July 10, 2025 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the Dodgers being in the midst of a six game losing streak after being swept by the Brewers, Devin Booker agreeing to a 2-year $145m contract extension with the Suns, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!
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They used to be known as the Big Blue Wrecking Crew,
but now they're just a wreck, an absolute wreck right now.
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You know who you are. You idiots reached out to me.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
You better start with that. You're not gonna talk about it.
You're gonna hide from I'm not. First of all, I
don't work for the team. They don't even want me
the games anymore. I'm not a spokesman for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'm not so. But I will start with that.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's the story you seem to want, based on the
customer feedback that we're getting here as we just begin
the red eye flight. So we'll start out in the
cream City, hardball heaven right now. Oh man, they are
flying high. The beard tastes better than ever. The sky
is falling in La Laland, the sky is falling. The
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top record in baseball six games ago and not anymore.
So if you have not been paying attention, perhaps not, because,
as one of my friends likes to say, why do
you watch baseball? They play one hundred and sixty two games.
Ye reminds me of a caller used to have. Judgmental
John from Michigan used to call me up every every
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weekend and complain there's too many baseball games. Well, listen,
you don't have to watch every game. Number one, Number two.
Those of us that like to watch shit most of
the games and check them out, scan them, we enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
So stay in your lane.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Anyway, In Milwaukee, a Mattinee Jackson Churio singling home the
winning run. The Brewers came back to tie it late,
they win it in the tenth inning, and the brew
crew get the win over LA three to two, and
they complete the first ever home sweep of the Dodgers
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in franchise history. Holy Bernie Brewer, Batman Race the Sausages
So Milwaukee. The only other times they swept the Dodgers,
you gotta go back to the year twenty seventeen in
August of that year, and then back in twenty twelve
as well.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But the better story here, the better story is that's right,
you pay attention, job by you.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So the better story is in the losing locker room,
the NL West leading.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
They still lead the NS.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The Doyers have lost not one, not two, not three,
not four, not five, six consecutive baseball games. So let
us discuss the formerly known Big Blue wrecking crew with
all these losses getting swept by the Brewers. So what
do you make of the current state of the Dodgers.
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So my thoughts on this, I've got Oiji board, Jeff Bezos,
and family feud, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some peanut eminem's,
which I think have more power at this point, more
crunch than the current Dodger lineup. So my first thought
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on this, the word that pops in my head the
current state of the Dodgers is the d word disheartening. Now,
we we have a mantra, and it's been the mantoe
we've had for many, many years around these parts that
we don't worry about too far into the future or
too far into the past.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
We have to worry about today.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Right, we are assigned by the powers at this multi
million dollar business that we work at to talk about
what's going on today.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
We have to worry about today. So today, as I.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Talk to you one on one, me to you the
Dodgers are a sad sack operation, and I realize they
are the reigning champions of baseball. However, Dave Roberts gives
me no confidence and I'm gonna die on that mountain.
The team this week has been crumbling and Dave Roberts,
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you watch him there standing in the dugout and it's
like his mind is wandering, like he's trying to remember
it showed him in the dugout. It looks like he's like,
maybe I left the oven on my home before I
left on the road trip. You know, it's like, maybe
I should I call somebody. I think the oven's on
in my kitchen.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I don't know what. It's like. He's got that look.
And then you watch him later in.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The game and it's like he's he's doing a wine
tasting at awake. With the Dodgers offense and the team,
I mean, in this moment, they are spiraling into the
alligator death role against the cheating Astros who then got
swept by Cleve What frauds the a holes are right,
(06:25):
I mean of course, you get up for the Dodgers,
brought those trash cans out for the Dodgers, and you
played the Cleveland Guardians and got swept.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
How embarrassing. Anyway, it's about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So they got smashed by the cheating a holes and
now the Brewers. So it's one of these things where
you step right up again. It's like the State Fair.
You win a stuffed animal, beat the Dodgers. Right now,
this week everyone is drowning and shredding, the Dodgers and
the smaller bite sized pieces. Now it's moments like these
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when I see Dave Roberts in the dugout that I
long for the good old days. I need a Oigi board.
I need a Wigi board to someone that I knew
a little bit. We weren't friends, but he knew who
I was, and we chatted when we ran into each other.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
The sweet spirit of the late great Tommy Lasorda. Oh man,
what are you doing? Just bear with me? Lasorda.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
If he was managing a team, he never had a
team as talented as this current Dodger team. But if
Losorta was managing a team, this good right. And he
watched a week of baseball like this. If he were
around to have witnessed the malaise of this baseball team,
he would have already thrown a fit volcanic. They would
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have gotten FEMA involved because of what Lasorda was doing. Yeah,
you would have had the media meltdown. My opinion the
king was of performance, My opinion of the bullpens.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
My opinion is went on unsucked and it's just it's great.
So he would he would coach the sorta would coach
like third base, we gotta fire.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
The team up, go third base.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
He'd take a gatorade cooler, toss it down like he
was spiking football, give a speech that would make Vince Lombardi,
you know, just you know, shaking in the boots or
in this case, the grave.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But Dave Roberts, on the other.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Hand, he has the aura of a guy trapped in
a medically induced coma when you watch and certain guys
have just stopped hitting. Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts for
the last really not just the last six games. Prior
to that, they've not performed. The big bullpen picked ups
the Dodgers got. They spent a lot of money on
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Tanner Scott. All the Nerds had their pants down for
Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates and these guys me god Arson squad.
Tanner Scott leads baseball with six blown saves. That was
their big addition to the bullpen. Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates.
Everyone talks about how great his stuff is.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And I watch it. I'm like, well, he looks like
it's an Italian restaurant.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
There's a lot of meatballs there. No, I do realize
that in the big picture, the wide angle lens, the
famous quote from Lou Holtz that you're never as good
as everyone tells you you are when you win. You're
never as bad as they say when you lose. I
get all that, but we have to worry about today, right,
And there's a lot of people and I get this,
you know, people like the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Listen to the show.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
We're on the Dodger flagship in LA that's our our
flagship on Fox Sports Radio. So we have a lot
of Dodger fans that listen to the show and Dodger
fans around the country, and they always push back against me.
They say, well, you're too emotional, right, And these people
just assume the Dodgers are going to flip the switch
because they have so much talent, And is that how
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it works? Is I always thought baseball it's not the
most talented team that wins. And at the moment, to me,
that's hard to swallow. I mean, a week from now,
when seven games in a row or something that we
can we visit it. But I realize that when you
get to October, all that matters is who does better
in the moment. I understand that I've preached about that.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
For a long time.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
But in this particular chapter, the Dodgers find themselves in
a deep dark place and someone needs to Maybe Dave
Roberts can hire someone to hand the players a torch
and a map.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Maybe just a well, not a torch, how about an.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
LED flashlight with one thousand lumens in a bright, reliable illumination,
and then like a map, and then they're maybe GPS
on the phone. Just get him out of there, Just
get him out of there right now.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Turn the page. So we go now to Queens.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The gift that keeps giving the New York Metropolitans outfielder
One Soto. One Soto, the highest fed player in Baseball
so one, Soto was asked if he would have liked
to have made the All Start. He was asked recently
about that. Now Soto is not named initially to the
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All Star Game, he might end up on the roster
by the time the game comes around next week. But
Soo was asked about this, and he responded by saying,
what do you think you said?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Did you see this? Hear about it now?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So Juan Soto responded by saying, what do you think
I think? Sodo said, it's a lot of money on
the table if I make it close quote. So it
is true Soto will miss out on one hundred thousand
dollars incentive in his contract for not making the All
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Star team. Okay, so, Juan Sodo, here's the question, Juan
Soto of the Mets complaining about missing out on a
hundred thousand dollars All Star contract bonus. What does this
say about Juan Soto? So, I'm gonna go first, and
then if you want to chime in later, you can
call it it's confirmation. Now he's obviously not just a ballplayer.
