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October 25, 2024 • 35 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Dodgers/Yankees World Series record-setting ticket prices, Commissioner Rob Manfred saying he expects an automated strike zone within the next 4 years, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nub Or two all about
the World Series Dodgers and Yankees tonight. A record setting amount.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Of money for Game one World Series tickets. Big deal,
little deal, No deal.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Also, the Dodgers are said to be concerned about Game
one starter Jack Flaherty's velocity, Are you concerned about that?
And Rob Manford again saying he expects automated strike zone
in baseball in.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
The next four years.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
We'll talk about that little basketball as well. It's all
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Speaker 1 (01:52):
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Speaker 2 (02:02):
Twas the night before Game one.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Of the World Series, when all through the house, not
a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Garrett Cole
versus Jack Flaherty Bronx bombers the Boys in Blue La
New York Friday Night, La La Land. So you got
that going on. There's a couple of subplots. I want

(02:26):
to talk about a couple of subplots. Now you might
know what these are, maybe not. The one I want
to start with is the outrageous, over the top, in
your face, in your face situation involving the value of
this World Series. Now, these are the two biggest media

(02:49):
markets in America, and these are the two sexiest teams
in baseball. But we are told the average ticket price
for Game number one between the Yankees and the Dodgers
is the largest in the history of the secondary market,

(03:11):
all right. In fact, no, all that for the entire
World Series, the whole shebang. This is the most expensive
ticket in the history of the World Series. The previous
record was when the Chicago Cubs ended a one hundred
eight run year run of futility, complete futility, and they

(03:35):
beat the Cleveland Indians in the way they were called
the Indians at that time. We can say that Cleveland Indians,
Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Indians.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
That was in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
So that was the previous record, and you kind of
get it right, Cubs. She had multiple generations of cub fans.
It was their dying wish to watch the Cubs in
the World Series. And so you understood that the Dodgers
are in the World Series every couple of years. The
Yankees haven't been in the World Series in a long time.
But still it's not like you'd have to be really

(04:04):
young to say you don't remember the Yankees in the
World Series.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
They were there fifteen years ago.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
So the question as we discuss Dodgers and Yankees World
Series record setting ticket prices, big.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Deal, little deal or no deal.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
So I've got playground animniacs and pharmacy grade and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make playball is.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
What we're gonna makeuse. I can't wait. I'll be watching.
I'll be sitting on my ass.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I ain't paying a thousand dollars to go to Dodger stated,
but I'll be watching the Dodgers and the Yankees. So
my first thought on the question of the World Series
ticket prices is this a big deal, a little deal,
or no deal. I have this as a little deal.
It's not no deal because it's a lot of money.
It's not a big deal because it's predictable. You've got
on one side of the United States, the Wall Street

(04:59):
rob barons, right, the hedge fund Titans of Wall Street
versus tinsel Town, movie mogul money and everything else. All
the other rich people live in La So the World
Series is a playground for the wealthy, for the famous.
It's palpable. Elitism is what it is, right. It's to

(05:21):
be seen, to be heard, to see and went on
to look at you and all that stuff. So everyone
is hoping to be noticed by important or fashionable people
at the World Series. And inflation is out of control.
You might think it's bad buying a carton of milk

(05:42):
or a block of cheese or some bread. But real
inflation is being a loyal sports fan. The tyrants who
run these sports leagues are over the top with their greed.
It's unreal if you look at the inflation for tickets.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
So it's not a news story. There's no end in sight.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
The only way it stops is if people stop spending
the money. And people have not shown that they're willing
to do that, and if they did, the.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Ticket prices would come down and there would be a change.
It would be panic.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
I've said this before. The most powerful thing in all
of sports is the a word apathy. If you have apathy,
then they freak out because that is the death of
the business.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
That is it.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now another storyline I wanted to mention here the Dodgers
and their game number one starter and whether or not
he's being set up here for a Debacle's talk about
Jack Flarity, who's going to start Game one? And the
headline which is bouncing around. You gotta fill time.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I understand that you.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Got to blog the fill You got a social media
I gotta get some clicks. The headline is the Dodgers
are concerned about Jack Flarity's velocity.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Y right, and they're worried about this.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
He's not throwing as hard as he did Game five
of the National League Championship Series. His fastball velocity was not.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Very good, not very good.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
And so the quote from the Dodger pitching coach Mark Pryor.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Was moderately concerned. That was the quote. So are you moderately.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Concerned about Jack Flaherty And I'll go for I am not.
I expect him to go out there and pitch well.
He's not on the road.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I guess he's got the heb gbs on the road.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
He's at Dodger Stadium, friendly confines, you know, hometown, all
that stuff, and he pitched well in that ballpark. In
his previous start in the playoffs, he sucked on the road.
So he's at home. I expect him pitched well. And
this story annoys me. And the reason he annoys me
is one of the flaws the Dodgers have is they

