March 14, 2025 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about Seattle's DeMarcus Lawrence taking a shot at the Cowboys, the Dodgers dismissing the idea that they've overtaken the Yankees as baseball's "Evil Empire", Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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So our lead this hour is from a pretty good
stor I like this one. Sometimes I come in here
and pretend to like things, but this one I genuinely enjoy.
It's my favorite story of the day. And we're going
to start out together talking about it now. It is
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out of Dallas, but really not Dallas. It's out of
the Pacific Northwest. So there is a pyrotechnic show that
was started by a former cowboy, and it was wonderful
and I am enjoying it. I got a big bucket
of popcorn, and I'm just gonna enjoy the hell out
of this because I know it's one of these one
day stories, but it's a great one day story. So
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if you didn't see it or hear about it. The
Seattle Seahawks decided they wanted to add a washed up
defensive players. So they said, who can we pay a
lot of money to, who's really not that good anymore?
I got one, how about DeMarcus Lawrence? So Seattle's like, hey,
why not, we're gonna blow we might as well sign
an older defensive player. So they signed defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence,
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who had been a long time Dallas cowboy, had been
there for seemed like forever, and they gave him a
massive considering his age and production in big games, massive contract, well,
DeMarcus Lawrence has already paid dividends as he has decided
to give a hum dinger of a comment about his
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former team. He was interviewed by something called the Hawk Blogger.
I have no idea what that is, but apparently they
cover the Seahawks. Go figure, so the Hawk Blogger, not
booger blogger, The Hawk Blogger. I'm sure they're great. They're wonderful,
good people. So they had an interview with the Marcus
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Lawrence and they asked about the difference between Seattle and Dallas.
And rather than me tell you what, DeMarcus Lawrence said,
let's go to the audio tape. Tell you listen. You know,
Dallas is my home, home made my home there. You
know my family lives there. You know, I'm forever gonna
be there. But you know, I know for sure I'm
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not gonna win a Super Bowl there. So yeah we're here,
DeMarcus Lawrence, Welcome to the Seahawks. Thanks, there you go.
All right, Dallas is my home. I made my home there,
but I know for sure I'm not gonna win a
Super Bowl there, So yeah we here. That's good, solid well,
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it got even better because Micah Parsons, who is the
Kevin Durant of the NFL. This guy's all about the
social media. He's all about that action boss, so he
can't just leave that alone. That would have been a
relatively benign comment if it hadn't been cranked up by
Micah Parsons. So the cowboy defensive star trying to be
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the Knight in shining Armor to save the good name
of the Dallas Cowboys, he of course had to respond
this clip from DeMarcus Lawrence that made its way around,
and sure enough Parsons responded. He said, this what rejection
and envy look like. I'm just reading it verbatim the
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King's English. This what rejection an envy looked like? This?
Some clown I gotta do a radio init here poop,
And then he used the clown emoji close quote. All right,
so let us yes, I'm now quoting the clown emoji.
So let us discuss the Ben Maler Show has reached
a new low. Question for the Esteem panel, which you
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are part of. Did DeMarcus Lawrence cross the line with
his cheap shot at the Cowboys? Did he cross the line?
So I've got my thoughts on this. I've got Alice Cooper,
boilerplate and mud room, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a big, big,
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giant pile of the Babaganoche. We're gonna make the babaosh
all right. So A I'm not going to say that
things were calm and boring and dull, but this story
was music to my ears. It was a poetry in motion.
DeMarcus Lawrence taking the gloves off, and it was like
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the the Alice Cooper tune. No more, mister nice guy.
Now he's not in Dallas anymore, so he just unloaded.
And the thing that made this the perfect story for
the day in the NFL is Michaeh. Parsons attempted again
to step up and I'm gonna protect my guy Jerry Jones,
because Jerry Jones is about to pay Michaeh Parsons a
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lot of money. And so Michaeh. Parsons attempted to defend
the honor of Jerry Jones and the Death Star and
he ended up getting a live hand grenade in his mouth.
Cu boom so as a radio legend, the late Great
Paul Harvey back in his day would say, now for
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the rest of the story. So we told you what
Parsons initially said, right, Michael Parsons responded, he said, this
what rejection and envy looked like this some clown radio
edit poop, then the clown emoji. So after Parsons used
the clown line, well, that is when DeMarcus Lawrence said, hey,
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I'm empowered Now. He responded to Parsons by saying, quote,
calling me a clown won't change the fact that I
told the truth. Maybe if you spent less time tweeting
and more time winning, I wouldn't have left. Than he
used the devil emoji. So this this was a highly
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flammable situation, and I assume that Michael Parsons, even though
they shared a locker room, he did not realize the rage.
The rage in his former teammate because highly flammable, and
DeMarcus Lawrence was pouring gas on the fire. And that
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final line by DeMarcus Lawrence when he said maybe if
you spent less time tweeting and more time winning, I
wouldn't have left. That is what's known kids as the
atomic elbow to Micah Parson's good afternoon, Good evening and
good night, body bag, Buddy bag, buddy bag. The only bummer,
The only bummer is that, unfortunately DeMarcus Lawrence is not
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going to win anything in Seattle. He just went there
to get paid. And you don't go to a team
that has Sam Darnold to win, you don't. All right now,
Page two, staying though in the Pacific Northwest. There's a
theme to this. So the Seahawks GM, John Schneider, he's
the guy that chased away Pete Carroll went a power
play a couple years ago, and then they kept rolling
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out the rotting carcass of Gino Smith. So John Schneider
spoke with the media about the DK Metcalf trade to
the Steelers and he said that listen, this guy wanted
to leave, and he said the team's goal was that
players who want to be in the building. He said,
we want guys who want to be here. We want
guys who believe in what we're doing. You're going to
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have to ask him, meaning Dk, for specifics. For one
reason or another, he just wanted to move on and
get a fresh start. So the question on this one,
the Seahawks GM will do a fill in the blank.
So Seahawks GM. John Schneider's rationale for trading Dk metcalf
is blank. So my word is boilerplate. My word is
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boiler plate. I've been doing this for a few minutes
over the years, and this is the stock answer. My
favorite version of this is the Mike Tomlin version where
he says we want volunteers, not hostages, and that's my favorite.
But this is a version of that. In DK Metcalf.
He wanted out for two reasons. The most important reason
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is the money. It's always about the money. The second
part of this is he was marginalized. They had a
revolving door of offensive coordinators. They had a suck bag quarterback,
Gino Smith, who, by the way, they just got rid
of with another suck bag quarterback in Sam Darnold, and
they could never figure out a way to get DK
Metcalf to maximize his villion. Now, is that a DK
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Metcalf problem or is that he co coaching problem? Quarterback problem.
We're going to find out, or maybe we won't because
Pittsburgh doesn't have a quarterback right now either. All right, now,
last word, we pivot our way from the Pacific northwest.
We go to Cleveland, the mistake by the Lake, and
we have learned a scathing story, scathing story about Brown's
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defensive star Miles Garrett. And according to a story behind
a paywall on the Old Gray Lady, the athletic Miles
Garrett has been frequently late to the Brown's facility and
regularly guilty of breaking the rules by skipping mandatory team activities.
