June 11, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Juan Soto getting a vote as MLB's most overrated player, NCAA president Charlie Baker leading the charge to have college prop bets banned, Cite the Bite, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number foll bouncing all over
the sports landscape here in our number four. It's a
grab bag. What did you make of one Soto? That's
a Yankees outfielder getting a vote as Major League Baseball's
most overrated player? Say what? Also, NCUBA president and political
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hack Charlie Baker from Massachusetts is leading the charge to
have college prop bets ban nationwide. How likely are we
to see this work out? And Fox commentator Greg Olsen
says NFL analyst could call NBA games more easily than
NBA analysts could call NFL games. What's your verdict on
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In our lead this hour a grab bag say what yeah?
Grab bag? Hip hop, skip and jump as well, there's
a hop, skip and jump around the sporting world. So
in baseball, we're gonna start with baseball. The New York Yankees,
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after losing the weekend series to the Doyers, played the
Royals in Kansas City and that game marked the return
of Juan Soto back in the Yankee lineup. Soto the
designated hitter in Kansas City. He did have a base
hit and scored a run, he walked and that was it.
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Kind of a quiet White Knight for Juan Soto, who
is currently fourth in baseball in batting average, He's in
the top ten in home runs, He's fourth and runs
batted in for the Bronx Bombers overall, and second in ops.
But he's also someone that popped up on an interesting list.
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So behind a paywall on the Athletic, they released the
twenty twenty four MLB Player Poll. Now, I don't know
about you, but this is always must read in the
mallor Mansion. We always read this, we look forward to
every year. So the MLB Player Poll a unscientifical study
of players, of course, not using their names. One of
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the categories was the most overrated, most overrated player in Baseball. Now,
that Booby prize went to Jazz Chisholm of the Marlins,
but that's not a big name, and the Marlins aren't
relevant other than Marlins Man, so we won't spend much
time on that. One of the players, though, that got
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to vote one vote, one big league player said, I'm
going to vote one Soto as the most overrated player
in the sport of baseball. It is interesting to note, though,
that in the overrated category, Anthony Rendon of the Angels,
you know, the guy that hates baseball and fans and life.
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Anthony Rendon might be embellishing that a little bit, but
Anthony Rendon finished second as the second most overrated player
in baseball, behind Jazz Chisholm. Of the Marlins, followed by
Carlos Correa forever tarnished, forever stained with a scarlet letter
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of a cheating a one one thousand and two one
thousand hole. After that Tim Anderson also of the Martins.
By the Marlins doing very well, Tim Anderson and Jazz
Chisholm Marlin Baseball. Also John Jack Flaherty. Jack Flherty popped
up on the list. All right, so let's discuss the question.
Don't bear the lead, my man, big name guys looking
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at a five six, seven hundred million dollar contract, what
do you make of one Soto of the Yankees getting
a vote as Major League Baseball's most overrated player? So
I've got game show, mom and pop and best seller,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some lemonade. It's getting into
that summertime now. Nothing better on a warm day than
a glass of lemonade, which is really bad for you,
but you only live once and you have a fatal illness,
so you might as well enjoy it a little bit. Now.
To lead off here the question again for the esteemed panel,
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what did you make of Juan Soto getting a vote
as Major League baseball's most over aded player, so it
makes sense, like I don't have an issue with it
was only one vote, he didn't win the contest, but yeah,
he's somebody that I watched with the Padres a lot
in recent years, and I didn't think he was as
good as everyone else, So I get it. Like our
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mantra is tough love. It's like the classic Hollywood game
show to tell the truth. Once all the votes are in,
all the votes are in and all that stuff, the
host asked, well, the real one Soto please stand up,
and then they kind of futts around and then eventually
the real one Soto stands up. But right now, I
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would say the jury is out, that this is a
jury trial. The jury's out. The bronx tale will go along. Well,
he's gonna get paid either way. There's always a dummy
that'll pay him no matter what. But the question is
in the moment. Right now, As of this moment, Juan
Soto deserves the big O tag as an overrated. Now.
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Overrated does not mean bad, it doesn't mean terrible. Overrated
simply implies rather obviously that you're just not as good
as the public perception of your performance. Now one. Soto,
much like this mall of monologue, is a mixed bag.
The reason he's a mixed bag he can't out of
the gates like a super nova. When he came onto
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the scene with the Washington Nationals at age nineteen, and
with Washington, I remember big hits in big games, that natitude.
He had five home runs in seventeen postseason games and
many big hits in Washington and captain clutch if you will.
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Then he went to San Diego and forgot how to play.
He betted two thirty nine in the postseason for the
Padres and just had a couple of home runs. And
now he's got the biggest stage of them all, Yankee Stadium,
the Boogie Down Bronx. The Yankees at this point have
almost wrapped up a playoff spot, even though we're not
even into the middle part of the month of June.
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And he's got his tag team partner, Aaron Judge. The
ball is in Soto Court. And will he exit stage
left or will he exit stage right? Inquiring minds would
like to no now furthermore this grab bag, we head
off to the land of enchapment known as gambling, the
gambling world. We go That is where the NCUBA president,
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Charlie Baker, the NCAA rule maker, Charlie Baker, former political
hack in Massachusetts he was the governor, is again boisterously,
boisterously pushing his agenda. He wants all prop bets banned,
all of them involving college players. All of them banned,
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of course, out of a using out of an abundance
of caution. Charlie Baker citing concerns about the increased harassment
college athletes. He said, student athletes. That's a weasel term
the NCAA came up with, and I'd have to pay
a worker's comp But anyway, student athletes because of legalized gambling.
Now Charlie Baker leading the charge to have the NCAA
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prop bets a thing of the past. With all the
gambling houses, how likely are we? How likely are we
to see this workout that direction? So, you know, I
like a thing or two about gambling. I do, but
I also realize that at the same time, there are
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things that are taboo, that are problematic, and this is problematic.
But the nc double A, here's the problem. And you know,
Charlie Baker's a political hack, so he doesn't get it.
You know, he's too far in the weeds to figure
out what's going on. The NCAA has already gotten and
will continue to get the illusion of success when it
comes to banning prop bets. Now, what I mean by
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that is for reference sake, there are some states that
have already outlawed prop bets involving college athletes. They ever
botn when I say the illusion though, Charlie Baker and
those that think this is that simple, they live in Maybury.
They don't live in a place I live, which is Realityville.
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I live in Realityville, and in Realityville, this is an impossibility.
