August 13, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Shohei Ohtani's latest legal issue as he is accused of using his celebrity status to force partners out of a $240m realty deal, Dodgers SS Mookie Betts saying his disappointing season will be a blemish on his career, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our num bird two, our number two. And with
the latest legal drama, is show hey Otani of the
Doyers clueless or ruthless?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Also, speaking of the Dodgers, shortstop Mookie Betts said his
disappointing season will be a blemish on his career which
may land him in the Hall of Fame one day.
How does that one hit you? And Peter Alonzo has
broken the Mets franchise home run record, passing Darryl Strawberry
with career home run number two fifty three. Has Alonzo,
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though past Strawberry in the hearts and minds of the
Mets fan. We'll talk about all that. And you want
to make sure to listen to the B block as
may or may not have become unhinged on the current
state of the Doyers, who lost again last night to
the Angels.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That's the block.
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We'll get to all that right now here. It is
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is from baseball. We will address in the B block
the B for bad B for bad Dodgers on the field.
But another day, another scandal. Now, this story blew up.
We had mentioned this in a previous episode of the show,
and it took a life of its own in the
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hours since we talked about it, and we just tossed
it out here. It is it's like a boomerang, it's
come back again. So if you don't know where I'm
going with this, Shohei Otani and his agent, Nez Batlello
probably butchering the name. But he has been sued. The
agent and Otani, they've both been sued. That's what you
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need to know about this. And essentially the argument is
that they screwed over a big real estate company, couple
of big muckety MUCKs in the real estate world in Hawaii,
costing these people hundreds of millions of dollars. The lawsuit
filed in the Circuit Court of Hawaii where everyone wears
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Hawaiian shirts. This happened actually last week, but the story
just came out in the last couple of days, and
as we've said, it's bounced all over the echo chamber here.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
In the actual legal documents, the plaintiffs claim that Otani
and his agent are saboteurs. They sabotaged a two hundred
and forty million dollar real estate venture and they had
all entered into this and ix nay on the DLA,
according to the lawsuit, and they're pointing the finger at
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the Dodger star who was supposed to endorse and promote
this real estate project which was actually located on the
Big Island. That's the one that not many people go to,
the Big Island. The sinse deleted website, which at one
point was booming boom it for the project said that
Otani would buy a home in this part of Hawaii
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and the Big Island and act as a quote celebrities
spokesperson and build a baseball workout facilities on the Big Island,
clearly trying to get some of that money from Japan
to invest in the Big Island of Hawaii. You don't
have to be a business mogul to know what this
is all about. So let us discuss the question. You
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take a couple of steps back and you look at
what has happened with Otani the last couple of years
as he's joined the Dodgers, and you have to ask
the question with the latest legal issue, is show hal Tani.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Clueless or is he ruthless? All right, those are the
only options.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Clueless is over here and ruthless is over here, So
which one is it? So my observations, I've got teflon
construction site and Donkey Kong and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to give
you billable hours, which Otani is spending a lot of
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money on billable hours.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So number why that number? Why?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Assuming the position it's either or one or the other,
the only two options are Otani is clueless or he's ruthless.
Those are the only options. This is like that old aloha.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Means hello and.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Goodbye thing, except this version of aloha means good bye
to your money. I buy aloha to your money. And imagine,
if you will, buying this group that had all this land,
this ocean front property in the Big Island there and
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then finding out that there was a surprise lava flow.
Now this lava flow was not from an actual volcano
on the Big Island. It was from Shoeotani and all that.
So it kind of sounds like that's what's happening. But
the answer the question, the arrow on this one is
pointing towards Otani as ruthless. Right, There's a lot going on,
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like we are not getting the full story here. There's
a lot of people that are writing the coattails of
sho Haotani.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
We're not getting what's really going on.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
There's a lot of people that are toe lickers, as
I like to call them, that are the beneficiaries of
the star power of Otani. But I'm just on the sidelines.
I'm just observing what's been going on the last couple
of years. Just looking at what's been going on. This
is another star that's got a lot of stuff going on.
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There's a lot of issues here and it's always been
that way. Like Michael Jordan was addicted to gambling. There
were some legendary stories that came out after Jordan played
for the Chicago Bulls about some of his dalliances with
the ladies. Babe Ruth was a legendary womanizer with the Yankees.
Barry Bonds was a complete douche and also like the Peds,
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he blew himself up. Looked like a parade in the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. There thanks Thanksgiving Parade with Macy's,
and they all played and they had their careers and
all that. But everyone's got some dirt on them. Andy's
got some dirt on them. And I also believe everyone's
got multiple personality. No one's Mother Teresa all the time,
and no one's the devil all the time. Right, you're
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somewhere in the middle and the guy that you see
hitting bombs and he had another home run. Dodgers suck,
so they lost to the pathetic Angels again, embarrassing. These
guys don't even care. More on that in a minute,
But it was about Autoni. So he had a home
run late Dodge. Of course, Bullpen came in and vomited
all over the mound and gave the game to.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
The Angels and extra innings.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So Otani hits home run and you think he's reading
the fine print. So the argument is gonna be, well,
Tani's a big star and his agent took care of this,
and you think he's reading real estate contracts on Hawaiian
real estate. Come on, you think he's sitting there reading
the zoning laws for the big island of Hawaii. Of
course not please, right, So then they'll they'll argue he's
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just clueless. He's just a dumb dumb is what they're
going to say. But you combine everything together and you
see patternicity. You see the lawsuit that took place, and
you can sue anyone for anything. There's also a gambling
scandal that was taking place while he was with the Angels,
and there's a buddy of his that's in jail for
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a few years there, who took the hit on that?
And so Otani is looking like the teflon don.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
In all this.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And the bigger point, and the point I'm trying to
get at, is he is so massive in that industry.
He's too big to fail. That Otani is the single
most important player in Major League Baseball in at least
fifty years, likely a lot longer than that. And you're
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not letting a real estate deal doing Otani. You're not
letting a gambling scandal. I don't care if he's betting
seventeen parlays in the dugout. They're not gonna have Otani
go down for that. And so this will end up,
as I look into my crystal ball, it will end
up as a misunderstanding is a misunderstanding. There'll be some
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kind of charity donation, and you'll see some commercials on
Major League Baseball broadcast. They'll call him a show he
or a loja show a and that they'll do that
whole thing. I learned one of my professors years ago.
There was a professor named Chris Carter. He may or
may not have played for the Minnesota Vikings, and he
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taught me, Chris Carter taught me, you gotta have a
fall guy, gotta have a fall guy.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So guess what. The fall guy.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Originally was Otani's personal assistant, but he's translator guy. But
he's in jail so she can't use him again. So
let's see who's the fall guy gonna be. Let's do
some inventory. We'll look around. Who's the fall guy, and
let's see reveal answers, reveal answers. The fall guy here
is going to be anyone other than Otani, anyone and
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everyone other than Otani. So will anything come of this?
