August 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Commanders paying Terry McLaurin $32 million per year and if they overpaid, Dak Prescott expressing confidence that Micah Parsons will be there Week 1 for the Cowboys, the Lions dumping QB Hendon Hooker, and much more!
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Here we go. Welcome, it's our number what our one
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We thank you for finding the podcast. We're subscribing to
the podcast and the most important part of this, you're
actually listening. And otherwise what's the point? But here in
our number one. Did the Commanders that's a team formerly
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known as the Redskins overpay for Terry McLaurin at thirty
two million dollars per year per year? Or is this
a fair deal for a player of his caliber. We'll
talk about that. And can you decipher what this Cowboys
starred Dak Prescott's vote of confidence with Micah Parsons and
his contract means the lack of a contract agreed to yet?
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And what's the lesson from the Lions dumping their former
third round pick quarterback Hendon Hooker. The hooker is on
the street. We'll get to that and more. Right now,
give it up for my little friend. It's our number one.
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The end of the storyline, well kind of the end
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talked about. I squeezed out no less than at least
six Mala monologues, which I know made Rick and Maryland
very happy and the ostrich Ant in DC very happy.
And storyline has now come to an end. You can
put the baby to bed. Now. I've been following this
all off season. What is that? I'll tell you if
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you have not heard, perhaps not because you actually have
a life. You don't pay attention to this stuff all day,
every day, every minute. You don't assess with it. You
don't have a talk show to do. So we learned
that wide receiver Terry McLaurin, who remember the guy, he
asked for a trade. I ain't playing unless I get
mine bro. He did the Blake smellfing that punk from
the Dodgers. So Terry McLaurin asked for a trade, and
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the Washington football team has decided to not trade him. Instead,
they have agreed to a Mega MEGAMEGA three year contract
worth ninety six million. Of course, we'll wait till the
fine print comes out how much of that is guaranteed.
There's conflicting reports on that. Before we give that side
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of it. The commanders, though, keep the player. McLaren essentially
missed the entire offseason, lolly gagging around in the hold in,
and he wanted that new contract. He turns thirty, Oh
my god, thirty. Next month the Big three to zero,
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and we'll be back on the field, back on the
field here with a new contract. He gets a massive check,
massive check from the Commanders, who will be able to
play their game one. The Washington football team opens against
the sad sack New York Football Giants to begin their season.
As I know, Braddy Eddie in Charlotte loves the Giants,
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but they suck. McLaren's average salary will now be I
know you're very concerned about other people's salary. Mclaurin's average
salary be thirty two million, which is the same as
AJ Brown, but less than Jamar Chase, less than Justin Jefferson,
less than C. D.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Lamb.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The Cowboys DK met Kevin Garrett Wilson. So listen, that's fine.
That's about it. Seems about right, seems about right, and
so that's where we are. So let us discuss did
the commanders though some are saying, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh my god, you didn't want to pay him he's
too old. You paid him?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So did the commanders overpay Terry McLaurin at thirty two
million per year? Or is this a fair market deal
for a player of his caliber? So I've got my
thoughts on this about Netflix, spaghetti and launching pad, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
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are going to put the biscuit in the basket. Is
what We're going to do. The biscuit in the basket.
So Hey, to answer the question, was this and overpay
by the Washington Commanders, none of I am going to
be Benny Brightside. I am Benny bright Side on this one.
I am McLaurin. The safety blanket for Jaden Daniels, the prodigy.
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We'll see if you can follow up that amazing Final
four run for the Washington football team and do it
again this year. But he was a prodigy, Jaden Daniels,
all those last second wins, dramatic, high flying, high falutin
the synergery with Cliff Kingsbury, but a lot of that,
when in doubt throw the ball to Terry McLaurin. That alone,
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on my scorecard, that alone makes him worth the premium
price tag, which is what Washington did pay it. And
this is very similar to what we had advice, the advice,
the unsolicited overnight radio advice that we had given to
the Washington football team. They're listening, they can't sleep, they're listening.
What was the advice, short term contract, big money? Who cares?
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Short term contract, big money? Who cares? Three It's not
really a three year deal. Don't get fooled by the numbers.
See people get fooled by the numbers, and we'll find
out how much of that is guaranteed. But this is
like Netflix or any other television network announcing that they've renewed.
We'll just focus on Netflix. They've renewed a show for
three seasons. Okay, they've renewed the show for three seasons.
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You're all excited. Okay, that's great. But in reality, what
they've actually done is giving you an eight episode deal
and they're gonna then cancel the show the second nobody watches.
That's it. But the announce it's a three year deal,
and then when no one's actually paying attention, they just
get rid of the show. That's it. And so this
is really the way I look at it. A one
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and a half year deal. It's a one and a
half year deal. The commanders were worried about mclaurin's age,
Oh my god, because they got a bunch of dorks
in there, and they look, it's like insurance now, so
you life insurance. They say, well, we're betting that you're
gonna live this long and then eventually you're gonna die,
but we're betting that we're gonna make this much money
off your your ass before you croak, and that way
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will be okay. But if not, if you have some
underlying condition you might croak sooner, well then we don't
want to do the deal. You got to pay more.
And they're like, wow, we don't want to do the
deal because you're gonna be thirty and you look at
the comps on this and all that stuff. But Washington
is thinking, we don't want to pay this guy till
he's thirty three. Well, spoiler alert, looks like until we
see the fine print here, you're gonna be paying him
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close to that. The contract in theory always in theory,
locks up mcclaurin through twenty twenty eight. He would be
thirty three. The new money thirty two million annually. Now
the owner Josh Harris who's one of these slick business
dudes who wants to be famous. You don't buy a
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sports team unless you want to want people talking about you, right,
You just don't. Why would you bother? So he owns
the bunch of sports teams with the Washington football team,
this is a bullet you got to bite on. If
you're Josh Harris, you got to bite on it because
it's a PR move. The way I look at this,
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it's a PR move. There's no need for a GoFundMe.
Harris is worth almost ten billion dollars in the estimate there,
so that they're trying to sell stability, and I would
have kept a player. To Benny Brightside, it's good for
all involved. It's not a massive commitment long term, and
he's been very productive. Some absolute puke quarterbacks in Washington.
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Now they finally have what appears to be a pretty
good quarterback. So we'll see how this goes here. But
it's really just a year and a half and they're
either gonna cut him or restructure the contract and that'll
be that. Now to Dallas, that's right. The obligatory Mallard
monologue about America's team, the Dallas Cowboys, So the latest
developments on this the Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott. That's his name, Dakota.
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They call him dak but he's his real name is Dakota.
So Dakota Prescott has entered the chat on the big deal.
So a couple of contracts agreed to holdouts or hold ins,
ending Trey Hendrickson. We'll get to that later. We've got
a four hour talk shit to do. But Trey Hendrickson
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is going to stay with the Bengals for this season
at least. And we mentioned the Terry mclarn thing. But
in Dallas they have not had any kind of settlement yet.
So the Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott said that he is confident,
confident that the disgruntled edge rusher Micah Parsons will be
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on the field a week from Thursday when the Cowboys
open up with Doc Phila del Fia Eagles. In a
made for Prime Time football extrava Ganz, Dakota Prescott said, quote,
I've got confidence. I told y' all just to prove
he's actually living in Texas, he had to say, all,
I told y'all that way back when Prescott yapped and
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snapped at reporters. He said, I'm just going to be
going off experience, honestly, no different than mine, referring to
the situation where his contract was also fed up until
the very end. So question, can you decipher? Can you
decipher what the Cowboys star dak Prescott in his vote
of confidence with Michaeh. Parsons means. So I spent several
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seconds deliberating on this one, several seconds, and Dak's out
there yelling at the world. He's quoting Aaron Rodgers. Relax.
