July 8, 2024 • 35 mins
Big Ben talks about DeMar DeRozan going to the Sacramento Kings in a sign and trade, Brandon Aiyuk posting a video of Commanders practice film on TikTok, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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What's the point of that. So we're open all night,
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better way to annoy the p ones than pro bouncy ball.
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That's right, pro bouncy ball. The long holiday weekend, which
wasn't that lot long. I was here at the end
of last week, said it was that long for me.
But the long holiday weekend has now come and gone.
As when we cracked the microphones here at Fox Sports Radio,
it is the beginning of the new week. Toda. Now
the festivities, the holiday festivities were interrupted by a trade.
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The Chicago Bulls said bye bye to Demart Rosen. He's
on to another town, bouncing around the NBA, the journeyman,
Demart Rosen. If you did not see this over the weekend,
you had won too many cocktails and a few too
many fireworks in the air everywhere you might have missed it.
So we'll get you caught up on this, perhaps you
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missed it. So demort de Rosen headed to one of
the glamoured teams in the NBA, the Sacramento Kings, whoa
to sign and trade, to sign and trade. So Tomortow
Rosen goes from Chicago to Sacramento. San Antonio was also involved.
It's a team. To Martin Rosen knows a thing or
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two about the Kings ended up giving up Harrison, Barnes
and others in the trade. There'll be a quiz on
this later. The key figure here that we need to
worry about is to Martin Rosen. So let us discuss
the question when you break it apart piece by piece. Here,
to Martin Rosen goes to Sacramento over the weekend. Can
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you explain why he picked the Kings? Because he had options.
Miami was getting all turned on to try to acquire
his services. The Lakers were also interested. But in the
end he picks Sacramento. It's one of those teams that
generally you do not pick unless you're from there, but
he did.
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So.
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I've got the four Horsemen, King of pop and the
Delaware River Mud and we will combine all of these
things together. And we are going to make a little
Mario Brothers fun because our friend Lorena is ready for
the big Mario Brothers convention. I don't know where that is,
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but she's prepared for the Mario Brothers convention. So a
to answer the question to Martin Rosen, why did he
pick the Kings? Can you explain that why he would
pick the king? And so my theory is rather simple.
Here's just talk Radios Overnight sports Rader. It's not that hard,
is that Demartin Rosen has a one track mind and
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he is preoccupied. He has been preoccupied with that last
massive payday, that one final big check that you can
squeeze all the money out of. And Sacramento is willing
to meet the ransom that he wanted, that his demand was,
and the King's forked over a gold plated, gold plated
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cow bell, so they got a little cow bell. Now
he's middle too old by NBA standards to Marta Rosen,
and yet he made out like a bandit robbing trains
seventy four million over three years. DeRozan turning down interest
by the Lakers. Where have we heard that before? Yeah,
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I'm not making that up. The Lakers were interested. In fact,
Lebron bragged everybody flexed, Hey, I took less money. We're
gonna go out and get a good player. So DeRozan
turns down the Lakers and the Miami Heat and that
ADS will focus on the Lakers here. That adds to
the bubonic plague that has infected the Laker franchises. Lebron
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I said he had cooties. I might have been too
delicate with my analysis that Lebron is something worse for
Lebron here. The Lakers, led by the GM slash owner
by proxy Lebron James, have now been rejected by the
four horsemen of the Apocalypse. James Harden said, I want
to play the real team in La. The Clippers checked, Okay,
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stayed with the real team. Klay Thompson said, my dad
works for the team. You think I want to hang
out with my dad? Come on, my dad tells me
what a dufist Lebron is. I don't want to go
play for the Lakers. So he's going to Dallas to
mishot there and then the biggest kick in the nuts,
Jonas Valentunis. Jonas Valentunis goes to the Washington Wizards rather
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than go to the Lakers, and now you have De
Martin Rose. So Lakers have lost out. They like to
talk about how they're better than everybody. Lakers, yoh, ye're
the Lakers, okay. So players would rather play for the Clippers,
the Mavericks, the Wizards, and the Sacramento Kings. How sweet
it is? How sweet it is? All right? Now? Page two?
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Does Demartrosen that transaction, the transaction we're talking about here,
does the De Martin Rose in trade put the Kings
in the upper echelon of the NBA. So I'm shame
I head no on that. I think that's an unpopular opinion.
You know what. This is the King of Pop Special
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Edition Michael Jackson the song want to be starting something
and you're stuck in the middle. And I look at
Sacramento and there's a big bottleneck dog pile, if you will,
in the West. Based on what's happened here in the
summer with transactions, there's a lot of teams that are
similarly constructed in the NBA. But De Marty Rosen is
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a better offensive player than Harrison Barnes. Bye by Barnes.
