December 9, 2024 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Juan Soto signing a record-breaking $765m contract with the New York Mets, how the Mets can make this contract work, if the Yankees will be haunted by losing Soto to their cross-town rivals, and more!
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do not start with football. Instead it's baseball. What do
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we love about Juan Soto going to the Mets? What
do we hate about Juan Soto going to the New
York Metropolitans on a seven hundred and sixty five million
dollar contract? Also, how can the Mets make this Juan
Soto contract work with the the Bean Counters? Right? With
the Bean Counters, we'll talk about that. Also the other
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side of the equation with the New York Yankees. Will
the Yankees be haunted for not keeping Juan Soto and
losing him to their city rivals? The New York Metropolitans.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.
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Coop never shows up to those. So I started with
the raina and we were discussing the fact that I
didn't have time to do the x rundown for tonight's show,
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and the people that listen live get very upset by that.
They don't know how.
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To handle it.
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It's very emotional for them. They feel like I have
wronged them. At the crowd. Yes, I will get a
lot of ice. I will get to it at some point.
I just slipped my mind. I had other things to
get to. Some people that were visiting the studio here
that I briefly talked to, and I'm gonna blame them,
even though they had nothing to do with this, but
I'm gonna blame them anyway because I saw them in
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the hallway. I said hello. It was very brief conversation,
very nice people. Friends of Varney's that we're here. So
I talked to them, and I'm gonna claim that that
was the time that I would have written the rundown
of the show. But I'm not doing it. I didn't
do it. I will do it at some point. But
our lead this hour is not from football, No, on
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on on ah from baseball. Baseball has been very very
good to me. Oh what a wonderful story this is.
The Eagle has landed on a late Sunday night into
a Monday. The NFL has been upstaged upstage. We do
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not start with that Chief's doink victory over the Chargers.
That does not take the lead on this show. The
lead story here is one Soto. He's leaving the Bronx.
Where is one Soto going? He hasn't knew them. Oh
my god, you're so excited. Somebody just got really rich
and you're excited. You know, you gotta work your job
and you got you gotta deal with your life. But
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this guy really really rich. Do version. If you haven't
heard yet, that likely means you haven't been paying attention
that job by you. So we have learned that one
Soto is taking his talents to the New York Metropolitans.
One Soto going to the Mets. He's agreed to a
record breaking contract. He will be a Met for the
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next fifteen seasons, at least contractually bound to the Mets
seven hundred and sixty five million. Of course, we haven't
seen all the fine print on this, so there's likely
some escape hatches and all that. The deal announced on
Sunday night as the Winter Meetings are underway in the
greater Dallas area, and as you guys know, boots on
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the ground, if you're listening to us in Dallas, we
are on a major sports talk radio station in Dallas.
So if you happen to see anybody, let us know
if you hear something. I talked on the Fifth Hour podcast.
We had a guy call up who was visiting the
Cape last week and he told us a story about
Peter Gammon's buying Blue Moon at a local liquor store
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on the Cape, and I love that store. And so
maybe you're at the Winter meetings and you see like
Andrew Friedman and he's he's eating like raising canes or
something like that. You can let us know, you can
give us the inside skinny on that. But the story
here Juan Soto seven hundred and sixty five million dollars
Soto's deal topping the ten year, seven hundred million dollar
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contract that Juan Soto's rival who beat him in the
World Series, although he didn't pay very well. Shohil Tani
signed with the Doyers and at the time that was
the largest deal in baseball history. Although if you go
year by year, you can crunch the numbers on that
as a fifteen year deal as opposed to the ten
year contract, so it's a lot. It's a lot more
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years five years. Of course, whether Soto will play that out,
who knows. And all that the Mets offer the highest
passing by the Yankees at the very last moment there,
and so Soto who was not even the top player
on the Yankees. That was Aaron Judge. But Juan Soto
the number two, the Robin, the batman, and he now
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goes off. Yeah, I'd rather be that number two than
number one. I got to tell you, seven hundred and
sixty five million, and that's five million more to leave
the Yankees. Got an extra five million now when you're
in that tax bracket. Not that I've ever been in
that tax bracket, nor based on the career arc that
I'm going on right now in my broadcasting career, will
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ever be at that area. But my god, is five
million really matter that? I guess this every dollar counts.
But if you got seven hundred and sixty million as
opposed to seven hundred and sixty five man, So the
question what do you love and what do you hate
about this? Right, Juan Soto going to the match? What
do we love about it? What do we hate about it?
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So I've got horn, dog, nissery, chicken, and manhood, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
will go on the party bus. We're gonna go on
the party bus, because why not. I'm more on that later.
But I love the relay race of money. And I
remember reading several stories years ago about how baseball just
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wasn't connecting with the modern fan and it just wasn't
going to work, and that there was going to be
a case where baseball was going to be passed by soccer.
I still chuckle at that. I still chuckle at that
in America. So the soccer cult the rest of the
world calls it football, but we call it soccer. I said, well,
baseball is not that popular, it's not gonna work out,
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and all that stuff. Well, here we are all these
years later. I probably read that story twenty five years ago.
Here we are now, and Juan Soto I gets an
ungodly amount of money because he takes the baton from
Shohei o Tani and he takes advantage of what we
all all want in life, a horn dog rich guy
who really really wants to have you on the payroll.
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And that's what happened. To make no mistake, that's exactly
what happened. Juan Soto lived the dream. He had the Yankees,
the Red Sox and the Mets bitting against each other.
That is ungodly great if you're a baseball player, right,
the three of the biggest players in the sport. They're
all bitten and it's like a fine piece of art,
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and they got to own it, right, They've got to
own that Picasso, and they will pay whatever it takes
to get that Picasso. And you're in the Picasso. You
are the Picasso. Juan Soda, my god, And so I
mentioned horn Dog owner Steve Cohen, who is willing to
take a bath in the red and make most no mistake,
he will take a bath in the red on this contract.
Juan Soto is the guy we thought he was. Though.
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This is confirmation of previous mall of monologues and I
am not ripping one soda for this, but this is
as advertised. Remember when one so with the Washington Nationals
years ago and they offered him three hundred million. Everyone said,
how do you turn out three hundred million dollars? Well,
he was eyeing this night. He was eyeing this contract.
So three hundred million. Turned that down from the Nationals.
He went out to the Padres to eat fish taco
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in San Diego, hang out with the the great AP
writer Bernie Wilson is retiring here soon. So he went
he went down to the San Diego had some fish
tacos and all that did that thing. They offered him
four hundred million. He said, I'm good, I don't want
four hundred million. So then he goes to the Yankees
and they offered him five hundred million initially after the
trade before the Otani thing, so five hundred million dollars. Hey,
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I'm good, I don't I don't need the five hundred million.
So then he gets up to past seven hundred million,
so it skips the six hundred million, it goes past that,
and then in the seven hundred million dollar range, and
it ends up at seven hundred and sixty five million
dead presidents for Juan Soto. And now what do we
hate about this? What are we so? Uh? Right away,
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the obvious is, there is no way this works out
for the entire length of the contract, assuming that SODO
does not opt out, and we have to read all
the fine print that will come out in the coming days.
But assuming that Sodo, say in the next fifteen years,
here plays out the contract, which likely won't happen. But
if it does in that dimension to the multiverse, then
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the reality of the situation is that you're really talking
about the next five to seven years, and after that
all bets are off. So the Mets have a five
to seven year winner, not a fifteen year window, a
five to seven year window. So I did the math
on this. I did Malard math. So Juan Soto is
twenty six years old. So he's twenty six years old.