He's saying, relax, I've got confidence and all this stuff.
He's following the script The Dallas Cowboys again for the
eighteen thousand dimes into these microphones. It is a spaghetti Western,
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the Dallas Cowboys. They are a spaghetti Western. You got
Jerry Jones twirling his mustache like a villain. Now, I
got a cartoon villain, Jerry Jones. Over there. You got
Dak Prescott, who's playing the wise old sage cowboy, Dakota
Prescott sitting on his porch, sipping some sweet tea and
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telling everybody all calm down. Now, they all calm down. Now,
Mike's gonna be fine, just like that. So Prescott following
the wisdom that we believe in. Obviously, this is not
his first rodeo, Dak Prescott, He's been through the contract
Ringerry's ringer for a while. A couple of times he's
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cashed in. He got two hundred and forty something million,
I believe. I think I'm right on that. So Jerry
has a PhD. And the PhD is in drama from
the University of Keeping the Cowboys Relevant. You might not
have heard about that university. It's a small university. It's
located in the Death Star there in Jerry's world. And
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you think it's a coincidence that every off season there's
a contract standoff every off season. In the last this
is three years in Robley. Three years in a row.
We've gotten more twists than a burial race at the
or one of those barrel races you know you see
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at the State Fair where they're racing the I mean,
there's a lot going on. And first it was Dak
a couple of years back. Then it was Ceedee Lamb,
and now it's now it's Michael Parsons. So I think
for three for three, Jerry's got his playbook. He does
things his way, and it's thicker than a longhorned steak.
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Jerry Jones got that big playbook there, but he loves this.
This is his go to act in the spaghetti Western.
And it's like, you know, sitting there in the owner's box.
He's up there atop the stadium. He's just sipping whiskey
and looking down at all the rubes and all the dopes,
and uh, let's let this simmer. Let's let the simmer
for a little bit and let the cameras roll at
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all the debate shows, all the gas bags, blow hards
know it, alls chime in on this, and you know what,
it works. It does work. It absolutely works. Like we're
talking about the cowboys here, we are. There's other stuff
going on, but the Dallas Cowboys in late August late
August continue to move the needle, figuring things out while
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other teams are changing punters and releasing fat guys and
all that. Now, speaking of that, there was one move
that caught my attention, and that's the last word. We
go to Motown. Quarterback change. Quarterback change. In Motown, the
Lions have said bye bye. They have gotten rid of
former third round pick Hendon Hooker. You can't get rid
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of a hooker. They put a hooker out on the street.
What's up with that? So Hendon Hooker, let go. Kyle
Allen has officially won the Lions backup quarterback battle, which
means when Jared Goff gets hurt, the Detroit Lions will
have no chance to win unless they pitch a shutout
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on defense because Kyle Allen blows. He's terrible. So what
is the lesson? Though? I think there's a bigger lesson.
This caught my attention. So what is the lesson here?
From the Lions dumping former Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker getting
rid of him? So this is a refresher course. It
is a refresher course. The draft, what do we always say,
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fools gold? It's fool's gold. It's a suckers game. And
every draft there's a couple of quarterbacks drafted in the second, third,
fourth round. And I got a here, all the geniuses.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Oh man, this guy's going to be a steal of
the draft. Oh my god, this guy's got amazing ability.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah to.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
My ears bleed. So Dan Campbell and the Lions took
Hendon Hooker. He was raw, he was unpolished, he had
a bad knee. He was twenty five years old, which
is older than pretty much everyone in the draft, and
they drafted him. And he was said to be a project.
But the same people who've made the draft, the cottage industry,
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they love to tell you, oh, this guy's gonna be great, wonderful.
And what happened. It went exactly the way we thought
it was going to happen, the way we expected it
to happen. The project at quarterback, Hendon Hooker. The Lions
blew up on the launching pack cup boom right there
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on the launching peck kaboom kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom kamoom,
just like that, and did not even get off the ground.
He's not a starter. They said, well, maybe we'll be
back up. He's nothing. At this point, Hooker's going through
the checkout line with the old thank you come again
sticker right on his forehead right there. Ninety five percent
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of these so called projects, they fail, all right, this
was a third rounder. A third round. You might as
well be lighting the pick on fire. Just get some
gasoline and a lighter and or book of matches and
just light the thing on fire, or use a blowtorch.
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You just get blow torch out there, like you're roasting
marshmallows and delicious marshmallows and just going for it. So
he's not hooker. Hooker's not a clipboard guy. He's not
a headset guy at this point, as he's a loss
in the shuffle guy. Does any eat marshmallows without cooking them?
I can't imagine eating marshmallows without cooking them. They're rather disgusting.
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You have to eat them cooked, right, There's no is
there a market for people that just munch on marshmallows
without them being roasted with chocolate and graham crackers? Like,
is there a group that that's into that. The people
who do Chubby Bunny competitions? The Chubby Bunny competition. But
when I was a I remember Thanksgiving, my mom would
always make this big thing of yams. I think yams
are disgusting. Oh they're so good, horrific, But my mom
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would cover them with marshmallow. So I would just eat
the marshmallows. My mom gets so upset. I did not
eat the ams. I said, I just want the marshmallows.
I don't need the ams. You can have the yams.
Oh you gonna eat both? No, I don't have to
eat both, just the marshmallows. I'm just gonna eat the marshmallows.
So maybe just make me a plate of marshmallows and
that'll be the way to go. And I never never
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really worked out anyway. It is the bean at Mather.
So the lines are open now we are. I've determined
tomorrow is going to be a newby night. Tonight is
not a newbiy night. Tomorrow's gonna be a newbe night.
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Sports Radio Mystery site, The Bite will return, and some
other surprises along the way. Well, we mentioned the spaghetti Western.
The Dallas Cowboys have turned into the spaghetti Western. When
you've got to add the alpha mom to the spaghetti Western?
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What yeah, the alpha mom? You must add. You gotta
add that to the script. We'll explain, we'll get to that,
and we will.
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right now, quickly back to what we go. Late night
drug tester Right Sin says, I have to disagree with
the Mallard monologue. Jerry Jones isn't a barrel racer since
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he's been writing this bowl of a Micah Parsons story
for eight months, not just eight seconds. Give him the
gold buckle, he says. Fer Dog says, hey, bet your
cal Rowley Mallard monologue from yesterday is already paying dividend
thanks to the big dumpers. Fiftieth Homer of the year
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the Mariners beat the Podreys and the Dodgers took back
control of the National League West. Did watch some baseball
there for Dago was slipping around. Watched Red Sox games,
some of the Yankee game that wasn't much of a
game that he has killed the Nationals with that natitude.
The Mets pulled away from the fight in Phills, was
(22:26):
flipping to that game, and I did watch some of
the Dodger game as they dominated. Is they kicked the
ass at the Cincinnati You had three hits and two errors,
which is in no runs, which is generally not good,
but not as bad as the Cleveland Guardians, who I
believe have now been shut out three games in a row.
