April 10, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s $325M signing bonus and who it favors more, Teoscar Hernandez chalking up the sputtering Dodgers road trip to "not being used to playing in cold weather," Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bingo. It's our numb bertwo. Not the same old, same
old no, no. We are about to risk life and
limb in our number two of the podcast. It's the
Ben Maler Show. You knew that already. It's the MLB
Power Hour. You make the call. Who does the three
hundred and twenty five million dollar bonus favor more Vladimir
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Guro Junior or the Blue Jays Big news in baseball.
Also Tiascar Hernandez claimed that he was not making an excuse,
but he chalked up the sputtering Dodgers road trip to
not being used to playing in the cold weather. How
do you process this? And is Yankee outfielder Cody Bellinger's
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chicken wing ban of five years an overreaction or a
smart move. We'll get to all of that. It is
the center of attention right now. It's our number two,
the Bonus Baby, and then some welcome in the beginning
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way tire buying should be. So if you were to
make like a Mallard Militia offensive line, I'd have Robbie
the Mariner fan would be my left tackle. I'd have
Big Greg as like my right tackle. And there was
a listener forget his name. He was in the in Missouri.
He makes bullets all night. He would be on the
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offensive line. He'd beat my starting center. So I need
like two more offensive linemen, and then I'm pretty sure
we could beat the Carolina Panthers. We'd have the most
dominant offensive line, large and in charge. Large, maybe Eugene
in Chicago. We could probably put Eugenie in there somewhere
on the offensive line. But listen, we've got the size.
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We have the size. We've got physicality. But our lead
this hour is from Toronto. Oh. Now, you don't hear
a lot of conversation about the Blue Jays on sports radio.
Why would you? Why would you? But we go places
other people don't go because we are not the mainstream.
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We are on at hours which are unholy, so we
can go places other people don't go. Now we have
a better understanding of the massive implications of the big
payday that happened a few days ago. A stutter from
up north the bird's nest as Vladimir Garrero Junior. You
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know by now that he landed a five hundred million
dollar deal with the Blue Jays. However, it is interesting
to note that the fine print is what really stands
out about this contract. Now, we had heard there was
no deferred money, and there is no deferred money. Now,
I don't know if you've heard the news here. Maybe not,
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But we have learned now through the magnifying glass and
reading the minutia of the contract and not turning away,
we have learned that Vlatti Guerrero Junior's contract includes a
three hundred and twenty five million dollar dollars signing bonus three.
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Let me repeat that, three hundred and twenty five million
as a signing bonst the one hundred and seventy five
million that's remaining that would be paid as an actual salary.
So to rephrase that again for those of you a
little slow, the Toronto baseball team will pay their first basement.
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They'll pay out sixty five percent of Guerrero's contract in
a signing bonus. Now that is a sight to behold. Now,
both the bonus and the salary will be sent out
in annual installments, kind of like when you win some
contests and they pay you a year after year. But
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he'll get a big fat check for the bonus, big
fat check for the salary over the next fourteen years,
next fourteen years. So let us discuss the question we're
gonna play. You make the call, I love you make
the call. You make the call. Who does the three
hundred and twenty five million dollars signing bonus favor more?
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You can only pick one, Vladimir Guerrero Junior or the team,
the Blue Jays. You make the call. Who gets more
out of this? Is it the player or is it
the team? Now my observation, I've got triggeration, the gap
band and embargo and we will combine all of these
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things together. We will lock them together like lego blocks.
Is what we're going to do. So numb burne, Can
I get a numb burn mine? All right? Based on
a minutes long Mallard deliberation in the jury box, the
arrow is pointing firmly at Vladimir Guerrero Junior. And it's
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not even close. Now, I heard some of you knuckleheads.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know, the blue Jemers.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Are gonna save money. It's not gonna go against the
salary cap because it's it's not gonna be the luxury tax.
It's good for them. Yeah, you were telling me there's
a there's some kind of loophole. There's a loophole. Ben
This is what this is what everyone's gonna be doing.
They're gonna get around the luxury tax. Well, turns out
that is the B word bogus capital b bogus, capital
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b bogus. The signing bonus is included in the average
annual value in terms of how they document the luxury tax,
meaning that Vladimir Garro Junior's annual luxury tax hit will
still be thirty five point seven million dollars. Even No,
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he's not going to be paid based on the actual
salary part of it. That so the winner is Vladdie
by a country mile, and what he is doing with
his representation here upon further review, is tricker to avoid
the tax collector. Now, I've seen a lot of stories written,
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these these think pieces, these bleeding hard stories about how
what a great story this is for the Toronto baseball
team native Canadian Vladimir Guerrero Junior, who was born in Montreal.
I believe his dad was playing for the Expos, and
now here he is, and he wants to stay in Canada. Well,
spoiler Albert alert, spoiler alert, turns out that Vladimir Guiro
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Junior actually resides in Florida. And those of you who
live in Florida love to remind me and love to
point out how much better you have it than I
do living in California, because you live in a state
without income tax, which means if you're a baseball player
and you're getting a massive amount of money sent your way,
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you will then have to have the honor of being
able to avoid paying state tax on the bonus, which
will generate millions and millions in value added to the contract.
So you put your residence in a state that does
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not have state income text, like, think about that. Oh
my god, do you imagine places where they don't app
they don't try to gouge you on everything. I can't
believe those places exist. Now people have also said this
is a lottery situation for Vladimir Guerrero Junior. And while
the three hundred plus million dollars does appear to be
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a lottery, it's it doesn't even justify that. That is
not the right phrasing of it. So I looked it up.
I did the research. Do you know in the history
because he plays in Canada, So in the history of
Canadian lotteries, going all the way back to the start
of those Canadian lotteries, there have been no instances of
a single jackpot reaching three hundred million. In fact, the
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biggest jackpot they've ever had in the Canadian lotteries is
seventy million. So Vlad's getting three hundred and twenty five
overall five hundred but three and twenty five signing bonus.
And even in the United States, where they have had
lotteries going back to what the early nineties, and that's
a fair amount of time, that's a lot of money
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invested by people that they lost their money bet on
the lottery. But since the beginning of the lottery system,
there have been a total of sixty six sixty six
separate jackpots over three hundred, three hundred or more, thirty
five in Powerball, thirty one in Mega Millions, So I
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would expect some combination of this, along with the sho
Heo Tani contract to be the new normal. This does
not help the team as much. The sho Heo Tani
deal helps the team, and I support it because it
screws over the evil tax losers, the scumbag politicians in California,
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so fully support that absolutely. And the CBA in baseball
does not restrict though the amount a team can include
any signing bonus, just like it doesn't limit the amount
of money you can have in deferred payments. So we'll
see what happens going forward now, Page two to the
Big Blue Wreck not wrecking crew wreck the Dodgers. They
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didn't get a win. They wrapped up the road trip
a losing road trip with a matinee win over the
Washington Nationals as they finally got by that natitude on Wednesday,
But there was an interesting quote a quote, interesting quote
that came out of the mouth of Tiascar Hernandez, that
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is a baseball player for the Dodgers, outfielder, got some
swag to him, got some rasmatash ti Oscar Hernandez. So
Tiascar Hernandez claimed he prefaced this by saying, I'm not
making an excuse, but up the Dodgers sputtering road trip
where they lost both series to Philadelphia and Washington. He
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said the reason that they had some issues on the
road was quote not being used to playing in the
cold weather. So how exactly do you process that particular quote.
