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July 25, 2025 • 41 mins

Ben Maller talks about Justin Fields injuring his toe with the Jets and if there is a silver lining to the injury. Also, the Maller Report Card for the Mariners acquiring Josh Naylor from the D-Backs, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Omaha, Omaha. It's our dumb bird two, our number two.
How do you do and what is your read on
the quarterback? Justin Field's injured tutsie with the Jets one
of the big stories in the NFL the last day
or so. Is there a silver lining for Justin Field

(00:20):
suffering from his toe injury? Also, the Major League Baseball
trade deadline is less than a week away. We did
have a trade on Thursday. We react to it. What
stands out about the Mariners getting slugger Josh Naylor from
the Diamondbacks. We'll have the Malord report card on the
Mariner Diamondback trade. That and more right now here it is.

(00:42):
Have a great rest of your Friday. It's our number two.
Oh my aching toe. Welcome in the beginning of another
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I have some more thoughts. I mean, I could do
the whole show talking about Hulk, but I think they'll
kick my ass out here if I do that. So
our lead is from the NFL. It's not really training camp.

(02:12):
It is not really training camp until we get what
kind of breakfast? That's right? Snap, crackle pop. We got
some of that. Now, good news. We have our first
quarterback injury of training camp. If you saw it, you
know what I'm talking about. Maybe not. Initially, there was

(02:33):
a lot of doom and gloom around New York Jets
quarterback Justin Fields. Fields of pain as he dislocated a
toe on his right foot. The initial reports doom and
gloom carted off extreme pain, people predicting the kind of
injury that Justin Fields was going to have. Worst of
the worst. Now they're calling Fields, I love this the

(02:54):
initial reports. While while it was bad, then they said
well day to day. The early word though, is going
to miss it at least a couple of weeks, most
likely of practice. Keep in mind from now in here
we are in late July. From now until February, well,
I guess till January, there will be NFL football every

(03:16):
single Thursday that we have passed the rubicon. We have
crossed over this past Thursday, yesterday, it's our Friday's the
twenty fifth day of July. But the last Friday without football,
or last Thursday without football NFL football. Now, keep in mind,
the Hall of Fame game is coming up. It's pretty unwatchable.
You know. It's a lot of tradition, a lot of

(03:38):
pomp and circumstances. It's a big deal if you live
in that part of Ohio. But for the rest of us,
it's you know, a bunch of backups, of backups of backups.
But The point is there'll be people in NFL costumes
hitting other people in NFL costumes, and that starts coming
up this Thursday. So it's a rapid fire here. Rapid fire,
which is pretty cool. But back to Justin Field. So

(04:00):
they said, well, initially not that bad, and then they said
day to day, this is a couple weeks of prie. Now,
depending on how he recovers, could be longer. The Jets
safety that you know with the backup quarterback for the
Jets is do you know I had to look it
up Tyrod Taylor. Yeah, he's still around Tyrod Taylor, who's
favorite medical staff the Chargers clearly, but he's the backup plan.

(04:22):
So Taylor is a Justin Fields busted toe away from
being QB one and getting the job. So let us
discuss the question what is your read on the Justin
Fields injured tutsie with the Jets. So I've got pizzeria, water,
and Airbnb, and we'll combine all of these things together

(04:47):
and we are going to make a salad. Now, I
don't eat salad, so you can have my salad number.
Wa to quote the great Scooby Doo Rot Roll Trouble
Brow trouble broow Right. We all know from our ability
of watching football, our knowledge of football paying attention football

(05:07):
justin fields relies on what The only games where he's
been good have been where he dominates with his legs.
The whole skill set is dependent on mobility. Justin fields.
The competitive advantage he has and I'm not one of
his advocates, but his advantage is run, run, run and
run run. It is not reading defenses. It's not sitting

(05:30):
back anticipating who's going to be open. It's not running
timing routes with the wide receivers, it's not any of that.
His big advantage as a dual threat quarterback is to
go and now without the toe, no toe, no got
So this isn't just some run of the mill injury. Now,

(05:51):
if you're just a pocket passer, you're like, well, we
can figure it out. But you take away that mobility,
and what are you left with. If you just had
to have justin fields through the ball, he would not
be in the NFL. He would be not he was
doing TikTok videos or something. He's a mid passer, a
guy who hasn't proven he can win from the pocket.

