July 7, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Houston Astros sweeping the Dodgers over the weekend, how things are looking for the face of the Astros Jose Altuve, the kneejerk reaction to the Washington Nationals firing both manager Dave Martinez and GM Mike Rizzo, and much more!
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He week Go welcome, It's our numb bur one hour
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Recipe starts up for the new week It's all about
the cheating Astros who swept the Dodgers. Do you have
a message to the Houston fans who are orgasmic over
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beating the Dodgers? In that weekend series? Also, how are
things looking for the face of the Astros Jose Albouve
and what is your knee jerk reaction? Big shake up
in DC The Nationals have fired both manager Davey Martinez
and the GM Mike Rizzo. We'll talk about all of
that and more right now here. It is our number one.
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It was an obliteration situation, and who the hell cares
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a story. I'm told I have to start with his story.
Everyone wants to know what I think if they start,
because my opinion matters, So we'll start in Los Angeles.
The fourth of July weekend has come and gone. The
pyrotechnic shows have ended, although I did see some fireworks
on the way into the studio, so they're still going
on in many places. But the cheating a yes, one
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one thousand and two. One thousand holes were stopping by
SoCal and they monster mashed the cheaters against the Dodgers
this weekend. There was a lot of joy, a lot
of euphoria among the fan base. There those that support
the vermin of baseball, the deplorable, cheating scumbags of Major
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League Baseball. So I don't know if you watched it,
and if you probably didn't because you're not doing things
where you sit and watch a stupid game on television,
because you know, stuff going on holiday weekend, spend time
with friends and family and all that. Well, it started
out within eighteen to one annihilation. It was to the
point where Oral Herscheizer Dodger broadcasters said, well, maybe these
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guys are cheating again, and it certainly looked that way,
and it'd be hard to argue they weren't. It would
be hard to argue and have any other point than
they Why were they not doing again? They did it,
but four they got away with it. So that was
on Friday, continued through Sunday, the old sweep. So let
us discuss the question. And here it is for the
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estem panther. You have a message for the Houston fans
who seem to be orgasmic over beating up the Dodgers
over the weekend. So my thoughts on this. I've got
big tobacco, pepe le pew and creampuff, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to have a Smorgesborg, is what we're going to have.
So a do I have a message? Of course we
have message. We have a big message for the Houston fans.
And we've been on there for years on the radio
dial there in Houston. In fact, we happen to be
on the Astro station, which is quite quite amusing, but
absolutely so for mister Irrigation and o Cho Texto and
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Alex the Cinical and Ivan the Terrible and all these
other characters who either used to live in Houston or
live there now or Houston adjacent and all that stuff.
All you other blokes you know who you are. Okay,
we don't give a rats ass that the Houston Astros
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just swept the Dodgers. They can go sweep the Padres,
they can sweep the Tigers, they can go sweep the
twenty seven freakin' Yankees for all I care. It doesn't
matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. They can
reincarnate Babe Ruth and they can strike Babe Ruth out
every time. It doesn't matter because it's turd polishing is
what it is, right, and you're not supposed to be
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able to polish a turd. And the Astros are turds,
is what they are. And you can try all you
want to rewrite history, right, try to rewrite history because
you want a few games in July of twenty twenty five. Congratulations,
whoa oh man, some games in July twenty twenty five.
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Who cares? Right? Seriously? Right this weekend? It changes nothing.
I know that's tough for you to handle. I know
you're oh, this guy's just a gas bagy. I speak
the gospel, Okay, I speak the gospel. I'll tell you why.
Here's why. Because in twenty seventeen, No, I've not forgotten
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in twenty seventeen. And let me say this slowly for
those of you in the back of the room that
are hung over from your holiday weekend. Here all right,
the Houston eh Shrows cheated capital see capital see cheated.
They didn't bend the rules. Wasn't just a little bend
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of the rules? No, no, no, no no, they didn't
find some competitive edge. Some of you a holes like
they say that, Oh, it was just a competitive edge bend.
Why are you such an a schmock? No, they chat dad,
chake dad, fall stop. That's it. C h ea te
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day chant it. They cheated. They banged on trash cans,
bite bind in the freaking World Series. They did it.
It was in the World Series video. Major League Baseball
is so stupid. They put this in the Major League
Baseball produced World Series video, the table that they used
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to send the signs in to the batters. Okay, they cheated,
and it was in the World Series video from twenty seventeen.
They were banging on trash cans like a toddler on
a candy high, right, a sugar rush and all that.
They used all kinds of illicit methods to steal signs
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that year, like a kleptomaniac walking through the Astros souvenir
shop and just I'll take a hat, I'll throw that
down my shorts. I'll take a shirt, I'll shove that up, Mike,
Mike Keysterer, whatever I have to do. And they did it, all,
all of it, all of it to get a worthless,
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worthless hunk of metal. It's called a commissioner of Major
League Baseball. Just a worthless hunk of metal. And when
you think about it, there's a lot of parts to this. Obviously.
The reason that I have not forgotten and we'll never
forget is for the most part, they got away with it.
Major League Baseball endorsed it. They indorsed cheating, which is
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odd because I see them punishing, you know, random baseball
players for involving being involved in gambling. Uh. Some no
name pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians is currently on time
out because he could have been involved in gambling. But
a team cheating in the World Series, We're good, We're good. Nah,
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We're fine. And the reason that happened in is because
baseball has a leadership vacuum. They have a spineless, toothless
commissioner who is still the commissioner of Major League Baseball.
No vacated title for a team that cheated in the
World Series. No postseason ban, no player got suspended who
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took part in illicit activity. In fact, the only few
people that got punished, they're all back. They're all back
in baseball, right, all of them. The manager of the
De George Tigers right now, was the manager when the Tiger,
when the a holes were cheating there in Houston. He's
now managing the Tigers. So now we can't even enjoy
what they're doing in Detroit because it's sullied because of
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the manager. And I go down the list, right, and
it was a not even a slap on the wrist.
That's what even count a slap. You hit the wrist.
It hurts a little bit. That wasn't even that. Rob Manford,
the toothless, gutless commissioner of Major League Baseball, what an
embarrassment eight years out nothing. In fact, Baseball ran interference
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for the schmucks. They ran interference. They ran a PR campaign,
a PR campaign. Now, when I was a little kid,
my dad tried to get me don't smoke cigarettes. When
I was a kid, everyone's smoking ciaret. My Dad's like,
don't smoke cigarettes. Might am I big tobacco.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
What Major League Baseball did to cover for the Asstros
cheating is next level. It's like big tobaccos and aw
cigarettes aren't bad for you, They're good. Go for it,
you know, smoke your lungs out. They ran interference for
the scoundrel. And so because of a random series July
fourth weekend where the a holes beat the Dodgers, the
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good guys three games in a row, Like somehow that
changes something. No, it just reinforces what we all we
already knew truth justice in the in the American way
of fighting the a holes from Houston. And how are
things looking, By the way, how are things looking? For
the face, the duplicitor face, it's a small face. It's
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a little face of the Astros. That would be Jose
al Tuba, better known by his forever nickname al Boove.
Hey up, pant him down, check him for the buzzer. Yeah,
so he is forever branded no matter what he does.
And he only got a couple of years left in baseball.
