August 1, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about Carlos Correa going back to the Houston Astros in a deadline deal with the Minnesota Twins, Commanders WR Terry McLaurin requesting a trade as his holdout continues, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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This hour is from the swap meet. It did not disappoint.
We didn't have a lot of huge names traded. We
had a lot of trades. There was much like my
diet back in the day when I was going for
it and I I just ate everything. It was quantity
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over quality. So it is deadline day, a historic deadline
day for the volume of trades in Major League Baseball,
and we have all night to slice and dice and
go brick by brick and all that stuff. But let's
start with a normal target. The dirty, rotten scoundrels of baseball,
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the land of no morals. If you didn't see what
they did, maybe not on brand. The cheating Astros reacquired
disgraced infield. There Carlos Correa and a deal. It some
say is surprising, some say is surprising comes over from
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the Minnesota Twins. The Twins, by the way, announced after
the trade deadline they'll be joining the Pacific Coast League
for the rest of the season. But Carlos Correa, he
goes to Houston and the Astro well on, they sent
some minor league player back to Minnesota. Now Korea waived
his no trade clause in order to make that happen.
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He has also agreed to change positions as he goes
back to the Cheaters. He'll play third base, so he'll
be on the left side of the infield with the
guy that yousurped him at shortstop, Jeremy Panna for the Cheaters.
So let us discuss the question, what is your perspective
on Carlos Corea, the cheater going back to join the
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other cheaters in Houston. So I've got true crime, rubber made,
and four seasons, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make some movie theater buttered popcorn,
not just your normal buttered popcorn, but it's just a
little bit better. It's a little worse for you. It
fills up when you're to the movie theater, right, not
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that many people do anymore, but you go there and
it fills up your gut and your arteries. The Holy
all right. So a, this Carlos Carrea deal is just
dripping with irony capitalize right, the Twins. Now they're paying
thirty three million dollars to make Carlos Korea go away.
Think about that. I would love for someone to pay
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me thirty three million dollars to go away. I promise
you I will go away. You will never hear about
me again. You'll never hear me again, You'll never see
me again. But think about that Carlos Correa who signed
the biggest contract in Twins history, and a couple years
later they we got to get rid of this guy.
And on the other side, Korea chose to return to
the place where he cheated his way to a championship.
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It's like some kind of twisted redemption tour. So using
some patented overnight sports radio psycho babble, what this is.
After a minutes long deliberation, Korea signing off on the
note trade to go back to Houston is straight up
true crime behavior. If you ever watch those true crime shows,
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you've seen this. You've even if you haven't, you've heard
over the years the criminal mind. The way the criminal
mind works, the criminal always returns to the scene of
the crime. Enter Carlos Korea. Right, He's not just going
back to Houston because he liked the weather there. This
is textbook narcissist stuff, right, Korea, who must be emotionally aroused,
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I would imagine by the trash can, banging buzzer, wearing
World Series trophies, stealing franchise, And so he wants to
go back there and get some more validation there. He
needs reassurance Korea that all that cheating he was a
part of that it wasn't just okay, was just okay.
It was heroic. And this is a guy who has
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built his entire identity, is a big league ballplayer on
being a schmuck, an a hole, someone you cheer against,
and being part of the dirtiest team in baseball history,
the as one thousand and two, one thousand holes. So
it's his happy place. That's the line right the park,
the one place where no one boos him, there's no
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moral outrage. The whole fan base has embraced the trash
can mantra. Right, He'll go back in there like a
conquering hero. He might even be wearing a trash can, right,
hugs confetti. They might give him a special golden trash
can as he returns there. But he'll be back in
the warm embraced Korea of the franchise that he helped
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become a national laughingstock and embarrassment and the face of
cheating an American sport. Correa never really left mentally, he
did it, you know, probably spent the whole time in Minnesota.
Every time he saw trash Can, he was whispering sweet nothings, right,
just just kind of flirting with the trash can. So,
Korea's back in age town, and the Astros just welcomed
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home there for digital punk. He's back in town, right.
They deserve each other now page two on this as
we break it down. So why is the Carlos care
trade the ultimate head scratcher for the cheating Astros? So
the reason's kind of clear here if you follow this
story at all, if you pay any attention, and maybe
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you don't, maybe you don't, but if you do, you
know what I'm about to say. So the team in
Houston let Correa walk four years ago because hello, they
did not think he was going to age well, they
didn't think that the player would be able to live
up to the long term contract. They had somebody else younger.
They could have kept Korea and moved him to another
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position if they thought he would be all right. So
by bringing him back, the astros are admitting that they
were wrong to let him go. But here's here's the
shocking thing. They weren't wrong to let him go. He's cooked,
all right. Correa's cooked. It's like they're trying to revive
Blockbuster video. It's not coming back. And while he's listed
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at age thirty, he often plays Korea like he's fifty,
at least he did in Minnesota, and watching him run
it's like watching someone try to run through a sprint
in the cements. Kind of wet there and it's just
kind of messed up. He's in the bottom percentile according
to the NERD stats in barrel percentage. He's got no
range defensively, and I'm pretty sure you could plant corn
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in the gaps he leaves on defense. Thus they're going
to try to hide him at the hot corner, care
at third base. But what an emasculating move. What an
emasculating move. This isn't just about the analytics and all
that stuff. You had to remember. The astro said, we
don't think we can we can bring you back. We
don't think you're gonna live up to the contract we
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could give you. The Mets signed him to a deal
or came close backed out, the Giants agreed to a deal.
Both then saw the medical record and ran for the hills.
They said, you know what, we're good, Carlos, We're good here. Thanks,
but no thanks. And he goes to me Minnesota and sucks.
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And so he's not just declining this season, he's nose diving.
And now here come the a holes crawling back like
that x who who seems to be convinced that they
can fix him. Oh yeah, I can fix this guy.
Yeah yeah, what are they gonna dip him in the
holy water of a rubber made trash can somewhere in
the suburbs of Houston and boom, gonna be hitting like
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he was in twenty seventeen. Right, all you have to do,
Deck Torrea, get him the buzzer. If that doesn't work,
try a whistle, right, maybe a trash can lid instead
of a hat, right, full service. Hey. In fact, the
equipment guy when he gets back to Houston, Korea, the
equipment Guy's gonna say, hey, Carlos, you want your buzzer
and medium or large? I know you've gained a little way,
it's still a medium or do you need a large buzzer?
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So waste management right Houston style? And what do we
always say, what do we always say on the show?
We say, don't let a falling star fall on you.
Well guess what they not only did that, they traded
for a falling star, right, they went out and they
caught a falling star. So they're like, all right, we
want that, all right, Now we must go to the
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other part of this trade. We must go to the
other part of the trade. Everyone in baseball is like,
what are they doing when I say they we're going
to the Upper Midwest now the last word, and that
would be the other side of this transaction. Do you
have any advice to those Twins fans on how to
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deal with what some are saying is the single most
embarrassing day in baseball history for a franchise giving up
and that's your Minnesota Twins of twenty twenty five. So
do you have anything an advice for the Twins on
how to deal with an epic day of transactions as
they unloaded the big league roster at the trade deadline.
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So my advice would be, you know the cover I
think it's like a cover band for the four seasons. Right,
this is the fifth season, we'll call it. And this season,
and this is my advice to you in Minnesota is apathy.
It's apathy season. No more Minnesota and Ice. Don't even
bother getting mad. Don't get worked into a ladder. The
pole Ad family that owns the team, they obviously don't care.