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The backside of this contract is going to be ugly, ugly,
the backside of the contract. So if you do the
math on this, the athletic prime ends outside of the
performance santizing drugs in sports. Your athletic prime ends at
thirty two. So then there's a decline. So that means,
assuming the Sodo's not going down to the pharmacy, that
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he's doing this on the up and up, he's clean,
then five to seven years that's it, and you maybe
squeeze out another extra year after that. But the backside
of the contract is going to be a disaster. And
as I have said all along these massive contracts, it's
not my money. If you want to burn your money
on some highly coveted, bougie elitist baseball player, more power
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to you. Good for you if you get the kind
of money to burn. So I don't really worry about
that part of it. Although the issue here is you
got to win one World Series. Now, the Dodgers have
given out a lot of these contracts. They're all going
to blow up eventually. The Dodgers even worse, they're paying
out deferred money for years and years and years and
years and years and years. But Otani, they won a
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World Series. Check, so he's already the contract's fine. Mookie bets.
They've won a World Series with him. So if you
get one of those three hundred plus four hundred plus
million dollar contracts, you to get at least one World Series.
Both those guys have done it. Will Wan Soto do
it with the Mets? Will they? I haven't won a
long time. I have won in a very long time.
Social media did not exist. The last time the Mets
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won the World Series did not exist. All right? Now,
the second part is how can the Mets make this
one Soto contract work with the bean counters? How can
they make this work? I know you're very concerned about
the finances of the Metropolitans, so I have done the
calculus on this, the malor math on this as well.
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So let me explain this to you, like you're in kindergarten. Okay,
so in business, in business, this is a deal. It's
similar to Costco's inflation proof four dollars and ninety nine
cent rotisserie chicken or the one dollar and fifty cent
hot dog and drink. It's very similar to that. It's
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a loss leader. One Soto is a lost leader for
the New York Mets. That you overpay for one so
thinking that other players will want to play for the
Mets to play with Juan Soto, and that you will
end up being profitable. In other areas, there's more of
a buzz. You get more people to watch your games
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on TV, which leads to higher advertising rates. You also
have more people that attend your games and buy more
merchandise and all that stuff. And so you overpay for
Sodo knowing that you're not gonna make money on that
because if you look at the numbers on this, The
reason the Oltani contract, the reason the Otani contract worked
out the way it did, is because the Dodgers could
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get that money back from Japan. They're hooring themselves out,
the Dodgers in Japan, and that's where they're getting their
new money. They've already maxed out the LA market, So
they're now getting money from the Japanese fans, and that's
how they're gonna get the money back on the contract.
Plus they're paying most of it out deferred anyway, So
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you overpay knowing it ain't gonna work out on that
contract at all, and the classic move in business, classic
move in business. In sports, it's a little more complicated.
A loss leader, as we said, involves a player at
a price that is not going to be profitable based
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on There's no way Soda can live up to that
contract unless he hit like one hundred home runs a
year and drove in two hundred and fifty runs or
something like that. But it is used to attract new
customers or go fans, and so the products and services
and advertising ratings, ratings go up, advertising goes up, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. But Steve Cohen is so rich
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he would have to live forty thousand years to spend
all the money, and we know that's not possible, right,
and he's not going to bury his money like they
used to supposedly did me in the ancient days. So
you got to get rid of the money, and might
as well give it to one Soto because you're a
you know, you want to want the Mets to win
and all this stuff. You're a fanboy. And that's it
all right now, the last word here the losing locker room,
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the Yankees. Will the Yankees and Brian and Cashman be
haunted hundred for not being able to get the deal
done with Juan Soda. So I'm gonna nod my head. Yes,
I'm gonna nod my head. Yes, this is a very
Unyankee like move, right. They always got who they wanted,
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who they truly wanted, especially a guy that had played
for them. So this is holy machismo, Batman. What happened
were the Pinstripe, the Yankees, the Mighty New York Yankees,
the Big Bad Bronx Bomber and you're gonna go play
for that other team? Yeah, and there is that elitism again.
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I do the same crap. We used to love basketball
before basketball stopped trying in the regular season. We started
out basketball a lot on the show. And it's a
similar dynamic to the Lakers and the Clippers. I said, Oh,
Kawhi Leonard was supposed to go to the Laker. How
could he go to the Clippers, of course not. He
retired as soon as he signed with the Clippers. Maybe
Jan Soda will retire too. With the Mets. He'll still
get paid. He'll show up maybe a couple of games
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a year, like Kawhi Leonard does that loser with the Clippers,
where he shows up every once in a while. Anyway,
now get back to the point. So this is a
blow to the manhood, is what it is? Castration situation,
if you will. The Yankees have always always positioned themselves
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as the guys who get what they want, right, that's
their m all, That's how they operate there. So it
is a masculating and Wan Soto he got a taste
of life in the Bronx, he got a taste to
wearing the pinstripes and playing for the Yankees. You got
into the World Series, and none of that mattered because
he's not about winning. See that's the thing. He's about
getting paid. I get it. It's not about winning. It's
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about getting as much money as you can and you finure.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Maybe the Mets will win at some point, and if not,
who cares? I guess seven hundred and sixty five large,
seven hundred and sixty five million. But the Yankees get
outbid by their their roommates. If you were the Little Brothers,
that's what happened here, Steve Cohen. No need though, for
a pity party for the Yankees. Now they have a
lot of money to spend, and they can get quantity
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over elite quality and whether that's Pete Alonzo or Christian
Walker who are available. They can get the trademarket, free agency,
you can get starting pitching, so the Yankees will add
two or three players instead of one. Soo, maybe maybe
that works out better for them, at least in the
short term. We'll see how that works out in the
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long term. It is the Ben Mahlard Show, Talking Ball,
big News. You're seven hundred and sixty five million dollars
for Jan Soto is he's going nine point nine miles.
That's how long it takes nine point nine miles to
drive from the Bronx to City Field. Of course, nine
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point nine miles in New York will take you about
five hours, about five hours depending on traffic and whatnot. Anyway,
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guess Coop's on here as well. A Bronco fan and
Lorena say a little Lorena hornswaggled at the Ugly Sweater Party.
Raise your radio friend. You can say hey, I do Loraina.
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She might even respond, although I don't know. It depends
how busy she's.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Bill.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I didn't see you there.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, Bill was not there. He was not. I guess
he was with Coop. He couldn't make it. He was
very busy. I had something else going on there, Lorena.
And you can say hello to her right now. She's right,
she's right over there. She's wow. Yeah, yeah. So and
the f SR tech clean if you want to say
hello to Loraine. Ah, And we'll say goodbye to a
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friend here in a moment. The big story the Juan
Soto going to the New York Mets leaving the Yankees
on a massive contract, and the details will shake out
in the coming days. Og Art Puffin writes and says,
a very silver tongued Mallard monologue, Juan Soto has become
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the ultimate New York villain, he says, by hopping over
to the bra Banks and from Queen's He's got you know,
even armed the guards as he makes his way through
all the neighborhoods in between. There you go, Ah, he'll
be aready. I think he'll be fine and have nothing
to worry about there at all. Ferg Dog says, well,
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you talk about the Chiefs game next hour. Ben, I
watched the Hallmark movie Holiday Touchdown, a Chief's love story instead.
I think I made the right right decision. He says, Yeah, yeah,
I actually met some people that were in that movie
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when I was in Kansas City. There were a few
extras or whatever people that did behind the scenes things,
and uh yeah, I'm good. I don't know really not
my wheelhouse, although I heard it did very well. I
got higher ratings. My friend Bob, who is the morning
show there, said they had more people watching that than
like most college football games and some NFL games. You
don't say, I just did say, So there you go.
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Cowboy Killer says, who won the ugliest sweater at the
holiday party? Was it Eddie with the King sweater? No?
I think Eddie had exited by the time the contest
had taken place, I believe, I don't know. I don't
even know who won.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I mean it was the girl who had the Santa pants.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, there was a relative that wore pants
that had the Santa.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It looked like she was sitting on his shoulders.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, yeah, it was Santo was carrying her around. It
was a creative outfit. Yeah. The Burner account says, Hey,
it's slipped your mind. H the the x rundown hmm,
and screw Juan Soda. The Mets won't make the playoffs
next year, gold Doyer's says, the Burner account, Well, it's
really hard not to make the playoffs if you've got
some good players. I mean, there's so many teams in
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the playoffs. Come on, there you go. Truck Stop Fungus says,
are you no longer posting on X Well, thanks for listening, Funkus,
thanks for self incriminating yourself that you're not listening now.
