August 23, 2024 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Mariners manager Scott Servais getting fired, Angels GM Perry Minasian getting an extension, the Orioles sending pitcher Trevor Rodgers down to the minors, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our name bird too. As we hold down the
ford here in the fox box that rocks the pod version.
We talked some baseball. Did Scott Service get a raw deal?
He was whacked as manager of the Mariners? Also, what
did the GM and Anaheim Perrymanesian do to earn an
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Angel's extension? The Angels are the fourth worst team in baseball,
but yet he's sticking around. And what do you make
of the Orioles at the trade deadline? They have sent
one of the guys they got, Trevor Rodgers down to
the minor leagues. Talk about a burnout. We'll talk about
that and a whole lot more right now. It is
a super duper our number two and it is yours.
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This hour is from the Pacific Northwest. The team we
don't often talk about, why would they usually blow? We
have a late season shakeup in Seattle and I knew
what happened because I heard this loud cry coming out
of the Pacific Northwest. It was crying Craig, who was
just devastated. How could this happen? But if you didn't hear,
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by some chance, maybe you've been out of the loop,
d loop.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So we learned that manager Scott Service is out of service.
He has been decommissioned by the Seattle baseball team. The
Mariners have said bye bye to Scott's service. He's been
pole axe to everyone to say it he's out now.
Dan Wilson very generic name, but if you're an old
school baseball fan, you know who that is. He was
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a longtime catcher for the MS back in some of
the glory days, if you can say that for a
team that hasn't won a championship, but back when the
Mariners were consistently a playoff team, he was part of
some of those clubs. And he has been in a
figurehead in the minor league system, a coordinator, which is
a nice way of saying, it's a no show job.
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You get paid a lot of money not to do much.
So he's going to be the interim manager. I heard
that Edgar Martinez is going to join the coaching staff.
I heard as the hitting coach. I'm not sure if
that's confirmed or not. Anyway, it doesn't matter. The company
line is the removal of Scott Service. We just needed
a new voice in the clubhouse. So let us discuss
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the question did Scott Service get a raw deal from
the Mariners. So I've got as tech, Mike Rowe, and
Midas Touch. We'll combine all these things together and we
will rush to a conclusion. Is what we're going to
do now. N Burn, I'm shaking my head. No, you
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can't see me. If you can see me, you're a stocker.
This is rather simple it is a pass failed test,
and Scott Service is in the fail category.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The Mariners went from.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
High five in strutting around like a peacock, and then
all of a sudden right they fell apart in the.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Blink of an eye.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And Scott's Service has become the first manager in the
history of baseball, which goes back to the eighteen hundreds,
goes back to the eighteen hundreds. He's the first incompetent
manager ever to have a ten plus game lead in
a division or league because prior to nineteen sixty nine
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there were no divisions and then be fired before the
end of the season. It had never happened before. This
is uncharted territory for the Tridents manager. But the Seattle
baseball team had a ten plus game lead on June eighteenth,
and they've let it all go away. But this is
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what you're supposed to do, right he's getting. Scott Service
is getting the as Tech treatment, not the San Diego
State astechs, the old school as TEX is a human sacrifice.
The last fifty three games, the Mariners have lost thirty three.
They have a three seventy seven winning percentage over their
last fifty three games, So you do not have to
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be a baseball savant to know that you play like
that for a couple of weeks, that's okay. You play
like that for almost two months and you get excommunicated.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And so that's what happened here.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Now we are told that Scott Service learned of his
dismissal in the morning hours. He did not learn it
from the Mariners, though he learned it from a breaking
news alert on social media. So a couple hours before
he had a meeting, he was called to the carpet
for the incompetent GM there nurse Jerry to Poto, and
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so people are very upset. I saw some think pieces.
I saw some poetic posting about Scott's service. It's not fair,
it's not right, and while it is not ideal, it
is a sign of the times. It's not unusual players
get traded and find out they got traded. And I
would even say, as I relate to the story welcome
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to the club. Years ago, when FSR decided to shake
things up, I was doing a show just like this,
and we got a story that was sent to us
from the New York Post saying that the company was
planning on laying off a bunch of employees, and then
about ten minutes later, I got an email from my
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boss in the middle of the overnight show, who I
never get contacted by my bosses in the middle of
the overnight show, said hey, we have an emergency meeting.
We called at three o'clock tomorrow and you have to
be there.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So I put two and two together and I knew
I was toast. My ass was out.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But the Mariners, here's the.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Thing about it, Like, the only thing that really sucks
Rocks is the Mariners were more worried about letting Ken
Rosenthal and the other baseball insiders know about the move
rather than the person.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They were getting rid of.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Like that's not ideal, but that's the way this all works,
the industrial complex of sports. Now turning the page page two,
we head to Anaheim will stay in the American League West.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
The last place.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Angels have agreed to a contract extension with the general manager,
Perry Manasian. Now he's gonna stick around through twenty twenty six.
The Angels are in last place. They're one of the
most embarrassing franchises in all of baseball. So what did
GM Perry Mnason do to earn an extension with a Halos.
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So I have a couple of thoughts on this. My
first thought is he must work relatively cheaply, like he
didn't cost that much and so, okay, we'll keep you around.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
The other thought I have is an old Mike row show,
Dirty Jobs like that's The Angels absolutely blow.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
They're almost unwatchable at this point.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
There's no entertainment value from watching the Angel and Perryman
in the GM there has had not one, not two,
not three. This is his fourth season to build the roster,
to show progress that the team is heading in the
right direction. Now, I actually was, I was flipping around
watching I watched them. The Angels are playing Blue Jays,
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and I watched them that game. And any way you
slice it, that franchise.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Is waist deep and fertilizer like.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
They are an advertisement to incompetence and the Angels. Across
the now three plus seasons of the reign of the GM,
there Perrimansian have a four point fifty two winning percentage,
which isn't the worst in baseball, but it's twenty second.
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And this year the Angels are the fourth worst team
in baseball and they've had four years.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I know you could argue man Asians not in charge
of the minor league system, but the trades he makes
trickle down to the minor league system. So if you
trade a big league player and you get a suspect
that helps you out in the minor leagues. The Angels
are ranked thirtieth in terms of talent in the minor
league's viable talent. Now, those are speculative reports, and I'm
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not a big believer in them, but you generally speaking
want to be ranked higher than thirtieth, even though I
take much of that with the grand of salt, and
it is a results based business. But the guy works
cheap and nobody else really apparently wants the job. And
so Perrimanesian continues on with an absolute dog.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Food team in Anaheim.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
All right, final point, We now head to Baltimore post
mortem on the trade deadline. What did you make of
the Orioles sending Piccher Trevor Rogers down to the minor leagues.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
This was one of the players they acquired.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
At the deadline, So this not and it's not just
Trevor Rodgers, And what do I make of it? The
front office of the Orioles, while you give them an
A for effort, you give them an F for execution.