He's done this on multiple occasions. It's allegedly well known
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within the Browns organizationean that now the highest paid defensive
player non quarterback in NFL history, Miles Garrett has been
a bad teammate. So, uh, that is the story. Miles
Garrett frequently late breaking the rules with the Browns. Who
do you think leaked that story? Who do you think
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leaked that story? Let's assume it's true. Who do you
think leaked? So play the game? Was it a? Door
Number one is Miles Garrett, Door number two is the
Cleveland Browns themselves, and door number three is the mystery team.
So I am gonna go with door number three. I'm
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going with the mystery team now, yeah, number three, So
I'm definitely not going with Miles Garrett because why would
you do this? Miles Garrett already looks bad enough. You're
not gonna leak that you're if you're an agent or
somebody around Miles Garrett. Yeah, my client is late and
doesn't follow team rules. You're never gonna say that. Why
would you? That makes him look like a bigger schmuck
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than he already looks. When he was saying I want
to win, I need to win. I gotta leave Cleveland.
I want to win, and then they paid him and
he shut up. But all of a sudden, he's very
happy being a loser. Uh, you can't look much worse
in sports than that he does. But this, it's not
from his gamy. He looks a title like pampered all
that my spidy like senses say, it's more likely than
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not from a team that was considering acquiring Miles Garrett.
A team that may or may not be in the
Delaware Valley shout out Howie Roseman. A team that thought
they could get the player, and then we're turned down.
So their fan base may or may not be upset,
And now they're going to the mud room and they're
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doing some old fashioned mud slinging, little character assassination. It's
also not impossible. It's hard it's not impossible that it
would be the Browns because the Browns are dysfunction junction.
What's your function? Right? The Cleveland Browns, And you'd say, well,
there's no way they'd lead the story because they just
paid the guy all this money. It makes their head coach,
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Kevin Stefanski, look like a terrible coach that coddles his
star players, has different sets of rules and you're not
supposed to be doing that. But the only thing that
you say, well, there's a slight sliver of a chance
that the Browns let that story out about Miles Garrett
is to try to light a fire under him to
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be more punctual, to embarrass him, Miles Garrett that hey,
you were tardy all the time, and you get all
these late slips. You gotta go to the detention. So
we're going to try to publicly shame you. So maybe
it'll show up.
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So our lead this hour is from baseball. Now, I
realize there are no baseball games to discuss. I get that,
but there are some stories that are interesting. The season
begins next week, the soft launch in Japan, not for
the American audience, for the Japanese audience, but baseball sold
those games. They're making a killing. I'm hearing from boots
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on the ground of Japan that the Dodger merch, the
Otani merch is just insim but they sell it anyway.
But just because the Dodgers are there, they've got special merchandise. Anyway.
As we wait for opening Day and the Land of
the Rising Sun, some interesting chatter about the Doyers and
their spot atop the totem pole in baseball. Right now,
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the reigning champions of Baseball predicted to win the World
Series again. So if you didn't hear about this, and
maybe not. The Dodgers president longtime sports executive stand Casting
rejected rejection move Tambo. He rejected being labeled baseball's new
evil empire. Talking to Hall of Fame Baseball scribe Jason Stark,
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stand Casting dismissing the notion that the Dodgers are the
evil Empires, saying they're neither evil nor an empire. Casting
followed up by telling Jason Stark that the odds of
the twenty twenty five season suggests a team other then
the Dodgers will win the World Series. He said. The
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odds makers claim there's a seventy five percent chance that
someone other than us, Casting said, meaning the Dodgers will
win the World Series this year. So it's hard to
be that evil or much of an empire if that continues.
All right, so let us discuss the question stand Casting
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baseball executive Dodger executive rejecting the idea that the Dodgers
are the evil empire of baseball over the Yankees or
the New Yankees, if you will, so give me your
school of thought on this one. So I've got Star Wars, Mayflower,
and Boulevard, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are going to make a Pastrami sandwich,
wonderful sin which Top five sandwich Withstromi sandwich. So, first
of all, because I understand that Stan Casting is a
lifetime sports executive and that that's how you keep lifetime employment,
you go, oh, I don't want to be called eve.
Oh I'm going to protect the brand brand Bran Bran
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Bran brand Ran brand brand brand that thing. Nevertheless, though,
all right, so Stan Kass is trying to protect the brand.
This is a feather in the cap on this side
of the microphone. For the Dodgers, it is an honor
to be called the evil Empire. Embrace it. There was
this basketball player named Wilt Chamberlain back in the day,
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and he was the biggest, baddest guy in the NBA
at the time and scored one hundred points. And he
had heard about him and he once said that nobody
loves Goliath. Right, Well, he was Gallith. The Dodgers are Golith,
paying these dingle berries over twenty years down the line
on layaway payments, man of genius. Just wonderful. So my
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advice here, my advice to the Dodgers is to go
Star Wars, Return of the Jedi. Do you know what
I mean? Maybe not, so let me explain. So the Emperor,
if you remember the this goes back many years, but
it's a classic mood. So the Emperor attempts to persuade
Luke Skywalker remember to join the dark Side, and he's
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given the sales pitch on the dark Side and he said,
it's a good way of feeling justified in embracing your vengeance,
or something along those lines, right, You've got a lot
of rage and you can embrace it. So let the
hate flow through you is the line. Let the hate
flow through you, and that's my advice. Ultimately, the Dodgers
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the one thing they're missing. Now you think about the
Yankees when they were the Evil Empire, they had a
great arch villain. The arch villain was George Steinbrenner, who
was seen as the demon's right George Steinberner the boss.
And those kids are soft, pathetic, the next generation. But
George Steinberner was a great villain. He was wonderful. He
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was a perfect enemy combatant and inherently sinister, a mischief maker.
And it was either you win a championship or you're
a loser. You get firing managers. He was just wonderful.
Like the Dodgers, Dave Roberts. I would have fired Dave
Roberts eight years ago and Dave Roberts, Dave Roberts is
still there. You know, he's doing his thing and that's
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that no matter what, and they're fine, and it seemed
like they're generally kind of nice guys, the Dodgers, and
so they don't have a lot of those characteristics. But
I would embrace it because everyone on baseball hates you,
like all the other teams are jealous, like they don't
have the good players. You get all the good players,
and so you might as well. It's good for the sport.
You need to have that evil side to it. And
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if the Dodgers are that, that's fine the World Series
las year. They're gonna win the World Series this year.
And stan cast and what he failed to mention is
the Dodgers are the biggest World Series favorite since the
team that was called the Evil Empire, the Yankees back
twenty some years ago. All right. Now, Secondly to the
Tampa Saint Pete area, that is where the Rays. That's
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a baseball team, not a good one. The Tampa Bay
Rays have abandoned a one point three billion dollar stadium plan.
They've just said bye bye to it in Florida. So
what does that mean big picture? What does that mean
by pig So, it means that the Tampa Bay baseball
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team is on the endangered list that the owner also
is in time out Stu Sternberg. Now we know the
rest of the story. There was a story a couple
days ago that there was pressure from inside baseball to
have Stu Sternberg sell the Tampa Bay Rays. And now
we you know he is really meat loaf. He's dead.
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Meat loaf, is what he is. Because from what I
understand of this and absolutely not there and I'm just
reading some details from those that are much closer to
the situation. But as I understand it, the commissioner rob Manfraud.
