July 8, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about 49ers WR Brandon Aiyuk posting a clip of Commanders practice film on TikTok, reports that the Dodgers feel it's "unfair" to count on Mookie Betts at SS in the playoffs, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two ready
to go, and it's all about the disgruntled wide receivers
for one thousand. Why did forty nine er pass catcher
Brandon Ayuk post a clip of commander's practice film on
the TikTok? Also, we'll go to baseball, where reports say
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the Dodgers feel it's unfair to count on Mookie Bets
at shortstop in the baseball playoffs? How do you decode
that one? And should the Rangers start downsizing at the
trade deadline, we'll go there as well. It's all coming
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the hits are well. Playlis. So we'll go to football
and every one of their mothers on vacation right now.
Why wouldn't you be? The job starts up again in
a couple weeks NFL training camp. Today is the eighth
day of JULYSA. We're about two weeks away from the
start of training camp, about two weeks away, give or take.
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So get those vacations in. Why not, that's the time
to do it. Relaxation, coconuts, hammocks, and palm trees with
cocktails in the air everywhere. Now that said, not all
is quiet on the Western front. If you have not heard,
maybe maybe not because you're still recovering from the long
holiday weekend. The forty nine ers team that gagged in
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the Super Bowl against Kansas City Brandon Ayuk posting he's
a wide receiver. He posted a now viral clip on
the TikTok. Now I found this without the help of
alf the Alien Olpiner, who is my TikTok whisperer. But
Brandon I posted this on TikTok. It was a photo. Ooh,
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a photo. What's the photo about? Ox mine? So the
photo on the TikTok it was a photo of Washington
commander's practice. Oh my god, all right, shocking. Yeah, so
it was some practice film there. This is from the
team's mandatory mini camp back in June. It popped up
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over the weekend. Io currently has one season left on
his contract with the San Francisco based football team. They
exercised the dreaded fifth year option. He will have to
visit the soup kitchen unless he can somehow make ends
meet with fourteen point one million pesos for the twenty
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twenty four season, and then he is free to roam
around the NFL unless he gets franchise tagged in twenty
twenty five. So let us discuss the question why why
did the forty nine ers Brandon I post the clip
of commander's practice. We know he has a thing for
the quarterback there in Washington on tik talk. So I've
got theatrical mister Clean and Kobe, and we will combine
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all of these things together. And we are going to
make storm Watch two thousand is what We're going to
make storm Watch two thousands. So Nuver w Yeah, So
this was clearly strategic. It was obviously strategic. Things have
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calmed down. There was a lot of chatter, a lot
of noise that there was going to be a trade,
and he wasn't happy. And then the forty nine ers
and IOK dramatically had a meeting and okay, everything was
good there. It had been assumed, you know what happens
when you assume. It had been assumed that Brandon Iyock
will simply play out the season, get his fourteen million
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dollars in northern California, and then figure things out after that.
They'll revisit this, see what happens, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. But now the plot dickens. Oh, the plot dickens,
and IOC is stirring up a hornet's nest. He's playing
the role of the look at me guy. He's the
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look at me guy. I want you to look at me.
I'm THEO look at me guy. That's what I am.
I'm then look at me guy. It's extra theatrical, is
what it is. And clearly crave the spotlight attention. We
know how that works here. Now, my diagnosis from years
of gas baggery. I have my degree in gas baggery,
so I know, okay. My diagnosis here is that Brandon
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iok is suffering from a mild histrionic personality disorder. Say what,
constant attention seeking activity. Either that or he is just
desperate to put the pressure on the forty nine ers
and that in his warped mind, he believes that by
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continuing to send out these subtle or not so subtle,
subliminal messages, that he will get what he wants positive affirmations. Now,
in my life, this is the first time since I
think Joe Gibbs was coaching the old Washington Redskins that
a player has really tried to go to Washington. I mean,
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am I wrong? I can't, I can't think. I mean,
we have LeVar Arrington who played for the Redskins, who
works here. I don't know that he wanted to go there.
He was drafted, He had no choice. You know what
I'm saying? All right now? Page two, we pinwheel away
from football and we go to baseball. Why why do
we go to baseball? Dodgertown, USA, say what now? Reports
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over the weekend say the Dodgers feel it is quote unfair,
unfair to count on Mookie Bets at shortstop. At shortstop
in the upcoming baseball playoffs this October. It's unfair, unfair
to count on Mookie Bets. How do you decode that report?
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How do you decode that report? So I've got this
as a trip to visit mister clean at the laundromat.
It is the old spin cycle, not spin cycle Regina
the hostess with the mostest from the Malard meat and
greet in Minnesota. But this one's rather straightforward. It's been
telegraphed for some time. We talked about it, and my
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people out there with the Dodgers. I still have people
out there, even though I'm not allowed out there. But
my people with the Dodgers, they tell me that this
has been the plane that they were looking for an out,
you know how like there's a certain political party looking
for an out on their candidate for the presidential election,
the Dodgers were looking for an out with Mookie as
a shortstop. He's injured now, so it's not playing. And
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when he had played as a shortstop, while his offense
had been up to snuff for the most part, got
off to a great start, then stopped hitting home runs,
and then started hitting home runs again. But Mookie Bets,
as an everyday defensive player has floundered. He was a
flounder fish. Every man, woman and child that is reasonable
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would admit that that he had him in that good
And so now they haven't out. The Dodgers haven't out,
they can cut their losses. And the evidence on how
bad Mookie Bets had been. He has been a defensive
liability at one of the most important defensive positions. I
would argue catcher is more important than shortstop. But next
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to that shortstop, center field, second base, up the middle, back,
and old before the analytical department, it's always about up
the middle, up the middle, all they so Mookie Bets
defensive liability. To back that up, I present example a
of evidence. He has the worst number on the Dodgers
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in terms of minus seven outs above average, minus seven
outs above average. In fact, that is the fourth worst
in all of baseball. So in that single box, what's
in the box. In that single box, Mookie Bets is
the fourth worst defensive player in baseball. So all along
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the Dodgers, even when they gave Mookie Bets the opportunity
to play shortstop, they had couched it. They left the
door open for a change. You might remember we talked
about it on the show Dave Roberts. I liked him
in that spot. Dave Roberts called Mookie Bets when he
named him the everyday shortstop. He said of Mookie Bets,
he said, listen, he's permanent for now. We're all permanent
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for now until we're not permanent anymore. LA is rather
in the open about it, the fact they're looking for
a shortstop. They're trying to get a shortstop, whether that's
Bashett or who knows. They're kicking the tires on a
bunch of players around baseball, trying to get a new shortstop.
And they are also considering in house keeping it in
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the house. Miguel Rojas has been playing shortstop. He's had
some big hit for them, and so they're looking that
direction as well. A right final point to Arlington, where
I'm not trying to smoke out Edin Arlington, but the Rangers,
the reigning world champions, things are not going all that well.
They played a little bit better over the weekend. But
reports have been swirling that they're going to open up
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a Texas sized flea market in Arlington. It's about to open.