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They're not building a winner. They're just clearing debt. And
it's just a line item on a spreadsheet. They're trying
to get rid of debt to sell the team. So
they're trimming the fat like a chef that's got that
big knife there and trying to trim away the fat.
And so they're trying to get the books, right as
I understand it, to sell the team and then they
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can buy another yacht with all the money. Do you
think they care about you the fan? You think the
Minnesota Twins care about you the fan? They showed you
they gave you the middle finger with these trays, right,
And so I got no skin in the game, but
I am sick of earing. Well. I mean, look at
the hall they got back. They're smart. They weren't gonna
win anyway. Look at all the minor league players. They
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got enough. Tommy, you're a maron. This was a competitive team. Now,
granted they were going in the wrong direction. But everyone's
a fringe playoff contender these days because they keep adding
wild card teams. And I've just not been raised that way.
I know a lot of you are losers and you've
been raised that way. But I was taught not to
just quit, not to give up on purpose. And that's
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exactly what I saw from the Minnesota Twins. Oh but
we got prospects. Oh that's great. Why don't you make
out with your prospects, right, wonderful. It's the currency of
the coward. Prospects. Oh, they're gonna be so good. It's
so funny to me how many people are just complete
morons when it comes to prospects. I give you an
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example team. I liked the Dodgers. A couple of years ago.
They had a guy named Trevor May who was a
top prospect. Oh, he's a great prospect. The guy sucks.
The Dodgers gave him to the Red Sox. He's terrible.
They had another top prospect a couple years back named
James Outman, who also blows by the way he's going
to the Twins congratulate, But he was a top prospect.
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Oh man, look at the prospect all you losers, you guys,
look at these prospect reports. You pull your pants down.
You're so excited. It's embarrassing, right, embarrassing. So I mean
they traded they had a decent to good bullpen. They
traded their bullpen, the entire bullpen, half your roster, and
you got And maybe that'll be good. I mean that
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maybe that guy will be good. I don't know. Give
me a break, right anyway, you do what you want.
My advice would be not to spend a dime and
make that stadium like it was COVID in Minnesota, beautiful ballpark,
but maybe like COVID was no one there. Go rent
a boat and enjoy Lake Minnetonka instead. But for the Twins,
I mean, my not one dime, all right, You don't
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go to the ballpark. You don't buy a hat, a bobblehead,
you don't even you don't comment on social media because
that means you care. Force them to win your trust
back because they just violated the bubble of trust. So
forced them to earn your trust back because they deserve it.
This is apathy season. That is my advice, pure cold
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blooded Minnesota winter weather grade apathy. Right, And you don't yell,
you don't scream, You just kind of walk away, because
it's all about the emotion, and the emotion means you're
still engaged. The emotion means that you still care. You
give a damn. Apathy means you're not a customer anymore.
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You don't care about their product. And if they're playing
in front of you, you're not gonna even look. You're
gonna turn your back and go the other way. They've
lost you. And that's the way you have to approach you.
You have to and that's what the Twins earned. Every
action has a reaction, and that should be the reaction
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and nothing you get, absolutely nothing. That would be my advice. Now,
is that gonna happen? Do I know? There's always the
fanboys no matter what, all we love the prospects. Oh,
I'm so excited. This is such a great you know,
there's always those losers. Got to hate those people. They're
always out there, right, Oh, this is going to be
great five years from now. It is really the ultimate
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hustle for a couple of reason and I'm not going
to rant about that. I will rant at some point
in the future about my belief that the Major League
Baseball pipeline is one of the all time great scams
ever put in the world of sports. So I'll do
that another day. I just will sum this up by
pointing out how absurd it is to sell five years
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from now? Right does any other business get away with that?
When they have a shareholders meeting an Apple, do they say, Hey,
these iPhones are going to absolutely stink for the next
four years, but in year five, I think we'll have
a good one, right, I think we'll be pretty good
there in year five. Like in the car business, when
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they're making automobiles, do the people at Toyota say, well,
you know, we don't really have any good and I
don't think we have any for the next couple of years.
But if you check back with us in five or
six years, I think that one of these cars that
were thinking about the prototypes, I think they might be
pretty good. But yet in sports you're able to get
away with it. It's like, why is that? Why are
they allowed to get away with that? I just don't
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I don't understand that mindset. I was not raised that
way watching sports, But hey, the East throw and anyway,
if you would like to be part the balance of power.
I don't think the balance of power shifted with any
of these trades. There were a lot of trades. I
just like that we can tell who actually is trying
to win and who's not trying to win. And oh,
by the way, the Dodgers are on that we're not
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trying to win. List my Dodgers. I mean, hey, I
thought was Fred Claire back as the GM there? My god,
I thought it was like the eighties take a nap
of the trade deadline. Holy crap.
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to the world of football and we will start out
just adjacent to Capitol Hill where all the lawmakers waste
our money. So we have a plot twist in the
contract stalemate in DC. If you have been following along,
or if not, maybe you've missed it. The star pass
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catcher for Washington is not happy. He wants moneymount of money,
and a lot more moneymunt of money. Don't we all
take a number from the deli counter. So, if you
haven't heard the latest, we have learned now that the
commander's wide receiver, Terry McLaurin, is so frustrated with negotiation.
How frustrated it is, thanks for asking. He's so frustrated
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that he is now requesting a trade and there has
been no movement, no movement. It's pond water in terms
of getting a new deal. So let us discuss the question,
how do you evaluate the Terry McLaren trade request from Washington?
How you evaluate the request of a trade by Terry McLaurin.
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So I've got saber Ikea and mister potato head, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some Baba ganoosh is what we're
gonna make. So number wa, I said, number Yeah. Here's
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my position on the Terry McLaurin trade request. This is
the textbook twenty twenty NFL Wide Receiver Handbook on display right.
They all read the same manual. They all follow the
same script. And you do a job like this. Now
there's no reason for you to pay attention this closely,
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But I have nothing else to do. So it always
starts with the holdout, and then now you're in the
hold in. Now you're in the hold in because you
can't sit out more than a few days. At fifty
thousand dollars a day. It's like a hostage negotiation. Now now,
based on the economy in the NFL, this is a
ballplayer who in that world has been underpaid in that world.
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Now in the real world, not underpaid, but in that
world underpaid. And he sat there and watched the other
receivers get their paid a whether players better than him,
like Justin Jefferson or AJ Brown or Christian Kirk have
reset the market, even Christian Kirk. So McLaurin is sitting
there saying, hey, what about me. I've been a good,
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good scout here, I didn't do any wrong. Well, here's
the thing, though, it would appear based at this point
Washington does not care and they don't really want to
give him a new contract. Otherwise, spoiler alert, they would
have already given him a new contract. There's no reason
to drag this thing out. It's not Jerry Jones and
the Cowboys. So you know next, I'm sure we get
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at some point here the emoji warfare. I call it
emoji warfare, the bio change, the retreat, the reposting of
stuff on social media. But it's not about the money.
Of course, we know it's about the money, but it's
about respect. You know, I need respect and I need
to feel valued. You don't value me, right. They want
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the bag and they want the pat on the back.
So you not only need the bag, but you need
the pat on the back. And for what it's worth,
the commanders have already said that they are not going
to make any kind of a trade with this particular ballplayer.
