July 14, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the idea that the Washington Nationals drafting Oklahoma prep SS Eli Willits with the 1st pick over Ethan Holliday because of Scott Boras, a call for Fernando Valenzuela to get into the Hall of Fame, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding dong. It's our number three. Our number three is
piping hot and ready to go. Here in our number three,
we talk about baseball. Did the Nationals draft Oklahoma Prep
shortstop Eli Willitts with the first pick over Ethan Holiday
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because of Scott Boris the agent. Also wide angle lens,
Wide angle lens. How do you evaluate the presentation of
the Major League Baseball Draft? We'll talk about that. Where
do you stand on the Dodger legend? Fernando valence Wila
possibly getting into Cooperstown someday? Giants broadcaster endorse that we'll
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go there as well. It's all ready to go right now,
Sit back, relax and enjoy in your headphones.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's our number three.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Some major naantitude when it comes to grabbing the wallet.
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Speaker 3 (02:09):
Me.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So our lead this hour is from Atlanta, that is
the epicenter of the baseball world. As the Futures Game
was this weekend, the Baseball Draft took place on Sunday,
and that's our jumping off point here. The Major League
Baseball Draft and the All Star Home Run Derby will
be later on today and then you've got also the
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All Star Game on Tuesday. But no Sunday Night Baseball,
No Sunday Night Baseball x nay on the Baseball A.
Instead it was the draft. Instead it was the draft.
So Baseball attempted to artificially create some buzz out of thin.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Air for this event. Did it work?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Not really not but maybe for you, but not for me.
More on that in a minute.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The biggest headline from the baseball draft is that the
Washington Nationals, that is a baseball team, not a good one.
The Washington Nationals, who fired their general manager and their
manager just days before the draft, selected a high school
shortstop from Oklahoma, Eli Willitts.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Eli Willitts.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
On Sunday night, he was the number one over in
Major League Baseball's amateur draft.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
His dad played for the Angels, was a coach for
the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And that was not supposed to be the way it went.
That was not what the mock drafts had. That was
not the projection by the nerds, the super nerds that
followed college and high school baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They were in a tizzy. They were in an uproar.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So the seventeen year old Willets the youngest player taken
number one overall since Ken Griffey Junior by the Mariners
back in eighty seven, third youngest of all time. Tim
Foley was drafted back in the sixties by the Mets
out of our area.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
He Sherman Oaks, where we do the show from.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And so anyway, this is the player Willitts who was
drafted top pick of the draft, and so that's a
big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Right goes to the Nationals and.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Ethan Holliday who everyone said was the de facto number
one player in this draft. He was projected as the
player that should have been drafted number one and lead
up to the event and he was not picked, which
led to a grand conspiracy theory. A grand conspiracy theory.
You know, we love to dabble in conspiracy theories. So
let's discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And here it is.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Did the Washington Nationals draft Oklahoma prep shortstop Eli Willits
with the first overall pick in the draft over Eli
or Ethan rather Ethan Holiday? Did they draft the shortstop
from Oklahoma, Eli Willets over Ethan Holiday? Because because of
Scott boris the super powerful agent who is repping. So
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I've got Boogeyman, Jack the Ripper, and Caucus and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a Tierra Massoux is what we're going
to make. So, first of all, this is not a
conspiracy theory. I'm going to push back on the idea
that the Nationals selecting a high school shortstop from Oklahoma
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is some kind of conspiracy theory. It's not a conspiracy
theory if it's true, and in my heart of hearts,
I believe this is true.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I do.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Now, let me ask you something, Okay, let me ask
you something here. Do you believe in monsters? Do you
do the monster mash? Do you believe in monsters? Because
I'm not talking about the kind that hides under the bed.
I'm not talking about that kind. I am not talking
about the kind in horror movies.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
No no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'm talking about Scott Boris. Scott Boris, Oh yeah, major
League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
In that world, there.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is a monsder named Scott Boris. He is the boogeyman.
Stay away from the boogeyman. He is the thing that
makes general managers and scouting directors do the double check,
and not the discount double check, although in many ways
it is the discount double check. They're trying to find
a deal, and right before they go to bed, right
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they gotta check the closet, they gotta check the other room.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
He is the bathroom. The whole thing is the boogeyman
over there? Is he over there?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He's the guy Scott Boris that just gobbles gop of gobble, arbitration,
deadlines for breakfast. He loves, He laughs, Hi, point and
laugh at you with club friendly extensions. You think I'm
club friendly. There's no such thing as club friendly. Scott
Boris is, without a doubt, there is no question the
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most powerful man in baseball not wearing a uniform. It's
certainly not the clown commits baseball. Scott Boris it is.
And yeah, he's the one that is the puppet master,
and teams will do anything they can to stay away,
including drafting a substandard player, in order to avoid the boogeyman.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Like appears to have happened.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Here Ethan Holiday, who was the son He's got the genetics.
The son he's talking about, Nepo baby, the son of
Matt Holliday who played in the major leagues for the
Rockies and the Cardinals. There and this guy was born
with a baseball glove. He came out of the womb
with a baseball glove. Ethan Holiday and all that stuff.
And I think he, at the age of three days
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was given a Tops baseball card. I think that's the case.
Maybe maybe it was four or five days, but I
thought it was three days. It might have been four
or five. I thought it was three and so. But
the problem with Ethan Holiday is that his agent is
let me check my nose, Let's start the horror music. Yeah,
Scott Boris the boogey man. And the Nationals they know Boris.
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They have done the dance with the devil. They have
done the dance with the devil. Bryce Harper, Scott Borris guy,
Bryce Harper, Scott Boris guy no longer a National, Steven
Strasburg a Scott Boris guy, Anthony Rendon now stealing money
in Anaheim, Scott Boris.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Guy, and every one of them, every one of them
under that umbrella, the.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Scott Boris umbrella, and every one of them costs a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And the results vary.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
As the results may vary, and they definitely did vary
in terms of these three players, and all of them
left the Nationals either broke, broken or.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
A little bit of both, a little bit of both
either way.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
So what did Here's the question, what did the front
office do when they had the opportunity held the top
pick in the draft right there they looked over, they
saw the big scary ghost in the mirror. They said,
X nay, I'm the Boogeyman, and they passed on Holidays
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said to be a generational talent, generational talent, baseball bloodlines
all that crapola, because they know how that movie ends and.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
They don't want to recreate that movie. So they just
stayed away.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And that sums up the baseball draft in a nutshell.
It's not the most talented players that go at the top.
It's signability. That's what matters most. Can you get the
player signed? And who's the agent? Who do you want
to avoid and all that. So instead the Nationals, they
didn't really hide it. They were trying to talk up
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this guy, Eli Willitts. They said they liked his makeup
and his intangibles. Now what does that mean. That is
a dog whistle. That is a dog whistle. That meant
that Willets does not walk around the world and does
not walk into the building in Washington and does not say, Hey,
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I'm betting on myself, and no, he's just gonna show up,
put some work in and all that, and Willets will
walk in, He'll sign on the dotted line. Or the
DOCU sign and just be a good little soldier and
play baseball.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And make his money.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And that's that. And did Scott Boris cost Ethan Holiday
the chance to be the number one pick in the draft?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
The answers absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Now, He's likely okay with that because it doesn't really
matter where you start, it's where you end up and
the money that you make and all that. And you'd
rather play for the Rockies as bad as they are.