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In fact, you could argue he's not a ballplayer. He's
a soldier of fortune. He'd been that way with Washington
and San Diego and with the Yankees. He is a
mercenary in cleats. He doesn't use a machete. He uses
a baseball bat.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
One.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Soto is just playing baseball. No no, no, I checked
that he's playing the market. Now he's playing mark Now.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He got a seven hundred and sixty five million dollar
contract with the Metropolitans, and now he's apparently upset because
he missed out on let me check my notes here,
one hundred thousand dollars all star bones. Do you realize
what that's like. That's like Jeff Bezos complaining because his
super yacht didn't come with the Wi Fi hooked up
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in there. Yeah, buy extra WiFi, Like you gotta be
joking right now. We did the malormath, and malarmath is
a version of math. It is not always accurate, but
we believe one hundred thousand dollars out of seven hundred
and sixty five million is point zero one three percent
of the contract that Soto got to play in Flushing.
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So you don't really have to worry about where Sodo
stands when it comes to love.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Of the game.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Now there is love from Juan Soto, the love of
the direct deposit. When someone says it's not about the money,
it's always about the money. But for Juan Soto, he
doesn't even play the game like there's something somewhat refreshing,
which is very odd when it comes to Wan Soto
that he doesn't even bother pretending he doesn't give you
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cliches about I just want to make the Mets great
and I'm here to help my teammates and all I
love the met fans, No, key, don't give a crap
about the Mets fans. Right, So my advice if you
do like the Mets is to buckle up, cause that's
your problem. Hey, my problem. You got fifteen years, almost
an entire generation of that JIBBRONI okay, fifteen years to
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watch Juan Soto as he counts commas in his contract
while you're counting wins and losses and strikeouts and home
runs and all that. And so he went to the
Mets not because he wanted to be a Met. He
went to Queens because not about the legacy. Who gives
about legacy. It's all about his portfolio, and he's showing
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you it's like if somebody shows you what they are.
Believe him all right? Now, last word, we stay in
New York, we go to the Bronx, a high profile
roster move. So the New York Yankees have designated two
time batting champion DJ Lemayhew.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Remember him, used to be good, used to be good.
Not good anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So they've designated for assignment, which is Baseball's way of
saying you've been fired.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
It will end his seven year roun.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
In the Bronx, and he's owed twenty two million through
next season. So how does that taste in the Big
Apple for the Yankees? How does that taste? So I
would advise you, I'll tell you how it taste. So
get your bib, get a napkin, get your knife in
the fork, because this tastes like crow.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
With a side of fletmeon right, in all seriousness, this
is a perfect way to lose a job.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's like DJ lem Mayhew appeared on Family Feud with
the Great Steve Harvey, and you know he was on
there doing this thing and they made a mistake. They
made a mistake, and they gave him twenty two million
dollars by mistake. You talk about the fast money around
Holy canoley, right, and that's not Hey, we're gonna cut
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ties with DJ le Mayhew.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
We're gonna cut a No, we're gonna cut a check
and hope nobody reads it. Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's like you hear about this story every once in
a while. It always makes the you know, it makes
the internet news that somebody's gonna get married. There's something
that happens right before the wedding. You know, somebody sleeps
with somebody else or whatever, and so the wedding ends
up getting canceled three days before the wedding.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Right, and you still got to pay for the open bar.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You still do it. You don't have to, but you
still do it. But DJ the Mayhew at this point,
the way he's performed recently a vinyl record in a
streaming world. Now he's thirty five, he hits like a
guy who should be. I mean, I'm a forty five.
He's had toe injuries, he's got the range of a
trash can. Uh. The contract has aged about as well
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as room temperature sushi. At this point, there's no zip.
When he makes contact. The nerds get all upset because
they look at the numbers, all, oh, that's not good
you know, that's that's terrible. There's like caution tape wrapped
around his legs at this point, and it's it's bad.
So again, the Yankees knew when they signed le may
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this was likely the way it was gonna end, and
so don't let a falling star fall on you. The
Yankees can afford it, So we're not going to sit
here and have a bake sale for the New York Yankees.
But le Mayhew is now going to try to hitch
a ride with another contender because it's unlikely that le
Mayhew will go to a bad team, although the Angels
like to pick up guys like this. So while the
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Yankees have already moved on and they now have the
sweet sound of Jazz Jazz Chisholm in their lineup full
time at second base, DZL Mayhew will now go to
the transfer portal with his pockets filled filled to the.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Brim with twenty two million large. Not bad, not bad. Again,
I was mentioned when these things happen, it's like especially coaches,
not so much players.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
But I'll do rants about coaches get fired, and I'll
just slay them behind the microphone. Inevitably, some dope will
send me an email a heartfelt message, and they'll tell me, well,
it's very mean. They lost their job, and I'm like,
what are you talking about. They lost their job and
they won an amount of money, a payout which is
larger than the lottery in all all the states that
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have the lottery. So like, I'm not going to sit
here and cry about that. I mean, maybe you will,
but I'm not.
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begin in the Grand Canyon State. Everyone's talking about this
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raising Arizona, at least raising the payroll of Arizona money.
Many money, big money, big money, big money. No waymies
stop right in the valley, the Valley of the Sun.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
So if you didn't see this or hear about it,
news came down kind of late in the day. D
book got paid. So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Sun superstar Devin Booker has agreed to a two year,
one hundred and forty five million dollar max extension that
keeps him under contract through the twenty twenty nine twenty
thirty season. And now this has led the Phoenix fanatics,
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the Marching and Chowder Society of the Suns there praising
Devin Booker for his loyalty to the land of the Cacti.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Do you agree with the sentiment of a good chunk
of the fan base of the Suns that this is
a loyalty play by Devin Booker. So I've got kidney, Spago,
and Deli counter, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Make a crackpot.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Now, crackpot is a person that thinks this is because
of loyalty's that's a crackpot, all.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Right, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I am one hundred and eighty degrees the opposite direction
now must be a different dimension that I resided than
the people that are saying that in the multiverse. And
this is not a contract that Devin Booker got. This
is a jackpot. I did the malor math, and if
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my math is correct, that is seventy two and a
half million dollars per year. He won't even play seventy
two games a year for the Sons. It's powerball with
a jump shot. Good for him. And yet, somehow, some way,
there are so many fanboys out there that an obvious
money move here. And you have the low information Neanderthal
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knuckle dragging fan you know who you are treating this like.
Devin Booker just donated a kidney to a hospital in Phoenix.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Like, oh my god, he stead he's so loyal, Who
my god, It's just amazing, and they're clutching their foam
fingers and they're they've got that little gorilla mascot stuffies.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It's not about loyalty. Devin Booker's rich.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
He was already rich. Now he's richer than rich. He's
not giving the Sons a hometown discount. He's not sacrificing
or anything like that. So stop he cashed in like
this is like a hedge fund manager on insider info, right,
he got insider him.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It is a hometown heist, is what it is. And
Devin Booker he.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Didn't stay with the Suns because he loves the desert
sunsets and loves hanging out in a town where it's
one hundred and fifty degrees part of the year, or
the Southwestern cuisine.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
He stayed because the.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Suns offered him every dollar they legally could offer him
under the salary cap, and he said, yes, please, I
will take that. And I'd also like a statue to
gout in a doggy back? Can you put a statue
to go.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
In a doggyback? So this is not a feel good story.
I have no problem Devin Booker getting paid. He's a star.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It's not my cup of tea and all that. But
I'm not a Suns fan. So if you like him, great.
He puts up numbers. I feel like they're empty numbers.
And you know, let's stop pretending it's a capitalism move.
