June 5, 2024 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about LeBron James saying his misses having Kyrie Irving as his teammate, the latest in MLB's investigation into Shohei Ohtani, Maller to the Third Degree, Queen of Hearts w/ La Reina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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our lead this hour from the NBA Finals just say, well,
there's no game. Get what are you doing? You can't
talk about the NBA Finals there's no game. And while
that is true, it was no game played. The Mavericks
(01:56):
did get on a big bird. They flew into the Commonwealth.
The travel day so exciting, which means you fly out
on Tuesday Wednesday, you are serenaded by the assembled media,
and then on Thursday you play no games till tomorrow.
This our Wednesday show and then boom Thursday night it's
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on like Donkey Kong. And so with zero action, Bron
James has entered the chat trying to fill the void.
We thank Lebron for that. He's feeding the content plate
and we think that's important. You still have to do
the show. Whether they play games or not. We do
the show. We don't have load management here, We don't
take random nights off. We talk everyfing night, every bleeping night.
(02:45):
We are here talk talk talk talk, talk, talk talk.
So if you didn't hear and maybe not speaking on
his fledgling podcast with his soon to be head coach
embarrassment Lebron. Lebron discussed ky Ree Irving. You might remember
(03:07):
they were co workers in Cleveland. You remember that, right, Yeah? Sure?
And Kyrie then ran away one direction, Lebron went the
other direction. So Lebron discussing what it's like to watch
Kyrie Irving in the playoffs, as Dallas has been on
this magic carpet ride, beating the wounded Clippers and beating
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some lesser opponents Oklahoma City, Minnesota, and then they end
up in the NBA Finals. So Dallas is there, and
here's what Lebron said. He said, quote, I am so
efing mad. Lebron said, so effing mad that I'm not
his running mate anymore. A somber Lebron. Let's discuss the
(03:52):
question is is rather simple, right, rather simple? How do
you decode? All right? How do you dcode? Lebron James
getting a little bit emotional, A little bit emotional around
Kyrie Irving, No hunger playing with him. Of course, I
haven't played together in years. It's not like this is
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some kind of new revelation. So I've got the atomic
elbow eye chart and Michelin start and we will combine
all of these things together, and we are going to
make a towel so Lebron can cry into the towels
what we're going to make a I actually, for the
(04:34):
purposes of this malar monologue, I checked the mood ring
of Lebron James and his mood ring is amber. It's
an Amber, not an Amber alert, just an amber mood
ring for Lebron, which means he's unhappy. He's unhappy, and
I would say he's more unhappy that he's not gotten
a lot of attention. He's more annoyed that the attention
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has focused on the ladies and I'll people in the
basketball world other than Lebron. And so he uses his
platform to make it all about him. And I point
out from time to time that I do a TV show,
at least I did last year. Hopefully they'll re up
the show this year and we'll get a second season.
(05:16):
But I do a show with a guy who is
much liked it that he believes in the philosophy of
making it all about him. So here's the problem, and
is one small problem I have, you know, and this
is an issue that it's my problem, it's probably not
your problem. But here's the way I look at this.
So if you go back into the hot tub time
(05:37):
machine and you go back about seven years seven, six
years ago, right around that time, it wasn't Lebron that
wanted to get rid of Kyrie. It was the other
way around, if you remember the soap opera, the drama
o Rama, And we were here documenting all of that
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minute by minute here behind these very microphones at FSR.
And at the time Uncle Drew told the cavaliers he
did not want to play another minute, not another minute
with Lebron, not another minute. He said it.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
He said that.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He was reported at the time he said it. Now
the chatter going around. Went back and looked at my notebook,
and the chatter was that Irving was tired of being
the robin in the relationship. He didn't want to be
the son to father Lebron, and who's batman and all that,
and so now Lebron because he needs some attentions, Guy
(06:37):
I got regrets. He's also giving a passive, aggressive atomic
elbow to Anthony Davis right to the solar the solar
region of Anthony Davis.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
There.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The d Brow is Lebron James' current running mate. He's
Lebron's right hand man for better or worse, and often worse.
Unless you have four months off before the playoffs and
you play at a Mickey Mouse gymnasium with no fans,
then everything's good. We're all good. But outside of that,
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not so good, not so good at all. But Lebron
did more than that. He got into a mac truck
and hit the daily double. What is the daily double,
you ask, Well, not only did he slam Anthony Davis,
his coworker for now, he also ran over skinny jeans.
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That would be Rob Polinka, who for some reason is
still there because he's friends with Jeanie Buss at the
GM there. And you can tell Lebron subtly is upset
because he wanted the Lakers to acquire Kyrie Irving a
couple of times and the Lakers didn't want to do
business with Kyrie, and so he's upset about that all
(08:01):
right now, page two, turning the page, Let's go focus
on the actual finals Finals, which is going on at
some point here Thursday Garden party, be there or just
watch it on TV, or don't watch it at all.
I don't care. We'll watch it for you. But reacting
to the media chatter and Here's what I'm hearing in
the echo chamber as we head into just about go time.
(08:25):
Is it true that Jason Tatum has much more, much
more to lose in the NBA Finals than Jalen Brown,
Luka Doncik, and ky Ree Irving. Let's sa a popular
talking point by popular people. So I'm going to nod
my head yes on this that Tatum does have more
to lose than Jalen Brown, Luka Doncik, and Kyrie Irving.
(08:49):
This series is booby trapped for Jason Tatum. It is
booby trapped for tatm Let me explain why. If you
look at the eye chart, perception is reality. I heard
that somewhere perception is reality, and the perception will be
that Jason Tatum, the guys at Bum, the guys a
(09:09):
Bum as our friend Joe and Rhode Island used to say,
who can't get it done? He cannot get it done
at the finish line. Everyone else has an alibi. Now,
the basketball media gives so many of these alibis out.
But let's go down and look at the big board.
Luka Doncik will get a pass. It's his first chance
in the NBA Finals. You don't often win your first one. Okay, Well,
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Kyriees got the ace up his sleeve there that he
was part of the Lebron Calves team that came back
against Golden State because Draymond Green couldn't keep his hands
to himself and kicked the guy in the twigging berries
and was watching an Oakland Athletics game while the Warriors
were playing in the NBA Finals. Then you got Jalen
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Brown and Jaylen Brown's like, I'm gonna go like Seinfelder.
He's George Costanza and Jason Tatum is Jerry Seinfeld. So
you don't get upset with George Costanza if there was
a bad episode of Seinfeld because he's the number two.
And then you've got Jason Tatum, who doesn't get a mulligan.
