July 14, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about baseball getting to the All-Star break, Brewers starter Jacob Misiorowski getting an All-Star roster spot and MLB claiming they reached out to a dozen pitchers until Misiorowski agreed to go, Phillies OF Nick Castellanos saying the ASG is "turning into the Savannah Bananas," and more!
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Milwaukee's Jacob Mazerowski gets the All Star roster spot after
just five games for the Miz Thumbs up or thumbs
down on that. Also, Major League Baseball officials claim they
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actually reached out to about a dozen pitchers looking for
a replacement for the All Star Game until the Brewers
Jacob Mizerowski agreed to go. Believe it or not, and
Philly's outfielder Nick Castellanos said of the All Star Game quote,
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show'd me sorry this hour. We're going to start out
in Wisconsin, although it's really at the League office in
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New York City. The curtain has come down, pens down,
the music has paused, as it is the All Star
break in Major League Baseball, no more real baseball. The
players hate the All Star Game. They don't want to
go to the All Star Game. They can't stand the
All Star Game. But they want you baseball does to
watch the All Star Game. More in that in a minute.
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So all Star news over the weekend, get the home
run Derby Derby, Derby Derby coming up on Monday, All
Star Game on Tuesday days off, and then back at
it late in the week So the biggest storyline here
around the All Star Game, and it's happened and developed
over the weekend. The news came out over the weekend,
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and then the reaction of anger and rage at Major
League Baseball. So if you haven't heard, perhaps not the
phenom of phenoms, as somebody from Wisconsin said. I wrote
a love letter, miler monologue about the performance I saw
against the Dodgers the other day of the Miz and
he is the story of baseball. Yet again. Over the weekend,
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Jacob Mizerowski, the six foot seven Brewers flame thrower with
five career starts five career starts, has been added as
an All Star. Yes, five starts, this cat's an All Star,
not five wins. I didn't say five wins. I didn't
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say five quality starts. He got lit up by the Mets.
Five starts, period. That's it. Five all star, five starts,
All Star game. So this has become a polarizing topic.
The Phillies are up in arms. More on that in
a minute. Also, longtime Major League Baseball broadcaster Ron Darling,
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not happy said it's kind of a joke, Darling said,
to the game, and it's a bad choice for baseball.
Close quote from Ron Darley. So let us discuss the
question for the esteem panel, and you are now on
the esteem panel. So the question Milwaukee flame Jacob Mazarowski
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gets All Star nod, the All Star roster spot, thumbs
up or thumbs down on the Miz making the All
Star Games. So I've got online marketplace, Olivia Rodrigo and hedonist,
and we will combine these three very random things that
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have never been combined together, and we are going to
put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
to do. So A my first thought to answer the question,
thumbs up, thumbs down on the Miz making the All
Star team, thumbs down, ifact two thumbs down. I got
two thumbs down on this. Now, this one is simple,
all right. This is a textbook example of lowering the standards.
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And again, I like the player. I am a I
want to see this turn out to be a great career.
It would be wonderful. I like the player, but this
a little bit too much too soon, a little bit
too much too soon, So I'm going thumbs down. The
standard for All Star selection is the way to get in.
There's a couple of ways to get it. Be really
really good, right, really really good, or be on a
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crap team. And then somebody has to make the All
Star team, like play for the White Sox or the Rockies.
They have to have an All Star which is tradition.
But outside of that, and the Brewers are not a
bad team, they're not a great team. They're somewhere in
the middle. But here's the thing. The standard for the
All Star selection, which had been rooted up until a
couple of years ago, rooted in what performance, consistency, reliability,
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all of those big words. That was the credibility that
meant something. And it reminds me of what they've done
in the NFL, where the Pro Bowl is now tic
tac toe and water balloon toss. Baseball is going to
get to that point. They're gonna get there very fast
by having someone in the All Star Game with five
starts five five sick. I mean, my god, so tossing
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out All Star bursts like sunflower seed shells in the dugout.
You get an All Star, you get an All Star,
you get an All Star. And why are they doing
is why is Jacob Mazaraski an All Star? Well, one
word marketing, capital m marketing. That's how right buzz brand engagement.
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So wow, Milwaukee's a small market. Why does baseball care
about Milwaukee? Well, it's the story. It's the story. Everyone
loves a good story, right, We learn from stories. We've
all all human beings learned from stories. But this is
Major League Baseball's latest episode of look at me and see.
The issue is Heaven forbid? Heaven forbid you just allow
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these things to play themselves out naturally have the organic experience.
But no, it's about Hey, it's marketing. So you're going
to take someone that has a lot of hype even
though they're in a you know, a smaller town in Milwaukee,
and an undercooked prospect, and a prospect is a suspec
until brovel Eyes. But he's got a really sexy radar gun,
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you know, I mean, he's one hundred miles an hour
a lot, and that's pretty cool. And so social media
likes him, so they'll get some applause on the social
media and all that stuff now, and so we liked
the player. We did a monologue celebrating them is and
all that. As we said, However, Major League Baseball here
on this one another unforced error by Rob Manford and
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his underlings at the league office. Here major League Baseball
sticking it to the players who have earned earned the
All Star honor through months and often years of continued
service and success on the field. And so no, and
those players, I'm sure there are some, not all, but
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some would would would have liked to have been an
All Star. But they get shoved to the side right
there in the background. And the reason they're in the
background is because of the online marketplace mlbshop dot com.
Can you sell a few more jerseys? Can you move
the merch? And who's gonna move the merch? Some nondescript
pitcher has been around for a number of years. Who
happens to pitch for? I don't know the Phillies or
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the Red Sox or the mizz Oh he's got the story, right,
that's the answer. That's obviously the answer. Marketing capital m
MLB shops sell some merch, sell some merch. This is
Jacob Mazerowski's moment. Who is not supposed to be his moment.
Five starts. You don't get your moment. The reason it's
his moment is because Major League Baseball's marketing department's horny
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to sell some merch and create a star. They have
to create the next big thing brand engagements, engagement farming,
engagement farm, Get out the tractor, Grayma. It's engagement farming.
And we should not be surprised. And the reason that
we should not be surprised, if you've been paying attention,
this is the same Rob Manford run organization on Major
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League Baseball that long ago gave up any of the
traditions of the game. For digital impressions. This is what
it's all about. Baseball is convinced they have taken the
kool aid. They like the kool aid when it comes
to the matrix of social media, and that's what it's
all about. Right, So they go back and forth, or like,
in some areas they want to honor tradition. Of course
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they can make a buck on it. They're like, I
want to honor tradition, and then in other areas they
want to take a bulldozer and just drive over the
tradition of baseball. But they've allowed the matrix to form
the blueprint on which direction they're going to go. And
Misslerowski stuff comes in, uh and not I thought five
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starts was not en off. But considering what Baseball's done
and the Mizz's story and all that stuff, it's like,
all right, he's so far as good as advertised. Did
have a stinker against the match, but we'll overlook that. See.