It is you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
That's never going to happen here. And by the way,
it never was a reality. You're not supposed to say
the quiet part out loud, but prop bets have always
been a thing. It's just been more in your face
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in recent years. And regardless the ship has sailed. Charlie
Baker is going to do more to help mom and
pop neighborhood bookies than anyone in recent history. Okay, he's
going to do more to prop up your neighborhood bookie,
your uncle Vinnie or whoever right, just the problem up,
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and people will still bet on NCAA props involving players,
they'll just do it away from the legalized gambling websites.
That means the government won't get a cut of the
proceeds the tax on that, they won't get any of
their share, and it'll be the same way it always is,
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except the gambling houses are the oversight. We talk about
political oversight in Washington, which doesn't really exist, but the
oversight and gam If you look at the John day
Porter story in Toronto, how did they know there was
some funny business? Because the house lost? And when the
house loses, they investigate, why did we lose? Is something
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not kosher here? And of course that was rather obvious
because who the hell's betting that kind of money on
a scrub with the Toronto Raptors on a prop bet?
But that's aside the point. But if you take away
the prop bets from all of them, from the offshore
books and all the different gambling houses that are legal,
it'll just continue, but it'll continue in the darkness, and
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the players are still going to get harassed and all that,
And that's just the way it is right now. The
last here we moved to the broadcasting world where Fox
commentator Greg Olsen recently said NFL analysts like him, NFL
analysts could call NBA games more easily than NBA analysts
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could call NFL games. So again his premise is, as
an NFL commentator, you are better qualified to broadcast an
NBA game than vice versa. What is your verdict on
this one? So I spent several seconds that someday I'll
be on my deathbed and wish I could have back
on this, And I disagree with the premise of Greg Oles.
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The way I look at this the ex jocks, and
that's really what he's talking about. He's talking about NFL analysts,
which are all ex jocks. There's not one that's not
an ex jock. And in the NBA, I don't know
of any NBA analysts that are not ex jocks. So
it's just ex jocks. An x jocks are interchangeable. Okay,
I would like you to read the bestseller sports Casting
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game is easier to call an NFL game because you
have more downtime, there's more time to talk. So from
that perspective, Greg Olsen's not wrong. However, you simply exchange
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Speaker 1 (15:54):
Coming up later this I have cite the bite the
great sports radio mystery coming your way. We look forward
or that NBA Finals off till Wednesday. The Edmonton Oilers
will come back in the hockey that starts on Thursday. My,
my Edmonton Oilers will bounce back and we're gonna have
a series here. And I cannot wait for the Oilers
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to finally wake up. I I bought them some sleeping
salts Eddie on the on the internet on Amazon, so
they'll arrive in Edmonton and they'll be ready to go
game three, and uh, they were right. There was one
one anyone's game going to the final period there in South.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Florida and when it mattered most how that workout.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Again, Eddie, they were right there in position in both games, Eddie,
in both games in position. We're splitting hairs here.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I don't think we are.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I mean, I'm the Panthers. I'm worried. Those are bad
wins for the Florida Panthers. Okay, those are bad wins
the Edmonton Eddie. The Edmonton Oilers stars have not shown
up yet, and still Edmonton had a chance to win
both those games. Despite having issues with their stars performance
and whatnot.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
They were still Florida Panthers have shut down the Edmondton Oilers.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No, it's nothing the Florida Panthers have done, Eddie. It's
just Connor McDavid and Leon Dry said. I think they
spent too much time in the sun. That's my theory. Yes,
they were. You know, they're used to living in Edmonton,
and they were they were in you know, they're down
in South Florida. They were probably hanging out all that.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Time in the sun. Florida Panthers players, doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
They're used to it. It's like it's second football. When
you go to a cold weather you're a warm weather
or dome team. You go to cold weather, it affects you.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Right, they play the games in the frozen around.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
But they're out all day. You know they're putting the
suntan lotion.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
They don't they don't have the championship fire to compete.
Every game they had.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Fire, it was a sunburn. I think Connor mcdavids probably sunburn.
That's why he didn't score a goal yet. But he will.
He will bounce back. Here my orders, all right. The
first this is the first time Edmonton scored just once
in a two game stretch since twenty twenty two. Eddie,
we're in twenty twenty four. They're due, they are overdue.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
I don't hear you say that about the Dallas Mavericks though,
after they.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Because they're not due, because they have Kyrie Irving. He's
a schmuck, so they're not due. But the Edmonton Oilers
absolutely And as you you mentioned this earlier, he tried
to pooh poo it. But the star for the Florida Panthers.
I'm a hockey guyed He Alexander Barkov, he might not
be able to.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Play, and Leon Dreyst don't let me suspended?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah yeah, let him play. Well, yeah, come on, it's hockey,
you know. It's a minor infraction. Was a little elbow?
Come on, no big deal, right, that's that back in
the old days, Eddie, that was nothing. It's the old rub.
Some ice on it, jump jumping the zamboni, drive around
the zamboni and call it a day. Okay, well, let's
see what happens. But to my orders, that's that's the team.
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That's the big take right there, that's the squad. That
is the team right there. Now the hackers paradise. This
is this is quite the story. Are you familiar with
Buster Olney?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Do you know who is ESPN Baseball guy.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, he's one of these information guys at Major League Baseball.
I saw this, So somebody hacked his account, Eddie and
made for a lot of this happened while I was sleeping,
But trust me, when I woke up, I was I
was greeted towards quite quite the show. So Buster only
has one point three million bots or whatever. I don't know.
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Maybe some of them are real or not. I don't know,
but he's an information guy Baseball Information guy. Among the
comments that were sent out by the hackers or the
season is canceled due to COVID. That was that was
sent out. That was the I think that was the
opening salvo. No, I think that wasn't the opening So
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of the there was Shoo Tani message, the comment on
Atani from the hackers that Otani had been banned for
life from baseball in connection to charges with gambling. And
there was a trial set August twenty eight. That's pretty
quick to get a trial August twenty eighth, And yeah,
that was that was sent out. And there was also
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a trade that the Mets, the Buster Only account sent
out from the hackers that the Mets were going to
trade Francisco Lindor to the Oakland Athletics, who I think
could buy the Oakland Athletics. And it was all kinds
I hate the Mets. It was hilarious. So the theory
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on this is that it was was somebody in New
York that that hacked. Didn't wasn't Buster Only doing the
Yankee Dodger game over the weekend? I think he was.
