December 10, 2024 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about the Cowboys heartbreaking loss to the Bengals in the final moments of MNF, Yankees Brian Cashman saying the team has no regrets in their offers to Juan Soto, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Jim Morrison Edition, and more!
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and really for everyone's purposes and our lead this hour,
we'll get to start. Play the hits, mom Man, play
the hits. We'll talk about what happened Monday night football. Now,
this is the difference between the NFL and every other sport.
If two bad teams play on a random night, we
don't talk about them in baseball or basketball or hockey.
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But in football, crap bag Bengals and the terrible Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And here we are breaking the game down. Why not?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's the beauty of the National Football League. So a
matchup of losers wrapping up the week fourteen card in
the NFL on Monday night football and Joe Burrow leading
the Bengals traveling caravan into Texas for a little wrestling
match with Mica Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
In a game that would have a very memorable ending.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You had Joe Bock, Troy Aikman, there, Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson. Boy,
that was a disaster. By the way, whoever thought that
was a good idea should be fired my god. Anyway,
I know that was not designed for me. That was
not designed for me. But still, holy crap? Was that
terrible man? That was so bad? How did that get
green lighted? That Simpson's Alt broadcast? Seriously, I mean, I
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guess if you looked enough, Weedy enjoyed it. But for
the rest, holy crap. Anyway, every gimmick imaginable to try
to get people to watch. They pulled it all out.
But we watched so you would not have to watch.
And Joe Burrow the hero. He threw a tie breaking
forty yard catch and run to Jamar Chase into the
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end zone, running through the Dallas defense after a botched
blocked punt by the Cowboys that set the game up
for Dallas to win. The guy, they had the game
in the bag, and they gave the bag away.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The blocked punt.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
More on that Cincinnati, that all happened final two minutes
there as the Bengals win over the Cowboys twenty seven
to twenty. Your final score. The Cowboys were about to
get the ball back with all their timeouts, score tied
at twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Field goal.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You run out the clock at least you for Cincinnati
to use all their timeouts. They had their time. You
kick the field goal. You have a great kicker. Allegedly,
you're up twenty three to twenty. The Bengals get the
ball back, possibly with just seconds left, and you win
the game. You win the game, So about to get
the ball back? First play, the very first play after
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the two minute warning, Nick vigil with a blocked punt
of Cincinnati. And then the thing happened that cannot happen.
A player that we have never heard of. I'm sure
LaVar Arrington knows who he is because he went to
Penn State. But Amani Oore tried to field the bouncing ball. Now,
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as you know, a football is not round. It does
not bounce like a basketball, a bouncy ball. It is
a football, and if you try to catch a football
on the bounce, you're not guaranteed of being able to
catch it. If you didn't believe me, you saw the
Monday night game or heard what happened, you know, the
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bouncing ball. Instead of leaving it alone, which would have
given possession to Dallas, if you just get out of
the way and treat it like a live hand grenade,
you'll get the ball.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But instead this numb nuts tries to field the ball,
and well, we know what happened. He could not hold
out of the ball.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The Bengals recover and they get a fresh set set
of downs at the Cincinnati forty three yard line with
a minute fifty three to go, and then the Cowboy
defense came out in the field and they went hooray,
holy ole ole. They were Maddy Doors. They were absolutely matters. Now,
the better story isn't losing locker room. You could argue
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both these teams were losers, but we'll focus in on
the Cowboys. There's a lot to break down on that part.
So what does this latest loss my math is correct,
the eighth loss of the year, sixth home loss, the
most the team has had in many years. There the Cowboys.
What is this latest loss by the Mike McCarthy Cowboys?
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Tell us, so, I have poet Laureate John F. Kennedy
and trigonometry, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some Texas barbecue.
Which you know, if you play for the Cowboys you suck.
At least you got good barbecue. So you got that
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going for it. So a right off the top, this
is a direct reflection of Mike McCarthy. This is a
direct reflection of Mike McCarthy, the head coach, because, as
we like to point out, and I got this from
the late great Mike Leach, May he rest in peace,
that you're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
And there is a.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Constant thread with this particular Cowboy team about the level
of play the football IQ on the Cowboys Now, Mike
McCarthy said, of the boxched recovery, it's definitely a tough
learning opportunity. The Cowboy coach said, what a load of manure?
What a load this last?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I shake you? Maybe I'm wrong in this.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I just the Overnight show. This is not Pop Warner. Okay,
it's not high school, it's not college. It's the supposedly
the highest level of professional football, the NFL. Okay, And
you don't know how to stay away from a block punt?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Like, what do I know?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I haven't played since high school, and I know if
you block a kick, you get away from the kick.
I'm not that right, but I'm smarter than the Dallas Cowboys.
I'm smarter than your average Dallas cowboy because I know
if you block a cack, you stay away from the kick,
So I guess I've got to higher football like you.
But in reality it is a symbolic moment. The poet
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laureate Bill Callahan would say of the Dallas Cowboys, we
gotta be the dubbest team in America in terms of
playing the game. That's the Cowboys, my god. And it's
been that way all year. Did I not mention in
a previous monologue wide receivers running into each other? They
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were running across and bam right into each other in
a game earlier this year. So there's talent, there's talent
basic fundamentals, which I thought maybe coaching, I think could
argue if you don't know how to play the game
by the time you get to the NFL, like, what
are you doing now? Cincinnati again they tried to give
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the game to the Cowboys, says it we don't want it,
you take it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We want we don't need it. We get a higher
draft pick.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Ed what man?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
The Cowboys said, we're good. You take it back. We're good,
all right. Now. The story within the story as well,
you've got Micah Parsons, who was so broken up by
the botched special teams play that he left the field
before time expired at the end of the loss. Now,
we have seen this from time to time. I recall
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in years past Randy Moss did this famously with the
Minnesota Vikings left the field early. I think they're playing
the Washington Redskins if I remember correctly, And it's happened
a few other times over the years. So this latest example,
Micah Parsons leaving the Monday night football game early. What
does this signify to you? So for me and I'll
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go first here and you can check in. I'll give
out the number in a few minutes. But for me,
it's confirmation. Okay, it's confirmation. And what do we always say?
One of the slogans, I've been doing this a long time.
One of my slogans has always been the better story
is in the losing locker room. And this is a
great example. Most games are lost, they're not one. Now,
you could argue both teams lost that game, but the
Cowboys lost it more prolifically by trying to feel the
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punt where they would have gotten the ball. Without even
trying to feel that they would have gotten the ball.
That would have been their ball, and they would have
had it inside Cincinnati territory with a kicker that can
kick it from El Paso.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Anyway, I digress. And the great John F.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Kennedy who actually was assassinated in Dallas, So this is
a pro His quote was, victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan. And this is an example
right and unprofessional behavior by Micah Parsons supposed to be
a leader and in difficult times losing, being embarrassed like
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the Cowboys are on a semi weekly basis, your true
character is revealed Michaeh Parson's true characters huffing and puffing
and leaving the field early boooooo and all that.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
He took his cleats and said, that's it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I'm out of here.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Keep in mind he also pitched a shutout. Did you
know that? Maybe you didn't know that, maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You weren't watching.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You had as many tackles you you listening to my voice, right,
you as many tackles, as many sacks as Michah Parsons.
So and I in that game, we both had the
same number of tackles, the same number of sacks as
Micah Parsons squad. Douche Bumpkis he had none no real
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impact plays in that game at all, bottled up by
the Bengals. Micah Parsons, who continues to be an All
Pro podcaster, not an all Pro player. He had that
two game stretch against the Jets and the Giants where
he came out like gangbusters and was the greatest player
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since Lawrence Taylor and since then. Hey, he looks good,
built like Adonis. Doesn't always play like that, able to
be boxed up on a regular basis. Here, my god,
and far the whole leadership thing. There is a leadership vacuum.