That's fine, but let's stop pretending this is some kind
of Disney movie. I see this reaction, I'm like, is
this real? Are there actually people that are living amongst
us in the sports world that are like this.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He didn't fall on a grenade. I mean, what are
you doing? He didn't rescue people, you know, like they
I saw. I was reading the story that tragedy in Texas.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The flood and this horrible story, and there was a
guy from the Coast Guard, this like first mission ever.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
This guy in his.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Twenties, I think he's twenty six, and he rescued, like,
helped rescue one hundred, one hundred people more than that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's that's a that's a hell of a story anyway,
all right now, Page two to La we Go, La
La Land. So the new details out on the fallout
from the Lakers record smashing ten ten billion. That's ten million,
ten billion, ten million, yeah, right, ten billion dollars sale.
(25:47):
So we are now hearing that it is official. The
deal allows Genie Buss to remain as the team's acting
own Of course, the NBA won't say owner, they're woke.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
They say governor. Anyway, for at least five years.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Different report, however, from Front Office Sports says that Genie
Buss will only be able to stay for at most
five years.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Either way, she is sticking around. The Bus family legacy
will continue for a few more years.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
So where do you stand on lame duc Genie Buss
continuing to be the face of Laker ownership.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
At league meetings, she has a seat at the table
even though she agreed to sell the franchise.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
All right, So when I first heard about.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
This, I was like, wow, this is just it was crazy,
and I said, well, maybe this won't actually happen, but
it appears to have happened now. So this feels like
something you would This kind of a deal feels like
something you would write on a cocktail napkin at Spago
during happy hour. It reminds me of one of my
favorite radio stories. There was a guy named Gene Autry.
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You probably don't know who that is if you're below
a certain age, if you're really old, you know who
Genautry is. He was known as the singing cowboy back
in the old days of country music, Gene Autry, and
he owned a bunch of radio stations on the Angels,
a bunch of radio stations. And I heard from somebody
that worked at one of his radio stations, worked at
the old KMPC, that Gene Autry at the holiday party,
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at the Christmas party would get completely hammered and would
he was very friendly. You know, there's different kinds of drunks.
There's the angry drunk, there's a happy drunk. There's the
I will give out ridiculous contracts. So there was a story,
famous radio story that was told early in my career
by somebody that worked for gen Autry that on the
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back of a napkin at a restaurant in Hollywood, he
signed one of his DJs to a lifetime contract that
did stand up in court.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
And that reminds me of he is. Like Genie bus
probably was a Spago.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
She had a cocktail of a happy hour there and
she somehow finagled I'll get five more years over at
half five more seasons minimum or at the most.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Either way, that is not.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Governance, is it is cosplays. I mean, this isn't about basketball.
It's not about winning championships. It's about ego, right, It's
all about optics and ego. It's about walking into the
arena there down on skid Row in LA and watching
nineteen thousand people nod and oh, look at that royalty.
(28:28):
You know, it's about making sure that she sticks around,
because that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
The Lakers sale agreement. It's like a prenup, very.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Bizarre, right, It's got this clause in there where it's
like institutional sentimentality.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
It's not a business.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
It's like performance art in really expensive heels. At this point,
and my belief maybe I'm wrong on this, but I
have always said that the person that has the checkbook,
the person that writes the checks, is the one with
the power.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
So in this particular story.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
That would be Mark Walter and the Guggenheim partners who
bought the Lakers. They own the Dodgers, also not Genie Buss.
So the blueprints have changed. They've transferred over the deed
to the team and Genie Buss is going around as
the figurehead.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
She's like the Queen of England, being.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Trotted out for ceremonial appearances, have a spot of tea
while the real power brokers play geopolitical chess. Mark Walter
and all them behind the.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Velvet rope and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
But Gen you can walk on the red carpet, but
they'll take care of the business in the back.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Now final point.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
We now go old guy radio.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Who that's right, We're doing old guy radio.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So we flashback to a by God era long long
ago and a much different world in the NBA. So
we learned that frank Leyden You might not know who
that is. Frank Laden, a man that had the gift
of gab, former coach of the Utah jazz.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Led them to the playoffs for the first time. He's dead.
Now when I found out, we were like, I didn't
even know he was still alive.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I mean, frank was an old guy when he was
working in the NBA, but he made it all the
way to.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Ninety three ninety three.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So I wanted to spend a few minutes going down
memory lane. I think it's important when someone that touched
my sports fandom and I certainly wasn't a Utah jazz fan,
but someone that touched my fandom passes away. I think
it's the proper respect. We used to do a six
line tribute. Then they changed the phone system and now
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we can't put six lines on the air, so that
went to hell. So the question what are you going
to remember about long ago jazz coach? And he was
the jam well for years, Frank Layton. So the first
thing is a life well lived? Ninety three is a
great run ninety three. I mean we'd all take that
right now, we'd sign up for that. Say give me
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ninety three.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
I'm good. I'm pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
The bigger than life personality, and I was thinking about
it when I was coming into the studio. Frank Layden's
life story like an old school Hollywood comedy. It really
is like an old school Hollywood company. So if you
don't know his backstory, this is a street wise guy,
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fat guy from Brooklyn, you know, typical over the top,
in your face New York guy, right out of Central Casting,
and he ended up coaching the New Orleans Jazz He
then got dropped into Mormon country and it's like he
took some kind of wrong turn. I think he was
coming out of the Holland Tunnel and he went the
(31:57):
wrong way and then he ended up waking up in
someplace in Salt Lake.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
City holding a clipboard. In the early nineteen eighties, now.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You understand it was a much different time in professional sports,
this corporate bull crap we have today in sports. Frank
Laydon was a byproduct of a mom and pop era.
In the NBA, he was the coach, he was the
general manager, but it looked like he belonged behind the
deli counter, yelling next, right, who's got next?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
What do you want? So pastrami? What do you want? Corn? Beef? Yeah, okay,
roast beef, turkey, haym, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Like? He could have been a taxi cab driver in
another life and nobody would have thought anything of it.
And he didn't waste his time crunching analytics and player
efficiency ratings and all that crap. Didn't worry about it,
didn't need a computer back then, when the computers were archaic.
When he was doing his thing, he had a rotary
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home landline, rotary phone, no cell phone, and he picked
players on gut instinct. Oh my god, if you went
into the front offices of basketball, baseball, and football and said,
all right, no computers, no analytics.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
You just got to go by your gut.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
How many people would resign, how many people would have
a heart attack. But back then it was just the
way you did things right. But the thing that I
remember also about Frank.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Layden the charisma that you can't teach.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And I was waxing poetic about my early days. It
was I started in the radio business as a reporter,
but it was it was in the early relative early nineties,
and a lot of the guys from the eighties were
still in the NBA, and it.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Was such a different era.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Like Doug ma and Frank Layden and these big personalities
goofball coaches, and it was wonderful to get sound as
a radio guy because they just gave the most ridiculous quotes.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
It was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
But Frank drafted John Stockton and Carl Malone back to
back years, yeah, back to back years in the draft,
and one year we got stocked. In the next year
we got Carl Malone Hall of Famers to the all
time greats. And I'll bet you dollars to donuts that
Frank Laydon spent more time choosing what kind of hogi
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he was going to have at lunch than he did
scouting or you know, there was no algorithms or anything
like that, so he didn't think about predictive models or
any of that stuff. All right, please, Yeah, the idea
of analytics, Frank Layden was from an era where you
shoo a hand, you made a joke, you know, you
told the zinger a one liner, a wise crack, and
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he coached with a towel. Frank Laydon slung over his shoulder,
was already sweaty at the old Salt Palace there in
Salt Lake City, and it always looked like he when
he was coaching, it looked like he was working at
the YMCA and he was going to clean the court
and grab the mop. And his news conferences would be
stand up comedy.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
It was back in those days.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You just criticize the players, and that's just it just
goofun Now, if you criticize the players as a war tribunal,
you lose the locker room. Back then, you know that
guy's fat, that guy's out of shape. You know that
guy's a loser. That guy should know. But it was
a different time. And and Frank Laydon was a throwback
again to a time when the NBA was like.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Half game, half vaudeville. And listen, younger, young peoples. Oh
it was terrible. Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Losers like that podcaster JJ Reddick like to rip the
old days.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
But Frank Laydon, I mean it was. It was great.
