December 11, 2024 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about Max Fried signing an EIGHT year $215m contract with the Yankees, the problems between A.J. Brown and Jalen Hurts inside the Eagles locker room, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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The Waittire buying showy. So our lead this hour is
from Big D, well indirectly the Bronx, but we'll go
to Big D, the site of Major League Baseball's off
season garage sale. Now this is not your normal Saturday
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morning garage sale where you're trying to get rid of
those old books and those old VHS tapes and the
other crap that you found your house. This is the
Winter Meetings of Major League Baseball circa twenty twenty four. An,
oh myle mine. Now, things got started a couple days
ago with a neutron bomb of ad Juan Soto going
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nine point nine miles from the Yankees to the Mets,
and that caused a lot of angst among the Bronx
bombers and they had to shoot their shot. Well, now
they have. And if you have not heard the news yet,
because you actually have a life and you don't obsess
about all these moves, well the news is out. Max Freed,
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who later they Atlamamorights. Max Freed is taking his talents
to the New York Yankees, and he's doing it for
some real chump change. Here eight years, two hundred and
eighteen million dollar contract, and it's said to be the
largest guarantee for a left handed pitcher in the history
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of baseball. It is the wealth contract of at least
one hundred million dead presidents the Yankees have given out.
That breaks a tie in the history of the Yankees
with the Dodgers, the most of any team in baseball.
I know you're keeping score as you listen to this show.
So Max Freed is thirty years old, He's a two
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time All Star, and over the last five seasons in
Atlanta an urn run average of two point eight one,
and that is tops in the major leagues over the
last five years, just ahead of fellow free agent Corbin
mister Burns, late of the Orioles among all Major League
Baseball starting pitchers in that time frame. So this is
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a big dealt with a lot of money, and certainly
worthy of some conversation. So let us discuss the question,
what is your reaction to Max Freed getting the over
two hundred and fifteen million WUS round numbers, over two
hundred fifteen million, two hundred and eighteen to big sac
contract from the Yankees. So I've got edible arrangements Enron
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and Congress, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a nice portfolio,
because Max Freed is going to have an awesome portfolio
of investments, little crypto, little Wall Street, little real estate.
And to change to change to Chin because the key
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to making money is to have money. When you have money,
you make money, and when you have a lot of money,
you make a lot more money. You are set up
generations of the Max Freed family set up now compliments
of the Steinbrenner family. So a you knew something big
was gonna go down, You don't know what was going
to happen, but you knew. The Yankees were embarrassed, rightfully.
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So this is very unbecoming of the Yankees to lose
a player like Juan Sota, who they wanted and to
be spurred spurned, a spurned left at the altar and
have him go across New York to another borough over
there to queens. That's that's a kick to the nuts.
And so they need her to do something. And it's
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Newton's third law of motion, which states that for every
action there's an equal and opposite reaction. So Juan Soto
goes to the Mets, and the opposite reaction by the
Yankees is Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,
oh my we got to signe somebody. Oh my god, Ah,
Max Fred, We need you Max, all right, So they did,
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They signed Max Freed. Now my advice to Max Freed
is he should send an edible arrangements gift over to
Juan Soto and Scott Borris because without Sodo leaving the
Yankees to go to the Mets, Max Freed would have
gotten a lot of money. He would have never gotten
over two hundred and fifteen million dollars. That deal does
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not happen without Juan Soto. Part of the arithmetic on
this one. Now we like the player. I'm gonna be
completely transparent with you. Why why else would I be
any other way? But if you know the history of
this show, one of the most important nights in the
history of this show, Max Freed was a part of.
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Now a fan of the Atlanta Braves. No, I am
not a fan of the Atlanta Braves. You know that
I don't like the Atlanta Braves. I don't hate them,
I just don't like them. I'm not a Braves fan,
Sam I am, But for one week I was an
Atlanta Brave fan. Let's go back a few years ago
the World Series. It was a close out game, and
oh what a gutty performance it was, showing massive amounts
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of machismo against the cheating Astros. Max Freed went out
there in a closeout game and was brilliant, brilliant as
Atlanta exterminated the cheating a holes out of the plast
was a glorious night, and for that I am grateful.
So I'm happy for Max Freed. He's battle tested, at
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least in that particular game. You can look at some
of his other playoff numbers and say, what's going on.
But it's a wacky amount of money. It's cartoon money,
it's fake money. It's not real world money. It's it's
just the world of the baseball universe. And good for
Max Free. Now part two of this, Please do not
take a cat nap. Why did the Yankees give Max
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Freed eight years? The money is one thing, but eight
years it's a long time. So this part of the
story is some classic finagling of the books Enron level accounting.
If you don't remember Enron, look it up, google it.
Max Free is thirty years old. The Athletic prime is
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over at thirty two, maybe thirty three. So he said,
a thirty year old to an eight year contract. You
know the man, he's locked up till he's thirty eight.
Generally speaking, that is bad business, right, That is not
good business. That would be on the negative side of
the business equation unless you're using Enron like accounting. It's
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all about the luxury tax. And now as we understand it,
let me explain this to you as I understand it,
and I'm explaining to you like your child. So Max
Freed's average annual value the AAVY, the AAV twenty seven
point twenty five million, that's what he's gonna get on average.
That is thirty seventh all time. To give you some perspective,
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he's just below Tyler Glasstow, the guy that's made out
of glass, who the Dodgers got last offseason. Of course,
he was nowhere to be seen when the playoffs came
around because he's made out of glass and glass shatters
by October. But the smart money stay focused. The smart
money says that the Yankees extended the deal for Max
Freed eight years as a way to again, I'll go
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back to the word finagel, the luxury tax, to get
a lower luxury tax hit because that system that Major
League Baseball put in is based on aav average annual value.
So knowing that Free will be washed up way before
he's thirty eight years old. In fact, reality is, this
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is a two hundred and eighteen million dollar contract over
four years, but it's being laid out over eight years.
Knowing that if you get anything out of Max Freed
past the age of thirty four, so it thirty five,
thirty sixty seven, thirty eight, that's all gravy that you
don't expect the getting out of him. He's the back
of the rotation guy. He'll pitch half the season, that
kind of guy. You're just moving some numbers around on
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on an accounting page to stay out of the luxury
tax purgatory. At least give you more wiggle room in
that department. You understand, very good? All right? Now, last word,
we go to Boston where the Red Sox were trying
to get Max Freed. Shockingly they did not. Continuing another
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off season of futility, which is not over yet, but
things have mostly been quiet for the Finway faithful. There
a lot of noise. That's something big coming around the mountain.
