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August 14, 2024 • 38 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Dodgers refusing to change their mindset with young pitchers, the Hall of Fame credentials of Tommy John, Too Much or Not Enough, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our numb birth three, our three ready to go
talking bays maall. So why do the Dodgers refuse to
change their mindset with young pitchers? Another one has gone
down to an elbow injury. Dodgers lead baseball in that category. Also,

(00:23):
is it true that former Dodger Tommy John deserves to
be entrined into Cooperstown. We'll discuss that. Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera,
Jdeki Matsui, and CC Sabathia, all members of the nine
World Series champion Yankees, will be at Old Timer's Day
in the Bronx. What does this tell us? We'll discuss

(00:45):
that and much more right now. Also, the Queen of
Hearts will make an appearance, our friend Loraina giving life advice.
We'll get all that and we will do it right
now here. It is our number three. Another big blue
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(02:07):
that when the Brewers play the Dodgers, the Brewers or
the JV and the Dodgers are the varsity, also the Phillies.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
So our lead this hour, let's get.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Right to it.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
We'll not waste anytime. We will have time shifted for
ratings purposes. Mallard of the third degree. But our lead
this hour from baseball we go where the news of
the day takes us. And the Dodgers beating the Brewers,
beating the snot out of the Brewers.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Not really newsworthy, not really newsworthy.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
But the story around the Dodgers that is newsworthy is
the snap crackle pop that continues to be the number
one theme of Dodger baseball. They've added another one to
the list, another one bites the dust. If you didn't
see this, maybe not.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
We got you. We're good, we got you.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
So a little birdie tells us that the hot shot
young Dodger pitcher, the right hander River Ryan, sounds like
a fake name. River Ryan is going to require Tommy
John surgery on his mutilated elbow. He suffered that injury
wall making his fourth major league start. Recent Dodgets had

(03:14):
said he wasn't gonna pitch again, but he ain't gonna
pitch anytime soon. In fact, this means that the twenty
five year old River Ryan will likely not pitch in
twenty twenty five either. Turn at the last, the parties over,
and so let's discuss the Komodo dragon in the room.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
What is the Komodo dragon of the room. I will
tell you what the Komodo dragon of the room is.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Why did the Dodgers as an organization refuse to change
their mindset with young pitchers. So I've got circdu Sole, immortality,
and Rick Pattino, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a hallmark
moment my friend Aren't Spaniard tells me they film most

(04:01):
of those Hallmark movies in Vermont, So fun fact. All right, now,
First of all, the main reason the Dodgers are refusing
to change their ways is because they're pig headed. As
someone who has stubborn myself, I respect other stubborn people,
but this is absurd, right. They have the smartest minds
in the room. They have all the answers, the best

(04:21):
team of nerds that money can buy. Look at the
academia they've been through, all these diplomas. Oh, they're so smart.
They put all the guardrails up, they have all the answers.
They limit, they limit everything, these mound men. The appearances.
Can't have too many appearances, can't have too many innings,

(04:43):
too many pitches. They monitor everything, Every little minute detail
goes under the microscope. Mic crew managing, Mike crew managing,
that's the term.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
And what do you get?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
What do you get?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yet?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
For all that micromanaging of these pitchers, I'm asking for
a friend. You know what you get the Dodgers out
of contact, circ disile and rent space under the big top.
Because this is a circus, It is a pitching circus
the Dodgers have. They don't have the stilt walking, they
don't have that. They don't have the juggling. There's no juggling.

(05:22):
There missing some magic. There's no elephants. But they got
plenty of clowns, a lot of clowns here. We're talking
about an infestation of the Dodgers and the brainy. Actually
another thing the Nerds have ruined in baseball. They lead
Major League Baseball by a country mile in Tommy John operations.