It's a better player there. With an asterisk, though, and
there is an asterisk here. He should do very well
late and close. I want you too much, Ex's and oss.
Who wants to hear that? But with the Aaron Fox
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on one side and the Marti Rosen offensively, Sacramento should
be in good shape if games are close late, and
most games are close late. However, however, he has no
perimeter game. Beyond the mid range is reliance. His dependence
on the mid range game is a blessing and a curse.
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It's a blessing because he makes a lot of them.
It's a curse because he doesn't shoot three point shots.
In the NBA has become a popa shot league. You
either take a three pointer or you get a basket
in the rim. And if you don't do that, there's
something wrong with you. Blah blah blah blah blah. But
he's about to turn thirty five in August. Happy early
birthday to Martin Rosen. There's a lot of mileage. It's
a high mileage car, which seemingly is problematic. All right, now,
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last word, we're gonna sidestep to Philadelphia. Gonna go to Philadelphia.
I thought this was an interesting story happened over the weekend.
I wanted to talk with you for a couple of
minutes about this, and there's some other stuff. Well we'll
get to. But Caleb Martin, the Celtic assassin from Miami,
Caleb Martin who destroyed the Celtics in the Game or two.
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Over the recent years there, Caleb Martin was offered a
five year contra for sixty five million dollars. It's a
lot of money. If I got that contract, I'd tell
all my friends I'd just won the lottery. I'm retiring.
That's it. I'm good. I've made my money. So five year,
sixty five million dollar deal from the Heat, that was
the offer. He said, you know what, I don't want that.
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I'm better than that and I'm not gonna take your deal.
So he rejected that and instead he agreed to terms
over the weekend with the Sixers on a four year
contract so one year last for thirty two million. So again,
Miami offered sixty five million, he ends up taking thirty
two million. So the question how does forward Caleb Martin
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turn down an extra thirty three million from the Heat
to join the Sixers. That's conceivable. He just loves cheese steaks,
so much. He wanted to play in the Mecca and
he loves those soft pretzels in Philadelphia. Conceivable that happened. Now.
The level though, of financial stupidity is bread taking when
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you think about it. And some people are trying to
pen the story online, Well, you wanted to win a
championship in Philadelphia is in a better position than Miami
to win a championship, And okay, so here's what really happened.
He bet on himself, Caleb Martin bet on himself, and
now he's on Santa's Natti list. He didn't win, and
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heads are going to roll. Heads are going in boxing,
I was watching there was I watched that Nate Diaz
fight over the weekend and he didn't win the NERD stats,
but he won the fight. But who cares? In boxing,
there's a term the old one to two punch. When
you factor in Florida taxation and how much cheaper it
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is and how much more your money actually get to
keep to do the same thing that you do in
a place like Philadelphia. That adds an extra a couple
of million dollars that he's not going to have that
he would have had if he had taken even the
same contract at thirty something million in Miami. All right, now,
last point, we're gonna pivot one more time and we're
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going to go to free agency where Miles Bridges, who
pled no contest to a domestic violence charge while back,
he has agreed to a contract to continue his NBA
career with the Hornets. And how much did he get
veteran minimum? No? How about seventy five million dead presidents
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And that's over three years. Now, what is the lesson
from Miles Bridges deal with the Charlotte basketball team? So
it's not just him that this has happened quite a
bit around the NBA. Teams are trying to take advantage
of what they perceived to be a loophole. And as
it was explained to me, you've got a group of
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talented players that if they did not have the scarlet
lets on top of them, if they were not covered
in that thick Delaware River mud because of legal issues,
they would be getting ridiculous amounts of money. But they're
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available in the discount bin and you can get that.
It's very addictive when you stop. I like shopping discount stuff.
Who doesn't. It's a market weak spots, a market inefficiency
is what it is, right, and so you can get
a player. How about that. Though seventy five million is
a discount for Miles Bridges, he would have gotten double
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that if he hadn't the pled No contest to the
domestic stuff devalued because it's got to buy a car.
You will buy cars. Like there's some dents there that
paints a little scraped. You know. I got to fix that.
So I'm not gonna pay as much for the car.
But the engine's fine, it is great, and everything else
is fine. About the car's a bit of a problem.
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are well playlids. So we'll go to football and everyone
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. So get those
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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
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ers team that gagged in 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 opiner, who
is my TikTok whisperer. But Brandon I posted this on TikTok.
