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July 10, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Dodgers losing SIX straight games having been swept by the Brewers this week, Mets star Juan Soto complaining about missing out on a $100K All-Star bonus, DJ LeMahieu getting designated for assignment by the Yankees, and much more! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome.

Speaker 3 (00:03):
It's our number one, our number one of the modest
original recipe podcast, up all night, up all night. So
here in our number one, the Ben Malers Show. The
Big Blue Wrecking Crew have now lost not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, six straight games been
swept by the Brewers this week. What do you make

(00:24):
of the current state of the Doyers. Also Metstarjan Sodo
is complaining about missing out on one hundred thousand dollars
all Star bonus.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
What does this say about Sodo?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
And the Yankees have said bye bye to DJ Lemayhew.
They fired him after seven years, despite owing djla Mayhew
twenty two million through next year. How does that taste
in the Big Apple? We'll go there, here, and there
and everywhere right now in our number one.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
They used to be known as the Big Blue Wrecking Crew,
but now they're just a wreck, an absolute wreck. Right now, Welcome,
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Speaker 2 (02:33):
You know who you are. You idiots reached out to me.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
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 2 (02:46):
I'm not so. But I will start with that.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
That's the story you seem to want based on the
customer feedback that we're getting here as we just begin
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(03:12):
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? You play one hundred and sixty two games.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Reminds me of a caller we used to have.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Judgmental John from Michigan used to call me up every
every weekend and complain.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
There's too many baseball. Well, listen, you don't have to
watch every game. Number one, number two.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Those of us that like to watch shit most of
the games, check them out, scan them.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
We enjoy it. So stay in your land anyway.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
In Milwaukee, a matinee, Jackson Turio 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.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
In franchise history.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
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. But the
better story here, the better story is that's right, you
pay attention. Good job by you. So the better story

(04:31):
is in the losing locker room, the NL West leading.
They still lead the NLS. 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 now getting swept

(04:52):
by the Brewers. So what do you make of the
current state of the Dodgers. So my thought 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 m and ms which

(05:15):
I think have more power at this point, more crunch
than the current Dodger lineup. So my first thought on this,
the word that pops in my head the current state
of the Dodgers is the d word disheartening. Now 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

(05:37):
into the past.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
We have to worry about today. Right.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
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 2 (05:47):
We have to worry about today.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
So today, as I 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 base ball. However,
Dave Roberts gives me no confidence and I'm gonna die
on that mountain. Like the team this week has been crumbling.

(06:09):
And Dave Roberts, you watch him there standing in the dugout,
and it's like his mind is wandering, like he's trying
to remember they showed him in the dugout. It looks
like he's like, maybe I left the oven on in
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. I don't know what
it's like. He's got that look and and then you

(06:31):
watch him later in 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

(06:53):
A holes are, right, I mean, of course you get
up for the Dodgers, brought those trash cans out for
the Dodgers, and you played the Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Guard and gout swept out. Embarrassing. Anyway, it's about the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
So they got smashed by the cheating a holes and
now the Brewers. So it's one of these things we
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 into smaller,
bite sized pieces. Now, it's moments like these when I

(07:25):
see Dave Roberts in the dugout that I long for
the good old days. I need a Wigi 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. The
sweet spirit of the late great Tommy Lasorda. Oh man,
what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Just bear with Melsorta.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
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

(08:06):
have gotten FEMA involved because of what Lasorda was doing. Uh,
you would have had the media meltdown. My opinion the
king was the performance, my opinion of the bullpens. What
do you think? My opinion is youing that and sucked?
And it's just it's great. So he would he would

(08:26):
coach the sorta would coach like third base, right a,
we gotta fire.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
The team up, go third base.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
He'd take a gatorade cooler, toss it down like he
was spiking football, give a speech that would make Vince Lombardi, uh,
you know, just you know, shaking in the boots or
in this case, the grave. But but Dave Roberts On
the other hand, he has the aura of a guy
trapped in a medically induced coma when you when you

(08:53):
watch and certain guys have just stopped hitting Freddie Freeman
and Mookie Betts for.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
The last really not just the last six games.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Pro Prior to that, they've not performed the big bullpen
pickups the Dodgers got. They spend a lot of money
on Tanner Scott. All the Nerds had their paints 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

(09:22):
and Kirby Yates. Everyone talks about how great his stuff is,
and I watch it, I'm like, well, he looks like
it's an Italian restaurant. There's a lot of meat balls there.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
No.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
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, and there's a lot of people and
I get this. You know, people that like the Dodgers
listen to the show. We're on the Dodger flagship in LA,

(09:53):
that's 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.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Push back against me.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
They say, well, you're too emotional, right, And these people
just assume the Dodgers are gonna flip the switch because
they have so much talent.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
And is that how it works?