(10:15):
There's no mulligan for Jason Tatum. This is his second
bite of the apple, and if the second try after
the first one goes awry, it does not go well
for you. He is the jewel, the jewel of the
crown of Madison Avenue. If you've been paying attention, maybe
you don't watch commercials. I don't know. I try to
(10:36):
avoid them, but I see Jason Tatum's mug all over
selling shoes, Gatorades, Subway over the years he's done the
video games, is the potato chips, you name it. He's
selling you a lot of crap, a lot of crap.
He's selling you. And you lose in the NBA Finals
and you don't play well. I mean, you could win
(10:58):
Jaylen Brown could be the better player. That would heard
and that would be a negative net negative, that would
not be DeBie. But you lose to the Mavericks and
it's like the lowest seed in the modern era to
win a championship Dallas. And that's embarrassing. That's that's embarrassing.
And then you got the cooties. They give you a
little cooties and nobody wants the cootie. Remember in elementary school,
when you have the cooties, nobody wants the cooties. All right,
last word here, So some shuffling from the Boston side.
(11:23):
We are hearing now that it is on for Chris
stops porzingis green light go. He is returning to the
Celtics active roster for the NBA Finals. No shock here.
What is your reaction though to this? So my initial
reaction is what de damn do? That is my reaction.
I have heard the noise, and you probably have as
(11:46):
well if you consume this content what you're doing right now.
So I've heard the noise that there's a lot of
hyperventilating by talking heads. The Celtics cut on win unless
Porzungi's plays parzun guess hash double ay or else. Oh.
Biting my fingernails thinking about it, I don't believe it.
(12:07):
I don't believe the noise. And here's why. Remember back
in the pandemic, when we determine who in society was
essential and who was non essential. Remember that, and I
learned that doing an overnight sports talk radio show, the
federal government considered us essential. No I got a card
from the government. If they had martial law, I could
still go out. Yeah, your overnight sports radio guy's essential.
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But here's the thing. Listen, Chris topsporzing is not essential.
Think of it like going to a Michelin star restaurant.
You're at a Michelin starred restaurant and you order the
prime rib. You get a perfectly cooked, perfectly cooked piece
of prime rib. That's the essential part of the meal.
(12:56):
If they serve you mashed potatoes, that's nice, but if
they're lumpy mashed potatoes, that's what Porzingis is. It's not
doesn't ruin the meal, It doesn't. It. Don't get me wrong.
Perzingis is good when he plays, but I also believe
his value is overblown. I don't think helps you much
on defense. And after a minutes long Malard scouting report
(13:17):
on the NBA Finals, we have determined that, well, Boston
is good enough to win without Porzingis. I think it's
a better story if they do win with Porzingis getting here.
And I know he's gonna play in Game one and
all that, but even with his return, the guys made
out of bostelwood and he's made out of popsicle sticks
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is what he's made out of. There's a very slim
chance that he stays healthy between now and the end
of the NBA finalst I think it'll be sometime in
Loreno was telling me, like November or something like that. Yeah,
they start on Thursday of the Finals, and then they
just got to go to November and then they take
I think it's two days off and then they start
the next year. I think I might be wrong with that,
(13:59):
but I think that's I think that's how you do it.
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as we traditionally do, buy request with the Mallor monologue
in our lead this hour headline the intersection gambling and Baseball,
those worlds colliding this week, big week for gambling and baseball. Now,
this particular portion of the show, we're going to focus
(16:13):
in on the Shohei Otani scandal that rocked baseball this summer.
It's a doozy. It is a douzy. Have you I
haven't heard the latest on this, and perhaps not. Major
League Baseball has said that's it, it's fineto, it's done.
They have put an end to the snooping around Dodger
(16:36):
Stars show. Heyo Tani. They have cleared him of any wrongdoing.
That's after his former interpreter, Ipe Misuhara pled guilty to fraud,
bunch of charges using Sho Heo Tani's money to subsidize
his gambling losses. Miss Sujara facing a maximum of thirty
(16:59):
three years in prison for wire and bank fraud. He
is alleged. You don't have to say a legend anymore.
You admitted to it's that they're gonna sentence him. He
did it. According to the court system. He stole seventeen
million dollars almost to pay off gambling debt. So let
us discuss the story that's interesting to me, and we'll
start with this is the Otani part of this and
(17:23):
the Baseball investigation. So what is your level of confidence
in Major League Baseball's investigation of show, Heyotani and now
clearing Otani of any wrongdoing. So I've got podcast all inclusive,
resort and pill Popperts for one thousand. I said number.
(17:50):
Put all these together and will make sense of the nonsensical.
So to begin here, let's get right out of the
gates with a classic staple of this show, the Malord
scale of trust. Now, the Malor scale of trust goes
one to ten, with ten being a devotee. You are
believing every word of the Gospel at a ten. So
(18:14):
to answer the question of where I am on confidence wise,
confidence wise Mallard scale of trust sho hail tony Baseball investigation.
I am at a cow. I am at a two
for this. And here's why. Track record, track record, that's
(18:34):
why Rob manfraud, the Commission of Major League Baseball and
the investigative arm Keystone cops, that's what they are. And
this is coming from someone that likes the Dodgers. Okay,
so you think, well, you're gonna I can't believe you
have this take. I I'm just saying when Baseball's investigating,
(18:56):
I don't feel very confident. What would the feds little
totally get away with it. I'm not saying they did.
I'm just I don't trust baseball. Now for illustration purposes
only Major League Baseball. Let's go back a couple of
years back. The year was twenty seventeen. If I remember correctly,
this is about seven years Major League Baseball was getting
(19:18):
complaints from teams around the American League. And the complaints
were claiming that there was a team that was cheating.
They were stealing signs, but they were doing it with
some kind of digital technology. Several teams complained to Major
League Baseball. Major League Baseball opened an investigation, and they
(19:38):
looked at everything. They found nothing right. While observing games
in which Thestros players were using contraband like trash cans,
for example, whistles. It's alleged that buzzers were involved by
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some send signs via video monitor to a player in
the on well not the on deck circle, in the
batter's box. Major League Baseball watching the team cheat, watching
them violate the sanctity of the rule book. Major League
Baseball ruled everything as kosher. We're all good, nothing to
(20:21):
worry about, nothing to see here, move on. It was
only after a whistleblower, Mike Fires, an American hero in
sports anyway, who came out and said, yeah, I was
on the team, and these douchebags here's what they did.
My favorite part of that investigation by Major League Baseball
is it didn't happen until two years after the twenty
(20:46):
seventeen World Series, if I remember correct that it was
like twenty nineteen when the poopy hit the fanny, if
you will. And in the World Series video, the World
Series video produced by MLB Productions BAM Production, all right,
they showed the table the Astros were using the cheat.
