July 4, 2025 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the MLB Investigation that Guardians starting Pitcher Luis Ortiz is under due to gambling, then transitions into what the Dodgers lineup are going to do with Max Muncy going down due to a bone bruise, & what the Yankees are thinking after moving Jazz Chisolm to 2B + a new edition of Maller to the Third Degree + Lame Jokes of the Week!
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in the beginning of another night of the Benmahler Show.
We are in the air everywhere as we chisel away
on the fourth of July. Still late on the third
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should be. So it was a Hall of famer along
gone Ernie Banks who famously said, let's play too. It's
a beautiful day for baseball. Let's play too. And I said,
it's a beautiful night for hot sports takes. So let's
play two. Let's have a This is the second half
of a day night, doubleheaded butter lead this hour. Do
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not mess around, no small talk on this live show
Independence Day weekend, but our lead this hour from Cleveland,
just in time for the big holiday weekend here in
the United States. Major League Baseball facing a new scandal.
And there's one thing that I've grown to love over
my years of gas baggery, and that is a good
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scandal you can really bite into. And this is a
pretty good one. It's a pretty good one. You might say. Well, now,
if you don't know much about it, you just see
the headline, ask nothing, but it's something, trust me if
you haven't seen it. So there's a team named after
a bridge that used to be called the Cleveland Indians,
but they changed their name because baseball was losing their
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mind a few years back. So they're now named after
a bridge. They're called the Guardians as a Guardian Bridge
in Cleveland. And there's a pitcher named Luis or Teest
probably don't know who that is. Louis Ortiz is the
subject of a Major League Baseball gambling investigation and he
has been placed on the Naughty List, Yes, the non
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disciplinary leave, which is the natty list, but we don't
want to say it's naughty. Now. The investigation, if you
were following along here, the investigation related to in game
prop bets on not one, but two pitches made by
Ortiz that for some reason, a lot of money was
bet a lot of activity, and that raised a red flag.
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There were unusual amounts of money wagered on a couple
of random pitches. Now, if you're not a gambler, you
can bet on everything, right, and yeah, exactly, And so
this was going to start in Seattle on June fifteenth,
much to the dismay of Robbie the Mariner fan. And
then there was an outing more recently June twenty seventh,
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so within the last last week or so in Saint Louis.
Cleveland was in Saint Louis, so the gambling activity of
those pitches was given. The dreaded red flag was highlighted
by a betting integrity firm. That is, the group that
found this, not Major League Baseball. At outside firm. They
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read flagged this and they contacted Major League Baseball. Baseball
has said that Ortiz is on paid leave through the
end of the All Star Break and players return to
their teams July seventeenth. The games zoom the following day
on July eighteenth, so he can go on a nice
tropical vacation and possibly never come back. Now, that can
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be extended, and if you don't believe me, asked Trevor Bauer.
It can be extended if the investigation remains ongoing. So
it's one of those saying, oh, we don't find anything,
you know, we'll keep holding this guy back. So let
us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which you
are part of. What intrigues you most about the Guardians
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pitcher Luis Orties gave drama exactly. So I've got Flamingo,
Craigslist and Jigsaw puzzle, and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to wrap ourselves
in the flag, is what we're going to do, because
that's what you got to do, kind of Fourth July weeknd,
you wrap yourself in flag. So a listen, this story
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has all the ingredients, all the ingredients of a modern
day sports scandal stew because you've got a no name pitcher,
a couple of random sliders and I'm not talking about
these kind that you eat that. And these sliders they
missed the plate. I think they were in the next
zip code over. They were at least a zip code
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away from where they needed to be. And you've got
a betting integrity firm that is like a basset hound
and they're sniffing around. They're sniffing right, and they're there.
They're the bloodhound at a barbecue. And so we're talking
about a picture that you could not pick out out
of a police lineup. If I said, hey, can you
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pick the one that is the pitcher and this guy
was the only one wearing a baseball uniform and a glove,
you still wouldn't pick him out of the police lineup.
So on both of the pitches, and of course the
Internet finds this stuff right away and for our blind listeners,
both of the pitches that were red flagged by Major
League Baseball or the outside firm that went to Major
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League Baseball. The pitcher Luis Ortiz opened the inning with
a slider that, to quote the Great Lake Tommy Lesorda,
would not have hit water if it fell out of
a bleeping boat. All right. When a roster spam pitcher
suddenly becomes the darling of the prop bet underworld, there
are alarm bells that start ringing right eww. Just it
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sounds like that, and it stands out when you have
a pitcher that much like the guy in the Toronto
Raptors that was suspended from the NBA for gambling and
all that, John tay Porter. I believe the guys, and
then we even knew he was. So nobody knows who
Luis Ortiz is, and all of a sudden people have
been a lot of money on a pitch of a
third inning. That that's nothing that stands out like a
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flamingo in a flock of pigeons. Of flamingo in a
flock of pigeons right now. As for the non disciplinary
paid league, that is corporate jargon. Let me use my
malor Rosetta Stone to translate, that is major League Baseball's
way of saying, we don't want to admit yet that
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he did it, but we also don't want him anywhere
near a Major League Baseball clubhouse, and certainly not a mound,
because we do not want to deal with the Pete
rose in disguise when we find that out. Now, when
Major League Baseball got into it, and I like gambling,
I've done the last couple of years, I've done a
TV show about gambling. When major League Baseball got into
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bed with the gambling industry, got a lot of money, right,
Did they think that the sheets were going to stay
clean up? No? No, this is not the first, it
will not be the last. A Major League Baseball will
continue to be. The word I will use is be deviled.
That's the word I will use by the gambling gods,
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and they get the checks and from the very industry
that I just love the fact that for my entire childhood,
baseball treated gambling like it was a deadly disease. It
was a virus. And now every pitch, every swing, in fact,
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if the right fielder of the Atlanta Braves sneezes on
a one o'clock start on a Saturday afternoon. You can
bet on it. If it happens between the third and
the sixth inning, you can bet on that. It's all
potential wagers. And if you can bet on it, you can.
I'll guarantee you know this. You can manipulate it, right,
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If you can bet on it, you can manipulate it.
It's not paranoia. It's math, is what it is, all right. Now,
turning the page on that, we go to Los Angeles
where the Dodgers completed the sweep of Marquee Mark Chicago
White Sox. Like that was a shocker. Dodgers lost Max Munsey. Now,
I was doing the day portion of the day night doubleheader.
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We didn't know how long monce he would be out.
We still don't really know the Dodger third baseman, Max Munsey.
They're saying, now he's out for not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, How about six weeks?
Six weeks? Max Monsey's out. They're calling it a bone bruise,
not a tear, not a tear, not a fracture, not
a fracture, a bruise. A Bruce now looked watching the replay,
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which for reasons Beyond Me was not shown on the
local LA Dodger broadcast. Bat Job by Them, but it
looked like the Max Mounsey knee had been hit by
a pickup truck that was driven by Michael Taylor of
the Chicago White Sox who slid in the third base.
