April 15, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Nolan Arenado saying that he turned down the Astros because the Kyle Tucker trade made him 'a little uncomfortable', the Rockies putting Kris Bryant on the injured reserve list, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka Laca. It's our number two. We thank you
for listening to the podcast. Remember five stars, five stars
in the pod. It's a baseball heavy hour and hour
number two. We start out in Saint Louis, where Cardinals'
third baseman Nolan Aronato said no bueno to the Astros
this offseason. He says the reason he did that, in part,
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was because Kyle Tucker was traded to the Cubs and
it made him a little uncomfortable. How does all of
that hit you? And what is the word to describe
Chris Bryant's tenure with the Rockies as he has a
degenitive injury, And how do you digest Pete crow Armstrong
turning down seventy five million from the Chicago Cubs. We'll
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talk about all of those stories and more right now here.
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is from baseball now. As you know, I have my routine.
We are all creatures of habit. And then normally when
I'm futxing around getting ready for the show, got my
laptop open, looking around, and I'm watching some games, and
I have all the games available to me. And there
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were some really bad gays, like there were some total
no shows in Major League Baseball, and leading the way
the Boston Red Sox, who were just god off, just
god ill, why they even show up to the ballpark
there in Tampa. So Ronald got their tail kicked. There
were a bunch of blowouts all over the place. Philly
got swished by the Higantes, although that was somewhat closed
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for a while, somewhat close for a while. But our
lead this hour is not from those games. It is
not a game that was also lopsided. Some more dirt,
some more intel coming out of the heartland, and it
involves a red bird that stayed in the nest, a
redbird that stayed in the nest. It was one of
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the bigger stories of the baseball offseason and it has
new life because the player that was going to be
traded that rejected the trade. He moved tumboed the trade
and said, no, I'm not going there has spoken. If
you didn't see this, you have no idea what I'm
talking about. He said, why are you talking pig Latin?
What's wrong with you? Have you lost your mind? Let
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me explain. So, the Cardinals have a third baseman making
a lot of money named Nolan Aernado, and they got
him years ago from the Rockies, and he's hit a
lot of home runs, a lot of meaningless empty stats.
Team doesn't win in Saint Louis. So the Cardinals wanted
to unload Nolan Aernado, and they had agreed to a
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trade and it was all worked out, and then Aeronado said,
I ain't going, and he didn't have to go because
he had a no trade clause. Nolan Aernato has now
confirmed one of the reasons why he said, not over
my dead body, am I going to to use my
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no trade clause. I'm not going to Houston. I don't
want to play for the cheating as one one thousand, two,
one thousand holes. Don't want to do it. And he
said the reason that he rejected the trade is because
the Houston baseball team had traded all star outfielder by
the name of Kyle Tucker to the Cups and he say,
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an that's not going to work. You're not trying to win.
The quote from Aeronauto he said, Tucker is one of
the best players in the game. He grumbled Aeronato. He said,
when you see a team trade him, a ninety nine
out of one hundred players would probably be wondering what
does that mean? What does that mean? That's the question
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I asked myself. Now. Aeronauto ended up blocking the trade
to the cheating a Holes in mid December, five days
five days after the deal that sent Tucker to the
the North Side of Chicago had been announced. So let
us discuss the question. Cardinals third baseman Nolan Aernado confirming
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that he said no to play for the cheating Assstros
after Alfieler Kyle Tucker had been traded away made him
a little uncomfortable. So how does that one hit you?
How does that one hit you? So I'll go first here.
I got Buckey's family guy and Dodgeball, and we will
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combine all of these things together, and we are going
to make toasted ravioli, which is wonderful, delicious and it's
a tradition in Saint louis now much better than the
Skyline chili of Cincinnati. Uh. You talk about cities that
have signature foods, toasted ravioli, which is the food of
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Saint louis much much higher up on the big board.
Not a list, not a list, a big board of
signature dishes known in a certain location. So all right,
first of all, I totally get it. I totally get it.
You don't need to preach on and on if you're
knowing Aeronada on this the reasoning is on point. It
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is on point here. You're preaching to the choir, is
what you're doing on this one. And it's Essentially, if
you're Aeronauta, you're like, listen, I'm not a plumber. I
don't own a plunger. I don't want to. I don't
want to sit on a clogged toilet. And the Houston
Baseball team is a clog toilet. So why would you
sign up when you know if you wait, you're gonna
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have other options down the line. And aeronauto is I
know he didn't go to Ohio State, right, He's not.
He's not a traditional buck guy, but in many ways
he is a buck guy, blood guy. He's a buck
guy's blood guy because much like the Ohio State Marching Band,
he dotted the eye on this one. The Astro franchise
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is built on a hill of marshmallows, hill of marshmallows.
At this point, it is counterfeit. They've accomplished nothing, and
Aeronado knows that, and he wanted no part of that.
And you can't fault the player. It's his right. He
had a no trade clause, and he realized, why would
I want to go there? I want nothing to do
with that, right, I mean, everything they've done there is
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that we get a buzzer over here, you got a
trash can over there and those little pieces of metal.
That's not my words, that's what Rob Manford said. He
thinks the World Series trophy is just a piece of metal,
so it's not worth a warm bucket to spit. It's
not worth a warm bucket to spit. And I get it.
Aeronado knows if he plays all right for the Cardinals.
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He had a home run in the game on Monday,
And if he plays okay, then Aeronauto he'd rather spend
a little more time in the outhouse that is the Cardinals.
But the Cardinals are so bad. No one's even going
to the games. Even when the Cardinals were bad, people
just go to the games. I was watching the Cardinal
game and there was like nobody there. It was like
I thought I was watching the old Cleveland back in
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the day. There was like ten people at the ballpark.
Wild They have sucked so long and been so bad
in Saint Louis now, even the greatest fans at baseball
they've turned their back in the car case. I love it.
That's the only way you get ownership to make changes
is if you just ignore the team. You got to
have apathy. And the Cardinal fans are showing apathy. But anyway, listen,
that's where we are. And if you just wait, if
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you're Nolan Aeronato, you can handpick and end up in
a better situation. Now turn the page. We head to Denver,
but not not for nugget Tucks. It's come to my attention.
It has come to my attention that there is a
great thief in the night that is getting no negative publicity,
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but is one of the great heists of our time
in professional sports. And it's going on right under our nose.
And it involves those unlovable losers from Colorado who are
making some headlines here. I saw this or not. The
Rockies announced they have placed their big free agent pickup
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a couple of years ago, Chris Bryant, on a ten day.
They call it injured list. We used to call it
d L back in they disabled list. Then the Wolchsters
in baseball said no, no, no, it's injured. It's injured. But
they say that he's got a degenerate disc disease. He's
got a degenerate problem with his back. That sounds like
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a problem. Yeah, that sounds sounds like a problem there.
And I'm not a doctor, but I can play one
of the radio So what is the word to describe
Chris Bryant and his tenure with the Rockies. This guy,
at one point was on as they say, im Polker.
He was on the coup with the Cubs. And we
talked earlier about the Cubs winning the World Series. And
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it's been almost a decade or so since the Cubs
won the World Series and they thought they had the
next great dynasty and you look at what a bunch
of turds most of those guys in the Cubs turned
out to be. They all made a lot of money,
but of successful, big time, productive careers, a lot of frauds,
a lot of frauds. And this is one of these
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you bet on these young players and a lot of
these guys do not have the longevity do it for
a couple of years. Chris Bryant's on that short list.