This guy Holiday will probably be in the major leagues
next season.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
He'll be the he could even be.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The starting outfielder for the Rockies by the end of
this year. But he's gonna be right away in the
major leagues in a hitter friendly ballpark where you can
hit home runs. The Rockies suck, They still hit better
at home Everyone hits better than Colorado. All right, Now
that being said, the answer, by the way, is hell, yes,
Scott Boris did cost Ethan Holiday the top pick in
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the draft. So here's a the second part of this.
All right, As for the wide angle lens, the big
picture here when you look at the twenty twenty five draft. Now,
I don't want to admit this publicly, but I will
into these microphones.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I did flip over to the draft. I did.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's just muscle memory. Sunday night, I usually watched the
late baseball game. That's kind of been my routine, and
I needed to check it out, and so I flipped
over and I just wasn't on and there was a.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Draft on, so I watched that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So the question here is how did you evaluate how
did you evaluate the presentation of the twenty twenty five
MLB Draft. So that's the question. So this was what
I call an overcompensation situation. Major League Baseball continues to
have an identity crisis. And I don't know if you
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got the same vibe I got if you watched any
of this, But you talk about trying too hard Baseball,
as we've talked about, they know they're not cool. They
want to be cool, but they know they're not cool.
So what did baseball do for the draft? They brought
out the mascots. We got our mascots. There's the Philly fanatic,
there's mister Met, there's Missus Met. They're all there hanging
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out right there. Boom, mascots check, they were there. They
brought out fan reaction shots, just like they have in
the NFL and the NBA those fan reaction shots which
were so choreographed. How choreographed were they It felt like
you were watching a carnival cruise lines commercial and everything's choreographed.
Everyone's in the pool smiling, everyone's dancing smiling. It was
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that kind of choreographed event. So they had all that,
they had the seat fillers, they had them there. So
we always had to have somebody wearing the right jersey
when the pick came up and all that. Uh, and
other than friends and family, tell me if I'm wrong
with this. Other than friends and family, not a single
person in that crowd at the Baseball Draft in Atlanta
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knew who was being selected. Not a single person knew.
In fact, I am convinced if Major League Baseball wanted
to do a prank the equivalent of a phony phone
call to a radio show, they could have announced with
the thirty fourth pick of the MLB Draft the Baltimore
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Orioles have selected Charles Manson, and the crowd they.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Would have shown some oriole fans and they would have
started cheering. They would have gone crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So I really liked the way that he leads people.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He could be a future manager.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And then they said, well, and with the forty second
pick of the MLB Draft, the Boston Red Sox have
drafted Jack the Ripper and they can really rip the
ball over. The Green Monster could have done that, Ted
Bundy to the Mariners, who says no to that? Come on,
top three picks, fourth pick, where do your fourth picking
the draft? Maybe you go Richard Ramirez, the night Stalker,
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you can pick him the fifth pick. Well, you go
to go off the board. You gotta go Gary Ridgeway, right,
the Green Green River Killer. Just have your big board.
And I'm telling you the fans, they'd show the fans
and they'd go, we drafted, we drafted the night Stalker,
all right, we.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Like his upside. Yeah, he's a real killer.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah. And this is the fundamental problem with trying to
hype up the baseball draft. By design, you are buried
the moment you are drafted. You are apps unless you
play for the Angels when you get called up to
the major leagues right away.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But other than that, you're buried.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And it's not an instant gratification situation. It's not unlike
football even basketball these days. For the most part, other
than the top five picks, most of that you're not
playing right away.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But Baseball tried to throw this gall apart and they
wanted a hooton Nanny. They wanted a hooton Nanny.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And it was like an old episode, a streaming episode
of America's Got Talent. I mentioned the seat fillers, just
like the Super Bowl a halftime show. There was always
somebody there. I noticed what looked to be forced enthusiasm.
And they even had the cliche boo the commissioner at
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the beginning of the draft. When rob Manfraud came out,
they well, they boo Roger Goodell and football, and they
boo Adam Silver and basketball. So we got a boo
Rob Manford and then they you know, he's out there
dancing with the assembled mascots and all that stuff, and
checked that box. But if you watched, and we checked
it out, if you were watching, you noticed there was
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no one for Rob Manford in terms of players to
give a bro Hug two. The reason there was no
one to give a bro hug two for Major League
Baseball's commission Rob Manford is because despite inviting many players
to attend the draft, as I understand I watched it,
I didn't see anyone come out on day, and I
don't think that happened at all, because Major League Baseball
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threw a no hitter, a perfect game. After years of
trying to convince these top young baseball players to attend
the draft, not a single one did nothing right, as
the joker says, for Major League Baseball, it was zero, zip, zilch,
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nada in terms of the players that attended.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
All right, Now, final.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Thought to San Francisco. We go to the Bay Area
where Mike Kruco, longtime Giant broadcaster, whole Giant pitcher over
the weekend. He's the lovable chatty broadcast. We've been doing
Giants games for years on television, long running television booth.
They're very good, by the ways, a lot of bad
broadcasters these days in baseball.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Those guys that do the Giants are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And he was waxing poetic about El Toro the bow.
He said, I hope said this over the week and
I hope Fernando Valenzuela gets into the Hall Hall of
Fame someday.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Mike Cruco said on NBC Sports.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Bay Area question, where do you stand on the argument
made by Mike Cruco? It was in passing that Dodger
legend Fernando Venezuela should be getting into Cooperstown. So I
fully support this. I give full throated support to the
argument that Fernando should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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And this is not just about the numbers. Right, So
he didn't win two hundred games, I know you, Fernando.
The legend of Fernando is more than just the numbers.
Then he had numbers. He won a cy Young Award
in nineteen eighty one, Rookie of the Year, six All
Star appearances in his career, nineteen eighty one World Series ring.
He's got that on his ledger as well, and good numbers.
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He pitched a no hitter when people thought he was
washed up near what turned out to be kind of
near the end of his career, pitched a no hitter
for the Doyers. And so he's got all that. But
you can't reduce Fernando aleezuel to some kind of just
empty statue. The Fernando Caucus, the campaign to get Fernando
in the Hall of Fame is more than just the
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numbers there, because that completely misses the point, completely misses
the point about making Fernando a Hall of Famer. He
was not just a pitcher. Fernando was a phenomena for
the Dodgers. And even though he passed away, Fernando died
last year, Fernando, I think it was last. You might
have been this year. But Fernando Vealezuela to this day
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still his legacy goes on and on and on. He
made Chavez Ravine shake back in those days and a
whole multiple generations of Mexican American fans became Dodger fan
because of Fernando Mania.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They pad the generation, they passed on.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
The next generation, and Fernando Mania was the cultural force
that started that. And Dodger Stadium was packed there and
it's still packed to this day and generations of fans
mainly because of Fernando Velenzuela, and he made Dodger Stadium.
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When he was pitching there, they had mariachi bands and
it was like down the hill there in East La Man.
They were going for it. And people talk about Jackie Robinson,
the impact Jackie Robinson had, breaking the color barrier and
all that, But he's Fernando in many respects for the
Mexican American community. Fernando Vealezuela was the breakthrough in that area, right,
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and he's the one that changed things. And why not?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And you know, the Hall of Fame has many arguments.
Who was a Hall of Famer was not all of them.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But the Hall of Fame is supposed to honor those
I think that shaped the game, that shaped the sport,
the people that changed it for the better, right, who
mattered not just on the raw numbers. That's why there's
people in the Hall of Fame. They aren't just players.