It was a kind of a play that you would
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see maybe in like nineteen seventy seven. You don't normally
see it today. And the knee bent like you might
imagine a folding chair after you've had too many hot
dogs and burgers at a Fourth of July barbecue. You know,
we'll wait on you and snap and then down goes
the chair. So how do you How did the Dodgers navigate?
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How did the Dodgers navigate things without Max Monsey in
the lineup? So the obvious thing is you start out
by saying, well, well, next man up? Right, you go, well,
next man up. You know that's the way it's got
to work, and all this stuff, and you know, do
your job, all those things that we've said for years.
But the regular season, you know, the Dodgers, you figure
they'll patch it together. They've got some time here, the
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grueling adventure marathon. But this is an absolute gut punch,
mostly because Max Munsey no longer sucks. He flipped the switch.
He he was terrible for the first month the season.
Max months he betted one eighty four with one home run.
I would have released him if I ran the Dodgers.
And then he had this magic moment. He had this
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magic epiphany and it's called bifocals. Yes, who knew. So
since months he put on glasses, he has been seeing
the ball like Neo in the matrix. Last fifty games,
he has been as hot as the sidewalks out there
in Palm Springs. Two ninety one batting average, twelve home
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runs and a nine to seventy four ops, which the
nerds get all horny about. And so now in the meantime,
the Dodgers in the short term are gonna have Miguel
Rojas and Key k Hernandez who's only good in the playoffs,
trying to hold down the fort. And so it's it's
not really a platoon. That's that's like an ad you
posted on Craigslist that really messed it up. You know,
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wanted one hot corner savior. Bring your own glove and
bring your own cleats and all that, and there you go,
so Roll and Hernandez who have the same amount of
pop as a wet sponge, but they will be playing there.
And this is in many ways the Dodgers' annual summer tradition.
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If you look at the calendar of the Dodgers in
this era, they spend a lot of money, they get
the biggest names they can get every offseason. That happens
in December and January, and then in the spring in
March and April, it's snap, crackle pop. But then right
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around Midsummer, a key position player normally goes down for
the count. So it's not the fourth of July weekend
until another prominent player is on what used to be
called the disabled list for the Dodgers. And then you
have Dave Roberts saying we're optimistic. I think I've heard
Dave Roberts say we're optimistic about injured players more than
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i've heard him say I like him in that spot.
So there you go, all right, last word, quickly, panic
in the Bronx. The Bronx is burning. So we're hearing
the Yankees. The Yankees have figured out, they've had a
great epiphany and they've realized they need to start calling
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teams to try to make a trade. They do not
have a third basement. Of course, some would argue they
don't have a shortstop either. They have decided that Jazz
Chisholm good name, a lot of Rasthma Taz, pretty mediocre player.
They decided, though, he belongs at second base. So are
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you okay with that? The Dodgers are the Yankees rather
have decided they're gonna move Jazz Chism to the second
base and then back to second base. He's not a
third baseman, so obviously don't have any skin in the game.
But sometimes, as my friend Uncle Moe, who used to
live in Brooklyn but now lives in Jersey, would tell you,
the jigsaw pussle pieces just don't fit, and you can't
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force them to. You can't do it right now, Jazz
as a third baseman, square peg forced into a round hole.
It's kind of like if you go out car shopping
and you buy yourself a ferrari and then you use
it as a snowplow. That's not what it's for. It's
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a waste of a far Now. I'm not saying this
is a ferrari by any means. Put jazz is much
better at second than third. So this is a it
is a correction, it's ad meeting. Hey, we screwed up,
and so now with this decision, they go all right, bam,
let's kick it up a couple of notches at the
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at the trade deadline. So is that Nolan Aeronado from
Saint Louis, Like, who are they gonna get? It's not
exactly rocket science here, it's it's simply baseball. There's only
so many third basemen that are obviously available, so you
just try not to screw it up. So stay tuned,
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beginning of another hour of the Ben Mahlor Show. We're
doing it live in the air everywhere as we talk
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Who's very excited about that? And will anyone be sworn
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This hour is from the Valley of the Sun and
a big shakeup now it hasn't happened yet. Big shakeup
though on tap allegedly in the Grand Canyon State, like
a monsoon coming in this time of the year. If
you have not been paying attention to the scuttle but
perhaps not, we have learned that the once proud basketball
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team discussing a potential massive buyout of Bradley Beal. It
would be bye by Beal, is what it would be now.
If you have not paid attention Bradley Beal's time in
Phoenix has been the daily double. It has been injuries
and underwhelming performers. Now since Bradley Beal is one of
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only two two players in the entire NBA with the
no trade clause, you know who the other one is.
It's not Bronnie No, it's not Bronnie j No, not
Luca No, not Jason Tate, not Steph Curry, Lebron Yeah.
So Bradley Beal and lebron the only players with no
trade clause is now. Beal has been incredibly difficult for
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the Suns to handle because he's bad at basketball right
now and they can't get rid of him. So if
he accepts a buyout that if he does that, he
would have to give up his no trade claw because
he wouldn't be able to contract anymore. He would also
be an unrestricted free agent allowed to roam around the NBA.
I know you're very concerned about where he ends up
in the United States or Canada once he clears waivers. Now,
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Phoenix will need Bradley Beal to leave a good chunk
of money on the table now per the rules, not
to get to the minutia, but per the rules, the
amount of salary the Sons have finagled the books. Now
I'm a salary cap truther. I'm a salary cap truther.
But they cannot exceed fifteen percent of the salary cap
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the salary they stretch out. So it's I'm not an
accountant either of you, I assume. So let us discuss
the question where does Bradley beal go. He's at a
fork in the road. Where does Bradley beal go? At
this fork in the road with the suns? So I've
got quantum leap, inflation crisis, and one legged duck quack
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quack quack quack will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a delicious cheese steak sandwich,
which hot take better than a hot dog, better than
a burger. The cheese steak salmon properly made, properly may
proper amount of cheese, proper amount of steak, and then
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a proper amount of onion pepper. All that all right?
So number wa, I said, number Wa, Bradley Beer. What
he's trying to do here is a hoodini. He's trying
to hoodeni his way out of the gilded cage covered
in gold. And he's the one that built the gilded cage,
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right will he or won't he? So right now, oh
the drama. Bradley Beal is staring down a desert mirage
there in Arizona. It's the ghost of his own past
and his past decisions, and so he's like, what am
I going to do? Well, it's right there in front.
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It's like a heatstro hallucination over the valley of the Sun.
Now he's taken since he put on that Sun's uniform,
he has taken part and a very public quantum leap.
He has gone from underrated stars stuck in d C
right with ostroch ant wathing him play basketball and nobody
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else and you know, all boohoo, Bradley Beal good play
on a bad team, if only he played on a
good team. And then he went to a team that
was supposed to be good. And now he's changed his identity.
Bradley Beal now identifies as overpaid bust with a no
trade pause. That's his new identity. And so that's a
quantum leap. And so he's not just trying to leave Phoenix.