The thing about it, though, is you would say, if
he's as good as he's supposed to be, his time
will come, his opportunity will come. And baseball's always in
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the past. But about letting that greatness unf fold over time, right,
it doesn't happen right away all the time, but right now,
in this moment, No, that's not the case. That's not
how we do things here.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
When there's a meme out there that Rob Manford doesn't
really understand, the internet, it gets all excited about its
Oh man, that's meme, meme, meme, I love the meme.
I'm all about it, all about it, right and a
couple of impressions on social media. They get all excited
about that. But the All Star Game so okay, much
like the Pro Bowl used to mean something, all Star
Game not to be fair, the All Star Game. This
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has been a thing which has gone the wrong direction
for a long time, like it's been going a wrong
direction for many many years here. But is another staged
moment by Major League Baseball, right stage managed for theater.
It's a like a Broadway show here. And baseball is
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so desperate. They have such low self esteem at Major
League Baseball. They want to look cool. They do everything
they can to look cool, and they just can't help themselves.
They can't because it's all about being cool and whether
that means they have to erode things that made the
sport what it became valuable for it doesn't matter. Listen,
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it's all about.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
The clickety click clicketty clickty click atty click and he
click anny click. And those those clips of the mizz
on Instagram are really good. So five starts, I mean, okay,
but that being you'd admit those are some good, good
looking clips on social media. Right now we turned the page.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So in the face of the pushback, and there has
been some pushback by players and the old timers in baseball,
the old heads in baseball pushback on adding Jacob Mazeroski
to the All Star team after five games. Major League
Baseball officials claim that it's not their fault. They claim
they tried, they did everything they could in their power
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to find someone else, and they told their buddies in
the media. They said they actually reached out to over
a dozen or right around a dozen. I think the
number I saw was a dozen over the weekend, a
dozen pitchers looking to replace They needed a replacement for
the All Star Game, and they kept looking and looking
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and looking and looking until they finally got to Jacob Zerowski.
He agreed to do it. So do you believe it
or not? Do you believe it or not that Baseball's like, well, listen,
we tried. We didn't really want to bring this guy,
but we had no other options because we went down
in order and we got to him and we had
to go with him because there was nobody else. So
I am not a believer on this. I am not
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a believer. This is again a M and M, a
marketing move. It is an eminem Just own it, just
own it. Say listen, the guy doesn't really deserve it,
but people like him and we think he's going to
be good, so we want to see him in the
All Star Game. And it's an exhibition game, so who cares.
That's it. Now, there's a wider issue here, which is
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absolutely a thing, and it's the disease is all over,
the plague is all over professional sports. But the marketing
move was why the Miz is in the All Star Game.
And when you pieced, when you piece together the puzzle,
you put the jigsaw puzzle together. Here, Major League Baseball,
if they had wanted to, could have found someone else
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to go to the All Star Game. Now they might
have had to go down to like twenty pick twenty five.
They would have gotten someone for the All Star Game,
and they should have found someone else. They obviously did not.
They didn't look that hard. My theory is they didn't
look that hard, and if you look at this through
that lens, that they weren't really trying to find someone
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other than a miz. They wanted him to be in
the All Star Game. It's like that Olivia Rodrigo song
deja vu, because remember last year we had this similar conversation. Now,
last year Major League Baseball added you remember they added
that's right, Paul Skeins, the Pirates phenom who let the
baseball world on fire a year ago. Paul Skins. Now
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he made the All Star Game. He started the All
Star Game last year as a hot shot rookie, eleven
starts into his big league career. So so eleven starts
in fine. Now we supported that. Last year we thought
that was okay. This we did not support.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The reason the difference is rather obvious. The average starting
pitcher in baseball will make around thirty four starts. Most
of them do not hit that number, but the number
is about thirty four starts per year based on one
hundred and sixty two games that somebody starts. You're supposed
to make if you're in the starting rotation. So eleven
starts out of thirty four works out to be thirty
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two percent of a full season. Now the numbers even higher,
the percentage even higher if the average number goes down
to thirty. But we'll say it's thirty four. So that's
thirty two percent of a season. The Miz starting five
games for the Brew Crew before the All Star Game.
Five that is less than fifteen percent of the full
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season of starts, and you make an All Star appearance,
and that's where we are. That's where we are now.
Last word, the Fighting Pills very upset that their pitcher
did not make the All Star Game. Instead, Jacob Mazeroski
made it. Now one of the outspoken critics, a man
that is notorious for hitting the home run at the
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time you shouldn't hit a home run when someone's giving
a grobbling apology on television. Nick Castellanos, Now, he came
out so winging. He came out swinging. The Phillies outfielder
was not happy and he's not happy with the way
the All Star Game is going. He's also one of
those guys that has All Star numbers, but I don't
believe he's on the All Star Team Anyway, Nick Castellanos
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said of the All Star game quote, it's turning into
the Savannah bananas. It's turning into the Savannah bananas. Your thoughts,
all right? So my thought on this is that is
exactly what baseball wants. That is their wet dream. Am
I wrong? Baseball wants Savannah banana. They want the bananas.
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They need the bananas. Baseball loves bananas. They do. They're jealous.
I'm telling you, I've heard this from people who work
in baseball. The people with the League office are jealous
of the Savannah Bananas, who are essentially the Harlem Globetrotters
of baseball, right, barnstorming group. They're on television now, They've
got a cult following people seem to like, and they
sell out football stadiums and baseball. It annoys them. They're like,
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we've been around for one hundred and forty something years,
what do you do it? It bothers them. They're annoyed
by this. They're jealous of the attention that in the
social media world they are seen as cool and the
bananas are cool. When has the banana ever been cool? Well,
they Savannah bananas are cool. Pac stadium, social media content
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buzz on social media, television audience. I don't think it's huge,
but people are watching, and that is the core of
Major League Baseball's business plan. Right. They don't have to
pay the Savannah Bananas. The players on the team make peanuts.
They don't even get paid bananas. They they get paid
peanuts because they're cheaper. They can't even afford bananas to
pay them. They pay them with peanuts. And major League
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Baseball is if you look at the rock and roll
element of having fun, you know, which is what they
have when you watch the highlights. I've never watched a
full Savannah Bananas game, so I couldn't tell you, but
it appears they're having fun now. Furthermore so, Major League
Baseball also concerned about the rash of players who have
bailed out. We mentioned this players that have bailed out
of the All Star Game. They don't want to show up.
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And then the most common reason, let's see, I'm gonna
give you a phrase to see if you can tell
me where this phrase origin is the most common reason
that Major League Baseball players have opted out of the
All Star Game. Twenty twenty five, the Year of Our
Lord is rest and recuperation, Rest and recuperation, all right?
So what is behind? What is behind the Major League
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Baseball players skipping the All Star Game for rest and recuperation,
all right? So this is a sign of the times.
It's the same brain rot they have in the other sports,
and it's been around for a while, right. These baseball guys,
they see those softy NBA players bitching about back to
back games like we play like sometimes we'll play two
weeks in a row with no days, Oh my god.
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And the basketball players they play one game and they
can play in it. Oh my, that whole thing, all right.