The Rangers are going to unload mad Max, Max Scherzer,
Canby Yours, Michael Lorenzen who knows Anthony and Anaheim, one
of the guys that used to call the show back
before he became a grown up and got married and
had kids. Andrew Heaney as well former Dodger and Dave
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Robertson veteran relief pitchers. Some other pitchers also, Kirby Yates
has been mentioned, all of them. Barring a dramatic turnaround
between now and the end of this month, the end
of the calendar month of July, the World Champs are
preparing to have a going out of business or going
out of contention, like say so, the question is rather
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obviously it should the reigning World Series champion Rangers start
downsizing at the trade deadline And I'm shaking my head
now have you seen the American League West now Seattle
over the last month has puked in their mouth. The
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cheating a holes are up to their old tricks again, right,
so they're playing a little bit better right, They did
not do well. They lost the series over the weekend
Wait to go, thank you very much. Lost the series.
So you gotta have that that Kobe like mamba mentality.
If you're the Rangers, you can't you can't stop right now.
That does not mean keep in mind, that does not
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mean that you well, you don't throw in the sponge.
You can reshuffle the deck on the fly. Perseverance though, ultimately,
is what it's called for here. You don't throw in
the sponge. You don't do that. And and Max sure's
a guy like that, he's old, he's you can't rely
on a guy like that. That's understanding. And they've also
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got a conundrum because Jacob de Grim, speaking of can't
rely on someone, Jacob de Gram is supposed to come
back in August, so they'll look at that like a trade.
We're gonna get Jacob de Gram, okay, until he makes
two starts and then gets a boomboo. It has to
go out. But don't do the demo. Just don't go demo.
Don't go do the whole demo thing. Don't do that now.
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Texas proved last season. They proved last season that you
merely have to crash the gates, get in the party,
get by the bouncer, get inside the party, and then
you can have all the party favors you want. And
abra cadabra, hokus pokus, just like that, out of thin air.
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And that's what happens in that sport. It happens in hockey,
it happens in baseball. And this is a baseball story obviously.
But playoff squatters, you get in, you squat, and then
you don't leave, and they it's very hard to get
rid of you, and you end up sometimes in the
World Series. In fact, over the last five seasons, last
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five years, there have been four teams deemed flawed that
made it all the way to the World Series. They
had warped resumes, and yet just by getting in as
the final wild card team or one of the wild
card teams, they ended up getting all the way to
the World Series, and occasionally they won. The Diamondbacks last
year wild card team left for dead, they got to
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the World Series. The Fighting Phills of twenty twenty two
got there, didn't get it done, but they got there.
The Atlanta Brains, the Braves were under five hundred of
the All Star break back in twenty twenty one, Ronald
Lecuno Junior their top player out for the year and
they won the World Series. That year, they won the
World Series and the Nationals. Also in twenty nineteen, the
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Nationals were nine games under five hundred in June and
won the World Old Series. They won the World Series
in twenty nineteen and beat the cheating a holes while
doing it. So that's the lesson. It's obvious. But yet
you keep reading and hearing that the Rangers are going
to start unloading players and give up. Why would you
do that? That's dumb. Any team that gives up moronic.
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Speaker 1 (15:59):
Maller ferg Dog writes and he says, Hey, Ben, do
you think the Dodgers are trying too hard to appeal
to nerds like Andy the comic book guy by having
v tuber sing take me out to the ballgame. I
don't know what that What is that? You know what
that is? V tuber? Anybody?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I do, No, I don't know, never heard of him.
I'm looking at a photo of it. I don't know
what that it's like. Is that anime or something like that? No,
I don't know what that is. I can't help you
for a dog. Maybe Andy will call up and let
us know. Late night drug test is just the reason
any NFL player goes to Washington is to eat a
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food pick from Eddie Ben's chili bowl. Now, Eddie did
hook me up with the shirt. Thank you, Eddie. I
appreciate that. It's not I did wear it as pajamas
for a while. Now I've moved on my Bucky shirts.
Is my pajamas. But is it really that good? Ben's
chili bowl.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Solid, so that great, but it was it was okay.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, it's a local DC Delicacy bench chili bowl. Do
we have here any of the comic book? Speaking of
the devil, he will appear any of the comic book?
Guy says, great Dodger monologue. Although I am confused. Why
do the Dodgers have to announce we should count shouldn't
count on Mooki in the playoffs. We haven't been able
to counter him in the playoffs since he put on
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the Dodger blue. His bat turns into an ice pick
in October. Yeah, I've determined that Mooki in October. He
gets this thing where he wants to go bowling, and
he figures like, well, I don't hit, I'll get to
go to Nashville, I go bowling, I get out of here.
And I played baseball long enough. I'd like to go
and I'd like to just do my thing and have
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a fine time. Let's go to the phones. We'll say
hello to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Hello Ben.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
It's good to be with you.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Let me get things you mentioned you rather the the
scorching heat in the desert, the one twenty four heat
right out now in the Commonwealth, we got like seventy eighty.
But the humidity, right, humidity is about one hundred percent,
you know what I mean. So you got to both
circumstances you need ac There ben a couple of things
that want to point on. First of all, Caleb Martin,
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he bet on himself. I can't blame the young man
for having the confidence right then. He did leave some
money on the table, certainly did with the Miami Heat.
We're going to give him about you know, thirteen fourteen
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Thirty million, No, no, no, no, no, thirty million dollars,
Come on, thirty million. He's a dime a dozen NBA
player onre right, guys like that him. He's fine, He's
had some big playoff games. But there's a bunch of
players that have a similar skill set to Caleb Martin.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
For true ben plus, you want to grow where you're planted,
and I think the Miami Heat organization was perfect for him,
right and unheroded probably undrafted player that was able to shine,
get to get his opportunities. Knocked the Boston Celtics out
of the playoffs, had a lot to do with that
last year. So more so than the money, I think
you should have just pay tribute and had respect. You know,
Miami's a great organization.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Uh you know.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
It does open up an opportunity for a local kid,
Cole Swider, who's from Portsmouth, who was a really good
player for US here in New England. He's a kid
on their G league that's going to step in and
I think he's going to have an opportunity next year
to shine. Now, Bet, I want to switch gears a
little bit because we talked a little bit of We
talked a little hawk do you know the first hour
you know what I mean, and you kind of chimed in.
There was a little bit of miscommunication. But I want
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to kind of set the records straight. This young lady
from Tennessee. She may be dating Dak Bryant, but that
came after she went.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
By ah see that. Do I not have Hawk tool knowledge?
Come on, I'm a hawk toool expert. I think I
was wrong about that anyway. No, I think I just
fell for one of those faith Oh did you fake news? Krupolo?
Falling for fake news?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
No?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
No, no, no, I won't. I won't stay for that. I
think Coop did a good job. But it's just a
situation where after she went viral and now all the
kind of people are profiting and selling stuff and making
the merchandise. Now people like it's almost like she's a
star youth athlete. Like lawyers and everybody kind of you know,
descended down upon her because she has a lawyer, she
has an accountant, and now they're going out and whoever
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her handlers are, they arrange for her to be at
the Zach Bright concert.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So she's got it. She's gotta make her mind. I mean,
she's a fad. She's not a trend, right, I mean,
as a fad, this thing doesn't last. It's it's a
short term situation. They'll move on in the internet. There'll
be another, you know, somebody whose says I'm a stupid today,
and there'll be somebody that will replace her.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
You gotta strike while the iron tot and that's what
she's doing. But she might be in a relationship with
Zach Bryan now because she did go to the concert,
got on stage. It seemed to go well, so they
might have hit it off.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
And you know, good, No they're not.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I don't buy that I don't believe that at all.
