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February 11, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Clippers decision to add Ben Simmons and if we can expect him to change his ways in Los Angeles, Alex Rodriguez's group winning an arbitration hearing to take control of the Timberwolves, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number two, our two ready to go, and
the much traveled, much traveled, former number one overall pick
is on the move again. How do you process the Clippers'
decision to add Ben Simmons to their roster? Do you
expect Ben Simmons to change his ways with the Clippers?

(00:24):
Also in Minnesota, a Rod the baseball legend from years
gone by, His group won the arbitration hearing. They are
on track to control the Timberwolves. Is this a good day,
a bad day, or something else? From Minnesota, we'll talk
about all that and more right now here. It is
our number two. The carpet Bagger has landed again. Welcome

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(01:55):
back to the Luca dud of a debut only fourteen
points one of seven from three point range, clearly not
in shape, clearly not in shape. Luca only on a
minute's restriction. Really the podcast Reddick the coach there feeding
into the narrative that Luca needs to go to a
fat farm, just not apparently in enough shape. Minutes restrictions

(02:18):
are one of the dumbest things you can possibly have
in sports, and the Lakers doing that. I guess Luca
had too many donuts when he got to LA. But
our lead this hour from a different team in LA,
and the mantra I had when I ran a gossip
website for years was today's rumors are tomorrow's news. Well,
yesterday's rumors are today's news in this case, because the

(02:39):
Azzi has landed the great carpetbagger of our time. Holy
Ozzi Momentum, Batman and where have you gone? Ozzie w
was as Ben Simmons. If you didn't see this was
a rumor over the weekend, It's now become reality. We've
learned that the Clippers have signed Ben Simmons, the former

(03:00):
number one overall who has been not only a basketball player,
he has been an abject failure as a professional basketball
player and has done more damage to the NBA than
just about anyone this side of I don't know Kawhi Leonard,
but there they are together in LA twenty eight years old.
Ben Simmons seems like he's fifty the the way his

(03:23):
body has fallen apart. And he joins the people's team
and he can sit on the bench and get hemorrhoids
with Kawhi Leonard and James Harden. Is there, Norman Powell
and whatnot? Simmons was fired, fired by the Nets, who
fought so little of Ben Simmons they paid him to

(03:43):
go away contract buyout from Brooklyn, one of the worst
teams in basketball. Ben Simmons somehow has embezzled this year
forty million dollars. That's his salary this year. It's good
to be bad. It's good to be bad. Forty million dollars.

(04:04):
He will be free to roam around the NBA at
the end of the year. This is the last year
of his contract. He has averaged a futile six points
per game, five rebounds, and a six point nine assists
per game. That was with the Brooklyn basketball team, but
now he goes to the people's team in La So
let us discuss the question for the esteem panel. How

(04:28):
do you process the Clippers decision to go all in
on Ben Simmons and beat out teams like Cleveland in
the Ben Simmons Sweepstakes. So I've got the Jolly Green
Giant meat loaf and massoo, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make

(04:50):
a Norwegian lunderhound. I don't even know what that is,
but it's one of the dogs at the dog show
and it's parading around. It looks like a little rat
dog and it's walking around alright, So number I said number Yeah,
So how do I process That's the question? How do
I process the Clippers' decision to add a player that

(05:12):
I have taken potshots at for his entire career. I
process it. This is the franchise motto of the Steve
Balmer Clippers. It's perplexing is the word I will use.
But here we are. Bomber's got deep pockets and these
are the type of players that he is attracted to.
I don't know why he is. If I ran the Clippers,

(05:35):
I would want nothing to do with Ben Simmons. I
would run to the hills to get away from a
player like Ben Simmons. But yet the Clippers with Balmer
have the greatest arena, they have the richest owner in sports,
and they continue to be intertwined with players who don't
seem to really be interested in playing basketball. They're good
at it when they play, but they're not really into it.

(05:56):
It's more like a hobby, more like a nuisance. And
I go back to a term that we use, and
we used to use this back in the old day.
It's not as used as much anymore. It's called Florence
Nightingale syndrome, where the Clippers have fallen in love with
trying to fix players that are perceived to have been
damaged broken players, whether it's a domestic violence arrest, whether

(06:19):
it's you haven't played because you don't want to play
and you're seeing ghosts come on down to clipper Land,
and it's just perfect. It's poetry in motion that Ben
Simmons and Kawhi Lander will be getting hemorrhoids together on
the Clippers bench as teammates. It's like the Jolly Green Giant.
These guys two pods or two peas in a pod.