They are guilty of trade deadline malfeasance. You talk about
the double Whammie I and I. You've got injury on
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one side of the aisle. On the other side you
have just ineptitude. The players haven't gotten hurt, you wish
had gotten hurt. And it is the reverse of the
Midas touch. Probably know what the Midas touch is. You've
been around, you've lived your life. Midas touch. Anything you
touch turns to go. The opposite of that would be
the Sadam touch. And that's what they have in Baltimore.
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Every move they've made has turned to poopy or dust.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now, what is my evidence?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We mentioned Trevor Rodgers, who they acquired from the Marlins,
has been sent to the minor leagues. Now it is
getting late in August the trade deadline. It's less than
a month since the trade deadline. Rogers had an ERA
of over seven seven to eleven, which is good if
you want a slurpee, but not if you're a pitcher.
And another starter, the jewel of the trade deadline Zach Eflin,
who came over from the Tampa Bay Baseball team. He's
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on the fifteen day disabled slash injured list with inflammation
in his throwing shoulder. Now he actually to be fair,
he actually pisched well, but he's hurt right now. So
what good does that do the O's. Then you've got
some lefty reliever named Gregory Soto. We're not sure who
that is, but apparently he came over from the Phillies
and he's allowed eight runs in less than five innings
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for Baltimore. And yet the Orioles are still in the
thick of the race to have the top record, not
only in the American League but in all of baseball.
Down the stretch we come, but no thanks to the
pickups at the trade deadline. You talk about a high
whiff rate at the deadline. It did seem like a
good idea at the time. It did seem like a
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good idea at the time, But it turns out that
those trades have not produced Didley squat or Didle poh,
depending on which way you want to say it.
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Any part of it.
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It's all repackaged in the podcast format later on in
the day. But we began this hour ranting and raving
about a hodgepodge of baseball stories. Ferg Dog says, dog
pile on the Angels while you can, Ben, we might
suck now, but next season, with a healthy Mike Trout,
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we're gonna be a force to be reckoned with. Yeah, Fergie,
I think the Angels got a good chance to win
the Cactus League.
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I really do. Big opportunity there, that's right. Yeah.
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Andrea in the Bay Area says, congratulations on getting your
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Looks forward to sharing sports astrology on the show.
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All right, well, thank you, Andrea, and I know you'll
be watching We'll be on an NBC Sports Bay Area
will be back in the Bay. You can be able
to watch that show throughout all the way till February.
Starting this coming week, Late Night drug tester says Seattle
has a good start. Every Al West manager should be
fired every season should the Astros become division winners.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The cheaters, they're.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Like, hey, we'll spot you all like four months. We
will not even use our trash cans or other contraband.
And then they let everyone think they were going to
be better than the cheating a holes.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Then the cheating, cheating a holes.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Started cheating, and then you'll see what happens. Jason says, wrong,
the Angels organization has nothing on the Mariners in terms
of being the worst franchise in all the sports. The
Mariners will always let you down and they have no interest.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
In winning anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, didn't the GM last year say that, Jerry Depoto,
didn't he say like, they just want to be competitive,
they don't really want to put a great team on
the field.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I remember we did a monologue about that. I think
it was Jerry Depoto. I have to go back and
check my notes, but I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He came out with a rant about we just want
to we want to be, you know, somewhat competitive. You know,
people will buy tickets and all that, but you want
to have a shop.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
But we don't want to really go for it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You know, we don't to have sustained success mark in
Santa Monicas as Mike Trout was a fool to stay
in Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
What a waste of a career. Yeah, but he's got
a great life. He spends half the year in Laguna Beach.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
During the summer, he doesn't have to worry about playing
for the Angels because he doesn't play baseball anymore. And
then in the winter he goes back to his you know,
Jersey Philadelphia area and hangs out, has a great time
and just just absolutely great, just just absolutely wonderful for him.
Art Puffin, says Dad gummt Ben. The second hour monologue
reminded me of the heartbreaking news regarding Jay hay being
(17:55):
designated for assignment to accommodate CT three. The guy is
not only contributing on the field, but locker room blah
blah blah blah blah. Yeah, Jason Hayward was fired by
the Dodgers. Yeah, it was removed.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
He was hitting two hundred, though he did have a
big home run the other day.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Let's go to the phones on a New me night
and we'll say hello to Adam in the bay in
San France.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
What's going on? Adam? Welcome?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Then, thank you so much. You guys do a really
great job. I really appreciate the show. I've got two
questions their sports talk radio history related if you don't mind.
So everybody knows you started your career at the Stanford
of the Southwest at Settleback College. Is it possible that
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is it possible that you could have met Jim Healy?
Is it at the very beginning of your career, starting
at nineteen.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I well, I love that you
mentioned Jim Healey's name.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It was just the thirtieth anniversary of Jim Healy passing away.
I actually he did.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I was a guest on a podcast my friend Ted
Sobel did a tribute to to Jim Healy. It was
one of my influences in radio at him. I've talked
about him every once in a while, but I was
a huge fan of a show when I was a kid.
I used to listen every single day I loved it
and I was the greatest thing I'd ever heard. And
I listened every day to a show and I was like,
oh man, that's great. That's one of the reasons I
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got into radio was because of his show. I never
got to meet him. He was a bigger introvert than me,
but I did. I have met his son, Patrick, who
was a longtime TV personality in LA and actually was
on was on that podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And the funny thing was Adam.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
When I first started as a kid, I used to
go out and see people that Healey was talking about,
messing with, and it was very awkward for me because
I saw some of the things that he would he
would talk about. But I never got to meet him, unfortunately,
and he he passed away a number of years ago.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
As I said, so, it was his show, just sports
talker was it was. It was like society and everything.
It just the only sports. It was all kinds of
different things.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, no, Jim heally, you know, I mean he did
like ay, it was it was a half it was
only a half hour show.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's hard to believe. It was a thirty minute show.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And it was mostly about like behind the scenes like stuff.
It was media related TV ratings back back in those days,
you couldn't get TV ratings.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
If you want to hear, it's actually on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
If you type his name in, you know, Jim Heally,
you can hear it's on YouTube some of his old shows.
Obviously there are no new shows are available, so you
can hear what it sounded like, but it was mostly drops.
