August 27, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Mike Tomlin tricking the media with this contrived QB battle with Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, Tua Tagovailoa saying he hasn't heard from Brian Flores, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nume bird too, Hubba hubba,
and our to the original recipe podcast. Thumbs up or
thumbs down? Did Mike Tomlin hornswaggle the media with this
contrived quarterback battle between Russell Wilson and Justin Fields in
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the burg Also, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tongue Baila says he
has not heard from Brian Flores since he publicly undressed
his former coach. Does this surprise you in any way?
And what did the Packers see in former Titans quarterback
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Malik Willis. They must see something they traded for him.
This week we'll talk about that as well, and a
whole lot more. Right now, say hello to my little friend,
our number two. A cloud of black and yellow angst
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We're back at it again this hour and the hour
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of the Burgh. Now Pittsburgh been on the naughty list
for some of my friends in Pittsburgh with the commentary
that we've had about Russell Wilson over the last several weeks,
but there is still no formal announcement. We think we
know who the quarterback is going to be, but it's
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really just a matter of when, not if. It's not
a matter of if, it's a matter when Russell Wilson
becomes a QB. One may happen later today when the
sun gets up. Who knows. But the reaction to the
inevitable move by the Pittsburgh football team is the part
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of the story which I'm getting a kick out of
because a handful of prominent blowhards and gas bags in
the sports media are upset talking heads, very angry with
Mike Tomlin. They're annoyed with Mike tom Then why are
they annoyed with Mike Tomlin? Annoyed because he presented the illusion,
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in their opinion of competition that this was an open
competition between Russell, mister unlimited Wilson and Josh twenty twenty
three offseason MVP Fields. So it wasn't we know that
it wasn't these people feel like they were led astray
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the idea that Justin Fields had a fair chance to
win the starting job and beat out mister unlimited in Pittsburgh.
So let us discuss the question, are you gonna go
thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs up er thumbs down?
Did Mike Tomlin hornswaggle the media with this contrived quarterback
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con traversy between Russell Wilson and Justin Fields? That is
the question. All right? So I've got Peter Paul and
Mary Chocolate Thunder and Hasbro, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to have
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one hell of a knee jerk reaction, is what we're
going to do. So number So I'm gonna go thumbs
down to answer the question. I'm gonna go thumbs down,
now thumbs up, thumbs down on the idea that Mike
Tomlin hornswaggled people in the media. This is classic faux outrage.
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I love to call out fau outrage. I don't take
part in fo outrage. I try to avoid the faux outrage.
Every once in a while I'll stumble into it. But no,
my position rather clear here. This is not an esoteric situation.
It is not right. This was telegraphed by Tomlin. This
whole thing was telegraphed. Read the room right. If I'm
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doing the overnight show in a dark radio studio, although
there are lights here because there's cameras, but nonetheless generally dark,
and I know what's going on, you're telling me that
these talking heads can't figure that out. I'm smarter than
these morons. Come on, maybe I am. That says more
about them than it does about me. But look at
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the situation here. It was all laid out on the table.
Everything was there to see Russell Wills explain it to
you like you're five years old. So Russell Wilson gets
let go by the Broncos. He goes to Pittsburgh so
quick romance. Kenny Pickett at the time was part of
the Steelers. He immediately ends up asking for a trade.
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He goes to the Philadelphia football team. The reason he
wanted out was because he was informed that Russell Wilson's
gonna be QB one and he's not going to be
the starter. So then the Black and Yellow went out
and acquired Justin Fields from the Bears. All right. They
gave up i think some pocket lit and a half
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eaten bag of potato chips to get Justin Fields, so
they got him. Mike Tomlin then made it perfectly clear
to every man, woman and child that was listening that
Russell Wilson was in the pole position to be the
starter in Pittsburgh. So let me rephrase that again. The
only people, the only people who saw this as a
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legit quarterback controversy in Pittsburgh were listening to some old
Peter Paul and Mary puff the Magic Dragon. All right.
They were having a puffin good time here. Russell Wilson
and Justin Fields were both overmatched in the exhibition games.
So by default, if one guy's in the pole position
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and the other guys on the outside trying to come
ahead of the guy in the pole position, the guy
in the pole position. If they're both the same, they're
both bag quarterbacks. The person in the pole position gets
the job, all right. Now, page two, we shuffle off
to Miami, Miami, Miami. I'm looking confused. Maybe you can
help me out on this. I'm confused by this is
a story, it's a Malor follow up Malor Show follow
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up and regards his story, we talked about a couple
of weeks ago, Dolphin's quarterback Tua Tongue by looa good
old Ta. He was asked about his relationship with his
former coach. He says he has not heard from Brian
Flores since he publicly undressed his former head coach, and
does that surprise you? Are you surprised? It seems like
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some members of the media are surprised. I can't believe
there was no conversation that takes place, So I'm gonna
shake my head now. I'm not surprised in the least.
I would have been surprised if they had had a conversation.
What is there to talk about? Right? What is left
to be said? Brian Flores is working for the Vikings.
He's also suing the NFL Tua isn't deployed by the Dolphins.
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Their paths do not cross. They're not scheduled to play
each other here in twenty twenty four. And it reminds
me of a famous line by the late great Chocolate Thunder,
one of the all time solid nicknames in sports history.
There's a basketball player he's dead now, but Darryl Dawkins
named Chocolate Thunder, and he so eloquently pointed out back
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in the day he said, when everything is said, Darryl
Dawkins said, when everything is said and done, there is
nothing left to do or say. And that's the way
it is. When it comes to Tua and Brian Flores.
Tua laid him out. Brian Flores, he said, I'm hurt
by this move on and that was that. He unloaded
two of the holster and let it rip, and that
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was that, and so now we move on, all right now?
Final point, high speed transaction, wire lighting up, roster cutdowns,
last minute trades, as rosters have to be trimmed. The
thinning of the herd, but not the cow herd show.
So the Green Bay Packers have traded a twenty twenty
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five to seventh round pick. You talk about a big commodity.
They trade this track pick to the Tennessee Titans. In return,
they get quarterback Malik Willis. Give me Liberty or give
me Willis the old Liberty quarterback late of Alabama or
not Auburn in the state of Alabama. Malik Willis is
now headed to Lomball Field and he is expected to
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be the backup to Jordan Love. There was a quarterback
battle for backup status in both lost, at least according
to this because why else would you trade if you're
the Packers for Malik Willis if you already had your
backup quarterback? So question for the esteemed panel, what do
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the Packers see in four former Titans quarterback Malik Willis?
Because I haven't seen any he so what an a see?
So it is a great question, because Malik Willis did
get a little cup of coffee with the Titans and
look like he had never picked up a football before.
He would have been better playing volleyball than football the
way he played back in the day. But he has
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a high ceiling, that's what the nerds like to say,
because he was drafting the third round, but he had
first round talent. They said. A couple of years ago.
He's got a charismatic personality, and of course he was
also an abject failure. You have to have rose colored glasses, right,
You have to be a cock eyed optimist to celebrate
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Malik willis change of scenery. He looked overmatched, absolutely overmatched.
