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September 4, 2024 • 38 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Angels decision NOT to do a formal video tribute for Shohei Ohtani in his return to Anaheim, Ohtani tapdancing around the Angels never offering to match the Dodgers contract, Too Much or Not Enough, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dumb birth three. Can you
dig it? Talking bays Ball Thumbs up or thumbs down
to the Angels decision not not to do a formal
tribute on the jumbo tron for Sho Hal Tani as
he returned to Anaheim for the first time in.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
A regular season game with the Doyers.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Also, Shoeo Tani tap dance around questions about the Angels
never offering him a chance to match the Dodger contract.
Are you surprised by that from Otani? Also, Mets GM
David Stearns is campaigning publicly for Francisco Lindor to win
the National League MVP Award. He said that Lindora is

(00:48):
having one of the great if not the greatest season
in Mets history. Can he get enough electoral votes to
win the mvpple Talk about that and much more as
we slide in to an hour number three. No window dressing, No,
no window dressing at all. Welcome in the beginning of

(01:13):
another hour of the Ben Mallor Show. We are in
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Com the way tire buying should be and the rare
and appropriate, Rare and appropriate mald monologue about baseball, a
serviceable sport that we'll talk more about as we head
into the playoffs in about a month. But are lead
this hour coming from the Big A. That is where

(02:20):
dreams go to die, a hazy Tuesday night, A couple
of SoCal teams getting together. That is where the Angels
are doing something they always do this time of the year.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
They're playing out the string in another failed.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Season, as they are a pathetic disgrace of a baseball team.
Yet they found themselves in the middle of a bit
of a brew haha because of an old flame, an
old flame that left found a new lover. So if
you didn't follow this story, perhaps not. We were following
along because I thought was interesting and thanks for some

(02:53):
good conversation. And there was the great debate whether or
not to honor, to honor or not show he Otani
as he returned to Anaheim for the first time for
a regular season game wearing enemy colors. Now he was
introduced and greeted with mostly applause, although the stadium was

(03:15):
half full that was mostly Dodger fans.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Big Blue Wave took over Anaheim.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
The Halos showed a JumboTron graphic of Otani's personal accolades
with the Angels. However, they did not flash the sizzle reel,
did not put that on the on the scoreboard for
the fans to watch highlights of Otani back with the
Angel So let us discuss thumbs up or thumbs down,

(03:44):
thumbs up thumbs down on the Angels making the right
call here not to have a formal video tribute for
Sho Heyotani as he returned to the Big A with
the Doiters. So I've got shaggy dickens and vapor trail,
and we will combine all of these things together and

(04:10):
we are going to partay, is what we're going to do. So,
first of all, to answer the question thumbs up, thumbs
down on the Angels making the right call not to
have a formal video tribute, I'm gonna go thumbs up.
All right, I'm gonna go thumbs up. Just keeping it
real enough is enough. These cornball video tributes for athletes

(04:30):
returning to teams have gone completely overboard.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
It started out as a nice thing.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
It was kind of cool, and now everyone feels like
they have to do it. It's become ceremonial background noise
is what it is. And it's inconsequential because everyone is
getting these things.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Why does every.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Single athlete deserve a ceremonial welcome back?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
And it's September now.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
O'tani has played almost an entire baseball season in Dodger blue,
and spoiler alert, the Angels already.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Did this anyway.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
They had a brief video that they played on the
scoreboard when Otani visited the Big A back in a
spring training game in the month of March. So they've
already checked that box. For those of you hardoes that
are like, we have.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
To do you have to do it. They did it.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
And Angels owner Arty Morino, who's not very good at
running a baseball team, but he's keeping it real, right,
He's keeping it real. He's humming bars of that old shaggy.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Tune, keeping it real.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
This is authentic. There's no need for phoniness. The wound
is still fresh. Not only did Otani vacate the Big A,
this had nothing to do with Southern California. He didn't
go to Toronto. John Paul Morosi said he was going to Toronto.
He didn't go to Toronto, didn't go to San Francisco
or New York or Boston, any of the usual suspects. Instead,

(06:02):
he's like, hey, I like the lifestyle in California, Southern California,
but I don't want to play for your team.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm gonna go play for the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I'll stand the same market, and I'll go from the
outskirts and I'll go to the belly of the beast.
And he got all this deferred money and circumvented the
People's Republic of California tax code. And so he's laughing
all the way to the bank until he's like eighty
years old, all right now. Secondly, following up on the