So there were in the age of hey, I want
the hedonist experience, I want the work life balance is
what they want, and it's it's been building and building,
and Billy, I mean over twenty years ago, I was
on these microphones of Fox Sports Radio. The All Star
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Game was in Milwaukee, and the defining moment of Bud Selik,
who overlooked all the steroid guys. But Bud Ceilik is
the commissioner they used car salesman there through his arm
up in the air everywhere, literally right in the eleventh
inning of a tie game of a tie game and
told the umpires he said, listen, they're out of pitchers.
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Tie game. And the reason they were out of players
was because now the game intered in the tie the
All Star Game. The players were leaving the stadium while
the game was going on. They couldn't stand being in Milwaukee.
They were trying to get out of there. They get
the airport out of there to go to the Bahamas
or Hawaii or wherever, and said they couldn't wait to
get out of the airport. Right And Major League Baseball
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had this this time it counts marketing campaign for years
after that where they actually decided the World Series home
field advantage based on who won the All Star Game
to stick it to the players. But here we are again.
The players today are like, hey, we see what the
NBA guys are doing. We're just as big as cream
puff as those NBA guys. We want that extra time off.
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I don't care promote the game. We're not doing that.
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do we have here? Let's see Ferg Dog. Ferg Dog says,
anyone saying the Miz does not belong at the All
Star Game is an idiot. It's the first two time
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Grand Slam champion in WWE history and a future Hall
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Who else will be part of it? Will we get
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sir for Todd the medium? Will he enter some jokes?
Who knows? Inquiring minds would like to know? I don't
even know who I know. I know that milkman Mike
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John writes in from parts on Know, and he says, no, Ben,
the Major League Baseball All Star players were racing out
of Milwaukee, not to go on vacation, but to get
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to LA for the stupid lame eSPI Award show the
day later. Well that was part of it, but trust me,
they were leaving. I remember Kevin Kennedy, who used to
work here, was doing those interviews in the dugout, and
they were they could not wait to get out of it.
By the way, why is the SBI still on No
one watches award shows No one man Mark the full
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name guy, the lunatic in Medford, Oregon is hiding behind
his phone like a coward and sending messages. But we're
not going to read those until he calls in. King
Rory writes, In says another boomer take, saying Jacob Mazarowski
did not earn his spot in the All Star Game. Yes,
five starts, five starts, King Rory. If that he makes
it a boomer take, so be it. He says. If
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Boyd didn't play the load management card, the misz wouldn't
be going. Simple as that, Jacob Azerowski is the future
of Major League Baseball and isn't leaving Milwaukee anytime soon. Well,
he's not leaving Milwaukee because he can't leave Milwaukee. He's
essentially seven years of arbitration and all that the first
three years you're not even eligible for arbitration, and then
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after that you are eligible. Was essentially under team control
for seven years. So of course, King Rory his favorite
baseball team is the Brewers. He's got a poster of
Bernie Brewer. And when he was a kid, he'd go
to the playground and go down the slide and King
Roy thought he was Bernie Brewer going down the slot.
He imagined him as Bernie Brewer. That's what he thought.
Shane in des Moines writes in and he says, Ben
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the mud pie story you told him the Fifth Hour
has me thinking, Dear God, you said you'll be on
your deathbed one day and want time back that you
won't get. How much time do you think you'll want
back based on those events? Well, that would be the
entire thirty seven minutes. Burner account says, Also good monologue,
Benjamin B. Plus and my early answer to the who
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in my game is the thirty seven minute mudplay mud Pie. Yeah,
if you want to hear that story, it's on the
Fifth Hour podcast. But I went to a restaurant and
there was a very long delay that I was not anticipating.
That screwed up my entire schedule because someone's incompetent their job.
But you got a free mud pie out of it. No,
I wasn't even free. I had to pay for it anyway.
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We split happened. We split the bill, but total incompetence
of the restaurant. Jeremy writes and says, these players need
to stop complaining about playing four days in a row
for millions, when average people get paid twenty dollars an
hour to work five to seven days a week. Let's
see who else do. Let's go to the phone. So
let's say hello to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth, and
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Andre is in the leadoff chair. Hello, Andre, Welcome, Oh Ben.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
How are you. It's good to be with you. Now, listen,
major League Baseball. This is it's a crack in the armor.
But it's a notable crack. Notable crack in the armor. Right,
and Willison concurs with me in terms of that.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Willis is comfortable with the show. Now, Andre, that there was.
Willis was very shy. At first he would not make
any noise. We thought Willis was fake. But now all
of a sudden, Willis is ready to engage in the
look at that unbelievable. I love when he like, he's like,
do you have any Scooby sack? Do you have any
Scooby snacks? For Willis?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Do you have any I do have a Scooby snack? Well,
you know, because he's fire up about this because baseball,
you know, we'll get a snacker ruby. Okay, all right,
so he whooped that down. But you know this. It
seems like a small thing, okay, but I'm very concerned
about Major League Baseball and their standards and all of
this participation coach of stuff that we got going on,
(28:57):
right and again from willis you know, I played only
a handful of games. Of course, he's a boy wonder.
So we can make the All Star Game next year, Ben, Okay,
and the year after that, and the year after that
and the year after that. Okay, Baseball you're the gold
standard of adult sports when it comes to achievement. Okay,
cools might have to be cut off on this so
I can make my points. But the Baseball Hall of
(29:17):
Fame still means something. Right, If you make it to
the Baseball Hall of Fame, get eighty eighty five percent
whatever the case may be, that you know you were
actually a Hall of Famer, Okay. Whereas my games more
to basketball. All you have to do is, you know,
do something charitable, smile at somebody, give somebody a high five,
and then you're in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Now.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I know it's two different things, Ben, the All Star
Game and the Hall of Fame, but there is a
through line. Okay. An All Star is an All sar,
you have to earn it. And when you take this
stance of we're gonna go with the best storyline, we're
gonna go with the best narrative, we're going to be
trending so on and sportce because there's a little bit
of this with Kershaw, him making the All Star Game
and he hasn't had.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
The best tame no, but Andre he didn't want to
go though. You know, Kershaw did not want to go
because when they announced it on that Sunday, Kershaw refused
to talk to the media because he was like, how
can I get the hell out of this? I don't
want to go to Atlanta for the All Star Game.
And then they talked to him and they probably paid
him some extra money or whatever, and they convinced him
to go, and then all of a sudden, the next
day he was even the next day he wasn't like
(30:15):
all in. But you could tell kershe I didn't want
go to the All Star Game. He didn't want to
go to Atlanta and hang out like a mascot there
and wave at everyone, and he knows he doesn't deserve.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
To be there, and they shouldn't have wanted to have
him because it's not his year, So I just I
spect more from baseball, the tradition, that history.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Why would you expect more? This is the Rob Manford
ear This guy is the same guy that rewarded the
cheating a holes. I almost said it in Houston while
they were cheating to win the World Series. He ran interference,
he ran protection. He didn't punish any of the players
that were doing it. That's the commission, that's the leadership
of Major League Baseball. That's Rob Manford right there. So
why would you expect Why would you expl Why would
(30:55):
you expect Rob Manford, the same guy that ran interference
for that little cheating so be Altuve and all those
other schmucks. Why would you expect him to do something right?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I shouldn't have done.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
You know, you gotta trust, but verify, And he already
unfooled me the one time talking about, well, you know,
the World Series is just to hunk a metal, you know,
and what doesn't really mean anything.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
So you know, this is the guy.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
When he gave out the World Series trophy, oftenimes he
sounds like he's drunk while he's handing out the trophy.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Okay, got to lay up to martinis in the press box,
you know. But Rob, you know, there's a couple of
things now you're growing the game, or we got some
things that that that that are positive, that does the
pitchclock is wonderful. Okay, I'm really excited about this third
challenge that they brought into baseball. Frankly, it's a couple
of many years late. We had the Wimbledon championships. You know,
mister mister Janique Center, even though we cheated before with
(31:43):
the PDS, you know, was happy for him and uh
iig swy tech of apologize in advance. But my point
with the connection to tennis is their challenge that they've incorporated.