He was manhandled. But that was a small sample size.
But Green Bay looks at this. Here's the way I
if I'm the Packers, I look at this, I'm like, Okay,
they probably liked him before the draft, coming out of Liberty,
mid round quarterback. They don't have a quarterbacks, so they
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need somebody. They need to put a body in there.
And if Jordan Love gets hurt, they're cooked anyway, So
who cares. So you have Malik Willis as the backup.
They like his skill set, and it's really a Hasbro move.
It's a Hasbro move that think of Malik Willis as
Neon Green Plato and there it's an arts and crafts
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project at this particular point for Malik Willis. And so
the Packers are going to take that Neon Green Plato
and they're gonna put him in the fun Factory at
lambeau Field with the world's largest gift shop with all
kinds of packer memorabilia, and they'll try to mold him
into a useful player behind Jordan Love and then if
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something actually does work out, This is the old model
he used to do in Green Bay, where they'd always
have when Brett fav was there, they'd have backups, and
they even just with Ann Rodgers the beginning, and you
can say all the way through actually the way it
turned out, where they always had someone who had perceived
the value as a backup, and then if that guy
turns out to look good in practice, they can then
trade him use some skullduggery and get some more draft
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picks in return. It is the Ben Mahler Show. We
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get to all that and we will do it next.
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I don't think Coop responded though, I don't I don't know.
Maybe we don't have to record it. I don't know.
There's something we need to record on camera, on camera situation,
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I have no idea. Uh I want to steamer. Yeah. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are just
warming up here, just getting started. Hour two underway, and
we'll get to the Pirate's Life from me and some
needle point. We'll get to that coming up in a
little bit. We began this hour with media outrage. How
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dare the Steelers give the illusion of a quarterback controversy.
They are expected to name Russell Wilson as the quarterback.
Of course, there's no good decisions there to make Sophie's choice. Yeah,
that is, that's a tough one. Then you got two
a tongue of Iloa who said he hasn't talked to
Brian Flores why would he? And I got to work
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into Darryl Dawkins quote Love. Darryl Dawkins was a great sound.
Chocolate thunder, that chocolate thunder. I remember the planet he
was from, Love Love Tron, That's right. He made it
up in high school and I think it was high
school and then he just used his entire career and
he was I remember Darryl Dawkins. Yeah, he never as
good as he should have been, like physically gifted athlete
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in the NBA. But I recall he was one of
the first guys that thought the NBA was the reason
they were having so many European players in was to
get rid of the American players. Yeah, he had this conspiracy.
You don't say that he was he was going with
any Was.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
He the reason why they went to the breakaway rims
because he broke so many rims because they didn't when
he done, he would break the backboard sometimes.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah. I don't know if it was him or Wilt
Well that dunking was illegal for Wilf Chamberlain.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
They got rid of Dunky because of Wilt when he
was in school. But Jaral Dawkins did break a lot
of rims. He did. There's some classic videos on the
YouTube of him working his magic. Anyway, take some calls.
Let's say hello to let's see here eenie meenie, miney moe.
Let's say hello to weed man hippie who is in
a hotel room, not on Lincoln Road, in a hotel
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room somewhere in South Florida. Hello, Hello, Wow Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
RG three was twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Time I know, wild health fast time flash Wow. In fact,
to give you how crazy that was, the night the
Rams made It was a Ram Redskins trade NFL draft
night and I was doing TV in Kinnectic Get when
that went down, and it was like it was like
breaking NFL draft news and all that stuff, and it
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was I still remember. They were all they thought that
Washington had gotten there forever quarterback, and they did. For
one season. He was really good for one year, and
then after that not so much.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You know, I understand why the Washington Redskins had to
change their name, But the Cleveland Indians? Are you kidding me?
What's wrong with Indians?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You'd have to ask Rob Manford, the commissioner of Major
League Baseball, who had a proper cracist. They tried to
get rid of it, but they tried to get rid
of the Atlanta Braves, and that that didn't work. I'm
offended by people who are brave. I don't know about you,
but I've never liked brave people. I'm a wimp. I
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am always been a wimp, but I don't like brave people.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Then I gave, I gave please somebody out there who
has a place for me?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Oh again again? Now you gave me thirty five seconds
of sports talk, and then you went immediately into a rant.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Oh go back to sports cooking a second, but path.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And you'll do their dishes? And what else do you'll do?
What else do you do? You'll cook? What do you
what do you know how to cook TV dinners?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
What do you know to cooking?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Cooking? Clean?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And I have food you'll clean? Oh and foods? You'll
buy food for the people from the food stick.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I have foods.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Can can they use their Can the people use their
your Obama phone? Can they use that? They can't? You're
from free phone service. You'll cook? And what do you
know how to cook? Again? For those that missed it
the other day? What do you know how to cook?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
We've made I know how to.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Beef stew. That's just throw some meat and vegetables into
a pot, little water and just leave for.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
All.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Right, Well, well we've made you the thank you. I
know we'll get the people complaining about you. But what what? What?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
What down?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
First down technology was supposed to go to a bet
next year, not this yet.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
No, they were fussing around with it, and there was
some debate whether or not they're just going to use
it this year. If it was ready, they would have
just used it this year. But it's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Rogers is going to lock with.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The Jets, I think, and Rodgers is gonna what's he's
gonna be great with the Jets? Why would he be
great with the Jets? No one, no one's great with
the Jets. Why would he be great with the Jets?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
What happened in boxing?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It died? It died about twenty twenty. What do you
think Boxing died twenty oh nine.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
We've been at a house.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, yeah, you were living high in the hall back
last time, Boxing was I gotta I gotta go? Thank you?
All right? That please? Every every night that guy calls up.
Now he's begging for a place to stay. I get it.
He doesn't have a place to stay. But aren't there
websites that have like rooms for rent in Miami? They
could couldn't you imagine his background check though, weed man's
background check. If he's trying to find a place to stay,
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no one's going to do it for five hundred bucks.
See what there's got to be the people make this,
People that have places to stay, that don't have a
lot of money. I bet you can get a room.
It might not be a place you want to want
to leave your belongings, but you could probably get a room.
Let's see Miami. Do you have to go to Miami
real estate?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Is that what we have to do to help him out?
Maybe Miami Halfway House is yeah? I don't know, all right.
I mean he has access, he's got a phone. You
can look this stuff up on his own. Let's go
to a man who knows all about real estate. He
doesn't need any because he just walks around the swamp
lands of Florida. Jed who fled?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Hello Jed Man, I'm upset with you. Shit, that's always good.
It's always good material. It's always good material, man. But
I'll take you half dollars send that Tommy has I'm
you can head out of the Northforna. That will definitely
enter his messages and call us whenever you gets done show.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We're all you're showing where all the great swamps are.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Yes, I'll leave you out in the middle of it,
and I will teach you how to be Amos Moses,
Amos Moses from Jerry Reid song. You can choose fab
the Gator never heard of them. He can keep both
legs unlike the Alabama guy. Yeah, he can keep both legs.