The Dodgers had problems on the road because they were
not used to playing in cold weather. So this is
face palm worthy, right, I mean it is right there.
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Face palm worthy is what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Tiasra claimed that again he wasn't making an excuse and
then made an excuse. And as you know from listening
to the show, there's two things you should know by
listening to this show. The first thing you should know
is that the term best means as good as all
the rest, Right, That's what that means. The second thing
is everything a person says before the word butt is
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a lie. When you say, I'm not making an excuse,
but liar, liar, that's it right, So time to go
nineteen eighties funk the Gap band. You dropped a bomb
on me. And here's a truth Bob, all right, truth Bob,
Truth Bob, truth Bob. Every cold weather team, whether they
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be on the in the Northeast or the upper Midwest,
every cold weather team in baseball has a common bond.
It's something they share with every team that plays in
a dome or a West coast city, the grapefruit and
the cacti, or go spring training. Every player, even if
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they're in cold weather, they're not used to the cold weather.
They just spent the last month and a half from
mid February until late March in the sunny and mild
conditions of Florida and Arizona. I mentioned the other night
I was watching the Red Sox Blue Jays game a
couple of nights ago, and it looked like the Red
Sox were preparing to rob a bank or a convenience
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store the way they were out there all dry. I mean,
it was wild. It was like they're playing in the Arctic,
and that's a cold weather team or not. But this
is about the Dodgers is just pathetic. And last I checked,
when you get to the World Series, chances are going
to be playing in a cold weather city in the
American League, and chances are pretty good that it will
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be frigid as you dance around the diamond at that point. Now,
speaking of a cold weather city, that wasn't the World
Series final point to the Boogey doown Bronx we go
where the New York Yankees and outfielder Cody Bellinger making
some rather odd headlines here. I don't know if you
saw this or not. Bellinger missed some time recently moves
out of the Yankee lineup because of a meal gone bad. Oh.
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Bellinger now has publicly sworn off chicken wings for five
years because he got food poisoning at a motor City
hotel well eating said chicken wings. So question here we go,
is Cody Bellinger's chicken wing band an overreaction or a
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smart move? So I have it as neither a smart
move or an overreaction. I have it as hyperbolate, is
what I have it as. Do not believe Bellinger. I
don't believe him. He's saying it got some headlines. Don't
believe him. He will not follow and honor the embargo.
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He will not do it. There will be wings in
the man's belly within the rest of the baseball season.
How about that. I don't believe him. Now, I am
not a wing guy. I know that the chicken finger
is better than the wing. My favorite are the Ben
Mallard chicken fingers at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri. That
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is my go to for the chicken fingers, wings chicken fingers. However,
I realize that there are many that are a passionate
lover of the wing, the chicken, wing, bock chicken, and
you will eat them all the time. Now, if you
love the wing. The part of this which really is
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messed up. It appears that the Bellinger said he was
eating no frills wings, basic biach wings, no sauce, bare bones. Now,
this is the age old food conundrum that you have.
If you have a job where you travel and you
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don't have access to a kitchen, you're then at the
mercy of whoever is preparing your food. It's risky business
and most of the time you eat out, everything will
be fine. But that one time the person the line
cook in the back has smoked a little too much weed,
and they weren't paying attention, and they forgot to cook
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your food the proper way, and so you get some
sal salmonilla, that kind of thing. Now, I've had food
poisoning twice in my life. Have you had food poison
I've had food poisoning twice in my life. I once
ate a bad ballpark hot dog and I was I
was really messed up from that. That lasted. I had
the old dysentery there, and then I had the Crazy
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Chicken restaurant right across the street from work. I ate
there and also did not cook the chicken properly. And yeah,
but spoiler alert, spoiler alert, Yeah, I still eat the
hot dog, the Frankfurter, the wiener, and and the chicken.
I still eat chicken box chicken, a lot of it,
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tried and true. My boycott lasted at the most, I
don't remember exactly, at the most a couple of a
couple of months, and I was back. It is the
Ben Mallard Show. If you'd like to be back with us,
you can join us at eighty seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six sixty
(17:06):
three sixty nine, also on X at Ben Mahler. That's
at Ben Mahler if you'd like to be part of
the show. Well, father really does know best. Father knows best,
and that is no joke. We'll get to that and
we will do it.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Next.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Ripman says, who the hell is going to airlift Robbie
the Mariner fan into that offensive line? Well, that's a
low blow, Ribman, that is a low blow. I think
Justin and Cincinnati will give Robbie a piggyback ride out
to the offensive line. And we have another selection for
the offensive line. That would be big Rig rob who
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says he's willing. He thinks he's the center, and we
have to move our buddy who makes bullets all night.
We have to move him to guard because big Rig
Robb says he's a center, he's a six five two
seventy four, and nobody on the Panthers is pushing him around.
So Rob has submitted his application to be on the
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offensive line. And not against that, not against that at all.
I think what we got serious. Sean will be on
the special teams. I think that's probably right there. We'll
put who else is on the special teams. We've got
Marcel and Brooklyn. We've got Blair and Maine. He'll be
on there as well. I think Terry in England, I
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don't think he'll be on the team. He might be
on the coaching staff. He might be on the coaching staff.
King Rory writes in regarding the Top of the Hour
male monologue, he says, the real question is for Cody Bellinger.
Does this ban on chicken wings include boneless wings? Great question,
great question?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Now where I come from, boneless wings are nuggets.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's correct. The boneless wing is a nugget. The boneless
wing is not an actual wing. If there's no bone,
there's no win and it's just a big ball of meat.
That's all it is, juicy, delicious meat, right there. Wonderful man.
All right, Jeff right, a fun fact, Ben, Oh you
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have a fun Well we only if you play this
sounder only.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
One fact.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Now you're allowed to do a fun fact. Here we go.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I believe that.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
The meat nuggets, like the meat and the holess ones,
they're already technically pre cooked too.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So yeah, well, most it depends what you buy, but
a lot of what you buy is pre cooked.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, and at the at the restaurants too.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh really, yeah, I'm pretty sure, all right, Jeff Wright,
sinceys back in the day, there used to be a
steakhouse named Sizzler. Yeah, there's still some. There's not many around,
there's still some. I think I think there's still some,
says our family ate there often. Jeff says, one weekend
I got food poisoning. I swore off the restaurant. I
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think it's been a solid twenty five years since I
ate there. I'm not sure they are still in business.