(06:41):
I should say two peas in a pod, right, the
jolly Green Giant and floating on the lazy river and
all that. And this is what the front office has
gone for. And I would love to know an explanation,
and I'm sure the explanation, but well, you never give
up on talent. We hear that all the time when
the NFL signs Felons. NFL team signed felm Oh, you

(07:03):
never give up on talent and know all that stuff.
But wouldn't that be the opposite of what you should
do in this situation. Guys, It's one thing talent that's
got some desire. Ben Simmons has no desire. He has
no desire. He's the antithesis of the type of player
that you would want, and yet these players get embraced.

(07:25):
He's a carpetbagger. He's making forty million. You'll go somewhere else.
I'll bet you probably play all right with the Clippers
because he wants another contract and to in bezzel more
money from someone else in the NBA. But I want
guys that drink bedello, that have the fighting spirit. That's
what I want. I want players that'll scratch and claw
and do everything they can to get on the court.
I know I'm dating myself and you're you're your boy,

(07:46):
You're a boomer. What would you want? Well, they could
get hurt, Ben, Oh my god, if they play too
many minutes, and then that's on you. Uh yeah, now,
I know. I know I'm a dinosaur. I actually like
athletes want to play and have that that edge to them.
And I guess I'm too old now, but I just
don't want anything to do with guys like Ben Simmons.

(08:07):
I don't and he is just the opposite of everything
I like when I watch sports and when you look
at people to compete, and the Clippers have a roster
that is filled with players like this. Either they have
made so much money and won championships like Kawhi Leonard,
they just not then into it, or they've never won
a championship and they've made so much money and maybe

(08:29):
they're really good at basketball, but they don't really like basketball,
and they like all the things that come with it.
It's like going to Thanksgiving. Me like, well, I don't
like the turkey, but I like the stuffing, and I
like the mashed potatoes and the biscuits and the cornbread,
and I like the cranberries and the ams, but I
don't like the turkey. Well, in basketball, the turkey is
the game itself. But you like all the groupies that

(08:50):
follow you around, right, all the money that you get,
all the endorsements, all the fanboys that lick your toes.
You like all that stuff, but you don't actually like
the turkey part of the meal, which is the main
part of the meal. And that's where we are all
right now. Page two. Do you expect Ben Simmons to
change his ways with the Clippers. I've I've heard some
of my my Clipper friends. I do have Clipper friends.

(09:12):
Oh Ben, Yeah, don't don't be too hard on Ben Simmons.
He'll be good and listen. I like the Clippers. I
hope they win. I hope I'm wrong, But there's no
way on God's green Earth. I think Ben Simmons is
gonna be any different than he was in Philly or
in Brooklyn. Maybe for a couple of games he'll play well,
but he's a liability. Much like Luka Dancik is a

(09:33):
liability for the Lakers, don't play defense. Ben Simmons is
a liability on offense for the Clippers. He's not gonna
play very much. But when he's out there, anything, he's
like Shaquille O'Neal. Anything within three feet of the basket,
he's fine. You take him out of the painted area,
he's got the yips and he starts seeing ghosts and
it's like that that meat Loaf song from back in
the day. What you see is what you get with

(09:55):
with Ben Simmons. And if you do the malor Matt,
Ben Simmons came out of he's been in the end.
He missed his first year, but it was twenty sixteen,
twenty seventeen. He's been around for parts of nine seasons.
He's missed two full seasons and most of a third,
if my math is right here, with either injuries or
made up stuffed. He just didn't want to play, and

(10:16):
you know all that stuff, and so much like we say,
Leopard cannot change its spots. We know the answer to
whether Ben Simmons is going to have this come to
Jesus moment and see the light and have this great
metamorphosis in a Clipper uniform just not going to happen,

(10:36):
maybe for a little bit. But he's the type of
slacker that makes you have apathy for the sport of basketball.
And if you've listened to the show and followed this
show over the years, you know that we used to
talk a ton of basketball. Now we only do it
when it's rare and appropriate. Now the football season's over
and so we'll pick our spots and talk more basketball.