I don't believe that for a split Sea. Loreno, she's
the love expert, Loreino. Your thoughts on this, Lorena, I
think it's cheesier than Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. Oh
shots fired from you, Mario, it's.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
The poor man's can't I can't you hold the candle
to that? So I gree with that's certainly a poor
man and but go ahead and make your money. And
you seem to have some spunk, but don't let him
take advantage of you, you know as always taking the time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
There he goes, Andre, Yeah, you got to make your money.
Why not go for it? It's the Hawk tour girl. Wonderful.
She worked like a factory or something in Nashville. I
think she's it's not a There was a room where
she was a teacher, but she's she's not there. You go,
let's say hello to Angry Bill, who's in Florida. Hello,
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Angry Bill.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
What about a ten year old boy.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
A nine year old girl? You don't change You can't
change it.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
The ten year old boy got hit in the head
by the show Connie's Homer yesterday.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It was actually several days ago. But you're a little late.
That's fine. Yeah, So now we should have no home runs.
We should get rid of home runs because a child
could get hit, could hit in the head with a ball,
so we should have not No, it's selfish to hit
home runs.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
They're gonna put nets up in white field to protect.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yes, put nets up everywhere. Absolutely, I want nets all
over it. And they should have nets in front of
the pitcher. The catcher should have a net in front
of it. I want only nets. I want netball.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Yeah, we got that straight out. They're gonna put one
right up in right field there to protect the bo
Did you see the father jump out of the way
and let the kid get hit in the head. The
father moved away.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It was an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Angry Bill, where's the net? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
With the net?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Up?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Ball?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
By god, you ruin baseball paint, but you round it.
You are an a hole. You roam the smart of
baseball nets.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Me. It was because of me.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Your what do you kids? You don't go to games anyway?
Who do you care about?
Speaker 7 (22:54):
A week or so ago, Ben, you were boohooing the Yankees.
I looked at the standings. You guys were two games
different than us. Your Dodgers a bunch of time.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Listen, who has the worst Who has the worst record
in baseball since June twelfth? I'll take my answer off
the air. Who has the worst record? Five and fifteen?
Is that right? Five? And it might be worse than that.
I might be short selling the Yankees?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Can you got your gas? Can't come?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You got? You got your your squad, your squad, the
New York Yankees, Oh they got that one Soto and
Aaron jud Joe Man that can you stop that Yankee lineup?
Everyone could stop the Yankee lineup? The Yankees blow and
you see what you're doing is when you're doing, you're doing.
What about is a angry Bell? I don't blame. As
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a Yankee guy, I would do what about him?
Speaker 8 (23:45):
You know?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
What about the Dodgers? Meanwhile, your house is on fire.
The Bronx is burning. Do you understand the Bronx is burning?
Angry Bill, It's on fire. It's the team's falling apart,
your bullpen stakes, you can't hit and clutch situation. You
just lost the weekend of the Red Sox. The Red
Sox beat your ass over the weekend.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
You just keep waiting, buddy, your Dodgers are gonna fall
right into the hole all the time.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I was just like when they won in twenty twenty
and twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, three championships in this dynasty.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
I know, okay, world championship, what a West title? Give
me a break.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Well, they won in twenty seventeen. As we know, rot
Manford did the right thing. He said that the a
Holes cheated, so they gave it to the Dodgers. In twenty eighteen,
the Red Sox cheated, give it the Dodgers. Twenty twenty,
they won the Pandemic World Series, hardest world series all time.
There'll be a quiz later, Angry Bill, I know you're
old and a little slow. There'll be a quiz on
that a little bit later. Anyway.
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Speaker 4 (24:49):
And you had mentioned the Lakers earlier, but you buried
the lead, my man, I bury the lead. Ronnie James
making his ah, we'll get Summer League debut over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
HMMMD that go.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Twenty one minutes. On Saturday, he had four points two he's.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Back at USC that's what college. He's living up to
the hype.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Two for nine from the field, over three from behind,
the three points. I think you buried the lead, though, Eddie,
how did he do though in his next game? That's
it right there on Sunday? How did he do?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
My aging?
Speaker 9 (25:21):
Already you're resting one summer league game that you can't
go the next game. They don't make him like I
used to, Eddie, those young kids sre me. They'd be like,
rub some dirt on it, you know, get back out there.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But he's not.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
You learned from his dad.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Nineteen years old. He's already doing load management nineteen by
war all the wusses unbelievable. We're gonna go see him
when we're in Vegas?
Speaker 10 (25:46):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Are they there? Over by? Then? Yeah, Big Lou wanted
to do a minor league baseball night, but nobody wanted
to do that. And then another listeners like, there's an
after party, guy, we got some big shots in Vegas.
Some of the guys were like, hey, I'll hook you up.
I know somebody, uh after party. Being the star, I
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can't go to an after party because you know, my
name's on the shows. A little difficult to do that,
and let's have some He can't, he can't, he can't,
you know, hang with the what's that?
Speaker 10 (26:17):
But the party people, that's why, that's why you don't
want to go.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Well, I get an appearance fee, as you know, and
whether go to bar Mitzvah's weddings. Brian Finley's a little
wedding party whatever there, So anyway, hit that button. Fun fact.
All right, here's a fun fact. You ever watch the
Tour de France. No, you don't watch the Tour de France. Well,
there was love in the air in France. A cyclist
find he stopped during the Tour de France. He was
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fined two hundred Swiss Swiss franks roughly two hundred twenty
three dollars US dollars. International Cycling Union find this guy.
He stopped to kiss his wife during the seventh stage
of the France a time trial on Friday. Yeah, you'd
(27:07):
think they would be more open to PDAs in France, right,
aren't they more into that kind of thing? All about
the loving ben Yeah, they're anti marriage in France. The
toward to France is anti marriage.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
He scored some major wife points though with that move.
Maybe I love you so much I'll get fined.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'm willing to get fined to kiss those lips. That's
what I'm willing to do right there. And yeah, So now,
I guess you can read a book, a love book
or something like that, or going to TV shows. They
still do those daytime shows where they have random I
don't know. I'm sleeping during that time, so my I
don't know either. Anyway, all right, wonderful, stop right there.
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Sometimes you know, it's just love. It's just simply love,
that's all it is. It's like when we take a
phone call from hollering James. Hello, hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He's my friend, Eddie. He's not your friend. I've met him.
He's my friend.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Okay, Yeah, that's your buddy.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
James's bad.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
He loves you so much.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
He's so good. This guy's the greatest snore in the
history of overnight sports radio. He is the Bambino, He's Lebron,
He's Jordan, He's Tom Brady, he's Mahomes, he's all that.