What did you say about Ceede Lamb whenever you referenced
the Truman show, good after, good afternoon, good evening, and
good night. Was that like you pulled in the back
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of your body from toy Story string and you think
of the random or was there a point of that?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Uh? I ask you, I was I meant to say
that about Florida State's chances of winning the championship is
what he meant to say, but I slipped that in earlier.
I apologized that was actually about the seminals. That was
a mistake. I'm glad you called me on it. That
was really about Florida State's football program.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Somebody poison bench speaking holes. Let's go down your mouth, dude,
dumb stuff speaking of if you thinks.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Like what would be the rambling wreck of Georgia Tech. Guy,
that's a new loaf ware, right, that's a that's a
kick to the nuts, right there? Is that?
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Not a kick a guy named Ben Malard who has
no friends or powers. You're guys part of a round, dude,
But anything about that, I don't hy Lorena, Lorena, get
back to your desk, Get get out of the get
out the corner with whatever. Guy that was? Guy, what
the hell is going on? Dude? Why do these people
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they need sounds?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Think you like a strike dog maybe a strike.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Dog type system whatever that's all like if you want
to hear.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
What color coward says nixt.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
To in blah blah blah, I ain't tuned in to
know of that, dude. Not to into you while I'm
already on hold with you that's how bad the rest
of this is. What's going on with that?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Your suck? What do you want to life?
Speaker 7 (22:37):
You?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I want you to say that. I I want to
say I'm.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Ben Mouse and I'm better than Colin Coward.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I am. I am absolutely better than Colin Goward. Not financially,
but I am better than Colin Gowery clearly.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
No, bet, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Don't use the way to words are the best? The
best means as good as all the rest. You just
said I'm as good as Coward.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Wrong again, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, you screwed that up. Bat, But you what are
we doing? Todight? Will you tell you're indoors? Are You're
not outside? You're inside somewhere?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Your wife?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Thank you? I don't know what that was? That was?
What was that?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Why was okay?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I was he went on a tack mode.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I didn't think what you said was that was that offensive?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Sounded like he was inside.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I thought the Florida state thing was what would set
him off, not the thing about indoors or outdoors.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It sounded like he was inside. Right, Am I wrong
on that?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I heard with you on that.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah? All right, I'm looking at Miami, your wife Ben better, Yeah,
Miami rental property. There are some boy, they look really
really good for you. Gotta be kidding me. A rent
a room for here's one, No deposit three hundred bucks
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for thirty days, right, come on, No, that's not a
bad at all. Some of these they don't have a
photo though on that one? Does it matter? Weekly rental
one hundred and fifty So he could stay there for
like a couple of weeks, three weeks, and then spend
one week on the streets and then no, doesn't work.
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He's won four to eighty. Man, some interesting places there
in Miami for weed Man to stay at. It is
the Ben Mahler Show and a Pirates life for me.
The Pirates couple of years ago debuted their next great phenom,
O'Neil Cruz, and while he's been okay, he hasn't been
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as good as some expected him to be. And it
turns out the Pirates are disappointed with O'Neil Cruz. Now
why would I say they're disappointed with O'Neil Cruz, Because
the Pirates have decided. As another season slips away and
falls into your fist, are they shutting him down? No, Okay,
they're moving him out of the shortstop position. He's six
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foot seven, spindly built. They're gonna put him in the out,
so they're they're getting him in the out and mean
he's sitting in two six. He says, he's got a
few home runs and the numbers aren't terrible, but I
think they expected next level performed, So they're moving him
to the outfield. And you would, you know how baseball works.
You're much more valuable as a shortstop than you are
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as a center fielder. So the money you get paid
a lot more as a shortstop than you do as
a as a center fielder. Hey, but that's that's down
the line. He's not gonna get any real big money.
He's twenty five or something like that, so he's he's
got a couple more years till he gets paid the big, big, big,
big big money.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
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Back to the NFL, where Patriots head coach Gerron Mayo
said on WEEI radio the quarterback Drake may has outplayed Jacobs, said,
but but there are other factors to wait.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But being a starting quarterback. But but but other factors,
which is code for or somebody doesn't want Drake May
to play. That's what that's going for. So we're gonna
find a reason to go with Jacobe Brissett. But they
should start Drake May. He's gonna suck, but throw him
out there anyway. And the Patriot fans that email me
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are so desperate for anything to grasp onto, Like Drake
May throws a pass five yards and completes it, they
got all excited. Oh see, I told this guy's great.
He's so good. Fun fact. Fun fact, fun fact, fun fact,
fun fact.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Fun fact. You look at your Major League Baseball standings,
mentioned the Kansas City Royals, and pretty deep, pretty deep,
pretty good shape. Here the Royals at this particular moment
closing in on a playoff berth and there's still a month
ago in the baseball season. But Kansas City, if you
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look at your American League standings, the Royals are one
game behind the Cleveland Guardians. But then you're like, well,
what about that whole wild card thing? What about that
The Royals are a game and a half up for
the number two wild spot card spot. But there's six
and a half ahead of the Red Sox, meaning that's
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the last team that can really realistically catch them. The
Mariners are five and a half back, but there's six
and a half up over the Red Sox. So that
means that with thirty two games to play, the Royals,
if they just break five hundred five hundred baseball the
rest of the way, the Red Sox in order to
pass them by, would have to go twenty two and
nine the rest of the season. So, in other words,
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the math is in the favor of the Royals to
make the postseason. The American League is wide open. There
is no dominant team in the American League. I look
at the Oriols, that's a beatable team. I look at
the Yankees, that's a beautiful team. There's no one. There's
no one in the National League that is invincible. So
a team like the Royals can get in. You get in.
We saw it last year. The Texas Rangers snuck in
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and found themselves on top of the mount when it
was all done, and they played the Diamondbacks in the
World Series, who also barely got in, and we saw
how that turned out. Let's go to the phones. We'll
say hello, to Uh, let's see, we have Stu who
has a fun fact. We'll get him on real quick. Stu,
you have a fun fact, Stu? Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yes, that is correct?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Then all right, fun fact?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
What is it? It's an old football fact. Actually, it's
about the Kansas City Chiefs and nineteen seventy Kansas City
Chiefs and how they won and how they got into
the super Bowl that year. It was Blendolph. It was
one play. He had sixteen yards to go. Okay, fourth down.
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Madden was the youngest coach in the league that year,
and he took off and he got a seventeen yard game. Well,
joy brawls then football brawls.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh, of course, I thought this was We thought this
was going to be a quick fun fact.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
We had a hockey game that day. They jumped on
Glen Dawson and just him on the tuzac go to
sister and all them. They were all over them. Yeah,
but they still won the super Bowl and that was
the first one.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And the super Bowl, as you know, Su, the super
Bowl named the super Bowl because of a child's toy
and the owner of the Chiefs daughter was playing with
a super Bowl. You don't say with the super Bowl.
Thank you Stu. Let's go to the Black Irishman. Who
is next? He's in Omaha. Hello, black irishman?