(21:06):
They put it in the video. So am I supposed
to leave Major League Baseball? Come on? They do these
probes blindfolded. They do they don't have subpoena power. And
it's like that quote from Keishawn Johnson when Peyton Manning
was using his wife as a drug mule. According to
the documentary The Dark Side, and Kishawn Johnson, a tody
(21:27):
at the time for the NFL, said, if Peyton Manning
said he didn't do it, he said he didn't do
it, it didn't happen. And if it didn't happen, he didn't
do it, that's it. It's like, okay, So to me,
this story about Otani, it will will go away. It'll
be on a true crime podcast. It's on the back burner.
It's a cold case. Every once in a while, a
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cold case comes back. And if Otani was more involved
in this, chances are that someone's going to sing like
a canary and we'll get more information. Right now, No,
right the way the story is being presented, Otani's not
a gambler. He's just an idiot. He's obtuse. Under his nose,
you can steal seventeen million dollars and he's so bad
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financially financially, it didn't look that's it all right now,
page two, So how much jail time? Real me? This batman?
How much jail time is sho Heltani's interpreter or former
interpreter going to get a lot of headlines. It's called
clickbait on the interweb that say, ipe miss O'Hara is
(22:31):
facing up to thirty three years in prison. Now you know,
and I know that the greatest weasel term up to
People read it, they hear it, they don't pay attention
to it. Up to fifty percent off. You go shop,
you click on the website, you click the little card
(22:52):
icon to check out, and it's two percent off, but
instead up to fifty percent, Yeah, well you get two
percent weasel. Weasel, pop goes the weasel. So, while technically
true with Tony's former interpreter is facing thirty three years
in prison, it's not based on any reality. So I
(23:13):
sent some messages out and they believe it or not.
There are people that are like real smart people. I
think they claim they have like degrees and stuff, and
they're like lawyers and stuff. They claim to know me.
But if you ask them, they'll say they don't know me.
So I sent some messages. I was like, well, how
much time's acually? So they looked up some numbers here
(23:33):
and they say, well, he did admit his guilt, and
you know whether it's true or imagined or whatever, and
whether he embellished, how deep it was, and whether he
was completely responsible. But from what I got back, the
feedback I got back, as I understand it, based on
the federal sentencing guidelines, taking into account his offense, the
(23:57):
lack of criminal history, which is always something people look
at in these cases. In October, when the sensing happens,
the interpreter for show Altani is looking at five to
seven years on holiday, five to seven years, low level,
all inclusive resort. They call it the Gray Bar Hotel.
The amenities include television, they have a workout yard, cigarettes,
(24:19):
you get the phone. Cigarettes you gotta pay for that's
an add on, and then you get the phone. They
have internet. That's extra. Now, you may get shanked, that's
not good, and you probably have to be on on
guard in certain locations in the prison. But other than that,
I mean, everything's taking care of all right. No final point,
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we move now to the social network because insiders convinced
that the only reason, the only reason a major figure
in baseball is no longer a major figure in baseball
is because of X, Instagram, Facebook, the TikTok. All of
that Big Baseball was pushed over the edge to get
(25:03):
rid of an infamous umpire question true or false? True
or false? Was major League Baseball swede by social media
to get rid a rogue umpire? Angel Hernandez, So I
am going to hit the buzzer that says true. I'm
(25:24):
pressing the buzzer. This system. The average Major League baseball
team is worth about two and a half million dollars,
about two and a half billion dollars. Yet many of
the people at the upper echelon who are in that
Manhattan bubble, all of the major sports leagues in the
industrial conflex of sports in America have their headquarters within
(25:46):
a few blocks in midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Last I was in New York, I walked out at
like midnight and I was just wandering around. Was like,
and I was like, I wonder where the NFL office are.
So I walked to that and then as like, I
want to where Baseball's head coach are. It's like a
couple blocks over and it's like, oh, the NBA is
on Fifth Avenue. They're all within a couple of blocks
of you. And all these people I make a lot
of money, tons of cash and all that. But the
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leaders of baseball, I'm convinced that that is the valley
of the stupid, that that area, this is some kind
of like the Triangle of doom. Right, It's like the
Bermuda Triangle or something like that. Because here's why we
know that social media feels real. We know that it
(26:33):
seems like it's authentic, but it's not. And I've got
market research. I've gone out and we do meet and greets,
try to do a couple of year. We did one
in Charleston, South Carolina a little while back. We have
one tentatively scheduled for Las Vegas later this year. So
we try to go out and hang out with people.
And what I see there is nothing like what I
see on social media. So my determination is the people
(26:57):
at baseball are pill poppers. They're pill poppers, and they
love the red pills. And as you know, that clout
the attention whether it's fake, imagine it's a hell of
a drug. The dopamine hit. You get from that, and
so they keep swallowing that red pill. We know from
the matrix that you stay in wonderland if you take
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that red pill, and you just want to see how
deep you can go. And so's that's baseball. But yeah,
I don't doubt for a second Angel Hernandez has been
a pimple on the tookis of baseball for years. But
finally they finally decided, all right, that's it, we got
to get we got to meet his number. And the
rumor is that they met his number, that they ponied
(27:41):
up the money to get rid of him. It's not
like Angel Hernandez gave them a deal. They had to
pay what he wanted, and they did and he left.
And they could have done that five years ago. They
waited to this time, and for whatever reason, that's what happened.
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The Atlanta Falcons have a brand new coaching staff, and
running back Bijon Robinson revealed on Monday that this year
he'll be used more like the forty nine ers use
Christian McCaffrey. Ben, do you think Robinson can have the
same sort of impact.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
No, because Christian McCaffrey is one of the all time
great players in this generation and we've only seen It's
like a peep show with Bijon Robinson, Right, We've seen glimpses,
but there's a big gap to get to that level.
So I'm not gonna miss He's got the talent, but
I got to see it before I get excited.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Next, the NBA announced on Monday that the draft will
now be spread over two days for the first time
in history. Ben, how dumb is this idea?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
This is the dumbest idea since Steve Balmer said, no
one's gonna spend four hundred bucks on an iPhone? Remember that,
the Microsoft guy who's now owning the Clippers. Yeah, it's
a stupid idea. It's it's nobody likes the NBA Draft
when it's one night. It's annoying when it's one night. Now,
who's gonna Who's gonna have the first pick of the
second next?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Over the weekend, the Tri City Chili Peppers out of
Virginia hostel what may have been the first ever cosmic
baseball game. It looked pretty awesome, man, I checked out
some some photos and videos. Do you think this could
become a thing with MLB ever doing?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Because baseball they actually tried this. Charlie o'finley, the owner
of the as, I think he tried something like this
with an orange baseball, but the baseball is too corporate
now they won't do it Major League Baseball. How do
we know he passes? They win.