The team formerly knows. The Indians have been shut out
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three games in a row, and in that time they
have given up twenty four runs and they have ten
total hits. Now, I didn't play professional baseball and I
just host an overnight show. I don't think that's good.
I do not believe that is particularly good. But what
do we know? What do we know? Who else do
we have to page down Tacoma. Drew writes and says, Ben,
(23:09):
this is off topic. Everything's off topic to coma Drew
But why do you not have merch or do you
I want Malard militia merch? Is is this not a
great idea? It is a great idea. We've done that
in the past. We've had some limited run shirts. I've
actually been working on something behind the scenes that I have.
You listened to the Fifth Hour podcast about having like
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a shirt of a month or something like that. Although
every time I talk about something like this, something falls apart.
So we are efforting that like a theme shirt or
something like that, or if you want a hat or
something along those lines. So we're not quite there yet.
We're not quite there yet, Screwge says. I swear almost
every First Hour monologue is about the Jerry Jones or
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Michael Parson's story. Sports media have run out of things
to talk about. That the Cowboys are an everyday conversation.
We'll screw huge again. You want us to do narrow casting, Strewge,
We do broadcasting. There's a broad appeal. There's a broad
appeal to this story. It's huge exactly. So if you
don't get that, screwed, you want me to lose my job. Screws.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You see that you're saying, Oh, I wish mall we
wouldn't talk about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Okay, let's not talk about the biggest effing story in sports.
I'll lose my effing job and then you'll have some
boring talk show host in here that will suck. Is
that what you want? Yeah? Eileen writes it from I
think she's in the Bay Area. She says, I put
the baby to bed and the biscuit in the basket
and Michael Parsons still ain't signed eating raw mushrooms. Wow,
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shock shock Shock. Jock super market Steve, who did make
in appearance with his lovely wife there at the Malla
Meat and Green theme in Vegas, quite the character. I
noticed no theme shirts this year, so they they're cutting back.
Last year they had the theme shirts, but not this year.
I guess they're not as big fans now as they
were last year. They had some theme stuff and it
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was in the past. Tierra Massou No, Tierra Massous. I
loved her karaoke. It's enjoyable, it was good. Indeed, it
was suer Wargus. Steve says, I turned on the flying
ship here at Fox Sports Radio in lam five seventy
to hear a caller mister blankety blank completely agreed with
say that Mookie Bets is doing a great job at shortstop.
(25:24):
It reminds me of when I was twelve and I
used to argue that Derek Jeter was a great shortstop.
I'm not twelve anymore. Yeah, well, listen, I don't know
if you want me to go down that road. Mookie
did make a great play in that game I was watching,
and he had an elite defensive play at shortstop for
the Dodgers against the Red So that's great. Do I
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trust Mookie Bets in the eighth inning of a tie
game playing shortstop on a cold night in Philadelphia? No,
I don't, or New York or any of those plays. No,
I don't don't. I don't trust him Derek Jeter. Listen,
there are people that grew up little kids watching Derek
Jeter who to this day will call up and fight
me to the death. Supermarket Steve that Derek Jeter was
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a great defensive short even though I watched Jeter's entire
career and know he's he was not. He was at
most average, And yet there are people that grew up
thinking thinking, well, I was a little kid, I didn't
know any better, and he was great and all this
stuff chipping the qs right, so it says a plus
on the monologue you are putting the biscuit in the basket,
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will you also be putting the tiscuit and the tasket
in a yellow basket as well? Rhyme Yeah, Well I'm open,
I'll hope. And for some reason, I don't understand why
the people if I don't say baba ganoosh anymore, they
get upset. You have to say it, and now I
have to say gobaghool great. So those are two that
(26:48):
I have to say if I don't say gobagool or
Babushka is a good one. I could add babushka, right
you uh, we're gonna We're gonna make the babushka happy, right.
Babushka is a fun word. But we did learn that
the male version of Babushka is not Babushka. It's something mamushka.
I believe it's mamushka, not babushka. So it's a But
(27:09):
I like Babushka. That's a that's a grandmother. And you
hope someday to be a babushka. But you don't want
to be there too soon because then it's an awkward
it's an awkward situation, right because you think of mean
you generally think of the cliche as grandmothers are old
and grandfathers are old. But I was a friends. I
will not reveal the name of a very well known
baseball player who was probably in his late thirties and
(27:34):
was a grandfather. And the math, the math doesn't really
seem to work on that. But he yeah, he is
like it looks or with actual No, he actually apparently
had some of the things that happened at a very
young age. And uh then that continued body to the
next generation. And you do the math on that, and
the math, yeah, that's how he's the granddad. That's how
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that's how he the granddaddy. That is absolutely correct one
on that. You can hit us up on ax at
Ben Mahler. Now, for some reason, Mark the full name
guy continues to send me in a photo of this
dusty old hat and says it's a Cleveland Spiders hat
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when it's not. It's a it's an I have that
same hat. By the way, Mark, it's a minor league team.
I think it's called the crawfish. I think it's a crawfish.
Didn't we get sent those hats? The crawfish hats not
fighting crawfish? Isn't that what those blue ones were? No? Well,
I don't know what though. This is a difference. This
is an old This is the shrimp hat we did get.
(28:38):
So I was very happy of that, and I do
want to think I would like to thank our friend Tree.
I feel very ark with people's give gifts. I don't
like to open them, and I don't know why. It's
one of my my things. I don't like opening them
for the people. But I did to open very nice
He sent some like a nice Chicago gift pack of
Chicago paraphernalia. There was a hat from his He's a
(29:00):
proud union man, so we had the union hat from
his company, which is great. That's kind of a cool
hat because I can wear that. People think, boy, you're
a good you're hard working blue collar guy, right and
not just the guy that just talks for a living.
So I can, I can, I can fool people want
to go to Costco. I can wear that hat and
then somebody will say, hey, are you from Chicago that
you know? And I said, well, no, but I can
tell or I can lie and say I am from Chicago.
(29:21):
That would be simple. That would be stealing a valor,
you know, union valor from Tree and I don't know
that I want to do that. Do you think people
would think I was a UPS driver? If I were
the hot you don't generally look like a UPS driver.
I don't. I don't think which, But what do they
look like? I don't know. I think it would act
as protection too. If he went into like Chicago, you're
just wandering the streets. You think nobody would mess with me?
(29:42):
This guy's This guy's a local. Yeah, this guy's a local.
Guys is legit, that's real smart. I think that hat
is the Hickory craw Dads, the original I want to say,
Hickory craw Dads. The hat that Mark thinks is the
Cleveland Spiders for some reason, I don't know. Let's see here,
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Robbie the Mariner fan right, Sin says hopefully the curse
of the Benbino does not strike as he's referring to
the man that well, let's just get to it right now.
Cal Raley is his name, and home runs is his game.
It is the tire act play of the night. The
Seattle baseball team playing the San Diego baseball team. They
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are forced rivals by Major League Baseball. They were playing
on a lazy, hazy kind of a Monday night in
the Pacific Northwest, and cal Raley added some history to
that game the.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Three to two other wit of cow swinging a well
the ball deep the left field head into the upper deck,
State Fair upper deck. Goodfie baseball Umber fifty for cal Raley.