It's been almost a decade. It's a wonderful thing. It
makes the game better. So I was super excited about
that challenge that they're incorporating in the All Star Game.
But then all this participation trophy stuff. Ben, Okay, it
(32:03):
took me off my high.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Hurt.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Course, I'm not. I'm not so thrilled and excited now
because baseball again, hold, you know, here's what we need
in conclusion, not just some more w willis we need
some Here's what we need in conclusion. You need to
sit down and watch to feel the dreams, mister Rob Manford. Okay,
and you got to you gotta get back to the
to the to the basics. Okay. If you build it,
they will come. Okay. It's the product that people that
resonates with people.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Baseball.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Okay, your high standards Okay, not your you know, ninety
nine cent cheap old depot type stuff. Your high standards
is what adds value to the game. These two folks
shouldn't have been All stars, okay. And don't make it
a habit. Okay, keep the dirts right challenge because that's
going to add value to baseball and increase the money
for everybody. But get rid of these patent trophy all right.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There's an andre. Doctor Crude writes in I was answering
some email in the fifth hour mail bag on the
Sunday Pod, and there's a guy from LA who lives
in Houston. He said, there's some dude on the radio
in Houston who's ripping you. And I've heard about this.
I don't know who it is now, Doctor Crewde names
the guy, but I'm not going to give him a
(33:05):
publicity on on our affiliates. But apparently this loser that
works at our affiliate in Houston. There, he says, he
does not sound like he's He sounds like he's not
your biggest fan. Well that's good. I like that he
has no content, though, And think about how pathetic, how
pathetic this guy must be as a talk show host
that he has nothing to talk about to repackage my
(33:30):
leftover takes. My god, do your own job, you loser.
I mean, I know I got to do the heavy
lifting for everybody, but my god, do your own show,
have your own takes. I mean that is like that'd
be the laziest talk show host, this guy. And I'm
not gonna name him. You know you know those in Houston, though,
god'd be the laziest guy. What a dumb thing to do.
(33:52):
I mean, this guy can't come up with his own
original takes. He's so lazy he probably shows up. He's
one of those guys that rips and reads off like
ESPN's website, whatever's on. There's a lot of guys like that.
They don't really prep They're rolling there one minute before
the show and then all right here I'm gonna talking
about this. Wow, what a loser? I mean, my god, well,
I got to clean up this business. There's a lot
(34:13):
of crap in this business. Anyway, Let's go to Big Daddy.
Big Daddy is next. Hello, Big Daddy, welcome in Memphis.
You'd like to talk to all of his all of
his voters.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Hello, Big Daddy. Hey man, I rather listen to Willis
than Andre. He's making more to this Andre. You love
that merchant man.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
You gotta do.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I have a dog, Yes, I have a dog. I
have a moxy. I have an English bulldog, big fat
English bulldog that farts all the time.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Yes, I have a Jack Russell.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
You have Jack Russell, Terry. Those are good dogs.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Look Dack Russell Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I called him
buddy man.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Buddy is he? Is he a cuddler?
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Yeah? Good to go. If I was on the phone,
I wouldn't have been able to talk. It is right now.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I understand completely.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Man.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
We ain't got nothing to look at, you know, because
Lebron getting ready to retire.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
So he's not going to retire. The problem Lebron's got
is that in order for the Lakers to move Lebron,
they've got to include Bronnie James. It's gotta be easy.
You can't keep Bronnie around because the only reason Bronni's
there is because Lebron Browny can't play sucks, so they
got to trade him with Lebron and so it's like
they gotta come, both of them have to go somewhere.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Yeah. Man, you know you're talking about the bagels a
while back. You know, I've never had a bagel never.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
No, you gotta change that now whole Now. You got
to do it the right way. I'm not big, big
daddy though, you got you. I don't know. I don't
know the Memphis bagel scene. I don't think of when
I think about bagels in Memphis.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
I never had one. I've had all, but I never
had a baby.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Listen, listen to me. Listen, listen to me. All I say,
you gotta do it the right way. You gotta go
and find the top. Every town has a great bagel shop.
You gotta find the top bagel shop in Memphis. And
you got to find out when they make the bagels,
and you've got to go in there. You got to
go in there when they they're fresh out of the oven.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Yeah yeah, when that yeah, when that light rot.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah, I get you will be like, what have I done?
Why have I not enjoyed the bagel? I love the
bagel that be the.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Best to get, not the one off the bread out.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
No, no, no, you don't want to get those. Those
have been there's a lot of chemicals in those. They've
been sitting around for You want to get a fresh bagel. Now,
you can recreate that a little bit if you put
that like the air fryer and heat it up a
little bit and it'll come back to life. But generally speaking,
as a rule of thumb, here big Daddy, you gotta
get it fresh from the bakery, one of the.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Best one known now, you know, because you you know,
have good ideas about your food.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
That's right, Look at that. I should do a food blog.
I should be a FOODI yeah, yeah, yeah, man, a
certain stuff.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
I hear the right of too long some of her stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You know, but really what kind of stuff? What kind
of advices Lorraine?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Well you know, I mean, you know what.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
We're eating. Oh well, she's always ordering for not tonight
though I don't. Yeah, yeah, I haven't seen any.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Food he got the much that's what he ordered, So
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Understand, I understand. I used to man, Maggie, the old
days before I got old, I used to eat. I
go to the liquor store down the street. Here. We
bought gummy sharks and gummy bears and gandy.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
And if I just liquor, that would be one of them.
Look shot with the energy, right man? Thingleep?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I hear you all right, Ben? Well, big Daddy, thank you, buddy.
Be good. There's the great Big Daddy checking in saying hello.
It is the Ben Mallord Show. As we are working
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We'll get to the tabloid Brady. We'll get to the
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That's the question, the answer. We'll get to it. We'll
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Milwaukee's Jacob Mazerowski gets the All Star roster spot after
just five games for the Miz Thumbs up or thumbs
down on that. Also, Major League Baseball officials claim they
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actually reached out to about a dozen pitchers looking for
a replacement for the All Star Game until the Brewers
Jacob Mizerowski agreed to go. Believe it or not, and
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show'd me sorry this hour. We're going to start out
in Wisconsin, although it's really at the League office in
(02:54):
New York City. The curtain has come down, pens down,
the music has paused, as it is the All Star
break in Major League Baseball, no more real baseball. The
players hate the All Star Game. They don't want to
go to the All Star Game. They can't stand the
All Star Game. But they want you baseball does to
watch the All Star Game. More in that in a minute.