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Well, I've only met him one time. He gave me
a nice rental though really good rentald when I was
in the Carolina so that was very nice.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Heck, yeah, maybe we can give him some love advice sometimes.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm driving a rental right now. In fact, you love
Reynolds and I have out of state place, which I hate.
I don't think this is big an issue here, though.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
You can drive worse because you have out of state plates.
I use it all the time since Minor Oregon. I
drive like a jerk.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Well maybe you're just a jerk all right anyway. Keith Ocho,
Texo writes, and he says, can we just listen to
the intro music uninterrupted for twenty seconds.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
The oh sure no the answers didn't know.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
The answer is no, that's always no, no, no, no, man, this.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Isn't a music show. It's a sports show, all.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Right, King Roy writes, Since says, he says, since it's
Pride month and I want to show my appreciation to
my coworkers who are brave to live their life the
way they want, what is the appropriate way to honor them?
I was thinking about a rainbow cake and ask you
to fruit what what do you think? I don't know
(32:03):
that's a good idea. I don't just tell him to
have a good day? How about it?
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Really though? Yeah, just be supportive. I mean honestly, a cake, though,
I think that'd be really fun.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Do we really need a cake?
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Would be fun? Maybe put some sparklers on it.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Edie, when we were kids that we have like theme months,
I don't remember as much. Maybe we did, I don't know. No,
I feel like it was like this. We were just
taught to raise people. We were just thought to be
nice to.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
People, and the best way you could do that is
just to be nice to them.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, it's another thing that's changed in my lifetime. Ferg
dog says, what's the polite way to ask a woman
if she's biologically female? Isn't the normally the telling that
the surprise?
Speaker 7 (32:49):
I mean, if you're really curious, you should ask.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Well, you usually the Adam apples. Yeah, that was what
Eddie told me back in the day, that that's the
key either that is it?
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Yes, but they do shave those down these days, Ben really.
Oh yeah they do. Wow, I know the sound out
shaving it right. No, yeah, that's horrible, but they do.
They do it all right.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Anchor Terra says, a few weeks ago, you said that
five foot ten inches was short. Any advice to someone
who is five foot three?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
I did not say that was short.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Incas offended.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Uh yeah, uh no, you're not short. You're a short king.
Does that count?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Inca's this guy's a legend man. Well you you don't.
You don't know his story. But he was as a child,
he was born and like it was like a human sacrifice.
I mean, he's a wild story. Wow. Really, yes, South America, Yes,
South America in the you know the famous Inca.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Is that what stunted his growth?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Uh no, no, but they everyone in that part of
the uh right, he's like the tallest guy, right Eddie
or something like that, right right, I think. So, I
don't know about that, but in that group of yeah,
he'll call up sometime and tell the story.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
You know, a lot of girls do like short men, though,
I'm telling you I am one of them.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Take that Inca, you got a shot, Come in studio Anca,
we'll set you up. Let's say, all lot to Wayne
in Memphis on the Queen Hearts with Lorena.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
What's up Wayne?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
On the phones? Hello Wayne, Lorena, Yes, need your help.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Okay, So a few weeks ago, my wife she started
a new shift or whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
So she says that it's three in the morning or whatever.
So I found out she was cheating. I went across
the street to one of my neighbors and started cheating
with her. Okay, but my issue is we.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Have a kid together. I don't know how I tell
my wife or I don't want the lady, the new
lady to tell my wife that we've been doing this
just because the child support battles like.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
This, Like, how do I go about letting her know that?
Speaker 5 (34:51):
I know?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
You got to make better decisions and life choices. Okay,
if you're going to be you're in the sheets doing
things in the streets, then you got to be ready
to take on any repercussions.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
How well he started it about, I don't.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Think that's how that works.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I mean, well, there's a kid involved, though, you got
to put ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Have a conversation, be an adult.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
The kids, unless the neighbor's hot, Eddy, unless they that'll
be a past.
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Here's Ben Meller, right to the game. We go on
password the word Game of the Stars. Teams are set.
We've got Koople loops with Joseph, Joseph's and Charleston drives
a truck. And we've got Mark. He's born bred in Boston,
but he loves the Yankees. He's also driving a truck
here with me. And we've got a list of words here. Gentlemen,
(35:52):
it's a new men. Thanks to all the movies that
have called up tonight. It's been a great night of radio.
So thank you. We killed the cockroach together, So be
proud of yourself, all right, Uh, Joseph, you were on
the air first to pick a number one to ten, sir,
one to ten, number one? Hey, that's my line. You're
using my line? Howd you? I? Go ahead? Cool?
Speaker 5 (36:13):
All right, let's go with Oh, this is easy, this
is easy. Well that the word I'm thinking of is
probably too complex of a word.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
And I'm not saying he's an idiot. No, I'm going
go ahead. Urry, let's go with a fable no or
what he said? No, fable f A B L E
fable tail No. No, Yeah, that was good. That was
I'm gonna I'm gonna go, are you there, Mark, I'm
(36:45):
going narrative? Oh boy, I think I what do you say? Quote?
He said, I believe no?
Speaker 7 (36:57):
I thought he said soap?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Well, all right, all right, Joseph. If you heard, you
heard the clues, you heard Ben's clue, you heard the guesses,
let's go with let's go.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
With book story.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, let's go, I got it off mine. All right,
there's like two points or whatever. And you are up
next there, who cares? Pick a number one to ten? Please? Mark?
Actually number three? All right, let's go and you said
number three? Yep, Cola. Guess who's got the lead.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Joke.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
That's fine. Pick a number there, Joseph.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Please, in today's game, I'm gonna go with number two
because that's what ben Now a team is number two?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Oh this is actually yeah, I gotta pick a different one.
I didn't. We did this last week. I forgot to
delete it. Okay, ah, who you that you gotta get
rid of it? All right? Pick a number because I'm
not number two, I'm number one. Go ahead, Pick a
number four to ten, number five, number five. Let's go
with catch phrase slogan.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah, that was that was easy that mark.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Go ahead, Mark picking up my mark? Number number seven.
All right, I could do the reverse mala maneuver, but
I don't know you're panicking. I'm not gonna do that.
Let's go. Let's go with cost cost c ost cost cost, yes,
(38:40):
c O S T costright, yeah, all right? Picking up
pick another number, justin, pick another number.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Eight?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
No chance, no chance you were going to choke? No chance.
Let's go with go ahead, O my god, what chance.
Let's go with alarm techic.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Tyron.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That's it. It's a final.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
The word was panic because you panick. That was a
mark the Yankees winning the championship.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Mark, we won The Yankees won't mark
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there's no game. Get what are you doing? You can't
talk about the NBA Finals there's no game. And while
that is true, it was no game played. The Mavericks
(01:56):
did get on a big bird. They flew into the Commonwealth.