There are some, but they're not not many, not many.
Ryan Rights in from San Diego. He says, listen to
your rant last night on the Lakers being done. I
see a resemblance to when predicting the Lakers downfall and
(20:20):
Poppy picks. He says, very similar. I think that he met.
My prediction was like Poppy's picks. Poppy who's now a
former caller to the show. He's retired from the show. Well, Ryan,
first of all, you're dead wrong. I'm looking at the
long game, not the short game. You're doing the short game.
I'm doing the long game. And the Lakers are done.
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And even last night the game in Dallas not good trailing.
I couldn't name more than two guys playing for the
Mavericks and they had the lead in the fourth quarter.
That is embarrassing. Oh, but the Lakers are so good. Yeah,
you're trailing Ricks and they have suck bag players all
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over the court. They hate each other, and you're losing
to that team in the fourth quarter, and the crowd
is in enough people and they're all cheering for the
for the Purple and Gold, and all that's embarrassing. It's embarrassing,
is what it is. Uh Trucker Joel points out that
we must have Fats that he should play right tackle. Now,
I have Fats as a nose tackle, like I think
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Fats is a very aggressive human being. Will put Fats
from Philadelphia right in the middle of our defensive side
in case anyone tries to run the tush push, Fats
will actually shove his tush into their tush and it'll
be amazing. It'll be very successful. All right' sco the
phones and let's say hello to Jed who fled, who's
(21:46):
in the Sunshine State and he is next, Hello Jed
who fled.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
It's my senior year. I'm in New York City, advised
senior trip. And these revolving doors I'm very miserd oh
New York City outside, I mean's q thing off the
end of the circular doors and I'm ended up space
with another man in my front of my cross is
right on the back side of his jeans. And I'm
I'm a taught I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm very sorry
the entire time. And it's so embarrassing that I knew
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about thirty seconds ago. Wide let into the story. Not
so much now, let's offended.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Man, what kind of I don't want to move past?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So you were saying when you were in high school.
When you were in high school, you were such a
country bumpkin. You had never seen.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Revolving poor white trash. I prefer poor white trash.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Okay, poor white trash. But you've never seen him revolving.
There are no revolving doors in the town, though.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Man, we've got moving pictures on the electronic strings. I've
seen them, I had just not seen them in live
in person. Whilst also seeing buildings, you know, taller than
three or four stories.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I imagine you, like, as a high school kid before
you find drugs, you were you're like at Grand Center. Sorry, okay,
but you're at Grand Central. Station and you just keep
walking in a circle because you're like.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No, baby, before we have the trip, but before we
have trap, Like I'm not gonna have to go to
the top of the entire state build right, They're like
absolutely not my dad's performers who did it. They were saying, well,
they need to say to get enough kids go we
get there and there. Now they can't leave me at
the bottom because you know, by yourself hid apparently they
saw my future. You know, mental statement does probably could guess.
But now I'm like crying. I'm like, y'll set up.
I keep my back on the entire then you know,
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the inner part of the observatory deck. My back does
not leave the entire time. And like media, the class
made made up for all the s back that I
thought through the years, and they raked me pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Wow. Classic the classic stories of famous radio callers, classic
stories of.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Oh I tried to do like the chicken wing thing
early you made be thinking like if I'm not needing
but one of one of those commercials and here you're
probably eating by there's no doubt about it. Don't hurt
or chicken balls, by the way, don't needt chicken balls please, Hey,
I got one question. Why does blind Scott get the
thread in every left for kN on the face that
you did entire universe, the entire universe, dude, leptcons They
say you anywhere?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Do you want to you want to ask him?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I want to. I want uh Scott?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, I would hold on, blind Scott. I'm telling you no,
j He's on hold blind put him up there, Cooper,
blind Scott. Jed has a question for you.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Can I just say a couple of things about Jed first,
because he's really a semi man. This guy is a
complete fraud, Jed. He's picking on me. He's saying mean
things about me on the air. This is a white
privilege dude from Florida. His family with like a politician.
He went all over the place.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
He looks like a raise and he doesn't drink any water.
He does drugs all night. He criticizes me, calls me liberal. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
All right, all right, hold on, sick Jed. Your thoughts,
he says, you're raising him.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Let's go out to the lobby.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
He did ourselves a snack. Nothing wrong with raisins, dude.
They start a very very important part in this world.
They get people out there at the intermission. You got
to buy that stuff, Scott. I'm blad dude. I would
have fank you.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
A whole hold on a sick Scott. Your response, he
says he's black, He's.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Joe Billy Baul.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
This is a white, privileged dude from Florida who's crying
because this mommy and daddy didn't treat him right. Dude.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Wait a minute, don't you complain your You complain all
the time your parents don't treat you right. You say
that about your dad all the time, Dude, I'm not
I'm not making up stories like I'm.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
A pe teacher that I'm smoking crystal meth.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Now, ude, all right, hold on, let's go back. Told
on a sec. This is a losing battle, Jed, are
you making these stories up? Jet? Are these all bogus stories?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
With the exception of him trying to get people call
him a female, I guess paint hiss, dude. He was
ridding the money. Everything that was riding money, no doubt
about it.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Okay, thank you, all right? Final word there, blind Scott?
Final word?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Can I talk about blind Barbie? They have a blind
Barbie like show I do around my care bag. I
got a blind Barbie, got Merrigan girl doll, I got
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Are you gonna get a Lebron? Are you gonna get
a lebron? Though you're gonna get a Lebron?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I would get one. My mom pulls this stuff out
of my apartment. She too, so I got to hide it.
But you ever seen those people they walk around, they
got the key change, they got like all that stuff
on them. That's like me. I carry that stuff round
with me. It makes me feel calm. I have high
quotas all levels.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I am sensitive to these comments like I like these.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
If you if you're sensitive to the comments, why are
you in the world where people are a holes? Why
would you do that?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I don't mind your mind. I like it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I am my fault position are it's a whole on
social media. Didn't know why would give them the opportunity
to do this?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
I don't mind like.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I feel like you are mine.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I like these guys like I've known them for a while.
I like Jed, I like Mike Well, I don't like Mike.
I like like Justin and SUSI. I like those guys.
I have no problems with them. Who cares who I am?
Nobody cares how much everybody likes me too, These guys,
I'm just a celebrity. It's hard to overcome. I'm a
real life celebrity. Nobody's going to be better than me.
A caning into the show either. But you can't do
(27:00):
it Nuby Night either. It ruins the whole ruins the
whole Shelton people paying.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Buckle up, man, We're doing a newby Night one next
either next week or tomorrow, We're doing a newby Night.
It's gonna happen newby Night just two hours to start
and then Loraada, should we just do two hours of
the whole show? Loraina?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yes, yes, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
She's she's not listening at all, by the way, She's Yes,
I am.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
This is the most entertaining rating.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yes, no question. I did not. I asked no question you, Yes,
should we do two hours of the whole show? You
said yes?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
What does that even mean? I don't even know what
that means. I have no idea what that means. I
can't figure out what that means. If I if I
asked her yes, no question, that's fine. But you I
did not ask you, yes, no question. I did not.