(10:59):
But we would talk basket ball NBA basketball during the season.
But the attitude of players like Kawhi Leonard, Ben Simmons,
Anthony Davis, and a bunch of other guys has driven
us to a state of apathy where they don't give
a rats ass, So why should we give a rats ass? No,
we do enjoy the playoffs still, but not as much
as we did in the past. Now, furthermore, moving on

(11:20):
from that, we go to Minnesota. That's right, Minnesota. The
Timberwolves were smoked to watch some of that game with
Cleveland on Monday, that game not competitive. But this is
not about a random Minnesota Cleveland basketball game. Mark Lori
and Alyx Rondriguez. Yeah, a baseball guy, A Rod, the
baseball guy. They they claim they have won. They have

(11:45):
won their long bitter battle with Glenn Taylor, the longtime
owner of the Timber Puffs of the NBA, and that
news coming out on Monday evening, and the arbitrators supported
A Rod's group, which means that now it's up to
the NBA Board of owners. They call it board of governors,

(12:06):
but they're owners. Jereymond Green didn't like the word owners,
so we can't say the word. I call them owners.
I'm a rebel. So the owners of the NBA have
to approve that. The league has to sign off on it.
But as long as they approve, then A Rod will
take over control of the Minnesota basketball team. The panel
of arbitrators, three arbitrators, ruled in favor of A Rod

(12:30):
and his rich people that are his friends to get
control of the team. But they have to get league approval.
So that's the next step. So it's not official official,
but it's heading that direction. Soul I ask you the question,
got a lot of great listeners in Minnesota, and this
is really only for you, but there's people that know
who a Rod is. So here's the question. Alex Rodriguez

(12:53):
group winning an arbitration decision and they're on track to
own the Timberwolves. Is this a good day, a bad day,
or something else for Minnesota? All right? So I have
it as something else. I am in a missou Miszoo
state of mind, meaning I'm gonna show me state type

(13:15):
of situation here because I am very skeptical of a Rod.
I interviewed him back in my younger days when he
was playing for the Mariners and the Rangers and all
those teams, and he is Pop goes to weasel. You
knew it before. I didn't even realize the depths of
a Rod as a weasel. And it hadn't come out

(13:35):
yet that he had done the things that he had
done and all that. Does he still have that painting
of him as a half man, half horse there on
his I don't know, but that's that aside. That's a
different issue. I would be very concerned if I'm a
Minnesota sports if you actually like the Timberwolves. I know
that's about a dozen people, but I would be worried
because a Rod has a gazillion investors, and a Rod's

(13:58):
the kind of a dirt dog that will take that
basketball team in the middle of the night, bring in
the Mayflower moving vans and say I'm out. I can't
get enough TV money, I can't make enough money in
the market. I gotta get out. The arena is not
good enough. I gotta go somewhere else. And there's a
city in the Pacific Northwest that hasn't had an NBA

(14:22):
team since a rich oil baron from Oklahoma ripped the
team out of Seattle. The Seattle basketball market has been barren.
There's a lot of tech money in Seattle. There's a
lot of you know, a lot of corporate money there,
and so with Costco's not far away and whatnot. So
there is a world in the multiverse where Alex Rodriguez

(14:44):
Nickel and dime A Rod ends up getting rid of
the team all together, just moves it to Seattle and says, wow,
I played for the Mariners. I've always loved Seattle, and
they need basketball there and I want to go back
to Seattle and blah blah blah blah blah and go
pound Sand Minnesota. So I'd be very worried about that
because he's the kind of shady cake. He'll never say
it right. I'm sure. Oh, I don't plan on moving

(15:06):
the team at all. Nobody plans on doing anything until
they do it. You don't announce it, you don't announce
it right, you just do it. It is the Ben
Mahler Show. If you like to comment on any of that,
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we'll have Malord of the third Degree that'll be coming
up in a little bit. Also patching things up. We've
got patching things up and it's a Mickey Mouse mission,

(15:51):
a Mickey Mouse mission. We'll get to all that that
caught Lorraina's attention. She's excited about that. We'll go to
both of those places, will take a lot of calls
and comments, We'll get to all of it, and we
will do it next.