Sewer market s team says, I'm glad that your Dodgers
in my and my Yankees decide to not overpay for
a declining asset. I'd rather go after vladdie Ger Jr.
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By the way, where are all those writers now who
said that baseball was dying? Why already reference to that
supermarket steed seven hundred and sixty five million for one
player sounds pretty alive to me. Richie says, the Mets
are still paying Bobby Bania. That is true. In fact,
I saw somewhere somebody had sent me this. I think
it was the great Tim mcdarby, who sends us a
lot of stuff, said that the Je Sodo contract. By
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the time the Sodo contract ends, if you do the
math on this, they'll it'll only be a few years
after they're done paying Bobby Bania. Like it's that far
in the future. It's it's insane. Nick and Nebraska says,
I think I saw Chris Jones of the Chiefs drinking
a forty ounce malt liquor uh taped up on the sideline.
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Have another I think, I don't know. I mean you
said you think. And we must do a wellness check
on longtime Yankee fan Jill, who is very emotional. She's
reverclemmed at jan So leaving her Yankees to go play
for the Mets, crying, what's up with that man? All right?
Slim Tim rights and says, hey, Ben, I can't handle it.
(24:10):
It's okay, I'm pleasantly stoned and making delicious bagel bites. Now,
what kind of topics you think on the bagel bites?
Like a classic cheese possibly maybe some bacon bits on
top of the bacon?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know, bies, No, classic bagel bites are just pepperoni.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Ben, that's it. No, you can change it up there,
you put the cheese on there and throw some other
random things on top of.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
But these are lazy people we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You say, Slim Tim's lazy. You think he just smokes
weed all night and listens to the show and he
just chills out.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I think he's adding extra cheese tops to his bagel.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You don't think he's crafting a masterpiece in the kitchen.
No experimenting? All right? Fair enough? Who else do we have?
This is your page now? I forty ian A lot
of comments that Eugene in Chicago says been the first
Ugly Sweater party featuring Rob Parker, Eddie Garcia Looni and
the Overnight Party. Well, no, Rob usually goes to those things.
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He makes an effort to make the drive and Eddie's
always always been there, even sometimes his wife couldn't. May
and Louis has always always been at those things. It
was a first for Lorraina though. It was the first
time she was able to attend, so we'd we had
a get out, the biggest crowd we've had. It was
pretty pretty wild in the back. I didn't spend much
time in the back, but in the back there was
there was a lot of the Bible.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I didn't get out back much either. I liked the
inside because it was cozy and war Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, people were going in the back there and there
was a lot of noise and they were like, you know,
throwing stuff around.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I'm an old lady.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You're not an old lady, are you talking about? You
could have gone back there and seen the.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Beer park congregated.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well, you definitely congregated with the oldest person that was there.
You definitely did, and you were I tried to get
you out of it. I tried to help you multiple.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Times, having a great conversation.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
The original Prince of Darkness, Lee Climb.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
They spit in my face four times.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Only four times, but it was probably very important spit.
It was magical. But as Stevie Meatballs writes In says
sing this wan wants to wake up in the city
that's full of blaze and find he's richer than hell,
hated by half expectations through the sky, he'll never live up,
and then wonder why. All right, well, very nice, you're
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a poet and you don't even know it. You're a poet.
You don't even know it. So I did want to
spend a couple of We'll get back to the to
the fun, but I want to spend a couple of minutes.
Over the weekend, I got an email from the colonel
Colonel Rick is his name in Montana. He had reached
out to me. You don't know who Colonel Rick is.
It's a bad job by you. So Colonel Rick had
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reached out and let me know that our friend and
show contributor Skeeter has passed away. Now Skeeter has been
calling the show for a number of years and very
sweet man, very sweet man, Skeeter, who just loved to fish.
Colonel Rick was telling me a little bit about Skeeter
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and his life and whatnot. He loved this show. He
loved this show and it was it was both said
and it was. It was heartwarming. At the same time
to correspond with Rick. And you know, Skeeter, he really
wanted us to know because this show meant that much
to him. You know, you get sick. You know, it
was just a dumb radio show at night. But he
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wanted us to know what had happened to him and whatnot.
And Skeeter lived a full life. He had been sick.
He'd give us updates if you listened to the show
on a regular basis. You know, Skeeter was diagnosed with cancer.
He did not die from the cancer, although that did
not help. There was a situation where Skeeter fell and
I can get more too that on the podcast. But
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he loved fishing. He had had a full life. He
had been married twice. He didn't have any kids in
the first marriage. He had three step sons in the
second marriage. And then he had spent twenty years in
the United States Navy, graduated from school, grew up on
a farm in North Dakota, and he retired and he
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said he after the Navy, he moved to Montanas Skeeter
and he just wanted to fish. He love fishing. And
the colonel, Colonel Rick, who was keeping an eye on
Skeeter told me that one time, very funny story for
Skeeter that he caught a seagull and imagine you're fishing
and you catch a seagull and they had to reel
that in. He was very excited by that. But he,
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you know, spent full amount of time and we miss him.
We'll miss him. He was a big part of the
show called up you know, semi regularly and big Lions fan.
He does. He did say prior to his demise he
wanted the Lions to win. So if the Lions win,
Skeeter on the other side, will be very happy. But
so rest in peace. Skeeter the man that is responsible
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for the Mallard militia, which again I get a kick out.
And I told Skeeter this when he was alive, so
I can say it now that a guy that spent
twenty years in the Navy, and what I did was
just rip off the United States military thing. I just
changed some words around, like when you get sworn into
the military.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Really, I had no idea, well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
That's what they say that those are the words. I
just changed a few words around and I create mad
it our own, and Skeeter loved it. And he remember
when he called up the Mallard Militia. I want to
be part of the Mallard Militia. And he sent us
a gift card one time to have like a big party,
and he sent us some money. I mean, it was
really really sweet man. So rest in peace, Skeeter in Montana.
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And unfortunately we're in a new studio. We can't do
the six line salute, which we had always done for years.
But if we put more than two calls on the
air at the same time, everything blows up. It's just
and Skeeter would understand that that the technology, even though
it's supposedly improved technology here in the studio just does
not It does not allow us to do what we'd
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like to do. But if we had that ability, if
we had that ability, then we would absolutely do these
six line salute. But we're just not able to do
that at this particular point.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
The best, the.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Best, the rest, the little taste of Skeeter and Montanna.
We will continue to honor Skei. And it's been it's
been a tough year for the Mallem Militua. We lost
a lot of good show contributors here this year. Mass
whole Mickey a few weeks ago died in a car accident. Skeeter, Now,
and you're back. Earlier this year, we've had some other
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listeners that have passed away. So it's been a tough year.
And rest in peace, Skeeter in Montane. All right, it
is the Ben Mallers. I'll have more on that in
the coming weekend. I'll do something a little more in
depth on the Fifth Hour podcast. I forty Ian is
calling in. Hello, I forty Ian.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Hey, then, sorry to hear about Skeeter.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yes, we are for sure.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
That kind of sucks. But I had not officially taken
the Malard Militia Oath on the air, so I'd like
to do it in honor of Skeeter.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well, what a great I can't think of a better
tribute than to do the oath in honor of Skeeter,
who had no disdain at all for this, loved everything
about the show. I love the oath, the whole thing.
So if you are prepared now, you don't sound like
you're in your car. You don't sound like you're out
driving around right now. I forty Are you not on
I forty Ian tonight? Are you off? No?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I am currently home after the heart attack.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I have to get Oh that's right, all right, we'll
take it slow and study. I forty slow and study.