Speaker 3 (10:15):
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, in a week from now,
when seven games in a row or something that we
can we visited. 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 for

(10:36):
a long time. 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. Maybe just a well,
not a torch, how about an LED flashlight with one
thousand lumens and bright reliable illumination and then like a

(10:57):
map and then they're maybe GPS on the phone.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Just get him out of there. Just get him out
of there right now, turn the page.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
So we go now to Queen's the gift that keeps
giving the New York Metropolitans outfielder One Soto One Soto,
the highest fed player in baseball.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
So Wan Soto was asked if he would have liked
to have made the All Star Team.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
He was asked recently about that. Now Soto was not
named initially to the 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 2 (11:38):
Did you see this? Hear about it? Now?

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Sojan Soto responded by saying, what do you think I think?
Soto said, It's a lot of money on the table
if I make it quotes quote. So it is true
Soto will miss out on one hundred thousand dollars incentive
in his contract for not making the All Star Team. Okay,

(12:04):
so one Sodo, here's the question. One Soto of the
Mets complaining about missing out on a hundred thousand dollars
All Star contract bonus.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
What does this say about Juan Soto?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
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. 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

(12:42):
doesn't use a machete, he uses a baseball bat.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
One.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Soto is just playing baseball. No, no, no, I checked.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
That he's playing the market. Now he's playing mark Now.
Good for him.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
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 bonus. 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

(13:17):
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 Sodo got to.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Play in Flushing.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
So you don't really have to worry about where Sodo
stands when it comes to love of the game. Now
there is love from Juan Soda, the love of the
direct deposit. When someone says it's not about the money,
it's always about the money. But for Juan Soda, he
doesn't even play the game like there's something somewhat refreshing,

(14:05):
which is very odd when it comes to Juan Soto
that he doesn't even bother pretending he doesn't give you
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.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
No, kay, don't give a crap about the Mets fans.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Right, So my advice if you do like the Mets
is to buckle up, because that's your problem.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Hey, my problem.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
You got fifteen years almost an entire generation of that
JABEBRONI okay, fifteen years to 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.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
And so he went to the Mets not because he
wanted to be a Met. He went to Queens because
not about legacy. Who gives about legacy. It's all about
his portfolio.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
And he's showing you as like if somebody shows you
what they are, believe them 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 2 (15:16):
Remember him, used to be good, used to be good,
Not good anymore.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
So they've designated for assignment, which is Baseball's way of
saying you've been fired. It will end his seven year
reign 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

(15:43):
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 2 (15:52):
With a side of Fletmon. In all seriousness, this is
a perfect way to lose a job.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
It's like DJ lem Mayhew appeared on Family Feud with
the Great Steve Harvey, and you know, he was on
there doing his thing and they made a mistake. They
made a mistake, and they gave him twenty two million.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Dollars by mistake.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
You talk about the fast money around Holy Canoley, right,
and that's not Hey, we're gonna cut.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Ties with DJ L Mayhew.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
We're gonna cut a We're gonna cut a check and
hope nobody reads it.

Speaker 6 (16:29):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
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, right, and
you still got to pay for the open bar. You
still do it. You don't have to, but you still

(16:51):
do it. But DJ lem Mayhew at this point, the
way he's performed recently a vinyl record in a streaming world.
He's thirty five he hits like a guy who should be.
I mean, I'm a forty five, he said, toe injuries.
He's got the range of a trash can.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
The contract has aged about as well as room temperature
sushi at this point. Uh, there's no zip when he
makes contact. The nerds get all upset because they look
at the numbers. All 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