(05:45):
Now Tommy Tommy John surgery sounds not that bad. They
literally either use a cadaver ligament or they take a
ligament from another part of your body and put it
in your elbow to replace the ligaments in your elbow.
That's Tommy John surgery. And by Mike Count using back
of the napkin malormath, the Doyers, a team I like,

(06:05):
have had not one, not two, not three, not four,
no five. How about six pitchers go down for the
Count in the last two seasons with elbow injuries. Six
Some of them were supposed to be pillars of the
Dodger pitching staff, like Tony Gonsolin of the champion twenty

(06:28):
twenty Dodgers Dustin May who looks like carat top.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Walker Buehler, Buehler Buehler.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Emma Cheen, another young pitcher, River Ryan, somebody named Kyle
Hurt as well, all of them down with Tommy John surgery.
They also signed shoe Hey Otani, who did suffer Tommy John,
but that was with the Angels. I guess they felt
like he would fit in with the rest of his
teammates there with the Dodgers, but the pitchers with the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
The mind says, well, we're gonna get all.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
The top young arms in baseball, and they generally do,
and then they treat them like dispose razors essentially, even
though they're not in theory doing that. They're using medical
science to determine how many innings and all that. It's
dysfunction though it's the old Albert Einstein doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
And I've ranted about this.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I've filled in a lot the last couple of weeks
on local radio on our affiliate in LA, the Dodger station.
They don't like to hear that what are you doing?
But enough will someone be a grown up in the
room over there for the Dodgers and say, Okay, we've
got to put a foot down. Why don't we try
the opposite, you know, because they're gonna get hurt anyway,
So why don't we have them try to pitch as

(07:38):
many innings as possible.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Stretch the old arm out. Oh you can't do that?
What are you? What are you in North Korea? You
dea spot.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Secondly, speaking of River Ryan, the Dodger pitcher, you probably
never heard of. He's a young pitcher, elbow getting kot here.
So this is it's a reminder, refresher course.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Everyone say it.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I think you might know where I'm going with this.
I've talked about this in the past. I want to
bring it up again for those that are new to
the to the store, that haven't been our store here.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Is it true?

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Is it true that Tommy John, not the underwear, not
the surgery, but the pitcher, deserves to be entrined in Cooperstown.
That's I'm nodding my head. Yes, that's a rhetorical question. Yes,
Tommy John, the man that has two first names, which

(08:36):
is always weird when people have two first names, it's
very odd. But that said, he qualifies under the malard
Hall of Fame criteria. Now, the questions we ask when
debating the Hall of Fame for baseball, it's were you
a regular season if you're a pitcher, Were you a
cy Young winner?

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Were you an MVP?

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Did you win both?

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Were you a multi time All Star? Because every team
gets an All Star, So there's like, you can be
on the Oakland as the White Sox. They got All Stars,
they suck. But if you're a multi time All Star,
you likely were actually pretty good. So at least two,
hopefully three All Star appearances to qualify for a multi
time All Star. Can the history of baseball during your

(09:20):
era be written and talked about without mentioning your name.
So the way the criteria works, you have to check
two boxes out of that, and you gotta do it.
And so Tommy John was a four time All Star,
so that more than passes that. Never one to sy Young.
He won twenty plus games three times back when pitchers

(09:42):
actually pitched laid into games, had two hundred and eighty
eight wins, so he was just twelve shy of that
magic three hundred number. Pitched until his mid forties. And
you cannot tell the story of Major League baseball without
mentioning Tommy on surgery, you cannot do it. And so therefore,

(10:03):
based on that criteria, to get in the Hall of Fame,
you need to hit two of those boxes. Four time
All Star and the legacy of the Tommy John Operation.
In many ways, what he has done is actually bigger
than getting enshrined into Cooperstown, New York, the Hall of Fame.
Tommy John has somehow managed to reach a higher level
of immortality. Like John Madden is known as a video game.

(10:28):
He's been dead for a few years. But John Madden
the coach and the broadcaster for my age. Around my age,
John Madden was like the king of broadcasting and football
commentary and bam and wow and this and that and
all that thing and the Turkey leg But now he's
just a video game. But he's dead, and people still
love the video game. And John, you know you, Tommy John.
When he's gone, it'll still be Tommy John Surgery. There

(10:51):
are a bunch of pitchers in the Hall of Fame
you never heard of.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
You don't know who they are.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
They are before your time. Some of you even heard of.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
You forgot about because they're just sleepy mausoleum in Cooperstown.
But when you're named after a surgery, your name is
a surgery, that's a big deal. You've reached a higher
level at that point and eponym as I believe the term. Right,
So you've got Tommy, John Lou Garrick, Hans Asperger, and