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He's trying to rewrite the narrative, assuming he cares about
that before it fossilizes and that's it. Bradley Beal needs
to agree to give up a large amount of the
one hundred and ten point eight million in guaranteed salary
remaining on his contract for all of that to take place.
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So it's an easy move. Here. The Malord think Tank
has been activated. Here's the advice, unsolicited overnight talk radio
advice to Bradley Beal. You give up twenty point eight
million of the one hundred and ten point eight million.
Give up twenty point eight million. That gets you down
to ninety million dollars. And if you can't make ends
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meet on ninety million dollars, you've done something terribly wrong.
It is still larger. Ninety million dollars is larger than
the lottery payout in pretty much every state right now
in these United States on the fourth of July for reference,
Lotto Texas the jackpot is thirty three and a half million,
the New York Lottery fifteen point three million. How about
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Mega Millions, which is in a number of states across
the country sixty million dollars. So Bradley Beal, if he
gave up twenty point eight he would still have thirty
million dollars more coming to him than the current jackpot
in the mega millions, and you can make that money back.
And what do you do You get into it? Be
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into it. Dome in the hood in Inglewood. That's where
Steve Balmer's Clippers play in LA and Balmer not only
owns the Clippers, he's also been running a reputation rehab
where he brings in troubled NBA players, much to my dismay,
like Ben Simmons and a couple of years back, Russell Westbrook.
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If you're on the NBA scrap heap, made a lot
of money and used to be good, the Clippers will
take you, no questions asked, no questions asked, and Bradley Beal,
come on down all right. Meanwhile, we now go to
the words of KCP, not KFC KCP. That's Centavious call
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old Well Pope, not a real pope. He's a journeyman guard.
So he recently explained in a podcast interview that both
Tyrese Haliburton and Donovan Spider Mitchell are not superstars o MG.
Now for Kntavious Calbo Pope, he says a superstar must
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be held to a higher standard, and he believes that
it's the consistency that sets apart the best of the best.
That was his argument, he says. He mentioned Lebron and
SGA and Nicole jokichen Giannis who almost always complete the deal.
They don't disappear in playoff games and all that, and
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they contribute to the box score. He has a lot
of people get stats in basketball and low information fans
think they're better than they are. So question, are you
picking up what Kntavious ca Abo Pope is trying to
put down here on what makes a superstar? So on
this one, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, I am
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nodding my head. Yes, Contavious decided to light a match
on the fourth of July. Well it was actually earlier
on that, but light a match under the what he
believes is the myth of Tyrese Haliburton and Donovan Mitchell
and their stardom. So I would like to rephrase the
argument because I think I can phrase it better. So
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I'd like to rephrase it the NBA. What he's saying
to me, this is how I interpret it, Like fine art,
the NBA has a superstar inflation crisis, a superstar inflation crisis,
and what he's saying, is everyone who has a jump
shot and you know, some kind of signature shoe and
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a sizzle reel on social media is knighted like they're
the reincarnation of Air Jordan. You might remember during the finals,
SGA was being compared to Michael Jordan, who goofed. I've
got to know so anyway, Colwell, Pope, he didn't mince
his words. He called Halliburton a fifty to fifty guy
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and said he would not build a team around Spider Mitchell.
Why because he said, the superstars they don't just fill
the stat sheet. They win, they elevate their teammates and
all that they show up on the big stage. All
those cliches, right, all those cliches, And the reference was
to Halliburton, who made several game winning shots in the playoffs,
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like that shot at Madison Square Garden. One of the
great postseason shots that I've seen in a long time
in my life. It's got to be top five playoff shot.
Most of the other ones are mister big Shot, Robert
orri but Halliburton made several big shots. He also had
four points and was ozer of six. Remember that playoff game,
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but it was Game five of the Finals against against
okay See had four points and no field goals made,
no field goals made. Now, Spider Mitchell is the NBA's
version in Cleveland, and he was the same way in Utah.
He's the summer blockbuster that never gets any oscar buzz
because it's got cartoon characters in it. It's loud, you know,
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a lot of explosions, it's flashy, and then yeah, I
kind of forget about it, and by the time the
buttered popcorn has left the bucket, you've moved on to
something else. But a superstar isn't just someone who gets
the baskets right, someone who changes the temperature of the room.
And so I would combine what he said he being
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the aforementioned Kentavious called Will Pope with what Magic Johnson said.
We talked about this in a previous episode of So
Magic's on a yacht right now with Rodney Pete somewhere
in Europe. But Magic Johnson said that a true superstar
doesn't just dominate, they fill the arena. Now. He also
talked about inspiration all that, but I box office, like
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that's a big part of it, and are people going
out of their way to buy tickets to watch Spider
Mitchell eh no sga eh now all right, final point,
developing drama, developing weekend drama, Mile High City. The Nuggets
made a move which is not official yet as the
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teas have not been crossed and the eyes have not
been deted dotted. The newest addition to the Nuggets, Yonas Valentunis,
great name, great regular season player, limited in the playoffs.
Limited in the playoffs. So Yonas Valentunis was traded from
Sacramento to Denver's not official yet. He may never play
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for the Nuggets. May never play for the Nuggets. After all,
he's thirty three years old from Lithuania, and the reports
we're hearing now he's close to accepting an offer from
a Greek powerhouse team in Athens, a move to Athens
and play there. Valentnis could soon sign a three year
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contract twelve million dollars. There's a problem, He's currently under
contract with the Sacramento Kings. That contract's going to be
transferred to the Denver Nuggets for ten point four million
for one year. So that NBA contract includes a team
option to extend him for another year. It's beginning to
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look to some as low Valentnists would actually prefer to
play overseas. And so that news comes just a couple
of days after that trade was announced, not a major trade,
but people getting all horny because the Nuggets improve their
bench and Valentis is supposed to be part of that.
Denver unloaded one of their bad contracts to get Valenters.
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So the question does Yonas Valentnis have ulterior motives by
threatening to leave the NBA before he ever wears a
Nuggets uniform and go play for a team in Greece?
So does he have ulterior motives? Does a one legged
duck swimming circle bingo? Right? And this is not about
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I want to be clear, this is not where he
actually wants to play for the team in Greece. I
don't buy that. This is not Wonder Lost or anything
like that. It is a contract negotiation with a side
of sauce, Suzeki sauce. Right. I mean this is a
classic euro I'm dangling this European contract and everyone knows
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the playbook. We've seen this before. It hasn't been used
that often recently, but Valentius is like, listen, I'm gonna
go play for the Nuggets you're gonna have as a backup,
which means my stats aren't gonna be that good. I'm
thirty three. By the time I'm up for my next contract,
i'll be thirty four years old, and nobody's gonna pay
me the amount of money I want. So give me
another year or guarantee you're gonna buy out my contract
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and I'll be able to be a free agent at
the end of the year. Right, So he's essentially he's
looking at his money. He realizes he's passed his prime valentiunis.