(06:30):
Ottani store, he was asked recently about the hypothetical scenario
about the possibility of the Angels would have matched would
he have stayed in Anaheim if the Angels had matched
the Dodger off. Now, Otani tap danced around that question.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
The question.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
He said, the Angels never did offer to match the
Dodger contract. Are you surprised by the response? So the
way I'm going to approach this one, but give us
one little side out here, because Otani has been programmed.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
He is a big fan of.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Dickens, Charles Dickens, the artful Dodger sho Hail. Tani's lips
are moving and he has the ability to say nothing
in multiple languages, multiple languages, although he often uses an interpreter.
But that is a skill. That is some bull Durham
level cliches and vague generalities, and it's impressive. He didn't

(07:34):
give a straight answer. He hemmed and hawed and gave
a twenty second sound bite. And there was nothing there.
There was no meat on the bottom. Where is the beef?
There was none?

Speaker 2 (07:48):
All right, Final five.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
We moved now to the Big Apple where the head
of Baseball Ops, big shot David Stearns. He's in charge
of the Metropolitans. He was asked about the MVP race.
He said, well, what he was asked, what does an
MVP look like? That was the question, and his response was,

(08:10):
I think he looks like the guy that runs out
the shortstop at seven o'clock. That's what he said. Now
he was referring to the Mets shortstop, of course. Now,
Stearns added that Francisco Lindor may may be in the
midst of the greatest individual position player season in Mets

(08:35):
franchise history. Now may is a weasel word, but will
address the comment in that context. So the Mets GM
David Stearns, head of Baseball Ops, openly campaigning for Francisco
Lindor to win nationally MVP and saying it's the greatest
individual position player season in Mets history. Can Lindor get

(08:59):
enough electoral votes to legitimately.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Win the MVP?

Speaker 1 (09:06):
So in that regard, I'm gonna give this some bug eye.
It is a big helping of hyperbole. This is stand
by your man, This is my shortstop. David Stearns didn't
sign Lindor to that contract. He inherited Lindor, but he
is helping pump the tires on his shortstop and Lindor's
had a fine season. Statistically, But there's a whole lot

(09:27):
of hyperbole at the all you can eat buffet Lindor
filling out the old statu sheet here. So the nerds
love this, They're like, oh man, this is great. They're
getting all around. I got their pants around their ankles,
they're so excited. However, here's the thing, right, Lindor as
good as he has been for the Mets, and he

(09:48):
does actually play real baseball because he plays in the field,
he's not a designated hitter. Still, he finds himself in
the vapor trail of Sho Heo Tani's rocket ship. As
Otani still has a couple of weeks left to get
to that fifty to fifty level. And as far as
the other comment about this being the greatest individual season

(10:09):
by a position player in Met's history, I think Mike
Piazza's online one, David Writes online two, and Carlos Beltron's online.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Three, and hell, David, you go back to the old school, Darrel.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Rather, Daryl Strawberry probably wants to say something about that
back in the day as well. He'd like to have
a word. All of them would act to have a
word with Sterns. But again, Lendor's been fine. Not the
greatest season in Mets history.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
It's a good season.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Good for him, he's making a gazillion dollars. You're supposed
to play like that. You don't get extra credit for
doing what you're supposed to do. That's why the Mets
gave you the forever contract. Plus you've got the other
issue here that major League Baseball marketing. They need Otani
to win the honor. The Dodgers yet again next season
are going across the Pacific. As they have the Asian invasions.

(10:59):
They base will continues to market their sport and sell
overpriced T shirts, hats, and jerseys to people.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
All over there.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
And even as a dh though, we are talking about
intercontinental branding, adding to the legend the fairy tale of
Otani that while recovering from a major medical procedure that
does not allow him to pitch, he is still the Bopper,
much like me, Benny the Bopper. Worldwide marketing, world wide marketing.

(11:33):
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for the Mallor Riddle of the day. Now, the Mallard
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you to listen a little bit longer. Thus we call
it the Malor Riddle of today. You can try to
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see your response. But here is the Malar Riddle of
the day. Quarterback Taylor Heineke recently said that he was
watching blank when he got a call from Falcon Head

(12:26):
coach Raheem Morris that they were trading him to the Chargers. Again,
Quarterback Taylor Heineke recently said that he was watching blank
when he got the call from Falcon Head coach Raheem
Morris that he was being traded to the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
That is the Mallor riddle of the day.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
The answer, We'll get to it, and we will.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Do it next.

