June 27, 2025 • 24 mins
Big Ben talks analyzes Kyle Tucker’s comments about a possible extension with Cubs, Red Sox Manager Alex Cora wants the media and fans to stop talking about the Rafael Devers trade, should the Dodgers be concerned about the ongoing offensive slump that Mookie Betts is in + new editions of Maller to the Third Degree & Lame Jokes of The Week!
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we go to baseball, talking Bay's Ball and our lead
this hour from Chicago, Big Money, big drama involving a
big bear of Chicago Cup. Now, I would argue that
(01:56):
very few people tune in the Cub Baseball to watch
this guy play, and that very few people buy tickets
to watch this guy play. But yet he is said
to be the headliner of the Cubs. They're at a crossroads.
If you don't know where I'm going with this, maybe
not so Kyle Tucker. Yes, so it's Tucker and Tucker.
(02:17):
We started last hour with the Ravens Kicker. Now we're
talking about Kyle Tucker. So, Kyle Tucker is at a
crossroads at Wrigley Field. He is in the last year
of his contract and the new deal, the great New
Deal sounds like it's out of Washington, DC. For Kyle
Tucker would pay him in the neighborhood of five hundred
(02:39):
million dollars. Now, this one blows me away. I think
Tucker is a fine player. I just don't think of
him as a box office guy. I don't everywhere I
read it's a five hundred million dollars. That's the get
in buy in price for the Cubs, and so there's
no deal yet. Therefore the Shiticago Cubs front office has
(03:02):
to make a decision. The Cubs are not playing as
well as they were early in the year. Everyone has
a shot at the playoffs because they have all these
wild card teams. So everyone's kind of in contention. Unless
you're the Rockies or the A's or the White Sox,
you're kind of in contention or the Marlins to make
the playoffs. So most of the league has a chance
(03:22):
to make the playoffs. Now that being said, right, the
trade deadline is about a month a little over a month.
July thirty first is the trade deadline. So if the
Cubs aren't going to keep the player, would they trade
Kyle Tucker? They have to decide that. Oh the human drama.
So Kyle Tucker was asked about the ongoing negotiation. Do
(03:45):
you see this?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So Kyle Tucker was asked about negotiations on an extension
this week what did he say? He said quote. For
the most part, We're just going to keep that between us.
If anything happens, I'm sure you guys will know, all right,
close quote. So let us discuss the question can you
read anything? Can you read anything into Kyle Tucker's response
(04:10):
to the question about the Cubs contract talks and where
they are right now? So of course you can. Now
in this one, I've got Christie's Pyongyang and Pep Boys,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make deep dish Chicago pizza, which
I believe is in the freezer here courtesy of Perito.
(04:31):
Is that correct? Do I have that accurate? All right?
Thank you, Prita. Sea may or may not be the
reason I'm here, but I'm just pointing that out. Not
that I don't love being here and hanging out with
my friends, but anyway, all right, so number one number,
I said, number one under I got a feeling in
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my bones. Number one umber. Okay, all right, So if
you listen between the words, you parse the words, which
you have to do, and if you ever get a
talk show or a podcast, just parse words. That's all
you have to do. It's easy pasy fun to do
and and you can come up with all kinds of answers.
So on this one, and this is based on a
lifetime of dealing with these kind of stories. If a
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guy says we're just gonna keep it between us, Kyle
Tucker is sending out a smoke signal, that is a
dead giveaway, dead giveaway. It was the non answer that
is an answer, non answer that it is an answer.
Now what do I mean? Let me expand on that.
So you think a guy who wants a long term contract,
(05:40):
a player that really likes where he's playing, you think
they give that answer We're gonna keep it private. No, No,
they say stuff like, oh man, I love it here.
I got a place right on Lake Michigan's beautiful. I'm
right next to cow Herd here in Chicago. It's amazing. Man.
I know he's gonna have to move because he got
(06:01):
drafted by the Trailblazers according to ESPN, So Coward's gonna move,
but for now, I'm like right next to him, and
it's just great. And I got sick views the weather
in the summer in Chicago's no better city to live in.
It's just amazing. Oh, my god. No, he didn't say anything.
I want to retire here the greatest fans in the world.
We're building something special. I don't want to leave this team.
He didn't say any of that. So now if the
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Cubs also, if the Cubs had not had not made
him an offer, they obviously made him an offer, then
mad Andfer there would be nothing to keep between the
team and the player. So they made him an offer.
Wasn't an acceptable offer, otherwise he would have accepted the offer.
So so at this point it's like, well, he really
wants to go to free agency, but they're playing ping pong.