Take your time. Followed. You eat, eat somewhat well, you know,
and it's tough working overnights to eat well, but you gotta.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I'm doing better. I'm doing better.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
No more salt, yeah, salts the boogeyman, Right, that's what
do you think? We order a pizza?
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Sugar and salt? Both those things are really bad for you.
But everything in moderation. I think moderation. I think that's right.
Not a doctor, I can play one on the rate.
I'm not a weather man either, but I pretend to
be one every hour, as you know, I forty in
every hour. Yes, Genie was a doctor. I think genius.
Genie is hanging out with Skeeter right now and Pow
Wow beer drinking Brian like the mountain.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You know, the militia hangs out to.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Even on the other side there they're hanging in.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
A talking crap like a cafeteria table time.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh, it's really that's the part you want to be at.
On the other side, where those people are hanging out,
that's where you want to be all right, I forty Ian,
very nice. We will we will do this for you
as you recover from your own medical malady. Here and
just repeat after me. Are you ready, Ian?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yes, I am all right.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Now keep in mind that we did this last week,
the guy from New York, and he didn't even need
me to give the words. But I will give the
words anyway. Here we go. I state your name.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I I forty.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I do solemnly swear, do solemnly swear that I will
support and defend the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
That I will support and defend the Ben Maher Show.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Against all enemies foreign and.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Domestic, and that I will obey the orders.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
And that I will obey the orders.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
To peacefully fight back.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
To peacefully fight back.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Here's the hard part. Against hostile attacks from rival sports
gas bags and blowhards.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Against hostile attacks from rival sports gas bags and bowheart.
So help me, God, So help me God.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
In honor of the now late great Skeeter in Montana,
I now pronounce you the newest member of the Malord Militia. Congratulations,
I forty in. You have been sworn in. Do not
take this lightly. Now we are a mostly peaceful operation,
as you know, but in accordance to the by laws
of the Mallard Militia, every once in a while we
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choose cyber warfare and we attack those that attack the
good name of the show. And we must defend the
honor of the show at all costs. And Ian, thank you,
and be well, be better, all right.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I appreciate it, Ben, I appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Hanging in those are the great I forty in. It's
good to hear his voice. He's called the show, and
I called the show. He's interactive to the show behind
the X machine for a long time, so it's nice
to put that together. Eight seven seven ninety nine on
FAC is the number. Benietscho, the long suffering cowboy fan, says,
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I really hope the Lions win the Super Bowl for
that homie. Skeeter Kramer aka Terry in England who uses
Kramer as his name on X. He says, I'm sating
here the passing of Skeeter Rest in peace, buddy. The
Mallad Militia was stronger for your contribution. Absolutely absolutely. Scrooge
right sense says we're dropping like flies. Yeah, Anthony, and
(34:28):
Anaheim says I loved how bad people did the oath. Well,
most people are just completely hammered. Absolutely a lot of
tributes for Skeeter coming in on the X machine. There
people sending nice thoughts about his calls and in his
buddy Colonel Rick. It was the funniest thing, he said.
Skeeter loved, absolutely loved the fact that he had it
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was one hundred and thirty people following him on X.
He thought this was like, you know, he was like
the biggest in the world because of the show that
he had one hundred and thirty and he ended up
with one hundred and thirty six people following him.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
That makes me feel bad. I wasn't following Well.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I didn't follow him either, but you know that's fine.
Nobody had send me emails everyone, so I did respond
a few times to his emails. He did send me
random things in the mail, but just a sweet sweet man.
Rest in peace, the Great Skeeter in Montana. It is
the Ben Mahlord Show. Time now for the who m
(35:31):
I Game, and this is where we pretend to be
somebody else. So Brian Thomas Junior. Brian Thomas Junior, I's
a wide receiver for the Jacksonville football team. He had
eighty six yards receiving on Sunday. His seventh game was
seventy five or more this season, most among all NFL rookies.
He's got four games left, he could become the first
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rookie in the Super Bowl era to have ten ten
games with seventy five plus yards. There are four players
that have had nine seventy five plus games. The most
recent was Justin Jefferson of the Vikings and me prior
to that again, Brian Thomas junior of the Jacksonville football team.
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He has now had seven games with seventy five or
more yards receiving this season. That's most among all rookies.
With four games left, to be the first rookie in
the Super Bowl here to have ten games with seventy
five plus yards and there are four players that have
done it nine times. The last was Justin Jefferson. Before that,
it was me. Who am I the answer? We'll get
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to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Is I Bill Miller and a early Monday for most
sill late on a Sunday night in the West. The
Ben Malers Show is the show you're listening to and
can co mingle with other members of the Mallard militia
on Facebook and Instagram and see exclusive photos from the
(37:08):
twenty twenty four malar Ugly sweater party. Can check out
some of your favorite Fox Sports radio people that were
there on the Ben Maller Show page at Facebook or
on Facebook brother at Ben Maller Show, and then follow
Big Men on Instagram. Ben Mahler on Fox some photos
(37:28):
over there as well from the festivities over the weekend.
Back to the show. Say my name Bell, It's Ben Maller.
That's my name. Cheap Ripoff does a Mallard impersonation that
Bill Miller.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Ben sucks.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Now Bill Miller sucks. That's the reality time out for
the who Am I Game? Is where we pretend to
be somebody else. That's we call it the who Am I? Game?
So Brian Thomas Junior and let's say jackson Who Brian Thomas?
He plays for Jacksonville. He had eighty six yards receiving
in Jacksonville's surprising to some win over Tennessee. His seventh
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game was seventy five or more this season, most among
all NFL rookies. He's got four games to go. He
could be the first in the Super Bowl ear to
have ten games of seventy five or more yards receiving
and the two most recent were Justin Jefferson who did
it back in the COVID year of twenty twenty for
the Vikings? And me? Who am I? That is the question?
(38:31):
What is the answer? And let's see here I can't
read that. O. G art Puffins says it's angry Bill
that is the answer. Foghorn Leghorn from Manuel in Guardina,
a smackoff legend. Who else do we have? Page down
Donkey from Cowboy Killer wise Man, Paul Hayman from Rob
(38:55):
in Vegas, Seymour Butts from Ryan Random Ryan in Carolina?
Who else do we have? Paige Dan Judy Dench who
is ninety today Happy birthday, Alabama's athletic director from King Rory.
That's his answer? A Placito Polanco from mister nice Guy?
(39:16):
Who else do we have? Page den Andy from Lino
Lakes says you gotta be a faulk guy. That would
be Randy Moss. Randy Moss, there is his rest in peace?
Mass old Mickey and Skeeter in Montana. I forty ian
who was just on the air, said John John Lennon
is the answer. He was assassinated forty four years ago
(39:37):
today and it was announced on Monday Night Football by
Howard Cosell, Alf the s and old sportscaster Alf the
Alien opinter going with Andre the Giant as his answer.
Pooka nakua from Miguel on Fire. I guess we won't
hear from a lot of Bill's mafia people because they
lost all right, Loraina. Jacksonville's Brian Thomas Junior. He is
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the top rookie receiver four games left. He could be
the first wide receiver in the Super Bowl era to
have ten games of seventy five plus yards. Four players
have had nine games. That includes Justin Jefferson who was last,
and me before that.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Is Judy Garland's daughter Lyza Manelli.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Riisa is a financer. Very relevant. No, it is none
other than Odell Beckham Junior. In twenty fourteen. They're all
LSU guys Louisiana State Batal rouge
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one of the
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as well. But here on the Original Recipe podcast, we
do not start with football. Instead it's baseball. What do
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we love about Juan Soto going to the Mets? What
do we hate about Juan Soto going to the New
York Metropolitans on a seven hundred and sixty five million
dollar contract? Also, how can the Mets make this Juan
Soto contract work with the the Bean Counters? Right? With
the Bean Counters, we'll talk about that. Also the other
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side of the equation with the New York Yankees. Will
the Yankees be haunted for not keeping Juan Soto and
losing him to their city rivals? The New York Metropolitans.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.