I would argue, not so much there for Michael Parson.
All right, now the last word here, Now that the
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Cowboys have lost yet another game, is it now time
for the Cowboys to pull the plug and bench Cooper
Rush and go with Trey Lance at quarterback? The rest
of the world way starting in week fifteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
and eighteen. Just put Trey Lance out there. So I'm
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nodding my head. Yes, And as I learned long ago,
it is not trigonometry.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
It is not trigonometry.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Any realistic chance that Dallas had to make the playoffs
has long been extinguished over Cooper Rush is just not
that guy, Pal, He's not that guy. You know. He
say what Cowboys were in position to win the game.
I would counter that by pointing out that against one
of the worst defenses in NFL play this season, if
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not in recent years altogether, the Cincinnati defense, I think
we can all agree on that. That's a bipartisan issue.
The defense is just terrible, right, just they're horrible across
the board. Cooper Rush had less than two hundred yards
passing average, less than six yards per pass attempt against
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a god awful, horrific Cincinnati Bengals defense. Cincinnati crossed over
every statistic that matters. They're bad at defensively, and they've
gotten worse as the season's gone on. They're the laughing
stock of the NFL. But yet, in this game, the
Cowboys held the twenty points. They had over three hundred
yards offense, which isn't that impressive when you're playing the Bengals,
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It's not you should be over four hundred and fifty
or five hundred yards of offense. Dallas sucked on third down,
They turned the ball over multiple times, and Jerry Jones,
by not playing Trey Lance, will be admitting he fed
up all right. He traded, if I'm not mistaken, a
fourth round draft pick to the forty nine ers to
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get Trey Lance as a developmental player. So he drafted
him to development to development his ability. Here's the perfect opportunity.
The Cowboys are done, it's over, they're not going to
the playoff. It's okay. So you've got a few games left,
and there's there's two reasons you play him. Now, there's
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two reasons. The first reason is it gives you another
reason to watch. There's not a lot of reasons to watch.
The Cowboys are a bad team. And that not not
that they're boring because they do crazy things, but they're
just bad. Right, there's bad. They're dumb team. The Cowboys
poorly coach team. So you've got that. And also the
other thing is from a strategic standpoint, if Trey Lance
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shows a spark, if he shows that that it factor
over the last few games, you could sucker someone else
to trade you something of value for Trey Lance conceivable, right,
Or you could keep him in your plans and fortify
your roster by keeping him, or you could work something
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out where you you get rid of him. But either way,
I mean, what is the point of doing what you've
been doing with Cooper Rush. The guy's not good. I
mean maybe for a week or two is a backup, okay,
but now you want to see him the rest of
the year.
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Show b So our lead this hour is from Dallas, but.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Not the Monday night game where the Dallas Cowboys did
the thing you can't do at the time, you can't
do it. They made a great special teams play blocking
a punt and then the dumbest special teams play you
can make by trying to pick the punt up. Who goofed?
I've got to know. And so the Bengals were given
a gift. They beat Cowboys in that game. But this
is about baseball and the high stakes parlor game that
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is going on at the Winter Meetings in the Greater
Dallas area. Most of the chatter on the Monday card,
as we now hit into a Tuesday, most of the
chatter has been about the fallout from Juan Soto getting.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Seven hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Million dead presidents to move nine point nine miles nine
point nine miles from the Yankee Stadium outpost in the
Bronx to Queens and to hang out where the Mets
play their games. Now, the Yankees were only five million away, supposedly,
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you believe the scuttle, but five million dollars away from
getting the deal done. Have you heard the reaction from
the Yankee camp? Have you heard what they're saying?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
You have not?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
All right, perhaps not so gm Brian Cashman, who somehow
keeps this job. You must have compromising phonos of the
Steinbrenner family buried in a safety deposit box somewhere at
an undisclosed location. So Brian Cashman implied that there are
no regrets, no regrets to the situation involving the New
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York Yankees, telling reporters that the Yankees went quote above
and beyond our comfort level. That's the quote above and
beyond our comfort level in contractual negotiation with Juan Soto.
The Yankees then congratulated the Mets the Little Brothers for
landing the biggest free agent on the board by.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
A country mile.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
They congratulated the Mets, and this, of course led to
skepticism from baseball pugnance. There was the usual story planted
in the media claiming that the Mets made a bad
deal and the Yankees should be happy they avoided Juan Soto.
Those stories happen all the time, but let's focus in
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as we discuss on the latest commentary from Brian Cashman.
So Brian Cashman, general manager the Yankee, says the Yankees
have no regrets after, in his words, going above and beyond,
above and beyond their comfort level and the Wan sweepstakes.
How does this play in your ears? How does this
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play in your ears?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
All?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Right? So I've got naked gun, jukebox and Bob Dylan
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a twisted ankle. Because that's
what the Yankees did. They twisted their ankle and this
they thought they were going to get the player and
then couldn't finish the race. Couldn't finish the race. They
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came up lame, had a problem with their ankle.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
So number one, after an expedited review, see I took
that from Monday Night Football.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
An expedidd review.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
After an expedite review was some guy eating potato chips
in New Jersey watching NFL games and then saying, hey,
that was.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
A bad call.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
After an expedited.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Review, The York Yankees.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Bet on the wrong horse, right, They bet on the
wrong horse here. They would have never never.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Traded the volume of talent that they sent to the
San Diego baseball team a year ago to acquire Juan
Soto from the Padres if they knew it was going
to be a one year rental. Now they might say, oh,
we never knew it all. But trust me, internally, it
makes no sense on any level if you're the Yankees,
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to make that trade unless you believe there is beyond
a reasonable chance that Juan Soto is going to stay
with the New York Yankees. And arrogantly, the Yankees assumed
internally that Juan Soto would get a taste of the
Bronx and he'd fall in love with everything about the
pinstripes and the history of the Yankees and all that
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stuff and the money and spoiler alert didn't work. Juan
so stayed to his morals. His morals are about money.
That's what it's all about. And he stayed to that.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
He stayed true to that. And whether you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Agree with him or not, from the very beginning, this
guy has been the ultimate soldier of fortune. He is
twenty six years old. He has played for four teams.
The reason he has played for four teams is because
he's been all about that money, boss, all about that money.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
So now what happens he got paid?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Now does he changed? Is he going to be as productive.
What's gonna I don't know. But for the Yankees, we
just focused on a This was a miscalculation. That's the
word I will use, miscalculation by the eggs. And now
Brian Cashman is looking to uh to spin. It's like
like the Naked Gun movie, the great line there. He's like, well,
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move on, there's nothing to see here, please disperse. He's
trying to spend it like a dradal at hanukkah. He's like,
I spind the story here a little bit, a big deal,
nothing to see here. And in reality, the Yankees that
will add other players, obviously going to add other players,
but they're not gonna get anyone as good as one Soto.
And so it's a question of short term pain conceivably
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for long term gain. There will be a point where
you cross the rubicon with Juan Soto and he will
become a diminishing asset who you will be paying fifty
five million dollars a year for what he did in
his twenties. You know, and some guys do peak in
their mid twenties. Most players athletic prime is between twenty
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eight and thirty two. Soto's twenty six years old. So
just in general, if you follow the science, right, remember
COVID follow the science. But if you follow the science,
wink wink that we'll say, twenty eight to thirty two
is your athletic prime. And then after that there was
a decline. Now, some people can stretch it out a
couple of years. Some athletes, whether it's true or not,
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have been accused of using pharmaceuticals to get several extra
years out of their athletic career. But either way, there
is a decline once you get past the age of
thirty two, barring some kind of foreign substance that likely
enters your body. Now, page two, So I was reading
that one Soto, one Soto had negative feelings towards the Yankees.