When it comes something big. Okay, believe that when it
happens now there has been a lot of noise that
that's something big. Will be cheating a one one thousand
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and two one thousand oh free agent third baseman Alex Bregman,
who has been prominently mentioned. There are reports coming out
of the Winter meetings that the Red Sox have made
proposals to Alex Bregman. However, it is a house divided,
a house divided in the luxury suite the Red Sox
have at the Winter meetings when it comes to whether
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or not they actually want to put pen to paper
on the cheating a Hole Alex Bregman, fellow cheating a Hole,
Alex Correr, the manager, and Slimy Team President Sam Kennedy
are all in why wouldn't they be? But Craig Breslo,
the general manager, is said to be reluctant, as in
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he's not interested. Wink wink no. Not so the Red
Sox someming up like this. The Red Sox are said
to be split on Alex Bregman in free agency. How
should they handle this? So my advice to the Socks,
My advice is to act like you are a member
of Congress abstaining from the vote on Bregman. Just say no,
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Just say no. Boston signed Raffie Al Devers for three
hundred and thirty one million to play third base. Was
that not within the last year? Three hundred thirty one
million Bregman last night checked. Maybe I'm wrong on this.
I just did the overnight show. Who knows Bregman is
a third baseman and would not be as good at
another position that Devers can move somewhere else, But he
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just paid him. He's not that old yet. You only
wait several more years to move a guy. You're worth
more at third base than you would be at another position.
But the fact that Bregman's covered in cooties, playground cooties
and for the rest of his career is tarnished. He's tainted.
He got the scarlet letter. Why would you want to
do business now? Of course, the obvious, the obvious variable,
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if you will, is that Alex Cora is the manager
and he's a happy cheater there in Boston and the
Red Sox. Now that they got rid of him, they
brought him back knowing what they know about him. So
that does complicate the situation. But there's only one place
that makes sense for Alex pregnant. There's only one that
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makes sense, and that is staying put in the den
in iniquity and staying right there the as one thousand
and two, one thousand holes. They're the outlaws of baseball.
Bregman and that little cheat Albouve, the guy that did
a strip tease like he was, you know, public nudity
in San Diego, showed us all his ugly, disgusting toes
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and his little foot, his little foot there in San
Diego and never got punished for that was disgusting. Makes
me want to barf. Those two should stay there the
rest of their career, and the answers is gonna suck.
And I can't wait for them to really get down
and the real suck. Like they're not quite at that
level of suck, but they're not that far away from
that level of suck. Bregman's getting older, Albub's getting older.
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I don't care how many buzzers and whistles they use,
so hey, I'm all for it, man, sign me up.
Let those guys stay there and let's see the let's
see full circle A couple hundred lost seasons down the
line for the a holes.
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our lead this hour from the Delaware Valley, we go
with the news of the day Texas Now. This is
a follow up to a story that we had mentioned
in a previous episode of the show Hi Drama in
the birds Nest, High drama in the birds Nast. The
Eagles who are doing pretty well right now, their playoff
team and their bird doggingt bird dogget the Lions in
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the NFC, but they sit in the top perch at
the NFC East. However, not everything is sunshine, rainbows and
lollipops in the Bird's Nest. If you have not heard,
if you have not heard, even if you have, we'll
give you more information. A lot of drama this week.
We had mentioned after the game on Sunday, the Eagles
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not very impressive in their winning against Carolina. You had
multiple Eagle players questioning the direction of the offense. And
then you had injured defensive end Brandon Graham, Philadelphia Eagle
legend Brandon Graham, who opened up a can of worms
by revealing that the relationship between star wide receiver AJ
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Brown and Jalen Hurts is to be kind a strained relationship.
Speaking on sports radio and Philadelphia WIP, Graham said, the
person that's complaining, meaning AJ Brown, needs to be accountable.
Graham said into the open microphone with the on air
light going, he said, I'm just being honest. He knows
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this the Philadelphia Eagle legend. Graham said, I don't know
the whole story, But Graham said, I know that Hurts
is trying and AJ Brown could be a little better
with how he responds to things. He quote continues, they
were friends before this, but things have changed right there.
That's the key part of it. Things have changed now.
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Later on, once the poopy hit the fanny, Graham attempted to
put the toothpaste back in the tube. Unfortunately, as you
know and I know, that is an impossible task. So
let us discuss the question. Brandon Graham initially admitted that
AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts don't like each other, that
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they're not besties anymore. Is that a big deal, a
little deal, or no deal? So my observations, I've got
underlying condition bath and bodyworks and belly whopper, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a tasty cake. Things are not so
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tasty right now. Behind the scenes, So Na bar wh
as the Eagles are out of whack. It is a
story as old as time. Star Wide receiver doesn't get
the ball enough. Star Wide receiver points finger at quarterback
over not getting the ball enough video and eleven the Eagles.
That's what they used to say about the nightly news.
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There used to be people watching the nightly news every night.
So the Eagles knew this going into this season. You
might remember the collapse of the twenty twenty three NFL season.
We certainly do. The Eagles were riding high until they
went on a crash into the ocean at the end
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of the year. The Eagles knew they had an underlying condition.
What was the underlying condition? Aj Brown was at loggerheads
with Jalen Hurts last year. They could have moved aj
like the Buffalo Bills did with Stefan Diggs. The Bills
also had a problem with Diggs. He was not on
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the same page with Josh Allen. They traded him for
a bag of half eaten donuts, and the Eagles certainly
had the ability to make a similar trade. They would
have gotten more for Aj Brown, But instead of making
that move, they decided to keep the band together. Said
we like the music, so we'll keep the band together. Therefore,
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we have this as a little deal. Because nobody can
act like they were thunderstruck by the issues that they
didn't know there was a pre existing underlying condition there
and now it's bubbling up yet again. And Brown. AJ
Brown has not had double digit targets in the game
this season since we number one week number one. The
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last season, Brown averaged almost double digit targets per game,
and that's the most important stat for receivers. Give me
the damn ball average nine point twenty nine targets per
game last year. This year, as we head into the
new weekend which begins on Thursday, AJ Brown is fifty
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six in targets. To give you an idea where he's
at on the hierarchy of the NFL. The Great Ray
Ray McCleod of the Atlanta Falcons in de Mario Douglas
of the Patriots have more targets this year than a J.