He's Dwayne Gretzky. That's right, you are you know those
(28:30):
devil you? Oh yeah, that was for the kids. He
did that for the kids, that little pop. I know
you're excited. James. You're on the radio right now. You're
on hold for a little while. We put you on there.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Doesn't want that.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I can't believe that. What women wouldn't want that? Women
would leave their husbands to be with this. Where are
the white women at Not near James at all. They're
no women here, right, yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Man, James, you big stud. You hollering, James.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I'm a stud, but I'm not dad because I don't
go anywhere like a milk done. You know what. I
spent all day at home, sweet today I should be
seen myself. I don't know if the fool still pens
listen to nobody yell at me until how you on
(29:27):
the radio? You're on your show?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Hello, Hello? Did you hear me?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
No? I can't hear you.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
You can't hear me.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Wow, that's go back to snoring streaming at the radio
because I have a cold.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But anyway, you have a cold, it's just take another
Just take another pill. Just take another pill. You already
take seventy two a day. So what episode?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
What is today? Twenty six in the morning.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh, you're down to twenty six.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
So we should do a.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Song about that the morning.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Twenty six pills in the morning, twenty six pills that night.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
We could do a How about one of the fans
of the show do a song period?
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Yeah, to smoke two joints in the morning, That's.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's what. Yeah, do a hollering James take thirty six
pills in the morning, thirty six pills at night.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
What because?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Oh, by the way, I got a contact weed man.
I had a weed man begged for a home, and
I had a couple of people reached out to me
that want to help.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
We man, Oh my god. We did that before, though
it didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
He accused me of having him kidnapped. We got him a.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Broadcasting network, and he needs donations. I'm setting on a
letter right now.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I don't I don't think he's I don't think he's
part of that team, y'all.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I don't know he make a good tell angelist, I
think so.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
I saw that show he did back in the day,
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
It's on YouTube two form.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Get him some crows, get him some fundy for some housing.
Don't put him somewhere nice waiting in the hotel room
for Lredo what.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Jeseuz I didn't know I was part of the deal. Wow,
I mean, James, that's offensive, James out there.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
You I'm not being a sexuous sir, any kind of
funny guy. I'm just seeing you know, rebul Rea need
to housing.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You need housing, Lorada. Would you like a place to
this day? Only if it's a mansion? Ben Okay Manion
right now?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Well, Christian bugs work. But you don't know what the
evangelists could do. I wasn't surprised if that would be.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I didn't. I didn't realize you're a big fan of evangelists.
I had no idea I am.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
You know why?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Why is that?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
That church is the one? They got me here? And
I've met so many times in the way he checked
down from pushing pillar in the post. He you know
me for a long time. I haven't pushing pillar in
the post. I've been from shelter to shelter to the
Yeah there, I made it somehow, and I'm here with
(32:18):
them as the church. He treated by Somalians and Afrikands,
And I don't know what's to do and what to believe?
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Who's your who's your favorite televangelist. Is it that the
goat is Billy Graham, Right, that's the Tom Brady the televangelist.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Bill was good.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
But I like Gordon robertson really.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I did not have that, and I thought I thought
you were more of like a Joel Ostein kind.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Of guy or Joe Joel.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
What about Oral roberts They named the Whole University.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Television and Agelos the ones that contacted and.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I used to like when I was a kid. Sometimes
I'd watch Benny hen You you have my name, Benny hen.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Wat you.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah. All, I gotta go, thank you, James, Alright, I
gotta go appreciate that. An interesting story. We'll see if
this turns into something or if it stays nothing. But
New York Jets star Sauce Gardener recently spotted with a
mob boss in Florida. Say What It's Like an episode
of The Sopranos. Sauce Gardener, star of the New York
(33:33):
Jets Defense If You Can Be a Star, was spotted
in a video alongside Let's see if you know who
this guy is? Joseph Skinny, Joey Merlino. Now Joseph Skinny
Joey Merlino. He is said to be a well known
person with ties to organized crime in Philadelphia. But he
(33:55):
can't be that far into organized crime because he's on
social media and has a bunch of followers on Instagram.
But there's a there's a video, and there's a photo
of Sastgardner hanging out with Skinny Joey from the Philly Mob.
This guy's been in and out of jail, been in
federal prison a few times, racketeering other charges, and now
(34:16):
he's hanging out with sastguard It is the bad. We'll
see if anything comes in. Maybe maybe he's retired now
just doing a podcast. Mob guys need to retire to
We'll press on time now for the Insta Trivia, a
social media site ranked MLB managers by their career war
wins above replacement, as as players when they were playing
in the big leagues, and Blank was the worst player
(34:38):
turn manager. That's the Insta Trivia. The answer next.
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Speaker 1 (35:15):
And here's the install trivia, a social media set ranked
MLB managers based on their career war wins above replacement
as players, and Blank was the worst as a player
that became a current big league manager. That is the
Insta trivia. The answer is or right now this see
(35:39):
does anyone know the answer? We'll go page down. Can't
read that. A lot of weird names being mentioned. Andre
in the Commonwealth guests by Mike. Let's see here. Oh
wait a minute, the connection has died, so we don't
(36:03):
we can't read the answers. The internet connection has gone out.
All right, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie's let's
go with Bruce Bochie. Bruce Bochie worst big League player.
That is incorrect, Eddie, the worst big League players ahead,
though I have the biggest head. Kevin Cash of the
Tampa Bay Rays as a player was minus three point
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one war when playing. That is the worst in baseball.
Here we go, how about that.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Cockroach has got into the Wi Fi coopolo with the
Mallard the third degree Ben.
Speaker 10 (36:48):
It was a porter over the weekend that the Dodgers
could be in the market for another starting pitcher and
have their site set high. They are apparently interested in
the AL strikeout leader over from the Chicago White Sox.
Garrett I should have looked this up.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
A Crochet.
Speaker 10 (37:03):
Crochet, Okay, okay, perfect Ben. The Dodgers are twenty games
over five hundred. Do you think they need to make
a move as expensive as expensive as that would be.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Well, yes, because they're in the Kingdom of Babylon, the Dodgers.
They're in the playoffs every year. They have to fortify
the roster as much as they can. This guy's twenty
five years old. He throws starts. The problem with a
guy like Crochet is he's you don't know how he's
gonna handle big games. But White Sox haven't played a
big game since Ozzie Gien was the manager. They suck.
He's had Tommy John surgery, so he'll fit right in
(37:35):
with the Dodgers. But yeah, you gotta go for it.
Every year, you gotta go for it. They sell out
Dodgers Stadium just about every night.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Next, on a recent episode of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's podcast,
an insider named two Steelers that he thought are on
a Hall of Fame trajectory other than TJ.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Watt.
Speaker 10 (37:52):
He named Russell Wilson and Cam Hayward. Ben, do you
think they are both bound for Camp?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Well, that's very nice to suck up to. Russell Wilson.
He's not a Hall of Fame. He's never even gotten
an MVP vote, He's never been an All Pro. Those
are things that have to happen to be a Hall
of Famer. Now, Cam Hayward is on track to be
a Hall of Famer. Is in a similar career to
Richard Dann or Howie Long somebody like that? Three time
All Pro? Yes.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
Next, on Friday against the Mets, the Pirates hit seven
home runs in PNC.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Park, ran out of fireworks.
Speaker 10 (38:20):
Yeah, Ben, they're under five hundred, but only four games
out of a wild card. Do you think they can
make a run to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Can they sure in the multiverse? Will they no? Ideal
in facts not fiction. They're not making it run coop.
The pirates will not be in the plus, how did
we do?