Wasn't you know a Sunday night baseball I think I
saw him on there. You think he left his phone
down for a couple of minutes or something like that
and somebody snatched his phone and put it back.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
And huh we used to do that here at uh oh,
we had so much would Twitter accounts open and yeah,
that's a code, it was code.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
We haven't done that. People don't do it anymore. A
lot of people don't even work here, they don't work
in the building anymore. But well, we had remember Raj
real producer, Raj, I do remember Dick and Dayton Man,
he he got me good ones. Oh he's the worst, yeah, Raj.
He would he was like a hawk bouncing around the
building there and he was looking for every every computer anything,
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any phones that were laying around, and he would go
for I got, I got Jason Smith. A couple of
times he would he would Jason would always leave his
Jason does the show before us. I come in here
and he's he's here. Some of the time he would
leave his computer open, like he would not close any windows.
Bad computer etiquette. Poor computer. You've gotta you gotta close
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some of the windows. You gotta do it. So, so
what happens to the buster only hacker is that is
that criminal. That's not is that. I don't know how
does that work if they if they find out who
did how they gonna find out who did it? I
don't know, but I thought it was amusing. The tawny
thing was pretty funny. It was well written. It was
written in the verbiage will you kind of believe it
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could happen? I was like, well, that could make sense
that you can say. Now the actual content of the
material was a little ridonculous, But you're like, I could
kind of see a scenario where that might work. All right,
let's see the Great Unwashed. There was a couple comments
I want to do read here. Johnny Q writes and
says the wind has not been blowing in South Florida. Uh,
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he says, the oilers will Well, he's saying the wrong.
What he meant is the oilers are going to come back,
and he didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Ferg Dog, my guy, Fergie says Eddie Garcia sounds nervous
about the oilers coming back. He's practically quivering. That is correct, absolutely.
Ferg Dog says, Hey, Ben, is this the worst week
in Laker franchise history? They don't have the money or
prestige to poach a college coach anymore, and the Celtics
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are about to further extend their title lead over the Lakers. Yeah,
it's about it's about right. I mean, I would say,
back when Kobe got hurt and then they had a
parade of turds that they drafted and they kept missing
out on the number one pick in that stretch, that's
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pretty it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad, Shane and des
Moines says he wants caller free radio. And then he
gave me mostly passing grades on the mal monologue, although
he said one was an eight point five. I guess
that was the NBA Finals one. He did not like
the NBA Finals Malard monologue. All right, Sports Plus says
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Speaker 1 (24:20):
We were lacking on fun, Eddie, and I need to
bring the Ben.
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Mallor fun fact.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
These aren't always fun though, Eddie.
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It's my time to talk, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
The lights went out at Petco Park in San Diego
on the Oakland Athletics and the Padre little baseball action there.
The lights went out. So what did the fans do, Eddie?
They took out their phones and they turned on the flashlights.
It looked like a religious revival. It was. It was
pretty good. There were thousands of fans, which is more
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than the Oakland Athletics ever get. And because it was
the San Diego that's why the fans were holding up
and they were waving them back and forth like they
were at a musical concert. And it made for a
very nice visual.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Did you see the Vladimir Guerrero bat? Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Anything in the Brewer game? You know how they ever,
once in a while you take a big cut and
the whoop slips out.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Of your hand.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Oh it stuck right, yeah, went up to the into
the netting. Uh, and they couldn't get it out, and
they left it up there for several lightnings. His bat
was just hanging up there. Some of the teams are throwing.
Baseball's a mop and you know.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
In basketball they have a mop. When the ball gets
stuck in the room, they have a mop and they
can put the stick from the mop up there. They
don't have a mop. There's no mop in baseball.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
They needed a really big mop because it was way
up there, like halfway up in the netting. So they
had to finally get a poll the hole.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Somebody climb up there. I still I'll repeat the greatest
thing I ever saw a baseball game. I was covering baseball, right, Yeah,
I guy climbed the foul pole at the Big Egg.
They didn't know what it did.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Crazy, I wouldn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
They're like, oh, well, just wait for him to come down.
He's got to come down one way or another. It's
got to come down. And yeah, eventually he climbed back down.
And that was still not the greatest video I've seen
this week, though, That is the Dodger bark in the park.
That video over the weekend. I think it was over
the weekend, right bark in the park where they had
all the dogs in the pavilion. Awesome, everyone's holding up
their dogs. It's like a scene from some some movie.
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What movie they hold up their animals? Well, not lion king,
but that kind of vibe, that kind of vibe. So
there's an American tradition that has been living the island
life that will no longer be living the island life.
The Army Navy game, going back to my childhood, I
always remember that was a standalone event that you spent
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your time. You're looking for some to watch. There wasn't
anything else on. You watch the Army Navy game. Even
if you're not from a military family, you watch the game. Well,
turns out that that will no longer be an island
game anymore because the powerbrokers of college football have expanded
the College Football Playoff. They have a new schedule of
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ball games and as a result, the Army Navy Game
will not be a standalone event. It will be played
the same day as not one, not one, but two
bowl games. Two bowl games. Army Navy Game will be
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played December fourteenth with the Celebration Bowl, which kicks off
at noon Eastern, and with the Camellia Bowl. What the
hell is? What is that the Camellia I know what
that is? That set for nine pm mester, so that'll
be wrong. After What is the Camellia Bowl? Do you
know what that?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Honestly, I know Fresno State played in it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Like in the it was back, it was dead and
it's back.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
I think they must have revived it because I think
it was gone.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Oh I want to I want the weed Eater Bowl back.
That was my favorite woman weed Eater Bowl that was
always good. Army Navy will play at three pm.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So you want an interesting fact about Army Navy?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Do I want that? Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
So my dad was a career, Yeah, every guy and
I have a lot of relatives that were in the Army,
and they don't care about that game at all. Really,
it's it's about the people that go to the academies.
Like they didn't go to the academies. They just you know,
they enlisted, so they don't give a crap about that game.
I always thought that was interesting that they really don't
care about that game.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh is that just your your father father?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
It's a small sample size, but all of the family
members that I've had, and they've been with a lot
of them that have been in the army. They they
don't care about that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
My number one military friend who I worked with the radio,
good Art Martinez. Art doesn't care about it because you
know what branch of the military was Art in Eddie,
Oh gee, I don't know, already told us every other
every time, a couple yeah, five, He was in the Marines.