Speaker 9 (29:40):
Litilla at all?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah? Are you there?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
No, you're not make them most stop.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
You know what I want to tell you though? Man?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
For real?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Well, I was go talking with Nil Romax.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
You know he came from nowhere. He's from a small school.
What made him was?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
What school was he from?
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Are you listening?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I asked you a question.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
What school was he from?
Speaker 9 (30:18):
I can't remember, but he's from a small school, Cortland State.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, didn't Jay Glenville coach there? He did late late
in his life. I think he's still but I know,
I know, I know you like Bill Kenny.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
I ain't gonna talk about him.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
We're doing old guy radio here ready, this is the
second this guy radio. We're doing real old guy radio.
I mean settle In, I mean man, But you know
what may Neil lit Max.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
It was Roy Green.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
He was a dB at first.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
He remember, was twenty five.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah. You want to hear a fun fact about Bill Kenny,
the old Chiefs quarterback. You want to hear a fun
fact Bill Kenn? He fun fact saddleback college guy went
to Saddleback College. Fun fact, that's true, not making it up.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Wow, he's from Northern Colorado.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
No, before he went to Northern I'm not making up.
He went. He's a saddleback guy and he used to
call the Gauchos and the Wolkes's changed the name to
some stupid name. But yeah, he went to saddle Bite.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
Okay, I'm gonna tell you about uh. What made Nell
Lomanx was Roy Green because he was he was like
a dB at first, but they ran out of ribe
receivers and then so he started paying robeliver he got off.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
I'll tell you somebody else.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I'd like that dude from uh jest.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
What was his name?
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Ken him too?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
He had O'Brien, Ken O'Brien or Matt Ryan Ryan Ken O'Brien.
Excited about Ken O'Brien. That's a little much.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Make him in a Marino Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You're just throwing out random names. I love that about you,
black irishman and uh. And I'm allowing you to do
that because I got my Creton hat you sent me
in the mail here. I'm wearing that right now. I'm
smiling thinking about that beautiful hat you sent me.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
This is a true man. I still got your IOWA
in my car.
Speaker 9 (32:15):
I had I touched it.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Oh okay, don't touch it. I don't want you to
mess it up.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
I haven't had it for like three years.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I know.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm aware that you've had it for three years. I'm
aware that that was back to the COVID time. Yeah
all right, we got black irishman. I liked it. You're back.
You left the show for many, many months, but you
returned to the show and you're just throwing out random
names like Neil Lomax and Bill Kenny and Roy Green
and I love that you're just throwing random names out.
You're you're flashing back to your younger days or salad
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days there having a fine time.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
They were.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
They came for small schools.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
But like Romo and Kurt Warner.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah all right, I must you've met your quota. I
must hang up on you. Thank you, go away, never
call again. All right, I'm kidding, you'll call tomorrow. I
know you will. Hey, ya, yay, right tay. It is
the Ben Mahlard Show as we press on time now
for the always popular insta trivia of Mallard of the
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third degree and here we go. Blank is the only
wide receiver in NFL history to win a Super Bowl
in his first season with a new team as that
team's leading receiver. Again, the Insta trivia question. Blank is
the only wide receiver in NFL history to win a
(33:35):
Super Bowl in his first season with a new team
as that team's leading receiver. That's the Insta trivia. The answer,
and we'll get to Mallard of the third degree. We'll
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Speaker 1 (34:22):
And timed out for the Insta trivia Blank the only
wide receiver in NFL history to win a Super Bowl
in his first season with a new team as that
team's leading receiver. That is the Insta trivia. What is
the answer? Which is appropriate because we're doing old guy
radio this hour thanks to the Black Irishman, and also
(34:47):
well you heard the hour. Who else? Patrick DJ Smith,
San Diego going with Plexical Buris Marcus Allen from Art Puffin.
That's his answer. Steven Baker, the touchdown maker from I
forty Ian page Down, Fergdog going with doctor Elliott Stern,
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the president of Saddleback College. I have no idea who
that person is? Voltron guessed by the Cowboy Killer Race
Bannon from alf the Alien ol Piner in Springfield, mass
Ned Flanders tossed out by the Texas Trucker Okley docally
do who else do you have? Page Down? JD in
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Boston says the answer is weed Man's roommate. Yeah, good
luck to that. Flash McGillicutty, good name from Milkman Mike
in Colorado, Robin Vegas going with superstar Billy Graham. That's
his answer. ODEB McDowell nineteen eighties, Texas Rangers legend Odebe McDowell.
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Who else do we have? Jose Vedro, who is fifty today?
From Late Night Drug Tester Holy Montreal expos Batman al
Tuone from King Rory ernest By from Art Puffin. That
was his answer, Big Country Bryant Reeves from Shane in
des Moin. Freddy Solomon guessed by Stevie Meatballs in Florida,
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Robbie the Mariner fan going with Jim Thorpe as his answer.
Mickey going with Haja Clinton Dix. What say you any quickly?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
I'm gonna go with State Great Stefan Page.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That is incorrect. Correct answer, Eddie, this is predates me
someone named Roy Jefferson of the nineteen to seventy Baltimore Coles.
Roy Jefferson came over from the Steelers and he's the
only one that fits that criteria. Shannon Sharp did it
as a tight end for the Ravens, but as a
wide receiver it was only Roy Jefferson. Here we go,
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Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. This is one Big then gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
According to a recent report, the Lakers are looking ahead
to the post Lebron era and hope to Land Luka
Doncik as the next face of the franchise, Ben, could
you see Luke joining the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yes, there are more donut shops per capita in southern
California than anywhere else, and the pink donut box was
invented in Southern California. I'm at the point now with
the NBA. It just depends what the scriptwriters want, right,
they want, you know, the Lakers Lobrono the my entire life,
They've always gotten whoever they wanted. So if the Lakers
want him, he'll be a Laker. That's how it always works.
(37:22):
Whoever they want, they get. Except for Chris Paul there's
still people still bitching about that. Next.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
He did look pretty fat over the weekend. We're all
just Chapman moved into fourth all time for strikeouts by
a relief pitcher. The three guys ahead of him are
all in the Hall of Fame. Does Chapman make the
Hall when it's all said and done?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
All right, So here's my problem with Chapman. The eyeball
test does not say Hall of Fame to me, but
the stats do say Hall of Fame. He has baggage,
which is a problem, but part of the you think
about the great Cubs team that won the world. He's
been with the Yankees. Never won with the Yankees though
the only time he won was the Chicago Cubs. The
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numbers say it's a borderline Hall of Fame resume. I'll
say he doesn't get it.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
Next, does Aaron Judge's recent display of power make you
think that Barry Bonds's record of seventy three firm one
home runs isn't unobtainable.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
If done clean. I believe it's unattainable if there are
steroids involved. Aaron Judge is gonna hit ninety home runs
in a season. Ninety home runs, but yeah, that was
a steroid record. How did we do he passes? That
is a way put on the yes
Hello and welcome. It's our nume bird too, Hubba hubba,
and our to the original recipe podcast. Thumbs up or
thumbs down? Did Mike Tomlin hornswaggle the media with this
contrived quarterback battle between Russell Wilson and Justin Fields in
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the burg Also, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tongue Baila says he
has not heard from Brian Flores since he publicly undressed
his former coach. Does this surprise you in any way?