Rob Manfraud, the Commissioner of baseball personally and successfully lobbied
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these local politicians to get the stadium bonds approved and
all that. He got everything signed off on to set
up a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Race. He
cleared the jungle for a deal, got rid of all
the rainforests and all that to build the ballpark, only
to have the owner of the Tampa Bay Rays flip
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the bird and kill the switch. And that's it is.
The switch was killed and then the deals off. So
warm up. The lesson is to warm up the Mayflower
moving vans. If you're from Baltimore, you know what that means.
We now move the relocation clock of the Tampa Bay
Rays baseball team from ninety seconds to eighty nine seconds
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to midnight, the closest it has been eight years. The
Rays mentioned Tampa Bay to Nashville. That very much in
play the last time a team left, although they're not
there yet. Formerly Oakland Athletics. You're old enough to remember
when Oakland had the Athletics and they're moving to Vegas.
Vegas was supposed to get an expansion baseball team, Vegas
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instead getting a team that's kind of like an expansion team,
the Athletics. But they're gonna be in Sacramento. But they
don't want to mention Sacramento. They're embarrassed by Sacramento. Sacramento
is like a booty call. They don't want anyone to
know they're with Sacramento, even though they're playing in Sacramento.
They're kind of embarrassed about it. So they have shame
for Sacramento because they don't want to say the word Sacramento.
So they're just saying they're the Athletics and they don't
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want anyone to know that they're sleeping with Sacramento. It's
a big mess, all right. Now. Final thought to Boston
spring train in Camp Well, it's in Florida, obviously, but
after a lot of controversy a couple of weeks ago,
remember the story regarding Raffie Devers and Alex Bregman, the
cheating astro forever a cheating astro, and so Bregman joined
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the Red Sox, and there was this great debate, Isregman
going to go to second base? Is Rafaeld Dever is
going to become the DH? And so Devers ruffled a
bunch of feathers because he mentioned he was not interested
in changing spots to accommodate the roster demands of the
the manager, Alix Corps. So now now he's evolved, if
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you will, Rafaeld Devers now says that he will do
whatever whatever the Red Sox want him to do regarding
third base and designated hitter. If they want to move him,
that's fine. Do you believe him? All right? So I
spent a couple of seconds deliberating on this, and as
I was wandering in saschag into the studio, I said,
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you know what I'm gonna do on this one. I'm
gonna get in the car. I'm actually gonna drive down
the boulevard. I'm gonna go on the boulevard and it's
Skeptics Boulevard. The sign says Skeptics Boulevard, because that's where
I'm going I'm going down skeptics Boulevard. It is more
likely than not that this is some scripted reality that
someone got to hold the Rafael Devers and coached him up,
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if you will, and said, here's probably how you should
handle this. You might want to do this trying to
calm the waters. Now. Now I suspect that he's not
all that happy with the idea of changing positions. He's
he's just now trying to play the game and try
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to calm everyone down and all that. So this will
continue to be a storyline assuming one of two things happened.
The Red Sox sucked that becomes a story or if
Rafael Devers slash Alex Bregman do not hit and it
is deemed that either the cheating a hole or Raphael
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Devers are not hitting because of defensive issues, then it
becomes a problem. Now if they're contending and they're playing
well and both players are hitting, the story goes away.
It's all about the stumble and I've fallen and I
can't get a clap on, clap off the clapper. That's
what it's all about. That's what it's all about.
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And a recent appearance on Dan Patrick, former NFL player
turned analyst Lewis Riddick expanded on the idea that NFL
head coaches are worried that they could eventually be supplanted
by Deon Sanders if they draft Dion sun Shador. Now, Ben,
do you think that's playing a factor in Shaudor's draft stock?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
No? But I like it. I like the idea that
that the father Dion's gonna meddle in these coaches affairs.
Like really, what they're saying is Shooter Sanders sucks and
they can't win with them. Right. It's a tactful way
of saying, well, he's not that good, so we're gonna
get fired, and then they're gonna bring Dion in because
he's a bigger name. Because if Shuoter Sanders is good,
he shouldn't need Deon Sanders to coach him. He should
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be able to play for anybody. So it is amusing,
and you know, I'd like to see Dion in the NFL.
For talk radio purposes.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
But next, Jimmy Garoppolo signed a one year deal to
stay with the Rams. Now, Jimmy g went on to
say that his decision to stay with the Rams was
more about liking the people in the organization rather than
a lack of other opportunities. Ben, do you think he
could have got a better opportunity elsewhere?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Well, what is your definition of better? Could Could Jimmy
Garoppolo have gone to like the Cleveland Browns or some
other team that's in a recession and gotten an opportunity,
Probably some floundering team. But his only chance of playing
on a good team is if Matthew Stafford gets hurt
and then he takes over. That's it. So that could happen.
Stafford gets hurt a lot, So that's his chance to
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playing a good team.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Next, it was announced on Wednesday that Viking safety Harrison
Smith would return for his fourteenth season with the team. Ben,
Harrison's compiled quite the resume in his time in Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Do you think it's enough to get in the Hall.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
No, He's only been an All Pro one time. That's it.
That's not a Hall of Fame resume. He's played a
long time, good for him, but not even close to
the Hall of Fame status. No way, how did we
do you pass?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
This edition?
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That is a win. You can put her on the
board one again, Lrena, I'm the all time wins King.
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It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. All right,
here we go, Big Ben's lame jokes. We we mad.
Are you there? Weed Man? Hello? Weed mane?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
He's not there.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Did you get a hold of him?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, he was trying to call in, he said, the
lines of the little bare He's not there. All right,
we'll do the jokes anyway. We'll see if we can
find him.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Heretime.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
All right, we'll get a fake We've ben until we
get the real weed Man. But he did speak with him.
He said he was trying to call in, but the
lines were full. All right, are you there, fake weed Man?
Speaker 5 (27:27):
I love you?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
All right? Okay. That is the official Benny Award winner.
The fill in on the Ben mallor show of the year.
All right, why does Liza? I haven't I haven't told
the joke yet. Why does Lizzo attend a very popular
Catholic church? Why does she? But she enjoys being in
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a large mass that's a George allright, Well, not not
as large anymore. What happened to Lizzo after she wore
a green outfit? Weed man hippie chaser thinking she was
a fat doobie. That's Timothy and Norma Kentucky? All right,
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Apparently Lizzo doesn't do lists. How about that? Yeah, she
has a she has a big charcoterie board. That's all right.
Let's say we can put fake weed man and real
weed Are you there, real weed man? We have the
fake on here. It's like that Spider Man meme where
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they're pointing at each other. Who's the real weed man?
I don't know? Are you sure about no?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I am.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
What was What was Lizzo's response when they asked her
who she was wearing on the red carpet? He said,
A Detroit tent and an awning. That's from Monkey Bone
in Yelm, Washington, a guy named monkey Bone. Well, President
Trump plans to rename the largest great lake Lake Superior.
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Did you hear about that?
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, two words Lake Lizzo Lake got the both weed
men on? How about this?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Before this?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
This is outstanding? Is econ Rose, Minnesota and it's it's
a full moon and we have the who is the real? We'men?
Why was Lizzo allowed to stay in the Garden of Eden?
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Why?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Well, when the serpent offered her the apples, she said, no, thanks,
got any wings? You got any? All right? Joe and
Virginia Beach there? Where were you? Weed man? Original weed man?
