June 16, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Red Sox trading Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants for a gaggle of pitchers and grades the trades, if Devers pushes the Giants into the upper crust of the National League, how Devers will handle the west coast, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our numb burwah.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Happy Monday to you as we are back at it
on this sixteenth day of June, and the Red Sox
making a big trade. They said bye bye to Rafael Devers,
sending him to the Giants. How do you grade the
Red Sox trade as Devers joined San Francisco for a
gaggle of mostly pitchers. Also does Rafael Devers push the
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Giants into the upper crust of the Nash League? And
how will Rafael Devers handle the West Coast.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We'll talk about all that and more right now in
our number one. Wow, I'm in. I'm Brian Knowles.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The first mistake before I even cracked the bike.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Baby, all right, we're off to a good start. There
you go.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
All right, it is I Ben Mallor in for Brian
know Apparently it is the Bend Malor Show. And that's right,
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start to the week is. We are in the air
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and initially I was I was slightly concerned. I said,
oh my, we don't really we don't talk much golf
around these parts, and I know the US Open outside
Pittsburgh was played, and not really much of a talker,
so I was like, oh man, there's no NBA game.
I was like, yes, we'll talk some baseball. And then
I was like, well I was at a baseball game.
More on that in a minute. And then like all
these big trades happened, I said, wow, that's great. So
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roughly thirty minutes prior to the Doyers and the Giants game,
a game that I was at, I started getting all
these text messages from random, random people.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I said, well, who's bothering me?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's it's a Sunday, Sunday night, you know, shows not
till later, like you know what's going on. And so
I was. I was in a social situation. I was
trying to be polite. I mean, I learned my manners
back in the day. I was supposed to be on
your phone the whole time when you're you're at a meal.
So I was like, all right, I'm not gonna look
at my phone and anykay. I kept getting these buzzes
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like that, huh man, something big must have happen.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Last time I got something like this was like the
Luca like if somebody died or somebody got traded. Last
time I got a lot of messages like this, it
was the Luca trade. So I was like, oh man.
So I was annoyed at first, and I was like,
who's bothering me? And I'm trying to be polite and
all this stuff and okay, rare and appropriate night of
the ballpark, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I opened the phone up.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I was said, whoa, wow, oh man, wowie, because howie
I can't But I was like, whoa. You know, I
get excited, and uh yeah, I as as much as
you can possibly get excited as a middle aged person
about a trade. But I was, I was intrigued by this.
This This got some juice. It's got some juice. So
if you have not heard by now, I assume you have.
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Everyone's already yapping about this, but maybe you were actually
enjoying the weekend, did some Father's Day stuff, whatever that
might be, and then and you were kind of unplugged.
So the trade, we learned that the Boston Red Sox
have traded the face of the franchise. They have said
bye bye to Rafael Dever's fat ass and they have
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sent him to San Francisco in a mega, mega mega trade. Yes,
the Giants sent back inbound to Boston. They sent right
handed pitcher Jordan Hicks, left hander Kyle Harrison.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You're getting a little excited. Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Also outfield prospect James Tibbs the third sounds like a
caller we used to have that called the show. And
a minor league right hander who we've never heard of,
and in return, the Giants pick up a twenty eight
year old malcontent designated hitter, and the Giants are now
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two games back of the Dowyers in the NLS standings.
The lost five to four at Chavez Ravine on a
toasty warm Sunday there and Devers having a pretty good
season offensively, you just look at the numbers and not
look at the context of those numbers, never hitting two
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seventy two, fifteen home runs fifty eight runs batted in
in seventy three games.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
He also hit a solo dinger and.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The Red Sox swept the Yankees at Fitway and then
the ultimate f you to Devs.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
We just swept the Yankees with you.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
We think you suck, though, so we're trading you, is
what they did, and they traded.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The trade was.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Announced long enough after the game where they didn't have
to answer any questions about it. The trade was leaked
to the usual baseball scribes that are on the inner circle.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That trade was leaked late in the day. Therefore, there
was no way, no way to get any immediate reaction.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So let us discuss the question, how do you grate
the mega trade?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
In baseball?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The Red Sox sending rafi El Devers to the Giants
for a gaggle of mostly pitchers, nondescript pitchers, and one
position player.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So I've got my thoughts on this.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I've got van slike airlines and nineteen sixties pop and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make garlic fries. My advice to my
friends in the Bay Area is keep Rafael Devers away
from the garlic fries. Okay, he's going to enjoy them.
They're delicious and they're very bad for you. So eveything moderation,
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so be careful.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Ay, there are no real winners in this. There are,
or losers for that matter. The Malad report card on
this after a minutes long analysis and deliberation of the trade,
the Red Sox get the D. They get the D
on the Malle report card. The Giants, I'm not getting
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giving them an.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
A for this.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
They got the player that we know is good somewhat,
but I'm giving them a bee. So I'm gonna start
with Boston, the better story in the losing locker rooms.
We're gonna start with Boston. And the argument is, well,
they're allergic to keeping homegrown players. Here's a homegrown player
and he's the latest to go, just like Mookie Betts.
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They traded him. Xander Bogarts went to the Padres so
like all these guys end up in the Nation League West,
like all the old Red Sox are now in the
Nation League West.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And it's to me the interesting part is the confession.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
We had thought this was a possibility when Devers refused
to change positions and the owner of the team, the
Aristocrat owner John Henry, had to fly out to Kansas City,
where the Red Sox were playing the Royals, to have
a pow wow with the player.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That was a dad giveaway. Things were not going well.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That is not normal protocol for the owner of the
team to travel who have a meeting with the star player,
because the star players, you know, is not following the
play there. And so you had that. But it's a confession.
They bet on the wrong horse. The Red Sox thought
that Devers would be different, apparently, and he was supposed
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to be the cornerstone player and middle of the order bat,
homegrown guy, all those things, right, the guy they chose
to build around. They didn't want to keep Mookie Bats.
They didn't want to keep Xander Balguards. This was the
guy they wanted to Boston and now they have kicked
him out. Send him over to the Logan Airport. Get
the hell out of here. You're done, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And they thought, well we could build around mat. I
can't build around him. And that is your lefty bat
with pop.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
The guy that you know is now I.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Guess shipped off like you're returning something from you bought
on Amazon. You send it there and it ends up
in a bin somewhere and then that's it. But the
refusal to be flexible and the lack of hustle, that's
the double whammie. It's like, well, I'm not willing to
work with you and I'm not going to hustle.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Not a team guy, a selfish toolbag would be Rafael Devers.
He did write his ticket out of finn right now.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
The issue is the.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Red Sox because of his value being so low, because
he's got a big contract.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
He's not a team guy. He doesn't hustle.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's the Red Sox couldn't get much for him, Like
they got a couple of arms and it's really just
some mystery boxes. What's in the box. It's a mystery box.
Like this guy, Jordan Hicks has been an enigma. Remember
when he came up I believe it was the Cardinals
and he was throwing like one hundred miles an hour.
Everyone got all horny, Oh man, this guy's great, and
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if only we can get.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That under control and teach him another pitch. And here
we are.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's probably been five, six, seven years something like that,
and Jordan Hicks is still bouncing around major League Baseball
and he still throws hard, and he's got an ERA
of six and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
He sucks. Okay, so you got him. You know, he's
been nothing but a tease.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Kyle Harrison is at this point, until proven OTHERWI is
just a generic. He's a young guy. I think he's
early twenties, but he's not established, and he's not projected
to be any more than a middle of the rotation
starting pitcher. And he's got numbers that aren't all that
impressive pitching in a pitcher's ballpark in San Francisco. And
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then they got an outfielder who's patting two forty five
for Eugene, which I am told is a ball that's
pretty far away from the major leagues. And then they
got a pitcher who this rookie rookie ball pitcher. They
got a picture and rookie ball, which is at least
thirteenth grade, I believe. Okay, so, but the only reason
the Red Sox don't get an F on this, they
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get a D, not F because that's not very good
return on investment, is because your addition by subtraction a
Deavor's bad attitude.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And they got all these the next wave of young players.