(03:17):
So all Star news over the weekend, get the home
run Derby Derby, Derby Derby coming up on Monday, All
Star Game on Tuesday days off, and then back at
it late in the week So the biggest storyline here
around the All Star Game, and it's happened and developed
over the weekend. The news came out over the weekend,
(03:37):
and then the reaction of anger and rage at Major
League Baseball. So if you haven't heard, perhaps not the
phenom of phenoms, as somebody from Wisconsin said. I wrote
a love letter, miler monologue about the performance I saw
against the Dodgers the other day of the Miz and
he is the story of baseball. Yet again. Over the weekend,
(03:58):
Jacob Mizerowski, the six foot seven Brewers flame thrower with
five career starts five career starts, has been added as
an All Star. Yes, five starts, this cat's an All Star,
not five wins. I didn't say five wins. I didn't
(04:20):
say five quality starts. He got lit up by the Mets.
Five starts, period. That's it. Five all star, five starts,
All Star game. So this has become a polarizing topic.
The Phillies are up in arms. More on that in
a minute. Also, longtime Major League Baseball broadcaster Ron Darling,
(04:41):
not happy said it's kind of a joke, Darling said,
to the game, and it's a bad choice for baseball.
Close quote from Ron Darley. So let us discuss the
question for the esteem panel, and you are now on
the esteem panel. So the question Milwaukee flame Jacob Mazarowski
(05:02):
gets All Star nod, the All Star roster spot, thumbs
up or thumbs down on the Miz making the All
Star Games. So I've got online marketplace, Olivia Rodrigo and hedonist,
and we will combine these three very random things that
(05:22):
have never been combined together, and we are going to
put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
to do. So A my first thought to answer the question,
thumbs up, thumbs down on the Miz making the All
Star team, thumbs down, ifact two thumbs down. I got
two thumbs down on this. Now, this one is simple,
all right. This is a textbook example of lowering the standards.
(05:47):
And again, I like the player. I am a I
want to see this turn out to be a great career.
It would be wonderful. I like the player, but this
a little bit too much too soon, a little bit
too much too soon, So I'm going thumbs down. The
standard for All Star selection is the way to get in.
There's a couple of ways to get it. Be really
really good, right, really really good, or be on a
(06:09):
crap team. And then somebody has to make the All
Star team, like play for the White Sox or the Rockies.
They have to have an All Star which is tradition.
But outside of that, and the Brewers are not a
bad team, they're not a great team. They're somewhere in
the middle. But here's the thing. The standard for the
All Star selection, which had been rooted up until a
couple of years ago, rooted in what performance, consistency, reliability,
(06:34):
all of those big words. That was the credibility that
meant something. And it reminds me of what they've done
in the NFL, where the Pro Bowl is now tic
tac toe and water balloon toss. Baseball is going to
get to that point. They're gonna get there very fast
by having someone in the All Star Game with five
starts five five sick. I mean, my god, so tossing
(07:00):
out All Star bursts like sunflower seed shells in the dugout.
You get an All Star, you get an All Star,
you get an All Star. And why are they doing
is why is Jacob Mazaraski an All Star? Well, one
word marketing, capital m marketing. That's how right buzz brand engagement.
(07:21):
So wow, Milwaukee's a small market. Why does baseball care
about Milwaukee? Well, it's the story. It's the story. Everyone
loves a good story, right, We learn from stories. We've
all all human beings learned from stories. But this is
Major League Baseball's latest episode of look at me and see.
The issue is Heaven forbid? Heaven forbid you just allow
(07:41):
these things to play themselves out naturally have the organic experience.
But no, it's about Hey, it's marketing. So you're going
to take someone that has a lot of hype even
though they're in a you know, a smaller town in Milwaukee,
and an undercooked prospect, and a prospect is a suspec
until brovel Eyes. But he's got a really sexy radar gun,
(08:05):
you know, I mean, he's one hundred miles an hour
a lot, and that's pretty cool. And so social media
likes him, so they'll get some applause on the social
media and all that stuff now, and so we liked
the player. We did a monologue celebrating them is and
all that. As we said, However, Major League Baseball here
on this one another unforced error by Rob Manford and
(08:26):
his underlings at the league office. Here major League Baseball
sticking it to the players who have earned earned the
All Star honor through months and often years of continued
service and success on the field. And so no, and
those players, I'm sure there are some, not all, but
(08:47):
some would would would have liked to have been an
All Star. But they get shoved to the side right
there in the background. And the reason they're in the
background is because of the online marketplace mlbshop dot com.
Can you sell a few more jerseys? Can you move
the merch? And who's gonna move the merch? Some nondescript
pitcher has been around for a number of years. Who
happens to pitch for? I don't know the Phillies or
(09:09):
the Red Sox or the mizz Oh he's got the story, right,
that's the answer. That's obviously the answer. Marketing capital m
MLB shops sell some merch, sell some merch. This is
Jacob Mazerowski's moment. Who is not supposed to be his moment.
Five starts. You don't get your moment. The reason it's
his moment is because Major League Baseball's marketing department's horny
(09:30):
to sell some merch and create a star. They have
to create the next big thing brand engagements, engagement farming,
engagement farm, Get out the tractor, Grayma. It's engagement farming.
And we should not be surprised. And the reason that
we should not be surprised, if you've been paying attention,
this is the same Rob Manford run organization on Major
(09:54):
League Baseball that long ago gave up any of the
traditions of the game. For digital impressions. This is what
it's all about. Baseball is convinced they have taken the
kool aid. They like the kool aid when it comes
to the matrix of social media, and that's what it's
all about. Right, So they go back and forth, or like,
in some areas they want to honor tradition. Of course
(10:16):
they can make a buck on it. They're like, I
want to honor tradition, and then in other areas they
want to take a bulldozer and just drive over the
tradition of baseball. But they've allowed the matrix to form
the blueprint on which direction they're going to go. And
Misslerowski stuff comes in, uh and not I thought five
(10:37):
starts was not en off. But considering what Baseball's done
and the Mizz's story and all that stuff, it's like,
all right, he's so far as good as advertised. Did
have a stinker against the match, but we'll overlook that. See.
The thing about it, though, is you would say, if
he's as good as he's supposed to be, his time
will come, his opportunity will come. And baseball's always in
(10:57):
the past. But about letting that greatness unf fold over time, right,
it doesn't happen right away all the time, but right now,
in this moment, No, that's not the case. That's not
how we do things here.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
When there's a meme out there that Rob Manford doesn't
really understand, the internet, it gets all excited about its
Oh man, that's meme, meme, meme, I love the meme.
I'm all about it, all about it, right and a
couple of impressions on social media. They get all excited
about that. But the All Star Game so okay, much
like the Pro Bowl used to mean something, all Star
Game not to be fair, the All Star Game. This
(11:34):
has been a thing which has gone the wrong direction
for a long time, like it's been going a wrong
direction for many many years here. But is another staged
moment by Major League Baseball, right stage managed for theater.