I asked a question to me. All right, all right,
thank you, Scott. I'm sure you'll stay on hold for
the rest of the show and we'll go back to
you at some point to annoy everyone who will make
a big fuss. We would you put it back out?
(27:54):
I don't you put it back anyway. And if you're
tired of these people calling up and you say, what
what is on? Why do these people called what? Don't
you call up so I can talk to somebody else
like you and our lives will cross here eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six six three six. And I know it's easier just
to kick back and relax than to go into the
(28:15):
lions then with the the arrows and the and the
hammers and all that. I get it. I understand, I understand,
but that is part of it. Eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. Father Knows Best, Father Knows Best. That
would be Vladimir Gero Jr. We mentioned this guy got
a three hundred something million dollars three hundred twenty five
(28:39):
million dollar bonus contract, most of it being paid as
a bonus. So Guerrero was asked, Vladimir junior, what advice
his old man, his pops gave him, the patriarch of
the Guerrero family, and Vladdie said that his dad, who
(29:00):
was a star with the old Montreal Expos and the
Halos and Anaheim and then some other teams, he said,
my dad told me to trust God. He said that
my dad told me to trust God and to get
the last penny that I could from the organization. Now,
I don't know whether vlad Guerrero trusts God. I don't
(29:22):
know that, but I do know he got every last
penny from the Toronto Blue Jays. Every single gold brick
he got, right, not some he got, he got everything.
He got, every piece of gold, every piece of Canadian gold.
He got.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Good.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
He is loaded, loaded, loaded loaded. We're gonna Mallard of
the third degree that'll be coming up here in a
couple of minutes, the always riveting, always rivening Mallard of
the third degree, and also coming up in a few
we are going to have the insta trivia. You're excited
about that, right you're you are. You're not excited about it.
(30:07):
Don't cheat like that weasel in Houston and then claim
you're not cheating and then you get defended because that
dope Terry in England defends you. But I know, I
know when there's cheating going on. I know it, and
I can. I can. I can sniff it, I sniff
it out. I I can do it. My sinuses have
(30:30):
been cleared. I can sniff it out. I can. Anyway,
Well take your calls and it is time for the
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of the third degree right around the band, and here
we go up blank. Actually, you know we're gonna skip that.
I don't want to do that one. I'll do a
different one. I got a different one. All right, Now
here's the here's the one. We're gonna use the angels
kyne Paris. I don't even know who this is. Yeah,
he became the first player since Blank to have at
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least five home runs and four stolen bases in their
first ten games of a season. This goes back to
last one hundred and twenty five years again, so since
nineteen hundred, the angels kyne Paris has become the first
player since Blank to have at least five home runs
and four stolen bases in their first ten games of
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the season. Last one hundred and twenty five seasons. That
is the Insta trivia the answer. Coop's excited about this.
He's got halo fever. We'll get to that, and we
will almost see a doctor, Coop. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
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you're lazy, bad job by you. You did not provide
the proper toss. Shame on you, Shame on you. Time
now for the instat Trivia, and here it is the
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instant Trivia. The angels Kyron Paris becoming the first player
since Blank to have at least five home runs and
four stolen bases in their first ten games of a season.
That's over the last one hundred and twenty five baseball seasons.
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forgot Tyrin Paris of the Angels, I don't know who
that is, it's pretty good. Became the first player since
Blank to have at least five home runs and four
stolen bases in their first ten games of the season.
Goes back one hundred and twenty five years, and that
is the question. What is the answer? Sadhar from William
(35:01):
That's his answer. Scott Spiezio guest by Alf the Alien
Old Pineer j J Inrenton, the Greatest Mariner fan of
the Malad Militia from Shane in Des Moines. Dick Schofield
from Miguel on Fire, Great Glove, no Bat. Dick Scholfield
has to be the goat himself. Mike Trout guess by
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Fergie bergdog La Dela Cruz gues by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Ell.
He's really looking good there, Mariene Morris, who is thirty
five today from Late Night? Drug Tester Jim Carrey's Drug
Dealer guest by Big Greg in Iowa.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Who you gotta have?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Grug Ba City, Tony says California Angels Stalwart Gus Pollodor.
That's a good name. Nineteen eighties Angels Gus Pollodor. Who
else do we have? Page Dan I see barbecuing Lynn
He checked in? Who else do we have? Joe the
ghost Hunter said Blind Scott and Jed who fled radio goal. Well,
(36:00):
not everyone agreed with that. Danny Doyle gets by BP
Razor ramone from Steve the misplaced San Diegan legend, Gene
Harris from Big Rig Rob. That's his answer, Joe Morgan
from Johnny Q. Do you have an answer, Lorraine Ronald Weasley?
Ben Wow, Okay, I know the correct answer is a
(36:23):
fine Canadian lad Larry Walker with the ninety seven here?
How about that?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Cool down loop justin.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Ben with the revelation that breest Haul's workload in New
York will be dramatically reduced, Apparently they're going to go
with a three running back scheme. Some speculated that a
trade could be in the works. Ben, where do you
think the best landing spot for Hall would be?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Well, the Pittsburgh Steelers would not be bad. I mean,
he doesn't have that much value because even though he's
deemed to be a pretty good player, he's a running back, right,
and so if you if you look at the way
this all breaks down, there's not a ton there. I mean,
you're there are teams that would would acquire, but it's
(37:20):
I'm gonna say, Pittsburgh because they don't really fill that void.
There's some talk they're gonna get a running back to
Cowboys need some help in the running back position.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Next, with Taylor Jenkins and Michael Malone both being fired
before the end of the NBA season, who do you
think will be the first coach to go once it's
over all?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Right, So you look for somebody that has high expectations
that will likely not live up to those high expectations
in the playoffs, right, So I'm gonna go Doc Rivers.
I'm gonna go Doc Rivers way in doubt. Throw Doc Rivers'
name out. Uh and Bucks are okay, you know obviously
in the playoffs and all that, but Doc will screws
something up. He always does.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Next, Ben, what has been the biggest surprise for you
so far in this young twenty twenty five MLB season.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Well, the biggest surprise is that it's April ninth and
you're asking me the biggest surprises in the baseball season?
Could we might have been played like it hardly any
games at all. But I would say the Orioles off
to a terrible start. I thought they'd be better in
the Atlanta Braves that's those are the obvious ones. What's
going on with them? And how did we do?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Not the Dodgers being in third you fail.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
The Dodgers are ten and four. They have a seven
hundred winning percent. Your third place flunny mine third place,
you're a loser. You're you're. The Ages are in first place.
The Ages have a worst record.