(06:11):
He's not going out there and dicing up anyone with accuracy,
with precision. If he's not moving around, he's nothing. And
so this toe thing is everything could be a real
problem Justin Fields if you look at his body of work.
Now he has been a pizzeria during his career, from

(06:32):
the Bears to the Steelers, and now he's on the Jets,
and the pizzeria is named Shaky's, except he didn't have
the mojo potatoes. Right, There have been some mojo moments.
There have been some mojo moments with running the ball,
and some viral highlights on social media. The consistency has
not been there. That's why he keeps getting passed around
like the collection plate at church on Sunday. So page two,

(06:55):
here is there a silver lining for Justin Field suffering
from this toe injury with the Jets? So I am
nodding my head, Yes, there is actually a silver lining
to this. Okay, there is a silver lining. I'll tell
you all right, this reeks if you use your nose,
you smell that. It reeks of a ready made excuse.

(07:19):
You know it's true. You know I don't push back,
it's true. All right. Just add water, Just pour a
little water there watch it grow. Yeah, that's what this is.
I'm telling you, that is what this is. He's already
behind the eight ball and now Justin Field's missing valuable reps. Right,
these early practices before the games get going, very important.

(07:42):
And the excuse is, well, he was trying to learn
a new system and he's got new coaches and he's
got new team baits and everything can do. And he
get it. You practice, yeah, that whole thing. So it's
not fair. It's gonna take him two months to figure
things out. And of course the problem is when the
game's actually and we're almost in August, it's only a

(08:02):
few days away, and then the season begins in September,
he goes out there and drops a deuce right on
the midfield logo there and stinks up the joint. And
don't worry, don't worry, it's okay. He'll just go in
his back pocket. He's got in his back pocket the oh, well,
I missed camp because of the toe thing. Just give

(08:25):
me time, give me I'll be fine. I'll be fine.
That's it. Gotta have it. So it's again, it's a positive,
supposedly a minor thing, and he's got that in his
back pocket, all right, So we're going to leave the
world of the NFL. We're gonna go to baseball. We
had a trade, a Thursday special. I love trades. Do

(08:47):
you like trades? All right? So we had a it's
been called a meaningful trade. Being called a meaningful trade.
The deadline is this Thursday, so we are less than
a week away from That's it. The store is closed.
You can't make any more trades. The Seattle Mariners. But

(09:11):
crying Craig is gonna start crying when he finds out
about this, and Nostre Denis and JJ Andranton and Robbie
the Mariner fan. We got some big stars in the
Seattle area that are regulars on the show or have
been regulars over the years. So the Seattle Mariners. Is
it true? The Seattle Manners have required first baseman Josh

(09:31):
Naylor first baseman Josh Naylor from the Diamondbacks for a
couple of pitching prospects. I'm nodding my head, Yes, it
is true. So Seattle's kind of chasing a playoff spot
as they're trying to bolster They're always suck bag offense there,

(09:52):
particularly at first base. So what stands out here's the
question for all the Baseball hardos, what stands out We'll
get to the mall of report card, but what stands
out about the Mariners getting slugger Josh Naylor from the Diamondbacks.
So if you look at Seattle and there's a lot
of teams a business. I was talking to somebody the
other day who works in that business and we were

(10:13):
going back and forth. They were like, Ben, there's not
gonna be a lot of big name trades because there's
too many teams that are mathematically in the race. There's
too many faux contenders, teams that aren't good but have
the illusion of contention because Baseball kept adding wildcard teams.
So they have a lot of teams that really don't
deserve to be in the conversation, but they will. They're

(10:36):
not gonna make any any trades in terms of selling
because they're convinced, hey, we just have to get in.
And teams have done that. The Atlanta Braves famously the
year they won the World Series. For years back, they
sucked at the trade deadline. They made some trades they
won the World Series. The Washington Nationals when they won
years ago, they weren't that good they made some moves