They've already turned down some trades allegedly. But every man
has a price, every man and has the pressure. And
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so if a contender loses a wide receiver, whether it
be in practice or a game between now and the
start of the regular season, and some random team calls
up and says, hey, I'll give you a first round
pick for mclauren. And they'll say, okay, how fast can
we get them to the airport? You know, and you'll
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get the answer right there. So mclaurin's camp is obviously
they're trying to raise the temperature, and you want to
apply pressure here, and pressure, pressure, pressure, you leak the
trade request check that box. Okay, we've now requested the trade.
You get the fans all riled up there, you make
it uncomfortable for the team. It's all calculated, and you
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get the saber. The saber rattling is what you get here.
It's all part of the game. What's in the game.
It's part of the game. And so call it a
bit of an audible, you call the audible. This is
the audible right here, and this is the escalation phase,
is what it is. McLaurin has been through quarterback hell,
playing with Stiff after Stiff, he carried that offense. And
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now they finally have their alleged forever quarterback, Jayden Daniels.
We'll see what he does for an encore. And so
now he's like, okay, this is my last chance. I'm
crossing the rubicon here. Age wise, I got to force
their hand. He's making the noise, and the noise ends
up getting you paid, or it gets you traded, then
you get paid with another team. That's normally how it works,
all right. Now, Page two, So to Canton, Ohio we go.
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Picturesque Canton, Ohio. The Chargers show me your lightning bolt.
They beat up the Lions in an exhibition lidlifter. Now,
much of the chatter in that game about two things.
We'll get to the new setup in the NFL, which
did not go very well, by the way, holy crap,
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involving how they will measure the football. But that's a
different conversation for later on. We got a lot of
time to navigate. The quarterback of the Chargers was not
justin Herbert. It was the new backup, old forty nine
er trash and cowboy trash, Trey Lance, who had a
couple of touchdowns and looked like he actually knew what
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he was doing. So everyone's yapping, Oh my god, Trey Lance. Oh,
the Chargers are gonna be able to trade him and
he can be a QB one for the New Orleans
Saints or somebody else. All right, So question, did quarterback
Trey Lance may make a statement? That's what Chris Collinsworth
said on the broadcast as Collinsworth had the knee pads on.
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So did quarterback Trey Lance make a quote statement close quote,
as collins were said on the Hall of Fame TV broadcast.
So my answer is a n absolutely not, absolutely not.
I come on, you knew this kind of story was
gonna be here. Either Trey Lance went out and played terribly.
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Is oh, I can't believe the Niners traded all those
draft picks to get Trey Lance blows or if he
played well, he's back. Baby, Trey Lance is back. So
let's not be ridiculous here. As a distant relative of
Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas who lives in Seattle, we
knew this was coming right. This was a I watched
a little bit of it. Don't tell anybody, Please, don't
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tell anybody. I watched a little bit of at all.
Nothing else on it was that I watched some of
the Mariner game playing the Rangers. There's light cart and
Baseball Hall of Fame game. I watched it. I watched it.
But this was a glorified walkthrough in Canton, Ohio. And
there they were Mike ta Rico and Chris Collinsworth on
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NBC giving Trey Lance a tongue bath, acting like he
was making his football bar mitzvah. This was his coming
out party here everyone. He was now a man. I
am My name is Trey Lance, and I'm now a
man as a quarterback, and I'm watching this and I'm like,
I know you have to grab onto something. I know
that's part of the job. Can everyone just take it
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a deep breath here? This is the first exhibition game.
It's a total dummy run, right And oh, by the way,
he was playing against Yes, a lot of dummies. So
he's out there against guys we're trying to make a
name for himself. Most of them will be working for Brown,
but not the Cleveland Browns. They'll be working for Ups
in a few weeks, or they'll be pouring concrete on
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the highway. And what can Brown do for you? How
about not get a sack on Trey Lance? Like, that's
not rewrite history here. There is a reason that Trey
Lance is in the position he's in. He was the
number three overall pick from twenty twenty one, and here
we are years later. The forty nine ers gave a
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pick after pick for his rights. They backed the Brinks
truck up to Miami. They dumped all those draft picks out.
By the way, that Dolphins haven't won anything with those
draft picks, but they traded all those draft picks away
in exchange for a guy who is now basically chased
Daniel without the high football IQ but let's not forget
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that he got leap fraud, leap frog Trey Lance by
mister irrelevant brock Purty, a guy taking last in the draft,
usurped the number three pick in the draft, and San
Francisco just gave brock Purdy, who Terry and England would
agree as just mediocre, but gave him one hundred and
eighty two million. Garon teed. Meanwhile, you juxtapose that with
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Trey Lance, who's now on his third team. I believe
he's still trying to figure out how to tie his
cleats without help. So, but he's got all the tools.
He's got the arm talent, he's got the analyticism, he's
got the size you look for at the quarterback position.
And so did the legend, the infamous JaMarcus Russell back
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in the day. He had all that stuff too. So
you need more. I know it sucks, but you need
more than just having a nice toolbox. You need more
than that. You actually have to know how to use.
Said to. So, I look at Trey Lance as a
guy out there who's got two left thumbs and he's
trying to assemble a piece of furniture that he bought
at Ikea, and he's also eating those meatballs at the
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same time. So forget the whole change of scenery. All
that we're gonna change the narrative, nonsense. You can make
no declaration. The only thing Trey Lance could have done
is hurt himself if he'd gone out and played bad
and rode the vomit common Now, the fact that he
played well, had a couple of touchdowns and all that,
that's fine, But you don't get credit. You don't and
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it doesn't matter that these exhibition games. Trey Lance, until
proven otherwise, has a full time residency in the boondocks
of Bustville. Noaying, it's on Google Maps. If you just
go to Google Maps, you can type in Bustville and
he lives right there. So until I see it against real,
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legitimate NFL teams that are scheming this, stop him and
number ones and number twos in a game that has
some value. Please, I don't need the preseason propaganda. I
don't need the exhibition propaganda. And I'm just gonna do
every monologue, goofing on all the preseason propaganda. That's just
gonna be my life's work for the next month. So
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buckle up. Buccaroo. All right, now, final point speaking of that,
we go now to Indianapolis, a basketball state, the Hoosier State.
They have a football team, not a good one. And
there are whispers in this news cycle that say the
Colts quote won't consider quote won't consider moving on from
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in battle the quarterback Anthony Richardson this season, yay or
nay on? That whisper yay or nay on the Colts
not even considering moving on from Anthony Richardson. So I'm
gonna give this one side eye, which is a that's
a nay. Right now? They have to say this though,
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you think that Shane Steichen and the GM there Chris Ballard,
are going to sit there and stand at the dayis
at the podium there in now we're in August and say, yeah,
we might be thinking about replacing the guy that we
drafted in the top five a couple of years ago.
We think we might no shot, right. The better question,
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the better question is who would be dumb enough to
trade for this guy. You'd need a staff that is
involved in NASA, like those NASA engineers, the smartest people
in the room to redesign your offense. And you'd also
need some kind of trauma surgeon on speed Dobb. Richardson's
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played fifteen games, and in about half of those fifteen games,
so seven and a half of the fifteen games, Anthony
richard Sin's body has flown apart like he's mister potato
Head in those games. Now, now Indy as a franchise,
they love the idea of him, and they love the
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idea that he's going to turn out to be good,
just takes time, gotta have patience, all that stuff. They
like that idea more than reality because he's another guy.