Brown Now page two. So how do you classify Nick
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Sirianni coming out on the radio as well and essentially
saying that there's no problem between AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts,
that he's not worried about the situation and paraphrasing some
of this, but that was essentially the implication of Nick Sirioti.
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So my position on that is is not your standard
coach speak unless it is right unless it is right. Now,
you never pay much attention to what coaches say regarding
this kind of stuff, because they are obviously compromised witnesses.
You have the macro and you have the micro. You
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have the macro and the micro in this situation. Now,
on the micro, you'd say, well, it's not that big
a deal. There is a popular belief that winning teams
all they do is sit around the campfire holding hands,
roasting marshmallows and singing Kumbaya. That that is utter nonsense. Okay,
that is utter nonsense. Every locker room has clicks in
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it any group of human beings. That is the way
it works. And the great thing about this, though, the
Eagles have been able to win enough where when you
crunch the numbers, it's like going to bath and body
works and buying those those odor eliminating candles. When you win,
it covers up a lot of bad smells, a lot
of bo, a lot of bo when you win, and
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Philly has done a fair amount of that's certainly this year.
But in the macro, if you look at the macro,
Nick Sirianni, this is the kind of a situation wall
right now, It's not that big a deal. It does
lead to a gift wrap box and what's in the box.
What's in the box is a pink slip with your
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name on it if you don't figure it out. There's
a long standing belief in the coaching world that finding
good players is the easy part. Right, Finding good players
is not that hard. Getting them to play as a
team that's another story, right, that's another story. And inevitably
the Eagles. If you were to say right now, who's
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going to win the NFC, you'd probably say the Lions.
You'd probably say the Lions. I don't know many that
would would pick the Eagles. I mean mostly, Wow, the
Eagles are right behind the Lions. But I would say,
if you were to say the Lions or Eagles or
the field, I would put the field the head of
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the Eagles. I would put the field ahead of the Eagles. Uh.
And should the stumble happen, the stub of the toe
in the playoffs. When that does happen, then what happens
after that? The microscope comes out, and under the microscope
is Jalen Hurts and the dynamic with aj Brown, And
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it's not going to be pretty. The autopsy is not
going to be pretty Nick Sirianni's job will be back
like a boomerang in the cross ears. How could you
get rid of Siriane Well, if the team chokes again,
doesn't go on a long playoff run and Nick Siriani
is the common denominator. You got rid of the coordinators
after last year and Sirianni is still there. Yeah, you
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could keep Sirianni and get rid of AJ Brown, or
you just get rid of Sirianni and bringing a coach
to try to make it work and keep the talent
that is AJ Brown A right final point in the
middle of the acid rain coming down there in Philadelphia.
Despite the nine game winning streak, I believe they're on
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right now. A. J. Brown changed his social media. He
included a photo on his abvy of the Joker Batman's Joker.
So what is that about?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
What is that about? So? AJ Brown? He's not just
dipping his toe in the water to see the temperature
like our buddy's daughter who went to Antarctica. He's not
just doing that. I'm gonna put my toe in the water.
I want to be I want to be like Kevin
and Florida. No, No, he's not doing that. What he's
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doing here is a belly whopper, all right. He's doing
the old belly whopper move is what he's doing, embracing
the crown Prince of crime, the joker. He's having some fun, right,
But remember there is a little bit of truth in
every joke, Sigmund Freud. There's a little bit of truth
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in every joke. So now Brown Town AJ Brown will
be under extra bright lights going forward, and they know this.
They're aware of this in Philly. The players on the
team are aware of it, and everything will be micro analyzed.
And will he continue to sulk on the sidelines? What's
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the body language of AJ Brown gonna be like? Will
he quiet quit on the Eagles? You see, this story
is not gonna go away anytime soon. It's not. And
the fact that Brandon Graham, mister Philadelphia Eagle, who will
be there and he says he's going to retire. There's
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some rumors he might come back now. But Brandon Graham,
either way, is eagle the hero for that sack on
Tom Brady in the Super Bowl back in the day.
And he said it, and you always take the initial
comment and then you pooh pooh the retraction because the
retraction does not have the power the initial statement had.
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Do we all understand?
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Smaller, how about that?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
According to a recent report, Mark Davis will likely lean
on minority owner Tom Brady during the Raiders draft process. Ben,
how much influence do you think Brady will have on
the next Raiders quarterback?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So if the draft pick is good, Brady will get
all the credit. If the draft pick is bad, Mark
Davis picked the player. That's how this is going to work, right,
That's pretty simple. Mark Davis doesn't know what he's doing,
and so if it were it's Tom Brady. If it
doesn't work, it's Mark Davis. They'll ask him and then
they'll they'll do what they're gonna do next.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Dave Roberts said this week that it's very unlikely that
Shoeo Toni will be ready to pitch by opening day. Now, Ben,
as a Dodgers fan, what are you hoping to get
out of Otwani on the mound this season?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, he needs to be ready for the second half
because the Dodgers gonna have every year they have four
or five pitchers go down with Tommy John surgery, so
they don't really care about the first half. They just
need him to be able to pitch after the All
Star break when their pitching staff falls apart.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Next Baker Mayfield and the Bucks have won three games
in a row, putting them back in the first place
in the NFC South, ahead of the floundering Falcons Ben.
The three games they all won were against terrible teams.
Do you think they can win a much bigger test
against the Chargers this weekend?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Can the Buccaneers beat the Chargers? Sure? Because the Chargers
are not a dominant team. Do I trust the Buccaneers
with that defense? Absolutely not. How did we know you
pass this edition? That is a wag. But the boys
at the shipyard there and the People's Republic of whatever
they are.
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Dear ry.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
You heard the man it's time for love not here
on the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's it Ben Ben. Oh yeah yeah, I thought, well
it's your bet. I was just listening. I was enjoying
the bed. I yes, yes, all right, King intro for you,
King Rory writes in for you Lorena on the Queen
of Hearts hashtag Queen of Hearts. Is it better to
break up a relationship before or after the holidays?
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Well, it depends you're getting you a good gift or not.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh I see yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Other than that, I mean also, do you enjoy their family?
Because if you don't enjoy their family, there's no point.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well let me point something out. This is a question
similar to being like let go, right, being let go
and all that. And I've been let go before the holidays.
I've been like go after the holidays, and there's no
good time to be let go. No, you know you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, you hear me on that.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
But also the holidays are kind of a lonely time,
so maybe keep your partner because it gets cold. You
don't want to be cold.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Maybe it's cold outside not your favorite song it is.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
It's definitely my favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, all right, Cowboy Killer writes and says, is it
a red flag saying I love you during a I see?