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(16:38):
fan and Lorraine the FSR Tech Clean Mallard of the
Third Degree later this hour. Also also the Insta Trivia
get to all that. But right now, back to Benny Blabermouth.
How dare you? Bill? Now, we'll get you put a

(17:01):
patch on it. Put a patch on it. We'll get
to that coming up here in a couple of minutes.
Also a Mickey Mouse mission. We'll go there as well,
and we'll do all of that. Did we react to
the Malor monologue? A nature boy says he found the
A Rod photo you were talking about. Yeah, that was
a famous story. A Rod as a what's that? Well,

(17:23):
your half man half horse? What is that again? The
term for that? I forget the name centaur, centaur, centaur.
I was thinking an avatar, but I knew that was wrong. Yeah,
would you want to be a half woman, half horse?

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Do you know?

Speaker 4 (17:34):
Ben?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Back in the day, what's there? The female's a mermaid?
But are there were there a centers centaurs or whatever?
Asia Fantasia has those really pretty horse women. Okay, I'm
gonna send you a picture because all right, I used
to want to be one of them you did. Yeah,
what about a mermaid? Do you want to be his
part horse? I wonder what part that would be. Ferg

(17:59):
Dog says Hey Mallard number sixteen. I don't disagree with
a single thing you said on your mal monologue, but
I'm still holding out hope when Ben Simmons dons that
magical clipper jersey, he'll transform into a serviceable role player.
Ozzy Was says, don't put Ben Simmons in the same
category as us by calling him an Ozzy. Ozzie was

(18:20):
from a middle of nowhere there in Australia, says we
disowned him years ago. The words that would use to
describe him you would be not be able to use
on live radio, says Ozzie was Who's listening on a
satellite elon Musk satellite out there and we's surrounded by

(18:40):
kangaroos and that's it. Paul Wright Sin says, no one
is moving an NBA franchise. They're going to expand. If anything,
I would think I know Minnesota fans would like a
new arena and hopefully we will get it with new ownership.
If not, I'm sure there will be whispers. But I
don't think moving a franchise will happen. Well, Paul, I

(19:01):
don't want to be the bearer of bad news. People
said the same thing in baseball, that they're gonna put
an expansion team in Las Vegas. They're gonna put an
expansion team in Nashville. The Athletics are on their way
to Vegas, stopping in Sacramento for a couple of years.
And there are rumors that that deal in Tampa could
fall apart. The Rays may very well end up in Nashville.
And if those two things happen, well, but people said, oh,

(19:22):
now'll just put expansion teams there, Well they haven't. And
the thing about expansion and this is something that they
can't get past, is you have to divvy up the pie.
You have to cut a different you have to bring
somebody else into the cartel, and you have to cut
the pie a little bit smaller. Every piece of the
pie is a little bit smaller when you add an
expansion team. And these billionaires do not like to share

(19:45):
their pie. They love their pie. They don't want anyone
else to have a piece of the pie because they
want to have a bigger piece of the pie. Yeah,
there you go, All right, what do we have here,
Ryan Wrights and says, was Shaye gilgis Alexander a Clipper?
Was he at least you have Kawhi Leonard who is
dependable and will take the Clippers to the Final four. Well,

(20:08):
this is what happens when you empower players to make trades.
Kawhi Leonard's condition to go to the Clippers was he
wanted Paul George, of all the players on God's Green
Earth to pick to ride along with you. He picked
podcast p Kawhi Leonard, just like we're hearing that Luca
Doncik Luca wanted as a condition to the trade, he

(20:30):
requested the Lakers acquire a guy that apparently has an
arthritic chronic hip condition in Mark Williams. And there are
reports in the overnight here the Charlotte Hornets have contacted
the league office and they are exploring their options. They
dispute the Lakers on that failed physical of Mark Williams.

(20:52):
So what are they gonna do? Mulligan on that and
Dalton connectest to now go back to Charlotte. How does
that work? But they are challenging the Charlotte basketball team
that ruling of golaphones. And we'll say hello to any meanie,
miney moe. Let's say hello to Jonathan who is in Delaware.
What's going on? Jonathan?