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But al boub has been branded as the guy who
wouldn't let his jersey get ripped off after a walk
off homer in the American League Championship Series in twenty seventeen,
a year that he won the most bogus MVP award
of all time. The little fella, he said at the time,
I'm shy. I'm shy. My wife doesn't like that. Yeah,
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and if you believe that you are the most gullible
man in the world. No, he didn't have the jersey.
He want the jersey ripped off because he had a buzzer. Hey,
check for the buzzer. Right now, we've heard better excuses. Now,
we heard a lot of excuses over these. We have
heard better excuses from the guy that gets caught, you know,
goes home from the night out with the fellows at
the bar, has lipstick all over his collar. There's better
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excuses from that guy, then the Astros with al Bouve
and the buzzer. Right, and you can win all the
games with every game doesn't matter. Right, You can trot
out your shiny roster of players there and all this
analytics department brag about that flex and all that, and
your smug little smirks you a holes. It changes nothing, right,
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because Jose al Bouve is the pepe Le pew of baseball.
Pe Yeah, what stinks, al Boo, that's who stinks. He'll
never outrun it. It doesn't matter what the man does.
The real ones know the truth. The real ones know
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the truth. You can't run that stench. You can't do it.
Can't do it. You're not fast enough. And when people
say Houston Astros, they don't think of greatness. They don't
think of a sustained dynasty. They think another d word, disgrace,
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because that is what that franchise is. So go ahead,
Astro fanboys, celebrate, Go got god, go crazy, knock yourself out.
And I understand. You beat a real team, the Dodgers. Congratulations.
Probably cheated while you were doing it, because that's what
you do. Why would you stop? You got away with
it baseball in Doorstead. They ran a big tobacco type
campaign to cover for you, So why would you not
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keep doing it? Right? Nothing has changed, nothing has changed,
no matter how many wins, go back to the World
Series again, It doesn't matter, right, doesn't matter. You aren't
forever known as a team that needed a trash can
a trash can to beat the Dodger Wiels and oh,
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by the way, didn't even outscore the Dodgers, and even
go to seven games to win the World Stairs Walt cheating.
Think about how much better the twenty seventeen Dodger team
was when the Houston team. The Houston team was, they
were cheating, They knew what was coming on most of
the pitchers, and the Dodgers took him to a game seven.
How embarrassing would have been a sweep without that would
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have been a sweep. It's gotta suck to if you're
an Albouve fan. Albuve is not going to the Hall
of Fame. He's not. He's not. They won't put in
Barry Bonds. They won't put in Roger Clements, those guys,
I'd put them in instead of Albouve. Maybe when he's dead,
like Pete Rose, they'll put him in the Hall of Fame,
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all right now, last word, So turning the page from that,
we had a shakeup in the managerial ranks and the
front office of Major League Baseball. The guillotine, the hammer
of death came down, well baseball death. Ind see what
is your knee jerk reaction on your knee jerk reaction
to the Nationals saying bye bye and firing Davy Martinez
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the manager and the GM, Mike Rizzo, who really heroes
to us. You might remember they beat the cheating a
holes in a World Series years ago. Been many years
since then, So my reaction is what took so long? Right,
as far as the Nationals are concerned, the Nats have
been a hot mess. Now we don't talk about the Nationals.
Why would we, We want people to actually listen. But
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the Nationals have been a hot mess, plain and simple.
They're so bad? How bad are they? Even ostrich Ant,
who lives in DC and drives a bus around the
dcra he got a good job, right union job. He
won't even watch the Nationals. That's how much they sucked, right,
And you think about the Nationals, both these guys, Rizzo
and Martinez, the GM and the manager are past their
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expiration date. And that World Series they won, while it
was glorious and we enjoyed it, it was six years ago,
and the Nationals have been stumbling and bumbling the desert
of mediocrity without any water ever since then? How bad
has it been? Since the high water mark the twenty
nineteen World Series, the miraculous World Series run the team
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from the greater DC area, there has posted I believe
five straight losing seasons, and they are all but guaranteed
to have number six year and twenty twenty five. And
the Nationals Ballpark is not the factory of sadness. It's
the museum of misery, is what it is. They're watching
the Nationals who have lost that two. They don't have
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that natitude anymore. I don't know where it went. Davy
Martinez his comments, that's the big story here. He made
some comments. We talked about them briefly on the show.
Davy Martinez defended his coaching staff with the Nationals. Now
to say that just ruffled some feathers, that's a bit
of an understatement. It's a bit of an understatement. He
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actually apparently to the clubhouse, the softies in the Washington
National Clubhouse. Not only are they bad baseball, they can't
take criticism. Now again, Davy Martinez said, it's never on coaching,
he said at the time. Never, It's always on the players,
Davey Martinez said, And that is all she wrote. That
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is all she wrote. Those cream puffs better known as
Nationals players the cream plus she changed her name from
Nationals to creampuffs, looks like they ripped off a drug
stores logo anyway with the w there. So the Creampuff
players did not appreciate that Davey Martinez put the almighty
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finger blame pointed that right in their direction, and so
the players were shocked, dismayed, bewildered and could not handle it.
They were pissed off, and so he lost the clubous
Now Jim might Rizzo. We famously fought with him years
ago over the usage of Stephen Strassburg. Might remember the
Nationals baby Steven Strasburg. So he could turn out to
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retire early anyway, they were saving him so his career
would be cut short. So he's been with the Nationals
for almost twenty years in the front office. He was
also the general manager over the last almost almost twelve
full seasons. I think it was sometime in twenty thirteen,
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and he survived several managers before Davey Martinez and him
took their exit strategy there and won the World Series.
So you say a successful one. They did win the
World Series Cup. I think it was three NL East
titles under Mike Rizzo. But right now, when you know
your time's up, when you've been there for as long
as Rizzo's been there, and your baseball team is closer
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to the Rockies than it is to a playoff spot,
so good luck on that. And player development, well, none
of the guys the Nationals draft turned out to be
all that great. They got from the Padres for Juan Soto.
Those guys seem to know what they're doing. But they
to be fair, they do have a cheap owner. I
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thought the national is gonna be sold a couple of
years ago, and they haven't been sold the same ownership
groups there. It's been three years. I know, it takes
a long time to sell a multi billion dollar sports entity.
It's been been a while, so they got cheap ownership,
but there's no excuse for the crappy product that is
on the field there. You know, even you know youa
Tampa Bay and some of these other teams that don't
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spend money, they still put a team that's somewhat competitive
on the field. The Nationals are on pace to win
sixty eight games, by the way this year, and they
have no pipeline. They need a plunger. The pipelines clogged there.
For the Nationals, it's an unstable franchise. See if that
Learner family finally sells the Nationals here. But man, so
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they just gave the mass extermination to everyone. Now he's
had a good job. Well, there's only thirty, right, there's
only thirty baseball teams. Thirty two baseball teams, I think
it is. So there's there's not that many baseball teams.
So that's it, and they pay pretty well. And DC
A lot of people like living in DC. If you
like hanging out with slimeball politicians and people like that,
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it's nice. I guess outside DC. I'm Virginia, Maryland, it's
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check in because I would hide too, because there's really
nothing you can say. The decision is already in the
Supreme Court has made their ruling. So even though you
got all giddy, you're all excited about your little baseball team,
your little scumbags winning some games, we know the truth, right,
and it doesn't change anything. Doesn't change anything at all.