It's where I heard It's where the Dave Kingman rant
by Tommy Lesorda came from a classic Lee Ilia.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Like a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The first place I heard it was was on that show.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
All Right, I heard those shows because I was a kid.
That's tell the California And then where does where did
your where does your history timeline? As far as your
radio go? Because I know that you know, there hasn't
always been twenty four hour sports talk radio that is, yeah,
I believe, but you had to be somewhere along the
line you have.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, you know I didn't want Yeah,
I started.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I actually interned at the first West coast all sports station.
The first East coast station was wf AN. The first
West coast station was the mighty six ninety in San Diego,
and that's where I started as an intern, so I
worked my way up there and it was a.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Border with Yeah, I thought, he taught you how to prepare.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Exactly exactly did he did. He was an influence how
hard he worked every day on that. All right, Adam,
we're geeking out on radio. Not that I don't love
geeking out on radio at him, because I love it,
but I got to move on.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
But thank you. Yeah, I could talk a couple of
boys talking shop talking radio. Could absolutely do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The station I worked at in San Diego was a
border blaster station, which not really relevant anymore because everything's
on the Internet, but back in those days it was.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It was massive because it.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Was seventy seven thousand watts and it was just across
the US Mexican border. And I remember at midnight if
I was there late or if I got there early.
They part of the deal with the Mexican government because
the station was leased to broadcasters in America, but they
had to play the Mexican national anthem at midnight and
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then in the morning when they signed signed the station on,
even though they didn't they didn't turn off the transmitter.
But the thing that was funny about that, the actual
there's like two different or three different versions of the
Mexican National Anthem. I had no idea at the time,
but the long version seems like it goes on for
ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I mean, it just keeps.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Going and going and going and going. Let's say hello
to Brian is in the Motor City. What's going on,
Brian on a newbie night? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Welcome?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Brian has hung up. Bad job by him. Let's say
hello to Brett in Nashville on a newbie night.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Hello Brett, Welcome, heydn.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
How's it going like Brett?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
If I was any better, I'd be a Titan, but
not a Tennessee Titan because I don't really have a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
But congrats on the show renewal Lost.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Congrats, thank you, thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Yeah, you help me keep my sanity.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
I'm working in a max security prison in what I
guess is called the Whole and uh, we can't bring
in anything man, no phone.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
They don't even let us do crossword puzzles.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
So I just listened to you and wait for seven o'clock.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Man.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
And uh, I'm really looking forward to, uh, probably most
looking forward to in my adult life the Miami Dolphins
football season. I've never looked more forward to a season
since Dan Marino play man. You know, I'm looking forward
to this Dolphin season coming up. But I just wanted
to call and say thanks for keeping helping me keep
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my sanity during these long nights.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Well, thank you, Brad.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I bet you've seen a thing or two in your
time there at the at the prison.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Oh yeah, man, that's a that's a whole Uh. That's
that's a whole night radio show right there.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Hey, I'd love to send me an email. I'd love
to hear. You know, you should write a book or something.
I'd love to hear the stories.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
I mean, yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Off goes on here, boss.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
All right.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
My advice to the Dolphins Brett, you better get home
field advantage because I don't trust too going to Baltimore
Kansas City in a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
But if they're at home, yes, yees, sir.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Banie.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Know, I can't wait for him to prove the haters
wrong again. You know, it's like he can't throw the
can't throw the deep ball, So what's a kid?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He leads the league in almost every deep ball statistic.
You know, Tyreek's gonna go to the wash.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Tyreek led the league in receiving, had more yards than
when he was with Mahomes, and then it he can't
stay healthy.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
What's the kids do?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
He takes jiu jitsu classes. He's one of seven quarterbacks
to play all seventeen games last year, or one of eight.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That that is a shocker that he made it for
the entire season. Because we had already written the eulogy
for him, Brett, we were like, I.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Know it's over for him, all right, hey be safe.
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I appreciate it, sir, thank you.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It is a Brett from the isn't there outside Nashville?
That's cool?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You see where Loraine and we're learning the people that
are listening what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm just curious how he's calling right now. If he's
at work and there's no phones allowed, Well, he might
be off work tonight. Maybe his I mean I hung
up on him.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I can't ask him, but it's working tonight, and it's
conceivable they do get a night off every once in
a while, right they're not working? Yeah, do you think
you could work in a high security prison guard like that?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Ben uh No, I probably couldn't.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
I one of those big sticks.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
My sister in law actually just taught at a prison
around here, and it's like, it's wild they she gave me.
I we don't have time to get in it now,
but some of the things that she she's around, like people.
It was like a low level, medium level security situation,
but still, I mean it's like you're not allowed to
have any any contraband in there because they're worried the
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prisoners are going.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
To take it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So they give you like a I think they gave
her a whistle, so if anything happens, just blow the
whistle and well Lott'll help. Yeah, that'll that'll make everything better.
What could possibly go wrong? Okay, anyway, how about you, Lorenie,
would you work at a prison?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Would you?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
I might?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, if the money was right, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
Like story time, we used to.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Have a prison guard that called up from Illinois and
he worked at a high level facility and he always said,
I'm just an adult babysitter. These guys can't control themselves,
but I'm just a babysitter. I'm just keeping it on it,
and he's like, a lot of these guys.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Shouldn't even be here. They're just you know, eightiots. They
made decisions when they were nineteen or twenty in there,
and that was his whole argument.
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to a four year extension worth eighty one million, making
him one of the highest paid corners in the NFL.
Not familiar with his work, but well paid. Good for him.
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He's buying dinner, I would say so, and then he's
at lunch and he's buying breakfast.
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much every day this time of the year.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Hello, Jeremy, welcome.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Hello man.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
It is actually really cold out here. It's about sixties
right now. I'm in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oh, get a jacket. What desert? What desert are you in?
Speaker 9 (29:17):
Are you I'm in I don't know valley. I guess
it's the Mahabby Desert. We're doing some solar remediations out here.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So uh oh the high desert.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeahs my wife would say, that's freezing.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, sixty is freezing.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Yeah, that's freezing.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Hey. I want you to know, back in the day, Jeremy,
when there was a baseball team called the Lancaster Jetthawks,
I threw out the first pitch at a game. I
don't think you were with me that day. I think
it was with Karen Kay, but I was not with you.