They're worried that dev is gonna.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
His bad habits are going to rub off on these
other guys that are the next wave there. And you
hear things right, Yeah, there's people that chirp around baseball
by the whispers that you know, Devers is not a
good leader. He's immature, He obviously doesn't take his conditioning
very seriously, all that stuff, and then not willing to
change positions and just coming across as a complete diva.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Who wants that? Does anyone want that? Does it? Know?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
He shows up to spring training looking like he's he's
really run up the Uber Eats account.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
When he gets to you know, the.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
The off season there and three hundred million dollars inflexible,
inflexible and refusing to help the team out. And it
reminds me of one of the great quotes of all
time in my life from a player you probably don't
remember unless you're old. There was a guy that played
for the Pitts Pirates and the Cardinals named Andy vansle Like.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
His kid also played in the Major League.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But Andy Vanslike had one of the great quotes when
he was in Pittsburgh and he was talking about Barry Bonds,
and Bonds went out to the Giants, of course in
that era, and Van Slyke said, I'd rather lose without
him meeting Bonds than win with him. And that appears
to be the mindset of the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Like.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
They just got some slop, they got some Ramen noodles,
they got the Marcel diet, Marcel from Brooklyn diet for
Rafael Devers. But you have to believe that they were
shopping devs to every team in baseball and this is
what they got in return. Now, Paige Triot, does Rafael
Devers go out and push the Giants into the upper crust?
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Are they now a legitimate threat in the National League
to the Dodgers and the Mets and those type of teams.
You gys have a good record. I have to have
a good record. And so now they've added a player
that we've heard of. So the way I approach this,
it helps close the gap, but only by a few millimeters.
The gap is closed by a few millimeters here on
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this And this is a major shot in the arm
though for that team, because it is a team that
is a lot of flotsam and jetsam, and it is
also a reminder that one man's junk is another man's treasure,
Like the Red Sox just gave Devers away pretty much,
and the Giants are all.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Excited and all that, and the Giants have it. Sara
Zos has got a good team.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And I like the fact that Buster Posey the mindset
seems to be in the right place. Maybe that's just
my interpretation of it. And I certainly don't like the Giants.
I like the Dodgers, but that's a motley crew. They
have a motley crew of a roster. And I was
at the game sitting with a couple of pop and
these guys are two of the guys I was with
from New York and.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
They're I don't know any one of the Giants. And
then we're going through the line. I don't know that guy,
that guy.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I mean, they're a nameless team. They are a faceless,
nameless team. And now they have the center of the
wagon wheel. You got to have that middle of the
wagon wheel.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So now they have.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
That, and Devs in theory is going to be that guy.
And you know, so it's a good morale booster and
all that three to zero three career hitter in playoff
baseball for Devers, and so you figure he's going to
hit on you know, looks can be seeing the Giants.
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I hope they paid the extra money to the airlines there,
because when Devers arrives across country flight there to join
the Giants, he's pretty sure he's he violates all of
the baggage policies as far as excess weight in baggage.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
There's a lot of extra baggage that Devers brings all right.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Now, final point and the last word on the Rafael
Devers mega trade as he goes from the Red Sox
to the Giants. So how will RAFAA DEVS handle the
West coast? Much is a different experience if you've traveled.
If you've been around the United there's much different experience
going from playing professional sports in Boston to the West
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Coast and San Francisco. So it's going to be a
bit of a culture shock, you know, different atmosphere all
the way around there. Fenway Park loud, intense, it's a
pinball machine. And you go out to San Francisco and
it's like Oracle Park, I think it's what they still
call it. Used to be packed Belt Park and something else.
But you go out there, majestic, beautiful views.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Right, I've been there a few times. McCovey cove, the
bright blue sea out there. You get the city on
one side.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's wonderful, but it's all about being like a nineteen
sixties pop song from Donovan, Mellow Yellow.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
It's just mellow, laid back, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's all that it's And so Devers will he flourish
in that environment? Does it matter? Is he's going to
really care? It's it's not a hitter's park. That's the
big thing here. And if you look at the comps
of players that have left the Red Sox and the
numbers when they're finway to Pennant, Raphael Devers across the
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board is a much better offensive player at Finway Park
the pinball machine than he is on the road. In fact,
in his career at Oracle Park, he's in eighty three hitter.
He's only played a few games there, but he's hitting
eighty three small sample size devers again measureably worse. Then
you got the contract. Now it's not my money. I
don't have to pay the money, so I don't really
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worry about that. But from a contractual perspective, for the Giants,
you've got a guy you've picked up who's got a
bad attitude already, not a team guy, doesn't stay in shape,
and here you're paying him the rest of his contract
to twenty thirty three, three hundred and thirteen million dollars
to a guy with a bad attitude. He's not a
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team guy, who's a selfish schmuck.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So that's who you're paying.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So you're betting that it doesn't matter, because baseball you
can be selfish and you'll still put up big numbers
and all that.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But it's like the.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Old Niners coach Mike Singletary, and it's like you want
you want winners.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I want winners.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I can't selfish players, cannot win with them, cannot right,
cannot coach for the whole thing, that whole rant, cannot
do it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I want winners, go on and go on and on.
I want people to want to win. They said, well,
Dever's won the World Series in twenty eighteen. Well the
Red Soite we're cheating in twenty eighteen when they won
the World Series. So there is that.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
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It all, right, back to it.
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We go and the call to the bullpen. We'll get
that coming in a couple of minutes. We will have
more on the big story.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We got a trade. Fergnog says that was a close call. Ben.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I reached to turn off my radio the second I
heard in for Ben Maller until I heard your voice.
Don't scare me like that. Many people asking how that happened.
I have no idea. Obviously somebody didn't listen, but I
don't know what happened. Stuck in Sacramento says he plus
on the Open Mallard monologue for the week. The difference
between Devers going to San Francisco and Mookie to La
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is simple. Bets is a team first guy, a piece
to the puzzle. With Devers, there is no puzzle. He's
just a piece playing for a piece of blank organization.
That's from Stuck in Sacramento. What else do we have?
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Let's see here. I can't read that on the air
page down, Josh Josh Writeson says, did I just check
big Ben Maller leaving the Dodger game? Look like you
left a bit early there. Ben, well that I was
a guest. We'll get to that right now. They called
it the bullpen. So this was a very last minute situation,
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A very last minute situation, Josh. So, I was hanging out,
minding my own business, trying. I was contemplating the time
space continuum, and I get a text at like four
in the morning from Marlin's.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Man who's a fan of the show.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
He's based obviously Miami, and he.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I haven't talked to him in months.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
He sends me a message, he said, hey, you going
to the Dodger game tonight.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I'm like, no, I'm not allowed.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Once they got Altani in no room for me, you know,
So I said I'm not going. I'm kind of outlawed there.
And he said, well, you want to go, I'm going.
I'm flying. I'm on a plane. I'm at the airport
in Miami and wherever he was in Florida, and I'm
flying out to LA and be there today and i
want to go to the game and I'll get your ticket.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So without blinking, I said, hell, yeah, I want to go.
Of course I'll go.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So I went and I hung out, but I was
invited by him and it was with his some other
people there, so I had to leave when he left
because it was not my event. But yeah, I left,
like two out in the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I left and what did you eat? Ben?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Well, there were lots of actually sports with Coleman was
demanding the food they had. He's great Now was Father's Day,
so they liked a lot of Like it was the
vip dugout sweet thing, which is where like the where.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
The rich people go stop it.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Oh they had Yeah, it was all you can eat man.
People were picking out.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Uh they had like chicken strips. No, they have chicken strips.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I had a chicken palm sandwich, several of those. There
was some steak, a little bit of that. There was
a lot of sausage and a big sausage guy. Corn
all kinds of different. There was one guy dressed up
as Sho Hail Tani. It reminds allowed well, well, no,
he had the uniform like the pants and the jersey,
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and it reminded me of when I ran into Helmet
Man and he was dressed as an oriole and walking
around the streets of La like this guy was at
Dodgers Day. It looked like Otani went in to get
a bite to eat, like he was hungry and he
wanted to get some potato salam.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
You got pictures of this?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I did, I got, I got a photo the guy.