It is our number one What a wonderful night. Well come,
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in the beginning of another week of the Ben Balor Show.
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to the rain in our production meeting, because you know,
Coop never shows up to those. So I started with
the raina and we were discussing the fact that I
didn't have time to do the x rundown for tonight's show,
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and the people that listen live get very upset by that.
They don't know how.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
To handle it.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's very emotional for them. They feel like I have
wronged them. At the crowd. Yes, I will get a
lot of ice. I will get to it at some point.
I just slipped my mind. I had other things to
get to. Some people that were visiting the studio here
that I briefly talked to, and I'm gonna blame them,
even though they had nothing to do with this, but
I'm gonna blame them anyway because I saw them in
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the hallway. I said hello. It was very brief conversation,
very nice people. Friends of Varney's that we're here. So
I talked to them, and I'm gonna claim that that
was the time that I would have written the rundown
of the show. But I'm not doing it. I didn't
do it. I will do it at some point. But
our lead this hour is not from football, No, on
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on on ah from baseball. Baseball has been very very
good to me. Oh what a wonderful story this is.
The Eagle has landed on a late Sunday night into
a Monday. The NFL has been upstaged upstage. We do
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not start with that Chief's doink victory over the Chargers.
That does not take the lead on this show. The
lead story here is one Soto. He's leaving the Bronx.
Where is one Soto going? He hasn't knew them. Oh
my god, you're so excited. Somebody just got really rich
and you're excited. You know, you gotta work your job
and you got you gotta deal with your life. But
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this guy really really rich. Do version. If you haven't
heard yet, that likely means you haven't been paying attention
that job by you. So we have learned that one
Soto is taking his talents to the New York Metropolitans.
One Soto going to the Mets. He's agreed to a
record breaking contract. He will be a Met for the
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next fifteen seasons, at least contractually bound to the Mets
seven hundred and sixty five million. Of course, we haven't
seen all the fine print on this, so there's likely
some escape hatches and all that. The deal announced on
Sunday night as the Winter Meetings are underway in the
greater Dallas area, and as you guys know, boots on
(04:45):
the ground, if you're listening to us in Dallas, we
are on a major sports talk radio station in Dallas.
So if you happen to see anybody, let us know
if you hear something. I talked on the Fifth Hour podcast.
We had a guy call up who was visiting the
Cape last week and he told us a story about
Peter Gammon's buying Blue Moon at a local liquor store
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on the Cape, and I love that store. And so
maybe you're at the Winter meetings and you see like
Andrew Friedman and he's he's eating like raising canes or
something like that. You can let us know, you can
give us the inside skinny on that. But the story
here Juan Soto seven hundred and sixty five million dollars
Soto's deal topping the ten year, seven hundred million dollar
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contract that Juan Soto's rival who beat him in the
World Series, although he didn't pay very well. Shohil Tani
signed with the Doyers and at the time that was
the largest deal in baseball history. Although if you go
year by year, you can crunch the numbers on that
as a fifteen year deal as opposed to the ten
year contract, so it's a lot. It's a lot more
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years five years. Of course, whether Soto will play that out,
who knows. And all that the Mets offer the highest
passing by the Yankees at the very last moment there,
and so Soto who was not even the top player
on the Yankees. That was Aaron Judge. But Juan Soto
the number two, the Robin, the batman, and he now
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goes off. Yeah, I'd rather be that number two than
number one. I got to tell you, seven hundred and
sixty five million, and that's five million more to leave
the Yankees. Got an extra five million now when you're
in that tax bracket. Not that I've ever been in
that tax bracket, nor based on the career arc that
I'm going on right now in my broadcasting career, will
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ever be at that area. But my god, is five
million really matter that? I guess this every dollar counts.
But if you got seven hundred and sixty million as
opposed to seven hundred and sixty five man, So the
question what do you love and what do you hate
about this? Right, Juan Soto going to the match? What
do we love about it? What do we hate about it?
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So I've got horn, dog, nissery, chicken, and manhood, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
will go on the party bus. We're gonna go on
the party bus, because why not. I'm more on that later.
But I love the relay race of money. And I
remember reading several stories years ago about how baseball just
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wasn't connecting with the modern fan and it just wasn't
going to work, and that there was going to be
a case where baseball was going to be passed by soccer.
I still chuckle at that. I still chuckle at that
in America. So the soccer cult the rest of the
world calls it football, but we call it soccer. I said, well,
baseball is not that popular, it's not gonna work out,
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and all that stuff. Well, here we are all these
years later. I probably read that story twenty five years ago.
Here we are now, and Juan Soto I gets an
ungodly amount of money because he takes the baton from
Shohei o Tani and he takes advantage of what we
all all want in life, a horn dog rich guy
who really really wants to have you on the payroll.
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And that's what happened. To make no mistake, that's exactly
what happened. Juan Soto lived the dream. He had the Yankees,
the Red Sox and the Mets bitting against each other.
That is ungodly great if you're a baseball player, right,
the three of the biggest players in the sport. They're
all bitten and it's like a fine piece of art,
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and they got to own it, right, They've got to
own that Picasso, and they will pay whatever it takes
to get that Picasso. And you're in the Picasso. You
are the Picasso. Juan Soda, my god, And so I
mentioned horn Dog owner Steve Cohen, who is willing to
take a bath in the red and make most no mistake,
he will take a bath in the red on this contract.
Juan Soto is the guy we thought he was. Though.
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This is confirmation of previous mall of monologues and I
am not ripping one soda for this, but this is
as advertised. Remember when one so with the Washington Nationals
years ago and they offered him three hundred million. Everyone said,
how do you turn out three hundred million dollars? Well,
he was eyeing this night. He was eyeing this contract.
So three hundred million. Turned that down from the Nationals.
He went out to the Padres to eat fish taco
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in San Diego, hang out with the the great AP
writer Bernie Wilson is retiring here soon. So he went
he went down to the San Diego had some fish
tacos and all that did that thing. They offered him
four hundred million. He said, I'm good, I don't want
four hundred million. So then he goes to the Yankees
and they offered him five hundred million initially after the
trade before the Otani thing, so five hundred million dollars. Hey,
(09:37):
I'm good, I don't I don't need the five hundred million.
So then he gets up to past seven hundred million,
so it skips the six hundred million, it goes past that,
and then in the seven hundred million dollar range, and
it ends up at seven hundred and sixty five million
dead presidents for Juan Soto. And now what do we
hate about this? What are we so? Uh? Right away,
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the obvious is, there is no way this works out
for the entire length of the contract, assuming that SODO
does not opt out, and we have to read all
the fine print that will come out in the coming days.
But assuming that Sodo, say in the next fifteen years,
here plays out the contract, which likely won't happen. But
if it does in that dimension to the multiverse, then
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the reality of the situation is that you're really talking
about the next five to seven years, and after that
all bets are off. So the Mets have a five
to seven year winner, not a fifteen year window, a
five to seven year window. So I did the math
on this. I did Malard math. So Juan Soto is
twenty six years old. So he's twenty six years old.
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The backside of this contract is going to be ugly, ugly,
the backside of the contract. So if you do the
math on this, the athletic prime ends outside of the
performance santizing drugs in sports. Your athletic prime ends at
thirty two. So then there's a decline. So that means,
assuming the Sodo's not going down to the pharmacy, that
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he's doing this on the up and up, he's clean,
then five to seven years that's it, and you maybe
squeeze out another extra year after that. But the backside
of the contract is going to be a disaster. And
as I have said all along these massive contracts, it's
not my money. If you want to burn your money
on some highly coveted, bougie elitist baseball player, more power
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to you. Good for you if you get the kind
of money to burn. So I don't really worry about
that part of it. Although the issue here is you
got to win one World Series. Now, the Dodgers have
given out a lot of these contracts. They're all going
to blow up eventually. The Dodgers even worse, they're paying
out deferred money for years and years and years and
years and years and years. But Otani, they won a
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World Series. Check, so he's already the contract's fine. Mookie bets.