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It was a photo. Ooh, 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
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the team's mandatory mini camp back in June. It popped
up 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
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twenty 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 TikTok So got
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theatrical mister Clean and Kobe and we will combine 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
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was clearly strategic. It was obviously strategic. Things have 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
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assume it had been assumed that Brandon Iyock will simply
play out the season, get his fourteen million dollars in
northern California, and then figure things out after that. Will
revisit this, see what happens, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
But now the plot dickens. Oh, the plot dickens, and
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IOC is stirring up a hornet's nest. He's playing the
role of the look at me guy. He's the look
at me guy. I want you to look at me.
I'm the loo look at me guy. That's what I am.
I'm the 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
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of gas baggery. I have my degree in gas baggery,
so I know. Okay, My diagnosis here is that Brandon
IOK is suffering from a mild histrionic personality disorder. Say what,
constant attention seeking activity. Either that or he is just
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desperate to put the pressure on the forty nine ers,
and that, in his warped mind, he believes that by
continuing to send out these subtle or not so subtle,
subliminal messages, that he will get what he wants positive affirmations. Now,
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in my life, this is the first time since I
think Joe Gibbs was coaching the old Washington Redskins that
the player has really tried to go to Washington. I mean,
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
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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
over the weekend say the Dodgers feel it is quote
unfair unfair to count on Mookie Bets at shortstop at
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shortstop in the upcoming baseball playoffs this October. It's unfair,
unfair to count on Mookie Bets. How do you decode
that report? 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
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cycle Regina the hostess with the mostest from the Malor
Meat and Greet in Minnesota. But this one's rather straightforward.
It's been telegraphed for some time. We talked about it,
and my 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 plan. That they were looking for
an out, you know how like there's a certain political
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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 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
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as an everyday defensive play has floundered. He was a
flounder fish. Every man, woman and child that is reasonable
would admit that that he had him been 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
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liability at one of the most important defensive positions. I
would argue catcher is more important than shortstop. But next
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. So Monkey Bets defensive liability.
To back that up, I present example a of evidence.
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He has the worst number on the Dodgers 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
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player in baseball. So all along 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
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for now. We're all permanent 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
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trying to get a new shortstop. And they are also
considering in house keeping it in the house. Miguel Rojas
has been playing shortstop. He's had some big hits for them,
so they're looking that direction as well. 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
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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 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
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call the show back before he became a grown up
and got married and had kids. Andrew Heaney as well
former Dodger and Dave 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
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of business or going out of contention like sale. So
the question is, rather 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
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in their mouth. The 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
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keep in mind, that does not 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 as a guy
like that, he's old, he's you can't rely on a
guy like that. That's understandable. And they've also got a
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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 boo boo. 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 Braves. The Braves were under five hundred of
the All Star break back in twenty twenty one, Ronald
Lacuno 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 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. If you
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have a realistic chance of getting into the baseball plays.
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Here we go, how about that to the third degree?
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This is one big Ben gets.
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Grilled cockroaches got into the Wi Fi koopo with the
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It was reported 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. Acheche Okay, perfect, Ben,
The Dodgers are twenty games over five hundred. Do you
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think they need to make a move as expensive as
expensive as that would be.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
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 Surgerys, so he'll fit right in
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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. Next.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
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 (28:47):
Watt.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
He named Russell Wilson and Cam Hayward. Ben, do you
think they are both bound for Camp?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, that's very nice to suck up the Russell Wilson.
He's not a Hall of Famer. 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 it a similar career to
Richard Dann or Howie Along somebody like that three time
all pro Yes.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Next on Friday against the Mets, the Pirates hit seven
home runs in p and Z Park, ran out of fireworks. Yeah, Ben,
They're under five hundred, but only four games out of
a wildcard. Do you think they can make a run
to the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Can they sure? In the multiverse? Will they know? I
deal in facts not fiction? They're not making it run Coop,
the Pirates will not be in the plus, how did
we do? He passes it? That is a week The
guy who.
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needs our advice? In the world of sports the last
seven to ten days, so many options, so many options,
we can only pick one. If you're watching Sunday Night Baseball,
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you likely know where I am going is Rafael dever So.
The Red Sox hit not one but two home runs
late seventh inning, and then again he connected to the
ninth inning. The Red Sox beat the Yankees three. I
think that means the New York Yankees have lost fifteen
of their last twenty games. That is the worst record
in baseball over the last twenty games. They can't hit,
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they can't pitch, They suck, They're terrible. They're an embarrassment.
So advice to Aaron Boone will pretend like he's actually
managing the team. Advice to Aaron Boone, Aaron Judge and
the New York Yankees, seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We'll start out with you on line one. Hello, Line one, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Just wait, could you get through the World Series and
play the doctor?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
All right? Line two, you're on the airline too. Advice
to the Yankees, line too, they've lost fifteen of twenty
bad mouthing furrys.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Then we don't all smell that.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay, I know you took a shower. I understand, all right.