You were supposed to call in. You didn't call in
right away, and then we had the other week I
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was calling all right, all right? Who is who is
starring in a sequel to Cocaine Bear called Cracked Boar.
Let's Lizzo. She'll be playing the boar. That's crew in Minnesota.
Where does Lizzo buy her celry? The Stock Exchange is
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where she goes. That's George. And you liked that one,
fake weed man? Yes, you thought.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
That was.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Okay. Why Why is Lizzo's Fink Club looking in Rhode Island?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Why?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Obviously liz Oh is really big in Rhode Island. That's
Surfer Todd the comedian. All right, buckle up, fake weed
Man and real weed Man. What does weed Man Hippy
call a box of wheels? What a mobile? Oh? You've
heard that one before, Fake weed Man. That's staying in
(31:19):
South Carolina? All the jokes. Did you hear you? Hear
there making a movie about weed Man's teeth? No, yeah,
it's it's called the Dirty One, is what it's called.
That's Eric in Kansas. Is very funny. Oh? Why is
(31:43):
it such an enormous task to do weed Man's laundry?
Obviously outside of the object, grass stains everywhere from terry
and well weed Man try? All right? We Man tried
to turn his miserable life around recently by applying for
(32:03):
and getting a job at the local car wash. How
about that? Yeah? Wow, yeah, everyone, Everything was going fine
until he tried to restructure his contract to work from home.
That's Tom Tom in Indiana. Thank you. If weed Man
Hippie were magically turned into marijuana, what kind would he be?
(32:25):
What kind the sticky icky that would be?
Speaker 4 (32:28):
What?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
That's a damn dan in South Carolina? Why did why
did Lizzo reach out to weed Man?
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
She wanted to bring him into the fold, is what
she wanted to That was That was, I know, very funny,
fake we Man. That's Drew in Minnesota. Very nice. Here,
what else do we have? When? When will read? When
will weed Man find his teeth?
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Broom?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Broom?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The same time, Lorena finally gets a malathen question. Correct,
that's a Noah in Austin. Alright, Why is weed Man
going bottomless on Saint Patti's Day?
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Why? Well, you apparently can't find your bottom, thief? Still,
that's what Eric Eric in Kansas again? Who is weed
Man's emergency? Contact? Live PD? Is your emergency? Drew in Minnesota?
What's the problem with weed Man sunbathing on the beach
in Mexico? What people call you, Speedo Gonzales is what
(33:39):
they call you? That Silfer Todd three consecutive Joke Writer
of the Year awards for Surfer Todd, the Comedian. All Right,
you see page down here. I don't know if I
can read that one. All right, this is kind of
a dark joke. What is the difference between Leveon Bell
and Aaron Rodgers? What apparently Leveon Bell keeps in really
(34:00):
good contact with his family. That's Kurt from Earth. What
is worse than Gunner complaining about being on hold? What
Gunner getting on the air that Bay area? Tony, Did
you hear that Paul McCartneys can't race in the Boston Marathon? Yeah,
(34:25):
he was banned on the run, he was banned. Alright,
that's enough, Thank you weed Man and fake weed Man.
We love you guys. All right, I have a good weekend, gentlemen.
Thank you.
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So let's take a break from sports and let's go
straight to hoorai for Hollywood. And you know what. Our
entertainment for this Friday morning starts right here and right
now here is Boomer. I gonna wait, my man, not
call you day. Everyone knows you can call me Marcel
(35:09):
dy Dynasty.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Okay, Marcin, He's MD Marcel Dinas. That's his last name, Dinas.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Yes, all right, Well, first we're going to talk about
the theaters.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
A couple of movies coming out this weekend that I
think would interest you. First is a movie called The
Black Bag, and it is from director Steven Soderberg, and
it is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents
and his beloved wife. And the wife is suspected or
of betraying the nation, so he faces the ultimate test
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loyalty to his wife.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Or to his country.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Choose yes.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
The stars Kate Blanchett and Michael Fastbender.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Buy a big bucket of popcorn.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
It's getting pretty great reviews actually, and a pretty good
reception from the audience as well. Another fun movie out
this week, and it's called Novacane and yes, it stars
Jack Quaid, who's who's having a bit of a moment
right now.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
It's starring a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Does he need a therapist? He's popular?
Speaker 4 (36:12):
No, yeah, he's popular. He's uh, you know, he's the
guy in Hollywood right now. How do you become the well,
I mean, this one might be a bit of nepotism.
It's a it's Dennis Quaid's son.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah so, and I guess the nephew of Randy Quaid.
Oh okay, all.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Those are the same, Yeah those they are, uh anyway,
So basically, he has an inability to feel pain, so
it is a it is an action movie where there's
like a lot of like violence, but he can't feel anything.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
So he's almost he's almost indestructible.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
But like not just because you know, because just because
he can't feel it doesn't mean it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Yeah, So it's a it's a fight to get his
girl back, and it looks like a fun movie and
it's getting pretty good reviews as well.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
So those two.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, I hope he gets to the girl back. I
hope you do.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Yeah, I'm sure pull for I'm sure she will.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Moving on to television, now, this is a show that
was recommended to me by Lead.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Lapp, who's not here last Last Call Lead.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah, yes, uh. And this it's a little bit older.
I missed this during a previous coop. Scoop came out
in January. It's called Paradise on Hulu and it stars
Sterling K Brown and James Marsden and Juliane Nicholson.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
It is it's great. I already binge watched the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I liked it a lot. Word great, yeah, a massive word.
It's very important. Word great.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
So that is streaming on Hulu now. Highly recommend It's
called Paradise.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Moving on to what is premiering this weekend, We have
a new show on Netflix called Adolescence, and this is
getting great reviews from the critics.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
It's a limited series. It's available to stream right now.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
It's a four part British psychological drama and it centers
on a thirteen year old boy who was arrested for
the murder of one of his classmates. And each of
the four episodes is like filmed in real time and
filmed in a single continuous take, so kind of like
that World War One movie nineteen twelve.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Was that it or something like that nineteen eleven, nineteen fifteen,
I don't know, one of those one of those years anyway,
like that, okay, And then a couple of things also
I wanted to mention this is available today as well.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
It's called Dope Thief.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
It is a new series on Apple TV Plus and
it stars Ving Raims and Maren Ireland. And basically it
is a crime drama eight episode crime drama, and it
centers on two Philadelphia friends and delinquents, which is Brian
(38:58):
Tyree Henry and Wagner Moore of Narco's fame, wh attempt
to rob a house in the country posing as DEE agents,
only to accidentally stumble upon the biggest drug smuggling ring
on the East Coast that is getting good reviews as well.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
And then one last thing.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
This one's getting terrible reviews, but it's got a really
big star studded cast.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
It's called The Electric State.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
It is a movie on Netflix, Netflix Original movie starring
Millie Bobby Brown. And it's also got Chris Pratt, Anthony Mackie, Jason, Alexander,
Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, John Carr.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
He used to work he's a former linebacker for the Dolphins.
He used to work here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Be Cox, No, not that one. Oh different one, Yeah, different, different, Brian,
How many are there? A lot?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I like that. We all pause, so
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Ah, and you know, on that note, that's that's coop
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So our lead this hour is from a pretty good
stor I like this one. Sometimes I come in here
and pretend to like things, but this one I genuinely enjoy.