I think I've made my point. I don't need to
flog the dead horse here. Not a damn thing will
come out of this. Otani will just smile and nod
his head and then go out and.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Hit fifty home runs. He's got forty three.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Home runs now, so hit fifty and the lawsuit will
go abra cadabra and will vanish like a my tie
at a traditional Hawaiian luau. Just gone see you later,
all right now, staying with the Dodgers, and we're gonna
get to the play on the field a minute. I
saw some other comments here. That got my attention in
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recent days, and I wanted to bring them up. The
Dodgers have a shortstop, not a good one. You want
a two forty shortstop that sucks. Mookie Bets is your guy.
So Moogie Bets, who's been an abject failure for the
Los Angeles Dodgers. But in the LA media they won't
call him out on that. Guys like David Vasse will
kiss his ass. So Mookie Bets very disappointing here in
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twenty twenty five, and he said of this season he
was concerned about the Hall of Fame. He said, once
again in the Hall of Fame one day and this
will be a blemish on his Hall of Fame resume.
That was one of the quotes that Mookie Bets had recently.
How does that one hit you? All?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Right? So, Moki spoiler alert. If you're talking.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
About the Hall of Fame right now, you have another
gazillion years on your Dodger contract, right and it's like
you're already shopping for a retirement condo in Boca and
you still got a job to do. Like the Hall
of Fame is last I heard Lifetime Achievement Award, and
that's for when you're sipping lemonade in the rocking chair
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and you're sixty five years old and you're telling your grandkids,
back in my day, I went six for six at
Coors Field one day.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Right now, you are in the middle of the Big
Blue Marathon and you are one of these central reasons
your team sucks. Mookie bets congratulations, and you're worrying about
the ribbon. You're running the marathon and you're just beginning
the marathon and you're worried about the finish line ribbon.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I wonder what color it is. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You still have thirteen point one miles to go. You're
halfway home, and let's I check. Baseball's not social media.
Nobody really cares if you look good in the snapshot.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And it's think of it like a construction site. You
build your legacy brick by brick, right, brick by brick,
day by day, inning by inning, and you can also
tear apart your legacy at the same time. So you're
out there, Mookie, you're stressing because you're on the construction site.
You're worried about the blueprints while the cement truck hasn't
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even parked yet. Your priorities are a little off on this,
and you know, it's like you're acting like a pilot
flying around. And the concern is while the in flight
movie has not started playing, it's supposed to play, but
yet you're in the cockpit and the plane losing altitude.
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That's what's going on. The Dodger plane is losing altitude
right now, and you're worried about what the in flight
movie is and when it's gonna be played during the flight,
and so betts By, any way, you slice.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It is terrible. Listen, well, is he gonna be terrible forever?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Right, I'm doing a show right now. Today. He sucks.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He's horrible, right, the worst season of his career, going
back to his days in Boston and the lowest ops
of his career. He's a two forty hitting shortstop who
will often make mistakes on routine plays, and one hundred
points lower than his previous career low. So that's not
even just a little bit worse. That's like, that's like
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falling into the Grand Canyon. Is how bad that is?
And you've got to grind through the bad years like that.
Everyone's gonna be'd be great, and you're judged on the
Hall of Fame by your whole career and you don't
worry about it. And Willie Mays had bad years and
Ricky Henderson had some very mid years and they still
got their little play black and sleepy Cooperstown. They got
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that going for them. And you're worried about like a smudge,
Mookie Batcher, You're like, why a little smudge in my
suit here? And you're not even at the banquet, Like
you're not even there yet, So who cares? All? Right?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Final point? We go to New York City, the Big Apple.
A lot of chattering baseball because Pete Alonso the Polar Bear,
ended up breaking the New York Metropolitans franchise home run record.
As he said see a later straw and zoom past
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Darryl Strawberry with career home run number two fifty three.
So Pete Alonzo has passed Darryl Strawberry by in the
Mets record book. However, has Pete Alonzo also passed Darryl
Strawberry by in the hearts minds of the met Fan?
(16:00):
Answer this like I'm playing Wheel of Fortune. I'm gonna
answer this like I'm playing Wheel of Fortune, so I'd
like an N, and can I buy a vowel? I
would like to buy an oh?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So I want an N. I want to buy a vowel.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I'd like to have an O and spariler alert put
those together, slap those together.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And that's what was that? Spell No? That spells It
spells no. That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
No is what it'sst So Peter Alonzo is the Mets masher,
the monster Mets masher right now, He's at the top
of the record book. And isn't that special? Isn't that cute?
That's adorable, Peter Alonzo, mister home run derby guy, Pete Alonzo. However, however,
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you do a side by side comparsion, you're talking about
Darryl Strawberry. Darrel Strawberry was not a great postseason player.
He hit one of the big home runs for the Mets,
if you remember, if you're old enough or you went
back and watch the eighty six playoffs.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But this is not a moment where you're passing the torch.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
This is not Auberry symbolically passing the mantle to Peter Alonzo.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's just not.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And it's like saying, well, broccoli is going to replace
donuts as a food that sells at the county Fair.
We're going to sell more broccoli this year than donuts.
Broccoli will be more popular. Well, no, obviously not. They're
not even the same food group for people to go
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to the fair. And Peter Alonzo's broccoli, obviously, and strawberry
is a nice donut. And Daryl was not just a
guy hitting those home runs back, you know, a million
years ago. Forty ye, I can't believe it. Forty years
almost has been. But he well just hitting the home run.
Think about strawberry, and I'm not he sucked it with
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the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It was embarrassing. He was doing more coke than hitting
the baseball when he was with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But he was the straw Darrow Strawberry that stirred the
big apple cocktail.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I mean, he was it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And you know he did everything, hit home runs, he'd
throw guys out, He you know, snorted cocaine off of
Hooker's took us the whole thing, playing for those eighty
eighty nineteen eighties Mets.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And uh, smooth swing, I just smooth.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Elegant watching Strawberry swing the bat and brought the drama tablet.
Him and Dwight Gooden. We're always in the tableaus, back
before social media. So and it's just the eighty six Mets.
They were parabolic, the eighty six Mets. Here and you
think about wild Bill Hitcock with a bat in his hands,
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a mythical character there and a poker chip in the
other hand. And you got Daryl Strawberry. He was like
Donkey Kong, launching barrels for the for the Mets, and
he got the lines. And listen, Pete Scott as many
home runs as Strawberry. You know, he's a home run
king for the Mets right now and all that stuff.
I just look at him, like a lot of empty calories.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Is that fair? I think that's fair. There's a lot
of empty calories. Pet Alonso hitting home runs and.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
He's like eating a big supersized box of Twinkies, Like,
all right, you ate the twinkies. That's good, it tastes good.
You're feeling pretty good at the moment you're eating them.
And then when you take some time and they settle
into your stomach and you're sitting there and you're wondering, man,
what did I eat, What did I do?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
What is that the Mets have not reached the peak
of the mountains since nineteen eighty six the last that
eighty sixteen, the last time they went. Pete Alonzo was
born in nineteen ninety four, eight years after they had
their last championship as the Mets. And is he a
talented guy? Yes, of course, pet A Lonzo is a
talented player. And it's cool that he did a lot
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of the home run derby's and all that stuff, where
a lot of these other a lot of these other
dingle Berries would not do it because they're are bosses
and Alonso would be in it, and that's great.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And has he hit some home runs in the playoffs? Sure?
