December 10, 2024 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Yankees GM Brian Cashman saying the Yankees have no regrets after going 'above and beyond' comfort level in Soto sweepstakes, the Mets saying they would love to bring Pete Alonso back, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number two. It's the
tenth day of December, and here in hour number two,
it's all about GM. Brian Cashman of the Yankees says,
the Bronx Bombers have no regrets about going above and
beyond their comfort level. The Wan Sotos sweepstakes. How does
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this play in your ears? Also, one Soto had negative
feelings with the Yankee security was also upset they wouldn't
give him a free luxury box? Are you intrigued by
this part of the story and the GM of the
other team in New York, David Stearns says, the Mets
would love to bring Pete Alonzo back. But is that
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feeling mutual? We'll talk about that as well. It's all
coming your way right now here. It is our number two,
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lead this hour is from Dallas, but 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
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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 is going
on at the winter meetings in the Greater Dallas area.
Most of the chatter on the Monday card as we
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now hit into a Tuesday, most of the chatter has
been about the fallout from Juan Soto getting seven hundred
and sixty five million dead presidents to move nine point
nine miles nine point nine miles from the Yankee Stadium
out post in the Bronx to Queens and to hang
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out where the Mets play their games. Now, the Yankees
were only five million away, supposedly, you believe the scuttle,
but five million dollars away from getting the deal done.
Have you heard the reaction from the the Yankee camp?
Have you heard what they're saying?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You have not? 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
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the New 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 negotiations with
Juan Soto. The Yankees then congratulated the Mets the Little
Brothers for landing the biggest free age on the board
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by a country mile. 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.
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But let's focus in 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?
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How does this play in your ears?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All? Right?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
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 came
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up lame, had a problem with their ankle.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So number one, after an expedited review, see I took
that from Monday night football, an expedidd review after an
expedite review was some guy eating potato chips in New
Jersey watching NFL games and then saying, hey, that was a.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Bad call after an expedited review. The New York Yankees
bet on the wrong horse, right, They bet on the
wrong horse here. They would have never never traded the
volume of talent that they sent to the San Diego
baseball team a year ago to acquire Juan Soto from
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the Padres if they knew it was going to be
a one year rental. Now they might say, oh, we
never knew and all, but trust me, internally, it makes
no sense on any level if you're the Yankees 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
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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 stuff
and the money and spoiler alert didn't work. Juan Soto
stayed to his morals. His morals are about money. That's
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what it's all about and he stayed to that. He
stayed true to that. And whether you 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. So now what
happens he got pay Now does he changed? Is he
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gonna be as productive? What's gonna I don't know. But
for the Yankees, just focus on the 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, move on, there's nothing to see here,
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please disperse. He's trying to spin it like a dradal
at hanukkah. He's like, let me spend the story here
a little bit, a big deal, nothing to see here. Uh.
And in reality, you know, the Yankees they will add
other players, obviously gonna add other players, but they're not
gonna get anyone as good as one Sodo. And so
it's it's a question of short term pain conceivably for
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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 or 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 you 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 if you've heard
about this or not. Maybe not. So this is good, right,
little story time on the Ben Malor Show. So one
of the 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
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of one Soto from an area in Yankee Stadium. Holy crap, Batman, Yeah,
so likely because the proper paperwork had not been filed
or the proper past had not been given to One
Soto's parents are sold. The security guide said, you can't,
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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
they're forced him to stand outside of the rain. The
driver and chef had to stand outside in the rain.
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What is this world coming to? My god? Oh MG,
I would leave the Yankees too, But wait, there's more.
The Yankees, the big bad Yankees, would not budge on
giving one Soto a sweet at Yankee Stadium for free.
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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,
so offensive it hurt One Soda because Steve Cohen, he said,
I'll give you everything. I'll give you mister Met. You
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want to have a Halloween party where mister Met's outfit
if you want, I don't care. Give you here. Nobody's
buying those sweets at City Field anyway. We'll give you
one who cares. So he gave him a suite for free.
And so those are supposedly factors in Juan Soto deciding
to play for the Mets rather than the Yankees. Alright,
all right, so here's the deal. One Sodo had negative
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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
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
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Soto beef with security is a plant based story. John Hayman,
who has been well documented. John Hayman a mouthpiece of
Scott Morris. The way he reacted, he got into a
radio beef with a host a WFA in New York
over the weekend, I believe her at the end of
last week. And that reaction by John Hayman when the host,
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joking around pointed out the clear connection between Hayman and
Scott Morris, the reaction is some that's guilty. Yeah, that's now.
It's just evidence. It's not direct evidence, but it's circumstantial
evidence that John Hayman, those reports are accurate. There's something
going on there with Hayman and Scott Borris. And he
got so offended by that John Hayman that he I'm
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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 Borris 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 set a new tone that one Soto looks
not so good here, right because five million dollars in
the big picture is not all that much. When you
talk about seven hundred and sixty five, seven hundred and
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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 the Dodgers at some point. That's
a problem.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
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, Scott Boris
or a Scott Boris toady and trying to protect Juan Soda.
He looks like a douche. And so Scott Boris is like, well,
we love him. He took the money, he did what
we wanted to do. And hey, you know, listen, this
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cat didn't leave the Yankees for the Mets because of money.
He did it because he's a family man, man alive.
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 the Yankees, wouldn't give a skybox,
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They would not give him a scot what in the world,
as Jackie Slater was saying, what in the web? No
skybox for free? Wait, I get it. You're you're paying
me two hund sixty million, but I don't get a skybox. Wow. 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
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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
spent every night of my life from around age nineteen
to age See what year did I stop doing that.
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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
lot of fun, and I met a lot of cool people,
and I had a lot of wonderful experiences, and it
was a lot of fun. But to think I was
around players all, you know, for years, I became friends
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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 be so embarrassed.
I'd be like, Oh my god, what is wrong with me?