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Back to it we go, and Jill writes in a
longtime supporter of the show, and she says, if I
have gotten over it, why can't you. I'm a Yankee fan. Now, Well, Jill,
if you have forgiven the cheating a holes, that shows
a character flaw in you, Jill, it's a bad job
by you. And to quote one of the great rallies
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we see all the time every couple of years, right,
we see no justice, no peace. Well, there was no
justice for what the a holes did. Major League Baseball
allowed them to get away with it. So I say,
no justice, no peace. And that's the way I choose
to live, and I love it. Nature Boy writes and
says the cheating little boy kept hitting homers for the
Astros this weekend. He also says Manford didn't have any
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problem with the a holes. We need to just move on.
Nothing to see here is what he said. That's pretty
much what he did. Nature Boy says, if Altube's wife
is okay with cheating, we can forget about justice for
the Astros. Rob Manford approves it as well. Super Market
Steve writes in he says, I thought about calling in
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tonight busting your balls about the Dodgers for getting swept
by the Astros. But seeing as my Yankees needed the
umpire's help to avoid another sweep against the match, I
think I'll shut up tonight. Sit that one out, Just
sit that one out. Ostrich Ant is up late listening.
He says, Hey, Mallard, not only will I not watch
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the Nationals, I also won't watch the Wizards. Don't blame me.
You likely did not watch the team formerly known as
the Redskins up until like last year when they finally
figured things out. Eugene in Chicago rights and says, what
happened with the Dodger pitching staff? Pitching staff? They're they're
all hanging out on vacation, that schmuck Blake Snell. But
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who could have had the foresight, Eugene in Chicago, who
could have had the ability to see into the future,
like the great Nostradamas and friend of Nostradinas, yours truly
to say, Well, maybe you don't add Blake Snell because
the guy's a loser. Okay, the guys a schmuck Blake Snell.
He's made two starts this year. Blake Snell their big
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offseason edition and their big addition the previous year a
couple years back was Tyler glassnew who is the most
appropriately named pitcher in baseball. The man is made out
of glass, and the Dodgers threw money. It's like they
went to the strip club and they were just tossed,
making it rain for these two dopes who have done
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nothing as Dodgers except take money from the Dodgers and
not produce on the field. It's embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing. Terry
in England says, where are the classic A hole drops?
What the f is going on? Why are they Bennetts
so blah blah blah blah. Well, I've tried. I've given up, Terry.
I've tried to let them know what to play and
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what not to play. They choose not to play it.
So I'm going to do the show the way I
want to do the show without the drops. A Boso,
the district attorney, says, I wonder if the NAT's TV
deal expiring has something to do with the decision to
clean house. Also, maybe they wouldn't be in the position
if ownership let Rizzo keep Bryce Harper and Juan Soto
years ago, says Boso, the district attorney. Aileen says, excellent monologue,
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Never forget She points out who else we have? Matt
writes in can we get on the topic of how
Suzuki has been robbed in broad daylight? I have a
much deserved All Star reserve spot. I don't really give
that much attention to the All Star reserves because the
players don't care about the All Star Game. That's why
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they had to put the rule in years ago. Or
this time it matters and other players hate the y'all.
I'll bet you Clayton Kershaw. I'll give you an example, Matt,
so that they now Major League Baseball announced I guess
they've done this before, like the legends of the game.
They add someone who's not deserving of being an All
Star this year, but because of their career achievements, they
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put them on the All Star team. And Clayton Kershaw
is a great example of a guy who was so
excited about being named to the All Star Team he
refused to speak to the media about it on Sunday,
likely because I'm guessing he had a vacation planned for
All Star weekend and now he's got to bring his
fat ass to Atlanta instead of going to a nice
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tropical vacation somewhere. So that's just my assumption. Maybe Kershaw
was so verclemp with emotion. He did not want to
talk about it. But my god, all let's go to
the phones and let's see who do we have eeny
meany miney mo. Let's say hello to Tony in the
Bay area. What's going on? Tony? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Hey man.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
David Leaner bre so bad. Even kobeas she was like, God, damn.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
No, thank you. Tony's a quick drive by, drop a
line and then and then move on. So I'm pretty
sure now that the Dodgers are in Milwaukee right now.
They play the brew Crew this week, so I'm pretty
sure ifsay is not not listening, Oho, there's not much
open on a Sunday night in uh in Milwaukee. Having
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been to Milwauk unless they changed it when I was
there years ago, not much open late at night. They
pretty much roll up Milwaukee at There's a couple of
bars open, but that's that's about it. I want a
bite to eat. Good luck. Malaprop guy says fer Dogs
seems to have gone missing for the last week or so.
Right after it was announced that a man from Fortune
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was arrested for selling illegal fireworks. I hain't even at fullertune.
Also perhaps a coincidence. He also disappeared about the same
time live reads have ceased on the show, says Malard
Propkat get to the bottom of that. Billy writes in
from parts on O and he says, Blake Snell and
Tyler Glass, now we're only good in Tampa Bay because
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of coaching. Now they can't pitch worth anything. Well, Blake
Snell's a He's known as being a very soft, very
soft pitcher and does not have intestinal fortitude to made
out of. I ain't pitch unless I get mine.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That used to be a drop we used to play
on the show back when we had drops. Let's go
to Andrew in Baker's what's going on? Andrew? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
What's up? Ben? How you been.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Andrew? You're back. You disappeared for a while, but you
returned to the show. Why are we so lucky to
have you back on the show?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Andre, Well, I'm always listening, but or not always but
most of the time. Yeah, catching you, But I had
to switch my hours up a little bit and sleep
at night.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Are you working in the dreaded day shift?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Now?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
No? No, just I moved into a house with other people.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So I had to, Okay, you have to be polite
and other people do not like you calling in and
talking wake them up. I understand.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Okay, So number one, number one, Yes, number one. I
was wondering why you didn't have Clayton Kershaw as your
first hour monologue on the night that he got three
thousand strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Because I don't. I'm not. I don't care. That's I don't.
It doesn't do anything for me. I didn't get a
chubby like everyone else in the LA media. I mean,
what do you want me to do? Don't you want
me to lie and pretend? Oh my god, this is
the greatest world. But I think of Clayton Kershaw, I
think of him writing the vomit comment in big games
as a Dodger. That's what I think of Clayton Kershaw.
I don't think of three thousand strike it's a lifetime
(31:08):
achievement award. But when I think of the career of
Clayton Shirshaw, I think of him gagging in the biggest games.
That's what I think of Kershaw.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Well, maybe people were cheating in the.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Playoffs, Okay, Well, what about the rest of the years.
Were they cheating? Every year Kershaw was pitching in the
playoffs or is it I know twenty throw away twenty seventeen.
What about the other ones?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Okay, but I haven't know what about the other one?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Seriously, what about the other ones? Everyone only when Kershaw
was pitching they were cheating?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well they won in twenty twenty. So but number two,
you can't. I got to stick up for David Basset
and asking why.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Would you stick up with that? For assay, he's a
shill for the Dodgers. Why would you? Why would you
stick up for Well?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Are you not just bitter because you got kicked out
of the stadium because all of the media for show?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
He No, I was fighting with that. Say before that,
I think it's embarrassing for the Dodger pr Department. I've
said that they're frauds over there. But that's fine, Okay.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Well, he's alright with me as far as I can do.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Okay, So you liked him and they when he licks
the players toes, you enjoy that. You think that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
He's funny, he's good.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
How about when he like makes breakfast for Blake SNeW
You think that's good? You enjoy that.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I hadn't heard about that.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, yeah, all right, thank you, all right, I'm glad
you still suck as a call though your Femi writes
in from Chicago, says a Mallard a plus and a
spicy tuna role on the opening mallar monologue, All Star
Game is a joke for robbing the Cubs superstar Suzuki.