But to answer the question, what is your word for
Chris Bryant's tenure with the Rockies. My word is it's
from family guy quagmire. It's a quagmire is what it
is here. It's a hot mess. And instead of quagmire,
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how about q Q quiet quitting. That is what Chris
Bryan has done and say I just said it. And
here's the thing. There's this loser in Anaheim that named
Anthony Rendon who said the quiet part out by. The
guy hates baseball. Baseball hates him. The Angels are so
stupid they gave him like two hundred and forty five
million dollars. The guy is a total malcontent, doesn't play,
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doesn't even pretend like he wants to play. Just a loser, right,
I mean, everything you hate about professional sports is summed
up in Anthony Rendome. And the different between Chris Bryant
and Anthony Rendon is a little more money, right, actually
a lot more money. But the other thing is that
Chris Bryant you never hear. You don't know whether he
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hates baseball or anything like that. He just doesn't play.
He just sucks when he plays, and you don't hear
about it. And this guy was at breakout star for
the Chicago Cubs years ago and he is currently floating
on the lazy river. He might as well be on
disability with the With the Rockies at this particular points,
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he's played about one season, but he's been there three
plus years. In Colorado, he's played one hundred and seventy games,
and the Rockies he has a minus one point six
war wins above replacement, which means the Rockies are tangibly
worse with Chris bryan on the field. All right, and
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he's in the middle of a seven year, one hundred
and eighty two million dollars contract with the Colorado Baseball team.
And again, now you crunch the numbers on this, He's
now in his fourth year as a member of the
Rockies and he has not played over eighty games. He
has not passed eighty games in any of those campaigns.
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And the latest appearance now his one superpower, the one
area where Chris Bryant is elite as a Rocky is
ending up on what we used to call this able list.
This is not his first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth.
How about his ninth trip to the injury list since
joining the Rockies. That is impressive. And oh, by the way,
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but wait, there's more. The Rockies will be paying him
eighty one million to sit on his ass and not play.
And then when he does play, go up there in
back two forty four. With mediocre numbers across the board,
you could have gotten a guy out of the Mexican
League that would have put up those numbers. But I digress.
All right, now final thought, we now go to Chicago.
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There was a story that threw this was sent in
actually my listener named Steve, who says he is he's
in the suburbs of Chicago, but he's up Ladi's nocturnal
and he listens to our show. So thank you Steve
for sending this my way, and we'll give you a
couple of minutes on this. So some developments from the
Friendly Confines the Cubbies enjoying a West coast trip here
early in the season, and we learned recently the Cubs
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tried to sign outfielder Pete Crow Armstrong. That's a mouthful,
Pete Crow Armstrong to an extension. They offered him a
relatively large extension, seventy five million dollars, seventy five million dollars.
He said, no, I reject your seventy five million dollars.
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I don't want your seventy five million. I don't need
your seventy five million. I'm not going to accept your
seventy five million. So instead, I'm going to counter that
offer and I'm going to ask for something else. However,
the offer was not accepted by the Rockies, so they
have decided to table the contract talks, which is a
polite way of saying we're not paying you. Go away.
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That's it. He's twenty three years old and he's in
his third major league season. Now, the guy did hit
some bombs against the Dodgers over the weekend, and how
do you digest? This was the big prize the Cubs
got in the Hobby bayas trade. Another one of those
can't miss young Cub players who blows he's terrible anyway,
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how do you digest Pete Krohl Armstrong turning down seventy
five million from the Cubs and then off trying to
get even more out of him in the Cub said no, So,
as I learned from Dodgeball back in the day, that
is a bold strategy. Cotton is what that is. Let's
see if it pays off. We will find out. I'm
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betting on it won't pay off. Now, krol Armstrong is
so far when you turn about his offense. He did
some home runs recently, but you talk about his offense
and it's a lot of sizzle. His game in general
not a lot of steak, Like, not a lot of
steak there. He's got some speed, good defensive player, and
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his bat has been like the band Limp Biscuit, just
a lot of limp, a lot of limp in the
bat there, and he's yet to get his sea legs
underneath him at this particular point, does not have that,
and he's making I love how it used to be
when you were on a rookie contract. Boy, you really
got to get a job selling cars or you know,
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cleaning up trash in the offseason. But this guy's making
seven hundred and seventy one thousand dollars as a third
year player. So where I come from, that's a good
amount of money. Seven hundred and thousand dollars. However, it's
not seventy five million. It's not that. And here's the
other thing. He's not arbitration eligible till twenty twenty eight,
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so he's not going to get the big, big, big
money until at least twenty twenty eight. So that's three
more years. And if this guy goes out there in
bat's two thirty every year and doesn't hit enough, he's
not going to get to that point and get the
big money. Seventy five million is generational wealth. He's betting
on himself. We'll see if it works out. You know,
seventy five million with a good investment portfolio of some
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real estate and some investments in commodities and whatnot. You
are set up. You're good to go, and generations of
your family are good to go. But he's he's going
for the big, big, big, big money. Right. It is
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up a little bit later in the hour and late
night drug tester Rights. Sinceys with all the Major League
Baseball players not living up to their contracts, makes me
wonder why owners want to expand since there's an obvious
lack of talent for the teams we have now, Well,
they want to expand because they's more money. Money, money, money.
It's all about that. It's always about you know, the
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It's always about the money. What else do we have?
Page down? Fergduck says, as delicious as it sounds, dollar
shave clubs, shave butter is not edible. Yell me, I
found that out the hard way. Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Was there ever anything in your childhood, Ben that you
knew you shouldn't have eaten, but you did anyways, Like Plato,
a lot of kids eat playing.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah Plato. I ate glue crayons. Wellhen I was a
little kid. Yeah, I was a little kid. Yeah, because
I was bored. I hated school. So I would like
put glue all over my fingers and then wait for
it to dry, and then pick the glue off my
fingers to entertain myself. Wow. And then I'd roll the
glue into a little a wall. But I didn't always
eat it, but sometimes I nibble at it, like I
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nibble at the glue a little bit. I do that.
And the crayons, I thought, well, the blue one must
taste good. I like the color blue. It must taste
It didn't taste It didn't taste good, did not taste good.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You know we did Career Day this past Friday.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh yeah, I did that.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
It wasn't here.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It took off for career and then were the kids
riveted where they were going away by this?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
They love radio and I got to show, you know,
I did our Mallard meet and greet. Photo from Vegas
year in my slide show, so I talk about you guys.
One of the kids was like, I listen, my dad
listens to you guys every night.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I was like, oh, cool, very cool.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Signed a couple of sweaters. But there was this one
kid and he was like eating the pamphlet, like there
was little flyers for the day and there was bite
marks when we first started, like tiny ones. He came
back five sessions later and his paper was almost gone.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Listen, wherever you can get your vitamins, you get your vitamins. Okay,
you don't. You don't judge the kid. Someday run a company.
Some day, that kid's gonna grow up a very successful child,
and they'll everyone will laugh about this and the things
they do in your kids. You know, I'd say, you
were a little kid, you probably ate some weird stuff.
You ate your boogers.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah, it's a booger eater.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, and when did you stop? How have you stopped it?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
It was about sixth grade when I stopped that.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Sixth grade.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah, I dated another booger eater and I didn't know
he was one. And his friends were like just so
you know, oh, it's like, oh, is that something to
be ashamed of. Never mind, I won't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You think you'd bond over that. This is like, this
is a bonding thing. You have something in common there,
your love of mucus and uh yeah, but that did
not work out that way. I got you. All right,
Let's take some calls. It is a call in a show.
We began this hour. Couple of baseball stories here, including
Chris Bryant, who you talk about having a meltdown. I
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mean not not the kind of like nuclear meltdown, but
just signing with the team and then going into retirement.