(11:21):
Elos Alzheimer, all people named with.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
The disease for the disease.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
All right, final thought, we pivot now some of those guys,
I don't think Alzheimer had all he came up with
the clinical diagnosis.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don't think he actually had it.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Anyway, our final thought, we now pivot quickly. With Mallard
of the third degree warming up, we pivot to the
Bronx Zoo. The Yankees made some news off the field.
They beat the White Sox on the field, but the Yankees,
eight years after retiring from baseball, Alex Rodriguez, who sued
Major League Baseball and the Yankees, is scheduled to attend
his first Old Timer's Day Yankee Stadium. A rod getting

(12:03):
invited to the annual event, the seventy sixth Old.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Timers Game in Yankee history.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
It's part of the fifteenth anniversary of the celebration of
the last World Series Championship the Yankees had back in nine.
Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Hedeki Matsui, c S Sabathia, all
of them will attend Old Timer's Day.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
What does this tell you? All right? So to me,
it tells you.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
For all the pomp and circumstance of Yankee baseball, the
Bronx Bombers continue to be in suspended animation at this point. Well,
they have the second best record in baseball behind the
Cleveland baseball team named after a bridge. But we have
gone almost a generation with underperformance in the playoffs by

(12:51):
the New York Yankees. Failure to live up to expectations.
Now there is a caveat that part of this time.
The cheating a holes have been, you know, the stealing
wins right and left, but a failure to live up
to expectations.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
And when I see all of these names, a rod and.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Matsui was the MVP of that on nine World Series,
and Cci Sabathia, as Rick Patino would say, Derek Jeter
is not walking through that door. And Alex Rodriguez is
not walking through that door, okay. And Mario Rivera is
not walking out of that bullpen. And if you expect
them to walk through that door and get out on

(13:29):
the field.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
They're gonna be gray and old.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
And since the Yankees last one World Series, we've seen
the Texas Rangers win.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
We've seen, you know, some teams.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
That normally aren't in that category who have won championships.
And so that's the anks art is the Ben Maler Show.
Let's crank up the music right now here we go.
Where the hell did Coop go? He complained, Oh, he
went to get food.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, he was eating up my people, Coop, we're doing
a show, Coop, can you not wait? God? All right,
I passed the third degree? All right, there it is,
I win. No third degree? What the hell is that?

Speaker 2 (14:08):
You're literally complained Coop saying you wanted to do the
third degree, and then you walked out of the room.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm not doing it, all right, we're done. All right, anyway,
we're not doing it. Ten seconds. No, we're not doing it.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
We're not I'm not doing the third degree. You went
to get pizza. That was an award winning monologue and
I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. You walked
out of my monologue. You stormed out. I'm protesting.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
I win.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
You lose.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
You went to get pizza, you went, they get pizza
and anyway, time out for the time now for the
mallor you get nothing. Time now for the mallar rid
of the day. Lion's wide receiver Jamison Williams was spotted
recently sneaking out of practice early in uniform to get

(14:59):
blank again. Lions wide receiver Jamison Williams was spotted sneaking
out of practice early in uniform to get blank.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
That is the malor really love today? The answer? We'll
get to it. If you know it, hit me up
on X at Ben Maler, We'll get to it.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
We will do it next.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Hey what's up everybody?

Speaker 6 (15:29):
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Speaker 1 (15:36):
What is up on Game?

Speaker 7 (15:37):
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Speaker 1 (15:38):
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Speaker 4 (16:09):
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(16:36):
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Speaker 2 (16:41):
I was having a PTSD moment there, Eddie, I tossed
to the third degree and I looked up and Coop
wasn't there. I remember Jerry. I don't know if you
were here with the guy Jerry. Of course I was
here with Jerry Prophet Froze dude. Yeah, but he wouldn't
even be there half the time, Like Jerry was like
he always like walking around the bill and I Jared,
we got an issue.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
He wasn't there, Like I looked up, there's no one there.
He just like, ten minutes earlier, said I want to
do the bed. I want to do the bed, he said,
at the time he walks out of it. Who does that, Eddie?
Who walks out of the room? Who steps out of
the room? When they said ten minutes earlier they want
to do a big who does that?