The entire NL lineup should be Cubs. We there you go,
(32:43):
Nature boy says, I say, never admitted that Blake Snell
has been a bus so far? What a kiss astro? Yeah,
now I know, and you heard that, nature boy. The
most obvious thing to say is at this point, what
is it what we have to worry about today? And
we don't know what's gonna happen in the future, but
you worry about what has happened. And so as of
this moment, I asked. I was doing some local stuff
(33:06):
LA local radio this week and we had had Schmuck
Vassa on Who's a dodger of propagandas and I was like, hey, listen,
I mean, just this guy's been a bust and he
would not admit it. Blake Snell a total bust. The
most easiest thing you could possibly sell tell anyone is
that Blake Snell has been bad at his job because
he hasn't shown up. He's gone a wall. He's at
(33:28):
the end of his problem. That's the thing is only
gonna get worse. Blake Snell's thirty two. Your athletic prime
ends at age thirty two. It's only gonna get worse.
He's made two starts as a Dodger. We are now
into July. The All Star Game is right around the corner.
He's made two starts. That's it. And it was a
simple it was. It was a layup question. Wouldn't answer,
(33:51):
it would not answer. It wouldn't do it? All right,
is a Ben Mahler show. Time now for the play
of the day. The Yankees have sucked for the last
couple of weeks. Here they got off the schneide and
Aaron Judge did hit his thing. Take a list first.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Pets from one Dell swing on and driven to the
gap lets center field.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
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One of the biggest contracts ever handed out by the
Pittsburgh Pirates. Brian Reynolds. It's outfielder. It's a pretty mediocre
(34:57):
player if you asked me. But Brian Reynolds a two.
I'm All Star because someone on the Pirates has to
make the All Star team. And there's a lot of
chatter the Pirates are going to trade him. The deadline
is at the end of this month, July thirty first,
Today is July seventh for most till July sixth on
the West coast, but it's coming up. Trade deadline will
be here before you know it. And we are told
(35:18):
the Dodgers are on the no trade list. How about
Brian Reynolds. Brian Reynolds getting a no trade list? Brian
effing Reynolds, hes, I can't that it blows me away
that he's on. He's got a list of the teams
he will not play for. Reynolds is thirty years old
for the Pirates this year, he's hitting two thirty two
(35:42):
with ten home runs, and he has been pretty bad
all season for the Buckos, and he is likely to
be going to be traded. However, unless the Dodgers can
give him some extra money, he will not be going there.
He has signed all the way through twenty thirties on
an eight year contract with a team option for the
(36:02):
following year, but Brian Reynolds locked up for the long
term for the Pirates. It is the Ben Maler Show.
Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
So White Sox rookie pitcher Shanes Smith talk about a
generic name. So Shane Smith became just the second Rule
five draft pick to ever receive an All Star selection.
The first sinds me, who am I? That's the question?
The answer, We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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Thank God for the Internet. All right, back to it
we go, and we are rolling rolling a long time
now for the who m I Game? This is where
we pretend to be somebody else as we call it
the who am I Game? So White Sox rookie pitcher
Sheene Smith became just the second Rule five draft pick
to ever receive an All Star selection. Somebody from the
(37:44):
Chicago White Sox had to make the All Star team,
and it turns out of Shane Smith and the first
Shane Smith since me among the rule five draft picks.
So that is the question. What is the answer, And
let's see does anyone know the answer? We go to
the Great Unwashed here Wood he held from Donkey Sausage.
(38:06):
That's his answer. Who else? The fawns from Ferd Dog
alive and well in that winter Wonderland and Fullerton, Shane
and the Moyinge going with SuperSonics legend. Kendall Gill, who
briefly was a boxer, did not know so well there
Bobby in Florida going with Marie the Cat as his answer.
I forty Ian says twins legend. Scott Leis is the answer.
(38:31):
Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says the honor in honor
of the fourth of July weekend which we just had,
go with Jason Pierre Paul. Yeah, that's interesting. Ryan Presley
from Eke and Roseveld, Minnesota. Mister nice guy says, Calvin Cryon,
Shiraldy Cub legend, Red Sox legend, Calvin Cheraldy oh Man.
(38:53):
Who else do we have? Page down Poppy from was
guessed by Shane Bernie as Slot from King Rory Rex Huddler,
the Hudman from Malor prop Guy Royals broadcaster Springfield's own
Kurt Russell from alf the alien o Piner Franklin Stubbs
(39:14):
tossed out by the Nature Boy. Who else do we have?
Page down Big Greg Greg rather not Big Greg Greg
the real estate mogul from Baltimore, says the ref in
the USA versus Mexico game? Who swallowed his whistle on
the handball in the box call? I did not watch
a second of that, but I will take your word
for it. Tanya Harding, the designated hitter from Big Lou
(39:36):
He's on number two? Who else you have? The dwarf
Man Scott says Blake Snell's ridiculous contract makes Kevin Brown's
deal look like a bargain. That is about about right.
Turmel Sister Sledge from Bay City, Tony Andres Munos guessed
by Robbie the Meriner fan. That's his answer. Pablo Sanchez
(39:59):
from Jordan. Who else do you have? John got this right?
Bad job by him? Floyd Banister guest by Sean in
the Valley of the Sun. Who else do we have?
Rick Monday American hero he saved the flag from Larry
d That's his answer? Who else do we have? It
sees it? Who am I game? Terry in England says,
(40:22):
is it Roberto the bus driver?
Speaker 5 (40:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
And did none here from Roberto this weekend? Who else
do we have? Page down? Can't read that on the air?
All right? We in need in answer? And again the
who am I game? Question? One more time? If you're
late to the party. The Chicago White Sox rookie pitcher
Sheen Smith became just the second Rule five Draffick to
(40:47):
ever receive an All Star selection, the first since me,
who am I? Loraina? Do you have an answer the
range I'm gonna go with Rocky Balboa? Is it Rocky Balboa? No?
It is none other than the great Dan Ugla. Dan
Uggla who, as I remember, had one of the worst
(41:08):
All Star All Star Game performers. It was at the
All Star Game at Yankee Stadium. It was not a
day to remember there for Dan. A lot of mistakes,
A lot of mistakes that day. Dan, Yeah,
He week Go welcome, It's our numb bur one hour
one of the Original Recipe podcast. If you missed the
weekend fifth Hour, go back and check that out. We
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Also some thoughts on Joey Chestnut over the weekend, so
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Recipe starts up for the new week It's all about
the cheating Astros who swept the Dodgers. Do you have
a message to the Houston fans who are orgasmic over
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beating the Dodgers? In that weekend series? Also, how are
things looking for the face of the Astros Jose Albouve
and what is your knee jerk reaction? Big shake up
in DC The Nationals have fired both manager Davey Martinez
and the GM Mike Rizzo. We'll talk about all of
that and more right now here. It is our number one.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It was an obliteration situation, and who the hell cares
Welcome in the beginning of another week of the ben
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lead this hour as we begin the brand new week
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a story. I'm told I have to start with his story.