(17:32):
Yankees knew when they signed le maay this was likely
the way it was gonna end, and so don't let
a falling.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Star fall on you.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
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 Maayhew will go to a bad team, although
the Angels like to pick up guys like this.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
So while the Yankees have already moved on and.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
They now have the sweet sound of jazz Jazz, Chisholm
in their lineup full time at second base, Dzel Mayhew
will now.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Go to the transfer portal with his pockets.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Filled filled to the brim with twenty two million large.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Not bad, not bad. Again.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
I was mentioned when these things happen, it's like especially coaches,
not so much players. But I'll do rants about coaches
that get fired and I'll just slay them behind the microphone.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Inevitably, some dope will send.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Me an email, a heartfelt message, and they'll tell me, well,
it's very mean.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
They lost their job, and I'm like, what are you
talking about. They lost their job.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
And they won an amount of money, a payout which
is larger than the lottery in all the states that
have the lottery. So I'm not going to sit here
and cry about that. I mean, maybe you will, but
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locally IN la On thursday. Afternoon but, Anyway Nature boy writes,
in Says Tommy losorda would have gone into A Dave
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(23:14):
get someone to pay for his. Meal oh, yeah well
that was the magic Of, lasorda, Right. Lasorda any restaurant
he walked, into he didn't. Pay there was a Rumor
lasorda on the road didn't even have a credit card
or cash on him when he'd go out to restaurants
because he knew he didn't have to. PAY i got
a great story about. That so years, ago AND i

(23:35):
did stuff briefly with The. DODGERS i was nothing special.
Whatever they fired me so, denied BUT I.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
I was with my.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Brother we went To Niagara falls right Outside. Buffalo so
me and my younger brother. Were we stayed In, buffalo
and we're very excited about going To Niagara. Falls beautiful.
Place you should go if you've never. Been so we
went In. Buffalo you have to go to the top. Restaurant,
now if you live in that, area you know. This
if not the birthplace of the chicken finger or not

(24:06):
chicken for your chicken, wing excuse, Me the chicken wing
was In. Buffalo but before, that apparently chickens didn't have
wings at least restaurants didn't sell them as a. Thing
it was no it's. Everywhere chicken wings are. Everywhere this
place called The Anchor bar In. Buffalo SO i was, like,
oh we're In. BUFFALO i told my, BROTHER i, said,
dude we got to go over. THERE i, mean, HEY
i don't know If i'll be back In buffalo. Again so

(24:28):
we got to. Go so we go In La sorda
was still working in baseball at the, time so it
was a long time, ago and me and my brother
walk into This Anchor bar in kind of AS i.
Remember it was in Downtown. BUFFALO i don't hold me to.
THAT i remember it was near a grocery. STORE i
remember there's a grocery store just like right next down the,

(24:48):
street like half a. Block, anyway we go in there
and they have all these like. Photos they have a
wall of. Fame you, know restaurants still have a wall
of fame famous people that ate. There and hand To,
god right above the table where the you, know you
go at a restaurant like, HEY i need a table
for two or four, whatever so the dais. There right
above it was a photo Of Tommy. Lasort his photo

(25:12):
is probably and it was he And Bobby, valentine one
of his.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Proteges at this anchor bar In.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
BUFFALO i thought it was very random and hilarious that
he popped up, There jill writes in and she, Says, Hey,
ben half The New york radio guys Say Juan soto
was being, sarcastic and half say he meant. It, Well,
JILL i don't know about Those New york gas, bags
BUT i do know. Sarcasm AND i also know people

(25:42):
that don't get, sarcasm people that don't understand the art of.
Sarcasm AND i will guarantee, you having played soundbites Of Juan,
soto having listened to him be interviewed over the, years
with the different teams he's played, on this is a
guy that doesn't get. Sarcasm he is so full of

(26:03):
himself he has no room for. SARCASM i promise, you
and the people that are saying It's Juan soto being
sarcastic about the one hundred thousand dollars, bonus the people
that are saying that are covering for one. Sodo, Okay
i'm telling, you AND i think you know. This there's
certain we used to have a boss here At Fox Sports.