Speaker 6 (38:34):
He passes it?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
That is a week the game.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Who
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two ready
to go, and it's all about the disgruntled wide receivers
for one thousand. Why did forty nine er pass catcher
Brandon Ayuk post a clip of commander's practice film on
the TikTok? Also, we'll go to baseball, where reports say
(00:23):
the Dodgers feel it's unfair to count on Mookie Bets
at shortstop in the baseball playoffs? How do you decode
that one? And should the Rangers start downsizing at the
trade deadline, we'll go there as well. It's all coming
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and every one of their mothers on vacation right now.
Why wouldn't you be? The job starts up again in
a couple weeks NFL training camp. Today is the eighth
day of JULYSA. We're about two weeks away from the
start of training camp, about two weeks away, give or take.
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So get those vacations in. Why not, that's the time
to do it. Relaxation, coconuts, hammocks, and palm trees with
cocktails in the air everywhere. Now that said, not all
is quiet on the Western front. If you have not heard,
maybe maybe not because you're still recovering from the long
holiday weekend. The forty nine ers team that gagged in
(02:34):
the Super Bowl against Kansas City Brandon Ayuk posting he's
a wide receiver. He posted a now viral clip on
the TikTok. Now I found this without the help of
alf the Alien Olpiner, who is my TikTok whisperer. But
Brandon I posted this on TikTok. It was a photo. Ooh,
(02:55):
a photo. What's the photo about? Ox mine? So the
photo on the TikTok it was a photo of Washington
commander's practice. Oh my god, all right, shocking. Yeah, so
it was some practice film there. This is from the
team's mandatory mini camp back in June. It popped up
(03:18):
over the weekend. Io currently has one season left on
his contract with the San Francisco based football team. They
exercised the dreaded fifth year option. He will have to
visit the soup kitchen unless he can somehow make ends
meet with fourteen point one million pesos for the twenty
(03:40):
twenty four season, and then he is free to roam
around the NFL unless he gets franchise tagged in twenty
twenty five. So let us discuss the question why why
did the forty nine ers Brandon I post the clip
of commander's practice. We know he has a thing for
the quarterback there in Washington on tik talk. So I've
got theatrical mister Clean and Kobe, and we will combine
(04:06):
all of these things together. And we are going to
make storm Watch two thousand is what We're going to
make storm Watch two thousands. So Nuver w Yeah, So
this was clearly strategic. It was obviously strategic. Things have
(04:27):
calmed down. There was a lot of chatter, a lot
of noise that there was going to be a trade,
and he wasn't happy. And then the forty nine ers
and IOK dramatically had a meeting and okay, everything was
good there. It had been assumed, you know what happens
when you assume. It had been assumed that Brandon Iyock
will simply play out the season, get his fourteen million
(04:50):
dollars in northern California, and then figure things out after that.
They'll revisit this, see what happens, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. But now the plot dickens. Oh, the plot dickens,
and IOC is stirring up a hornet's nest. He's playing
the role of the look at me guy. He's the
(05:11):
look at me guy. I want you to look at me.
I'm THEO look at me guy. That's what I am.
I'm then look at me guy. It's extra theatrical, is
what it is. And clearly crave the spotlight attention. We
know how that works here. Now, my diagnosis from years
of gas baggery. I have my degree in gas baggery,
so I know, okay. My diagnosis here is that Brandon
(05:36):
iok is suffering from a mild histrionic personality disorder. Say what,
constant attention seeking activity. Either that or he is just
desperate to put the pressure on the forty nine ers
and that in his warped mind, he believes that by
(05:56):
continuing to send out these subtle or not so subtle,
subliminal messages, that he will get what he wants positive affirmations. Now,
in my life, this is the first time since I
think Joe Gibbs was coaching the old Washington Redskins that
a player has really tried to go to Washington. I mean,
(06:18):
am I wrong? I can't, I can't think. I mean,
we have LeVar Arrington who played for the Redskins, who
works here. I don't know that he wanted to go there.
He was drafted, He had no choice. You know what
I'm saying? All right now? Page two, we pinwheel away
from football and we go to baseball. Why why do
we go to baseball? Dodgertown, USA, say what now? Reports
(06:42):
over the weekend say the Dodgers feel it is quote unfair,
unfair to count on Mookie Bets at shortstop. At shortstop
in the upcoming baseball playoffs this October. It's unfair, unfair
to count on Mookie Bets. How do you decode that report?
(07:04):
How do you decode that report? So I've got this
as a trip to visit mister clean at the laundromat.
It is the old spin cycle, not spin cycle Regina
the hostess with the mostest from the Malard meat and
greet in Minnesota. But this one's rather straightforward. It's been
telegraphed for some time. We talked about it, and my
(07:25):
people out there with the Dodgers. I still have people
out there, even though I'm not allowed out there. But
my people with the Dodgers, they tell me that this
has been the plane that they were looking for an out,
you know how like there's a certain political party looking
for an out on their candidate for the presidential election,
the Dodgers were looking for an out with Mookie as
a shortstop. He's injured now, so it's not playing. And
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when he had played as a shortstop, while his offense
had been up to snuff for the most part, got
off to a great start, then stopped hitting home runs,
and then started hitting home runs again. But Mookie Bets,
as an everyday defensive player has floundered. He was a
flounder fish. Every man, woman and child that is reasonable
(08:08):
would admit that that he had him in that good
And so now they haven't out. The Dodgers haven't out,
they can cut their losses. And the evidence on how
bad Mookie Bets had been. He has been a defensive
liability at one of the most important defensive positions. I
would argue catcher is more important than shortstop. But next
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to that shortstop, center field, second base, up the middle, back,
and old before the analytical department, it's always about up
the middle, up the middle, all they so Mookie Bets
defensive liability. To back that up, I present example a
of evidence. He has the worst number on the Dodgers
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in terms of minus seven outs above average, minus seven
outs above average. In fact, that is the fourth worst
in all of baseball. So in that single box, what's
in the box. In that single box, Mookie Bets is
the fourth worst defensive player in baseball. So all along
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the Dodgers, even when they gave Mookie Bets the opportunity
to play shortstop, they had couched it. They left the
door open for a change. You might remember we talked
about it on the show Dave Roberts. I liked him
in that spot. Dave Roberts called Mookie Bets when he
named him the everyday shortstop. He said of Mookie Bets,
he said, listen, he's permanent for now. We're all permanent
(09:34):
for now until we're not permanent anymore. LA is rather
in the open about it, the fact they're looking for
a shortstop. They're trying to get a shortstop, whether that's
Bashett or who knows. They're kicking the tires on a
bunch of players around baseball, trying to get a new shortstop.
And they are also considering in house keeping it in
(09:56):
the house. Miguel Rojas has been playing shortstop. He's had
some big hit for them, and so they're looking that
direction as well. A right final point to Arlington, where
I'm not trying to smoke out Edin Arlington, but the Rangers,
the reigning world champions, things are not going all that well.
They played a little bit better over the weekend. But
reports have been swirling that they're going to open up
(10:18):
a Texas sized flea market in Arlington. It's about to open.