And he's done it. Chris Bryant, and this guy at
one point was the next great thing in baseball and
he got the big money and that's it. Let's call
the phones. Will say hello to Anthony, who's hanging out
in Bakersfield in California. Yea, hello, Anthony, welcome, Hey, what's
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that man?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
How you guys doing?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
If I was any better, I'd be a Rocky, but
not a Colorado Rocky because they're terrible. Yet. You know, people,
people have talked about the Dodgers winning one hundred and
twenty games, which are not going to do or something
like that. But the Rockies have a chance to lose
one hundred and twenty games. They're in a division with
the Dodgers. The Giants are pretty good this year. The
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Diamondbacks don't suck. The Podres are good, and that's they play.
The Rockies play all those teams the most. Oh my god,
they're gonna they're gonna. Look if they win two games
against every one of those teams this year, my god.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah. You know, my Dodgers hid the skid this past
weekend in the past three series that they had, So
whenever I saw the Rockies on the board, I was like,
all right, cool, this back to gain in a winning form.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah. The great thing about the Rockies too, is they'll
have great attendance because when the Rockies come to town,
you always give away your bibble heads, you give away
your stuffed animals, because that's the only way to get
people to show up when the Rockies are there.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Oh yeah, they have good deals at the concession stands.
A lot of people don't know that, but whenever the
lesson teams come in, they you know, they advertise on TV,
but they also promote into stands and they get they
have a lot more giveaway than.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
What people ANTICIPATEE got to sell that alcohol, man, the nachos,
the alcohol. You have everything flowing, for sure. I got you.
What's on your mind? You didn't call about that, though, Anthony,
what's on your mind? What's your agenda?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
No, sir, I I'm talking about the outfielder Pete Crow.
What a lot of people don't know about him is
that his parents are very successful actors and he was
born with a silver spoon in his mouth over here
in Sherman Oaks, the better part of California. I'm in
the Central Valley of California.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And is that right? We are broadcasting. We are broadcasting
from Sherman Oaks, so we actually do the show from
our studio.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, yeah, understandable, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And so he was, Who's just who are his parents?
Have I heard of them?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Man? They were at the game? Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Very famous? Well, they're famous. But we I mean hold on,
I mean, so you you're saying I wouldn't. I'm gonna
look it up. But you're saying I would know who
these people are. You think I would know who they are?
You could?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
You could see them in some B level movies and
they show Yeah, I mean, but they I mean they
have more money than the average people. Well, you know,
so it's easier for their son to.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Whose parents Pete Crol Armstrong. Yeah, and with the Harvard
Harvard Westlake. That's a bougie high school, Harvard Westlake. That's
he says. Family is actors, big successful actors, and they're.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
They're they're pretty known and they got millions in the bank.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I have seen this guy before, but I would have
never John Matthew john On. I've seen his face, but
I I would have like if you told me that name,
I would have never.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What's he? What's he been in here? He's been in?
Speaker 6 (25:05):
So the TV show Heroes Back in the Day, which
which I loved on NBCNBC. Yeah, yeah, the numbers was
another big one and n.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
C I s I have known who this is. What
about the mom Ashley Krow Is that actually Croach?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
She actually I looked it up earlier before I called
you guys. She actually has a higher network than what
the father does.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh, she's actually older than the father. How about that?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Many?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, look at that. That doesn't really work out that way? Yeah,
the older layer. Yeah, all right, I've never heard of
I've never heard of either one of them. But I
congratulations if they've got a lot of money. Maybe they do.
I don't know, I've never.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Never heard of well, but the thing I'm the thing
I'm trying to point out is that it's easier for him.
He's not in as much of a rush as he
would say from a guy from the Dominican or a
guy from the middle class.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, okay, that's a fair point. That's a fair point.
If you got money you don't need, yeah, you can
wait a little bit. Like Bronnie James didn't need. The
Lakers gave him the money anyway. You know, Bronnie didn't
need the money. He's mad made man. But the Lakers
gave him the guaranteed money anyway. Is it true he
had the worst he had the worst shooting percentage in
the NBA, And I saw that stat. I don't know
if that was true or non.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
And I was just flicking that up and it's it's horrible,
Like honestly, Yeah, I'm a big Blaker fan. After Kobe left,
everything went downhill. The stuff that Lebron's doing, I do
not respect it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's right, that's right, exactly, all right. I gotta go,
thank you. Andrew. You've got a good call. Let's go
to Texas Jack. Who's next? And I haven't heard from
Texas Jack in a while. I know he's been in morning,
he's been sitting shiva, uh for the Mavericks. Hello, Texas Jack?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Man?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I thought you'd never call again. I thought this was
such an embarrassing thing you your team did. You'd never
call again, and here you are. You waited several months,
but you've called in.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Oh. I've been sick.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I couldn't heat, couldn't sleep.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
It's horrible.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Nicol Harrison ought to be hung.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I wouldn't go that far. That seems a little drastic,
but uh, maybe we're uh, we're good on that, Texas Jack.
How about how about fired in shame? How about that?
Since drive him to the airport, get him out of town.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
I should have been five today before the trade.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, well, I remember you used to call up Texas Jack,
and you would, you would call up, and you would,
we would go back and forth, and you would wax
poetic and you would, you would slobber all over Luca.
And now you got nothing.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I've got nothing, I got nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You need to mean broken heart.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
What do you got one? Yeah, one, you couldn't even
you couldn't even get more than one first round drafting.
That's so stupid. Oh my god, it's begne. It's begune
beyond embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Like I made the deal.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
I didn't make you know, I know, but the fact
that I.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Know it just it just feeds into the conspiracy. You've
got to think, no one's that stupid that somebody something
must have conspired. There must be some kind of deep
state involved in this, whether it's television that wanted Luca
in La or something. You'd like to think, what does
the NBA really care? Maybe the NBA wanted it. Maybe
the NBA is like, is what we want? Of course,
(28:23):
of course that's why that's why one should hate the Lakers.
Lakers are disgusting. Everyone should hate the Lakers. Screw lak
You see, we found Dodgers are the lakers of baseball.
They are not.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
They're not talking about baseball right now, We're talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Exactly, say Coops, say Coops on what about Dodgers job
the Dodgers. Dodgers. Hey, by the way, your phone call
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And Fox Sports a lead college football reporter Jenny taff
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Texas Jack.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Ship Station's great.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
See that's how you do That's how you touch up
a read. Unlike Hollereen James, who mispronounced the name of
the company we were endorsing last hour, that's how you
do it, Texas Jack, You're a professional, unlike Unlike unlike
Nico Harrison, who's not a.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Professon very unprofessional.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I haven't called. I had to switch jobs and took
a little time off.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Now I'll be tuning in. All right, well we're here.
You know, whether you're listen or not, we're here. Try
the podcast. If you got to work the dreaded day shift,
we're there during the day too, So all right, thank you,
join the show. There it goes the great Beaten Man
Texas Jack Beaten and broken Man. Yeah, so a, we're
talking about a brave move. Let me go to a
blind Emit here. I want to get his take on this.
