August 26, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller discusses if Angels manager Ron Washington should return in 2026 after recovering from a triple bypass surgery or if this is the perfect time for an Angels reset, Cardinals' Wilson Contreras being given the boot in dramatic fashion, Maller's Mountain of Money: Melissa McCarthy Edition, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three hour, number three, a grab bag hour,
a grab bag hour. We start with baseball. Should Ron
Washington return to manage in twenty twenty six after triple bypass?
Or is this the perfect time for the Angels to
hit the old reset button in the dugout?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What did you make of the Redbirds Wilson Contreras being
given the boot in traumatic fashion in a game against
the Pirates that went viral. Also in addition to all that,
we'll go to the labor negotiating room. What stands out
about the WNBA players punctoring down for a workstoppage? Say what,
(00:43):
We'll go there as well, right now, give it up
for our number three wash on, wash off?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Huh.
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hour from baseball Now. I could have done another monologue
about cal Raley hitting his fiftieth home run the Mariners
beat the Padres, but they decided we've already touched cal
Raley's success in a previous steps. The story that caught
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my attention in baseball is from Anaheim. Now that is shocking, right,
Who the hell cares about the Angels. That's a morbid franchise.
They blow this good story though. Angels manager Ron Washington,
who's on sabbatical. Ron Washington revealed that he is recovering.
We now know why he was way. Ron Washington had
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quadruple bypass.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, that's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Like that's a big I mean, that is a rip
you open and operation for a long time, and he
had heart surgery, triple bypass art surgery. So if he
didn't see this, maybe you missed it. Ron Washington made
an appearance the Angels Traveling Circus in Arlington, and for
the first time he publicly addressed the health issue and
then why he was away. Has been gone since late June.
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Here we are in late August. Washington made the anascement
while visiting the Angel clubhouse in Texas.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
He lives.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
His offseason home is in New Orleans, where he has
been recovering from his situation. He said he looked forward
to recovering and the operation was eight weeks ago in California.
And he's not coming back this year. Why would you?
This season ended for the Angels about the time that
Ron Washington left the dugout, so he's not returning to
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manage the very mediocre Angel team, but hopes to have
the opportunity to come back and manage the team again
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
He says.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Doctors say he'll be fully recovered Ron Washington from triple
bypass surgery in December. So that's a good jump off point.
Let us discuss question, should Ron Washington return to manage
the Angels in twenty twenty six or after that triple
bypass surgery? Is this the perfect opportunity for Arti Marino
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and the Angels to yet again hit the reset button
and bring in some other Jabbroni to be the Angel's manager.
So in this one, I've got Marvel Universe, Yosemite, sam
and mind tricks, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make the gobbaool. We're gonna
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make the gobbagool, just like Mama would make the gobagoo.
All right, So first of all, answer the question. You
make the call Arti Marinos to come back to get
rid of him. He's in his seventies. He's the oldest
management in baseball. I would bring him back. I'm gonna
be Benny Bright said on this one again, Wash, you
know what he's like. He's like the cool uncle, like
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the cool uncle who's seen everything. He just lived a
full life and all this, And I mean you think
about Washington in baseball. He was playing in the nineteen
seventies when everyone was on anfetamines.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
They call them greenies.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They were on phetamines in the nineteen seventies and the eighties.
In the seventies they were doing greenies. In the eighties
they were snorting coke. In the nineties, they were doing steroids.
In the two thousand, you had the whole money ball thing,
they were still doing steroids. But in the two thousands,
that's the cool uncle, like He's lived through all of
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that stuff in baseball, all of it. And if baseball
had a Marvel universe, Washington would be like Nick Fury
right with a fun go back, just walking around telling
stories and all. And he is absolutely beloved. He's absolutely beloved.