And one so noo. The Boris camp Proud probably leaked
that to John Hayman, who of course is a mouthpiece,
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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. I like driving my own car. Man,
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It's ridicuous, all right now, final point, real quick. The
GM of the Mets, David Sterns, said, the Metropolitans, the
Metropolitan would love, would love to bring Pete Alonzo back.
He's still out there. Is the feeling mutual? Is the
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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 the Mets. If not, right, forget about.
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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, a lot of blubber that he's
gonna need no such thing as a hometown discount anymore.
The owner, Steve Cohen, has shown to you and to
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I that hey, listen, things are different now, things have changed,
and he's got plenty of money to burn. He's a fanboy.
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. And if you were to go back to
the Mets, he'd be the third best player, right. They
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got Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto, and then Alonzo would
be number three. And you look around, there's plenty of money.
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. It is the
Ben Maler Show. I want to talk about that or
anything else. There's actually other teams in baseball other than
the Mets and the Yankees that we are open to
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Our friend stuck in Sacramento, we've not heard from Stuck
in Sacramento. I thought maybe he was in jail, but
he's out. If Juan Soto wasn't spoiled like a baby,
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could pitch could field hit fifty nine home runs and
steal fifty four bags, generate international fandom, and generate hundreds
of millions of dollars for his team. His name would
be Showtime O Tani. Don't let my name fool you.
I bled Dodger Blue, says Stuck in Sacramento. Yeah, well,
it's all that is fine and wonderful and great, and
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we'll see what happens going forward. But Juan Soto, it's
a lost leaders we talked about in a previous episode
of the show for the Mets, but they're willing to
do it. And Steve Cohen's got so much money. He
makes ridiculous amounts of money every year. I was reading
a story about just how much money he's got to
play with, and it is absolutely bananas. When you go
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inside the numbers on Steve Cohen and his financial situation,
it is next level, next level. When you look at
the the numbers that are being tossed around because of
this seven hundred and sixty five million dollars deal, there
are eight MLB team owners that paid more for their teams.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's it. In Steve Cohen bought the Mets for two
hundred and forty two billion. That is the most ever
paid for a team. There's a sixty six percent increase
according to Sporticode in value Soto's deal compared to the
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four hundred and sixty million dollars NPV of Otani's deal. Now,
that is not the all time biggest bump bumpity bump
a Rod. If you're old enough to remember when A
Rod got that two hundred and fifty two million dollar
deal to go to the Texas Rangers in two thousand,
that more than doubled the previous deal set a couple
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days earlier by pitcher Mike Hampton who went to the
Colorado Rockies. That was a hot mess. That was a
hot mess with Mike Hampton and the largest contract in
the history of sport in the American sport, global sports
as well, and Sodo pales in comparison to Otani and
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off the field revenue, Now, is that really going to
change all that much? Playing for the match? Juan Soto
making three million, If I made three million dollars in
off radio earnings, I would be like, Oh my god,
I'm this is the greatest thing in the world. But
compared to Otani, He's popper, is what he is, and
he's got some endorsement deals Juan Soo with places like
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under Armour, New Era Tops, but he ranks thirteenth among
all baseball players in total earnings from salaries and endorsements.
Obviously that's gonna go up, up, up and away way way, way,
way way. But Steve Cohen his net worth the owner
of the match twenty one point three billion, with a
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B like Ben and billion Cohen's network. If you compare
his money to the Yankees, Red Sex, Dodge, the Yankees
Red Sux. I know there's a lot of numbers, but
the Yankees, Red Sux, Dodgers all supposedly had interest in
Juan Soto. They all make more in revenue than the Mets.
They make more in revenue, but none of them could
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match Steve Cohen and his resource. Now the richest owner
is Steve Balmer. He's the daddy. Yeah, here's the daddy
from the Clippers. One hundred and twenty three billion. Steve Balmer,
who's probably more famous for anything than any he did
telling people no one's gonna buy the iPhone and how'd
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that work out? We're the one hundred and twenty three billion.
Rob Walton, who owns Kooper Loops Broncos is the second
richest owner, although he really didn't run the Broncos. It's
the Walton family one hundred and ninety four billion. But
Steve Cohen's fifth on that. And he's the richest baseball owner,
the richest baseball owner, and an absolute titan of the
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hedge fund. And you look at the the finances on
this and it's insane. Cohen's earnings in twenty twenty three
from investment fees and gains from his personal capital ponzi
when I guess, not ponzi, that's a dirty word. His
investment's hedge fund investments. This is according to a website
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detracts hedge fund managers. You want to take a guess
how much Steve Cohen made twenty twenty three? Got a number?
All right, here's the actual number. Steve Cohen, the Order
of the Mets, made one point six billion in one
year in twenty twenty three. One point six billion. That's
just fromment, investment fees and gains. Good for him, Good
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for him, But you can't spend it, all right, You're
gonna die. And that's it. Yeah, game over, go back
to zero and all that. When you're dead, so you
might as well spend it and give one Soto the
riches of Solomon. And as people have pointed out, they
call it the Coen tax, the luxury taxes, the Coen
tax that the Mets will be paying. So we'll see
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what happens with that. Let's go to the phones. We'll
say hello to bring it home, Jerome. Unless it's not
bring it home, droom, it's just Jerome. It's just a
erme who's in Charleston. Head's exploding from all this money talk.
I'm sure, Hello Jerome.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Okay, what Jay say? Man? You gotta get the people
what they want. People want money. They gotta go get
the money. Man. It's all about it. Must be the money.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Man, must be the body. Show money, money, money man, Yeah,
show me the money.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's the way the world is. Man. You know, hey,
to rich, get richard poor guys, right, and me get poored.
But hey, I'm not complaining.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You are complaining. You are complaining. You're jealou is, you're jealous.
You would like to wipe Soto's ass for like fifty bucks,
you do that?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Come on, he Wan, just let me say this ass. Okay, Hey, Wan,
Toto doesn't have a clue who the hell Kurt Blood
was because it wasn't for him.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
No, and no, Well that's how it always well, that's
that's how he always that's how it always is. But
think about this, the guys. The guy's twenty six years old.