There's broadcasters in the Hall of Fame and people that
are around the game. So if you combine everything together
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with Fernando, right, the box score, that's not enough. You
got to combine everything else. Again, that's the Fernando caucus
to get him in the Hall of Fame. If you're
not gonna have him in there, why even bother? And
you look at the the stiffs that are in the
Hall of Fame and you do the what about is them?
But there's some people in the Hall of Fame that
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are very shaky resumes, like Harold Baines is a Hall
of Famer. Bill Mazeroski is a Hall of Fame. Bill
Mazarowski had one moment in the Hall of Fame. Phil Verzuda,
who I love Phil Zoo, Yankee broadcaster. But as a player,
Phil Verzudo has no business being in the Hall of Fame.
He just happened to be with the Yankees, and he's
got a good personality and they liked him, and so
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they put him in. All But Fernando Venezuela, I mean
he's still gone now, but you put him in the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, I have no issue with that. Put him in.
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
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Former NFL star Michael Vick recently said the worst purchase
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Speaker 2 (23:35):
That is the question.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What is the answer. Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Ocho Texas says the worst purchase he made was the
woman who claimed he gave her herpies. Okay, what else
do we have? Page down where women at a reefer
from Donkey's Sausage, a litter of puppies from Bobby and
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Florida world famous yodling pickle from Lady Sideburns.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I love pickles. What about a yodling picker pickle? You
have a yodling pickle. I've never had a yodling pickle.
Do you like yodel? Do you like the yodel music?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I do like a good yodel?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
All right, right now, bro okay bro Late night drug
tester says, we're getting the regret to the purchase of
the rental car insurance.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I always avoid the rental car insurance. A corgie great
at racing, but terrible at fighting from ferg dog. Let's
see page down. The number one overall pick. Andre's dog,
Eli Willis is the number one pick Let's see page down.
Josh in Nebraska had something there?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And what else do we have? Pokemon cards?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Guessed by Alf the Alien Old pier Gus says, what's
the phone number to call it? I get that, Just
give it out. Come on, Gus, You pay attention, Gus,
not that hard. JT the Wingman, he says, A jar
of pickled flies.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Wow, that's solid. What else do we have?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
George Foreman grill from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. A slap
contest with David Vass, guests by Gus. Mike the Leprechaun
says Michael Vick once bought an Irish wolfhound for the dogfights. Wow,
that's a pretty big dog's that's what he said.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That's a big dog.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Chip in the cues holding down Syracuse says a purple
nineteen eighty seven Hugo Sedan is the answer?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
All right, Lorraina, Do you have an answer?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Lorraina, Yes, Ben, I'm gonna go with a two story
dog house.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Two story doghouse? Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Former NFL star Michael Vick recently said the worst purchase
he made when he was playing in the NFL for
the Atlanta Falcons was none other than the Moonlight road
House in Surrey County, Virginia, where.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
They held dogfights. So let's go to the phone. Let's
see hello any meenie money. Mall Let's go.
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Now to.
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Hold here, Mark the full name Guy.
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Hello, Mark the full name guy in med Oregon.
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Mallard, at least you're talking baseball for a Jean.
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Oh you're back.
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Look at that, Mark the full name Guy returning to
the show after a long hiatus.
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Yeah, you know, I've got a bum knee. I'm waiting
on kne replacement surgery. It's not fun.
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Yeah, so you're you're not You're not moving around very much.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Is what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Uh, not without pain? Yes? All right, Well I've been
trying to figure out Ben Mellan. I think I figured
it out. You claimed once that i'd made a death threat. Man,
I know that's not true, but I figure out what
it is that I said. One time you were complaining
(27:01):
about your acid reflux or heartburn, and I recommended baking
soda and you said, oh, it will probably kill me.
So that should get threat that you're referring.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
No, No, there was something, There was something more specific.
There is something more specific. Yes, and the term the
term that I the term that I use.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Marked the full name guy was justifiable homicide.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
You had said that if you had done something to
me that it would have been okay because and then
that's justifiable homicide.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Yeah. I didn't say anything about doing anything to you.
You wire, Why don't you go listen to the tape.
I was an altercation I had with someone else was
justifiable homicide. I never threatened you had justifiable homit side,
how would that be justifiable homicide.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You you said it as we reacted to what you
were saying.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Here the term justifiable. How a side had nothing to
do with you.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
At there's a lot of angry. Why are you so angry?
Why can't you be just coming?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Why are you so paranoid?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I'm not parano the show, whether you whether you're whether
you call it or not, I would do the show
and that side.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I mean, you're just so angry negativity. You wouldn't be
worried about people wanting to beat you up.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I'm not worried about anyone beating me up. I don't care.
A big guy, I can defend myself. But here's this name.
Come on, bral, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Now? As you know Mark the phone name guy. I
have a lot of nicknames.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
In fact, I have been called over the years, the
spin Master of misinformation, the bannering broadcast of the Beethoven
of BS. Benny Bingo, Curmudgeon of commentary, the Chasm of sarcasms, Andy,
the dark Knight of weak night sports radio, the Mogul
of mischief, Benny the Brazen Kingdom saying Moneyball Mallard, Benny
the Bopper, the facetious Fox. They've called me that, the
Sultan of insulting, the Shaman and shav Shotenfreude, the sensitive sniffer,
(29:06):
jumping jack oft wisecrack inside of overnight Medicine, Man mather Nay.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Bob of negativity.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You gave me that nickname, Stage of outrage, pinnacle of cynical,
Prince of preposterous, Professor of propaganda has ar viperba leve
got to be the floating third of the spoken word
and the mad hatter.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Of sports chat.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
How many nicknames do you have? How many nicknames do
you have? Marked the phon name Guy.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I don't have any nicknames. I have one nickname when
I was a kid, Marque Mapo marking Maple.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Why did you get that nickname?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Because there was a TV commercial marking Mapo and like
marking maple. I hated that kind of stuff. I was
always eating the hot dogs in my father's kosher dilly.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Oh that's a good place to eat food.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That tink a good childhood.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah yeah, Mark. So I'm glad you're back.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
By after seven years old. It would it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I'm happy you're back there. Marked the full name guy.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Then I had to take lessons from Billy Jack and
Chuck Norris.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, it's unfortunate. Now we've made up a wonderful place
that grew up here. Brooklyn, beautiful brook York.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
You and Marcel, you could have been if you were younger,
you'd be friends with Marcel and Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
No, I would not be friends with Marcel.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
JG.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
B Chen and Main Child Silver the Internet every day.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
JT the Wingman rights and says, well, Mark the full
name Guy still has nothing to say.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Good Lord, help us all.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
What do you say? Can someone it? Saying nothing about me?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Saying very well, hold on of sake.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
JT says, somebody wants to talk to you a whole
lot of sake. Mark, let's see uh line two, line two.
You got to go true line to say hello to
Mark the full name Guy.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Line too, Mark, you've been walking with a cane for
a long time with that me. Man, When are you
finally gonna get the surgery?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Dude, you're afraid of surgery.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
You're going to get a meatball surgery where they put
like five marks in a way.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Give scot, Why are you just gonna shut up? Nobody
looking to hear you. Nobody looks hear you. You Come
on it, yo. You tell every you tell the world
you hate me, because I can't. We will get you either,
because I don't like what you did for, which is nothing.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
We were friends, Mark.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I don't want to hear nothing from you. I mean,
I don't hear nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Can't we all get along?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Come on, give an I don't like your accent.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Screw you, No, Mark, I went to voice therapy to
change my accent so people.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Would Yeah, I bet you did. Mark.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Me and you used to be good friends.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
We talked on the phone. We were never good.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Did you talk on the phone off the air with
blind Scott?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Is that true? And the thing now are they're good brands?