Everyone wants to know what I think if they start,
because my opinion matters, So we'll start in Los Angeles.
The fourth of July weekend has come and gone. The
pyrotechnic shows have ended, although I did see some fireworks
on the way into the studio, so they're still going
on in many places. But the cheating a yes, one
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one thousand and two. One thousand holes were stopping by
SoCal and they monster mashed the cheaters against the Dodgers
this weekend. There was a lot of joy, a lot
of euphoria among the fan base. There those that support
the vermin of baseball, the deplorable, cheating scumbags of Major
(03:26):
League Baseball. So I don't know if you watched it,
and if you probably didn't because you're not doing things
where you sit and watch a stupid game on television,
because you know, stuff going on holiday weekend, spend time
with friends and family and all that. Well, it started
out within eighteen to one annihilation. It was to the
point where Oral Herscheizer Dodger broadcasters said, well, maybe these
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guys are cheating again, and it certainly looked that way,
and it'd be hard to argue they weren't. It would
be hard to argue and have any other point than
they Why were they not doing again? They did it,
but four they got away with it. So that was
on Friday, continued through Sunday, the old sweep. So let
us discuss the question. And here it is for the
(04:09):
estem panther. You have a message for the Houston fans
who seem to be orgasmic over beating up the Dodgers
over the weekend. So my thoughts on this. I've got
big tobacco, pepe le pew and creampuff, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
(04:31):
to have a Smorgesborg, is what we're going to have.
So a do I have a message? Of course we
have message. We have a big message for the Houston fans.
And we've been on there for years on the radio
dial there in Houston. In fact, we happen to be
on the Astro station, which is quite quite amusing, but
absolutely so for mister Irrigation and o Cho Texto and
(04:56):
Alex the Cinical and Ivan the Terrible and all these
other characters who either used to live in Houston or
live there now or Houston adjacent and all that stuff.
All you other blokes you know who you are. Okay,
we don't give a rats ass that the Houston Astros
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just swept the Dodgers. They can go sweep the Padres,
they can sweep the Tigers, they can go sweep the
twenty seven freakin' Yankees for all I care. It doesn't
matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. They can
reincarnate Babe Ruth and they can strike Babe Ruth out
every time. It doesn't matter because it's turd polishing is
what it is, right, and you're not supposed to be
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able to polish a turd. And the Astros are turds,
is what they are. And you can try all you
want to rewrite history, right, try to rewrite history because
you want a few games in July of twenty twenty five. Congratulations,
whoa oh man, some games in July twenty twenty five.
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Who cares? Right? Seriously? Right this weekend? It changes nothing.
I know that's tough for you to handle. I know
you're oh, this guy's just a gas bagy. I speak
the gospel, Okay, I speak the gospel. I'll tell you why.
Here's why. Because in twenty seventeen, No, I've not forgotten
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in twenty seventeen. And let me say this slowly for
those of you in the back of the room that
are hung over from your holiday weekend. Here all right,
the Houston eh Shrows cheated capital see capital see cheated.
They didn't bend the rules. Wasn't just a little bend
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of the rules? No, no, no, no no, they didn't
find some competitive edge. Some of you a holes like
they say that, Oh, it was just a competitive edge bend.
Why are you such an a schmock? No, they chat dad,
chake dad, fall stop. That's it. C h ea te
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day chant it. They cheated. They banged on trash cans,
bite bind in the freaking World Series. They did it.
It was in the World Series video. Major League Baseball
is so stupid. They put this in the Major League
Baseball produced World Series video, the table that they used
(07:30):
to send the signs in to the batters. Okay, they cheated,
and it was in the World Series video from twenty seventeen.
They were banging on trash cans like a toddler on
a candy high, right, a sugar rush and all that.
They used all kinds of illicit methods to steal signs
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that year, like a kleptomaniac walking through the Astros souvenir
shop and just I'll take a hat, I'll throw that
down my shorts. I'll take a shirt, I'll shove that up, Mike,
Mike Keysterer, whatever I have to do. And they did it, all,
all of it, all of it to get a worthless,
(08:13):
worthless hunk of metal. It's called a commissioner of Major
League Baseball. Just a worthless hunk of metal. And when
you think about it, there's a lot of parts to this. Obviously.
The reason that I have not forgotten and we'll never
forget is for the most part, they got away with it.
Major League Baseball endorsed it. They indorsed cheating, which is
(08:36):
odd because I see them punishing, you know, random baseball
players for involving being involved in gambling. Uh. Some no
name pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians is currently on time
out because he could have been involved in gambling. But
a team cheating in the World Series, We're good, We're good. Nah,
(08:57):
We're fine. And the reason that happened in is because
baseball has a leadership vacuum. They have a spineless, toothless
commissioner who is still the commissioner of Major League Baseball.
No vacated title for a team that cheated in the
World Series. No postseason ban, no player got suspended who
(09:17):
took part in illicit activity. In fact, the only few
people that got punished, they're all back. They're all back
in baseball, right, all of them. The manager of the
De George Tigers right now, was the manager when the Tiger,
when the a holes were cheating there in Houston. He's
now managing the Tigers. So now we can't even enjoy
what they're doing in Detroit because it's sullied because of
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the manager. And I go down the list, right, and
it was a not even a slap on the wrist.
That's what even count a slap. You hit the wrist.
It hurts a little bit. That wasn't even that. Rob Manford,
the toothless, gutless commissioner of Major League Baseball, what an
embarrassment eight years out nothing. In fact, Baseball ran interference
(10:04):
for the schmucks. They ran interference. They ran a PR campaign,
a PR campaign. Now, when I was a little kid,
my dad tried to get me don't smoke cigarettes. When
I was a kid, everyone's smoking ciaret. My Dad's like,
don't smoke cigarettes. Might am I big tobacco.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
What Major League Baseball did to cover for the Asstros
cheating is next level. It's like big tobaccos and aw
cigarettes aren't bad for you, They're good. Go for it,
you know, smoke your lungs out. They ran interference for
the scoundrel. And so because of a random series July
fourth weekend where the a holes beat the Dodgers, the
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good guys three games in a row, Like somehow that
changes something. No, it just reinforces what we all we
already knew truth justice in the in the American way
of fighting the a holes from Houston. And how are
things looking, By the way, how are things looking? For
the face, the duplicitor face, it's a small face. It's
(11:05):
a little face of the Astros. That would be Jose
al Tuba, better known by his forever nickname al Boove.
Hey up, pant him down, check him for the buzzer. Yeah,
so he is forever branded no matter what he does.
And he only got a couple of years left in baseball.
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But al boub has been branded as the guy who
wouldn't let his jersey get ripped off after a walk
off homer in the American League Championship Series in twenty seventeen,
a year that he won the most bogus MVP award
of all time. The little fella, he said at the time,
I'm shy. I'm shy. My wife doesn't like that. Yeah,
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and if you believe that you are the most gullible
man in the world. No, he didn't have the jersey.