He's got a driver and a chef much.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Older of course.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh no, oh, wouldn't you be embarrassed? I don't care,
you know, whether you have money or not. To admit that,
at age twenty six, that I've got a chef and
a drive, I'd be so embarrassed when I was twenty
six years old to say that, I mean, what is
wrong with people? What's wrong with you? That is is
humiliating to say you have a driver and a chef like.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
He lookt me. Let me tell you this cook story.
I'm sitting on the porch where I live that one
day talking to one of the elderly ladies live in
the building, and I told her I was an only child.
She said, oh, I know, you're s fall. I said,
you're wrong. I don't know everything about your life. I'm
the only child. I was tall, and I haven't gotten
a birthday present, all Christmas present and forever well, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Give me your ride. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna send
you something. Give me your address off here, I'll send
you something. No, i'll give you something. So that way
you can't say i'll send you a present. You that way,
you can't complain. You give me your address, I'll send
you something.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No, no, nothing about me. Man. So hey, I just offered.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I just offered to send you a present. You don't
even want to. President Jerome, I said I would send
you something.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
But what about Halliburn? The pieces he's got, Michael Halliburton
for he's got the lumber he's getting off his vam
and in like five block. Girls say, man, it must
be roughty in the Ambia from the pacers. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Holly, Well, for some reason, I don't know why, now, Jerome,
I don't know why this is, but beautiful women seem
to find athletes attractive. I don't know whether it's the money.
I don't know what it is, Droom, I can't figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Oh no, it's not the money.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Oh yeah, there's nothing new with the money.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yes, what about what about them telling me the shoes
that Judy Garland warm for twenty eight minute.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well that's random. There you go, you go. No one
in the hig Bay. Wait, nobody in the history of
the world's got from a Tyrese Halliburton. Take to Julie
Garden or Judy Garland. Rather, my god, that you're the
only one to ever do that.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
By the way, do you shoot study about Tyson? There's
some rich guy over in the middleies offering him several
hundred million dollars to hide Jake Palm again.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, I don't know about that. I did hear that
Tyson was on with my guy Danny g show there
Covino and Rich here.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I don't like my I didn't hear. What do you
what you have against Mike Tyson?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
He looked a woman and now he's got daughters. Do
you think he wants somewhere to go do that to
his own daughters? Huh and a million years jesu wif
you do something like that, that's why I don't like him.
I don't like that man.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You don't like Mike Tyan. Anti Tyson would argue that
that was that was a justice, that that was a wrong,
that was incorrect at that they got that case wrong.
That Dyson will tell you a question to ask you
about Georgia. Oh man, Well, you've got a lot of
material you've been saving up your materials.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
You're an man.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I can't help, but I got millions.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, you got a lot of thoughts there. There's a
lot of things going in that head of yours, Jerome,
A lot of things going on in that head of yours.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
What he's got a injury and it takes about a
month to recover. And not only that. I was looking
at the pennstay from the game. He's the weather forecast
minus run. Could that be good luck? After him? You
have a nice time going to state college in region?
And you know what, all Mila's one.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Okay, well, okay, so they'll they'll wear some heat packs
and they'll have heaters on the sidelines and they'll go
out there. I'll play some football.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You. I lived in the Midwest for seven years. Okay,
I'm never going back there. Come to me with that weather.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I know, all right, I got you. I know you
love Charleston. It's all hey, there go, thank you. All right,
there's a Jerome and Charleston. The million thoughts that guy
has unbelievable, just endless thoughts, full of thoughts. I love
that he brought up the ruby red slippers because that's
crazy expensive. That's when the iconic pieces of cinema, you
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think that why not go for a supermarket Steve wrights
In says, this is more proof that the second gen
eneration owners are not equal to their fathers. My favorite
Steinbrenner story is when he signed a player from I
guess Japan. Here the guy took a seven fifty seven
from Japan for ten people. Upon arriving, George said, I
(30:15):
like your style, kid, put it on my tab. According
to Supermarket Steve, telling some old old story. But we
have pointed this out, Supermarket Steve. And the thing in
life it's it's called old money versus new money, and
that that old money. It's the Great Gatsby. You saw
(30:35):
The Great Gatsby. More people probably read the booked and
saw the movie. But the Great Gatsby you talk about
old money, which is it comes out of you know,
being born in the right family and your family connections
and all that one New money jazz, Yeah, new people.
New money is you actually earned it, like Steve Cohen's
new money, he didn't. It probably came from some money,
(30:58):
but he the amount of money has steve guys like
that where the Raiders Mark Davis, He's he didn't do
anything to help his world out. He just happened to
be genetically he got in the right DNA pool and
is the spawn of Al Davis and so he inherited
the Raiders and runs the Raiders. But he didn't know
what the hell he's doing. And that's pretty much across
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the board. There is no second generation owner that's Genie
Buss doesn't know what she's doing. She's run the Lakers
in the ground. They're they're an embarrassment you. I mean,
I can't think of one neither there is. I just
can't think of it like a second generation owner that
knows what they're doing. They universally stink. It's usually how
(31:40):
that goes. Let's say hello to weed Man, Hippie, who's
in Miami, Miami, Miami. He's picking up his phone right now, Hello,
weed Man, Hippie. Hey, big fan, weed Man, big fan,
A drive twenty six years old, weed Man. Even you
(32:00):
when you were running a toy store, weed Man, and
you had some money, you didn't have a driver, and
you didn't have a chef.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Did you No?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
No, no, you know what I mean. That's you know,
you bring up a fact I had money, and I
certainly didn't have the drivers.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
No, no, and nor would you want one? I mean
that's something maybe you get on you crazy. No, I wouldn't.