He becomes one of only thirty three members the fifty
home run club and the magical season just contissuus for
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cal Rawley.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Holy smokes, what a shot? Holy smokes. Rick Raz on
Mariners Radio with the call cal Raley up to fifty
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buying should be. That was a major league leading fiftieth
home run for cal Raley as he adds to the
Mantle rally, cal Raley joining Mickey Mantle. I've heard of
that name as the only switch hitters did fifty home
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runs in a season, and he became the eighth player
in Major league history to reach the half century mark
in ours. You want to fund me, put me. I
got a fun fact. You want a fun fact, I
got a fun fact for you. Here we go, malor
fun factor.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
So, other than pitcher, cal Raley became the first catcher
to hit fifty home runs. There's only one position left
that has not had a fifty home run season in baseball.
You know who it is? What position? What do you think?
You think? Right guard? Lorena? You think right guard? Maybe center, outfield? Outfield? Okay,
(32:24):
Lorena is not playing our game. What do you think
it is? Coop? One position that has not had a
fifty home run season, there's only one aside from pitcher. No,
the shortstop has happened? A rod did that? The base? Yeah,
second base, that's it. Second base is the only position left.
And there was that's a lie. There was a couple
(32:47):
of years back Marcus Simeon hit like forty five home
runs or something that came close, but no one at
second basis hit fifty home runs, so just the Mariner
should move cal Raley to second base. Yeah, and w
a bonus fun fact. I got a bonus fun fact
for I'll give you fun fact. This is gonna really
upset Robbie the Mariner fan, because this is full Mariner porn.
(33:10):
Cal Raley has now passed Aaron Judge by in war,
according to the nerds over at fangraphs. So that's they
keep track all the nerds stats at fangrafts dot com.
And there it is just a hair ahead, as cal
Raley is just percentage points ahead of Aaron Judge, a
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hair ahead, but the Turtles right behind. There you go,
we'll see what we'll see what that all means. There
you go, Mark the full name guy says man. I
realize it's not actually a spider's cap, but to celebrate
the futility of the awful Colorado Rockies, I will substitute nicely.
Thank you. Okay, you just you do you boo? You
do you boo. You just knocked yourself out. So the
(33:53):
alpha mom has entered the Spaghetti Western just to anoy
scrooge that would be the mother, the mother of Micah Parsons.
Do you see this? Yeah, So there's a viral video.
This is actually from the other night, but it made
the rounds and went viral on Monday. And it was
a Cowboy exhibition game Cowboys and they were playing the
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final exhibition game and before the game there's Micah Parson's
mom and Jerry Jones right there photo op Mama Parsons,
the alpha mom. She wanted a nice photo and Jerry
made a joke about I think your son wants some
money or something like that. So there's that. Also, Chris Collinsworth,
I've heard of him. He was asked he's doing the
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game the NFL opener, which means he'll lick the toun Well,
I just did. He'll lick the toes of Jalen Hurts
and Dak Prescott slap a slapislava because he loves quarterbacks.
So Consworth says he is preparing, of course, for Micah
Parsons to play in the NBC opener. Does that mean
he's got special Michael Parsons knee pads ready to go?
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I don't know, but we'll find out. So there you go,
all right? Is the Ben Malor Show. We press on.
We will take some calls. I promise you guys have
been hanging out and waiting. And here's the who am I? Game? Though,
before we get to that, this is where I pretend
to be somebody else. Thus I am the who am I? Game?
So along forty eight qualified receivers. This goes back to
(35:22):
twenty fourteen with at least thirty targets in the season.
I ranked last in yards per route and poor, last
in yards per game, and last in catch rate, also
last and first down rate. Again, here we go, this
is the who am I?
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
We're looking for the name of this person among one
forty eight qualified receivers, going all the way back to
twenty fourteen with at least thirty targets in a season,
I ranked dead last in yards per route, last and
yards per game, and last and catch rate and also
last in first round the rate in any season? Who
(36:03):
am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
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and we'll get to the calls. We have not taken
a call yet. Bad job by us. But here is
the who am I? Game? This is where I pretend
to be somebody else. Among one forty eight qualified receiver
since twenty fourteen with at least thirty targets in a season,
I ranked last in yards per route, last in yards
per game, and last in catch rate, last in first
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down rate, which means I suck? Who am I? That
is the question? What is the answer alf the alien
O Pinter, Alf's going with John McClain as his answer,
and die Hard there Golden Tate from William Who else
do we have? Page down? Let's see, can't read that.
Bobby and Florida is going with Cher it's his answer,
(37:42):
Key Key Palmer, who is thirty two today from Late
Night Drug Tester marked the full name guy of the
Roseberg Rams. That's funny. Probably answer my hometown. Put there's
Mark there. That's that's pretty good. He's got the colon
right there, Barney. But he will never see that, by
the way, Mark the ful name mame Barney Rubble from Milkman.
(38:05):
Mike LaTroy Hawkins. Good name from mister nice guy old
school nineties baseball. Who else o j Unless it's not
that's Andy and Lionel Lakes Stephen Hawking from just Josh
al G. Crumpler Another solid name from James. It's a
good name there to Von Austin. Wow, that's close to
home there. Robbie the Marina fan a ram Bust from
(38:27):
Back of the Day. Shaboozie from The Sawman. When you
think of Shaboozy, you think of the saw Man in Mississippi.
Fair Hooker from Miguel on fire. Who else can't read that?
Carlster Crumpler from Malibu, Rubin, that's his answer. Let's see
(38:48):
who else? Sky Moore sounds like a w NBA player
from Eloyd from Compton. Who else do we see? Michaeh
Parson's brother, the napping Chris Cayman his antswer All right,
do you have an answer? Lorraine? It's got to be
Julie Andrews Ben Okay, fine answer, really bad receiver. No.
(39:08):
The correct answer is the latest bust for the New
England Patriots at wide receiver as a Jalen Pok Pope.
Jalen Polk got a Washington last season? Last season horrific?
Is it pulp like pulp and juice? Polk p o
l k Polk Polk Polk Poke Polk. Let's go to
(39:29):
the phones. Mark is an Iowa. What's going on? Mark? Welcome? Mark?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Hey, I just wanted to say something about your collar
last night, about the Cowboys. Yes, yes, you're on the
air right now. People may actually be listening.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Well I always listened.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Oh, thank you, well, thank you for that. I appreciate that.
Means La, what part of Iowa are you in? Mark?
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Is that like the big city in island, Iowa City
is like the big the most is that the most
populated city in Iowa is yeah yeah, and then des Moines,
a little lower down on the list right is the
most popular. Oh it is really Oh okay, okay, who knew?
All right, what's your fire?
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Off?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
An amazing take? Mark, I want an amazing take? Go ahead,
he said.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
The gentleman that called last night said that the Dallas
Cowboys will win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I know you have other people that call you when
Dallas wins games, but I just can't believe that Dallas
was going to go anywhere with the other or not.
That guy's you know, you're talking about the Texas trucker.
That guy calls up every year. We used to have
this guy. He didn't call anymore, but he called only
when the Cowboys would win. This guy would call. And
you're proving my point, Mark, because you agree with me
(40:46):
and I don't deep down these Cowboy fans they're like cockroaches,
these people, a lot of them, and we uh they were.