(07:56):
are such velocity whores.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm old school. I guess I didn't realize that this
is still a.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Thing, but you can. I know this is going to
blow you away. Call me a boomer right now. You
can get hitters out without throwing it past them. You
can use gile, guts and gile as a pitcher.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
And they used to.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
This is going to really shock you, but they had
something called the Art of pitching and it was deception.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
And yeah, I know it's crazy for me too.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, so God forbid Jack Flaherty goes out there and
uses a little deception.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh you're such a You're such a loser.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
All right.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Staying with baseball, Major League Commissioner Rob Manford, or as
we like to call him, Man Fraud, recently said that
he expects to implement the automated strikes on within the
next four years.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
How does this one vibe with you? All right?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
So it is the next chapter in Rob Manford recreating
the Animania cartoon from back in the day, the ANIMATEDACS cartoon.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
You know that pinky in the brain? What are you
gonna do tonight? I'm and try to take over the world.
And that's what Rob Manford's doing.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Ghost runners check pitch clock check check, bigger basis check
check check, banning the shift check check check check, no
takeout slides at second base or home plate checkchick check
check check mandating batters or pitchers face minimum number of
batters out of the bullpen.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Checkchick, check check check. So this is on brand.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
This is what Rob Manford does, and I believe it
will happen much sooner than four years. The automated strike
zone will also allow Major League Baseball to use Big
Brother to generate a tentacle like appendage to manipulate desired

(09:56):
outcomes if they so choose human At some point in
the equation, we'll have to set up the algorithm for
the strike zone, which obviously leaves room for some funny
business for manipulation.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
And anytime you have humans.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Involved, you cannot have the automated strikes on without a
human setting it up, so therefore it is fallible and
planning that out there, all right, final fun Quickly we
go to Pro bouncy Ball and the games are not

(10:31):
great talk radio, but the stories in the NBA often are.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Here's an example.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
The season started a couple of nights ago. The NBA
has already opened up an investigation into MVP Joel Embiid's
plans to essentially never play in back to back games
again for some reason, and BED decided to announce this
with the Sixers that he just cannot handle. His body

(10:57):
cannot handle playing.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Back to back in well.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Charles Barkley the gold standard for sporting commentary. Charles Barkley
got on the bully pulpit on TNT and unloaded on
the Sixer star.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I believe we have the audio. Yes, I think we
do all right, very good.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Here is Charles Barkley and listen to him and his
thoughts on Joel nb Man.

Speaker 6 (11:25):
I don't have any idea what the Sixers are doing.
You know, I don't think it's fair. Now listen, I
want I want to get this number right because this
is crazy and blessed a kid numb one. He just
signed for three years, one hundred and ninety three million dollars,
three years, one hundred and nine three million dollars to
play basketball. We're not still workers. We're not nurses like