I was rich. The first thing I would do is
get a cheft. That is all awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I love cooking my own food. There's something magical about
making your own food, seeing the process, how everything comes together.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Sure, I mean sure, but it makes sense for you
because you're not what I wouldn't consider you a foodie.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Well I'm not. I make different things.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't eat. I don't eat that much. I don't
eat that much.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Well, you can't afford any food? We mad.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Love.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I love you, but and you are very thin. Man,
weed man, you know way a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That's true, that's true. But I don't. I don't need
enough to meet a chef.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I mean yeah, it just blows me away, like I
would not want to have all these people on my payroll.
I would not even if I could afford it. I
just think it's like way too much. A driver, a chef.
You gotta have your you know. Seventeen the massage therapist.
I just to me, that's not the life I want.
But I'm not in that world. I guess. I guess
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it doesn't matter. You think Colin Coward as a chef
and a driver. Maybe he does. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I would hope not.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You know, so you know who?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I don't remember this guy? Want Soto and all of
a sudden, seven one hundred and sixty five million dollars
that you're joking, I'm sure who was he?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
You know?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
The Yankees?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
That's bad baseball knowledge. He was won the World Series
with the Nationals a few years back, and he's like.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, no, no, forget the Nationals.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Tell me he was on the Yes, they got to
the World Series. He was their second best player behind
Aaron Judge. Yes, yes, come on, what do you come on?
I mean that's he was a good he's a good player.
He's not a terrible play he's a good player.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
One of.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Stanton. All Stan does is he's like he swings for
the for the mountaintops is what he does.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
But I was listening to James, I don't remember this guy.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, we man, you've done so much weed. If you
don't know who one Soto is and he was batting
near the top of the Yankee lnup like every game.
I don't know what to tell you. That's a that's
a you problem.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, you're right, You're right, You're.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Right, Yeah, all right, and your roommate's not there, right,
I hear a lot of pro.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I wish you'd moved out, manou.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But then somebody else could be worse. Who moves in?
You never know.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I just wish I had a room by myself. I know,
I know, and Ben what people contact? Come on, but
we need jokes.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
We need I know, we need the jokes. We need
the jokes. Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I know.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Benmallor Show at gmail dot com. Ben Malors Show at
gmail dot com. It's weed Man's own segment on the
show every Thursday and a Friday. Lame Jokes of the
Week every Thursday and the Friday. I gotta go with
thank you, we Man, go Awa. I love you a big,
big hog, all right there, weed Man, our friend. We
love the guy anyway. It is the Ben Mahlord Show.
(35:41):
He's our friend and he's very loyal to this show
no matter what. Even in jail, he would listen to
this show time now for the who am I game,
will also have Mallard to the third degree. Mallard of
the actually the insta trivia rather not to who am at?
We did that last star, we have Mallard of the
third degree straight at. Here is the instat tributa. The
Bears lost thirty eight to thirteen and Thomas Brown's debut
(36:04):
as interim coach. Blank holds the record for the largest
lopsided loss in their debut as an interim coach over
the last twenty seasons. Again, the Bears lost thirty eight
thirteen and Thomas Brown's debut as interim coach. The record
is held by Blank for the largest lopsided loss in
(36:24):
their debut over the last twenty season last generation. That's
the instant tributa. The answer next.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
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PLEASNAVIDT.
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At least.
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the podcast. Now back to the show. All right, let's
get to it. Here we go, Thank you Bill the
Insta Trivia. The Bears lost thirty eight to thirteen of
the Niners and Thomas Brown's debut as interim coach. Somehow,
that was not the worst in modern times. Blank holds
the record. That was odd. Blank holds the record for
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the largest lopsided loss in their debut over the last
twenty seasons. That is the question. What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone know the answer? Master Splinter guess
by the Cowboy Killer Rob in Vegas is the whole
f and show rob Man, damn, he's good for that.
Once a week. Robin Vegas will send that once a week.
Mister nice guy going with Jose Viscuayano is his answer.
(38:08):
Weed Man's personal chef chef boy r D from Milkman
Mike in Colorado. Who else do we have? Bobby Flay
who is sixty today late night drug tester. That's his answer.
Ralph Wigham from King Rory Donkey Sausage going with Richard
Pryor who went gone out nineteen years ago today. All right, Lorena,
do you have an answer on the right off the
(38:29):
fashionable Jayalen Johnson? Ben fine answer, but that's in Korregate's
Emmitt Thomas lost thirty seven to three for the Falcons.
It is Denu and O seven as interim coach.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Here we got Smeller. How about that to the thirty
Here we go?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
This is one big Ben gets great?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
All right, Koop de loop.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
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 1 (39:01):
No, he won't, and nor should he be, because the
Vikings drafted a quarterback in the first round 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. They
don't even believe Sam Donald's legit. Now that'll change if
they go to the Super Bowl, which they're not, but
(39:23):
if that were to happen, they would revisit it. But no,
they don't believe in him. Otherwise they try to sign him.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Next 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.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Do you believe him? Yeah, So I'm going to expand
on this more in a little bit as well, Coop.
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
(40:02):
nine er news company. Can you imagine? You know, I'm
really not that happier. I'd like to coach the Bears,
or I'd like to coach the Carolina I mean, of
course he's gonna say that. What else does you say next?
Speaker 6 (40:11):
The Grizzlies have won nine out of the last ten,
including a big win over the Celtics on Saturday, Summer
speculating that Memphis has provided a blueprint to neutralizing the
Celtics offense.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Ben, are you buying that? No, I am not, but
I will give you this. 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 grif you know what I mean. They have
John Moran, Desmond bang Got, but the rest of those
guys you just nobody's. I like the way they play.