And what did the Packers see in former Titans quarterback
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Malik Willis. They must see something they traded for him.
This week we'll talk about that as well, and a
whole lot more. Right now, say hello to my little friend,
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We're back at it again this hour and the hour
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of the Burgh. Now Pittsburgh been on the naughty list
for some of my friends in Pittsburgh with the commentary
that we've had about Russell Wilson over the last several weeks,
but there is still no formal announcement. We think we
know who the quarterback is going to be, but it's
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really just a matter of when, not if. It's not
a matter of if, it's a matter when Russell Wilson
becomes a QB. One may happen later today when the
sun gets up. Who knows. But the reaction to the
inevitable move by the Pittsburgh football team is the part
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of the story which I'm getting a kick out of
because a handful of prominent blowhards and gas bags in
the sports media are upset talking heads, very angry with
Mike Tomlin. They're annoyed with Mike tom Then why are
they annoyed with Mike Tomlin? Annoyed because he presented the illusion,
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in their opinion of competition that this was an open
competition between Russell, mister unlimited Wilson and Josh twenty twenty
three offseason MVP Fields. So it wasn't we know that
it wasn't these people feel like they were led astray
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the idea that Justin Fields had a fair chance to
win the starting job and beat out mister unlimited in Pittsburgh.
So let us discuss the question, are you gonna go
thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs up er thumbs down?
Did Mike Tomlin hornswaggle the media with this contrived quarterback
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con traversy between Russell Wilson and Justin Fields? That is
the question. All right? So I've got Peter Paul and
Mary Chocolate Thunder and Hasbro, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to have
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one hell of a knee jerk reaction, is what we're
going to do. So number So I'm gonna go thumbs
down to answer the question. I'm gonna go thumbs down,
now thumbs up, thumbs down on the idea that Mike
Tomlin hornswaggled people in the media. This is classic faux outrage.
(04:40):
I love to call out fau outrage. I don't take
part in fo outrage. I try to avoid the faux outrage.
Every once in a while I'll stumble into it. But no,
my position rather clear here. This is not an esoteric situation.
It is not right. This was telegraphed by Tomlin. This
whole thing was telegraphed. Read the room right. If I'm
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doing the overnight show in a dark radio studio, although
there are lights here because there's cameras, but nonetheless generally dark,
and I know what's going on, you're telling me that
these talking heads can't figure that out. I'm smarter than
these morons. Come on, maybe I am. That says more
about them than it does about me. But look at
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the situation here. It was all laid out on the table.
Everything was there to see Russell Wills explain it to
you like you're five years old. So Russell Wilson gets
let go by the Broncos. He goes to Pittsburgh so
quick romance. Kenny Pickett at the time was part of
the Steelers. He immediately ends up asking for a trade.
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He goes to the Philadelphia football team. The reason he
wanted out was because he was informed that Russell Wilson's
gonna be QB one and he's not going to be
the starter. So then the Black and Yellow went out
and acquired Justin Fields from the Bears. All right. They
gave up i think some pocket lit and a half
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eaten bag of potato chips to get Justin Fields, so
they got him. Mike Tomlin then made it perfectly clear
to every man, woman and child that was listening that
Russell Wilson was in the pole position to be the
starter in Pittsburgh. So let me rephrase that again. The
only people, the only people who saw this as a
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legit quarterback controversy in Pittsburgh were listening to some old
Peter Paul and Mary puff the Magic Dragon. All right.
They were having a puffin good time here. Russell Wilson
and Justin Fields were both overmatched in the exhibition games.
So by default, if one guy's in the pole position
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and the other guys on the outside trying to come
ahead of the guy in the pole position, the guy
in the pole position. If they're both the same, they're
both bag quarterbacks. The person in the pole position gets
the job, all right. Now, page two, we shuffle off
to Miami, Miami, Miami. I'm looking confused. Maybe you can
help me out on this. I'm confused by this is
a story, it's a Malor follow up Malor Show follow
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up and regards his story, we talked about a couple
of weeks ago, Dolphin's quarterback Tua Tongue by looa good
old Ta. He was asked about his relationship with his
former coach. He says he has not heard from Brian
Flores since he publicly undressed his former head coach, and
does that surprise you? Are you surprised? It seems like
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some members of the media are surprised. I can't believe
there was no conversation that takes place, So I'm gonna
shake my head now. I'm not surprised in the least.
I would have been surprised if they had had a conversation.
What is there to talk about? Right? What is left
to be said? Brian Flores is working for the Vikings.
He's also suing the NFL Tua isn't deployed by the Dolphins.
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Their paths do not cross. They're not scheduled to play
each other here in twenty twenty four. And it reminds
me of a famous line by the late great Chocolate Thunder,
one of the all time solid nicknames in sports history.
There's a basketball player he's dead now, but Darryl Dawkins
named Chocolate Thunder, and he so eloquently pointed out back
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in the day he said, when everything is said, Darryl
Dawkins said, when everything is said and done, there is
nothing left to do or say. And that's the way
it is. When it comes to Tua and Brian Flores.
Tua laid him out. Brian Flores, he said, I'm hurt
by this move on and that was that. He unloaded
two of the holster and let it rip, and that
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was that, and so now we move on, all right now?
Final point, high speed transaction, wire lighting up, roster cutdowns,
last minute trades, as rosters have to be trimmed. The
thinning of the herd, but not the cow herd show.
So the Green Bay Packers have traded a twenty twenty
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five to seventh round pick. You talk about a big commodity.
They trade this track pick to the Tennessee Titans. In return,
they get quarterback Malik Willis. Give me Liberty or give
me Willis the old Liberty quarterback late of Alabama or
not Auburn in the state of Alabama. Malik Willis is
now headed to Lomball Field and he is expected to
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be the backup to Jordan Love. There was a quarterback
battle for backup status in both lost, at least according
to this because why else would you trade if you're
the Packers for Malik Willis if you already had your
backup quarterback? So question for the esteemed panel, what do
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the Packers see in four former Titans quarterback Malik Willis?
Because I haven't seen any he so what an a see?
So it is a great question, because Malik Willis did
get a little cup of coffee with the Titans and
look like he had never picked up a football before.
He would have been better playing volleyball than football the
way he played back in the day. But he has
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a high ceiling, that's what the nerds like to say,
because he was drafting the third round, but he had
first round talent. They said. A couple of years ago.
He's got a charismatic personality, and of course he was
also an abject failure. You have to have rose colored glasses, right,
You have to be a cock eyed optimist to celebrate
(10:40):
Malik willis change of scenery. He looked overmatched, absolutely overmatched.
He was manhandled. But that was a small sample size.
But Green Bay looks at this. Here's the way I
if I'm the Packers, I look at this, I'm like, Okay,
they probably liked him before the draft, coming out of Liberty,
mid round quarterback. They don't have a quarterbacks, so they
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need somebody. They need to put a body in there.