And he always points out that the unlike the Navy,
and unlike the Army, the Marines actually do all the
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dirty work and they're the first ones in and the
last ones out, and walk on water and walk on water,
and they get all the bad guys. And if you
have a job to do, you call them reas you
don't call the Army, you don't call the Navy. That's
my friend lardy. But technically, aren't the Marines part of
the Navy?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yes, so they wouldn't like you saying that.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But yes, there, yeah, And then I always say, what
about the coast Guard? Well, I think the coast Guard
should have their own their own team. That be wonderful. Hey,
I have a fun fact. Though you want a fun fact,
I got a fun fact, my own fun fact here
we go is definitely fun here, Eddie. The most visited
country in twenty twenty three in terms of one hundred
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millions and millions of tourists in the entire globe. Here
this according to the World Tourism Organization. I don't even
know what that is. It sounds made up. What do
you think here? Most visited country in the flat Earth,
according to Kyrie Do Do do?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I'll do with France.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Are you gonna go with Fransa? What do you think they're?
Marky mark Taiwan Taiwan. Wow, that's how I've left field there?
What about you, Kooperloop, I'm gonna go with Italy Italy,
all right, I'll give you the top four. Number four
was Italy, the fourth most visited country fifty seven million
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tourists in Italy. Number three was the Red, White and Blue.
I've wrapped myself in the flag right now.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Excepting for a Canadian hockey team.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Canada is like Canada's northern US. You know it's not,
and we're southern Canada. And I want the countries to
get together because then we can get great poutine, Eddie.
If the US and Canada merged together, great poutine for everybody, anyway,
US was three, Spain was number due and number one
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and number one with a bullet France. So you got
it right. One hundred million tourists in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Three, o'curse City of Lights Paris.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Did you go there?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yes? You did?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh so that you picked it because you went there.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
No, I just know that a lot of people like
to go there, A lot a lot of ladies like.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
To go there.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
It seems I've been there.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
But isn't it like people are rude and it there's
trash and.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Not not for my trip.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I'm just I can only speak for myself.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I've seen videos on the on the internet there, idiot,
I'm sure you.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Can find videos just about everything on the internet.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Well, when I went, oh, cripple loop with a nice
trip to Europe story travel log with Coop.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
As far as like trash goes, that was worse in Italy,
specifically Rome, just Rome was like San Francisco or yeah,
just garbage on the streets.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
But I you know, I'm not saying this. I'm not
not a blanket statement.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
But it was the most rude place as far as
the stereotype works, well, as far as you know, people
would just now want to give you the time of
the day.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
And I just I just felt like, I don't know
if it was necessarily outright rude, but I felt with
the with the French, or at least the Parisians, because
I only went to Paris. When I went to France
her it was kind of like I got the the
vibe of like just effing Americans like that.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
That kind of well, if you have one hundred million
tourists in your country, you probably yeah, that's It's like
you go to New York and you see all those
my brothers in New York, and you see those red
double decker buses around New York, Like, all right, I've
seen enough of those people. Get them out of here.
You know, they're annoying me and all that. Here's a
fun fact. Also, Mexico. More people visited Mexico than the
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United Kingdom. How about that? Of course, that's all gotta
be all Americans pretty much right, just going to going
down having a good time. Food, Yes, great food in Mexico.
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here to get better. Someone from the world of sports
the last seven to ten days could be an athlete, coach,
media member. Play it again, Play again, Mark, We're here
to get better. We gotta get better. We get I
(34:38):
tell Eddie every day we got to get better. We
gotta get better, Eddie. The show's not good enough. We
got it's your fault. We got to get better. All right,
let's see here. Let's go to actually well, anyone get
it right, call it five, Call it five. We'll get
it right, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Nobody will get it right.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Mark, nobody, Hayter. I hope the White Sox never win again.
What about you, Koop? Nobody. They're working on it. Yeah,
they are trying their their darness. Let's go to Manuel
in Gardena. A golden ticket is on the line. If
someone gets this right. Do you know who it is?
(35:16):
Someone from sports? Hello, Manuel from.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Gard Oh, Ben, I know that is Ben Wapinjmin aka
Benoit Benjamine.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Is that the iconic Beanoit Benjamin who popped up on
local LA radio and they're making a documentary about Benoit Benjamin.
That's incorrect, but thank you for the mention. Appreciate that.
Not Benoit Benjamin. Let's go to Blake in Arkansas, who
is desperately, desperately pulling for the Dallas Mavericks. Hello Blake, Well,
(35:48):
I had a funny bit that it was bucking up
Beaver because he just made me biscuits and Viking. But
I actually know that it's Kyrie Irvan. Is that Kyrie Irving?
What your streak continues here? Play that's not that's not Kyrie?
Played again? Mark, played again, played again? Thank you. We're
(36:11):
here to get better. All right, first clue this person
grew up in South Carolina. Well that limits it. Person
grew up in South Cone I played again, played again,
Play again, We're here to get better. Let's go to
Uncle Mo, who's Yankees lost two out of three to
my Dodgers over the weekend. Hello Uncle Mo in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I was gonna go with former with with Los Angeles
Angels star logan, Oh happy?
Speaker 6 (36:38):
But is that PJ.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Washington from the Dallas Maverick.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Is that PJ. Washington the Dallas Mavericks for the win
for Uncle Ma. No, all right, thank you, moll go away.
See time for caller number four, and that would be
Frank the Tank in Vegas. Hello, Frank the Tank, you're
my caller number four. Frank, Hello, Ben, I was gonna
(37:01):
go with Kyrie, So that's out of the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You you're sticking with that even though you know it's wrong.
I like that.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
No, I'm not sticking with it.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I was going to go with that, all right, you said,
South Carolina born.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Can I get another clue?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Please? No, you have to wait after you. We'll give
your clue out Carolina. Okay, I go Bubba Watson? Is
that Bubba Watson for the for the win? No, but
thank you, Frank. At least you changed your answer. Died
for our fifth contestant. But first the clue. This person
owns the record for most rushing yards buy a wide
receiver in a Super Bowl. Let's sello to caller five,
(37:39):
Andrew in Fremont, California. Hello Andrew, Well I most pit
Your guess.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Is that t O?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
No, No, it's not t O. How dare you? Let's
go to Sean the hood Guy quickly Sean the hood guy,
So cow, who is it? Sean Brando Hale?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Is that no?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
No, that's wrong too. All right, we're running out of time.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
It was Deebo Samuel de Bo Samuel was the answer.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
That's d Bo.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
We played this voice.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
That's a you know, I don't I didn't want Eddie,
I didn't lose.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I won.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
I'm a winner.