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Now there's a couple of stories here that I would
like to share with you. I don't know if you
heard about this or not.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So this is good, right, little story time on the
Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
So one of the.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Stories goes back to April or May of this past
regular season where a security guide, not a security guard,
a security guide removed one of the parents of one
Soto from an area in Yankee Stadium. Holy crap, Batman.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So likely because the proper paperwork had not been filed
or the proper past had not been given to One
Soto's parents are so old. The security guide said, you can't,
you can't be here now. The same security guard, according
to a story that was conveniently leaked, the same security
guide reportedly also removed one Soto's driver and chef. Later
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in They're forced them to stand outside the rain. The
driver and chef had to stand outside in the rain.
What is this world coming to? My god? O MG,
I would leave the Yankees too, But wait, there's more.
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The Yankees, the big bad Yankees, would not budge on
giving One Soto a suite at Yankee Stadium for free.
They said, we didn't do that for Derek Jeter, we
didn't do that for Aaron Judge. We're not gonna do
that for you. We're paying you two hundred and sixty million,
buy your own suite, bozo. And that was so offensive
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offensive it hurt One Soda because Steve Cohen, he said,
I'll give you everything. I'll give you mister Met. You
want to have a Halloween party where mister Met's outfit
if you want, I don't care give your hero. Nobody's
buying those sweets at City Field anyway, We'll give you
one who cares.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
So he gave him a suite for free.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And so those are supposedly factors injan Soto deciding to
play for the Mets rather than the Yankees. All right,
all right, so here's the deal. One Sodo had negative
feelings with Yankee security. He was upset with the Yankee
management for not giving him a luxury box for free.
Are you intrigued by this story? So I'm gonna go
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first here. You can check in later on some of
your comments. But my take on this, it is a
plant based story. The one Soto luxury box, the one
Soto beef with security is a plant based story. John Hayman,
who it's been well documented, John Hayman a mouthpiece of
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Scott Morris.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
The way he react. He got into a radio.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Beef with a host at WFA in New York over
the weekend, I believe, at the end of last week.
And that reaction by John Hayman when the host joking
around pointed out the clear connection between Hayman and Scott Morris,
the reaction is somebody that's guilty. Yeah, that's Now it's
just evidence. It's not direct evidence, but it's circumstantial evidence
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that John Hayman, those reports are active. There's something going
on there with Hayman and Scott Borris. And he got
so offended by that John Hayman that he I'm never
doing this again, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. But he's known in the industry as
a mouthpiece for Scott Morris that he might as well
be on the payroll as a PR person if he's not.
And so it's it's rather clear that they're trying to
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set a new tone that one Soto looks not so
good here, right, because five million dollars in the big
picture is not all thatmuch when you talk about seven
hundred sixty five, seven hundred and sixty million. You were
on a team that was in the World Series. Right,
You're better off in the American League because it's an
easier path because you don't have the Dodgers the National League.
Just to get the World Series, you gotta get by
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the Dodgers at some point.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
That's a problem. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
So, now do we have any inside sources, No, but
just common sense would say it's more likely than not
that that story was leaked to John Hayman by Scott
Boris or a Scott Boris tody and trying to protect
Juan Soda. He looks like a douche and so Scott
Boris is like, well, we love him.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
He took the money, he did what we wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
And hey, you know, listen, this cat didn't leave the
Yankees for the Mets because of money. He did it
because he's a family man.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Man alive.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You see, some security guard for the Yankees, some guide
for the Yankees was mean, was mean to his parent
and man wouldn't give me. The Yankees wouldn't give a skybox.
They would not give him a skop What in the world,
As Jackie Slater was saying, what in the web?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
No skybox for free? Wait? I get it.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You're paying me two hundred sixty million, but I don't
get a skybox.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Now, in my part of the universe, I don't know
if I live in the real world or not. I
don't know I live in the magic radio box. But
in my part of the world, this all backfires. I
would like to cue the jukebox here the Carly Simon song,
You're so vain and as you know, or maybe you
don't know. For years, early on my radio career, I
was a radio stringer, which is a radio reporter. I
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spent every night of my life from around age nineteen
to age See what year did I stop doing that?
I was probably in my mid to late twenties. Every
night I was at different events, hanging out in locker
rooms and interviewing players, and that was my gig. And
I didn't make any real money, but I had a
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lot of fun, and I met a lot of cool people.
I had a lot of wonderful experiences. It was a
lot of fun. But to think I was around players all,
you know, for years, I became friends with some of them.
To think that here we are on twenty twenty four,
I would be so embarrassed. If I was twenty six
years old and I admitted I had a chef and
a driver, I would.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Be so embarrassed. I'd be like, oh my god, what
is wrong with me? And one so noo.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
The Boris Camp proudly leaked that to John Hayman, who
of course is a mouthpiecet, and he repeated it. I'd
be so embarrassed. I mean all the Yankees were meaning
to my chef and my driver. I mean, my god,
what is he the president? You talk about spoiled? Holy
crap on a crack. I wouldn't want a chef. I
wouldn't want to drive. I like making my own food.
(29:44):
I like driving my own car. Man. Just it's ridicorous,
all right, now, final point, real quick. The GM of
the match, David Sterns said, the Metropolitans Metropolits would love,
would love to bring Peter Alonzo back. He's still out there.
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Is the feeling mutual? Is the feeling mutual? So on
this one, we're gonna go to the classic line from
Bob Dylan, who said money doesn't talk, it swears. And
if the Mets pay the market rate, If the Mets
pay the market rate, then Alonzo will go back to
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the Mets. If not right, forget about that. The Mets
are now defined by pork barrel spending. Pork barrel spending
for the New York Mets, and Peter Alonzo is known
as the polar Bear. And there's gonna be a lot
of blubber, lot of blubber that he's gonna need. No
such thing, as a hometown discount anymore. The owner, Steve Cohen,
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has shown to you and to I that hey, listen,
things are different now, things have changed, and he's got
plenty of money to burn.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
He's a fanboy.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And Peter Alonzo's one of the great Mets in recent years,
even though they haven't won anything. And so that's the
way it is, right, And Peter Alonzo was the King
of Queens. If you were to go back to the Mets,
he'd be the third best player, right. They got Francisco
Lindor and Juan Soto and then Alonzo would be number three.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
And you look around this plenty of money.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
The Red Sox have supposedly to play with the Yankees,
the Giants, other teams that have money to burn. So
it's more likely not Alonzo's not coming back to the Mets,
and the Mets were just being polite.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
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Speaker 3 (31:34):
Here we go, Here we got Smeller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
To the third? Here we go, this is one big
Ben gets great.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
All right, kop.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
It was reported over the weekend that the Vikings have
had no discussions with Sam Donald regarding a long term contract. Now,
while it's safe to say that Donald has revived his
career in Minnesota, do you think he'll still be playing
there next year?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
No, he won't and nor.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Should he be, because the Vikings drafted a quarterback in
the first and they clearly don't believe. And I'm gonna
talk more about this later, but they don't believe in
Sam Donald. Otherwise they would be if they thought this
was real and sustainable, they would absolutely have given him
a contract offers by now.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
They don't even believe Sam Donald's legit.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Now that'll change if they go to the Super Bowl,
which they're not, but if that were to happen, they
would revisit it. But no, they don't believe in him.
Otherwise they try to sign him next.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
After the forty nine Ers blowout win over the Bears,
Kyle Shanahan was asked about the recent rumors that he
could leave the team. Shanahan said, I know, I don't
want to be any place in the world more than here.
My family feels just as strong, if not stronger. Do
you believe him?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, So I'm gonna expand on this more in a
little bit as well.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
But here's the thing on Kyle Shannan. One thing that
I know is true my entire life and long after
I'm dead and gone. Never believe coaches. Politicians are coaches.
They'll lie right to your face. I don't believe Channan.