Bingo. It's our numb bertwo. Not the same old, same
old no, no. We are about to risk life and
limb in our number two of the podcast. It's the
Ben Maler Show. You knew that already. It's the MLB
Power Hour. You make the call. Who does the three
hundred and twenty five million dollar bonus favor more Vladimir
(00:21):
Guro Junior or the Blue Jays Big news in baseball.
Also Tiascar Hernandez claimed that he was not making an excuse,
but he chalked up the sputtering Dodgers road trip to
not being used to playing in the cold weather. How
do you process this? And is Yankee outfielder Cody Bellinger's
(00:43):
chicken wing ban of five years an overreaction or a
smart move. We'll get to all of that. It is
the center of attention right now. It's our number two,
the Bonus Baby, and then some welcome in the beginning
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make like a Mallard Militia offensive line, I'd have Robbie
the Mariner fan would be my left tackle. I'd have
Big Greg as like my right tackle. And there was
a listener forget his name. He was in the in Missouri.
He makes bullets all night. He would be on the
(02:14):
offensive line. He'd beat my starting center. So I need
like two more offensive linemen, and then I'm pretty sure
we could beat the Carolina Panthers. We'd have the most
dominant offensive line, large and in charge. Large, maybe Eugene
in Chicago. We could probably put Eugenie in there somewhere
on the offensive line. But listen, we've got the size.
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We have the size. We've got physicality. But our lead
this hour is from Toronto. Oh. Now, you don't hear
a lot of conversation about the Blue Jays on sports radio.
Why would you? Why would you? But we go places
other people don't go because we are not the mainstream.
(02:59):
We are on at hours which are unholy, so we
can go places other people don't go. Now we have
a better understanding of the massive implications of the big
payday that happened a few days ago. A stutter from
up north the bird's nest as Vladimir Garrero Junior. You
(03:21):
know by now that he landed a five hundred million
dollar deal with the Blue Jays. However, it is interesting
to note that the fine print is what really stands
out about this contract. Now, we had heard there was
no deferred money, and there is no deferred money. Now,
I don't know if you've heard the news here. Maybe not,
(03:42):
But we have learned now through the magnifying glass and
reading the minutia of the contract and not turning away,
we have learned that Vlatti Guerrero Junior's contract includes a
three hundred and twenty five million dollar dollars signing bonus three.
(04:03):
Let me repeat that, three hundred and twenty five million
as a signing bonst the one hundred and seventy five
million that's remaining that would be paid as an actual salary.
So to rephrase that again for those of you a
little slow, the Toronto baseball team will pay their first basement.
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They'll pay out sixty five percent of Guerrero's contract in
a signing bonus. Now that is a sight to behold. Now,
both the bonus and the salary will be sent out
in annual installments, kind of like when you win some
contests and they pay you a year after year. But
(04:44):
he'll get a big fat check for the bonus, big
fat check for the salary over the next fourteen years,
next fourteen years. So let us discuss the question we're
gonna play. You make the call, I love you make
the call. You make the call. Who does the three
hundred and twenty five million dollars signing bonus favor more?
(05:08):
You can only pick one, Vladimir Guerrero Junior or the team,
the Blue Jays. You make the call. Who gets more
out of this? Is it the player or is it
the team? Now my observation, I've got triggeration, the gap
band and embargo and we will combine all of these
(05:31):
things together. We will lock them together like lego blocks.
Is what we're going to do. So numb burne, Can
I get a numb burn mine? All right? Based on
a minutes long Mallard deliberation in the jury box, the
arrow is pointing firmly at Vladimir Guerrero Junior. And it's
(05:53):
not even close. Now, I heard some of you knuckleheads.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know, the blue Jemers.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Are gonna save money. It's not gonna go against the
salary cap because it's it's not gonna be the luxury tax.
It's good for them. Yeah, you were telling me there's
a there's some kind of loophole. There's a loophole. Ben
This is what this is what everyone's gonna be doing.
They're gonna get around the luxury tax. Well, turns out
that is the B word bogus capital b bogus, capital
(06:21):
b bogus. The signing bonus is included in the average
annual value in terms of how they document the luxury tax,
meaning that Vladimir Garro Junior's annual luxury tax hit will
still be thirty five point seven million dollars. Even No,
(06:43):
he's not going to be paid based on the actual
salary part of it. That so the winner is Vladdie
by a country mile, and what he is doing with
his representation here upon further review, is tricker to avoid
the tax collector. Now, I've seen a lot of stories written,
(07:04):
these these think pieces, these bleeding hard stories about how
what a great story this is for the Toronto baseball
team native Canadian Vladimir Guerrero Junior, who was born in Montreal.
I believe his dad was playing for the Expos, and
now here he is, and he wants to stay in Canada. Well,
spoiler Albert alert, spoiler alert, turns out that Vladimir Guiro
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Junior actually resides in Florida. And those of you who
live in Florida love to remind me and love to
point out how much better you have it than I
do living in California, because you live in a state
without income tax, which means if you're a baseball player
and you're getting a massive amount of money sent your way,
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you will then have to have the honor of being
able to avoid paying state tax on the bonus, which
will generate millions and millions in value added to the contract.
So you put your residence in a state that does
(08:09):
not have state income text, like, think about that. Oh
my god, do you imagine places where they don't app
they don't try to gouge you on everything. I can't
believe those places exist. Now people have also said this
is a lottery situation for Vladimir Guerrero Junior. And while
the three hundred plus million dollars does appear to be
(08:31):
a lottery, it's it doesn't even justify that. That is
not the right phrasing of it. So I looked it up.
I did the research. Do you know in the history
because he plays in Canada, So in the history of
Canadian lotteries, going all the way back to the start
of those Canadian lotteries, there have been no instances of
a single jackpot reaching three hundred million. In fact, the
(08:56):
biggest jackpot they've ever had in the Canadian lotteries is
seventy million. So Vlad's getting three hundred and twenty five
overall five hundred but three and twenty five signing bonus.
And even in the United States, where they have had
lotteries going back to what the early nineties, and that's
a fair amount of time, that's a lot of money
(09:18):
invested by people that they lost their money bet on
the lottery. But since the beginning of the lottery system,
there have been a total of sixty six sixty six
separate jackpots over three hundred, three hundred or more, thirty
five in Powerball, thirty one in Mega Millions, So I
(09:39):
would expect some combination of this, along with the sho
Heo Tani contract to be the new normal. This does
not help the team as much. The sho Heo Tani
deal helps the team, and I support it because it
screws over the evil tax losers, the scumbag politicians in California,
(09:59):
so fully support that absolutely. And the CBA in baseball
does not restrict though the amount a team can include
any signing bonus, just like it doesn't limit the amount
of money you can have in deferred payments. So we'll
see what happens going forward now, Page two to the
Big Blue Wreck not wrecking crew wreck the Dodgers. They
(10:22):
didn't get a win. They wrapped up the road trip
a losing road trip with a matinee win over the
Washington Nationals as they finally got by that natitude on Wednesday,
But there was an interesting quote a quote, interesting quote
that came out of the mouth of Tiascar Hernandez, that
(10:43):
is a baseball player for the Dodgers, outfielder, got some
swag to him, got some rasmatash ti Oscar Hernandez. So
Tiascar Hernandez claimed he prefaced this by saying, I'm not
making an excuse, but up the Dodgers sputtering road trip
where they lost both series to Philadelphia and Washington. He
(11:07):
said the reason that they had some issues on the
road was quote not being used to playing in the
cold weather. So how exactly do you process that particular quote.