Does he light up the room in the playoffs? Does he?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Does he have the fear factor ped A lions on
the pluff? No, not really, It's more like a lava lamp,
which does light up. There's a little bit of glow there. Yeah, nothing,
nothing magical. And so Strawberry, the point of all this,
he's still the king and still the guy that is
in Mets, the mythological part of the Mets. You know,
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he's the guy that rides in on the white Horse, Darol, Strawberry,
and Pete. Alonzo's kind of the guy that shows up
to the Mets barbecue, the franchise barbecue. You got strawberry
and a white horse. And then Alonzo comes in there
and he's got a paper bag and he's got a
metal tin of potato salad and he says, hey, guys,
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I brought the potato salad. You know who wants potato salad.
Nobody likes potatoes, I remember it. Anyone likes potato souds disgusting. Anyway,
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Second year in a row. We want to make this
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It's gonna be a little later than last year. August
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Meet and greet Vegas Saturday, August twenty third. Would love
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I'll be there and we'll be hanging out bonding.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Should we do a theme? No, back to it all, right,
back to it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
We began here with the latest on the show. Haltani
real estate scandal. The real estate scandal, not to be
confused with the gambling scandal that was last year. It's
so last year. This is the real estate scandal. We
should play the game. How was doing local.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Radio in La? I'd be like a gambling.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
What's the next scandal? Otani's going to be involved in
what will be the next show? Heltan he's got real
estate lawsuit, he's got gambling.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Happy ending massage.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh that's a good one, right, Oltani caught at a
massage parlor somewhere like Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Dog fights? Oh that's Michael Vick. I don't know, do
he did? He has a dog, So just imagine. Is
dog fighting popular in Japan? I've never been. I don't know.
I assume not anyway. All right, well there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Joe writes in from Minnesota, says major League Baseball for Texotani.
No matter what, I don't trust him. I haven't since
the interpreter scandal. She says, what else? Do we have
a page down here? See Texas brain says, eat some
magic mushrooms and a lava lamp is more than special
Ben Okay, Well, yeah, you could say about anything if
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you're eating magic mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Dude, I mean, you know he's not a lava lamp.
It to be anything at all.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
H Jay Scoop says, Ben, with all due respect, keep
potato salad's name out of your f and mouth. Now
I hate potato salad, and no part of potato salad
sounds good.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I don't want any part of it. No, no, no
late night drug techy name out shaw ef in mout.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Late nidrugtest, it says. Not sure anyone should buy real
estate in Hawaii. You could lose it to a tsunami
or a volcano. Not a safe property purchase.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
He says.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Also, don't take advice from Tom Looney, I think is
what he's getting out here in La No. Hawaii is beautiful,
and the way I look at it, there could be
bad things that happen anywhere. Like you live in the South,
there's hurricanes. You live in the Midwest, there's tornadoes. You
live on the West Coast, there's earthquakes. You live in Hawaii. Yeah,
there might be a tsunami or something like that, or
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big storia, big storm whatever. You live in the Northeast,
there was hurricanes come up to the Northeast every once
in a while.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So anywhere you live, there's.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Nowhere completely safe. But you can't live scared. You can't
be like, oh, I can't. I shouldn't do this chim
with the q's right since it says eight plus on.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The Mala molologue. I remember when my.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Four year old nephew was given potato salad. He didn't
want to try it. His mom told him it's made
from potatoes, just like French fries are. He picked up
a spoonful and said, why would anyone.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Do this to a potato? Yeah, it is me. It
is mutilation of the.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Potato is what it is, the potato salad, and I
will not stand for it. Problem.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The difference is it's covered in mayonnaise. It's wet, you know,
like it's not as starchy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Just not the I don't like the texture. I don't
I don't want anythin that's disgusting. So I would like
to now address the Komodo dragon in the room, the
Blue Man Group, the La Dodgers, the Doyers. Now one
of the things that bothers me. There's a lot of
things that bother me. I'm a talk shows, so a
lot of things bother me. But in terms of the
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Dodgers universe, here there is this arrogance that the Dodgers have,
and I know they won't the World Series and all that,
but it just drives me bonkers how good this team
could be, how good this team should be, and how
much they're none of those things right, They're just a
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bad baseball team. And I have gone by the mantra
that you are what your record says you're. I didn't
come up with that, and Bill Parcells came up with that.
But you are with your records. It doesn't matter what
people wrote about you on the internet before the baseball
season and everyone gave you a shoulder rub and a
bubble bath because you got all the good players in
the offseason.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh man, we you know in the World's Three. It's
not about that. Uh, it's about what you actually do.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And if you go back to July fourth, fireworks in
the air everywhere July fourth. The Los Angeles Dodgers have
played thirty two games since July fourth, and they have
only won twelve of them. They're twelve and twenty. Now
that's bad. How bad? Is it so bad? That the
Atlanta Braves, the Colorado Rockies, the Washington Nationals, and the
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Tampa Bay Rays are the only teams that have a
worse record since July fourth.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Then the Dodgers. That's it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
That's the big board, not unless Sarian England, that's the
big board.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So why are the Dodgers here? They're here because.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Everything Andrew Friedman touched in the offseason ended up on
the injury list.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Or that we just call the DL or whatever it's
got even know it's called. Now he woke.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
They changed everything. But they're all hurt. Everyone's hurt, everyone
is hurt. My god, absolutely pathetic. But then you go
down point by point the greatest depth in the history
of baseball. The Dodgers here. They went out and signed
that bro I ain't playing that I get mine brow
Blake Snell, all right, Blake Snell, he got paid two time.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Saw you on winner.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Blake Snell, who has been squirreled in the basement of
the injury room at Dodgers Stadium. Malfeasance, Tyler Glass. Now
has there ever been a more appropriate name starting pitcher
than Glass?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Now?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
The man is made out of glass. Even Yoshinobu Yamamoto
has not been as good as he was advertised to be.
And no team, no team in baseball, has mastered Tommy
John surgery more than the Dodgers. All right, then you
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go through the lineup, you've got chronic underachieving. Freddie Freeman
has been spotty, Mookie Betts has been stealing money.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
And then you go down.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Through the bullpen, which is just god awful. They suck
any way you slice the bullpen. Tanner Scott, holy crap,
is he you talk? Four year, seventy two million dollar contract.
He leads baseball and blown saves the Dodgers. They they
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had another blown save in the game against the Angels
a few hours ago. Go the Dodgers have one of
the I don't think it's the highest, but it's like
right near the top, and blown saves right near the top,
and blown saves and the bullpen is in the bottom
half of baseball. They are a fundamentally stupid baseball team.
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That's Dave Roberts. They're terrible defensively. If you really want
to get on base against the Dodgers, you hit the
ball to the left side.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
If you watch the.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Dodgers, Max Munsey is the worst defensive third baseman, has
the lowest fueling percentage among all qualified third basemen since
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's been three years.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Mookie Betts not only does he not hit, he makes
up for that by being a shoddy defensive player, though
the numbers don't say he's shot.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
He watched the games. Watch the games.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
And then here's another Andrew Friedman pick up, Michael Conforto,
who must have photos. Conforto must have photos of Andrew
Friedman and Dave Roberts in a compromising position. Conforto is
Italian for can't hit the baseball? My god, is he horrible?