(10:57):
and win the World Series. Right, Arizona Diamondbacks didn't win it,
but they made some moves. They got to the World Series.
I said. One of those things, it's the blessing in
the curse of baseball, just by getting in. The perception
is you can play well for a month and you
can end up getting there. But in terms of what
stands out about the Mariners getting Josh Naylor from Arizona,
it is a team that has a bullet hole and

(11:19):
they have put a band aid on the bullet hole.
And remember last year they got Randy Rose Arena, who
I liked, and he's okay, and he's not as good
as I thought he would be in Seattle. They got
him from Tampa Bay and he was supposed to fix
the offense that didn't work. The offense continues to be
a dead zone. Is there's some kind of cosmic field
over the ballpark there in Seattle that is causing them

(11:42):
to not be able to hit in their ballpark in
this trait. The other thing about it, it's an Airbnb situations,
an Airbnb rental, but it's not a good one, right.
So it's one of those places that you look up online.
It's kind of it's cheap, not a great part of town,
sketchy part of town, and the photos look okay, but

(12:03):
you know, you check in and all that stuff, and
then you get in there and it's one of those
places where you smell the fridge and somebody left some
hard boiled eggs in there that turned rotten, so you
smell that, and they left some broccoli, some cauliflower and
some Brussels sprouts that have just been smelling up the
entire the entire place, and there's no hot water, that
doesn't work, and there's probably bed bugs. That's your Airbnb.

(12:26):
So this is the standard. I've been doing this for
a few years. It's the standard Seattle style trade because
they've admitted, in a momode of weakness, they're not actually
trying to win in any given year. They just want
to win fifty four percent of their games and get
to the playoffs and they figure eventually, one of these
years they're going to win. It's very compelling, very exciting.

(12:51):
You want to hear that as a fan. Team's not
really trying to win, they're just trying to get in.
And there's a lot of teams that have been hijacked
by the analytics people. And that's the philosophy. Seattle admitted it.
The gym admitted it. He admitted it. So like they're not,
this is not an all in trade. They're not. This
is a Seattle style trade. Like you dip your toe in.

(13:13):
You don't do the belly whopper. You just gotta put
your toe in the water a little bit, just a
little bit. And that's it. Right now for the low
information fan, the unknoledgeable fan, they're like, oh, that's a
that's a good trade. That is a sexy trade. Now,
as far as the Malor report card, a very important tool,
the Malor report card to grade the trade. So the

(13:34):
Mariners get a B minus, Arizona gets a C. Arizona
gets a C, and they're just giving away a player
that wasn't in their plans the Diamondbacks and the reason
the Mariner's going to be minus. When you dig a
little deeper, the Mariners didn't give up much. They gave

(13:54):
up a couple of mid tier pitching prospects, and maybe
one of those guys turns out to be a middle
of the bullpen or back of the rotation pitcher. But
that's about it and Josh Naylor the reason I can't
go higher than like a B minus and I want
to go see plus. I want to be minus. Josh Naylor.
If you look at last season, he hit thirty one
home runs last year. This season he's got eleven and

(14:21):
it was still time. Okay, is he going to Barry
Bonds show hail tany like? Run here for Seattle. They're
not playing at the Kingdome anymore. Good luck on that,
So he's he's okay. You look at some of the
NERD numbers. I try to avoid those. But if you
look at the NERD numbers, the hard contact rate is
not that great. And the other thing, and this is

(14:44):
a problem. You always worry about guys that come from
the Rockies or the Red Sox, these bandbox ballparks because
the numbers they put up are phony. They're not sustainable
in a big ballpark, and that is an issue. And
Josh Naylor's numbers are not that great. But if you
look at what he's done at Chase Field, a hitter

(15:04):
friendly ballpark, he's been pretty good on the road. When
he leaves that hitter friendly ballpark in that Arizona Desert air,
his numbers are pretty mediocre, like batting averageses ops are
not good, not good, And so you're like, well, he's
going to this great canyon in Seattle, a pitcher friendly ballpark.