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Speaker 1 (14:02):
'tis the day before the start of the NFL season
tomorrow on Thursday. It all begins Thursday night as cansa city.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Opening up with the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Derrick Henry now in a Baltimore uniform. How is that
going to go? Built like a Donnis? How much does
he have left? Derrick Henry, who's showed some signs with
the Titans last year of having some issues, didn't completely
fall off the map. We've seen these running backs in

(14:37):
recent years. Very few of them changed teams and have
a lot of success. Will Henry be the exception to
the rule or is he going to fall off the
map like a certain former Viking that went over to
the Jets last year with much fanfare, Dalvin Cook and
looked completely cooked. And now you know he's cooked because
he's on the Cowboys. Here's the Mallord riddle of the day.

(15:00):
Here it is quarterback Taylor Heinike said he was watching
blank when he got a call from Falcon head coach
Raheem Morris said, Hey, you've been traded to the Chargers.
And that is the Mallor riddle of the day.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
What is the answer?

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Let's sees anyone know the answer and we'll go page
down here, page down. Gary says he was watching old
episodes of Cheers. All right, very nice, Thera. Who else
do we have? Surley Scott says something to do with
training camp, some kind of training camp reference. By the way,

(15:39):
we do have later this hour the Queen of Hearts
with Lorraina if you would like to send a question
in hashtag Queen of Hearts and too much or not
enough will be in a little bit. So we have
a big hour of bits coming up later. The SAWMN
in Mississippi says that Taylor Heineke was watching reruns of
Murder she wrote on Lifetime.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
A fin answer, A fine answer. Who else we have?

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Page down Mallard prop guy, says Taylor Heineke. He was
watching the poignant and moving NFL mockumentary Spagnolo Tap was
the answer A watching paint Dry guessed by Ferg Dog.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I was like a picture of paint drawing right there.
Who else do we have?

Speaker 1 (16:22):
I forty Ian says watching Benny Hill when he found
out he was being traded to the Chargers. He was
watching the Dallas episode where Bobby Ewing made his return.
What great moment in television, King Roy, you're also dating yourself.
Who else do we have page down. He was watching
the Blair in Maine, which project from Milkman Mike in Colorado,

(16:44):
Far Out Davis says, my name is Earl.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
That was the answer.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Alf the alien ol Piner says Johnny Bench and the
Baseball Bunch. Now, I did watch, and we've been through
this before.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Alf.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
I did watch the Baseball Bunch because I'm old, but
I was more of a this weekend baseball guy, and
they were I think they were played back to back
if I remember correctly, they would have the back to
back like a whole block of baseball programming for kids.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Who else do you have page down?

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Donkey Sausage says Benny versus the Penny, the porn parody?

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well, god forbid? Who else do you have page down?

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Og R Puffin did say that Taylor Heineke was watching
Benny is the Penny? Highlights from back when the commanders
had a name that began with R. For Mickey in
State forty eight, Tammy in Vegas went with the iconic
Benny versus the Penny? Who else do we have page down?

Speaker 2 (17:40):
I can't read that.

Speaker 8 (17:41):
On the air.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Naked and Afraid XL from Dante JT. The wingman who's
been to the last three malor meet and greets, going
with Chips as his answer ace Ventura Pet Detective guest
by Nick Taylor Heineck. He says it was watching Ryan
NFL Highlights. All right, Eddie, do you have an answer?

(18:04):
Mason and Huntington Beach says underrated baseball movie, Aunt Mary,
he was watching.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
No, No, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
He was actually watching the movie liar liars storing our
own Justin Cooper.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
All right, liar liar, is that the correct answer?

Speaker 9 (18:18):
Wrong?

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Now? That is incorrect?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Bt W the a correct answer to the malarrilla de
Taylor Heineke said he was watching none other than the
Netflix Jim Harbaugh signs Stealing documentary.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Of Michigan football.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
When he got the call, Eddie, he told Raheem Morris,
it's funny. I'm just watching Jim Harbaugh on TV as
they were going over the sign stealing scandal for the Wolverines.
I did also see Jim Harbaugh come out with a
baseball bat and unlow ripping the NCAA after the Michigan sanctions,

(18:58):
saying they have zero I know he didn't say here.
He said they had no credibility. Let's go to a man. Yes, man,
well in Guardina in southern California.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Hello, Manuel.

