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July 30, 2024 • 38 mins

Ben Maller talks about the San Francisco Giants being unwilling to pay down Blake Snell's contract in a potential trade, White Sox P Garrett Crochet being unwilling to come out of the bullpen, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird two, our two
ready to go. And here in our number two talking baseball.
Why are the Giants unwilling to pay down Blake Snell's
contract in order to trade him before today's deadline? Maybe
he's already been traded, but we'll talk about that aspect

(00:21):
of it. Also, do the White Sox have a legitimate
beef with starter Garrett Crochet over his contractual demands in
order to be traded? And what's your temperature on the
Doyers dealing for utility guys, Tommy Edmund and Ahmed Rosario.
So far, that's the big move the Dodgers have made.

(00:42):
We'll talk about that and a whole lot more right
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(01:46):
event that he's in. But our lead this hour from
baseball will start out in the Bay Area and we're
still waiting for that big big name to be traded.
Haven't had that big big name traded summer? Saying it's
what's going to happen with the Giants. Times didn't make
a trade. We'll talk about that in a second, but
not the big one. The big kahuna has not been moved.

(02:08):
And that is where the Giants are contemplating a full
on fire selling. They've already made one trade that would
signify their giving up, that they're raising the white flag
and will live to fight another day. But just tossing
the sponge, that's it. The trade deadline is later today.
It's at six pm Eastern time, three o'clock in the west,

(02:30):
and that would be about noon in Hawaii. Got to
figure that out. Now. We have seen several bit players
relocate in the last forty eight hours or so, and
players you might have heard at a long in the tooth,
but they're still hanging out and playing baseball and all that.
Not a lot of name rand players have changed teams
as it happened. One of the players twisting in the

(02:53):
win right now is a mortal enemy of this show.
And you know who that is if you listen on
a regular He's won a couple of awards, the greatest
five inning pitcher in baseball history. We have learned that
the San Francisco baseball team is quote unwilling that's the report,
unwilling to take on some of Bro. I ain't playing

(03:16):
unless I get mine, risking my life bro Blake Snell's salary.
And this in a deal ahead of the trade deadline,
which is this afternoon. Snell's deal has thirty million a
player option. The concern is that Blake Snell, since apparently
baseball people think he's got no integrity, that he will
fake an injury to make sure he gets the thirty
million dollars the following year. Otherwise, why would you care

(03:39):
because he pitches well, he's going to opt out and
go back into the market. But that's not the part
of the story that's interesting. Why would the giants not
throw some shekels in there? Why would they not do that?
So let us discuss the question, why are the Giants
unwilling to pay down as a courtesy Blake Snell's contract?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Should he pick up that option in a trade?

Speaker 1 (04:02):
So I've got Lady Gaga, unorthodox and thermostat, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make a bus. Because the wheels on the
bus go round and round. The wheels on the bus
go around. I've not seen the buster, a buster ever
supposed to be here. I've not seen the bus driver.
Now number what? All right? The main reason the San

(04:27):
Francisco Giants are unwilling to pony up some money is
because they don't have to have y'all looked around baseball.
Have you seen the value the players that are changing teams?
They don't have to, all right, So you don't have
to cut a check. And you would cut a check
because you think you're going to get a better lottery

(04:48):
ticket at your odds of winning your better Because these
prospects are suspects until proven otherwise. But this is really
just the art of the deal. It's the art of
the deal. And the Giants are going into this. They're
like Lady Gaga. They've got their poker face on there,
and it's all cheesy goodness for the San Francisco Giants
because the only thing the Giants can do here is

(05:10):
play the Phillies against the Yankees. Now, god forbid the
Dodgers get this guy. I don't want this guy on
the Dodgers. I want nothing to do with Blake Snell.
I don't want that guy on a team I like.
But there's multiple teams that need a frontline starting pitcher.
And so if you're the Giants, and you know, right
up until that eleventh hour here the trade deadline at