(06:45):
They're going back and forth and negotiate it. Maybe it's
the money, could be the amount of years, could be
the amount of deferred money they want the Dodgers set
up where they get paid till they're eighty years old
to avoid taxes. So who knows. Now that being said,
the smart based on a minutes long deliberation of the
available information, the smart money says that Kyle Tucker is
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going to hit the Christie's Swap meet, if you know
what I mean. That The between us line was yeah.
What he meant to say was yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
probably leaving. But I don't want to deal with the
drama of you people freaking out when I say I'm
going to test the market. I'm going to go to market.
So rather than say that, I'm just gonna keep it
(07:28):
between us. No, he does not have Kyle Tucker does
not have Scott Boris as his client. So that gives
the Cubs a little bit of wiggle room, little bit
of wiggle room. If Scott Boris's client, there's no way
you even consider any kind of extension. That's it, forget
about it. But nevertheless, all right, nevertheless, what you want
(07:48):
is a bidding war. You want a bidding war. How
do you get a bidding war? How do you do it?
Silent auction at Christie's. And you bring in the sucks,
not the White Sox they suck, the Red Sox, the
Higantes who are spending some money, the Giants they just
traded for Rafael Devers and his enormous contract and his
(08:09):
enormous waistline. And then the Yankees, the match, the Dodgers,
the usual suspects, and the Cubs, and up, up and
away the bidding war. Right now, turning the page, we
now take a little pit stop in Boston where I
did a double check at the recent comments by Alex Cora.
So you see what he said. He's the manager of
(08:30):
the Boston baseball team. So Alex Cora, the Red Sox
manager who once fancied himself for the players manager. I'm
all about the players and all that. He has decided
he also can manage the media. Now, that's right, Alex
Cora is now in charge of the media. I didn't
know I needed a manager, but apparently I do.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
If you didn't see this, he said, everyone is supposed
to zippe radio silence and just nod solemnly and move on.
Do not mention Rafael Devers. Don't mention his name because
Alex core does not want you to talk about that.
(09:12):
He wants to move on. That's what he said. So
Alex Korra urging everyone to stop discussing the Rafael Devers
trade to help the Red Sox clubhouse move on. Is
that how this works? I'm asking for a friend, so
ix nay on the ask. That would be my response. Unfortunately,
(09:36):
Alex Kra, you're not the manager, you're not the mayor,
you're not the big politician there in Pyongyang where you
could get away with that. That's not how it works here.
Sorry not sorry, right, And Alice Core is the same
guy who failed miserably to use diplomacy. If Alex Core
(09:57):
had been good at his job, Rafael Devers would still
be playing for the Red Sox that was botched from
Jump Street by Alice Cora and the front office. But
Alice Cora is supposed to be the ultimate players manager
and all that stuff, and as we said, and he
could not convince Rafaeld Devers to be a team player,
to go to grab a first base mit and go
(10:18):
out and play first base and all that stuff. And
so now he wants to dictate the baseball news cycle.
And this is one of those stories. And then listen,
I try to talk baseball in the show a fair amount,
and we talk more baseball here than most places do
doing this kind of work. But these are the kind
(10:39):
of stories that provide gooditar radio. It reminds me of
like and just say, well, you shouldn't talk about this.
It's like when that dumb, dumb Mookie bets more on
him in a minute when the Padres and Dodgers were
getting into a slobber knocker and Mookie is I'm not
talking about that, but why not. That's the story that
gets people engaged. Dummy, and he want to talk about
(10:59):
it ridiculous. But as far as this one is concerned, right,
you know, all of a sudden, you know, mid season
trade of the franchise cornerstone forever player to another another
team across the country, and it's just another random day
in the major leagues. So this is the part of
the story where you put Alex Kra on airplane mode. Right,
(11:23):
you just did no Wi Fi and that's it. And
of course, if you didn't already, I don't get a
check from Alscorra. Neither does well unless you work for
Red Sox dot Com. I guess you do if you
work for the team. We're not. We're not in the dugout.
We should be, but we're not. And I don't believe
check my contract. I don't believe we're obligated to pretend
(11:45):
that this massive seismic shift of a Red Sox player
to basically given away the rid sucks. You got garbage
for him from the Giants, that that is not something
of talk talk radio purpose. Even later, like i's been
been a minute, been a couple of weeks, but still
all right. Now, final point to La. We go, we
(12:06):
go to La and sure enough the Dodgers completed the
old sweep aeroo of the Rockies there. However, not all
as well in Blue Heaven. Now, Mookie Bets had a
couple of hits, but he is in the midst of
his worst season in the big leagues. Moogie Bets has
(12:28):
often sucked at a time you cannot suck. That's not
my opinion, that is a fact. What's the evidence. I'll
give you the evns. So Moogie Bets is on pace.
