani's best friend,
the interpreter, his supposedly his buddy on the Angels, was betting.
But yet Otani, Nah, he was a babe in the woods,
and he was blind, deaf and dumb and rinky dinky

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baseball investigation, schlocky investigation. There's nothing happening. It reminds me
a lot of the Peyton Manning story. Remember than the
documentary that outed him as his wife was a drug mule.
Remember that it was the Dark Side documentary, as I
recall it, and Peyton Manning HGH came back with the

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Broncos after neck fusion surgery and all that. But you can't,
can't ding Peyton Manning is Peyton Manning. My favorite quote
from that was Keishaan Johnson, who said, of the Peyton
Manning story, he said he didn't do it. He didn't
do it. It didn't happen. Then it didn't happen. He
didn't do it. That's it. The same thing happening with Otani.

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He said he didn't do it. He didn't do it.
That's it, period. Stop. The only way this thing gets
bigger is somebody blows the whistle and or the FEDS
get involved. It sounds like the Feds aren't really worried
about Otani and they're worried about other things. So it's
a fascinating story. It is the Bend Malt Show. Time
Now for the Mallor Riddle of the day. And here's
the Mallard Riddle of the day. We'll go to baseball.

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You can answer this on X at Ben Maller. All
the phones are false, so don't worry about that. Phone
has been great tonight. Here is the Malar riddle of
the day. The Atlanta Braves infielder star infielder Ozzi Alby's
recently said that he likes to pet his blank in
order to relax. Now, keep it clean. It's a family show.
It's not that okay. Atlanta Braves star infielder Ozzi Albi's

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recently said that he likes to pet his blank in
order to relax. That is the Mallor riddle of the day.
The answer, we'll get to it and we will do
it next.

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It's Ben Maller.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Time out for the Mallory Riddle of the day. Atlanta
Braves star infielder Ozzy Alby has recently said he likes
to pet his blank in order to relax. That is
the question. What is the answer? Art Puffin says, Ozzy
Alby's likes petting his human. Who else we have? Kathy?
Kathy and Madison says by petting his ring dang do

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Freddie's going with his parrot as his answer? Who else
do we have? Page Down Matthew Warrior Riderfann says Ozzie
Albis likes to blank his blank. Can't do it. My
mind is in the gutter. I cannot come up with
an answer that is radio friendly. He says, you've given up.

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Bad job by you, Bad job by you. Brad and
Montana says my boy from the twenty twenty four World
Series Champion Atlanta Braves Ozzie Alby's likes to pet his
snake Braves. Who else do we have? Page Dan people
Mason Honeybees asking for the Autumn Wind. Well, well, if
Lourena can find my version of the Autumn Win, we'll

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play the Autumn Win. Fer Dog says pet lizard is
the answer on page Dan Body pillow from Asher can't
read that on the air. Ferbie guess by I forty
ian Ozzi Albis likes to pet his Ferbie. Robin Vegas
says his hookers and cocaine is the correct answer. Alf

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the Alien Opina says he likes to pet his favorite quarterback,
the greatest ever Peyton Manny so so he says page down.
Dyl Pickel from Chiefs Tie Guy Tasmanian Devil guess by
Rob in Minnesota. DeAndre says his wife's wig okay. His

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triple guess by King Rory Pinata from Nick in Wisconsin.
Pork get Pine Guests by ikeon Roseville Minnesota on page
down here. I can't read that, Edie. There's a lot
of these that are very graphic, very graphic. The p
ones don't know what can be on the air and
what can't be on there. What's the answer here, Eddie?

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Do you have an end?

Speaker 7 (19:16):
The answer is Lorena's plush Bucky's blanket.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Okay, is it a plush Blucky Bucky's blanket from Loo? No?
That is incorrected. It that Atlanta Bravestar infielder Ozzie Alby's
says that he likes to pet his fish in order
to relax.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Claim, He's got several massive fish tanks at the Ozzi
Albi's home there in Atlanta, and he has a fish
cave and he feeds the fish and they come to him.
They know that he's going to feed them, and as
a result, he's able to pet the fish.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
Now, when you were feeding the pigeons, did you ever
pet them? But the docks themselves, the pigeons, you, uh no.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
The geese sometimes will get close enough, but you don't
want touch them because then they'll get upset and then
they'll run after you. They're really the meanest sobs in
the bird community. Or the geese. They're real a holes
and I want to avoid that at all cause. But
my experience, have you ever swam in a school of fish?