Every player swears by Ron Washington. He's been gone from
Atlanta for a couple of years, and the brave players
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are we wish we had Ron Washington.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
He love him.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Every baseball scribes got ten Ron Washington stories, unless they're
new then they only have five. And he's he's one
of the last. He's not the last, but he's one
of the last old school baseball guys. Although he's forced
to do the whole analytical bull crap. But I'm talking
old school, I'm talking cigars, bourbon, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Bad back, bad knee, bad heart.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And yet he is still sharper at baseball than all
these forty year old dudes who are managing teams.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
He just gets.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And and it's not Listen, if the Angels were this
close to being a good team, I'd be like, oh,
this is a good time to change managers. But it's
not like the Angels have any reason to dump Ron
Washington because they're about to turn things around.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They're not even rebuilding. I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I mean, they're just they're they're they're just it's it's
we talked about the floating thing of trash out in
the Pacific. That's the Angels. There's no oxygen. It's it's
like gravity. They're just kind of just I don't know
what's going on. And so when the doctors clear him,
if I'm already Marino, I bring him back, because, hey,
your team stinks. We all know that the Angels stink.
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You're not a contender, you're not even a pretender. You're
just kind of there. And at least you've got a
good storyteller. So that's kind of cool. He's an ambassador.
The Angels suck, but Ron Washington's a cool guy. He's
a spokesman. It's like having Morgan Freeman narrate a ninety
loss baseball team. It makes it more compelling. I said, well,
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that's kind of more interesting. And I was like, yeah,
you're not watching the Angels because you want to see
them in the standings and move up the standings and
all that. Even Ferg Dog told me that off the record.
He won't say that on the record, but off the
record he told me that you're watching, maybe you'll hear
a funny Ron Washington story, you know, some amusing antidote
or something like that. But back in the day when
he was managing the Dominican Republican and there was a
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big storm there and there was only one light bulb
in the clubhouse and it burned out, and then they
had to light a match on a candle and they
had to they by candlelight, and then they know they
didn't have anything to.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Eat, and all those stories.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That is better content than anything anything that they're doing
on the field. The Angels need him, and you know,
baseball is better when they have guys like Ron Washington,
because the next couple of generations, a lot of those
guys are pretty boring and they're just they're buttoned up
and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Now, Secondly, we go to Saint Louis and I was
flipping around the baseball games last night, and somehow I
stopped on the Cardinal Pirates game, don't ask me why,
and I saw this. I said, well, that's kind of cool,
and then it went viral. Cardinals first baseman Wilson Contreras.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He might not know who that is.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Wilson Contrera's he in the seventh inning I believe it
was the seventh inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wilson Contreras
began he was at in the battles box and was
called out. He began walking towards the team's dugout. The
Redbirds dug out. There was wrung up on a pitch
that if you looked at the TV box, the strikes
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on box on television, it was a strike on the
on the TV broadcast. And so he walked back and
then he began to look back at the home plate umpire.
Somebody named Derek Thomas. It's a generic name. I remember
he had a good career in the NFL years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The umpire then ejected Wilson Contrellers get out of here.
And then boy, it was like Jack in the box.
This thing popped open and it was on.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It was on. So question, what did you make?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What did you make of the Cardinals first baseman Wilson
Contreras being given the boot in very dramatic fashion in
a random game on a random night, a random random
Monday into it Tuesday now, So this was with Ras Mataz.
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It was styling the most looney Tunes old school ejection
that I have seen in some time. And for those
of you that are blind or just chose not to
waste your eyeballs on watching this game. So Contreras gets
called out, he walks to the dugout. Then he turns
around like there's something that was said, and then he
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chucks in the middle of this brew haha. He tries
to throw his bat. He ends up hitting one of
the coaches for the Cardinals with his bat. I think
he wanted to hit the umpire, hit the coach. He
then starts he goes on the dugout, he starts throwing
bubblegum onto the field. So then the game's delayed because
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the ball boys have to go out in their hands
and knees and pick up the bubble gum piece by
piece out near the first base coaches box. Well that's
going on. The Cardinals manager Ali Marmal gets he gets ejected.
So this was I'll tell you what it was. It
was like a for those that are not that old,
it was like a time warp. It was like, you
don't see that much anymore, or in baseball you don't.