We're halfway through the baseball season. He is on paced
to have the lowest batting average, lowest on base percentage,
lowest slugging percentage of his entire career, the very bottom,
(12:51):
rock bottom for the Mooxster rock bottom. Now. Dave Roberts
recently was asked about the obvious connection of well, the
reason Mookie Bets blows is because he's playing shortstop and
it's a tougher position defensively, and so it's spilling over.
There's some spillage, it's spilling into his offensive game. Now,
Roberts pushed back on that and says there's no correlation
(13:13):
between Mookie Bets sucking offensively compared to what he had
been and now being shortstop for the Dodgers. So question,
what is the level of concern? What is the level
of concern for the Dodgers with shortstop Mookie Bets and
his subparse performance for the team this season. So Mallor
(13:36):
scale of concern, Mallar scale concern one to ten, with
ten being like alarm bells going on. I'm at a seven.
I'm a very distressing Now. I've been in chat conversations,
like text conversations with some friends and they're like, oh, man,
(13:58):
it doesn't matter hit when the playoffs come around. So
how do you know that? Like, how do you know?
And you don't know that he hasn't hit pretty much
all season, right, He's been a bust, and so he's
just assuming when the playoffs come around, all of a sudden,
he's gonna what are you gonna get a corked bat
or something like that. I mean, come on, Mookie is
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one of the pillars of the what's supposed to be
the Big Blue Wrecking Crew, and you get three hundred
and sixty five million dead presents. That's a lot of
monopoly money, and you should get more production, it goes
without saying, than what Mookie Bets has provided for the
Dodgers this year. And at this point you might as
(14:40):
well call a tow truck and send the Mookie over
to Pep Boys there for a tune up, because he's
He's supposed to be the engine, or at least part
of the engine, and right now the check engine light
is on for Mookie Bets. He's the second lowest on
base plus slugging percentage in the Dodger every day lineup,
(15:02):
the only one. And this is among all their qualified hitters.
The only player that sucks more than Mookie Bets is
Michael Conforto, who actually hit a little bit recently, but
still took the first two months of the baseball season off.
But Mookie trails six other players in the everyday Dodger
lineup in that category. So again, I still want to
(15:24):
hear it's a long season. Don't worry. I have to
worry about today's show. I have a show to do today.
I have to worry about what's going on right now
in this moment. We live in the moment, and in
this moment, he sucks. That's it. And you are I
know This is a wild concept and you're not gonna
like it, but you are judged by your results. It's
(15:46):
a results based business, and right now the results are
screaming that Mookie Betts has relocated to a little suburb
of Los Angeles called Suckville and he is the mayor
of Suckville right now. So do better and be better.
And it's not outrageous. You're making three hundred and sixty
(16:07):
five million and all that. And if Mookie say it's
a bad year, it's a slump or something like that.
But if he lost something, he's got he said some
medical stuff. They're paying him for a very long time,
so Mookie's gonna be around for years to come. Good
luck on that. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
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Often he's still there a little bit, but they do
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Yeah, and what do you think of these comments? I
think Nico Harrison should be fired and the fact that
he still has a job is Malfeasan's by the ownership
of the Dallas Mavericks. And there is bad mojo. I
don't normally believe in mojo, but there's bad mojo around
the Mavericks. Either the NBA forced them to trade Luca
or Nico Harrison decided to trade Luca. Either way, they
(18:51):
got to get rid of Nico Harrison, because at any
moment he could wake up and say, whoever the best
player on the Mavericks says we're going to trade him next.
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and that's when you go get your popcorn, your cane,
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Knock knock. Who's there? Lame week? Blame week? Who it's
Big Bends, lame joke of the week.
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That's right here, it is Big Bends. Lame jokes of
the week. Are you there? Weed man? Hippie?
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Yeah, I love you Bend?
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Maybe rare? Did I have to call and wake you up,
weed Man, hippie, Yes, yes I did. You're dirty rat,
bastard and weed Man. Now there's a kid in Minnesota
that you're like his hero. You can't oversleep for the
lame jokes, weed Man. I love this kid all right.
You don't even know you know. His name is Daniel.
(20:10):
He's in Saint Paul, Minnesot. He's a big fan. Daniel.