They were ridiculous. But that's why we talk about the
Cowboys because they get incense. We talk about in sent
good call Mark, What an amazing call. Hung believ
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number what our one
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We thank you for finding the podcast. We're subscribing to
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actually listening. And otherwise what's the point? But here in
our number one. Did the Commanders that's a team formerly
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known as the Redskins overpay for Terry McLaurin at thirty
two million dollars per year per year? Or is this
a fair deal for a player of his caliber. We'll
talk about that. And can you decipher what this Cowboys
starred Dak Prescott's vote of confidence with Micah Parsons and
his contract means the lack of a contract agreed to yet?
(00:44):
And what's the lesson from the Lions dumping their former
third round pick quarterback Hendon Hooker. The hooker is on
the street. We'll get to that and more. Right now,
give it up for my little friend. It's our number one.
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The end of the storyline, well kind of the end
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outside the Beltway and so there's a lot, a lot
of moving parts of this it's a story that we
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talked about. I squeezed out no less than at least
six Mala monologues, which I know made Rick and Maryland
very happy and the ostrich Ant in DC very happy.
And storyline has now come to an end. You can
put the baby to bed. Now. I've been following this
all off season. What is that? I'll tell you if
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you have not heard, perhaps not because you actually have
a life. You don't pay attention to this stuff all day,
every day, every minute. You don't assess with it. You
don't have a talk show to do. So we learned
that wide receiver Terry McLaurin, who remember the guy, he
asked for a trade. I ain't playing unless I get
mine bro. He did the Blake smellfing that punk from
the Dodgers. So Terry McLaurin asked for a trade, and
(03:28):
the Washington football team has decided to not trade him. Instead,
they have agreed to a Mega MEGAMEGA three year contract
worth ninety six million. Of course, we'll wait till the
fine print comes out how much of that is guaranteed.
There's conflicting reports on that. Before we give that side
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of it. The commanders, though, keep the player. McLaren essentially
missed the entire offseason, lolly gagging around in the hold in,
and he wanted that new contract. He turns thirty, Oh
my god, thirty. Next month the Big three to zero,
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and we'll be back on the field, back on the
field here with a new contract. He gets a massive check,
massive check from the Commanders, who will be able to
play their game one. The Washington football team opens against
the sad sack New York Football Giants to begin their season.
As I know, Braddy Eddie in Charlotte loves the Giants,
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but they suck. McLaren's average salary will now be I
know you're very concerned about other people's salary. Mclaurin's average
salary be thirty two million, which is the same as
AJ Brown, but less than Jamar Chase, less than Justin Jefferson,
less than C. D.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Lamb.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
The Cowboys DK met Kevin Garrett Wilson. So listen, that's fine.
That's about it. Seems about right, seems about right, and
so that's where we are. So let us discuss did
the commanders though some are saying, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh my god, you didn't want to pay him he's
too old. You paid him?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So did the commanders overpay Terry McLaurin at thirty two
million per year? Or is this a fair market deal
for a player of his caliber? So I've got my
thoughts on this about Netflix, spaghetti and launching pad, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
(05:29):
are going to put the biscuit in the basket. Is
what We're going to do. The biscuit in the basket.
So Hey, to answer the question, was this and overpay
by the Washington Commanders, none of I am going to
be Benny Brightside. I am Benny bright Side on this one.
I am McLaurin. The safety blanket for Jaden Daniels, the prodigy.
(05:50):
We'll see if you can follow up that amazing Final
four run for the Washington football team and do it
again this year. But he was a prodigy, Jaden Daniels,
all those last second wins, dramatic, high flying, high falutin
the synergery with Cliff Kingsbury, but a lot of that,
when in doubt throw the ball to Terry McLaurin. That alone,
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on my scorecard, that alone makes him worth the premium
price tag, which is what Washington did pay it. And
this is very similar to what we had advice, the advice,
the unsolicited overnight radio advice that we had given to
the Washington football team. They're listening, they can't sleep, they're listening.
What was the advice, short term contract, big money? Who cares?
(06:33):
Short term contract, big money? Who cares? Three It's not
really a three year deal. Don't get fooled by the numbers.
See people get fooled by the numbers, and we'll find
out how much of that is guaranteed. But this is
like Netflix or any other television network announcing that they've renewed.
We'll just focus on Netflix. They've renewed a show for
three seasons. Okay, they've renewed the show for three seasons.
(06:55):
You're all excited. Okay, that's great. But in reality, what
they've actually done is giving you an eight episode deal
and they're gonna then cancel the show the second nobody watches.
That's it. But the announce it's a three year deal,
and then when no one's actually paying attention, they just
get rid of the show. That's it. And so this
is really the way I look at it. A one
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and a half year deal. It's a one and a
half year deal. The commanders were worried about mclaurin's age,
Oh my god, because they got a bunch of dorks
in there, and they look, it's like insurance now, so
you life insurance. They say, well, we're betting that you're
gonna live this long and then eventually you're gonna die,
but we're betting that we're gonna make this much money
off your your ass before you croak, and that way
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will be okay. But if not, if you have some
underlying condition you might croak sooner, well then we don't
want to do the deal. You got to pay more.
And they're like, wow, we don't want to do the
deal because you're gonna be thirty and you look at
the comps on this and all that stuff. But Washington
is thinking, we don't want to pay this guy till
he's thirty three. Well, spoiler alert, looks like until we
see the fine print here, you're gonna be paying him
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close to that. The contract in theory always in theory,
locks up mcclaurin through twenty twenty eight. He would be
thirty three. The new money thirty two million annually. Now
the owner Josh Harris who's one of these slick business
dudes who wants to be famous. You don't buy a
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sports team unless you want to want people talking about you, right,
You just don't. Why would you bother? So he owns
the bunch of sports teams with the Washington football team,
this is a bullet you got to bite on. If
you're Josh Harris, you got to bite on it because
it's a PR move. The way I look at this,
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it's a PR move. There's no need for a GoFundMe.
Harris is worth almost ten billion dollars in the estimate there,
so that they're trying to sell stability, and I would
have kept a player. To Benny Brightside, it's good for
all involved. It's not a massive commitment long term, and
he's been very productive. Some absolute puke quarterbacks in Washington.
(09:03):
Now they finally have what appears to be a pretty
good quarterback. So we'll see how this goes here. But
it's really just a year and a half and they're
either gonna cut him or restructure the contract and that'll
be that. Now to Dallas, that's right. The obligatory Mallard
monologue about America's team, the Dallas Cowboys, So the latest
developments on this the Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott. That's his name, Dakota.
(09:27):
They call him dak but he's his real name is Dakota.
So Dakota Prescott has entered the chat on the big deal.
So a couple of contracts agreed to holdouts or hold ins,
ending Trey Hendrickson. We'll get to that later. We've got
a four hour talk shit to do. But Trey Hendrickson
(09:47):
is going to stay with the Bengals for this season
at least. And we mentioned the Terry mclarn thing. But
in Dallas they have not had any kind of settlement yet.
So the Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott said that he is confident,
confident that the disgruntled edge rusher Micah Parsons will be
(10:07):
on the field a week from Thursday when the Cowboys
open up with Doc Phila del Fia Eagles. In a
made for Prime Time football extrava Ganz, Dakota Prescott said, quote,
I've got confidence. I told y' all just to prove
he's actually living in Texas, he had to say, all,
I told y'all that way back when Prescott yapped and
(10:31):
snapped at reporters. He said, I'm just going to be
going off experience, honestly, no different than mine, referring to
the situation where his contract was also fed up until
the very end. So question, can you decipher? Can you
decipher what the Cowboys star dak Prescott in his vote
of confidence with Michaeh. Parsons means. So I spent several
(10:55):
seconds deliberating on this one, several seconds, and Dak's out
there yelling at the world. He's quoting Aaron Rodgers. Relax.