When you get jilt what I call the same sports
stop show you do? No, you're weird, dude, Okay, you're weird. Mark.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
We were friends, Man, We're not brands, and Santa Laire
not your brands.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I don't need brands.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
You know, everyone needs friends, Mark, everyone needs I have
lugged individualists.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I'm sure don't need you for a friend, Thank you
very much.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
So here's the problem with America right now. There's a
tox extense of hyper individualism, and Mark is displaying that
right now because he doesn't want Is that true?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You are you diseased by hyper individualism individuals?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
That means don't started any words. You know you're not
starting any trands. I don't want to be reading this
garbage in the newspapers. Are the Internet. I'm fake. I
have treds market immitation living that no seas for people.
I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Listen, Mark, I didn't move to Medford, Oregon, so like
to live off the site.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I'm not in Bedford and an excellent and I don't
ever see you gay people around here, buddy, You.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Don't. That's weird, your French buddy.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
You live around people left wingers because you love socialism,
but you act the wingers around here.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
All right, all right, please hold on, say I mean
put these guys.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
On the whole The full moon was a few nights ago.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's the afterglow of the full moon. I didn't find
a thoughts, Mark, anything else you want to add.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
I know this guy wants. He wants me to bow
down to his, uh whatever, his friendship. He t my friend.
All right, have you friend?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I'm your friend, right Mark?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
They hate me? I want a friend that hates me.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
No, no, but I'm your friend, Mark, I'm your radio friend.
We me and you go way back. Mark.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Remember I used to hear you call the Giants postgame
show and rip boache while they were winning the World Series.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
A better friend than me? Then did Scot the full name?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I'm not talking about I never met Ron care What
about me, though, Mark, I'm your pal me.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Oh yeah, you're my friend. You make up a story
about the death thread. Oh yeah, you're my buddy. You
tell that garbage to Ron Parker. Oh, Mark's the coward.
Mark's the coward. You calling me a coward? You know
the left at the last three people wouldn't know me
as just a coward. Ban mall is right, you know it?
(34:13):
So you just watch what you say about me.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
See that's a threat, right, and Loretta, isn't that a threat?
You watch what you say about me. Doesn't that sound
like a thread? That sounds like a threat. Pops, Then
you threatened me. You don't mess around here. You just
threatened me again. You just threatened me on the air.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
My smart phone. I'm afraid to call Ben Mallard.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, well you were. You haven't called up in a while.
You send all these random messages on Twitter or whatever.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
You're hiding him on X intimidated if by you expression
a homicide.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Oh you said it. You said it again. He said
it justin im homicide. Oh my god, he said it.
Security said it.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
There's the laugh, there's the evil laugh. All right, thank you.
I must go bull guarding all the time.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Let's say hello to Danny the Great Danny DeVito, who
is hanging out in Boston. Hello, Danny, welcome missing Now
there was a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Uh that last phone call here, Wow, geez going on
on the last.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Phone that didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
We'll just move on exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I want to call it because I want to tell
you about you might be ragging me by the time.
I'm becoming a fan of the w n b A.
You know, there's nothing going on with gambling right now.
And I've been gambling making money off these women playing
basketball last couple of weeks, and uh, some of these
women can really play. I don't know if you know that,
(35:40):
but I'm getting involved with that league because I don't
want to bet money on baseball. I got a problem
with betting baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, all right, I like bet on Betty. I'm like
Pete Rose, I like betting on baseball, so but yeah, hey,
whatever whatever works for If you like betting on the
w NBA and then bet on the w n B
A I don't want to tell you that's not my thing.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
But if you're into it, you don't.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I'm into it, and Cooper flags Ben. The league needs
a guy. If this kid comes in like Larry Bird,
the league needs that. You know why. I shouldn't bring
this up, but half the reason why people fall clock
over there and the WAB is a skink color. You
know that, right, So we need somebody like that, or
(36:24):
the league does.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I don't eye balls.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
We need more eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Alright.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I don't know about that all that, but are right well, Danny,
there you go, bet on the bet the parlays of
the w NBA. Be safe out there picking up the
trash around Boston. It is the Ben Maler Show. We
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Here some instant advice?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
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Speaker 1 (37:36):
And if you don't like it, so who needs our advice?
The wisdom the knowledge of the Malard militia. So I
was gonna do something else, but we've got so many
angry old dudes calling up the show here complaining. So
let's help out. Jerome and Charleston and Mark the full
name guy help them chill out. Any advice to Jerome
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in Charleston bringing home Jerome and the aforementioned Mark the
full name guy who just called up helping them chill out.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Understand.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
All right, let's go to the phones right now, and
let's see who do we have here. We'll start out
with you online one eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Caller,
you're on the air, advice to Jerome and Charleston, Mark
the full name guy to chill out in morning time.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Look at you, Look at the mystics. They won three
in a row. Shut out.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
All right, that's like Danny DeVito. There is another WNBA guy. Hello,
I'll call it.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You're on the air. Caller, your advice to Jerome and
Charleston and Mark the full name guy on how to
chill out?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Mark and Scott I usually like boobs.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
All right, thank you for that. Line number number five
is you're toning the Bay area. Line five you're on
the Airline five.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Hello, all right. Line five is not paying attention. We
go to line six. Line six.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
You're on the airline six at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Hello, line six, you more like the miss.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
He's the most mussy WWE superstar. He's proven inside ring
and outside.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
The ring, and he can pitch for the brewers as well.
Hello caller, you're on the air. Caller, we're doing the
instant advice line for Jerome and Charleston, Mark the full
name guy helping them chill out.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Hello do it? Okay? Just a big bag of weed.
That's you couldn't even say it. Line four, you're on
the air Number four. Hello, line four. Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Line five, Hello, line five, your next it's unscreened callers.
Line five, we're giving advice to Okay, just get some
gumbo jumbalai there from Mark the full name guy in
Jerome and Charleston.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Line sex. You're on the air line sex.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Hello, need to have a talk glasses doc my favorite drink?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, I don't know about that. You got the doctor?
Sean the hood guy checking in. Line number three Hello, line.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Three number.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Yes, this problem can only be alleviated by betting on
the hot girl on girl Ah.
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Yeah, Yes, there's our friend the keg drinking Steve checking in.
It sounds like line four, Hello, line four.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
How many people have.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
To tell you to watch the w NBA before you finally?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
All right?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Lines five, you're on the air Line five. Hello, bum Okay,
Yes he costs you some money.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Line six. You're on the air. Hello line six, get along?
Can we just get along?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
All right? Last one, last call for Jerome and Charleston,
Mark the full name guy helping them chill out?
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Which one? Cool? Line five? Line number five, Hello, line five,
you're on the air.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Go.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
I don't really care about those two guys.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
But Shane in the moon keep all right, all right,
he's gonna bury Shane in the morning right there. But
he got saved by the bell, or Shane did
Ding dong. It's our number three. Our number three is
piping hot and ready to go. Here in our number three,
we talk about baseball. Did the Nationals draft Oklahoma Prep
shortstop Eli Willitts with the first pick over Ethan Holiday
(00:20):
because of Scott Boris the agent. Also wide angle lens,
Wide angle lens. How do you evaluate the presentation of
the Major League Baseball Draft? We'll talk about that. Where
do you stand on the Dodger legend? Fernando valence Wila
possibly getting into Cooperstown someday? Giants broadcaster endorse that we'll
(00:42):
go there as well. It's all ready to go right now,
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It's our number three.