There you go say, Daniel make me laugh? Daniel made
me laugh. Okay? Did you see that these are actual
jokes by actual listeners? Care of Ben Maler Show at
gmail dot com. Did you see that Mallard Militia is
shaking his collective head over weed Man's crypto woes? Yeah,
(20:33):
he's always a day late and a bitcoin short. That's
Joe in Virginia Beach. What did weed Man's new roommate
think the first time he met weed Man? What he said? Man,
that's the tallest pile of crap I've ever seen. That's
John and Youngstown, Ohio. Why why was weed Man at
(20:54):
the thrift store? Why he passed out by an old lamp?
That's Drew in Minnesota. Did you hear the violins violins
have four strings? Did you hear that. No, yes, that's
two more strings than weed Man. Hippies underwear has That's
Gordon and Tacoma sent that one in. It's Big Ben's
(21:17):
lame jokes of the week. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners, real human beings that really are just really
funny people, really funny people, and that this is their outlet.
Did you hear that? Let see, we'll skip over that one.
What did Marcel name his new pet cockroach?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
What?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Weed Man? That's Eric in Kansas? Thank you for that?
Did you hear weed Man's was very sad that lame
jokes are getting stale and turned into a hot pilot garb.
You're very upset by that. Wow? Yeah, he says there
isn't much lizo material anymore and he's offended by all
the trash talk. Is that true weed Man? No, Well,
that was a bad joke. That was a bad joke
(21:54):
by Tom and Andy. I do better, Tom. What do
you call weed Man when he has a roommate? What spoon? Wow?
That's Tony Tony in the Bay Area. What does weed
Man say when people call him a bum? What he
begs to differ? He begs to differ. That's a surfer,
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Todd the comedian, a multi time joke Writer of the
Year in the Benny Awards. He's won many. He's a
well decorated, well honored joke writer, the great surfer Todd
the comedian from SoCal and also in Baja California. Why
did weed Man quit his job at the sod Farm? Wow? Why? Well,
(22:36):
it wasn't the kind of grass rolling he was expecting.
That's why. That's a that's Terry in England. Well, here's
a dated joke. But Terry and Saint Paul, not Terry
and Ingland Terran. I apologize Terryan Saint Paul, and I
also apologize to Terry in England because he's a schmuck.
What do weed Man and Joel Zumaya that's an old
(22:56):
baseball player have in common? What they both heard themselves
playing around instead of working. That's Eric. That was the
guy I hurt playing guitar hero years ago. Yeah, all right,
so a big man's Lames Jokes League. Why was San
Francisco the ideal trade partner for the Boston Red Sox.
Why because Rafael Devers became a giant pain in the
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ass or your tooks whatever. That's a Chip in Maine.
Why did Why did Boston trade it's superhero Rafael Devs
to San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Why?
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Because Batman was Robin the Red Sox. That's our buddy
Chip in Maine. What will happen if Lorena swears when
Mike the Leprechaun visits the FSR studios? What she'll get
her mouth washed out with Irish spring? That's Eke and
that's an Irish joke. Eke in Rose, Minnesota. What do
you call it when Lorena kicks a leprechaun in the
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Lucky Charms? What a mic drop? A mic drop? What?
What do you say to blind Scott when he gives
a controversial take? What? Third braille ma man? Third braille
ma Man? That's Kurt from Earth Big bens lame jokes?
And we got time for a couple more. What do
we have you? Let's see your page, Dan, there was
a good Marcel joke. Let me see if I can
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find this real quick. I got a lot of jokes here,
all right, Marcel and Brooklyn's cannibal girlfriend asked if he
had anything. He said, all I have is ramen. That's
all I have. He was embarrassed. You know what the
girlfriend said, she said, sounds great. I love raw men.
All right, there you go. That was eating from Jersey.
Thank you weed man. All right, go away, alright, go
to bed.
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It's a case of a cubby bear in hibernation. If
you will welcome in the beginning of another hour of
the Benmahler Show. We are in the air everywhere. Ear
plug playfellows as we are talking when the sun don't shine,
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Tire iraq dot Com, The Way Tire Buying Show. So
we go to baseball, talking Bay's Ball and our lead
this hour from Chicago, Big Money, big drama involving a
big bear of Chicago Cup. Now, I would argue that
(01:56):
very few people tune in the Cub Baseball to watch
this guy play, and that very few people buy tickets
to watch this guy play. But yet he is said
to be the headliner of the Cubs. They're at a crossroads.
If you don't know where I'm going with this, maybe
not so Kyle Tucker. Yes, so it's Tucker and Tucker.