(05:30):
six o'clock Eastern, teams will be panicking and all he
needs one, right, all you need one is one. And
you don't have to throw money in there, you just don't.
I mean, as we know, the only free cheese is
in the mouse trap. That's it, right. And while we
loathe Blake Snell, he's an annoyance to us, we understand

(05:52):
in this baseball market up today, Blake Snell is valuable.
If you have low standards. You want Blake Snell on
your team. Now, Pastry, we head to Chicago. So the
controversy continues. Another starting pitcher who was supposed to be
traded by now and has not been traded back in
the news, the White Sox GM. I'm told somebody named

(06:12):
Chris Gets. We had never heard of him before, but
apparently he's the gym of the White Sox and he
was upset complaining to members of the fourth Estate that
the starter, Garrett Crochet, the much talked about This is
our third Garrett Crochet mall monologue in a week. That's
an all time record, and we will likely never talk
about him again. But Garrett Crochet, the starter, his representation

(06:34):
is Posse, has been using tactics. That's the term that
Chris Gets, the gym of the White Sox, used tactics
in letting it be known that hey, if you trade
for me, here's how I'm going to be used.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
And if you don't use me like this, screw you.
That's pretty much it.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Right. If he's traded to a contender, Crochet, who's had
a great year coming out of nowhere, Crochet one to
get an extension. Doesn't everyone want to get a contract extensions.
He would like a contract extension, and if he doesn't
get one, he's taking his glove and his cleats and
he's going home in his bat. He says, that's it.

(07:13):
He will not pitch in the postseason. It's either his
way or the highway. He also has no desire to
pitch out of the bullpen now sometimes in playoff situations,
not that he knows about that because he pitches of
the White Sox, but in playoff situations sometimes the starting
pitchers have to go to the bullpen. Shocking, it's really
it's despotic. So you see, he doesn't do it. He's

(07:36):
not doing it, not gonna. He wants to remain as
a starter, and that's it. So do the White Sox
have a legitimate beef? Does the White Sox front office
have a legitimate beef with their pitcher Garrett Crochet and
his commentary that was leaked by his agents. So I'm
nodding my head. Yes.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
We talked about this in the previous episode of the
show and he was asked whether or not the report
was true, and he said, no comment. When you say
no comment, you're saying it's true, because otherwise you would
have denied it and said that's outrageous. I would have
never done that. But he said no comment, which is
a confirmation. And the main problem is if you're the
White Sox, like I, just in the players, looking after

(08:13):
the player, but you fear the White Sox. It's unorthodox.
This is not normally how it is done. And I
certainly appreciate the honesty, like thank you for that. You
don't want to pitch out of the bullpen. You don't
want to pitch unless you get paid, sound like Blake Snell.
But it is a breach of decorum, right. It's bad
baseball etiquette, is what it is. And especially it's also premature.

(08:35):
It's unnecessary because you do it before the trade deadline.
I see you make this move before the trade deadline.
Why don't you do it after you're traded? Could you
imagine that would be the ultimate schmuck move. You've just
been traded to the Boston Red Sox and you tell
the Red Sox I am not pitching in the playoffs
unless I get an extension. And oh, by the way,

(08:56):
I'm not pitching out of the bullpen. Either pay me
pay me instead. It is more likely than not that
the White Sox will be unable to find a sucker,
because you really got to be a sucker to pay
this guy who's missed most of the last two years
before this year with various injuries. You're gonna trade for
the guy who's never pitched in a big game of

(09:18):
his life in a professional level. You know, trade for
the guy, pay him sight unseen, and you're gonna have
to deal with maybe he doesn't want to pitch up
a bullpen even when you pay him, and instead he'll
likely stay in the gulag that is Chicago White Sox Baseball.
Right final point, so everything gets cranked up several notches.
It's about to get real today to trade deadline. And

(09:41):
I got double duty today, double header action on the
radio today, so I'll be doing live coverage locally in
La filling in there, but on this show we'll have
reaction after it. Today is launch day and that's it.
Either poop or you get off the pot. And have
you been sitting there for a while. I probably got
hemorrhoids at this point. So we had a gaggle of
trades that have happened in the last twenty four hours.