(26:23):
RADIO a lot of what we, do the stuff we
do here at night. Sarcastic we had a boss here
that did not get sarcasm for, years and she THOUGHT
i think she THOUGHT i was the devil incarnate because
she just did not get.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
The style of talk radio THAT i.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Do but One soto is that kind of, Guy like
One sodo strikes me as the kind of a person
that it's everything he, says he, means and he wants
every single, cent every single, dollar and that's just the
way it.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Is and, yeah, now filler Up. Phil you, know it's
a big night of filler.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Up phil is participating in the show that we've reached
a higher level along with his, dog which is his.
Avatar he, says The dodgers need a, big big.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Cup, no, no, no that's Not.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Willis that's Not, willis the big cup of momentum.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Maker, yeah of course there is no such thing as,
momentum so they don't have to worry about. THAT i
have to worry about that at. All there you, Go.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Supermarket steve randomly answered the who AM i game even
though we haven't given the who AM i?

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Game? Out bad job by. Him jason In Cansas, city
who we met at The mallard meet and, greet we
did at the landing home of The Ben mallard chicken.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Fingers if you're In Kansas, city or you ever go
To Kansas, city got to have The Ben mallard chicken
figures and tellhim MY i sena at the landing there In, Liberty. Missouri,
Anyway jason was there that night or it's actually in the,
afternoon he, says great. Monologue, MAN i don't know much about,
baseball but do you think The Saint Louis cardinals can
make the playoffs this? Year, ALSO i know you're not

(28:05):
a morning zoo, guy but can you give me a
shout out for my? Birthday Says jason In Kansas. City, well,
NO i will not do, That. JASON i will not
wish you a, happy, happy, happy happy.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
BIRTHDAY i will not do. THAT i promise.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
You every TIME i have to negotiate my, contract they remind.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Me you're an overnight, Guy, Ben you're. Not you're not
a morning.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Guy, Nuts AND i always tell, HIM i, say, listen,
BOSS i, say you pay me like a morning. Guy
i'll do shoutouts to guys Like jason And Kansas city
that love this. SHOW i will absolutely do. That and they, Say,
ben you see the. Door don't let it hit you
where the Good lord split you and get the hell
out of. Here AND i, say, yes thank, you Firm

(28:49):
dog right since says The dodgers will be. Fine he,
says according to a dufus who broke his arm going
down a, slide all of The dodgers problem will go
away when Snell zilla makes his glorious. Return he's gonna.
PITCH i don't think he's gonna pitch for The. DODGERS
i think that there's some kind.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Of a Big twitch video game thing he's gotta.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Do Bird dog, says seems like he's asking a lot
from a guy who never pitches past five.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Innings but what DO i? Know says The great Fer. Dog,
yeah it's Uh.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Max freed who signed with The. Yankees who's. Good Max
freed is good and he's AN la. Guy he's A dodger.
Fan in, fact he even partied with The dodgers after
they won The World. Series he wanted to pitch for The,
dodgers and the chief nerd, There Andrew friedman and The
dodger front office, like, no, nah we want This, Max
but we don't Want Max. Freed we want we Want

(29:50):
Blake snell the everything you hate about the modern. Athlete Blake,
snell that's the guy we. WANT i, mean why Did
vassa get in there and convince The dodger front office
that's the way to.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Go seriously.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Ridiculous let's go to the, phone so say hello To
tony who's in SoCal and he's Sitting shiva for The.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Dodgers, Hello, tony, Welcome hey Been.

Speaker 8 (30:13):
The problem with The dodgers is they don't want to
Move otani to clean up. Hitter he's got like thirty
two home. Runs what is he doing leading? OFF i
think it's for THE tv In. Japan they want him
to be first hitter in THE tv. Show and your
Buddy David vatse said that Ken Lee janssen's going to
The hall Of. Fame Don't don't you have to be
in the major league team to go to The hall Of,
fame not a minor league team Like. Dangels well he.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Could he could go to The hall Of fame if
he buys a. TICKET i think it's like fifty bucks
to get into.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
The hall Of fame or.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
Something, yeah like if you get if you have a
three run lead in the ninth, inning does a closer
get a save for saving a three run. Lead it's
like the or is it a four run, lead you
still get a. Save he done that a lot of,
times just because he had a big offense at Ke.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Jansen yeah, yeah, WELL i, mean, yeah the same there
was a guy that got to save the other.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Day it was like a ten run game because if
you pitched, three if you pitch three innings and it
doesn't matter what the score, is three effective innings you,
get you get to save and all. That so it's
it's it's. RIDICULOUS i ACTUALLY i actually. KNEW i knew
the guy that helped come up with the save. Rule
he's been dead for, years but he helped cooked it.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Up and uh.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
YEAH i MEAN i don't. KNOW i you want me
to Rip Kenley, JANSEN i don't. Know is that what
you're looking, For.