Speaker 9 (19:09):
Ben Mallord. He is in the air everywhere. And you
know me, man, I'm like gang star, I'm down with
the militia babies.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Man, Well, hear your voice.

Speaker 9 (19:24):
They wanted to say, who cares about Taylor Swift? Man?
We got Loraina, the Queen of heart, and everybody should
have known that that was a sham, you know, I mean, uh.
Eric Dickerson called it a long time ago.

Speaker 10 (19:40):
Man.

Speaker 9 (19:41):
He basically said, the only thing that Kelsey was in
for was for that sideway smile, if you know what
I mean, and a bunch a boatload of money. And
we're seeing that that shit. Man, that was a publicity stunt,
and I'm glad it's gonna be over with because I
I don't want to see that crap on the NFL

(20:02):
no more. I thought it was kind of embarrassing for me,
like the NFL was pandering to her. I mean, come on, man,
you go the NFL. Man, I don't care if this
is kaylor Swift, You're the NF freaking ill and one
mat thing. Benny, I hope you don't Shadow band my dude, Bill,
because I'm a big fan of Angry Bill, so gotta

(20:23):
support the militia, you know. Uh, we just got to
make sure that he kind of stays in line. But uh,
you know he's down, man, he's been down from day one.
So much love to everybody, Benny, that's all all right
for you.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
All right, all right, there you go. Man. Well, it's
like the wild West.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
You can hear the man working as he's moving product
around there, delivering product. Man well in gardena hard at
work on the job and still finding time to double
dip and call the show. That's dedication. And he can't
call all the time. I know, Man, Well, he can't
call because he's very busy. He's working, he's delivering stuff,
and he's still time to give us a call. And

(21:03):
the man that has been part of many many smack
attacks in the jungle, he knows the thing. See Angry Bill.
If he was ever gonna get banned was when he
was threatening me. And then for a while he was
calling up and just like saying bad words randomly and
all that, and then we didn't ban him for that.
And what does it take to get banned from this show?

(21:23):
Fire and Brimstone. Let's speak of being banned. Let's go
to Steve in Manhattan. Hello, Steve Ben.

Speaker 8 (21:31):
Everyone out there in radio land listening to this show
through your toes in your bed. Hey, raid that refrigerator, guys, listen.
Mickey Mantle on forty forty he said, if I knew
they were going to make a big deal out it,
I would have done it every year. Now listen, guys
talking about getting banned. This guy. It's Anthony Weener's birthday today, right,

(21:52):
So I called his show the other day and I
called him Tony hot Thol. You got home, man, I
don't tell you what is wrong with people today. They're
really super sensitive. You could stay on this phone for
twenty four hours calling me names. I couldn't care less.
Think your mom's telling you when you were little kid,
sticks and stones and break your bones with names on
the Bahrmia. Now come on, man, And.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
So you call Anthony Wiener does a radio show like
it's like an hour is not very long, right, I
don't think.

Speaker 8 (22:19):
Yeah they have like, yeah they have, Like I don't
understand the concept they have. The guy does an hour.
There's no other guy's got an hour show and everything.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's not long enough, Like that's too short. You can't
do an hour's nothing and you can.

Speaker 8 (22:32):
Kind of opening monologue you're gonna have. That's the whole show.
Then they got to go to traffic and weather in
New York. They gotta read all the crimes that took
place and everything. You know, people are pissed off about
the crime in New York City. But you know what
I'm really mad about, big b. I can't I used
to be when I was younger call up at two
in the morning. I get up in two in the
morning and call someplace and have like a cheeseburger sent over.

(22:54):
You can't do that anymore. There's places they're all closed down.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah, that's a myth. You know, that's a great point.
When I and my brother lives in Manhattan, and when
I go to visit my brothers and people when I
was a kids are here in the city that never sleeps.
You know, it's up all night and now over my
lifetime and I'm I'm assuming younger than you, but in
my lifetime, I used to be able to get a
turkey sandwich at any corner of bodega in Manhattan. Now

(23:20):
they're all weed shops like, there's hardly any bodega's left
by any weed you want. And those aren't even open,
you know, they're not open twenty four hours, but they
mean they got.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Even the sandwiches. You can't even get a sandwich at
two in the morning.

Speaker 8 (23:33):
A lot of places, well, now I wouldn't be ordering
a sandwich after What do they call it listene listeria?