Threw out the first pitch, and I raced the mascot kaboom.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I do know the legend of you cheating to win
the race.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
There was no cheating the mascot.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
We had to the guy down.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That's cheating. No, he cheated, So you wash him down?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Did you not?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Let me explain what happened?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So we the some pr person for the JetHawks is like, hey,
we want you to race. The mask got to be
a good bit and I was like all right, yeah,
and so what's gonna happen is, uh, the mascot is
gonna let you win, don't worry about it. Well, you know,
the mascot will jump out to a lead, then you'll
you'll come back and you'll you'll win. So whatever we did,
we did the race, and the damn mascot didn't let
(30:22):
up and was like trying to try to win the race.
And so I had to push the mascot because that
that schmuck was trying to make.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Me look bad. Anyway, guy, what what do you what's
on your mind?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Jeremy?
Speaker 9 (30:34):
So there's this guy he comes on and tries to
give you his expert opinion on uh, picking teams. I
think his name is Poppy. Yeah, yeah, So I would
just I would just like ask for him to call
in more often because it seems like I'm just making
so much money on going exactly opposite a single thing.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
His hit rate is a blow about ten percent. Not
really good. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
And then and then he was actually asking he was
actually asking Brian know the other day when you weren't
in there, he was asking him and Eddie about their
picks or something. It's like, well, we're asking you, what's
going on here? Who's the expert here?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
So it is odd to say this, considering I have
a show about gambling. But you do have to make
it somewhat entertaining, you know what I'm saying. I mean,
otherwise it's just painful. But be saying about thank you, Jeremy,
enjoy the desert doing some solar work out there in
the desert.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I'd very good. It is the Ben Maler Show. We're
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Speaker 2 (31:42):
Blank has the record for the most playoff losses of
any NFL quarterback with a fourth quarter lead.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Again all time.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Blank holds the record for the most playoff losses of
any NFL quarterback that held a fourth quarter lead in
a postseason game. That is the ins dot trivia. The
answer We'll get to it, We'll.
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Speaker 2 (32:38):
We've got Mallard of a third degree that is coming
up momentarily.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But here's the insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Blank has the record for the most playoff losses of
any quarterback that held a fourth quarter lead, most blown
leads in the fourth quarter of a playoff game. This
guy's got the all time record.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That is the question, and what is the answer? Yes
this Does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Milkman Mike in Colorado says, no, hustle Russell Russell Wilson,
Matt the Warrior Raider fan clearly.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Cheated bad up by him.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
May we have seven more Tom Brady Roast Gus Farrot
guessed by I forty Ian, that's funny. Texas Trucker going
with the ham Burglar as his answer.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Areek in Minnesota says the quarterback you met at the Mermaid,
the great Tommy Kramer. That was great to meet Tommy Kramer.
Nineteen eighties Vikings quarterback who came out to that malar
meat and greet was awesome. Did not expect to see
him there. Did not have that on my Bengo card.
Cowboy Killer says it has to be Oscar Robertson. That's
the answer. Stevie Meatball says, two burritos and a root
(33:49):
beer float sounds like the recipe for a lot of flatchelens.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Page down Late Night Try Sister says you are Jared Fogel,
who is forty seven today?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
When's he getting out?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Christy Canyon from alf the Alien Opiner, big fan of
her work.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Frank Castle from Shane in Des Moines? Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Bubby Brister from Double O Mexican on the Carnivore Diet
in San Diego. Ron Jowarski from Our Buddy Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
He was at that Mallard meet and greet in the
Twin Cities back in the day.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Who else you have page down?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Let's see here, random ex user who's in Miami says
a known double murderer Carson Palmer is the answer, Paige
down Achille Smith from the k C. Car Haller Nick,
it's going with the one and only Clayton kershaw Art.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Eddie, what say you, Eddie? I need an answer, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Then the answer is former Vikings, Rams and Falcons quarterback
Steve Dills.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
It's good name, is it? Steve Dills for the whim?
Uh No? The correct answer, Eddie would be Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Peyton Manning with not one, not too, not three, not four,
not five, six six blown fourth quarterly for Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
How about that to the third degree?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
This is one Big Ben gets grilled. Coop daal loop.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
John Sterling made a guest appearance in the broadcast booth
during the Yankees game on Tuesday, and he proceeded to
voice's disappointment with the team. He criticized the team's hitting
and the poor performance of the bullpen. Sterling went on
to say that he doesn't like their chances. Ben, is
he right to be some pessimistic?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Well, I love this.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
John Sterling was forcibly removed from the Yankee broadcast booth.
He's eighty six, I believe. Yeah, there are reasons for pessimism.
The Yankees have two guys, that's it. They got Aaron
Judge and Wance. So the rest of the lineup blows
and the main problem.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
For the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
And I've seen a lot of Yankee games this year
because They're usually in that early television window when I'm
watching baseball games in the early evening on the West Coast,
and the Yankees bullpen is terrible. They don't have a closer,
Their relief pitchers stink.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
And what do you need in modern baseball to go
far in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
You need a good bullpen. So yeah, there are a
lot of issues for the Bronx Bombers, even though they've
got a great record. They're bird dog and the Dodgers next.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Well, Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler was asked about his upcoming
free agency when he admitted, there's just not a whole
lot to talk about. I have a six era. I'm
trying to figure out how to get people out in
the major leagues. Free agency is for talking about when
you have a two five and you're rolling through the league.
I really don't care, Ben, you think Buehler can turn
his career around, Well.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Ken, he yes, but he's not gonna get a big country.
He'll get one of those make good with a lot
of a lot of bonuses. He's thirty years old, so
somebody will take a chance on him. But yeah, he
looks absolutely cooked. He looks like he's done. He's had
to Tommy John a couple of times. He was part
of the twenty twenty Dodger championship team.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
But he looks cooked now.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
I know you've been pretty high on bo Nick so far,
at least as much as you can be about any
rookie quarterback. As of right now, the over under win
total for the Broncos is set at five and a
half games, Ben, Are you taking the over?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
So this is a trick question. If I say no,
you're gonna fail me. If I say yes, you're gonna
pass me. Uh, five and a half is pretty well
like you can win six games and still suck. So
I'm gonna take the over on that. I believe Sean
Payton will coach up bow Nicks. He'll do what he
did with Russell Wilson last year. But Bo's actually got morbility,
he's younger and all that. So I'll go over five
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and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
How did we do? You passed?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
There?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You go, cochere we go.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
I got it.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
Ride on
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It's our name bird too. As we hold down the
ford here in the fox box that rocks the pod version.
We talked some baseball. Did Scott Service get a raw deal?
