August 18, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's plan for MLB to geographically realign, who is in line for MLB expansion franchises, Jim Harbaugh staying mum on NCAA punishments for Michigan, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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Playball. It's our num birth three. Our number three is
rocking and rolling talking bays ball. Where are you at
on Rob Manford's plan for Major League Baseball to geographically realign,
which sounds like the end of the American in the
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National leagues? Also, who's in line for Major League Baseball's
expansion franchises is they're planning on going to thirty two
teams plus Jim Harbaugh, the Chargers coach, has decided he's
not not saying a word after the NCAA dropped punishment
on Michigan over the weekend. Why is that we'll go
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there as well? Right now. It's like a chop block
to your soul. It's our number three, changing geography and
history as well. Welcome in the beginning of another hour
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So we'll change it up a little bit this hour.
We'll go back to baseball. Interesting story developing, and it
happened on a random Sunday night. If you didn't see it.
If you think ghost runners and the clock in baseball
are the end of the line on dramatic changes, then
you are a sucker. You're a loser. So, during a
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guest appearance on the Sunday night baseball broadcast between Seattle
and the New York Metropolitans played at the Little League
World Series in Pennsylvania, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfraud
suggested that the league could realign the divisions. That's right,
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move everyone around. Do the musical chairs move everyone around?
Based on geography if they expand in the near future.
I don't know if you saw or not. Maybe you missed it.
You were not paying attention. It wasn't much of a
game on Sunday night. So he said the following quote.
I think if we expand, Manfraud said, if we expand,
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it provides us with an opportunity to geographically realign. The
Commissioner of Baseball stated, I think we could save a
lot of where and tear on our players in terms
of travel. Close quote.
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Now.
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Manford also indicated that it is his goal before he
leaves one of the worst run commissionerships in baseball history.
When he leaves in a couple of years, he says
his goal is to have these expansion teams in place
and to have realignment in place. So let us discuss,
all right, the question where are you at on? Rob
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Manford announcing quietly on a Sunday night that Baseball's plan
is to geographically realign the big leagues. So I've got
George Lucas, sugar Daddies and parking ticket and we will
combine all of these things together, and we're gonna make
the gobbool. We're gonna make the gobygool. Now, first of all,
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Rob Manford, the bane of my existence, He's at it again.
He will not be satisfied. This little weasel will not
be satisfied until he completely destroys the sport of baseball. Now,
as for his hypothesis, let's address the comodo dragon in
the room. Manford. His argument is that realignment would improve
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the wear and tear on players from that grueling travel schedule.
So is there anyone Rizians, Is there anyone that feels
pity on the Major League Baseball players? Is there anyone
that believes that the Major League Baseball players need realignment
based on geography because of the ridiculous travel schedule? All right,
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uh yeah, major League baseball as a sport has. Let
me scream this for those of you in the back
of the room. Major League Baseball has by far the
easiest travel schedule of any professional league that plays more
than one game a week. And this dope is up
there acting like these poor babies are flying cross country
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non stop every night one night. It's like Mick Jagger
back in the day with the Stones in the late eighties,
traveling around No no, no, no, no no. It's ridiculous.
Baseball's travel. When you do a side by side comparison
at baseball here and then you've got pro bouncy ball
over here and you've got professional hockey baseball is a joke.
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It is one of the NBA teams are flying time
zone to time zone back to back, which the star
players don't play because they're a bunch of mister sophies.
Hockey teams are essentially living their life out of a
suitcase at a Marriotte off some interstate in Alberta as
they circum event the North America, not just the US, Canada,
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all over the place. Baseball guys, Oh no, the Red
Sox have to go to Tampa to spend three days
at the Ritz. Oh my god, how are they going
to handle that? Holy crap, Cry me a river. Of course,
it's not about that, we know. It's not about that.
When you peak behind the curtain, when you do a
little peekaboo behind the curtain there. This is based on
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trying to hold on to television. Now, the landscape in
television has changed dramatically. There are those that are predicted
it's going to change again. We went from cable television
to everyone's trying to save a buck, and then they
went to streaming. Now you're getting price gouge from streaming,
So now they're going to do bundles. They're going to
do bundles to try to save you money, which is
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essentially cable, but it's gonna be on Wi Fi. That's
essentially what we're at. But this is trying to hold
onto television. Baseball has dabbled with online streams in places
like San Diego and other markets, and it has been
an abject failure because they've actually figured out that not
a lot of people actually want to pay to watch
Major League Baseball broadcasts that are produced by Major League Baseball.
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It's a bit of a problem from what I understand. Therefore,
they want to hold on and dig their fingernails into
that television as long as they can get it. And
it's about television. Ready's Rob Manford is being He's not
being transparent here. He's playing the Streaming Wars game, not
Star Wars. Streaming Wars is what he's doing here. And
he wants more Yankees, Mets, he wants more Dodgers, Giants, Dodgers, Podres.
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He wants the Cubs, White Sox is what he wants.
And those games get spikes in ratings. It is geographically desirable,
time zone wise. And Manford has made it abundantly clear
that he does not care about the tradition of the game.
It does not matter. He doesn't care about that. He's
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the guy who called the World Series trophy. What that's right,
mister irrigation, a hunk of metal. That's Rob Manford, the
Commissioner of Baseball. It's just a hunk of metal, is
what he said. He's also the guy that let the
cheating Astros violate all moral code in the World Series
and the regular season and the playoffs and all that.
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In the MLB produced video there is a shot of
the table they used to cheat and Rob Manford, Rob
Manford basically did nothing. None of the players were punished.
There was no meaningful violation that was given to that team.
It was like, what can I do? What do you
want me to do? What do you want me to do?
He's also the guy that gave us, as we mentioned,
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the ghost Runner, Spooky the ghost Runner on second, like,
this is beer League Softball at the Neighborhood Park. And
let's not forget the masterpiece. The same guy a couple
of years Ago who put the balanced schedule where every
team plays every other team in baseball. So one year,
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if you're the Dodgers, will play at Finway. One year,
the next year the Dodgers will play the Red Sox
in LA, and the Twins will play against the Cubs
and Wrigley, and then the next year they'll play in Minnesota. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
So now all of a sudden, you did that, and
now you're worried about the schedule. You're worried about the travel.
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That's what you're worried about. So can you say mixed
messages for a thousand? Yeah? I knew you could. Yeah. Yeah.
It's kind of like saying, hey, you know what I'm
gonna do. I have the plan, I got this Michigan gos.
I'm gonna go vegan. I am going to become a vegan.
While you have a big mac in your right hand
and you have a quarter pounder in your left hand,
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but you're going vegan. You're going vegan, right, that's it. Yeah.
So if you want to spitball the divisions, it's pretty
easy on the East coast and the West coast it
gets a little dicey. In the Midwest, the little dicey
in the South and the northwest. That's where it gets
a little bit of dicingess to it. But all this
really means the end of the AL and the NL,
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the end of the American League in the National League,
say bye bye to one hundred and fifty years of
baseball history, because how do you geographically realign baseball without
fundamentally saying goodbye to the American League in the National League.