The Rangers are going to unload mad Max, Max Scherzer,
Canby Yours, Michael Lorenzen who knows Anthony and Anaheim, one
of the guys that used to call the show back
before he became a grown up and got married and
had kids. Andrew Heaney as well former Dodger and Dave
(10:40):
Robertson veteran relief pitchers. Some other pitchers also, Kirby Yates
has been mentioned, all of them. Barring a dramatic turnaround
between now and the end of this month, the end
of the calendar month of July, the World Champs are
preparing to have a going out of business or going
out of contention, like say so, the question is rather
(11:01):
obviously it should the reigning World Series champion Rangers start
downsizing at the trade deadline And I'm shaking my head
now have you seen the American League West now Seattle
over the last month has puked in their mouth. The
(11:22):
cheating a holes are up to their old tricks again, right,
so they're playing a little bit better right, They did
not do well. They lost the series over the weekend
Wait to go, thank you very much. Lost the series.
So you gotta have that that Kobe like mamba mentality.
If you're the Rangers, you can't you can't stop right now.
That does not mean keep in mind, that does not
(11:43):
mean that you well, you don't throw in the sponge.
You can reshuffle the deck on the fly. Perseverance though, ultimately,
is what it's called for here. You don't throw in
the sponge. You don't do that. And and Max sure's
a guy like that, he's old, he's you can't rely
on a guy like that. That's understanding. And they've also
(12:04):
got a conundrum because Jacob de Grim, speaking of can't
rely on someone, Jacob de Gram is supposed to come
back in August, so they'll look at that like a trade.
We're gonna get Jacob de Gram, okay, until he makes
two starts and then gets a boomboo. It has to
go out. But don't do the demo. Just don't go demo.
Don't go do the whole demo thing. Don't do that now.
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Texas proved last season. They proved last season that you
merely have to crash the gates, get in the party,
get by the bouncer, get inside the party, and then
you can have all the party favors you want. And
abra cadabra, hokus pokus, just like that, out of thin air.
(12:48):
And that's what happens in that sport. It happens in hockey,
it happens in baseball. And this is a baseball story obviously.
But playoff squatters, you get in, you squat, and then
you don't leave, and they it's very hard to get
rid of you, and you end up sometimes in the
World Series. In fact, over the last five seasons, last
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five years, there have been four teams deemed flawed that
made it all the way to the World Series. They
had warped resumes, and yet just by getting in as
the final wild card team or one of the wild
card teams, they ended up getting all the way to
the World Series, and occasionally they won. The Diamondbacks last
year wild card team left for dead, they got to
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the World Series. The Fighting Phills of twenty twenty two
got there, didn't get it done, but they got there.
The Atlanta Brains, the Braves were under five hundred of
the All Star break back in twenty twenty one, Ronald
Lecuno Junior their top player out for the year and
they won the World Series. That year, they won the
World Series and the Nationals. Also in twenty nineteen, the
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Nationals were nine games under five hundred in June and
won the World Old Series. They won the World Series
in twenty nineteen and beat the cheating a holes while
doing it. So that's the lesson. It's obvious. But yet
you keep reading and hearing that the Rangers are going
to start unloading players and give up. Why would you
do that? That's dumb. Any team that gives up moronic.
(14:17):
If you have a realistic chance of getting into the
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you've heard of hanging out with a mob guy. We'll
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Maller ferg Dog writes and he says, Hey, Ben, do
you think the Dodgers are trying too hard to appeal
to nerds like Andy the comic book guy by having
v tuber sing take me out to the ballgame. I
don't know what that What is that? You know what
that is? V tuber? Anybody?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I do, No, I don't know, never heard of him.
I'm looking at a photo of it. I don't know
what that it's like. Is that anime or something like that? No,
I don't know what that is. I can't help you
for a dog. Maybe Andy will call up and let
us know. Late night drug test is just the reason
any NFL player goes to Washington is to eat a
(16:40):
food pick from Eddie Ben's chili bowl. Now, Eddie did
hook me up with the shirt. Thank you, Eddie. I
appreciate that. It's not I did wear it as pajamas
for a while. Now I've moved on my Bucky shirts.
Is my pajamas. But is it really that good? Ben's
chili bowl.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Solid, so that great, but it was it was okay.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, it's a local DC Delicacy bench chili bowl. Do
we have here any of the comic book? Speaking of
the devil, he will appear any of the comic book?
Guy says, great Dodger monologue. Although I am confused. Why
do the Dodgers have to announce we should count shouldn't
count on Mooki in the playoffs. We haven't been able
to counter him in the playoffs since he put on
(17:22):
the Dodger blue. His bat turns into an ice pick
in October. Yeah, I've determined that Mooki in October. He
gets this thing where he wants to go bowling, and
he figures like, well, I don't hit, I'll get to
go to Nashville, I go bowling, I get out of here.
And I played baseball long enough. I'd like to go
and I'd like to just do my thing and have
(17:44):
a fine time. Let's go to the phones. We'll say
hello to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Hello Ben.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
It's good to be with you.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Let me get things you mentioned you rather the the
scorching heat in the desert, the one twenty four heat
right out now in the Commonwealth, we got like seventy eighty.
But the humidity, right, humidity is about one hundred percent,
you know what I mean. So you got to both
circumstances you need ac There ben a couple of things
that want to point on. First of all, Caleb Martin,
(18:17):
he bet on himself. I can't blame the young man
for having the confidence right then. He did leave some
money on the table, certainly did with the Miami Heat.
We're going to give him about you know, thirteen fourteen
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Thirty million, No, no, no, no, no, thirty million dollars,
Come on, thirty million. He's a dime a dozen NBA
player onre right, guys like that him. He's fine, He's
had some big playoff games. But there's a bunch of
players that have a similar skill set to Caleb Martin.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
For true ben plus, you want to grow where you're planted,
and I think the Miami Heat organization was perfect for him,
right and unheroded probably undrafted player that was able to shine,
get to get his opportunities. Knocked the Boston Celtics out
of the playoffs, had a lot to do with that
last year. So more so than the money, I think
you should have just pay tribute and had respect. You know,
Miami's a great organization.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Uh you know.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
It does open up an opportunity for a local kid,
Cole Swider, who's from Portsmouth, who was a really good
player for US here in New England. He's a kid
on their G league that's going to step in and
I think he's going to have an opportunity next year
to shine. Now, Bet, I want to switch gears a
little bit because we talked a little bit of We
talked a little hawk do you know the first hour
you know what I mean, and you kind of chimed in.
There was a little bit of miscommunication. But I want
(19:26):
to kind of set the records straight. This young lady
from Tennessee. She may be dating Dak Bryant, but that
came after she went.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
By ah see that. Do I not have Hawk tool knowledge?
Come on, I'm a hawk toool expert. I think I
was wrong about that anyway. No, I think I just
fell for one of those faith Oh did you fake news? Krupolo?
Falling for fake news?
Speaker 7 (19:49):
No?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
No, no, no, I won't. I won't stay for that. I
think Coop did a good job. But it's just a
situation where after she went viral and now all the
kind of people are profiting and selling stuff and making
the merchandise. Now people like it's almost like she's a
star youth athlete. Like lawyers and everybody kind of you know,
descended down upon her because she has a lawyer, she
has an accountant, and now they're going out and whoever
(20:10):
her handlers are, they arrange for her to be at
the Zach Bright concert.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
So she's got it. She's gotta make her mind. I mean,
she's a fad. She's not a trend, right, I mean,
as a fad, this thing doesn't last. It's it's a
short term situation. They'll move on in the internet. There'll
be another, you know, somebody whose says I'm a stupid today,
and there'll be somebody that will replace her.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
You gotta strike while the iron tot and that's what
she's doing. But she might be in a relationship with
Zach Bryan now because she did go to the concert,
got on stage. It seemed to go well, so they
might have hit it off.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
And you know, good, No they're not.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I don't buy that I don't believe that at all.