That's Ferg Dog. He's named ferg dog Fergus for furry fg. Oh,
that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I guess that.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, A Line three, Hello, Line three, Aaron Bloom just
needs a hire.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
It shun man Naple babies.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Alway's right. Well, if it was the Lakers, his son
would be coaching for the team. Hello, line for Hello.
Line four, you're on the airline for advice to the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Line four, Morning Time, look at your speak, easy rule.
Let Alan Avison.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Coach you a practice.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's a great idea, not a game. Not a game.
We in here, we talked about practice. That's Rick and Maryland, Larina,
that's a famous Rick and Maryland. He's got that Morning Time.
Line five, Hello, line five, I'm taking your math.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You get get angry at.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Ben Oh, that's that guy from New York. He's annoying.
Line six, Hello, line six, you're on the air. We're
giving advice to the Yankees. They have the worst record
in baseball over the last twenty games. They're five and fifteen. Hello.
Line six, you leave by Twains.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And Lakers alone, because the Dodgers and Clippers are never
gonna win nothing.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
No, I think I'm good. Screw you. Line one, you're
on the Airline one. Yeah, obvious third party? Oh here
every week vote third party every week? I know alright.
Line two, you're on the airline two, eight seven, seven,
ninety nine on Fox, we're giving advice to Aaron Boone,
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Aaron Judge, and the New York Yankees, who have lost
fifteen of the last twenty games. Worst record in baseball
over the last twenty games. Hello, line two, Line two
is not paying attention. We go to line three. You're
on the Airline three, advice to Aaron Boone. Line three,
do you want to hear my bood? All right? I
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think I'm good on that. So Raphael Devers, by the way,
hitting four to sixty three with seven homers and ten
Harbis's last ten games in the Bronx. He's doing very well.
You might want to get him out. Line four. You're
on the air. We're giving advice to the Yankees, Aaron
Boone and Aaron Judge. Hello, line four, all right, your
clear throats here. Line five, you're on the air. Line five,
(33:28):
Hello Iron, Markcell and Brooklyn. I think we're good on that.
Line six, Hello, line six, Hi, Ben, how are you? Oh?
Thank you? All right? The star chart out there? Line
one Hello, line one.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Hello, thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Get the drug dealer. The best drug dealer is number.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Office speed dial and just prouse through the All Star
break and just get that last one.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
There you go, Just cycle up, is what he's saying.
Line two, Hello, line two, I two is not paying attention.
Line three, you're on the Airline three. Hello, Hello, you
could just call Alan Corey get to the bike. Yeah,
well asked Corey knows where the trash cans are in Houston.
The line four you're on the airline four war you're paving.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
That problem's gonna know? Hi, I ain't been in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
No, that's not I don't sound anything like that, sir
out Dare you try to mock my work as a
broadcast with line five Hello, Line five, Yeah, that last
guy's got a good point party? Oh again, you better cright?
Seven seven ninety nine. That third party guys gonna get
on again? Hello, Line six Hello, I ca'se.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Young women who wear skinny jans paint the umpires.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
You must have you must have been so excited when
you found out who Bill Belichick is now dating. My god,
it must have been amazing for you. Line one Hello,
Line one, Yeah, hire a fire. I don't know what
you say. Hire me. I'd go in there? Sure? Why not?
We're giving advice to Aaron Boone, Aaron Judge and the Yankees.
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They have the worst record in baseball last twenty games.
They're five and fifteen. Hello. Line two, I think.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
The Yankees hire some rats and roaches.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Okay, bring in the cockroaches, says Sean the hood Guy.
Line three, Hello, lines, we have plenty of them. Line three, Hello, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Give them the cockroach hat. The cockroach.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah. I like that. That's a good hat. It has
a sexy hat. The cockroach hat. Line four, Hello, Hey there, Ben,
how are you? I'm good. We'll do one more, only
one more. It's good. I'll take credit. If not, I'll
blame the Cooperloo who will pick the final call on
the instant advice line for the struggling, reeling New York Yankees.
Line two, Line two, you're on the Airline two, go,
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line tup, No, Coom you Beck That dirt party guy
got a bad job by you, Coop.
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Welcome in. We're here all night. The store does not close.
We're cooking up hot takes by the hour, by the minute.
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In fact, the kitchen does not show down. You know
sometimes you go out to eat late at night and
the kitchen's not open. And like you said, you were
open till like midnight or whatever. The kitchen closed at ten.
What's the point of that. So we're open all night,
but our lead this hour to begin the week. What
better way to annoy the p ones than pro bouncy ball.