Forget we used to have this debate about the which
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league was better? Do you like the designated hitter? And
then the pitchers were such wiss as they had to
have the d in the National League because the players
couldn't handle it. And forget about pennant races. It's not
about the pennant race. It's not about that. Forget all
that Manford, he didn't give a damn about that. This
is akin to George Lucas tinkering with the Star Wars
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franchise a generation after you had already dominated with your
Star Wars because you sold out and you wanted to
get a couple more dollars and all that stuff. Squeeze
another buck, And so that's exactly what happened to Star Wars.
There's so many crappy Star Wars movies that come out
every couple of years that are on Watchable Trek and
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they didn't need to do that. Well, baseball is like, well, listen,
we will start messing around with this that we get
rid of the National League, we get it to the
American League. That's what's next. It's insulting. It's also phony.
It's also phony, right, that's what it is. It's all
corporate bull crap. It's being you're putting lipstick on this,
and well it's something else. No, No, we know what
it is. We're fully aware of what it is here,
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and it's exactly what baseball has become under this leadership
of this commissioner, rob Man Fraud, the commissioner Major League Baseball.
This is under his watch. And that'll be his final,
his final going away president, the final pulling your pants
down and mooning baseball fans will be getting rid of
the American in the National League. Of course he'll be
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gone and say the next commission will come in. So
I didn't do it. That was the old commissioner. What
do you want me to What's done is done here
all right now. Secondly, so rob Manfraud mentioned the distinct
possibility of expansion, which seems odd to those people that
have been preaching baseball there is a dying sport. No
one watches baseball. Well, why would you expand serious question?
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Why would you add teams? If the sport is dying.
No one cares about baseball? Why would you be able
to add teams? Why would anyone invest in baseball? Well,
the obvious answer is the people that are crying about
baseball dying are completely wrong. Right now, today the whispers
are we do the show today. We're worried about today's show.
The whispers are that major League Baseball the two favorites
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for expansion are Nashville, so they can have a bad
baseball team to go with their bad football team in Nashville,
and Salt Lake City they can add a bad baseball
team to their bad basketball team and so hockey team.
So where do those rank? Salt Lake and Nashville in
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terms of television? So, because this again is all based
on audience television ratings, advertising things like that, well it
fluctuates Nashville depending on where you look. Nashville is a
booming city in America. In the South. It's a hipster city.
It's a cool city. It is twenty sixth. Nashville is
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twenty sixth in terms of top one hundred TV markets
in America. Salt Lake City is number twenty eight. So
these are two top thirty markets, but they're not in
the top twenty five. So it's not about hot chicken
sandwiches and the Tabernacle choir. It's not about that. This
is based on corporate sugar daddies. It's all about the
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sugar daddies. That's what this is about, and those are
the people that bankroll the franchise. I was explained years
ago by an executive who said, what you need for
this to work is corporate dollars. You gotta have corporate dollars.
And in some markets it's all dried up. There's only
there's only so many corporations that will spend money on
tickets and luxury boxes and all that stuff. So it's
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it's about those corporate dollars. In Nashville, you've got the
record labels, you've got you know, country music and all that,
but you also have some major healthcare corporations that are
available to you as potential advertisers in Nashville. So that's
a that's a sugar rush that gets the baseball management
types very horny thinking about that. And you put in Nashville,
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and you you also have some some pretty good divisional
rival reason you say the Southern Division would be some
combination of the Atlanta Braves, the Cincinnati Reds, the team
in Nashville. You'd put Tampa Bay in there in Miami,
and you just have a southern Southern wing of the
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Major League Baseball Division. Now, Salt Lake City another market
that's been talked about here. That would be a bet
that it's a growth mark, that it's gonna get bigger
and bigger, safe places. They love sports in Salt Lake
and so that would work. It's like there's a lot
of tech bros. They're relocating, believe it or not, to
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Salt Lake City, and then they're kind of going there like, well,
it's like you can live in the Bear, but you
can ski when everyone on Salt Lake it's the way
to go and all that. So there is that, and
then you look at the again you're looking at regionab rivalries.
You have a division with the Mariners, the A's and
the Rockies and the Diamondbacks that would be a division
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depending how they slice it up in Major League Baseball.
So those are some other possibilities here. And the TV
thing is interesting when you talk about Major League Baseball,
we're discussing Rob Manfred talked about adding expansion to teams
and and for talking about getting rid of essentially the
America of the nationally realigning based on geography, which has
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been talked about for at least forty years. At least
forty years there have been conversations that Baseball was eventually
going to do this. But the whole Salt Lake thing,
it's like you'd have shots of the famous loss Ach
mountains there in Salt Lake City and the skiing, the
home shopping network, it would be it would be glorious,
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absolutely glorious as far as the team would suck, any
expansion team. But if you really forget about just keeping
it in the United States and you're based on actual
eyeballs in his city, and we had this guy Paul
from Ottawa who called up earlier, who had a big
drinking problem. He cleaned his life up and Paul mentioned
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growing up a fan of the Montreal Expos. Well, if
you brought Montreal back. Holy you'll be batman if you
brought Montreal back in terms of market size, that is,
he realized the amount of people that live in Montreal
that is a top ten would be a top ten
market in United States terminology. It would be in the
same area with Boston, San Francisco, Washington, DC. And but
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baseball and I didn't work there before. We're not going
to go back there. We don't want to mess around
with the Canada and all that stuff. But in terms
of the actual population, you said, well, that would be
the way to go. But no, all right now. Meanwhile,
File thought to La, we going to change the page
quick y. We go to Los Angeles where Jim Harbaugh,
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head coach of the Lightning Bulls, Jim Harbaugh, Chargers head coach,
decided he is not not going to say a word.
Not a word, not the bird is the word. Not
a word from Jim Harbaugh on the NC double A
dropping punishment over the weekend for the Michigan Wolf hold.
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Much of the just may have robbed in Vegas a
proud Michigander and all that stuff. So why is that?
Why did Jim Harball, when given the opportunity, not address
the three headed fire breathing dragon in the room. All right,
So on this one, Harbaugh's lips are sealed tighter than
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a pickle jar not com any on this. And you
know what that tells you, and it tells me, and
it tells everyone. It tells us the same thing we
always say in these situations when someone says no comment,
we say, what guilty with a capital G. Now you're
hiding something. You're guilty capital G like Harball? What he
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should have done? If you're advising Jim Harbaugh, you give
a stalk pr answer, which he could have done. It's
not that art. If I know how to handle this,
you'd think Jim Harball, the media savvy Jim Harbaugh, would
be able to handle it. You say, I'm sorry, my
lawyers have advised me not to talk about this issue.
I am I'm waiting some more information. You throw that out.
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Now that's a bull crap answer. But you could say
that and boom, you're done. Instead the oh, he's awkward,
Jim Harbaugh goes radio silent on this one. It just
looks shady. It looks like you're you're out there acting
like you're Tony soprano and you're you're following the mafia code, right,
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the murder code. It's you're just silence, complete silence there.
And the irony here is Michigan. If you look at
the punishment. We didn't talk about. We were away when
this all came down at the end of last week.
But Michigan basically got a slap on the wrist or
a mosquito bite. That's essentially what happened to the Michigan Wolverines.
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And that's what makes the whole thing even more absurd, right,
just completely insane to the membrane when you think about it,
because Harbaugh is claim coming up like he's about to
do some kind of purp walk. Hey Jim, you're not right. Meanwhile,
the NCAA gave Michigan what amounage to be a parking ticket.