He's saying, relax, I've got confidence and all this stuff.
He's following the script The Dallas Cowboys again for the
eighteen thousand dimes into these microphones. It is a spaghetti Western,
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the Dallas Cowboys. They are a spaghetti Western. You got
Jerry Jones twirling his mustache like a villain. Now, I
got a cartoon villain, Jerry Jones. Over there. You got
Dak Prescott, who's playing the wise old sage cowboy, Dakota
Prescott sitting on his porch, sipping some sweet tea and
(11:41):
telling everybody all calm down. Now, they all calm down. Now,
Mike's gonna be fine, just like that. So Prescott following
the wisdom that we believe in. Obviously, this is not
his first rodeo, Dak Prescott, He's been through the contract
Ringerry's ringer for a while. A couple of times he's
(12:03):
cashed in. He got two hundred and forty something million,
I believe. I think I'm right on that. So Jerry
has a PhD. And the PhD is in drama from
the University of Keeping the Cowboys Relevant. You might not
have heard about that university. It's a small university. It's
located in the Death Star there in Jerry's world. And
(12:26):
you think it's a coincidence that every off season there's
a contract standoff every off season. In the last this
is three years in Robley. Three years in a row.
We've gotten more twists than a burial race at the
or one of those barrel races you know you see
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at the State Fair where they're racing the I mean,
there's a lot going on. And first it was Dak
a couple of years back. Then it was Ceedee Lamb,
and now it's now it's Michael Parsons. So I think
for three for three, Jerry's got his playbook. He does
things his way, and it's thicker than a longhorned steak.
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Jerry Jones got that big playbook there, but he loves this.
This is his go to act in the spaghetti Western.
And it's like, you know, sitting there in the owner's box.
He's up there atop the stadium. He's just sipping whiskey
and looking down at all the rubes and all the dopes,
and uh, let's let this simmer. Let's let the simmer
for a little bit and let the cameras roll at
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all the debate shows, all the gas bags, blow hards
know it, alls chime in on this, and you know what,
it works. It does work. It absolutely works. Like we're
talking about the cowboys here, we are. There's other stuff
going on, but the Dallas Cowboys in late August late
August continue to move the needle, figuring things out while
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other teams are changing punters and releasing fat guys and
all that. Now, speaking of that, there was one move
that caught my attention, and that's the last word. We
go to Motown. Quarterback change. Quarterback change. In Motown, the
Lions have said bye bye. They have gotten rid of
former third round pick Hendon Hooker. You can't get rid
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of a hooker. They put a hooker out on the street.
What's up with that? So Hendon Hooker, let go. Kyle
Allen has officially won the Lions backup quarterback battle, which
means when Jared Goff gets hurt, the Detroit Lions will
have no chance to win unless they pitch a shutout
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on defense because Kyle Allen blows. He's terrible. So what
is the lesson? Though? I think there's a bigger lesson.
This caught my attention. So what is the lesson here?
From the Lions dumping former Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker getting
rid of him? So this is a refresher course. It
is a refresher course. The draft, what do we always say,
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fools gold? It's fool's gold. It's a suckers game. And
every draft there's a couple of quarterbacks drafted in the second, third,
fourth round. And I got a here, all the geniuses.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Oh man, this guy's going to be a steal of
the draft. Oh my god, this guy's got amazing ability.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah to.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
My ears bleed. So Dan Campbell and the Lions took
Hendon Hooker. He was raw, he was unpolished, he had
a bad knee. He was twenty five years old, which
is older than pretty much everyone in the draft, and
they drafted him. And he was said to be a project.
But the same people who've made the draft, the cottage industry,
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they love to tell you, oh, this guy's gonna be great, wonderful.
And what happened. It went exactly the way we thought
it was going to happen, the way we expected it
to happen. The project at quarterback, Hendon Hooker. The Lions
blew up on the launching pack cup boom right there
(15:59):
on the launching peck kaboom kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom kamoom,
just like that, and did not even get off the ground.
He's not a starter. They said, well, maybe we'll be
back up. He's nothing. At this point, Hooker's going through
the checkout line with the old thank you come again
sticker right on his forehead right there. Ninety five percent
(16:21):
of these so called projects, they fail, all right, this
was a third rounder. A third round. You might as
well be lighting the pick on fire. Just get some
gasoline and a lighter and or book of matches and
just light the thing on fire, or use a blowtorch.
(16:42):
You just get blow torch out there, like you're roasting
marshmallows and delicious marshmallows and just going for it. So
he's not hooker. Hooker's not a clipboard guy. He's not
a headset guy at this point, as he's a loss
in the shuffle guy. Does any eat marshmallows without cooking them?
I can't imagine eating marshmallows without cooking them. They're rather disgusting.
(17:05):
You have to eat them cooked, right, There's no is
there a market for people that just munch on marshmallows
without them being roasted with chocolate and graham crackers? Like,
is there a group that that's into that. The people
who do Chubby Bunny competitions? The Chubby Bunny competition. But
when I was a I remember Thanksgiving, my mom would
always make this big thing of yams. I think yams
are disgusting. Oh they're so good, horrific, But my mom
(17:28):
would cover them with marshmallow. So I would just eat
the marshmallows. My mom gets so upset. I did not
eat the ams. I said, I just want the marshmallows.
I don't need the ams. You can have the yams.
Oh you gonna eat both? No, I don't have to
eat both, just the marshmallows. I'm just gonna eat the marshmallows.
So maybe just make me a plate of marshmallows and
that'll be the way to go. And I never never
(17:49):
really worked out anyway. It is the bean at Mather.
So the lines are open now we are. I've determined
tomorrow is going to be a newby night. Tonight is
not a newbiy night. Tomorrow's gonna be a newbe night.
But that doesn't mean new people can't call right now.
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Sports Radio Mystery site, The Bite will return, and some
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The Dallas Cowboys have turned into the spaghetti Western. When
you've got to add the alpha mom to the spaghetti Western?
(18:53):
What yeah, the alpha mom? You must add. You gotta
add that to the script. We'll explain, we'll get to that,
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Do it right now, you have a phone, Do it
right now, quickly back to what we go. Late night
drug tester Right Sin says, I have to disagree with
the Mallard monologue. Jerry Jones isn't a barrel racer since
(21:42):
he's been writing this bowl of a Micah Parsons story
for eight months, not just eight seconds. Give him the
gold buckle, he says. Fer Dog says, hey, bet your
cal Rowley Mallard monologue from yesterday is already paying dividend
thanks to the big dumpers. Fiftieth Homer of the year
(22:04):
the Mariners beat the Podreys and the Dodgers took back
control of the National League West. Did watch some baseball
there for Dago was slipping around. Watched Red Sox games,
some of the Yankee game that wasn't much of a
game that he has killed the Nationals with that natitude.
The Mets pulled away from the fight in Phills, was
(22:26):
flipping to that game, and I did watch some of
the Dodger game as they dominated. Is they kicked the
ass at the Cincinnati You had three hits and two errors,
which is in no runs, which is generally not good,
but not as bad as the Cleveland Guardians, who I
believe have now been shut out three games in a row.