(15:26):
So is he going to be yet another yet another
Mariner player that blows like their street blows. So we'll see.
But that's a trade. We had a trade. Josh Naylor
goes from Arizona to Seattle. You can mark that on
your scorecard. And there will be more trades, but not
many big name trades or will there be? Will there

(15:49):
be a big name trade developing? We'll get back to
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of Hulk Halcomania Last hour, Hawk dying this week at
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(18:21):
had the hour of Haul Cogan, last hour. We've regained
a listener. We're excited about that. We do not like
losing listeners. It happens, it does happen. The Bill's Monster Now,
this guy's part of that Bill's mafia. He's one of
those those lunatics that goes to the Bills games and
he's a listener to the show. He says, I'm back
day life was not for me forever a malar super fan.

(18:44):
That's Bill's Monster, no longer working the dreaded day shift
and now back on the overnight. So welcome back, Bill's Monster.
We missed you and you're back just in time for
football season, so that's good. There you go, Bobby and
Flora says eight first hour wrestling is still huge. There
you go. They said, Sirius just started a wrestling channel.

(19:08):
Good for them. The depressed Mariner fan says a plus
on the matter of the monologue, Jerry Depoto has abandoned
free agency for the trade deadline because no one wants
to come here as a free agent. I don't know
if that's the good anyway. That said, I believe Josh
Naylor is the missing piece for the elusive Mariner championship,
says the depressed Mariner fan. And gonna I'm gonna write

(19:31):
down here. Let's see, it's July twenty fifth to day,
so by September one I will get a message from
the depressed Mariner fan. Why can't we have nice things?
I don't understand why Josh Naylor is batting two hundred
with three home runs. I don't get it as a
Mariner JJ from the Great Pacific Northwest. There a seahawk

(19:52):
Koog's Mariners, Kraken fan and a very salty, very salty person.
He admits that. He says, Ben, it's the marine Layer
in April and May, plus a bad batter's eye in
center field. That's why the Mariner batters look like they've
never hit before. Our retractable roof is stupid and leaves
open air to be a factor. It only covers the

(20:14):
field when it says JJ, Yeah, I've been to that ballpark.
It's a cool ballpark with all the train whistles and
whatever they're in the outfield bouncing off the roof and
echoing throughout the stadium and all that. And the marine
layer thing. Eh, there's a marine layer at Dodger Stadium.
They don't seem to have a problem hit home runs.
If you have good players, they hit home runs. It's

(20:34):
usually how that goes. Joheo Tani has played with the
Angels and Dodgers with the Marine Layer in southern California
and has not had many problems ferg dog rights since says,
I am so relieved that justin fields is okay. I
almost threw my computer out the window when I thought
he broke his leg. If Fields was out for the

(20:56):
whole year, my best ball fantasy team would have been
royally screwed. Signed for dog. There you go, justin in.
Since Cinnati says there's a better chance that Hulk Hogan
wins at WrestleMania this year than the Mariners win the
American League, that's it shot fired there by the always

(21:19):
positive Justin in Cincinnati. Let's go back to the phones
and let's say hello to Andre who's in the Commonwealth
and his dog willis Hello, Andre, Ben, how are.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
You doing good? Good to be with you. It's a
bittersweet today as you started off talking about Hulk Cogan,
Haulcamania awesome eighties legend and icon. So it's, you know,
kind of bittersweet, is what I have to go with,
because it's not just talking about Mark talking about haulk Cogan,

(21:52):
Malcolm Jamaal, Warner, Cosby Show, you know, Ozzy Osbourne, just
a lot of folks you kind of grew up with,
and you have to realize, even though in your mind
you know it's Et and Goonies Forever and Big Hair
and Bruce Springsteen and all that stuff, it is many
blue moons in the rear view maris So, yeah, but

(22:15):
haulk Covid as as he moved on in his life,
there were certainly things that transpired that I can't co
sign and I disagree vehemently with. Actually, uh so, that's
kind of been the narrative of talking to folks, you know,
classmates and how do you kind of feeling about it?
But have to say, for me, I'm more on the
nostalgia piece. I'm more embedded in the awesome eighties and