Is what they gave the Michigan Wolverines. And let's not
forget it. Harball's living LaVita Loca in La Man. He's
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the boss of the Chargers. He's got sunshine, he's got
a fat paycheck. He's got supposedly a great quarterback. We'll
see about that in playoff games. And you think he's
looking back at Ann arbor I know, he's a Michigan
man and all that stuff. You think he's worried about that. No,
he's not. He's not. He's also in his early sixties now,
Jim Harball, and he's living the NFL life. You think
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he's going back to college football. You think he wants
to go back and hang out and coach a bunch
of seven and recruit seventeen year olds to go play
football for him. No, done so. Unless something goes terribly wrong,
he's done so. But this whole thing is classic Jim Harbaugh.
He is he just can't give a simple answer, just
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give a simple you know, and it just makes everything
a little more awkward than it needs to be. It
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spotted signing blank jerseys over the weekend for Cowboy fans. Again,
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Trevon Diggs was spotted signing blank jerseys for Cowboy fans
over the weekend. That is the Mallor riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it, and we will do it.
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spotted over the weekend signing blank jerseys for cowboy fans.
That is the Mallor riddle of the day. We'll keep
it simple. What is the answer? Let's does anyone know
the answer? And we go to the Great Unwashed Big
Greg and Iowa says they were Seattle Supersonic jerseys. Ashuer
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says WNBA jerseys, fer Dog going with Brian Finley jerseys.
There is no such thing. Who else do we have?
Burlington sock puppets from Lady Sideburns. Ozzie waz is going
with Billy Bob jerseys, Dwayne Kiper jerseys from alf the
Alien o Piner. Who else? Page Down? New jersey jerseys
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from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Tammy in Vegas says he
was signing Vegas Nighthawks jerseys there playing in the NFL
IFL Championship Saturday and Tucson. I have no idea what
it is. It looks like arena football to me, must
be arena football. Who else do we have? Page Down?
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I see JJ from Rent and sending random non sequarters
in He's back, Eileen says the Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
jersey was what he was signing. U Page Dan, he
was signing his brother Stefan's jersey from Andy and Line
Lakes Luka Doncik Maverick jersey guests by j T the Wingman.
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That's his answer. Trucker Joe gotta have a fall guy
says was signing Tony Romo jerseys. Who else do we have?
Page Dan? Kathy in Madison says he was signing brand
new jerseys, brand new jerseys. Who else do we have
Camry Dad on the air? All right, Lorraina, do you
have an answer? Loreno, Yes, I think he was signing
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Vancouver white Caps jerseys. Ben Okay, well we know who
that is because we were in Vancouver, so we know
that's the soccer team. Right, yeah, just go with it.
Uh no, the correct as? Is it correct? The correct answer?
Chavon Diggs, the Dallas player, was spotted signing De's Nuts
jerseys for Cowboy Fan Nuts. Hollering James is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello,
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hollering James James. Come on, No, I don't hear him out.
He's not even snoring. Then he hung up. We'll call back.
I'm sure he's probably night man. The other one say
hello to Manuel in Guardina, making a rare and appropriate
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return to the show. Hello, Manuel in Guardina.
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He's in the air everywhere for the Fox Sports Radio.
On the blow Torch of AM five seventy. Fanny's a
basher turning in a Fenny the Brawler. When it comes
to David Bath, say I love it man, Hey, the
show tonight has been like a festival a carnival if
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you will. But I'm not going to go in on
those losers from down south and that degenerate who follows them,
who's a crappy gambler who doesn't make anybody money.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Oh who, by the way, by the way, not online,
has not called in, has not called in. The guy
who you're referring to, who you know, if the Padres
had won all three games, he would have been the
first call on.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
The board, of course. But you know, guys, rotten tomatoes
comes stewing out of his mouth, and like I said,
he's not lying it anybody's pockets but the casinos in
the books. So what do we care about that guy.
I'm more interested in the man fraud comment. Hey, you know,
I means you and I know Bennie gets some money
grab expansion. I mean, let's be real. The freaking pitchers
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are pitching five innings, you know, hitters not playing every day.
There's not even enough baseball players to expand, so it
makes no sense. I mean, yeah, sure, if you want
to get the Salt Lake City Sister Wives going and
freaking Nashville Hillbill, yeah that's fine, and you'll get some money,
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but the product is not there. You know, the product
is just not any man. Don't mess with you. I
wouldn't mind the realignment so much, you know what I mean.
But it is it's talking now of both sides here.
Now you know the guy, like you said, he did
the balance schedule and now he's trying to tack shuttle
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like he's streaking.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
But but man, well, listen, he's complaying man for his
complain about travel. This man's at work, by the way,
this is dedication. This guy's multitasking man Well in Guardian
Not only is he on the air, he's also dealing
with work issues and someone talking to him down the line,
and that is talent. Do you think these professional athletes
can deal with that? No, they can't. He's able to
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compartmentalize man Well in Guardina, which is tremendous and I'm
impressed by that. But but no, you don't want.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
To tell him. I say, hey, shut your mouth, I'm
talking to Benny. That's right, give me five minutes and
I'll be back.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
We go right back production. No, no, we're not. You're
very productive, and we go way back to the Ben
and Dave show, which, by the way, Man, well, you'll
appreciate this I was requested to do a reunion podcast
thing with that guy used to do the show with Dave.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
So I might that would be awesome. Dave is a Hey,
Dave's the man. Man, You're the man, Dave's the man.
That would be an awesome podcast. Hey, Benny. Also, I
retweeted the Vegas meet up. I doubt I'll be able
to make it, but it looks like it's going to
be a great tie time and shouts out to all
the Mallard militia because hey, man, you guys are a
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great community. Keep doing what you do. Benny, you know
that day's coming off the top row. You better be ready.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Listen. He'll be coming off the top rope as soon
as he's done licking the toes of Blake Snow, that's
when they'll be coming up with I thank you, all right. Yeah.
For those that are new to the show, this guy
in our in l on A five seventy where the
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week after the Dodger postgame show, which is hosted by
this guy, David Vesa, who I used to work with.
By the way, who's become a total shill for the Dodgers.
And I like the Dodgers too. People used to say
I was a show for the Dodgers. Compared to him,
I was the biggest critic, and I am the biggest
critic of all time. I hold these people accountable. And
he's out there giving him mayonni's and petties and it's pathetic.
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And he takes sheep shots. This guy takes shots at us.
It's a bad job by him. Let's go back to
the phones. Mike the Leprecaun is in Boston. Hello, Mike
the Leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Good morning, bearn welcome back. I had said that he
was signing Mallard reading greet t shirts for the Riddle
of Today. And I know Mike from New Hampshire is
going to be call later. F Marcell calls, are you there?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
They do? No. I stepped out first. I stepped out first.
I'll be back at about time minutes taking a break.
Mike on, I'll be back there. Might just have him
do the show.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Okay, I have a rap. I wrote a rap.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Hold on, does anyone want to wrap for Mike the
leprechauns anyone?
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I'm I'm the only one that has met Mike the
Leprecun When I when I met you, I thought this
guy's a rapper. When I met Michael Leperkun, I thought,
this is what a rapper is like. Right here, Mike
the Leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Yes, okay, it's the title. So the title is Leprechaun
in the spot Life, I am Mike the Leprecaun calling
again tonight to the Ben Maler Show. It feels so right.