How can I say this you little love making session
to a friend with benefits?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Yeah, definitely not a there say that. Yeah, they'll usually
run into the woods never be seen again.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's a bad that's a bad sign. JT. The Wingman
writes in and says, since it's almost Christmas, I want
to know if this is a good gift for my
girlfriend on our first Christmas living together. I love everything
about her. And it's a double toilet for lovers who
love to do everything together, side by side toilet so
you can both.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Saw this picture and I actually found it quite lovely.
Imagine you had a different TV on each wall, and
like your man could watch sports on one TV, you
can watch your soap operas on the other TV, and
you just live happily ever after. I mean, I feel
like Lee and his girlfriend Danico would really like that.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
All right. Here's the thing, though, how much time can
you spend Usually you're not there more than a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
I don't know about you, but I know a lot
of men who are husband's to spend upwards of forty
five minutes to an hour.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well that's to get away from their women. But if
they if they.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Didn't have in the morning when everyone's asleep, No.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Trust me, it's usually it just gets them alone time
away from the family. What I've seen, Yeah, there's no
reason to. I mean, you get hemorrhoids if you sit
on the toilet for that long.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
You can what I've seen.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Kelly formerly known as Donut Kelly writes him. She says,
so we of course her her knew her new man
there in Iowa, also a super fan of the show.
He wants to find out the sex of the baby.
I don't how do we solve this dilemma? Well, is
(30:43):
Kelly's question there.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I'm a big fan of your body, your choice, Kelly, Okay,
and you know what, he's already had what five kids,
so I don't know. And if you want to keep
the gender of this one a reveal, I don't see
why not. I think you should do it because is
all about surprises and no matter what, it's going to
come out something.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well you would assume there's two options. And I know
it's twenty twenty four, but generally speaking, there's two options.
So in my world, there's two options.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
So one of those, scitement of it, the anticipation, I
would keep it. I would keep it a sec or
if you want another one, I'm going to keep it
a see.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
If you're you know, if you're cool with it, Kelly,
we'll do a bit on the show, and we can
have like an announcement on the show, the mall reveal. Yeah,
the big reveal. Now, that would be that would be massive.
Ferg Dog writes and says, do women like peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
I'm gonna have to say.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yes, you're speaking for all women, Yes.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
One hundred percent. I mean unless they have a nut allergy,
which would be very very disappointing.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, well then you can get that all they're like
fake peanut butter, you know what I'm saying, And get
that no one wants to fake not Ben. Is that true?
I don't know. I don't know. Okay, if you're you're
the ex for in that department, I guess there it is,
all right, the Queen of Hearts very well, we're out
of time. I mean, if you want, I can give
you another question. But the squatty potty commercial. Here.
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Here's Ben Meller man away we go on passwords. Some
big names want to play. We've got a murderers row
big names that would like to play password the word
Game of Stars. Who do we have play? Let's say,
let's say hello to Let's see your slug in Vegas?
Is gonna play the hostess with the mostest who hosted
us at the Mallard Meet and greet? Hello slug?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
What's quite a rendution of grit.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Let's try to forget that happen. Okay, yeah, Saw, who
would you like to pardner up with their slug? You
got me Lorena Cooper loop go you Ben? Hey, buddy,
all right, hold on a sex slug we're gonna play.
And who do we have here? We've got Eenie Meenie
miney mo, blind Emmett the Seahawks Flame Seahawk fan fan
(33:18):
in the Pacific Northwest. Hello, blind Emmitt, Big.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Ben Mallard, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
How you doing it's been a while. It's been a minute, blind,
it's been a minute. You're back, a.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Little bit glad to be back.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You know, I got a question, you know, us a callers.
I'm sure I'm wondering the same thing.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
You know, we're on a payroll. Do we get a
holiday bonus?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Well we have to check with hr uh. Based on
I would say probably not, probably not. Yeah, who do
you want to partner up with? You got Lorena or
the coop? The Cooper loop? Yep? Well which one?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Coop? All right? Very good? By right? That fine. We
have a list of words here, Yes, one to ten
and slug you got on the air first. Congratulations. That
means you get to pick a number one to ten
and we will go first. Here. We start out with
ten points. We work our way down to nine, eight, seven, six, five.
Normally we throw the word out. If nobody gets it
around five guesses, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
It's like four.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Number four. All right, let's see here. Do I use
the malor maneuver?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
I don't think I will. Let's go with opulence lost
in patious? Wow, but that is uh okay.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
All right, Emett, we're gonna go with let's try I
mean that was like, let's go with richness. Well, no, no.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
How about uh, let's see splendor, splendor, grandeur. We're dancing
all around it.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah yeah, let's go with uh. I mean, I'm gonna
try to reverse Malard maneuver.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I don't do that, all right, So you know the
mal maneuver.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
We're gonna reverse it. You heard all the clues before.
Let's go with sedan.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know he's quiet. You can't yeh god, how about
this is a conjoint word which we're allowed to use.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Let's go with high class.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
Uh, let's go the word was luxury.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Come on, man, all right, okay, you're up. Yeah, you
picked one big enough number one. Hey, you're selling.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Let's go with you are. Let's go with oh man, nibble,
No that I knew that was going to be the
guest there. Let's go with the I'm gonna use the
(36:33):
reverse mallem maneuver, all right, bar bar no, no, damn it.
(36:54):
Let's go with those mornings.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Hold on, hold on, hold on?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Is this god as you can't do it? Don't? Okay,
Let's let's.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Go with like grays, grays gray, yeah, grays.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I mean what I was gonna say when Ben gave
that clue with candy, So I'll roll with that.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, no, no, no, how about I know what is it?
I know it?
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Smack all right.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
My man, pots and pants hair high five for you.
Way to go, slug and another number picking any one
here you go, hurry up slut seven. Uh all right,
let's see what do you want to do here? I
could how about mug mug m u g mug. No,
(37:59):
let's come with chalice. Oh, come on, he's doing He
didn't say, he didn't say it. He didn't say it.
He never said it. Nobody heard it. He never said it.