And if Jordan Love gets hurt, they're cooked anyway, So
who cares. So you have Malik Willis as the backup.
They like his skill set, and it's really a Hasbro move.
It's a Hasbro move that think of Malik Willis as
Neon Green Plato and there it's an arts and crafts
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project at this particular point for Malik Willis. And so
the Packers are going to take that Neon Green Plato
and they're gonna put him in the fun Factory at
lambeau Field with the world's largest gift shop with all
kinds of packer memorabilia, and they'll try to mold him
into a useful player behind Jordan Love and then if
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something actually does work out, This is the old model
he used to do in Green Bay, where they'd always
have when Brett fav was there, they'd have backups, and
they even just with Ann Rodgers the beginning, and you
can say all the way through actually the way it
turned out, where they always had someone who had perceived
the value as a backup, and then if that guy
turns out to look good in practice, they can then
trade him use some skullduggery and get some more draft
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picks in return. It is the Ben Mahler Show. We
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I don't think Coop responded though, I don't I don't know.
Maybe we don't have to record it. I don't know.
There's something we need to record on camera, on camera situation,
So we're doing that today or later in the week.
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I have no idea. Uh I want to steamer. Yeah. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are just
warming up here, just getting started. Hour two underway, and
we'll get to the Pirate's Life from me and some
needle point. We'll get to that coming up in a
little bit. We began this hour with media outrage. How
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dare the Steelers give the illusion of a quarterback controversy.
They are expected to name Russell Wilson as the quarterback.
Of course, there's no good decisions there to make Sophie's choice. Yeah,
that is, that's a tough one. Then you got two
a tongue of Iloa who said he hasn't talked to
Brian Flores why would he? And I got to work
(15:14):
into Darryl Dawkins quote Love. Darryl Dawkins was a great sound.
Chocolate thunder, that chocolate thunder. I remember the planet he
was from, Love Love Tron, That's right. He made it
up in high school and I think it was high
school and then he just used his entire career and
he was I remember Darryl Dawkins. Yeah, he never as
good as he should have been, like physically gifted athlete
(15:35):
in the NBA. But I recall he was one of
the first guys that thought the NBA was the reason
they were having so many European players in was to
get rid of the American players. Yeah, he had this conspiracy.
You don't say that he was he was going with
any Was.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
He the reason why they went to the breakaway rims
because he broke so many rims because they didn't when
he done, he would break the backboard sometimes.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah. I don't know if it was him or Wilt
Well that dunking was illegal for Wilf Chamberlain.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
They got rid of Dunky because of Wilt when he
was in school. But Jaral Dawkins did break a lot
of rims. He did. There's some classic videos on the
YouTube of him working his magic. Anyway, take some calls.
Let's say hello to let's see here eenie meenie, miney moe.
Let's say hello to weed man hippie who is in
a hotel room, not on Lincoln Road, in a hotel
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room somewhere in South Florida. Hello, Hello, Wow Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
RG three was twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Time I know, wild health fast time flash Wow. In fact,
to give you how crazy that was, the night the
Rams made It was a Ram Redskins trade NFL draft
night and I was doing TV in Kinnectic Get when
that went down, and it was like it was like
breaking NFL draft news and all that stuff, and it
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was I still remember. They were all they thought that
Washington had gotten there forever quarterback, and they did. For
one season. He was really good for one year, and
then after that not so much.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You know, I understand why the Washington Redskins had to
change their name, But the Cleveland Indians? Are you kidding me?
What's wrong with Indians?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You'd have to ask Rob Manford, the commissioner of Major
League Baseball, who had a proper cracist. They tried to
get rid of it, but they tried to get rid
of the Atlanta Braves, and that that didn't work. I'm
offended by people who are brave. I don't know about you,
but I've never liked brave people. I'm a wimp. I
(17:48):
am always been a wimp, but I don't like brave people.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Then I gave, I gave please somebody out there who
has a place for me?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Oh again again? Now you gave me thirty five seconds
of sports talk, and then you went immediately into a rant.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Oh go back to sports cooking a second, but path.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And you'll do their dishes? And what else do you'll do?
What else do you do? You'll cook? What do you
what do you know how to cook TV dinners?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
What do you know to cooking?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Cooking? Clean?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And I have food you'll clean? Oh and foods? You'll
buy food for the people from the food stick.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I have foods.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Can can they use their Can the people use their
your Obama phone? Can they use that? They can't? You're
from free phone service. You'll cook? And what do you
know how to cook? Again? For those that missed it
the other day? What do you know how to cook?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
We've made I know how to.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Beef stew. That's just throw some meat and vegetables into
a pot, little water and just leave for.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
All.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Right, Well, well we've made you the thank you. I
know we'll get the people complaining about you. But what what? What?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
What down?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
First down technology was supposed to go to a bet
next year, not this yet.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
No, they were fussing around with it, and there was
some debate whether or not they're just going to use
it this year. If it was ready, they would have
just used it this year. But it's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Rogers is going to lock with.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
The Jets, I think, and Rodgers is gonna what's he's
gonna be great with the Jets? Why would he be
great with the Jets? No one, no one's great with
the Jets. Why would he be great with the Jets?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
What happened in boxing?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It died? It died about twenty twenty. What do you
think Boxing died twenty oh nine.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
We've been at a house.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, yeah, you were living high in the hall back
last time, Boxing was I gotta I gotta go? Thank you?
All right? That please? Every every night that guy calls up.
Now he's begging for a place to stay. I get it.
He doesn't have a place to stay. But aren't there
websites that have like rooms for rent in Miami? They
could couldn't you imagine his background check though, weed man's
background check. If he's trying to find a place to stay,
(20:05):
no one's going to do it for five hundred bucks.
See what there's got to be the people make this,
People that have places to stay, that don't have a
lot of money. I bet you can get a room.
It might not be a place you want to want
to leave your belongings, but you could probably get a room.
Let's see Miami. Do you have to go to Miami
real estate?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Is that what we have to do to help him out?
Maybe Miami Halfway House is yeah? I don't know, all right.
I mean he has access, he's got a phone. You
can look this stuff up on his own. Let's go
to a man who knows all about real estate. He
doesn't need any because he just walks around the swamp
lands of Florida. Jed who fled?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Hello Jed Man, I'm upset with you. Shit, that's always good.
It's always good material. It's always good material, man. But
I'll take you half dollars send that Tommy has I'm
you can head out of the Northforna. That will definitely
enter his messages and call us whenever you gets done show.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We're all you're showing where all the great swamps are.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Yes, I'll leave you out in the middle of it,
and I will teach you how to be Amos Moses,
Amos Moses from Jerry Reid song. You can choose fab
the Gator never heard of them. He can keep both
legs unlike the Alabama guy. Yeah, he can keep both legs.
What did you say about Ceede Lamb whenever you referenced
the Truman show, good after, good afternoon, good evening, and
good night. Was that like you pulled in the back
(21:25):
of your body from toy Story string and you think
of the random or was there a point of that?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Uh? I ask you, I was I meant to say
that about Florida State's chances of winning the championship is
what he meant to say, but I slipped that in earlier.