The team formerly knows. The Indians have been shut out
(22:48):
three games in a row, and in that time they
have given up twenty four runs and they have ten
total hits. Now, I didn't play professional baseball and I
just host an overnight show. I don't think that's good.
I do not believe that is particularly good. But what
do we know? What do we know? Who else do
we have to page down Tacoma. Drew writes and says, Ben,
(23:09):
this is off topic. Everything's off topic to coma Drew
But why do you not have merch or do you
I want Malard militia merch? Is is this not a
great idea? It is a great idea. We've done that
in the past. We've had some limited run shirts. I've
actually been working on something behind the scenes that I have.
You listened to the Fifth Hour podcast about having like
(23:30):
a shirt of a month or something like that. Although
every time I talk about something like this, something falls apart.
So we are efforting that like a theme shirt or
something like that, or if you want a hat or
something along those lines. So we're not quite there yet.
We're not quite there yet, Screwge says. I swear almost
every First Hour monologue is about the Jerry Jones or
(23:52):
Michael Parson's story. Sports media have run out of things
to talk about. That the Cowboys are an everyday conversation.
We'll screw huge again. You want us to do narrow casting, Strewge,
We do broadcasting. There's a broad appeal. There's a broad
appeal to this story. It's huge exactly. So if you
don't get that, screwed, you want me to lose my job. Screws.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You see that you're saying, Oh, I wish mall we
wouldn't talk about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Okay, let's not talk about the biggest effing story in sports.
I'll lose my effing job and then you'll have some
boring talk show host in here that will suck. Is
that what you want? Yeah? Eileen writes it from I
think she's in the Bay Area. She says, I put
the baby to bed and the biscuit in the basket
and Michael Parsons still ain't signed eating raw mushrooms. Wow,
(24:38):
shock shock Shock. Jock super market Steve, who did make
in appearance with his lovely wife there at the Malla
Meat and Green theme in Vegas, quite the character. I
noticed no theme shirts this year, so they they're cutting back.
Last year they had the theme shirts, but not this year.
I guess they're not as big fans now as they
were last year. They had some theme stuff and it
(25:01):
was in the past. Tierra Massou No, Tierra Massous. I
loved her karaoke. It's enjoyable, it was good. Indeed, it
was suer Wargus. Steve says, I turned on the flying
ship here at Fox Sports Radio in lam five seventy
to hear a caller mister blankety blank completely agreed with
say that Mookie Bets is doing a great job at shortstop.
(25:24):
It reminds me of when I was twelve and I
used to argue that Derek Jeter was a great shortstop.
I'm not twelve anymore. Yeah, well, listen, I don't know
if you want me to go down that road. Mookie
did make a great play in that game I was watching,
and he had an elite defensive play at shortstop for
the Dodgers against the Red So that's great. Do I
(25:44):
trust Mookie Bets in the eighth inning of a tie
game playing shortstop on a cold night in Philadelphia? No,
I don't, or New York or any of those plays. No,
I don't don't. I don't trust him Derek Jeter. Listen,
there are people that grew up little kids watching Derek
Jeter who to this day will call up and fight
me to the death. Supermarket Steve that Derek Jeter was
(26:06):
a great defensive short even though I watched Jeter's entire
career and know he's he was not. He was at
most average, And yet there are people that grew up
thinking thinking, well, I was a little kid, I didn't
know any better, and he was great and all this
stuff chipping the qs right, so it says a plus
on the monologue you are putting the biscuit in the basket,
(26:27):
will you also be putting the tiscuit and the tasket
in a yellow basket as well? Rhyme Yeah, Well I'm open,
I'll hope. And for some reason, I don't understand why
the people if I don't say baba ganoosh anymore, they
get upset. You have to say it, and now I
have to say gobaghool great. So those are two that
(26:48):
I have to say if I don't say gobagool or
Babushka is a good one. I could add babushka, right
you uh, we're gonna We're gonna make the babushka happy, right.
Babushka is a fun word. But we did learn that
the male version of Babushka is not Babushka. It's something mamushka.
I believe it's mamushka, not babushka. So it's a But
(27:09):
I like Babushka. That's a that's a grandmother. And you
hope someday to be a babushka. But you don't want
to be there too soon because then it's an awkward
it's an awkward situation, right because you think of mean
you generally think of the cliche as grandmothers are old
and grandfathers are old. But I was a friends. I
will not reveal the name of a very well known
baseball player who was probably in his late thirties and
(27:34):
was a grandfather. And the math, the math doesn't really
seem to work on that. But he yeah, he is
like it looks or with actual No, he actually apparently
had some of the things that happened at a very
young age. And uh then that continued body to the
next generation. And you do the math on that, and
the math, yeah, that's how he's the granddad. That's how
(27:57):
that's how he the granddaddy. That is absolutely correct one
on that. You can hit us up on ax at
Ben Mahler. Now, for some reason, Mark the full name
guy continues to send me in a photo of this
dusty old hat and says it's a Cleveland Spiders hat
(28:17):
when it's not. It's a it's an I have that
same hat. By the way, Mark, it's a minor league team.
I think it's called the crawfish. I think it's a crawfish.
Didn't we get sent those hats? The crawfish hats not
fighting crawfish? Isn't that what those blue ones were? No? Well,
I don't know what though. This is a difference. This
is an old This is the shrimp hat we did get.
(28:38):
So I was very happy of that, and I do
want to think I would like to thank our friend Tree.
I feel very ark with people's give gifts. I don't
like to open them, and I don't know why. It's
one of my my things. I don't like opening them
for the people. But I did to open very nice
He sent some like a nice Chicago gift pack of
Chicago paraphernalia. There was a hat from his He's a
(29:00):
proud union man, so we had the union hat from
his company, which is great. That's kind of a cool
hat because I can wear that. People think, boy, you're
a good you're hard working blue collar guy, right and
not just the guy that just talks for a living.
So I can, I can, I can fool people want
to go to Costco. I can wear that hat and
then somebody will say, hey, are you from Chicago that
you know? And I said, well, no, but I can
tell or I can lie and say I am from Chicago.
(29:21):
That would be simple. That would be stealing a valor,
you know, union valor from Tree and I don't know
that I want to do that. Do you think people
would think I was a UPS driver? If I were
the hot you don't generally look like a UPS driver.
I don't. I don't think which, But what do they
look like? I don't know. I think it would act
as protection too. If he went into like Chicago, you're
just wandering the streets. You think nobody would mess with me?
(29:42):
This guy's This guy's a local. Yeah, this guy's a local.
Guys is legit, that's real smart. I think that hat
is the Hickory craw Dads, the original I want to say,
Hickory craw Dads. The hat that Mark thinks is the
Cleveland Spiders for some reason, I don't know. Let's see here,
(30:02):
Robbie the Mariner fan right, Sin says hopefully the curse
of the Benbino does not strike as he's referring to
the man that well, let's just get to it right now.
Cal Raley is his name, and home runs is his game.
It is the tire act play of the night. The
Seattle baseball team playing the San Diego baseball team. They
(30:24):
are forced rivals by Major League Baseball. They were playing
on a lazy, hazy kind of a Monday night in
the Pacific Northwest, and cal Raley added some history to
that game the.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Three to two other wit of cow swinging a well
the ball deep the left field head into the upper deck,
State Fair upper deck. Goodfie baseball Umber fifty for cal Raley.