Speaker 7 (20:24):
I have not.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
I I've done it a few times. It's the most
fascinating thing. You're surrounded by like thousands of fish, and
yet you reach your arms out you don't touch any
of them. It's very odd. It's almost like they have
fish radar that will not probably do that's what they do.
I mean, that's what But actually, not far from where
we are in Catalina, you know, in southern California, there's

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massive schools of fish that come through there sometimes. And
I swam in one of them a couple of times,
and I was like, oh, I was trying to grab
the fish. I thought, oh, this grab some fish. So
you were trying to pet some I was trying to
pet the fish, and the fish did not want me
to pet them. They were able to avoid me from
Pettymans Scot. The phones will say hello to hollering James
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, hollering James. Sleeping James, James. Your team,

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Hollering James, your team is in the final four.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
Hollering James, how exciting.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
James, you're on the radio, James. We'll let him sleep.
Let's go to Jackass. Josh, Hello, Jackass, Josh.

Speaker 8 (21:39):
I am so offended by the fact that the Knicks
did not get to the East Finals.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
You're a Sacramento Kings fan. What do you care about
the Knicks?

Speaker 8 (21:52):
Well, because Boston deserves a fight and Boston's not gonna
be able.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
To Yeah, Indiana is the healthier team, so they They'll
give the Celtics a couple of close games here and there.
It's not gonna be a Rolloverton will win in.

Speaker 8 (22:12):
Six games for sure.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Okay, that's okay, fine, I don't disagree with that. But
six games. Hey, uh, the TANDAM gets hurt all of
a sudden, you lose the series six games. It's not
gonna be a If they played the Southers play the Knicks,
it would have been a five game series. They would
have the Knicks would have won one game. It would
have been a gentleman's suite.

Speaker 8 (22:31):
It's like Dak Prescott not having their contract.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
That's a non sequitar What are you doing. You're throwing
out a non ser I'm gonna tell your dad. Okay,
I'm gonna tell your dad, jack ass? Josh, how did wait?

Speaker 8 (22:45):
I dare you? How dare you?

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Are you rating the liquor cabin? What is going on here?

Speaker 9 (22:49):
Jack asked Josh, I'm ready, I'm rating that.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
Never been sicker than you. Ben Mallory, you've been traddling
too much. You don't actually understand the dead to the
NBA players, he thought you understood it, but you don't
because he what.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
What are you talking about? You're making no sense? Are you?

Speaker 6 (23:10):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (23:10):
You know?

Speaker 6 (23:11):
You?

Speaker 1 (23:11):
You're a jackass. That's why. Yeah, you're making no sense
because you're a jackass.

Speaker 8 (23:14):
Well tell me where where have you been there recently?

Speaker 6 (23:19):
Well?

Speaker 1 (23:19):
I've been here. I was here last week. I'm here
now here.

Speaker 8 (23:22):
I you've been in Milwaukee or Wisconsin?

Speaker 1 (23:26):
No, No, that I did, No, No, I was in
North Carolina and South Carolina.

Speaker 8 (23:33):
Well did you memorize the national anthem?

Speaker 1 (23:40):
I gotta go? All right, thank you. Let's say hello
to Obi who's in l A. Hello, Obi, welcome, mister
Mallard did evening?

Speaker 9 (23:49):
Eli here today?

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Obie? If I was any better, I'd be a nick
but not a knickerbocker because they.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
Lost thanking you. Because we're traveling across the country. H
listening to you, trying to get through the driving aspect
of this.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Where are you headed? Where are you driving to?

Speaker 9 (24:07):
We're driving back to LA from Boston right now we're
in New York.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
That is quite. That is quite the long journey. How
many days? How many days is it going to take
you to make that trip.