(02:17):
We started last hour with the Ravens Kicker. Now we're
talking about Kyle Tucker. So, Kyle Tucker is at a
crossroads at Wrigley Field. He is in the last year
of his contract and the new deal, the great New
Deal sounds like it's out of Washington, DC. For Kyle
Tucker would pay him in the neighborhood of five hundred
(02:39):
million dollars. Now, this one blows me away. I think
Tucker is a fine player. I just don't think of
him as a box office guy. I don't everywhere I
read it's a five hundred million dollars. That's the get
in buy in price for the Cubs, and so there's
no deal yet. Therefore the Shiticago Cubs front office has
(03:02):
to make a decision. The Cubs are not playing as
well as they were early in the year. Everyone has
a shot at the playoffs because they have all these
wild card teams. So everyone's kind of in contention. Unless
you're the Rockies or the A's or the White Sox,
you're kind of in contention or the Marlins to make
the playoffs. So most of the league has a chance
(03:22):
to make the playoffs. Now that being said, right, the
trade deadline is about a month a little over a month.
July thirty first is the trade deadline. So if the
Cubs aren't going to keep the player, would they trade
Kyle Tucker? They have to decide that. Oh the human drama.
So Kyle Tucker was asked about the ongoing negotiation. Do
(03:45):
you see this?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So Kyle Tucker was asked about negotiations on an extension
this week what did he say? He said quote. For
the most part, We're just going to keep that between us.
If anything happens, I'm sure you guys will know, all right,
close quote. So let us discuss the question can you
read anything? Can you read anything into Kyle Tucker's response
(04:10):
to the question about the Cubs contract talks and where
they are right now? So of course you can. Now
in this one, I've got Christie's Pyongyang and Pep Boys,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make deep dish Chicago pizza, which
I believe is in the freezer here courtesy of Perito.
(04:31):
Is that correct? Do I have that accurate? All right?
Thank you, Prita. Sea may or may not be the
reason I'm here, but I'm just pointing that out. Not
that I don't love being here and hanging out with
my friends, but anyway, all right, so number one number,
I said, number one under I got a feeling in
(04:53):
my bones. Number one umber. Okay, all right, So if
you listen between the words, you parse the words, which
you have to do, and if you ever get a
talk show or a podcast, just parse words. That's all
you have to do. It's easy pasy fun to do
and and you can come up with all kinds of answers.
So on this one, and this is based on a
lifetime of dealing with these kind of stories. If a
(05:15):
guy says we're just gonna keep it between us, Kyle
Tucker is sending out a smoke signal, that is a
dead giveaway, dead giveaway. It was the non answer that
is an answer, non answer that it is an answer.
Now what do I mean? Let me expand on that.
So you think a guy who wants a long term contract,
(05:40):
a player that really likes where he's playing, you think
they give that answer We're gonna keep it private. No, No,
they say stuff like, oh man, I love it here.
I got a place right on Lake Michigan's beautiful. I'm
right next to cow Herd here in Chicago. It's amazing. Man.
I know he's gonna have to move because he got
(06:01):
drafted by the Trailblazers according to ESPN, So Coward's gonna move,
but for now, I'm like right next to him, and
it's just great. And I got sick views the weather
in the summer in Chicago's no better city to live in.
It's just amazing. Oh, my god. No, he didn't say anything.
I want to retire here the greatest fans in the world.
We're building something special. I don't want to leave this team.
He didn't say any of that. So now if the
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Cubs also, if the Cubs had not had not made
him an offer, they obviously made him an offer, then
mad Andfer there would be nothing to keep between the
team and the player. So they made him an offer.
Wasn't an acceptable offer, otherwise he would have accepted the offer.
So so at this point it's like, well, he really
wants to go to free agency, but they're playing ping pong.
(06:45):
They're going back and forth and negotiate it. Maybe it's
the money, could be the amount of years, could be
the amount of deferred money they want the Dodgers set
up where they get paid till they're eighty years old
to avoid taxes. So who knows. Now that being said,
the smart based on a minutes long deliberation of the
available information, the smart money says that Kyle Tucker is
(07:07):
going to hit the Christie's Swap meet, if you know
what I mean. That The between us line was yeah.
What he meant to say was yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
probably leaving. But I don't want to deal with the
drama of you people freaking out when I say I'm
going to test the market. I'm going to go to market.
So rather than say that, I'm just gonna keep it
(07:28):
between us. No, he does not have Kyle Tucker does
not have Scott Boris as his client. So that gives
the Cubs a little bit of wiggle room, little bit
of wiggle room. If Scott Boris's client, there's no way
you even consider any kind of extension. That's it, forget
about it. But nevertheless, all right, nevertheless, what you want
(07:48):
is a bidding war. You want a bidding war. How
do you get a bidding war? How do you do it?