(11:49):
people who got like real jobs who have to work
forty to fifty hours a week. We're playing basketball at
the most four days a week, most of the time
three days a week. He has the best backup.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
In the.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, and they talked about Andrew Drummond there, but what
did you make of Charles bark And there was more
what did you make of his lecture about Joel Embiid
and load management. So for me, this was frosted flakes, right,
Joel Embiid, not only is he frosted flakes, but they're great.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Charles Barkley's words were great.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
You know, it shows you the dichotomy between the NBA
world and.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
The real world.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I know there's a lot of fanboys that whatever the
athletes do, they're called jock sniffers, and they support the
athletes no matter what. But there used to be adults
in the room like Charles Barkley who would say this
is ridiculous, this is absurd, right, And the NBA is
at a point now where they don't even pretend to
say that there's a problem with it.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Like Joel Embiid lives in a bubble.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Joel Embiid lives in a world where he's insulated from
the reality of the world that he feels no guilt,
no shame in taking one hundred and ninety three million
dollar contract, as Charles Barkley said, there and not be
a being able to fulfill the contract. Now I've seen
the standard verbiage in professional sports contracts, and there is

(13:15):
a fitness requirement. And if embiid can't play back to back,
wouldn't that indicate that he can't meet the basic requirements
for the contract, thus voiding the contract.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
I'm just saying, can't play back to back games? And
I take this show. I've been very lucky. You guys
have been wonderful for me. You've supported this show for
some reason, for many, many years. I've been able to
meet a lot of you going around the country. We're
doing a meet and greet in Kansas City coming up
in November. Hopefully I'll meet you if you're in that area.
But I've met a lot of you, right, And many

(13:51):
of you that listen to this show are working in factories.
Your truck drivers, your police officers. You've got jobs where
you use your body, and your body is your much
like a paressional athlete uses their body.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
You use your body for your job.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
And and you, guys, based on the sample sizer, in
your forties, fifties, and sixties, and some of you are
past the age of retirement, and you're still working for
whatever reason, right, for whatever reason, and you're busting your
ass ten or twelve hours a day. A lot of
you are working your second or third job while listening.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
To this this show.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
And we have that world, and then we have the
Joe Lnbid world where one hundred and ninety three million
dollar contract, you can't be troubled to play back to
back games. And it would be a case where he's like, well,
just grab some pharmacy grade ibuprofen and rub subdurnal on it.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
And if you're unable to play, just retire her, just quick. Now.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
If you can't do the job, don't do the job.
Don't do a half assed job. And the NBA gave
us this dog and pony show and they claimed it
was a year ago.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I remember.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
It's like they had their own little vaccine. Everyone loves
the vaccine. They had a little vaccine.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
For load management. They did some study they said, doesn't work.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Load management not effective. Well, the plague is alive, and well,
not only would Joel Embiid, but Kawhi Leonard with the
Clippers as well. It's just absurd.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
If you're unable to do the job, just don't do that.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Fine, there's somebody else will played basketball for the seventy
six ers, and if Kawhi Leonard left the Clippers, somebody
else would take his roster spot, and they would think
they're the luckiest person in the world, and maybe they'll
actually turn out to be good. Who knows, you know,
it's it's possible. It's conceivable they might actually be good
at basketball, and they might actually play in back to
back games. It is the Ben Mahlord Show. If you

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Speaker 2 (15:53):
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
Taking one last cheap shot on your way out of dodge,
one last cheap shot, one last one on your.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Way out of dodge. We'll get to that and we
will do it next.

Speaker 7 (16:15):
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
Big Ben, Now Manzi, you're a made woman, So I
assume you'll be at all the world serious games.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Is that accurate?

Speaker 7 (16:54):
You know?

Speaker 9 (16:54):
I'm not gonna go to the one tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (16:56):
I'm gonna work and then I'm gonna dip and try
to avoid the karma geddon that is happening. It is
so obviously Game one of the World Series is gonna
I'm gonna say this in local time, so not East
Coast time, but local time.

Speaker 9 (17:11):
That game starts at five, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (17:13):
Then Laker suns at seven at Crypto, which.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Is just down the highways just down correct, all right?

Speaker 8 (17:22):
Then the USC game at the Coliseum is at eight
pm local time, just down.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
The one ten from where the Crypto Staples is. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (17:30):
And if you're going to sew far for a high
school football game, the East LA Classic and.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Roosevelt Carfield and Roosevelt I never missed that game.

Speaker 9 (17:41):
Right, So that's at six pm?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Okay? All this and rush hour starts at three thirty
in La. It's like yeah, thirty on Friday because people work.