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Some major naantitude when it comes to grabbing the wallet.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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Speaker 1 (02:09):
So our lead this hour is from Atlanta, that is
the epicenter of the baseball world. As the Futures Game
was this weekend, the Baseball Draft took place on Sunday,
and that's our jumping off point here. The Major League
Baseball Draft and the All Star Home Run Derby will
be later on today and then you've got also the
(02:30):
All Star Game on Tuesday. But no Sunday Night Baseball,
No Sunday Night Baseball x nay on the Baseball A.
Instead it was the draft. Instead it was the draft.
So Baseball attempted to artificially create some buzz out of thin.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Air for this event. Did it work?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Not really not but maybe for you, but not for me.
More on that in a minute.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
The biggest headline from the baseball draft is that the
Washington Nationals, that is a baseball team, not a good one.
The Washington Nationals, who fired their general manager and their
manager just days before the draft, selected a high school
shortstop from Oklahoma, Eli Willitts.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Eli Willitts.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
On Sunday night, he was the number one over in
Major League Baseball's amateur draft.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
His dad played for the Angels, was a coach for
the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And that was not supposed to be the way it went.
That was not what the mock drafts had. That was
not the projection by the nerds, the super nerds that
followed college and high school baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They were in a tizzy. They were in an uproar.
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
So the seventeen year old Willets the youngest player taken
number one overall since Ken Griffey Junior by the Mariners
back in eighty seven, third youngest of all time. Tim
Foley was drafted back in the sixties by the Mets
out of our area.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
He Sherman Oaks, where we do the show from.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And so anyway, this is the player Willitts who was
drafted top pick of the draft, and so that's a
big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Right goes to the Nationals and.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Ethan Holliday who everyone said was the de facto number
one player in this draft. He was projected as the
player that should have been drafted number one and lead
up to the event and he was not picked, which
led to a grand conspiracy theory. A grand conspiracy theory.
You know, we love to dabble in conspiracy theories. So
let's discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And here it is.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Did the Washington Nationals draft Oklahoma prep shortstop Eli Willits
with the first overall pick in the draft over Eli
or Ethan rather Ethan Holiday? Did they draft the shortstop
from Oklahoma, Eli Willets over Ethan Holiday? Because because of
Scott boris the super powerful agent who is repping. So
(05:00):
I've got Boogeyman, Jack the Ripper, and Caucus and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a Tierra Massoux is what we're going
to make. So, first of all, this is not a
conspiracy theory. I'm going to push back on the idea
that the Nationals selecting a high school shortstop from Oklahoma
(05:22):
is some kind of conspiracy theory. It's not a conspiracy
theory if it's true, and in my heart of hearts,
I believe this is true.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I do.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Now, let me ask you something, Okay, let me ask
you something here. Do you believe in monsters? Do you
do the monster mash? Do you believe in monsters? Because
I'm not talking about the kind that hides under the bed.
I'm not talking about that kind. I am not talking
about the kind in horror movies.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
No no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'm talking about Scott Boris. Scott Boris, Oh yeah, major
League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
In that world, there.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is a monsder named Scott Boris. He is the boogeyman.
Stay away from the boogeyman. He is the thing that
makes general managers and scouting directors do the double check,
and not the discount double check, although in many ways
it is the discount double check. They're trying to find
a deal, and right before they go to bed, right
(06:22):
they gotta check the closet, they gotta check the other room.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
He is the bathroom. The whole thing is the boogeyman
over there? Is he over there?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He's the guy Scott Boris that just gobbles gop of gobble, arbitration,
deadlines for breakfast. He loves, He laughs, Hi, point and
laugh at you with club friendly extensions. You think I'm
club friendly. There's no such thing as club friendly. Scott
Boris is, without a doubt, there is no question the
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most powerful man in baseball not wearing a uniform. It's
certainly not the clown commits baseball. Scott Boris it is.
And yeah, he's the one that is the puppet master,
and teams will do anything they can to stay away,
including drafting a substandard player, in order to avoid the boogeyman.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Like appears to have happened.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Here Ethan Holiday, who was the son He's got the genetics.
The son he's talking about, Nepo baby, the son of
Matt Holliday who played in the major leagues for the
Rockies and the Cardinals. There and this guy was born
with a baseball glove. He came out of the womb
with a baseball glove. Ethan Holiday and all that stuff.
And I think he, at the age of three days
(07:38):
was given a Tops baseball card. I think that's the case.
Maybe maybe it was four or five days, but I
thought it was three days. It might have been four
or five. I thought it was three and so. But
the problem with Ethan Holiday is that his agent is
let me check my nose, Let's start the horror music. Yeah,
Scott Boris the boogey man. And the Nationals they know Boris.
(08:01):
They have done the dance with the devil. They have
done the dance with the devil. Bryce Harper, Scott Borris guy,
Bryce Harper, Scott Boris guy no longer a National, Steven
Strasburg a Scott Boris guy, Anthony Rendon now stealing money
in Anaheim, Scott Boris.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Guy, and every one of them, every one of them
under that umbrella, the.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Scott Boris umbrella, and every one of them costs a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And the results vary.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
As the results may vary, and they definitely did vary
in terms of these three players, and all of them
left the Nationals either broke, broken or.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
A little bit of both, a little bit of both
either way.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
So what did Here's the question, what did the front
office do when they had the opportunity held the top
pick in the draft right there they looked over, they
saw the big scary ghost in the mirror. They said,
X nay, I'm the Boogeyman, and they passed on Holidays
(09:02):
said to be a generational talent, generational talent, baseball bloodlines
all that crapola, because they know how that movie ends and.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
They don't want to recreate that movie. So they just
stayed away.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And that sums up the baseball draft in a nutshell.
It's not the most talented players that go at the top.
It's signability. That's what matters most. Can you get the
player signed? And who's the agent? Who do you want
to avoid and all that. So instead the Nationals, they
didn't really hide it. They were trying to talk up
(09:37):
this guy, Eli Willitts. They said they liked his makeup
and his intangibles. Now what does that mean. That is
a dog whistle. That is a dog whistle. That meant
that Willets does not walk around the world and does
not walk into the building in Washington and does not say, Hey,
(10:00):
I'm betting on myself, and no, he's just gonna show up,
put some work in and all that, and Willets will
walk in, He'll sign on the dotted line. Or the
DOCU sign and just be a good little soldier and
play baseball.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And make his money.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And that's that. And did Scott Boris cost Ethan Holiday
the chance to be the number one pick in the draft?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
The answers absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Now, He's likely okay with that because it doesn't really
matter where you start, it's where you end up and
the money that you make and all that. And you'd
rather play for the Rockies as bad as they are.
This guy Holiday will probably be in the major leagues
next season.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
He'll be the he could even be.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The starting outfielder for the Rockies by the end of
this year. But he's gonna be right away in the
major leagues in a hitter friendly ballpark where you can
hit home runs. The Rockies suck, They still hit better
at home Everyone hits better than Colorado. All right, Now
that being said, the answer, by the way, is hell, yes,
Scott Boris did cost Ethan Holiday the top pick in
(11:04):
the draft. So here's a the second part of this.