Silent auction at Christie's. And you bring in the sucks,
not the White Sox they suck, the Red Sox, the
Higantes who are spending some money, the Giants they just
traded for Rafael Devers and his enormous contract and his
(08:09):
enormous waistline. And then the Yankees, the match, the Dodgers,
the usual suspects, and the Cubs, and up, up and
away the bidding war. Right now, turning the page, we
now take a little pit stop in Boston where I
did a double check at the recent comments by Alex Cora.
So you see what he said. He's the manager of
(08:30):
the Boston baseball team. So Alex Cora, the Red Sox
manager who once fancied himself for the players manager. I'm
all about the players and all that. He has decided
he also can manage the media. Now, that's right, Alex
Cora is now in charge of the media. I didn't
know I needed a manager, but apparently I do.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
If you didn't see this, he said, everyone is supposed
to zippe radio silence and just nod solemnly and move on.
Do not mention Rafael Devers. Don't mention his name because
Alex core does not want you to talk about that.
(09:12):
He wants to move on. That's what he said. So
Alex Korra urging everyone to stop discussing the Rafael Devers
trade to help the Red Sox clubhouse move on. Is
that how this works? I'm asking for a friend, so
ix nay on the ask. That would be my response. Unfortunately,
(09:36):
Alex Kra, you're not the manager, you're not the mayor,
you're not the big politician there in Pyongyang where you
could get away with that. That's not how it works here.
Sorry not sorry, right, And Alice Core is the same
guy who failed miserably to use diplomacy. If Alex Core
(09:57):
had been good at his job, Rafael Devers would still
be playing for the Red Sox that was botched from
Jump Street by Alice Cora and the front office. But
Alice Cora is supposed to be the ultimate players manager
and all that stuff, and as we said, and he
could not convince Rafaeld Devers to be a team player,
to go to grab a first base mit and go
(10:18):
out and play first base and all that stuff. And
so now he wants to dictate the baseball news cycle.
And this is one of those stories. And then listen,
I try to talk baseball in the show a fair amount,
and we talk more baseball here than most places do
doing this kind of work. But these are the kind
(10:39):
of stories that provide gooditar radio. It reminds me of
like and just say, well, you shouldn't talk about this.
It's like when that dumb, dumb Mookie bets more on
him in a minute when the Padres and Dodgers were
getting into a slobber knocker and Mookie is I'm not
talking about that, but why not. That's the story that
gets people engaged. Dummy, and he want to talk about
(10:59):
it ridiculous. But as far as this one is concerned, right,
you know, all of a sudden, you know, mid season
trade of the franchise cornerstone forever player to another another
team across the country, and it's just another random day
in the major leagues. So this is the part of
the story where you put Alex Kra on airplane mode. Right,
(11:23):
you just did no Wi Fi and that's it. And
of course, if you didn't already, I don't get a
check from Alscorra. Neither does well unless you work for
Red Sox dot Com. I guess you do if you
work for the team. We're not. We're not in the dugout.
We should be, but we're not. And I don't believe
check my contract. I don't believe we're obligated to pretend
(11:45):
that this massive seismic shift of a Red Sox player
to basically given away the rid sucks. You got garbage
for him from the Giants, that that is not something
of talk talk radio purpose. Even later, like i's been
been a minute, been a couple of weeks, but still
all right. Now, final point to La. We go, we
(12:06):
go to La and sure enough the Dodgers completed the
old sweep aeroo of the Rockies there. However, not all
as well in Blue Heaven. Now, Mookie Bets had a
couple of hits, but he is in the midst of
his worst season in the big leagues. Moogie Bets has
(12:28):
often sucked at a time you cannot suck. That's not
my opinion, that is a fact. What's the evidence. I'll
give you the evns. So Moogie Bets is on pace.
We're halfway through the baseball season. He is on paced
to have the lowest batting average, lowest on base percentage,
lowest slugging percentage of his entire career, the very bottom,
(12:51):
rock bottom for the Mooxster rock bottom. Now. Dave Roberts
recently was asked about the obvious connection of well, the
reason Mookie Bets blows is because he's playing shortstop and
it's a tougher position defensively, and so it's spilling over.
There's some spillage, it's spilling into his offensive game. Now,
Roberts pushed back on that and says there's no correlation
(13:13):
between Mookie Bets sucking offensively compared to what he had
been and now being shortstop for the Dodgers. So question,
what is the level of concern? What is the level
of concern for the Dodgers with shortstop Mookie Bets and
his subparse performance for the team this season. So Mallor
(13:36):
scale of concern, Mallar scale concern one to ten, with
ten being like alarm bells going on. I'm at a seven.