Speaker 6 (23:39):
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
I don't think it's list oferene. I think that maybe
it depends on how you like your breath.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
I don't know, but we don't call the New Yorkers. Listen,
the guys who come from the suburbs call them bodegas.
We call them delis. In New York City, we don't
call them. But I know there are bodegas and there
are delis, but we don't the guys are coming from
the from the suburbs that all the time, I'm going
to go to a boa dagga. Yeah, at least you
go to a boatdega in the South Bronson and go

(24:05):
home in your underwear, you know. But the thing is,
you're laughing there right Listen. I've been banned from so
many shows and I really couldn't care less. But obviously
I'm gonna say something that's really crazy right now. A
lot of these people listen to these talk shows. Now,
you do a sports show, which is good, and I
wish you guys would bring the operation over to New

(24:25):
York City. You can't do it electronically. You don't have
to physically be here, you know. But the thing is
a lot of them they got mad at me because
I said, I told the talk show host, I know,
you guys rather have Kamala win because it's good for ratings.
People be calling in complaining and everything and bitching and
moaning about what's going on and everything and the country's
going to hell in a hand basket. And you know

(24:47):
what are the hosts confessed to me? He said, you
know something that's what they talk about in the newsroom
all the time. Would be great if.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, Tim, this is not political shows, you know. But
I would argue, we're at the point in the matrix
now it doesn't matter whoever wins. People are going to complain.
It doesn't matter. People just love to complaint, and they
have these platforms to complain in the matrix, and so
no matter who wins, somebody's gonna be the odd person

(25:14):
out and they're gonna complain, and the world's ending and
all that. That's just the way I gotta go, Steve,
Thank you, all right, go call some other shows right now,
Steven Manhattan. And at one point people really hated Steven Manhattan.
They thought he was a terrible caller. And then they
heard the other people they call the show. Now they
long for Steven Manhattan to call the show.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Fun fact, fun fact, fun fact, fun fag malor fun fact,
fun fact of the hour, not that fun, not that fun.
If you happen to be a fan of the New
York Yankees. Since being named an All Star back on
July seventh by that Weasley commit Rob Manford, what up Holmes?

(26:02):
Clay Holmes has blown almost forty percent of his save opportunities.
He has blown six of sixteen save opportunities since then,
and on the season, Holmes has now blown eleven saves,
the most in Major League Baseball. You're New York Yankees,

(26:23):
Wyatt Langford has just mentioned their walk off Grand Slam,
so good luck to the Bronx Bombers, and that reminds
me there was a GM when I was in San Diego.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Is a guy named Kevin Towers who's passed away.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Great mind, great SoundBite, good guy, all that, But Kevin
Towers had this theory about relief pitchers and how, from
year to year, like they were the most undependable. Like
if a guy has a great year in the bullpen,
you get rid of him, and you want guys that
had I'm obviously simplifying this, but you want guys that
had terrible years because of the bounce back. Very rarely

(26:56):
do they have back to back great years. And Clay
Holmes is a testmonial to that line of thinking. I mean,
he was really really good for a good stretch for
the Yankees, and he absolutely blows right now. You know
what does not blow though? This This does not this
is amazing.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Oh my, enough Ben Meller game. We've endured too many
of these?

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Is it too much or not enough?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Already that is too much or not enough. I want
to point out us that this show was sponsored by DraftKings.
Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all
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Speaker 2 (27:29):
DraftKings.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
The crown is yours, and let's welcome in our contestant
for the game. Let's say hello to Eenie meenie miny mode.
Let's hello to Dustin, who is in central Illinois. Hello, Dustin,
hey man, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Dustin?

Speaker 1 (27:48):
You out there in the middle of the boondocks out there?

Speaker 8 (27:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (27:52):
Yeah, I born in High Texas.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Oh, you want high taxes. I think you gotta head
west for that.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
I think you gotta hit out west there.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, I hear a little static. But we're gonna give
it a shot. And are you at work right now?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Dustin? No'm you're driving to work?

Speaker 8 (28:10):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
What kind of work do you do?

Speaker 10 (28:12):
Manufacturing?

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Okay, you're driving to work. It's what is it like,
three almost three fourty in the morning.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
What time do you start work today?

Speaker 3 (28:21):
I want to start at four because I want to
leave early Friday.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Oh that's that's a veteran move. That's a savvy move.
Get in there early, get out early.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Start your weekend. All right, Well, let's good luck.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Let's play the game here too much or not enough?
If you go five for five, you will name the
game after your next week. But all you have to
do is win three. I'll get three of these five
questions right. Question number one, the Chicago White Sox have
somehow been swept seventeen times in series of at least
three games. Is that too much or not enough?