And why is he always in every time I turn
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on Gain, Oh, there's duo, Michael Conforto.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Why he only signed a one year contract.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I don't care that he hit a bunch of home
runs for the New York Mets in twenty eighteen. It's
twenty twenty five right now, and Conforto is horrifically bad.
He's hitting under two hundred. Well, you're a boomer. Betting
average doesn't matter. Okay, how about the fact that he's
played in over one hundred games, he's got nine home
runs and he's a power guy.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Conforto sucks terrible. You go down.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I mean, I can keep going here. And you don't
want to hear me rant about this. I mean, this
is a brutal. They're fundamentally poor defensively, they have a
bad bullpen. They're a bad situational hitting team. What is
Dave Roberts doing? What? Seriously, they just so good. They
just show up by we'll play ball there, and they
don't care. That's the other thing, like they just they've
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got that I use the word I used the other day, Hubris,
they've got that Dodger arrogance. You know that lo de
da auted. Oh, we'll be fine, we'll be fine. And
even if they are fine, I don't care. I don't
want to hear it. I don't like the smarmy arrogance.
I can't stand it. I can't uh and I mean
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you go just all the way down the roster. They
didn't do anything to improve the team at the trade deadline.
They fell on one of the oldest crutches, the Dodgers. Well,
we are going to be fine because we've got guys
coming back from the injured list.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That is what teams that are not trying to win
that aren't all in. The Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I'm not saying they're not all in. They spent a
ton of money in the off season. Most of us
deferred but that was a vote of no conference. Despite
what the front office of the Dodgers has said that hey,
we're we're gonna be fine, the fact that they didn't
go out and fortify the big league roster in any
meaningful way tells you they know internally this is not
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a championship team.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And it's not. It's not a championship team.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
The expectations were insane, with all the star power and
all that. A team that went for it, the Podres,
the San Diego Padres, who tore down half the roster
and the middle of season and now they've caught you
in the standings. And another thing, the organizational philosophy. I
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could do two hours on this three I could do
a whole show. The other thing about that drives me
nuts about the Dodgers is their philosophy is not go
above and beyond the call of duty.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Do the bare minimum, do the bear ef in minimum.
That's the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The Soreta's rolling over in his grid, that's the Dodgers,
the modern Dodgers. Look at the starting pitching the Dodgers.
I don't know if the numbers still ackerate. I look
the other day because I was I was screaming at
my phone when I was watching the Dodger game and
I was looking at some of the numbers the Dodgers
starters as of a few days ago. Were you know
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where they ranked in innings per start?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Dead last? Do you know why not? Because they not?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Because they can't pitch longer in games, because the philosophy
of the organization is due to the baremenhim And every
year the Dodgers say, well, we're gonna solve this injury problem.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
We are gonna solve this thing.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
And they lead baseball in trips to the injury list
every f and year.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That's the Dodgers. So there you go. I hope you
enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
It is the Ben Mahler Show. As we press on
and on and on and on and on straight out,
we are gonna have mallardly third degree. Here is the
Insta trivia show. Hey o'tani joining Willie Davis and Blank
as the only play to hit into a triple play. Yeah,
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the Dodges into a triple blay fundamentally bad base running.
So Atani joined Willie Davis and Blank as the only
players to hit into triple plays and hit a goal
ahead home run in the ninth inning or later in
the same game in the expansion era, so that goes
back to nineteen sixty one.
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That is the insta trivia.
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Now for the payoff on the Insta Trivia Question and
here it is Insta Trivia Question Show. Hey Otani, joining
Willie Davis and Blank is the only players to hit
into a triple play and also hit a go ahead
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home run in the ninth inning or later of the
same game in the expansion era. That's since nineteen sixty one.
That is the question. What is the answer? Let's see
does anyone know the answer? Let's see page down e
t Yes by Alf the Alien o'piner.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Troy Tulwhiskey from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. I met him
at the Maller meeting greet nice guy, Andy in Line o'
lakes meet and greed did in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Andy in Line Lakes.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Says Edwin in Carnacione is the answer. Benny the Bopper
from Malor prop Guy. That's an appropriate photo of Benny
the Bopper. Mike Mussina from Shane in Des Moines. Al
Klon guests by William Elloy from Compton going with Bill
Miller's childhood hero.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Jumbo Brown as the answer.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
If you want to feel old, late late night drug
tester will make you feel old. He will point out
that Atlanta Brave hero of the Championship days back in
the nineties, Mark Lemke is sixty years old today, So
happy birthday to Mark Lemkey. Jay Scoop or Jay Potato
Salad says Andre's dog. Willie McGee is the answer, Rob
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says Robbie, the Minnesota Vikings male cheerleader. That's from the
goat Man. Walt Disney guests by Milkman Mike.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
I see Manuel from Guardina going with Darryl Thomas as
his answer.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Trucker Joe says, you gotta have a fall guy.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
It's Dick Tracy Brook Jacoby Indians legend from basity, Tony,
what say.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You the right? I'm going with Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Shakespeare he was Shakespeare had a couple of good years
played for the Reds back in the in the sixties. No,
that's incorrect. Correct answer is.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Oh, Henry Henry Rodriguez, a.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Hero for the Montreal Exos back in two thousand, So
it's Otani Henry Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Willie Davis only Willie Davis's team one. Here we go,
Here we go the game?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
How about that to the third?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (38:55):
My pet grilled?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
All right, cooboloo.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
The Athletic has released their latest quarterback rankings, compiled from
a panel of GMS coaches and other executives. They have
Brock Purty at number fourteen. Now, some are looking at
that as a snub. Do you think that's about right
for Perdy?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I would say it's too high for Brock party.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
He does not have pinpoint accuracy, he does not have
great mobility. Those things are put together based on your
skill set, and he doesn't elevate his teammates.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It's the other way around.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
So I think that's very generous to have him a
system quarterback that high.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I think that's a little much. Actually, it's too high.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Next, for the first time in the school's history, Texas
is the AP preseason number one. Do you think they
are deserving of the ranking or is this just arch
manning hype? Well, it's the whole preseason ranking thing is dumb.
It's all about I know they do it for TV,
the razzle dazzle. Nobody knows anything, and Texas has had
a lot of hype and arch Manning is very important
to the business of college football, so that's why they
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did it. Next, Warber continues to light it up for
the Phillies, and now twenty games over five hundred, they're
ahead of the Mats in the NLY is a comfortable lead, Ben,
Do you think Scharburn has any chance of challenging Otani
for the MVP?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
No, he's He's a better offensive player this year than Otani.
He's second in home runs in RBIs, But no Otan.
He's because of the pitching stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
He's gonna win. How do we do? What do we do?
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
How do we do?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
That's a pass I won. Of course I won.
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our num bird two, our number two. And with
the latest legal drama, is show hey Otani of the
Doyers clueless or ruthless?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Also, speaking of the Dodgers, shortstop Mookie Betts said his
disappointing season will be a blemish on his career which
may land him in the Hall of Fame one day.