I have fun memories. So rest in peace, Frank Laydon,
a life well lived.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
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Speaker 4 (35:49):
Here we all the degree, this is one big event.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
Gets grilled and Cho's wide receiver Marvin Mim said on
a radio appearance that quote, you can really feel that
the times are changing for us, referring to the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
Last year, the Broncos snapped a streak of eight years
without making the making it to the playoffs. Do you
think a streak of making it to the postseason has begun?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
So the math is no on this. It is about
the bow show, Bow Nicks.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
He's at the launching pad, does he go up, up
and away with Sean Payton? Denver is going to have
a pretty good defense. They figured it to be right, there.
You can't say it's the start of a streak because
you look at the AFC, the Chiefs are still right
there in the penthouse. You've got Buffalo and Baltimore the
top teams. But then you look at the wild Cards
(36:40):
and so it's the Chargers. The Broncos are in the
mix with the Ravens, the Bengals. I think the Patriots
will be better this year, and so no, I'm gonna
go knowing that next.
Speaker 8 (36:51):
According to analysts and betting markets, Zach Wheeler and Paul
Skeens are neck and neck in the nl CY Young race.
Who do you think should win?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Major League Baseball would like they don't vote on this,
the writers vote on this, but they would like Paul
Skeens to win. It's a good story. The pitiful Pirates
breakout star. He's got the social media influencer, you know,
woman in his life and the whole thing. Zach Wheeler.
Though he actually pitches in meaningful games. It's very odd
because normally these things are decided the last month of
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the season. The Pirates, they're not going to play any
meaningful games till the grape Fruit League next year. So
he's Paul Skeens is gonna have to dominate and then.
But I think because of the meaningful games, I give
it to Zach Wheeler next.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Chiefs Jim Brett Veach said this week that Travis Kelcey
may not have it every week, but he can find
it when they need it.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
Ben, Do you think that will be the case for Kelsey, Well,
he didn't have it in.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
The Super Bowl. It looked like he was.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Sleepwalking in the Super Bowl, which was the biggest of
them all, the granddaddy of them all. He's gonna turn
thirty six during the NFL season. Let's put it this way.
He's not going to lead the Chiefs in statistics. I
wouldn't be betting on him dominating this year.
Speaker 9 (38:01):
How did we do?
Speaker 4 (38:03):
It's already over. We won, It's already over.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
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Speaker 8 (38:53):
All right, Ben Perito would like to know have any
of you let loose in Tijuana in your party days? Uh?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
No, No.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I was real close to it in San Diego, and
I worked down there years ago, but I haven't spent
spent much time in Tijuana, although I did hear some
amazing tales about certain shows involving animals you'd see at
a zoo Lorena.
Speaker 10 (39:17):
I don't know if it was Tijuana. I think it
was wherever Papa's and beer is. But I definitely had
enough Margarita's to fall asleep on the way back across
the border.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Was it? Was it just across the word because Tijuana
was like right across the.
Speaker 10 (39:30):
Yeah, it was literally just right across the way. Yeah,
I was probably in Tijuana.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Yeah, you were in Tijuana for sure. Cool.
Speaker 8 (39:36):
I have driven through Tijuana. I have never stopped in Tijuana.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Where were you going?
Speaker 8 (39:41):
I was going to via di Guadaloupe. It is the
wine country of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Ooh, oh, okay, very good. I know that surfer Todd
the comedian.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
He likes going to Baja California surf great surfing down here.
Just gotta have money to pay off the federal allies
in the cartel.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
All right, let's see what is next year? What do
we have?
Speaker 9 (40:01):
What is Ferg Dog would like to know, high Ferg
Hi Fergie?
Speaker 8 (40:05):
Is there anything that you no longer eat after it
made you throw up or you almost choked on it?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yes, Rocky Mountain oysters, that was disgusting. I don't eat that,
And I'm sure there's some other things, but that's the
first thing that popped in my head.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
That Bible video from years ago. What about you have
a raina?
Speaker 10 (40:24):
Oh my goshuh Nacho cheese jerritos?
Speaker 4 (40:29):
What Yeah?
Speaker 10 (40:30):
I got sick on those one time when I was
camping when I was little, and they just don't taste
the same. Ever since, they always remind me of vomit.
Now whenever I eat them.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
I got food poisoning.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I went to the Crazy Chicken and they didn't cook
the chicken right one time.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
But no, I haven't really been back there since that happened. Cool.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
So when I was a kid, and I don't think
it was related to the food at all. And I
don't know what happened, but I threw up eating a
sugar donut, and for at least ten to fifteen years,
I did not eat any sugar donuts.
Speaker 9 (41:05):
But now I'm back on the sugar donut game.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
At what point did you cross back over?
Speaker 9 (41:11):
That was probably late late teenage years.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Okay, yeah, thank got you? All right? What is next?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
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Speaker 9 (41:47):
What's next, donkey sausage?
Speaker 8 (41:49):
Hi, Donkey would like to know for everybody bed or
couch for a nap?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Yeah, I'm definitely a team cow jump team sofa. You know,
settle in there, you get the pillow and you kind
of lean on your side, get the TV on.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I feel like when you go to bed it's got
to be for the full night, not just for a nap.
Speaker 9 (42:12):
What about you of a rain I am team bed Ben.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Bad answer, you lose, you get nothing that's wrong. Cool.
Speaker 9 (42:23):
So it really depends.
Speaker 8 (42:24):
If I am super tired because I got like very
little sleep the night before, then I might go for
a serious nap, an ultra nap. And in that case
I will go to the bed, but just for your
regular run of the mill naps, couch all the way.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Normally Friday, I gotta I record like podcasts on Friday.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Like and so I usually by the end of that
I'm just like gassed and I'll.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Lay down and take a I won't even realize about fallsey.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
What's next? What do we ever? It's ask Ben. Your
questions are answers.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
The King Rory would like to know hiking best brand
of bottled water.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
I think they're all the same.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I don't really, I don't care whatever whatever is in
that side Kirkland I use, I guess we mostly in
the house we have Kirkland brand water, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
So I just used that.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
I don't I don't really taste. I don't taste the difference.
If I taste something in the water. It sucks.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
What about you, Lorrena.
Speaker 10 (43:19):
You know it's not about just taste, it's about the bottle.
I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of Smart water,
and I love the suction top that it has, like
just squirt it.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Why don't you just use the fun Do you buy
a bottle and then just fill it up with tap water?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Ew?
Speaker 9 (43:36):
That is one of these California tapwater.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
That is one of the biggest waste bottled water. One
of the great hustles of all time is convincing people
to buy bottled water unless.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
You're in Flint, Michigan. Okay, all right, uh.
Speaker 8 (43:51):
Coop, I have Kirkland at home, but I do enjoy
a nice Fiji water or yeah, smart water is good
as well.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
All right, quickly, what's next? What are we ha here?
Speaker 9 (44:03):
We've got We've got a question from Have you ever?
Speaker 8 (44:07):
Freddie wants to know have you ever broken a bone before?
Speaker 4 (44:10):
Nothing major? Just like a finger and toes a Lorena?
Speaker 8 (44:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Never, Oh your.
Speaker 9 (44:16):
Due, Coop, Nope, not a single one, no wow
Speaker 4 (44:20):
One team, no break team, no break
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Speaker 4 (02:04):
You know who you are. You idiots reached out to me.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
You better start with that. You're not gonna talk about it.