He becomes one of only thirty three members the fifty
home run club and the magical season just contissuus for
(31:02):
cal Rawley.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
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Mariners Radio with the call cal Raley up to fifty
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home run for cal Raley as he adds to the
Mantle rally, cal Raley joining Mickey Mantle. I've heard of
that name as the only switch hitters did fifty home
(31:47):
runs in a season, and he became the eighth player
in Major league history to reach the half century mark
in ours. You want to fund me, put me. I
got a fun fact. You want a fun fact, I
got a fun fact for you. Here we go, malor
fun factor.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
So, other than pitcher, cal Raley became the first catcher
to hit fifty home runs. There's only one position left
that has not had a fifty home run season in baseball.
You know who it is? What position? What do you think?
You think? Right guard? Lorena? You think right guard? Maybe center, outfield? Outfield? Okay,
(32:24):
Lorena is not playing our game. What do you think
it is? Coop? One position that has not had a
fifty home run season, there's only one aside from pitcher. No,
the shortstop has happened? A rod did that? The base? Yeah,
second base, that's it. Second base is the only position left.
And there was that's a lie. There was a couple
(32:47):
of years back Marcus Simeon hit like forty five home
runs or something that came close, but no one at
second basis hit fifty home runs, so just the Mariner
should move cal Raley to second base. Yeah, and w
a bonus fun fact. I got a bonus fun fact
for I'll give you fun fact. This is gonna really
upset Robbie the Mariner fan, because this is full Mariner porn.
(33:10):
Cal Raley has now passed Aaron Judge by in war,
according to the nerds over at fangraphs. So that's they
keep track all the nerds stats at fangrafts dot com.
And there it is just a hair ahead, as cal
Raley is just percentage points ahead of Aaron Judge, a
(33:31):
hair ahead, but the Turtles right behind. There you go,
we'll see what we'll see what that all means. There
you go, Mark the full name guy says man. I
realize it's not actually a spider's cap, but to celebrate
the futility of the awful Colorado Rockies, I will substitute nicely.
Thank you. Okay, you just you do you boo? You
do you boo. You just knocked yourself out. So the
(33:53):
alpha mom has entered the Spaghetti Western just to anoy
scrooge that would be the mother, the mother of Micah Parsons.
Do you see this? Yeah, So there's a viral video.
This is actually from the other night, but it made
the rounds and went viral on Monday. And it was
a Cowboy exhibition game Cowboys and they were playing the
(34:17):
final exhibition game and before the game there's Micah Parson's
mom and Jerry Jones right there photo op Mama Parsons,
the alpha mom. She wanted a nice photo and Jerry
made a joke about I think your son wants some
money or something like that. So there's that. Also, Chris Collinsworth,
I've heard of him. He was asked he's doing the
(34:39):
game the NFL opener, which means he'll lick the toun Well,
I just did. He'll lick the toes of Jalen Hurts
and Dak Prescott slap a slapislava because he loves quarterbacks.
So Consworth says he is preparing, of course, for Micah
Parsons to play in the NBC opener. Does that mean
he's got special Michael Parsons knee pads ready to go?
(35:01):
I don't know, but we'll find out. So there you go,
all right? Is the Ben Malor Show. We press on.
We will take some calls. I promise you guys have
been hanging out and waiting. And here's the who am I? Game? Though,
before we get to that, this is where I pretend
to be somebody else. Thus I am the who am I? Game?
So along forty eight qualified receivers. This goes back to
(35:22):
twenty fourteen with at least thirty targets in the season.
I ranked last in yards per route and poor, last
in yards per game, and last in catch rate, also
last and first down rate. Again, here we go, this
is the who am I?
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
We're looking for the name of this person among one
forty eight qualified receivers, going all the way back to
twenty fourteen with at least thirty targets in a season,
I ranked dead last in yards per route, last and
yards per game, and last and catch rate and also
last in first round the rate in any season? Who
(36:03):
am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
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(36:58):
and we'll get to the calls. We have not taken
a call yet. Bad job by us. But here is
the who am I? Game? This is where I pretend
to be somebody else. Among one forty eight qualified receiver
since twenty fourteen with at least thirty targets in a season,
I ranked last in yards per route, last in yards
per game, and last in catch rate, last in first
(37:20):
down rate, which means I suck? Who am I? That
is the question? What is the answer alf the alien
O Pinter, Alf's going with John McClain as his answer,
and die Hard there Golden Tate from William Who else
do we have? Page down? Let's see, can't read that.
Bobby and Florida is going with Cher it's his answer,
(37:42):
Key Key Palmer, who is thirty two today from Late
Night Drug Tester marked the full name guy of the
Roseberg Rams. That's funny. Probably answer my hometown. Put there's
Mark there. That's that's pretty good. He's got the colon
right there, Barney. But he will never see that, by
the way, Mark the ful name mame Barney Rubble from Milkman.
(38:05):
Mike LaTroy Hawkins. Good name from mister nice guy old
school nineties baseball. Who else o j Unless it's not
that's Andy and Lionel Lakes Stephen Hawking from just Josh
al G. Crumpler Another solid name from James. It's a
good name there to Von Austin. Wow, that's close to
home there. Robbie the Marina fan a ram Bust from
(38:27):
Back of the Day. Shaboozie from The Sawman. When you
think of Shaboozy, you think of the saw Man in Mississippi.
Fair Hooker from Miguel on fire. Who else can't read that?
Carlster Crumpler from Malibu, Rubin, that's his answer. Let's see
(38:48):
who else? Sky Moore sounds like a w NBA player
from Eloyd from Compton. Who else do we see? Michaeh
Parson's brother, the napping Chris Cayman his antswer All right,
do you have an answer? Lorraine? It's got to be
Julie Andrews Ben Okay, fine answer, really bad receiver. No.
(39:08):
The correct answer is the latest bust for the New
England Patriots at wide receiver as a Jalen Pok Pope.
Jalen Polk got a Washington last season? Last season horrific?
Is it pulp like pulp and juice? Polk p o
l k Polk Polk Polk Poke Polk. Let's go to
(39:29):
the phones. Mark is an Iowa. What's going on? Mark? Welcome? Mark?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Hey, I just wanted to say something about your collar
last night, about the Cowboys. Yes, yes, you're on the
air right now. People may actually be listening.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Well I always listened.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Oh, thank you, well, thank you for that. I appreciate that.
Means La, what part of Iowa are you in? Mark?
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Is that like the big city in island, Iowa City
is like the big the most is that the most
populated city in Iowa is yeah yeah, and then des Moines,
a little lower down on the list right is the
most popular. Oh it is really Oh okay, okay, who knew?
All right, what's your fire?
Speaker 7 (40:15):
Off?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
An amazing take? Mark, I want an amazing take? Go ahead,
he said.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
The gentleman that called last night said that the Dallas
Cowboys will win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I know you have other people that call you when
Dallas wins games, but I just can't believe that Dallas
was going to go anywhere with the other or not.
That guy's you know, you're talking about the Texas trucker.
That guy calls up every year. We used to have
this guy. He didn't call anymore, but he called only
when the Cowboys would win. This guy would call. And
you're proving my point, Mark, because you agree with me
(40:46):
and I don't deep down these Cowboy fans they're like cockroaches,
these people, a lot of them, and we uh they were.
They were ridiculous. But that's why we talk about the
Cowboys because they get incense. We talk about in sent
good call Mark, What an amazing call. Hung believ
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