I'm a very distressing Now. I've been in chat conversations,
like text conversations with some friends and they're like, oh, man,
(13:58):
it doesn't matter hit when the playoffs come around. So
how do you know that? Like, how do you know?
And you don't know that he hasn't hit pretty much
all season, right, He's been a bust, and so he's
just assuming when the playoffs come around, all of a sudden,
he's gonna what are you gonna get a corked bat
or something like that. I mean, come on, Mookie is
(14:19):
one of the pillars of the what's supposed to be
the Big Blue Wrecking Crew, and you get three hundred
and sixty five million dead presents. That's a lot of
monopoly money, and you should get more production, it goes
without saying, than what Mookie Bets has provided for the
Dodgers this year. And at this point you might as
(14:40):
well call a tow truck and send the Mookie over
to Pep Boys there for a tune up, because he's
He's supposed to be the engine, or at least part
of the engine, and right now the check engine light
is on for Mookie Bets. He's the second lowest on
base plus slugging percentage in the Dodger every day lineup,
(15:02):
the only one. And this is among all their qualified hitters.
The only player that sucks more than Mookie Bets is
Michael Conforto, who actually hit a little bit recently, but
still took the first two months of the baseball season off.
But Mookie trails six other players in the everyday Dodger
lineup in that category. So again, I still want to
(15:24):
hear it's a long season. Don't worry. I have to
worry about today's show. I have a show to do today.
I have to worry about what's going on right now
in this moment. We live in the moment, and in
this moment, he sucks. That's it. And you are I
know This is a wild concept and you're not gonna
like it, but you are judged by your results. It's
(15:46):
a results based business, and right now the results are
screaming that Mookie Betts has relocated to a little suburb
of Los Angeles called Suckville and he is the mayor
of Suckville right now. So do better and be better.
And it's not outrageous. You're making three hundred and sixty
(16:07):
five million and all that. And if Mookie say it's
a bad year, it's a slump or something like that.
But if he lost something, he's got he said some
medical stuff. They're paying him for a very long time,
so Mookie's gonna be around for years to come. Good
luck on that. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
you'd like to comment on any of this, you can
(16:30):
join us right now. And the lines are full, so
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you'll be able to get through. We'll give out the
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up on xtion in the meantime at Ben Mahlor. That's
at Ben Mahlor if you'd like to be part of
the show. So it's it's good to know who the
(16:50):
boss is, it's even better to be related to the boss.
It's good to know who the boss is, but it's
even better to be related to the boss. We'll get
to that. We'll take your calls, the whole thing, will
do it next.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Hi, this is Jay. I'm the producer of the Paul
and Tony Fusco Show. Usually in these promos they asked
you to listen to the show. I'm here to ask
you please don't listen to the show. The hosts are
two absolute morons who have the dumbest takes on sports, imagicable.
Don't listen to the show so it can get cancel.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
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and Tony Fosco Show on the iHeart Radio app or
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Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's Maler, how about that?
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To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets great.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Our friend Brie. What do we have here?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Then, with all the rumors going around this with the Celtics,
everything must go roster sale. Are you surprised that Jalen
Brown is still at Boston Celtic today after the draft?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Often he's still there a little bit, but they do
have to sell tickets. They can't get rid of everyone.
If somebody had made them the Godfather offer, they would
have traded Jalen Rownd. It's still not out of the
question because you still trade him before you know, he's
got a couple months ago in the summertime before the
NBA season. I'm only slightly surprised because he's got a
three hundred million dollars contract. They're trying to trim the payroll. Next.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
During his first media availability after drafting Cooper Flag, Nico
Harrison said, fortune favors the bold.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, and what do you think of these comments? I
think Nico Harrison should be fired and the fact that
he still has a job is Malfeasan's by the ownership
of the Dallas Mavericks. And there is bad mojo. I
don't normally believe in mojo, but there's bad mojo around
the Mavericks. Either the NBA forced them to trade Luca
or Nico Harrison decided to trade Luca. Either way, they
(18:51):
got to get rid of Nico Harrison, because at any
moment he could wake up and say, whoever the best
player on the Mavericks says we're going to trade him next.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
AMC's website now displays the reminder that movie showtime has
come with twenty five to thirty minutes of previews. Do
you think this is a good idea or totally pointless?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's totally pointless. Anyone's ever been in the movies knows
that when you go to the movies, it doesn't start
when it's supposed to start. They're gonna play the trailers,
and that's when you go get your popcorn, your cane,
and your snacks. Everyone knows it's obvious. You don't need
to announce it. They're just worried about lawsuits. How do
we die? Game?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I put it on the board.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Jerome, I won, Jerome and Charleston. I won the game.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Knock knock. Who's there? Lame week? Blame week? Who it's
Big Bends, lame joke of the week.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That's right here, it is Big Bends. Lame jokes of
the week. Are you there? Weed man? Hippie?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, I love you Bend?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Maybe rare? Did I have to call and wake you up,
weed Man, hippie, Yes, yes I did. You're dirty rat,
bastard and weed Man. Now there's a kid in Minnesota
that you're like his hero. You can't oversleep for the
lame jokes, weed Man. I love this kid all right.