(30:27):
Blind Emmitt, the Seahawk fan. Blind Emmett, did you see
what happened? I say that, of course, knowing you're blind,
But did you did you hear what happened? Involving the
Atlanta Braves? The braves are in Toronto and the sideline
reporter for the Atlanta Braves in the middle of the
in gag these little vignettes where they tossed to the
sideline reporter and the braves reporter on camera asked a
(30:50):
somewhat attractive female fan for her phone number. A.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
You're shooting it? Saw that's crazy?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, I did not hear that now? Is that it
had a baller move or is that is that a
beta move?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Baller a beta you know, like for the media side
of things, like it's probably pretty beta. But like for me,
as like someone who like doesn't really care about the Braves,
bro shoot your shaw. You know, you gotta go for
the love. You know, it may she's the love of
your life. I mean, we've seen, you know, stuff like
this happen where like I believe Joe Burrow was with
the Reporter a while ago.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Going on, well, there have been many well listen, many reporters.
Lauren Sanchez, who's married to the richest guy in the world,
was with Tony Gonzalez and some other she was a
sideline reporter.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Yeah, what you're saying is I need to be a
sideline report.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I think Lorena, if you were, if you're looking to
find a professional athlete that you would like to spend
some quality time with, I think that might be the
way to go. I'm just I'm just saying it seems
to work out. I remember years ago there well I
don't want to name names, but as just say, I
in my younger days, there were some friends of mine
that worked as a sideline reporters who did end off
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up enjoying very successful financial lives with men that played sports.
That's all same, Hey, you know it happens.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
But I want to talk about the Kevin Durant and
like the Phoenix Suns firing their head coach Mike Buenholzer. Now,
I think that you just, obviously we say all the
time in sports, like the coach's a scapegoat. And the
Sons Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, Devin Booker era we've seen
for a few years now, and it obviously hasn't worked,
and they bring in Bud thinking all right, we're gonna
we're gonna fix this, and it just completely backfired. So
(32:31):
he had to go. And I think the Sons obviously,
like you said, they're trying to build around Devin Booker.
They said, Devin Booker is untouchable with the deadline. So
I think Kevin Durant, obviously he's probably done after this year.
He's going somewhere else. He's gonna try and ring Chase
get another ring. And Bradley Beal. I think that's a
hard thing to kind of cope with because if you're
a Sun fan you have to worry about him accepting
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the player option. And then it's like no one's gonna
want a trade, like no one's gonna want Bradley Beal
with the no trade clause because he can.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
They'll just buy him out. They'll just pay him, they'll
buy it. Hey, a ridiculous amount of money this guy,
matt Ishbie has got. He's got plenty of dough if
he wants to just flush his money down the toilet.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Fifty million. We don't even have your draft pick this year.
You only have your first.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Doesn't matter if he's a If he's a problem, you
get rid of the problem. If you think you're better
off without him, get rid of it.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
It would be super Phoenix Sun though, because they don't
have their draft pick, like I was saying, they're in
a desperate spot to just keep them.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Well, even if they had, even if they had their
draft pick, and most of these, most of these picks
blow their their farts in the wind. Okay, that's all
about you get I mean.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
If you had that Pike too, you could get that
second star around Devin Booker, and I think the thing
with boonholds are the other thing on the touch on
because I'm not gonna get to the break.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
That's right, otherwise we won't have time for cool but
coople if you're very upset with me, and then he'll
yell at me very quickly.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
This might be a blessing in disguise, because there's a
couple really intriguing jobs. We've got the Denver nuggeting go,
you know, coach up with the Joker and Jamal Murray
and Jayalen Pickett who their choosing never went break.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Now, wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up,
wrap it up, wrap it up.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
Assing disguise.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Okay, all right, I didn't They'll just whoever they hire.
These guys are the last ten minutes in the first
star player that complains they're done. Time Now for the
Insta trivia. Blank is the most We're gonna keep it basic.
Blank is the most common first name among current players
in the NFL. Blank the most common first name among
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players in the NFL here in twenty twenty five. That
is the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
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get off the air. All right, and also Bill, let's
pay off a riveting riveting Insta trivia and here is
the Insta Trivia question of the hour. We'll keep it
(35:24):
basic here. Blank is the most common first name among
current players in the NFL. Most common first name among
current players in the NFL. Malaprop Guy going with defendant.
All right, very funny. Andy in Line O Lakes, Minnesota says,
Knucklehead is your answer. Scrooge is going with Tarzan Skippy
(35:47):
from courtesy Flusher.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Alf.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
The alien appuntis is Mark Andre is the answer? By
alf alf is. I just beat his you know what
in on the on the scrab game. He's not recovered,
Gabe says, baby Daddy is the most popular name. Em
O Watson, who is thirty five today from Late Night
Drug Tester. Some of these I can't even you guys
(36:15):
are too much. I go just go ahead, Lorna No,
I don't want to keep want to keep a job,
Patrick No. The most common first name in the NFL
currently is Josh. There are thirty two players named Josh.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Thirty two.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
You don't like the name Josh. You ever dated a
guy named Josh? Have you ever? You've never dated a judge?
All right, let's go. Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Cool boy.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
It was reported a couple of weeks ago that the
Chiefs wanted to become a permanent fixture on Christmas Day,
much like the Lines and the Cowboys are on Thanksgiving. However,
we recently learned that the NFL currently doesn't have any
plans to make anyone a permanent host on Christmas, Ben,
would you like to see a permanent Christmas team I would.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I grew up. We all grew up with the Cowboys
and the Lions on Thanksgiving. That's just what you came
to know. And in the NBA it's always you're annoying
Lakers and the Celtics usually would play on Christmas. They'd
have the high profile teams there every year, and it's
just it's part of the circle of life. You know,
when the holidays come up, you're going to see at
(37:28):
least you know one of the teams is going to
be playing there. I say, why not. The Chiefs have
been pretty good. They're not gonna be good forever. At
some point they'll suck again. But I have no problem
with it. To me, it makes sense that I have
that one signature team that you know, you associate the
holiday with. I don't see what the problem is next.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Alex Sar recently just became only the third rookie ever
to have one hundred three pointers made, one hundred plus blocks,
and one hundred plus assists. Ben, do you think Sarr
has locked up Rooie of the Year award?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well not, according to the gambling market. According to the
gambling market, he's the odds are not actually in his favor.
That the the numbers indicate the gambling market that it
says Stephen Castle the Spurs is the overwhelming favorite, like
he's going to win it. And uh, you know the
Hawks are in the playing thing here, the Spurs, they've
(38:17):
got their own they're also in the plan. But yeah,
he's not the favorite.
Speaker 6 (38:20):
Next, there are five teams that have ten percent or
more of a chance to land the number one overall
pick in the NBA lottery. Yeah, aka the Flag Sweepstakes.
Are the Jazz, Wizards, horn Its, Pelicans in seventy six ers? Yeah,
and if one of them were guaranteed to get the
number one pick, Philly's got to be the best landing
spot for Flag.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Right uhe now, because Joel Embiid's a hot mess, I'm
market wise, Yeah, I feel it. If By the way,
I'm gonna simulate the lottery right right now, Cooper, I'm
on tankaphon right now, I'm gonna simulate the lottery. Oh
my god, the Charlotte Hornets have won the lottery. Oh
he's good. I know he's from Maine, but Flag is
going to Charlotte. I've just I've just run. I put
(38:57):
I did sim lottery on tankfon send that out, Coop.
We are now reporting that they're Charlotte Hornets. The nineteen
win Hornets have won the lottery. They've moved up two spots.
Philadelphia got the second bick. But no, if this guy's
the real deal, I have my questions. But Brooklyn would
not be bad. Right, They don't have much of a chance.
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But Brooklyn's in the lottery. That's the New York market, Philadelphia.
Something better than Toronto or Utah or San Antonio. There
it is malatly third degree? How did we DoD I
passed the raft, I got a degree. I passed the test.