They've won a World Series with him. So if you
get one of those three hundred plus four hundred plus
million dollar contracts, you to get at least one World Series.
Both those guys have done it. Will Wan Soto do
it with the Mets? Will they? I haven't won a
long time. I have won in a very long time.
Social media did not exist. The last time the Mets
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won the World Series did not exist. All right? Now,
the second part is how can the Mets make this
one Soto contract work with the bean counters? How can
they make this work? I know you're very concerned about
the finances of the Metropolitans, so I have done the
calculus on this, the malor math on this as well.
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So let me explain this to you, like you're in kindergarten. Okay,
so in business, in business, this is a deal. It's
similar to Costco's inflation proof four dollars and ninety nine
cent rotisserie chicken or the one dollar and fifty cent
hot dog and drink. It's very similar to that. It's
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a loss leader. One Soto is a lost leader for
the New York Mets. That you overpay for one so
thinking that other players will want to play for the
Mets to play with Juan Soto, and that you will
end up being profitable. In other areas, there's more of
a buzz. You get more people to watch your games
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on TV, which leads to higher advertising rates. You also
have more people that attend your games and buy more
merchandise and all that stuff. And so you overpay for
Sodo knowing that you're not gonna make money on that
because if you look at the numbers on this, The
reason the Oltani contract, the reason the Otani contract worked
out the way it did, is because the Dodgers could
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get that money back from Japan. They're hooring themselves out,
the Dodgers in Japan, and that's where they're getting their
new money. They've already maxed out the LA market, So
they're now getting money from the Japanese fans, and that's
how they're gonna get the money back on the contract.
Plus they're paying most of it out deferred anyway, So
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you overpay knowing it ain't gonna work out on that
contract at all, and the classic move in business, classic
move in business. In sports, it's a little more complicated.
A loss leader, as we said, involves a player at
a price that is not going to be profitable based
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on There's no way Soda can live up to that
contract unless he hit like one hundred home runs a
year and drove in two hundred and fifty runs or
something like that. But it is used to attract new
customers or go fans, and so the products and services
and advertising ratings, ratings go up, advertising goes up, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. But Steve Cohen is so rich
(14:35):
he would have to live forty thousand years to spend
all the money, and we know that's not possible, right,
and he's not going to bury his money like they
used to supposedly did me in the ancient days. So
you got to get rid of the money, and might
as well give it to one Soto because you're a
you know, you want to want the Mets to win
and all this stuff. You're a fanboy. And that's it
all right now, the last word here the losing locker room,
(14:57):
the Yankees. Will the Yankees and Brian and Cashman be
haunted hundred for not being able to get the deal
done with Juan Soda. So I'm gonna nod my head. Yes,
I'm gonna nod my head. Yes, this is a very
Unyankee like move, right. They always got who they wanted,
(15:18):
who they truly wanted, especially a guy that had played
for them. So this is holy machismo, Batman. What happened
were the Pinstripe, the Yankees, the Mighty New York Yankees,
the Big Bad Bronx Bomber and you're gonna go play
for that other team? Yeah, and there is that elitism again.
(15:39):
I do the same crap. We used to love basketball
before basketball stopped trying in the regular season. We started
out basketball a lot on the show. And it's a
similar dynamic to the Lakers and the Clippers. I said, Oh,
Kawhi Leonard was supposed to go to the Laker. How
could he go to the Clippers, of course not. He
retired as soon as he signed with the Clippers. Maybe
Jan Soda will retire too. With the Mets. He'll still
get paid. He'll show up maybe a couple of games
(15:59):
a year, like Kawhi Leonard does that loser with the Clippers,
where he shows up every once in a while. Anyway,
now get back to the point. So this is a
blow to the manhood, is what it is? Castration situation,
if you will. The Yankees have always always positioned themselves
(16:20):
as the guys who get what they want, right, that's
their m all, That's how they operate there. So it
is a masculating and Wan Soto he got a taste
of life in the Bronx, he got a taste to
wearing the pinstripes and playing for the Yankees. You got
into the World Series, and none of that mattered because
he's not about winning. See that's the thing. He's about
getting paid. I get it. It's not about winning. It's
(16:40):
about getting as much money as you can and you finure.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Maybe the Mets will win at some point, and if not,
who cares? I guess seven hundred and sixty five large,
seven hundred and sixty five million. But the Yankees get
outbid by their their roommates. If you were the Little Brothers,
that's what happened here, Steve Cohen. No need though, for
a pity party for the Yankees. Now they have a
lot of money to spend, and they can get quantity
(17:03):
over elite quality and whether that's Pete Alonzo or Christian
Walker who are available. They can get the trademarket, free agency,
you can get starting pitching, so the Yankees will add
two or three players instead of one. Soo, maybe maybe
that works out better for them, at least in the
short term. We'll see how that works out in the
(17:24):
long term. It is the Ben Mahlard Show, Talking Ball,
big News. You're seven hundred and sixty five million dollars
for Jan Soto is he's going nine point nine miles.
That's how long it takes nine point nine miles to
drive from the Bronx to City Field. Of course, nine
(17:44):
point nine miles in New York will take you about
five hours, about five hours depending on traffic and whatnot. Anyway,
it is the Ben Maler Show. If you'd like to
be part, you can join us. Your lines are open.
Abbrokerdabra hocus Pocus, and you can check in at eight
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(18:07):
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It'll be up in a couple of minutes there at
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a melancholy goodbye. We'll get to that and we will.
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Wonderful time when the Ben Malors Show wishes all of it's.
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Listening, it's giant good jee.
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It's the most wonderful time.
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Send them notes outto the manger.
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Saying, oh, I won't be his slave when he heads.
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Half knights where you'll be once It's the most wonderful time.
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That is on Bill Miller here. Cook can give me
a copy, but I will tell you to follow us
on X if you like. And at Ben Mallor. I
guess Coop's on here as well. A Bronco fan and
Lorena say a little Lorena hornswaggled at the Ugly Sweater Party.
Raise your radio friend. You can say hey, I do Loraina.
(20:03):
She might even respond, although I don't know. It depends
how busy she's.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Bill.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I didn't see you there.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, Bill was not there. He was not. I guess
he was with Coop. He couldn't make it. He was
very busy. I had something else going on there, Lorena.
And you can say hello to her right now. She's right,
she's right over there. She's wow. Yeah, yeah. So and
the f SR tech clean if you want to say
hello to Loraine. Ah, And we'll say goodbye to a
(20:32):
friend here in a moment. The big story the Juan
Soto going to the New York Mets leaving the Yankees
on a massive contract, and the details will shake out
in the coming days. Og Art Puffin writes and says,
a very silver tongued Mallard monologue, Juan Soto has become
(20:53):
the ultimate New York villain, he says, by hopping over
to the bra Banks and from Queen's He's got you know,
even armed the guards as he makes his way through
all the neighborhoods in between. There you go, Ah, he'll
be aready. I think he'll be fine and have nothing
to worry about there at all. Ferg Dog says, well,
(21:14):
you talk about the Chiefs game next hour. Ben, I
watched the Hallmark movie Holiday Touchdown, a Chief's love story instead.
I think I made the right right decision. He says, Yeah, yeah,
I actually met some people that were in that movie
(21:34):
when I was in Kansas City. There were a few
extras or whatever people that did behind the scenes things,
and uh yeah, I'm good. I don't know really not
my wheelhouse, although I heard it did very well. I
got higher ratings. My friend Bob, who is the morning
show there, said they had more people watching that than
like most college football games and some NFL games. You
don't say, I just did say, So there you go.
(21:55):
Cowboy Killer says, who won the ugliest sweater at the
holiday party? Was it Eddie with the King sweater? No?