The travel day so exciting, which means you fly out
on Tuesday Wednesday, you are serenaded by the assembled media,
and then on Thursday you play no games till tomorrow.
This our Wednesday show and then boom Thursday night it's
(02:20):
on like Donkey Kong. And so with zero action, Bron
James has entered the chat trying to fill the void.
We thank Lebron for that. He's feeding the content plate
and we think that's important. You still have to do
the show. Whether they play games or not. We do
the show. We don't have load management here, We don't
take random nights off. We talk everyfing night, every bleeping night.
(02:45):
We are here talk talk talk talk, talk, talk talk.
So if you didn't hear and maybe not speaking on
his fledgling podcast with his soon to be head coach
embarrassment Lebron. Lebron discussed ky Ree Irving. You might remember
(03:07):
they were co workers in Cleveland. You remember that, right, Yeah? Sure?
And Kyrie then ran away one direction, Lebron went the
other direction. So Lebron discussing what it's like to watch
Kyrie Irving in the playoffs, as Dallas has been on
this magic carpet ride, beating the wounded Clippers and beating
(03:30):
some lesser opponents Oklahoma City, Minnesota, and then they end
up in the NBA Finals. So Dallas is there, and
here's what Lebron said. He said, quote, I am so
efing mad. Lebron said, so effing mad that I'm not
his running mate anymore. A somber Lebron. Let's discuss the
(03:52):
question is is rather simple, right, rather simple? How do
you decode? All right? How do you dcode? Lebron James
getting a little bit emotional, A little bit emotional around
Kyrie Irving, No hunger playing with him. Of course, I
haven't played together in years. It's not like this is
(04:12):
some kind of new revelation. So I've got the atomic
elbow eye chart and Michelin start and we will combine
all of these things together, and we are going to
make a towel so Lebron can cry into the towels
what we're going to make a I actually, for the
(04:34):
purposes of this malar monologue, I checked the mood ring
of Lebron James and his mood ring is amber. It's
an Amber, not an Amber alert, just an amber mood
ring for Lebron, which means he's unhappy. He's unhappy, and
I would say he's more unhappy that he's not gotten
a lot of attention. He's more annoyed that the attention
(04:56):
has focused on the ladies and I'll people in the
basketball world other than Lebron. And so he uses his
platform to make it all about him. And I point
out from time to time that I do a TV show,
at least I did last year. Hopefully they'll re up
the show this year and we'll get a second season.
(05:16):
But I do a show with a guy who is
much liked it that he believes in the philosophy of
making it all about him. So here's the problem, and
is one small problem I have, you know, and this
is an issue that it's my problem, it's probably not
your problem. But here's the way I look at this.
So if you go back into the hot tub time
(05:37):
machine and you go back about seven years seven, six
years ago, right around that time, it wasn't Lebron that
wanted to get rid of Kyrie. It was the other
way around, if you remember the soap opera, the drama
o Rama, And we were here documenting all of that
(06:00):
minute by minute here behind these very microphones at FSR.
And at the time Uncle Drew told the cavaliers he
did not want to play another minute, not another minute
with Lebron, not another minute. He said it.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
He said that.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He was reported at the time he said it. Now
the chatter going around. Went back and looked at my notebook,
and the chatter was that Irving was tired of being
the robin in the relationship. He didn't want to be
the son to father Lebron, and who's batman and all that,
and so now Lebron because he needs some attentions, Guy
(06:37):
I got regrets. He's also giving a passive, aggressive atomic
elbow to Anthony Davis right to the solar the solar
region of Anthony Davis.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
There.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The d Brow is Lebron James' current running mate. He's
Lebron's right hand man for better or worse, and often worse.
Unless you have four months off before the playoffs and
you play at a Mickey Mouse gymnasium with no fans,
then everything's good. We're all good. But outside of that,
(07:14):
not so good, not so good at all. But Lebron
did more than that. He got into a mac truck
and hit the daily double. What is the daily double,
you ask, Well, not only did he slam Anthony Davis,
his coworker for now, he also ran over skinny jeans.
(07:37):
That would be Rob Polinka, who for some reason is
still there because he's friends with Jeanie Buss at the
GM there. And you can tell Lebron subtly is upset
because he wanted the Lakers to acquire Kyrie Irving a
couple of times and the Lakers didn't want to do
business with Kyrie, and so he's upset about that all
(08:01):
right now, page two, turning the page, Let's go focus
on the actual finals Finals, which is going on at
some point here Thursday Garden party, be there or just
watch it on TV, or don't watch it at all.
I don't care. We'll watch it for you. But reacting
to the media chatter and Here's what I'm hearing in
the echo chamber as we head into just about go time.
(08:25):
Is it true that Jason Tatum has much more, much
more to lose in the NBA Finals than Jalen Brown,
Luka Doncik, and ky Ree Irving. Let's sa a popular
talking point by popular people. So I'm going to nod
my head yes on this that Tatum does have more
to lose than Jalen Brown, Luka Doncik, and Kyrie Irving.
(08:49):
This series is booby trapped for Jason Tatum. It is
booby trapped for tatm Let me explain why. If you
look at the eye chart, perception is reality. I heard
that somewhere perception is reality, and the perception will be
that Jason Tatum, the guys at Bum, the guys a
(09:09):
Bum as our friend Joe and Rhode Island used to say,
who can't get it done? He cannot get it done
at the finish line. Everyone else has an alibi. Now,
the basketball media gives so many of these alibis out.
But let's go down and look at the big board.
Luka Doncik will get a pass. It's his first chance
in the NBA Finals. You don't often win your first one. Okay, Well,
(09:34):
Kyriees got the ace up his sleeve there that he
was part of the Lebron Calves team that came back
against Golden State because Draymond Green couldn't keep his hands
to himself and kicked the guy in the twigging berries
and was watching an Oakland Athletics game while the Warriors
were playing in the NBA Finals. Then you got Jalen
(09:55):
Brown and Jaylen Brown's like, I'm gonna go like Seinfelder.
He's George Costanza and Jason Tatum is Jerry Seinfeld. So
you don't get upset with George Costanza if there was
a bad episode of Seinfeld because he's the number two.
And then you've got Jason Tatum, who doesn't get a mulligan.
(10:15):
There's no mulligan for Jason Tatum. This is his second
bite of the apple, and if the second try after
the first one goes awry, it does not go well
for you. He is the jewel, the jewel of the
crown of Madison Avenue. If you've been paying attention, maybe
you don't watch commercials. I don't know. I try to
(10:36):
avoid them, but I see Jason Tatum's mug all over
selling shoes, Gatorades, Subway over the years he's done the
video games, is the potato chips, you name it. He's
selling you a lot of crap, a lot of crap.