He want the jersey ripped off because he had a buzzer. Hey,
check for the buzzer. Right now, we've heard better excuses. Now,
we heard a lot of excuses over these. We have
heard better excuses from the guy that gets caught, you know,
goes home from the night out with the fellows at
the bar, has lipstick all over his collar. There's better
(12:13):
excuses from that guy, then the Astros with al Bouve
and the buzzer. Right, and you can win all the
games with every game doesn't matter. Right, You can trot
out your shiny roster of players there and all this
analytics department brag about that flex and all that, and
your smug little smirks you a holes. It changes nothing, right,
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because Jose al Bouve is the pepe Le pew of baseball.
Pe Yeah, what stinks, al Boo, that's who stinks. He'll
never outrun it. It doesn't matter what the man does.
The real ones know the truth. The real ones know
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the truth. You can't run that stench. You can't do it.
Can't do it. You're not fast enough. And when people
say Houston Astros, they don't think of greatness. They don't
think of a sustained dynasty. They think another d word, disgrace,
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because that is what that franchise is. So go ahead,
Astro fanboys, celebrate, Go got god, go crazy, knock yourself out.
And I understand. You beat a real team, the Dodgers. Congratulations.
Probably cheated while you were doing it, because that's what
you do. Why would you stop? You got away with
it baseball in Doorstead. They ran a big tobacco type
campaign to cover for you, So why would you not
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keep doing it? Right? Nothing has changed, nothing has changed,
no matter how many wins, go back to the World
Series again, It doesn't matter, right, doesn't matter. You aren't
forever known as a team that needed a trash can
a trash can to beat the Dodger Wiels and oh,
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by the way, didn't even outscore the Dodgers, and even
go to seven games to win the World Stairs Walt cheating.
Think about how much better the twenty seventeen Dodger team
was when the Houston team. The Houston team was, they
were cheating, They knew what was coming on most of
the pitchers, and the Dodgers took him to a game seven.
How embarrassing would have been a sweep without that would
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have been a sweep. It's gotta suck to if you're
an Albouve fan. Albuve is not going to the Hall
of Fame. He's not. He's not. They won't put in
Barry Bonds. They won't put in Roger Clements, those guys,
I'd put them in instead of Albouve. Maybe when he's dead,
like Pete Rose, they'll put him in the Hall of Fame,
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all right now, last word, So turning the page from that,
we had a shakeup in the managerial ranks and the
front office of Major League Baseball. The guillotine, the hammer
of death came down, well baseball death. Ind see what
is your knee jerk reaction on your knee jerk reaction
to the Nationals saying bye bye and firing Davy Martinez
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the manager and the GM, Mike Rizzo, who really heroes
to us. You might remember they beat the cheating a
holes in a World Series years ago. Been many years
since then, So my reaction is what took so long? Right,
as far as the Nationals are concerned, the Nats have
been a hot mess. Now we don't talk about the Nationals.
Why would we, We want people to actually listen. But
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the Nationals have been a hot mess, plain and simple.
They're so bad? How bad are they? Even ostrich Ant,
who lives in DC and drives a bus around the
dcra he got a good job, right union job. He
won't even watch the Nationals. That's how much they sucked, right,
And you think about the Nationals, both these guys, Rizzo
and Martinez, the GM and the manager are past their
(15:54):
expiration date. And that World Series they won, while it
was glorious and we enjoyed it, it was six years ago,
and the Nationals have been stumbling and bumbling the desert
of mediocrity without any water ever since then? How bad
has it been? Since the high water mark the twenty
nineteen World Series, the miraculous World Series run the team
(16:18):
from the greater DC area, there has posted I believe
five straight losing seasons, and they are all but guaranteed
to have number six year and twenty twenty five. And
the Nationals Ballpark is not the factory of sadness. It's
the museum of misery, is what it is. They're watching
the Nationals who have lost that two. They don't have
(16:38):
that natitude anymore. I don't know where it went. Davy
Martinez his comments, that's the big story here. He made
some comments. We talked about them briefly on the show.
Davy Martinez defended his coaching staff with the Nationals. Now
to say that just ruffled some feathers, that's a bit
of an understatement. It's a bit of an understatement. He
(16:59):
actually apparently to the clubhouse, the softies in the Washington
National Clubhouse. Not only are they bad baseball, they can't
take criticism. Now again, Davy Martinez said, it's never on coaching,
he said at the time. Never, It's always on the players,
Davey Martinez said, And that is all she wrote. That
(17:21):
is all she wrote. Those cream puffs better known as
Nationals players the cream plus she changed her name from
Nationals to creampuffs, looks like they ripped off a drug
stores logo anyway with the w there. So the Creampuff
players did not appreciate that Davey Martinez put the almighty
(17:43):
finger blame pointed that right in their direction, and so
the players were shocked, dismayed, bewildered and could not handle it.
They were pissed off, and so he lost the clubous
Now Jim might Rizzo. We famously fought with him years
ago over the usage of Stephen Strassburg. Might remember the
Nationals baby Steven Strasburg. So he could turn out to
(18:05):
retire early anyway, they were saving him so his career
would be cut short. So he's been with the Nationals
for almost twenty years in the front office. He was
also the general manager over the last almost almost twelve
full seasons. I think it was sometime in twenty thirteen,
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and he survived several managers before Davey Martinez and him
took their exit strategy there and won the World Series.
So you say a successful one. They did win the
World Series Cup. I think it was three NL East
titles under Mike Rizzo. But right now, when you know
your time's up, when you've been there for as long
as Rizzo's been there, and your baseball team is closer
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to the Rockies than it is to a playoff spot,
so good luck on that. And player development, well, none
of the guys the Nationals draft turned out to be
all that great. They got from the Padres for Juan Soto.
Those guys seem to know what they're doing. But they
to be fair, they do have a cheap owner. I
(19:09):
thought the national is gonna be sold a couple of
years ago, and they haven't been sold the same ownership
groups there. It's been three years. I know, it takes
a long time to sell a multi billion dollar sports entity.
It's been been a while, so they got cheap ownership,
but there's no excuse for the crappy product that is
on the field there. You know, even you know youa
Tampa Bay and some of these other teams that don't
(19:29):
spend money, they still put a team that's somewhat competitive
on the field. The Nationals are on pace to win
sixty eight games, by the way this year, and they
have no pipeline. They need a plunger. The pipelines clogged there.
For the Nationals, it's an unstable franchise. See if that
Learner family finally sells the Nationals here. But man, so
(19:51):
they just gave the mass extermination to everyone. Now he's
had a good job. Well, there's only thirty, right, there's
only thirty baseball teams. Thirty two baseball teams, I think
it is. So there's there's not that many baseball teams.
So that's it, and they pay pretty well. And DC
A lot of people like living in DC. If you
like hanging out with slimeball politicians and people like that,
(20:15):
it's nice. I guess outside DC. I'm Virginia, Maryland, it's
some nice plays to live anyway. It is the Ben
Malor Show. You want to comment on any of that,
we are starting the new week. You can join us
right now at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine. Now,
I don't expect I don't expect the Houston fans to
(20:37):
check in because I would hide too, because there's really
nothing you can say. The decision is already in the
Supreme Court has made their ruling. So even though you
got all giddy, you're all excited about your little baseball team,
your little scumbags winning some games, we know the truth, right,
and it doesn't change anything. Doesn't change anything at all.
(20:58):
All right, it is the Ben Maler Show again eight seven,
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six six three sixty nine. Well, a one hundred million
dollars baseball player one of the biggest contracts for his
team has been handed out, really does not want to
play for one of the glamour franchises in baseball, even
(21:19):
though they would like to trade for that particular player.