All right, As for the wide angle lens, the big
picture here when you look at the twenty twenty five draft. Now,
I don't want to admit this publicly, but I will
into these microphones.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I did flip over to the draft. I did.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's just muscle memory. Sunday night, I usually watched the
late baseball game. That's kind of been my routine, and
I needed to check it out, and so I flipped
over and I just wasn't on and there was a.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Draft on, so I watched that.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So the question here is how did you evaluate how
did you evaluate the presentation of the twenty twenty five
MLB Draft. So that's the question. So this was what
I call an overcompensation situation. Major League Baseball continues to
have an identity crisis. And I don't know if you
(12:00):
got the same vibe I got if you watched any
of this, But you talk about trying too hard Baseball,
as we've talked about, they know they're not cool. They
want to be cool, but they know they're not cool.
So what did baseball do for the draft? They brought
out the mascots. We got our mascots. There's the Philly fanatic,
there's mister Met, there's Missus Met. They're all there hanging
(12:21):
out right there. Boom, mascots check, they were there. They
brought out fan reaction shots, just like they have in
the NFL and the NBA those fan reaction shots which
were so choreographed. How choreographed were they It felt like
you were watching a carnival cruise lines commercial and everything's choreographed.
Everyone's in the pool smiling, everyone's dancing smiling. It was
(12:43):
that kind of choreographed event. So they had all that,
they had the seat fillers, they had them there. So
we always had to have somebody wearing the right jersey
when the pick came up and all that. Uh, and
other than friends and family, tell me if I'm wrong
with this. Other than friends and family, not a single
person in that crowd at the Baseball Draft in Atlanta
(13:08):
knew who was being selected. Not a single person knew.
In fact, I am convinced if Major League Baseball wanted
to do a prank the equivalent of a phony phone
call to a radio show, they could have announced with
the thirty fourth pick of the MLB Draft the Baltimore
(13:29):
Orioles have selected Charles Manson, and the crowd they.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Would have shown some oriole fans and they would have
started cheering. They would have gone crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So I really liked the way that he leads people.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He could be a future manager.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And then they said, well, and with the forty second
pick of the MLB Draft, the Boston Red Sox have
drafted Jack the Ripper and they can really rip the
ball over. The Green Monster could have done that, Ted
Bundy to the Mariners, who says no to that? Come on,
top three picks, fourth pick, where do your fourth picking
the draft? Maybe you go Richard Ramirez, the night Stalker,
(14:03):
you can pick him the fifth pick. Well, you go
to go off the board. You gotta go Gary Ridgeway, right,
the Green Green River Killer. Just have your big board.
And I'm telling you the fans, they'd show the fans
and they'd go, we drafted, we drafted the night Stalker,
all right, we.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Like his upside. Yeah, he's a real killer.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah. And this is the fundamental problem with trying to
hype up the baseball draft. By design, you are buried
the moment you are drafted. You are apps unless you
play for the Angels when you get called up to
the major leagues right away.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But other than that, you're buried.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And it's not an instant gratification situation. It's not unlike
football even basketball these days. For the most part, other
than the top five picks, most of that you're not
playing right away.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But Baseball tried to throw this gall apart and they
wanted a hooton Nanny. They wanted a hooton Nanny.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And it was like an old episode, a streaming episode
of America's Got Talent. I mentioned the seat fillers, just
like the Super Bowl a halftime show. There was always
somebody there. I noticed what looked to be forced enthusiasm.
And they even had the cliche boo the commissioner at
(15:19):
the beginning of the draft. When rob Manfraud came out,
they well, they boo Roger Goodell and football, and they
boo Adam Silver and basketball. So we got a boo
Rob Manford and then they you know, he's out there
dancing with the assembled mascots and all that stuff, and
checked that box. But if you watched, and we checked
it out, if you were watching, you noticed there was
(15:41):
no one for Rob Manford in terms of players to
give a bro Hug two. The reason there was no
one to give a bro hug two for Major League
Baseball's commission Rob Manford is because despite inviting many players
to attend the draft, as I understand I watched it,
I didn't see anyone come out on day, and I
don't think that happened at all, because Major League Baseball
(16:04):
threw a no hitter, a perfect game. After years of
trying to convince these top young baseball players to attend
the draft, not a single one did nothing right, as
the joker says, for Major League Baseball, it was zero, zip, zilch,
(16:25):
nada in terms of the players that attended.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
All right, Now, final.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Thought to San Francisco. We go to the Bay Area
where Mike Kruco, longtime Giant broadcaster, whole Giant pitcher over
the weekend. He's the lovable chatty broadcast. We've been doing
Giants games for years on television, long running television booth.
They're very good, by the ways, a lot of bad
broadcasters these days in baseball.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Those guys that do the Giants are pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And he was waxing poetic about El Toro the bow.
He said, I hope said this over the week and
I hope Fernando Valenzuela gets into the Hall Hall of
Fame someday.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Mike Cruco said on NBC Sports.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Bay Area question, where do you stand on the argument
made by Mike Cruco? It was in passing that Dodger
legend Fernando Venezuela should be getting into Cooperstown. So I
fully support this. I give full throated support to the
argument that Fernando should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
(17:24):
And this is not just about the numbers. Right, So
he didn't win two hundred games, I know you, Fernando.
The legend of Fernando is more than just the numbers.
Then he had numbers. He won a cy Young Award
in nineteen eighty one, Rookie of the Year, six All
Star appearances in his career, nineteen eighty one World Series ring.
He's got that on his ledger as well, and good numbers.
(17:48):
He pitched a no hitter when people thought he was
washed up near what turned out to be kind of
near the end of his career, pitched a no hitter
for the Doyers. And so he's got all that. But
you can't reduce Fernando aleezuel to some kind of just
empty statue. The Fernando Caucus, the campaign to get Fernando
in the Hall of Fame is more than just the
(18:09):
numbers there, because that completely misses the point, completely misses
the point about making Fernando a Hall of Famer. He
was not just a pitcher. Fernando was a phenomena for
the Dodgers. And even though he passed away, Fernando died
last year, Fernando, I think it was last. You might
have been this year. But Fernando Vealezuela to this day
(18:30):
still his legacy goes on and on and on. He
made Chavez Ravine shake back in those days and a
whole multiple generations of Mexican American fans became Dodger fan
because of Fernando Mania.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They pad the generation, they passed on.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
The next generation, and Fernando Mania was the cultural force
that started that. And Dodger Stadium was packed there and
it's still packed to this day and generations of fans
mainly because of Fernando Velenzuela, and he made Dodger Stadium.
(19:11):
When he was pitching there, they had mariachi bands and
it was like down the hill there in East La Man.
They were going for it. And people talk about Jackie Robinson,
the impact Jackie Robinson had, breaking the color barrier and
all that, But he's Fernando in many respects for the
Mexican American community. Fernando Vealezuela was the breakthrough in that area, right,
(19:31):
and he's the one that changed things. And why not?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And you know, the Hall of Fame has many arguments.
Who was a Hall of Famer was not all of them.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But the Hall of Fame is supposed to honor those
I think that shaped the game, that shaped the sport,
the people that changed it for the better, right, who
mattered not just on the raw numbers. That's why there's
people in the Hall of Fame. They aren't just players.
There's broadcasters in the Hall of Fame and people that
are around the game. So if you combine everything together
(20:02):
with Fernando, right, the box score, that's not enough. You
got to combine everything else. Again, that's the Fernando caucus
to get him in the Hall of Fame. If you're
not gonna have him in there, why even bother? And
you look at the the stiffs that are in the
Hall of Fame and you do the what about is them?