We talked about Trey Lance earlier in this monologue, but
Anthony Richardson also the prototype quarterback, another guy that's got
all the tools but no toolbox and all that. And
in this case, it's the NFL's version of buying a
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Porsche and then realizing you can't drive stick shift, Like
that's the move now. Now, Richardson is built like an
action figure and he reads defense like he's trying to
translate a menu at a restaurant in Paris, and he
doesn't speak French. And it's one of those things. He's
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been so bad since he got to the Colts. People
talk about, well, what kind of soap do you use
when you you know, an Irish spring person, what kind
of But he's he's not using that. In fact, when
he goes into the locker room and then leaves for
the day, they have to fumigate the locker room with Ortho,
bed bug, flea and tick killer, not only for Anthony Richardson,
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but also Daniel Jones who's in there. And so again
you combine the fact that he can't play with the
fact that when he does play, he has the durability,
Richardson of a paper straw. Is there anything that is
more annoying than trying to drink a beverage with a
paper straw and you know you're on the clock. You
know you only have anywhere from five to ten minutes
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before that fragile paper straw collapses and then you're done.
You cannot use that straw to drink whatever you're drinking. So,
if you're the Colts, if you're the Colts and you're
really married, I don't buy this report. But if let's
use the Mallard multiverse, and in the Mallard multiverse, you
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are You're in it, right, You're in it. And also
so you're married to this guy, then you better be
prepared for a long, disappointing marriage with a lot of
therapy bills, and not a therapy, but physical therapy also.
So the chatter should be how long until they start
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cheating on him with next year's quarterback draft class? If
you know what I mean.
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The other day, Brown's owner Jimmy Haslam dismissed any notion
that the team would tank for arch manning Ben. Which
teams do you think are most likely to go into
tank mode this season?
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All right, so first of all, you never admit the tank.
You do the tank, but you do not admit the tank.
So even if the Brown and they have tanked before,
you can't admit it. So there's no way Haslm's going
to go on the record say yes, we are trying
to take but the obvious answer the headless Saints of
the Bayou, the New Orleans Saints, who don't have a quarterback,
have no coach, They suck that's the team, and you
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know the famous Manning back in the day who played there.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
Next, it was reported recently that the Warriors will quote
remain in the mix should Lebron James want to finish
out his career somewhere other than La Ben, could you
see Lebron teaming up with Steph No.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Lebron clearly wants to play for the Clippers. He's sending
out Clipper photos on social media. Justin sent me this.
I guess he's on there promoting the Clipper brand. So
I don't have got the Warriors. If he goes anywhere,
you go back to Cleveland, I only he's going or Dallas,
but he's not going to the Warriors, so I don't
see that happening. Next.
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Speaking of Dallas, the Mavericks hired a new team president,
and he said that his number one priority will be
fan outreach to heal the fans. Ben, can anything other
than a championship make up for the Luca trade?
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Oh, well, you gotta they gotta fire fire Nico Harrison.
You gotta get rid of Niko Harrison. Number one. Championship
would be nice, but you gotta get rid of Nico
Harrison because as long as Nico's there, there's always the threat.
Whoever the best player on the Mavericks is at any
moment could be traded. It's just an unsustainable situation. But uh,
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that is a that is a hot mess. And my god,
all right there it is Mallard of the third degree.
How did we do pass the editions? Ah? One at
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I love you? All right? How's life we been? Everything? Okay?
With you? You getting out? You're putting your feet on the
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Damn good.
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You don't leave your house at all.
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Do you?
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Yeah?
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Go out tires beauty culoud? Now okay, all right, good,
all right? So these are actual jokes by well yes,
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Anyway we go? Why did Ozzy Osbourne play baseball? Or
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why didn't? Why didn't Ozzy Osbourne play baseball? Why? Well,
nobody would give him bad? That's from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota?
How isn't home? One from Meek? How bad is it is?
The forest fire? The smoke from that forest fire from
Manitoba entering the US? Wow? How bad? It's so bad
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that everyone's took us in Minnesota? Smells like Canadian bacon?
All right? That's from Eke again. Here's one from Noah
in Austin. What do Parallel Lines and Blind Scott's next
girlfriend have in common? What they'll never meet? Why did?
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Why did the or not? Why did did you here?
Did you hear the Malard militia had a bagel flavored
a bagel flavored band at Panera? A bagel flavor was
banned by the Malad militia at Panera? No, I didn't
hear that. Yeah, apparently no one can stand the poppy.
They can't stand it. That's Joe. What would your poppy
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that was Joe and Virginia Beach? What would your poppy
impersonation be? Weed man?
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Fine day?
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All right? What do the angels and keg drinking Steve's
nightly blood alcohol level have in common?
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What?
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They're both heading the five hundred? They're both heading the
five hundred? Eric? Eric in Kansas? This one from Tony
in the Bay Area. Did you hear that David Vass
was traded for a bag of crap and some knee pads? No? Yeah,
they called it an even trade. That's what they called it.
There Big Bend's lame jokes a week. What's the difference
(40:06):
between Blind Scott and Marcel from Brooklyn?
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What?
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Well, actually nothing. They're both terrible callers. That's Mike the Leprechaun.
What did Blind Scott say when someone told them the
Patriots will win the Super Bowl next year. What he said,
I can't see that happening. That's Eric in Kansas. Well
some sad news. Did you hear that Shane and the
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Moine walk into a field of dead snowmen? No, yeah,
apparently just turned out to be a huge carrot field.
But same thing, Hanna, Eric, that was? That was from
Noah Red Noah in Austin big Ben's Lame Jokes of
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Buttermilk cavo? What talent show would Holler and James dominate in?
What the malor Poe snooze? Uh? He said? Buttermilk tavo again?
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Now we get to the good stuff. Why doesn't weed
Man have a problem getting to sleep when he's in jail?
Why because he spent a lifetime sleeping behind bars. That's
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have a son of your own? What he said? So
will you? That's Eric Kansas? All right? How is? How is?
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How is weed Man? Hippie sex life? It comes and
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Have you ever seen a nurse bird?
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Me, neither, but Angry Bill sees nurse birds daily. That's Tony. Now,
how do you know? You're at weed Man's birthday party?
There's no food, but everyone has the munchies. That's Dan
in South in South Carolina. This one's from Tom and Indiana.
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Did you hear that weed Man had a terrifying, terrifying
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This hour is from the swap meet. It did not disappoint.
We didn't have a lot of huge names traded. We
had a lot of trades. There was much like my
diet back in the day when I was going for
it and I I just ate everything. It was quantity
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over quality. So it is deadline day, a historic deadline
day for the volume of trades in Major League Baseball,
and we have all night to slice and dice and
go brick by brick and all that stuff. But let's
start with a normal target. The dirty, rotten scoundrels of baseball,
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the land of no morals. If you didn't see what
they did, maybe not on brand. The cheating Astros reacquired
disgraced infield. There Carlos Correa and a deal. It some
say is surprising, some say is surprising comes over from
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the Minnesota Twins. The Twins, by the way, announced after
the trade deadline they'll be joining the Pacific Coast League
for the rest of the season. But Carlos Correa, he
goes to Houston and the Astro well on, they sent
some minor league player back to Minnesota. Now Korea waived
his no trade clause in order to make that happen.
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He has also agreed to change positions as he goes
back to the Cheaters. He'll play third base, so he'll
be on the left side of the infield with the
guy that yousurped him at shortstop, Jeremy Panna for the Cheaters.