Speaker 6 (17:19):
Well?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I didn't say I wanted to do that. You said
time we do every day? Yes, And you said I
told you where we're gonna do it, and you walked out.
Why would you walk out? I can't go ten minutes
adding pizza.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
I had to get it out of the oven.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
It would have burned. I was only gone for ten seconds,
and you would not gone for ten seconds longer than that.
It was much longer. I went pizza out of the
eleven and then walked back in. Why would you Why
would you do that? Though?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Like it's because he's more worried about the pizza than
the show.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
All right, all right, well I can't.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
It's just fascinating to me. I am I'm literally blown up.
I mean there's things every day, guy like what is
going anyway? Here's the al riddle today. Lions wide receiver
Jamison Williams was a spot. What what what would Colin
Cowhard do if his sidekick there or his producer was like, hey,
I'm going to get peta.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Well, he has like seven producers, so one could leave
and it would run.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
It was just so unprofessional.

Speaker 8 (18:15):
Anyway, I probably would have been done at a proper
time slot because the well, because the producer.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Would have you done done his job. Anyway, Here's the
Lions wide receiver Jamison Williams.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
He was spotted sneaking out of practice early in uniform
to get blank.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
That is the riddle A pizza from the toaster.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh, it's so unbelievable. I look up, there's no I
didn't even I just assume. I just assumed that. But
why would I assume that the guy that does the
big would be there? Why did you walk anyway?

Speaker 2 (18:48):
A right unbelievable Here saw Man says, uh stepped out
because because of blank?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
You got that right?

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Bad job at you tire raq dot com Studios to
get pizza? Uh from from ferk Dog to get the
Red Wings single game tickets from Late Night Drug Tester
to get the results of the Olympic breakdancing from the
clam Mala. Prop guy says, to accept a pizza delivery.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
What do you say we order a pizza? I mean
everything's just.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Pizza here, fried chicken and a coke from Donkey Sausage
yull me pickle mayonnaise dressing. Guests by Art Puffin A
full case of butterscotch crimplet tasty cakes from the Art
of Sports Talk.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Who else do we have?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Page down?

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Some quick electrolytes from his buddy Adam Sandler. Guests by
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Speaker 1 (19:38):
All right, what do you have? Eddie?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Hurry up? Already answered all right?

Speaker 2 (19:41):
No, the correct answer. Jamison Williams of the Lions. He
snuck out of practice in uniform early to get a
snow cone.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
He's a Slushy's like a food stand.

Speaker 9 (19:56):
I love snow cones, by the way, you do?

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, I like, are you gonna next hour? You're gonna
have coop go get ones.

Speaker 10 (20:03):
Oh my gosh, if we had a snow cone maker
in studio, we could have so much fun with that.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's a bad investment. Let me tell you why, Because
It's one of those things you use like once or
twice and then you don't use.

Speaker 9 (20:12):
Yeah, I hadn't as a kid. Right, you put the
ice in it.

Speaker 10 (20:14):
But it's more of a pain than anything because and
that is one of the great markups in any business.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
You're it's water and food coloring, and it's like that's
five bucks. Uh, it's probably closer to ten. Now, what
a scam? What a scam. Let's go to Johnny in Pittsburgh.
What's going on? Johnny?

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Man, I have loved this.

Speaker 11 (20:34):
Man. I I got a late night trip. I'm going
to see my favorite band. I'm driving from Pittsburgh to Dover.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
It's like the Wayne's World skin.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
To what band? What band is it?

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Fish?

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Nice?

Speaker 3 (20:48):
All right?

Speaker 11 (20:50):
Yeah, like no one has anything that's ever heard of.

Speaker 7 (20:54):
A lot of Mark Sanchez.

Speaker 11 (20:55):
You know, I'm just thinking about Mark Sanchez this whole time.

Speaker 7 (20:57):
With your producer.

Speaker 11 (20:58):
You were like, you know, you had that awesome, awesome commentary.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
And you're about to hit the drop and Mark Sanchez
was getting a hot dog, no offense, coop.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Fairness the coop. But the pizza did look good.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
But yeah, so.

Speaker 11 (21:16):
Listen to your take.