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Welcome, hey, big Ben. It's been a long time, my friend.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
It has been a minute.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Would you like to eat your crow now or later?
About the Eagles?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Well, I eat crow? What crow? Am I eating?

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Here?

Speaker 1 (21:26):
What I mean?

Speaker 3 (21:27):
You bet against the every pretty much all every time
during the regular season. You bet against them, against the Rams,
you bet against them against the Commanders. I was about
to say the other name, you can't say anymore. And
you also bet it get chief.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Well, let me point out, Jonathan, at the time we
made those picks, those were the right picks and the
opposite happened. But at the time we made those, that
was the time.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Is a weasel term and you are very.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
No, no it's not. It's an accurate Annalynsis. I do
the show that day and that day the based on
the information I had available to me, that was the
way the pick should have gone. Yes, exactly, yes, yes,
So congratulations to the Eagles on winning the Super.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Bowl and yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Are you are you gonna go uh with all your
friends there and go down to the parade. When is
the parise? It's Thursday, Friday, Friday, a Friday. Will anyone
be eating horse pood like the last time the Eagles
won the Super Bowl? Will that bep?

Speaker 4 (22:25):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:25):
And I'm also not setting myself on fire.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Sorry, you will not. You will not with any kind
of civil uh disobedience. Are you planning anything at all, Jonathan,
any kind.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Of trouble talks of the trash truck or something I saw.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
That I saw they they took over. Was it a
trash truck they took over something got a big truck
trash trucks?

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yes, yes, And if you listen to the police scanner,
it was an incredible time everybody involved, and there was
only a quote and I quote dozens of arrests for
hundreds of thousands of people with the biggest, the biggest
super Bowl. No, I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Uh was gonna be a joke about the size of
the crowd, you know the crowd. Yes, yes, there were
seventy million people that were there was the It was
like that thing in h let's say the event in
India where they have the pilgrimage. Everyone makes very similar Yes,
very very important there.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yes, also, can I just say, for you Clippers fans,
you do not want Ben Simmons we dealt with like
so many years, that schmuck.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
No, I don't want I do not want begs. You
want Tom back. I'll drive him to Philadelphia. You want him,
you can have I'll drive him. I will take several
days off and drive the man back to Philly.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
You can, you can, you can? You can have podcast
tee back as well. He has more podcast episodes than
he does points this year. Yes, actually a real fact.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
That is a wonderful that's my favorite NBA stat That
is the greatest status. That's a fun fact from Jonathan
and Delaware to podcast Pee has more podcast uploads than points.
Oh my god, that is so perfect. God is that great?
Is that not great? Come on, you gotta smile, Jonathan,
that's a great.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Statu Yeah, it's a great stat But I'm the Sixers
stink and be it's always heard podcast P doesn't give it,
you know what. And now there was even rumors that
the Sixers we're trying to bring back Benson and like,
are you stupid?

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Like, well, if they brought him back, they would they
would be stupid. Clippers are stupid though they wanted him.
So we'll see what a disaster this turns out to be.
But good times. Well, thanks for God. It's been a while.
It's been been several years, I think, right, it's yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
I still email you from time to time.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
I know you're not on the socials, right, you got
off the Socialist.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
I can't do social media anymore. It's too toxic.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, I can't even you have to do it for work. So, yes,
that's true, that is accurate.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
I have no anyway.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
All right, there you go, the great Jonathan longtime supporter
of this show. Jonathan part of the Mallard Militia there
in the state of Delaware, just across from Philadelphia. And
the like a nice guy, off solid. He's grown up
with his shoulder. I feel like I'm like a second
father for Jonathan. An uncle, yeah, uncle Benny, the funcle,
the fun uncle. Be careful, be careful, be very careful.

(25:11):
Let's go by the phone. A Gene is in Memphis.
It is the Ben Maler Show. Jean sounds like he's driving.
It sounds like his window is up or he's outside.
What's going on, Jeane? What are you doing? Man?

Speaker 4 (25:24):
I'm driving that I am driving.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
I'm getting ready to.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Pull up to the.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Station and give me a.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Couple of egg rolls, solid gas station egg rolls in Memphis.
There's nothing better. People actually travel, People travel to Memphis.
The egg rolls at the gas station are that good?