I apologized that was actually about the seminals. That was
a mistake. I'm glad you called me on it. That
was really about Florida State's football program.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Somebody poison bench speaking holes. Let's go down your mouth, dude,
dumb stuff speaking of if you thinks.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Like what would be the rambling wreck of Georgia Tech. Guy,
that's a new loaf ware, right, that's a that's a
kick to the nuts, right there? Is that?
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Not a kick a guy named Ben Malard who has
no friends or powers. You're guys part of a round, dude,
But anything about that, I don't hy Lorena, Lorena, get
back to your desk, Get get out of the get
out the corner with whatever. Guy that was? Guy, what
the hell is going on? Dude? Why do these people
(22:19):
they need sounds?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Think you like a strike dog maybe a strike.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Dog type system whatever that's all like if you want
to hear.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
What color coward says nixt.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
To in blah blah blah, I ain't tuned in to
know of that, dude. Not to into you while I'm
already on hold with you that's how bad the rest
of this is. What's going on with that?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Your suck? What do you want to life?
Speaker 7 (22:37):
You?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I want you to say that. I I want to
say I'm.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Ben Mouse and I'm better than Colin Coward.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I am. I am absolutely better than Colin Goward. Not financially,
but I am better than Colin Gowery clearly.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
No, bet, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Don't use the way to words are the best? The
best means as good as all the rest. You just
said I'm as good as Coward.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
Wrong again, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, you screwed that up. Bat, But you what are
we doing? Todight? Will you tell you're indoors? Are You're
not outside? You're inside somewhere?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Your wife?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Thank you? I don't know what that was? That was?
What was that?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Why was okay?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I was he went on a tack mode.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I didn't think what you said was that was that offensive?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Sounded like he was inside.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I thought the Florida state thing was what would set
him off, not the thing about indoors or outdoors.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It sounded like he was inside. Right, Am I wrong
on that?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I heard with you on that.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah? All right, I'm looking at Miami, your wife Ben better, Yeah,
Miami rental property. There are some boy, they look really
really good for you. Gotta be kidding me. A rent
a room for here's one, No deposit three hundred bucks
(23:50):
for thirty days, right, come on, No, that's not a
bad at all. Some of these they don't have a
photo though on that one? Does it matter? Weekly rental
one hundred and fifty So he could stay there for
like a couple of weeks, three weeks, and then spend
one week on the streets and then no, doesn't work.
(24:11):
He's won four to eighty. Man, some interesting places there
in Miami for weed Man to stay at. It is
the Ben Mahler Show and a Pirates life for me.
The Pirates couple of years ago debuted their next great phenom,
O'Neil Cruz, and while he's been okay, he hasn't been
(24:32):
as good as some expected him to be. And it
turns out the Pirates are disappointed with O'Neil Cruz. Now
why would I say they're disappointed with O'Neil Cruz, Because
the Pirates have decided. As another season slips away and
falls into your fist, are they shutting him down? No, Okay,
they're moving him out of the shortstop position. He's six
(24:55):
foot seven, spindly built. They're gonna put him in the out,
so they're they're getting him in the out and mean
he's sitting in two six. He says, he's got a
few home runs and the numbers aren't terrible, but I
think they expected next level performed, So they're moving him
to the outfield. And you would, you know how baseball works.
You're much more valuable as a shortstop than you are
(25:18):
as a center fielder. So the money you get paid
a lot more as a shortstop than you do as
a as a center fielder. Hey, but that's that's down
the line. He's not gonna get any real big money.
He's twenty five or something like that, so he's he's
got a couple more years till he gets paid the big, big, big,
big big money.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Back to the NFL, where Patriots head coach Gerron Mayo
said on WEEI radio the quarterback Drake may has outplayed Jacobs, said,
but but there are other factors to wait.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But being a starting quarterback. But but but other factors,
which is code for or somebody doesn't want Drake May
to play. That's what that's going for. So we're gonna
find a reason to go with Jacobe Brissett. But they
should start Drake May. He's gonna suck, but throw him
out there anyway. And the Patriot fans that email me
(26:16):
are so desperate for anything to grasp onto, Like Drake
May throws a pass five yards and completes it, they
got all excited. Oh see, I told this guy's great.
He's so good. Fun fact. Fun fact, fun fact, fun fact,
fun fact.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Fun fact. You look at your Major League Baseball standings,
mentioned the Kansas City Royals, and pretty deep, pretty deep,
pretty good shape. Here the Royals at this particular moment
closing in on a playoff berth and there's still a month
ago in the baseball season. But Kansas City, if you
(26:51):
look at your American League standings, the Royals are one
game behind the Cleveland Guardians. But then you're like, well,
what about that whole wild card thing? What about that
The Royals are a game and a half up for
the number two wild spot card spot. But there's six
and a half ahead of the Red Sox, meaning that's
(27:13):
the last team that can really realistically catch them. The
Mariners are five and a half back, but there's six
and a half up over the Red Sox. So that
means that with thirty two games to play, the Royals,
if they just break five hundred five hundred baseball the
rest of the way, the Red Sox in order to
pass them by, would have to go twenty two and
nine the rest of the season. So, in other words,
(27:36):
the math is in the favor of the Royals to
make the postseason. The American League is wide open. There
is no dominant team in the American League. I look
at the Oriols, that's a beatable team. I look at
the Yankees, that's a beautiful team. There's no one. There's
no one in the National League that is invincible. So
a team like the Royals can get in. You get in.
We saw it last year. The Texas Rangers snuck in
(27:58):
and found themselves on top of the mount when it
was all done, and they played the Diamondbacks in the
World Series, who also barely got in, and we saw
how that turned out. Let's go to the phones. We'll
say hello, to Uh, let's see, we have Stu who
has a fun fact. We'll get him on real quick. Stu,
you have a fun fact, Stu? Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yes, that is correct?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Then all right, fun fact?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
What is it? It's an old football fact. Actually, it's
about the Kansas City Chiefs and nineteen seventy Kansas City
Chiefs and how they won and how they got into
the super Bowl that year. It was Blendolph. It was
one play. He had sixteen yards to go. Okay, fourth down.
(28:42):
Madden was the youngest coach in the league that year,
and he took off and he got a seventeen yard game. Well,
joy brawls then football brawls.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh, of course, I thought this was We thought this
was going to be a quick fun fact.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
We had a hockey game that day. They jumped on
Glen Dawson and just him on the tuzac go to
sister and all them. They were all over them. Yeah,
but they still won the super Bowl and that was
the first one.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And the super Bowl, as you know, Su, the super
Bowl named the super Bowl because of a child's toy
and the owner of the Chiefs daughter was playing with
a super Bowl. You don't say with the super Bowl.
Thank you Stu. Let's go to the Black Irishman. Who
is next? He's in Omaha. Hello, black irishman?