So let us discuss the question, what is your perspective
on Carlos Corea, the cheater going back to join the
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other cheaters in Houston. So I've got true crime, rubber made,
and four seasons, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make some movie theater buttered popcorn,
not just your normal buttered popcorn, but it's just a
little bit better. It's a little worse for you. It
fills up when you're to the movie theater, right, not
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that many people do anymore, but you go there and
it fills up your gut and your arteries. The Holy
all right. So a, this Carlos Carrea deal is just
dripping with irony capitalize right, the Twins. Now they're paying
thirty three million dollars to make Carlos Korea go away.
Think about that. I would love for someone to pay
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me thirty three million dollars to go away. I promise
you I will go away. You will never hear about
me again. You'll never hear me again, You'll never see
me again. But think about that Carlos Correa who signed
the biggest contract in Twins history, and a couple years
later they we got to get rid of this guy.
And on the other side, Korea chose to return to
the place where he cheated his way to a championship.
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It's like some kind of twisted redemption tour. So using
some patented overnight sports radio psycho babble, what this is.
After a minutes long deliberation, Korea signing off on the
note trade to go back to Houston is straight up
true crime behavior. If you ever watch those true crime shows,
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you've seen this. You've even if you haven't, you've heard
over the years the criminal mind. The way the criminal
mind works, the criminal always returns to the scene of
the crime. Enter Carlos Korea. Right, He's not just going
back to Houston because he liked the weather there. This
is textbook narcissist stuff, right, Korea, who must be emotionally aroused,
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I would imagine by the trash can, banging buzzer, wearing
World Series trophies, stealing franchise, And so he wants to
go back there and get some more validation there. He
needs reassurance Korea that all that cheating he was a
part of that it wasn't just okay, was just okay.
It was heroic. And this is a guy who has
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built his entire identity, is a big league ballplayer on
being a schmuck, an a hole, someone you cheer against,
and being part of the dirtiest team in baseball history,
the as one thousand and two, one thousand holes. So
it's his happy place. That's the line right the park,
the one place where no one boos him, there's no
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moral outrage. The whole fan base has embraced the trash
can mantra. Right, He'll go back in there like a
conquering hero. He might even be wearing a trash can, right,
hugs confetti. They might give him a special golden trash
can as he returns there. But he'll be back in
the warm embraced Korea of the franchise that he helped
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become a national laughingstock and embarrassment and the face of
cheating an American sport. Correa never really left mentally, he
did it, you know, probably spent the whole time in Minnesota.
Every time he saw trash Can, he was whispering sweet nothings, right,
just just kind of flirting with the trash can. So,
Korea's back in age town, and the Astros just welcomed
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home there for digital punk. He's back in town, right.
They deserve each other now page two on this as
we break it down. So why is the Carlos care
trade the ultimate head scratcher for the cheating Astros? So
the reason's kind of clear here if you follow this
story at all, if you pay any attention, and maybe
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you don't, maybe you don't, but if you do, you
know what I'm about to say. So the team in
Houston let Correa walk four years ago because hello, they
did not think he was going to age well, they
didn't think that the player would be able to live
up to the long term contract. They had somebody else younger.
They could have kept Korea and moved him to another
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position if they thought he would be all right. So
by bringing him back, the astros are admitting that they
were wrong to let him go. But here's here's the
shocking thing. They weren't wrong to let him go. He's cooked,
all right. Correa's cooked. It's like they're trying to revive
Blockbuster video. It's not coming back. And while he's listed
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at age thirty, he often plays Korea like he's fifty,
at least he did in Minnesota, and watching him run
it's like watching someone try to run through a sprint
in the cements. Kind of wet there and it's just
kind of messed up. He's in the bottom percentile according
to the NERD stats in barrel percentage. He's got no
range defensively, and I'm pretty sure you could plant corn
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in the gaps he leaves on defense. Thus they're going
to try to hide him at the hot corner, care
at third base. But what an emasculating move. What an
emasculating move. This isn't just about the analytics and all
that stuff. You had to remember. The astro said, we
don't think we can we can bring you back. We
don't think you're gonna live up to the contract we
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could give you. The Mets signed him to a deal
or came close backed out, the Giants agreed to a deal.
Both then saw the medical record and ran for the hills.
They said, you know what, we're good, Carlos, We're good here. Thanks,
but no thanks. And he goes to me Minnesota and sucks.
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And so he's not just declining this season, he's nose diving.
And now here come the a holes crawling back like
that x who who seems to be convinced that they
can fix him. Oh yeah, I can fix this guy.
Yeah yeah, what are they gonna dip him in the
holy water of a rubber made trash can somewhere in
the suburbs of Houston and boom, gonna be hitting like
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he was in twenty seventeen. Right, all you have to do,
Deck Torrea, get him the buzzer. If that doesn't work,
try a whistle, right, maybe a trash can lid instead
of a hat, right, full service. Hey. In fact, the
equipment guy when he gets back to Houston, Korea, the
equipment Guy's gonna say, hey, Carlos, you want your buzzer
and medium or large? I know you've gained a little way,
it's still a medium or do you need a large buzzer?
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So waste management right Houston style? And what do we
always say, what do we always say on the show?
We say, don't let a falling star fall on you.
Well guess what they not only did that, they traded
for a falling star, right, they went out and they
caught a falling star. So they're like, all right, we
want that, all right, Now we must go to the
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other part of this trade. We must go to the
other part of the trade. Everyone in baseball is like,
what are they doing when I say they we're going
to the Upper Midwest now the last word, and that
would be the other side of this transaction. Do you
have any advice to those Twins fans on how to
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deal with what some are saying is the single most
embarrassing day in baseball history for a franchise giving up
and that's your Minnesota Twins of twenty twenty five. So
do you have anything an advice for the Twins on
how to deal with an epic day of transactions as
they unloaded the big league roster at the trade deadline.
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So my advice would be, you know the cover I
think it's like a cover band for the four seasons. Right,
this is the fifth season, we'll call it. And this season,
and this is my advice to you in Minnesota is apathy.
It's apathy season. No more Minnesota and Ice. Don't even
bother getting mad. Don't get worked into a ladder. The
pole Ad family that owns the team, they obviously don't care.
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They're not building a winner. They're just clearing debt. And
it's just a line item on a spreadsheet. They're trying
to get rid of debt to sell the team. So
they're trimming the fat like a chef that's got that
big knife there and trying to trim away the fat.
And so they're trying to get the books, right as
I understand it, to sell the team and then they
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can buy another yacht with all the money. Do you
think they care about you the fan? You think the
Minnesota Twins care about you the fan? They showed you
they gave you the middle finger with these trays, right,
And so I got no skin in the game, but
I am sick of earing. Well. I mean, look at
the hall they got back. They're smart. They weren't gonna
win anyway. Look at all the minor league players. They
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got enough. Tommy, you're a maron. This was a competitive team. Now,
granted they were going in the wrong direction. But everyone's
a fringe playoff contender these days because they keep adding
wild card teams. And I've just not been raised that way.
I know a lot of you are losers and you've
been raised that way. But I was taught not to
just quit, not to give up on purpose. And that's
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exactly what I saw from the Minnesota Twins. Oh but
we got prospects. Oh that's great. Why don't you make
out with your prospects, right, wonderful. It's the currency of
the coward. Prospects. Oh, they're gonna be so good. It's
so funny to me how many people are just complete
morons when it comes to prospects. I give you an
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example team. I liked the Dodgers. A couple of years ago.
They had a guy named Trevor May who was a
top prospect. Oh, he's a great prospect. The guy sucks.