I got my pot of gold and my jokes and toe.
But then it's just too busy with Loreno. Yo, oh, Lorena,
you're just a techy queen.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Some I think you got faded out there. Mike the Leprechaun.
He was official though when he put Yo in there.
That means it was wrap when you put yo in there?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
What up? Yo? How about you got it on bra brawl?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
No?
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Remember, come on, give me a breaker. Remember last week
I made everybody laugh. I drop it, dropped the joke.
He'll slick, but Ben just passed. I'm here with my charms,
trying to steal the show.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
But all he.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Wants to do is talk about Lorena. Though I'm dancing
on rainbow, just a Leprechaun screen.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
This is on the air, This is being broadcast Michael Leppertown.
What are you doing? This is on their people are
answer this. Not many, but there are people listening. What
are you doing?
Speaker 7 (32:29):
But Lorena? But the Lorena wrote to rise just watching
me unfold. So here's my promise. I'll make you see
I'm more than a catchphrase.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
I might.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Can't you see? With every call I make, I will
put you in your place because I might the Leprechaun.
I will win the race. So listen, not ben, I
am here to stay with a pool with a pot
full of latter. I will brighten your day. On Lorena,
just wait, I'll turn it around. The Leprachaun has tricks
that will just as down.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Someday I'll be on my death bed and I wish
I had, I wish I wish I had, I wish
I had a couple of months back of life. I
check out and I'll think, well, how did I how
did I waste that final two minutes of my life?
I listened to a call from Mike to Leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
That's it, Lelena, You're just a techie queen, always in
the chat knowing everything.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No, just wait till you go to Boston, Loraina and
now meet Remember, Oh, you're not invited? Is that true,
Mike the Lepregun. She's not invited? Is that accurate, Michael Lepregun.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Well, you have to give her stupid dates.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I know we haven't. We haven't settled on the exact date.
We'll give you the can we go to.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Where?
Speaker 7 (33:38):
Did I say?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Where do you? Where would you like to go? Atlanta?
That's random? Why would you someone has to sponsor the
trip to Atlanta? That's a that's a big Why do
you want to go to Atlanta? What's in Atlanta? To Boston? Either,
there's more this place. I was posted with this really
delicious looking chicken sandwich. There's good food and let's check
(34:01):
on sandwich chat and I was like, oh, it's in Atlanta. No,
Boston's a better food town than Boston. Boston's better food
town than Atlanta. It was like Boston things like that,
Atlanta doesn't have. What's that you want to bet if
you go to I'm telling you, if you to Atlanta,
he's gonna be He'll Mike the elepreqaun will pop up.
He's a Leprechat. He'll pop up in a Lanta like
a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
He'll show up there. Yeah. Anyway, it is the Ben
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is out there someone in sports. It could be a team,
It could be a player, a coach, a prominent media member,
someone that needs the wisdom that only you, the overnight
nocturnal listener, can provide. Well, we mentioned this earlier, and
I thought, well, hey, they're a morbid franchise, so why
not the New Orleans Saints. They don't have a quarterback.
Even if they had a quarterback on their roster, they don't.
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They have multiple quarterbacks. They all suck. So any advice
to the New Orleans Saints on solving their quarterback dilemma.
We can also do this for the Colts if you want.
But I thought we were talking about the Saints earlier,
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No?
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Hello on a time, tell them.
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To stop listen watching those daggone greety episodes.
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Of Star Wars. That's right, Rick and Maryland with a
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It's the inside advice line for the New Orleans Saints.
Who should be quarterback of the Saints. They don't have
one right.
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Now, Lorraine, I feel free to hit that dump button
just a little sooner next time.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
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Speaker 6 (37:25):
Even men should see each other.
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Again, James? Why do you? Why do you fall asleep? James?
When I put you on the air, I understand.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I can't follow.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
All right, Line five, you're on the air. It's the
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advice right now. They have Spencer Rattler, Tyler Shuck, and
Jake Hayner. Hello, you're on the air called call of five.
Line five.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
When I say vassa, you say blows the fass a blow?
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Line six you're on here. Oh my god? What no?
What one of the odds he would be on back
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Line too, you're on the air line too.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Hello, I just took hurd of what.
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I don't want to know what? Line gobbaol you need
the gobbagool. Line four you're on the air. We're giving advice,
but I mean gumbo. They need more gumbo in the
in the Bayou. Line four, you're on the air. We're
giving advice to the Saints.
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Hello.
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Line four, Maybe the facts need to put an ad
in the paper and say Wan.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah, I wanted. Well they have no one that's wanted.
Line five, you're on the air. Hello, that was Sewan
the hood guy. Hello. Line five, you're telling the prop.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Out here.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah, that's what they need. They just bring their tanking
for arch Manning. I've heard that conspiracy. Line six, you're
on the air is the inside advice line unscreened radio
for the nor Lands Saints in the NFC South. They suck. Hello,
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Speaker 6 (39:09):
Scott, Marcell, don't pick up the phone.
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Hello.
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Line two, forty eight, Caddy and a tank for a
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Pay me to play quarterbacks for the New Orleans Saints
and pay.
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Me and okay, all right, take you shots at Marcel.
I see what your Line four, you're on the airline Marcel. No,
how's our guy in Maine?
Speaker 6 (39:47):
I know who they gets?
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What?
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No? No, no, no, you've got the sessy legs, James, clearly.
Line three, you're on the air line three hour. Line
five Rother, Hello, line all right, this is going very well.
We'll hang up on you. On line six. Hello, you're
on the air of advice of the Saints. Line number two, Hello,
line two.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
Never heard of any of them one time?
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coopicket picket all, Line six, Line six. You're on the air,
line six. Go look at that coop. You picked an animal,
an actual animal, right there for Line six,
Playball. It's our num birth three. Our number three is
rocking and rolling talking bays ball. Where are you at
on Rob Manford's plan for Major League Baseball to geographically realign,
which sounds like the end of the American in the
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National leagues? Also, who's in line for Major League Baseball's
expansion franchises is they're planning on going to thirty two
teams plus Jim Harbaugh, the Chargers coach, has decided he's
not not saying a word after the NCAA dropped punishment
on Michigan over the weekend. Why is that we'll go
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there as well? Right now. It's like a chop block
to your soul. It's our number three, changing geography and
history as well. Welcome in the beginning of another hour
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So we'll change it up a little bit this hour.
We'll go back to baseball. Interesting story developing, and it
happened on a random Sunday night. If you didn't see it.
If you think ghost runners and the clock in baseball
are the end of the line on dramatic changes, then
you are a sucker. You're a loser. So, during a
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guest appearance on the Sunday night baseball broadcast between Seattle
and the New York Metropolitans played at the Little League
World Series in Pennsylvania, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfraud
suggested that the league could realign the divisions. That's right,
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move everyone around. Do the musical chairs move everyone around?
Based on geography if they expand in the near future.
I don't know if you saw or not. Maybe you missed it.
You were not paying attention. It wasn't much of a
game on Sunday night. So he said the following quote.
I think if we expand, Manfraud said, if we expand,
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it provides us with an opportunity to geographically realign. The
Commissioner of Baseball stated, I think we could save a
lot of where and tear on our players in terms
of travel. Close quote.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Manford also indicated that it is his goal before he
leaves one of the worst run commissionerships in baseball history.