He's like, all right, I'll take my hammer and I'll
crack open the piggy bank and I'll hornswoggle the nuggets
to pay me to be a backup, and I'll squeeze
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a few more shekels out of the Denver Nuggets or
else I'll go eat. I'll eat some great food in Athens,
you know, seven days a week, and I'll be loving that,
just having a grand old time, amazing time. All right
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And a lot of people just called to say hello.
They just want to say hello, which is fine, and
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Who It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. These
are actual jokes by actual listeners of the show. And
even on a holiday. Do we have to pay this
guy time and a half? Weed Man Hippie in Miami?
Hello weed Man Hippie. Ah Yeah, Jamie Uh weed Man
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But here here he is the great weed Man. It'll
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are you doing for the fourth today? You have big plans.
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for Todd the comedian. I just realized you are getting
up there in age, weed Man. I'm old. Yeah, yeah,
you're a little long in the gums. That's hurt from
Are you looking for a birthday shout out? By the way,
July twenty eighth, twenty eighth is coming up here. What
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day of the week is that? Are you gonna have
to work on your birthday? No? Your birthday is on
a that's a Monday, Monday night, right, Monday night? All right? Yeah?
Very nice? Everyone sent weed Man. Remember when people were
you had to PayPal me money thing and people were
sending you one cent? That was that? Yeah, some of
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the a holes that listen to the show weed Man
would be like, PayPal, me money, and some of these
schmucks would send. He'd be all excited and he'd open
up his PayPal and it'd be like, you know, ten cents, hey,
very funny. What was what was wrong when weed Man
woke up in a puddle of mud? What it wasn't mud?
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Was not mud? That's another one from Surfer Todd, the comedian.
What a weed Man and a laundromat and Lebron have
in common? We met at we met at a laundromat
and Lebron? What are they have in common? What? Load management?
Load management?
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Eric?
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Eric in Kansas a prolific joke writer. Eric doesn't write
jokes every week, but when he does, he's good for
seven or eight jokes a week, and he sends them
the right format. He knows the format of the jokes.
He knows do the Q and A jokes. Why did
weed Man get excited during Blair's most recent call. Why
because he wants an appearance fee to go on Blair
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and Maine's new podcast. Right, weed Man, you'll go on
there if he pays you that's that's Eric in Kansas. Well,
weed Man, what should you say to kids who look
up to you? What tell them to lay off the crack?
That's Tony in the in the Bay Area, Big Ben's
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lame jokes of the week. What do DeAndre Ayton of
the Lakers and weed Man's last relationship have in common?
What the hontingmoon will be over before two years? Yeah,
that's about right. How's Lisa? How's Lisa doing? By the way,
how's Lisa? Hi? Lisa happy? Happy? Four? Oh? Look at
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that there she is? What a What a romance? What
a romance these two have all these years? Every night
Lisa's on the phone with weed Man. That's a that's
a dedicated loyal woman. All right. What do you call
a whimpering timber pup with its tail between its legs?
What Gunner from the Walmart in Northern Minnesota? That's uh,
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we haven't heard from him in a while. Tony in
the Bay Area. What do Mike the Leprechaun and weed
Man have in common? What getting escorted out of places
by security? Ah? Yeah, it's Big Ben's lame jokes of
the league. What do Mike the Leprechaun and weed Man
have in common. I already did that one, didn't I? Yes,
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All right, Oh here's the next one we've been What
does Robbie the Mariner fan think of Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen?
What he's a big, beautiful bill is what he thinks.
That's Robbie from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Which city does
Poppy in San Diego want the Ohio mallor Meet and
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Greet to be in? What? Mentor? Ohio? That's Eric Eric
in Kansas. What is the name of blind Scott's dog?
What blind Spot is the name of his dog? That's
Sulfer Todd Silver Todd the Comedian. What is wrong with
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Lizzo licking her chops before eating? What? Well, she's actually
licking her pork chops, weed Man, her pork chops. That's
from the great Surfer Todd the Comedian. It would be great,
weed Man if you and Surfer Todd the Comedian hung out.
I think you guys would be immediate friends if you
guys ever got together. That would be so nice. All right, great? Yeah, yeah,
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are you going to show up, weed Man? There's rumors
that are going to show up to the mallor Meet
and greet in Vegas? Is there any truth to that? Wow?
Which I hit?
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Loo?
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Did I come okay? Because of the woman? The women
rather upsetting him with the nudity on the apps? What
app is? Whoopee pie Blair joining now? Which one grinder
h No? Come on? That's uh? That's Noah in Austin?
Who sent out when and out Dariy? Why does Mike
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the Leprecaun lose? Why does Michael lepricun lose at the casinos? Why?
Because he always keeps Dublin down? He's doubling down weed man.
That's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. These are actual jokes by
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All right? Why? Why did Mike the Leprechaun cross the road?
Why to get on Lorena's bad side? It's buttermilk chavo there?
What new nickname is Mike the Leprecaun responsible for what? Lorena?
Who fled? That's from chip In Yes you not here?
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Not here with Mike the Leprecaun. What do you call
unscreened cocaine? What do you call that? The instant advice line?
That's Kurt from Earth who sent that one there? What
was the best thing about Mike the Leprechaun's studio visit
what it made? The cockroaches seem less? Annoying? That's from
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Chipping made last one. How can Mike the lepreca How
can Mike the Leprechaun stop stop bringing it? Being Lorena's enemy,
how can that happen? Wow, give her a pot of
Acca puco gold. That's buttermilk chamo. I know you want
that also, weed Man, have a great fourth Enjoy that you.
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in the beginning of another night of the Benmahler Show.
We are in the air everywhere as we chisel away
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should be. So it was a Hall of famer along
gone Ernie Banks who famously said, let's play too. It's
a beautiful day for baseball. Let's play too. And I said,
it's a beautiful night for hot sports takes. So let's
play two. Let's have a This is the second half
of a day night, doubleheaded butter lead this hour. Do
(02:00):
not mess around, no small talk on this live show
Independence Day weekend, but our lead this hour from Cleveland,
just in time for the big holiday weekend here in
the United States. Major League Baseball facing a new scandal.
And there's one thing that I've grown to love over
my years of gas baggery, and that is a good
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scandal you can really bite into. And this is a
pretty good one. It's a pretty good one. You might say. Well, now,
if you don't know much about it, you just see
the headline, ask nothing, but it's something, trust me if
you haven't seen it. So there's a team named after
a bridge that used to be called the Cleveland Indians,
but they changed their name because baseball was losing their
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mind a few years back. So they're now named after
a bridge. They're called the Guardians as a Guardian Bridge
in Cleveland. And there's a pitcher named Luis or Teest
probably don't know who that is. Louis Ortiz is the
subject of a Major League Baseball gambling investigation and he
has been placed on the Naughty List, Yes, the non
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disciplinary leave, which is the natty list, but we don't
want to say it's naughty. Now. The investigation, if you
were following along here, the investigation related to in game
prop bets on not one, but two pitches made by
Ortiz that for some reason, a lot of money was
bet a lot of activity, and that raised a red flag.