Speaker 10 (17:52):
Early, right, So you're right, You're right.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
So I guess no one's going to go out and
go to like dance clubs or whatever.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Everyone's just going to sport in La.

Speaker 8 (18:01):
It seems that, yes, So I'm gonna try and get
out of that.

Speaker 9 (18:04):
But I will be a game two all.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Right, Well, I enjoy yourself a game too, thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
That'll be where the Dodgers have a chance to go
up to nothing over the Yankees cold on the World Series.
In game two, all these blithering Yankee fans will be
crying in their beer and it'll be wonderful.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Look forward to that very much. Anyway, I don't think
we took a call last nar, did we? We didn't
take a call? How did I not take a call?
What's up with that? Uh?

Speaker 9 (18:29):
Let's be having an amazing conversation, ben, Oh is.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
That what we were doing? Okay, let's go to the phones.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
We'll say hello to sir scratch off in Arkansas, the
highways and byways of Arkansas.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Hello, what's going on? Dad? Gummy?

Speaker 6 (18:47):
Man?

Speaker 5 (18:47):
I will chill you something.

Speaker 11 (18:48):
That is what it is?

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Man.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
We had to go through this with a sin one year.
Now we've got to go through with a with a
face mask. Yeah he did what he did, but the
RAF ain't gonna call it. What are you gonna do
blaying the Rams because ref is stupid? You know, I
sit there here Jason talk about the Rams and also
we're talking about the Chants. I'm like, when do you
compare the Rams to the Chants? And when do you
compare the Rams to the Ascros? I mean, come on, guys,

(19:12):
the Rams they're out there playing football. They was down
fourteen to seven and they came back and won the game.
We can't help Bickie don't want to come out there
and play. They've probably lost two in a row now
and having a perfect record, what else can you do?
We get this every time the Rams wins every time, not.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Every time, not every time. But here's the deal. Let's
just scratch off that Guman.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Let me pointing something out that the critics to compare
the play and that play.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
That you're referencing involving the New Orleans Saints.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
On that play in the NFC Championship game years ago,
there were multiple Saints players that committed a holding penalty
that was not called. They chose not to call holding.
They could have easily called holding. Two Saints offensive lineman
held on that play, So we'll.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Throw that out. In this play, it didn't matter.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
The Vikings, with the five their own five yard line,
no timeouts, less than two minutes, needed a touchdown and
a two point conversion. Anybody else says the referees gave
the game the rams is a blithering moron.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah. I lost My daughter turned twenty two October twenty fourth,
and I got half of the half a game at home,
and I went out and took the other half of
the truck stock and I'm like, man, this is gonna
be great. We're gonna come back and may you win.
Which I've explained to you. I've got five different NFL
ts my family, and every time I get beep, I
want to boing. Hear them talking all the way through
the circle Tech. But they start losing all they go

(20:35):
to bed, you know what I'm saying. But something else
you was talking about, want to go to being You know,
I went to you with some of these guys out there,
they can't retire in like seventy you know. But I'm
planning on getting out of here when I'm sixty twenty six,
twenty twenty seven. I'm just I'm just I'm just ready
to go and then do some other things, you know.
And I've got a huge payout September, the twenty fifth

(20:58):
of of something I've been saving for ever, and I'm
just ready to go home and get to watch all
these games and just relax, you know.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
But well, listen, if you can pull it off, if
you saved enough money and you don't have to worry
about it, and why not enjoy enjoy your life.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
Well, I don't know what you think about this, because
you know, I know, you know, you're you're not stupid
when it comes to money, okay, And I put up
twenty one percent every two weeks out of my check
and it's on It's only okay, you know, But that's
what I gotta do, man, you know, because I have
other I have other what do you call it, other
athletes that I can check cash hit. But you gotta

(21:34):
have something to say for man. You know, you've got
to have something back to say. Hey, man, look what
I've got. I don't want to work my life, so
you know, twenty twenty six, I can quit on my
birthday if I want to and just go home, you know.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
But anyway, being I all of a sudden, it's like
we're turning into the Dave Ramsey Show on retirement and baby.