You don't even know you know. His name is Daniel.
(20:10):
He's in Saint Paul, Minnesot. He's a big fan. Daniel.
There you go say, Daniel make me laugh? Daniel made
me laugh. Okay? Did you see that these are actual
jokes by actual listeners? Care of Ben Maler Show at
gmail dot com. Did you see that Mallard Militia is
shaking his collective head over weed Man's crypto woes? Yeah,
(20:33):
he's always a day late and a bitcoin short. That's
Joe in Virginia Beach. What did weed Man's new roommate
think the first time he met weed Man? What he said? Man,
that's the tallest pile of crap I've ever seen. That's
John and Youngstown, Ohio. Why why was weed Man at
(20:54):
the thrift store? Why he passed out by an old lamp?
That's Drew in Minnesota. Did you hear the violins violins
have four strings? Did you hear that. No, yes, that's
two more strings than weed Man. Hippies underwear has That's
Gordon and Tacoma sent that one in. It's Big Ben's
(21:17):
lame jokes of the week. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners, real human beings that really are just really
funny people, really funny people, and that this is their outlet.
Did you hear that? Let see, we'll skip over that one.
What did Marcel name his new pet cockroach?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
What?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Weed Man? That's Eric in Kansas? Thank you for that?
Did you hear weed Man's was very sad that lame
jokes are getting stale and turned into a hot pilot garb.
You're very upset by that. Wow? Yeah, he says there
isn't much lizo material anymore and he's offended by all
the trash talk. Is that true weed Man? No, Well,
that was a bad joke. That was a bad joke
(21:54):
by Tom and Andy. I do better, Tom. What do
you call weed Man when he has a roommate? What spoon? Wow?
That's Tony Tony in the Bay Area. What does weed
Man say when people call him a bum? What he
begs to differ? He begs to differ. That's a surfer,
(22:16):
Todd the comedian, a multi time joke Writer of the
Year in the Benny Awards. He's won many. He's a
well decorated, well honored joke writer, the great surfer Todd
the comedian from SoCal and also in Baja California. Why
did weed Man quit his job at the sod Farm? Wow? Why? Well,
(22:36):
it wasn't the kind of grass rolling he was expecting.
That's why. That's a that's Terry in England. Well, here's
a dated joke. But Terry and Saint Paul, not Terry
and Ingland Terran. I apologize Terryan Saint Paul, and I
also apologize to Terry in England because he's a schmuck.
What do weed Man and Joel Zumaya that's an old
(22:56):
baseball player have in common? What they both heard themselves
playing around instead of working. That's Eric. That was the
guy I hurt playing guitar hero years ago. Yeah, all right,
so a big man's Lames Jokes League. Why was San
Francisco the ideal trade partner for the Boston Red Sox.
Why because Rafael Devers became a giant pain in the
(23:18):
ass or your tooks whatever. That's a Chip in Maine.
Why did Why did Boston trade it's superhero Rafael Devs
to San Francisco?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Because Batman was Robin the Red Sox. That's our buddy
Chip in Maine. What will happen if Lorena swears when
Mike the Leprechaun visits the FSR studios? What she'll get
her mouth washed out with Irish spring? That's Eke and
that's an Irish joke. Eke in Rose, Minnesota. What do
you call it when Lorena kicks a leprechaun in the
(23:50):
Lucky Charms? What a mic drop? A mic drop? What?
What do you say to blind Scott when he gives
a controversial take? What? Third braille ma man? Third braille
ma Man? That's Kurt from Earth Big bens lame jokes?
And we got time for a couple more. What do
we have you? Let's see your page, Dan, there was
a good Marcel joke. Let me see if I can
(24:13):
find this real quick. I got a lot of jokes here,
all right, Marcel and Brooklyn's cannibal girlfriend asked if he
had anything. He said, all I have is ramen. That's
all I have. He was embarrassed. You know what the
girlfriend said, she said, sounds great. I love raw men.
All right, there you go. That was eating from Jersey.
Thank you weed man. All right, go away, alright, go
to bed.
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