(10:03):
A lot of marginal talent players that used to be
good that aren't anymore. A lot of flotsam and jetsam
you've never heard of that are changing locations and whatnot
older players. The trade that popped out the most to
me happened in the nighttime hours here Atlanta brought back
the World Series MVP from twenty twenty one, that great

(10:26):
Atlanta playoff run. Jorge Solaire is going from the San
Francisco baseball team to the Atlanta baseball team. He knows
a thing or two about the Braves. So the slugger
who didn't hit many home runs, apparently the Marine layer
is how you stop Jorge Solaire there in San Francisco.
And so he is going now with right handed reliever

(10:47):
Luke Jackson. They both go to from San Francisco to
Atlanta for a thirty. This is what the Giants got.
They got a thirty three year old relief pitcher within
the area of over nine and a prospect who is
a suspect and will proven otherwise. That's what they got.
And Horace Hilaria, it's not a great fit. Like he's

(11:08):
a guy that's proven he can hit and clutch, and
he's had some big hits for Atlanta in the past,
but he's a DH. He's not a good defensive player,
so he's a DH. And Marcelo Zuna unless they changed
things last time I watched the Braves. Marcello Zuna is
the DH in Atlanta. So you're trading for another DH,
You're gonna put him out in the outfield. He's a liability,
especially in a playoff game situation, so it's not a

(11:31):
perfect fit, but that's the name that pops out the most.
Then you've got Justin Turner. Who's how many teams is
Justin Turner gonna end up playing for By the time
he's done, this will be number six for Justin Turner.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
That Dodger legend goes.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
From oh kinda to the Great Pacific Northwest. Now I've
been told I was in Seattle. My friends in Seattle
told me that they the people of Vancouver consider the
Mariners another Canadian team that it's like the western Canadian
team is the Manriers, because when the Blue Jays come
to Seattle, they get huge crowds because all the proud

(12:03):
Canadians wrap themselves in the in the flag and they
get maple syrup and they come down to watch.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
The Blue Jays. What else did we see?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
We said, cheating a one one thousand and two, one
thousand holes picked up a pitcher from the Blue Jays.
You say Kikuchi comes over from Toronto, Say that fast
La made a couple of trades. They We'll talk about
that for a second. What is your temperature on the
Dodgers dealing for a couple of infielders, utility guys, Tommy

(12:34):
Edmund who was with the Cardinals, and Ahmed Rosario who
was with the Dodgers last year. He is now with
the Tampa Bay baseball team. And so my thermostat on
these moves for the Dodgers lukewarm, I am. The temperature
is lukewarm? Is room temperature. Tommy Edmund has played as
much baseball as me, Monsey, Coop.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
And Lorraina this year, zero innings of baseball.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
In fact, we might have played more innings for the
Cardinals and we don't even know about it than Tommy
Edmund has been hurt. And I do like Ahmed Rosario.
I liked when they got him. The Dodgers got him
last year from Cleveland. He's with Tampa. But you don't
get excited. You don't get all tingly because your team
traded for Ahmed Rosario and Tommy Edmund. The Dodgers need pitching.

(13:21):
They need bullpen help is what they need. Because Dave
Roberts blows through that bullpen. They can't help but go
through five pitchers seemingly every game, and so the pitchers
have to be replaced, and plus half the team's hurt.
So they've got work to do. They got work to do.
It is the Ben Maler Show. If you'd like to
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(13:42):
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coming up in a bit and comments and all that.
There's a Grand Olympic conspiracy going to put this to
the test. Do we believe the Olympic conspiracy or not?