Boom, shaka Laca. It's our number two. We thank you
for listening to the podcast. Remember five stars, five stars
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number two. We start out in Saint Louis, where Cardinals'
third baseman Nolan Aronato said no bueno to the Astros
this offseason. He says the reason he did that, in part,
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was because Kyle Tucker was traded to the Cubs and
it made him a little uncomfortable. How does all of
that hit you? And what is the word to describe
Chris Bryant's tenure with the Rockies as he has a
degenitive injury, And how do you digest Pete crow Armstrong
turning down seventy five million from the Chicago Cubs. We'll
(00:46):
talk about all of those stories and more right now here.
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say morning time, loves the number ten thousand, big fan
of the number ten thousand, So or leave this hour
is from baseball now. As you know, I have my routine.
We are all creatures of habit. And then normally when
I'm futxing around getting ready for the show, got my
laptop open, looking around, and I'm watching some games, and
I have all the games available to me. And there
(02:15):
were some really bad gays, like there were some total
no shows in Major League Baseball, and leading the way
the Boston Red Sox, who were just god off, just
god ill, why they even show up to the ballpark
there in Tampa. So Ronald got their tail kicked. There
were a bunch of blowouts all over the place. Philly
got swished by the Higantes, although that was somewhat closed
(02:39):
for a while, somewhat close for a while. But our
lead this hour is not from those games. It is
not a game that was also lopsided. Some more dirt,
some more intel coming out of the heartland, and it
involves a red bird that stayed in the nest, a
redbird that stayed in the nest. It was one of
(03:00):
the bigger stories of the baseball offseason and it has
new life because the player that was going to be
traded that rejected the trade. He moved tumboed the trade
and said, no, I'm not going there has spoken. If
you didn't see this, you have no idea what I'm
talking about. He said, why are you talking pig Latin?
What's wrong with you? Have you lost your mind? Let
(03:20):
me explain. So, the Cardinals have a third baseman making
a lot of money named Nolan Aernado, and they got
him years ago from the Rockies, and he's hit a
lot of home runs, a lot of meaningless empty stats.
Team doesn't win in Saint Louis. So the Cardinals wanted
to unload Nolan Aernado, and they had agreed to a
(03:40):
trade and it was all worked out, and then Aeronado said,
I ain't going, and he didn't have to go because
he had a no trade clause. Nolan Aernato has now
confirmed one of the reasons why he said, not over
my dead body, am I going to to use my
(04:01):
no trade clause. I'm not going to Houston. I don't
want to play for the cheating as one one thousand, two,
one thousand holes. Don't want to do it. And he
said the reason that he rejected the trade is because
the Houston baseball team had traded all star outfielder by
the name of Kyle Tucker to the Cups and he say,
(04:25):
an that's not going to work. You're not trying to win.
The quote from Aeronauto he said, Tucker is one of
the best players in the game. He grumbled Aeronato. He said,
when you see a team trade him, a ninety nine
out of one hundred players would probably be wondering what
does that mean? What does that mean? That's the question
(04:46):
I asked myself. Now. Aeronauto ended up blocking the trade
to the cheating a Holes in mid December, five days
five days after the deal that sent Tucker to the
the North Side of Chicago had been announced. So let
us discuss the question. Cardinals third baseman Nolan Aernado confirming
(05:09):
that he said no to play for the cheating Assstros
after Alfieler Kyle Tucker had been traded away made him
a little uncomfortable. So how does that one hit you?
How does that one hit you? So I'll go first here.
I got Buckey's family guy and Dodgeball, and we will
(05:29):
combine all of these things together, and we are going
to make toasted ravioli, which is wonderful, delicious and it's
a tradition in Saint louis now much better than the
Skyline chili of Cincinnati. Uh. You talk about cities that
have signature foods, toasted ravioli, which is the food of
(05:50):
Saint louis much much higher up on the big board.
Not a list, not a list, a big board of
signature dishes known in a certain location. So all right,
first of all, I totally get it. I totally get it.
You don't need to preach on and on if you're
knowing Aeronada on this the reasoning is on point. It
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is on point here. You're preaching to the choir, is
what you're doing on this one. And it's Essentially, if
you're Aeronauta, you're like, listen, I'm not a plumber. I
don't own a plunger. I don't want to. I don't
want to sit on a clogged toilet. And the Houston
Baseball team is a clog toilet. So why would you
sign up when you know if you wait, you're gonna
(06:33):
have other options down the line. And aeronauto is I
know he didn't go to Ohio State, right, He's not.
He's not a traditional buck guy, but in many ways
he is a buck guy, blood guy. He's a buck
guy's blood guy because much like the Ohio State Marching Band,
he dotted the eye on this one. The Astro franchise
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is built on a hill of marshmallows, hill of marshmallows.
At this point, it is counterfeit. They've accomplished nothing, and
Aeronado knows that, and he wanted no part of that.
And you can't fault the player. It's his right. He
had a no trade clause, and he realized, why would
I want to go there? I want nothing to do
with that, right, I mean, everything they've done there is
(07:17):
that we get a buzzer over here, you got a
trash can over there and those little pieces of metal.
That's not my words, that's what Rob Manford said. He
thinks the World Series trophy is just a piece of metal,
so it's not worth a warm bucket to spit. It's
not worth a warm bucket to spit. And I get it.
Aeronado knows if he plays all right for the Cardinals.
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He had a home run in the game on Monday,
And if he plays okay, then Aeronauto he'd rather spend
a little more time in the outhouse that is the Cardinals.
But the Cardinals are so bad. No one's even going
to the games. Even when the Cardinals were bad, people
just go to the games. I was watching the Cardinal
game and there was like nobody there. It was like
I thought I was watching the old Cleveland back in
(08:00):
the day. There was like ten people at the ballpark.
Wild They have sucked so long and been so bad
in Saint Louis now, even the greatest fans at baseball
they've turned their back in the car case. I love it.
That's the only way you get ownership to make changes
is if you just ignore the team. You got to
have apathy. And the Cardinal fans are showing apathy. But anyway, listen,
that's where we are. And if you just wait, if
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you're Nolan Aeronato, you can handpick and end up in
a better situation. Now turn the page. We head to Denver,
but not not for nugget Tucks. It's come to my attention.
It has come to my attention that there is a
great thief in the night that is getting no negative publicity,
(08:43):
but is one of the great heists of our time
in professional sports. And it's going on right under our nose.
And it involves those unlovable losers from Colorado who are
making some headlines here. I saw this or not. The
Rockies announced they have placed their big free agent pickup
(09:04):
a couple of years ago, Chris Bryant, on a ten day.
They call it injured list. We used to call it
d L back in they disabled list. Then the Wolchsters
in baseball said no, no, no, it's injured. It's injured. But
they say that he's got a degenerate disc disease. He's
got a degenerate problem with his back. That sounds like
(09:25):
a problem. Yeah, that sounds sounds like a problem there.
And I'm not a doctor, but I can play one
of the radio So what is the word to describe
Chris Bryant and his tenure with the Rockies. This guy,
at one point was on as they say, im Polker.
He was on the coup with the Cubs. And we
talked earlier about the Cubs winning the World Series. And
(09:46):
it's been almost a decade or so since the Cubs
won the World Series and they thought they had the
next great dynasty and you look at what a bunch
of turds most of those guys in the Cubs turned
out to be. They all made a lot of money,
but of successful, big time, productive careers, a lot of frauds,
a lot of frauds. And this is one of these
(10:07):
you bet on these young players and a lot of
these guys do not have the longevity do it for
a couple of years. Chris Bryant's on that short list.