Speaker 9 (24:18):
We're making stops along the way, so we'll be back.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
In LA by Friday.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Okay, very nice? All right, that's I've never I've never
done that. I'd like to do that. Iss you just fly.
I don't try but.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
Do that.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
And by the way, I really appreciated your take on
Skoylie Sheffler. I think he's getting a pass. Everybody's giving
him a pass, and most other people would not have
would not be treated the same way.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
And of course, of course is getting a pass because
there's a big event in Louisville. It's a you know,
major PG event, and they don't have too many major
events in that town, so they don't want they don't
want to stank all over the city. They think even
though he I mean, obviously he appears there was an
eyewitness that said he did it right by him. The
reporter witnessed the whole thing. But hey, whatever, he.

Speaker 9 (25:03):
Put his hand on a police officer and now he's
not gonna nothing's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Oh, I don't know. He put his hand on. He
drove his car like with the guy hanging on. Normally,
if someone's hanging on my car, unless they're like they've
got a gun or a knife pointed at me, I'm
probably gonna stop. But that's just me. I don't know.
Maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 9 (25:20):
All right, we'll keep you mothing, all.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Right, Visa calls up. I want every day. I want
to where are you heading? Now? You're going back to LA.
But where are you stopping? What's on the agenda for Monday.

Speaker 9 (25:29):
We're gonna stop in d C.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh okay, all right, very good. We'll enjoy enjoy DC.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
All right.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
I think there's Obie's travel across America with Obie. It
is the Bane Malor Show. As we continue on later
this hour, the instant advice line. We'll take some more
calls before then. Why not? They're so riveting And I
was considering this as the mallar Rid of the day.
There's something that that was absolutely wild that happened at

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the PGA Championship involving a fan that I don't happening before.
Maybe it did and I forgot about it, but we'll
explain what it is. It was really nuts, one of
the craziest things you'll see. It just randomly happened at
the PGA Championship. But right now, let's get you caught
up on everything going on in the overnight and we
say hello to steamboat Willie Eddie Garcy who will be

(26:18):
going to Pittsburgh. But he's not driving, he's flying to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 7 (26:22):
That is that crazy?

Speaker 6 (26:23):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
September? December? What are we looking at here? October? What
are we looking at? It is week three of the
NFL season, so that would be September. Yeah, okay, the
weather would be good in Pittsburgh. Should be no, it
should be good, perfect, Maybe a little rain, that'll be good.

Speaker 7 (26:36):
We see.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 7 (26:42):
We had a running back that you may not know
or you may know, announced his retirement. The very generically
named David Johnson has called it a career. Had some
pretty good years with the Arizona Cardinals that he went
over to the Houston Texans. Didn't do much last year.
He was with the Saints and.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Didn't even know he was in the league last yeh,
I didn't neither.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
To be totally honest with you, but yeah, yeah again
he won less Johnson, Eddie, that's right in the NFL.
Was it a Duke Johnson last week that retired from
the NFL recently? That Johnson's are dropping like flies.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
In the NFL. We need more Johnson's. Johnson and Johnson, Well,
they still own the Jets. Johnson and Johnson, right the
Johnson want understand Johnson. That's right.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Yeah, So David Johnson, get on with the rest of
your life, young man.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
And how old is he?

Speaker 7 (27:28):
Thirty two?

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Thirty two?

Speaker 7 (27:29):
He's retiring, yeah, thirty, First team All Pro in twenty sixteen.

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hello to bring it home. Jerome in Charleston, but don't

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have him show up to the mall or meet and greet,
even he lives in the same city. Hello, Jerome, you
wouldn't want to look.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
I told you I'm no fun anymore.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, come on, we would have everyone had fun. There
were a bunch of gruppy introverts. We all had fun there.
Every introvert had a good time. Tommy had a good time. Dale.
Everyone is having a good time.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
You know what. You know who would be a lot
of fun that Mark Davis, sixteen years old for a
twenty six year old girlfriend. Guess why he's going to
be by.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
Cat?

Speaker 6 (28:35):
What scamp? What?

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (28:40):
I can't get away with d okay.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Well no, because you're curmudgeon and you have no money.
But that's the future owner of the Raiders. That kid,
kid to be named later will own the Raiders at
some point.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
You noticed it gonna be money bags.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
First name money second name bags, money bags. David Yeah right, girl, Yeah?