The Dodgers had problems on the road because they were
not used to playing in cold weather. So this is
face palm worthy, right, I mean it is right there.
(11:29):
Face palm worthy is what it is.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Tiasra claimed that again he wasn't making an excuse and
then made an excuse. And as you know from listening
to the show, there's two things you should know by
listening to this show. The first thing you should know
is that the term best means as good as all
the rest, Right, That's what that means. The second thing
is everything a person says before the word butt is
(11:53):
a lie. When you say, I'm not making an excuse,
but liar, liar, that's it right, So time to go
nineteen eighties funk the Gap band. You dropped a bomb
on me. And here's a truth Bob, all right, truth Bob,
Truth Bob, truth Bob. Every cold weather team, whether they
(12:16):
be on the in the Northeast or the upper Midwest,
every cold weather team in baseball has a common bond.
It's something they share with every team that plays in
a dome or a West coast city, the grapefruit and
the cacti, or go spring training. Every player, even if
(12:38):
they're in cold weather, they're not used to the cold weather.
They just spent the last month and a half from
mid February until late March in the sunny and mild
conditions of Florida and Arizona. I mentioned the other night
I was watching the Red Sox Blue Jays game a
couple of nights ago, and it looked like the Red
Sox were preparing to rob a bank or a convenience
(13:01):
store the way they were out there all dry. I mean,
it was wild. It was like they're playing in the Arctic,
and that's a cold weather team or not. But this
is about the Dodgers is just pathetic. And last I checked,
when you get to the World Series, chances are going
to be playing in a cold weather city in the
American League, and chances are pretty good that it will
(13:23):
be frigid as you dance around the diamond at that point. Now,
speaking of a cold weather city, that wasn't the World
Series final point to the Boogey doown Bronx we go
where the New York Yankees and outfielder Cody Bellinger making
some rather odd headlines here. I don't know if you
saw this or not. Bellinger missed some time recently moves
out of the Yankee lineup because of a meal gone bad. Oh.
(13:48):
Bellinger now has publicly sworn off chicken wings for five
years because he got food poisoning at a motor City
hotel well eating said chicken wings. So question here we go,
is Cody Bellinger's chicken wing band an overreaction or a
(14:13):
smart move? So I have it as neither a smart
move or an overreaction. I have it as hyperbolate, is
what I have it as. Do not believe Bellinger. I
don't believe him. He's saying it got some headlines. Don't
believe him. He will not follow and honor the embargo.
(14:36):
He will not do it. There will be wings in
the man's belly within the rest of the baseball season.
How about that. I don't believe him. Now, I am
not a wing guy. I know that the chicken finger
is better than the wing. My favorite are the Ben
Mallard chicken fingers at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri. That
(14:57):
is my go to for the chicken fingers, wings chicken fingers. However,
I realize that there are many that are a passionate
lover of the wing, the chicken, wing, bock chicken, and
you will eat them all the time. Now, if you
love the wing. The part of this which really is
(15:18):
messed up. It appears that the Bellinger said he was
eating no frills wings, basic biach wings, no sauce, bare bones. Now,
this is the age old food conundrum that you have.
If you have a job where you travel and you
(15:38):
don't have access to a kitchen, you're then at the
mercy of whoever is preparing your food. It's risky business
and most of the time you eat out, everything will
be fine. But that one time the person the line
cook in the back has smoked a little too much weed,
and they weren't paying attention, and they forgot to cook
(16:00):
your food the proper way, and so you get some
sal salmonilla, that kind of thing. Now, I've had food
poisoning twice in my life. Have you had food poison
I've had food poisoning twice in my life. I once
ate a bad ballpark hot dog and I was I
was really messed up from that. That lasted. I had
the old dysentery there, and then I had the Crazy
(16:23):
Chicken restaurant right across the street from work. I ate
there and also did not cook the chicken properly. And yeah,
but spoiler alert, spoiler alert, Yeah, I still eat the
hot dog, the Frankfurter, the wiener, and and the chicken.
I still eat chicken box chicken, a lot of it,
(16:44):
tried and true. My boycott lasted at the most, I
don't remember exactly, at the most a couple of a
couple of months, and I was back. It is the
Ben Mallard Show. If you'd like to be back with us,
you can join us at eighty seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six sixty
(17:06):
three sixty nine, also on X at Ben Mahler. That's
at Ben Mahler if you'd like to be part of
the show. Well, father really does know best. Father knows best,
and that is no joke. We'll get to that and
we will do it.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Next.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Ripman says, who the hell is going to airlift Robbie
the Mariner fan into that offensive line? Well, that's a
low blow, Ribman, that is a low blow. I think
Justin and Cincinnati will give Robbie a piggyback ride out
to the offensive line. And we have another selection for
the offensive line. That would be big Rig rob who
(17:48):
says he's willing. He thinks he's the center, and we
have to move our buddy who makes bullets all night.
We have to move him to guard because big Rig
Robb says he's a center, he's a six five two
seventy four, and nobody on the Panthers is pushing him around.
So Rob has submitted his application to be on the
(18:08):
offensive line. And not against that, not against that at all.
I think what we got serious. Sean will be on
the special teams. I think that's probably right there. We'll
put who else is on the special teams. We've got
Marcel and Brooklyn. We've got Blair and Maine. He'll be
on there as well. I think Terry in England, I
(18:31):
don't think he'll be on the team. He might be
on the coaching staff. He might be on the coaching staff.
King Rory writes in regarding the Top of the Hour
male monologue, he says, the real question is for Cody Bellinger.
Does this ban on chicken wings include boneless wings? Great question,
great question?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Now where I come from, boneless wings are nuggets.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That's correct. The boneless wing is a nugget. The boneless
wing is not an actual wing. If there's no bone,
there's no win and it's just a big ball of meat.
That's all it is, juicy, delicious meat, right there. Wonderful man.
All right, Jeff right, a fun fact, Ben, Oh you
(19:13):
have a fun Well we only if you play this
sounder only.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
One fact.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Now you're allowed to do a fun fact. Here we go.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I believe that.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
The meat nuggets, like the meat and the holess ones,
they're already technically pre cooked too.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So yeah, well, most it depends what you buy, but
a lot of what you buy is pre cooked.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yeah, and at the at the restaurants too.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh really, yeah, I'm pretty sure, all right, Jeff Wright,
sinceys back in the day, there used to be a
steakhouse named Sizzler. Yeah, there's still some. There's not many around,
there's still some. I think I think there's still some,
says our family ate there often. Jeff says, one weekend
I got food poisoning. I swore off the restaurant. I
(20:00):
think it's been a solid twenty five years since I
ate there. I'm not sure they are still in business.