Speaker 7 (21:17):
I want to be relevant and you move on from this.
But uh, you know, I'm I'm fortunate living in Pittsburgh,
best ballpark in America.

Speaker 11 (21:26):
I was at the game when when when schemes.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
Struck out, o'donni u. You were talking about the Dodgers
small market, big market. But we're suffering from the same thing.
And this is paralysis from analysis. And I'm not like
talking Nolan Ryan type stuff and you.

Speaker 11 (21:42):
Know, you know, run him out there and you know,
and and and wear out his arm.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
But look where got Strasburg.

Speaker 11 (21:49):
Let work out the Nationals?

Speaker 7 (21:50):
And here's like it's not to get super philosophical, but.

Speaker 11 (21:53):
Honestly, you really break it down, like what are we
here to do?

Speaker 7 (21:57):
Win championships? That's what a ballpark. That's what a ball
team's supposed to do.

Speaker 11 (22:02):
So are you going to be Jerry Jones and get
headlines and.

Speaker 7 (22:05):
Just be make the playoffs? Or do you want to win?

Speaker 11 (22:08):
And I really mean this, like I think we're suffering
from this. You know, you need to make some little
Tarry Francona with.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
A little Billy Bean with a lot of these franchises.
And I'm not saying we're in their arm off, but
Tommy John has not been proven. I play college baseball,
you know, and and and you know a body of
motion stays in motion. Talk to any kinesiologist, and I
think we have been suffered too much from this.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
And yeah, well I agree.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
And all the old timers you go to, those guys,
you know, back in the day, they're all people dismiss
them because they're on boomers or whatever. But they, every
one of them says, all of them, you got to
pitch more or not less. And all it takes is
a small market team, whether it's the Pirates, Johnny or
the Tampa Bay Rays, to find a weakness in the
market and actually develop pitchers, their pitchers to go longer

(22:55):
into games, and then they'll have success and then everyone
will copy them. I thank you and enjoyed the concert.
And I'm glad you're up all night driving because otherwise
we wouldn't have you listening. Try the podcast.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Ben, do you remember the name Mark Tavis Bryant.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
I do, yeah, Wide receiver.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
He was a former Pittsburgh Steeler. Was pretty good for
a little while. Then he kind of bounced around, went
to the Raiders. Well, it's been six years since he
played in the NFL. Did you get a suspension? By
the way, what has he been doing any some drug issues?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
I get a real job, I don't think. So he's
getting another shot the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Man blow the Commanders. They must be terrible.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
They they brought him into give him a shot, a
training camp. So six years away from the game and
he's he's gonna.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Get the chart at wide receiver for the Washington command
How many wide received? And there's one we can both
name because he's good. Terry McClaren, Right, he's the number
two receiver for the Washington Commanders. Han Dotson, I've heard
of him. Yeah, he's a high draft pick. It has
been kind of a bust. I have who else? They
have Jamison Crowder, he's been around, he's old.

Speaker 8 (24:08):
Now.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
I think who else?

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Someone named Diami Brown. I don't know who that is,
Mitchell Tinsley, any of these names. I think McCaffrey is that?
Is that a McCaffrey. It's got to be right, Luke McCaffrey.
I don't see him on you.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
I got him here a number twelve for the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
To see him on my my depth chart must be
hurt anyway. It is the Ben Mahler Show, and no
time for the fun fact because we must get to
the game. So let's do that right now, Ben Maller game.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
We've endured too many of these hazy too much or
not enough?

Speaker 7 (24:45):
Ready?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yes, thank you, Vick. Too much or not enough?

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Let's welcome in our contestant, a sports radio calling icon.
He's been in the jungle and he survived to talk
about it. Manuel in Guardiana, Hello, Manuel, Bob steamboat Willie.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
I think his phone just died.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Oh there you go.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
All right, you were you were riffing and then we
missed part of it. But we're gonna play the game here, Manuel,
let's get started here. Five questions. All you have to
do is get free, right? Are you ready?

Speaker 1 (25:22):
A very good here we go? Question that one for
Manuel and Guardina so Southern California.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Earlier this week, Juan Soto became the third player in
MLB history to hit thirty plus home runs in a
season for three different teams prior to turning twenty six.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Is that too much or not enough?