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Baseball is so corporate now, it is so corporate, so robotic,
that this was unhinged. This was anti what baseball is today.
It was reckless. You can't throw a bat right, he
cannot do it, cannot do it. I gotta tell you though,
it was entertaining. I was entertained by this, and I
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do miss that kind of nonsense, and I, oh.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We're just gonna have it in the next couple of years.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Next season, we're gonna have the robot strike zone and
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But for one night, on a random night, it was.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Actually cool in Saint Louis. Usually it's a million degrees
in late August. Guess that global Warming took the day
off there in Saint Louis. So at Bush Stadium there
it was a cartoon show. It was a cartoon show.
I like it, is this the new Cardinal way? I
know they're not really doing anything of note. The Cardinals
are kind of like blah, They're kind of in the middle.
Wilson's out there and he's like Yosementy Sam with his
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six shooters, just going nuts. And Cantrara's he went full
this week in Baseball around the Majors. I could hear
the voice of mel Allen right old school. Could hear
mel Allen and his voice saying, temperatures rising in Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
How about that? You know? Going on?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So, Look, the Cardinals are irrelevant. They've been irrelevant for
a couple of seasons. That is a miserable baseball team.
Not as bad as the Angels, but they're pretty bad.
But at least Contrera's made the Cardinals watchable a little bit.
You for five minutes, five good minutes. Cardinals were watchable.
So give me more of that. I'd like to see
more of that, and give me less of the boring
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standard nonsense that we get. And I'm good all right,
final thought, we move now away from baseball and we
go to the boardroom.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I saw this.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Story, and even if I hadn't seen it, I want
to thank Jim, who lives in Central California, who sent
this to me where I actually was.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I was just in central California. I was in.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Slow not that long a couple days ago, but actually
I guess it was. We were in Vegas last week
and so it was the weekend before that. Anyway, he
sent me the story and as I saw it anyway,
and the story is if you didn't see, it's about
the w NBA.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh, you shouldn't talk about the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I don't want to talk about it's a good story, though,
I don't want to talk about good story. Go where
the story is. So they have just over sixty days.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Tic tic tic tic tic tic tick.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Sixty days to hammer out a new deal, labor deal,
all eyes work stoppage. Let me repeat that for those
of you in the back of the room, work stoppage,
stoppage of work. So question, what stands out about the
report that the w NBA players are bunkering down, down, down,
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and preparing for a work stoppage. So my first thought
is who exactly on planet Earth would notice it if
the WNBA shut down. If today they announced we're going
out of business. I don't know anyone that would be
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upset by that. Maybe you do, maybe you're that person,
but I don't. I mean, if you're actually honest. Outside
of again, one woman, Caitlin Clark, and I'll give her
her due, you know who is really the only reason,
by the way, the only reason to pretend to care,
to pretend to give a rats ask about the WNBA.
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The rest of the entire league. They're in the witness
protection program is what they're in.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You couldn't pick these players out if I put them
in a lineup and I offered you ten million dollars
to name these players without having their name on the graphic,
you wouldn't know who these people are. And so in
some ways, the WNBA is still in the pandemic. When
Caitlin Clark's not playing, they're still practicing social distancing in
the WNBA, and it's well documented. I don't need to
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remind you that it's a product that the American people
have said for a generation they don't want, they don't
make money. The league's bled money for every single year.
It's not profitable. Listen, they're businesses that some years are profitable,
some years or not. But if you're not profitable every year,
you've done something terribly wrong. Right, You've done something terribly wrong.
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And there's no clear evidence that they're ever going to
be profitable. Like, the only reason the league still exists
is because the sugar daddies at the NBA have been bankrolling.
It's a bad business model. And if they were saying, hey,
you stand up on your own, the league would have
been gone fifteen years ago if the NBA said, we
refuse to continue to waste our money and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And there's tax reasons they do it.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And when you make a lot of money, and the
NBA team makes a lot of money, it's good to
have a lost leader on the other side and you
can kind of finagle the taxes and all that stuff.