It's a like a Broadway show here. And baseball is
(11:54):
so desperate. They have such low self esteem at Major
League Baseball. They want to look cool. They do everything
they can to look cool, and they just can't help themselves.
They can't because it's all about being cool and whether
that means they have to erode things that made the
sport what it became valuable for it doesn't matter. Listen,
(12:16):
it's all about.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
The clickety click clicketty clickty click atty click and he
click anny click. And those those clips of the mizz
on Instagram are really good. So five starts, I mean, okay,
but that being you'd admit those are some good, good
looking clips on social media. Right now we turned the page.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
So in the face of the pushback, and there has
been some pushback by players and the old timers in baseball,
the old heads in baseball pushback on adding Jacob Mazeroski
to the All Star team after five games. Major League
Baseball officials claim that it's not their fault. They claim
they tried, they did everything they could in their power
(12:58):
to find someone else, and they told their buddies in
the media. They said they actually reached out to over
a dozen or right around a dozen. I think the
number I saw was a dozen over the weekend, a
dozen pitchers looking to replace They needed a replacement for
the All Star Game, and they kept looking and looking
(13:19):
and looking and looking until they finally got to Jacob Zerowski.
He agreed to do it. So do you believe it
or not? Do you believe it or not that Baseball's like, well, listen,
we tried. We didn't really want to bring this guy,
but we had no other options because we went down
in order and we got to him and we had
to go with him because there was nobody else. So
I am not a believer on this. I am not
(13:41):
a believer. This is again a M and M, a
marketing move. It is an eminem Just own it, just
own it. Say listen, the guy doesn't really deserve it,
but people like him and we think he's going to
be good, so we want to see him in the
All Star Game. And it's an exhibition game, so who cares.
That's it. Now, there's a wider issue here, which is
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absolutely a thing, and it's the disease is all over,
the plague is all over professional sports. But the marketing
move was why the Miz is in the All Star Game.
And when you pieced, when you piece together the puzzle,
you put the jigsaw puzzle together. Here, Major League Baseball,
if they had wanted to, could have found someone else
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to go to the All Star Game. Now they might
have had to go down to like twenty pick twenty five.
They would have gotten someone for the All Star Game,
and they should have found someone else. They obviously did not.
They didn't look that hard. My theory is they didn't
look that hard, and if you look at this through
that lens, that they weren't really trying to find someone
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other than a miz. They wanted him to be in
the All Star Game. It's like that Olivia Rodrigo song
deja vu, because remember last year we had this similar conversation. Now,
last year Major League Baseball added you remember they added
that's right, Paul Skeins, the Pirates phenom who let the
baseball world on fire a year ago. Paul Skins. Now
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he made the All Star Game. He started the All
Star Game last year as a hot shot rookie, eleven
starts into his big league career. So so eleven starts
in fine. Now we supported that. Last year we thought
that was okay. This we did not support.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The reason the difference is rather obvious. The average starting
pitcher in baseball will make around thirty four starts. Most
of them do not hit that number, but the number
is about thirty four starts per year based on one
hundred and sixty two games that somebody starts. You're supposed
to make if you're in the starting rotation. So eleven
starts out of thirty four works out to be thirty
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two percent of a full season. Now the numbers even higher,
the percentage even higher if the average number goes down
to thirty. But we'll say it's thirty four. So that's
thirty two percent of a season. The Miz starting five
games for the Brew Crew before the All Star Game.
Five that is less than fifteen percent of the full
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season of starts, and you make an All Star appearance,
and that's where we are. That's where we are now.
Last word, the Fighting Pills very upset that their pitcher
did not make the All Star Game. Instead, Jacob Mazeroski
made it. Now one of the outspoken critics, a man
that is notorious for hitting the home run at the
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time you shouldn't hit a home run when someone's giving
a grobbling apology on television. Nick Castellanos, Now, he came
out so winging. He came out swinging. The Phillies outfielder
was not happy and he's not happy with the way
the All Star Game is going. He's also one of
those guys that has All Star numbers, but I don't
believe he's on the All Star Team Anyway, Nick Castellanos
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said of the All Star game quote, it's turning into
the Savannah bananas. It's turning into the Savannah bananas. Your thoughts,
all right? So my thought on this is that is
exactly what baseball wants. That is their wet dream. Am
I wrong? Baseball wants Savannah banana. They want the bananas.
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They need the bananas. Baseball loves bananas. They do. They're jealous.
I'm telling you, I've heard this from people who work
in baseball. The people with the League office are jealous
of the Savannah Bananas, who are essentially the Harlem Globetrotters
of baseball, right, barnstorming group. They're on television now, They've
got a cult following people seem to like, and they
sell out football stadiums and baseball. It annoys them. They're like,
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we've been around for one hundred and forty something years,
what do you do it? It bothers them. They're annoyed
by this. They're jealous of the attention that in the
social media world they are seen as cool and the
bananas are cool. When has the banana ever been cool? Well,
they Savannah bananas are cool. Pac stadium, social media content
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buzz on social media, television audience. I don't think it's huge,
but people are watching, and that is the core of
Major League Baseball's business plan. Right. They don't have to
pay the Savannah Bananas. The players on the team make peanuts.
They don't even get paid bananas. They they get paid
peanuts because they're cheaper. They can't even afford bananas to
pay them. They pay them with peanuts. And major League
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Baseball is if you look at the rock and roll
element of having fun, you know, which is what they
have when you watch the highlights. I've never watched a
full Savannah Bananas game, so I couldn't tell you, but
it appears they're having fun now. Furthermore so, Major League
Baseball also concerned about the rash of players who have
bailed out. We mentioned this players that have bailed out
of the All Star Game. They don't want to show up.
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And then the most common reason, let's see, I'm gonna
give you a phrase to see if you can tell
me where this phrase origin is the most common reason
that Major League Baseball players have opted out of the
All Star Game. Twenty twenty five, the Year of Our
Lord is rest and recuperation, Rest and recuperation, all right?
So what is behind? What is behind the Major League
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Baseball players skipping the All Star Game for rest and recuperation,
all right? So this is a sign of the times.
It's the same brain rot they have in the other sports,
and it's been around for a while, right. These baseball guys,
they see those softy NBA players bitching about back to
back games like we play like sometimes we'll play two
weeks in a row with no days, Oh my god.
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And the basketball players they play one game and they
can play in it. Oh my, that whole thing, all right.
So there were in the age of hey, I want
the hedonist experience, I want the work life balance is
what they want, and it's it's been building and building,
and Billy, I mean over twenty years ago, I was
on these microphones of Fox Sports Radio. The All Star
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Game was in Milwaukee, and the defining moment of Bud Selik,
who overlooked all the steroid guys. But Bud Ceilik is
the commissioner they used car salesman there through his arm
up in the air everywhere, literally right in the eleventh
inning of a tie game of a tie game and
told the umpires he said, listen, they're out of pitchers.