But to answer the question, what is your word for
Chris Bryant's tenure with the Rockies. My word is it's
from family guy quagmire. It's a quagmire is what it
is here. It's a hot mess. And instead of quagmire,
(10:28):
how about q Q quiet quitting. That is what Chris
Bryan has done and say I just said it. And
here's the thing. There's this loser in Anaheim that named
Anthony Rendon who said the quiet part out by. The
guy hates baseball. Baseball hates him. The Angels are so
stupid they gave him like two hundred and forty five
million dollars. The guy is a total malcontent, doesn't play,
(10:51):
doesn't even pretend like he wants to play. Just a loser, right,
I mean, everything you hate about professional sports is summed
up in Anthony Rendome. And the different between Chris Bryant
and Anthony Rendon is a little more money, right, actually
a lot more money. But the other thing is that
Chris Bryant you never hear. You don't know whether he
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hates baseball or anything like that. He just doesn't play.
He just sucks when he plays, and you don't hear
about it. And this guy was at breakout star for
the Chicago Cubs years ago and he is currently floating
on the lazy river. He might as well be on
disability with the With the Rockies at this particular points,
(11:31):
he's played about one season, but he's been there three
plus years. In Colorado, he's played one hundred and seventy games,
and the Rockies he has a minus one point six
war wins above replacement, which means the Rockies are tangibly
worse with Chris bryan on the field. All right, and
(11:52):
he's in the middle of a seven year, one hundred
and eighty two million dollars contract with the Colorado Baseball team.
And again, now you crunch the numbers on this, He's
now in his fourth year as a member of the
Rockies and he has not played over eighty games. He
has not passed eighty games in any of those campaigns.
(12:13):
And the latest appearance now his one superpower, the one
area where Chris Bryant is elite as a Rocky is
ending up on what we used to call this able list.
This is not his first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth.
How about his ninth trip to the injury list since
joining the Rockies. That is impressive. And oh, by the way,
(12:35):
but wait, there's more. The Rockies will be paying him
eighty one million to sit on his ass and not play.
And then when he does play, go up there in
back two forty four. With mediocre numbers across the board,
you could have gotten a guy out of the Mexican
League that would have put up those numbers. But I digress.
All right, now final thought, we now go to Chicago.
(12:58):
There was a story that threw this was sent in
actually my listener named Steve, who says he is he's
in the suburbs of Chicago, but he's up Ladi's nocturnal
and he listens to our show. So thank you Steve
for sending this my way, and we'll give you a
couple of minutes on this. So some developments from the
Friendly Confines the Cubbies enjoying a West coast trip here
early in the season, and we learned recently the Cubs
(13:21):
tried to sign outfielder Pete Crow Armstrong. That's a mouthful,
Pete Crow Armstrong to an extension. They offered him a
relatively large extension, seventy five million dollars, seventy five million dollars.
He said, no, I reject your seventy five million dollars.
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I don't want your seventy five million. I don't need
your seventy five million. I'm not going to accept your
seventy five million. So instead, I'm going to counter that
offer and I'm going to ask for something else. However,
the offer was not accepted by the Rockies, so they
have decided to table the contract talks, which is a
polite way of saying we're not paying you. Go away.
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That's it. He's twenty three years old and he's in
his third major league season. Now, the guy did hit
some bombs against the Dodgers over the weekend, and how
do you digest? This was the big prize the Cubs
got in the Hobby bayas trade. Another one of those
can't miss young Cub players who blows he's terrible anyway,
(14:24):
how do you digest Pete Krohl Armstrong turning down seventy
five million from the Cubs and then off trying to
get even more out of him in the Cub said no, So,
as I learned from Dodgeball back in the day, that
is a bold strategy. Cotton is what that is. Let's
see if it pays off. We will find out. I'm
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betting on it won't pay off. Now, krol Armstrong is
so far when you turn about his offense. He did
some home runs recently, but you talk about his offense
and it's a lot of sizzle. His game in general
not a lot of steak, Like, not a lot of
steak there. He's got some speed, good defensive player, and
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his bat has been like the band Limp Biscuit, just
a lot of limp, a lot of limp in the
bat there, and he's yet to get his sea legs
underneath him at this particular point, does not have that,
and he's making I love how it used to be
when you were on a rookie contract. Boy, you really
got to get a job selling cars or you know,
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cleaning up trash in the offseason. But this guy's making
seven hundred and seventy one thousand dollars as a third
year player. So where I come from, that's a good
amount of money. Seven hundred and thousand dollars. However, it's
not seventy five million. It's not that. And here's the
other thing. He's not arbitration eligible till twenty twenty eight,
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so he's not going to get the big, big, big
money until at least twenty twenty eight. So that's three
more years. And if this guy goes out there in
bat's two thirty every year and doesn't hit enough, he's
not going to get to that point and get the
big money. Seventy five million is generational wealth. He's betting
on himself. We'll see if it works out. You know,
seventy five million with a good investment portfolio of some
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real estate and some investments in commodities and whatnot. You
are set up. You're good to go, and generations of
your family are good to go. But he's he's going
for the big, big, big, big money. Right. It is
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Baseball players not living up to their contracts, makes me
wonder why owners want to expand since there's an obvious
lack of talent for the teams we have now, Well,
they want to expand because they's more money. Money, money, money.
It's all about that. It's always about you know, the
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It's always about the money. What else do we have?
Page down? Fergduck says, as delicious as it sounds, dollar
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Speaker 4 (19:37):
Was there ever anything in your childhood, Ben that you
knew you shouldn't have eaten, but you did anyways, Like Plato,
a lot of kids eat playing.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah Plato. I ate glue crayons. Wellhen I was a
little kid. Yeah, I was a little kid. Yeah, because
I was bored. I hated school. So I would like
put glue all over my fingers and then wait for
it to dry, and then pick the glue off my
fingers to entertain myself. Wow. And then I'd roll the
glue into a little a wall. But I didn't always
eat it, but sometimes I nibble at it, like I
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nibble at the glue a little bit. I do that.
And the crayons, I thought, well, the blue one must
taste good. I like the color blue. It must taste
It didn't taste It didn't taste good, did not taste good.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You know we did Career Day this past Friday.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh yeah, I did that.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
It wasn't here.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It took off for career and then were the kids
riveted where they were going away by this?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
They love radio and I got to show, you know,
I did our Mallard meet and greet. Photo from Vegas
year in my slide show, so I talk about you guys.
One of the kids was like, I listen, my dad
listens to you guys every night.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I was like, oh, cool, very cool.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Signed a couple of sweaters. But there was this one
kid and he was like eating the pamphlet, like there
was little flyers for the day and there was bite
marks when we first started, like tiny ones. He came
back five sessions later and his paper was almost gone.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Listen, wherever you can get your vitamins, you get your vitamins. Okay,
you don't. You don't judge the kid. Someday run a company.
Some day, that kid's gonna grow up a very successful child,
and they'll everyone will laugh about this and the things
they do in your kids. You know, I'd say, you
were a little kid, you probably ate some weird stuff.
You ate your boogers.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah, it's a booger eater.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, and when did you stop? How have you stopped it?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
It was about sixth grade when I stopped that.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Sixth grade.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah, I dated another booger eater and I didn't know
he was one. And his friends were like just so
you know, oh, it's like, oh, is that something to
be ashamed of. Never mind, I won't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You think you'd bond over that. This is like, this
is a bonding thing. You have something in common there,
your love of mucus and uh yeah, but that did
not work out that way. I got you. All right,
Let's take some calls. It is a call in a show.