(40:42):
I don't believe that hype. How we now he passes
edition to win
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number two. It's the
tenth day of December, and here in hour number two,
it's all about GM. Brian Cashman of the Yankees says,
the Bronx Bombers have no regrets about going above and
beyond their comfort level. The Wan Sotos sweepstakes. How does
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this play in your ears? Also, one Soto had negative
feelings with the Yankee security was also upset they wouldn't
give him a free luxury box? Are you intrigued by
this part of the story and the GM of the
other team in New York, David Stearns says, the Mets
would love to bring Pete Alonzo back. But is that
(00:44):
feeling mutual? We'll talk about that as well. It's all
coming your way right now here. It is our number two,
some old fashioned damage control. Welcome. In the beginning of
another hour, Ben Maler show, we are in the air
everywhere as we stay in touch and we attempt to
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we try to play it. It's coast to coast, border,
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Tyrack dot Com the Way Tire Buying show. So our
lead this hour is from Dallas, but 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
(02:13):
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 is going
on at the winter meetings in the Greater Dallas area.
Most of the chatter on the Monday card as we
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now hit into a Tuesday, most of the chatter has
been about the fallout from Juan Soto getting seven hundred
and sixty five million dead presidents to move nine point
nine miles nine point nine miles from the Yankee Stadium
out post in the Bronx to Queens and to hang
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out where the Mets play their games. Now, the Yankees
were only five million away, supposedly, you believe the scuttle,
but five million dollars away from getting the deal done.
Have you heard the reaction from the the Yankee camp?
Have you heard what they're saying?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You have not? 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
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the New 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 negotiations with
Juan Soto. The Yankees then congratulated the Mets the Little
Brothers for landing the biggest free age on the board
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by a country mile. 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.
(04:24):
But let's focus in 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?
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How does this play in your ears?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All? Right?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
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 came
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up lame, had a problem with their ankle.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So number one, after an expedited review, see I took
that from Monday night football, an expedidd review after an
expedite review was some guy eating potato chips in New
Jersey watching NFL games and then saying, hey, that was a.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Bad call after an expedited review. The New York Yankees
bet on the wrong horse, right, They bet on the
wrong horse here. They would have never never traded the
volume of talent that they sent to the San Diego
baseball team a year ago to acquire Juan Soto from
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the Padres if they knew it was going to be
a one year rental. Now they might say, oh, we
never knew and all, but trust me, internally, it makes
no sense on any level if you're the Yankees 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
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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 stuff
and the money and spoiler alert didn't work. Juan Soto
stayed to his morals. His morals are about money. That's
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what it's all about and he stayed to that. He
stayed true to that. And whether you 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. So now what
happens he got pay Now does he changed? Is he
(07:01):
gonna be as productive? What's gonna I don't know. But
for the Yankees, just focus on the 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, move on, there's nothing to see here,
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please disperse. He's trying to spin it like a dradal
at hanukkah. He's like, let me spend the story here
a little bit, a big deal, nothing to see here. Uh.
And in reality, you know, the Yankees they will add
other players, obviously gonna add other players, but they're not
gonna get anyone as good as one Sodo. And so
it's it's a question of short term pain conceivably for
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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 or 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 you 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 if you've heard
about this or not. Maybe not. So this is good, right,
little story time on the Ben Malor Show. So one
of the 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
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of one Soto from an area in Yankee Stadium. Holy crap, Batman, Yeah,
so likely because the proper paperwork had not been filed
or the proper past had not been given to One
Soto's parents are sold. The security guide said, you can't,
(09:35):
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
they're forced him to stand outside of the rain. The
driver and chef had to stand outside in the rain.
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What is this world coming to? My god? Oh MG,
I would leave the Yankees too, But wait, there's more.
The Yankees, the big bad Yankees, would not budge on
giving one Soto a sweet at Yankee Stadium for free.
(10:19):
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,
so offensive it hurt One Soda because Steve Cohen, he said,
I'll give you everything. I'll give you mister Met. You
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want to have a Halloween party where mister Met's outfit
if you want, I don't care. Give you here. Nobody's
buying those sweets at City Field anyway. We'll give you
one who cares. So he gave him a suite for free.
And so those are supposedly factors in Juan Soto deciding
to play for the Mets rather than the Yankees. Alright,
all right, so here's the deal. One Sodo had negative
(11:05):
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
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
(11:30):
Soto beef with security is a plant based story. John Hayman,
who has been well documented. John Hayman a mouthpiece of
Scott Morris. The way he reacted, he got into a
radio beef with a host a WFA in New York
over the weekend, I believe her at the end of
last week. And that reaction by John Hayman when the host,
(11:53):
joking around pointed out the clear connection between Hayman and
Scott Morris, the reaction is some that's guilty. Yeah, that's now.
It's just evidence. It's not direct evidence, but it's circumstantial
evidence that John Hayman, those reports are accurate. There's something
going on there with Hayman and Scott Borris. And he
got so offended by that John Hayman that he I'm
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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 Borris 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 set a new tone that one Soto looks
not so good here, right because five million dollars in
the big picture is not all that much. When you
talk about seven hundred and sixty five, seven hundred and
(12:38):
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 the Dodgers at some point. That's
a problem.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
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, Scott Boris
or a Scott Boris toady and trying to protect Juan Soda.
He looks like a douche. And so Scott Boris is like, well,
we love him. He took the money, he did what
we wanted to do. And hey, you know, listen, this
(13:15):
cat didn't leave the Yankees for the Mets because of money.
He did it because he's a family man, man alive.
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 the Yankees, wouldn't give a skybox,
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They would not give him a scot what in the world,
as Jackie Slater was saying, what in the web? No
skybox for free? Wait, I get it. You're you're paying
me two hund sixty million, but I don't get a skybox. Wow. 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
(14:01):
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
spent every night of my life from around age nineteen
to age See what year did I stop doing that.
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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
lot of fun, and I met a lot of cool people,
and I had a lot of wonderful experiences, and it
was a lot of fun. But to think I was
around players all, you know, for years, I became friends
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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 be so embarrassed.
I'd be like, Oh my god, what is wrong with me?