Speaker 5 (21:53):
I just just sorry. These boys that I talk to
has got these addictions. I feel sorry for it, man,
because they don't have nothing but four two and I
want them to get better.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
You know.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
That's why I keep pushing it to get Yeah, no, listen,
I feel bad.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
I go out all the time to scratch off.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
I meet listeners around the country and a lot of
guys are their bodies are pretty broken. They're still working
because they got they didn't you know, don't have their money.
They got to They gotta keep working. They gotta pick bills.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
Yeah, I got three months and five days. Man, I
got a perfect continued for five solid years. I don't
miss them sickness, COVID or nothing. I go to work.
That's what I want to do.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
And you'll be there.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
And you'll be there in Kansas City though, at the
Mall of Meet and Greet right November ninth.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
You'll be there.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
But you want to save me in mass I'm serious
thing about that because once I get in about seven am,
that'll give me enough time to get just like six
and twenty two minutes to get in Kansas City, and
I just there here while IM back for a graduation
with my nephew.

Speaker 7 (22:42):
You know.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, it'll I love to meet you, and uh, you
know you can meet me and then you can flass
all out to Arkansas for the Arkansas Meet and Greet,
which will be nice.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
To you on a Memphis airport and they send you home.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
But buddy, I'm all right, all right, all right, thank you.
All right, there you go. We've learned all about dad Gumm.
It's retiring plan.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
So he saved twenty percent every paycheck and he's good
to go.

Speaker 9 (23:06):
That's better than I do with my money.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, he just get it and spend it. I do.

Speaker 8 (23:12):
I'm really bad about that, Yeah, because you know what
if I die tomorrow, what am I saving for?

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (23:18):
What are you going to sit on all that money for?

Speaker 10 (23:19):
No?

Speaker 8 (23:20):
Yeah, like I I it's not that I I spend
it all, but I definitely am not.

Speaker 9 (23:26):
The most trying.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
It isn't nothing because I as I've gotten older and
I've been to way too many funerals, you know, like, well,
these people didn't get to enjoy their money.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Their kids got to enjoy their money, you know.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
And yeah, and I was kind of like, and you
have mixed feel because because it is important to save
in case you lose your job or something like that.
But then at the same time you're like, yeah, I
mean you could, you know, check get hit by a
bus or something like that, and then that's.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
It, game over.

Speaker 10 (23:48):
If I put away twenty percent of my paycheck here,
I wouldn't be able to afford food.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Or you would you would have to move to Mexico
coop and then you maybe, okay, you might be okay,
you can live in the town Fernando grew up in.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
He'll be all right.

Speaker 7 (24:07):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
How about this story that I'm sure you're gonna want
to talk about a former member of the La Clippers
training staff suing the team for wrongful termination, alleging he
was fired after complaining that Kawhi Leonard was being subject
subject to improper treatment for injuries. Since when does Kawhi
Leonard use team trainers?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Well, I read the story and I thought the guy
was on Kawhi's team and the Clippers. Maybe I read
it wrong. I thought they hired him, but he was
under the umbrella of Kawhi.

Speaker 9 (24:43):
M That would make more sense. Yeah, that would make
more sense.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, what is the upset about? They actually wanted him
to play? Is that what he's upset about?

Speaker 11 (24:51):
You?

Speaker 1 (24:52):
That was cruel and unusual punishment. You want Kawhi actually
playing games for the Clippers.

Speaker 9 (24:56):
Right, because it's like he didn't play. So what do
you mean they didn't push him?

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:00):
I mean you can sue anyone for anything as you
as you know Moncie, So that's true. Doesn't mean that
you're going to win the lawsuit. And maybe he's got
evidence and he'll end up winning and take some money
from Bomber.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
I don't know, but based on what.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I read, I'm the guy hasn't played, the guy doesn't
want to.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Play, and I don't know what what could.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
The Clippers have possibly done other than just, you know,
give him whatever he wants, which they did.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
They gave him a new contract. Yeah, he didn't earn it.
They gave him a new contract.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
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Speaker 9 (25:48):
That's Ben.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, we do have Mallard of the third degree coming
up here. Let's say hello to a superhero. Now, when
I was a kid, I was a fan of I
like Batman, Superman, Captain America, and I loved Helmet Man.
I loved him. That was one of my favorites, the
Justice League. Hello Helmet Man in the hood in England.