But epic desserts hit cupcakes hard, that was good. Frosting
was amazing. And yeah, there was a lot of food.
I only got a few photos there, but it was
like pretty much every kind of food. A lot of
it was not my to my standard, but I did
partake and I had a great time. And it was
very hot, but it's air conditioned under there, so I
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had a fine time. And Marlin's man actually just text
me he is on a flight. He went right to
Lax after the game, and that's one of the reasons
we had.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
To leave, like in and out.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, he's flu in for the day. He's got he's
got business he's got to take care of. He's I think,
find Orlando. So he's got Yes, he's flying to Orlando,
so he's doing this thing. But it was a lot
of fun. I had a great time. Saw my my
buddy Rick Monday and passing mod Monday there. I said
a load to him. I said, hey, Rick, I'm not
allowed here anymore. Kept going and uh, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So I had a good time. It was It was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Enjoyed it, and it was nicely. Had a couple of
friends there, like actors or whatever. I don't know, but
I definitely did not belong there. They were having conversations
about where they liked the vacation, and they were like.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh, I like this place.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
There's this place in the south of France, you know,
And I'm like, okay, I like Riverside. I like there's
a casino and Riverside I go to. It's really nice.
There's San Bernardino's.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I can go there. And then that's that. It's very nice.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Anyway, let's see here Eugene in Chicago, says Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
The bottom line has been don't work. I don't listen.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Wow, you're very kind, although I think I still get
credit if people are listening, although I guess it looks
makes me look better if no one listens when I'm
not here. But I want you to listen. My name's
still on the show. Hopefully we won't hear that imaging
of the rest of the night. Shane in the Moynes,
says Ben. At the Mallor meet and greet, that was
not a Malor meeting greet. That was just a social
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event and that was it. Burner account says, oh my god, Ben,
I just turned iHeartRadio off for the night. I was
just turning it off. And then thanks for the head fake.
I gotta keep you on your toes. Chip and the
q's right since says a plus on the Malla monologue.
This trade, the Rafaeld devastrate will be a total steal
for the Giants if only they can somehow get Rafael
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Devers a lobotomy. The dudes a million dollar talent with
a ten cent head. Are they still doing the bottomies?
Are they still like?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Have you seen those?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I'm good. That is crazy, like taking an ice to yourner.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I listen, I don't want to hear it's a Frankenstein.
It's Frankenstein. I don't want to hear about it. It's Frankenstein.
I don't want to hear about Frankenstein. It's Frankensteins. Stuff,
is what it is. That's what I don't want to
hear about.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That man.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
All right, mister Irrigation, who's like the King of Houston
rights and he says, the best thing that the Red
Sox got out of the trade is sowary cap space.
There is no sowary cap real salary cap in baseball,
a bunch of space apparently half a game out of
the wild card and swept the Yankees. Also, well, there
is a conspiracy. One of our listeners Boston sent to me.
(26:01):
Now keep in mind, I have no idea whether this
is true or not because I do not follow football,
but if you do, you can confirm this. So a
couple of guys who live in the Boston area and
listen to us on our home there, the Ben Maller
Show home on the Sports Hub, claim that the Red Sox,
the owners the Finway Sports Group, agreed to pay a
record transfer fee for some soccer player, like one hundred
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and fifty million dollars or something like that for Liverpool,
and then they at the same time unloaded Rafael Devers
contract for players that don't make that much money. So
the conspiracy is that it's all about balancing the books
for Finway Sports Group, and that the reason they made
this trade is because they the soccer team paid one
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hundred and fifty million dollars or some according to what
people were emailing me, some soccer whiz guy, and then
they had to, you know, because the Red Sox Fenway
ownership group owns the Red Sox and the soccer team.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So if you.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Take money and put it in Liverpool, then you take
it away from the Red Sox and then you balance
the books and then that's that's the way that works.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Which I would not be shocked if that happens, or
that happened, I would not be shocked by that.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Uh, let's see supermarket Steed rights and says, I thought
you were going to be nice when I saw your
rundown and not mentioned my Yankees getting swept by the
Red Sox. Yet you managed to squeeze it into the
first hour mile of the monologue. I wonder how many
times you will bring that up tonight. I wasn't an
embarrassing supermarket Steve in New York Yankees a Red Sox,
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an average Red Sox team, and they have won what are?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
They won five of six?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Now the Red Sox over the Yankees, and that's an embarrassment.
And we have to ask the question, are the twenty
twenty five New York Yankees a paper tiger? Is this
team a fraudulent team that picked up a bunch of
wins right good and sexy record They lost a series
of the Dodgers, they got their face bashed in by
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the Red Sox. What's going on with that?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Man? All right?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
See what else do we have? Paige super Market? Seve
also says, once again, how come I don't see on
your rundown Caitlin Clark coming back from injury and dropping
thirty five points? Well, I don't do a w NBA show,
that's why.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh she's back, Ben, that's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well I thought you shouldn't you watch your w NBA
She already played on SAD. I guess it was on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I must have missed it. Three logo threes in a
row weren't actually from the logo. I didn't see a
second of it.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I Hugh on the five rights in he says, did
Rick Monday give you a failed witty bust ball busting
remark like he does to the various whipper snappers hanging about?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, Rick gave me kind of a it was kind
of with his eyebrow, kind of a shrug.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Huh, you know, kind of that was that kind of thing.
It was an I did not I did not expect
to run into him.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Did not expect to run into him because I was
not there in a media capacity but they have long
escalators at Dodger Stadium, and I was going down the
escalator and Rick was coming up the escalator like ships
passing in the night.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And I love Rick.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Years ago and in another life when I did Dodger Talk,
Rick was one of the broadcasters with the Daughters. I
know Rick very well, and he actually listens to the
show on a regular basis, And so I'm always happy
when I see Rick Mondy. I don't see Hi much
anymore at all. Though, what else do we have this?
See page down. Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
A lot of you guys think we're on satellite radio
and can just say all the bad words. Oh too bad.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Unfortunately we are not on satellite radio. We cannot say
all the bad words. Well, let's go down to the
belly of the Beastysky Boots on the Ground reaction to
the Rafael Devers trade.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
And there's tons of people awake.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
They can't sleep in Boston because the Rafael Devers trade.
They're up all night with us. And who better to
be the voice of the Red Sox than Blind Scott
Blind Scott Boots on the ground. What's the reaction?
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, this is terrible for the Red Sox. I woke
up to get ready for the show. I work on
on the overnights and this couldn't be worth for the Reds.
Like Kevin Mallaia is like, we need people that need
to play. This is one of the best players in baseball.
He comes from the greatest baseball country in the world,
the Dominican Republic. There's John Henry, There's Craig Breslow, and
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there's Alex Cora. One of these dudes needed to fall
on the sword before you got rid of Rathfield Devers.
You need to defire Craig. Craig Breslow, he is not
a baseball general manager. You do not get rid of
the best player in baseball and send him to the Giants.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So, just for the record, holds, I said you were
calling for the removal of the Red Sox general manager.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, let's send that out on social media. Boston is
demanding that the GM of the Red Sox is fired.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Boom, Yeah, Alex Corey, he's softman. He was drinking a
Moca like a moocha latte dunkin Donuts coffee that time
during the press conference after his daughter's graduation from Boston College.
You know, Boston College is a very hard school to
get into. And I understand that he used what do
they call that diversity equity inclusion maybe to get his
daughter to get into the school there. But we don't
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care in Boston, dude, we're all academia. This is academic here.
We want the Red Sox. We want him to manage
the Red Sox. Why is our score of the mouth
piece for the Red Sox. Now, you know he's not
going to come and say, I've been working with this
young player for a long time. I could have worked
with him. He's gonna say whatever John Henry wants him
to say, because he just collecting a paycheck. You know,
(31:28):
the Red Sox are one of the best franchises in baseball.