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Tall dogs, don's prior chickens.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Go and get the egg rolls at the gas station.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
All right, next time I'm in Memphis, I will have
to stop by. You know, the greatest barbecue place in
Kansas City is at a gas station Kansas City. Joe's
Barbecue is at a gas station in Kansas So I
believe it. I'm not kidding you, and I believe those
egg rolls are probably really good.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yeah, but you can't judge the book by its cover.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
You know that, then, exactly, exactly, Yes, I want.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
To talk about Luca Man coming to the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Lakers on my.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Team, and I'm still many.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh my god. So you grew up in the seventies
or eighties, probably seventies, right, Yankees won a lot, says Steelers.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
I'm a little older than you. Big your forty nine,
you'll be fifty a little bit.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Believe I stopped. I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Now, you're fifty eight, you will be fifty.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
I get you.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
I'm fifty three. I just had a birthday, So have birthday.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
There you go. Did you just announce happy birthday to
yourself on the radio? Did you just do that? You
think you did? Happy birthday man? There you go. Congratulation.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yes, well, yeah, I'm glad. I'm happy to Lucas with
the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Man.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
I think it's going to be uh, it's gonna be exciting.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, well, it'll be interesting and we'll see if it
works out. Certainly we'll give us something to talk about,
that's for sure. So that's good. Yeah, all right, go
get your go, get your egg rolls, anything else you're
getting anything to drink with that or just the egg rolls.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
I'm gonna get me a get a.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Water. That's it. Many nothing. Alcoholics will wait for that.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
I got you alcohol. You never come to Memphis, man,
come to Big Bills Barbecue. I got a real play
with your name.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
All right, I'm there man, I will have to hit
Memphis Barbecue. All right. Thank you, be safe out there.
Thank you. Jene. There's you're cruising around. Look at that guy.
You can't tell how old someone is, Like I don't
know if that's the case anymore, but like people around
my age when we were growing up, the teams that
won people gravitated to, and yeah, this guy's a little

(27:53):
old of me. So the Yankees were really good. The
Steelers were good. They had a dynasty. And it's like
people that are forty Niner fans. I'm thinking around the
time the forty nine Ers were good. There are a
lot of like Laker historians and forty nine Ers fans
because they were good around the same time. And I'm saying,
in baseball, who is the top team around that time?

(28:14):
Like in the late eighties, like the A's had some
good teams. It was some different angels really popular back then. No,
the Angels have never been popular. Oh never, that's never happened.
You know, Angels in the Outfield. Oh yeah, that was.
That was a movie. That was not that was not
real life. That was that was a Movie's go backes.

(28:38):
I believe we have hollering James Hat. Hello, hollering James Hat.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Well, you know, it's almost Valentine's Day and I'm hollering
James's hat.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
I went to the Valle of main Grade and he
tried to give me to you.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
I was really sweaty.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
I was all over his head. I don't know where
hollering James is tonight, though it would have been better
if he was here.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
But I'm just Oh, you want to go back on Hold?
Maybe I'll call up. You want to go back on home? John? Hold,
there's a hollering James had sounds just like hollering James
hat and does not sound like blind Scott at all.
Do your hats talk? But yes, oh, I want to think.
Not a burner. This is from not a burner, right,
my gosh, biggest shout out. Not a burner man, He's
taking care of us. Good job, by you not a Burner.

(29:18):
You're so lucky, aren't we going to random people spoil us?
So lucky that I appreciate that because we are. We're
taking days off our lives working the third shift. You
die sooner when you work overnight. You know that's true.
Don't tell me that it's true. Your your your lifespan
goes down based on the working nocturnal hours. Yeah, studies

(29:38):
of well, maybe it's because people don't sleep like they're
supposed to. That would be part of it. But I
but we are rewarded with very loyal minions. And I
don't even know what hat this is. I have no idea.
I hope this is not some kind of offensive logo.
But it looks like an owl, right, it's the craziest cookies.