But there's some people in the Hall of Fame that
(20:22):
are very shaky resumes, like Harold Baines is a Hall
of Famer. Bill Mazeroski is a Hall of Fame. Bill
Mazarowski had one moment in the Hall of Fame. Phil Verzuda,
who I love Phil Zoo, Yankee broadcaster. But as a player,
Phil Verzudo has no business being in the Hall of Fame.
He just happened to be with the Yankees, and he's
got a good personality and they liked him, and so
(20:44):
they put him in. All But Fernando Venezuela, I mean
he's still gone now, but you put him in the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, I have no issue with that. Put him in.
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
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Former NFL star Michael Vick recently said the worst purchase
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Back to the show, right back to it. And here's
the riddle of the day. Former NFL star Michael Vick
recently said the worst purchase he made while playing in
the NFL for the Falcons was blank.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That is the question.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What is the answer. Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Ocho Texas says the worst purchase he made was the
woman who claimed he gave her herpies. Okay, what else
do we have? Page down where women at a reefer
from Donkey's Sausage, a litter of puppies from Bobby and
(23:59):
Florida world famous yodling pickle from Lady Sideburns.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I love pickles. What about a yodling picker pickle? You
have a yodling pickle. I've never had a yodling pickle.
Do you like yodel? Do you like the yodel music?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I do like a good yodel?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
All right, right now, bro okay bro Late night drug
tester says, we're getting the regret to the purchase of
the rental car insurance.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I always avoid the rental car insurance. A corgie great
at racing, but terrible at fighting from ferg dog. Let's
see page down. The number one overall pick. Andre's dog,
Eli Willis is the number one pick Let's see page down.
Josh in Nebraska had something there?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And what else do we have? Pokemon cards?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Guessed by Alf the Alien Old pier Gus says, what's
the phone number to call it? I get that, Just
give it out. Come on, Gus, You pay attention, Gus,
not that hard. JT the Wingman, he says, A jar
of pickled flies.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Wow, that's solid. What else do we have?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
George Foreman grill from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. A slap
contest with David Vass, guests by Gus. Mike the Leprechaun
says Michael Vick once bought an Irish wolfhound for the dogfights. Wow,
that's a pretty big dog's that's what he said.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
That's a big dog.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Chip in the cues holding down Syracuse says a purple
nineteen eighty seven Hugo Sedan is the answer?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
All right, Lorraina, Do you have an answer?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Lorraina, Yes, Ben, I'm gonna go with a two story
dog house.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Two story doghouse? Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Former NFL star Michael Vick recently said the worst purchase
he made when he was playing in the NFL for
the Atlanta Falcons was none other than the Moonlight road
House in Surrey County, Virginia, where.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
They held dogfights. So let's go to the phone. Let's
see hello any meenie money. Mall Let's go.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Now to.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Hold here, Mark the full name Guy.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Hello, Mark the full name guy in med Oregon.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Mallard, at least you're talking baseball for a Jean.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Oh you're back.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Look at that, Mark the full name Guy returning to
the show after a long hiatus.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Yeah, you know, I've got a bum knee. I'm waiting
on kne replacement surgery. It's not fun.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, so you're you're not You're not moving around very much.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Is what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Uh, not without pain? Yes? All right, Well I've been
trying to figure out Ben Mellan. I think I figured
it out. You claimed once that i'd made a death threat. Man,
I know that's not true, but I figure out what
it is that I said. One time you were complaining
(27:01):
about your acid reflux or heartburn, and I recommended baking
soda and you said, oh, it will probably kill me.
So that should get threat that you're referring.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
No, No, there was something, There was something more specific.
There is something more specific. Yes, and the term the
term that I the term that I use.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Marked the full name guy was justifiable homicide.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
You had said that if you had done something to
me that it would have been okay because and then
that's justifiable homicide.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Yeah. I didn't say anything about doing anything to you.
You wire, Why don't you go listen to the tape.
I was an altercation I had with someone else was
justifiable homicide. I never threatened you had justifiable homit side,
how would that be justifiable homicide.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
You you said it as we reacted to what you
were saying.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Here the term justifiable. How a side had nothing to
do with you.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
At there's a lot of angry. Why are you so angry?
Why can't you be just coming?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Why are you so paranoid?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I'm not parano the show, whether you whether you're whether
you call it or not, I would do the show
and that side.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I mean, you're just so angry negativity. You wouldn't be
worried about people wanting to beat you up.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I'm not worried about anyone beating me up. I don't care.
A big guy, I can defend myself. But here's this name.
Come on, bral, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Now? As you know Mark the phone name guy. I
have a lot of nicknames.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
In fact, I have been called over the years, the
spin Master of misinformation, the bannering broadcast of the Beethoven
of BS. Benny Bingo, Curmudgeon of commentary, the Chasm of sarcasms, Andy,
the dark Knight of weak night sports radio, the Mogul
of mischief, Benny the Brazen Kingdom saying Moneyball Mallard, Benny
the Bopper, the facetious Fox. They've called me that, the
Sultan of insulting, the Shaman and shav Shotenfreude, the sensitive sniffer,
(29:06):
jumping jack oft wisecrack inside of overnight Medicine, Man mather Nay.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Bob of negativity.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You gave me that nickname, Stage of outrage, pinnacle of cynical,
Prince of preposterous, Professor of propaganda has ar viperba leve
got to be the floating third of the spoken word
and the mad hatter.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Of sports chat.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
How many nicknames do you have? How many nicknames do
you have? Marked the phon name Guy.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I don't have any nicknames. I have one nickname when
I was a kid, Marque Mapo marking Maple.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Why did you get that nickname?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Because there was a TV commercial marking Mapo and like
marking maple. I hated that kind of stuff. I was
always eating the hot dogs in my father's kosher dilly.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Oh that's a good place to eat food.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That tink a good childhood.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah yeah, Mark. So I'm glad you're back.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
By after seven years old. It would it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I'm happy you're back there. Marked the full name guy.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Then I had to take lessons from Billy Jack and
Chuck Norris.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, it's unfortunate. Now we've made up a wonderful place
that grew up here. Brooklyn, beautiful brook York.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
You and Marcel, you could have been if you were younger,
you'd be friends with Marcel and Brooklyn.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
No, I would not be friends with Marcel.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
JG.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
B Chen and Main Child Silver the Internet every day.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
JT the Wingman rights and says, well, Mark the full
name Guy still has nothing to say.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Good Lord, help us all.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
What do you say? Can someone it? Saying nothing about me?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Saying very well, hold on of sake.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
JT says, somebody wants to talk to you a whole
lot of sake. Mark, let's see uh line two, line two.
You got to go true line to say hello to
Mark the full name Guy.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Line too, Mark, you've been walking with a cane for
a long time with that me. Man, When are you
finally gonna get the surgery?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Dude, you're afraid of surgery.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
You're going to get a meatball surgery where they put
like five marks in a way.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Give scot, Why are you just gonna shut up? Nobody
looking to hear you. Nobody looks hear you. You Come
on it, yo. You tell every you tell the world
you hate me, because I can't. We will get you either,
because I don't like what you did for, which is nothing.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
We were friends, Mark.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I don't want to hear nothing from you. I mean,
I don't hear nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Can't we all get along?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Come on, give an I don't like your accent.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Screw you, No, Mark, I went to voice therapy to
change my accent so people.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Would Yeah, I bet you did. Mark.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Me and you used to be good friends.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
We talked on the phone. We were never good.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Did you talk on the phone off the air with
blind Scott?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Is that true? And the thing now are they're good brands?