They have the biggest payroll. If John Henry wants a minute,
he owns the Penguins, and he owns the Liverpool and
these other teams. Dude, why have so many teams? He
could easily just sew this team to Jeff Basso to something. Dude,
do us a favorite John Henry? We hate John Henry
and Boston. You know, he has a yacht and everything
that's great. He had.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You know, every rich guy has a yacht. That's what
you do when you're rich.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Chat dude, are you rich?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Non? No yacht for you?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
So Ray Lorraine and you know, guys, I didn't like
the exchange between turn Dog and Ben and like, you know,
somebody fat figured something and then there was gas light
and going on. And you know, if I worked in
the studio and you were reading that and it was mine,
I might have got up out of my seat and
charged your chair. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Well, I could chick your I could kick your ass.
I don't care about you kick absolutely.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Scott's no waits all day long, just up and down.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Mayby, What are you gonna do? I've taken your call,
You're the first call.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Are you going to go to bed?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
What are you gonna do? You've done so.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I got the marlins Man photo and the Ben Mallet photo.
So my buddy Fred and me and Fred actually we
went to the Red Sox, but we you know, we
didn't take photos. We didn't need a photo op.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
You know, like you go, fred't You're I'm.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Gonna be passing that photo around national media right now.
It's gonna be on every outlet in a few hours.
The Inquire is going to have every major sports video.
It is going to have the Ben Mallard Marlin plane. Dude,
these are two major heads reunited. We haven't heard from.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
He's spend about it's been about two years.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
It has been about do you know you haven't been
mentioned them because you didn't want the fans to go
after him, you know, and please, you know, he's a
great car.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You're vallguarding the time. Please by go away? I mean,
what do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Uh So there's some spin coming out also on this
Rafael Devers trade that the story is that Devers didn't
want to be in Boston anymore. They're spinning that, and
then they also are claiming that this sounds like the
Lucas situation two point others saying that some of the
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reports we're hearing that the Red Sox did not did
not shop Rafael Devers around, that they just had they
just talked to the giants like why would you do that?
Like are we in the age of stupidity in the
world of sports?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Like it's not illegal, right, it's just not a smart move.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Well, it's not illegal, but why would you Like it
makes no sense if you have a car and you
want to sell the car. Wouldn't you not just go
to one person say what are you.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Going to pay for the car? I'll give you the car.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Or would you just put it out there and say,
all right, let's get some bids. Highest bida, that's right,
the highest bidder. I see a big name on line one, boy,
I got to make sure line one stays. Don't hang
up line one. I can't take line one right now,
but I want to take line one because line one's
a big name. People have been asking me about line one,
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So I want to get to line one.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
But time now for the who am I? Game? And
here is the who am I? Game? Where we pretend
to be somebody else. That's we call it the who
the who am I? Game? It's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
So Rafael devers Is hit thirty plus home runs in
a season three times in his career. I was the
last San Francisco Giants player with thirty plus home runs
in a season. Again, Rafael devers Is hit thirty or
more home runs three times in his career. I was
the last San Francisco Giants player with thirty plus home
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runs in a season.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Who am I? That's the question. The answer, We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
Just search Fox Sports Radio. On the YouTube.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
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(35:44):
All right back to it time now for the who
am I?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Games? Where we pretend to be somebody else's. We call
it who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
So Rafael Devers is hit thirty or more home runs
in a season three times this career, I was the
last San Francisco Giants player to hit thirty year more
home runs in his season. Who am I? That is
the question? What's the answer, mister nice guy? Going with
one of the great Blue Jays of all time, Lloyd Mosby,
Chris Outfield of all time, Jesse Barfield, George Taco Bell
and Lloyd Mosby Tricks Rabbit from Donkey Sausage, Cliff Doobie
(36:16):
Robinson from Big Lou He's on number two, Andy and
Lionel Lake this Minnesota got to write. Bad job by him,
Kurt Man wearing great name by Alf the Alien Opiner,
Good job Bay City, Tony's going with Giants legend. Dion
Sanders is his answer. Rennie Stennette or Stennett rather from
(36:38):
Malibu Rubin.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Duck mcstuffen from Far Out, Dave Clipper legend, Brent Barry,
the first white guy to win the Slam Dunk contest
from Shane in Des Moines, Ben Vereen from Bobby and Florida.
Who else do you have? Marlon Man's freeloader friend Nico
from Terry in Terry is very upset. He needs to
(37:05):
really chill out and get a life. Who else do
we have a page down? You are half pint waiting online?
One from Supermargan Steve rob Deeer, good name, good name
from Seawn that's his answer. In the Valley of the Sun,
Speccoli not the caller of this guy Spaccoli. Who else
Chip Le the Cues got a right bad job by him?
(37:25):
Count Dracula from Mark listening over in Santa Monica, Mark
in Queens in Arlington, Texas, going with Buster Posey, who else?
Paige down?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
This guy? Jeremy says, I heard the answer earlier.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Okay, well you get a life, dude. Don't listen all
the time. All right, Lorena, do you have an answer?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Lorena? Well, yes, Ben, My guess is Cheach from Cheach
and Charn.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
A fine answer, but incorrect. It's also not Andrew Dice
Clay guess by Gil in San Diego. The correct answer
would be.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
None other then Barry mand way back in twenty oh four.
It's been over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Every other team in the Majors is at least six
thirty plus home run seasons for a player since five
bonds last one. We have the play of the night,
and what better way to honor the career of Rafael
Devers his last home run as a Red.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Sox The Play of the night. Take it him. Here
is rafuse Skys one deep in the left field.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
This thing is way back in.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
It is far gone over the red line.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
It is out of here.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
For Devers an opposite field, Homer, it barely got over
the red line. Devers launches and it is two nothing
Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I used to know the Red Sox played by play announcers.
I have no idea who that is, but hey, it's
the Red Sox radio ti Iraq. Yeah, the play of
the day.
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Speaker 1 (39:06):
The way tire buying should be the final home run
of rafaeld.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Ever, let's going out quickly to Minnesota and we say
hello to Hayes in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Hello, Hayes.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I couldn't sleep tonight. My radio went down. I looked
at the phone somehow I call it fifteen times?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, where have you been? Is? I've been drinking six
beers a day.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I just can't get enough of it.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
I've been drinking that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah. That is that in like a ten hour period?
Or is it like a two hours?
Speaker 4 (39:43):
No? No? So I work six days now.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
The only thing I do.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
I'm off on Sundays. The only thing I do is
I drive the dead bodies. The only thing I have
control over is the radio. So I played the radio.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yes, for those who don't know, Hayes works at a
like a graveyard. Right, you were going to mortuary.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
As a matter of fact, I live one mile away
from the new place that I work at.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Oh you changed, you change place.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
There is there a lot of competition to get people
to work at different mortuary.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
I wear I wear a clown sheep suit, so it
just makes people happy.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
So if I put you on hold, you're gonna hang up.
Every time I put you on hold, you're gonna hang up.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I don't have a lot.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
No, no, no, no, no, I will wait.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
I'm just I don't The radio went down?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
All right, I want to I want to talk more
to you, but I have a hard network out here,
so I have to put you on hold.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I hope you understand.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
But every time you say you're gonna stay on hold,
you hang up. I know you're gonna hang up. Don't
lie to me. Just say I'm gonna hang out.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Okay, I BoNT you promise, I will keep drinking. I
will wait.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Okay, keep you have another beer. Have two beers. I'll
do another monologue. Have like five. I don't care. You're
at home, don't drive. Stay. You can get drunk in
your house. That's not illegal.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yes, drink a small money drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink,
do whatever.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
You want, drink. I don't care. He's at home. He
can drink. He's an adult.