How does that one hit you? And Peter Alonzo has
broken the Mets franchise home run record, passing Darryl Strawberry
with career home run number two fifty three. Has Alonzo,
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though past Strawberry in the hearts and minds of the
Mets fan. We'll talk about all that. And you want
to make sure to listen to the B block as
may or may not have become unhinged on the current
state of the Doyers, who lost again last night to
the Angels.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That's the block.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We'll get to all that right now here. It is
our number two. Oh Tony, oh no. Welcome in the
beginning of another hour of the Ben Mahlor Show. We
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is from baseball. We will address in the B block
the B for bad B for bad Dodgers on the field.
But another day, another scandal. Now, this story blew up.
We had mentioned this in a previous episode of the show,
and it took a life of its own in the
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hours since we talked about it, and we just tossed
it out here. It is it's like a boomerang, it's
come back again. So if you don't know where I'm
going with this, Shohei Otani and his agent, Nez Batlello
probably butchering the name. But he has been sued. The
agent and Otani, they've both been sued. That's what you
(03:02):
need to know about this. And essentially the argument is
that they screwed over a big real estate company, couple
of big muckety MUCKs in the real estate world in Hawaii,
costing these people hundreds of millions of dollars. The lawsuit
filed in the Circuit Court of Hawaii where everyone wears
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Hawaiian shirts. This happened actually last week, but the story
just came out in the last couple of days, and
as we've said, it's bounced all over the echo chamber here.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
In the actual legal documents, the plaintiffs claim that Otani
and his agent are saboteurs. They sabotaged a two hundred
and forty million dollar real estate venture and they had
all entered into this and ix nay on the DLA,
according to the lawsuit, and they're pointing the finger at
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the Dodger star who was supposed to endorse and promote
this real estate project which was actually located on the
Big Island. That's the one that not many people go to,
the Big Island. The sinse deleted website, which at one
point was booming boom it for the project said that
Otani would buy a home in this part of Hawaii
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and the Big Island and act as a quote celebrities
spokesperson and build a baseball workout facilities on the Big Island,
clearly trying to get some of that money from Japan
to invest in the Big Island of Hawaii. You don't
have to be a business mogul to know what this
is all about. So let us discuss the question. You
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take a couple of steps back and you look at
what has happened with Otani the last couple of years
as he's joined the Dodgers, and you have to ask
the question with the latest legal issue, is show hal Tani.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Clueless or is he ruthless? All right, those are the
only options.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Clueless is over here and ruthless is over here, So
which one is it? So my observations, I've got teflon
construction site and Donkey Kong and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to give
you billable hours, which Otani is spending a lot of
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money on billable hours.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So number why that number? Why?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Assuming the position it's either or one or the other,
the only two options are Otani is clueless or he's ruthless.
Those are the only options. This is like that old aloha.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Means hello and.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Goodbye thing, except this version of aloha means good bye
to your money. I buy aloha to your money. And imagine,
if you will, buying this group that had all this land,
this ocean front property in the Big Island there and
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then finding out that there was a surprise lava flow.
Now this lava flow was not from an actual volcano
on the Big Island. It was from Shoeotani and all that.
So it kind of sounds like that's what's happening. But
the answer the question, the arrow on this one is
pointing towards Otani as ruthless. Right, There's a lot going on,
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like we are not getting the full story here. There's
a lot of people that are writing the coattails of
sho Haotani.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
We're not getting what's really going on.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
There's a lot of people that are toe lickers, as
I like to call them, that are the beneficiaries of
the star power of Otani. But I'm just on the sidelines.
I'm just observing what's been going on the last couple
of years. Just looking at what's been going on. This
is another star that's got a lot of stuff going on.
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There's a lot of issues here and it's always been
that way. Like Michael Jordan was addicted to gambling. There
were some legendary stories that came out after Jordan played
for the Chicago Bulls about some of his dalliances with
the ladies. Babe Ruth was a legendary womanizer with the Yankees.
Barry Bonds was a complete douche and also like the Peds,
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he blew himself up. Looked like a parade in the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. There thanks Thanksgiving Parade with Macy's,
and they all played and they had their careers and
all that. But everyone's got some dirt on them. Andy's
got some dirt on them. And I also believe everyone's
got multiple personality. No one's Mother Teresa all the time,
and no one's the devil all the time. Right, you're
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somewhere in the middle and the guy that you see
hitting bombs and he had another home run. Dodgers suck,
so they lost to the pathetic Angels again, embarrassing. These
guys don't even care. More on that in a minute,
But it was about Autoni. So he had a home
run late Dodge. Of course, Bullpen came in and vomited
all over the mound and gave the game to.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
The Angels and extra innings.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So Otani hits home run and you think he's reading
the fine print. So the argument is gonna be, well,
Tani's a big star and his agent took care of this,
and you think he's reading real estate contracts on Hawaiian
real estate. Come on, you think he's sitting there reading
the zoning laws for the big island of Hawaii. Of
course not please, right, So then they'll they'll argue he's
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just clueless. He's just a dumb dumb is what they're
going to say. But you combine everything together and you
see patternicity. You see the lawsuit that took place, and
you can sue anyone for anything. There's also a gambling
scandal that was taking place while he was with the Angels,
and there's a buddy of his that's in jail for
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a few years there, who took the hit on that?
And so Otani is looking like the teflon don.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
In all this.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And the bigger point, and the point I'm trying to
get at, is he is so massive in that industry.
He's too big to fail. That Otani is the single
most important player in Major League Baseball in at least
fifty years, likely a lot longer than that. And you're
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not letting a real estate deal doing Otani. You're not
letting a gambling scandal. I don't care if he's betting
seventeen parlays in the dugout. They're not gonna have Otani
go down for that. And so this will end up,
as I look into my crystal ball, it will end
up as a misunderstanding is a misunderstanding. There'll be some
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kind of charity donation, and you'll see some commercials on
Major League Baseball broadcast. They'll call him a show he
or a loja show a and that they'll do that
whole thing. I learned one of my professors years ago.
There was a professor named Chris Carter. He may or
may not have played for the Minnesota Vikings, and he
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taught me, Chris Carter taught me, you gotta have a
fall guy, gotta have a fall guy.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So guess what. The fall guy.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Originally was Otani's personal assistant, but he's translator guy. But
he's in jail so she can't use him again. So
let's see who's the fall guy gonna be. Let's do
some inventory. We'll look around. Who's the fall guy, and
let's see reveal answers, reveal answers. The fall guy here
is going to be anyone other than Otani, anyone and
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everyone other than Otani. So will anything come of this?
I think I've made my point. I don't need to
flog the dead horse here. Not a damn thing will
come out of this. Otani will just smile and nod
his head and then go out and.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Hit fifty home runs. He's got forty three.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Home runs now, so hit fifty and the lawsuit will
go abra cadabra and will vanish like a my tie
at a traditional Hawaiian luau. Just gone see you later,
all right now, staying with the Dodgers, and we're gonna
get to the play on the field a minute. I
saw some other comments here. That got my attention in
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recent days, and I wanted to bring them up. The
Dodgers have a shortstop, not a good one. You want
a two forty shortstop that sucks. Mookie Bets is your guy.