We began this hour. Couple of baseball stories here, including
Chris Bryant, who you talk about having a meltdown. I
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mean not not the kind of like nuclear meltdown, but
just signing with the team and then going into retirement.
And he's done it. Chris Bryant, and this guy at
one point was the next great thing in baseball and
he got the big money and that's it. Let's call
the phones. Will say hello to Anthony, who's hanging out
in Bakersfield in California. Yea, hello, Anthony, welcome, Hey, what's
(22:11):
that man?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
How you guys doing?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
If I was any better, I'd be a Rocky, but
not a Colorado Rocky because they're terrible. Yet. You know, people,
people have talked about the Dodgers winning one hundred and
twenty games, which are not going to do or something
like that. But the Rockies have a chance to lose
one hundred and twenty games. They're in a division with
the Dodgers. The Giants are pretty good this year. The
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Diamondbacks don't suck. The Podres are good, and that's they play.
The Rockies play all those teams the most. Oh my god,
they're gonna they're gonna. Look if they win two games
against every one of those teams this year, my god.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah. You know, my Dodgers hid the skid this past
weekend in the past three series that they had, So
whenever I saw the Rockies on the board, I was like,
all right, cool, this back to gain in a winning form.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah. The great thing about the Rockies too, is they'll
have great attendance because when the Rockies come to town,
you always give away your bibble heads, you give away
your stuffed animals, because that's the only way to get
people to show up when the Rockies are there.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Oh yeah, they have good deals at the concession stands.
A lot of people don't know that, but whenever the
lesson teams come in, they you know, they advertise on TV,
but they also promote into stands and they get they
have a lot more giveaway than.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
What people ANTICIPATEE got to sell that alcohol, man, the nachos,
the alcohol. You have everything flowing, for sure. I got you.
What's on your mind? You didn't call about that, though, Anthony,
what's on your mind? What's your agenda?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
No, sir, I I'm talking about the outfielder Pete Crow.
What a lot of people don't know about him is
that his parents are very successful actors and he was
born with a silver spoon in his mouth over here
in Sherman Oaks, the better part of California. I'm in
the Central Valley of California.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And is that right? We are broadcasting. We are broadcasting
from Sherman Oaks, so we actually do the show from
our studio.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah, yeah, understandable, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And so he was, Who's just who are his parents?
Have I heard of them?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Man? They were at the game? Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Very famous? Well, they're famous. But we I mean hold on,
I mean, so you you're saying I wouldn't. I'm gonna
look it up. But you're saying I would know who
these people are. You think I would know who they are?
You could?
Speaker 5 (24:18):
You could see them in some B level movies and
they show Yeah, I mean, but they I mean they
have more money than the average people. Well, you know,
so it's easier for their son to.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Whose parents Pete Crol Armstrong. Yeah, and with the Harvard
Harvard Westlake. That's a bougie high school, Harvard Westlake. That's
he says. Family is actors, big successful actors, and they're.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
They're they're pretty known and they got millions in the bank.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I have seen this guy before, but I would have
never John Matthew john On. I've seen his face, but
I I would have like if you told me that name,
I would have never.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What's he? What's he been in here? He's been in?
Speaker 6 (25:05):
So the TV show Heroes Back in the Day, which
which I loved on NBCNBC. Yeah, yeah, the numbers was
another big one and n.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
C I s I have known who this is. What
about the mom Ashley Krow Is that actually Croach?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
She actually I looked it up earlier before I called
you guys. She actually has a higher network than what
the father does.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh, she's actually older than the father. How about that?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Many?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, look at that. That doesn't really work out that way? Yeah,
the older layer. Yeah, all right, I've never heard of
I've never heard of either one of them. But I
congratulations if they've got a lot of money. Maybe they do.
I don't know, I've never.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Never heard of well, but the thing I'm the thing
I'm trying to point out is that it's easier for him.
He's not in as much of a rush as he
would say from a guy from the Dominican or a
guy from the middle class.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, okay, that's a fair point. That's a fair point.
If you got money you don't need, yeah, you can
wait a little bit. Like Bronnie James didn't need. The
Lakers gave him the money anyway. You know, Bronnie didn't
need the money. He's mad made man. But the Lakers
gave him the guaranteed money anyway. Is it true he
had the worst he had the worst shooting percentage in
the NBA, And I saw that stat. I don't know
if that was true or non.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
And I was just flicking that up and it's it's horrible,
Like honestly, Yeah, I'm a big Blaker fan. After Kobe left,
everything went downhill. The stuff that Lebron's doing, I do
not respect it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's right, that's right, exactly, all right. I gotta go,
thank you. Andrew. You've got a good call. Let's go
to Texas Jack. Who's next? And I haven't heard from
Texas Jack in a while. I know he's been in morning,
he's been sitting shiva, uh for the Mavericks. Hello, Texas Jack?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Man?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I thought you'd never call again. I thought this was
such an embarrassing thing you your team did. You'd never
call again, and here you are. You waited several months,
but you've called in.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Oh. I've been sick.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I couldn't heat, couldn't sleep.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
It's horrible.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Nicol Harrison ought to be hung.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I wouldn't go that far. That seems a little drastic,
but uh, maybe we're uh, we're good on that, Texas Jack.
How about how about fired in shame? How about that?
Since drive him to the airport, get him out of town.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
I should have been five today before the trade.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, well, I remember you used to call up Texas Jack,
and you would, you would call up, and you would,
we would go back and forth, and you would wax
poetic and you would, you would slobber all over Luca.
And now you got nothing.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I've got nothing, I got nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You need to mean broken heart.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
What do you got one? Yeah, one, you couldn't even
you couldn't even get more than one first round drafting.
That's so stupid. Oh my god, it's begne. It's begune
beyond embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Like I made the deal.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
I didn't make you know, I know, but the fact
that I.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Know it just it just feeds into the conspiracy. You've
got to think, no one's that stupid that somebody something
must have conspired. There must be some kind of deep
state involved in this, whether it's television that wanted Luca
in La or something. You'd like to think, what does
the NBA really care? Maybe the NBA wanted it. Maybe
the NBA is like, is what we want? Of course,
(28:23):
of course that's why that's why one should hate the Lakers.
Lakers are disgusting. Everyone should hate the Lakers. Screw lak
You see, we found Dodgers are the lakers of baseball.
They are not.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
They're not talking about baseball right now, We're talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Exactly, say Coops, say Coops on what about Dodgers job
the Dodgers. Dodgers. Hey, by the way, your phone call
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Speaker 5 (29:40):
Ship Station's great.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
See that's how you do That's how you touch up
a read. Unlike Hollereen James, who mispronounced the name of
the company we were endorsing last hour, that's how you
do it, Texas Jack, You're a professional, unlike Unlike unlike
Nico Harrison, who's not a.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Professon very unprofessional.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I haven't called. I had to switch jobs and took
a little time off.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Now I'll be tuning in. All right, well we're here.
You know, whether you're listen or not, we're here. Try
the podcast. If you got to work the dreaded day shift,
we're there during the day too, So all right, thank you,
join the show. There it goes the great Beaten Man
Texas Jack Beaten and broken Man. Yeah, so a, we're
talking about a brave move. Let me go to a
blind Emit here. I want to get his take on this.