We'll get to that and we'll take your calls, your
comments on x at Ben Mallery will do it all,
and we will do it next.
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Back to it we go, and Jill writes in a
longtime supporter of the show, and she says, if I
have gotten over it, why can't you. I'm a Yankee fan. Now, Well, Jill,
if you have forgiven the cheating a holes, that shows
a character flaw in you, Jill, it's a bad job
by you. And to quote one of the great rallies
(23:49):
we see all the time every couple of years, right,
we see no justice, no peace. Well, there was no
justice for what the a holes did. Major League Baseball
allowed them to get away with it. So I say,
no justice, no peace. And that's the way I choose
to live, and I love it. Nature Boy writes and
says the cheating little boy kept hitting homers for the
Astros this weekend. He also says Manford didn't have any
(24:15):
problem with the a holes. We need to just move on.
Nothing to see here is what he said. That's pretty
much what he did. Nature Boy says, if Altube's wife
is okay with cheating, we can forget about justice for
the Astros. Rob Manford approves it as well. Super Market
Steve writes in he says, I thought about calling in
(24:35):
tonight busting your balls about the Dodgers for getting swept
by the Astros. But seeing as my Yankees needed the
umpire's help to avoid another sweep against the match, I
think I'll shut up tonight. Sit that one out, Just
sit that one out. Ostrich Ant is up late listening.
He says, Hey, Mallard, not only will I not watch
(24:56):
the Nationals, I also won't watch the Wizards. Don't blame me.
You likely did not watch the team formerly known as
the Redskins up until like last year when they finally
figured things out. Eugene in Chicago rights and says, what
happened with the Dodger pitching staff? Pitching staff? They're they're
all hanging out on vacation, that schmuck Blake Snell. But
(25:19):
who could have had the foresight, Eugene in Chicago, who
could have had the ability to see into the future,
like the great Nostradamas and friend of Nostradinas, yours truly
to say, Well, maybe you don't add Blake Snell because
the guy's a loser. Okay, the guys a schmuck Blake Snell.
He's made two starts this year. Blake Snell their big
(25:42):
offseason edition and their big addition the previous year a
couple years back was Tyler glassnew who is the most
appropriately named pitcher in baseball. The man is made out
of glass, and the Dodgers threw money. It's like they
went to the strip club and they were just tossed,
making it rain for these two dopes who have done
(26:04):
nothing as Dodgers except take money from the Dodgers and
not produce on the field. It's embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing. Terry
in England says, where are the classic A hole drops?
What the f is going on? Why are they Bennetts
so blah blah blah blah. Well, I've tried. I've given up, Terry.
I've tried to let them know what to play and
(26:25):
what not to play. They choose not to play it.
So I'm going to do the show the way I
want to do the show without the drops. A Boso,
the district attorney, says, I wonder if the NAT's TV
deal expiring has something to do with the decision to
clean house. Also, maybe they wouldn't be in the position
if ownership let Rizzo keep Bryce Harper and Juan Soto
years ago, says Boso, the district attorney. Aileen says, excellent monologue,
(26:50):
Never forget She points out who else we have? Matt
writes in can we get on the topic of how
Suzuki has been robbed in broad daylight? I have a
much deserved All Star reserve spot. I don't really give
that much attention to the All Star reserves because the
players don't care about the All Star Game. That's why
(27:11):
they had to put the rule in years ago. Or
this time it matters and other players hate the y'all.
I'll bet you Clayton Kershaw. I'll give you an example, Matt,
so that they now Major League Baseball announced I guess
they've done this before, like the legends of the game.
They add someone who's not deserving of being an All
Star this year, but because of their career achievements, they
(27:32):
put them on the All Star team. And Clayton Kershaw
is a great example of a guy who was so
excited about being named to the All Star Team he
refused to speak to the media about it on Sunday,
likely because I'm guessing he had a vacation planned for
All Star weekend and now he's got to bring his
fat ass to Atlanta instead of going to a nice
(27:53):
tropical vacation somewhere. So that's just my assumption. Maybe Kershaw
was so verclemp with emotion. He did not want to
talk about it. But my god, all let's go to
the phones and let's see who do we have eeny
meany miney mo. Let's say hello to Tony in the
Bay area. What's going on? Tony? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Hey man.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
David Leaner bre so bad. Even kobeas she was like, God, damn.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
No, thank you. Tony's a quick drive by, drop a
line and then and then move on. So I'm pretty
sure now that the Dodgers are in Milwaukee right now.
They play the brew Crew this week, so I'm pretty
sure ifsay is not not listening, Oho, there's not much
open on a Sunday night in uh in Milwaukee. Having
(28:43):
been to Milwauk unless they changed it when I was
there years ago, not much open late at night. They
pretty much roll up Milwaukee at There's a couple of
bars open, but that's that's about it. I want a
bite to eat. Good luck. Malaprop guy says fer Dogs
seems to have gone missing for the last week or so.
Right after it was announced that a man from Fortune
(29:07):
was arrested for selling illegal fireworks. I hain't even at fullertune.
Also perhaps a coincidence. He also disappeared about the same
time live reads have ceased on the show, says Malard
Propkat get to the bottom of that. Billy writes in
from parts on O and he says, Blake Snell and
Tyler Glass, now we're only good in Tampa Bay because
(29:29):
of coaching. Now they can't pitch worth anything. Well, Blake
Snell's a He's known as being a very soft, very
soft pitcher and does not have intestinal fortitude to made
out of. I ain't pitch unless I get mine.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That used to be a drop we used to play
on the show back when we had drops. Let's go
to Andrew in Baker's what's going on? Andrew? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
What's up? Ben? How you been.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Andrew? You're back. You disappeared for a while, but you
returned to the show. Why are we so lucky to
have you back on the show?
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Andre, Well, I'm always listening, but or not always but
most of the time. Yeah, catching you, But I had
to switch my hours up a little bit and sleep
at night.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Are you working in the dreaded day shift?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Now?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
No? No, just I moved into a house with other people.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So I had to, Okay, you have to be polite
and other people do not like you calling in and
talking wake them up. I understand.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Okay, So number one, number one, Yes, number one. I
was wondering why you didn't have Clayton Kershaw as your
first hour monologue on the night that he got three
thousand strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Because I don't. I'm not. I don't care. That's I don't.
It doesn't do anything for me. I didn't get a
chubby like everyone else in the LA media. I mean,
what do you want me to do? Don't you want
me to lie and pretend? Oh my god, this is
the greatest world. But I think of Clayton Kershaw, I
think of him writing the vomit comment in big games
as a Dodger. That's what I think of Clayton Kershaw.
I don't think of three thousand strike it's a lifetime
(31:08):
achievement award. But when I think of the career of
Clayton Shirshaw, I think of him gagging in the biggest games.
That's what I think of Kershaw.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Well, maybe people were cheating in the.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Playoffs, Okay, Well, what about the rest of the years.
Were they cheating? Every year Kershaw was pitching in the
playoffs or is it I know twenty throw away twenty seventeen.