So Moogie Bets, who's been an abject failure for the
Los Angeles Dodgers. But in the LA media they won't
call him out on that. Guys like David Vasse will
kiss his ass. So Mookie Bets very disappointing here in
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twenty twenty five, and he said of this season he
was concerned about the Hall of Fame. He said, once
again in the Hall of Fame one day and this
will be a blemish on his Hall of Fame resume.
That was one of the quotes that Mookie Bets had recently.
How does that one hit you? All?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Right? So, Moki spoiler alert. If you're talking.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
About the Hall of Fame right now, you have another
gazillion years on your Dodger contract, right and it's like
you're already shopping for a retirement condo in Boca and
you still got a job to do. Like the Hall
of Fame is last I heard Lifetime Achievement Award, and
that's for when you're sipping lemonade in the rocking chair
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and you're sixty five years old and you're telling your grandkids,
back in my day, I went six for six at
Coors Field one day.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Right now, you are in the middle of the Big
Blue Marathon and you are one of these central reasons
your team sucks. Mookie bets congratulations, and you're worrying about
the ribbon. You're running the marathon and you're just beginning
the marathon and you're worried about the finish line ribbon.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I wonder what color it is. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You still have thirteen point one miles to go. You're
halfway home, and let's I check. Baseball's not social media.
Nobody really cares if you look good in the snapshot.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And it's think of it like a construction site. You
build your legacy brick by brick, right, brick by brick,
day by day, inning by inning, and you can also
tear apart your legacy at the same time. So you're
out there, Mookie, you're stressing because you're on the construction site.
You're worried about the blueprints while the cement truck hasn't
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even parked yet. Your priorities are a little off on this,
and you know, it's like you're acting like a pilot
flying around. And the concern is while the in flight
movie has not started playing, it's supposed to play, but
yet you're in the cockpit and the plane losing altitude.
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That's what's going on. The Dodger plane is losing altitude
right now, and you're worried about what the in flight
movie is and when it's gonna be played during the flight,
and so betts By, any way, you slice.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It is terrible. Listen, well, is he gonna be terrible forever?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Right, I'm doing a show right now. Today. He sucks.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He's horrible, right, the worst season of his career, going
back to his days in Boston and the lowest ops
of his career. He's a two forty hitting shortstop who
will often make mistakes on routine plays, and one hundred
points lower than his previous career low. So that's not
even just a little bit worse. That's like, that's like
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falling into the Grand Canyon. Is how bad that is?
And you've got to grind through the bad years like that.
Everyone's gonna be'd be great, and you're judged on the
Hall of Fame by your whole career and you don't
worry about it. And Willie Mays had bad years and
Ricky Henderson had some very mid years and they still
got their little play black and sleepy Cooperstown. They got
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that going for them. And you're worried about like a smudge,
Mookie Batcher, You're like, why a little smudge in my
suit here? And you're not even at the banquet, Like
you're not even there yet, So who cares? All? Right?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Now?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Final point? We go to New York City, the Big Apple.
A lot of chattering baseball because Pete Alonso the Polar Bear,
ended up breaking the New York Metropolitans franchise home run record.
As he said see a later straw and zoom past
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Darryl Strawberry with career home run number two fifty three.
So Pete Alonzo has passed Darryl Strawberry by in the
Mets record book. However, has Pete Alonzo also passed Darryl
Strawberry by in the hearts minds of the met Fan?
(16:00):
Answer this like I'm playing Wheel of Fortune. I'm gonna
answer this like I'm playing Wheel of Fortune, so I'd
like an N, and can I buy a vowel? I
would like to buy an oh?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So I want an N. I want to buy a vowel.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I'd like to have an O and spariler alert put
those together, slap those together.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And that's what was that? Spell No? That spells It
spells no. That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
No is what it'sst So Peter Alonzo is the Mets masher,
the monster Mets masher right now, He's at the top
of the record book. And isn't that special? Isn't that cute?
That's adorable, Peter Alonzo, mister home run derby guy, Pete Alonzo. However, however,
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you do a side by side comparsion, you're talking about
Darryl Strawberry. Darrel Strawberry was not a great postseason player.
He hit one of the big home runs for the Mets,
if you remember, if you're old enough or you went
back and watch the eighty six playoffs.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But this is not a moment where you're passing the torch.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
This is not Auberry symbolically passing the mantle to Peter Alonzo.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's just not.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And it's like saying, well, broccoli is going to replace
donuts as a food that sells at the county Fair.
We're going to sell more broccoli this year than donuts.
Broccoli will be more popular. Well, no, obviously not. They're
not even the same food group for people to go
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to the fair. And Peter Alonzo's broccoli, obviously, and strawberry
is a nice donut. And Daryl was not just a
guy hitting those home runs back, you know, a million
years ago. Forty ye, I can't believe it. Forty years
almost has been. But he well just hitting the home run.
Think about strawberry, and I'm not he sucked it with
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the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It was embarrassing. He was doing more coke than hitting
the baseball when he was with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But he was the straw Darrow Strawberry that stirred the
big apple cocktail.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I mean, he was it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And you know he did everything, hit home runs, he'd
throw guys out, He you know, snorted cocaine off of
Hooker's took us the whole thing, playing for those eighty
eighty nineteen eighties Mets.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
And uh, smooth swing, I just smooth.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Elegant watching Strawberry swing the bat and brought the drama tablet.
Him and Dwight Gooden. We're always in the tableaus, back
before social media. So and it's just the eighty six Mets.
They were parabolic, the eighty six Mets. Here and you
think about wild Bill Hitcock with a bat in his hands,
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a mythical character there and a poker chip in the
other hand. And you got Daryl Strawberry. He was like
Donkey Kong, launching barrels for the for the Mets, and
he got the lines. And listen, Pete Scott as many
home runs as Strawberry. You know, he's a home run
king for the Mets right now and all that stuff.
I just look at him, like a lot of empty calories.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Is that fair? I think that's fair. There's a lot
of empty calories. Pet Alonso hitting home runs and.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
He's like eating a big supersized box of Twinkies, Like,
all right, you ate the twinkies. That's good, it tastes good.
You're feeling pretty good at the moment you're eating them.
And then when you take some time and they settle
into your stomach and you're sitting there and you're wondering, man,
what did I eat, What did I do?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
What is that the Mets have not reached the peak
of the mountains since nineteen eighty six the last that
eighty sixteen, the last time they went. Pete Alonzo was
born in nineteen ninety four, eight years after they had
their last championship as the Mets. And is he a
talented guy? Yes, of course, pet A Lonzo is a
talented player. And it's cool that he did a lot
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of the home run derby's and all that stuff, where
a lot of these other a lot of these other
dingle Berries would not do it because they're are bosses
and Alonso would be in it, and that's great.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And has he hit some home runs in the playoffs? Sure?
Does he light up the room in the playoffs? Does he?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Does he have the fear factor ped A lions on
the pluff? No, not really, It's more like a lava lamp,
which does light up. There's a little bit of glow there. Yeah, nothing,
nothing magical. And so Strawberry, the point of all this,
he's still the king and still the guy that is
in Mets, the mythological part of the Mets. You know,
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he's the guy that rides in on the white Horse, Darol, Strawberry,
and Pete. Alonzo's kind of the guy that shows up
to the Mets barbecue, the franchise barbecue. You got strawberry
and a white horse. And then Alonzo comes in there
and he's got a paper bag and he's got a
metal tin of potato salad and he says, hey, guys,
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I brought the potato salad. You know who wants potato salad.