What was he supposed to say? He's at a forty
nine er news coming? Do you imagine you know? I'm
really not that happier. I'd like to go to Bears,
(33:00):
or I'd like to coach Carolina.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I mean, of course is gonna say that. What else
do you say next?
Speaker 7 (33:05):
The Grizzlies have won nine out of the last ten,
including a big win over the Celtics on Saturday. Some
are speculating that Memphis has provided a blueprint to neutralizing
the Celtics offense.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Ben, are you buying that?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
No, I am not, but I will give you this.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
The Memphis Grizzlies are not esthetically pleasing to watch, but
I like the way. I respect the way they play
because they they play above their pay.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Griff, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
They have John Moran, Desmond bang Got, but the rest
of those guys you just nobody's I like the way
they play.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I don't believe that hype? How we now you pass
this edition to say.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
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Speaker 1 (33:52):
That's welcome in our contestants, we have what do we
have here for the game? We've got Mark in Ifako.
Who's gonna one of our contestants?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Mark, Welcome upstate New York. Welcome Mark, Thank you very nice.
Whould you like to partner up with for Malo's amount
of money? You got me Ben or Koble loop eligible.
I would love for you to play for the Lorrainer.
Would you like to play lorraino malas amount of money?
She's not talking, she's keeping your mind.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I just don't think that's a very good idea.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
But he wants to play with you.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
But if you want to be a winner, No, no, he.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Would like to play with you.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I just let's go for it. Okay, I'm gonna say,
let's not do Come on, coop.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
She he wants to play with lorrain and learn he
wants Do you want an.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Idea of what my hints are going to sound like?
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
It rhymes.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
With bond Elvey. No, let's not play with the ring.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
She is apparently mccoop doesn't want to play. I'm fine
with her playing almost.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
Yeah, of course you are, because you're gonna be the
other persons an automatic.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
One for I don't know that's you're assuming.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Maybe not. I might not be.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Paid, so I don't want to waste my time. But
she wouldn't butcher it. She would butcher it.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
She provides some great drops for the show.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
All right, you'll go with you want to lose?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Go with Coop?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
All right, hold on a sec, and uh, who else
do we?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Let's see here any meenie, miney moe.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Let's say hello to uh, let's see one or three?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
What are we looking at?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Here are your trees?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
All right, so we'll go. We'll go then the the yeah,
right that one right? All right, let's say hello to Showtime.
Who's in Kansas?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Hello? Showtime?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Oh that big mountain?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Oh man, you're bouncing off the walls. Look at this guy,
he's full energy, the Showtime guy.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah, let's hold a big mountain. I'm going with big
big mountains.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah, that's right, We're to win it, baby showdwn's Showtime.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Like losers, no winners?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
All right?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Fan of losers?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
All right, show one of the categories quickly cool, But
see at this settle away we have the.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
All right, gentlemen, this is Mallard's amount of money, the
Jim Morrison edition.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
He would have turned eighty one years old on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Don know who that is?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Big? Are you throw in the golden ticket for me
when we win?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
If you win, I'll give you two golden go ahead?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
All right, many both of them on the air here,
so let me see.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Hold on, yeah, that button and then there you are.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
The categories are light my fire, break on through, people
are strange, and la women.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Uh, Mark, you were on first? Which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
People are strange?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
People are strange? All right, they are. We prove that
on a basis Showtime. How about you by fire?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah well that sounds kind of dirty, but yeah, well
I'll light your fire. It sounds like your fire is already.
Everyone hold on for the rest of the hour. It
is going to be Mallard's Mountain of money. We've got
Mark and we've got Showtime, and they're ready to go
and we'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Not?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
All right, so it right to the game, Jim Morrison Edition.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Coop is up first with Mark in Ithaca in upstate
New York. There and showtime is in chansa city where
we just said the last Mallard meet and greet. Mark.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
You're with Coop?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
And which category did you guys pick?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
You picked people are strange?
Speaker 4 (37:39):
That is correct? All right?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
You ready?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Are you there?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Mark? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Showtime?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Are you there? All right? Well, Coop's going first.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
All right, Mark, you have you need the first and
last name of the athlete in order to receive points.
We're gonna have forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Are you ready? All right? Let's get that music a
little bit lower, Thank you?
Speaker 7 (38:01):
All right, forty five seconds let's begin, all right, all
pro wide receiver for the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
He quit mid game while playing for the Bucks. What yes,
all right? Very low? Yeah, you're very quiet.
Speaker 7 (38:15):
This guy his nickname was the worm in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Uh, this guy was a center on the Trailblazers and
the Celtics. He recently died. Yes, This running back for
the Dolphins loved marijuana. Yes, this guy was a pitcher
for the Dodgers. He got sued for beating up a
woman during sex, but he didn't actually. Yes, this guy
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is a weird, eccentric pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
and Diamondbacks and other teams.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Oh man, this guy was good. Yeah, it was talks low,
but he's very good. He knows what he's doing. Zach
Grank was that last one? But good job. That's a
one hundred and sixty points. You have a life there,
art you get out?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
All right, well, very good showtime. Are you ready there
in Kansas City?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
All right? You picked light my fire.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
These athletes had reputations of being good teammates. All right,
we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
You're on your way.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Go.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
A quarterback for the Packers and also played for the Vikings. Yes,
the big fundamental for the San Antonio Spurs back No,
no after him after him? Yes, wide receiver for the
Arizona Cardinals. Always from Minnesota. Yes, he was a defensive
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back for the Steelers. He's on TV right now. African
American guy has a lot of hot takes on ESPN. No,
mister big shot for the Pistons. Uh, and then won
a championship there guarded No after him, no after him?
A white guy guard for the Cavaliers in the nineteen eighties,
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played in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Yes, all right, John dey Phillips.
Speaker 7 (40:13):
Yeah, so your your twenty points behind?
Speaker 4 (40:16):
That was one hundred and forty points.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
One hundred and forty All right, that's fine. We're in
good shake.
Speaker 7 (40:21):
So you are you are up again? Since you are behind? Showtime?
Would you like break on through or la women.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
I'll break on through?
Speaker 4 (40:31):
All right? Got through?
Speaker 3 (40:33):
All right?
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (40:35):
These athletes won a championship late in their career. Forty
five seconds begin all right.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Quarterback for the Broncos in the eighties won Yes, what's
his first name?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yes, John Elway.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yes, a star for Minnesota basketball. He went to the
Boston Celtics and won a championship there with Doc Rivers. Yes,
the boss for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Running back, Yes, start
pitch for the Red Sox. Not Kurt Schilling, but oh
all right, Boston Celtic Average. His nickname is Average player
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for the Atlanta Hawks. He's still on the sells. Really
old guy for no. No pitcher for the picture for
the Mariners. The Phillies pitched like thirty years. Uh no after.
Speaker 8 (41:22):
With Randy Justin, No no journeyman nam.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
All right, well you have the lead of Jordan Points,
Jamie Moyer, Yeah, Jamie Moyer. Al Horford was the center
and Pedro Martinez was that pitcher. Alright, alright, Mark, we
have forty points to tie fifty to win. Our category
is LA women. Uh these athletes all married celebrities. Are
you ready? All right, let's begin. He is the current
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quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Used to be on the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Uh, yes, all right.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
This guy was nicknamed the Flash when he was in
the NBA. Guard on the heat. Yes, all right. This
guy was a picture for the Ashhos and the Tigers.
He's married to Kate Upton.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Don't choke. Yeah, that's it. We gotta have the game over.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
We don't want to finish, allright, We'll keep going.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
French French point guard for the Spurs.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
It's all right, he got fat. We're out there.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
All right, all right, congratulations Mark, you got a golden
but your phone socks.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
So are Joria Beckham's husband. Yeah, all right, stop.
Speaker 4 (42:39):
See say the last name.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
You're not allowed to do that. You cheated, all right.