The Dodgers gave him to the Red Sox. He's terrible.
They had another top prospect a couple years back named
James Outman, who also blows by the way he's going
to the Twins congratulate, But he was a top prospect.
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Oh man, look at the prospect all you losers, you guys,
look at these prospect reports. You pull your pants down.
You're so excited. It's embarrassing, right, embarrassing. So I mean
they traded they had a decent to good bullpen. They
traded their bullpen, the entire bullpen, half your roster, and
you got And maybe that'll be good. I mean that
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maybe that guy will be good. I don't know. Give
me a break, right anyway, you do what you want.
My advice would be not to spend a dime and
make that stadium like it was COVID in Minnesota, beautiful ballpark,
but maybe like COVID was no one there. Go rent
a boat and enjoy Lake Minnetonka instead. But for the Twins,
I mean, my not one dime, all right, You don't
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go to the ballpark. You don't buy a hat, a bobblehead,
you don't even you don't comment on social media because
that means you care. Force them to win your trust
back because they just violated the bubble of trust. So
forced them to earn your trust back because they deserve it.
This is apathy season. That is my advice, pure cold
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blooded Minnesota winter weather grade apathy. Right, And you don't yell,
you don't scream, You just kind of walk away, because
it's all about the emotion, and the emotion means you're
still engaged. The emotion means that you still care. You
give a damn. Apathy means you're not a customer anymore.
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You don't care about their product. And if they're playing
in front of you, you're not gonna even look. You're
gonna turn your back and go the other way. They've
lost you. And that's the way you have to approach you.
You have to and that's what the Twins earned. Every
action has a reaction, and that should be the reaction
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and nothing you get, absolutely nothing. That would be my advice. Now,
is that gonna happen? Do I know? There's always the
fanboys no matter what, all we love the prospects. Oh,
I'm so excited. This is such a great you know,
there's always those losers. Got to hate those people. They're
always out there, right, Oh, this is going to be
great five years from now. It is really the ultimate
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hustle for a couple of reason and I'm not going
to rant about that. I will rant at some point
in the future about my belief that the Major League
Baseball pipeline is one of the all time great scams
ever put in the world of sports. So I'll do
that another day. I just will sum this up by
pointing out how absurd it is to sell five years
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from now? Right does any other business get away with that?
When they have a shareholders meeting an Apple, do they say, Hey,
these iPhones are going to absolutely stink for the next
four years, but in year five, I think we'll have
a good one, right, I think we'll be pretty good
there in year five. Like in the car business, when
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they're making automobiles, do the people at Toyota say, well,
you know, we don't really have any good and I
don't think we have any for the next couple of years.
But if you check back with us in five or
six years, I think that one of these cars that
were thinking about the prototypes, I think they might be
pretty good. But yet in sports you're able to get
away with it. It's like, why is that? Why are
they allowed to get away with that? I just don't
(16:18):
I don't understand that mindset. I was not raised that
way watching sports, But hey, the East throw and anyway,
if you would like to be part the balance of power.
I don't think the balance of power shifted with any
of these trades. There were a lot of trades. I
just like that we can tell who actually is trying
to win and who's not trying to win. And oh,
by the way, the Dodgers are on that we're not
(16:40):
trying to win. List my Dodgers. I mean, hey, I
thought was Fred Claire back as the GM there? My god,
I thought it was like the eighties take a nap
of the trade deadline. Holy crap.
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to the world of football and we will start out
just adjacent to Capitol Hill where all the lawmakers waste
our money. So we have a plot twist in the
contract stalemate in DC. If you have been following along,
or if not, maybe you've missed it. The star pass
(19:41):
catcher for Washington is not happy. He wants moneymount of money,
and a lot more moneymunt of money. Don't we all
take a number from the deli counter. So, if you
haven't heard the latest, we have learned now that the
commander's wide receiver, Terry McLaurin, is so frustrated with negotiation.
How frustrated it is, thanks for asking. He's so frustrated
(20:04):
that he is now requesting a trade and there has
been no movement, no movement. It's pond water in terms
of getting a new deal. So let us discuss the question,
how do you evaluate the Terry McLaren trade request from Washington?
How you evaluate the request of a trade by Terry McLaurin.
(20:26):
So I've got saber Ikea and mister potato head, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some Baba ganoosh is what we're
gonna make. So number wa, I said, number Yeah. Here's
(20:49):
my position on the Terry McLaurin trade request. This is
the textbook twenty twenty NFL Wide Receiver Handbook on display right.
They all read the same manual. They all follow the
same script. And you do a job like this. Now
there's no reason for you to pay attention this closely,
(21:10):
But I have nothing else to do. So it always
starts with the holdout, and then now you're in the
hold in. Now you're in the hold in because you
can't sit out more than a few days. At fifty
thousand dollars a day. It's like a hostage negotiation. Now now,
based on the economy in the NFL, this is a
ballplayer who in that world has been underpaid in that world.
(21:34):
Now in the real world, not underpaid, but in that
world underpaid. And he sat there and watched the other
receivers get their paid a whether players better than him,
like Justin Jefferson or AJ Brown or Christian Kirk have
reset the market, even Christian Kirk. So McLaurin is sitting
there saying, hey, what about me. I've been a good,
(21:54):
good scout here, I didn't do any wrong. Well, here's
the thing, though, it would appear based at this point
Washington does not care and they don't really want to
give him a new contract. Otherwise, spoiler alert, they would
have already given him a new contract. There's no reason
to drag this thing out. It's not Jerry Jones and
the Cowboys. So you know next, I'm sure we get
(22:16):
at some point here the emoji warfare. I call it
emoji warfare, the bio change, the retreat, the reposting of
stuff on social media. But it's not about the money.
Of course, we know it's about the money, but it's
about respect. You know, I need respect and I need
to feel valued. You don't value me, right. They want
(22:38):
the bag and they want the pat on the back.
So you not only need the bag, but you need
the pat on the back. And for what it's worth,
the commanders have already said that they are not going
to make any kind of a trade with this particular ballplayer.
They've already turned down some trades allegedly. But every man
has a price, every man and has the pressure. And
(23:01):
so if a contender loses a wide receiver, whether it
be in practice or a game between now and the
start of the regular season, and some random team calls
up and says, hey, I'll give you a first round
pick for mclauren. And they'll say, okay, how fast can
we get them to the airport? You know, and you'll
(23:22):
get the answer right there. So mclaurin's camp is obviously
they're trying to raise the temperature, and you want to
apply pressure here, and pressure, pressure, pressure, you leak the
trade request check that box. Okay, we've now requested the trade.
You get the fans all riled up there, you make
it uncomfortable for the team. It's all calculated, and you
(23:43):
get the saber. The saber rattling is what you get here.
It's all part of the game. What's in the game.
It's part of the game. And so call it a
bit of an audible, you call the audible. This is
the audible right here, and this is the escalation phase,
is what it is. McLaurin has been through quarterback hell,
playing with Stiff after Stiff, he carried that offense. And
(24:07):
now they finally have their alleged forever quarterback, Jayden Daniels.
We'll see what he does for an encore. And so
now he's like, okay, this is my last chance. I'm
crossing the rubicon here. Age wise, I got to force
their hand. He's making the noise, and the noise ends
up getting you paid, or it gets you traded, then
you get paid with another team. That's normally how it works,
all right. Now, Page two, So to Canton, Ohio we go.