Speaker 8 (31:24):
TONY i think That davids is only To Blake snell
Because Blake snell did not put up an argument when
they took him out of that game Against tampa in
The World series that allowed The dodgers to win That Phony. Series,
WELL i.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Don't know if says the buddies With, snell AND i
mean he liked.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Listen that's his. ISSUE i don't know what to tell.
YOU i look At Blake. SNELL i want to puke
in my mouth WHEN i look At.

Speaker 8 (31:47):
Blake do you Remember Jeff? Witcher oh, YEAH i Knew.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Jeff jeff was a friend of. Mine good, guy very serious,
Guy Jeff, witcher very.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
SERIOUS i THINK i Think davids is trying to be
the New Jeff. Witcher he's he can never say anything
bad about The dodgers at.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
All, WELL i, AGREE i think you should rip him,
more but held he would actually probably.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Lose his job if he did. That you know, That, tony,
right can't you can't be too. Critical SO i understand
why he does.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
It AND i had that job, briefly and so it
said it was obviously it wasn't good for me BECAUSE
i like to rip.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
People so, anyway all, right thank, You. Tony there you.
Go there's. That tony did not Have let's attack Ken
Lee jansen on my big. Board did not have. That
but here we.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Are you know what we, also The All Star game
is coming. Up this time it counts well actually, no
not this time it, counts but The All Star game
will have the. Bots then we did a monologue last.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Night, yeah last night on the, show we did a
male of monologue about how the players hate the automated strike.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Zone, well the robo ump is, back, baby, ah, yeah
that's Right, Atlanta, georgia well Outside, atlanta Suburban. Atlanta the
robo umps will return for The Major League Baseball All
Star game automated balls and. Strikes they tested it in
spring training and the players, SAID i don't really like.

(33:08):
It So Rob manford, SAYS i love. TECH i can't
get enough of the. Hawkeye it makes them all. Horny
So Rob manford putting The All. Star remember you famously
cancel it because of. Politics that, Dope Rob. Manford, anyway
The All star gives back In atlanta At Truest park
and they will have. Robos said to be a, showcase

(33:32):
A midsummer showcase for the robo. Arms how exciting is?
That not really?

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Right not that? Exciting, well how about getting the V
vic you're? Scared why are you're? Scared robots are taking over?

Speaker 6 (33:46):
Everything and why take away a job from someone who
loves to be an?

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Umpire well they say they're not taking the, job that
the umpire will just be a like an empty body
that will repeat the whatever the computer tells the, umpire
they will will like a. JOYSTICK i want him on
the side with a joystick where he's still doing the. Job,
Yeah like there'll be a, voice a computer voice that'll

(34:12):
be in the head of the umpire saying strike or,
ball and.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Then they'll make the call and it's gonna be. WILD i,
mean this is gonna change.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
EVERYTHING i, MEAN i know in our business in, radio
there's a lot of DJs lost their. Job there's automated
radio stations that's been going on for. Years but like
they have it so far down pat THIS ai. STUFF
i was talking to a guy a while, back a couple,
weeks a couple of, weeks, months maybe a, MONTH i don't,
know time just flies.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
By but he's, like oh, yeah they can.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Once they can recreate your, Voice like he just have
to wear it. ONCE i don't know about, that but
they the guy was telling. Me he's, like, yeah you,
know if you do this job long, enough, man like
they could just buy rights to your voice and then
just have a. Computer you could be the forever overnight.
Host if they just you wouldn't pay, you you'd be.