It's my favorite story of the day. And we're going
to start out together talking about it now. It is
(01:53):
out of Dallas, but really not Dallas. It's out of
the Pacific Northwest. So there is a pyrotechnic show that
was started by a former cowboy, and it was wonderful
and I am enjoying it. I got a big bucket
of popcorn, and I'm just gonna enjoy the hell out
of this because I know it's one of these one
day stories, but it's a great one day story. So
(02:15):
if you didn't see it or hear about it. The
Seattle Seahawks decided they wanted to add a washed up
defensive players. So they said, who can we pay a
lot of money to, who's really not that good anymore?
I got one, how about DeMarcus Lawrence? So Seattle's like, hey,
why not, we're gonna blow we might as well sign
an older defensive player. So they signed defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence,
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who had been a long time Dallas cowboy, had been
there for seemed like forever, and they gave him a
massive considering his age and production in big games, massive contract, well,
DeMarcus Lawrence has already paid dividends as he has decided
to give a hum dinger of a comment about his
(02:58):
former team. He was interviewed by something called the Hawk Blogger.
I have no idea what that is, but apparently they
cover the Seahawks. Go figure, so the Hawk Blogger, not
booger blogger, The Hawk Blogger. I'm sure they're great. They're wonderful,
good people. So they had an interview with the Marcus
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Lawrence and they asked about the difference between Seattle and Dallas.
And rather than me tell you what, DeMarcus Lawrence said,
let's go to the audio tape. Tell you listen. You know,
Dallas is my home, home made my home there. You
know my family lives there. You know, I'm forever gonna
be there. But you know, I know for sure I'm
(03:38):
not gonna win a Super Bowl there. So yeah we're here,
DeMarcus Lawrence, Welcome to the Seahawks. Thanks, there you go.
All right, Dallas is my home. I made my home there,
but I know for sure I'm not gonna win a
Super Bowl there, So yeah we here. That's good, solid well,
(04:04):
it got even better because Micah Parsons, who is the
Kevin Durant of the NFL. This guy's all about the
social media. He's all about that action boss, so he
can't just leave that alone. That would have been a
relatively benign comment if it hadn't been cranked up by
Micah Parsons. So the cowboy defensive star trying to be
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the Knight in shining Armor to save the good name
of the Dallas Cowboys, he of course had to respond
this clip from DeMarcus Lawrence that made its way around,
and sure enough Parsons responded. He said, this what rejection
and envy look like. I'm just reading it verbatim the
(04:45):
King's English. This what rejection an envy looked like? This?
Some clown I gotta do a radio init here poop,
And then he used the clown emoji close quote. All right,
so let us yes, I'm now quoting the clown emoji.
So let us discuss the Ben Maler Show has reached
a new low. Question for the Esteem panel, which you
(05:08):
are part of. Did DeMarcus Lawrence cross the line with
his cheap shot at the Cowboys? Did he cross the line?
So I've got my thoughts on this. I've got Alice Cooper,
boilerplate and mud room, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a big, big,
(05:33):
giant pile of the Babaganoche. We're gonna make the babaosh
all right. So A I'm not going to say that
things were calm and boring and dull, but this story
was music to my ears. It was a poetry in motion.
DeMarcus Lawrence taking the gloves off, and it was like
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the the Alice Cooper tune. No more, mister nice guy.
Now he's not in Dallas anymore, so he just unloaded.
And the thing that made this the perfect story for
the day in the NFL is Michaeh. Parsons attempted again
to step up and I'm gonna protect my guy Jerry Jones,
because Jerry Jones is about to pay Michaeh Parsons a
(06:18):
lot of money. And so Michaeh. Parsons attempted to defend
the honor of Jerry Jones and the Death Star and
he ended up getting a live hand grenade in his mouth.
Cu boom so as a radio legend, the late Great
Paul Harvey back in his day would say, now for
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the rest of the story. So we told you what
Parsons initially said, right, Michael Parsons responded, he said, this
what rejection and envy looked like this some clown radio
edit poop, then the clown emoji. So after Parsons used
the clown line, well, that is when DeMarcus Lawrence said, hey,
(07:02):
I'm empowered Now. He responded to Parsons by saying, quote,
calling me a clown won't change the fact that I
told the truth. Maybe if you spent less time tweeting
and more time winning, I wouldn't have left. Than he
used the devil emoji. So this this was a highly
(07:24):
flammable situation, and I assume that Michael Parsons, even though
they shared a locker room, he did not realize the rage.
The rage in his former teammate because highly flammable, and
DeMarcus Lawrence was pouring gas on the fire. And that
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final line by DeMarcus Lawrence when he said maybe if
you spent less time tweeting and more time winning, I
wouldn't have left. That is what's known kids as the
atomic elbow to Micah Parson's good afternoon, Good evening and
good night, body bag, Buddy bag, buddy bag. The only bummer,
The only bummer is that, unfortunately DeMarcus Lawrence is not
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going to win anything in Seattle. He just went there
to get paid. And you don't go to a team
that has Sam Darnold to win, you don't. All right now,
Page two, staying though in the Pacific Northwest. There's a
theme to this. So the Seahawks GM, John Schneider, he's
the guy that chased away Pete Carroll went a power
play a couple years ago, and then they kept rolling
(08:28):
out the rotting carcass of Gino Smith. So John Schneider
spoke with the media about the DK Metcalf trade to
the Steelers and he said that listen, this guy wanted
to leave, and he said the team's goal was that
players who want to be in the building. He said,
we want guys who want to be here. We want
guys who believe in what we're doing. You're going to
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have to ask him, meaning Dk, for specifics. For one
reason or another, he just wanted to move on and
get a fresh start. So the question on this one,
the Seahawks GM will do a fill in the blank.
So Seahawks GM. John Schneider's rationale for trading Dk metcalf
is blank. So my word is boilerplate. My word is
(09:12):
boiler plate. I've been doing this for a few minutes
over the years, and this is the stock answer. My
favorite version of this is the Mike Tomlin version where
he says we want volunteers, not hostages, and that's my favorite.
But this is a version of that. In DK Metcalf.
He wanted out for two reasons. The most important reason
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is the money. It's always about the money. The second
part of this is he was marginalized. They had a
revolving door of offensive coordinators. They had a suck bag quarterback,
Gino Smith, who, by the way, they just got rid
of with another suck bag quarterback in Sam Darnold, and
they could never figure out a way to get DK
Metcalf to maximize his villion. Now, is that a DK
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Metcalf problem or is that he co coaching problem? Quarterback problem.
We're going to find out, or maybe we won't because
Pittsburgh doesn't have a quarterback right now either. All right, now,
last word, we pivot our way from the Pacific northwest.
We go to Cleveland, the mistake by the Lake, and
we have learned a scathing story, scathing story about Brown's
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defensive star Miles Garrett. And according to a story behind
a paywall on the Old Gray Lady, the athletic Miles
Garrett has been frequently late to the Brown's facility and
regularly guilty of breaking the rules by skipping mandatory team activities.
He's done this on multiple occasions. It's allegedly well known
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within the Browns organizationean that now the highest paid defensive
player non quarterback in NFL history, Miles Garrett has been
a bad teammate. So, uh, that is the story. Miles
Garrett frequently late breaking the rules with the Browns. Who
do you think leaked that story? Who do you think
(11:05):
leaked that story? Let's assume it's true. Who do you
think leaked? So play the game? Was it a? Door
Number one is Miles Garrett, Door number two is the
Cleveland Browns themselves, and door number three is the mystery team.