(24:31):
Picturesque Canton, Ohio. The Chargers show me your lightning bolt.
They beat up the Lions in an exhibition lidlifter. Now,
much of the chatter in that game about two things.
We'll get to the new setup in the NFL, which
did not go very well, by the way, holy crap,
(24:52):
involving how they will measure the football. But that's a
different conversation for later on. We got a lot of
time to navigate. The quarterback of the Chargers was not
justin Herbert. It was the new backup, old forty nine
er trash and cowboy trash, Trey Lance, who had a
couple of touchdowns and looked like he actually knew what
(25:12):
he was doing. So everyone's yapping, Oh my god, Trey Lance. Oh,
the Chargers are gonna be able to trade him and
he can be a QB one for the New Orleans
Saints or somebody else. All right, So question, did quarterback
Trey Lance may make a statement? That's what Chris Collinsworth
said on the broadcast as Collinsworth had the knee pads on.
(25:33):
So did quarterback Trey Lance make a quote statement close quote,
as collins were said on the Hall of Fame TV broadcast.
So my answer is a n absolutely not, absolutely not.
I come on, you knew this kind of story was
gonna be here. Either Trey Lance went out and played terribly.
(25:55):
Is oh, I can't believe the Niners traded all those
draft picks to get Trey Lance blows or if he
played well, he's back. Baby, Trey Lance is back. So
let's not be ridiculous here. As a distant relative of
Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas who lives in Seattle, we
knew this was coming right. This was a I watched
a little bit of it. Don't tell anybody, Please, don't
(26:17):
tell anybody. I watched a little bit of at all.
Nothing else on it was that I watched some of
the Mariner game playing the Rangers. There's light cart and
Baseball Hall of Fame game. I watched it. I watched it.
But this was a glorified walkthrough in Canton, Ohio. And
there they were Mike ta Rico and Chris Collinsworth on
(26:37):
NBC giving Trey Lance a tongue bath, acting like he
was making his football bar mitzvah. This was his coming
out party here everyone. He was now a man. I
am My name is Trey Lance, and I'm now a
man as a quarterback, and I'm watching this and I'm like,
I know you have to grab onto something. I know
that's part of the job. Can everyone just take it
(27:00):
a deep breath here? This is the first exhibition game.
It's a total dummy run, right And oh, by the way,
he was playing against Yes, a lot of dummies. So
he's out there against guys we're trying to make a
name for himself. Most of them will be working for Brown,
but not the Cleveland Browns. They'll be working for Ups
in a few weeks, or they'll be pouring concrete on
(27:21):
the highway. And what can Brown do for you? How
about not get a sack on Trey Lance? Like, that's
not rewrite history here. There is a reason that Trey
Lance is in the position he's in. He was the
number three overall pick from twenty twenty one, and here
we are years later. The forty nine ers gave a
(27:43):
pick after pick for his rights. They backed the Brinks
truck up to Miami. They dumped all those draft picks out.
By the way, that Dolphins haven't won anything with those
draft picks, but they traded all those draft picks away
in exchange for a guy who is now basically chased
Daniel without the high football IQ but let's not forget
(28:03):
that he got leap fraud, leap frog Trey Lance by
mister irrelevant brock Purty, a guy taking last in the draft,
usurped the number three pick in the draft, and San
Francisco just gave brock Purdy, who Terry and England would
agree as just mediocre, but gave him one hundred and
eighty two million. Garon teed. Meanwhile, you juxtapose that with
(28:27):
Trey Lance, who's now on his third team. I believe
he's still trying to figure out how to tie his
cleats without help. So, but he's got all the tools.
He's got the arm talent, he's got the analyticism, he's
got the size you look for at the quarterback position.
And so did the legend, the infamous JaMarcus Russell back
(28:49):
in the day. He had all that stuff too. So
you need more. I know it sucks, but you need
more than just having a nice toolbox. You need more
than that. You actually have to know how to use.
Said to. So, I look at Trey Lance as a
guy out there who's got two left thumbs and he's
trying to assemble a piece of furniture that he bought
at Ikea, and he's also eating those meatballs at the
(29:12):
same time. So forget the whole change of scenery. All
that we're gonna change the narrative, nonsense. You can make
no declaration. The only thing Trey Lance could have done
is hurt himself if he'd gone out and played bad
and rode the vomit common Now, the fact that he
played well, had a couple of touchdowns and all that,
that's fine, But you don't get credit. You don't and
(29:36):
it doesn't matter that these exhibition games. Trey Lance, until
proven otherwise, has a full time residency in the boondocks
of Bustville. Noaying, it's on Google Maps. If you just
go to Google Maps, you can type in Bustville and
he lives right there. So until I see it against real,
(29:57):
legitimate NFL teams that are scheming this, stop him and
number ones and number twos in a game that has
some value. Please, I don't need the preseason propaganda. I
don't need the exhibition propaganda. And I'm just gonna do
every monologue, goofing on all the preseason propaganda. That's just
gonna be my life's work for the next month. So
(30:18):
buckle up. Buccaroo. All right, now, final point speaking of that,
we go now to Indianapolis, a basketball state, the Hoosier State.
They have a football team, not a good one. And
there are whispers in this news cycle that say the
Colts quote won't consider quote won't consider moving on from
(30:41):
in battle the quarterback Anthony Richardson this season, yay or
nay on? That whisper yay or nay on the Colts
not even considering moving on from Anthony Richardson. So I'm
gonna give this one side eye, which is a that's
a nay. Right now? They have to say this though,
(31:06):
you think that Shane Steichen and the GM there Chris Ballard,
are going to sit there and stand at the dayis
at the podium there in now we're in August and say, yeah,
we might be thinking about replacing the guy that we
drafted in the top five a couple of years ago.
We think we might no shot, right. The better question,
(31:27):
the better question is who would be dumb enough to
trade for this guy. You'd need a staff that is
involved in NASA, like those NASA engineers, the smartest people
in the room to redesign your offense. And you'd also
need some kind of trauma surgeon on speed Dobb. Richardson's
(31:50):
played fifteen games, and in about half of those fifteen games,
so seven and a half of the fifteen games, Anthony
richard Sin's body has flown apart like he's mister potato
Head in those games. Now, now Indy as a franchise,
they love the idea of him, and they love the
(32:11):
idea that he's going to turn out to be good,
just takes time, gotta have patience, all that stuff. They
like that idea more than reality because he's another guy.
We talked about Trey Lance earlier in this monologue, but
Anthony Richardson also the prototype quarterback, another guy that's got
all the tools but no toolbox and all that. And
in this case, it's the NFL's version of buying a
(32:33):
Porsche and then realizing you can't drive stick shift, Like
that's the move now. Now, Richardson is built like an
action figure and he reads defense like he's trying to
translate a menu at a restaurant in Paris, and he
doesn't speak French. And it's one of those things. He's
(32:54):
been so bad since he got to the Colts. People
talk about, well, what kind of soap do you use
when you you know, an Irish spring person, what kind
of But he's he's not using that. In fact, when
he goes into the locker room and then leaves for
the day, they have to fumigate the locker room with Ortho,
bed bug, flea and tick killer, not only for Anthony Richardson,
(33:17):
but also Daniel Jones who's in there. And so again
you combine the fact that he can't play with the
fact that when he does play, he has the durability,
Richardson of a paper straw. Is there anything that is
more annoying than trying to drink a beverage with a
paper straw and you know you're on the clock. You
know you only have anywhere from five to ten minutes
(33:39):
before that fragile paper straw collapses and then you're done.