Speaker 2 (28:54):
For the Socks?

Speaker 8 (28:56):
I don't enough?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Is he right? That is correct? Us in good job?
Not enough?

Speaker 1 (29:02):
They've now been swept twenty times in series of three
games or more. They are the epitome of garbage. Question
number two. Alabama has now won seventy straight home games
against unranked opponents. Is that too much or not enough?

Speaker 8 (29:25):
Not enough?

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Is he right? That is correct?

Speaker 1 (29:29):
They've won seventy seventh straight. That's the longest streak by
any D one team since Nebraska won ninety seventh straight
back in their glory days of the mostly the eighties
and the nineties, but from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen
ninety eight they had ninety seven straight wins at home
against unranked opponents.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Question number three.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
There are five quarterbacks with thirty five or more.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Home runs since wins home home wins. I say home
home wins.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
There are five quarterbacks with thirty five or more home
wins since twenty eighteen. Is that too much or not enough.

Speaker 8 (30:10):
Twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yes, that's six much?

Speaker 2 (30:16):
All right? Is he right? Right again?

Speaker 1 (30:19):
You've already won the game too much that there are
only two Mahomes and Josh Allen, and we'll keep going.
You've already won the game, so you've already got a
golden ticket. Question number four for Dustin on his way
to work. He's starting early, starting at four am, so
he can get off work a little earlier there on Friday.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
And start his weekend.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
There have only been three World Series champions ever to
have a closer blow ten or more saves in the
regular season. Is that too much or not enough?

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Man? I'm gonna say enough?

Speaker 1 (30:57):
All right, let's find out. Does the streak continue?

Speaker 9 (31:01):
No?

Speaker 2 (31:02):
But yes, sorry, you already want to get too much.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, No eventual World Series champions had a closer blow
ten or more saves.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
The Yankees is just minutes to go.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Clay Holmes play Homes just blew as eleven saves, So
the Yankees, the Yankees are, by that stat, are in
some trouble or us we'll have to defy the stat. Well,
your line is terrible, but have a good day at work,
and congratulations you had a golden ticket.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
I'd be safe out there driving through the the sticks
of central Illinois. We are going to have your questions,
not for me, not for Coop, not for Eddy.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
We might answer them.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
But the Queen of Hearts with Loraine ah some love
advice and other life advice. If you want to call
up eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
seven nine nine six six three sixty nine used the
hashtag Queen of Hearts. We'll get through as many questions
as we can, the advice, the wisdom from our friend

(32:05):
Lorraine Up.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
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Speaker 11 (32:50):
It's of it buys with Lorrain at ten nine clean
up Hearts, going to help you, dear Rye, dear Rye,
and nine hear rye from you lie.

Speaker 7 (33:04):
You heard the man.

Speaker 12 (33:05):
It's Tom for Queen of Hearts here on the Ben
Maller Show.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Well, a hell of a job by our friend from
Tulsa who sent us the Wally and Tulsa who sent
us the temporary open for Queen of Hearts, which has
now we played for eleven.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
Years temporarily permanent.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, all right, so these are actual questions by actual
listeners for you, Lorena. And might I add we will
make some calls in here as well, so I will
Coop will feed me the calls, and then we will
have the reading of the calls as well. Inca Terror
writes in first question, as a diehard Yankee fan, I

(33:44):
have never allowed myself to get romantically involved with a
Red Sox fan.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
It's just say, is this a mistake?

Speaker 8 (33:52):
You know?

Speaker 12 (33:53):
For sports rivalries, it might be safe to keep your
distance in that, you know what I mean? Maybe find
a girl who doesn't like sports and get her to
love your team. But if you do, like a good rivalry,
so I bet some couples really get off on that stuff,
you know, like, oh you want to fight about it? Yeah,
we'll make up later, you know. So I mean, yeah, yeah,
if I find someone who could have fun with it.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, they say that whoever they are say oppositees a tract, right, Loraino.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yes, I would advise against dating someone who is the
rival of your team.

Speaker 7 (34:23):
Let's fire and Ice Eddie.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Well, your your wife Eddie is a super fan. But
if you're a casual.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Fan, I think it'll be okay.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
You're fine, Cowboy Killer writes in says Lorena Can a
woman data guy that works at McDonald's.