Hello and welcome. It's our number foll bouncing all over
the sports landscape here in our number four. It's a
grab bag. What did you make of one Soto? That's
a Yankees outfielder getting a vote as Major League Baseball's
most overrated player? Say what? Also, NCUBA president and political
(00:24):
hack Charlie Baker from Massachusetts is leading the charge to
have college prop bets ban nationwide. How likely are we
to see this work out? And Fox commentator Greg Olsen
says NFL analyst could call NBA games more easily than
NBA analysts could call NFL games. What's your verdict on
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In our lead this hour a grab bag say what yeah?
Grab bag? Hip hop, skip and jump as well, there's
a hop, skip and jump around the sporting world. So
in baseball, we're gonna start with baseball. The New York Yankees,
(02:18):
after losing the weekend series to the Doyers, played the
Royals in Kansas City and that game marked the return
of Juan Soto back in the Yankee lineup. Soto the
designated hitter in Kansas City. He did have a base
hit and scored a run, he walked and that was it.
(02:39):
Kind of a quiet White Knight for Juan Soto, who
is currently fourth in baseball in batting average, He's in
the top ten in home runs, He's fourth and runs
batted in for the Bronx Bombers overall, and second in ops.
But he's also someone that popped up on an interesting list.
(03:01):
So behind a paywall on the Athletic, they released the
twenty twenty four MLB Player Poll. Now, I don't know
about you, but this is always must read in the
mallor Mansion. We always read this, we look forward to
every year. So the MLB Player Poll a unscientifical study
of players, of course, not using their names. One of
(03:24):
the categories was the most overrated, most overrated player in Baseball. Now,
that Booby prize went to Jazz Chisholm of the Marlins,
but that's not a big name, and the Marlins aren't
relevant other than Marlins Man, so we won't spend much
time on that. One of the players, though, that got
(03:44):
to vote one vote, one big league player said, I'm
going to vote one Soto as the most overrated player
in the sport of baseball. It is interesting to note, though,
that in the overrated category, Anthony Rendon of the Angels,
you know, the guy that hates baseball and fans and life.
(04:06):
Anthony Rendon might be embellishing that a little bit, but
Anthony Rendon finished second as the second most overrated player
in baseball, behind Jazz Chisholm. Of the Marlins, followed by
Carlos Correa forever tarnished, forever stained with a scarlet letter
(04:28):
of a cheating a one one thousand and two one
thousand hole. After that Tim Anderson also of the Martins.
By the Marlins doing very well, Tim Anderson and Jazz
Chisholm Marlin Baseball. Also John Jack Flaherty. Jack Flherty popped
up on the list. All right, so let's discuss the question.
Don't bear the lead, my man, big name guys looking
(04:51):
at a five six, seven hundred million dollar contract, what
do you make of one Soto of the Yankees getting
a vote as Major League Baseball's most overrated player? So
I've got game show, mom and pop and best seller,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some lemonade. It's getting into
that summertime now. Nothing better on a warm day than
a glass of lemonade, which is really bad for you,
but you only live once and you have a fatal illness,
so you might as well enjoy it a little bit. Now.
To lead off here the question again for the esteemed panel,
(05:33):
what did you make of Juan Soto getting a vote
as Major League baseball's most over aded player, so it
makes sense, like I don't have an issue with it
was only one vote, he didn't win the contest, but yeah,
he's somebody that I watched with the Padres a lot
in recent years, and I didn't think he was as
good as everyone else, So I get it. Like our
(05:57):
mantra is tough love. It's like the classic Hollywood game
show to tell the truth. Once all the votes are in,
all the votes are in and all that stuff, the
host asked, well, the real one Soto please stand up,
and then they kind of futts around and then eventually
the real one Soto stands up. But right now, I
(06:17):
would say the jury is out, that this is a
jury trial. The jury's out. The bronx tale will go along. Well,
he's gonna get paid either way. There's always a dummy
that'll pay him no matter what. But the question is
in the moment. Right now, As of this moment, Juan
Soto deserves the big O tag as an overrated. Now.
(06:41):
Overrated does not mean bad, it doesn't mean terrible. Overrated
simply implies rather obviously that you're just not as good
as the public perception of your performance. Now one. Soto,
much like this mall of monologue, is a mixed bag.
The reason he's a mixed bag he can't out of
the gates like a super nova. When he came onto
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the scene with the Washington Nationals at age nineteen, and
with Washington, I remember big hits in big games, that natitude.
He had five home runs in seventeen postseason games and
many big hits in Washington and captain clutch if you will.
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Then he went to San Diego and forgot how to play.
He betted two thirty nine in the postseason for the
Padres and just had a couple of home runs. And
now he's got the biggest stage of them all, Yankee Stadium,
the Boogie Down Bronx. The Yankees at this point have
almost wrapped up a playoff spot, even though we're not
even into the middle part of the month of June.
(07:47):
And he's got his tag team partner, Aaron Judge. The
ball is in Soto Court. And will he exit stage
left or will he exit stage right? Inquiring minds would
like to no now furthermore this grab bag, we head
off to the land of enchapment known as gambling, the
gambling world. We go That is where the NCUBA president,
(08:11):
Charlie Baker, the NCAA rule maker, Charlie Baker, former political
hack in Massachusetts he was the governor, is again boisterously,
boisterously pushing his agenda. He wants all prop bets banned,
all of them involving college players. All of them banned,
(08:34):
of course, out of a using out of an abundance
of caution. Charlie Baker citing concerns about the increased harassment
college athletes. He said, student athletes. That's a weasel term
the NCAA came up with, and I'd have to pay
a worker's comp But anyway, student athletes because of legalized gambling.
Now Charlie Baker leading the charge to have the NCAA
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prop bets a thing of the past. With all the
gambling houses, how likely are we? How likely are we
to see this workout that direction? So, you know, I
like a thing or two about gambling. I do, but
I also realize that at the same time, there are
(09:17):
things that are taboo, that are problematic, and this is problematic.
But the nc double A, here's the problem. And you know,
Charlie Baker's a political hack, so he doesn't get it.
You know, he's too far in the weeds to figure
out what's going on. The NCAA has already gotten and
will continue to get the illusion of success when it
comes to banning prop bets. Now, what I mean by
(09:39):
that is for reference sake, there are some states that
have already outlawed prop bets involving college athletes. They ever
botn when I say the illusion though, Charlie Baker and
those that think this is that simple, they live in Maybury.
They don't live in a place I live, which is Realityville.
(10:00):
I live in Realityville, and in Realityville, this is an impossibility.