You cannot use that straw to drink whatever you're drinking. So,
if you're the Colts, if you're the Colts and you're
really married, I don't buy this report. But if let's
use the Mallard multiverse, and in the Mallard multiverse, you
(33:59):
are You're in it, right, You're in it. And also
so you're married to this guy, then you better be
prepared for a long, disappointing marriage with a lot of
therapy bills, and not a therapy, but physical therapy also.
So the chatter should be how long until they start
(34:19):
cheating on him with next year's quarterback draft class? If
you know what I mean.
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Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that? To the
third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
The other day, Brown's owner Jimmy Haslam dismissed any notion
that the team would tank for arch manning Ben. Which
teams do you think are most likely to go into
tank mode this season?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
All right, so first of all, you never admit the tank.
You do the tank, but you do not admit the tank.
So even if the Brown and they have tanked before,
you can't admit it. So there's no way Haslm's going
to go on the record say yes, we are trying
to take but the obvious answer the headless Saints of
the Bayou, the New Orleans Saints, who don't have a quarterback,
have no coach, They suck that's the team, and you
(35:13):
know the famous Manning back in the day who played there.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
Next, it was reported recently that the Warriors will quote
remain in the mix should Lebron James want to finish
out his career somewhere other than La Ben, could you
see Lebron teaming up with Steph No.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Lebron clearly wants to play for the Clippers. He's sending
out Clipper photos on social media. Justin sent me this.
I guess he's on there promoting the Clipper brand. So
I don't have got the Warriors. If he goes anywhere,
you go back to Cleveland, I only he's going or Dallas,
but he's not going to the Warriors, so I don't
see that happening. Next.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Speaking of Dallas, the Mavericks hired a new team president,
and he said that his number one priority will be
fan outreach to heal the fans. Ben, can anything other
than a championship make up for the Luca trade?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Oh, well, you gotta they gotta fire fire Nico Harrison.
You gotta get rid of Niko Harrison. Number one. Championship
would be nice, but you gotta get rid of Nico
Harrison because as long as Nico's there, there's always the threat.
Whoever the best player on the Mavericks is at any
moment could be traded. It's just an unsustainable situation. But uh,
(36:23):
that is a that is a hot mess. And my god,
all right there it is Mallard of the third degree.
How did we do pass the editions? Ah? One at
the buzzer, one at the buzzer. Wow.
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Blame week too.
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It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Oh that is Big Man's lane jokes. Do we have
the weed Man in the house in the hissy there
in Miami? Hello weed Man?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah, I'm here there.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I love you? All right? How's life we been? Everything? Okay?
With you? You getting out? You're putting your feet on the
grass a little bit.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Damn good.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
You don't leave your house at all.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Go out tires beauty culoud? Now okay, all right, good,
all right? So these are actual jokes by well yes,
where you live there. Yeah, and you're not You're not
living on Lincoln Road anymore? Correct? Yeah, yeah, you're not
getting arrested every other week. No, thank god, I got it.
(37:42):
All right, Well let's have some fun. Why not? Here
we go, and if you want to send jokes in
for a future episode, send them care of Benmathers Show
at gmail dot com. Make sure to put joke in
the headline. That way I can get through all of
the spam emails Blind Scott sends me and find your jokes.
Anyway we go? Why did Ozzy Osbourne play baseball? Or
(38:04):
why didn't? Why didn't Ozzy Osbourne play baseball? Why? Well,
nobody would give him bad? That's from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota?
How isn't home? One from Meek? How bad is it is?
The forest fire? The smoke from that forest fire from
Manitoba entering the US? Wow? How bad? It's so bad
(38:29):
that everyone's took us in Minnesota? Smells like Canadian bacon?
All right? That's from Eke again. Here's one from Noah
in Austin. What do Parallel Lines and Blind Scott's next
girlfriend have in common? What they'll never meet? Why did?
(38:57):
Why did the or not? Why did did you here?
Did you hear the Malard militia had a bagel flavored
a bagel flavored band at Panera? A bagel flavor was
banned by the Malad militia at Panera? No, I didn't
hear that. Yeah, apparently no one can stand the poppy.
They can't stand it. That's Joe. What would your poppy
(39:21):
that was Joe and Virginia Beach? What would your poppy
impersonation be? Weed man?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Fine day?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
All right? What do the angels and keg drinking Steve's
nightly blood alcohol level have in common?
Speaker 4 (39:39):
What?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
They're both heading the five hundred? They're both heading the
five hundred? Eric? Eric in Kansas? This one from Tony
in the Bay Area. Did you hear that David Vass
was traded for a bag of crap and some knee pads? No? Yeah,
they called it an even trade. That's what they called it.
There Big Bend's lame jokes a week. What's the difference
(40:06):
between Blind Scott and Marcel from Brooklyn?
Speaker 4 (40:10):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Well, actually nothing. They're both terrible callers. That's Mike the Leprechaun.
What did Blind Scott say when someone told them the
Patriots will win the Super Bowl next year. What he said,
I can't see that happening. That's Eric in Kansas. Well
some sad news. Did you hear that Shane and the
(40:33):
Moine walk into a field of dead snowmen? No, yeah,
apparently just turned out to be a huge carrot field.
But same thing, Hanna, Eric, that was? That was from
Noah Red Noah in Austin big Ben's Lame Jokes of
the Week. These are actual jokes from actual listeners. Let's
see here. What kind of sauce does Eminem get at
(40:54):
Taco Bell?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
What kind?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Eight eight mile? He likes? Eight miles? That's the very funny.
Buttermilk cavo? What talent show would Holler and James dominate in?
What the malor Poe snooze? Uh? He said? Buttermilk tavo again?
(41:22):
Now we get to the good stuff. Why doesn't weed
Man have a problem getting to sleep when he's in jail?
Why because he spent a lifetime sleeping behind bars. That's
a Serf Todd, very funny man, Server Todd the comedian.
Hopefully Server Todd will be able to make the Mallard
Meet and Greek in Vegas. Weed Man, you're invited We're
(41:44):
gonna be in Vegas August twenty third week man, make
sure show up. But what did he? What did weed
Man's son say when weed Man told him someday you'll
have a son of your own? What he said? So
will you? That's Eric Kansas? All right? How is? How is?
(42:04):
How is weed Man? Hippie sex life? It comes and
goes in spurts. That's a Surfer Todd topic, Comedian weed Man.
Have you ever seen a nurse bird?
Speaker 4 (42:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Me, neither, but Angry Bill sees nurse birds daily. That's Tony. Now,
how do you know? You're at weed Man's birthday party?
There's no food, but everyone has the munchies. That's Dan
in South in South Carolina. This one's from Tom and Indiana.
(42:48):
Did you hear that weed Man had a terrifying, terrifying
experience with the Obama phone the other day?
Speaker 2 (42:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
What happened? Yeah, apparrel, you actually punched up expresspros dot
com and they tried to give you a job and
you freaked out and you Tom Tom from Indiana, I
heard you weed Man found stir fry all over your bed? Wow? Really? Yeah?
(43:17):
Apparently you were sleep walking, is what you were doing.
You were sleep walking from Buttermilk, Chavo and last One
George and Uvalde, Texas. What do weed Man, hippie and
Fox Sports radio producer lead A Lap have in common
with The Simpsons? What they all have itchy and scratchy parts.
(43:41):
Thank you, weed Man,
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