(03:30):
There were unusual amounts of money wagered on a couple
of random pitches. Now, if you're not a gambler, you
can bet on everything, right, and yeah, exactly, And so
this was going to start in Seattle on June fifteenth,
much to the dismay of Robbie the Mariner fan. And
then there was an outing more recently June twenty seventh,
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so within the last last week or so in Saint Louis.
Cleveland was in Saint Louis, so the gambling activity of
those pitches was given. The dreaded red flag was highlighted
by a betting integrity firm. That is, the group that
found this, not Major League Baseball. At outside firm. They
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read flagged this and they contacted Major League Baseball. Baseball
has said that Ortiz is on paid leave through the
end of the All Star Break and players return to
their teams July seventeenth. The games zoom the following day
on July eighteenth, so he can go on a nice
tropical vacation and possibly never come back. Now, that can
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be extended, and if you don't believe me, asked Trevor Bauer.
It can be extended if the investigation remains ongoing. So
it's one of those saying, oh, we don't find anything,
you know, we'll keep holding this guy back. So let
us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which you
are part of. What intrigues you most about the Guardians
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pitcher Luis Orties gave drama exactly. So I've got Flamingo,
Craigslist and Jigsaw puzzle, and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to wrap ourselves
in the flag, is what we're going to do, because
that's what you got to do, kind of Fourth July weeknd,
you wrap yourself in flag. So a listen, this story
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has all the ingredients, all the ingredients of a modern
day sports scandal stew because you've got a no name pitcher,
a couple of random sliders and I'm not talking about
these kind that you eat that. And these sliders they
missed the plate. I think they were in the next
zip code over. They were at least a zip code
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away from where they needed to be. And you've got
a betting integrity firm that is like a basset hound
and they're sniffing around. They're sniffing right, and they're there.
They're the bloodhound at a barbecue. And so we're talking
about a picture that you could not pick out out
of a police lineup. If I said, hey, can you
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pick the one that is the pitcher and this guy
was the only one wearing a baseball uniform and a glove,
you still wouldn't pick him out of the police lineup.
So on both of the pitches, and of course the
Internet finds this stuff right away and for our blind listeners,
both of the pitches that were red flagged by Major
League Baseball or the outside firm that went to Major
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League Baseball. The pitcher Luis Ortiz opened the inning with
a slider that, to quote the Great Lake Tommy Lesorda,
would not have hit water if it fell out of
a bleeping boat. All right. When a roster spam pitcher
suddenly becomes the darling of the prop bet underworld, there
are alarm bells that start ringing right eww. Just it
(06:48):
sounds like that, and it stands out when you have
a pitcher that much like the guy in the Toronto
Raptors that was suspended from the NBA for gambling and
all that, John tay Porter. I believe the guys, and
then we even knew he was. So nobody knows who
Luis Ortiz is, and all of a sudden people have
been a lot of money on a pitch of a
third inning. That that's nothing that stands out like a
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flamingo in a flock of pigeons. Of flamingo in a
flock of pigeons right now. As for the non disciplinary
paid league, that is corporate jargon. Let me use my
malor Rosetta Stone to translate, that is major League Baseball's
way of saying, we don't want to admit yet that
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he did it, but we also don't want him anywhere
near a Major League Baseball clubhouse, and certainly not a mound,
because we do not want to deal with the Pete
rose in disguise when we find that out. Now, when
Major League Baseball got into it, and I like gambling,
I've done the last couple of years, I've done a
TV show about gambling. When major League Baseball got into
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bed with the gambling industry, got a lot of money, right,
Did they think that the sheets were going to stay
clean up? No? No, this is not the first, it
will not be the last. A Major League Baseball will
continue to be. The word I will use is be deviled.
That's the word I will use by the gambling gods,
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and they get the checks and from the very industry
that I just love the fact that for my entire childhood,
baseball treated gambling like it was a deadly disease. It
was a virus. And now every pitch, every swing, in fact,
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if the right fielder of the Atlanta Braves sneezes on
a one o'clock start on a Saturday afternoon. You can
bet on it. If it happens between the third and
the sixth inning, you can bet on that. It's all
potential wagers. And if you can bet on it, you can.
I'll guarantee you know this. You can manipulate it, right,
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If you can bet on it, you can manipulate it.
It's not paranoia. It's math, is what it is, all right. Now,
turning the page on that, we go to Los Angeles
where the Dodgers completed the sweep of Marquee Mark Chicago
White Sox. Like that was a shocker. Dodgers lost Max Munsey. Now,
I was doing the day portion of the day night doubleheader.
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We didn't know how long monce he would be out.
We still don't really know the Dodger third baseman, Max Munsey.
They're saying, now he's out for not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, How about six weeks?
Six weeks? Max Monsey's out. They're calling it a bone bruise,
not a tear, not a tear, not a fracture, not
a fracture, a bruise. A Bruce now looked watching the replay,
(09:40):
which for reasons Beyond Me was not shown on the
local LA Dodger broadcast. Bat Job by Them, but it
looked like the Max Mounsey knee had been hit by
a pickup truck that was driven by Michael Taylor of
the Chicago White Sox who slid in the third base.
It was a kind of a play that you would
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see maybe in like nineteen seventy seven. You don't normally
see it today. And the knee bent like you might
imagine a folding chair after you've had too many hot
dogs and burgers at a Fourth of July barbecue. You know,
we'll wait on you and snap and then down goes
the chair. So how do you How did the Dodgers navigate?
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How did the Dodgers navigate things without Max Monsey in
the lineup? So the obvious thing is you start out
by saying, well, well, next man up? Right, you go, well,
next man up. You know that's the way it's got
to work, and all this stuff, and you know, do
your job, all those things that we've said for years.
But the regular season, you know, the Dodgers, you figure
they'll patch it together. They've got some time here, the
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grueling adventure marathon. But this is an absolute gut punch,
mostly because Max Munsey no longer sucks. He flipped the switch.
He he was terrible for the first month the season.
Max months he betted one eighty four with one home run.
I would have released him if I ran the Dodgers.
And then he had this magic moment. He had this
(11:09):
magic epiphany and it's called bifocals. Yes, who knew. So
since months he put on glasses, he has been seeing
the ball like Neo in the matrix. Last fifty games,
he has been as hot as the sidewalks out there
in Palm Springs. Two ninety one batting average, twelve home
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runs and a nine to seventy four ops, which the
nerds get all horny about. And so now in the meantime,
the Dodgers in the short term are gonna have Miguel
Rojas and Key k Hernandez who's only good in the playoffs,
trying to hold down the fort. And so it's it's
not really a platoon. That's that's like an ad you
posted on Craigslist that really messed it up. You know,
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wanted one hot corner savior. Bring your own glove and
bring your own cleats and all that, and there you go,
so Roll and Hernandez who have the same amount of
pop as a wet sponge, but they will be playing there.
And this is in many ways the Dodgers' annual summer tradition.