Here we go. Welcome, it's our numb burwah.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Happy Monday to you as we are back at it
on this sixteenth day of June, and the Red Sox
making a big trade. They said bye bye to Rafael Devers,
sending him to the Giants. How do you grade the
Red Sox trade as Devers joined San Francisco for a
gaggle of mostly pitchers. Also does Rafael Devers push the
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Giants into the upper crust of the Nash League? And
how will Rafael Devers handle the West Coast.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We'll talk about all that and more right now in
our number one. Wow, I'm in. I'm Brian Knowles.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The first mistake before I even cracked the bike.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Baby, all right, we're off to a good start. There
you go.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
All right, it is I Ben Mallor in for Brian
know Apparently it is the Bend Malor Show. And that's right,
the beginning of yet another week. And what a great
start to the week is. We are in the air
everywhere with fresh thoughts and hopefully proper imaging.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
That's right, as we talk different even when things go.
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and initially I was I was slightly concerned. I said,
oh my, we don't really we don't talk much golf
around these parts, and I know the US Open outside
Pittsburgh was played, and not really much of a talker,
so I was like, oh man, there's no NBA game.
I was like, yes, we'll talk some baseball. And then
I was like, well I was at a baseball game.
More on that in a minute. And then like all
these big trades happened, I said, wow, that's great. So
(02:30):
roughly thirty minutes prior to the Doyers and the Giants game,
a game that I was at, I started getting all
these text messages from random, random people.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I said, well, who's bothering me?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's it's a Sunday, Sunday night, you know, shows not
till later, like you know what's going on. And so
I was. I was in a social situation. I was
trying to be polite. I mean, I learned my manners
back in the day. I was supposed to be on
your phone the whole time when you're you're at a meal.
So I was like, all right, I'm not gonna look
at my phone and anykay. I kept getting these buzzes
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like that, huh man, something big must have happen.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Last time I got something like this was like the
Luca like if somebody died or somebody got traded. Last
time I got a lot of messages like this, it
was the Luca trade. So I was like, oh man.
So I was annoyed at first, and I was like,
who's bothering me? And I'm trying to be polite and
all this stuff and okay, rare and appropriate night of
the ballpark, and then all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I opened the phone up.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I was said, whoa, wow, oh man, wowie, because howie
I can't But I was like, whoa. You know, I
get excited, and uh yeah, I as as much as
you can possibly get excited as a middle aged person
about a trade. But I was, I was intrigued by this.
This This got some juice. It's got some juice. So
if you have not heard by now, I assume you have.
(03:52):
Everyone's already yapping about this, but maybe you were actually
enjoying the weekend, did some Father's Day stuff, whatever that
might be, and then and you were kind of unplugged.
So the trade, we learned that the Boston Red Sox
have traded the face of the franchise. They have said
bye bye to Rafael Dever's fat ass and they have
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sent him to San Francisco in a mega, mega mega trade. Yes,
the Giants sent back inbound to Boston. They sent right
handed pitcher Jordan Hicks, left hander Kyle Harrison.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You're getting a little excited. Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Also outfield prospect James Tibbs the third sounds like a
caller we used to have that called the show. And
a minor league right hander who we've never heard of,
and in return, the Giants pick up a twenty eight
year old malcontent designated hitter, and the Giants are now
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two games back of the Dowyers in the NLS standings.
The lost five to four at Chavez Ravine on a
toasty warm Sunday there and Devers having a pretty good
season offensively, you just look at the numbers and not
look at the context of those numbers, never hitting two
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seventy two, fifteen home runs fifty eight runs batted in
in seventy three games.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
He also hit a solo dinger and.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The Red Sox swept the Yankees at Fitway and then
the ultimate f you to Devs.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
We just swept the Yankees with you.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
We think you suck, though, so we're trading you, is
what they did, and they traded.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The trade was.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Announced long enough after the game where they didn't have
to answer any questions about it. The trade was leaked
to the usual baseball scribes that are on the inner circle.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That trade was leaked late in the day. Therefore, there
was no way, no way to get any immediate reaction.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So let us discuss the question, how do you grate
the mega trade?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
In baseball?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The Red Sox sending rafi El Devers to the Giants
for a gaggle of mostly pitchers, nondescript pitchers, and one
position player.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So I've got my thoughts on this.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I've got van slike airlines and nineteen sixties pop and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make garlic fries. My advice to my
friends in the Bay Area is keep Rafael Devers away
from the garlic fries. Okay, he's going to enjoy them.
They're delicious and they're very bad for you. So eveything moderation,
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so be careful.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Ay, there are no real winners in this. There are,
or losers for that matter. The Malad report card on
this after a minutes long analysis and deliberation of the trade,
the Red Sox get the D. They get the D
on the Malle report card. The Giants, I'm not getting
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giving them an.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
A for this.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
They got the player that we know is good somewhat,
but I'm giving them a bee. So I'm gonna start
with Boston, the better story in the losing locker rooms.
We're gonna start with Boston. And the argument is, well,
they're allergic to keeping homegrown players. Here's a homegrown player
and he's the latest to go, just like Mookie Betts.
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They traded him. Xander Bogarts went to the Padres so
like all these guys end up in the Nation League West,
like all the old Red Sox are now in the
Nation League West.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And it's to me the interesting part is the confession.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
We had thought this was a possibility when Devers refused
to change positions and the owner of the team, the
Aristocrat owner John Henry, had to fly out to Kansas City,
where the Red Sox were playing the Royals, to have
a pow wow with the player.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That was a dad giveaway. Things were not going well.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That is not normal protocol for the owner of the
team to travel who have a meeting with the star player,
because the star players, you know, is not following the
play there. And so you had that. But it's a confession.
They bet on the wrong horse. The Red Sox thought
that Devers would be different, apparently, and he was supposed
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to be the cornerstone player and middle of the order bat,
homegrown guy, all those things, right, the guy they chose
to build around. They didn't want to keep Mookie Bats.
They didn't want to keep Xander Balguards. This was the
guy they wanted to Boston and now they have kicked
him out. Send him over to the Logan Airport. Get
the hell out of here. You're done, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And they thought, well we could build around mat. I
can't build around him. And that is your lefty bat
with pop.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
The guy that you know is now I.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Guess shipped off like you're returning something from you bought
on Amazon. You send it there and it ends up
in a bin somewhere and then that's it. But the
refusal to be flexible and the lack of hustle, that's
the double whammie. It's like, well, I'm not willing to
work with you and I'm not going to hustle.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Not a team guy, a selfish toolbag would be Rafael Devers.
He did write his ticket out of finn right now.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
The issue is the.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Red Sox because of his value being so low, because
he's got a big contract.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
He's not a team guy. He doesn't hustle.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's the Red Sox couldn't get much for him, Like
they got a couple of arms and it's really just
some mystery boxes. What's in the box. It's a mystery box.
Like this guy, Jordan Hicks has been an enigma. Remember
when he came up I believe it was the Cardinals
and he was throwing like one hundred miles an hour.
Everyone got all horny, Oh man, this guy's great, and
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if only we can get.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That under control and teach him another pitch. And here
we are.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's probably been five, six, seven years something like that,
and Jordan Hicks is still bouncing around major League Baseball
and he still throws hard, and he's got an ERA
of six and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
He sucks. Okay, so you got him. You know, he's
been nothing but a tease.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Kyle Harrison is at this point, until proven OTHERWI is
just a generic. He's a young guy. I think he's
early twenties, but he's not established, and he's not projected
to be any more than a middle of the rotation
starting pitcher. And he's got numbers that aren't all that
impressive pitching in a pitcher's ballpark in San Francisco. And
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then they got an outfielder who's patting two forty five
for Eugene, which I am told is a ball that's
pretty far away from the major leagues. And then they
got a pitcher who this rookie rookie ball pitcher. They
got a picture and rookie ball, which is at least
thirteenth grade, I believe. Okay, so, but the only reason
the Red Sox don't get an F on this, they
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get a D, not F because that's not very good
return on investment, is because your addition by subtraction a
Deavor's bad attitude.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
And they got all these the next wave of young players.