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That's right, pro bouncy ball. The long holiday weekend, which
wasn't that lot long. I was here at the end
of last week, said it was that long for me.
But the long holiday weekend has now come and gone.
As when we cracked the microphones here at Fox Sports Radio,
it is the beginning of the new week. Toda. Now
the festivities, the holiday festivities were interrupted by a trade.
(02:24):
The Chicago Bulls said bye bye to Demart Rosen. He's
on to another town, bouncing around the NBA, the journeyman,
Demart Rosen. If you did not see this over the weekend,
you had won too many cocktails and a few too
many fireworks in the air everywhere you might have missed it.
So we'll get you caught up on this, perhaps you
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missed it. So demort de Rosen headed to one of
the glamoured teams in the NBA, the Sacramento Kings, whoa
to sign and trade, to sign and trade. So Tomortow
Rosen goes from Chicago to Sacramento. San Antonio was also involved.
It's a team. To Martin Rosen knows a thing or
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two about the Kings ended up giving up Harrison, Barnes
and others in the trade. There'll be a quiz on
this later. The key figure here that we need to
worry about is to Martin Rosen. So let us discuss
the question when you break it apart piece by piece. Here,
to Martin Rosen goes to Sacramento over the weekend. Can
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you explain why he picked the Kings? Because he had options.
Miami was getting all turned on to try to acquire
his services. The Lakers were also interested. But in the
end he picks Sacramento. It's one of those teams that
generally you do not pick unless you're from there, but
he did.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I've got the four Horsemen, King of pop and the
Delaware River Mud and we will combine all of these
things together. And we are going to make a little
Mario Brothers fun because our friend Lorena is ready for
the big Mario Brothers convention. I don't know where that is,
(04:10):
but she's prepared for the Mario Brothers convention. So a
to answer the question to Martin Rosen, why did he
pick the Kings? Can you explain that why he would
pick the king? And so my theory is rather simple.
Here's just talk Radios Overnight sports Rader. It's not that hard,
is that Demartin Rosen has a one track mind and
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he is preoccupied. He has been preoccupied with that last
massive payday, that one final big check that you can
squeeze all the money out of. And Sacramento is willing
to meet the ransom that he wanted, that his demand was,
and the King's forked over a gold plated, gold plated
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cow bell, so they got a little cow bell. Now
he's middle too old by NBA standards to Marta Rosen,
and yet he made out like a bandit robbing trains
seventy four million over three years. DeRozan turning down interest
by the Lakers. Where have we heard that before? Yeah,
(05:17):
I'm not making that up. The Lakers were interested. In fact,
Lebron bragged everybody flexed, Hey, I took less money. We're
gonna go out and get a good player. So DeRozan
turns down the Lakers and the Miami Heat and that
ADS will focus on the Lakers here. That adds to
the bubonic plague that has infected the Laker franchises. Lebron
(05:41):
I said he had cooties. I might have been too
delicate with my analysis that Lebron is something worse for
Lebron here. The Lakers, led by the GM slash owner
by proxy Lebron James, have now been rejected by the
four horsemen of the Apocalypse. James Harden said, I want
to play the real team in La. The Clippers checked, Okay,
(06:02):
stayed with the real team. Klay Thompson said, my dad
works for the team. You think I want to hang
out with my dad? Come on, my dad tells me
what a dufist Lebron is. I don't want to go
play for the Lakers. So he's going to Dallas to
mishot there and then the biggest kick in the nuts,
Jonas Valentunis. Jonas Valentunis goes to the Washington Wizards rather
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than go to the Lakers, and now you have De
Martin Rose. So Lakers have lost out. They like to
talk about how they're better than everybody. Lakers, yoh, ye're
the Lakers, okay. So players would rather play for the Clippers,
the Mavericks, the Wizards, and the Sacramento Kings. How sweet
it is? How sweet it is? All right? Now? Page two?
(06:47):
Does Demartrosen that transaction, the transaction we're talking about here,
does the De Martin Rose in trade put the Kings
in the upper echelon of the NBA. So I'm shame
I head no on that. I think that's an unpopular opinion.
You know what. This is the King of Pop Special
(07:08):
Edition Michael Jackson the song want to be starting something
and you're stuck in the middle. And I look at
Sacramento and there's a big bottleneck dog pile, if you will,
in the West. Based on what's happened here in the
summer with transactions, there's a lot of teams that are
similarly constructed in the NBA. But De Marty Rosen is
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a better offensive player than Harrison Barnes. Bye by Barnes.
It's a better player there. With an asterisk, though, and
there is an asterisk here. He should do very well
late and close. I want you too much, Ex's and oss.