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The Waittire buying showy. So our lead this hour is
from Big D, well indirectly the Bronx, but we'll go
to Big D, the site of Major League Baseball's off
season garage sale. Now this is not your normal Saturday
(01:52):
morning garage sale where you're trying to get rid of
those old books and those old VHS tapes and the
other crap that you found your house. This is the
Winter Meetings of Major League Baseball circa twenty twenty four. An,
oh myle mine. Now, things got started a couple days
ago with a neutron bomb of ad Juan Soto going
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nine point nine miles from the Yankees to the Mets,
and that caused a lot of angst among the Bronx
bombers and they had to shoot their shot. Well, now
they have. And if you have not heard the news yet,
because you actually have a life and you don't obsess
about all these moves, well the news is out. Max Freed,
(02:35):
who later they Atlamamorights. Max Freed is taking his talents
to the New York Yankees, and he's doing it for
some real chump change. Here eight years, two hundred and
eighteen million dollar contract, and it's said to be the
largest guarantee for a left handed pitcher in the history
(02:57):
of baseball. It is the wealth contract of at least
one hundred million dead presidents the Yankees have given out.
That breaks a tie in the history of the Yankees
with the Dodgers, the most of any team in baseball.
I know you're keeping score as you listen to this show.
So Max Freed is thirty years old, He's a two
(03:19):
time All Star, and over the last five seasons in
Atlanta an urn run average of two point eight one,
and that is tops in the major leagues over the
last five years, just ahead of fellow free agent Corbin
mister Burns, late of the Orioles among all Major League
Baseball starting pitchers in that time frame. So this is
(03:40):
a big dealt with a lot of money, and certainly
worthy of some conversation. So let us discuss the question,
what is your reaction to Max Freed getting the over
two hundred and fifteen million WUS round numbers, over two
hundred fifteen million, two hundred and eighteen to big sac
contract from the Yankees. So I've got edible arrangements Enron
(04:01):
and Congress, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a nice portfolio,
because Max Freed is going to have an awesome portfolio
of investments, little crypto, little Wall Street, little real estate.
And to change to change to Chin because the key
(04:22):
to making money is to have money. When you have money,
you make money, and when you have a lot of money,
you make a lot more money. You are set up
generations of the Max Freed family set up now compliments
of the Steinbrenner family. So a you knew something big
was gonna go down, You don't know what was going
to happen, but you knew. The Yankees were embarrassed, rightfully.
(04:44):
So this is very unbecoming of the Yankees to lose
a player like Juan Sota, who they wanted and to
be spurred spurned, a spurned left at the altar and
have him go across New York to another borough over
there to queens. That's that's a kick to the nuts.
And so they need her to do something. And it's
(05:06):
Newton's third law of motion, which states that for every
action there's an equal and opposite reaction. So Juan Soto
goes to the Mets, and the opposite reaction by the
Yankees is Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,
oh my we got to signe somebody. Oh my god, Ah,
Max Fred, We need you Max, all right, So they did,
(05:26):
They signed Max Freed. Now my advice to Max Freed
is he should send an edible arrangements gift over to
Juan Soto and Scott Borris because without Sodo leaving the
Yankees to go to the Mets, Max Freed would have
gotten a lot of money. He would have never gotten
over two hundred and fifteen million dollars. That deal does
(05:47):
not happen without Juan Soto. Part of the arithmetic on
this one. Now we like the player. I'm gonna be
completely transparent with you. Why why else would I be
any other way? But if you know the history of
this show, one of the most important nights in the
history of this show, Max Freed was a part of.
(06:08):
Now a fan of the Atlanta Braves. No, I am
not a fan of the Atlanta Braves. You know that
I don't like the Atlanta Braves. I don't hate them,
I just don't like them. I'm not a Braves fan,
Sam I am, But for one week I was an
Atlanta Brave fan. Let's go back a few years ago
the World Series. It was a close out game, and
oh what a gutty performance it was, showing massive amounts
(06:32):
of machismo against the cheating Astros. Max Freed went out
there in a closeout game and was brilliant, brilliant as
Atlanta exterminated the cheating a holes out of the plast
was a glorious night, and for that I am grateful.
So I'm happy for Max Freed. He's battle tested, at
(06:52):
least in that particular game. You can look at some
of his other playoff numbers and say, what's going on.
But it's a wacky amount of money. It's cartoon money,
it's fake money. It's not real world money. It's it's
just the world of the baseball universe. And good for
Max Free. Now part two of this, Please do not
take a cat nap. Why did the Yankees give Max
(07:14):
Freed eight years? The money is one thing, but eight
years it's a long time. So this part of the
story is some classic finagling of the books Enron level accounting.
If you don't remember Enron, look it up, google it.
Max Free is thirty years old. The Athletic prime is
(07:36):
over at thirty two, maybe thirty three. So he said,
a thirty year old to an eight year contract. You
know the man, he's locked up till he's thirty eight.
Generally speaking, that is bad business, right, That is not
good business. That would be on the negative side of
the business equation unless you're using Enron like accounting. It's
(07:59):
all about the luxury tax. And now as we understand it,
let me explain this to you as I understand it,
and I'm explaining to you like your child. So Max
Freed's average annual value the AAVY, the AAV twenty seven
point twenty five million, that's what he's gonna get on average.
That is thirty seventh all time. To give you some perspective,
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he's just below Tyler Glasstow, the guy that's made out
of glass, who the Dodgers got last offseason. Of course,
he was nowhere to be seen when the playoffs came
around because he's made out of glass and glass shatters
by October. But the smart money stay focused. The smart
money says that the Yankees extended the deal for Max
Freed eight years as a way to again, I'll go
(08:45):
back to the word finagel, the luxury tax, to get
a lower luxury tax hit because that system that Major
League Baseball put in is based on aav average annual value.
So knowing that Free will be washed up way before
he's thirty eight years old. In fact, reality is, this
(09:07):
is a two hundred and eighteen million dollar contract over
four years, but it's being laid out over eight years.
Knowing that if you get anything out of Max Freed
past the age of thirty four, so it thirty five,
thirty sixty seven, thirty eight, that's all gravy that you
don't expect the getting out of him. He's the back
of the rotation guy. He'll pitch half the season, that
kind of guy. You're just moving some numbers around on
(09:30):
on an accounting page to stay out of the luxury
tax purgatory. At least give you more wiggle room in
that department. You understand, very good? All right? Now, last word,
we go to Boston where the Red Sox were trying
to get Max Freed. Shockingly they did not. Continuing another
(09:51):
off season of futility, which is not over yet, but
things have mostly been quiet for the Finway faithful. There
a lot of noise. That's something big coming around the mountain.