I like your voice showed a very loud phone, you know,
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and really for everyone's purposes and our lead this hour,
we'll get to start. Play the hits, mom Man, play
the hits. We'll talk about what happened Monday night football. Now,
this is the difference between the NFL and every other sport.
If two bad teams play on a random night, we
don't talk about them in baseball or basketball or hockey.
(02:01):
But in football, crap bag Bengals and the terrible Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And here we are breaking the game down. Why not?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's the beauty of the National Football League. So a
matchup of losers wrapping up the week fourteen card in
the NFL on Monday night football and Joe Burrow leading
the Bengals traveling caravan into Texas for a little wrestling
match with Mica Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
In a game that would have a very memorable ending.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You had Joe Bock, Troy Aikman, there, Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson. Boy,
that was a disaster. By the way, whoever thought that
was a good idea should be fired my god. Anyway,
I know that was not designed for me. That was
not designed for me. But still, holy crap? Was that
terrible man? That was so bad? How did that get
green lighted? That Simpson's Alt broadcast? Seriously, I mean, I
(02:59):
guess if you looked enough, Weedy enjoyed it. But for
the rest, holy crap. Anyway, every gimmick imaginable to try
to get people to watch. They pulled it all out.
But we watched so you would not have to watch.
And Joe Burrow the hero. He threw a tie breaking
forty yard catch and run to Jamar Chase into the
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end zone, running through the Dallas defense after a botched
blocked punt by the Cowboys that set the game up
for Dallas to win. The guy, they had the game
in the bag, and they gave the bag away.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The blocked punt.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
More on that Cincinnati, that all happened final two minutes
there as the Bengals win over the Cowboys twenty seven
to twenty. Your final score. The Cowboys were about to
get the ball back with all their timeouts, score tied
at twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Field goal.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You run out the clock at least you for Cincinnati
to use all their timeouts. They had their time. You
kick the field goal. You have a great kicker. Allegedly,
you're up twenty three to twenty. The Bengals get the
ball back, possibly with just seconds left, and you win
the game. You win the game, So about to get
the ball back? First play, the very first play after
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the two minute warning, Nick vigil with a blocked punt
of Cincinnati. And then the thing happened that cannot happen.
A player that we have never heard of. I'm sure
LaVar Arrington knows who he is because he went to
Penn State. But Amani Oore tried to field the bouncing ball. Now,
(04:40):
as you know, a football is not round. It does
not bounce like a basketball, a bouncy ball. It is
a football, and if you try to catch a football
on the bounce, you're not guaranteed of being able to
catch it. If you didn't believe me, you saw the
Monday night game or heard what happened, you know, the
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bouncing ball. Instead of leaving it alone, which would have
given possession to Dallas, if you just get out of
the way and treat it like a live hand grenade,
you'll get the ball.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But instead this numb nuts tries to field the ball,
and well, we know what happened. He could not hold
out of the ball.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The Bengals recover and they get a fresh set set
of downs at the Cincinnati forty three yard line with
a minute fifty three to go, and then the Cowboy
defense came out in the field and they went hooray,
holy ole ole. They were Maddy Doors. They were absolutely matters. Now,
the better story isn't losing locker room. You could argue
(05:42):
both these teams were losers, but we'll focus in on
the Cowboys. There's a lot to break down on that part.
So what does this latest loss my math is correct,
the eighth loss of the year, sixth home loss, the
most the team has had in many years. There the Cowboys.
What is this latest loss by the Mike McCarthy Cowboys?
(06:03):
Tell us, so, I have poet Laureate John F. Kennedy
and trigonometry, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some Texas barbecue.
Which you know, if you play for the Cowboys you suck.
At least you got good barbecue. So you got that
(06:23):
going for it. So a right off the top, this
is a direct reflection of Mike McCarthy. This is a
direct reflection of Mike McCarthy, the head coach, because, as
we like to point out, and I got this from
the late great Mike Leach, May he rest in peace,
that you're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
And there is a.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Constant thread with this particular Cowboy team about the level
of play the football IQ on the Cowboys Now, Mike
McCarthy said, of the boxched recovery, it's definitely a tough
learning opportunity. The Cowboy coach said, what a load of manure?
What a load this last?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I shake you? Maybe I'm wrong in this.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I just the Overnight show. This is not Pop Warner. Okay,
it's not high school, it's not college. It's the supposedly
the highest level of professional football, the NFL. Okay, And
you don't know how to stay away from a block punt?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Like, what do I know?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I haven't played since high school, and I know if
you block a kick, you get away from the kick.
I'm not that right, but I'm smarter than the Dallas Cowboys.
I'm smarter than your average Dallas cowboy because I know
if you block a cack, you stay away from the kick,
So I guess I've got to higher football like you.
But in reality it is a symbolic moment. The poet
(07:45):
laureate Bill Callahan would say of the Dallas Cowboys, we
gotta be the dubbest team in America in terms of
playing the game. That's the Cowboys, my god. And it's
been that way all year. Did I not mention in
a previous monologue wide receivers running into each other? They
(08:06):
were running across and bam right into each other in
a game earlier this year. So there's talent, there's talent
basic fundamentals, which I thought maybe coaching, I think could
argue if you don't know how to play the game
by the time you get to the NFL, like, what
are you doing now? Cincinnati again they tried to give
(08:26):
the game to the Cowboys, says it we don't want it,
you take it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
We want we don't need it. We get a higher
draft pick.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Ed what man?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
The Cowboys said, we're good. You take it back. We're good,
all right. Now. The story within the story as well,
you've got Micah Parsons, who was so broken up by
the botched special teams play that he left the field
before time expired at the end of the loss. Now,
we have seen this from time to time. I recall
(08:56):
in years past Randy Moss did this famously with the
Minnesota Vikings left the field early. I think they're playing
the Washington Redskins if I remember correctly, And it's happened
a few other times over the years. So this latest example,
Micah Parsons leaving the Monday night football game early. What
does this signify to you? So for me and I'll
(09:17):
go first here and you can check in. I'll give
out the number in a few minutes. But for me,
it's confirmation. Okay, it's confirmation. And what do we always say?
One of the slogans, I've been doing this a long time.
One of my slogans has always been the better story
is in the losing locker room. And this is a
great example. Most games are lost, they're not one. Now,
you could argue both teams lost that game, but the
Cowboys lost it more prolifically by trying to feel the
(09:40):
punt where they would have gotten the ball. Without even
trying to feel that they would have gotten the ball.
That would have been their ball, and they would have
had it inside Cincinnati territory with a kicker that can
kick it from El Paso.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Anyway, I digress. And the great John F.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Kennedy who actually was assassinated in Dallas, So this is
a pro His quote was, victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan. And this is an example
right and unprofessional behavior by Micah Parsons supposed to be
a leader and in difficult times losing, being embarrassed like
(10:17):
the Cowboys are on a semi weekly basis, your true
character is revealed Michaeh Parson's true characters huffing and puffing
and leaving the field early boooooo and all that.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
He took his cleats and said, that's it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I'm out of here.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Keep in mind he also pitched a shutout. Did you
know that? Maybe you didn't know that, maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You weren't watching.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You had as many tackles you you listening to my voice, right,
you as many tackles, as many sacks as Michah Parsons.
So and I in that game, we both had the
same number of tackles, the same number of sacks as
Micah Parsons squad. Douche Bumpkis he had none no real
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impact plays in that game at all, bottled up by
the Bengals. Micah Parsons, who continues to be an All
Pro podcaster, not an all Pro player. He had that
two game stretch against the Jets and the Giants where
he came out like gangbusters and was the greatest player
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since Lawrence Taylor and since then. Hey, he looks good,
built like Adonis. Doesn't always play like that, able to
be boxed up on a regular basis. Here, my god,
and far the whole leadership thing. There is a leadership vacuum.
I would argue, not so much there for Michael Parson.