Speaker 6 (29:06):
Hey, by the way, that's Scottie Cheffler. That was Jerome.
Jerome would have cheval shots on his body for trying
to run over cop because they don't.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Play that you don't well, I don't know, but they
don't actually don't play that phone. They don't play that
way with most people. How about that? You know, they
don't mess around, you don't mess around the cops. But
unless you're a big name golfer and then you can
get out in time to make your tea time on
the on the PGA tour, or.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
You're famous musician, musical person like oh, Shans.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well yeah, hell, what's going on with it?

Speaker 6 (29:49):
How about that video? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:52):
I saw sol the video, but I don't know what's
going on with.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
A couple of years to apologize. Oh, I'm graduate old,
pity you. You know you you're lucky now.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
My favorite part of that story is there's like tons
of videos of Seawn comes hanging out with other like
famous people like Lebron James and they're all like no.
It's like it reminds me of in Hollywood with Harvey
Weinstein when that came out, you know, it was like
trying to distance themselves and all the others. With this guy,
there's like videos of people big celebrities they're like, oh,
and and the stories, who knows if they're true or not,

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but they're out there.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
I mean, my god, you know what reminds me of
like when Beverly sure that video Beverly joined the basketball
those people and there was a person on your net
was like, oh, I gotta go get me some Yeah,
go get to something, Sean cam because he's straight up crazy,
all right, he is straight up.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
There's a lot of there's a lot of crazy in Hollywood.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
There's a lot like anybody like that man. And now
he's a oh my, my my was his conduct? Yeah?
I got your conduct. He's got he's got three daughters.

Speaker 9 (31:03):
You think he wants.

Speaker 6 (31:05):
Anybody to treat his daughters like that? And he's got
a daughter named get this Love? Okay? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Where all right? Appreciate it away, thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
We want them to be fat and sassy and spoiled.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
It is our job, very important. So these things a
little differently below the Mason Dixon line, for example, PGA Championship,
the video has gone viral. I don't know if you've
seen it or not. I think even blind Emmett has
seen it. And inco Terror and all these guys, Blind Scott,
the blind wing of the Malad Militia. So the PGA Championship,

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there's a video that several of you sent to me.
I'm looking at right here. So a just it appears
to be a regular fan at Valhalla on Sunday.

Speaker 6 (31:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
This this guy wearing a blue polo and shorts, and
he there's a snake on the course, like a real snake,
not like a lot of these golfers or snakes. But
this is like a real snake, like a reptile. And
this guy goes over there and grabs the snake by
its head with his bare hands, no protection. He just

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goes over there. You could feel a testosterone coming out
of this guy. He goes over there, grabs the snake
and are you sure you didn't.

Speaker 7 (32:25):
Grab it by the tail?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
It looks like it. It looks like the head of
the snake to me, and you watch the video.

Speaker 7 (32:30):
Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. I thought it
was a tail.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Well, I'm a snake expert, Eddie. I around a lot
of snakes and look at that. So I think you
want to grab it by the You don't want to
grab it by the tail because then he can come
back and bite you. Isn't that snake etiquette? One on one?
If you grab it?

Speaker 6 (32:47):
Man?

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Well, what didn't make sense? So you grab if I
grab a snake by its tail. Couldn't it then slither
back and bite you with its slithery fit head.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
Yes, but I think if you try and grab it
by its head and don't grab it properly, it will
definitely bite you.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
I I'm looking it looks like the head of the snake.

Speaker 7 (33:06):
I'm going tail.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
I'm going ahead. But that's still a boss move either way.
That's a boss move, dude.

Speaker 7 (33:12):
Just why would definitely not do that?

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Go away? It's fascinating. Like my my father in law,
there's an alligator that lives across the street from you know,
a little retention pond there in South Carolina, Like I
would freak out, Like imagine a kid growing up in
that neighborhood. There's like alligator like right across the street.
You think, oh my god, I'm gonna die. I'm gonna
be alligator food. And it's like there's just a way
of life there. Crazy all right. Anyway, I ever picked

(33:36):
up a snake there, Eddie, I don't believe. So it's
a joke, but I will I will refrain anyway. It
is the The Ben Malors Show. As we continue on
and on, and it's time almost time. We're just minutes
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Who in the world of sports needs advice. So I

(33:56):
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Speaker 3 (34:47):
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Speaker 8 (34:50):
Here?