He's selling you. And you lose in the NBA Finals
and you don't play well. I mean, you could win
(10:58):
Jaylen Brown could be the better player. That would heard
and that would be a negative net negative, that would
not be DeBie. But you lose to the Mavericks and
it's like the lowest seed in the modern era to
win a championship Dallas. And that's embarrassing. That's that's embarrassing.
And then you got the cooties. They give you a
little cooties and nobody wants the cootie. Remember in elementary school,
when you have the cooties, nobody wants the cooties. All right,
last word here, So some shuffling from the Boston side.
(11:23):
We are hearing now that it is on for Chris
stops porzingis green light go. He is returning to the
Celtics active roster for the NBA Finals. No shock here.
What is your reaction though to this? So my initial
reaction is what de damn do? That is my reaction.
I have heard the noise, and you probably have as
(11:46):
well if you consume this content what you're doing right now.
So I've heard the noise that there's a lot of
hyperventilating by talking heads. The Celtics cut on win unless
Porzungi's plays parzun guess hash double ay or else. Oh.
Biting my fingernails thinking about it, I don't believe it.
(12:07):
I don't believe the noise. And here's why. Remember back
in the pandemic, when we determine who in society was
essential and who was non essential. Remember that, and I
learned that doing an overnight sports talk radio show, the
federal government considered us essential. No I got a card
from the government. If they had martial law, I could
still go out. Yeah, your overnight sports radio guy's essential.
(12:32):
But here's the thing. Listen, Chris topsporzing is not essential.
Think of it like going to a Michelin star restaurant.
You're at a Michelin starred restaurant and you order the
prime rib. You get a perfectly cooked, perfectly cooked piece
of prime rib. That's the essential part of the meal.
(12:56):
If they serve you mashed potatoes, that's nice, but if
they're lumpy mashed potatoes, that's what Porzingis is. It's not
doesn't ruin the meal, It doesn't. It. Don't get me wrong.
Perzingis is good when he plays, but I also believe
his value is overblown. I don't think helps you much
on defense. And after a minutes long Malard scouting report
(13:17):
on the NBA Finals, we have determined that, well, Boston
is good enough to win without Porzingis. I think it's
a better story if they do win with Porzingis getting here.
And I know he's gonna play in Game one and
all that, but even with his return, the guys made
out of bostelwood and he's made out of popsicle sticks
(13:38):
is what he's made out of. There's a very slim
chance that he stays healthy between now and the end
of the NBA finalst I think it'll be sometime in
Loreno was telling me, like November or something like that. Yeah,
they start on Thursday of the Finals, and then they
just got to go to November and then they take
I think it's two days off and then they start
the next year. I think I might be wrong with that,
(13:59):
but I think that's I think that's how you do it.
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as we traditionally do, buy request with the Mallor monologue
in our lead this hour headline the intersection gambling and Baseball,
those worlds colliding this week, big week for gambling and baseball. Now,
this particular portion of the show, we're going to focus
(16:13):
in on the Shohei Otani scandal that rocked baseball this summer.
It's a doozy. It is a douzy. Have you I
haven't heard the latest on this, and perhaps not. Major
League Baseball has said that's it, it's fineto, it's done.
They have put an end to the snooping around Dodger
(16:36):
Stars show. Heyo Tani. They have cleared him of any wrongdoing.
That's after his former interpreter, Ipe Misuhara pled guilty to fraud,
bunch of charges using Sho Heo Tani's money to subsidize
his gambling losses. Miss Sujara facing a maximum of thirty
(16:59):
three years in prison for wire and bank fraud. He
is alleged. You don't have to say a legend anymore.
You admitted to it's that they're gonna sentence him. He
did it. According to the court system. He stole seventeen
million dollars almost to pay off gambling debt. So let
us discuss the story that's interesting to me, and we'll
start with this is the Otani part of this and
(17:23):
the Baseball investigation. So what is your level of confidence
in Major League Baseball's investigation of show, Heyotani and now
clearing Otani of any wrongdoing. So I've got podcast all inclusive,
resort and pill Popperts for one thousand. I said number.
(17:50):
Put all these together and will make sense of the nonsensical.
So to begin here, let's get right out of the
gates with a classic staple of this show, the Malord
scale of trust. Now, the Malor scale of trust goes
one to ten, with ten being a devotee. You are
believing every word of the Gospel at a ten. So
(18:14):
to answer the question of where I am on confidence wise,
confidence wise Mallard scale of trust sho hail tony Baseball investigation.
I am at a cow. I am at a two
for this. And here's why. Track record, track record, that's
(18:34):
why Rob manfraud, the Commission of Major League Baseball and
the investigative arm Keystone cops, that's what they are. And
this is coming from someone that likes the Dodgers. Okay,
so you think, well, you're gonna I can't believe you
have this take. I I'm just saying when Baseball's investigating,
(18:56):
I don't feel very confident. What would the feds little
totally get away with it. I'm not saying they did.
I'm just I don't trust baseball. Now for illustration purposes
only Major League Baseball. Let's go back a couple of
years back. The year was twenty seventeen. If I remember correctly,
this is about seven years Major League Baseball was getting
(19:18):
complaints from teams around the American League. And the complaints
were claiming that there was a team that was cheating.
They were stealing signs, but they were doing it with
some kind of digital technology. Several teams complained to Major
League Baseball. Major League Baseball opened an investigation, and they
(19:38):
looked at everything. They found nothing right. While observing games
in which Thestros players were using contraband like trash cans,
for example, whistles. It's alleged that buzzers were involved by
(19:58):
some send signs via video monitor to a player in
the on well not the on deck circle, in the
batter's box. Major League Baseball watching the team cheat, watching
them violate the sanctity of the rule book. Major League
Baseball ruled everything as kosher. We're all good, nothing to
(20:21):
worry about, nothing to see here, move on. It was
only after a whistleblower, Mike Fires, an American hero in
sports anyway, who came out and said, yeah, I was
on the team, and these douchebags here's what they did.
My favorite part of that investigation by Major League Baseball
is it didn't happen until two years after the twenty
(20:46):
seventeen World Series, if I remember correct that it was
like twenty nineteen when the poopy hit the fanny, if
you will. And in the World Series video, the World
Series video produced by MLB Productions BAM Production, all right,
they showed the table the Astros were using the cheat.