And one so noo. The Boris camp Proud probably leaked
that to John Hayman, who of course is a mouthpiece,
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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. I like driving my own car. Man,
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It's ridicuous, all right now, final point, real quick. The
GM of the Mets, David Sterns, said, the Metropolitans, the
Metropolitan would love, would love to bring Pete Alonzo back.
He's still out there. Is the feeling mutual? Is the
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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 the Mets. If not, right, forget about.
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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, a lot of blubber that he's
gonna need no such thing as a hometown discount anymore.
The owner, Steve Cohen, has shown to you and to
(16:27):
I that hey, listen, things are different now, things have changed,
and he's got plenty of money to burn. He's a fanboy.
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. And if you were to go back to
the Mets, he'd be the third best player, right. They
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got Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto, and then Alonzo would
be number three. And you look around, there's plenty of money.
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. It is the
Ben Maler Show. I want to talk about that or
anything else. There's actually other teams in baseball other than
the Mets and the Yankees that we are open to
(17:10):
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Our friend stuck in Sacramento, we've not heard from Stuck
in Sacramento. I thought maybe he was in jail, but
he's out. If Juan Soto wasn't spoiled like a baby,
(19:20):
could pitch could field hit fifty nine home runs and
steal fifty four bags, generate international fandom, and generate hundreds
of millions of dollars for his team. His name would
be Showtime O Tani. Don't let my name fool you.
I bled Dodger Blue, says Stuck in Sacramento. Yeah, well,
it's all that is fine and wonderful and great, and
(19:44):
we'll see what happens going forward. But Juan Soto, it's
a lost leaders we talked about in a previous episode
of the show for the Mets, but they're willing to
do it. And Steve Cohen's got so much money. He
makes ridiculous amounts of money every year. I was reading
a story about just how much money he's got to
play with, and it is absolutely bananas. When you go
(20:07):
inside the numbers on Steve Cohen and his financial situation,
it is next level, next level. When you look at
the the numbers that are being tossed around because of
this seven hundred and sixty five million dollars deal, there
are eight MLB team owners that paid more for their teams.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That's it. In Steve Cohen bought the Mets for two
hundred and forty two billion. That is the most ever
paid for a team. There's a sixty six percent increase
according to Sporticode in value Soto's deal compared to the
(20:53):
four hundred and sixty million dollars NPV of Otani's deal. Now,
that is not the all time biggest bump bumpity bump
a Rod. If you're old enough to remember when A
Rod got that two hundred and fifty two million dollar
deal to go to the Texas Rangers in two thousand,
that more than doubled the previous deal set a couple
(21:15):
days earlier by pitcher Mike Hampton who went to the
Colorado Rockies. That was a hot mess. That was a
hot mess with Mike Hampton and the largest contract in
the history of sport in the American sport, global sports
as well, and Sodo pales in comparison to Otani and
(21:39):
off the field revenue, Now, is that really going to
change all that much? Playing for the match? Juan Soto
making three million, If I made three million dollars in
off radio earnings, I would be like, Oh my god,
I'm this is the greatest thing in the world. But
compared to Otani, He's popper, is what he is, and
he's got some endorsement deals Juan Soo with places like
(22:00):
under Armour, New Era Tops, but he ranks thirteenth among
all baseball players in total earnings from salaries and endorsements.
Obviously that's gonna go up, up, up and away way way, way,
way way. But Steve Cohen his net worth the owner
of the match twenty one point three billion, with a
(22:24):
B like Ben and billion Cohen's network. If you compare
his money to the Yankees, Red Sex, Dodge, the Yankees
Red Sux. I know there's a lot of numbers, but
the Yankees, Red Sux, Dodgers all supposedly had interest in
Juan Soto. They all make more in revenue than the Mets.
They make more in revenue, but none of them could
(22:47):
match Steve Cohen and his resource. Now the richest owner
is Steve Balmer. He's the daddy. Yeah, here's the daddy
from the Clippers. One hundred and twenty three billion. Steve Balmer,
who's probably more famous for anything than any he did
telling people no one's gonna buy the iPhone and how'd
(23:09):
that work out? We're the one hundred and twenty three billion.
Rob Walton, who owns Kooper Loops Broncos is the second
richest owner, although he really didn't run the Broncos. It's
the Walton family one hundred and ninety four billion. But
Steve Cohen's fifth on that. And he's the richest baseball owner,
the richest baseball owner, and an absolute titan of the
(23:34):
hedge fund. And you look at the the finances on
this and it's insane. Cohen's earnings in twenty twenty three
from investment fees and gains from his personal capital ponzi
when I guess, not ponzi, that's a dirty word. His
investment's hedge fund investments. This is according to a website
(23:56):
detracts hedge fund managers. You want to take a guess
how much Steve Cohen made twenty twenty three? Got a number?
All right, here's the actual number. Steve Cohen, the Order
of the Mets, made one point six billion in one
year in twenty twenty three. One point six billion. That's
just fromment, investment fees and gains. Good for him, Good
(24:21):
for him, But you can't spend it, all right, You're
gonna die. And that's it. Yeah, game over, go back
to zero and all that. When you're dead, so you
might as well spend it and give one Soto the
riches of Solomon. And as people have pointed out, they
call it the Coen tax, the luxury taxes, the Coen
tax that the Mets will be paying. So we'll see
(24:44):
what happens with that. Let's go to the phones. We'll
say hello to bring it home, Jerome. Unless it's not
bring it home, droom, it's just Jerome. It's just a
erme who's in Charleston. Head's exploding from all this money talk.
I'm sure, Hello Jerome.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Okay, what Jay say? Man? You gotta get the people
what they want. People want money. They gotta go get
the money. Man. It's all about it. Must be the money.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Man, must be the body. Show money, money, money man, Yeah,
show me the money.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's the way the world is. Man. You know, hey,
to rich, get richard poor guys, right, and me get poored.
But hey, I'm not complaining.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You are complaining. You are complaining. You're jealou is, you're jealous.