They're worried that dev is gonna.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
His bad habits are going to rub off on these
other guys that are the next wave there. And you
hear things right, Yeah, there's people that chirp around baseball
by the whispers that you know, Devers is not a
good leader. He's immature, He obviously doesn't take his conditioning
very seriously, all that stuff, and then not willing to
change positions and just coming across as a complete diva.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Who wants that? Does anyone want that? Does it? Know?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
He shows up to spring training looking like he's he's
really run up the Uber Eats account.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
When he gets to you know, the.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
The off season there and three hundred million dollars inflexible,
inflexible and refusing to help the team out. And it
reminds me of one of the great quotes of all
time in my life from a player you probably don't
remember unless you're old. There was a guy that played
for the Pitts Pirates and the Cardinals named Andy vansle Like.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
His kid also played in the Major League.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But Andy Vanslike had one of the great quotes when
he was in Pittsburgh and he was talking about Barry Bonds,
and Bonds went out to the Giants, of course in
that era, and Van Slyke said, I'd rather lose without
him meeting Bonds than win with him. And that appears
to be the mindset of the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Like.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
They just got some slop, they got some Ramen noodles,
they got the Marcel diet, Marcel from Brooklyn diet for
Rafael Devers. But you have to believe that they were
shopping devs to every team in baseball and this is
what they got in return. Now, Paige Triot, does Rafael
Devers go out and push the Giants into the upper crust?
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Are they now a legitimate threat in the National League
to the Dodgers and the Mets and those type of teams.
You gys have a good record. I have to have
a good record. And so now they've added a player
that we've heard of. So the way I approach this,
it helps close the gap, but only by a few millimeters.
The gap is closed by a few millimeters here on
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this And this is a major shot in the arm
though for that team, because it is a team that
is a lot of flotsam and jetsam, and it is
also a reminder that one man's junk is another man's treasure,
Like the Red Sox just gave Devers away pretty much,
and the Giants are all.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Excited and all that, and the Giants have it. Sara
Zos has got a good team.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And I like the fact that Buster Posey the mindset
seems to be in the right place. Maybe that's just
my interpretation of it. And I certainly don't like the Giants.
I like the Dodgers, but that's a motley crew. They
have a motley crew of a roster. And I was
at the game sitting with a couple of pop and
these guys are two of the guys I was with
from New York and.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
They're I don't know any one of the Giants. And
then we're going through the line. I don't know that guy,
that guy.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I mean, they're a nameless team. They are a faceless,
nameless team. And now they have the center of the
wagon wheel. You got to have that middle of the
wagon wheel.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So now they have.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
That, and Devs in theory is going to be that guy.
And you know, so it's a good morale booster and
all that three to zero three career hitter in playoff
baseball for Devers, and so you figure he's going to
hit on you know, looks can be seeing the Giants.
(14:28):
I hope they paid the extra money to the airlines there,
because when Devers arrives across country flight there to join
the Giants, he's pretty sure he's he violates all of
the baggage policies as far as excess weight in baggage.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
There's a lot of extra baggage that Devers brings all right.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Now, final point and the last word on the Rafael
Devers mega trade as he goes from the Red Sox
to the Giants. So how will RAFAA DEVS handle the
West coast? Much is a different experience if you've traveled.
If you've been around the United there's much different experience
going from playing professional sports in Boston to the West
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Coast and San Francisco. So it's going to be a
bit of a culture shock, you know, different atmosphere all
the way around there. Fenway Park loud, intense, it's a
pinball machine. And you go out to San Francisco and
it's like Oracle Park, I think it's what they still
call it. Used to be packed Belt Park and something else.
But you go out there, majestic, beautiful views.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Right, I've been there a few times. McCovey cove, the
bright blue sea out there. You get the city on
one side.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's wonderful, but it's all about being like a nineteen
sixties pop song from Donovan, Mellow Yellow.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
It's just mellow, laid back, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's all that it's And so Devers will he flourish
in that environment? Does it matter? Is he's going to
really care? It's it's not a hitter's park. That's the
big thing here. And if you look at the comps
of players that have left the Red Sox and the
numbers when they're finway to Pennant, Raphael Devers across the
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board is a much better offensive player at Finway Park
the pinball machine than he is on the road. In fact,
in his career at Oracle Park, he's in eighty three hitter.
He's only played a few games there, but he's hitting
eighty three small sample size devers again measureably worse. Then
you got the contract. Now it's not my money. I
don't have to pay the money, so I don't really
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worry about that. But from a contractual perspective, for the Giants,
you've got a guy you've picked up who's got a
bad attitude already, not a team guy, doesn't stay in shape,
and here you're paying him the rest of his contract
to twenty thirty three, three hundred and thirteen million dollars
to a guy with a bad attitude. He's not a
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team guy, who's a selfish schmuck.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So that's who you're paying.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So you're betting that it doesn't matter, because baseball you
can be selfish and you'll still put up big numbers
and all that.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But it's like the.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Old Niners coach Mike Singletary, and it's like you want
you want winners.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I want winners.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I can't selfish players, cannot win with them, cannot right,
cannot coach for the whole thing, that whole rant, cannot
do it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I want winners, go on and go on and on.
I want people to want to win. They said, well,
Dever's won the World Series in twenty eighteen. Well the
Red Soite we're cheating in twenty eighteen when they won
the World Series. So there is that.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
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Speaker 1 (19:32):
It all, right, back to it.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
We go and the call to the bullpen. We'll get
that coming in a couple of minutes. We will have
more on the big story.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We got a trade. Fergnog says that was a close call. Ben.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I reached to turn off my radio the second I
heard in for Ben Maller until I heard your voice.
Don't scare me like that. Many people asking how that happened.
I have no idea. Obviously somebody didn't listen, but I
don't know what happened. Stuck in Sacramento says he plus
on the Open Mallard monologue for the week. The difference
between Devers going to San Francisco and Mookie to La
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is simple. Bets is a team first guy, a piece
to the puzzle. With Devers, there is no puzzle. He's
just a piece playing for a piece of blank organization.
That's from Stuck in Sacramento. What else do we have?
(20:26):
Let's see here. I can't read that on the air
page down, Josh Josh Writeson says, did I just check
big Ben Maller leaving the Dodger game? Look like you
left a bit early there. Ben, well that I was
a guest. We'll get to that right now. They called
it the bullpen. So this was a very last minute situation,
(20:49):
A very last minute situation, Josh. So, I was hanging out,
minding my own business, trying. I was contemplating the time
space continuum, and I get a text at like four
in the morning from Marlin's.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Man who's a fan of the show.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
He's based obviously Miami, and he.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I haven't talked to him in months.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
He sends me a message, he said, hey, you going
to the Dodger game tonight.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I'm like, no, I'm not allowed.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Once they got Altani in no room for me, you know,
So I said I'm not going. I'm kind of outlawed there.
And he said, well, you want to go, I'm going.
I'm flying. I'm on a plane. I'm at the airport
in Miami and wherever he was in Florida, and I'm
flying out to LA and be there today and i
want to go to the game and I'll get your ticket.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So without blinking, I said, hell, yeah, I want to go.
Of course I'll go.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So I went and I hung out, but I was
invited by him and it was with his some other
people there, so I had to leave when he left
because it was not my event. But yeah, I left,
like two out in the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I left and what did you eat? Ben?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Well, there were lots of actually sports with Coleman was
demanding the food they had. He's great Now was Father's Day,
so they liked a lot of Like it was the
vip dugout sweet thing, which is where like the where.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
The rich people go stop it.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Oh they had Yeah, it was all you can eat man.
People were picking out.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Uh they had like chicken strips. No, they have chicken strips.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I had a chicken palm sandwich, several of those. There
was some steak, a little bit of that. There was
a lot of sausage and a big sausage guy. Corn
all kinds of different. There was one guy dressed up
as Sho Hail Tani. It reminds allowed well, well, no,
he had the uniform like the pants and the jersey,
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and it reminded me of when I ran into Helmet
Man and he was dressed as an oriole and walking
around the streets of La like this guy was at
Dodgers Day. It looked like Otani went in to get
a bite to eat, like he was hungry and he
wanted to get some potato salam.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
You got pictures of this?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I did, I got, I got a photo the guy.