So I am gonna go with door number three. I'm
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going with the mystery team now, yeah, number three, So
I'm definitely not going with Miles Garrett because why would
you do this? Miles Garrett already looks bad enough. You're
not gonna leak that you're if you're an agent or
somebody around Miles Garrett. Yeah, my client is late and
doesn't follow team rules. You're never gonna say that. Why
would you? That makes him look like a bigger schmuck
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than he already looks. When he was saying I want
to win, I need to win. I gotta leave Cleveland.
I want to win, and then they paid him and
he shut up. But all of a sudden, he's very
happy being a loser. Uh, you can't look much worse
in sports than that he does. But this, it's not
from his gamy. He looks a title like pampered all
that my spidy like senses say, it's more likely than
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not from a team that was considering acquiring Miles Garrett.
A team that may or may not be in the
Delaware Valley shout out Howie Roseman. A team that thought
they could get the player, and then we're turned down.
So their fan base may or may not be upset,
And now they're going to the mud room and they're
(12:34):
doing some old fashioned mud slinging, little character assassination. It's
also not impossible. It's hard it's not impossible that it
would be the Browns because the Browns are dysfunction junction.
What's your function? Right? The Cleveland Browns, And you'd say, well,
there's no way they'd lead the story because they just
paid the guy all this money. It makes their head coach,
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Kevin Stefanski, look like a terrible coach that coddles his
star players, has different sets of rules and you're not
supposed to be doing that. But the only thing that
you say, well, there's a slight sliver of a chance
that the Browns let that story out about Miles Garrett
is to try to light a fire under him to
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be more punctual, to embarrass him, Miles Garrett that hey,
you were tardy all the time, and you get all
these late slips. You gotta go to the detention. So
we're going to try to publicly shame you. So maybe
it'll show up.
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So our lead this hour is from baseball. Now, I
realize there are no baseball games to discuss. I get that,
but there are some stories that are interesting. The season
begins next week, the soft launch in Japan, not for
the American audience, for the Japanese audience, but baseball sold
those games. They're making a killing. I'm hearing from boots
(14:02):
on the ground of Japan that the Dodger merch, the
Otani merch is just insim but they sell it anyway.
But just because the Dodgers are there, they've got special merchandise. Anyway.
As we wait for opening Day and the Land of
the Rising Sun, some interesting chatter about the Doyers and
their spot atop the totem pole in baseball. Right now,
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the reigning champions of Baseball predicted to win the World
Series again. So if you didn't hear about this, and
maybe not. The Dodgers president longtime sports executive stand Casting
rejected rejection move Tambo. He rejected being labeled baseball's new
evil empire. Talking to Hall of Fame Baseball scribe Jason Stark,
(14:48):
stand Casting dismissing the notion that the Dodgers are the
evil Empires, saying they're neither evil nor an empire. Casting
followed up by telling Jason Stark that the odds of
the twenty twenty five season suggests a team other then
the Dodgers will win the World Series. He said. The
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odds makers claim there's a seventy five percent chance that
someone other than us, Casting said, meaning the Dodgers will
win the World Series this year. So it's hard to
be that evil or much of an empire if that continues.
All right, so let us discuss the question stand Casting
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baseball executive Dodger executive rejecting the idea that the Dodgers
are the evil empire of baseball over the Yankees or
the New Yankees, if you will, so give me your
school of thought on this one. So I've got Star Wars, Mayflower,
and Boulevard, and we will combine all of these things
(15:53):
together and we are going to make a Pastrami sandwich,
wonderful sin which Top five sandwich Withstromi sandwich. So, first
of all, because I understand that Stan Casting is a
lifetime sports executive and that that's how you keep lifetime employment,
you go, oh, I don't want to be called eve.
Oh I'm going to protect the brand brand Bran Bran
(16:15):
Bran brand Ran brand brand brand that thing. Nevertheless, though,
all right, so Stan Kass is trying to protect the brand.
This is a feather in the cap on this side
of the microphone. For the Dodgers, it is an honor
to be called the evil Empire. Embrace it. There was
this basketball player named Wilt Chamberlain back in the day,
(16:38):
and he was the biggest, baddest guy in the NBA
at the time and scored one hundred points. And he
had heard about him and he once said that nobody
loves Goliath. Right, Well, he was Gallith. The Dodgers are Golith,
paying these dingle berries over twenty years down the line
on layaway payments, man of genius. Just wonderful. So my
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advice here, my advice to the Dodgers is to go
Star Wars, Return of the Jedi. Do you know what
I mean? Maybe not, so let me explain. So the Emperor,
if you remember the this goes back many years, but
it's a classic mood. So the Emperor attempts to persuade
Luke Skywalker remember to join the dark Side, and he's
(17:27):
given the sales pitch on the dark Side and he said,
it's a good way of feeling justified in embracing your vengeance,
or something along those lines, right, You've got a lot
of rage and you can embrace it. So let the
hate flow through you is the line. Let the hate
flow through you, and that's my advice. Ultimately, the Dodgers
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the one thing they're missing. Now you think about the
Yankees when they were the Evil Empire, they had a
great arch villain. The arch villain was George Steinbrenner, who
was seen as the demon's right George Steinberner the boss.
And those kids are soft, pathetic, the next generation. But
George Steinberner was a great villain. He was wonderful. He
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was a perfect enemy combatant and inherently sinister, a mischief maker.
And it was either you win a championship or you're
a loser. You get firing managers. He was just wonderful.
Like the Dodgers, Dave Roberts. I would have fired Dave
Roberts eight years ago and Dave Roberts, Dave Roberts is
still there. You know, he's doing his thing and that's
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that no matter what, and they're fine, and it seemed
like they're generally kind of nice guys, the Dodgers, and
so they don't have a lot of those characteristics. But
I would embrace it because everyone on baseball hates you,
like all the other teams are jealous, like they don't
have the good players. You get all the good players,
and so you might as well. It's good for the sport.
You need to have that evil side to it. And
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if the Dodgers are that, that's fine the World Series
las year. They're gonna win the World Series this year.
And stan cast and what he failed to mention is
the Dodgers are the biggest World Series favorite since the
team that was called the Evil Empire, the Yankees back
twenty some years ago. All right. Now, Secondly to the
Tampa Saint Pete area, that is where the Rays. That's
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a baseball team, not a good one. The Tampa Bay
Rays have abandoned a one point three billion dollar stadium plan.
They've just said bye bye to it in Florida. So
what does that mean big picture? What does that mean
by pig So, it means that the Tampa Bay baseball
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team is on the endangered list that the owner also
is in time out Stu Sternberg. Now we know the
rest of the story. There was a story a couple
days ago that there was pressure from inside baseball to
have Stu Sternberg sell the Tampa Bay Rays. And now
we you know he is really meat loaf. He's dead.
(20:02):
Meat loaf, is what he is. Because from what I
understand of this and absolutely not there and I'm just
reading some details from those that are much closer to
the situation. But as I understand it, the commissioner rob Manfraud.