When he leaves in a couple of years, he says
his goal is to have these expansion teams in place
and to have realignment in place. So let us discuss,
all right, the question where are you at on? Rob
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Manford announcing quietly on a Sunday night that Baseball's plan
is to geographically realign the big leagues. So I've got
George Lucas, sugar Daddies and parking ticket and we will
combine all of these things together, and we're gonna make
the gobbool. We're gonna make the gobygool. Now, first of all,
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Rob Manford, the bane of my existence, He's at it again.
He will not be satisfied. This little weasel will not
be satisfied until he completely destroys the sport of baseball. Now,
as for his hypothesis, let's address the comodo dragon in
the room. Manford. His argument is that realignment would improve
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the wear and tear on players from that grueling travel schedule.
So is there anyone Rizians, Is there anyone that feels
pity on the Major League Baseball players? Is there anyone
that believes that the Major League Baseball players need realignment
based on geography because of the ridiculous travel schedule? All right,
(04:56):
uh yeah, major League baseball as a sport has. Let
me scream this for those of you in the back
of the room. Major League Baseball has by far the
easiest travel schedule of any professional league that plays more
than one game a week. And this dope is up
there acting like these poor babies are flying cross country
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non stop every night one night. It's like Mick Jagger
back in the day with the Stones in the late eighties,
traveling around No no, no, no, no no. It's ridiculous.
Baseball's travel. When you do a side by side comparison
at baseball here and then you've got pro bouncy ball
over here and you've got professional hockey baseball is a joke.
(05:41):
It is one of the NBA teams are flying time
zone to time zone back to back, which the star
players don't play because they're a bunch of mister sophies.
Hockey teams are essentially living their life out of a
suitcase at a Marriotte off some interstate in Alberta as
they circum event the North America, not just the US, Canada,
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all over the place. Baseball guys, Oh no, the Red
Sox have to go to Tampa to spend three days
at the Ritz. Oh my god, how are they going
to handle that? Holy crap, Cry me a river. Of course,
it's not about that, we know. It's not about that.
When you peak behind the curtain, when you do a
little peekaboo behind the curtain there. This is based on
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trying to hold on to television. Now, the landscape in
television has changed dramatically. There are those that are predicted
it's going to change again. We went from cable television
to everyone's trying to save a buck, and then they
went to streaming. Now you're getting price gouge from streaming,
So now they're going to do bundles. They're going to
do bundles to try to save you money, which is
(06:48):
essentially cable, but it's gonna be on Wi Fi. That's
essentially what we're at. But this is trying to hold
onto television. Baseball has dabbled with online streams in places
like San Diego and other markets, and it has been
an abject failure because they've actually figured out that not
a lot of people actually want to pay to watch
Major League Baseball broadcasts that are produced by Major League Baseball.
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It's a bit of a problem from what I understand. Therefore,
they want to hold on and dig their fingernails into
that television as long as they can get it. And
it's about television. Ready's Rob Manford is being He's not
being transparent here. He's playing the Streaming Wars game, not
Star Wars. Streaming Wars is what he's doing here. And
he wants more Yankees, Mets, he wants more Dodgers, Giants, Dodgers, Podres.
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He wants the Cubs, White Sox is what he wants.
And those games get spikes in ratings. It is geographically desirable,
time zone wise. And Manford has made it abundantly clear
that he does not care about the tradition of the game.
It does not matter. He doesn't care about that. He's
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the guy who called the World Series trophy. What that's right,
mister irrigation, a hunk of metal. That's Rob Manford, the
Commissioner of Baseball. It's just a hunk of metal, is
what he said. He's also the guy that let the
cheating Astros violate all moral code in the World Series
and the regular season and the playoffs and all that.
(08:18):
In the MLB produced video there is a shot of
the table they used to cheat and Rob Manford, Rob
Manford basically did nothing. None of the players were punished.
There was no meaningful violation that was given to that team.
It was like, what can I do? What do you
want me to do? What do you want me to do?
He's also the guy that gave us, as we mentioned,
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the ghost Runner, Spooky the ghost Runner on second, like,
this is beer League Softball at the Neighborhood Park. And
let's not forget the masterpiece. The same guy a couple
of years Ago who put the balanced schedule where every
team plays every other team in baseball. So one year,
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if you're the Dodgers, will play at Finway. One year,
the next year the Dodgers will play the Red Sox
in LA, and the Twins will play against the Cubs
and Wrigley, and then the next year they'll play in Minnesota. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
So now all of a sudden, you did that, and
now you're worried about the schedule. You're worried about the travel.
(09:25):
That's what you're worried about. So can you say mixed
messages for a thousand? Yeah? I knew you could. Yeah. Yeah.
It's kind of like saying, hey, you know what I'm
gonna do. I have the plan, I got this Michigan gos.
I'm gonna go vegan. I am going to become a vegan.
While you have a big mac in your right hand
and you have a quarter pounder in your left hand,
(09:47):
but you're going vegan. You're going vegan, right, that's it. Yeah.
So if you want to spitball the divisions, it's pretty
easy on the East coast and the West coast it
gets a little dicey. In the Midwest, the little dicey
in the South and the northwest. That's where it gets
a little bit of dicingess to it. But all this
really means the end of the AL and the NL,
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the end of the American League in the National League,
say bye bye to one hundred and fifty years of
baseball history, because how do you geographically realign baseball without
fundamentally saying goodbye to the American League in the National League.
Forget we used to have this debate about the which
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league was better? Do you like the designated hitter? And
then the pitchers were such wiss as they had to
have the d in the National League because the players
couldn't handle it. And forget about pennant races. It's not
about the pennant race. It's not about that. Forget all
that Manford, he didn't give a damn about that. This
is akin to George Lucas tinkering with the Star Wars
(10:52):
franchise a generation after you had already dominated with your
Star Wars because you sold out and you wanted to
get a couple more dollars and all that stuff. Squeeze
another buck, And so that's exactly what happened to Star Wars.
There's so many crappy Star Wars movies that come out
every couple of years that are on Watchable Trek and
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they didn't need to do that. Well, baseball is like, well, listen,
we will start messing around with this that we get
rid of the National League, we get it to the
American League. That's what's next. It's insulting. It's also phony.
It's also phony, right, that's what it is. It's all
corporate bull crap. It's being you're putting lipstick on this,
and well it's something else. No, No, we know what
it is. We're fully aware of what it is here,
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and it's exactly what baseball has become under this leadership
of this commissioner, rob Man Fraud, the commissioner Major League Baseball.
This is under his watch. And that'll be his final,
his final going away president, the final pulling your pants
down and mooning baseball fans will be getting rid of
the American in the National League. Of course he'll be
(11:55):
gone and say the next commission will come in. So
I didn't do it. That was the old commissioner. What
do you want me to What's done is done here
all right now. Secondly, so rob Manfraud mentioned the distinct
possibility of expansion, which seems odd to those people that
have been preaching baseball there is a dying sport. No
one watches baseball. Well, why would you expand serious question?
(12:19):
Why would you add teams? If the sport is dying.