Speaker 11 (26:10):
For the morning, to the crew of h MS, Marino,
the first Lady of Sports Talk Radio, and Ben big
Maler and Steambo Willie.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yes, well Steamboa Willie sounds a little different tonight. I
don't know why. Something must have eaten lady.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
Oh I ran into a former Clipper player tonight.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Oh you did? All right, let's see do let's play
the game do I? Well?

Speaker 1 (26:45):
I know I covered the Clippers a long time, not
as much recently, but I used to be out there
all the time.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
So will I know?

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Last name is for Reed his first name to grow
up like k.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
What's his name? He basically just told that, Oh, Ken.
Is it Kenneth for Reid?

Speaker 11 (27:05):
Yeah, he played for the Calimpers.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
I don't know him. Did he play with the Clippers? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Right, oh yeah, he was uh the manimal or whatever bag?

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, okay, I don't.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
He has something like some dreadlocks.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Remember him with the Clippers.

Speaker 10 (27:24):
Oh no, he did not play with the Clippers.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
The guy lied to you. No, this he's playing.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
According to the Internet, he's playing in the Mexican Basketball
Do you know they have a Mexican Basketball You know this.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
I've heard of the Mexican Baseball League.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
I've never heard of the Mexican in Baja California, in Mexiclli,
Baja California.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
On the street from that that what's that restaurant m
next to Spank?

Speaker 6 (27:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:59):
All right, I don't I go to it.

Speaker 9 (28:02):
So I don't read Norton's Morton's Steak.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
No, it's not Morton. It's in Englewood.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
And McDonald's maloney or something.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Maloney's.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yah. They got one in Beverly Hills and one across
from the Hey this case.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
He say this out?

Speaker 1 (28:21):
This guy, Kenneth Rey has played in Moscow, He's played
in China.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
He's in the Mexican League right now, man.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Is not enough so to red Uh that played for
the Denver Nuggets, number thirty five.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Ken Threid, He played for the Nuggets, right, that's the
guy you're talking about.

Speaker 11 (28:40):
Yeah, but he told me he played for the Clippers.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Well he lied to you. He didn't play for the Clippers.
There's no evidence he played for the Clippers.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Oh, and then the Ravens gonna beat the Browns. I
told you last week they was gonna beat Tampa Bay.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah? Are they going to cover the spread though? That's
what we care about.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
And ain't going I should beat the Browns.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
You think the Ravens are gonna win every game though
you're a Ravens fan you're from Baltimore.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
Not every game. They ain't gonna win.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
When when's the last time you went back to Baltimore?
When's the last.

Speaker 11 (29:13):
Time eighty eight eighty?

Speaker 1 (29:15):
You have not been back to Baltimore since nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, don't you have family in there still?

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah? But it's not like it used to be. I
used to be on the dance show in Baltimore. No way,
Moonman Connection. It's called moon Man Connection formerly Bow of
the City Dance show.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Are you? Are you effing with me? You were on
a dance TV on Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
You got the all right, hold on sack, time out,
we got boots on the ground, we got internet investigators.

Speaker 10 (29:45):
I've already found old old clips.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
All right, what year are we talking about, helving man,
like nineteen eighty seven, mid eighties, something like that.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
No, I was going to dance show in nineteen Octovia,
nineteenth seventy seven.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Whoa helmet man? How old?

Speaker 11 (29:59):
Were about twenty?

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Really?

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh, helmet yeah, let me tell you, you're doing pretty
good for your age, helmet man.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
I gotta tell you, yeah, I went to Dunball High
School the same school month Seat Bowl David wind Gate.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Wow, helmet win. I didn't realize you're that old helmet man.
You're doing pretty good.

Speaker 10 (30:19):
I want to find his episode. There's there's no way though.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
No, no, there was no television at that time in Baltimore,
did not exist.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
All right, anyway, all right, helmet man, we love you man,
be good?