Rob Manfraud, the Commissioner of baseball personally and successfully lobbied
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these local politicians to get the stadium bonds approved and
all that. He got everything signed off on to set
up a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Race. He
cleared the jungle for a deal, got rid of all
the rainforests and all that to build the ballpark, only
to have the owner of the Tampa Bay Rays flip
(20:45):
the bird and kill the switch. And that's it is.
The switch was killed and then the deals off. So
warm up. The lesson is to warm up the Mayflower
moving vans. If you're from Baltimore, you know what that means.
We now move the relocation clock of the Tampa Bay
Rays baseball team from ninety seconds to eighty nine seconds
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to midnight, the closest it has been eight years. The
Rays mentioned Tampa Bay to Nashville. That very much in
play the last time a team left, although they're not
there yet. Formerly Oakland Athletics. You're old enough to remember
when Oakland had the Athletics and they're moving to Vegas.
Vegas was supposed to get an expansion baseball team, Vegas
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instead getting a team that's kind of like an expansion team,
the Athletics. But they're gonna be in Sacramento. But they
don't want to mention Sacramento. They're embarrassed by Sacramento. Sacramento
is like a booty call. They don't want anyone to
know they're with Sacramento, even though they're playing in Sacramento.
They're kind of embarrassed about it. So they have shame
for Sacramento because they don't want to say the word Sacramento.
So they're just saying they're the Athletics and they don't
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want anyone to know that they're sleeping with Sacramento. It's
a big mess, all right. Now. Final thought to Boston
spring train in Camp Well, it's in Florida, obviously, but
after a lot of controversy a couple of weeks ago,
remember the story regarding Raffie Devers and Alex Bregman, the
cheating astro forever a cheating astro, and so Bregman joined
(22:18):
the Red Sox, and there was this great debate, Isregman
going to go to second base? Is Rafaeld Dever is
going to become the DH? And so Devers ruffled a
bunch of feathers because he mentioned he was not interested
in changing spots to accommodate the roster demands of the
the manager, Alix Corps. So now now he's evolved, if
(22:42):
you will, Rafaeld Devers now says that he will do
whatever whatever the Red Sox want him to do regarding
third base and designated hitter. If they want to move him,
that's fine. Do you believe him? All right? So I
spent a couple of seconds deliberating on this, and as
I was wandering in saschag into the studio, I said,
(23:04):
you know what I'm gonna do on this one. I'm
gonna get in the car. I'm actually gonna drive down
the boulevard. I'm gonna go on the boulevard and it's
Skeptics Boulevard. The sign says Skeptics Boulevard, because that's where
I'm going I'm going down skeptics Boulevard. It is more
likely than not that this is some scripted reality that
someone got to hold the Rafael Devers and coached him up,
(23:26):
if you will, and said, here's probably how you should
handle this. You might want to do this trying to
calm the waters. Now. Now I suspect that he's not
all that happy with the idea of changing positions. He's
he's just now trying to play the game and try
(23:46):
to calm everyone down and all that. So this will
continue to be a storyline assuming one of two things happened.
The Red Sox sucked that becomes a story or if
Rafael Devers slash Alex Bregman do not hit and it
is deemed that either the cheating a hole or Raphael
(24:07):
Devers are not hitting because of defensive issues, then it
becomes a problem. Now if they're contending and they're playing
well and both players are hitting, the story goes away.
It's all about the stumble and I've fallen and I
can't get a clap on, clap off the clapper. That's
what it's all about. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. There
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is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And a recent appearance on Dan Patrick, former NFL player
turned analyst Lewis Riddick expanded on the idea that NFL
head coaches are worried that they could eventually be supplanted
by Deon Sanders if they draft Dion sun Shador. Now, Ben,
do you think that's playing a factor in Shaudor's draft stock?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
No? But I like it. I like the idea that
that the father Dion's gonna meddle in these coaches affairs.
Like really, what they're saying is Shooter Sanders sucks and
they can't win with them. Right. It's a tactful way
of saying, well, he's not that good, so we're gonna
get fired, and then they're gonna bring Dion in because
he's a bigger name. Because if Shuoter Sanders is good,
he shouldn't need Deon Sanders to coach him. He should
(25:24):
be able to play for anybody. So it is amusing,
and you know, I'd like to see Dion in the NFL.
For talk radio purposes.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
But next, Jimmy Garoppolo signed a one year deal to
stay with the Rams. Now, Jimmy g went on to
say that his decision to stay with the Rams was
more about liking the people in the organization rather than
a lack of other opportunities. Ben, do you think he
could have got a better opportunity elsewhere?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Well, what is your definition of better? Could Could Jimmy
Garoppolo have gone to like the Cleveland Browns or some
other team that's in a recession and gotten an opportunity,
Probably some floundering team. But his only chance of playing
on a good team is if Matthew Stafford gets hurt
and then he takes over. That's it. So that could happen.
Stafford gets hurt a lot, So that's his chance to
(26:08):
playing a good team.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Next, it was announced on Wednesday that Viking safety Harrison
Smith would return for his fourteenth season with the team. Ben,
Harrison's compiled quite the resume in his time in Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Do you think it's enough to get in the Hall.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
No, He's only been an All Pro one time. That's it.
That's not a Hall of Fame resume. He's played a
long time, good for him, but not even close to
the Hall of Fame status. No way, how did we
do you pass?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
This edition?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
That is a win. You can put her on the
board one again, Lrena, I'm the all time wins King.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. All right,
here we go, Big Ben's lame jokes. We we mad.
Are you there? Weed Man? Hello? Weed mane?
Speaker 6 (27:07):
He's not there.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Did you get a hold of him?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, he was trying to call in, he said, the
lines of the little bare He's not there. All right,
we'll do the jokes anyway. We'll see if we can
find him.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Heretime.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
All right, we'll get a fake We've ben until we
get the real weed Man. But he did speak with him.
He said he was trying to call in, but the
lines were full. All right, are you there, fake weed Man?
Speaker 5 (27:27):
I love you?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
All right? Okay. That is the official Benny Award winner.
The fill in on the Ben mallor show of the year.
All right, why does Liza? I haven't I haven't told
the joke yet. Why does Lizzo attend a very popular
Catholic church? Why does she? But she enjoys being in
(27:54):
a large mass that's a George allright, Well, not not
as large anymore. What happened to Lizzo after she wore
a green outfit? Weed man hippie chaser thinking she was
a fat doobie. That's Timothy and Norma Kentucky? All right,
(28:18):
Apparently Lizzo doesn't do lists. How about that? Yeah, she
has a she has a big charcoterie board. That's all right.
Let's say we can put fake weed man and real
weed Are you there, real weed man? We have the
fake on here. It's like that Spider Man meme where
(28:43):
they're pointing at each other. Who's the real weed man?
I don't know? Are you sure about no?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I am.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
What was What was Lizzo's response when they asked her
who she was wearing on the red carpet? He said,
A Detroit tent and an awning. That's from Monkey Bone
in Yelm, Washington, a guy named monkey Bone. Well, President
Trump plans to rename the largest great lake Lake Superior.
(29:17):
Did you hear about that?
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, two words Lake Lizzo Lake got the both weed
men on? How about this?
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Before this?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
This is outstanding? Is econ Rose, Minnesota and it's it's
a full moon and we have the who is the real? We'men?
Why was Lizzo allowed to stay in the Garden of Eden?
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Why?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Well, when the serpent offered her the apples, she said, no, thanks,
got any wings? You got any? All right? Joe and
Virginia Beach there? Where were you? Weed man? Original weed man?