No one cares about baseball? Why would you be able
to add teams? Why would anyone invest in baseball? Well,
the obvious answer is the people that are crying about
baseball dying are completely wrong. Right now, today the whispers
are we do the show today. We're worried about today's show.
The whispers are that major League Baseball the two favorites
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for expansion are Nashville, so they can have a bad
baseball team to go with their bad football team in Nashville,
and Salt Lake City they can add a bad baseball
team to their bad basketball team and so hockey team.
So where do those rank? Salt Lake and Nashville in
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terms of television? So, because this again is all based
on audience television ratings, advertising things like that, well it
fluctuates Nashville depending on where you look. Nashville is a
booming city in America. In the South. It's a hipster city.
It's a cool city. It is twenty sixth. Nashville is
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twenty sixth in terms of top one hundred TV markets
in America. Salt Lake City is number twenty eight. So
these are two top thirty markets, but they're not in
the top twenty five. So it's not about hot chicken
sandwiches and the Tabernacle choir. It's not about that. This
is based on corporate sugar daddies. It's all about the
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sugar daddies. That's what this is about, and those are
the people that bankroll the franchise. I was explained years
ago by an executive who said, what you need for
this to work is corporate dollars. You gotta have corporate dollars.
And in some markets it's all dried up. There's only
there's only so many corporations that will spend money on
tickets and luxury boxes and all that stuff. So it's
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it's about those corporate dollars. In Nashville, you've got the
record labels, you've got you know, country music and all that,
but you also have some major healthcare corporations that are
available to you as potential advertisers in Nashville. So that's
a that's a sugar rush that gets the baseball management
types very horny thinking about that. And you put in Nashville,
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and you you also have some some pretty good divisional
rival reason you say the Southern Division would be some
combination of the Atlanta Braves, the Cincinnati Reds, the team
in Nashville. You'd put Tampa Bay in there in Miami,
and you just have a southern Southern wing of the
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Major League Baseball Division. Now, Salt Lake City another market
that's been talked about here. That would be a bet
that it's a growth mark, that it's gonna get bigger
and bigger, safe places. They love sports in Salt Lake
and so that would work. It's like there's a lot
of tech bros. They're relocating, believe it or not, to
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Salt Lake City, and then they're kind of going there like, well,
it's like you can live in the Bear, but you
can ski when everyone on Salt Lake it's the way
to go and all that. So there is that, and
then you look at the again you're looking at regionab rivalries.
You have a division with the Mariners, the A's and
the Rockies and the Diamondbacks that would be a division
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depending how they slice it up in Major League Baseball.
So those are some other possibilities here. And the TV
thing is interesting when you talk about Major League Baseball,
we're discussing Rob Manfred talked about adding expansion to teams
and and for talking about getting rid of essentially the
America of the nationally realigning based on geography, which has
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been talked about for at least forty years. At least
forty years there have been conversations that Baseball was eventually
going to do this. But the whole Salt Lake thing,
it's like you'd have shots of the famous loss Ach
mountains there in Salt Lake City and the skiing, the
home shopping network, it would be it would be glorious,
(16:28):
absolutely glorious as far as the team would suck, any
expansion team. But if you really forget about just keeping
it in the United States and you're based on actual
eyeballs in his city, and we had this guy Paul
from Ottawa who called up earlier, who had a big
drinking problem. He cleaned his life up and Paul mentioned
(16:49):
growing up a fan of the Montreal Expos. Well, if
you brought Montreal back. Holy you'll be batman if you
brought Montreal back in terms of market size, that is,
he realized the amount of people that live in Montreal
that is a top ten would be a top ten
market in United States terminology. It would be in the
same area with Boston, San Francisco, Washington, DC. And but
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baseball and I didn't work there before. We're not going
to go back there. We don't want to mess around
with the Canada and all that stuff. But in terms
of the actual population, you said, well, that would be
the way to go. But no, all right now. Meanwhile,
File thought to La, we going to change the page
quick y. We go to Los Angeles where Jim Harbaugh,
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head coach of the Lightning Bulls, Jim Harbaugh, Chargers head coach,
decided he is not not going to say a word.
Not a word, not the bird is the word. Not
a word from Jim Harbaugh on the NC double A
dropping punishment over the weekend for the Michigan Wolf hold.
(18:01):
Much of the just may have robbed in Vegas a
proud Michigander and all that stuff. So why is that?
Why did Jim Harball, when given the opportunity, not address
the three headed fire breathing dragon in the room. All right,
So on this one, Harbaugh's lips are sealed tighter than
(18:23):
a pickle jar not com any on this. And you
know what that tells you, and it tells me, and
it tells everyone. It tells us the same thing we
always say in these situations when someone says no comment,
we say, what guilty with a capital G. Now you're
hiding something. You're guilty capital G like Harball? What he
(18:47):
should have done? If you're advising Jim Harbaugh, you give
a stalk pr answer, which he could have done. It's
not that art. If I know how to handle this,
you'd think Jim Harball, the media savvy Jim Harbaugh, would
be able to handle it. You say, I'm sorry, my
lawyers have advised me not to talk about this issue.
I am I'm waiting some more information. You throw that out.
(19:10):
Now that's a bull crap answer. But you could say
that and boom, you're done. Instead the oh, he's awkward,
Jim Harbaugh goes radio silent on this one. It just
looks shady. It looks like you're you're out there acting
like you're Tony soprano and you're you're following the mafia code, right,
(19:31):
the murder code. It's you're just silence, complete silence there.
And the irony here is Michigan. If you look at
the punishment. We didn't talk about. We were away when
this all came down at the end of last week.
But Michigan basically got a slap on the wrist or
a mosquito bite. That's essentially what happened to the Michigan Wolverines.
(19:52):
And that's what makes the whole thing even more absurd, right,
just completely insane to the membrane when you think about it,
because Harbaugh is claim coming up like he's about to
do some kind of purp walk. Hey Jim, you're not right. Meanwhile,
the NCAA gave Michigan what amounage to be a parking ticket.
Is what they gave the Michigan Wolverines. And let's not
forget it. Harball's living LaVita Loca in La Man. He's
(20:16):
the boss of the Chargers. He's got sunshine, he's got
a fat paycheck. He's got supposedly a great quarterback. We'll
see about that in playoff games. And you think he's
looking back at Ann arbor I know, he's a Michigan
man and all that stuff. You think he's worried about that. No,
he's not. He's not. He's also in his early sixties now,
Jim Harball, and he's living the NFL life. You think
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he's going back to college football. You think he wants
to go back and hang out and coach a bunch
of seven and recruit seventeen year olds to go play
football for him. No, done so. Unless something goes terribly wrong,
he's done so. But this whole thing is classic Jim Harbaugh.
He is he just can't give a simple answer, just
(20:58):
give a simple you know, and it just makes everything
a little more awkward than it needs to be. It
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and will be used against you in the court of
sports radio. Time now though, for the Malor Riddle of
the day, So get ready here it is the Mallard
Riddle of the Day. You can answer this on X
at Ben Mallor and here it is. Travon Diggs was
spotted signing blank jerseys over the weekend for Cowboy fans. Again,
(21:45):
Trevon Diggs was spotted signing blank jerseys for Cowboy fans
over the weekend. That is the Mallor riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it, and we will do it.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Coop at up Bronc. And you can meet everyone in
Vegas on Saturday the Mallord Meet and Greet details on
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on down and say hello baby Vegas.