I think Eddie had exited by the time the contest
had taken place, I believe, I don't know. I don't
even know who won.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I mean it was the girl who had the Santa pants.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, there was a relative that wore pants
that had the Santa.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It looked like she was sitting on his shoulders.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, yeah, it was Santo was carrying her around. It
was a creative outfit. Yeah. The Burner account says, Hey,
it's slipped your mind. H the the x rundown hmm,
and screw Juan Soda. The Mets won't make the playoffs
next year, gold Doyer's says, the Burner account, Well, it's
really hard not to make the playoffs if you've got
some good players. I mean, there's so many teams in
(22:39):
the playoffs. Come on, there you go. Truck Stop Fungus says,
are you no longer posting on X Well, thanks for listening, Funkus,
thanks for self incriminating yourself that you're not listening now.
Sewer market s team says, I'm glad that your Dodgers
in my and my Yankees decide to not overpay for
a declining asset. I'd rather go after vladdie Ger Jr.
(23:00):
By the way, where are all those writers now who
said that baseball was dying? Why already reference to that
supermarket steed seven hundred and sixty five million for one
player sounds pretty alive to me. Richie says, the Mets
are still paying Bobby Bania. That is true. In fact,
I saw somewhere somebody had sent me this. I think
it was the great Tim mcdarby, who sends us a
lot of stuff, said that the Je Sodo contract. By
(23:24):
the time the Sodo contract ends, if you do the
math on this, they'll it'll only be a few years
after they're done paying Bobby Bania. Like it's that far
in the future. It's it's insane. Nick and Nebraska says,
I think I saw Chris Jones of the Chiefs drinking
a forty ounce malt liquor uh taped up on the sideline.
(23:48):
Have another I think, I don't know. I mean you
said you think. And we must do a wellness check
on longtime Yankee fan Jill, who is very emotional. She's
reverclemmed at jan So leaving her Yankees to go play
for the Mets, crying, what's up with that man? All right?
Slim Tim rights and says, hey, Ben, I can't handle it.
(24:10):
It's okay, I'm pleasantly stoned and making delicious bagel bites. Now,
what kind of topics you think on the bagel bites?
Like a classic cheese possibly maybe some bacon bits on
top of the bacon?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know, bies, No, classic bagel bites are just pepperoni.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Ben, that's it. No, you can change it up there,
you put the cheese on there and throw some other
random things on top of.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
But these are lazy people we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You say, Slim Tim's lazy. You think he just smokes
weed all night and listens to the show and he
just chills out.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I think he's adding extra cheese tops to his bagel.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You don't think he's crafting a masterpiece in the kitchen.
No experimenting? All right? Fair enough? Who else do we have?
This is your page now? I forty ian A lot
of comments that Eugene in Chicago says been the first
Ugly Sweater party featuring Rob Parker, Eddie Garcia Looni and
the Overnight Party. Well, no, Rob usually goes to those things.
(25:00):
He makes an effort to make the drive and Eddie's
always always been there, even sometimes his wife couldn't. May
and Louis has always always been at those things. It
was a first for Lorraina though. It was the first
time she was able to attend, so we'd we had
a get out, the biggest crowd we've had. It was
pretty pretty wild in the back. I didn't spend much
time in the back, but in the back there was
there was a lot of the Bible.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I didn't get out back much either. I liked the
inside because it was cozy and war Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, people were going in the back there and there
was a lot of noise and they were like, you know,
throwing stuff around.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I'm an old lady.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You're not an old lady, are you talking about? You
could have gone back there and seen the.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Beer park congregated.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well, you definitely congregated with the oldest person that was there.
You definitely did, and you were I tried to get
you out of it. I tried to help you multiple.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Times, having a great conversation.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
The original Prince of Darkness, Lee Climb.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
They spit in my face four times.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Only four times, but it was probably very important spit.
It was magical. But as Stevie Meatballs writes In says
sing this wan wants to wake up in the city
that's full of blaze and find he's richer than hell,
hated by half expectations through the sky, he'll never live up,
and then wonder why. All right, well, very nice, you're
(26:11):
a poet and you don't even know it. You're a poet.
You don't even know it. So I did want to
spend a couple of We'll get back to the to
the fun, but I want to spend a couple of minutes.
Over the weekend, I got an email from the colonel
Colonel Rick is his name in Montana. He had reached
out to me. You don't know who Colonel Rick is.
It's a bad job by you. So Colonel Rick had
(26:34):
reached out and let me know that our friend and
show contributor Skeeter has passed away. Now Skeeter has been
calling the show for a number of years and very
sweet man, very sweet man, Skeeter, who just loved to fish.
Colonel Rick was telling me a little bit about Skeeter
(26:55):
and his life and whatnot. He loved this show. He
loved this show and it was it was both said
and it was. It was heartwarming. At the same time
to correspond with Rick. And you know, Skeeter, he really
wanted us to know because this show meant that much
to him. You know, you get sick. You know, it
was just a dumb radio show at night. But he
(27:16):
wanted us to know what had happened to him and whatnot.
And Skeeter lived a full life. He had been sick.
He'd give us updates if you listened to the show
on a regular basis. You know, Skeeter was diagnosed with cancer.
He did not die from the cancer, although that did
not help. There was a situation where Skeeter fell and
I can get more too that on the podcast. But
(27:37):
he loved fishing. He had had a full life. He
had been married twice. He didn't have any kids in
the first marriage. He had three step sons in the
second marriage. And then he had spent twenty years in
the United States Navy, graduated from school, grew up on
a farm in North Dakota, and he retired and he
(27:58):
said he after the Navy, he moved to Montanas Skeeter
and he just wanted to fish. He love fishing. And
the colonel, Colonel Rick, who was keeping an eye on
Skeeter told me that one time, very funny story for
Skeeter that he caught a seagull and imagine you're fishing
and you catch a seagull and they had to reel
that in. He was very excited by that. But he,
(28:21):
you know, spent full amount of time and we miss him.
We'll miss him. He was a big part of the
show called up you know, semi regularly and big Lions fan.
He does. He did say prior to his demise he
wanted the Lions to win. So if the Lions win,
Skeeter on the other side, will be very happy. But
so rest in peace. Skeeter the man that is responsible
(28:42):
for the Mallard militia, which again I get a kick out.
And I told Skeeter this when he was alive, so
I can say it now that a guy that spent
twenty years in the Navy, and what I did was
just rip off the United States military thing. I just
changed some words around, like when you get sworn into
the military.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Really, I had no idea, well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
That's what they say that those are the words. I
just changed a few words around and I create mad
it our own, and Skeeter loved it. And he remember
when he called up the Mallard Militia. I want to
be part of the Mallard Militia. And he sent us
a gift card one time to have like a big party,
and he sent us some money. I mean, it was
really really sweet man. So rest in peace, Skeeter in Montana.
(29:21):
And unfortunately we're in a new studio. We can't do
the six line salute, which we had always done for years.
But if we put more than two calls on the
air at the same time, everything blows up. It's just
and Skeeter would understand that that the technology, even though
it's supposedly improved technology here in the studio just does
not It does not allow us to do what we'd
(29:43):
like to do. But if we had that ability, if
we had that ability, then we would absolutely do these
six line salute. But we're just not able to do
that at this particular point.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
The best, the.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Best, the rest, the little taste of Skeeter and Montanna.
We will continue to honor Skei. And it's been it's
been a tough year for the Mallem Militua. We lost
a lot of good show contributors here this year. Mass
whole Mickey a few weeks ago died in a car accident. Skeeter, Now,
and you're back. Earlier this year, we've had some other
(30:16):
listeners that have passed away. So it's been a tough year.
And rest in peace, Skeeter in Montane. All right, it
is the Ben Mallers. I'll have more on that in
the coming weekend. I'll do something a little more in
depth on the Fifth Hour podcast. I forty Ian is
calling in. Hello, I forty Ian.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Hey, then, sorry to hear about Skeeter.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yes, we are for sure.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
That kind of sucks. But I had not officially taken
the Malard Militia Oath on the air, so I'd like
to do it in honor of Skeeter.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well, what a great I can't think of a better
tribute than to do the oath in honor of Skeeter,
who had no disdain at all for this, loved everything
about the show. I love the oath, the whole thing.