(22:37):
what you know, It's just it's hard to describe some
of your other callers later in the eighties. You know,
I'm an eighty two person. So just really throughout early childhood,
elementary school, middle school, he was just there and you know,
you just had to love him.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
So it's uh yeah, listen, I told you Andre, I
pretty I didn't completely stopped watching, but I didn't watch
wrestling every week like I did when I was a kid,
and that stopped sometime in the nineties. I stopped watching
so like, and that's kind of when I shut off
my brain for hall cog And obviously we talked about
the stories with all the scandals that he was involved

(23:15):
in and all that stuff with Bubba La Love Sponge
and the whole thing and all that gocker the gocker
stuff that's all out there. But yeah, you know it's
that thing, Andrea, right when somebody isn't the tradition when
somebody dies, you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead?
Isn't that the people that are you're not supposed to.
That's like you can't do that. That's like a.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Normal for me. Then I'm remembering the good and again
in the awesome eighties where other calls have mentioned it,
you know, coming out to the theme music talking about
Ia the Tiger. Please, I'm a real American. Iya the
Tiger was ultimate warrior first.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Of all, and he might have no but but Andrew,
I'm just pointing out that that was the original before
Halk settled on the tune. The first song that he played,
he paid five hundred dollars five hundred dollars for the
for the right to play I Have Attiger, and then
he eventually obviously we know what he ended up with
the American tune and all that.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
So yeah, and I appreciate the economic insight that you
provide in terms of what five hundred dollars meant in
the awesome eighties when with one single income you could
do quite a bit. Never mind where we are today
just in terms of cost of living and then artificial intelligence,
we're not going to get too much in the break
new world, Ben, Let's return to the awesome eighties, a
simpler time in many and many respects. Haulkster, Haulkamania. And

(24:34):
again I reference it that you play center on the
Fox Sports basketball team because tower and your and your
ability around the rim. But it was for somebody like
myself who was destined for the NBA but never got
quite above six foot. That was a pejorative. They used
to call me Andre the Giant.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
No, Andre, Andre, you you know you got. If you
can dribble, you get. If you have the killer crossover
or whatever, you can make it right in basketball, you can.
There are always those like guys that are not that
tall that are pretty good. Not so much now, but back,
you know, fifteen twenty years ago, there were guys that
were pretty small in stature that were pretty good.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Munsey Bogues, Okay, the pride.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Of huge spud Web Earl Boykins was good for a
couple of years. He had some good the problem with
those guys. You can't play defense, that's the problem, because
how are you gonna stop anybody? They're so small. But
now on offense they're fine.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
So in the last point, shout out the Muggy Bogue
pride of Dunbar Dunbar in the DMV area played basketball
and reg Regu Lewis, who is really near and dear
to our heart here in Massachusetts. Alright, p Hulk Cogan,
we love the ultimatis forever. Thanks take the time.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Then, all right, there you go, there's Andre in the common. Well,
let's say hello to what Oh yeah, what are you
gonna do? Let's go to Teddy in Minnesota. What's going on? Teddy? Welcome?

Speaker 6 (25:55):
Oh my gosh, am I talking to you? Benny?

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Let me check? Hold on, I think, I think? I
think so? Did you want to talk to somebody else?

Speaker 6 (26:07):
No?

Speaker 7 (26:08):
Hell no, I'll tell you what My favorite My favorite
memory was when he first introduced himself and he told me,
Gene Okerland, my brother, you don't know when you know
the Hulk means you.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
But and it was then he did. He wasn't tearing
his shirt off as anything. He just said, take your
hulk of vitam Engine believe in me as I believe
in you, And that was the coolest thing ever. I mean,
if you want to talk about great wrestlers, you can
talk about the Hulkamaniac. You can talk about Jerry Blackwell,

(26:45):
the jumping Jimmy Brounzell and Greg Kanya, the high flyers.
For Current a Loud, it's so tough to try and
replicate these original people that brought it to entertainment. I
know it's probably not real, but I'll tell you what

(27:06):
they actually make people watch the program, and that's what
to me, I think makes the program the program what
it is today.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know it was yeah, yeah, for sure, it's the
entertainment Teddy, Right, it's the it's combining all that stuff.
It's the wrestling. People. You go for the entertainment. You
stay for the wrestling, right or you know, I don't
think you go there for the wrestling. You go there
for the entertainment. You watch the wrestling.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
Yeah, and do you need Cyndi Lauper or do you
have the one guy that was the guy with the
rubber bands and his cheeks or whatever like that was
a manager. It's like for Crying Out Loud I mean,
it turns out you've got so many different aspects to
the business that makes it what it is today. That's

(27:58):
why you have now WWE.