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If you look at the calendar of the Dodgers in
this era, they spend a lot of money, they get
the biggest names they can get every offseason. That happens
in December and January, and then in the spring in
March and April, it's snap, crackle pop. But then right
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around Midsummer, a key position player normally goes down for
the count. So it's not the fourth of July weekend
until another prominent player is on what used to be
called the disabled list for the Dodgers. And then you
have Dave Roberts saying we're optimistic. I think I've heard
Dave Roberts say we're optimistic about injured players more than
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i've heard him say I like him in that spot.
So there you go, all right, last word, quickly, panic
in the Bronx. The Bronx is burning. So we're hearing
the Yankees. The Yankees have figured out, they've had a
great epiphany and they've realized they need to start calling
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teams to try to make a trade. They do not
have a third basement. Of course, some would argue they
don't have a shortstop either. They have decided that Jazz
Chisholm good name, a lot of Rasthma Taz, pretty mediocre player.
They decided, though, he belongs at second base. So are
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you okay with that? The Dodgers are the Yankees rather
have decided they're gonna move Jazz Chism to the second
base and then back to second base. He's not a
third baseman, so obviously don't have any skin in the game.
But sometimes, as my friend Uncle Moe, who used to
live in Brooklyn but now lives in Jersey, would tell you,
the jigsaw pussle pieces just don't fit, and you can't
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force them to. You can't do it right now, Jazz
as a third baseman, square peg forced into a round hole.
It's kind of like if you go out car shopping
and you buy yourself a ferrari and then you use
it as a snowplow. That's not what it's for. It's
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a waste of a far Now. I'm not saying this
is a ferrari by any means. Put jazz is much
better at second than third. So this is a it
is a correction, it's ad meeting. Hey, we screwed up,
and so now with this decision, they go all right, bam,
let's kick it up a couple of notches at the
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at the trade deadline. So is that Nolan Aeronado from
Saint Louis, Like, who are they gonna get? It's not
exactly rocket science here, it's it's simply baseball. There's only
so many third basemen that are obviously available, so you
just try not to screw it up. So stay tuned,
developing high dot dot dot. It is the Ben Mahlard Show.
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As we are just beginning the red Eye flight all
night long and hopefully smooth, smooth sky skys. We'll have
the lame jokes of the week that'll be coming up
in our number three. It'll be electrifying. Unless it's not you,
it'll be audio poetry in motion. Hey, it's Ben, host
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of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. Would mean a
lot to have you join us on our weekly auditory journey.
You're asking, what in God's name is the Fifth Hour.
I'll tell you it's a spin off of the Ben
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you listen? Picture if you will a world will. We
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It is not veal, it is beel Welcome in the
beginning of another hour of the Ben Mahlor Show. We're
doing it live in the air everywhere as we talk
continuously the Malord Marathon, the day night Malord Marathons. We
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try not to fall off the map coast to coast,
border to border and beyond. On the mast and magnificently
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Radio studios, as approved by the newest member of the
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the previous episode of the show, the Great Don in Duluth,
Who's very excited about that? And will anyone be sworn
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This hour is from the Valley of the Sun and
a big shakeup now it hasn't happened yet. Big shakeup
though on tap allegedly in the Grand Canyon State, like
a monsoon coming in this time of the year. If
you have not been paying attention to the scuttle but
perhaps not, we have learned that the once proud basketball
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team discussing a potential massive buyout of Bradley Beal. It
would be bye by Beal, is what it would be now.
If you have not paid attention Bradley Beal's time in
Phoenix has been the daily double. It has been injuries
and underwhelming performers. Now since Bradley Beal is one of
(18:23):
only two two players in the entire NBA with the
no trade clause, you know who the other one is.
It's not Bronnie No, it's not Bronnie j No, not
Luca No, not Jason Tate, not Steph Curry, Lebron Yeah.
So Bradley Beal and lebron the only players with no
trade clause is now. Beal has been incredibly difficult for
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the Suns to handle because he's bad at basketball right
now and they can't get rid of him. So if
he accepts a buyout that if he does that, he
would have to give up his no trade claw because
he wouldn't be able to contract anymore. He would also
be an unrestricted free agent allowed to roam around the NBA.
I know you're very concerned about where he ends up
in the United States or Canada once he clears waivers. Now,
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Phoenix will need Bradley Beal to leave a good chunk
of money on the table now per the rules, not
to get to the minutia, but per the rules, the
amount of salary the Sons have finagled the books. Now
I'm a salary cap truther. I'm a salary cap truther.
But they cannot exceed fifteen percent of the salary cap
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the salary they stretch out. So it's I'm not an
accountant either of you, I assume. So let us discuss
the question where does Bradley beal go. He's at a
fork in the road. Where does Bradley beal go? At
this fork in the road with the suns? So I've
got quantum leap, inflation crisis, and one legged duck quack
(20:00):
quack quack quack will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a delicious cheese steak sandwich,
which hot take better than a hot dog, better than
a burger. The cheese steak salmon properly made, properly may
proper amount of cheese, proper amount of steak, and then
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a proper amount of onion pepper. All that all right?
So number wa, I said, number Wa, Bradley Beer. What
he's trying to do here is a hoodini. He's trying
to hoodeni his way out of the gilded cage covered
in gold. And he's the one that built the gilded cage,
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right will he or won't he? So right now, oh
the drama. Bradley Beal is staring down a desert mirage
there in Arizona. It's the ghost of his own past
and his past decisions, and so he's like, what am
I going to do? Well, it's right there in front.
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It's like a heatstro hallucination over the valley of the Sun.
Now he's taken since he put on that Sun's uniform,
he has taken part and a very public quantum leap.
He has gone from underrated stars stuck in d C
right with ostroch ant wathing him play basketball and nobody
(21:29):
else and you know, all boohoo, Bradley Beal good play
on a bad team, if only he played on a
good team. And then he went to a team that
was supposed to be good. And now he's changed his identity.
Bradley Beal now identifies as overpaid bust with a no
trade pause. That's his new identity. And so that's a
quantum leap. And so he's not just trying to leave Phoenix.
(21:52):
He's trying to rewrite the narrative, assuming he cares about
that before it fossilizes and that's it. Bradley Beal needs
to agree to give up a large amount of the
one hundred and ten point eight million in guaranteed salary
remaining on his contract for all of that to take place.
(22:13):
So it's an easy move. Here. The Malord think Tank
has been activated. Here's the advice, unsolicited overnight talk radio
advice to Bradley Beal. You give up twenty point eight
million of the one hundred and ten point eight million.
Give up twenty point eight million. That gets you down
to ninety million dollars. And if you can't make ends
(22:36):
meet on ninety million dollars, you've done something terribly wrong.
It is still larger. Ninety million dollars is larger than
the lottery payout in pretty much every state right now
in these United States on the fourth of July for reference,
Lotto Texas the jackpot is thirty three and a half million,
the New York Lottery fifteen point three million. How about
(22:56):
Mega Millions, which is in a number of states across
the country sixty million dollars. So Bradley Beal, if he
gave up twenty point eight he would still have thirty
million dollars more coming to him than the current jackpot
in the mega millions, and you can make that money back.