All right, now the last word here, Now that the
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Cowboys have lost yet another game, is it now time
for the Cowboys to pull the plug and bench Cooper
Rush and go with Trey Lance at quarterback? The rest
of the world way starting in week fifteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
and eighteen. Just put Trey Lance out there. So I'm
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nodding my head. Yes, And as I learned long ago,
it is not trigonometry.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
It is not trigonometry.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Any realistic chance that Dallas had to make the playoffs
has long been extinguished over Cooper Rush is just not
that guy, Pal, He's not that guy. You know. He
say what Cowboys were in position to win the game.
I would counter that by pointing out that against one
of the worst defenses in NFL play this season, if
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not in recent years altogether, the Cincinnati defense, I think
we can all agree on that. That's a bipartisan issue.
The defense is just terrible, right, just they're horrible across
the board. Cooper Rush had less than two hundred yards
passing average, less than six yards per pass attempt against
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a god awful, horrific Cincinnati Bengals defense. Cincinnati crossed over
every statistic that matters. They're bad at defensively, and they've
gotten worse as the season's gone on. They're the laughing
stock of the NFL. But yet, in this game, the
Cowboys held the twenty points. They had over three hundred
yards offense, which isn't that impressive when you're playing the Bengals,
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It's not you should be over four hundred and fifty
or five hundred yards of offense. Dallas sucked on third down,
They turned the ball over multiple times, and Jerry Jones,
by not playing Trey Lance, will be admitting he fed
up all right. He traded, if I'm not mistaken, a
fourth round draft pick to the forty nine ers to
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get Trey Lance as a developmental player. So he drafted
him to development to development his ability. Here's the perfect opportunity.
The Cowboys are done, it's over, they're not going to
the playoff. It's okay. So you've got a few games left,
and there's there's two reasons you play him. Now, there's
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two reasons. The first reason is it gives you another
reason to watch. There's not a lot of reasons to watch.
The Cowboys are a bad team. And that not not
that they're boring because they do crazy things, but they're
just bad. Right, there's bad. They're dumb team. The Cowboys
poorly coach team. So you've got that. And also the
other thing is from a strategic standpoint, if Trey Lance
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shows a spark, if he shows that that it factor
over the last few games, you could sucker someone else
to trade you something of value for Trey Lance conceivable, right,
Or you could keep him in your plans and fortify
your roster by keeping him, or you could work something
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out where you you get rid of him. But either way,
I mean, what is the point of doing what you've
been doing with Cooper Rush. The guy's not good. I
mean maybe for a week or two is a backup, okay,
but now you want to see him the rest of
the year.
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Show b So our lead this hour is from Dallas, but.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Not the Monday night game where the Dallas Cowboys did
the thing you can't do at the time, you can't
do it. They made a great special teams play blocking
a punt and then the dumbest special teams play you
can make by trying to pick the punt up. Who goofed?
I've got to know. And so the Bengals were given
a gift. They beat Cowboys in that game. But this
is about baseball and the high stakes parlor game that
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is going on at the Winter Meetings in the Greater
Dallas area. Most of the chatter on the Monday card,
as we now hit into a Tuesday, most of the
chatter has been about the fallout from Juan Soto getting.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Seven hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Million dead presidents to move nine point nine miles nine
point nine miles from the Yankee Stadium outpost in the
Bronx to Queens and to hang out where the Mets
play their games. Now, the Yankees were only five million away, supposedly,
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you believe the scuttle, but five million dollars away from
getting the deal done. Have you heard the reaction from
the Yankee camp? Have you heard what they're saying?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
You have not?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
All right, perhaps not so gm Brian Cashman, who somehow
keeps this job. You must have compromising phonos of the
Steinbrenner family buried in a safety deposit box somewhere at
an undisclosed location. So Brian Cashman implied that there are
no regrets, no regrets to the situation involving the New
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York Yankees, telling reporters that the Yankees went quote above
and beyond our comfort level. That's the quote above and
beyond our comfort level in contractual negotiation with Juan Soto.
The Yankees then congratulated the Mets the Little Brothers for
landing the biggest free agent on the board by.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
A country mile.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
They congratulated the Mets, and this, of course led to
skepticism from baseball pugnance. There was the usual story planted
in the media claiming that the Mets made a bad
deal and the Yankees should be happy they avoided Juan Soto.
Those stories happen all the time, but let's focus in
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as we discuss on the latest commentary from Brian Cashman.
So Brian Cashman, general manager the Yankee, says the Yankees
have no regrets after, in his words, going above and beyond,
above and beyond their comfort level and the Wan sweepstakes.
How does this play in your ears? How does this
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play in your ears?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
All?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Right? So I've got naked gun, jukebox and Bob Dylan
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a twisted ankle. Because that's
what the Yankees did. They twisted their ankle and this
they thought they were going to get the player and
then couldn't finish the race. Couldn't finish the race. They
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came up lame, had a problem with their ankle.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
So number one, after an expedited review, see I took
that from Monday Night Football.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
An expedidd review.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
After an expedite review was some guy eating potato chips
in New Jersey watching NFL games and then saying, hey,
that was.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
A bad call.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
After an expedited.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Review, The York Yankees.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Bet on the wrong horse, right, They bet on the
wrong horse here. They would have never never.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Traded the volume of talent that they sent to the
San Diego baseball team a year ago to acquire Juan
Soto from the Padres if they knew it was going
to be a one year rental. Now they might say, oh,
we never knew it all. But trust me, internally, it
makes no sense on any level if you're the Yankees,
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to make that trade unless you believe there is beyond
a reasonable chance that Juan Soto is going to stay
with the New York Yankees. And arrogantly, the Yankees assumed
internally that Juan Soto would get a taste of the
Bronx and he'd fall in love with everything about the
pinstripes and the history of the Yankees and all that
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stuff and the money and spoiler alert didn't work. Juan
so stayed to his morals. His morals are about money.
That's what it's all about. And he stayed to that.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
He stayed true to that. And whether you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Agree with him or not, from the very beginning, this
guy has been the ultimate soldier of fortune. He is
twenty six years old. He has played for four teams.
The reason he has played for four teams is because
he's been all about that money, boss, all about that money.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
So now what happens he got paid?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Now does he changed? Is he going to be as productive.
What's gonna I don't know. But for the Yankees, we
just focused on a This was a miscalculation. That's the
word I will use, miscalculation by the eggs. And now
Brian Cashman is looking to uh to spin. It's like
like the Naked Gun movie, the great line there. He's like, well,
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move on, there's nothing to see here, please disperse. He's
trying to spend it like a dradal at hanukkah. He's like,
I spind the story here a little bit, a big deal,
nothing to see here. And in reality, the Yankees that
will add other players, obviously going to add other players,
but they're not gonna get anyone as good as one Soto.
And so it's a question of short term pain conceivably
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for long term gain. There will be a point where
you cross the rubicon with Juan Soto and he will
become a diminishing asset who you will be paying fifty
five million dollars a year for what he did in
his twenties. You know, and some guys do peak in
their mid twenties. Most players athletic prime is between twenty
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eight and thirty two. Soto's twenty six years old. So
just in general, if you follow the science, right, remember
COVID follow the science. But if you follow the science,
wink wink that we'll say, twenty eight to thirty two
is your athletic prime. And then after that there was
a decline. Now, some people can stretch it out a
couple of years. Some athletes, whether it's true or not,
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have been accused of using pharmaceuticals to get several extra
years out of their athletic career. But either way, there
is a decline once you get past the age of
thirty two, barring some kind of foreign substance that likely
enters your body. Now, page two, So I was reading
that one Soto, one Soto had negative feelings towards the Yankees.