He was whacked as manager of the Mariners? Also, what
did the GM and Anaheim Perrymanesian do to earn an
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Angel's extension? The Angels are the fourth worst team in baseball,
but yet he's sticking around. And what do you make
of the Orioles at the trade deadline? They have sent
one of the guys they got, Trevor Rodgers down to
the minor leagues. Talk about a burnout. We'll talk about
that and a whole lot more right now. It is
a super duper our number two and it is yours.
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This hour is from the Pacific Northwest. The team we
don't often talk about, why would they usually blow? We
have a late season shakeup in Seattle and I knew
what happened because I heard this loud cry coming out
of the Pacific Northwest. It was crying Craig, who was
just devastated. How could this happen? But if you didn't hear,
(02:19):
by some chance, maybe you've been out of the loop,
d loop.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So we learned that manager Scott Service is out of service.
He has been decommissioned by the Seattle baseball team. The
Mariners have said bye bye to Scott's service. He's been
pole axe to everyone to say it he's out now.
Dan Wilson very generic name, but if you're an old
school baseball fan, you know who that is. He was
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a longtime catcher for the MS back in some of
the glory days, if you can say that for a
team that hasn't won a championship, but back when the
Mariners were consistently a playoff team, he was part of
some of those clubs. And he has been in a
figurehead in the minor league system, a coordinator, which is
a nice way of saying, it's a no show job.
(03:08):
You get paid a lot of money not to do much.
So he's going to be the interim manager. I heard
that Edgar Martinez is going to join the coaching staff.
I heard as the hitting coach. I'm not sure if
that's confirmed or not. Anyway, it doesn't matter. The company
line is the removal of Scott Service. We just needed
a new voice in the clubhouse. So let us discuss
(03:30):
the question did Scott Service get a raw deal from
the Mariners. So I've got as tech, Mike Rowe, and
Midas Touch. We'll combine all these things together and we
will rush to a conclusion. Is what we're going to
do now. N Burn, I'm shaking my head. No, you
(03:55):
can't see me. If you can see me, you're a stocker.
This is rather simple it is a pass failed test,
and Scott Service is in the fail category.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The Mariners went from.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
High five in strutting around like a peacock, and then
all of a sudden right they fell apart in the.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Blink of an eye.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And Scott's Service has become the first manager in the
history of baseball, which goes back to the eighteen hundreds,
goes back to the eighteen hundreds. He's the first incompetent
manager ever to have a ten plus game lead in
a division or league because prior to nineteen sixty nine
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there were no divisions and then be fired before the
end of the season. It had never happened before. This
is uncharted territory for the Tridents manager. But the Seattle
baseball team had a ten plus game lead on June eighteenth,
and they've let it all go away. But this is
(05:01):
what you're supposed to do, right he's getting. Scott Service
is getting the as Tech treatment, not the San Diego
State astechs, the old school as TEX is a human sacrifice.
The last fifty three games, the Mariners have lost thirty three.
They have a three seventy seven winning percentage over their
last fifty three games, So you do not have to
(05:24):
be a baseball savant to know that you play like
that for a couple of weeks, that's okay. You play
like that for almost two months and you get excommunicated.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And so that's what happened here.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Now we are told that Scott Service learned of his
dismissal in the morning hours. He did not learn it
from the Mariners, though he learned it from a breaking
news alert on social media. So a couple hours before
he had a meeting, he was called to the carpet
for the incompetent GM there nurse Jerry to Poto, and
(06:02):
so people are very upset. I saw some think pieces.
I saw some poetic posting about Scott's service. It's not fair,
it's not right, and while it is not ideal, it
is a sign of the times. It's not unusual players
get traded and find out they got traded. And I
would even say, as I relate to the story welcome
(06:24):
to the club. Years ago, when FSR decided to shake
things up, I was doing a show just like this,
and we got a story that was sent to us
from the New York Post saying that the company was
planning on laying off a bunch of employees, and then
about ten minutes later, I got an email from my
(06:45):
boss in the middle of the overnight show, who I
never get contacted by my bosses in the middle of
the overnight show, said hey, we have an emergency meeting.
We called at three o'clock tomorrow and you have to
be there.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So I put two and two together and I knew
I was toast. My ass was out.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But the Mariners, here's the.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Thing about it, Like, the only thing that really sucks
Rocks is the Mariners were more worried about letting Ken
Rosenthal and the other baseball insiders know about the move
rather than the person.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
They were getting rid of.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Like that's not ideal, but that's the way this all works,
the industrial complex of sports. Now turning the page page two,
we head to Anaheim will stay in the American League West.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
The last place.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Angels have agreed to a contract extension with the general manager,
Perry Manasian. Now he's gonna stick around through twenty twenty six.
The Angels are in last place. They're one of the
most embarrassing franchises in all of baseball. So what did
GM Perry Mnason do to earn an extension with a Halos.
(07:56):
So I have a couple of thoughts on this. My
first thought is he must work relatively cheaply, like he
didn't cost that much and so, okay, we'll keep you around.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Why not.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
The other thought I have is an old Mike row show,
Dirty Jobs like that's The Angels absolutely blow.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
They're almost unwatchable at this point.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
There's no entertainment value from watching the Angel and Perryman
in the GM there has had not one, not two,
not three. This is his fourth season to build the roster,
to show progress that the team is heading in the
right direction. Now, I actually was, I was flipping around
watching I watched them. The Angels are playing Blue Jays,
(08:42):
and I watched them that game. And any way you
slice it, that franchise.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Is waist deep and fertilizer like.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
They are an advertisement to incompetence and the Angels. Across
the now three plus seasons of the reign of the GM,
there Perrimansian have a four point fifty two winning percentage,
which isn't the worst in baseball, but it's twenty second.
(09:16):
And this year the Angels are the fourth worst team
in baseball and they've had four years.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I know you could argue man Asians not in charge
of the minor league system, but the trades he makes
trickle down to the minor league system. So if you
trade a big league player and you get a suspect
that helps you out in the minor leagues. The Angels
are ranked thirtieth in terms of talent in the minor
league's viable talent. Now, those are speculative reports, and I'm
(09:45):
not a big believer in them, but you generally speaking
want to be ranked higher than thirtieth, even though I
take much of that with the grand of salt, and
it is a results based business. But the guy works
cheap and nobody else really apparently wants the job. And
so Perrimanesian continues on with an absolute dog.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Food team in Anaheim.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
All right, final point, We now head to Baltimore post
mortem on the trade deadline. What did you make of
the Orioles sending Piccher Trevor Rogers down to the minor leagues.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
This was one of the players they acquired.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
At the deadline, So this not and it's not just
Trevor Rodgers, And what do I make of it? The
front office of the Orioles, while you give them an
A for effort, you give them an F for execution.