Speaker 12 (34:41):
Actually, at least he's got a damn job like chicken nuggets.

Speaker 7 (34:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (34:46):
No, I know a lot of people who work at
McDonald's and have really good relationships. My brother has been
the manager of Taco Bell and he's never been single.
So I mean, who am I to.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Say, Wow, you're you're Also if you're working fast food,
if you're working up front, you're meeting a lot of people, right,
your chances of finding someone actually go up.

Speaker 6 (35:03):
Because who wants to know about possible Taco Bell deals?

Speaker 2 (35:08):
I just said to resents the Taco Bell hookup Yeah, yeah, honey.

Speaker 7 (35:12):
I've gotten free taco bell from this man one time.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Wow one, what a good guy? What kind of what
kind of hookup is that?

Speaker 12 (35:19):
That's because he's a half brother, you know, only half
the effort. Anyways, that's the next question.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
All right. JT.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
The Wingman says, is it okay to squeeze your partner's
tushy you out for a walk?

Speaker 7 (35:32):
Oh my gosh, please any type of I don't know.
I like that.

Speaker 12 (35:37):
It shows that you know you're into me when we're
walking around. You should touch on him a bit, rub
on him a bit, show him you like him.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
You like the public displays of a yes.

Speaker 7 (35:46):
Yes to a degree. Don't be crazy with it?

Speaker 2 (35:50):
All right?

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Uh for everything in moderation, even moderation for dog, writes
in and says, how do you tell a girl you
have an extremely small twigg and berries without scaring them off?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Asking for a friend?

Speaker 7 (36:08):
You know, it's all about perception.

Speaker 12 (36:11):
If you just come out box and you tell her
you know what not, it's big baby perception, you know,
like laying on the floor versus standing up for her.
Make sure you pose properly. You don't got to say it.
It's okay. Some people don't even mind.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Well, there are.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Angles, you know, there's different angles where things look like
optical illusion, you.

Speaker 7 (36:33):
Know, exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
I didn't get.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
A mirror, a funhouse mirror or something like that.

Speaker 7 (36:37):
And the hunting per Son. There's always things you can do.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
All right, blind Scott, Let's go to the phones, Blind
Scott for the Queen of Hearts, Lorraine. We do it
every week if you like the bit. If you don't
like it, we'd only do it once a week, all.

Speaker 10 (36:49):
Right, Lorena, I have a partner that's twenty seven, and
she's in a relationship, and she hides me from her partner.
Her partner's sixty three. I'm afraid if I push it
that she move in with me. And I'm used to
being alone and I really want to find love, but.

Speaker 7 (37:05):
Love is really hard on me.

Speaker 10 (37:06):
I didn't know if you had any advice for this.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
You know, Well, that's a little bit of a complicated one.
So you're saying she's already with someone.

Speaker 10 (37:14):
Yeah, it's like a podynamic and she's an.

Speaker 7 (37:16):
Old man and he's an old man.

Speaker 10 (37:18):
Pay lesbians, two lesbians and you know, once.

Speaker 7 (37:23):
A nurse seven year old.

Speaker 12 (37:24):
I think that's a sixty three year old lesbian that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Must be loaded, must be loaded.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
You know what.

Speaker 12 (37:29):
People let her keep whatever she's got on the side.
If she wants to come over and enjoy you, don't
put you many limits on it, Kave blend Scott.

Speaker 7 (37:35):
We got to keep it as casual as possible.

Speaker 12 (37:37):
Don't put your heart on the line because she's obviously
not committed.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
And I've heard Blind Scott that your place is so small.
I don't think two people could live there.

Speaker 8 (37:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (37:45):
Maybe maybe you could get her sugar Mama to get
you guys an upgrade.

Speaker 10 (37:48):
Yeah, yeah, because I have mental health issues, so I
don't think I could stay in somebody in a small
place for a long time like this, you know, yeah,
I'm sure.

Speaker 7 (37:55):
Definitely all right.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Well, thank you, Blind Scott. Any final thought here, Lorena, No.

Speaker 12 (38:02):
But I hope that everyone continues to love as graciously
as possible, because who knows how long we're going to
have this love show going on.

Speaker 7 (38:07):
We got to get into the new betting thing, right,
Oh are you really are? I thought you said we're
going to do bets now.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Well, no, it's coming. We get multitask heavy
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