(23:17):
Now there's a couple of stories here that I would
like to share with you. I don't know if you
heard about this or not.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
So this is good, right, little story time on the
Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
So one of the.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Stories goes back to April or May of this past
regular season where a security guide, not a security guard,
a security guide removed one of the parents of one
Soto from an area in Yankee Stadium. Holy crap, Batman.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So likely because the proper paperwork had not been filed
or the proper past had not been given to One
Soto's parents are so old. The security guide said, you can't,
you can't be here now. The same security guard, according
to a story that was conveniently leaked, the same security
guide reportedly also removed one Soto's driver and chef. Later
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in They're forced them to stand outside the rain. The
driver and chef had to stand outside in the rain.
What is this world coming to? My god? O MG,
I would leave the Yankees too, But wait, there's more.
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The Yankees, the big bad Yankees, would not budge on
giving One Soto a suite at Yankee Stadium for free.
They said, we didn't do that for Derek Jeter, we
didn't do that for Aaron Judge. We're not gonna do
that for you. We're paying you two hundred and sixty million,
buy your own suite, bozo. And that was so offensive
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offensive it hurt One Soda because Steve Cohen, he said,
I'll give you everything. I'll give you mister Met. You
want to have a Halloween party where mister Met's outfit
if you want, I don't care give your hero. Nobody's
buying those sweets at City Field anyway, We'll give you
one who cares.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
So he gave him a suite for free.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And so those are supposedly factors injan Soto deciding to
play for the Mets rather than the Yankees. All right,
all right, so here's the deal. One Sodo had negative
feelings with Yankee security. He was upset with the Yankee
management for not giving him a luxury box for free.
Are you intrigued by this story? So I'm gonna go
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first here. You can check in later on some of
your comments. But my take on this, it is a
plant based story. The one Soto luxury box, the one
Soto beef with security is a plant based story. John Hayman,
who it's been well documented, John Hayman a mouthpiece of
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Scott Morris.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
The way he react. He got into a radio.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Beef with a host at WFA in New York over
the weekend, I believe, at the end of last week.
And that reaction by John Hayman when the host joking
around pointed out the clear connection between Hayman and Scott Morris,
the reaction is somebody that's guilty. Yeah, that's Now it's
just evidence. It's not direct evidence, but it's circumstantial evidence
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that John Hayman, those reports are active. There's something going
on there with Hayman and Scott Borris. And he got
so offended by that John Hayman that he I'm never
doing this again, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. But he's known in the industry as
a mouthpiece for Scott Morris that he might as well
be on the payroll as a PR person if he's not.
And so it's it's rather clear that they're trying to
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set a new tone that one Soto looks not so
good here, right, because five million dollars in the big
picture is not all thatmuch when you talk about seven
hundred sixty five, seven hundred and sixty million. You were
on a team that was in the World Series. Right,
You're better off in the American League because it's an
easier path because you don't have the Dodgers the National League.
Just to get the World Series, you gotta get by
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the Dodgers at some point.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
That's a problem. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
So, now do we have any inside sources, No, but
just common sense would say it's more likely than not
that that story was leaked to John Hayman by Scott
Boris or a Scott Boris tody and trying to protect
Juan Soda. He looks like a douche and so Scott
Boris is like, well, we love him.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
He took the money, he did what we wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
And hey, you know, listen, this cat didn't leave the
Yankees for the Mets because of money. He did it
because he's a family man.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Man alive.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You see, some security guard for the Yankees, some guide
for the Yankees was mean, was mean to his parent
and man wouldn't give me. The Yankees wouldn't give a skybox.
They would not give him a skop What in the world,
As Jackie Slater was saying, what in the web?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
No skybox for free? Wait? I get it.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You're paying me two hundred sixty million, but I don't
get a skybox.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Now, in my part of the universe, I don't know
if I live in the real world or not. I
don't know I live in the magic radio box. But
in my part of the world, this all backfires. I
would like to cue the jukebox here the Carly Simon song,
You're so vain and as you know, or maybe you
don't know. For years, early on my radio career, I
was a radio stringer, which is a radio reporter. I
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spent every night of my life from around age nineteen
to age See what year did I stop doing that?
I was probably in my mid to late twenties. Every
night I was at different events, hanging out in locker
rooms and interviewing players, and that was my gig. And
I didn't make any real money, but I had a
(28:58):
lot of fun, and I met a lot of cool people.
I had a lot of wonderful experiences. It was a
lot of fun. But to think I was around players all,
you know, for years, I became friends with some of them.
To think that here we are on twenty twenty four,
I would be so embarrassed. If I was twenty six
years old and I admitted I had a chef and
a driver, I would.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Be so embarrassed. I'd be like, oh my god, what
is wrong with me? And one so noo.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
The Boris Camp proudly leaked that to John Hayman, who
of course is a mouthpiecet, and he repeated it. I'd
be so embarrassed. I mean all the Yankees were meaning
to my chef and my driver. I mean, my god,
what is he the president? You talk about spoiled? Holy
crap on a crack. I wouldn't want a chef. I
wouldn't want to drive. I like making my own food.
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I like driving my own car. Man. Just it's ridicorous,
all right, now, final point, real quick. The GM of
the match, David Sterns said, the Metropolitans Metropolits would love,
would love to bring Peter Alonzo back. He's still out there.
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Is the feeling mutual? Is the feeling mutual? So on
this one, we're gonna go to the classic line from
Bob Dylan, who said money doesn't talk, it swears. And
if the Mets pay the market rate, If the Mets
pay the market rate, then Alonzo will go back to
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the Mets. If not right, forget about that. The Mets
are now defined by pork barrel spending. Pork barrel spending
for the New York Mets, and Peter Alonzo is known
as the polar Bear. And there's gonna be a lot
of blubber, lot of blubber that he's gonna need. No
such thing, as a hometown discount anymore. The owner, Steve Cohen,
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has shown to you and to I that hey, listen,
things are different now, things have changed, and he's got
plenty of money to burn.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
He's a fanboy.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And Peter Alonzo's one of the great Mets in recent years,
even though they haven't won anything. And so that's the
way it is, right, And Peter Alonzo was the King
of Queens. If you were to go back to the Mets,
he'd be the third best player, right. They got Francisco
Lindor and Juan Soto and then Alonzo would be number three.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
And you look around this plenty of money.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
The Red Sox have supposedly to play with the Yankees,
the Giants, other teams that have money to burn. So
it's more likely not Alonzo's not coming back to the Mets,
and the Mets were just being polite.
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Here we go, Here we got Smeller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
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Ben gets great.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
All right, kop.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
It was reported over the weekend that the Vikings have
had no discussions with Sam Donald regarding a long term contract. Now,
while it's safe to say that Donald has revived his
career in Minnesota, do you think he'll still be playing
there next year?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
No, he won't and nor.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Should he be, because the Vikings drafted a quarterback in
the first and they clearly don't believe. And I'm gonna
talk more about this later, but they don't believe in
Sam Donald. Otherwise they would be if they thought this
was real and sustainable, they would absolutely have given him
a contract offers by now.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
They don't even believe Sam Donald's legit.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Now that'll change if they go to the Super Bowl,
which they're not, but if that were to happen, they
would revisit it. But no, they don't believe in him.
Otherwise they try to sign him next.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
After the forty nine Ers blowout win over the Bears,
Kyle Shanahan was asked about the recent rumors that he
could leave the team. Shanahan said, I know, I don't
want to be any place in the world more than here.
My family feels just as strong, if not stronger. Do
you believe him?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, So I'm gonna expand on this more in a
little bit as well.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
But here's the thing on Kyle Shannan. One thing that
I know is true my entire life and long after
I'm dead and gone. Never believe coaches. Politicians are coaches.
They'll lie right to your face. I don't believe Channan.
What was he supposed to say? He's at a forty
nine er news coming? Do you imagine you know? I'm
really not that happier. I'd like to go to Bears,
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or I'd like to coach Carolina.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I mean, of course is gonna say that. What else
do you say next?