It is you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
That's never going to happen here. And by the way,
it never was a reality. You're not supposed to say
the quiet part out loud, but prop bets have always
been a thing. It's just been more in your face
(10:25):
in recent years. And regardless the ship has sailed. Charlie
Baker is going to do more to help mom and
pop neighborhood bookies than anyone in recent history. Okay, he's
going to do more to prop up your neighborhood bookie,
your uncle Vinnie or whoever right, just the problem up,
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and people will still bet on NCAA props involving players,
they'll just do it away from the legalized gambling websites.
That means the government won't get a cut of the
proceeds the tax on that, they won't get any of
their share, and it'll be the same way it always is,
(11:08):
except the gambling houses are the oversight. We talk about
political oversight in Washington, which doesn't really exist, but the
oversight and gam If you look at the John day
Porter story in Toronto, how did they know there was
some funny business? Because the house lost? And when the
house loses, they investigate, why did we lose? Is something
(11:31):
not kosher here? And of course that was rather obvious
because who the hell's betting that kind of money on
a scrub with the Toronto Raptors on a prop bet?
But that's aside the point. But if you take away
the prop bets from all of them, from the offshore
books and all the different gambling houses that are legal,
it'll just continue, but it'll continue in the darkness, and
(11:56):
the players are still going to get harassed and all that,
And that's just the way it is right now. The
last here we moved to the broadcasting world where Fox
commentator Greg Olsen recently said NFL analysts like him, NFL
analysts could call NBA games more easily than NBA analysts
(12:19):
could call NFL games. So again his premise is, as
an NFL commentator, you are better qualified to broadcast an
NBA game than vice versa. What is your verdict on
this one? So I spent several seconds that someday I'll
be on my deathbed and wish I could have back
on this, And I disagree with the premise of Greg Oles.
(12:45):
The way I look at this the ex jocks, and
that's really what he's talking about. He's talking about NFL analysts,
which are all ex jocks. There's not one that's not
an ex jock. And in the NBA, I don't know
of any NBA analysts that are not ex jocks. So
it's just ex jocks. An x jocks are interchangeable. Okay,
I would like you to read the bestseller sports Casting
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Coming up later this I have cite the bite the
great sports radio mystery coming your way. We look forward
or that NBA Finals off till Wednesday. The Edmonton Oilers
will come back in the hockey that starts on Thursday. My,
my Edmonton Oilers will bounce back and we're gonna have
a series here. And I cannot wait for the Oilers
(16:17):
to finally wake up. I I bought them some sleeping
salts Eddie on the on the internet on Amazon, so
they'll arrive in Edmonton and they'll be ready to go
game three, and uh, they were right. There was one
one anyone's game going to the final period there in South.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Florida and when it mattered most how that workout.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Again, Eddie, they were right there in position in both games, Eddie,
in both games in position. We're splitting hairs here.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I don't think we are.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I mean, I'm the Panthers. I'm worried. Those are bad
wins for the Florida Panthers. Okay, those are bad wins
the Edmonton Eddie. The Edmonton Oilers stars have not shown
up yet, and still Edmonton had a chance to win
both those games. Despite having issues with their stars performance
and whatnot.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
They were still Florida Panthers have shut down the Edmondton Oilers.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
No, it's nothing the Florida Panthers have done, Eddie. It's
just Connor McDavid and Leon Dry said. I think they
spent too much time in the sun. That's my theory. Yes,
they were. You know, they're used to living in Edmonton,
and they were they were in you know, they're down
in South Florida. They were probably hanging out all that.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Time in the sun. Florida Panthers players, doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
They're used to it. It's like it's second football. When
you go to a cold weather you're a warm weather
or dome team. You go to cold weather, it affects you.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Right, they play the games in the frozen around.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
But they're out all day. You know they're putting the
suntan lotion.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
They don't they don't have the championship fire to compete.
Every game they had.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Fire, it was a sunburn. I think Connor mcdavids probably sunburn.
That's why he didn't score a goal yet. But he will.
He will bounce back. Here my orders, all right. The
first this is the first time Edmonton scored just once
in a two game stretch since twenty twenty two. Eddie,
we're in twenty twenty four. They're due, they are overdue.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
I don't hear you say that about the Dallas Mavericks though,
after they.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Because they're not due, because they have Kyrie Irving. He's
a schmuck, so they're not due. But the Edmonton Oilers
absolutely And as you you mentioned this earlier, he tried
to pooh poo it. But the star for the Florida Panthers.
I'm a hockey guyed He Alexander Barkov, he might not
be able to.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Play, and Leon Dreyst don't let me suspended?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah yeah, let him play. Well, yeah, come on, it's hockey,
you know. It's a minor infraction. Was a little elbow?
Come on, no big deal, right, that's that back in
the old days, Eddie, that was nothing. It's the old rub.
Some ice on it, jump jumping the zamboni, drive around
the zamboni and call it a day. Okay, well, let's
see what happens. But to my orders, that's that's the team.
(18:54):
That's the big take right there, that's the squad. That
is the team right there. Now the hackers paradise. This
is this is quite the story. Are you familiar with
Buster Olney?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Do you know who is ESPN Baseball guy.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, he's one of these information guys at Major League Baseball.
I saw this, So somebody hacked his account, Eddie and
made for a lot of this happened while I was sleeping,
But trust me, when I woke up, I was I
was greeted towards quite quite the show. So Buster only
has one point three million bots or whatever. I don't know.
(19:34):
Maybe some of them are real or not. I don't know,
but he's an information guy Baseball Information guy. Among the
comments that were sent out by the hackers or the
season is canceled due to COVID. That was that was
sent out. That was the I think that was the
opening salvo. No, I think that wasn't the opening So
(19:54):
of the there was Shoo Tani message, the comment on
Atani from the hackers that Otani had been banned for
life from baseball in connection to charges with gambling. And
there was a trial set August twenty eight. That's pretty
quick to get a trial August twenty eighth, And yeah,
that was that was sent out. And there was also
(20:17):
a trade that the Mets, the Buster Only account sent
out from the hackers that the Mets were going to
trade Francisco Lindor to the Oakland Athletics, who I think
could buy the Oakland Athletics. And it was all kinds
I hate the Mets. It was hilarious. So the theory
(20:38):
on this is that it was was somebody in New
York that that hacked. Didn't wasn't Buster Only doing the
Yankee Dodger game over the weekend? I think he was.
Wasn't you know a Sunday night baseball I think I
saw him on there. You think he left his phone
down for a couple of minutes or something like that
and somebody snatched his phone and put it back.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
And huh we used to do that here at uh oh,
we had so much would Twitter accounts open and yeah,
that's a code, it was code.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
We haven't done that. People don't do it anymore. A
lot of people don't even work here, they don't work
in the building anymore. But well, we had remember Raj
real producer, Raj, I do remember Dick and Dayton Man,
he he got me good ones. Oh he's the worst, yeah, Raj.