(35:01):
Dead but they just had to use your, voice and
THEN i, mean that's kind of, weird, right that's.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
WACKY i don't. KNOW i like.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
HUMANS i Guess i'm you know, What i'm a. BOOMER
i Think i'm a Boomer. LORENA i Think i'm an old.
HEAD i like human beings and jobs like, yeah AND
i think that it's, important like you you, know things.
Change people will have these jobs for a, while like you,
know and then somebody else takes them and you pass
the baton and the next.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Generations and that's what it's supposed to. Be but you
can have conversations WITH. Ai, YEAH i, mean, well, yeah
but there's guys that HAVE ai, girlfriends, right that's. Right,
YEAH i think some of our listeners probably need.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
That i'm just saying, anyway all, right it is The
Ben Mahler, Show THE Vip Treatment Kirk cousins Receiving there
was this viral video clip because he went to A Great.
Clips Kirk cousins is a one of the HIGHEST pid
players IN nfl, history and he goes To Great clips
to get his. Haircut he's just like a regular, dude like, Somehow,

(36:00):
wow he didn't become an a hole by making all that.
Money and you want to Hate Kirk cousins because he
chokes in every big, game but he seems like a
good dude. Anyway so this clip went viral and so
he was given A vip. Card after he got the quarterback,
haircut he went into the barbershop and he took up
THE nfl photo that they take for the websites in

(36:20):
his quarterbastionally show up his training camp and he told the,
barber he, said this is WHAT i.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Want and that went, viral and now he's got A va.
PICKER i think he can afford his own. Haircut time
out for the who AM? I? Game? Quick?

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Hey there have been four, thousand over four two hundred
times of a baseball pitcher having at least sixty five
strikeouts as a starter prior to The All Star break
since The All Star game began in nineteen thirty. Three
of those, Pitchers.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
I'm the only one who entered The All Star break
without a? Win Who AM? I the? Answer?

Speaker 6 (36:53):
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Speaker 2 (37:33):
That. YouTube all the kids are doing.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
It back to it we, Go, Internet, yeah thank. God
time now for the who AM? I? Game this is
where we pretend to be somebody? Else that's we call
it the who AM? I?

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Game and here it. Is WELL i haven't said it,
Yet Well i'm about to say. It.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
So there have been over forty two hundred times that
a baseball, pitcher big league pitcher has had at least
sixty five strikeouts as a starter prior to The All Star.
Break the First All Star game was in nineteen thirty. Three,
now of those sixty, five at least sixty five, PITCHERS
i am the only one who ever entered The All

(38:10):
Star break without a win despite having all those. Strikeouts
i'm gonna tell you who AM? I All, right let's
See terry In england says something About, vassa WHICH i
Think i'll get in trouble IF i see on the.
Air Econ, Roseville minnesota Says Doug, fister the great. Former

(38:30):
that's a, pitcher UH i heard played for The tigers
and other. Teams kathy In madison says MY ai. Therapist
she says she's not. Kidding her therapist Is ai Al.
Hey whatever gets you through the. Night Angry cops From
Big greg In. Iowa Drag queen felexis For, Milkman Mike

(38:51):
navin gruesome From malor Prop.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Guy mister nice, guy Says schlitz of The.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yankees who else we Have Mike trout who had two
balls over the fifty Seven freeway tonight from Ferg dog
Fun house Says Nolan, Cromwell Ram legend nineteen. Eighties that's
a good name, though From? Funhouse who? Else Nature boys going?
With Chanho park is his? Answer El choppo From Scrooge Page,

(39:21):
Down Malard, Paluza judge Inca terror From Just Josh Maler
palooz is coming, up biggest event of the. Summer make
sure to be, There Big Lou he's on number two
in THE lbc going With Andrew bynum and the seventy
six ers. CONTRACT i love that photo you found Of
Andrew bynam's.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Hair.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
There, nick The wendy's guy In minnesota's upweight with us.
Listening he's, up lady, SAYS i can't wait for a
batter to get ticked off at the robot. UMPS i
think he's going with robot umps as his. ANSWER a
lot of people, said vassa is the, answer just ripping on,
him tearing into him and going on and on and.
On Ray finkel guessed By andy In Lionel, Lakes. Minnesota

(40:01):
williams going With hall Of fame. Stuff Mike, Holmgren, lorena
do you have an?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Answer? Lorena, YES i can't believe no one Picked Emma.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Stone, Oh Emma stone At Backdoor slider Deadly, no.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
The, correct.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Correct it's the only pitcher of baseball, history a starter
to have sixty five strikeouts at prior to The All
Star break not have a. Win that would Be Justin,
verlander the twenty twenty Five San francisco He Gante's. Verlander
the only one to congratulates Is justin
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