(14:04):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
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Now back to Ben.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Maller Midnight Walker. Right, so he says, go to hell.
Blake Snell says Big Ben Maller, and I'm with him
all the way. I hope Snell takes a line drive
off his face and permanently goes away. No, I don't
agree with that. Midnight Walker see him pitches solid five
innings and then throw eight hundred pitches per start, and

(15:39):
then that'll be that late night drug tester says, you
know Eddie is off for the night when the Top
of the Hour starts off with Royals radio highlights. Yeah,
Eddie Monsey, you don't know this, but Eddie has an
anti royal bias. He hates the Royals.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
I see.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
I'm just trying to spread the love. It's gonna be
a different highlight. No, it's good because we have a
lot of listeners in Kansas City and people like in
that part of the country like the Royals, and Eddie
just disrespects him. He doesn't like a chip in the ques. Right,
since says a plus on the Mallet monologue, let's se
hear the page that the mouse talk reminds me of
the old saying the early bird may get the worm,

(16:15):
but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese. Let's
get a fair point. Let's go to Vermont and we'll
say hello to Kizzle. It says Kizzle, I think I
pronounced that in Vermont. Hello Kissele. Just kiss all, kiss
kiss all. Oh, you're doing a voice. This is not

(16:36):
your real voice. No, you're doing doing, you're doing it's
a bad impersonation, sir, yeah, kiss all, No, it's not Kissel.
I don't believe you.

Speaker 7 (16:51):
Right day Brmont Canada.

Speaker 8 (16:52):
Hold done.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
No, see if you're not even keeping the impersonal, I'm
gonna go thank you. All right, let's say hello to
on who is in. If you're going to do an impersonation,
at least make it good. I mean that was bad.
Andre and his dog Willis wink wink, nod nod, Hello Andre, Hello, good.

Speaker 9 (17:12):
Evening, Ben.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Always nice to be with you. There's going to be
no appearance from Willis. Willis he got himself into some
business that he wasn't supposed to be involved in, acting
as as if he doesn't get consistent meals, and I
gave him a few tater tots, you know what I'm
saying from my dinner this evening, made sure that he.

Speaker 7 (17:33):
Had a little bit extra.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
That wasn't a enough. He went ahead and got his
nose into the rubbish. But he wasn't supposed to be
doing that, so he had to be putting time out
so no appearance from Willis this evening. But he's going
to be back in the mix. You know what I
mean Again, it's his roots. He's a rescued from Georgia,
so he had these hunting roots, even though he has
plenty of.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
The dog's not there. We don't want to talk about
the dog.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
The dog's not there, Willis, the Southern dog is hanging
out in the north, in the Northeast.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
But what did you call?

Speaker 1 (18:02):
What's on your agenda today, Andre from the Commonwealth.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
What's on my agenda today is this move sending Georgi
Solaire back to the Atlanta Braids in what looks like
a fire sale for the San Diego Padres. I don't
know what. They're only six games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers,
been okay, and it's very competitive all across MLB. No
team has seventy wins today, all right, they're all right

(18:26):
there around sixty three, sixty four, sixty five wins. So
even though calling from the Northeast, you know, I'm pulling
for the Sock, I'm pulling for the Yankees to break through.
I'm a little bit surprised that San Diego when.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
They know you're mixing up all those West coast cities
of the same. You're mixing up the Giants and the Padres.
The Giants are the team that traded Hore Solaire, not
the Padres. Okay, Giants, the Giants important. That's a that's
a pretty long drive from San Diego to San Francisco.
That's many many as right, it would be after it
would be like going from Atlanta to like Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's a long drive.

Speaker 9 (19:02):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
So that essentially we would like to erase that take
that is that take is voided. We avoid that take. Yes,
take is voided. Take his voided avoided.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
It goes back to my original my point. So San Diego,
you want to want to have your file fire, so fine,
but I see a lot of parody overall was my
secondary and.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Maybe well, and I would I would argue that it's
full parody that if you gave me remember the thing
we used to do with Tiger Woods before a tournament,
take Tiger of the field. I remember we used to
make those bets, at least in sports radio, we make
those bets Tiger of the field before the Masters or whatever.
So in this context, if if you were to say, okay,
you can get the give me I'll take the Phillies,

(19:43):
the Dodgers. I need just those two in the National League.
I'll take the Yankees and give.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Me who's the other team I'll take. I'll take the Orioles.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Give me those four teams, and you can have everyone
else in baseball. I like my chances to have the
World Series winner, even with all the nonsense that happens
in baseball, where teams that shouldn't get there get there,
I'd still take my chances with those four teams.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
What say you and andre.