There are some, but they're not not many, not many.
Ryan Rights in from San Diego. He says, listen to
your rant last night on the Lakers being done. I
see a resemblance to when predicting the Lakers downfall and
(20:20):
Poppy picks. He says, very similar. I think that he met.
My prediction was like Poppy's picks. Poppy who's now a
former caller to the show. He's retired from the show. Well, Ryan,
first of all, you're dead wrong. I'm looking at the
long game, not the short game. You're doing the short game.
I'm doing the long game. And the Lakers are done.
(20:41):
And even last night the game in Dallas not good trailing.
I couldn't name more than two guys playing for the
Mavericks and they had the lead in the fourth quarter.
That is embarrassing. Oh, but the Lakers are so good. Yeah,
you're trailing Ricks and they have suck bag players all
(21:02):
over the court. They hate each other, and you're losing
to that team in the fourth quarter, and the crowd
is in enough people and they're all cheering for the
for the Purple and Gold, and all that's embarrassing. It's embarrassing,
is what it is. Uh Trucker Joel points out that
we must have Fats that he should play right tackle. Now,
I have Fats as a nose tackle, like I think
(21:23):
Fats is a very aggressive human being. Will put Fats
from Philadelphia right in the middle of our defensive side
in case anyone tries to run the tush push, Fats
will actually shove his tush into their tush and it'll
be amazing. It'll be very successful. All right' sco the
phones and let's say hello to Jed who fled, who's
(21:46):
in the Sunshine State and he is next, Hello Jed
who fled.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
It's my senior year. I'm in New York City, advised
senior trip. And these revolving doors I'm very miserd oh
New York City outside, I mean's q thing off the
end of the circular doors and I'm ended up space
with another man in my front of my cross is
right on the back side of his jeans. And I'm
I'm a taught I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm very sorry
the entire time. And it's so embarrassing that I knew
(22:14):
about thirty seconds ago. Wide let into the story. Not
so much now, let's offended.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Man, what kind of I don't want to move past?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
So you were saying when you were in high school.
When you were in high school, you were such a
country bumpkin. You had never seen.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Revolving poor white trash. I prefer poor white trash.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Okay, poor white trash. But you've never seen him revolving.
There are no revolving doors in the town, though.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Man, we've got moving pictures on the electronic strings. I've
seen them, I had just not seen them in live
in person. Whilst also seeing buildings, you know, taller than
three or four stories.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I imagine you, like, as a high school kid before
you find drugs, you were you're like at Grand Center. Sorry, okay,
but you're at Grand Central. Station and you just keep
walking in a circle because you're like.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No, baby, before we have the trip, but before we
have trap, Like I'm not gonna have to go to
the top of the entire state build right, They're like
absolutely not my dad's performers who did it. They were saying, well,
they need to say to get enough kids go we
get there and there. Now they can't leave me at
the bottom because you know, by yourself hid apparently they
saw my future. You know, mental statement does probably could guess.
But now I'm like crying. I'm like, y'll set up.
I keep my back on the entire then you know,
(23:21):
the inner part of the observatory deck. My back does
not leave the entire time. And like media, the class
made made up for all the s back that I
thought through the years, and they raked me pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Wow. Classic the classic stories of famous radio callers, classic
stories of.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Oh I tried to do like the chicken wing thing
early you made be thinking like if I'm not needing
but one of one of those commercials and here you're
probably eating by there's no doubt about it. Don't hurt
or chicken balls, by the way, don't needt chicken balls please, Hey,
I got one question. Why does blind Scott get the
thread in every left for kN on the face that
you did entire universe, the entire universe, dude, leptcons They
say you anywhere?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Do you want to you want to ask him?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I want to. I want uh Scott?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, I would hold on, blind Scott. I'm telling you no,
j He's on hold blind put him up there, Cooper,
blind Scott. Jed has a question for you.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Can I just say a couple of things about Jed first,
because he's really a semi man. This guy is a
complete fraud, Jed. He's picking on me. He's saying mean
things about me on the air. This is a white
privilege dude from Florida. His family with like a politician.
He went all over the place.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
He looks like a raise and he doesn't drink any water.
He does drugs all night. He criticizes me, calls me liberal. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
All right, all right, hold on, sick Jed. Your thoughts,
he says, you're raising him.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Let's go out to the lobby.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
He did ourselves a snack. Nothing wrong with raisins, dude.
They start a very very important part in this world.
They get people out there at the intermission. You got
to buy that stuff, Scott. I'm blad dude. I would
have fank you.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
A whole hold on a sick Scott. Your response, he
says he's black, He's.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Joe Billy Baul.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
This is a white, privileged dude from Florida who's crying
because this mommy and daddy didn't treat him right. Dude.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Wait a minute, don't you complain your You complain all
the time your parents don't treat you right. You say
that about your dad all the time, Dude, I'm not
I'm not making up stories like I'm.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
A pe teacher that I'm smoking crystal meth.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Now, ude, all right, hold on, let's go back. Told
on a sec. This is a losing battle, Jed, are
you making these stories up? Jet? Are these all bogus stories?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
With the exception of him trying to get people call
him a female, I guess paint hiss, dude. He was
ridding the money. Everything that was riding money, no doubt
about it.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Okay, thank you, all right? Final word there, blind Scott?
Final word?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Can I talk about blind Barbie? They have a blind
Barbie like show I do around my care bag. I
got a blind Barbie, got Merrigan girl doll, I got
you know.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Are you gonna get a Lebron? Are you gonna get
a lebron? Though you're gonna get a Lebron?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I would get one. My mom pulls this stuff out
of my apartment. She too, so I got to hide it.
But you ever seen those people they walk around, they
got the key change, they got like all that stuff
on them. That's like me. I carry that stuff round
with me. It makes me feel calm. I have high
quotas all levels.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I am sensitive to these comments like I like these.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
If you if you're sensitive to the comments, why are
you in the world where people are a holes? Why
would you do that?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I don't mind your mind. I like it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I am my fault position are it's a whole on
social media. Didn't know why would give them the opportunity
to do this?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
I don't mind like.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I feel like you are mine.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I like these guys like I've known them for a while.
I like Jed, I like Mike Well, I don't like Mike.
I like like Justin and SUSI. I like those guys.
I have no problems with them. Who cares who I am?
Nobody cares how much everybody likes me too, These guys,
I'm just a celebrity. It's hard to overcome. I'm a
real life celebrity. Nobody's going to be better than me.
A caning into the show either. But you can't do
(27:00):
it Nuby Night either. It ruins the whole ruins the
whole Shelton people paying.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Buckle up, man, We're doing a newby Night one next
either next week or tomorrow, We're doing a newby Night.