I don't believe that for a split Sea. Loreno, she's
the love expert, Loreino. Your thoughts on this, Lorena, I
think it's cheesier than Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. Oh
shots fired from you, Mario, it's.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
The poor man's can't I can't you hold the candle
to that? So I gree with that's certainly a poor
man and but go ahead and make your money. And
you seem to have some spunk, but don't let him
take advantage of you, you know as always taking the time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
There he goes, Andre, Yeah, you got to make your money.
Why not go for it? It's the Hawk tour girl. Wonderful.
She worked like a factory or something in Nashville. I
think she's it's not a There was a room where
she was a teacher, but she's she's not there. You go,
let's say hello to Angry Bill, who's in Florida. Hello,
(21:31):
Angry Bill.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
What about a ten year old boy.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
A nine year old girl? You don't change You can't
change it.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
The ten year old boy got hit in the head
by the show Connie's Homer yesterday.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It was actually several days ago. But you're a little late.
That's fine. Yeah, So now we should have no home runs.
We should get rid of home runs because a child
could get hit, could hit in the head with a ball,
so we should have not No, it's selfish to hit
home runs.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
They're gonna put nets up in white field to protect.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yes, put nets up everywhere. Absolutely, I want nets all
over it. And they should have nets in front of
the pitcher. The catcher should have a net in front
of it. I want only nets. I want netball.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Yeah, we got that straight out. They're gonna put one
right up in right field there to protect the bo
Did you see the father jump out of the way
and let the kid get hit in the head. The
father moved away.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It was an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Angry Bill, where's the net? Buddy?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
With the net?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Up?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Ball?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
By god, you ruin baseball paint, but you round it.
You are an a hole. You roam the smart of
baseball nets.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Me. It was because of me.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Your what do you kids? You don't go to games anyway?
Who do you care about?
Speaker 7 (22:54):
A week or so ago, Ben, you were boohooing the Yankees.
I looked at the standings. You guys were two games
different than us. Your Dodgers a bunch of time.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Listen, who has the worst Who has the worst record
in baseball since June twelfth? I'll take my answer off
the air. Who has the worst record? Five and fifteen?
Is that right? Five? And it might be worse than that.
I might be short selling the Yankees?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Can you got your gas? Can't come?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You got? You got your your squad, your squad, the
New York Yankees, Oh they got that one Soto and
Aaron jud Joe Man that can you stop that Yankee lineup?
Everyone could stop the Yankee lineup? The Yankees blow and
you see what you're doing is when you're doing, you're doing.
What about is a angry Bell? I don't blame. As
(23:44):
a Yankee guy, I would do what about him?
Speaker 8 (23:45):
You know?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
What about the Dodgers? Meanwhile, your house is on fire.
The Bronx is burning. Do you understand the Bronx is burning?
Angry Bill, It's on fire. It's the team's falling apart,
your bullpen stakes, you can't hit and clutch situation. You
just lost the weekend of the Red Sox. The Red
Sox beat your ass over the weekend.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
You just keep waiting, buddy, your Dodgers are gonna fall
right into the hole all the time.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I was just like when they won in twenty twenty
and twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, three championships in this dynasty.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
I know, okay, world championship, what a West title? Give
me a break.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Well, they won in twenty seventeen. As we know, rot
Manford did the right thing. He said that the a
Holes cheated, so they gave it to the Dodgers. In twenty eighteen,
the Red Sox cheated, give it the Dodgers. Twenty twenty,
they won the Pandemic World Series, hardest world series all time.
There'll be a quiz later, Angry Bill, I know you're
old and a little slow. There'll be a quiz on
that a little bit later. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
And you had mentioned the Lakers earlier, but you buried
the lead, my man, I bury the lead. Ronnie James
making his ah, we'll get Summer League debut over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
HMMMD that go.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Twenty one minutes. On Saturday, he had four points two he's.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Back at USC that's what college. He's living up to
the hype.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
Two for nine from the field, over three from behind,
the three points. I think you buried the lead, though, Eddie,
how did he do though in his next game? That's
it right there on Sunday? How did he do?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
My aging?
Speaker 9 (25:21):
Already you're resting one summer league game that you can't
go the next game. They don't make him like I
used to, Eddie, those young kids sre me. They'd be like,
rub some dirt on it, you know, get back out there.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But he's not.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
You learned from his dad.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Nineteen years old. He's already doing load management nineteen by
war all the wusses unbelievable. We're gonna go see him
when we're in Vegas?
Speaker 10 (25:46):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Are they there? Over by? Then? Yeah, Big Lou wanted
to do a minor league baseball night, but nobody wanted
to do that. And then another listeners like, there's an
after party, guy, we got some big shots in Vegas.
Some of the guys were like, hey, I'll hook you up.
I know somebody, uh after party. Being the star, I
(26:06):
can't go to an after party because you know, my
name's on the shows. A little difficult to do that,
and let's have some He can't, he can't, he can't,
you know, hang with the what's that?
Speaker 10 (26:17):
But the party people, that's why, that's why you don't
want to go.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Well, I get an appearance fee, as you know, and
whether go to bar Mitzvah's weddings. Brian Finley's a little
wedding party whatever there, So anyway, hit that button. Fun fact.
All right, here's a fun fact. You ever watch the
Tour de France. No, you don't watch the Tour de France. Well,
there was love in the air in France. A cyclist
find he stopped during the Tour de France. He was
(26:44):
fined two hundred Swiss Swiss franks roughly two hundred twenty
three dollars US dollars. International Cycling Union find this guy.
He stopped to kiss his wife during the seventh stage
of the France a time trial on Friday. Yeah, you'd
(27:07):
think they would be more open to PDAs in France, right,
aren't they more into that kind of thing? All about
the loving ben Yeah, they're anti marriage in France. The
toward to France is anti marriage.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
He scored some major wife points though with that move.
Maybe I love you so much I'll get fined.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'm willing to get fined to kiss those lips. That's
what I'm willing to do right there. And yeah, So now,
I guess you can read a book, a love book
or something like that, or going to TV shows. They
still do those daytime shows where they have random I
don't know. I'm sleeping during that time, so my I
don't know either. Anyway, all right, wonderful, stop right there.
(27:46):
Sometimes you know, it's just love. It's just simply love,
that's all it is. It's like when we take a
phone call from hollering James. Hello, hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He's my friend, Eddie. He's not your friend. I've met him.
He's my friend.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Okay, Yeah, that's your buddy.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
James's bad.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
He loves you so much.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
He's so good. This guy's the greatest snore in the
history of overnight sports radio. He is the Bambino, He's Lebron,
He's Jordan, He's Tom Brady, he's Mahomes, he's all that.