Speaker 8 (28:02):
No, well you have the WWE because the WWF got
sued by the World Wildlife Foundation and they lost and
so they had to change their name.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
That's what happened. Thank you, though, Teddy, look at that.
You could hear the passion, the raw emotion. Is that
what that sound was? And the mini pack of beer, well,
I mean there's that too, but he listen, do you
want me to go through the different kind of drunks
and and all that. I mean, I could have done
that bit with him, but guy was very emotional, right,
he was a I guess he was the Mary Poppins drunk,

(28:36):
you know that, the sweeter, happier drunk.

Speaker 9 (28:38):
He was very sweet.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, there's four I learned this years ago when I
started doing overnight. So there's four kinds of drunks. There's
the heming way that doesn't really change, there the same
whether they're drunk or not. There's the Mary Poppins that
gets a lot nicer and sweeter, and the life of
the party, and the social butterfly that's the Merry Poppins drunk,
there's the nutty professor who is usually an intro of

(29:00):
it becomes more social, becomes more social when they drink.
And then the one you don't want to be around
is mister Hyde because mister Hyde becomes a very hostile.
He gets in fights, bar fights, get a little booze there,
you know, going to kick everyone's ass. Yeah, you want
to stay away from that. Definitely want to stay away

(29:21):
from that. Let's see what else do we Let's go
to let's go to Anthony in Louisiana and hello Anthony,
my maning. Oh there, you gotta come up with a
nickname for you, Anthony. You keep calling. We got to
come up with a nickname. Do you have a nickname
from your childhood? Myname is Terry. Your nickname is Terry? Really? Yeah, Oh,

(29:49):
you gotta have a better I mean, no, no disrespect.
You got to come up with something. But Overnight Radio.
You gotta have a good nickname. Parents you know, talent, No,
I know they call you that, but to me on
the Overnight, that's gotta be something with more pizaze to it. Yeah,

(30:10):
we'll work on that, all right. Well, what's what's going on? Anthony,
how can we help you?

Speaker 6 (30:15):
Died?

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Is it hold? Coop? Why didn't you tell me hul
Cogan died? Coop, Lorena? Breaking news here? This just into
Fox Sports? Why do you break this big news?

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Breaking news from Fox Sports?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
I I I do not understand. Why did I not
talk about this? Why did I not do a monologue
an hour? One to a whole hour on hul Cogan?

Speaker 9 (30:40):
We should have opened the show with that.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
I'm I'm sorry, I Anthony, I apologize to you. We
we fed up. I hope he used to get Nanny
in the movie. Oh you want to talk about his
acting career? Yes? Would you let Hulk Hogan watch your kids?

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:03):
You would? Yeah, I'm good. There we go?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
What I got another joke with I do love a
good joke.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
You want to hope?

Speaker 1 (31:17):
You can.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
Not the joke?

Speaker 1 (31:24):
I couldn't hear what he said.

Speaker 9 (31:25):
I have.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Okay, this is the joke. Guess what, Loraina? Go ahead? Okay? What?

Speaker 9 (31:32):
Yeh you?

Speaker 5 (31:35):
You we want you Messcale, I'm gonna have your class.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
I am scary, that's why, hope. Look, Anthony was comedy
comedy like this? You should have entered the mallort Paloos.
You would have fit right in with the other people, you.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Know, just just just it was rubbing down the street.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Okay, I go, I got I gotta go. I'm gonna
bang my head against the wall to would bleed. I
gotta go. No, we didn't get to the punch line.