It's gonna happen newby Night just two hours to start
and then Loraada, should we just do two hours of
the whole show? Loraina?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yes, yes, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
She's she's not listening at all, by the way, She's Yes,
I am.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
This is the most entertaining rating.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yes, no question. I did not. I asked no question you, Yes,
should we do two hours of the whole show? You
said yes?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
What does that even mean? I don't even know what
that means. I have no idea what that means. I
can't figure out what that means. If I if I
asked her yes, no question, that's fine. But you I
did not ask you, yes, no question. I did not.
I asked a question to me. All right, all right,
thank you, Scott. I'm sure you'll stay on hold for
the rest of the show and we'll go back to
you at some point to annoy everyone who will make
a big fuss. We would you put it back out?
(27:54):
I don't you put it back anyway. And if you're
tired of these people calling up and you say, what
what is on? Why do these people called what? Don't
you call up so I can talk to somebody else
like you and our lives will cross here eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six six three six. And I know it's easier just
to kick back and relax than to go into the
(28:15):
lions then with the the arrows and the and the
hammers and all that. I get it. I understand, I understand,
but that is part of it. Eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. Father Knows Best, Father Knows Best. That
would be Vladimir Gero Jr. We mentioned this guy got
a three hundred something million dollars three hundred twenty five
(28:39):
million dollar bonus contract, most of it being paid as
a bonus. So Guerrero was asked, Vladimir junior, what advice
his old man, his pops gave him, the patriarch of
the Guerrero family, and Vladdie said that his dad, who
(29:00):
was a star with the old Montreal Expos and the
Halos and Anaheim and then some other teams, he said,
my dad told me to trust God. He said that
my dad told me to trust God and to get
the last penny that I could from the organization. Now,
I don't know whether vlad Guerrero trusts God. I don't
(29:22):
know that, but I do know he got every last
penny from the Toronto Blue Jays. Every single gold brick
he got, right, not some he got, he got everything.
He got, every piece of gold, every piece of Canadian gold.
He got.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Good.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
He is loaded, loaded, loaded loaded. We're gonna Mallard of
the third degree that'll be coming up here in a
couple of minutes, the always riveting, always rivening Mallard of
the third degree, and also coming up in a few
we are going to have the insta trivia. You're excited
about that, right you're you are. You're not excited about it.
(30:07):
Don't cheat like that weasel in Houston and then claim
you're not cheating and then you get defended because that
dope Terry in England defends you. But I know, I
know when there's cheating going on. I know it, and
I can. I can. I can sniff it, I sniff
it out. I I can do it. My sinuses have
(30:30):
been cleared. I can sniff it out. I can. Anyway,
Well take your calls and it is time for the
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we go up blank. Actually, you know we're gonna skip that.
I don't want to do that one. I'll do a
different one. I got a different one. All right, Now
here's the here's the one. We're gonna use the angels
kyne Paris. I don't even know who this is. Yeah,
he became the first player since Blank to have at
(31:40):
least five home runs and four stolen bases in their
first ten games of a season. This goes back to
last one hundred and twenty five years again, so since
nineteen hundred, the angels kyne Paris has become the first
player since Blank to have at least five home runs
and four stolen bases in their first ten games of
(32:01):
the season. Last one hundred and twenty five seasons. That
is the Insta trivia the answer. Coop's excited about this.
He's got halo fever. We'll get to that, and we
will almost see a doctor, Coop. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
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now for the instat Trivia, and here it is the
(33:31):
instant Trivia. The angels Kyron Paris becoming the first player
since Blank to have at least five home runs and
four stolen bases in their first ten games of a season.
That's over the last one hundred and twenty five baseball seasons.
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forgot Tyrin Paris of the Angels, I don't know who
that is, it's pretty good. Became the first player since
Blank to have at least five home runs and four
stolen bases in their first ten games of the season.
Goes back one hundred and twenty five years, and that
is the question. What is the answer? Sadhar from William
(35:01):
That's his answer. Scott Spiezio guest by Alf the Alien
Old Pineer j J Inrenton, the Greatest Mariner fan of
the Malad Militia from Shane in Des Moines. Dick Schofield
from Miguel on Fire, Great Glove, no Bat. Dick Scholfield
has to be the goat himself. Mike Trout guess by
(35:21):
Fergie bergdog La Dela Cruz gues by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Ell.
He's really looking good there, Mariene Morris, who is thirty
five today from Late Night? Drug Tester Jim Carrey's Drug
Dealer guest by Big Greg in Iowa.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Who you gotta have?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Grug Ba City, Tony says California Angels Stalwart Gus Pollodor.
That's a good name. Nineteen eighties Angels Gus Pollodor. Who
else do we have? Page Dan I see barbecuing Lynn
He checked in? Who else do we have? Joe the
ghost Hunter said Blind Scott and Jed who fled radio goal. Well,
(36:00):
not everyone agreed with that. Danny Doyle gets by BP
Razor ramone from Steve the misplaced San Diegan legend, Gene
Harris from Big Rig Rob. That's his answer, Joe Morgan
from Johnny Q. Do you have an answer, Lorraine Ronald Weasley?
Ben Wow, Okay, I know the correct answer is a
(36:23):
fine Canadian lad Larry Walker with the ninety seven here?
How about that?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Cool down loop justin.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Ben with the revelation that breest Haul's workload in New
York will be dramatically reduced, Apparently they're going to go
with a three running back scheme. Some speculated that a
trade could be in the works. Ben, where do you
think the best landing spot for Hall would be?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Well, the Pittsburgh Steelers would not be bad. I mean,
he doesn't have that much value because even though he's
deemed to be a pretty good player, he's a running back, right,
and so if you if you look at the way
this all breaks down, there's not a ton there. I mean,
you're there are teams that would would acquire, but it's
(37:20):
I'm gonna say, Pittsburgh because they don't really fill that void.
There's some talk they're gonna get a running back to
Cowboys need some help in the running back position.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Next, with Taylor Jenkins and Michael Malone both being fired
before the end of the NBA season, who do you
think will be the first coach to go once it's
over all?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Right, So you look for somebody that has high expectations
that will likely not live up to those high expectations
in the playoffs, right, So I'm gonna go Doc Rivers.
I'm gonna go Doc Rivers way in doubt. Throw Doc Rivers'
name out. Uh and Bucks are okay, you know obviously
in the playoffs and all that, but Doc will screws
something up. He always does.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Next, Ben, what has been the biggest surprise for you
so far in this young twenty twenty five MLB season.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Well, the biggest surprise is that it's April ninth and
you're asking me the biggest surprises in the baseball season?
Could we might have been played like it hardly any
games at all. But I would say the Orioles off
to a terrible start. I thought they'd be better in
the Atlanta Braves that's those are the obvious ones. What's
going on with them? And how did we do?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Not the Dodgers being in third you fail.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
The Dodgers are ten and four. They have a seven
hundred winning percent. Your third place flunny mine third place,
you're a loser. You're you're. The Ages are in first place.
The Ages have a worst record.
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