But epic desserts hit cupcakes hard, that was good. Frosting
was amazing. And yeah, there was a lot of food.
I only got a few photos there, but it was
like pretty much every kind of food. A lot of
it was not my to my standard, but I did
partake and I had a great time. And it was
very hot, but it's air conditioned under there, so I
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had a fine time. And Marlin's man actually just text
me he is on a flight. He went right to
Lax after the game, and that's one of the reasons
we had.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
To leave, like in and out.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, he's flu in for the day. He's got he's
got business he's got to take care of. He's I think,
find Orlando. So he's got Yes, he's flying to Orlando,
so he's doing this thing. But it was a lot
of fun. I had a great time. Saw my my
buddy Rick Monday and passing mod Monday there. I said
a load to him. I said, hey, Rick, I'm not
allowed here anymore. Kept going and uh, and that was it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So I had a good time. It was It was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Enjoyed it, and it was nicely. Had a couple of
friends there, like actors or whatever. I don't know, but
I definitely did not belong there. They were having conversations
about where they liked the vacation, and they were like.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh, I like this place.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
There's this place in the south of France, you know,
And I'm like, okay, I like Riverside. I like there's
a casino and Riverside I go to. It's really nice.
There's San Bernardino's.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I can go there. And then that's that. It's very nice.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Anyway, let's see here Eugene in Chicago, says Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
The bottom line has been don't work. I don't listen.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Wow, you're very kind, although I think I still get
credit if people are listening, although I guess it looks
makes me look better if no one listens when I'm
not here. But I want you to listen. My name's
still on the show. Hopefully we won't hear that imaging
of the rest of the night. Shane in the Moynes,
says Ben. At the Mallor meet and greet, that was
not a Malor meeting greet. That was just a social
(24:49):
event and that was it. Burner account says, oh my god, Ben,
I just turned iHeartRadio off for the night. I was
just turning it off. And then thanks for the head fake.
I gotta keep you on your toes. Chip and the
q's right since says a plus on the Malla monologue.
This trade, the Rafaeld devastrate will be a total steal
for the Giants if only they can somehow get Rafael
(25:11):
Devers a lobotomy. The dudes a million dollar talent with
a ten cent head. Are they still doing the bottomies?
Are they still like?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Have you seen those?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I'm good. That is crazy, like taking an ice to yourner.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I listen, I don't want to hear it's a Frankenstein.
It's Frankenstein. I don't want to hear about it. It's Frankenstein.
I don't want to hear about Frankenstein. It's Frankensteins. Stuff,
is what it is. That's what I don't want to
hear about.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That man.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
All right, mister Irrigation, who's like the King of Houston
rights and he says, the best thing that the Red
Sox got out of the trade is sowary cap space.
There is no sowary cap real salary cap in baseball,
a bunch of space apparently half a game out of
the wild card and swept the Yankees. Also, well, there
is a conspiracy. One of our listeners Boston sent to me.
(26:01):
Now keep in mind, I have no idea whether this
is true or not because I do not follow football,
but if you do, you can confirm this. So a
couple of guys who live in the Boston area and
listen to us on our home there, the Ben Maller
Show home on the Sports Hub, claim that the Red Sox,
the owners the Finway Sports Group, agreed to pay a
record transfer fee for some soccer player, like one hundred
(26:25):
and fifty million dollars or something like that for Liverpool,
and then they at the same time unloaded Rafael Devers
contract for players that don't make that much money. So
the conspiracy is that it's all about balancing the books
for Finway Sports Group, and that the reason they made
this trade is because they the soccer team paid one
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hundred and fifty million dollars or some according to what
people were emailing me, some soccer whiz guy, and then
they had to, you know, because the Red Sox Fenway
ownership group owns the Red Sox and the soccer team.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So if you.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Take money and put it in Liverpool, then you take
it away from the Red Sox and then you balance
the books and then that's that's the way that works.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Which I would not be shocked if that happens, or
that happened, I would not be shocked by that.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Uh, let's see supermarket Steed rights and says, I thought
you were going to be nice when I saw your
rundown and not mentioned my Yankees getting swept by the
Red Sox. Yet you managed to squeeze it into the
first hour mile of the monologue. I wonder how many
times you will bring that up tonight. I wasn't an
embarrassing supermarket Steve in New York Yankees a Red Sox,
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an average Red Sox team, and they have won what are?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
They won five of six?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Now the Red Sox over the Yankees, and that's an embarrassment.
And we have to ask the question, are the twenty
twenty five New York Yankees a paper tiger? Is this
team a fraudulent team that picked up a bunch of
wins right good and sexy record They lost a series
of the Dodgers, they got their face bashed in by
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the Red Sox. What's going on with that?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Man? All right?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
See what else do we have? Paige super Market? Seve
also says, once again, how come I don't see on
your rundown Caitlin Clark coming back from injury and dropping
thirty five points? Well, I don't do a w NBA show,
that's why.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh she's back, Ben, that's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Well I thought you shouldn't you watch your w NBA
She already played on SAD. I guess it was on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I must have missed it. Three logo threes in a
row weren't actually from the logo. I didn't see a
second of it.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I Hugh on the five rights in he says, did
Rick Monday give you a failed witty bust ball busting
remark like he does to the various whipper snappers hanging about?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, Rick gave me kind of a it was kind
of with his eyebrow, kind of a shrug.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Huh, you know, kind of that was that kind of thing.
It was an I did not I did not expect
to run into him.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Did not expect to run into him because I was
not there in a media capacity but they have long
escalators at Dodger Stadium, and I was going down the
escalator and Rick was coming up the escalator like ships
passing in the night.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And I love Rick.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Years ago and in another life when I did Dodger Talk,
Rick was one of the broadcasters with the Daughters. I
know Rick very well, and he actually listens to the
show on a regular basis, And so I'm always happy
when I see Rick Mondy. I don't see Hi much
anymore at all. Though, what else do we have this?
See page down. Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
A lot of you guys think we're on satellite radio
and can just say all the bad words. Oh too bad.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Unfortunately we are not on satellite radio. We cannot say
all the bad words. Well, let's go down to the
belly of the Beastysky Boots on the Ground reaction to
the Rafael Devers trade.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
And there's tons of people awake.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
They can't sleep in Boston because the Rafael Devers trade.
They're up all night with us. And who better to
be the voice of the Red Sox than Blind Scott
Blind Scott Boots on the ground. What's the reaction?
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, this is terrible for the Red Sox. I woke
up to get ready for the show. I work on
on the overnights and this couldn't be worth for the Reds.
Like Kevin Mallaia is like, we need people that need
to play. This is one of the best players in baseball.
He comes from the greatest baseball country in the world,
the Dominican Republic. There's John Henry, There's Craig Breslow, and
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there's Alex Cora. One of these dudes needed to fall
on the sword before you got rid of Rathfield Devers.
You need to defire Craig. Craig Breslow, he is not
a baseball general manager. You do not get rid of
the best player in baseball and send him to the Giants.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So, just for the record, holds, I said you were
calling for the removal of the Red Sox general manager.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, let's send that out on social media. Boston is
demanding that the GM of the Red Sox is fired.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Boom, Yeah, Alex Corey, he's softman. He was drinking a
Moca like a moocha latte dunkin Donuts coffee that time
during the press conference after his daughter's graduation from Boston College.
You know, Boston College is a very hard school to
get into. And I understand that he used what do
they call that diversity equity inclusion maybe to get his
daughter to get into the school there. But we don't
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care in Boston, dude, we're all academia. This is academic here.
We want the Red Sox. We want him to manage
the Red Sox. Why is our score of the mouth
piece for the Red Sox. Now, you know he's not
going to come and say, I've been working with this
young player for a long time. I could have worked
with him. He's gonna say whatever John Henry wants him
to say, because he just collecting a paycheck. You know,
(31:28):
the Red Sox are one of the best franchises in baseball.