They are guilty of trade deadline malfeasance. You talk about
the double Whammie I and I. You've got injury on
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one side of the aisle. On the other side you
have just ineptitude. The players haven't gotten hurt, you wish
had gotten hurt. And it is the reverse of the
Midas touch. Probably know what the Midas touch is. You've
been around, you've lived your life. Midas touch. Anything you
touch turns to go. The opposite of that would be
the Sadam touch. And that's what they have in Baltimore.
(11:06):
Every move they've made has turned to poopy or dust.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now, what is my evidence?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We mentioned Trevor Rodgers, who they acquired from the Marlins,
has been sent to the minor leagues. Now it is
getting late in August the trade deadline. It's less than
a month since the trade deadline. Rogers had an ERA
of over seven seven to eleven, which is good if
you want a slurpee, but not if you're a pitcher.
And another starter, the jewel of the trade deadline Zach Eflin,
who came over from the Tampa Bay Baseball team. He's
(11:34):
on the fifteen day disabled slash injured list with inflammation
in his throwing shoulder. Now he actually to be fair,
he actually pisched well, but he's hurt right now. So
what good does that do the O's. Then you've got
some lefty reliever named Gregory Soto. We're not sure who
that is, but apparently he came over from the Phillies
and he's allowed eight runs in less than five innings
(12:00):
for Baltimore. And yet the Orioles are still in the
thick of the race to have the top record, not
only in the American League but in all of baseball.
Down the stretch we come, but no thanks to the
pickups at the trade deadline. You talk about a high
whiff rate at the deadline. It did seem like a
good idea at the time. It did seem like a
(12:24):
good idea at the time, But it turns out that
those trades have not produced Didley squat or Didle poh,
depending on which way you want to say it.
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that would be the most important thing. A cowboy confessional,
(13:13):
A cowboy confessional, and one of my favorite pitchers in
baseball is no longer in baseball.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
We'll get to all that, and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
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be up later today and you should listen to this
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Speaker 1 (15:09):
Any part of it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
It's all repackaged in the podcast format later on in
the day. But we began this hour ranting and raving
about a hodgepodge of baseball stories. Ferg Dog says, dog
pile on the Angels while you can, Ben, we might
suck now, but next season, with a healthy Mike Trout,
(15:33):
we're gonna be a force to be reckoned with. Yeah, Fergie,
I think the Angels got a good chance to win
the Cactus League.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I really do. Big opportunity there, that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Andrea in the Bay Area says, congratulations on getting your
awesome sports TV show, Benny Versus the Penny renewed sports
Sorceress aka the Astrology Lady.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Looks forward to sharing sports astrology on the show.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
All right, well, thank you, Andrea, and I know you'll
be watching We'll be on an NBC Sports Bay Area
will be back in the Bay. You can be able
to watch that show throughout all the way till February.
Starting this coming week, Late Night drug tester says Seattle
has a good start. Every Al West manager should be
fired every season should the Astros become division winners.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The cheaters, they're.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Like, hey, we'll spot you all like four months. We
will not even use our trash cans or other contraband.
And then they let everyone think they were going to
be better than the cheating a holes.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Then the cheating, cheating a holes.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Started cheating, and then you'll see what happens. Jason says, wrong,
the Angels organization has nothing on the Mariners in terms
of being the worst franchise in all the sports. The
Mariners will always let you down and they have no interest.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
In winning anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, didn't the GM last year say that, Jerry Depoto,
didn't he say like, they just want to be competitive,
they don't really want to put a great team on
the field.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I remember we did a monologue about that. I think
it was Jerry Depoto. I have to go back and
check my notes, but I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He came out with a rant about we just want
to we want to be, you know, somewhat competitive. You know,
people will buy tickets and all that, but you want
to have a shop.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
But we don't want to really go for it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You know, we don't to have sustained success mark in
Santa Monicas as Mike Trout was a fool to stay
in Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
What a waste of a career. Yeah, but he's got
a great life. He spends half the year in Laguna Beach.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
During the summer, he doesn't have to worry about playing
for the Angels because he doesn't play baseball anymore. And
then in the winter he goes back to his you know,
Jersey Philadelphia area and hangs out, has a great time
and just just absolutely great, just just absolutely wonderful for him.
Art Puffin, says Dad gummt Ben. The second hour monologue
reminded me of the heartbreaking news regarding Jay hay being
(17:55):
designated for assignment to accommodate CT three. The guy is
not only contributing on the field, but locker room blah
blah blah blah blah. Yeah, Jason Hayward was fired by
the Dodgers. Yeah, it was removed.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
He was hitting two hundred, though he did have a
big home run the other day.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Let's go to the phones on a New me night
and we'll say hello to Adam in the bay in
San France.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
What's going on? Adam? Welcome?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Then, thank you so much. You guys do a really
great job. I really appreciate the show. I've got two
questions their sports talk radio history related if you don't mind.
So everybody knows you started your career at the Stanford
of the Southwest at Settleback College. Is it possible that
(18:42):
is it possible that you could have met Jim Healy?
Is it at the very beginning of your career, starting
at nineteen.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I well, I love that you
mentioned Jim Healey's name.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It was just the thirtieth anniversary of Jim Healy passing away.
I actually he did.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I was a guest on a podcast my friend Ted
Sobel did a tribute to to Jim Healy. It was
one of my influences in radio at him. I've talked
about him every once in a while, but I was
a huge fan of a show when I was a kid.
I used to listen every single day I loved it
and I was the greatest thing I'd ever heard. And
I listened every day to a show and I was like,
oh man, that's great. That's one of the reasons I
(19:21):
got into radio was because of his show. I never
got to meet him. He was a bigger introvert than me,
but I did. I have met his son, Patrick, who
was a longtime TV personality in LA and actually was
on was on that podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And the funny thing was Adam.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
When I first started as a kid, I used to
go out and see people that Healey was talking about,
messing with, and it was very awkward for me because
I saw some of the things that he would he
would talk about. But I never got to meet him, unfortunately,
and he he passed away a number of years ago.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
As I said, so, it was his show, just sports
talker was it was. It was like society and everything.
It just the only sports. It was all kinds of
different things.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, no, Jim heally, you know, I mean he did
like ay, it was it was a half it was
only a half hour show.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's hard to believe. It was a thirty minute show.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
And it was mostly about like behind the scenes like stuff.
It was media related TV ratings back back in those days,
you couldn't get TV ratings.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
If you want to hear, it's actually on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
If you type his name in, you know, Jim Heally,
you can hear it's on YouTube some of his old shows.