When you get jilt what I call the same sports
stop show you do? No, you're weird, dude, Okay, you're weird. Mark.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
We were friends, Man, We're not brands, and Santa Laire
not your brands.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I don't need brands.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
You know, everyone needs friends, Mark, everyone needs I have
lugged individualists.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
I'm sure don't need you for a friend, Thank you
very much.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
So here's the problem with America right now. There's a
tox extense of hyper individualism, and Mark is displaying that
right now because he doesn't want Is that true?
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You are you diseased by hyper individualism individuals?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
That means don't started any words. You know you're not
starting any trands. I don't want to be reading this
garbage in the newspapers. Are the Internet. I'm fake. I
have treds market immitation living that no seas for people.
I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
Listen, Mark, I didn't move to Medford, Oregon, so like
to live off the site.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I'm not in Bedford and an excellent and I don't
ever see you gay people around here, buddy, You.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Don't. That's weird, your French buddy.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
You live around people left wingers because you love socialism,
but you act the wingers around here.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
All right, all right, please hold on, say I mean
put these guys.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
On the whole The full moon was a few nights ago.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's the afterglow of the full moon. I didn't find
a thoughts, Mark, anything else you want to add.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
I know this guy wants. He wants me to bow
down to his, uh whatever, his friendship. He t my friend.
All right, have you friend?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I'm your friend, right Mark?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
They hate me? I want a friend that hates me.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
No, no, but I'm your friend, Mark, I'm your radio friend.
We me and you go way back. Mark.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Remember I used to hear you call the Giants postgame
show and rip boache while they were winning the World Series.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
A better friend than me? Then did Scot the full name?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I'm not talking about I never met Ron care What
about me, though, Mark, I'm your pal me.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Oh yeah, you're my friend. You make up a story
about the death thread. Oh yeah, you're my buddy. You
tell that garbage to Ron Parker. Oh, Mark's the coward.
Mark's the coward. You calling me a coward? You know
the left at the last three people wouldn't know me
as just a coward. Ban mall is right, you know it?
(34:13):
So you just watch what you say about me.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
See that's a threat, right, and Loretta, isn't that a threat?
You watch what you say about me. Doesn't that sound
like a thread? That sounds like a threat. Pops, Then
you threatened me. You don't mess around here. You just
threatened me again. You just threatened me on the air.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
My smart phone. I'm afraid to call Ben Mallard.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, well you were. You haven't called up in a while.
You send all these random messages on Twitter or whatever.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
You're hiding him on X intimidated if by you expression
a homicide.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Oh you said it. You said it again. He said
it justin im homicide. Oh my god, he said it.
Security said it.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
There's the laugh, there's the evil laugh. All right, thank you.
I must go bull guarding all the time.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Let's say hello to Danny the Great Danny DeVito, who
is hanging out in Boston. Hello, Danny, welcome missing Now
there was a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Uh that last phone call here, Wow, geez going on
on the last.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Phone that didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
We'll just move on exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I want to call it because I want to tell
you about you might be ragging me by the time.
I'm becoming a fan of the w n b A.
You know, there's nothing going on with gambling right now.
And I've been gambling making money off these women playing
basketball last couple of weeks, and uh, some of these
women can really play. I don't know if you know that,
(35:40):
but I'm getting involved with that league because I don't
want to bet money on baseball. I got a problem
with betting baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, all right, I like bet on Betty. I'm like
Pete Rose, I like betting on baseball, so but yeah, hey,
whatever whatever works for If you like betting on the
w NBA and then bet on the w n B
A I don't want to tell you that's not my thing.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
But if you're into it, you don't.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Go for it.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I'm into it, and Cooper flags Ben. The league needs
a guy. If this kid comes in like Larry Bird,
the league needs that. You know why. I shouldn't bring
this up, but half the reason why people fall clock
over there and the WAB is a skink color. You
know that, right, So we need somebody like that, or
(36:24):
the league does.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I don't eye balls.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
We need more eyeballs.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Alright.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I don't know about that all that, but are right well, Danny,
there you go, bet on the bet the parlays of
the w NBA. Be safe out there picking up the
trash around Boston. It is the Ben Maler Show. We
are going to have moments away from the Insta advice line.
Who needs advice in the world of sports, who needs
the wisdom the knowledge of the Mallard militia. We will
get to that, the Insta advice line, and we will
(36:51):
do it next.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
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Speaker 2 (37:21):
Sports Radio videos on the YouTube.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Hey you sports figure guy or girl? Who here?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Were you talking to?
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Sons?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Here some instant advice?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
And if you don't like it, so who needs our advice?
The wisdom the knowledge of the Malard militia. So I
was gonna do something else, but we've got so many
angry old dudes calling up the show here complaining. So
let's help out. Jerome and Charleston and Mark the full
name guy help them chill out. Any advice to Jerome
(37:56):
in Charleston bringing home Jerome and the aforementioned Mark the
full name guy who just called up helping them chill out.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Understand.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
All right, let's go to the phones right now, and
let's see who do we have here. We'll start out
with you online one eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Caller,
you're on the air, advice to Jerome and Charleston, Mark
the full name guy to chill out in morning time.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Look at you, Look at the mystics. They won three
in a row. Shut out.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
All right, that's like Danny DeVito. There is another WNBA guy. Hello,
I'll call it.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You're on the air. Caller, your advice to Jerome and
Charleston and Mark the full name guy on how to
chill out?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Mark and Scott I usually like boobs.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
All right, thank you for that. Line number number five
is you're toning the Bay area. Line five you're on
the Airline five.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Hello, all right. Line five is not paying attention. We
go to line six. Line six.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
You're on the airline six at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Hello, line six, you more like the miss.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
He's the most mussy WWE superstar. He's proven inside ring
and outside.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
The ring, and he can pitch for the brewers as well.
Hello caller, you're on the air. Caller, we're doing the
instant advice line for Jerome and Charleston, Mark the full
name guy helping them chill out.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Hello do it? Okay? Just a big bag of weed.
That's you couldn't even say it. Line four, you're on
the air Number four. Hello, line four. Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Line five, Hello, line five, your next it's unscreened callers.
Line five, we're giving advice to Okay, just get some
gumbo jumbalai there from Mark the full name guy in
Jerome and Charleston.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Line sex. You're on the air line sex.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Hello, need to have a talk glasses doc my favorite drink?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, I don't know about that. You got the doctor?
Sean the hood guy checking in. Line number three Hello, line.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Three number.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Yes, this problem can only be alleviated by betting on
the hot girl on girl Ah.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, Yes, there's our friend the keg drinking Steve checking in.
It sounds like line four, Hello, line four.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
How many people have.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
To tell you to watch the w NBA before you finally?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
All right?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Lines five, you're on the air Line five. Hello, bum Okay,
Yes he costs you some money.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Line six. You're on the air. Hello line six, get along?
Can we just get along?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
All right? Last one, last call for Jerome and Charleston,
Mark the full name guy helping them chill out?
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Which one? Cool? Line five? Line number five, Hello, line five,
you're on the air.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Go.
Speaker 7 (40:38):
I don't really care about those two guys.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
But Shane in the moon keep all right, all right,
he's gonna bury Shane in the morning right there. But
he got saved by the bell, or Shane did
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