(21:06):
They put it in the video. So am I supposed
to leave Major League Baseball? Come on? They do these
probes blindfolded. They do they don't have subpoena power. And
it's like that quote from Keishawn Johnson when Peyton Manning
was using his wife as a drug mule. According to
the documentary The Dark Side, and Kishawn Johnson, a tody
(21:27):
at the time for the NFL, said, if Peyton Manning
said he didn't do it, he said he didn't do
it, it didn't happen. And if it didn't happen, he didn't
do it, that's it. It's like, okay, So to me,
this story about Otani, it will will go away. It'll
be on a true crime podcast. It's on the back burner.
It's a cold case. Every once in a while, a
(21:48):
cold case comes back. And if Otani was more involved
in this, chances are that someone's going to sing like
a canary and we'll get more information. Right now, No,
right the way the story is being presented, Otani's not
a gambler. He's just an idiot. He's obtuse. Under his nose,
you can steal seventeen million dollars and he's so bad
(22:11):
financially financially, it didn't look that's it all right now,
page two, So how much jail time? Real me? This batman?
How much jail time is sho Heltani's interpreter or former
interpreter going to get a lot of headlines. It's called
clickbait on the interweb that say, ipe miss O'Hara is
(22:31):
facing up to thirty three years in prison. Now you know,
and I know that the greatest weasel term up to
People read it, they hear it, they don't pay attention
to it. Up to fifty percent off. You go shop,
you click on the website, you click the little card
(22:52):
icon to check out, and it's two percent off, but
instead up to fifty percent, Yeah, well you get two
percent weasel. Weasel, pop goes the weasel. So, while technically
true with Tony's former interpreter is facing thirty three years
in prison, it's not based on any reality. So I
(23:13):
sent some messages out and they believe it or not.
There are people that are like real smart people. I
think they claim they have like degrees and stuff, and
they're like lawyers and stuff. They claim to know me.
But if you ask them, they'll say they don't know me.
So I sent some messages. I was like, well, how
much time's acually? So they looked up some numbers here
(23:33):
and they say, well, he did admit his guilt, and
you know whether it's true or imagined or whatever, and
whether he embellished, how deep it was, and whether he
was completely responsible. But from what I got back, the
feedback I got back, as I understand it, based on
the federal sentencing guidelines, taking into account his offense, the
(23:57):
lack of criminal history, which is always something people look
at in these cases. In October, when the sensing happens,
the interpreter for show Altani is looking at five to
seven years on holiday, five to seven years, low level,
all inclusive resort. They call it the Gray Bar Hotel.
The amenities include television, they have a workout yard, cigarettes,
(24:19):
you get the phone. Cigarettes you gotta pay for that's
an add on, and then you get the phone. They
have internet. That's extra. Now, you may get shanked, that's
not good, and you probably have to be on on
guard in certain locations in the prison. But other than that,
I mean, everything's taking care of all right. No final point,
(24:41):
we move now to the social network because insiders convinced
that the only reason, the only reason a major figure
in baseball is no longer a major figure in baseball
is because of X, Instagram, Facebook, the TikTok. All of
that Big Baseball was pushed over the edge to get
(25:03):
rid of an infamous umpire question true or false? True
or false? Was major League Baseball swede by social media
to get rid a rogue umpire? Angel Hernandez, So I
am going to hit the buzzer that says true. I'm
(25:24):
pressing the buzzer. This system. The average Major League baseball
team is worth about two and a half million dollars,
about two and a half billion dollars. Yet many of
the people at the upper echelon who are in that
Manhattan bubble, all of the major sports leagues in the
industrial conflex of sports in America have their headquarters within
(25:46):
a few blocks in midtown Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Last I was in New York, I walked out at
like midnight and I was just wandering around. Was like,
and I was like, I wonder where the NFL office are.
So I walked to that and then as like, I
want to where Baseball's head coach are. It's like a
couple blocks over and it's like, oh, the NBA is
on Fifth Avenue. They're all within a couple of blocks
of you. And all these people I make a lot
of money, tons of cash and all that. But the
(26:11):
leaders of baseball, I'm convinced that that is the valley
of the stupid, that that area, this is some kind
of like the Triangle of doom. Right, It's like the
Bermuda Triangle or something like that. Because here's why we
know that social media feels real. We know that it
(26:33):
seems like it's authentic, but it's not. And I've got
market research. I've gone out and we do meet and greets,
try to do a couple of year. We did one
in Charleston, South Carolina a little while back. We have
one tentatively scheduled for Las Vegas later this year. So
we try to go out and hang out with people.
And what I see there is nothing like what I
see on social media. So my determination is the people
(26:57):
at baseball are pill poppers. They're pill poppers, and they
love the red pills. And as you know, that clout
the attention whether it's fake, imagine it's a hell of
a drug. The dopamine hit. You get from that, and
so they keep swallowing that red pill. We know from
the matrix that you stay in wonderland if you take
(27:18):
that red pill, and you just want to see how
deep you can go. And so's that's baseball. But yeah,
I don't doubt for a second Angel Hernandez has been
a pimple on the tookis of baseball for years. But
finally they finally decided, all right, that's it, we got
to get we got to meet his number. And the
rumor is that they met his number, that they ponied
(27:41):
up the money to get rid of him. It's not
like Angel Hernandez gave them a deal. They had to
pay what he wanted, and they did and he left.
And they could have done that five years ago. They
waited to this time, and for whatever reason, that's what happened.
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Speaker 5 (28:20):
The Atlanta Falcons have a brand new coaching staff, and
running back Bijon Robinson revealed on Monday that this year
he'll be used more like the forty nine ers use
Christian McCaffrey. Ben, do you think Robinson can have the
same sort of impact.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
No, because Christian McCaffrey is one of the all time
great players in this generation and we've only seen It's
like a peep show with Bijon Robinson, Right, We've seen glimpses,
but there's a big gap to get to that level.
So I'm not gonna miss He's got the talent, but
I got to see it before I get excited.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Next, the NBA announced on Monday that the draft will
now be spread over two days for the first time
in history. Ben, how dumb is this idea?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
This is the dumbest idea since Steve Balmer said, no
one's gonna spend four hundred bucks on an iPhone? Remember that,
the Microsoft guy who's now owning the Clippers. Yeah, it's
a stupid idea. It's it's nobody likes the NBA Draft
when it's one night. It's annoying when it's one night. Now,
who's gonna Who's gonna have the first pick of the
second next?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Over the weekend, the Tri City Chili Peppers out of
Virginia hostel what may have been the first ever cosmic
baseball game. It looked pretty awesome, man, I checked out
some some photos and videos. Do you think this could
become a thing with MLB ever doing?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Because baseball they actually tried this. Charlie o'finley, the owner
of the as, I think he tried something like this
with an orange baseball, but the baseball is too corporate
now they won't do it Major League Baseball. How do
we know he passes? They win.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
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I call it a small town famous small town.