Obviously there are no new shows are available, so you
can hear what it sounded like, but it was mostly drops.
It's where I heard It's where the Dave Kingman rant
by Tommy Lesorda came from a classic Lee Ilia.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Like a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
The first place I heard it was was on that show.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
All Right, I heard those shows because I was a kid.
That's tell the California And then where does where did
your where does your history timeline? As far as your
radio go? Because I know that you know, there hasn't
always been twenty four hour sports talk radio that is, yeah,
I believe, but you had to be somewhere along the
line you have.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, you know I didn't want Yeah,
I started.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I actually interned at the first West coast all sports station.
The first East coast station was wf AN. The first
West coast station was the mighty six ninety in San Diego,
and that's where I started as an intern, so I
worked my way up there and it was a.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Border with Yeah, I thought, he taught you how to prepare.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Exactly exactly did he did. He was an influence how
hard he worked every day on that. All right, Adam,
we're geeking out on radio. Not that I don't love
geeking out on radio at him, because I love it,
but I got to move on.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
But thank you. Yeah, I could talk a couple of
boys talking shop talking radio. Could absolutely do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The station I worked at in San Diego was a
border blaster station, which not really relevant anymore because everything's
on the Internet, but back in those days it was.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It was massive because it.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Was seventy seven thousand watts and it was just across
the US Mexican border. And I remember at midnight if
I was there late or if I got there early.
They part of the deal with the Mexican government because
the station was leased to broadcasters in America, but they
had to play the Mexican national anthem at midnight and
(22:12):
then in the morning when they signed signed the station on,
even though they didn't they didn't turn off the transmitter.
But the thing that was funny about that, the actual
there's like two different or three different versions of the
Mexican National Anthem. I had no idea at the time,
but the long version seems like it goes on for
ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I mean, it just keeps.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Going and going and going and going. Let's say hello
to Brian is in the Motor City. What's going on,
Brian on a newbie night? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Welcome?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Brian has hung up. Bad job by him. Let's say
hello to Brett in Nashville on a newbie night.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Hello Brett, Welcome, heydn.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
How's it going like Brett?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
If I was any better, I'd be a Titan, but
not a Tennessee Titan because I don't really have a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
But congrats on the show renewal Lost.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Congrats, thank you, thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Yeah, you help me keep my sanity.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
I'm working in a max security prison in what I
guess is called the Whole and uh, we can't bring
in anything man, no phone.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
They don't even let us do crossword puzzles.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
So I just listened to you and wait for seven o'clock.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Man.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
And uh, I'm really looking forward to, uh, probably most
looking forward to in my adult life the Miami Dolphins
football season. I've never looked more forward to a season
since Dan Marino play man. You know, I'm looking forward
to this Dolphin season coming up. But I just wanted
to call and say thanks for keeping helping me keep
(23:39):
my sanity during these long nights.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Well, thank you, Brad.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I bet you've seen a thing or two in your
time there at the at the prison.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Oh yeah, man, that's a that's a whole Uh. That's
that's a whole night radio show right there.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Hey, I'd love to send me an email. I'd love
to hear. You know, you should write a book or something.
I'd love to hear the stories.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
I mean, yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Off goes on here, boss.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
All right.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
My advice to the Dolphins Brett, you better get home
field advantage because I don't trust too going to Baltimore
Kansas City in a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
But if they're at home, yes, yees, sir.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Banie.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Know, I can't wait for him to prove the haters
wrong again. You know, it's like he can't throw the
can't throw the deep ball, So what's a kid?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He leads the league in almost every deep ball statistic.
You know, Tyreek's gonna go to the wash.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Tyreek led the league in receiving, had more yards than
when he was with Mahomes, and then it he can't
stay healthy.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
What's the kids do?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
He takes jiu jitsu classes. He's one of seven quarterbacks
to play all seventeen games last year, or one of eight.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That that is a shocker that he made it for
the entire season. Because we had already written the eulogy
for him, Brett, we were like, I.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Know it's over for him, all right, hey be safe.
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I appreciate it, sir, thank you.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It is a Brett from the isn't there outside Nashville?
That's cool?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You see where Loraine and we're learning the people that
are listening what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm just curious how he's calling right now. If he's
at work and there's no phones allowed, Well, he might
be off work tonight. Maybe his I mean I hung
up on him.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I can't ask him, but it's working tonight, and it's
conceivable they do get a night off every once in
a while, right they're not working? Yeah, do you think
you could work in a high security prison guard like that?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Ben uh No, I probably couldn't.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
I one of those big sticks.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
My sister in law actually just taught at a prison
around here, and it's like, it's wild they she gave me.
I we don't have time to get in it now,
but some of the things that she she's around, like people.
It was like a low level, medium level security situation,
but still, I mean it's like you're not allowed to
have any any contraband in there because they're worried the
(25:52):
prisoners are going.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
To take it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So they give you like a I think they gave
her a whistle, so if anything happens, just blow the
whistle and well Lott'll help. Yeah, that'll that'll make everything better.
What could possibly go wrong? Okay, anyway, how about you, Lorenie,
would you work at a prison?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Would you?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
I might?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, if the money was right, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
Like story time, we used to.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Have a prison guard that called up from Illinois and
he worked at a high level facility and he always said,
I'm just an adult babysitter. These guys can't control themselves,
but I'm just a babysitter. I'm just keeping it on it,
and he's like, a lot of these guys.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Shouldn't even be here. They're just you know, eightiots. They
made decisions when they were nineteen or twenty in there,
and that was his whole argument.
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To the NFL, the Atlanta Falcons signing A. J. Terrell
to a four year extension worth eighty one million, making
him one of the highest paid corners in the NFL.
Not familiar with his work, but well paid. Good for him.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
He's buying dinner, I would say so, and then he's
at lunch and he's buying breakfast.
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Let's go to Let's go to Jeremy, who's in the
desert in California where it's one hundred plus degrees pretty
much every day this time of the year.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Hello, Jeremy, welcome.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Hello man.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
It is actually really cold out here. It's about sixties
right now. I'm in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oh, get a jacket. What desert? What desert are you in?
Speaker 9 (29:17):
Are you I'm in I don't know valley. I guess
it's the Mahabby Desert. We're doing some solar remediations out here.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So uh oh the high desert.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeahs my wife would say, that's freezing.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, sixty is freezing.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Yeah, that's freezing.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Hey. I want you to know, back in the day, Jeremy,
when there was a baseball team called the Lancaster Jetthawks,
I threw out the first pitch at a game. I
don't think you were with me that day. I think
it was with Karen Kay, but I was not with you.