So if you are prepared now, you don't sound like
you're in your car. You don't sound like you're out
driving around right now. I forty Are you not on
I forty Ian tonight? Are you off? No?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I am currently home after the heart attack.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I have to get Oh that's right, all right, we'll
take it slow and study. I forty slow and study.
Take your time. Followed. You eat, eat somewhat well, you know,
and it's tough working overnights to eat well, but you gotta.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
I'm doing better. I'm doing better.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
No more salt, yeah, salts the boogeyman, Right, that's what
do you think? We order a pizza?
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Sugar and salt? Both those things are really bad for you.
But everything in moderation. I think moderation. I think that's right.
Not a doctor, I can play one on the rate.
I'm not a weather man either, but I pretend to
be one every hour, as you know, I forty in
every hour. Yes, Genie was a doctor. I think genius.
Genie is hanging out with Skeeter right now and Pow
Wow beer drinking Brian like the mountain.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You know, the militia hangs out to.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Even on the other side there they're hanging in.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
A talking crap like a cafeteria table time.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh, it's really that's the part you want to be at.
On the other side, where those people are hanging out,
that's where you want to be all right, I forty Ian,
very nice. We will we will do this for you
as you recover from your own medical malady. Here and
just repeat after me. Are you ready, Ian?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Yes, I am all right.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Now keep in mind that we did this last week,
the guy from New York, and he didn't even need
me to give the words. But I will give the
words anyway. Here we go. I state your name.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I I forty.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I do solemnly swear, do solemnly swear that I will
support and defend the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
That I will support and defend the Ben Maher Show.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Against all enemies foreign and.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Domestic, and that I will obey the orders.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
And that I will obey the orders.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
To peacefully fight back.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
To peacefully fight back.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Here's the hard part. Against hostile attacks from rival sports
gas bags and blowhards.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Against hostile attacks from rival sports gas bags and bowheart.
So help me, God, So help me God.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
In honor of the now late great Skeeter in Montana,
I now pronounce you the newest member of the Malord Militia. Congratulations,
I forty in. You have been sworn in. Do not
take this lightly. Now we are a mostly peaceful operation,
as you know, but in accordance to the by laws
of the Mallard Militia, every once in a while we
(33:28):
choose cyber warfare and we attack those that attack the
good name of the show. And we must defend the
honor of the show at all costs. And Ian, thank you,
and be well, be better, all right.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
I appreciate it, Ben, I appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Hanging in those are the great I forty in. It's
good to hear his voice. He's called the show, and
I called the show. He's interactive to the show behind
the X machine for a long time, so it's nice
to put that together. Eight seven seven ninety nine on
FAC is the number. Benietscho, the long suffering cowboy fan, says,
(34:05):
I really hope the Lions win the Super Bowl for
that homie. Skeeter Kramer aka Terry in England who uses
Kramer as his name on X. He says, I'm sating
here the passing of Skeeter Rest in peace, buddy. The
Mallad Militia was stronger for your contribution. Absolutely absolutely. Scrooge
right sense says we're dropping like flies. Yeah, Anthony, and
(34:28):
Anaheim says I loved how bad people did the oath. Well,
most people are just completely hammered. Absolutely a lot of
tributes for Skeeter coming in on the X machine. There
people sending nice thoughts about his calls and in his
buddy Colonel Rick. It was the funniest thing, he said.
Skeeter loved, absolutely loved the fact that he had it
(34:53):
was one hundred and thirty people following him on X.
He thought this was like, you know, he was like
the biggest in the world because of the show that
he had one hundred and thirty and he ended up
with one hundred and thirty six people following him.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
That makes me feel bad. I wasn't following Well.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I didn't follow him either, but you know that's fine.
Nobody had send me emails everyone, so I did respond
a few times to his emails. He did send me
random things in the mail, but just a sweet sweet man.
Rest in peace, the Great Skeeter in Montana. It is
the Ben Mahlord Show. Time now for the who m
(35:31):
I Game, and this is where we pretend to be
somebody else. So Brian Thomas Junior. Brian Thomas Junior, I's
a wide receiver for the Jacksonville football team. He had
eighty six yards receiving on Sunday. His seventh game was
seventy five or more this season, most among all NFL rookies.
He's got four games left, he could become the first
(35:53):
rookie in the Super Bowl era to have ten ten
games with seventy five plus yards. There are four players
that have had nine seventy five plus games. The most
recent was Justin Jefferson of the Vikings and me prior
to that again, Brian Thomas junior of the Jacksonville football team.
(36:17):
He has now had seven games with seventy five or
more yards receiving this season. That's most among all rookies.
With four games left, to be the first rookie in
the Super Bowl here to have ten games with seventy
five plus yards and there are four players that have
done it nine times. The last was Justin Jefferson. Before that,
it was me. Who am I the answer? We'll get
(36:39):
to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Is I Bill Miller and a early Monday for most
sill late on a Sunday night in the West. The
Ben Malers Show is the show you're listening to and
can co mingle with other members of the Mallard militia
on Facebook and Instagram and see exclusive photos from the
(37:08):
twenty twenty four malar Ugly sweater party. Can check out
some of your favorite Fox Sports radio people that were
there on the Ben Maller Show page at Facebook or
on Facebook brother at Ben Maller Show, and then follow
Big Men on Instagram. Ben Mahler on Fox some photos
(37:28):
over there as well from the festivities over the weekend.
Back to the show. Say my name Bell, It's Ben Maller.
That's my name. Cheap Ripoff does a Mallard impersonation that
Bill Miller.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Ben sucks.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Now Bill Miller sucks. That's the reality time out for
the who Am I Game? Is where we pretend to
be somebody else. That's we call it the who Am I? Game?
So Brian Thomas Junior and let's say jackson Who Brian Thomas?
He plays for Jacksonville. He had eighty six yards receiving
in Jacksonville's surprising to some win over Tennessee. His seventh
(38:09):
game was seventy five or more this season, most among
all NFL rookies. He's got four games to go. He
could be the first in the Super Bowl ear to
have ten games of seventy five or more yards receiving
and the two most recent were Justin Jefferson who did
it back in the COVID year of twenty twenty for
the Vikings? And me? Who am I? That is the question?
(38:31):
What is the answer? And let's see here I can't
read that. O. G art Puffins says it's angry Bill
that is the answer. Foghorn Leghorn from Manuel in Guardina,
a smackoff legend. Who else do we have? Page down
Donkey from Cowboy Killer wise Man, Paul Hayman from Rob
(38:55):
in Vegas, Seymour Butts from Ryan Random Ryan in Carolina?
Who else do we have? Paige Dan Judy Dench who
is ninety today Happy birthday, Alabama's athletic director from King Rory.
That's his answer? A Placito Polanco from mister nice Guy?
(39:16):
Who else do we have? Page den Andy from Lino
Lakes says you gotta be a faulk guy. That would
be Randy Moss. Randy Moss, there is his rest in peace?
Mass old Mickey and Skeeter in Montana. I forty ian
who was just on the air, said John John Lennon
is the answer. He was assassinated forty four years ago
(39:37):
today and it was announced on Monday Night Football by
Howard Cosell, Alf the s and old sportscaster Alf the
Alien opinter going with Andre the Giant as his answer.
Pooka nakua from Miguel on Fire. I guess we won't
hear from a lot of Bill's mafia people because they
lost all right, Loraina. Jacksonville's Brian Thomas Junior. He is
(39:58):
the top rookie receiver four games left. He could be
the first wide receiver in the Super Bowl era to
have ten games of seventy five plus yards. Four players
have had nine games. That includes Justin Jefferson who was last,
and me before that.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Is Judy Garland's daughter Lyza Manelli.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Riisa is a financer. Very relevant. No, it is none
other than Odell Beckham Junior. In twenty fourteen. They're all
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