And what do you do You get into it? Be
(23:17):
into it. Dome in the hood in Inglewood. That's where
Steve Balmer's Clippers play in LA and Balmer not only
owns the Clippers, he's also been running a reputation rehab
where he brings in troubled NBA players, much to my dismay,
like Ben Simmons and a couple of years back, Russell Westbrook.
(23:39):
If you're on the NBA scrap heap, made a lot
of money and used to be good, the Clippers will
take you, no questions asked, no questions asked, and Bradley Beal,
come on down all right. Meanwhile, we now go to
the words of KCP, not KFC KCP. That's Centavious call
(24:00):
old Well Pope, not a real pope. He's a journeyman guard.
So he recently explained in a podcast interview that both
Tyrese Haliburton and Donovan Spider Mitchell are not superstars o MG.
Now for Kntavious Calbo Pope, he says a superstar must
(24:23):
be held to a higher standard, and he believes that
it's the consistency that sets apart the best of the best.
That was his argument, he says. He mentioned Lebron and
SGA and Nicole jokichen Giannis who almost always complete the deal.
They don't disappear in playoff games and all that, and
(24:46):
they contribute to the box score. He has a lot
of people get stats in basketball and low information fans
think they're better than they are. So question, are you
picking up what Kntavious ca Abo Pope is trying to
put down here on what makes a superstar? So on
this one, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, I am
(25:08):
nodding my head. Yes, Contavious decided to light a match
on the fourth of July. Well it was actually earlier
on that, but light a match under the what he
believes is the myth of Tyrese Haliburton and Donovan Mitchell
and their stardom. So I would like to rephrase the
argument because I think I can phrase it better. So
(25:29):
I'd like to rephrase it the NBA. What he's saying
to me, this is how I interpret it, Like fine art,
the NBA has a superstar inflation crisis, a superstar inflation crisis,
and what he's saying, is everyone who has a jump
shot and you know, some kind of signature shoe and
(25:50):
a sizzle reel on social media is knighted like they're
the reincarnation of Air Jordan. You might remember during the finals,
SGA was being compared to Michael Jordan, who goofed. I've
got to know so anyway, Colwell, Pope, he didn't mince
his words. He called Halliburton a fifty to fifty guy
(26:10):
and said he would not build a team around Spider Mitchell.
Why because he said, the superstars they don't just fill
the stat sheet. They win, they elevate their teammates and
all that they show up on the big stage. All
those cliches, right, all those cliches, And the reference was
to Halliburton, who made several game winning shots in the playoffs,
(26:31):
like that shot at Madison Square Garden. One of the
great postseason shots that I've seen in a long time
in my life. It's got to be top five playoff shot.
Most of the other ones are mister big Shot, Robert
orri but Halliburton made several big shots. He also had
four points and was ozer of six. Remember that playoff game,
(26:53):
but it was Game five of the Finals against against
okay See had four points and no field goals made,
no field goals made. Now, Spider Mitchell is the NBA's
version in Cleveland, and he was the same way in Utah.
He's the summer blockbuster that never gets any oscar buzz
because it's got cartoon characters in it. It's loud, you know,
(27:15):
a lot of explosions, it's flashy, and then yeah, I
kind of forget about it, and by the time the
buttered popcorn has left the bucket, you've moved on to
something else. But a superstar isn't just someone who gets
the baskets right, someone who changes the temperature of the room.
And so I would combine what he said he being
(27:40):
the aforementioned Kentavious called Will Pope with what Magic Johnson said.
We talked about this in a previous episode of So
Magic's on a yacht right now with Rodney Pete somewhere
in Europe. But Magic Johnson said that a true superstar
doesn't just dominate, they fill the arena. Now. He also
talked about inspiration all that, but I box office, like
(28:00):
that's a big part of it, and are people going
out of their way to buy tickets to watch Spider
Mitchell eh no sga eh now all right, final point,
developing drama, developing weekend drama, Mile High City. The Nuggets
made a move which is not official yet as the
(28:21):
teas have not been crossed and the eyes have not
been deted dotted. The newest addition to the Nuggets, Yonas Valentunis,
great name, great regular season player, limited in the playoffs.
Limited in the playoffs. So Yonas Valentunis was traded from
Sacramento to Denver's not official yet. He may never play
(28:42):
for the Nuggets. May never play for the Nuggets. After all,
he's thirty three years old from Lithuania, and the reports
we're hearing now he's close to accepting an offer from
a Greek powerhouse team in Athens, a move to Athens
and play there. Valentnis could soon sign a three year
(29:05):
contract twelve million dollars. There's a problem, He's currently under
contract with the Sacramento Kings. That contract's going to be
transferred to the Denver Nuggets for ten point four million
for one year. So that NBA contract includes a team
option to extend him for another year. It's beginning to
(29:28):
look to some as low Valentnists would actually prefer to
play overseas. And so that news comes just a couple
of days after that trade was announced, not a major trade,
but people getting all horny because the Nuggets improve their
bench and Valentis is supposed to be part of that.
Denver unloaded one of their bad contracts to get Valenters.
(29:53):
So the question does Yonas Valentnis have ulterior motives by
threatening to leave the NBA before he ever wears a
Nuggets uniform and go play for a team in Greece?
So does he have ulterior motives? Does a one legged
duck swimming circle bingo? Right? And this is not about
(30:15):
I want to be clear, this is not where he
actually wants to play for the team in Greece. I
don't buy that. This is not Wonder Lost or anything
like that. It is a contract negotiation with a side
of sauce, Suzeki sauce. Right. I mean this is a
classic euro I'm dangling this European contract and everyone knows
(30:38):
the playbook. We've seen this before. It hasn't been used
that often recently, but Valentius is like, listen, I'm gonna
go play for the Nuggets you're gonna have as a backup,
which means my stats aren't gonna be that good. I'm
thirty three. By the time I'm up for my next contract,
i'll be thirty four years old, and nobody's gonna pay
me the amount of money I want. So give me
another year or guarantee you're gonna buy out my contract
(31:01):
and I'll be able to be a free agent at
the end of the year. Right, So he's essentially he's
looking at his money. He realizes he's passed his prime valentiunis.
He's like, all right, I'll take my hammer and I'll
crack open the piggy bank and I'll hornswoggle the nuggets
to pay me to be a backup, and I'll squeeze
(31:23):
a few more shekels out of the Denver Nuggets or
else I'll go eat. I'll eat some great food in Athens,
you know, seven days a week, and I'll be loving that,
just having a grand old time, amazing time. All right
is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you'd like to comment
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some new people here from Mason. The millennial from the
Bay Area who called in last hour. Haven't heard from
Mason a long time. He just wanted to say hello,
And a lot of people just called to say hello.
They just want to say hello, which is fine, and
we'd be nice if you mixed in a take, you know,
(32:05):
that would be kind of cool too. Anyway, if you
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Later this hour, we have Mallord to the Third Degree.