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yes, all right, and I'm going I'm gonna be at
the Chances Think Game on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
All right, Hi, Eddie'll be there, So say hi to Eddie.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Okay, Yeah, I'll be by the NFL law though, Okay, I.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Gotta I gotta go, But thank you we have Mallard
of a third degree. Here's the Insta trivia. Garrett Cole
will become the tenth pitcher to start a World Series
Game number one with multiple teams. Blank is the last
to do it. Now, Garrett Cole starting for the Yankees
here in Game one. He will become the tenth pitcher

(31:05):
to start a World Series Game one with multiple teams.
Blank is the last to do it. That is the question.
The answer next.

Speaker 7 (31:12):
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Speaker 2 (31:45):
A lot of Howler, A lot of Howler.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Turn out for the Insta Trivia Garrett Cole will be
the tenth pitcher to start a World Series Game one
with multiple teams.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Blank is the last to do it. That is the question.
What is the answer.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
We have Mallard of the third degree coming up here momentarily.
Let's see does anyone know the answer? Da boy, Malcolm's
going with Randy Johnson. John says Corey Seeger that great pitcher.
A lot of reaction to helmet man.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Who else do we have?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Page down Eddie no days off, Garcia from ferg Dog,
Rinaldo Trump from og Art Puffin, Josh Allen guessed by
Robbie the Mariner fan that's an appropriate pitcher, the Manimal
from Alf the Alien Opiner, Benny the Bopper from Malard
prop Guy good photo, there Sebastian from the Islanders, El Guappo,

(32:39):
Rich garcis from Malibu.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Ruman and do you have an answer? MONSI do you
have an answer?

Speaker 9 (32:45):
Taking aget you said most recent to do it?

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Most recent?

Speaker 9 (32:48):
I guess maybe Max Scherzer Max.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Schuser, good answer, but that is the incorrecting correct answer
to start game one of the World Series for two
different teams. The cheating Astro Justin Berlin, others others to
do it recently, John Lester, Cliff Lee, Kirk Shilling, And
those are some of the reasons.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Guys, here we go. It's maller. How about that?

Speaker 7 (33:09):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets grilled.

Speaker 10 (33:16):
Lions coach Dan Campbell said in a recent interview that
Jared Goff is playing like Drew Brees in his prime
with New Orleans. But how do you feel about the comparison?

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, well, it's it's nice of Dan Campbell to where
knee pads. We're talking about his quarterback.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
But no, that's it's nonsense.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
It's hyperbole, and Drew Brees was consistently great, played well
in big games. Jared Goff has played much better than
I thought with the Lions.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
But I'm not.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Ready to go down that road by Dan Campbell. In fact,
that is patently absurd. All right now, if Golf wins
the Super Bowl, fine that he evens up the trade.
But yeah, we're talking about a Hall of Famer Jared Goff,
if he goes to the Hall of Fame, is gonna
buy a ticket next?

Speaker 10 (34:00):
Well, now that the Lakers have had their choreograph Lebron
and Brownie father.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Son moment, that was so magical.

Speaker 10 (34:05):
How often do you think Bronnie sees the court for
the Lakers moving forward?

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah, so I think they're gonna wait until people forget
about it a little bit, wait a week or two,
and then he will be buried in the.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
G League that they can't.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I don't think they'll do it right away because they
have to give the illusion that this was not a
total sham, even though everyone knows it was as big
as sham as sham Sharania his name.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
But no, I mean, the whole thing's ridiculous. He shouldn't
mean the NBA.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
So they'll bury him on the G League and they'll
bring him back later in the year. But I think
they'll wait ten days or two weeks next.

Speaker 10 (34:39):
So, Aaron Rodgers appeared on Pat McAfee's show Tuesday to
insist that he did not eat his boogers, despite what
the viral video appears to show. Now, Ben, after your
minutes long mallar investigation, Yeah, what is your final verdict
on booger Gate?

Speaker 2 (34:51):
All right? So I relate to this because as a child,
I ate my boogers.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yep, So that is a man that ate a nice,
juicy booger Aaron, it was on camera.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Just admit it people, you're human. How do we do
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