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Tie game. And the reason they were out of players
was because now the game intered in the tie the
All Star Game. The players were leaving the stadium while
the game was going on. They couldn't stand being in Milwaukee.
They were trying to get out of there. They get
the airport out of there to go to the Bahamas
or Hawaii or wherever, and said they couldn't wait to
get out of the airport. Right And Major League Baseball
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had this this time it counts marketing campaign for years
after that where they actually decided the World Series home
field advantage based on who won the All Star Game
to stick it to the players. But here we are again.
The players today are like, hey, we see what the
NBA guys are doing. We're just as big as cream
puff as those NBA guys. We want that extra time off.
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I don't care promote the game. We're not doing that.
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do we have here? Let's see Ferg Dog. Ferg Dog says,
anyone saying the Miz does not belong at the All
Star Game is an idiot. It's the first two time
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Grand Slam champion in WWE history and a future Hall
of Famer. The Miz is a major drop. Major League
Baseball cannot market him enough. Sign Ferdog. All right, let's
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excited about that. Jay, Scoop and Just Josh are in it.
Who else will be part of it? Will we get
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sir for Todd the medium? Will he enter some jokes?
Who knows? Inquiring minds would like to know? I don't
even know who I know. I know that milkman Mike
in Colorado. He submitted a slot he would like to slot.
John writes in from parts on Know, and he says, no, Ben,
the Major League Baseball All Star players were racing out
of Milwaukee, not to go on vacation, but to get
(25:19):
to LA for the stupid lame eSPI Award show the
day later. Well that was part of it, but trust me,
they were leaving. I remember Kevin Kennedy, who used to
work here, was doing those interviews in the dugout, and
they were they could not wait to get out of it.
By the way, why is the SBI still on No
one watches award shows No one man Mark the full
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name guy, the lunatic in Medford, Oregon is hiding behind
his phone like a coward and sending messages. But we're
not going to read those until he calls in. King
Rory writes, In says another boomer take, saying Jacob Mazarowski
did not earn his spot in the All Star Game. Yes,
five starts, five starts, King Rory. If that he makes
it a boomer take, so be it. He says. If
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Boyd didn't play the load management card, the misz wouldn't
be going. Simple as that, Jacob Azerowski is the future
of Major League Baseball and isn't leaving Milwaukee anytime soon. Well,
he's not leaving Milwaukee because he can't leave Milwaukee. He's
essentially seven years of arbitration and all that the first
three years you're not even eligible for arbitration, and then
(26:24):
after that you are eligible. Was essentially under team control
for seven years. So of course, King Rory his favorite
baseball team is the Brewers. He's got a poster of
Bernie Brewer. And when he was a kid, he'd go
to the playground and go down the slide and King
Roy thought he was Bernie Brewer going down the slot.
He imagined him as Bernie Brewer. That's what he thought.
Shane in des Moines writes in and he says, Ben
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the mud pie story you told him the Fifth Hour
has me thinking, Dear God, you said you'll be on
your deathbed one day and want time back that you
won't get. How much time do you think you'll want
back based on those events? Well, that would be the
entire thirty seven minutes. Burner account says, Also good monologue,
Benjamin B. Plus and my early answer to the who
(27:10):
in my game is the thirty seven minute mudplay mud Pie. Yeah,
if you want to hear that story, it's on the
Fifth Hour podcast. But I went to a restaurant and
there was a very long delay that I was not anticipating.
That screwed up my entire schedule because someone's incompetent their job.
But you got a free mud pie out of it. No,
I wasn't even free. I had to pay for it anyway.
(27:32):
We split happened. We split the bill, but total incompetence
of the restaurant. Jeremy writes and says, these players need
to stop complaining about playing four days in a row
for millions, when average people get paid twenty dollars an
hour to work five to seven days a week. Let's
see who else do. Let's go to the phone. So
let's say hello to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth, and
(27:57):
Andre is in the leadoff chair. Hello, Andre, Welcome, Oh Ben.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
How are you. It's good to be with you. Now, listen,
major League Baseball. This is it's a crack in the armor.
But it's a notable crack. Notable crack in the armor. Right,
and Willison concurs with me in terms of that.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Willis is comfortable with the show. Now, Andre, that there was.
Willis was very shy. At first he would not make
any noise. We thought Willis was fake. But now all
of a sudden, Willis is ready to engage in the
look at that unbelievable. I love when he like, he's like,
do you have any Scooby sack? Do you have any
Scooby snacks? For Willis?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Do you have any I do have a Scooby snack? Well,
you know, because he's fire up about this because baseball,
you know, we'll get a snacker ruby. Okay, all right,
so he whooped that down. But you know this. It
seems like a small thing, okay, but I'm very concerned
about Major League Baseball and their standards and all of
this participation coach of stuff that we got going on,
(28:57):
right and again from willis you know, I played only
a handful of games. Of course, he's a boy wonder.
So we can make the All Star Game next year, Ben, Okay,
and the year after that, and the year after that
and the year after that. Okay, Baseball you're the gold
standard of adult sports when it comes to achievement. Okay,
cools might have to be cut off on this so
I can make my points. But the Baseball Hall of
(29:17):
Fame still means something. Right, If you make it to
the Baseball Hall of Fame, get eighty eighty five percent
whatever the case may be, that you know you were
actually a Hall of Famer, Okay. Whereas my games more
to basketball. All you have to do is, you know,
do something charitable, smile at somebody, give somebody a high five,
and then you're in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Now.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I know it's two different things, Ben, the All Star
Game and the Hall of Fame, but there is a
through line. Okay. An All Star is an All sar,
you have to earn it. And when you take this
stance of we're gonna go with the best storyline, we're
gonna go with the best narrative, we're going to be
trending so on and sportce because there's a little bit
of this with Kershaw, him making the All Star Game
and he hasn't had.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
The best tame no, but Andre he didn't want to
go though. You know, Kershaw did not want to go
because when they announced it on that Sunday, Kershaw refused
to talk to the media because he was like, how
can I get the hell out of this? I don't
want to go to Atlanta for the All Star Game.
And then they talked to him and they probably paid
him some extra money or whatever, and they convinced him
to go, and then all of a sudden, the next
day he was even the next day he wasn't like
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all in. But you could tell kershe I didn't want
go to the All Star Game. He didn't want to
go to Atlanta and hang out like a mascot there
and wave at everyone, and he knows he doesn't deserve.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
To be there, and they shouldn't have wanted to have
him because it's not his year, So I just I
spect more from baseball, the tradition, that history.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Why would you expect more? This is the Rob Manford
ear This guy is the same guy that rewarded the
cheating a holes. I almost said it in Houston while
they were cheating to win the World Series. He ran interference,
he ran protection. He didn't punish any of the players
that were doing it. That's the commission, that's the leadership
of Major League Baseball. That's Rob Manford right there. So
why would you expect Why would you expl Why would
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you expect Rob Manford, the same guy that ran interference
for that little cheating so be Altuve and all those
other schmucks. Why would you expect him to do something right?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I shouldn't have done.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
You know, you gotta trust, but verify, And he already
unfooled me the one time talking about, well, you know,
the World Series is just to hunk a metal, you know,
and what doesn't really mean anything.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
So you know, this is the guy.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
When he gave out the World Series trophy, oftenimes he
sounds like he's drunk while he's handing out the trophy.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Okay, got to lay up to martinis in the press box,
you know. But Rob, you know, there's a couple of
things now you're growing the game, or we got some
things that that that that are positive, that does the
pitchclock is wonderful. Okay, I'm really excited about this third
challenge that they brought into baseball. Frankly, it's a couple
of many years late. We had the Wimbledon championships. You know,
mister mister Janique Center, even though we cheated before with
(31:43):
the PDS, you know, was happy for him and uh
iig swy tech of apologize in advance. But my point
with the connection to tennis is their challenge that they've incorporated.