(29:59):
It's a an owl on like ayahuasca. And yeah, I
don't know it's I think it's a minor league team.
Maybe it's one of those teams from the World Baseball Classic.
I have no idea. I've never seen the hat before
and it was gifted to me size eight. Thank you
for that. And Loraina, you got the chef's hat that

(30:19):
you put on social media from not a Burner. Yeah,
that was pretty cool my hat. Yeah solid. Let's go
back to the phones, and legally blind Christopher is next. Hello,
legally blind Christopher.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Mister maler, I have to disagree with this study. I've
been working midnights for thirty five years. Of course, Chris
Scott based on eighty six but hey, yeah, you know
I'm blind.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh no, you know you want to get into an
argument with him. I mean, I'll put him on if
you want.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Oh, that's fine, if he wants to come on, come on.
I pointed this, all right. So since the NFL is
over and Bill decided to take an NFL today with
the flu, I need to know what to take care
of to watch the rest of this year because everything
I watched on my sports teams turnstart. I can't say it,

(31:08):
but my point is, Dodgers are going to win it.
You know, the Lakers are going to win it.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Now, Lakers are not winning the chance stop. The Lakers
are not winning the champions crazy.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
That's gonna be Memphis. But who's gonna care mesas nobody's
gonna care.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Of members isn't winning.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
Well, but who cares?

Speaker 3 (31:26):
NBA's crass.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
My point is I have nothing to enjoy until October.
What am I going to do to get through the summer?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Mister ballas well quality overnight talk radio. That'll get you
through the summer. That'll get you be We'll have a
several scandals. We have the NFL Draft where every player
is going to be a Hall of Famer. Just wait,
and you'll have that to look forward to. You have
the scouting combine and that will always be entertaining.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
We'll come in handy as a blind person.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yes, you'll be able to watch that meat market there
the Underwear Olympics which will be taking place. That's always fun.
So we have that to look forward to. My question,
we have trades we had yes? What?

Speaker 4 (32:05):
No? No, No? When are we doing the Bennys again? I'm
more concerned about the Betty Well.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
The Bennys are as you know, they happened the same
weekend as the Academy Awards. Typically. I don't know how
the schedule works out that way, but I believe we
have one on the bends like another several week beginning
of March. Yeah, so we have we have to get through.
Then are you do you think you'll win Blind Caller
the Year? Do you believe you'll be the Blind Caller

(32:30):
of the Year.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
No, no, no, will that will never happen. And that's
just fine.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
Do you do you believe you'll be nominated? Do you
think you'll be nominated for a Beny Award? This is
exciting because that was a category that died out. We
used to be a category. Then we lost a lot
of blind listeners, and now we have a lot. We
have a bunch again.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
We dominate. The blind. People that can't see love the show.
They think we look good. Yeah, all right, well all right,
but the Bennys are the Benny's are coming all right,
the Bennys are coming up. And uh, if you want
to get into debate with blind so, I don't have
time to do it right now, but call back will
set that up if you want. All right, I think
he's just gonna attack you though. He's gonna he's gonna

(33:08):
come into the ring there and overwhelm you. I'm worried
about that.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
That's okay, I'll just ignore him.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Your okay, all right, thank you, go away. There's a
legally blind Chris so put a patch on it. That's
what the Cincinnati Reds have decided to do with Charlie Hustle.
Pete Rose is dead. He's passed on across the Pearly gates,

(33:37):
and the Reds have decided that despite Pete Rose being binned,
I guess this band is over now because he's dead.
So the Reds have decided that they will have a
tribute to Pete Rose all season long. They will wear
a number fourteen patch on their jersey sleeve in honor
of Charlie Hustle, who did a radio show with JT.

(34:01):
The Brick for a long time and used to hang
out When Fox Sports Radio started. There was an Italian
restaurant right across the street here with the corner of
Ventura and Sa Palvida and in La in the valley,
and Pete used to hang out there every afternoon for
happy hour. Pete Rose would hang out and that was
his thing. And then he moved to Vegas because somebody

(34:24):
would pay him to sign autographs every weekend, and so
he went to Vegas plaus He loved the gamble and
he didn't want to deal with the neighborhood booky and
all that. But the Reds leaked the patch. It was
online that they're going to do this. They give a
sneak peak of the patch on social media. It features
Pete rose signature baseball number and Pete died at the

(34:45):
age of eighty three. But though where it's a black
patch with white ribbing and the number fourteen, Pete Rose's number,
and it is the band Well good, I'm sure it's
one of these things we honor people and they're dead.
It's kind of Pete, you know, get in the Hall
of Fame if you don't get any while you're alive.
It seems kind of ridiculous to me. But you know
he's dead. That's what you do. You put a patch

(35:05):
on there, and you think when when I die someday,
you think they'll put a patch on the FSR uniforms
and they'll as a tribute to They're probably gonna put
a statue of you out statue sir, Yes, because birds
need something to poop, Yes, they need something to poop on.
They definitely. We're going to have Mallard the third degree.
That'll be coming up in a couple of minutes time.