He would he was like a hawk bouncing around the
building there and he was looking for every every computer anything,
(21:31):
any phones that were laying around, and he would go
for I got, I got Jason Smith. A couple of
times he would he would Jason would always leave his
Jason does the show before us. I come in here
and he's he's here. Some of the time he would
leave his computer open, like he would not close any windows.
Bad computer etiquette. Poor computer. You've gotta you gotta close
(21:54):
some of the windows. You gotta do it. So, so
what happens to the buster only hacker is that is
that criminal. That's not is that. I don't know how
does that work if they if they find out who
did how they gonna find out who did it? I
don't know, but I thought it was amusing. The tawny
thing was pretty funny. It was well written. It was
written in the verbiage will you kind of believe it
(22:16):
could happen? I was like, well, that could make sense
that you can say. Now the actual content of the
material was a little ridonculous, But you're like, I could
kind of see a scenario where that might work. All right,
let's see the Great Unwashed. There was a couple comments
I want to do read here. Johnny Q writes and
says the wind has not been blowing in South Florida. Uh,
(22:38):
he says, the oilers will Well, he's saying the wrong.
What he meant is the oilers are going to come back,
and he didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Ferg Dog, my guy, Fergie says Eddie Garcia sounds nervous
about the oilers coming back. He's practically quivering. That is correct, absolutely.
Ferg Dog says, Hey, Ben, is this the worst week
in Laker franchise history? They don't have the money or
prestige to poach a college coach anymore, and the Celtics
(23:10):
are about to further extend their title lead over the Lakers. Yeah,
it's about it's about right. I mean, I would say,
back when Kobe got hurt and then they had a
parade of turds that they drafted and they kept missing
out on the number one pick in that stretch, that's
(23:30):
pretty it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad, Shane and des
Moines says he wants caller free radio. And then he
gave me mostly passing grades on the mal monologue, although
he said one was an eight point five. I guess
that was the NBA Finals one. He did not like
the NBA Finals Malard monologue. All right, Sports Plus says
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I'm glad you're listening and reminding me of things that
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to do that. Thank you for that very much. I
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Speaker 3 (24:14):
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Speaker 1 (24:20):
We were lacking on fun, Eddie, and I need to
bring the Ben.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Mallor fun fact.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
These aren't always fun though, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's my time to talk, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
The lights went out at Petco Park in San Diego
on the Oakland Athletics and the Padre little baseball action there.
The lights went out. So what did the fans do, Eddie?
They took out their phones and they turned on the flashlights.
It looked like a religious revival. It was. It was
pretty good. There were thousands of fans, which is more
(24:54):
than the Oakland Athletics ever get. And because it was
the San Diego that's why the fans were holding up
and they were waving them back and forth like they
were at a musical concert. And it made for a
very nice visual.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Did you see the Vladimir Guerrero bat? Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Anything in the Brewer game? You know how they ever,
once in a while you take a big cut and
the whoop slips out.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Of your hand.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Oh it stuck right, yeah, went up to the into
the netting. Uh, and they couldn't get it out, and
they left it up there for several lightnings. His bat
was just hanging up there. Some of the teams are throwing.
Baseball's a mop and you know.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
In basketball they have a mop. When the ball gets
stuck in the room, they have a mop and they
can put the stick from the mop up there. They
don't have a mop. There's no mop in baseball.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
They needed a really big mop because it was way
up there, like halfway up in the netting. So they
had to finally get a poll the hole.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Somebody climb up there. I still I'll repeat the greatest
thing I ever saw a baseball game. I was covering baseball, right, Yeah,
I guy climbed the foul pole at the Big Egg.
They didn't know what it did.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Crazy, I wouldn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
They're like, oh, well, just wait for him to come down.
He's got to come down one way or another. It's
got to come down. And yeah, eventually he climbed back down.
And that was still not the greatest video I've seen
this week, though, That is the Dodger bark in the park.
That video over the weekend. I think it was over
the weekend, right bark in the park where they had
all the dogs in the pavilion. Awesome, everyone's holding up
their dogs. It's like a scene from some some movie.
(26:19):
What movie they hold up their animals? Well, not lion king,
but that kind of vibe, that kind of vibe. So
there's an American tradition that has been living the island
life that will no longer be living the island life.
The Army Navy game, going back to my childhood, I
always remember that was a standalone event that you spent
(26:39):
your time. You're looking for some to watch. There wasn't
anything else on. You watch the Army Navy game. Even
if you're not from a military family, you watch the game. Well,
turns out that that will no longer be an island
game anymore because the powerbrokers of college football have expanded
the College Football Playoff. They have a new schedule of
(27:01):
ball games and as a result, the Army Navy Game
will not be a standalone event. It will be played
the same day as not one, not one, but two
bowl games. Two bowl games. Army Navy Game will be
(27:21):
played December fourteenth with the Celebration Bowl, which kicks off
at noon Eastern, and with the Camellia Bowl. What the
hell is? What is that the Camellia I know what
that is? That set for nine pm mester, so that'll
be wrong. After What is the Camellia Bowl? Do you
know what that?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Honestly, I know Fresno State played in it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Like in the it was back, it was dead and
it's back.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
I think they must have revived it because I think
it was gone.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Oh I want to I want the weed Eater Bowl back.
That was my favorite woman weed Eater Bowl that was
always good. Army Navy will play at three pm.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So you want an interesting fact about Army Navy?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Do I want that? Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
So my dad was a career, Yeah, every guy and
I have a lot of relatives that were in the Army,
and they don't care about that game at all. Really,
it's it's about the people that go to the academies.
Like they didn't go to the academies. They just you know,
they enlisted, so they don't give a crap about that game.
I always thought that was interesting that they really don't
care about that game.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh is that just your your father father?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
It's a small sample size, but all of the family
members that I've had, and they've been with a lot
of them that have been in the army. They they
don't care about that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
My number one military friend who I worked with the radio,
good Art Martinez. Art doesn't care about it because you
know what branch of the military was Art in Eddie,
Oh gee, I don't know, already told us every other
every time, a couple yeah, five, He was in the Marines.