When it comes something big. Okay, believe that when it
happens now there has been a lot of noise that
that's something big. Will be cheating a one one thousand
(10:13):
and two one thousand oh free agent third baseman Alex Bregman,
who has been prominently mentioned. There are reports coming out
of the Winter meetings that the Red Sox have made
proposals to Alex Bregman. However, it is a house divided,
a house divided in the luxury suite the Red Sox
have at the Winter meetings when it comes to whether
(10:35):
or not they actually want to put pen to paper
on the cheating a Hole Alex Bregman, fellow cheating a Hole,
Alex Correr, the manager, and Slimy Team President Sam Kennedy
are all in why wouldn't they be? But Craig Breslo,
the general manager, is said to be reluctant, as in
(10:55):
he's not interested. Wink wink no. Not so the Red
Sox someming up like this. The Red Sox are said
to be split on Alex Bregman in free agency. How
should they handle this? So my advice to the Socks,
My advice is to act like you are a member
of Congress abstaining from the vote on Bregman. Just say no,
(11:22):
Just say no. Boston signed Raffie Al Devers for three
hundred and thirty one million to play third base. Was
that not within the last year? Three hundred thirty one
million Bregman last night checked. Maybe I'm wrong on this.
I just did the overnight show. Who knows Bregman is
a third baseman and would not be as good at
another position that Devers can move somewhere else, But he
(11:43):
just paid him. He's not that old yet. You only
wait several more years to move a guy. You're worth
more at third base than you would be at another position.
But the fact that Bregman's covered in cooties, playground cooties
and for the rest of his career is tarnished. He's tainted.
He got the scarlet letter. Why would you want to
do business now? Of course, the obvious, the obvious variable,
(12:09):
if you will, is that Alex Cora is the manager
and he's a happy cheater there in Boston and the
Red Sox. Now that they got rid of him, they
brought him back knowing what they know about him. So
that does complicate the situation. But there's only one place
that makes sense for Alex pregnant. There's only one that
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makes sense, and that is staying put in the den
in iniquity and staying right there the as one thousand
and two, one thousand holes. They're the outlaws of baseball.
Bregman and that little cheat Albouve, the guy that did
a strip tease like he was, you know, public nudity
in San Diego, showed us all his ugly, disgusting toes
(12:50):
and his little foot, his little foot there in San
Diego and never got punished for that was disgusting. Makes
me want to barf. Those two should stay there the
rest of their career, and the answers is gonna suck.
And I can't wait for them to really get down
and the real suck. Like they're not quite at that
level of suck, but they're not that far away from
that level of suck. Bregman's getting older, Albub's getting older.
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I don't care how many buzzers and whistles they use,
so hey, I'm all for it, man, sign me up.
Let those guys stay there and let's see the let's
see full circle A couple hundred lost seasons down the
line for the a holes.
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our lead this hour from the Delaware Valley, we go
with the news of the day Texas Now. This is
a follow up to a story that we had mentioned
in a previous episode of the show Hi Drama in
the birds Nest, High drama in the birds Nast. The
Eagles who are doing pretty well right now, their playoff
team and their bird doggingt bird dogget the Lions in
(15:05):
the NFC, but they sit in the top perch at
the NFC East. However, not everything is sunshine, rainbows and
lollipops in the Bird's Nest. If you have not heard,
if you have not heard, even if you have, we'll
give you more information. A lot of drama this week.
We had mentioned after the game on Sunday, the Eagles
(15:26):
not very impressive in their winning against Carolina. You had
multiple Eagle players questioning the direction of the offense. And
then you had injured defensive end Brandon Graham, Philadelphia Eagle
legend Brandon Graham, who opened up a can of worms
by revealing that the relationship between star wide receiver AJ
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Brown and Jalen Hurts is to be kind a strained relationship.
Speaking on sports radio and Philadelphia WIP, Graham said, the
person that's complaining, meaning AJ Brown, needs to be accountable.
Graham said into the open microphone with the on air
light going, he said, I'm just being honest. He knows
(16:09):
this the Philadelphia Eagle legend. Graham said, I don't know
the whole story, But Graham said, I know that Hurts
is trying and AJ Brown could be a little better
with how he responds to things. He quote continues, they
were friends before this, but things have changed right there.
That's the key part of it. Things have changed now.
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Later on, once the poopy hit the fanny, Graham attempted to
put the toothpaste back in the tube. Unfortunately, as you
know and I know, that is an impossible task. So
let us discuss the question. Brandon Graham initially admitted that
AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts don't like each other, that
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they're not besties anymore. Is that a big deal, a
little deal, or no deal? So my observations, I've got
underlying condition bath and bodyworks and belly whopper, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a tasty cake. Things are not so
(17:17):
tasty right now. Behind the scenes, So Na bar wh
as the Eagles are out of whack. It is a
story as old as time. Star Wide receiver doesn't get
the ball enough. Star Wide receiver points finger at quarterback
over not getting the ball enough video and eleven the Eagles.
That's what they used to say about the nightly news.
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There used to be people watching the nightly news every night.
So the Eagles knew this going into this season. You
might remember the collapse of the twenty twenty three NFL season.
We certainly do. The Eagles were riding high until they
went on a crash into the ocean at the end
(17:58):
of the year. The Eagles knew they had an underlying condition.
What was the underlying condition? Aj Brown was at loggerheads
with Jalen Hurts last year. They could have moved aj
like the Buffalo Bills did with Stefan Diggs. The Bills
also had a problem with Diggs. He was not on
(18:20):
the same page with Josh Allen. They traded him for
a bag of half eaten donuts, and the Eagles certainly
had the ability to make a similar trade. They would
have gotten more for Aj Brown, But instead of making
that move, they decided to keep the band together. Said
we like the music, so we'll keep the band together. Therefore,
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we have this as a little deal. Because nobody can
act like they were thunderstruck by the issues that they
didn't know there was a pre existing underlying condition there
and now it's bubbling up yet again. And Brown. AJ
Brown has not had double digit targets in the game
this season since we number one week number one. The
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last season, Brown averaged almost double digit targets per game,
and that's the most important stat for receivers. Give me
the damn ball average nine point twenty nine targets per
game last year. This year, as we head into the
new weekend which begins on Thursday, AJ Brown is fifty
(19:24):
six in targets. To give you an idea where he's
at on the hierarchy of the NFL. The Great Ray
Ray McCleod of the Atlanta Falcons in de Mario Douglas
of the Patriots have more targets this year than a J.
Brown Now page two. So how do you classify Nick
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Sirianni coming out on the radio as well and essentially
saying that there's no problem between AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts,
that he's not worried about the situation and paraphrasing some
of this, but that was essentially the implication of Nick Sirioti.