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Will you talking to sons here some interesting advice.

Speaker 7 (34:54):
Hold that thut, no one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
And if you don't like it, you an no way.
Oh it's the advice right unscreened radio and we're off
to the races right now. This is not not for amateurs.
We are trained professionals, trust me. We we have no
safety net here. The safety is gone. We go to
the phones and the question on the incident advice line,

(35:18):
who needs our advice this week in sports?

Speaker 6 (35:22):
Who?

Speaker 1 (35:22):
I was gonna do the Knickerbockers, but I think we
will mark at a good idea or Matt rather had
a good idea, said what about Spike Lee? So all right, man,
well that makes sense rather than just the Knicks in general,
Spike Lee. Advice to Spike Lee, long suffering Knickerbocker fan,
as they yet again gagged as a favorite at home,

(35:43):
could have gone back to the conference finals and the
Knicks eliminated losing to Indiana eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. If you want to be part eight seven
seven nine nine six six three sixty nine is a
high volume of call segment, So call early call off
off in line one. Your advice to Spike Lee. Line one.

(36:04):
Line one is not there. We're going to line too. Hello,
line too, you're on the airline too, advice to Spike Lee.
Line two.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
When Ben takes a horse, bet on it. I'm a
very wealthy man, thinks to you.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
Ben, I'm so happy I could kiss you.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
That's okay, because your buddy over there numb nuts will
be upset. Hello, Line three, Line three, you're on the
airline three.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Morning time to time to change his name to skunk.

Speaker 9 (36:26):
Yet I don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
I'll check with the rain A. Line four. Hello, line four,
you're on the airline four.

Speaker 6 (36:33):
Benja Miller dumping knicks again.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Big man.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Oh that's show on the hood guy. He's smiling. You
can tell he's happy there.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Line six, you're on the airline six. We're giving advice
to Spike Lee on how to deal with the knickerbockers
losing yet again, Line six is not there. We're going
to line one. Hello, line one, you're live on the
airline one. Hello also with line one not working? Line two, Hello,
line too, you're on the airline too, win this parade.

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Line three, Hello, line.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Three, go the problem with me is the problem with me?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Oh, there's our friend from the Bay Area. All right, hello,
Line five, you're on the Airline five. Go.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
They are who we thought they were and we let
them off the funk.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Yeah, we give me advice to Spike Lee. The Knickerbockers
gagging as a favorite at home, But that got on
a Sunday afternoon to the Indiana Pacers. Line six, you're
on the air line six.

Speaker 6 (37:31):
Go.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Line six is not paying attention. We're gonna Line one, eight, seven, seven,
ninety nine on Fox. A lot of people not paying attention.

Speaker 6 (37:38):
Hello, Line one, have you ever fought? It's so good
you were proud of it.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Line two, you're on the air. Hello, Line two, is
that angry bill?

Speaker 6 (37:52):
I'll spike spiz on a spike for me.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Okay, that sounded very creepy. Line five, you're on the air. Hello,
Line five. Advice to Spike Lee. Line five, that's a fake.
That's your you're fraudster, sir, you're not the real pokey
pokey guy. Line six. Hello, line six, My advice is
roll it up. Okay, Well you do that. Whether the

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next winneror lose, it doesn't matter. Line one, you're on
the Airline one.

Speaker 9 (38:22):
Yeah, I'm not a spell ban.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
No No, that's that's wrong. So you screwed that up. Hello,
Line two, you're on the airline too. Where oh see,
that's a pretender too. But that's a classic. But thank
you for bringing that guy back. All right, all right
with you one more hurry up cool Peggott final call.
It's an advice line for Spike Lee. I'm six. Line six.
You're on the Airline six.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
Go you could become a boss of topics hands.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah, go jump on the Celtic bandwagon. They're gonna win
the whole thing now, right,