Nobody likes potatoes, I remember it. Anyone likes potato souds disgusting. Anyway,
It is the Ben Maler Show. If you'd like to
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When we go back to the calls and we'd love to.
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Meet you if you're able to make it to Lost Wages, Nevada,
the Big mal Or meet and greet our buddy slug
put this together yet again, second.
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Second year in a row. We want to make this
a yearly event. Yearly event.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
It's gonna be a little later than last year. August
twenty third man, we're ten days away. Holy crap, that's
good ten days away. And that'll be from three o'clock
till five in Vegas. Now we're doing that at three
o'clock till five. It's at the Stakeout Bar and Grill
right New UNLV. If you're familiar with Vegas and we're
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doing it, then, because we want you to get completely
schnockered on Friday, we assume you're gonna do that and
then you'll recover by three o'clock and then you'll be
ready by like five thirty or six to go do
it again. So, yep, we want you to take part
in that. So come out hang out with us. Mallard
Meet and greet Vegas Saturday, August twenty third. Would love
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to to make sure if you're a fan of the
show and you want to hang out and meet other listeners,
and Lorraine is going to be there, Coop will be there,
I'll be there and we'll be hanging out bonding.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Should we do a theme? No, back to it all, right,
back to it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
We began here with the latest on the show. Haltani
real estate scandal. The real estate scandal, not to be
confused with the gambling scandal that was last year. It's
so last year. This is the real estate scandal. We
should play the game. How was doing local.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Radio in La? I'd be like a gambling.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
What's the next scandal? Otani's going to be involved in
what will be the next show? Heltan he's got real
estate lawsuit, he's got gambling.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Happy ending massage.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Oh that's a good one, right, Oltani caught at a
massage parlor somewhere like Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Dog fights? Oh that's Michael Vick. I don't know, do
he did? He has a dog, So just imagine. Is
dog fighting popular in Japan? I've never been. I don't know.
I assume not anyway. All right, well there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Joe writes in from Minnesota, says major League Baseball for Texotani.
No matter what, I don't trust him. I haven't since
the interpreter scandal. She says, what else? Do we have
a page down here? See Texas brain says, eat some
magic mushrooms and a lava lamp is more than special
Ben Okay, Well, yeah, you could say about anything if
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you're eating magic mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Dude, I mean, you know he's not a lava lamp.
It to be anything at all.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
H Jay Scoop says, Ben, with all due respect, keep
potato salad's name out of your f and mouth. Now
I hate potato salad, and no part of potato salad
sounds good.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I don't want any part of it. No, no, no
late night drug techy name out shaw ef in mout.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Late nidrugtest, it says. Not sure anyone should buy real
estate in Hawaii. You could lose it to a tsunami
or a volcano. Not a safe property purchase.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
He says.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Also, don't take advice from Tom Looney, I think is
what he's getting out here in La No. Hawaii is beautiful,
and the way I look at it, there could be
bad things that happen anywhere. Like you live in the South,
there's hurricanes. You live in the Midwest, there's tornadoes. You
live on the West Coast, there's earthquakes. You live in Hawaii. Yeah,
there might be a tsunami or something like that, or
(25:38):
big storia, big storm whatever. You live in the Northeast,
there was hurricanes come up to the Northeast every once
in a while.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So anywhere you live, there's.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Nowhere completely safe. But you can't live scared. You can't
be like, oh, I can't. I shouldn't do this chim
with the q's right since it says eight plus on.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
The Mala molologue. I remember when my.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Four year old nephew was given potato salad. He didn't
want to try it. His mom told him it's made
from potatoes, just like French fries are. He picked up
a spoonful and said, why would anyone.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Do this to a potato? Yeah, it is me. It
is mutilation of the.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Potato is what it is, the potato salad, and I
will not stand for it. Problem.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
The difference is it's covered in mayonnaise. It's wet, you know,
like it's not as starchy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Just not the I don't like the texture. I don't
I don't want anythin that's disgusting. So I would like
to now address the Komodo dragon in the room, the
Blue Man Group, the La Dodgers, the Doyers. Now one
of the things that bothers me. There's a lot of
things that bother me. I'm a talk shows, so a
lot of things bother me. But in terms of the
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Dodgers universe, here there is this arrogance that the Dodgers have,
and I know they won't the World Series and all that,
but it just drives me bonkers how good this team
could be, how good this team should be, and how
much they're none of those things right, They're just a
(27:06):
bad baseball team. And I have gone by the mantra
that you are what your record says you're. I didn't
come up with that, and Bill Parcells came up with that.
But you are with your records. It doesn't matter what
people wrote about you on the internet before the baseball
season and everyone gave you a shoulder rub and a
bubble bath because you got all the good players in
the offseason.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh man, we you know in the World's Three. It's
not about that. Uh, it's about what you actually do.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
And if you go back to July fourth, fireworks in
the air everywhere July fourth. The Los Angeles Dodgers have
played thirty two games since July fourth, and they have
only won twelve of them. They're twelve and twenty. Now
that's bad. How bad? Is it so bad? That the
Atlanta Braves, the Colorado Rockies, the Washington Nationals, and the
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Tampa Bay Rays are the only teams that have a
worse record since July fourth.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Then the Dodgers. That's it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
That's the big board, not unless Sarian England, that's the
big board.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So why are the Dodgers here? They're here because.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Everything Andrew Friedman touched in the offseason ended up on
the injury list.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Or that we just call the DL or whatever it's
got even know it's called. Now he woke.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
They changed everything. But they're all hurt. Everyone's hurt, everyone
is hurt. My god, absolutely pathetic. But then you go
down point by point the greatest depth in the history
of baseball. The Dodgers here. They went out and signed
that bro I ain't playing that I get mine brow
Blake Snell, all right, Blake Snell, he got paid two time.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Saw you on winner.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Blake Snell, who has been squirreled in the basement of
the injury room at Dodgers Stadium. Malfeasance, Tyler Glass. Now
has there ever been a more appropriate name starting pitcher
than Glass?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Now?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
The man is made out of glass. Even Yoshinobu Yamamoto
has not been as good as he was advertised to be.
And no team, no team in baseball, has mastered Tommy
John surgery more than the Dodgers. All right, then you
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go through the lineup, you've got chronic underachieving. Freddie Freeman
has been spotty, Mookie Betts has been stealing money.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
And then you go down.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Through the bullpen, which is just god awful. They suck
any way you slice the bullpen. Tanner Scott, holy crap,
is he you talk? Four year, seventy two million dollar contract.
He leads baseball and blown saves the Dodgers. They they
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had another blown save in the game against the Angels
a few hours ago. Go the Dodgers have one of
the I don't think it's the highest, but it's like
right near the top, and blown saves right near the top,
and blown saves and the bullpen is in the bottom
half of baseball. They are a fundamentally stupid baseball team.