What about the other ones?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Okay, but I haven't know what about the other one?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Seriously, what about the other ones? Everyone only when Kershaw
was pitching they were cheating?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Well they won in twenty twenty. So but number two,
you can't. I got to stick up for David Basset
and asking why.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Would you stick up with that? For assay, he's a
shill for the Dodgers. Why would you? Why would you
stick up for Well?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Are you not just bitter because you got kicked out
of the stadium because all of the media for show?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
He No, I was fighting with that. Say before that,
I think it's embarrassing for the Dodger pr Department. I've
said that they're frauds over there. But that's fine, Okay.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Well, he's alright with me as far as I can do.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Okay, So you liked him and they when he licks
the players toes, you enjoy that. You think that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
He's funny, he's good.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
How about when he like makes breakfast for Blake SNeW
You think that's good? You enjoy that.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I hadn't heard about that.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, yeah, all right, thank you, all right, I'm glad
you still suck as a call though your Femi writes
in from Chicago, says a Mallard a plus and a
spicy tuna role on the opening mallar monologue, All Star
Game is a joke for robbing the Cubs superstar Suzuki.
The entire NL lineup should be Cubs. We there you go,
(32:43):
Nature boy says, I say, never admitted that Blake Snell
has been a bus so far? What a kiss astro? Yeah,
now I know, and you heard that, nature boy. The
most obvious thing to say is at this point, what
is it what we have to worry about today? And
we don't know what's gonna happen in the future, but
you worry about what has happened. And so as of
this moment, I asked. I was doing some local stuff
(33:06):
LA local radio this week and we had had Schmuck
Vassa on Who's a dodger of propagandas and I was like, hey, listen,
I mean, just this guy's been a bust and he
would not admit it. Blake Snell a total bust. The
most easiest thing you could possibly sell tell anyone is
that Blake Snell has been bad at his job because
he hasn't shown up. He's gone a wall. He's at
(33:28):
the end of his problem. That's the thing is only
gonna get worse. Blake Snell's thirty two. Your athletic prime
ends at age thirty two. It's only gonna get worse.
He's made two starts as a Dodger. We are now
into July. The All Star Game is right around the corner.
He's made two starts. That's it. And it was a
simple it was. It was a layup question. Wouldn't answer,
(33:51):
it would not answer. It wouldn't do it? All right,
is a Ben Mahler show. Time now for the play
of the day. The Yankees have sucked for the last
couple of weeks. Here they got off the schneide and
Aaron Judge did hit his thing. Take a list first.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Pets from one Dell swing on and driven to the
gap lets center field.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
But Captain rings the bell, two run shot. Yankees having
a day. It's five nothing Yankees all right to call
there on Yankees Radio. That is the tire Iraq play
of the day. Yankees held on barely beat the Mets.
But for over forty years, ty Iraq has been helping
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One of the biggest contracts ever handed out by the
Pittsburgh Pirates. Brian Reynolds. It's outfielder. It's a pretty mediocre
(34:57):
player if you asked me. But Brian Reynolds a two.
I'm All Star because someone on the Pirates has to
make the All Star team. And there's a lot of
chatter the Pirates are going to trade him. The deadline
is at the end of this month, July thirty first,
Today is July seventh for most till July sixth on
the West coast, but it's coming up. Trade deadline will
be here before you know it. And we are told
(35:18):
the Dodgers are on the no trade list. How about
Brian Reynolds. Brian Reynolds getting a no trade list? Brian
effing Reynolds, hes, I can't that it blows me away
that he's on. He's got a list of the teams
he will not play for. Reynolds is thirty years old
for the Pirates this year, he's hitting two thirty two
(35:42):
with ten home runs, and he has been pretty bad
all season for the Buckos, and he is likely to
be going to be traded. However, unless the Dodgers can
give him some extra money, he will not be going there.
He has signed all the way through twenty thirties on
an eight year contract with a team option for the
(36:02):
following year, but Brian Reynolds locked up for the long
term for the Pirates. It is the Ben Maler Show.
Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
So White Sox rookie pitcher Shanes Smith talk about a
generic name. So Shane Smith became just the second Rule
five draft pick to ever receive an All Star selection.
The first sinds me, who am I? That's the question?
The answer, We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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Thank God for the Internet. All right, back to it
we go, and we are rolling rolling a long time
now for the who m I Game? This is where
we pretend to be somebody else as we call it
the who am I Game? So White Sox rookie pitcher
Sheene Smith became just the second Rule five draft pick
to ever receive an All Star selection. Somebody from the
(37:44):
Chicago White Sox had to make the All Star team,
and it turns out of Shane Smith and the first
Shane Smith since me among the rule five draft picks.
So that is the question. What is the answer, And
let's see does anyone know the answer? We go to
the Great Unwashed here Wood he held from Donkey Sausage.
(38:06):
That's his answer. Who else? The fawns from Ferd Dog
alive and well in that winter Wonderland and Fullerton, Shane
and the Moyinge going with SuperSonics legend. Kendall Gill, who
briefly was a boxer, did not know so well there
Bobby in Florida going with Marie the Cat as his answer.
I forty Ian says twins legend. Scott Leis is the answer.
(38:31):
Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says the honor in honor
of the fourth of July weekend which we just had,
go with Jason Pierre Paul. Yeah, that's interesting. Ryan Presley
from Eke and Roseveld, Minnesota. Mister nice guy says, Calvin Cryon,
Shiraldy Cub legend, Red Sox legend, Calvin Cheraldy oh Man.
(38:53):
Who else do we have? Page down Poppy from was
guessed by Shane Bernie as Slot from King Rory Rex Huddler,
the Hudman from Malor prop Guy Royals broadcaster Springfield's own
Kurt Russell from alf the alien o Piner Franklin Stubbs
(39:14):
tossed out by the Nature Boy. Who else do we have?
Page down Big Greg Greg rather not Big Greg Greg
the real estate mogul from Baltimore, says the ref in
the USA versus Mexico game? Who swallowed his whistle on
the handball in the box call? I did not watch
a second of that, but I will take your word
for it. Tanya Harding, the designated hitter from Big Lou
(39:36):
He's on number two? Who else you have? The dwarf
Man Scott says Blake Snell's ridiculous contract makes Kevin Brown's
deal look like a bargain. That is about about right.
Turmel Sister Sledge from Bay City, Tony Andres Munos guessed
by Robbie the Meriner fan. That's his answer. Pablo Sanchez
(39:59):
from Jordan. Who else do you have? John got this right?
Bad job by him? Floyd Banister guest by Sean in
the Valley of the Sun. Who else do we have?
Rick Monday American hero he saved the flag from Larry
d That's his answer? Who else do we have? It
sees it? Who am I game? Terry in England says,
(40:22):
is it Roberto the bus driver?
Speaker 5 (40:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
And did none here from Roberto this weekend? Who else
do we have? Page down? Can't read that on the air?
All right? We in need in answer? And again the
who am I game? Question? One more time? If you're
late to the party. The Chicago White Sox rookie pitcher
Sheen Smith became just the second Rule five Draffick to
(40:47):
ever receive an All Star selection, the first since me,
who am I? Loraina? Do you have an answer the
range I'm gonna go with Rocky Balboa? Is it Rocky Balboa? No?
It is none other than the great Dan Ugla. Dan
Uggla who, as I remember, had one of the worst
(41:08):
All Star All Star Game performers. It was at the
All Star Game at Yankee Stadium. It was not a
day to remember there for Dan. A lot of mistakes,
A lot of mistakes that day. Dan, Yeah,
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