Speaker 9 (25:46):
Not enough?

Speaker 7 (25:48):
Man?

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, says not enough. Is he right? Now? Too much?
He's the first player in MLB history to do that?
Juan Soto? Wrong?

Speaker 7 (26:00):
What you done here?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Colm?

Speaker 6 (26:03):
Down?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Question number two?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
There are only five catchers in MLB history with more
home runs in their first four career seasons than the
big dumper Cal Rawley.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Is that too much or not enough?

Speaker 5 (26:17):
That's not enough?

Speaker 3 (26:18):
All right?

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Not enough? Again? From Manuel, let's fight out? Is he right?

Speaker 7 (26:23):
No?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
The answer is too much?

Speaker 2 (26:25):
There are only three Johnny Bench, Rudy York and Mike Piazza.
All right, timeout, Manuel, what's going on here?

Speaker 11 (26:34):
I'm looking at the table in reverse now? Not enough
all the ways, you know, like when you got to
see like CC on the table.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Okay, just go so true false? You're just going with
the true yeah, or the fault?

Speaker 6 (26:51):
All right?

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Anyway, here we go, all right, So I don't even
need to read the question. You're just gonna go not enough?

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Right?

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (26:59):
All right?

Speaker 2 (26:59):
That there are There have been six players in NBA
history to hit ten plus threes off the bench in
a single game.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Is that too much or not enough?

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Not enough?

Speaker 1 (27:09):
All right? Does he stay alive? Alive?

Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
There have been seven. Bog Don Bogdanovitch was the most
reason to do it.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
So you got that right. You're still alive. You didn't
get them all wrong.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Question number four show hey oh, Tony has reached thirty
plus home runs, thirty plus stolen bases in five plus
triples in his first one hundred and fifteen games with
the Doyers. Only three players have reached those marks in
less games with a team.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Is that too much or not enough? Manuel? In Gardina
to stay alive?

Speaker 11 (27:41):
Also three hundred million in Bazils.

Speaker 12 (27:43):
I'm gonna go with not enough.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Not enough to stay alive? Manuel, Is he right?

Speaker 11 (27:49):
No, he's not.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
You got it wrong, No, too much.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
No one has done it in less games. Mike Trout
was the only other one to do it in less
than one hundred and fifty games. So Manuel, your suck.
You didn't win, But we have a nice party gift.
We'll give you a lifetime supply of nothing.

Speaker 12 (28:07):
And speaking of fish, you said Trout, that guy was
talking about fish and that ass hat Karen Bath over
there in Paris talking about this nonsense.

Speaker 7 (28:17):
Who the hell's gonna take public transportation and.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Nobody they're idiots, and it's it's just like every Olympics,
they try to outstoop at each other. In Paris, they
spent one point five billion to clean up the river
and then they had Olympic world class athletes swimming in feces.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
A problem.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Now we're in La, we're going to have we're going
to put these world class athletes on public transportation where
they're gonna get shanked on their way to the competition.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Good luck, good luck? Yeah, what could go wrong? Anyway?
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Manuel?

Speaker 1 (28:51):
All right, dah, here's our friend Manuel checking in and
we have the Queen of Hearts.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
If you want to be a caller, call right now
a line open at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox and use the hashtag Queen of Hearts Rena.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
You're covering relationships, but everything else, right, Loreno, anything.

Speaker 9 (29:10):
And everything if it crosses your mind.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
I got the time, You got the time. So you
want to give advice on how the proper time to
pick up pizza?

Speaker 3 (29:18):
You could do that right?

Speaker 1 (29:19):
When not to pick up pizza middle of the day?
Probably not?

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Well?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, all right, anyway, so that'll be straight ahead eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
nine six sixtet sixty six nine Easy for me to
say we will have the Queen of Hearts.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
We'll get to that with Loraina. We will do it next.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
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Speaker 4 (29:48):
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Speaker 6 (30:16):
It's up it Fizz with Lorraine at ten nine, it's
clean up Hearts, going to help you.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Dear rye gear rye and n heear Ry and n
dear Ry.