You're gonna hide from I'm not. First of all, I
don't work for the team. They don't even want me
the games anymore. I'm not a spokesman for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'm not so. But I will start with that.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's the story you seem to want, based on the
customer feedback that we're getting here as we just begin
the red eye flight. So we'll start out in the
cream City, hardball heaven right now. Oh man, they are
flying high. The beard tastes better than ever. The sky
is falling in La Laland, the sky is falling. The
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top record in baseball six games ago and not anymore.
So if you have not been paying attention, perhaps not, because,
as one of my friends likes to say, why do
you watch baseball? They play one hundred and sixty two games.
Ye reminds me of a caller used to have. Judgmental
John from Michigan used to call me up every every
(03:04):
weekend and complain there's too many baseball games. Well, listen,
you don't have to watch every game. Number one, Number two.
Those of us that like to watch shit most of
the games and check them out, scan them, we enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
So stay in your lane.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Anyway, In Milwaukee, a Mattinee Jackson Churio singling home the
winning run. The Brewers came back to tie it late,
they win it in the tenth inning, and the brew
crew get the win over LA three to two, and
they complete the first ever home sweep of the Dodgers
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in franchise history. Holy Bernie Brewer, Batman Race the Sausages
So Milwaukee. The only other times they swept the Dodgers,
you gotta go back to the year twenty seventeen in
August of that year, and then back in twenty twelve
as well.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But the better story here, the better story is that's right,
you pay attention, job by you.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So the better story is in the losing locker room,
the NL West leading.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
They still lead the NS.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The Doyers have lost not one, not two, not three,
not four, not five, six consecutive baseball games. So let
us discuss the formerly known Big Blue wrecking crew with
all these losses getting swept by the Brewers. So what
do you make of the current state of the Dodgers.
(04:30):
So my thoughts on this, I've got Oiji board, Jeff Bezos,
and family feud, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some peanut eminem's,
which I think have more power at this point, more
crunch than the current Dodger lineup. So my first thought
(04:53):
on this, the word that pops in my head the
current state of the Dodgers is the d word disheartening. Now,
we we have a mantra, and it's been the mantoe
we've had for many, many years around these parts that
we don't worry about too far into the future or
too far into the past.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
We have to worry about today.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Right, we are assigned by the powers at this multi
million dollar business that we work at to talk about
what's going on today.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
We have to worry about today. So today, as I.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Talk to you one on one, me to you the
Dodgers are a sad sack operation, and I realize they
are the reigning champions of baseball. However, Dave Roberts gives
me no confidence and I'm gonna die on that mountain.
The team this week has been crumbling and Dave Roberts,
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you watch him there standing in the dugout and it's
like his mind is wandering, like he's trying to remember
it showed him in the dugout. It looks like he's like,
maybe I left the oven on my home before I
left on the road trip. You know, it's like, maybe
I should I call somebody. I think the oven's on
in my kitchen.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I don't know what. It's like. He's got that look.
And then you watch him later in.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The game and it's like he's he's doing a wine
tasting at awake. With the Dodgers offense and the team,
I mean, in this moment, they are spiraling into the
alligator death role against the cheating Astros who then got
swept by Cleve What frauds the a holes are right,
(06:25):
I mean of course, you get up for the Dodgers,
brought those trash cans out for the Dodgers, and you
played the Cleveland Guardians and got swept.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
How embarrassing. Anyway, it's about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So they got smashed by the cheating a holes and
now the Brewers. So it's one of these things where
you step right up again. It's like the State Fair.
You win a stuffed animal, beat the Dodgers. Right now,
this week everyone is drowning and shredding, the Dodgers and
the smaller bite sized pieces. Now it's moments like these
(06:55):
when I see Dave Roberts in the dugout that I
long for the good old days. I need a Oigi board.
I need a Wigi board to someone that I knew
a little bit. We weren't friends, but he knew who
I was, and we chatted when we ran into each other.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
The sweet spirit of the late great Tommy Lasorda. Oh man,
what are you doing? Just bear with me? Lasorda.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
If he was managing a team, he never had a
team as talented as this current Dodger team. But if
Losorta was managing a team, this good right. And he
watched a week of baseball like this. If he were
around to have witnessed the malaise of this baseball team,
he would have already thrown a fit volcanic. They would
(07:37):
have gotten FEMA involved because of what Lasorda was doing. Yeah,
you would have had the media meltdown. My opinion the
king was of performance, My opinion of the bullpens.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
My opinion is went on unsucked and it's just it's great.
So he would he would coach the sorta would coach
like third base, we gotta fire.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
The team up, go third base.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
He'd take a gatorade cooler, toss it down like he
was spiking football, give a speech that would make Vince Lombardi,
you know, just you know, shaking in the boots or
in this case, the grave.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
But Dave Roberts, on the other.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Hand, he has the aura of a guy trapped in
a medically induced coma when you watch and certain guys
have just stopped hitting. Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts for
the last really not just the last six games. Prior
to that, they've not performed. The big bullpen picked ups
the Dodgers got. They spent a lot of money on
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Tanner Scott. All the Nerds had their pants down for
Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates and these guys me god Arson squad.
Tanner Scott leads baseball with six blown saves. That was
their big addition to the bullpen. Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates.
Everyone talks about how great his stuff is.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And I watch it. I'm like, well, he looks like
it's an Italian restaurant.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
There's a lot of meatballs there. No, I do realize
that in the big picture, the wide angle lens, the
famous quote from Lou Holtz that you're never as good
as everyone tells you you are when you win. You're
never as bad as they say when you lose. I
get all that, but we have to worry about today, right,
And there's a lot of people and I get this,
you know, people like the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Listen to the show.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
We're on the Dodger flagship in LA that's our our
flagship on Fox Sports Radio. So we have a lot
of Dodger fans that listen to the show and Dodger
fans around the country, and they always push back against me.
They say, well, you're too emotional, right, And these people
just assume the Dodgers are going to flip the switch
because they have so much talent, And is that how
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it works? Is I always thought baseball it's not the
most talented team that wins. And at the moment, to me,
that's hard to swallow. I mean, a week from now,
when seven games in a row or something that we
can we visit it. But I realize that when you
get to October, all that matters is who does better
in the moment. I understand that I've preached about that.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
For a long time.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
But in this particular chapter, the Dodgers find themselves in
a deep dark place and someone needs to Maybe Dave
Roberts can hire someone to hand the players a torch
and a map.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Maybe just a well, not a torch, how about an.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
LED flashlight with one thousand lumens in a bright, reliable illumination,
and then like a map, and then they're maybe GPS
on the phone. Just get him out of there, Just
get him out of there right now.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Turn the page. So we go now to Queens.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The gift that keeps giving the New York Metropolitans outfielder
One Soto. One Soto, the highest fed player in Baseball
so one, Soto was asked if he would have liked
to have made the All Start. He was asked recently
about that. Now Soto is not named initially to the
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All Star Game, he might end up on the roster
by the time the game comes around next week. But
Soo was asked about this, and he responded by saying,
what do you think you said?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Did you see this? Hear about it now?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So Juan Soto responded by saying, what do you think
I think? Sodo said, it's a lot of money on
the table if I make it close quote. So it
is true Soto will miss out on one hundred thousand
dollars incentive in his contract for not making the All
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Star team. Okay, so, Juan Sodo, here's the question, Juan
Soto of the Mets complaining about missing out on a
hundred thousand dollars All Star contract bonus. What does this
say about Juan Soto? So, I'm gonna go first, and
then if you want to chime in later, you can
call it it's confirmation. Now he's obviously not just a ballplayer.