Speaker 9 (32:06):
I don't think we even got to the setup.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
No, Anthony, how about some brevity, my man, Come on, Anthony,
brevity just boom in. Everyone should just be like our
guy in the Bay Area without the curse. Yeah, yeah,
I mean Tony Litstene. He gets on there, he says
his piece, says a bad word, hangs up. That's it right,

(32:29):
Listen calls up, says Tony in the Bay says something
about David Vassey's nuts, and then hangs up. That's what
you gotta do. That's in and out. You don't have
to use the other part of that. Just get it out. Yeah,
what do we have? He let's see page down. I
can't see that. Larry de writes and says, what do
you call female fans of the Buffalo Bills? Bill does?

Speaker 9 (32:53):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Which is better than being called a cow? Okay, lame jokes.
Next hour, Mark and Queen's via Arlington, Texas, right, since,
says big Men. I was at Madison Square Garden, a
mecca in midtown Manhattan, right over Penn Station, when Hulk
took the belt from the Iron Chek. An incredible memory,

(33:15):
and the iron cheek is not forgiven hault Cogan all
these years later. Yeah, oh yeah. Everybody now coshing down.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Inside is singing, yeah, do it.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
I'm doing the whole ear thing. I got the whole
you know. I can't hear you. Yeah, I'm tearing my
shirt off right now, ripping it off. It's like I'm
a Chippendale's dancer right here. Look at me. Yeah, put
my finger right in my ear saying, hey, I can't

(33:56):
hear you. I can't hear you out.

Speaker 6 (34:00):
Can you?

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Now?

Speaker 9 (34:02):
You already long past watching wrestling when Hulk made his
heel turn right.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, I did not. I did not watch hard. That
sounds like heel. Yes, two big heels. Let's say hello
to Danny DeVito, America's favorite trash man. Hello Danny DeVito, welcome.
Oh Danny is gone. Oh I thought I heard him.
That's weird. I must be hearing voices. I must be
hearing weird random voices that are popping into my head

(34:28):
all right, it is the Ben mallersho let's go jumping
off point anyway to pay off the tas we had earlier,
a pirate's life for me, we mentioned the Pirates they
suck even though he just swept the Tigers, and it
is expected the Pirates will do what they always do
and have a fire sale, a bonfire mid season. And
O'Neil Cruz his names out there. We talked about that.

(34:48):
Now the Yankees have been connected to O'Neil Cruz. They
also are interested in Geno Suarez of the Diamondbacks. Trade
dead life on well the the interweb. That's coming up
on Thursday, the trade deadline and the Dallas Cowboys get
goofed on. The Dallas Cowboys social media team shared a

(35:10):
Dak Prescott themed Fantastic four photograph and that was a
drawing and people were pointing out that in the playoffs playoffs,
that is when Dak turns invisible. Now, I've learned over
the years that teams don't really care whether you goof
on them or not. They just want the engagement. They

(35:32):
make money on the engagement. So it looks ridiculous considering
what a zero Dak Prescott is in every big game. However, however,
it did get a lot of engagement. There was a
dog pile, dog pile right on top all right time.
Now for the inst to trivia, as we pile on
the Seattle Mariners. Mike Trout, that's a baseball player for

(35:52):
the Angels. He's got four hundred and thirty seven career
total bases versus the Mariners and one hundred and forty
six run scored versus Seattle, which both set new all
time records. The previous marks were four hundred and thirty
five four to thirty five career total basis by blank

(36:13):
and one hundred and forty five runs by the late
Ricky Henderson. Fill in the blank. That's the insta trivia
the answer, and we'll get to Mallard of the third
degree and we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live live.

Speaker 7 (36:37):
It's a live.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
It Today's Friday, Today's Friday, Today's Friday.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Put a sock in your mouth, jerk yourself away.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Don't worry, don't worry.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
It's just tay the top.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
It's a plump clussy right there. Now, man quickly my
lover balls. I don't care. I'm leaving. Goodbye, the show
is over.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
Goodbye.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
No, the show is not over. No no, no, no, no, no, no.
Plenty of time. We're not even halftime at the show.
It is I Bill Miller. Right after the Ben Maller Show,
the podcast will be going up and you get extra
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this show if you missed any of the overnight show,
be sure to listen to the pod. Also the Fifth