He's Dwayne Gretzky. That's right, you are you know those
(28:30):
devil you? Oh yeah, that was for the kids. He
did that for the kids, that little pop. I know
you're excited. James. You're on the radio right now. You're
on hold for a little while. We put you on there.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Doesn't want that.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I can't believe that. What women wouldn't want that? Women
would leave their husbands to be with this. Where are
the white women at Not near James at all. They're
no women here, right, yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Man, James, you big stud. You hollering, James.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I'm a stud, but I'm not dad because I don't
go anywhere like a milk done. You know what. I
spent all day at home, sweet today I should be
seen myself. I don't know if the fool still pens
listen to nobody yell at me until how you on
(29:27):
the radio? You're on your show?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Hello, Hello? Did you hear me?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
No? I can't hear you.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
You can't hear me.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Wow, that's go back to snoring streaming at the radio
because I have a cold.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But anyway, you have a cold, it's just take another
Just take another pill. Just take another pill. You already
take seventy two a day. So what episode?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
What is today? Twenty six in the morning.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh, you're down to twenty six.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
So we should do a.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Song about that the morning.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Twenty six pills in the morning, twenty six pills that night.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
We could do a How about one of the fans
of the show do a song period?
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Yeah, to smoke two joints in the morning, That's.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's what. Yeah, do a hollering James take thirty six
pills in the morning, thirty six pills at night.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
What because?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Oh, by the way, I got a contact weed man.
I had a weed man begged for a home, and
I had a couple of people reached out to me
that want to help.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
We man, Oh my god. We did that before, though
it didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
He accused me of having him kidnapped. We got him a.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Broadcasting network, and he needs donations. I'm setting on a
letter right now.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I don't I don't think he's I don't think he's
part of that team, y'all.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
I don't know he make a good tell angelist, I
think so.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
I saw that show he did back in the day,
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
It's on YouTube two form.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Get him some crows, get him some fundy for some housing.
Don't put him somewhere nice waiting in the hotel room
for Lredo what.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Jeseuz I didn't know I was part of the deal. Wow,
I mean, James, that's offensive, James out there.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
You I'm not being a sexuous sir, any kind of
funny guy. I'm just seeing you know, rebul Rea need
to housing.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You need housing, Lorada. Would you like a place to
this day? Only if it's a mansion? Ben Okay Manion
right now?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Well, Christian bugs work. But you don't know what the
evangelists could do. I wasn't surprised if that would be.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I didn't. I didn't realize you're a big fan of evangelists.
I had no idea I am.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
You know why?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Why is that?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
That church is the one? They got me here? And
I've met so many times in the way he checked
down from pushing pillar in the post. He you know
me for a long time. I haven't pushing pillar in
the post. I've been from shelter to shelter to the
Yeah there, I made it somehow, and I'm here with
(32:18):
them as the church. He treated by Somalians and Afrikands,
And I don't know what's to do and what to believe?
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Who's your who's your favorite televangelist. Is it that the
goat is Billy Graham, Right, that's the Tom Brady the televangelist.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Bill was good.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
But I like Gordon robertson really.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
I did not have that, and I thought I thought
you were more of like a Joel Ostein kind.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Of guy or Joe Joel.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
What about Oral roberts They named the Whole University.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Television and Agelos the ones that contacted and.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I used to like when I was a kid. Sometimes
I'd watch Benny hen You you have my name, Benny hen.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Wat you.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah. All, I gotta go, thank you, James, Alright, I
gotta go appreciate that. An interesting story. We'll see if
this turns into something or if it stays nothing. But
New York Jets star Sauce Gardener recently spotted with a
mob boss in Florida. Say What It's Like an episode
of The Sopranos. Sauce Gardener, star of the New York
(33:33):
Jets Defense If You Can Be a Star, was spotted
in a video alongside Let's see if you know who
this guy is? Joseph Skinny, Joey Merlino. Now Joseph Skinny
Joey Merlino. He is said to be a well known
person with ties to organized crime in Philadelphia. But he
(33:55):
can't be that far into organized crime because he's on
social media and has a bunch of followers on Instagram.
But there's a there's a video, and there's a photo
of Sastgardner hanging out with Skinny Joey from the Philly Mob.
This guy's been in and out of jail, been in
federal prison a few times, racketeering other charges, and now
(34:16):
he's hanging out with sastguard It is the bad. We'll
see if anything comes in. Maybe maybe he's retired now
just doing a podcast. Mob guys need to retire to
We'll press on time now for the Insta Trivia, a
social media site ranked MLB managers by their career war
wins above replacement, as as players when they were playing
in the big leagues, and Blank was the worst player
(34:38):
turn manager. That's the Insta Trivia. The answer next.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
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Speaker 1 (35:15):
And here's the install trivia, a social media set ranked
MLB managers based on their career war wins above replacement
as players, and Blank was the worst as a player
that became a current big league manager. That is the
Insta trivia. The answer is or right now this see
(35:39):
does anyone know the answer? We'll go page down. Can't
read that. A lot of weird names being mentioned. Andre
in the Commonwealth guests by Mike. Let's see here. Oh
wait a minute, the connection has died, so we don't
(36:03):
we can't read the answers. The internet connection has gone out.
All right, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie's let's
go with Bruce Bochie. Bruce Bochie worst big League player.
That is incorrect, Eddie, the worst big League players ahead,
though I have the biggest head. Kevin Cash of the
Tampa Bay Rays as a player was minus three point
(36:26):
one war when playing. That is the worst in baseball.
Here we go, how about that.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Cockroach has got into the Wi Fi coopolo with the
Mallard the third degree Ben.
Speaker 10 (36:48):
It was a porter over the weekend that the Dodgers
could be in the market for another starting pitcher and
have their site set high. They are apparently interested in
the AL strikeout leader over from the Chicago White Sox.
Garrett I should have looked this up.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
A Crochet.
Speaker 10 (37:03):
Crochet, Okay, okay, perfect Ben. The Dodgers are twenty games
over five hundred. Do you think they need to make
a move as expensive as expensive as that would be.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Well, yes, because they're in the Kingdom of Babylon, the Dodgers.
They're in the playoffs every year. They have to fortify
the roster as much as they can. This guy's twenty
five years old. He throws starts. The problem with a
guy like Crochet is he's you don't know how he's
gonna handle big games. But White Sox haven't played a
big game since Ozzie Gien was the manager. They suck.
He's had Tommy John surgery, so he'll fit right in
(37:35):
with the Dodgers. But yeah, you gotta go for it.
Every year, you gotta go for it. They sell out
Dodgers Stadium just about every night.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Next, on a recent episode of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's podcast,
an insider named two Steelers that he thought are on
a Hall of Fame trajectory other than TJ.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Watt.
Speaker 10 (37:52):
He named Russell Wilson and Cam Hayward. Ben, do you
think they are both bound for Camp?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Well, that's very nice to suck up to. Russell Wilson.
He's not a Hall of Fame. He's never even gotten
an MVP vote, He's never been an All Pro. Those
are things that have to happen to be a Hall
of Famer. Now, Cam Hayward is on track to be
a Hall of Famer. Is in a similar career to
Richard Dann or Howie Long somebody like that? Three time
All Pro? Yes.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
Next, on Friday against the Mets, the Pirates hit seven
home runs in PNC.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Park, ran out of fireworks.
Speaker 10 (38:20):
Yeah, Ben, they're under five hundred, but only four games
out of a wild card. Do you think they can
make a run to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Can they sure in the multiverse? Will they no? Ideal
in facts not fiction. They're not making it run coop.
The pirates will not be in the plus, how did
we do?
Speaker 6 (38:34):
He passes it?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
That is a week the game.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
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