Speaker 9 (30:30):
You heard the man. It's time for the Queen of
Hearts here on the Ben Mallor Show.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
I'm Loraina. High, Hi, Loreena. Where are you calling from now?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (30:41):
You know Fox Sports Studio Here at Sherman o.

Speaker 7 (30:45):
Am.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
We called the Oaks. We called the Oaks Oaks All right. Well,
these are.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Actual questions from actual listeners to the show, and you
have all the answers. Yes, using your feminine superpowers, you
can answer all of these questions.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
There's a lot of a lot of guys that need help,
even women that they need help.

Speaker 9 (31:01):
You know, it's funny.

Speaker 10 (31:02):
Even at the Mallard Meat and Greet they were like,
I really love your segment, and I'm like, really likes
It's Wow.

Speaker 9 (31:08):
Who knew you guys needed love so bad?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
A lot of a lot of love that's needed. Speaking
of the Mallard Meat and Green job, JT. The Wingman says,
is it a good thing before a date to drink
a bottle of mouthwash?

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Only if it's the generic store brand bottle.

Speaker 10 (31:28):
Yeah, you can't do listine. If you're gonna drink it,
you gotta get some moth brand. No, but definitely make
sure your breath smells good, because if you're trying to
get a little smoochy smooch, that's gonna be your best bet.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Well, if you drink the mouthwash, your guts smell good too.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
I didn't even seen yellow mouthwash. I've always thought it
was like green, or that's what I thought.

Speaker 9 (31:48):
He made his own mixed drink.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
But no, I thought listerine was yellow, is it?

Speaker 1 (31:54):
I thought it was green.

Speaker 9 (31:55):
Pusterine is green?

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah to me, it's green. Maybe in your world it's
I think.

Speaker 9 (31:59):
They have a yellow flavor.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
That's the original.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
It's not popular though, it's not. Yeah, the original is yellow?

Speaker 9 (32:06):
Really?

Speaker 1 (32:07):
WHOA? You're dating yourself? Eddie, me and Loraina or hit
young people?

Speaker 9 (32:11):
It looks like it looks like hand soap.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, let's see, mad Jack writes in he says, do
all women need constant reassurance?

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Or is my woman the only one?

Speaker 10 (32:23):
Obviously I can't speak for every woman. Why not we
love some reassurance?

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (32:28):
Right.

Speaker 10 (32:29):
If you don't tell us something that we're expecting to hear,
we're going to assume.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
It's off right.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be accurate. Mike the Leprechaun
has a question. He's called in Michael Leprecaun in the
Boston area.

Speaker 12 (32:42):
Hello, Mike, good morning, Lorena. I have a very important question.
Are you ready? I was Are you ready? I was
dating this really cute kick, and I guarantee you. I
gave her a bunch of reassurance, but then a problem happens.
She began comparing my crowd size with the X followers,

(33:02):
and then she said, I word vomits? Could you believe that?

Speaker 1 (33:07):
I can believe that? Actually?

Speaker 7 (33:09):
Do you happen to know that?

Speaker 12 (33:11):
Bad?

Speaker 7 (33:12):
No?

Speaker 9 (33:13):
But I totally agree with you should probably work on that.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Okay, thank you, hang up on yourself.

Speaker 10 (33:20):
Good luck, go away, good luck in the love department, leprechaun?

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Is it tough for leprechauns to find love?

Speaker 10 (33:26):
I know it's tough for leprechauns to find love because
all thereafter is the pot of gold?

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, but aren't a lot of women after the pot
of gold also? So it would not make sense.

Speaker 9 (33:35):
Do leprechauns ever share their gold?

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Ben? I don't know, but I used to do the
leprechaun What are those cookies that used to make? They
had the leprechaun mask got the Keebler cookies back?

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Theves?

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Oh, I thought they were leper what's the differencetween an
elf and a leprechaun origin?

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Elves live in trees and.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Under bridges, and elves are bigger than leprechauns.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Like if you were to play a game between elves
and leprechauns, like who would win?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
I got my mind on the el I got alp that.

Speaker 10 (34:06):
Scary movie about leprechauns. Leprechauns are definitely winning.