It's been almost a decade. It's a wonderful thing. It
makes the game better. So I was super excited about
that challenge that they're incorporating in the All Star Game.
But then all this participation trophy stuff. Ben, Okay, it
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took me off my high.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Hurt.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Course, I'm not. I'm not so thrilled and excited now
because baseball again, hold, you know, here's what we need
in conclusion, not just some more w willis we need
some Here's what we need in conclusion. You need to
sit down and watch to feel the dreams, mister Rob Manford. Okay,
and you got to you gotta get back to the
to the to the basics. Okay. If you build it,
they will come. Okay. It's the product that people that
resonates with people.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Baseball.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Okay, your high standards Okay, not your you know, ninety
nine cent cheap old depot type stuff. Your high standards
is what adds value to the game. These two folks
shouldn't have been All stars, okay. And don't make it
a habit. Okay, keep the dirts right challenge because that's
going to add value to baseball and increase the money
for everybody. But get rid of these patent trophy all right.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There's an andre. Doctor Crude writes in I was answering
some email in the fifth hour mail bag on the
Sunday Pod, and there's a guy from LA who lives
in Houston. He said, there's some dude on the radio
in Houston who's ripping you. And I've heard about this.
I don't know who it is now, Doctor Crewde names
the guy, but I'm not going to give him a
(33:05):
publicity on on our affiliates. But apparently this loser that
works at our affiliate in Houston. There, he says, he
does not sound like he's He sounds like he's not
your biggest fan. Well that's good. I like that he
has no content, though, And think about how pathetic, how
pathetic this guy must be as a talk show host
that he has nothing to talk about to repackage my
(33:30):
leftover takes. My god, do your own job, you loser.
I mean, I know I got to do the heavy
lifting for everybody, but my god, do your own show,
have your own takes. I mean that is like that'd
be the laziest talk show host, this guy. And I'm
not gonna name him. You know you know those in Houston, though,
god'd be the laziest guy. What a dumb thing to do.
(33:52):
I mean, this guy can't come up with his own
original takes. He's so lazy he probably shows up. He's
one of those guys that rips and reads off like
ESPN's website, whatever's on. There's a lot of guys like that.
They don't really prep They're rolling there one minute before
the show and then all right here I'm gonna talking
about this. Wow, what a loser? I mean, my god, well,
I got to clean up this business. There's a lot
(34:13):
of crap in this business. Anyway, Let's go to Big Daddy.
Big Daddy is next. Hello, Big Daddy, welcome in Memphis.
You'd like to talk to all of his all of
his voters.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Hello, Big Daddy. Hey man, I rather listen to Willis
than Andre. He's making more to this Andre. You love
that merchant man.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
You gotta do.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I have a dog, Yes, I have a dog. I
have a moxy. I have an English bulldog, big fat
English bulldog that farts all the time.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Yes, I have a Jack Russell.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
You have Jack Russell, Terry. Those are good dogs.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Look Dack Russell Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I called him
buddy man.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Buddy is he? Is he a cuddler?
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Yeah? Good to go. If I was on the phone,
I wouldn't have been able to talk. It is right now.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I understand completely.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Man.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
We ain't got nothing to look at, you know, because
Lebron getting ready to retire.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
So he's not going to retire. The problem Lebron's got
is that in order for the Lakers to move Lebron,
they've got to include Bronnie James. It's gotta be easy.
You can't keep Bronnie around because the only reason Bronni's
there is because Lebron Browny can't play sucks, so they
got to trade him with Lebron and so it's like
they gotta come, both of them have to go somewhere.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Yeah. Man, you know you're talking about the bagels a
while back. You know, I've never had a bagel never.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
No, you gotta change that now whole Now. You got
to do it the right way. I'm not big, big
daddy though, you got you. I don't know. I don't
know the Memphis bagel scene. I don't think of when
I think about bagels in Memphis.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
I never had one. I've had all, but I never
had a baby.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Listen, listen to me. Listen, listen to me. All I say,
you gotta do it the right way. You gotta go
and find the top. Every town has a great bagel shop.
You gotta find the top bagel shop in Memphis. And
you got to find out when they make the bagels,
and you've got to go in there. You got to
go in there when they they're fresh out of the oven.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Yeah yeah, when that yeah, when that light rot.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah, I get you will be like, what have I done?
Why have I not enjoyed the bagel? I love the
bagel that be the.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Best to get, not the one off the bread out.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
No, no, no, you don't want to get those. Those
have been there's a lot of chemicals in those. They've
been sitting around for You want to get a fresh bagel. Now,
you can recreate that a little bit if you put
that like the air fryer and heat it up a
little bit and it'll come back to life. But generally speaking,
as a rule of thumb, here big Daddy, you gotta
get it fresh from the bakery, one of the.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Best one known now, you know, because you you know,
have good ideas about your food.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
That's right, Look at that. I should do a food blog.
I should be a FOODI yeah, yeah, yeah, man, a
certain stuff.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
I hear the right of too long some of her stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You know, but really what kind of stuff? What kind
of advices Lorraine?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Well you know, I mean, you know what.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
We're eating. Oh well, she's always ordering for not tonight
though I don't. Yeah, yeah, I haven't seen any.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Food he got the much that's what he ordered, So
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Understand, I understand. I used to man, Maggie, the old
days before I got old, I used to eat. I
go to the liquor store down the street. Here. We
bought gummy sharks and gummy bears and gandy.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
And if I just liquor, that would be one of them.
Look shot with the energy, right man? Thingleep?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I hear you all right, Ben? Well, big Daddy, thank you, buddy.
Be good. There's the great Big Daddy checking in saying hello.
It is the Ben Mallord Show. As we are working
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We'll get to the tabloid Brady. We'll get to the
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the podcast Fifth Hour podcast all weekend. There were new episodes.
Timeless Arety Award winning reviews for the mud Pie from
Hell story we told on the Fifth Hour podcast over
the weekend. You get that available wherever you get your podcast.
This podcast from this Overdight show will be up as well,
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but make sure to listen at some point. Don't do
it now, do not do it now, but at some
point listen to the Fifth Hour podcast from the weekend,
including the mailbag on Sunday. Back to it.
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We go.
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Back to a pay off thee who Am I? Game?
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With the number one pick in the twenty five the
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Sherman Oaks here by the Mets back in nineteen sixty eight.
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