You were supposed to call in. You didn't call in
right away, and then we had the other week I
(30:10):
was calling all right, all right? Who is who is
starring in a sequel to Cocaine Bear called Cracked Boar.
Let's Lizzo. She'll be playing the boar. That's crew in Minnesota.
Where does Lizzo buy her celry? The Stock Exchange is
(30:32):
where she goes. That's George. And you liked that one,
fake weed man? Yes, you thought.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
That was.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Okay. Why Why is Lizzo's Fink Club looking in Rhode Island?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Why?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Obviously liz Oh is really big in Rhode Island. That's
Surfer Todd the comedian. All right, buckle up, fake weed
Man and real weed Man. What does weed Man Hippy
call a box of wheels? What a mobile? Oh? You've
heard that one before, Fake weed Man. That's staying in
(31:19):
South Carolina? All the jokes. Did you hear you? Hear
there making a movie about weed Man's teeth? No, yeah,
it's it's called the Dirty One, is what it's called.
That's Eric in Kansas. Is very funny. Oh? Why is
(31:43):
it such an enormous task to do weed Man's laundry?
Obviously outside of the object, grass stains everywhere from terry
and well weed Man try? All right? We Man tried
to turn his miserable life around recently by applying for
(32:03):
and getting a job at the local car wash. How
about that? Yeah? Wow, yeah, everyone, Everything was going fine
until he tried to restructure his contract to work from home.
That's Tom Tom in Indiana. Thank you. If weed Man
Hippie were magically turned into marijuana, what kind would he be?
(32:25):
What kind the sticky icky that would be?
Speaker 4 (32:28):
What?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
That's a damn dan in South Carolina? Why did why
did Lizzo reach out to weed Man?
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
She wanted to bring him into the fold, is what
she wanted to That was That was, I know, very funny,
fake we Man. That's Drew in Minnesota. Very nice. Here,
what else do we have? When? When will read? When
will weed Man find his teeth?
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Broom?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Broom?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The same time, Lorena finally gets a malathen question. Correct,
that's a Noah in Austin. Alright, Why is weed Man
going bottomless on Saint Patti's Day?
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Why? Well, you apparently can't find your bottom, thief? Still,
that's what Eric Eric in Kansas again? Who is weed
Man's emergency? Contact? Live PD? Is your emergency? Drew in Minnesota?
What's the problem with weed Man sunbathing on the beach
in Mexico? What people call you, Speedo Gonzales is what
(33:39):
they call you? That Silfer Todd three consecutive Joke Writer
of the Year awards for Surfer Todd, the Comedian. All Right,
you see page down here. I don't know if I
can read that one. All right, this is kind of
a dark joke. What is the difference between Leveon Bell
and Aaron Rodgers? What apparently Leveon Bell keeps in really
(34:00):
good contact with his family. That's Kurt from Earth. What
is worse than Gunner complaining about being on hold? What
Gunner getting on the air that Bay area? Tony, Did
you hear that Paul McCartneys can't race in the Boston Marathon? Yeah,
(34:25):
he was banned on the run, he was banned. Alright,
that's enough, Thank you weed Man and fake weed Man.
We love you guys. All right, I have a good weekend, gentlemen.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
So let's take a break from sports and let's go
straight to hoorai for Hollywood. And you know what. Our
entertainment for this Friday morning starts right here and right
now here is Boomer. I gonna wait, my man, not
call you day. Everyone knows you can call me Marcel
(35:09):
dy Dynasty.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Okay, Marcin, He's MD Marcel Dinas. That's his last name, Dinas.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Yes, all right, Well, first we're going to talk about
the theaters.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
A couple of movies coming out this weekend that I
think would interest you. First is a movie called The
Black Bag, and it is from director Steven Soderberg, and
it is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents
and his beloved wife. And the wife is suspected or
of betraying the nation, so he faces the ultimate test
(35:43):
loyalty to his wife.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Or to his country.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Choose yes.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
The stars Kate Blanchett and Michael Fastbender.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Buy a big bucket of popcorn.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
It's getting pretty great reviews actually, and a pretty good
reception from the audience as well. Another fun movie out
this week, and it's called Novacane and yes, it stars
Jack Quaid, who's who's having a bit of a moment
right now.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
It's starring a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Does he need a therapist? He's popular?
Speaker 4 (36:12):
No, yeah, he's popular. He's uh, you know, he's the
guy in Hollywood right now. How do you become the well,
I mean, this one might be a bit of nepotism.
It's a it's Dennis Quaid's son.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah so, and I guess the nephew of Randy Quaid.
Oh okay, all.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Those are the same, Yeah those they are, uh anyway,
So basically, he has an inability to feel pain, so
it is a it is an action movie where there's
like a lot of like violence, but he can't feel anything.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
So he's almost he's almost indestructible.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
But like not just because you know, because just because
he can't feel it doesn't mean it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Yeah, So it's a it's a fight to get his
girl back, and it looks like a fun movie and
it's getting pretty good reviews as well.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
So those two.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yeah, I hope he gets to the girl back. I
hope you do.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Yeah, I'm sure pull for I'm sure she will.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Moving on to television, now, this is a show that
was recommended to me by Lead.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Lapp, who's not here last Last Call Lead.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah, yes, uh. And this it's a little bit older.
I missed this during a previous coop. Scoop came out
in January. It's called Paradise on Hulu and it stars
Sterling K Brown and James Marsden and Juliane Nicholson.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
It is it's great. I already binge watched the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I liked it a lot. Word great, yeah, a massive word.
It's very important. Word great.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
So that is streaming on Hulu now. Highly recommend It's
called Paradise.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Moving on to what is premiering this weekend, We have
a new show on Netflix called Adolescence, and this is
getting great reviews from the critics.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
It's a limited series. It's available to stream right now.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
It's a four part British psychological drama and it centers
on a thirteen year old boy who was arrested for
the murder of one of his classmates. And each of
the four episodes is like filmed in real time and
filmed in a single continuous take, so kind of like
that World War One movie nineteen twelve.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Was that it or something like that nineteen eleven, nineteen fifteen,
I don't know, one of those one of those years anyway,
like that, okay, And then a couple of things also
I wanted to mention this is available today as well.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
It's called Dope Thief.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
It is a new series on Apple TV Plus and
it stars Ving Raims and Maren Ireland. And basically it
is a crime drama eight episode crime drama, and it
centers on two Philadelphia friends and delinquents, which is Brian
(38:58):
Tyree Henry and Wagner Moore of Narco's fame, wh attempt
to rob a house in the country posing as DEE agents,
only to accidentally stumble upon the biggest drug smuggling ring
on the East Coast that is getting good reviews as well.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
And then one last thing.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
This one's getting terrible reviews, but it's got a really
big star studded cast.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
It's called The Electric State.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
It is a movie on Netflix, Netflix Original movie starring
Millie Bobby Brown. And it's also got Chris Pratt, Anthony Mackie, Jason, Alexander,
Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, John Carr.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
He used to work he's a former linebacker for the Dolphins.
He used to work here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Be Cox, No, not that one. Oh different one, Yeah, different, different, Brian,
How many are there? A lot?
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I like that. We all pause, so
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Ah, and you know, on that note, that's that's coop
scoop and entertainment.
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