You would like to wipe Soto's ass for like fifty bucks,
you do that?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Come on, he Wan, just let me say this ass. Okay, Hey, Wan,
Toto doesn't have a clue who the hell Kurt Blood
was because it wasn't for him.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
No, and no, Well that's how it always well, that's
that's how he always that's how it always is. But
think about this, the guys. The guy's twenty six years old.
He's got a driver and a chef much.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Older of course.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh no, oh, wouldn't you be embarrassed? I don't care,
you know, whether you have money or not. To admit that,
at age twenty six, that I've got a chef and
a drive, I'd be so embarrassed when I was twenty
six years old to say that, I mean, what is
wrong with people? What's wrong with you? That is is
humiliating to say you have a driver and a chef like.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
He lookt me. Let me tell you this cook story.
I'm sitting on the porch where I live that one
day talking to one of the elderly ladies live in
the building, and I told her I was an only child.
She said, oh, I know, you're s fall. I said,
you're wrong. I don't know everything about your life. I'm
the only child. I was tall, and I haven't gotten
a birthday present, all Christmas present and forever well, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Give me your ride. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna send
you something. Give me your address off here, I'll send
you something. No, i'll give you something. So that way
you can't say i'll send you a present. You that way,
you can't complain. You give me your address, I'll send
you something.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No, no, nothing about me. Man. So hey, I just offered.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I just offered to send you a present. You don't
even want to. President Jerome, I said I would send
you something.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
But what about Halliburn? The pieces he's got, Michael Halliburton
for he's got the lumber he's getting off his vam
and in like five block. Girls say, man, it must
be roughty in the Ambia from the pacers. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Holly, Well, for some reason, I don't know why, now, Jerome,
I don't know why this is, but beautiful women seem
to find athletes attractive. I don't know whether it's the money.
I don't know what it is, Droom, I can't figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Oh no, it's not the money.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Oh yeah, there's nothing new with the money.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yes, what about what about them telling me the shoes
that Judy Garland warm for twenty eight minute.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well that's random. There you go, you go. No one
in the hig Bay. Wait, nobody in the history of
the world's got from a Tyrese Halliburton. Take to Julie
Garden or Judy Garland. Rather, my god, that you're the
only one to ever do that.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
By the way, do you shoot study about Tyson? There's
some rich guy over in the middleies offering him several
hundred million dollars to hide Jake Palm again.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, I don't know about that. I did hear that
Tyson was on with my guy Danny g show there
Covino and Rich here.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I don't like my I didn't hear. What do you
what you have against Mike Tyson?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
He looked a woman and now he's got daughters. Do
you think he wants somewhere to go do that to
his own daughters? Huh and a million years jesu wif
you do something like that, that's why I don't like him.
I don't like that man.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You don't like Mike Tyan. Anti Tyson would argue that
that was that was a justice, that that was a wrong,
that was incorrect at that they got that case wrong.
That Dyson will tell you a question to ask you
about Georgia. Oh man, Well, you've got a lot of
material you've been saving up your materials.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
You're an man.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I can't help, but I got millions.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, you got a lot of thoughts there. There's a
lot of things going in that head of yours, Jerome,
A lot of things going on in that head of yours.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
What he's got a injury and it takes about a
month to recover. And not only that. I was looking
at the pennstay from the game. He's the weather forecast
minus run. Could that be good luck? After him? You
have a nice time going to state college in region?
And you know what, all Mila's one.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Okay, well, okay, so they'll they'll wear some heat packs
and they'll have heaters on the sidelines and they'll go
out there. I'll play some football.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You. I lived in the Midwest for seven years. Okay,
I'm never going back there. Come to me with that weather.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I know, all right, I got you. I know you
love Charleston. It's all hey, there go, thank you. All right,
there's a Jerome and Charleston. The million thoughts that guy
has unbelievable, just endless thoughts, full of thoughts. I love
that he brought up the ruby red slippers because that's
crazy expensive. That's when the iconic pieces of cinema, you
(29:54):
think that why not go for a supermarket Steve wrights
In says, this is more proof that the second gen
eneration owners are not equal to their fathers. My favorite
Steinbrenner story is when he signed a player from I
guess Japan. Here the guy took a seven fifty seven
from Japan for ten people. Upon arriving, George said, I
(30:15):
like your style, kid, put it on my tab. According
to Supermarket Steve, telling some old old story. But we
have pointed this out, Supermarket Steve. And the thing in
life it's it's called old money versus new money, and
that that old money. It's the Great Gatsby. You saw
(30:35):
The Great Gatsby. More people probably read the booked and
saw the movie. But the Great Gatsby you talk about
old money, which is it comes out of you know,
being born in the right family and your family connections
and all that one New money jazz, Yeah, new people.
New money is you actually earned it, like Steve Cohen's
new money, he didn't. It probably came from some money,
(30:58):
but he the amount of money has steve guys like
that where the Raiders Mark Davis, He's he didn't do
anything to help his world out. He just happened to
be genetically he got in the right DNA pool and
is the spawn of Al Davis and so he inherited
the Raiders and runs the Raiders. But he didn't know
what the hell he's doing. And that's pretty much across
(31:19):
the board. There is no second generation owner that's Genie
Buss doesn't know what she's doing. She's run the Lakers
in the ground. They're they're an embarrassment you. I mean,
I can't think of one neither there is. I just
can't think of it like a second generation owner that
knows what they're doing. They universally stink. It's usually how
(31:40):
that goes. Let's say hello to weed Man, Hippie, who's
in Miami, Miami, Miami. He's picking up his phone right now, Hello,
weed Man, Hippie. Hey, big fan, weed Man, big fan,
A drive twenty six years old, weed Man. Even you
(32:00):
when you were running a toy store, weed Man, and
you had some money, you didn't have a driver, and
you didn't have a chef.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Did you No?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
No, no, you know what I mean. That's you know,
you bring up a fact I had money, and I
certainly didn't have the drivers.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
No, no, and nor would you want one? I mean
that's something maybe you get on you crazy. No, I wouldn't.