(30:27):
Blind Emmitt, the Seahawk fan. Blind Emmett, did you see
what happened? I say that, of course, knowing you're blind,
But did you did you hear what happened? Involving the
Atlanta Braves? The braves are in Toronto and the sideline
reporter for the Atlanta Braves in the middle of the
in gag these little vignettes where they tossed to the
sideline reporter and the braves reporter on camera asked a
(30:50):
somewhat attractive female fan for her phone number. A.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
You're shooting it? Saw that's crazy?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, I did not hear that now? Is that it
had a baller move or is that is that a
beta move?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Baller a beta you know, like for the media side
of things, like it's probably pretty beta. But like for me,
as like someone who like doesn't really care about the Braves,
bro shoot your shaw. You know, you gotta go for
the love. You know, it may she's the love of
your life. I mean, we've seen, you know, stuff like
this happen where like I believe Joe Burrow was with
the Reporter a while ago.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Going on, well, there have been many well listen, many reporters.
Lauren Sanchez, who's married to the richest guy in the world,
was with Tony Gonzalez and some other she was a
sideline reporter.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Yeah, what you're saying is I need to be a
sideline report.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I think Lorena, if you were, if you're looking to
find a professional athlete that you would like to spend
some quality time with, I think that might be the
way to go. I'm just I'm just saying it seems
to work out. I remember years ago there well I
don't want to name names, but as just say, I
in my younger days, there were some friends of mine
that worked as a sideline reporters who did end off
(32:00):
up enjoying very successful financial lives with men that played sports.
That's all same, Hey, you know it happens.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
But I want to talk about the Kevin Durant and
like the Phoenix Suns firing their head coach Mike Buenholzer. Now,
I think that you just, obviously we say all the
time in sports, like the coach's a scapegoat. And the
Sons Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, Devin Booker era we've seen
for a few years now, and it obviously hasn't worked,
and they bring in Bud thinking all right, we're gonna
we're gonna fix this, and it just completely backfired. So
(32:31):
he had to go. And I think the Sons obviously,
like you said, they're trying to build around Devin Booker.
They said, Devin Booker is untouchable with the deadline. So
I think Kevin Durant, obviously he's probably done after this year.
He's going somewhere else. He's gonna try and ring Chase
get another ring. And Bradley Beal. I think that's a
hard thing to kind of cope with because if you're
a Sun fan you have to worry about him accepting
(32:51):
the player option. And then it's like no one's gonna
want a trade, like no one's gonna want Bradley Beal
with the no trade clause because he can.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
They'll just buy him out. They'll just pay him, they'll
buy it. Hey, a ridiculous amount of money this guy,
matt Ishbie has got. He's got plenty of dough if
he wants to just flush his money down the toilet.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Fifty million. We don't even have your draft pick this year.
You only have your first.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Doesn't matter if he's a If he's a problem, you
get rid of the problem. If you think you're better
off without him, get rid of it.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
It would be super Phoenix Sun though, because they don't
have their draft pick, like I was saying, they're in
a desperate spot to just keep them.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Well, even if they had, even if they had their
draft pick, and most of these, most of these picks
blow their their farts in the wind. Okay, that's all
about you get I mean.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
If you had that Pike too, you could get that
second star around Devin Booker, and I think the thing
with boonholds are the other thing on the touch on
because I'm not gonna get to the break.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
That's right, otherwise we won't have time for cool but
coople if you're very upset with me, and then he'll
yell at me very quickly.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
This might be a blessing in disguise, because there's a
couple really intriguing jobs. We've got the Denver nuggeting go,
you know, coach up with the Joker and Jamal Murray
and Jayalen Pickett who their choosing never went break.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Now, wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up,
wrap it up, wrap it up.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
Assing disguise.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Okay, all right, I didn't They'll just whoever they hire.
These guys are the last ten minutes in the first
star player that complains they're done. Time Now for the
Insta trivia. Blank is the most We're gonna keep it basic.
Blank is the most common first name among current players
in the NFL. Blank the most common first name among
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players in the NFL here in twenty twenty five. That
is the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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pay off a riveting riveting Insta trivia and here is
the Insta Trivia question of the hour. We'll keep it
(35:24):
basic here. Blank is the most common first name among
current players in the NFL. Most common first name among
current players in the NFL. Malaprop Guy going with defendant.
All right, very funny. Andy in Line O Lakes, Minnesota says,
Knucklehead is your answer. Scrooge is going with Tarzan Skippy
(35:47):
from courtesy Flusher.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Alf.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
The alien appuntis is Mark Andre is the answer? By
alf alf is. I just beat his you know what
in on the on the scrab game. He's not recovered,
Gabe says, baby Daddy is the most popular name. Em
O Watson, who is thirty five today from Late Night
Drug Tester. Some of these I can't even you guys
(36:15):
are too much. I go just go ahead, Lorna No,
I don't want to keep want to keep a job,
Patrick No. The most common first name in the NFL
currently is Josh. There are thirty two players named Josh.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Thirty two.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
You don't like the name Josh. You ever dated a
guy named Josh? Have you ever? You've never dated a judge?
All right, let's go. Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Cool boy.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
It was reported a couple of weeks ago that the
Chiefs wanted to become a permanent fixture on Christmas Day,
much like the Lines and the Cowboys are on Thanksgiving. However,
we recently learned that the NFL currently doesn't have any
plans to make anyone a permanent host on Christmas, Ben,
would you like to see a permanent Christmas team I would.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I grew up. We all grew up with the Cowboys
and the Lions on Thanksgiving. That's just what you came
to know. And in the NBA it's always you're annoying
Lakers and the Celtics usually would play on Christmas. They'd
have the high profile teams there every year, and it's
just it's part of the circle of life. You know,
when the holidays come up, you're going to see at
(37:28):
least you know one of the teams is going to
be playing there. I say, why not. The Chiefs have
been pretty good. They're not gonna be good forever. At
some point they'll suck again. But I have no problem
with it. To me, it makes sense that I have
that one signature team that you know, you associate the
holiday with. I don't see what the problem is next.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Alex Sar recently just became only the third rookie ever
to have one hundred three pointers made, one hundred plus blocks,
and one hundred plus assists. Ben, do you think Sarr
has locked up Rooie of the Year award?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well not, according to the gambling market. According to the
gambling market, he's the odds are not actually in his favor.
That the the numbers indicate the gambling market that it
says Stephen Castle the Spurs is the overwhelming favorite, like
he's going to win it. And uh, you know the
Hawks are in the playing thing here, the Spurs, they've
(38:17):
got their own they're also in the plan. But yeah,
he's not the favorite.
Speaker 6 (38:20):
Next, there are five teams that have ten percent or
more of a chance to land the number one overall
pick in the NBA lottery. Yeah, aka the Flag Sweepstakes.
Are the Jazz, Wizards, horn Its, Pelicans in seventy six ers? Yeah,
and if one of them were guaranteed to get the
number one pick, Philly's got to be the best landing
spot for Flag.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Right uhe now, because Joel Embiid's a hot mess, I'm
market wise, Yeah, I feel it. If By the way,
I'm gonna simulate the lottery right right now, Cooper, I'm
on tankaphon right now, I'm gonna simulate the lottery. Oh
my god, the Charlotte Hornets have won the lottery. Oh
he's good. I know he's from Maine, but Flag is
going to Charlotte. I've just I've just run. I put
(38:57):
I did sim lottery on tankfon send that out, Coop.
We are now reporting that they're Charlotte Hornets. The nineteen
win Hornets have won the lottery. They've moved up two spots.
Philadelphia got the second bick. But no, if this guy's
the real deal, I have my questions. But Brooklyn would
not be bad. Right, They don't have much of a chance.
(39:18):
But Brooklyn's in the lottery. That's the New York market, Philadelphia.
Something better than Toronto or Utah or San Antonio. There
it is malatly third degree? How did we DoD I
passed the raft, I got a degree. I passed the test.
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