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Baby.
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Make sure to bring you bring your wife if she
hates the show. That's always always a lot of fun,
Always a lot of fun. I'd be coming up on
Saturday in Vegas. You can also follow the show's YouTube
channel at Ben Mahler Show. Back to it all, right
back to here we go, and we'll pay off the
riddle of the day. Here it is. Trevon Diggs was
(23:39):
spotted over the weekend signing blank jerseys for cowboy fans.
That is the Mallor riddle of the day. We'll keep
it simple. What is the answer? Let's does anyone know
the answer? And we go to the Great Unwashed Big
Greg and Iowa says they were Seattle Supersonic jerseys. Ashuer
(24:03):
says WNBA jerseys, fer Dog going with Brian Finley jerseys.
There is no such thing. Who else do we have?
Burlington sock puppets from Lady Sideburns. Ozzie waz is going
with Billy Bob jerseys, Dwayne Kiper jerseys from alf the
Alien o Piner. Who else? Page Down? New jersey jerseys
(24:27):
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Tammy in Vegas says he
was signing Vegas Nighthawks jerseys there playing in the NFL
IFL Championship Saturday and Tucson. I have no idea what
it is. It looks like arena football to me, must
be arena football. Who else do we have? Page Down?
(24:47):
I see JJ from Rent and sending random non sequarters
in He's back, Eileen says the Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
jersey was what he was signing. U Page Dan, he
was signing his brother Stefan's jersey from Andy and Line
Lakes Luka Doncik Maverick jersey guests by j T the Wingman.
(25:09):
That's his answer. Trucker Joe gotta have a fall guy
says was signing Tony Romo jerseys. Who else do we have?
Page Dan? Kathy in Madison says he was signing brand
new jerseys, brand new jerseys. Who else do we have
Camry Dad on the air? All right, Lorraina, do you
have an answer? Loreno, Yes, I think he was signing
(25:31):
Vancouver white Caps jerseys. Ben Okay, well we know who
that is because we were in Vancouver, so we know
that's the soccer team. Right, yeah, just go with it.
Uh no, the correct as? Is it correct? The correct answer?
Chavon Diggs, the Dallas player, was spotted signing De's Nuts
jerseys for Cowboy Fan Nuts. Hollering James is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello,
(25:58):
hollering James James. Come on, No, I don't hear him out.
He's not even snoring. Then he hung up. We'll call back.
I'm sure he's probably night man. The other one say
hello to Manuel in Guardina, making a rare and appropriate
(26:20):
return to the show. Hello, Manuel in Guardina.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
He's in the air everywhere for the Fox Sports Radio.
On the blow Torch of AM five seventy. Fanny's a
basher turning in a Fenny the Brawler. When it comes
to David Bath, say I love it man, Hey, the
show tonight has been like a festival a carnival if
(26:45):
you will. But I'm not going to go in on
those losers from down south and that degenerate who follows them,
who's a crappy gambler who doesn't make anybody money.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Oh who, by the way, by the way, not online,
has not called in, has not called in. The guy
who you're referring to, who you know, if the Padres
had won all three games, he would have been the
first call on.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
The board, of course. But you know, guys, rotten tomatoes
comes stewing out of his mouth, and like I said,
he's not lying it anybody's pockets but the casinos in
the books. So what do we care about that guy.
I'm more interested in the man fraud comment. Hey, you know,
I means you and I know Bennie gets some money
grab expansion. I mean, let's be real. The freaking pitchers
(27:39):
are pitching five innings, you know, hitters not playing every day.
There's not even enough baseball players to expand, so it
makes no sense. I mean, yeah, sure, if you want
to get the Salt Lake City Sister Wives going and
freaking Nashville Hillbill, yeah that's fine, and you'll get some money,
(28:01):
but the product is not there. You know, the product
is just not any man. Don't mess with you. I
wouldn't mind the realignment so much, you know what I mean.
But it is it's talking now of both sides here.
Now you know the guy, like you said, he did
the balance schedule and now he's trying to tack shuttle
(28:24):
like he's streaking.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
But but man, well, listen, he's complaying man for his
complain about travel. This man's at work, by the way,
this is dedication. This guy's multitasking man Well in Guardian
Not only is he on the air, he's also dealing
with work issues and someone talking to him down the line,
and that is talent. Do you think these professional athletes
can deal with that? No, they can't. He's able to
(28:46):
compartmentalize man Well in Guardina, which is tremendous and I'm
impressed by that. But but no, you don't want.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
To tell him. I say, hey, shut your mouth, I'm
talking to Benny. That's right, give me five minutes and
I'll be back.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
We go right back production. No, no, we're not. You're
very productive, and we go way back to the Ben
and Dave show, which, by the way, Man, well, you'll
appreciate this I was requested to do a reunion podcast
thing with that guy used to do the show with Dave.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
So I might that would be awesome. Dave is a Hey,
Dave's the man. Man, You're the man, Dave's the man.
That would be an awesome podcast. Hey, Benny. Also, I
retweeted the Vegas meet up. I doubt I'll be able
to make it, but it looks like it's going to
be a great tie time and shouts out to all
the Mallard militia because hey, man, you guys are a
(29:37):
great community. Keep doing what you do. Benny, you know
that day's coming off the top row. You better be ready.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Listen. He'll be coming off the top rope as soon
as he's done licking the toes of Blake Snow, that's
when they'll be coming up with I thank you, all right. Yeah.
For those that are new to the show, this guy
in our in l on A five seventy where the
show is heard in Los Angeles, which is the Dodger
station most of the time. We come on during the
(30:06):
week after the Dodger postgame show, which is hosted by
this guy, David Vesa, who I used to work with.
By the way, who's become a total shill for the Dodgers.
And I like the Dodgers too. People used to say
I was a show for the Dodgers. Compared to him,
I was the biggest critic, and I am the biggest
critic of all time. I hold these people accountable. And
he's out there giving him mayonni's and petties and it's pathetic.
(30:29):
And he takes sheep shots. This guy takes shots at us.
It's a bad job by him. Let's go back to
the phones. Mike the Leprecaun is in Boston. Hello, Mike
the Leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Good morning, bearn welcome back. I had said that he
was signing Mallard reading greet t shirts for the Riddle
of Today. And I know Mike from New Hampshire is
going to be call later. F Marcell calls, are you there?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
They do? No. I stepped out first. I stepped out first.
I'll be back at about time minutes taking a break.
Mike on, I'll be back there. Might just have him
do the show.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Okay, I have a rap. I wrote a rap.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Hold on, does anyone want to wrap for Mike the
leprechauns anyone?
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I'm I'm the only one that has met Mike the
Leprecun When I when I met you, I thought this
guy's a rapper. When I met Michael Leperkun, I thought,
this is what a rapper is like. Right here, Mike
the Leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Yes, okay, it's the title. So the title is Leprechaun
in the spot Life, I am Mike the Leprecaun calling
again tonight to the Ben Maler Show. It feels so right.
I got my pot of gold and my jokes and toe.
But then it's just too busy with Loreno. Yo, oh, Lorena,
you're just a techy queen.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Some I think you got faded out there. Mike the Leprechaun.
He was official though when he put Yo in there.
That means it was wrap when you put yo in there?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
What up? Yo? How about you got it on bra brawl?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
No?