I was rich. The first thing I would do is
get a cheft. That is all awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
I love cooking my own food. There's something magical about
making your own food, seeing the process, how everything comes together.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Sure, I mean sure, but it makes sense for you
because you're not what I wouldn't consider you a foodie.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Well I'm not. I make different things.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't eat. I don't eat that much. I don't
eat that much.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Well, you can't afford any food? We mad.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Love.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I love you, but and you are very thin. Man,
weed man, you know way a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
That's true, that's true. But I don't. I don't need
enough to meet a chef.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
I mean yeah, it just blows me away, like I
would not want to have all these people on my payroll.
I would not even if I could afford it. I
just think it's like way too much. A driver, a chef.
You gotta have your you know. Seventeen the massage therapist.
I just to me, that's not the life I want.
But I'm not in that world. I guess. I guess
(33:27):
it doesn't matter. You think Colin Coward as a chef
and a driver. Maybe he does. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I would hope not.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You know, so you know who?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I don't remember this guy? Want Soto and all of
a sudden, seven one hundred and sixty five million dollars
that you're joking, I'm sure who was he?
Speaker 5 (33:53):
You know?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
The Yankees?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
That's bad baseball knowledge. He was won the World Series
with the Nationals a few years back, and he's like.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, no, no, forget the Nationals.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Tell me he was on the Yes, they got to
the World Series. He was their second best player behind
Aaron Judge. Yes, yes, come on, what do you come on?
I mean that's he was a good he's a good player.
He's not a terrible play he's a good player.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
One of.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Stanton. All Stan does is he's like he swings for
the for the mountaintops is what he does.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
But I was listening to James, I don't remember this guy.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, we man, you've done so much weed. If you
don't know who one Soto is and he was batting
near the top of the Yankee lnup like every game.
I don't know what to tell you. That's a that's
a you problem.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, you're right, You're right, You're.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Right, Yeah, all right, and your roommate's not there, right,
I hear a lot of pro.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I wish you'd moved out, manou.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But then somebody else could be worse. Who moves in?
You never know.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I just wish I had a room by myself. I know,
I know, and Ben what people contact? Come on, but
we need jokes.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
We need I know, we need the jokes. We need
the jokes. Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I know.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Benmallor Show at gmail dot com. Ben Malors Show at
gmail dot com. It's weed Man's own segment on the
show every Thursday and a Friday. Lame Jokes of the
Week every Thursday and the Friday. I gotta go with
thank you, we Man, go Awa. I love you a big,
big hog, all right there, weed Man, our friend. We
love the guy anyway. It is the Ben Mahlord Show.
(35:41):
He's our friend and he's very loyal to this show
no matter what. Even in jail, he would listen to
this show time now for the who am I game,
will also have Mallard to the third degree. Mallard of
the actually the insta trivia rather not to who am at?
We did that last star, we have Mallard of the
third degree straight at. Here is the instat tributa. The
Bears lost thirty eight to thirteen and Thomas Brown's debut
(36:04):
as interim coach. Blank holds the record for the largest
lopsided loss in their debut as an interim coach over
the last twenty seasons. Again, the Bears lost thirty eight
thirteen and Thomas Brown's debut as interim coach. The record
is held by Blank for the largest lopsided loss in
(36:24):
their debut over the last twenty season last generation. That's
the instant tributa. The answer next.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
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Speaker 2 (36:47):
PELEISNAVIDT Come fleas snave dot.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
PLEASNAVIDT.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
At least.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
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get to it. Here we go, Thank you Bill the
Insta Trivia. The Bears lost thirty eight to thirteen of
the Niners and Thomas Brown's debut as interim coach. Somehow,
that was not the worst in modern times. Blank holds
the record. That was odd. Blank holds the record for
(37:45):
the largest lopsided loss in their debut over the last
twenty seasons. That is the question. What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone know the answer? Master Splinter guess
by the Cowboy Killer Rob in Vegas is the whole
f and show rob Man, damn, he's good for that.
Once a week. Robin Vegas will send that once a week.
Mister nice guy going with Jose Viscuayano is his answer.
(38:08):
Weed Man's personal chef chef boy r D from Milkman
Mike in Colorado. Who else do we have? Bobby Flay
who is sixty today late night drug tester. That's his answer.
Ralph Wigham from King Rory Donkey Sausage going with Richard
Pryor who went gone out nineteen years ago today. All right, Lorena,
do you have an answer on the right off the
(38:29):
fashionable Jayalen Johnson? Ben fine answer, but that's in Korregate's
Emmitt Thomas lost thirty seven to three for the Falcons.
It is Denu and O seven as interim coach.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Here we got Smeller. How about that to the thirty
Here we go?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
This is one big Ben gets great?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
All right, Koop de loop.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
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 1 (39:01):
No, he won't, and nor should he be, because the
Vikings drafted a quarterback in the first round 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. They
don't even believe Sam Donald's legit. Now that'll change if
they go to the Super Bowl, which they're not, but
(39:23):
if that were to happen, they would revisit it. But no,
they don't believe in him. Otherwise they try to sign him.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Next 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.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Do you believe him? Yeah, So I'm going to expand
on this more in a little bit as well, Coop.
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
(40:02):
nine er news company. Can you imagine? You know, I'm
really not that happier. I'd like to coach the Bears,
or I'd like to coach the Carolina I mean, of
course he's gonna say that. What else does you say next?
Speaker 6 (40:11):
The Grizzlies have won nine out of the last ten,
including a big win over the Celtics on Saturday, Summer
speculating that Memphis has provided a blueprint to neutralizing the
Celtics offense.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Ben, are you buying that? No, I am not, but
I will give you this. 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 grif you know what I mean. They have
John Moran, Desmond bang Got, but the rest of those
guys you just nobody's. I like the way they play.
(40:42):
I don't believe that hype. How we now he passes
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