Speaker 9 (20:11):
I, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
I'm gonna concur there.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Do you agree with my take? That's a great take.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
I just had you agree with my take that you
give me those four teams Phillies, Dodgers, Yankees, Orioles, that
one of those four teams is gonna win the World Series.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'm like you specifically, you know, and I like that
you included in conclusions. I'd like to see the Phillies
who have been close, who have been close these last
couple of years. They don't get they the glitz and
the gland that the Red Sox and the Yankees have,
but they've they've been in the mix these last couple
of years. I know a lot of good people from
the City of Brotherly Love and the Garden State.

Speaker 7 (20:47):
So i will concur with that.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Take, and I'm gonna leave it at that. Ben, I'm
gonna get my I'm gonna get my act in order.
Okay on giants, Padre, Yes.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
I'm gonna get you a map. So we'll get you
a map.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
You can see San Francisco and San Diego, they earlier
are different. Thank you, Andre. Say hi to Willis Force.
Let's salo to America's favorite drag queen caller for Lexis
in Buffalo, Hello for Lexus, No boy, it's Flexis sleeping. Yeah,
it sounds sounds like it. M not a prolific snorer

(21:22):
like hollering James Felexus probably tired, had to fly back
from that opening ceremonies in Paris.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
For Flexis was excited to be a part of the
Lady's Night.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Not too excited, though he was able to calm calm
himself down, Felexis and yeah, all right, back on, all right,
put them on hold there. Let's saylo salo to men
Well in Guardina, a sports talk radio calling legend. Hello
Manuel in Guardina.

Speaker 7 (21:49):
First off, shout out Tom a bully waiter Gino. Shout
out that Don Martin, head of the blow Torch of
five to seventy, because he had two of the top
five all time radio host greats on at Noon Today
in My Man, Big Ben Mallard and Jonas Knox. I

(22:09):
was halfier than a pig in crap, Bennie, and now
they're chasing it with two of the three Triumviri Fox Sports,
beautiful lovely ladies that we got in the house, Monsey
and our girl Lorena. Oh my gosh, man, I feel

(22:29):
like Dean Travers hitting you up and you're Jack Tripper.
You're surrounded by two women, two women in the studio, Bennie.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Oh, we're all identifying as women. So Coop's also here.
He's identifying as a woman. So it's a three one and.

Speaker 10 (22:47):
It's all good.

Speaker 7 (22:48):
Hey man, But I'll tell you what's not all good.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
What's that? What's that?

Speaker 2 (22:51):
What's your beef?

Speaker 1 (22:52):
What do you got? You got a beef?

Speaker 2 (22:53):
What's your beef?

Speaker 7 (22:53):
Gren dime crap that the Dodgers are doing? Man, you're
telling me Magic Johnson's out on a damn yacht in
the Mediterranean Mark Walters has more money than God, and
we're out here Nikol and Dove getting little Punch and
Judy acquisitions. I mean, Rosario's all right, but man, we

(23:14):
need a Nathan Evaldi. We need Yeah, I like that too,
Coro Chare's little brother, Garrett. We need a screwball school.
We need an impact player. Damn it, Bennie, you and
I have seen this stupid film over and over again.
We're turning into the Atlanta Braves of the nineteen nineties,

(23:35):
and I'm not happy about it. Benny.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Now, well, I mean they've got to They won the
twenty seventeen World Series. They won the twenty twenty so
that's one more than the Braves won in the nineties.
But they got to win more. Two's good, but you
got to win more than that. And I agree, especially
after Otani took well, the main reason he took less
money was because of taxes in California, but still he
took less money. So therefore, go spend some money in
trade for us another starting pitcher. Although Manuel I do

(24:00):
have a little Dave Roberts PTSD because even if the
Dodgers were to trade for a starting pitcher, you know
they're still take him out after four and two thirds innings.
So what's the point you know what I'm saying. You're
feeling me on that, man, Well.