(20:05):
So my position on that is is not your standard
coach speak unless it is right unless it is right. Now,
you never pay much attention to what coaches say regarding
this kind of stuff, because they are obviously compromised witnesses.
You have the macro and you have the micro. You
(20:27):
have the macro and the micro in this situation. Now,
on the micro, you'd say, well, it's not that big
a deal. There is a popular belief that winning teams
all they do is sit around the campfire holding hands,
roasting marshmallows and singing Kumbaya. That that is utter nonsense. Okay,
that is utter nonsense. Every locker room has clicks in
(20:51):
it any group of human beings. That is the way
it works. And the great thing about this, though, the
Eagles have been able to win enough where when you
crunch the numbers, it's like going to bath and body
works and buying those those odor eliminating candles. When you win,
it covers up a lot of bad smells, a lot
of bo, a lot of bo when you win, and
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Philly has done a fair amount of that's certainly this year.
But in the macro, if you look at the macro,
Nick Sirianni, this is the kind of a situation wall
right now, It's not that big a deal. It does
lead to a gift wrap box and what's in the box.
What's in the box is a pink slip with your
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name on it if you don't figure it out. There's
a long standing belief in the coaching world that finding
good players is the easy part. Right, Finding good players
is not that hard. Getting them to play as a
team that's another story, right, that's another story. And inevitably
the Eagles. If you were to say right now, who's
(21:54):
going to win the NFC, you'd probably say the Lions.
You'd probably say the Lions. I don't know many that
would would pick the Eagles. I mean mostly, Wow, the
Eagles are right behind the Lions. But I would say,
if you were to say the Lions or Eagles or
the field, I would put the field the head of
(22:14):
the Eagles. I would put the field ahead of the Eagles. Uh.
And should the stumble happen, the stub of the toe
in the playoffs. When that does happen, then what happens
after that? The microscope comes out, and under the microscope
is Jalen Hurts and the dynamic with aj Brown, And
(22:35):
it's not going to be pretty. The autopsy is not
going to be pretty Nick Sirianni's job will be back
like a boomerang in the cross ears. How could you
get rid of Siriane Well, if the team chokes again,
doesn't go on a long playoff run and Nick Siriani
is the common denominator. You got rid of the coordinators
after last year and Sirianni is still there. Yeah, you
(22:57):
could keep Sirianni and get rid of AJ Brown, or
you just get rid of Sirianni and bringing a coach
to try to make it work and keep the talent
that is AJ Brown A right final point in the
middle of the acid rain coming down there in Philadelphia.
Despite the nine game winning streak, I believe they're on
(23:17):
right now. A. J. Brown changed his social media. He
included a photo on his abvy of the Joker Batman's Joker.
So what is that about?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
What is that about? So? AJ Brown? He's not just
dipping his toe in the water to see the temperature
like our buddy's daughter who went to Antarctica. He's not
just doing that. I'm gonna put my toe in the water.
I want to be I want to be like Kevin
and Florida. No, No, he's not doing that. What he's
(23:51):
doing here is a belly whopper, all right. He's doing
the old belly whopper move is what he's doing, embracing
the crown Prince of crime, the joker. He's having some fun, right,
But remember there is a little bit of truth in
every joke, Sigmund Freud. There's a little bit of truth
(24:12):
in every joke. So now Brown Town AJ Brown will
be under extra bright lights going forward, and they know this.
They're aware of this in Philly. The players on the
team are aware of it, and everything will be micro analyzed.
And will he continue to sulk on the sidelines? What's
(24:35):
the body language of AJ Brown gonna be like? Will
he quiet quit on the Eagles? You see, this story
is not gonna go away anytime soon. It's not. And
the fact that Brandon Graham, mister Philadelphia Eagle, who will
be there and he says he's going to retire. There's
(24:55):
some rumors he might come back now. But Brandon Graham,
either way, is eagle the hero for that sack on
Tom Brady in the Super Bowl back in the day.
And he said it, and you always take the initial
comment and then you pooh pooh the retraction because the
retraction does not have the power the initial statement had.
(25:19):
Do we all understand?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I think we all be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
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Speaker 1 (25:28):
Smaller, how about that?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
According to a recent report, Mark Davis will likely lean
on minority owner Tom Brady during the Raiders draft process. Ben,
how much influence do you think Brady will have on
the next Raiders quarterback?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So if the draft pick is good, Brady will get
all the credit. If the draft pick is bad, Mark
Davis picked the player. That's how this is going to work, right,
That's pretty simple. Mark Davis doesn't know what he's doing,
and so if it were it's Tom Brady. If it
doesn't work, it's Mark Davis. They'll ask him and then
they'll they'll do what they're gonna do next.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Dave Roberts said this week that it's very unlikely that
Shoeo Toni will be ready to pitch by opening day. Now, Ben,
as a Dodgers fan, what are you hoping to get
out of Otwani on the mound this season?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Well, he needs to be ready for the second half
because the Dodgers gonna have every year they have four
or five pitchers go down with Tommy John surgery, so
they don't really care about the first half. They just
need him to be able to pitch after the All
Star break when their pitching staff falls apart.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Next Baker Mayfield and the Bucks have won three games
in a row, putting them back in the first place
in the NFC South, ahead of the floundering Falcons Ben.
The three games they all won were against terrible teams.
Do you think they can win a much bigger test
against the Chargers this weekend?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Can the Buccaneers beat the Chargers? Sure? Because the Chargers
are not a dominant team. Do I trust the Buccaneers
with that defense? Absolutely not. How did we know you
pass this edition? That is a wag. But the boys
at the shipyard there and the People's Republic of whatever
they are.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
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Speaker 1 (27:15):
It's a it Boz Good Lorraine at nine, clean up.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Hearts going to help you get Rye gear Ride to
Night gear right and nine.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Dear ry.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
You heard the man it's time for love not here
on the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's it Ben Ben. Oh yeah yeah, I thought, well
it's your bet. I was just listening. I was enjoying
the bed. I yes, yes, all right, King intro for you,
King Rory writes in for you Lorena on the Queen
of Hearts hashtag Queen of Hearts. Is it better to
break up a relationship before or after the holidays?
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Well, it depends you're getting you a good gift or not.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh I see yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Other than that, I mean also, do you enjoy their family?
Because if you don't enjoy their family, there's no point.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well let me point something out. This is a question
similar to being like let go, right, being let go
and all that. And I've been let go before the holidays.