Speaker 9 (29:40):
Litilla at all?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah? Are you there?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
No, you're not make them most stop.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
You know what I want to tell you though? Man?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
For real?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Well, I was go talking with Nil Romax.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
You know he came from nowhere. He's from a small school.
What made him was?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
What school was he from?
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Are you listening?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I asked you a question.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
What school was he from?
Speaker 9 (30:18):
I can't remember, but he's from a small school, Cortland State.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, didn't Jay Glenville coach there? He did late late
in his life. I think he's still but I know,
I know, I know you like Bill Kenny.
Speaker 9 (30:31):
I ain't gonna talk about him.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
We're doing old guy radio here ready, this is the
second this guy radio. We're doing real old guy radio.
I mean settle In, I mean man, But you know
what may Neil lit Max.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
It was Roy Green.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
He was a dB at first.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
He remember, was twenty five.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah. You want to hear a fun fact about Bill Kenny,
the old Chiefs quarterback. You want to hear a fun
fact Bill Kenn? He fun fact saddleback college guy went
to Saddleback College. Fun fact, that's true, not making it up.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Wow, he's from Northern Colorado.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
No, before he went to Northern I'm not making up.
He went. He's a saddleback guy and he used to
call the Gauchos and the Wolkes's changed the name to
some stupid name. But yeah, he went to saddle Bite.
Speaker 9 (31:24):
Okay, I'm gonna tell you about uh. What made Nell
Lomanx was Roy Green because he was he was like
a dB at first, but they ran out of ribe
receivers and then so he started paying robeliver he got off.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
I'll tell you somebody else.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I'd like that dude from uh jest.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
What was his name?
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Ken him too?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
He had O'Brien, Ken O'Brien or Matt Ryan Ryan Ken O'Brien.
Excited about Ken O'Brien. That's a little much.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Make him in a Marino Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You're just throwing out random names. I love that about you,
black irishman and uh. And I'm allowing you to do
that because I got my Creton hat you sent me
in the mail here. I'm wearing that right now. I'm
smiling thinking about that beautiful hat you sent me.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
This is a true man. I still got your IOWA
in my car.
Speaker 9 (32:15):
I had I touched it.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Oh okay, don't touch it. I don't want you to
mess it up.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
I haven't had it for like three years.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I know.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm aware that you've had it for three years. I'm
aware that that was back to the COVID time. Yeah
all right, we got black irishman. I liked it. You're back.
You left the show for many, many months, but you
returned to the show and you're just throwing out random
names like Neil Lomax and Bill Kenny and Roy Green
and I love that you're just throwing random names out.
You're you're flashing back to your younger days or salad
(32:44):
days there having a fine time.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
They were.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
They came for small schools.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
But like Romo and Kurt Warner.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah all right, I must you've met your quota. I
must hang up on you. Thank you, go away, never
call again. All right, I'm kidding, you'll call tomorrow. I
know you will. Hey, ya, yay, right tay. It is
the Ben Mahlard Show as we press on time now
for the always popular insta trivia of Mallard of the
(33:15):
third degree and here we go. Blank is the only
wide receiver in NFL history to win a Super Bowl
in his first season with a new team as that
team's leading receiver. Again, the Insta trivia question. Blank is
the only wide receiver in NFL history to win a
(33:35):
Super Bowl in his first season with a new team
as that team's leading receiver. That's the Insta trivia. The answer,
and we'll get to Mallard of the third degree. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
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(34:19):
needs more cow bell. It's Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And timed out for the Insta trivia Blank the only
wide receiver in NFL history to win a Super Bowl
in his first season with a new team as that
team's leading receiver. That is the Insta trivia. What is
the answer? Which is appropriate because we're doing old guy
radio this hour thanks to the Black Irishman, and also
(34:47):
well you heard the hour. Who else? Patrick DJ Smith,
San Diego going with Plexical Buris Marcus Allen from Art Puffin.
That's his answer. Steven Baker, the touchdown maker from I
forty Ian page Down, Fergdog going with doctor Elliott Stern,
(35:07):
the president of Saddleback College. I have no idea who
that person is? Voltron guessed by the Cowboy Killer Race
Bannon from alf the Alien ol Piner in Springfield, mass
Ned Flanders tossed out by the Texas Trucker Okley docally
do who else do you have? Page Down? JD in
(35:27):
Boston says the answer is weed Man's roommate. Yeah, good
luck to that. Flash McGillicutty, good name from Milkman Mike
in Colorado, Robin Vegas going with superstar Billy Graham. That's
his answer. ODEB McDowell nineteen eighties, Texas Rangers legend Odebe McDowell.
(35:48):
Who else do we have? Jose Vedro, who is fifty today?
From Late Night Drug Tester Holy Montreal expos Batman al
Tuone from King Rory ernest By from Art Puffin. That
was his answer, Big Country Bryant Reeves from Shane in
des Moin. Freddy Solomon guessed by Stevie Meatballs in Florida,
(36:08):
Robbie the Mariner fan going with Jim Thorpe as his answer.
Mickey going with Haja Clinton Dix. What say you any quickly?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
I'm gonna go with State Great Stefan Page.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That is incorrect. Correct answer, Eddie, this is predates me
someone named Roy Jefferson of the nineteen to seventy Baltimore Coles.
Roy Jefferson came over from the Steelers and he's the
only one that fits that criteria. Shannon Sharp did it
as a tight end for the Ravens, but as a
wide receiver it was only Roy Jefferson. Here we go,
(36:41):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. This is one Big then gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
According to a recent report, the Lakers are looking ahead
to the post Lebron era and hope to Land Luka
Doncik as the next face of the franchise, Ben, could
you see Luke joining the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yes, there are more donut shops per capita in southern
California than anywhere else, and the pink donut box was
invented in Southern California. I'm at the point now with
the NBA. It just depends what the scriptwriters want, right,
they want, you know, the Lakers Lobrono the my entire life,
They've always gotten whoever they wanted. So if the Lakers
want him, he'll be a Laker. That's how it always works.
(37:22):
Whoever they want, they get. Except for Chris Paul there's
still people still bitching about that. Next.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
He did look pretty fat over the weekend. We're all
just Chapman moved into fourth all time for strikeouts by
a relief pitcher. The three guys ahead of him are
all in the Hall of Fame. Does Chapman make the
Hall when it's all said and done?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
All right, So here's my problem with Chapman. The eyeball
test does not say Hall of Fame to me, but
the stats do say Hall of Fame. He has baggage,
which is a problem, but part of the you think
about the great Cubs team that won the world. He's
been with the Yankees. Never won with the Yankees though
the only time he won was the Chicago Cubs. The
(38:01):
numbers say it's a borderline Hall of Fame resume. I'll
say he doesn't get it.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
Next, does Aaron Judge's recent display of power make you
think that Barry Bonds's record of seventy three firm one
home runs isn't unobtainable.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
If done clean. I believe it's unattainable if there are
steroids involved. Aaron Judge is gonna hit ninety home runs
in a season. Ninety home runs, but yeah, that was
a steroid record. How did we do he passes? That
is a way put on the yes
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