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That's that's a pretty big deal, right because everyone knows
who you are.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
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There's there's a guy in Myrtle Beach at the Myrtle
Beach Airport that works at the rental car room that
knows who I am. That's the only person that really
knows who I am.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
It's a big deal, then, it is a big deal.
I bet he gets you discounts on that rental car.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Well, I've only met him one time. He gave me
a nice rental though really good rentald when I was
in the Carolina so that was very nice.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Heck, yeah, maybe we can give him some love advice sometimes.
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I'm driving a rental right now. In fact, you love
Reynolds and I have out of state place, which I hate.
I don't think this is big an issue here, though.
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You can drive worse because you have out of state plates.
I use it all the time since Minor Oregon. I
drive like a jerk.
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The oh sure no the answers didn't know.
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Isn't a music show. It's a sports show, all.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Right, King Roy writes, Since says, he says, since it's
Pride month and I want to show my appreciation to
my coworkers who are brave to live their life the
way they want, what is the appropriate way to honor them?
I was thinking about a rainbow cake and ask you
to fruit what what do you think? I don't know
(32:03):
that's a good idea. I don't just tell him to
have a good day? How about it?
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Really though? Yeah, just be supportive. I mean honestly, a cake, though,
I think that'd be really fun.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Do we really need a cake?
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Would be fun? Maybe put some sparklers on it.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Edie, when we were kids that we have like theme months,
I don't remember as much. Maybe we did, I don't know. No,
I feel like it was like this. We were just
taught to raise people. We were just thought to be
nice to.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
People, and the best way you could do that is
just to be nice to them.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, it's another thing that's changed in my lifetime. Ferg
dog says, what's the polite way to ask a woman
if she's biologically female? Isn't the normally the telling that
the surprise?
Speaker 7 (32:49):
I mean, if you're really curious, you should ask.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Well, you usually the Adam apples. Yeah, that was what
Eddie told me back in the day, that that's the
key either that is it?
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Yes, but they do shave those down these days, Ben really.
Oh yeah they do. Wow, I know the sound out
shaving it right. No, yeah, that's horrible, but they do.
They do it all right.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Anchor Terra says, a few weeks ago, you said that
five foot ten inches was short. Any advice to someone
who is five foot three?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
I did not say that was short.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Incas offended.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Uh yeah, uh no, you're not short. You're a short king.
Does that count?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Inca's this guy's a legend man. Well you you don't.
You don't know his story. But he was as a child,
he was born and like it was like a human sacrifice.
I mean, he's a wild story. Wow. Really, yes, South America, Yes,
South America in the you know the famous Inca.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Is that what stunted his growth?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Uh no, no, but they everyone in that part of
the uh right, he's like the tallest guy, right Eddie
or something like that, right right, I think. So, I
don't know about that, but in that group of yeah,
he'll call up sometime and tell the story.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
You know, a lot of girls do like short men, though,
I'm telling you I am one of them.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Take that Inca, you got a shot, Come in studio Anca,
we'll set you up. Let's say, all lot to Wayne
in Memphis on the Queen Hearts with Lorena.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
What's up Wayne?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
On the phones? Hello Wayne, Lorena, Yes, need your help.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Okay, So a few weeks ago, my wife she started
a new shift or whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
So she says that it's three in the morning or whatever.
So I found out she was cheating. I went across
the street to one of my neighbors and started cheating
with her. Okay, but my issue is we.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Have a kid together. I don't know how I tell
my wife or I don't want the lady, the new
lady to tell my wife that we've been doing this
just because the child support battles like.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
This, Like, how do I go about letting her know that?
Speaker 5 (34:51):
I know?
Speaker 4 (34:52):
You got to make better decisions and life choices. Okay,
if you're going to be you're in the sheets doing
things in the streets, then you got to be ready
to take on any repercussions.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
How well he started it about, I don't.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Think that's how that works.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I mean, well, there's a kid involved, though, you got
to put ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
Have a conversation, be an adult.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
The kids, unless the neighbor's hot, Eddy, unless they that'll
be a past.
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Game of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Here's Ben Meller, right to the game. We go on
password the word Game of the Stars. Teams are set.
We've got Koople loops with Joseph, Joseph's and Charleston drives
a truck. And we've got Mark. He's born bred in Boston,
but he loves the Yankees. He's also driving a truck
here with me. And we've got a list of words here. Gentlemen,
(35:52):
it's a new men. Thanks to all the movies that
have called up tonight. It's been a great night of radio.
So thank you. We killed the cockroach together, So be
proud of yourself, all right, Uh, Joseph, you were on
the air first to pick a number one to ten, sir,
one to ten, number one? Hey, that's my line. You're
using my line? Howd you? I? Go ahead? Cool?
Speaker 5 (36:13):
All right, let's go with Oh, this is easy, this
is easy. Well that the word I'm thinking of is
probably too complex of a word.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
And I'm not saying he's an idiot. No, I'm going
go ahead. Urry, let's go with a fable no or
what he said? No, fable f A B L E
fable tail No. No, Yeah, that was good. That was
I'm gonna I'm gonna go, are you there, Mark, I'm
(36:45):
going narrative? Oh boy, I think I what do you say? Quote?
He said, I believe no?
Speaker 7 (36:57):
I thought he said soap?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Well, all right, all right, Joseph. If you heard, you
heard the clues, you heard Ben's clue, you heard the guesses,
let's go with let's go.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
With book story.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, let's go, I got it off mine. All right,
there's like two points or whatever. And you are up
next there, who cares? Pick a number one to ten? Please? Mark?
Actually number three? All right, let's go and you said
number three? Yep, Cola. Guess who's got the lead.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Joke.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
That's fine. Pick a number there, Joseph.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Please, in today's game, I'm gonna go with number two
because that's what ben Now a team is number two?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Oh this is actually yeah, I gotta pick a different one.
I didn't. We did this last week. I forgot to
delete it. Okay, ah, who you that you gotta get
rid of it? All right? Pick a number because I'm
not number two, I'm number one. Go ahead, Pick a
number four to ten, number five, number five. Let's go
with catch phrase slogan.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah, that was that was easy that mark.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Go ahead, Mark picking up my mark? Number number seven.
All right, I could do the reverse mala maneuver, but
I don't know you're panicking. I'm not gonna do that.
Let's go. Let's go with cost cost c ost cost cost, yes,
(38:40):
c O S T costright, yeah, all right? Picking up
pick another number, justin, pick another number.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
Eight?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
No chance, no chance you were going to choke? No chance.
Let's go with go ahead, O my god, what chance.
Let's go with alarm techic.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Tyron.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That's it. It's a final.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
The word was panic because you panick. That was a
mark the Yankees winning the championship.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Mark, we won The Yankees won't mark
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