We've got that coming up, and it is a Netflix
(32:27):
docu series waiting to be made. And I can guarantee
you I don't care how old you are. You're getting old,
and I will prove it to you. I have an
example that you're getting I don't care whether you're sixty, fifty,
forty thirty. I don't care how old you are. You're
getting old, and I will prove that to you. I
(32:50):
will give you my evidence on that. We'll get to
it and we will do it.
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Hey, it's Ben, host of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallin.
Would mean a lot to have you join us on
our weekly auditory journey. You're asking, what in God's name
is the Fifth Hour? I'll tell you it's a spin
off of it Ben Mather Show, a cult hit overnights
on FSR. Why should you listen? Picture if you will
a world will? We chat with captains of industry in media, sports,
and more every week explore some amazing facts about human
(33:29):
nature and more. Listen to The Fifth Hour with Ben
Matherer on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you
get your podcast. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame Week?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Blame Week?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Who It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. These
are actual jokes by actual listeners of the show. And
even on a holiday. Do we have to pay this
guy time and a half? Weed Man Hippie in Miami?
Hello weed Man Hippie. Ah Yeah, Jamie Uh weed Man
(34:04):
a hero to children, especially in Minnesota. They look up
to weed Man. I don't know that that's good or bad.
But here here he is the great weed Man. It'll
be all right. These are actual jokes. Are you ready,
weed Man? Yeah? I love you laugh all right? What
are you doing for the fourth today? You have big plans.
I want to see fireworks. You might have to leave
(34:24):
your apartment to see fireworks show. Yeah, all right, well,
here we go and you can send jokes in care
of Benmahlor Show at gmail dot com. Ben Maler Show
at gmail dot com. Why did weed Man quit his
job at Goodyear? Why? It was tiring? Surer Todd surf
(34:48):
for Todd the comedian. I just realized you are getting
up there in age, weed Man. I'm old. Yeah, yeah,
you're a little long in the gums. That's hurt from
Are you looking for a birthday shout out? By the way,
July twenty eighth, twenty eighth is coming up here. What
(35:09):
day of the week is that? Are you gonna have
to work on your birthday? No? Your birthday is on
a that's a Monday, Monday night, right, Monday night? All right? Yeah?
Very nice? Everyone sent weed Man. Remember when people were
you had to PayPal me money thing and people were
sending you one cent? That was that? Yeah, some of
(35:29):
the a holes that listen to the show weed Man
would be like, PayPal, me money, and some of these
schmucks would send. He'd be all excited and he'd open
up his PayPal and it'd be like, you know, ten cents, hey,
very funny. What was what was wrong when weed Man
woke up in a puddle of mud? What it wasn't mud?
(35:54):
Was not mud? That's another one from Surfer Todd, the comedian.
What a weed Man and a laundromat and Lebron have
in common? We met at we met at a laundromat
and Lebron? What are they have in common? What? Load management?
Load management?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Eric in Kansas a prolific joke writer. Eric doesn't write
jokes every week, but when he does, he's good for
seven or eight jokes a week, and he sends them
the right format. He knows the format of the jokes.
He knows do the Q and A jokes. Why did
weed Man get excited during Blair's most recent call. Why
because he wants an appearance fee to go on Blair
(36:37):
and Maine's new podcast. Right, weed Man, you'll go on
there if he pays you that's that's Eric in Kansas. Well,
weed Man, what should you say to kids who look
up to you? What tell them to lay off the crack?
That's Tony in the in the Bay Area, Big Ben's
(37:00):
lame jokes of the week. What do DeAndre Ayton of
the Lakers and weed Man's last relationship have in common?
What the hontingmoon will be over before two years? Yeah,
that's about right. How's Lisa? How's Lisa doing? By the way,
how's Lisa? Hi? Lisa happy? Happy? Four? Oh? Look at
(37:24):
that there she is? What a What a romance? What
a romance these two have all these years? Every night
Lisa's on the phone with weed Man. That's a that's
a dedicated loyal woman. All right. What do you call
a whimpering timber pup with its tail between its legs?
What Gunner from the Walmart in Northern Minnesota? That's uh,
(37:46):
we haven't heard from him in a while. Tony in
the Bay Area. What do Mike the Leprechaun and weed
Man have in common? What getting escorted out of places
by security? Ah? Yeah, it's Big Ben's lame jokes of
the league. What do Mike the Leprechaun and weed Man
have in common. I already did that one, didn't I? Yes,
(38:08):
All right, Oh here's the next one we've been What
does Robbie the Mariner fan think of Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen?
What he's a big, beautiful bill is what he thinks.
That's Robbie from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Which city does
Poppy in San Diego want the Ohio mallor Meet and
(38:29):
Greet to be in? What? Mentor? Ohio? That's Eric Eric
in Kansas. What is the name of blind Scott's dog?
What blind Spot is the name of his dog? That's
Sulfer Todd Silver Todd the Comedian. What is wrong with
(38:50):
Lizzo licking her chops before eating? What? Well, she's actually
licking her pork chops, weed Man, her pork chops. That's
from the great Surfer Todd the Comedian. It would be great,
weed Man if you and Surfer Todd the Comedian hung out.
I think you guys would be immediate friends if you
guys ever got together. That would be so nice. All right, great? Yeah, yeah,
(39:14):
are you going to show up, weed Man? There's rumors
that are going to show up to the mallor Meet
and greet in Vegas? Is there any truth to that? Wow?
Which I hit?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Loo?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Did I come okay? Because of the woman? The women
rather upsetting him with the nudity on the apps? What
app is? Whoopee pie Blair joining now? Which one grinder
h No? Come on? That's uh? That's Noah in Austin?
Who sent out when and out Dariy? Why does Mike
(39:43):
the Leprecaun lose? Why does Michael lepricun lose at the casinos? Why?
Because he always keeps Dublin down? He's doubling down weed man.
That's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners. If you want to send a joke in
in a future episode of the show, send it care
(40:06):
of Ben Maler Show at gmail dot com. Put jokes
in the headlines Benmallershow at gmail dot com, and we
move on. Buttermilk Chavo sent this one in. What do
you call an angry leprechaun that doesn't realize he is
cursing on the air? What a hot Mike? A hot?
(40:30):
All right? Why? Why did Mike the Leprechaun cross the road?
Why to get on Lorena's bad side? It's buttermilk chavo there?
What new nickname is Mike the Leprecaun responsible for what? Lorena?
Who fled? That's from chip In Yes you not here?
(40:53):
Not here with Mike the Leprecaun. What do you call
unscreened cocaine? What do you call that? The instant advice line?
That's Kurt from Earth who sent that one there? What
was the best thing about Mike the Leprechaun's studio visit
what it made? The cockroaches seem less? Annoying? That's from
(41:17):
Chipping made last one. How can Mike the lepreca How
can Mike the Leprechaun stop stop bringing it? Being Lorena's enemy,
how can that happen? Wow, give her a pot of
Acca puco gold. That's buttermilk chamo. I know you want
that also, weed Man, have a great fourth Enjoy that you.
(41:39):
Fireworks weed Man all over Miami tonight
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