(37:29):
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(37:51):
Fifth Hour Podcast. Be sure to follow review the podcast
rated five stars. Again, just search Ben Maller wherever you
hit your podcast, you'll find the latest episode, best of version,
which is all of six seconds long, posted right after
we get off the air.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Thank god for the Internet.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
All right, back to it we go in time now
for the Insta Trivia with Mallor to the third degree
coming up, Mike Trout and the Angels star there four
hundred and thirty seven career total bases versus the Manners
one hundred and forty six runs scored, which both now
have set new all time records of the previous marks
against the Mariners. The guys that just destroyed the Mariners

(38:28):
were four hundred thirty five total bases by Blank and
one hundred and forty five runs by Ricky Henderson. That
is the question. What is the answer? I don't see
does anyone know the answer? We're on in Seattle, so
somebody should know the answer. Here, Alf the Alien ol
Pliner is going with Mia Khalifa as his answer. Sean

(38:48):
Armstrong from Benito, the long Suffering Cowboy Fan, Ellis Burks
from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Matt LeBlanc Everyone's friend. Who's
fifty eight today? Mango McMichaels from King Rory. That's the answer.
Malaprop guy cheated, got it right? Bad job by him?
Eloy from Compton says it's Lorraina's childhood crush ravishing Rick

(39:10):
Rude No, his name was Clark ganne Okay. Nephie Perez
from Malibarub and that's a good name. The mouth of
the South. Jimmy Hard from Andy and Lino Lakes, Arthur
Fonzarelli from our buddy JT. The wing Manager, Colby Brissett
from Shane in Des Moines. Kirk Gibson from Johnny Q,
Tony Oliva from our buddy Rob in Minnesota, Ray Mysterio,

(39:32):
good name from Gil in San Diego. What say you, Lorraine?
I'm going with Phil Fish?

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Ben?

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Is it Phil Fish?

Speaker 6 (39:39):
No?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Bam bam bigelow guess by Brian No, the correct answer
is none other than Rafael Paul Merrow, all of just
the Rangers, Texas Rangers kill the Marenger. Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Here
we gotler.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
How about that to the third degree. Yeah, this is
one big Ben gets grill.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
We're doing this for the mex In. John Dutton. Here
we go cool. Baker.

Speaker 9 (40:02):
Mayfield said on a recent podcast appearance that at every
stop he went to he was told to tone it
down a little bit, whereas the Bucks have just told
him from day one to be himself.

Speaker 7 (40:11):
Ben.

Speaker 9 (40:11):
Do you think things would have gone better in Cleveland
if they had done the same.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
No, they would have been better if Baker Mayfield didn't
suck half the time. It's fine if you're the energizer, Bunny,
you're out there, you're radical and fire Brenny's night that radical,
But you got to perform. And the fact that Odell
Beckham deputized his father to get away from Baker Mayfield
was a bad sign. Good for Baker. He's turned out
to be a good quarterback, at least a better than

(40:37):
bad quarterback in Tampa. But let's not pretend like he
didn't have his issues in Cleveland, and it wasn't because
the Browns wouldn't let him be Baker next.

Speaker 9 (40:46):
Marvin Harrison Junior told reporters on Wednesday that he feels
more powerful and is ready to showcase it this season.
Ben Harrison was the first receiver off the board and
had a productive rookie season, but he's still lagged behind
leak neighbors Brian Thomas, Lad McConkie, and brought. Do you
think we'll be able to outperform any of those guys
this year?

Speaker 1 (41:03):
No? I mean I did not see it like he's bigger,
which is fine, whatever, but his ability to get open,
he could not get separation. I didn't I didn't watch
him every game. The games, I watched the Cards most
of the time. He could not get separation and I
don't see that changing. Next.

Speaker 9 (41:20):
With the MLB trade deadline right around the corner, what
team do you think will be the most active buyer?

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Well, it's got to be the usual suspects, the Dodgers,
the Yankees, they're falling apart. The Detroit Tigers are having
their issues right now. Those are the teams that have
to be active. You know, it's a it's not gonna
be a buyer's market. It's gonna be a seller's market.
But they've got to do things. How do we do
you pass? That's a when market down, market down, that's

(41:47):
a win.
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