Speaker 7 (24:12):
I am feeling that Harvard math ain't massive, dammit. And
that's the Harvard I mean, Dave Roberts is basically you know,
he's under that tent of the Harvard you know baseball.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, he says, buy the book by the numbers, third
God forbidden, third time through the rotation. How did that
work out on Saturday against the Astros going to that bullpen?
How'd that work out? About five or leader cheaters?

Speaker 7 (24:38):
The bulldog?

Speaker 9 (24:39):
Dammit?

Speaker 7 (24:39):
Spring back down, Nzuela. Pictures with hearts that are out
there right to put it all on the line.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
We need pictures in their sixties is what we need.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Man.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well, we need Fernando out there, and we also need
Oral Hersheiser, Yes, Satchel Paige and not available. Neither's Don
Sutton unfortunately, Don Drysdale not available, Calfax available. He's in
his eighties. So you put him.

Speaker 7 (25:03):
A penny, kep up the good work, love you and hey,
I love those beautiful fox lovelyly all right, thanks.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
And all right there, all right, Manuel in Guardia.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Natron.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
I think that's what his name is, he writes, and
he says, Andre from the Commonwealth needs a weak banishment.
Bad knowledge, not knowing where Jorge Solaire was traded from
all bad and his dog talks almost made me crash,
so he said. King Roy says Andre's dog isn't there

(25:40):
because there is no dog. King Rory says, we all know,
we all know. Willis is just the code name for
friends with benefits. Wow, all right, let's see page down here.
Eddie took the night off because he's tired of losing
to Ben in the game shows, and Eddie needed a
night off cheating, says the sticky finger.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
All right, but very nice.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
It is the Ben Malord show we will have coming
up later this hour. Mallard of the third degree, also
an Olympic conspiracy theory. But do we buy it or not?
Does it pass the smell test? We'll get to that
right now. That hit cut up on everything going on
in the overnight, and we say hello in for Eddie,
We say hi to our friend Moncey High months then I.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
Just saw a tweet that's making me feel very old. Oh,
Dodgeball the movie came out twenty years ago?

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (26:32):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah? That's awkward.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
It's been twenty year twenty was it is this two?

Speaker 1 (26:38):
I just I had to look it up because I
was like, this is InCred Dodgeball came out. I have
a funny story to throw up. I have a funny
story I got I got thrown under the bus. I
was kidding around with this guy. Chris Myers used to
work here. We had Vince Vaughan on who is the
star of Dodgeball, but he was doing another movie, right,
So I was like, hey, I told Chris Dodgeball is

(26:58):
my all time favorite movie.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
So he of course sends advice.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
He told him. I was like, that was my that
was a fine movie. It was my all time favorite movie.
But remember if you can dodge a wrench, you can
dodge a ball. I think it's so good. I think
it's underrated. It's such a good movie.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Not my all time favorite.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
But be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
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Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is The Ben Mahlard Show. As we continue on and
Matt the Warrior Raider, Tom Brady Rose fan says he says,
I've done the drive to San Diegoose in the Bay
Area says it can be done in about nine hours
if you time it to get through Los Angeles in
an hour where the traffic is tolerable. Yeah. I think

(27:40):
the mileage, though, is about the same if you were
to drive from an Andre. The reason we're bringing this
up is Andre called up earlier and he confused the
Padres and the Giants. The Giants unloaded a player to Atlanta,
and I said, it's like comparing Atlanta to Philadelphia, because
Atlanta to Philadelphia is a seven hundred something miles. To

(28:01):
drive from Atlanta to Philadelphia on I ninety five, I
think the mileage is similar. Might be a little less
actually from San Diego to San Francisco, but who knows.
Mike in Dodge writes and he says, MONSI can do
all the Royals and Bobby wit updates as possibly if
you can more moncy less Eddie. Bobby Baseball now has

(28:26):
an eleven percentage point lead for the MLB batting title race.
That's from Mike and Dodge wearing his Kansas City Royals
onesie right now. He's very excited about the Royals and
more excited about Bobby Witt, the greatest royal player since
Eric Hosmer, since George Brett. Who knows. Let's go back

(28:47):
to the phones and we'll say hello to Eenie Meenie,
miney Mo. Let's say hello to let's see Poppy in
San Diego. Hello, Poppy, guys A great show.