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In fact, you could argue he's not a ballplayer. He's
a soldier of fortune. He'd been that way with Washington
and San Diego and with the Yankees. He is a
mercenary in cleats. He doesn't use a machete. He uses
a baseball bat.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
One.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Soto is just playing baseball. No no, no, I checked
that he's playing the market. Now he's playing mark Now.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He got a seven hundred and sixty five million dollar
contract with the Metropolitans, and now he's apparently upset because
he missed out on let me check my notes here,
one hundred thousand dollars all star bones. Do you realize
what that's like. That's like Jeff Bezos complaining because his
super yacht didn't come with the Wi Fi hooked up
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in there. Yeah, buy extra WiFi, Like you gotta be
joking right now. We did the malormath, and malarmath is
a version of math. It is not always accurate, but
we believe one hundred thousand dollars out of seven hundred
and sixty five million is point zero one three percent
of the contract that Soto got to play in Flushing.
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So you don't really have to worry about where Sodo
stands when it comes to love.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Of the game.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Now there is love from Juan Soto, the love of
the direct deposit. When someone says it's not about the money,
it's always about the money. But for Juan Soto, he
doesn't even play the game like there's something somewhat refreshing,
which is very odd when it comes to Wan Soto
that he doesn't even bother pretending he doesn't give you
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cliches about I just want to make the Mets great
and I'm here to help my teammates and all I
love the met fans, No, key, don't give a crap
about the Mets fans. Right, So my advice if you
do like the Mets is to buckle up, cause that's
your problem. Hey, my problem. You got fifteen years, almost
an entire generation of that JIBBRONI okay, fifteen years to
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watch Juan Soto as he counts commas in his contract
while you're counting wins and losses and strikeouts and home
runs and all that. And so he went to the
Mets not because he wanted to be a Met. He
went to Queens because not about the legacy. Who gives
about legacy. It's all about his portfolio, and he's showing
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you it's like if somebody shows you what they are.
Believe him all right? Now, last word, we stay in
New York, we go to the Bronx, a high profile
roster move. So the New York Yankees have designated two
time batting champion DJ Lemayhew.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Remember him, used to be good, used to be good.
Not good anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So they've designated for assignment, which is Baseball's way of
saying you've been fired.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
It will end his seven year roun.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
In the Bronx, and he's owed twenty two million through
next season. So how does that taste in the Big
Apple for the Yankees? How does that taste? So I
would advise you, I'll tell you how it taste. So
get your bib, get a napkin, get your knife in
the fork, because this tastes like crow.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
With a side of fletmeon right, in all seriousness, this
is a perfect way to lose a job.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's like DJ lem Mayhew appeared on Family Feud with
the Great Steve Harvey, and you know he was on
there doing this thing and they made a mistake. They
made a mistake, and they gave him twenty two million
dollars by mistake. You talk about the fast money around
Holy canoley, right, and that's not Hey, we're gonna cut
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ties with DJ le Mayhew.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
We're gonna cut a No, we're gonna cut a check
and hope nobody reads it. Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It's like you hear about this story every once in
a while. It always makes the you know, it makes
the internet news that somebody's gonna get married. There's something
that happens right before the wedding. You know, somebody sleeps
with somebody else or whatever, and so the wedding ends
up getting canceled three days before the wedding.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Right, and you still got to pay for the open bar.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You still do it. You don't have to, but you
still do it. But DJ the Mayhew at this point,
the way he's performed recently a vinyl record in a
streaming world. Now he's thirty five, he hits like a
guy who should be. I mean, I'm a forty five.
He's had toe injuries, he's got the range of a
trash can. Uh. The contract has aged about as well
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as room temperature sushi. At this point, there's no zip.
When he makes contact. The nerds get all upset because
they look at the numbers, all, oh, that's not good
you know, that's that's terrible. There's like caution tape wrapped
around his legs at this point, and it's it's bad.
So again, the Yankees knew when they signed le may
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this was likely the way it was gonna end, and
so don't let a falling star fall on you. The
Yankees can afford it, So we're not going to sit
here and have a bake sale for the New York Yankees.
But le Mayhew is now going to try to hitch
a ride with another contender because it's unlikely that le
Mayhew will go to a bad team, although the Angels
like to pick up guys like this. So while the
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Yankees have already moved on and they now have the
sweet sound of Jazz Jazz Chisholm in their lineup full
time at second base, DZL Mayhew will now go to
the transfer portal with his pockets filled filled to the.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Brim with twenty two million large. Not bad, not bad. Again,
I was mentioned when these things happen, it's like especially coaches,
not so much players.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
But I'll do rants about coaches get fired, and I'll
just slay them behind the microphone. Inevitably, some dope will
send me an email a heartfelt message, and they'll tell me, well,
it's very mean. They lost their job, and I'm like,
what are you talking about. They lost their job and
they won an amount of money, a payout which is
larger than the lottery in all all the states that
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have the lottery. So like, I'm not going to sit
here and cry about that. I mean, maybe you will,
but I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
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Speaker 4 (18:37):
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Speaker 4 (19:18):
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Speaker 1 (19:24):
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begin in the Grand Canyon State. Everyone's talking about this
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raising Arizona, at least raising the payroll of Arizona money.
Many money, big money, big money, big money. No waymies
stop right in the valley, the Valley of the Sun.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
So if you didn't see this or hear about it,
news came down kind of late in the day. D
book got paid. So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Sun superstar Devin Booker has agreed to a two year,
one hundred and forty five million dollar max extension that
keeps him under contract through the twenty twenty nine twenty
thirty season. And now this has led the Phoenix fanatics,
(21:47):
the Marching and Chowder Society of the Suns there praising
Devin Booker for his loyalty to the land of the Cacti.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Is that how you see it?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Do you agree with the sentiment of a good chunk
of the fan base of the Suns that this is
a loyalty play by Devin Booker. So I've got kidney, Spago,
and Deli counter, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Make a crackpot.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Now, crackpot is a person that thinks this is because
of loyalty's that's a crackpot, all.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Right, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I am one hundred and eighty degrees the opposite direction
now must be a different dimension that I resided than
the people that are saying that in the multiverse. And
this is not a contract that Devin Booker got. This
is a jackpot. I did the malor math, and if
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my math is correct, that is seventy two and a
half million dollars per year. He won't even play seventy
two games a year for the Sons. It's powerball with
a jump shot. Good for him. And yet, somehow, some way,
there are so many fanboys out there that an obvious
money move here. And you have the low information Neanderthal
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knuckle dragging fan you know who you are treating this like.
Devin Booker just donated a kidney to a hospital in Phoenix.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Like, oh my god, he stead he's so loyal, Who
my god, It's just amazing, and they're clutching their foam
fingers and they're they've got that little gorilla mascot stuffies.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It's not about loyalty. Devin Booker's rich.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
He was already rich. Now he's richer than rich. He's
not giving the Sons a hometown discount. He's not sacrificing
or anything like that. So stop he cashed in like
this is like a hedge fund manager on insider info, right,
he got insider him.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It is a hometown heist, is what it is. And
Devin Booker he.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Didn't stay with the Suns because he loves the desert
sunsets and loves hanging out in a town where it's
one hundred and fifty degrees part of the year, or
the Southwestern cuisine.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
He stayed because the.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Suns offered him every dollar they legally could offer him
under the salary cap, and he said, yes, please, I
will take that. And I'd also like a statue to
gout in a doggy back? Can you put a statue
to go.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
In a doggyback? So this is not a feel good story.
I have no problem Devin Booker getting paid. He's a star.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It's not my cup of tea and all that. But
I'm not a Suns fan. So if you like him, great.
He puts up numbers. I feel like they're empty numbers.
And you know, let's stop pretending it's a capitalism move.