(35:26):
Now for the Insta trivia. Blank is the only quarterback
to have ever thrown a pick six in the Super
Bowl and ended up winning the game. It's only happened
one time. Blank is the only quarterback to have ever
thrown a pick six in Super Bowl history and then
his team still won the game. That's the insta trivia.
The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Bell Miller reminding you you're listening. That would be me
to the Ben Mallor Show, heard all night during the
week and then on the weekends the podcast The Fifth
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(36:16):
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Be sure to subscribe always have instant access to the

(36:36):
Fox Sports Radio videos over on YouTube. That's right, that's right, Bill,
and time Now for the instant trivia. Blank is the
only quarterback to have ever thrown a pick six in
the Super Bowl and ended up winning the game. It's
only happened one time, and Pat Mahomes had a pick
six obviously lost. On Sunday Malibu, Rubin going with CJ.
Bethard as his answer. Legally blink rist says John Elway

(37:02):
A page down. Uh Fami got it right. Bad job
by him, Bob Yucker Well, he's got a better looking patch.
Uker's patch is better looking, although not from a not
not from a distance, but it looks better up close
than the Pete rose Back triumph. The insult comic Dog
guessed by I forty ian Kelly Rowland is forty four
today from Late Night drug tester t J. Hooker from

(37:24):
King Rory. Do you have an Aaron Rodgers guess byke
Do you have an answer? Larder? I was gonna say no,
I don't. Okay. Tom Brady is the answer. Tom Brady
in that game against that right against the Falcons. I
forget what happened in that game the Patriots lot.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
This is one gets.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
In a media appearance this weekend, Miles Garrett was asked
how far he would go contractually in a bid to
move on from the Browns, and he replied, I'm willing
to do whatever it takes. Ben, How do you think
this plays out? Yeah, so there's two ways this plays out.
Either a the Browns pay the man and throw money
at him and everyone's got their price. And if the

(38:13):
Brown's paying more money, and he'll be like, oh, you know, I.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Changed my mind. I want to stay in Cleveland all
this bull crap, or Miles Garrett becomes a complete douchebag
and goes scorched Earth, and then the Browns end up
trading him to his preferred destination. That's it. I think
they'll end up trading him next.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
Adam Schefter reported this weekend that a team to watch
for Sam Donald will be the Las Vegas Raiders. Other
reports also have them as a potential landing spot for
Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
And which quarterback do you think is more likely to
end up in Vegas? So this and it's the goods, glamour,
it's Vegas, it's the entertainment mecca, it's sin city. You
need a headliner. Sam Donald's not a headliner. Aaron Rodgers is.
For him to take up a Vega Vegas residency is
what old washed up and tainters do Why not washed

(39:01):
up football players at Vegas residency for Aaron Rodgers makes
a lot of sense.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
Next, Deebo Samuel recently revealed that he and his agent
have receive permission from the forty nine Ers to seek
a trade. Yeah, Ben, Deebo's coming off a down year.
Do you think he still has good value on the market?

Speaker 2 (39:17):
I not for me, but he will. He'll be able
to find it too. He used to kill the Rams.
In recent years, he has not killed the Rams. He
hasn't killed anybody for the forty nine ers. But you'd
think that Niners will send him somewhere like the Steelers,
the Bills, your your Broncos, the Chargers, one of those
AFC teams that need help with the wide opposition. So
he'll find a job. I don't put a lot of

(39:38):
value in debo because he's been pretty mediocre for several years.
How did wake Dow he passes? Is? I won the
right up? The right up? I won? Come on, I'm
the all time wins king at these games shows. Come on,
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