Speaker 9 (29:01):
Hey, I wanted to say, a great challenge show last night,
Tony and the Bay Area. I vote for him to land,
you know, and hey, I never thought I would say this,
but hey, Edny Garcia, we made sure right here and
over and now with copdate, Hey, Lorena, can you hit
please the update? Please?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
No, you know you can't. You know we're not doing okay, well,
you know.

Speaker 9 (29:25):
It took a little bit two hours. But let me
say right now with the w NBA Team USA, I
just well stand score twenty four points. I can't believe
Mansa gonna say that she's all over for Bobby.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Bobby. What do you doing, Bobby, Bobby? What do you doing?

Speaker 7 (29:40):
Well?

Speaker 9 (29:40):
Well, you know, I thought, because.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Let's say hello to I don't want that. Does anyone
want that? I don't want that. Mike the Leprecaun, Hello,
Mike the Leprechaun, in Boston.

Speaker 10 (29:51):
Oh hello, Ben, how are you doing?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Do you sound like you want to be back on hold?
You want to go back on hold?

Speaker 4 (29:56):
No?

Speaker 10 (29:56):
No, no, no, I mean I mean that's like last night.
All right, So Brown and see him respect them. I'm
so happy I made the bottom three last night. That's
a real sign of respect.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Congratulations. Although you did try to make the bottom three,
wasn't it. It was a tactical decision, you admitted. I
saw you posted on social media that was your goal
was to be at the very bottom. You were not
at the very bottom, but you're close to it.

Speaker 10 (30:20):
So Red Sox and Astros for the World Series?

Speaker 1 (30:24):
You think the Red Sox are going to play the
Astros in the World.

Speaker 10 (30:28):
Series unless Yeah? Okay? And Eddie is the He's tired
of winning. He's not tired of losing the cheating. I
have a new game, and this is a serious game.
It's a three day game called The Bad It's dad
jokes trivia game show.

Speaker 8 (30:44):
String it to you.

Speaker 10 (30:45):
I'm a teacher, you're a teacher. Okay, give a jokes.
I will give you three with your name. Calling with
your name, you can get a plus points, re minus points,
even a half of plus minus and is the penalty
for excessive lapping. Yeah, so I have a whole week
three nights Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Let's get the shoulder Roudio

(31:09):
call him with your name and welcome monthly. Why couldn't
the NBA player date the w n b A player.

Speaker 8 (31:18):
I don't know, because he was out of elief. It's
not a bad game, it's a game show. If I'm
getting there's a gold coin.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
For a real gold coin, I think we're limiting it
to one joke right now.

Speaker 10 (31:34):
But all right, okay, how do you wake How do
you wake up? Lady Gaga? I don't know how holkur face?

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Okay, all right, thanks, I gotta go, Thank you, hang
up and you uh. This guy Kissel called back. It's
a fake call though in Vermont. Hello Kissel? Why why
do you? Why are you calling back?

Speaker 11 (31:58):
Ways? I can have some fun conference Vermont, Candy. I
want to talk dodge baseball and that guy Bob to
the fifty yard line.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
I was very music by that.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
What are we What are we drinking tonight? What do
we got going on?

Speaker 11 (32:18):
Let me alcohol?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I think so?

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Maybe something else going to be in the pharmaceutical department.

Speaker 11 (32:26):
Also yeah, that's right, baby, this Kissel.

Speaker 7 (32:34):
What do you guys?

Speaker 11 (32:35):
I want to talk. What I want to do is
I want to talk doll ball part flag football.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Okay, thank you. I'm going to hang up on you,
go away, thank you very much. Off the great start here, tremendous, tremendous, tremendous.
All right, Uh, Jason the Diamondman rights and he says,
the girl Scout Troop being disqualified for the failed PD

(33:02):
test makes me laugh in dodgeball. They happened in June
twenty twenty one. So he says, all right, s Ben
Maler show on Fox the Olympic Conspiracy, the swimming, and
I watched a little bit because our friend Amy van
Dyken is doing some TV for NBC over there. Used

(33:22):
to work here. And so it turns out that the swimming,
at least the first few days there very slow. In fact,
eight swimmers in the men's one hundred meter breaststroke final
all finished with times that would have placed them no
better than eight at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago.