Threw out the first pitch, and I raced the mascot kaboom.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I do know the legend of you cheating to win
the race.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
There was no cheating the mascot.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
We had to the guy down.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
That's cheating. No, he cheated, So you wash him down?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Did you not?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Let me explain what happened?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So we the some pr person for the JetHawks is like, hey,
we want you to race. The mask got to be
a good bit and I was like all right, yeah,
and so what's gonna happen is, uh, the mascot is
gonna let you win, don't worry about it. Well, you know,
the mascot will jump out to a lead, then you'll
you'll come back and you'll you'll win. So whatever we did,
we did the race, and the damn mascot didn't let
(30:22):
up and was like trying to try to win the race.
And so I had to push the mascot because that
that schmuck was trying to make.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Me look bad. Anyway, guy, what what do you what's
on your mind?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Jeremy?
Speaker 9 (30:34):
So there's this guy he comes on and tries to
give you his expert opinion on uh, picking teams. I
think his name is Poppy. Yeah, yeah, So I would
just I would just like ask for him to call
in more often because it seems like I'm just making
so much money on going exactly opposite a single thing.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
His hit rate is a blow about ten percent. Not
really good. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
And then and then he was actually asking he was
actually asking Brian know the other day when you weren't
in there, he was asking him and Eddie about their
picks or something. It's like, well, we're asking you, what's
going on here? Who's the expert here?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
So it is odd to say this, considering I have
a show about gambling. But you do have to make
it somewhat entertaining, you know what I'm saying. I mean,
otherwise it's just painful. But be saying about thank you, Jeremy,
enjoy the desert doing some solar work out there in
the desert.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I'd very good. It is the Ben Maler Show. We're
gonna have Mallard of the third degree. Here's the Insta
tribute and way we go.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Blank has the record for the most playoff losses of
any NFL quarterback with a fourth quarter lead.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Again all time.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Blank holds the record for the most playoff losses of
any NFL quarterback that held a fourth quarter lead in
a postseason game. That is the ins dot trivia. The
answer We'll get to it, We'll.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Do it next.
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Speaker 2 (32:38):
We've got Mallard of a third degree that is coming
up momentarily.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But here's the insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Blank has the record for the most playoff losses of
any quarterback that held a fourth quarter lead, most blown
leads in the fourth quarter of a playoff game. This
guy's got the all time record.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That is the question, and what is the answer? Yes
this Does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Milkman Mike in Colorado says, no, hustle Russell Russell Wilson,
Matt the Warrior Raider fan clearly.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Cheated bad up by him.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
May we have seven more Tom Brady Roast Gus Farrot
guessed by I forty Ian, that's funny. Texas Trucker going
with the ham Burglar as his answer.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Areek in Minnesota says the quarterback you met at the Mermaid,
the great Tommy Kramer. That was great to meet Tommy Kramer.
Nineteen eighties Vikings quarterback who came out to that malar
meat and greet was awesome. Did not expect to see
him there. Did not have that on my Bengo card.
Cowboy Killer says it has to be Oscar Robertson. That's
the answer. Stevie Meatball says, two burritos and a root
(33:49):
beer float sounds like the recipe for a lot of flatchelens.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Page down Late Night Try Sister says you are Jared Fogel,
who is forty seven today?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
When's he getting out?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Christy Canyon from alf the Alien Opiner, big fan of
her work.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Frank Castle from Shane in Des Moines? Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Bubby Brister from Double O Mexican on the Carnivore Diet
in San Diego. Ron Jowarski from Our Buddy Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
He was at that Mallard meet and greet in the
Twin Cities back in the day.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Who else you have page down?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Let's see here, random ex user who's in Miami says
a known double murderer Carson Palmer is the answer, Paige
down Achille Smith from the k C. Car Haller Nick,
it's going with the one and only Clayton kershaw Art.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Eddie, what say you, Eddie? I need an answer, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Then the answer is former Vikings, Rams and Falcons quarterback
Steve Dills.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
It's good name, is it? Steve Dills for the whim?
Uh No? The correct answer, Eddie would be Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Peyton Manning with not one, not too, not three, not four,
not five, six six blown fourth quarterly for Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
How about that to the third degree?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
This is one Big Ben gets grilled. Coop daal loop.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
John Sterling made a guest appearance in the broadcast booth
during the Yankees game on Tuesday, and he proceeded to
voice's disappointment with the team. He criticized the team's hitting
and the poor performance of the bullpen. Sterling went on
to say that he doesn't like their chances. Ben, is
he right to be some pessimistic?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Well, I love this.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
John Sterling was forcibly removed from the Yankee broadcast booth.
He's eighty six, I believe. Yeah, there are reasons for pessimism.
The Yankees have two guys, that's it. They got Aaron
Judge and Wance. So the rest of the lineup blows
and the main problem.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
For the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
And I've seen a lot of Yankee games this year
because They're usually in that early television window when I'm
watching baseball games in the early evening on the West Coast,
and the Yankees bullpen is terrible. They don't have a closer,
Their relief pitchers stink.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
And what do you need in modern baseball to go
far in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
You need a good bullpen. So yeah, there are a
lot of issues for the Bronx Bombers, even though they've
got a great record. They're bird dog and the Dodgers next.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Well, Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler was asked about his upcoming
free agency when he admitted, there's just not a whole
lot to talk about. I have a six era. I'm
trying to figure out how to get people out in
the major leagues. Free agency is for talking about when
you have a two five and you're rolling through the league.
I really don't care, Ben, you think Buehler can turn
his career around, Well.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Ken, he yes, but he's not gonna get a big country.
He'll get one of those make good with a lot
of a lot of bonuses. He's thirty years old, so
somebody will take a chance on him. But yeah, he
looks absolutely cooked. He looks like he's done. He's had
to Tommy John a couple of times. He was part
of the twenty twenty Dodger championship team.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
But he looks cooked now.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
I know you've been pretty high on bo Nick so far,
at least as much as you can be about any
rookie quarterback. As of right now, the over under win
total for the Broncos is set at five and a
half games, Ben, Are you taking the over?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
So this is a trick question. If I say no,
you're gonna fail me. If I say yes, you're gonna
pass me. Uh, five and a half is pretty well
like you can win six games and still suck. So
I'm gonna take the over on that. I believe Sean
Payton will coach up bow Nicks. He'll do what he
did with Russell Wilson last year. But Bo's actually got morbility,
he's younger and all that. So I'll go over five
(37:33):
and a half.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
How did we do? You passed?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
There?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You go, cochere we go.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
I got it.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
Ride on
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