Who wants to hear that? But with the Aaron Fox
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on one side and the Marti Rosen offensively, Sacramento should
be in good shape if games are close late, and
most games are close late. However, however, he has no
perimeter game. Beyond the mid range is reliance. His dependence
on the mid range game is a blessing and a curse.
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It's a blessing because he makes a lot of them.
It's a curse because he doesn't shoot three point shots.
In the NBA has become a popa shot league. You
either take a three pointer or you get a basket
in the rim. And if you don't do that, there's
something wrong with you. Blah blah blah blah blah. But
he's about to turn thirty five in August. Happy early
birthday to Martin Rosen. There's a lot of mileage. It's
a high mileage car, which seemingly is problematic. All right, now,
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last word, we're gonna sidestep to Philadelphia. Gonna go to Philadelphia.
I thought this was an interesting story happened over the weekend.
I wanted to talk with you for a couple of
minutes about this, and there's some other stuff. Well we'll
get to. But Caleb Martin, the Celtic assassin from Miami,
Caleb Martin who destroyed the Celtics in the Game or two.
(08:55):
Over the recent years there, Caleb Martin was offered a
five year contra for sixty five million dollars. It's a
lot of money. If I got that contract, I'd tell
all my friends I'd just won the lottery. I'm retiring.
That's it. I'm good. I've made my money. So five year,
sixty five million dollar deal from the Heat, that was
the offer. He said, you know what, I don't want that.
(09:17):
I'm better than that and I'm not gonna take your deal.
So he rejected that and instead he agreed to terms
over the weekend with the Sixers on a four year
contract so one year last for thirty two million. So again,
Miami offered sixty five million, he ends up taking thirty
two million. So the question how does forward Caleb Martin
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turn down an extra thirty three million from the Heat
to join the Sixers. That's conceivable. He just loves cheese steaks,
so much. He wanted to play in the Mecca and
he loves those soft pretzels in Philadelphia. Conceivable that happened. Now.
The level though, of financial stupidity is bread taking when
(10:00):
you think about it. And some people are trying to
pen the story online, Well, you wanted to win a
championship in Philadelphia is in a better position than Miami
to win a championship, And okay, so here's what really happened.
He bet on himself, Caleb Martin bet on himself, and
now he's on Santa's Natti list. He didn't win, and
(10:21):
heads are going to roll. Heads are going in boxing,
I was watching there was I watched that Nate Diaz
fight over the weekend and he didn't win the NERD stats,
but he won the fight. But who cares? In boxing,
there's a term the old one to two punch. When
you factor in Florida taxation and how much cheaper it
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is and how much more your money actually get to
keep to do the same thing that you do in
a place like Philadelphia. That adds an extra a couple
of million dollars that he's not going to have that
he would have had if he had taken even the
same contract at thirty something million in Miami. All right, now,
last point, we're gonna pivot one more time and we're
(11:05):
going to go to free agency where Miles Bridges, who
pled no contest to a domestic violence charge while back,
he has agreed to a contract to continue his NBA
career with the Hornets. And how much did he get
veteran minimum? No? How about seventy five million dead presidents
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And that's over three years. Now, what is the lesson
from Miles Bridges deal with the Charlotte basketball team? So
it's not just him that this has happened quite a
bit around the NBA. Teams are trying to take advantage
of what they perceived to be a loophole. And as
it was explained to me, you've got a group of
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talented players that if they did not have the scarlet
lets on top of them, if they were not covered
in that thick Delaware River mud because of legal issues,
they would be getting ridiculous amounts of money. But they're
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available in the discount bin and you can get that.
It's very addictive when you stop. I like shopping discount stuff.
Who doesn't. It's a market weak spots, a market inefficiency
is what it is, right, and so you can get
a player. How about that. Though seventy five million is
a discount for Miles Bridges, he would have gotten double
(12:34):
that if he hadn't the pled No contest to the
domestic stuff devalued because it's got to buy a car.
You will buy cars. Like there's some dents there that
paints a little scraped. You know. I got to fix that.
So I'm not gonna pay as much for the car.
But the engine's fine, it is great, and everything else
is fine. About the car's a bit of a problem.
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are well playlids. So we'll go to football and everyone
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. So get those
(15:10):
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
(15:30):
ers team that gagged in 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 opiner, who
is my TikTok whisperer. But Brandon I posted this on TikTok.
(15:52):
It was a photo. Ooh, 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
(16:14):
the team's mandatory mini camp back in June. It popped
up 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
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twenty 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 TikTok So got
(17:00):
theatrical mister Clean and Kobe and we will combine 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
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was clearly strategic. It was obviously strategic. Things have 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
(17:43):
assume it had been assumed that Brandon Iyock will simply
play out the season, get his fourteen million dollars in
northern California, and then figure things out after that. Will
revisit this, see what happens, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
But now the plot dickens. Oh, the plot dickens, and
(18:04):
IOC is stirring up a hornet's nest. He's playing the
role of the look at me guy. He's the look
at me guy. I want you to look at me.