And he always points out that the unlike the Navy,
and unlike the Army, the Marines actually do all the
(28:55):
dirty work and they're the first ones in and the
last ones out, and walk on water and walk on water,
and they get all the bad guys. And if you
have a job to do, you call them reas you
don't call the Army, you don't call the Navy. That's
my friend lardy. But technically, aren't the Marines part of
the Navy?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yes, so they wouldn't like you saying that.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But yes, there, yeah, And then I always say, what
about the coast Guard? Well, I think the coast Guard
should have their own their own team. That be wonderful. Hey,
I have a fun fact. Though you want a fun fact,
I got a fun fact, my own fun fact here
we go is definitely fun here, Eddie. The most visited
country in twenty twenty three in terms of one hundred
(29:38):
millions and millions of tourists in the entire globe. Here
this according to the World Tourism Organization. I don't even
know what that is. It sounds made up. What do
you think here? Most visited country in the flat Earth,
according to Kyrie Do Do do?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
I'll do with France.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Are you gonna go with Fransa? What do you think they're?
Marky mark Taiwan Taiwan. Wow, that's how I've left field there?
What about you, Kooperloop, I'm gonna go with Italy Italy,
all right, I'll give you the top four. Number four
was Italy, the fourth most visited country fifty seven million
(30:22):
tourists in Italy. Number three was the Red, White and Blue.
I've wrapped myself in the flag right now.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Excepting for a Canadian hockey team.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Canada is like Canada's northern US. You know it's not,
and we're southern Canada. And I want the countries to
get together because then we can get great poutine, Eddie.
If the US and Canada merged together, great poutine for everybody, anyway,
US was three, Spain was number due and number one
(30:55):
and number one with a bullet France. So you got
it right. One hundred million tourists in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Three, o'curse City of Lights Paris.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Did you go there?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yes? You did?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh so that you picked it because you went there.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
No, I just know that a lot of people like
to go there, A lot a lot of ladies like.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
To go there.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
It seems I've been there.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
But isn't it like people are rude and it there's
trash and.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Not not for my trip.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I'm just I can only speak for myself.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I've seen videos on the on the internet there, idiot,
I'm sure you.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Can find videos just about everything on the internet.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Well, when I went, oh, cripple loop with a nice
trip to Europe story travel log with Coop.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
As far as like trash goes, that was worse in Italy,
specifically Rome, just Rome was like San Francisco or yeah,
just garbage on the streets.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
But I you know, I'm not saying this. I'm not
not a blanket statement.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
But it was the most rude place as far as
the stereotype works, well, as far as you know, people
would just now want to give you the time of
the day.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
And I just I just felt like, I don't know
if it was necessarily outright rude, but I felt with
the with the French, or at least the Parisians, because
I only went to Paris. When I went to France
her it was kind of like I got the the
vibe of like just effing Americans like that.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
That kind of well, if you have one hundred million
tourists in your country, you probably yeah, that's It's like
you go to New York and you see all those
my brothers in New York, and you see those red
double decker buses around New York, Like, all right, I've
seen enough of those people. Get them out of here.
You know, they're annoying me and all that. Here's a
fun fact. Also, Mexico. More people visited Mexico than the
(32:42):
United Kingdom. How about that? Of course, that's all gotta
be all Americans pretty much right, just going to going
down having a good time. Food, Yes, great food in Mexico.
All right. It is the Bane Maylor Show. As we
roll on, we're gonna have sighte the Bite, the Great
sports radio mystery site they we'll get to that and
we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
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Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen. We're
here to get better. Someone from the world of sports
the last seven to ten days could be an athlete, coach,
media member. Play it again, Play again, Mark, We're here
to get better. We gotta get better. We get I
(34:38):
tell Eddie every day we got to get better. We
gotta get better, Eddie. The show's not good enough. We
got it's your fault. We got to get better. All right,
let's see here. Let's go to actually well, anyone get
it right, call it five, Call it five. We'll get
it right, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Nobody will get it right.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Mark, nobody, Hayter. I hope the White Sox never win again.
What about you, Koop? Nobody. They're working on it. Yeah,
they are trying their their darness. Let's go to Manuel
in Gardena. A golden ticket is on the line. If
someone gets this right. Do you know who it is?
(35:16):
Someone from sports? Hello, Manuel from.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Gard Oh, Ben, I know that is Ben Wapinjmin aka
Benoit Benjamine.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Is that the iconic Beanoit Benjamin who popped up on
local LA radio and they're making a documentary about Benoit Benjamin.
That's incorrect, but thank you for the mention. Appreciate that.
Not Benoit Benjamin. Let's go to Blake in Arkansas, who
is desperately, desperately pulling for the Dallas Mavericks. Hello Blake, Well,
(35:48):
I had a funny bit that it was bucking up
Beaver because he just made me biscuits and Viking. But
I actually know that it's Kyrie Irvan. Is that Kyrie Irving?
What your streak continues here? Play that's not that's not Kyrie?
Played again? Mark, played again, played again? Thank you. We're
(36:11):
here to get better. All right, first clue this person
grew up in South Carolina. Well that limits it. Person
grew up in South Cone I played again, played again,
Play again, We're here to get better. Let's go to
Uncle Mo, who's Yankees lost two out of three to
my Dodgers over the weekend. Hello Uncle Mo in Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
I was gonna go with former with with Los Angeles
Angels star logan, Oh happy?
Speaker 6 (36:38):
But is that PJ.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Washington from the Dallas Maverick.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Is that PJ. Washington the Dallas Mavericks for the win
for Uncle Ma. No, all right, thank you, moll go away.
See time for caller number four, and that would be
Frank the Tank in Vegas. Hello, Frank the Tank, you're
my caller number four. Frank, Hello, Ben, I was gonna
(37:01):
go with Kyrie, So that's out of the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You you're sticking with that even though you know it's wrong.
I like that.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
No, I'm not sticking with it.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I was going to go with that, all right, you said,
South Carolina born.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Can I get another clue?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Please? No, you have to wait after you. We'll give
your clue out Carolina. Okay, I go Bubba Watson? Is
that Bubba Watson for the for the win? No, but
thank you, Frank. At least you changed your answer. Died
for our fifth contestant. But first the clue. This person
owns the record for most rushing yards buy a wide
receiver in a Super Bowl. Let's sello to caller five,
(37:39):
Andrew in Fremont, California. Hello Andrew, Well I most pit
Your guess.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Is that t O?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
No, No, it's not t O. How dare you? Let's
go to Sean the hood Guy quickly Sean the hood guy,
So cow, who is it? Sean Brando Hale?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Is that no?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
No, that's wrong too. All right, we're running out of time.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
It was Deebo Samuel de Bo Samuel was the answer.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
That's d Bo.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
We played this voice.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
That's a you know, I don't I didn't want Eddie,
I didn't lose.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I won.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
I'm a winner.
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