(33:42):
So some Internet investigators have determined the reason that the
times are so slow at the Parie Olympics is because
of the pool The conspiracy is that they screwed up
the making of the pool. Say what, uh? Yeah. They
claim that the pool in Paris is a two point

(34:06):
one five meters deep, which is below the depth recommended
by the international governing Body of Olympic Swimming. So why
did they make it so small? I don't know, but
the governing body of swimming recommends at least three meters depth.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
This is two point one five.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
And so that's actually supposed to the reason they made
the pool not deep enough. Who goofed, I've got it at
one job. You had one job and you mess it up.
Got job anyway? Is the Ben Maler show we are
going to have coming up here momentarily, Mallard of the

(34:45):
third degree.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Here is the Insta trivia.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Blank has the highest er in baseball since May twenty fourth.
Again all the pitchers in baseball, Blank has the highest
urn run average in Major League Baseball since May twenty
fourth among those that are qualified.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
That is the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
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Tell your friends and coworkers about our show and drop
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(35:42):
hot takes continue with Big Ben, who's your favorite spice girl?

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Big Ben, Roberto Florenes my favorite spice girl. It's going
to see Roberto. We give him in studio next hour
for a second insta trivia time Blank has the highest
er in baseball since May twenty fourth, while third degree
mister nice Guy's going with Edgar Martinez of the Calgary
Cannons as his answer, you gotta have a folk guy.

(36:07):
Chris Carter from Cowboy Killer, Nick Pavetta from EKE in Roseville, Minnesota,
Rowdy Roddy Piper from Rob in Vegas, will hang out
with Rob this weekend in Vegas and the Mala Meat
and Greet. Former Dodger James Paxton from Matthew Warrior Raider fan.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Let's see here, Manzi. You know who is Manzie?

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Anybody? Anybody?

Speaker 3 (36:27):
No?

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Okay, The correct answer from the Toronto Blue Jays just
traded to the cheating asstros. You say, Ki Couci is
the answers era six over six six point eight seven
since May twenty fourth. Here we go, Here we go,
Vig Miller, There we go, we go.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
This is one big, gets greadible.

Speaker 12 (36:54):
The Giant signed Drew Locke to be Daniel Jones' backup,
which leaves Tommy DeVito's feature uncertain now. Ben de Vito
said on Sunday that he believes he proved that he
belongs in the NFL last season.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Do you agree or disagree? I disagree. He socked he
had one good game.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
I see this guy doing like a podcast, the Tommy
Cutlets podcast, doing like sports podcasting.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
That's his future next.

Speaker 12 (37:16):
After blowing an early three to one run lead on Sunday,
the Phillies have now lost their last fourth series in
a row.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
But a time for Philly fans to panic. Yes, I
have friends in Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I've been to Philadelphia. Panic. They've got him. They've made
a couple of trays they got the closer from the
angels by the way, as you know. But yeah, they're
not going well right now, so I'm sure that'll go
great for that. Yes, next they are laughing in the back.

Speaker 12 (37:39):
There are some people that believe Tyas Jones could be
the key that unlocks the Phoenix Sun's true firepower. Yes,
that he solves the son's biggest problem by being a
playmaker and allowing Beale and Booker to play off ball.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Benny buying this.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
That's a good story to write in the month of July.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Is is what it is? No, I'm not tire as
tigh As Jones ever made anyone get to the next level.
What are we doing here, Coople? Oh my god. I
know it's the off season in pro bouncy ball, but
you gotta do better than that. There is Mallard of
the third degree? How did we know that?

Speaker 4 (38:15):
Is?

Speaker 1 (38:15):
I win?

Speaker 3 (38:16):
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