That's fine, but let's stop pretending this is some kind
of Disney movie. I see this reaction, I'm like, is
this real? Are there actually people that are living amongst
us in the sports world that are like this.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He didn't fall on a grenade. I mean, what are
you doing? He didn't rescue people, you know, like they
I saw. I was reading the story that tragedy in Texas.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The flood and this horrible story, and there was a
guy from the Coast Guard, this like first mission ever.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
This guy in his.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Twenties, I think he's twenty six, and he rescued, like,
helped rescue one hundred, one hundred people more than that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's that's a that's a hell of a story anyway,
all right now, Page two to La we Go, La
La Land. So the new details out on the fallout
from the Lakers record smashing ten ten billion. That's ten million,
ten billion, ten million, yeah, right, ten billion dollars sale.
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So we are now hearing that it is official. The
deal allows Genie Buss to remain as the team's acting
own Of course, the NBA won't say owner, they're woke.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
They say governor. Anyway, for at least five years.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Different report, however, from Front Office Sports says that Genie
Buss will only be able to stay for at most
five years.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Either way, she is sticking around. The Bus family legacy
will continue for a few more years.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
So where do you stand on lame duc Genie Buss
continuing to be the face of Laker ownership.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
At league meetings, she has a seat at the table
even though she agreed to sell the franchise.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
All right, So when I first heard about.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
This, I was like, wow, this is just it was crazy,
and I said, well, maybe this won't actually happen, but
it appears to have happened now. So this feels like
something you would This kind of a deal feels like
something you would write on a cocktail napkin at Spago
during happy hour. It reminds me of one of my
favorite radio stories. There was a guy named Gene Autry.
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You probably don't know who that is if you're below
a certain age, if you're really old, you know who
Genautry is. He was known as the singing cowboy back
in the old days of country music, Gene Autry, and
he owned a bunch of radio stations on the Angels,
a bunch of radio stations. And I heard from somebody
that worked at one of his radio stations, worked at
the old KMPC, that Gene Autry at the holiday party,
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at the Christmas party would get completely hammered and would
he was very friendly. You know, there's different kinds of drunks.
There's the angry drunk, there's a happy drunk. There's the
I will give out ridiculous contracts. So there was a story,
famous radio story that was told early in my career
by somebody that worked for gen Autry that on the
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back of a napkin at a restaurant in Hollywood, he
signed one of his DJs to a lifetime contract that
did stand up in court.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
And that reminds me of he is. Like Genie bus
probably was a Spago.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
She had a cocktail of a happy hour there and
she somehow finagled I'll get five more years over at
half five more seasons minimum or at the most.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Either way, that is not.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Governance, is it is cosplays. I mean, this isn't about basketball.
It's not about winning championships. It's about ego, right, It's
all about optics and ego. It's about walking into the
arena there down on skid Row in LA and watching
nineteen thousand people nod and oh, look at that royalty.
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You know, it's about making sure that she sticks around,
because that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
The Lakers sale agreement. It's like a prenup, very.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Bizarre, right, It's got this clause in there where it's
like institutional sentimentality.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
It's not a business.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
It's like performance art in really expensive heels. At this point,
and my belief maybe I'm wrong on this, but I
have always said that the person that has the checkbook,
the person that writes the checks, is the one with
the power.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
So in this particular story.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
That would be Mark Walter and the Guggenheim partners who
bought the Lakers. They own the Dodgers, also not Genie Buss.
So the blueprints have changed. They've transferred over the deed
to the team and Genie Buss is going around as
the figurehead.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
She's like the Queen of England, being.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Trotted out for ceremonial appearances, have a spot of tea
while the real power brokers play geopolitical chess. Mark Walter
and all them behind the.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Velvet rope and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
But Gen you can walk on the red carpet, but
they'll take care of the business in the back.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Now final point.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
We now go old guy radio.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Who that's right, We're doing old guy radio.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So we flashback to a by God era long long
ago and a much different world in the NBA. So
we learned that frank Leyden You might not know who
that is. Frank Laden, a man that had the gift
of gab, former coach of the Utah jazz.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Led them to the playoffs for the first time. He's dead.
Now when I found out, we were like, I didn't
even know he was still alive.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I mean, frank was an old guy when he was
working in the NBA, but he made it all the
way to.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Ninety three ninety three.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So I wanted to spend a few minutes going down
memory lane. I think it's important when someone that touched
my sports fandom and I certainly wasn't a Utah jazz fan,
but someone that touched my fandom passes away. I think
it's the proper respect. We used to do a six
line tribute. Then they changed the phone system and now
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we can't put six lines on the air, so that
went to hell. So the question what are you going
to remember about long ago jazz coach? And he was
the jam well for years, Frank Layton. So the first
thing is a life well lived? Ninety three is a
great run ninety three. I mean we'd all take that
right now, we'd sign up for that. Say give me
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ninety three.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
I'm good. I'm pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
The bigger than life personality, and I was thinking about
it when I was coming into the studio. Frank Layden's
life story like an old school Hollywood comedy. It really
is like an old school Hollywood company. So if you
don't know his backstory, this is a street wise guy,
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fat guy from Brooklyn, you know, typical over the top,
in your face New York guy, right out of Central Casting,
and he ended up coaching the New Orleans Jazz He
then got dropped into Mormon country and it's like he
took some kind of wrong turn. I think he was
coming out of the Holland Tunnel and he went the
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wrong way and then he ended up waking up in
someplace in Salt Lake.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
City holding a clipboard. In the early nineteen eighties, now.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You understand it was a much different time in professional sports,
this corporate bull crap we have today in sports. Frank
Laydon was a byproduct of a mom and pop era.
In the NBA, he was the coach, he was the
general manager, but it looked like he belonged behind the
deli counter, yelling next, right, who's got next?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
What do you want? So pastrami? What do you want? Corn? Beef? Yeah, okay,
roast beef, turkey, haym, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Like? He could have been a taxi cab driver in
another life and nobody would have thought anything of it.
And he didn't waste his time crunching analytics and player
efficiency ratings and all that crap. Didn't worry about it,
didn't need a computer back then, when the computers were archaic.
When he was doing his thing, he had a rotary
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home landline, rotary phone, no cell phone, and he picked
players on gut instinct. Oh my god, if you went
into the front offices of basketball, baseball, and football and said,
all right, no computers, no analytics.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
You just got to go by your gut.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
How many people would resign, how many people would have
a heart attack. But back then it was just the
way you did things right. But the thing that I
remember also about Frank.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Layden the charisma that you can't teach.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And I was waxing poetic about my early days. It
was I started in the radio business as a reporter,
but it was it was in the early relative early nineties,
and a lot of the guys from the eighties were
still in the NBA, and it.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Was such a different era.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Like Doug ma and Frank Layden and these big personalities
goofball coaches, and it was wonderful to get sound as
a radio guy because they just gave the most ridiculous quotes.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
It was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
But Frank drafted John Stockton and Carl Malone back to
back years, yeah, back to back years in the draft,
and one year we got stocked. In the next year
we got Carl Malone Hall of Famers to the all
time greats. And I'll bet you dollars to donuts that
Frank Laydon spent more time choosing what kind of hogi
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he was going to have at lunch than he did
scouting or you know, there was no algorithms or anything
like that, so he didn't think about predictive models or
any of that stuff. All right, please, Yeah, the idea
of analytics, Frank Layden was from an era where you
shoo a hand, you made a joke, you know, you
told the zinger a one liner, a wise crack, and
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he coached with a towel. Frank Laydon slung over his shoulder,
was already sweaty at the old Salt Palace there in
Salt Lake City, and it always looked like he when
he was coaching, it looked like he was working at
the YMCA and he was going to clean the court
and grab the mop. And his news conferences would be
stand up comedy.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
It was back in those days.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You just criticize the players, and that's just it just
goofun Now, if you criticize the players as a war tribunal,
you lose the locker room. Back then, you know that
guy's fat, that guy's out of shape. You know that
guy's a loser. That guy should know. But it was
a different time. And and Frank Laydon was a throwback
again to a time when the NBA was like.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Half game, half vaudeville. And listen, younger, young peoples. Oh
it was terrible. Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Losers like that podcaster JJ Reddick like to rip the
old days.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
But Frank Laydon, I mean it was. It was great.