I'm the loo look at me guy. That's what I am.
I'm the 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
(18:26):
of gas baggery. I have my degree in gas baggery,
so I know. Okay, My diagnosis here is that Brandon
IOK is suffering from a mild histrionic personality disorder. Say what,
constant attention seeking activity. Either that or he is just
(18:47):
desperate to put the pressure on the forty nine ers,
and that, in his warped mind, he believes that by
continuing to send out these subtle or not so subtle,
subliminal messages, that he will get what he wants positive affirmations. Now,
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in my life, this is the first time since I
think Joe Gibbs was coaching the old Washington Redskins that
the player has really tried to go to Washington. I mean,
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
(19:28):
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
over the weekend say the Dodgers feel it is quote
unfair unfair to count on Mookie Bets at shortstop at
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shortstop in the upcoming baseball playoffs this October. It's unfair,
unfair to count on Mookie Bets. How do you decode
that report? 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
(20:14):
cycle Regina the hostess with the mostest from the Malor
Meat and Greet in Minnesota. But this one's rather straightforward.
It's been telegraphed for some time. We talked about it,
and my 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 plan. That they were looking for
an out, you know how like there's a certain political
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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 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
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as an everyday defensive play has floundered. He was a
flounder fish. Every man, woman and child that is reasonable
would admit that that he had him been 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
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liability at one of the most important defensive positions. I
would argue catcher is more important than shortstop. But next
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. So Monkey Bets defensive liability.
To back that up, I present example a of evidence.
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He has the worst number on the Dodgers 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
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player in baseball. So all along 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
(22:30):
for now. We're all permanent 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
(22:50):
trying to get a new shortstop. And they are also
considering in house keeping it in the house. Miguel Rojas
has been playing shortstop. He's had some big hits for them,
so they're looking that direction as well. 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
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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 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
(23:32):
call the show back before he became a grown up
and got married and had kids. Andrew Heaney as well
former Dodger and Dave 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
(23:56):
of business or going out of contention like sale. So
the question is, rather 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
(24:19):
in their mouth. The 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
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keep in mind, that does not 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 as a guy
like that, he's old, he's you can't rely on a
guy like that. That's understandable. And they've also got a
(25:04):
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 boo boo. 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.
(25:47):
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
(26:31):
the World Series. The Fighting Phills of twenty twenty two
got there, didn't get it done, but they got there.
The Atlanta Braves. The Braves were under five hundred of
the All Star break back in twenty twenty one, Ronald
Lacuno 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 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. If you
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have a realistic chance of getting into the baseball plays.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
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Speaker 1 (27:27):
Here we go, how about that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
This is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Grilled cockroaches got into the Wi Fi koopo with the
Mallard the third degree Ben.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It was reported 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. Acheche Okay, perfect, Ben,
The Dodgers are twenty games over five hundred. Do you
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think they need to make a move as expensive as
expensive as that would be.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
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 Surgerys, so he'll fit right in
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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. Next.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
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 (28:47):
Watt.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
He named Russell Wilson and Cam Hayward. Ben, do you
think they are both bound for Camp?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, that's very nice to suck up the Russell Wilson.
He's not a Hall of Famer. 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 it a similar career to
Richard Dann or Howie Along somebody like that three time
all pro Yes.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Next on Friday against the Mets, the Pirates hit seven
home runs in p and Z Park, ran out of fireworks. Yeah, Ben,
They're under five hundred, but only four games out of
a wildcard. Do you think they can make a run
to the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Can they sure? In the multiverse? Will they know? I
deal in facts not fiction? They're not making it run Coop,
the Pirates will not be in the plus, how did
we do? He passes it? That is a week The
guy who.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Speaker 1 (29:53):
Here were you talking to sons? Here some interesting advice?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Hold that doun No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You don't like it? You away we go. It's the
advice line unscreened radio, the safety that is off. Who
needs our advice? In the world of sports the last
seven to ten days, so many options, so many options,
we can only pick one. If you're watching Sunday Night Baseball,
(30:22):
you likely know where I am going is Rafael dever So.
The Red Sox hit not one but two home runs
late seventh inning, and then again he connected to the
ninth inning. The Red Sox beat the Yankees three. I
think that means the New York Yankees have lost fifteen
of their last twenty games. That is the worst record
in baseball over the last twenty games. They can't hit,
(30:43):
they can't pitch, They suck, They're terrible. They're an embarrassment.