They have the biggest payroll. If John Henry wants a minute,
he owns the Penguins, and he owns the Liverpool and
these other teams. Dude, why have so many teams? He
could easily just sew this team to Jeff Basso to something. Dude,
do us a favorite John Henry? We hate John Henry
and Boston. You know, he has a yacht and everything
that's great. He had.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You know, every rich guy has a yacht. That's what
you do when you're rich.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Chat dude, are you rich?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Non? No yacht for you?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
So Ray Lorraine and you know, guys, I didn't like
the exchange between turn Dog and Ben and like, you know,
somebody fat figured something and then there was gas light
and going on. And you know, if I worked in
the studio and you were reading that and it was mine,
I might have got up out of my seat and
charged your chair. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Well, I could chick your I could kick your ass.
I don't care about you kick absolutely.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Scott's no waits all day long, just up and down.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Mayby, What are you gonna do? I've taken your call,
You're the first call.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Are you going to go to bed?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
What are you gonna do? You've done so.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I got the marlins Man photo and the Ben Mallet photo.
So my buddy Fred and me and Fred actually we
went to the Red Sox, but we you know, we
didn't take photos. We didn't need a photo op.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
You know, like you go, fred't You're I'm.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Gonna be passing that photo around national media right now.
It's gonna be on every outlet in a few hours.
The Inquire is going to have every major sports video.
It is going to have the Ben Mallard Marlin plane. Dude,
these are two major heads reunited. We haven't heard from.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
He's spend about it's been about two years.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
It has been about do you know you haven't been
mentioned them because you didn't want the fans to go
after him, you know, and please, you know, he's a
great car.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You're vallguarding the time. Please by go away? I mean,
what do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Uh So there's some spin coming out also on this
Rafael Devers trade that the story is that Devers didn't
want to be in Boston anymore. They're spinning that, and
then they also are claiming that this sounds like the
Lucas situation two point others saying that some of the
(33:38):
reports we're hearing that the Red Sox did not did
not shop Rafael Devers around, that they just had they
just talked to the giants like why would you do that?
Like are we in the age of stupidity in the
world of sports?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Like it's not illegal, right, it's just not a smart move.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Well, it's not illegal, but why would you Like it
makes no sense if you have a car and you
want to sell the car. Wouldn't you not just go
to one person say what are you.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Going to pay for the car? I'll give you the car.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Or would you just put it out there and say,
all right, let's get some bids. Highest bida, that's right,
the highest bidder. I see a big name on line one, boy,
I got to make sure line one stays. Don't hang
up line one. I can't take line one right now,
but I want to take line one because line one's
a big name. People have been asking me about line one,
(34:28):
So I want to get to line one.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
But time now for the who am I? Game? And
here is the who am I? Game? Where we pretend
to be somebody else. That's we call it the who
the who am I? Game? It's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
So Rafael devers Is hit thirty plus home runs in
a season three times in his career. I was the
last San Francisco Giants player with thirty plus home runs
in a season. Again, Rafael devers Is hit thirty or
more home runs three times in his career. I was
the last San Francisco Giants player with thirty plus home
(35:01):
runs in a season.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Who am I? That's the question. The answer, We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
It is the Ben Maler Show. We're up all night,
every single night. Be sure to check out the Fox
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
Just search Fox Sports Radio. On the YouTube.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
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(35:44):
All right back to it time now for the who
am I?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Games? Where we pretend to be somebody else's. We call
it who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
So Rafael Devers is hit thirty or more home runs
in a season three times this career, I was the
last San Francisco Giants player to hit thirty year more
home runs in his season. Who am I? That is
the question? What's the answer, mister nice guy? Going with
one of the great Blue Jays of all time, Lloyd Mosby,
Chris Outfield of all time, Jesse Barfield, George Taco Bell
and Lloyd Mosby Tricks Rabbit from Donkey Sausage, Cliff Doobie
(36:16):
Robinson from Big Lou He's on number two, Andy and
Lionel Lake this Minnesota got to write. Bad job by him,
Kurt Man wearing great name by Alf the Alien Opiner,
Good job Bay City, Tony's going with Giants legend. Dion
Sanders is his answer. Rennie Stennette or Stennett rather from
(36:38):
Malibu Rubin.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Duck mcstuffen from Far Out, Dave Clipper legend, Brent Barry,
the first white guy to win the Slam Dunk contest
from Shane in Des Moines, Ben Vereen from Bobby and Florida.
Who else do you have? Marlon Man's freeloader friend Nico
from Terry in Terry is very upset. He needs to
(37:05):
really chill out and get a life. Who else do
we have a page down? You are half pint waiting online?
One from Supermargan Steve rob Deeer, good name, good name
from Seawn that's his answer. In the Valley of the Sun,
Speccoli not the caller of this guy Spaccoli. Who else
Chip Le the Cues got a right bad job by him?
(37:25):
Count Dracula from Mark listening over in Santa Monica, Mark
in Queens in Arlington, Texas, going with Buster Posey, who else?
Paige down?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
This guy? Jeremy says, I heard the answer earlier.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Okay, well you get a life, dude. Don't listen all
the time. All right, Lorena, do you have an answer?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Lorena? Well, yes, Ben, My guess is Cheach from Cheach
and Charn.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
A fine answer, but incorrect. It's also not Andrew Dice
Clay guess by Gil in San Diego. The correct answer
would be.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
None other then Barry mand way back in twenty oh four.
It's been over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Every other team in the Majors is at least six
thirty plus home run seasons for a player since five
bonds last one. We have the play of the night,
and what better way to honor the career of Rafael
Devers his last home run as a Red.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Sox The Play of the night. Take it him. Here
is rafuse Skys one deep in the left field.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
This thing is way back in.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
It is far gone over the red line.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
It is out of here.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
For Devers an opposite field, Homer, it barely got over
the red line. Devers launches and it is two nothing
Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I used to know the Red Sox played by play announcers.
I have no idea who that is, but hey, it's
the Red Sox radio ti Iraq. Yeah, the play of
the day.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
There.
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Speaker 1 (39:06):
The way tire buying should be the final home run
of rafaeld.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Ever, let's going out quickly to Minnesota and we say
hello to Hayes in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Hello, Hayes.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I couldn't sleep tonight. My radio went down. I looked
at the phone somehow I call it fifteen times?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, where have you been? Is? I've been drinking six
beers a day.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I just can't get enough of it.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
I've been drinking that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah. That is that in like a ten hour period?
Or is it like a two hours?
Speaker 4 (39:43):
No? No? So I work six days now.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
The only thing I do.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
I'm off on Sundays. The only thing I do is
I drive the dead bodies. The only thing I have
control over is the radio. So I played the radio.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yes, for those who don't know, Hayes works at a
like a graveyard. Right, you were going to mortuary.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
As a matter of fact, I live one mile away
from the new place that I work at.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Oh you changed, you change place.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
There is there a lot of competition to get people
to work at different mortuary.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
I wear I wear a clown sheep suit, so it
just makes people happy.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
So if I put you on hold, you're gonna hang up.
Every time I put you on hold, you're gonna hang up.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I don't have a lot.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
No, no, no, no, no, I will wait.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
I'm just I don't The radio went down?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
All right, I want to I want to talk more
to you, but I have a hard network out here,
so I have to put you on hold.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I hope you understand.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
But every time you say you're gonna stay on hold,
you hang up. I know you're gonna hang up. Don't
lie to me. Just say I'm gonna hang out.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Okay, I BoNT you promise, I will keep drinking. I
will wait.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Okay, keep you have another beer. Have two beers. I'll
do another monologue. Have like five. I don't care. You're
at home, don't drive. Stay. You can get drunk in
your house. That's not illegal.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yes, drink a small money drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink,
do whatever.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
You want, drink. I don't care. He's at home. He
can drink. He's an adult.
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