I have fun memories. So rest in peace, Frank Laydon,
a life well lived.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Here we all the degree, this is one big event.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
Gets grilled and Cho's wide receiver Marvin Mim said on
a radio appearance that quote, you can really feel that
the times are changing for us, referring to the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
Last year, the Broncos snapped a streak of eight years
without making the making it to the playoffs. Do you
think a streak of making it to the postseason has begun?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
So the math is no on this. It is about
the bow show, Bow Nicks.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
He's at the launching pad, does he go up, up
and away with Sean Payton? Denver is going to have
a pretty good defense. They figured it to be right, there.
You can't say it's the start of a streak because
you look at the AFC, the Chiefs are still right
there in the penthouse. You've got Buffalo and Baltimore the
top teams. But then you look at the wild Cards
(36:40):
and so it's the Chargers. The Broncos are in the
mix with the Ravens, the Bengals. I think the Patriots
will be better this year, and so no, I'm gonna
go knowing that next.
Speaker 8 (36:51):
According to analysts and betting markets, Zach Wheeler and Paul
Skeens are neck and neck in the nl CY Young race.
Who do you think should win?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Major League Baseball would like they don't vote on this,
the writers vote on this, but they would like Paul
Skeens to win. It's a good story. The pitiful Pirates
breakout star. He's got the social media influencer, you know,
woman in his life and the whole thing. Zach Wheeler.
Though he actually pitches in meaningful games. It's very odd
because normally these things are decided the last month of
(37:21):
the season. The Pirates, they're not going to play any
meaningful games till the grape Fruit League next year. So
he's Paul Skeens is gonna have to dominate and then.
But I think because of the meaningful games, I give
it to Zach Wheeler next.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Chiefs Jim Brett Veach said this week that Travis Kelcey
may not have it every week, but he can find
it when they need it.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
Ben, Do you think that will be the case for Kelsey, Well,
he didn't have it in.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
The Super Bowl. It looked like he was.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Sleepwalking in the Super Bowl, which was the biggest of
them all, the granddaddy of them all. He's gonna turn
thirty six during the NFL season. Let's put it this way.
He's not going to lead the Chiefs in statistics. I
wouldn't be betting on him dominating this year.
Speaker 9 (38:01):
How did we do?
Speaker 4 (38:03):
It's already over. We won, It's already over.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
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Speaker 4 (38:25):
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Speaker 4 (38:48):
And now over to Justin for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 8 (38:53):
All right, Ben Perito would like to know have any
of you let loose in Tijuana in your party days? Uh?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
No, No.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I was real close to it in San Diego, and
I worked down there years ago, but I haven't spent
spent much time in Tijuana, although I did hear some
amazing tales about certain shows involving animals you'd see at
a zoo Lorena.
Speaker 10 (39:17):
I don't know if it was Tijuana. I think it
was wherever Papa's and beer is. But I definitely had
enough Margarita's to fall asleep on the way back across
the border.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Was it? Was it just across the word because Tijuana
was like right across the.
Speaker 10 (39:30):
Yeah, it was literally just right across the way. Yeah,
I was probably in Tijuana.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Yeah, you were in Tijuana for sure. Cool.
Speaker 8 (39:36):
I have driven through Tijuana. I have never stopped in Tijuana.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Where were you going?
Speaker 8 (39:41):
I was going to via di Guadaloupe. It is the
wine country of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Ooh, oh, okay, very good. I know that surfer Todd
the comedian.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
He likes going to Baja California surf great surfing down here.
Just gotta have money to pay off the federal allies
in the cartel.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
All right, let's see what is next year? What do
we have?
Speaker 9 (40:01):
What is Ferg Dog would like to know, high Ferg
Hi Fergie?
Speaker 8 (40:05):
Is there anything that you no longer eat after it
made you throw up or you almost choked on it?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yes, Rocky Mountain oysters, that was disgusting. I don't eat that,
And I'm sure there's some other things, but that's the
first thing that popped in my head.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
That Bible video from years ago. What about you have
a raina?
Speaker 10 (40:24):
Oh my goshuh Nacho cheese jerritos?
Speaker 4 (40:29):
What Yeah?
Speaker 10 (40:30):
I got sick on those one time when I was
camping when I was little, and they just don't taste
the same. Ever since, they always remind me of vomit.
Now whenever I eat them.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
I got food poisoning.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I went to the Crazy Chicken and they didn't cook
the chicken right one time.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
But no, I haven't really been back there since that happened. Cool.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
So when I was a kid, and I don't think
it was related to the food at all. And I
don't know what happened, but I threw up eating a
sugar donut, and for at least ten to fifteen years,
I did not eat any sugar donuts.
Speaker 9 (41:05):
But now I'm back on the sugar donut game.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
At what point did you cross back over?
Speaker 9 (41:11):
That was probably late late teenage years.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Okay, yeah, thank got you? All right? What is next?
Speaker 2 (41:18):
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Speaker 4 (41:18):
It is ask Ben?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
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Speaker 9 (41:47):
What's next, donkey sausage?
Speaker 8 (41:49):
Hi, Donkey would like to know for everybody bed or
couch for a nap?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Yeah, I'm definitely a team cow jump team sofa. You know,
settle in there, you get the pillow and you kind
of lean on your side, get the TV on.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I feel like when you go to bed it's got
to be for the full night, not just for a nap.
Speaker 9 (42:12):
What about you of a rain I am team bed Ben.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Bad answer, you lose, you get nothing that's wrong. Cool.
Speaker 9 (42:23):
So it really depends.
Speaker 8 (42:24):
If I am super tired because I got like very
little sleep the night before, then I might go for
a serious nap, an ultra nap. And in that case
I will go to the bed, but just for your
regular run of the mill naps, couch all the way.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Normally Friday, I gotta I record like podcasts on Friday.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Like and so I usually by the end of that
I'm just like gassed and I'll.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Lay down and take a I won't even realize about fallsey.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
What's next? What do we ever? It's ask Ben. Your
questions are answers.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
The King Rory would like to know hiking best brand
of bottled water.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
I think they're all the same.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I don't really, I don't care whatever whatever is in
that side Kirkland I use, I guess we mostly in
the house we have Kirkland brand water, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
So I just used that.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
I don't I don't really taste. I don't taste the difference.
If I taste something in the water. It sucks.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
What about you, Lorrena.
Speaker 10 (43:19):
You know it's not about just taste, it's about the bottle.
I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of Smart water,
and I love the suction top that it has, like
just squirt it.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Why don't you just use the fun Do you buy
a bottle and then just fill it up with tap water?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Ew?
Speaker 9 (43:36):
That is one of these California tapwater.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
That is one of the biggest waste bottled water. One
of the great hustles of all time is convincing people
to buy bottled water unless.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
You're in Flint, Michigan. Okay, all right, uh.
Speaker 8 (43:51):
Coop, I have Kirkland at home, but I do enjoy
a nice Fiji water or yeah, smart water is good
as well.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
All right, quickly, what's next? What are we ha here?
Speaker 9 (44:03):
We've got We've got a question from Have you ever?
Speaker 8 (44:07):
Freddie wants to know have you ever broken a bone before?
Speaker 4 (44:10):
Nothing major? Just like a finger and toes a Lorena?
Speaker 8 (44:13):
No?
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Never, Oh your.
Speaker 9 (44:16):
Due, Coop, Nope, not a single one, no wow
Speaker 4 (44:20):
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