So advice to Aaron Boone will pretend like he's actually
managing the team. Advice to Aaron Boone, Aaron Judge and
the New York Yankees, seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We'll start out with you on line one. Hello, Line one, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Just wait, could you get through the World Series and
play the doctor?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
All right? Line two, you're on the airline too. Advice
to the Yankees, line too, they've lost fifteen of twenty
bad mouthing furrys.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Then we don't all smell that.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay, I know you took a shower. I understand, all right.
That's Ferg Dog. He's named ferg dog Fergus for furry fg. Oh,
that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I guess that.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, A Line three, Hello, Line three, Aaron Bloom just
needs a hire.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
It shun man Naple babies.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Alway's right. Well, if it was the Lakers, his son
would be coaching for the team. Hello, line for Hello.
Line four, you're on the airline for advice to the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Line four, Morning Time, look at your speak, easy rule.
Let Alan Avison.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Coach you a practice.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's a great idea, not a game. Not a game.
We in here, we talked about practice. That's Rick and Maryland, Larina,
that's a famous Rick and Maryland. He's got that Morning Time.
Line five, Hello, line five, I'm taking your math.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You get get angry at.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Ben Oh, that's that guy from New York. He's annoying.
Line six, Hello, line six, you're on the air. We're
giving advice to the Yankees. They have the worst record
in baseball over the last twenty games. They're five and fifteen. Hello.
Line six, you leave by Twains.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
And Lakers alone, because the Dodgers and Clippers are never
gonna win nothing.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
No, I think I'm good. Screw you. Line one, you're
on the Airline one. Yeah, obvious third party? Oh here
every week vote third party every week? I know alright.
Line two, you're on the airline two, eight seven, seven,
ninety nine on Fox, we're giving advice to Aaron Boone,
(32:45):
Aaron Judge, and the New York Yankees, who have lost
fifteen of the last twenty games. Worst record in baseball
over the last twenty games. Hello, line two, Line two
is not paying attention. We go to line three. You're
on the Airline three, advice to Aaron Boone. Line three,
do you want to hear my bood? All right? I
(33:06):
think I'm good on that. So Raphael Devers, by the way,
hitting four to sixty three with seven homers and ten
Harbis's last ten games in the Bronx. He's doing very well.
You might want to get him out. Line four. You're
on the air. We're giving advice to the Yankees, Aaron
Boone and Aaron Judge. Hello, line four, all right, your
clear throats here. Line five, you're on the air. Line five,
(33:28):
Hello Iron, Markcell and Brooklyn. I think we're good on that.
Line six, Hello, line six, Hi, Ben, how are you? Oh?
Thank you? All right? The star chart out there? Line
one Hello, line one.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Hello, thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Get the drug dealer. The best drug dealer is number.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Office speed dial and just prouse through the All Star
break and just get that last one.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
There you go, Just cycle up, is what he's saying.
Line two, Hello, line two, I two is not paying attention.
Line three, you're on the Airline three. Hello, Hello, you
could just call Alan Corey get to the bike. Yeah,
well asked Corey knows where the trash cans are in Houston.
The line four you're on the airline four war you're paving.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
That problem's gonna know? Hi, I ain't been in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
No, that's not I don't sound anything like that, sir
out Dare you try to mock my work as a
broadcast with line five Hello, Line five, Yeah, that last
guy's got a good point party? Oh again, you better cright?
Seven seven ninety nine. That third party guys gonna get
on again? Hello, Line six Hello, I ca'se.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Young women who wear skinny jans paint the umpires.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
You must have you must have been so excited when
you found out who Bill Belichick is now dating. My god,
it must have been amazing for you. Line one Hello,
Line one, Yeah, hire a fire. I don't know what
you say. Hire me. I'd go in there? Sure? Why not?
We're giving advice to Aaron Boone, Aaron Judge and the Yankees.
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They have the worst record in baseball last twenty games.
They're five and fifteen. Hello. Line two, I think.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
The Yankees hire some rats and roaches.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Okay, bring in the cockroaches, says Sean the hood Guy.
Line three, Hello, lines, we have plenty of them. Line three, Hello, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Give them the cockroach hat. The cockroach.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah. I like that. That's a good hat. It has
a sexy hat. The cockroach hat. Line four, Hello, Hey there, Ben,
how are you? I'm good. We'll do one more, only
one more. It's good. I'll take credit. If not, I'll
blame the Cooperloo who will pick the final call on
the instant advice line for the struggling, reeling New York Yankees.
Line two, Line two, you're on the Airline two, go,
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line tup, No, Coom you Beck That dirt party guy
got a bad job by you, Coop.
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