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Remember, come on, give me a breaker. Remember last week
I made everybody laugh. I drop it, dropped the joke.
He'll slick, but Ben just passed. I'm here with my charms,
trying to steal the show.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
But all he.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Wants to do is talk about Lorena. Though I'm dancing
on rainbow, just a Leprechaun screen.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
This is on the air, This is being broadcast Michael Leppertown.
What are you doing? This is on their people are
answer this. Not many, but there are people listening. What
are you doing?
Speaker 7 (32:29):
But Lorena? But the Lorena wrote to rise just watching
me unfold. So here's my promise. I'll make you see
I'm more than a catchphrase.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
I might.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Can't you see? With every call I make, I will
put you in your place because I might the Leprechaun.
I will win the race. So listen, not ben, I
am here to stay with a pool with a pot
full of latter. I will brighten your day. On Lorena,
just wait, I'll turn it around. The Leprachaun has tricks
that will just as down.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Someday I'll be on my death bed and I wish
I had, I wish I wish I had, I wish
I had a couple of months back of life. I
check out and I'll think, well, how did I how
did I waste that final two minutes of my life?
I listened to a call from Mike to Leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
That's it, Lelena, You're just a techie queen, always in
the chat knowing everything.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No, just wait till you go to Boston, Loraina and
now meet Remember, Oh, you're not invited? Is that true,
Mike the Lepregun. She's not invited? Is that accurate, Michael Lepregun.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Well, you have to give her stupid dates.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I know we haven't. We haven't settled on the exact date.
We'll give you the can we go to.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Where?
Speaker 7 (33:38):
Did I say?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Where do you? Where would you like to go? Atlanta?
That's random? Why would you someone has to sponsor the
trip to Atlanta? That's a that's a big Why do
you want to go to Atlanta? What's in Atlanta? To Boston? Either,
there's more this place. I was posted with this really
delicious looking chicken sandwich. There's good food and let's check
(34:01):
on sandwich chat and I was like, oh, it's in Atlanta. No,
Boston's a better food town than Boston. Boston's better food
town than Atlanta. It was like Boston things like that,
Atlanta doesn't have. What's that you want to bet if
you go to I'm telling you, if you to Atlanta,
he's gonna be He'll Mike the elepreqaun will pop up.
He's a Leprechat. He'll pop up in a Lanta like
a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
He'll show up there. Yeah. Anyway, it is the Ben
(34:23):
Mahllor Show. As we press on here through the overnight hours.
Straight ahead, the Insta Advice Line unscreened radio. Who needs
the advice, the wisdom, the insight, the knowledge of your
fellow listeners, the mallow Militia. Who is it? We'll have
the Insta Advice Line on screen Radio eight seven, seven
(34:45):
ninety nine on Fox. We'll get to it. We will
do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Bell Miller and you. It is the Ben Malors Show.
And with the iHeart Radio app, you can stream the
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Speaker 3 (35:39):
Hey you sports figure, guy or girl, here was you
talking to son?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Here some instant advice? Hold that thought. No one's paid
attention to me for ten whole seconds. And if you
don't like it and a way week ago. It's the
insta advice line on the streamed radio needs the advice,
the wisdom, the knowledge of the mal or militia. Who
(36:05):
is out there someone in sports. It could be a team,
It could be a player, a coach, a prominent media member,
someone that needs the wisdom that only you, the overnight
nocturnal listener, can provide. Well, we mentioned this earlier, and
I thought, well, hey, they're a morbid franchise, so why
not the New Orleans Saints. They don't have a quarterback.
Even if they had a quarterback on their roster, they don't.
(36:28):
They have multiple quarterbacks. They all suck. So any advice
to the New Orleans Saints on solving their quarterback dilemma.
We can also do this for the Colts if you want.
But I thought we were talking about the Saints earlier,
so we'll bring that up eight, seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox. We're giving advice to the New Orleans Saints
on the insect Advice Line and will take your calls unscreened. Calling.
(36:49):
You're on the air your advice to the Saints. Please,
I got no legs.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Can I still come to the meet and greet it?
Speaker 5 (36:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
You can't. A line too, you're on the airline too.
Hello on a time, tell them.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
To stop listen watching those daggone greety episodes.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Of Star Wars. That's right, Rick and Maryland with a
random non secutar. Hello, you're on the air. Line three.
It's the inside advice line for the New Orleans Saints.
Who should be quarterback of the Saints. They don't have
one right.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Now, Lorraine, I feel free to hit that dump button
just a little sooner next time.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
All right, Line four, you're on the air. Hello, line four.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Even men should see each other.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Again, James? Why do you? Why do you fall asleep? James?
When I put you on the air, I understand.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I can't follow.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
All right, Line five, you're on the air. It's the
inside advice line for the New Orleans Saints. They have
terrible quarterbacks and they need some help. They need your
advice right now. They have Spencer Rattler, Tyler Shuck, and
Jake Hayner. Hello, you're on the air called call of five.
Line five.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
When I say vassa, you say blows the fass a blow?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
All right, thank you for that. It's Tony the bay Area.
Line six you're on here. Oh my god? What no?
What one of the odds he would be on back
to back lines? Seriously, that's Ferg Dog? Is that Ferg Dog? Okay,
Line too, you're on the air line too.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Hello, I just took hurd of what.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I don't want to know what? Line gobbaol you need
the gobbagool. Line four you're on the air. We're giving advice,
but I mean gumbo. They need more gumbo in the
in the Bayou. Line four, you're on the air. We're
giving advice to the Saints.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
Hello.
Speaker 8 (38:37):
Line four, Maybe the facts need to put an ad
in the paper and say Wan.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah, I wanted. Well they have no one that's wanted.
Line five, you're on the air. Hello, that was Sewan
the hood guy. Hello. Line five, you're telling the prop.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Out here.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah, that's what they need. They just bring their tanking
for arch Manning. I've heard that conspiracy. Line six, you're
on the air is the inside advice line unscreened radio
for the nor Lands Saints in the NFC South. They suck. Hello,
you're on the Airline six, Line.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Scott, Marcell, don't pick up the phone.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
All right, it's random call. You're on the air, random
call your advice to the Saints. All right, thank you
for that. We'll go to you online too.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Line two, forty eight, Caddy and a tank for a
gas forty eight all right, think Line line three, Hello,
line three, you can.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Pay me to play quarterbacks for the New Orleans Saints
and pay.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Me and okay, all right, take you shots at Marcel.
I see what your Line four, you're on the airline Marcel. No,
how's our guy in Maine?
Speaker 6 (39:47):
I know who they gets?
Speaker 5 (39:49):
What?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
No? No, no, no, you've got the sessy legs, James, clearly.
Line three, you're on the air line three hour. Line
five Rother, Hello, line all right, this is going very well.
We'll hang up on you. On line six. Hello, you're
on the air of advice of the Saints. Line number two, Hello,
line two.
Speaker 6 (40:12):
Never heard of any of them one time?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
That's true, Rick and Maryland. Are we do one more,
only one more. Of it's good. I'll take credit. If not,
I'll blame the coop. Final Call, instant advice line go ahead,
coopicket picket all, Line six, Line six. You're on the air,
line six. Go look at that coop. You picked an animal,
an actual animal, right there for Line six,
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