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That's Dave Roberts. They're terrible defensively. If you really want
to get on base against the Dodgers, you hit the
ball to the left side.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
If you watch the.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Dodgers, Max Munsey is the worst defensive third baseman, has
the lowest fueling percentage among all qualified third basemen since
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's been three years.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Mookie Betts not only does he not hit, he makes
up for that by being a shoddy defensive player, though
the numbers don't say he's shot.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
He watched the games. Watch the games.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
And then here's another Andrew Friedman pick up, Michael Conforto,
who must have photos. Conforto must have photos of Andrew
Friedman and Dave Roberts in a compromising position. Conforto is
Italian for can't hit the baseball? My god, is he horrible?
And why is he always in every time I turn
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on Gain, Oh, there's duo, Michael Conforto.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Why he only signed a one year contract.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I don't care that he hit a bunch of home
runs for the New York Mets in twenty eighteen. It's
twenty twenty five right now, and Conforto is horrifically bad.
He's hitting under two hundred. Well, you're a boomer. Betting
average doesn't matter. Okay, how about the fact that he's
played in over one hundred games, he's got nine home
runs and he's a power guy.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Conforto sucks terrible. You go down.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I mean, I can keep going here. And you don't
want to hear me rant about this. I mean, this
is a brutal. They're fundamentally poor defensively, they have a
bad bullpen. They're a bad situational hitting team. What is
Dave Roberts doing? What? Seriously, they just so good. They
just show up by we'll play ball there, and they
don't care. That's the other thing, like they just they've
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got that I use the word I used the other day, Hubris,
they've got that Dodger arrogance. You know that lo de
da auted. Oh, we'll be fine, we'll be fine. And
even if they are fine, I don't care. I don't
want to hear it. I don't like the smarmy arrogance.
I can't stand it. I can't uh and I mean
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you go just all the way down the roster. They
didn't do anything to improve the team at the trade deadline.
They fell on one of the oldest crutches, the Dodgers. Well,
we are going to be fine because we've got guys
coming back from the injured list.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That is what teams that are not trying to win
that aren't all in. The Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I'm not saying they're not all in. They spent a
ton of money in the off season. Most of us
deferred but that was a vote of no conference. Despite
what the front office of the Dodgers has said that hey,
we're we're gonna be fine, the fact that they didn't
go out and fortify the big league roster in any
meaningful way tells you they know internally this is not
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a championship team.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And it's not. It's not a championship team.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
The expectations were insane, with all the star power and
all that. A team that went for it, the Podres,
the San Diego Padres, who tore down half the roster
and the middle of season and now they've caught you
in the standings. And another thing, the organizational philosophy. I
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could do two hours on this three I could do
a whole show. The other thing about that drives me
nuts about the Dodgers is their philosophy is not go
above and beyond the call of duty.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Do the bare minimum, do the bear ef in minimum.
That's the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The Soreta's rolling over in his grid, that's the Dodgers,
the modern Dodgers. Look at the starting pitching the Dodgers.
I don't know if the numbers still ackerate. I look
the other day because I was I was screaming at
my phone when I was watching the Dodger game and
I was looking at some of the numbers the Dodgers
starters as of a few days ago. Were you know
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where they ranked in innings per start?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Dead last? Do you know why not? Because they not?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Because they can't pitch longer in games, because the philosophy
of the organization is due to the baremenhim And every
year the Dodgers say, well, we're gonna solve this injury problem.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
We are gonna solve this thing.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
And they lead baseball in trips to the injury list
every f and year.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That's the Dodgers. So there you go. I hope you
enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
It is the Ben Mahler Show. As we press on
and on and on and on and on straight out,
we are gonna have mallardly third degree. Here is the
Insta trivia show. Hey o'tani joining Willie Davis and Blank
as the only play to hit into a triple play. Yeah,
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the Dodges into a triple blay fundamentally bad base running.
So Atani joined Willie Davis and Blank as the only
players to hit into triple plays and hit a goal
ahead home run in the ninth inning or later in
the same game in the expansion era, so that goes
back to nineteen sixty one.
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Now for the payoff on the Insta Trivia Question and
here it is Insta Trivia Question Show. Hey Otani, joining
Willie Davis and Blank is the only players to hit
into a triple play and also hit a go ahead
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home run in the ninth inning or later of the
same game in the expansion era. That's since nineteen sixty one.
That is the question. What is the answer? Let's see
does anyone know the answer? Let's see page down e
t Yes by Alf the Alien o'piner.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Troy Tulwhiskey from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. I met him
at the Maller meeting greet nice guy, Andy in Line o'
lakes meet and greed did in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Andy in Line Lakes.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Says Edwin in Carnacione is the answer. Benny the Bopper
from Malor prop Guy. That's an appropriate photo of Benny
the Bopper. Mike Mussina from Shane in Des Moines. Al
Klon guests by William Elloy from Compton going with Bill
Miller's childhood hero.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Jumbo Brown as the answer.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
If you want to feel old, late late night drug
tester will make you feel old. He will point out
that Atlanta Brave hero of the Championship days back in
the nineties, Mark Lemke is sixty years old today, So
happy birthday to Mark Lemkey. Jay Scoop or Jay Potato
Salad says Andre's dog. Willie McGee is the answer, Rob
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says Robbie, the Minnesota Vikings male cheerleader. That's from the
goat Man. Walt Disney guests by Milkman Mike.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
I see Manuel from Guardina going with Darryl Thomas as
his answer.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Trucker Joe says, you gotta have a fall guy.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
It's Dick Tracy Brook Jacoby Indians legend from basity, Tony,
what say.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You the right? I'm going with Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Shakespeare he was Shakespeare had a couple of good years
played for the Reds back in the in the sixties. No,
that's incorrect. Correct answer is.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Oh, Henry Henry Rodriguez, a.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Hero for the Montreal Exos back in two thousand, So
it's Otani Henry Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Willie Davis only Willie Davis's team one. Here we go,
Here we go the game?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
How about that to the third?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (38:55):
My pet grilled?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
All right, cooboloo.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
The Athletic has released their latest quarterback rankings, compiled from
a panel of GMS coaches and other executives. They have
Brock Purty at number fourteen. Now, some are looking at
that as a snub. Do you think that's about right
for Perdy?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I would say it's too high for Brock party.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
He does not have pinpoint accuracy, he does not have
great mobility. Those things are put together based on your
skill set, and he doesn't elevate his teammates.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It's the other way around.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
So I think that's very generous to have him a
system quarterback that high.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I think that's a little much. Actually, it's too high.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Next, for the first time in the school's history, Texas
is the AP preseason number one. Do you think they
are deserving of the ranking or is this just arch
manning hype? Well, it's the whole preseason ranking thing is dumb.
It's all about I know they do it for TV,
the razzle dazzle. Nobody knows anything, and Texas has had
a lot of hype and arch Manning is very important
to the business of college football, so that's why they
(39:58):
did it. Next, Warber continues to light it up for
the Phillies, and now twenty games over five hundred, they're
ahead of the Mats in the NLY is a comfortable lead, Ben,
Do you think Scharburn has any chance of challenging Otani
for the MVP?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
No, he's He's a better offensive player this year than Otani.
He's second in home runs in RBIs, But no Otan.
He's because of the pitching stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
He's gonna win. How do we do? What do we do?
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
How do we do?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
That's a pass I won. Of course I won.
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