Speaker 8 (34:10):
And they're they're from Ireland. They're probably drunk. They like
to fight advantage elves. Yeah, yeah, taking on a bunch
of drunks elves sober. Yeah, they're quick, they're fast. The
elf the leprechaun not so much. All right, if you
want to ask the rit question eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox, you want to try to sneak in
here for dog?

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Right?

Speaker 2 (34:28):
So, and he says, if a girl leaves a date
early to feed her pet ants, do you think she's
not interested? I even asked her what her aunt's name,
what the names were, and she didn't have an answer.

Speaker 12 (34:42):
Right.

Speaker 10 (34:43):
There was a guy who called the other day who
was a holler in James, Uh, whiskey drink and pete.

Speaker 9 (34:48):
Who was it?

Speaker 1 (34:49):
I don't know, Blind Scott, Yeah it was.

Speaker 10 (34:50):
It was someone along those lines. And they said that
they left to go feed their cat. And same idea like,
if I'm hanging out with my guy, I ain't leaving.

Speaker 9 (35:00):
No, even if my cat is starving.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
So if you like the person, you're not going to
know you don't want to.

Speaker 9 (35:08):
Spend less time with them, you want to spend more.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, it's usually a dead giveaway. Bye bye, a giveaway.

Speaker 9 (35:16):
She's just not that into you.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now, have you thought, Lorena, since you're doing this every
every week here, have you thought that you could like
branch out?

Speaker 9 (35:26):
Of course, ever branch out?

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Well, no, I'm saying you could do like on the side,
like a Queen of Hearts podcast or something like that.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Have you pitched that to the company.

Speaker 9 (35:36):
Like an all love line? You know, I haven't because
it's sports you no, No, But I do a podcast.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
I hardly talk about sports at all.

Speaker 9 (35:44):
Do you think they support me and my love casting?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
If you're providing content? One thing I know about this
company they love content, especially cheap content.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
They love that.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
So if you could do that, it would be absolutely amazing,
absolutely amazing if you pull that off.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
I'm just I'm.

Speaker 9 (36:01):
Definitely something to think about.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
You can pitch it, yeah, and yeah, there's a channel
for you. There's definitely a channel for you. It's the
Queen of Farce. Let me go page down here, I
gonna find Oh. I don't think I can read on
the air because I think you missed a good one?
Which is the good one I missed?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
I get a lot from the King, Rory, which one
did he send?

Speaker 8 (36:22):
He said, what is the proper way to discipline a
child that is not yours but was left that you
were left in charge of?

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
God, always good to give advice to parents on how
to discipline their kids.

Speaker 9 (36:33):
Well, this isn't his parent.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
That's the problem.

Speaker 10 (36:35):
So he's been left in charge of a child who
is not his child, and he feels like he can't
discipline them because when the when the other parent come home,
you know, the kid's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Like, oh my god, hit me. But that's fair. I
mean that is fair because give me because no, but
I mean these kids are you know what the kids
gonna do? Well, you see what this guy did. You
know what that is?

Speaker 9 (36:55):
This is my thing, Rory?

Speaker 1 (36:56):
It was Rory right.

Speaker 10 (36:58):
Yeah, So beat him with a stick, and if the
mom has a problem with it, don't leave your kid
with me, because if you're if your kid's not acting, I'm.

Speaker 8 (37:06):
With a stick your if your daughter was hanging out
at a friend's house, you're with a stick.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Wow, unbelievable. You heard me, You're like, I know, I
was just going to say the angry bill is going
to get you can and if.

Speaker 10 (37:21):
Your girlfriend is leaving you with a horrible child, you
need to have that discussion too, because that's not your problem.

Speaker 9 (37:27):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Now, have you thought Loraena possibly changing the hashtag for
Queen of pas because uh, some people have taken that
hashtag Lorraina and since some very interesting things interesting.

Speaker 9 (37:40):
I want to see what they are. I don't know,
Come look on your computer.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Well no, it's hard to miss them. You just type
in Queen of Hearts there and all of the.

Speaker 10 (37:49):
Time I look up Queen of Hearts, I see like
weird things that aren't anything inappropriate.

Speaker 9 (37:53):
I got to see this.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Really, why the hell you? Says in approbrim, I me,
it's really you're you're if you're in the Bible Belt
or not. But yeah, alright, Queen Hearts.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
There she goes
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