Speaker 7 (33:05):
The Grizzlies have won nine out of the last ten,
including a big win over the Celtics on Saturday. Some
are speculating that Memphis has provided a blueprint to neutralizing
the Celtics offense.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Ben, are you buying that?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
No, I am not, but I will give you this.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
The Memphis Grizzlies are not esthetically pleasing to watch, but
I like the way. I respect the way they play
because they they play above their pay.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Griff, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
They have John Moran, Desmond bang Got, but the rest
of those guys you just nobody's I like the way
they play.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I don't believe that hype? How we now you pass
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Speaker 1 (33:52):
That's welcome in our contestants, we have what do we
have here for the game? We've got Mark in Ifako.
Who's gonna one of our contestants?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Mark, Welcome upstate New York. Welcome Mark, Thank you very nice.
Whould you like to partner up with for Malo's amount
of money? You got me Ben or Koble loop eligible.
I would love for you to play for the Lorrainer.
Would you like to play lorraino malas amount of money?
She's not talking, she's keeping your mind.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I just don't think that's a very good idea.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
But he wants to play with you.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
But if you want to be a winner, No, no, he.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Would like to play with you.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I just let's go for it. Okay, I'm gonna say,
let's not do Come on, coop.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
She he wants to play with lorrain and learn he
wants Do you want an.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Idea of what my hints are going to sound like?
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
It rhymes.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
With bond Elvey. No, let's not play with the ring.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
She is apparently mccoop doesn't want to play. I'm fine
with her playing almost.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
Yeah, of course you are, because you're gonna be the
other persons an automatic.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
One for I don't know that's you're assuming.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Maybe not. I might not be.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Paid, so I don't want to waste my time. But
she wouldn't butcher it. She would butcher it.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
She provides some great drops for the show.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
All right, you'll go with you want to lose?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Go with Coop?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
All right, hold on a sec, and uh, who else
do we?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Let's see here any meenie, miney moe.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Let's say hello to uh, let's see one or three?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
What are we looking at?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Here are your trees?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
All right, so we'll go. We'll go then the the yeah,
right that one right? All right, let's say hello to Showtime.
Who's in Kansas?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Hello? Showtime?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Oh that big mountain?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Oh man, you're bouncing off the walls. Look at this guy,
he's full energy, the Showtime guy.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah, let's hold a big mountain. I'm going with big
big mountains.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah, that's right, We're to win it, baby showdwn's Showtime.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Like losers, no winners?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
All right?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Fan of losers?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
All right, show one of the categories quickly cool, But
see at this settle away we have the.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
All right, gentlemen, this is Mallard's amount of money, the
Jim Morrison edition.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
He would have turned eighty one years old on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Don know who that is?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Big? Are you throw in the golden ticket for me
when we win?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
If you win, I'll give you two golden go ahead?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
All right, many both of them on the air here,
so let me see.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Hold on, yeah, that button and then there you are.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
The categories are light my fire, break on through, people
are strange, and la women.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Uh, Mark, you were on first? Which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
People are strange?
Speaker 4 (36:42):
People are strange? All right, they are. We prove that
on a basis Showtime. How about you by fire?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah well that sounds kind of dirty, but yeah, well
I'll light your fire. It sounds like your fire is already.
Everyone hold on for the rest of the hour. It
is going to be Mallard's Mountain of money. We've got
Mark and we've got Showtime, and they're ready to go
and we'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Not?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
All right, so it right to the game, Jim Morrison Edition.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Coop is up first with Mark in Ithaca in upstate
New York. There and showtime is in chansa city where
we just said the last Mallard meet and greet. Mark.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
You're with Coop?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
And which category did you guys pick?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
You picked people are strange?
Speaker 4 (37:39):
That is correct? All right?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
You ready?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Are you there?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Mark? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Showtime?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Are you there? All right? Well, Coop's going first.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
All right, Mark, you have you need the first and
last name of the athlete in order to receive points.
We're gonna have forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Are you ready? All right? Let's get that music a
little bit lower, Thank you?
Speaker 7 (38:01):
All right, forty five seconds let's begin, all right, all
pro wide receiver for the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
He quit mid game while playing for the Bucks. What yes,
all right? Very low? Yeah, you're very quiet.
Speaker 7 (38:15):
This guy his nickname was the worm in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Uh, this guy was a center on the Trailblazers and
the Celtics. He recently died. Yes, This running back for
the Dolphins loved marijuana. Yes, this guy was a pitcher
for the Dodgers. He got sued for beating up a
woman during sex, but he didn't actually. Yes, this guy
(38:43):
is a weird, eccentric pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
and Diamondbacks and other teams.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Oh man, this guy was good. Yeah, it was talks low,
but he's very good. He knows what he's doing. Zach
Grank was that last one? But good job. That's a
one hundred and sixty points. You have a life there,
art you get out?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
All right, well, very good showtime. Are you ready there
in Kansas City?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
All right? You picked light my fire.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
These athletes had reputations of being good teammates. All right,
we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
You're on your way.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Go.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
A quarterback for the Packers and also played for the Vikings. Yes,
the big fundamental for the San Antonio Spurs back No,
no after him after him? Yes, wide receiver for the
Arizona Cardinals. Always from Minnesota. Yes, he was a defensive
(39:45):
back for the Steelers. He's on TV right now. African
American guy has a lot of hot takes on ESPN. No,
mister big shot for the Pistons. Uh, and then won
a championship there guarded No after him, no after him?
A white guy guard for the Cavaliers in the nineteen eighties,
(40:06):
played in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Yes, all right, John dey Phillips.
Speaker 7 (40:13):
Yeah, so your your twenty points behind?
Speaker 4 (40:16):
That was one hundred and forty points.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
One hundred and forty All right, that's fine. We're in
good shake.
Speaker 7 (40:21):
So you are you are up again? Since you are behind? Showtime?
Would you like break on through or la women.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
I'll break on through?
Speaker 4 (40:31):
All right? Got through?
Speaker 3 (40:33):
All right?
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (40:35):
These athletes won a championship late in their career. Forty
five seconds begin all right.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Quarterback for the Broncos in the eighties won Yes, what's
his first name?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yes, John Elway.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yes, a star for Minnesota basketball. He went to the
Boston Celtics and won a championship there with Doc Rivers. Yes,
the boss for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Running back, Yes, start
pitch for the Red Sox. Not Kurt Schilling, but oh
all right, Boston Celtic Average. His nickname is Average player
(41:09):
for the Atlanta Hawks. He's still on the sells. Really
old guy for no. No pitcher for the picture for
the Mariners. The Phillies pitched like thirty years. Uh no after.
Speaker 8 (41:22):
With Randy Justin, No no journeyman nam.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
All right, well you have the lead of Jordan Points,
Jamie Moyer, Yeah, Jamie Moyer. Al Horford was the center
and Pedro Martinez was that pitcher. Alright, alright, Mark, we
have forty points to tie fifty to win. Our category
is LA women. Uh these athletes all married celebrities. Are
you ready? All right, let's begin. He is the current
(41:56):
quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Used to be on the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Uh, yes, all right.
Speaker 7 (42:07):
This guy was nicknamed the Flash when he was in
the NBA. Guard on the heat. Yes, all right. This
guy was a picture for the Ashhos and the Tigers.
He's married to Kate Upton.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Don't choke. Yeah, that's it. We gotta have the game over.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
We don't want to finish, allright, We'll keep going.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
French French point guard for the Spurs.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
It's all right, he got fat. We're out there.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
All right, all right, congratulations Mark, you got a golden
but your phone socks.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
So are Joria Beckham's husband. Yeah, all right, stop.
Speaker 4 (42:39):
See say the last name.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
You're not allowed to do that. You cheated, all right.
I like your voice showed a very loud phone, you know,
Host
Ben Maller
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