I've been like go after the holidays, and there's no
good time to be let go. No, you know you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, you hear me on that.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
But also the holidays are kind of a lonely time,
so maybe keep your partner because it gets cold. You
don't want to be cold.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Maybe it's cold outside not your favorite song it is.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
It's definitely my favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, all right, Cowboy Killer writes and says, is it
a red flag saying I love you during a I see?
How can I say this you little love making session
to a friend with benefits?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Yeah, definitely not a there say that. Yeah, they'll usually
run into the woods never be seen again.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's a bad that's a bad sign. JT. The Wingman
writes in and says, since it's almost Christmas, I want
to know if this is a good gift for my
girlfriend on our first Christmas living together. I love everything
about her. And it's a double toilet for lovers who
love to do everything together, side by side toilet so
you can both.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Saw this picture and I actually found it quite lovely.
Imagine you had a different TV on each wall, and
like your man could watch sports on one TV, you
can watch your soap operas on the other TV, and
you just live happily ever after. I mean, I feel
like Lee and his girlfriend Danico would really like that.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
All right. Here's the thing, though, how much time can
you spend Usually you're not there more than a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
I don't know about you, but I know a lot
of men who are husband's to spend upwards of forty
five minutes to an hour.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well that's to get away from their women. But if
they if they.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Didn't have in the morning when everyone's asleep, No.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Trust me, it's usually it just gets them alone time
away from the family. What I've seen, Yeah, there's no
reason to. I mean, you get hemorrhoids if you sit
on the toilet for that long.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
You can what I've seen.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Kelly formerly known as Donut Kelly writes him. She says,
so we of course her her knew her new man
there in Iowa, also a super fan of the show.
He wants to find out the sex of the baby.
I don't how do we solve this dilemma? Well, is
(30:43):
Kelly's question there.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I'm a big fan of your body, your choice, Kelly, Okay,
and you know what, he's already had what five kids,
so I don't know. And if you want to keep
the gender of this one a reveal, I don't see
why not. I think you should do it because is
all about surprises and no matter what, it's going to
come out something.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Well you would assume there's two options. And I know
it's twenty twenty four, but generally speaking, there's two options.
So in my world, there's two options.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
So one of those, scitement of it, the anticipation, I
would keep it. I would keep it a sec or
if you want another one, I'm going to keep it
a see.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
If you're you know, if you're cool with it, Kelly,
we'll do a bit on the show, and we can
have like an announcement on the show, the mall reveal. Yeah,
the big reveal. Now, that would be that would be massive.
Ferg Dog writes and says, do women like peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
I'm gonna have to say.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yes, you're speaking for all women, Yes.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
One hundred percent. I mean unless they have a nut allergy,
which would be very very disappointing.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, well then you can get that all they're like
fake peanut butter, you know what I'm saying, And get
that no one wants to fake not Ben. Is that true?
I don't know. I don't know. Okay, if you're you're
the ex for in that department, I guess there it is,
all right, the Queen of Hearts very well, we're out
of time. I mean, if you want, I can give
you another question. But the squatty potty commercial. Here.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
Game of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Here's Ben Meller man away we go on passwords. Some
big names want to play. We've got a murderers row
big names that would like to play password the word
Game of Stars. Who do we have play? Let's say,
let's say hello to Let's see your slug in Vegas?
Is gonna play the hostess with the mostest who hosted
us at the Mallard Meet and greet? Hello slug?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
What's quite a rendution of grit.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Let's try to forget that happen. Okay, yeah, Saw, who
would you like to pardner up with their slug? You
got me Lorena Cooper loop go you Ben? Hey, buddy,
all right, hold on a sex slug we're gonna play.
And who do we have here? We've got Eenie Meenie
miney mo, blind Emmett the Seahawks Flame Seahawk fan fan
(33:18):
in the Pacific Northwest. Hello, blind Emmitt, Big.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Ben Mallard, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
How you doing it's been a while. It's been a minute, blind,
it's been a minute. You're back, a.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Little bit glad to be back.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You know, I got a question, you know, us a callers.
I'm sure I'm wondering the same thing.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
You know, we're on a payroll. Do we get a
holiday bonus?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Well we have to check with hr uh. Based on
I would say probably not, probably not. Yeah, who do
you want to partner up with? You got Lorena or
the coop? The Cooper loop? Yep? Well which one?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Coop? All right? Very good? By right? That fine. We
have a list of words here, Yes, one to ten
and slug you got on the air first. Congratulations. That
means you get to pick a number one to ten
and we will go first. Here. We start out with
ten points. We work our way down to nine, eight, seven, six, five.
Normally we throw the word out. If nobody gets it
around five guesses, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
It's like four.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Number four. All right, let's see here. Do I use
the malor maneuver?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
I don't think I will. Let's go with opulence lost
in patious? Wow, but that is uh okay.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
All right, Emett, we're gonna go with let's try I
mean that was like, let's go with richness. Well, no, no.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
How about uh, let's see splendor, splendor, grandeur. We're dancing
all around it.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah yeah, let's go with uh. I mean, I'm gonna
try to reverse Malard maneuver.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I don't do that, all right, So you know the
mal maneuver.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
We're gonna reverse it. You heard all the clues before.
Let's go with sedan.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know he's quiet. You can't yeh god, how about
this is a conjoint word which we're allowed to use.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Let's go with high class.
Speaker 7 (35:49):
Uh, let's go the word was luxury.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Come on, man, all right, okay, you're up. Yeah, you
picked one big enough number one. Hey, you're selling.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Let's go with you are. Let's go with oh man, nibble,
No that I knew that was going to be the
guest there. Let's go with the I'm gonna use the
(36:33):
reverse mallem maneuver, all right, bar bar no, no, damn it.
(36:54):
Let's go with those mornings.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Hold on, hold on, hold on?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Is this god as you can't do it? Don't? Okay,
Let's let's.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Go with like grays, grays gray, yeah, grays.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I mean what I was gonna say when Ben gave
that clue with candy, So I'll roll with that.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, no, no, no, how about I know what is it?
I know it?
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Smack all right.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
My man, pots and pants hair high five for you.
Way to go, slug and another number picking any one
here you go, hurry up slut seven. Uh all right,
let's see what do you want to do here? I
could how about mug mug m u g mug. No,
(37:59):
let's come with chalice. Oh, come on, he's doing He
didn't say, he didn't say it. He didn't say it.
He never said it. Nobody heard it. He never said it.
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