That being said, all right, the illusion. The thing that
I'm fatated about it. I was actually texting a.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Buddy of mine that works in radio. We were going
back and forth about this.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
The the thing about the w NB is is the
illusion is strong. It's mind tricks, is what it is.
And we've seen it a lot in the last year
and a half where all of a sudden, the w
NB is all over ESPN, right, you get the It's
plastered on social media. Even the company I work for,
forcing the few update anchors, we have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The w n b A. I remember when Eddie worked here,
so they told me I had to talk about the
w n v A. It's like, well, why nobody watched it?
He told me, it's wild.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You You get all these these think pieces, you know,
these these hype think pieces that are written about the
w n b A shoved into you know, every highlight package,
all that stuff, and it just just my entire I
was like manufactured popularity.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I continue to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Think it's not real based on going out. We do
these meet and greets, and I meet fans of the show,
and I meet people around and I I just don't
get the feedback from the customers that this is what
they want, that this is what they're consuming. Now, maybe
it's just our show, and you know, we have a
bunch of people that just don't care, but everyone else cares.
Maybe that's true. I'm just going by boots on the ground.
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People I talk to in the different meat and greets
that I've done. And it's a social contagion, is what
it is. What's going on in the WMBA, Like, I'm
convinced there's a lot of bots pumping this fake engagement,
which is easy to do if you've got the money
and the where to do it. With the fake engagement
by followers, by likes, all that stuff, you've got corporate
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media that has investment in it that is also pumping
out fake interest. Right, we're not giving the viewer what
they want. We're giving them what we want them to want.
And it shoved, it shoved down your throat. And how
dare you if you ever say, if you ever say
in a polite room that hey, this isn't a very
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good product, then what happens you're sexest? Oh my god,
your sexss That is the default get out of jail
free card. Rather than address the issue, rather than address
the Kimodo dragon in the room that it isn't a
very good product, Instead it's well, you're just your sexist.
It's impossible to have a conversation with these people. You
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cannot do it because their default is that, of course,
my position is spare me on that, right, I'll talk
about Caplin Clark because there's interest there other than that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Forget about it, forget about it.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I don't care how much the bots try to get
get the interest up, and ESPN shoves it down your throat.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I don't care, right.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Instead, instead of reality, we get a game of chure rates.
It's like the w NBA is just one step, one
step away from exploding in popularity. You know what it
reminds me of reminds me of soccer, Like I get
the same from soccer people, the cult of soccer. Oh, Ben,
soccer is going to take over America.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Oh you just wait.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I was all right and people told me that I'm
old now and they're still telling me the same bull crap. Okay,
no one's fuled by that. No one's fulled by the WNBA.
Outside of Caitlin Clark. The league is invisible. It continues
to be and the minute Caitlin Clark decides I've had enough,
I'm out, that's it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It's a game over for the WNBA. It is the
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And now back to it, back to what we go.
Ferg Dog says, tough pill to swallow. But the Angels
part of your monologue was spot on. Everything you said
it was true, says Ferg Dog. Who else we have
page Dan Eileen from San Francisco says Ron Washington should
come back and play for the Angels. Yes, I think
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what the Angels should do is bring back all the
legends and have them play. Have Bobby Gritch play second base,
Doug de sins As could play third base. They can
bring back Mike wait on the Mount, all the old
Angels back when they were in the World Series and
all that in the eighties. Or if you want to
go two thousand, Tim Salmon, you make Tim Salmon back right,
bring him in there. Throw him out there. Adam Kennedy,
Adam Kennedy, why not? Sean Figgins bring him back? And
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what are the John Lackey can bring the fried Chicken.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You can have him on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Stein x Stein of course, little slap hitter, bring him
out there. Uh, Troy Gloss put him out there at
third base?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Why not? Scott Spiezio, who says, no, is Scott Spiezio?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So that's a great idea, good marketing, cross promotion. Rather
than just have an old timers game, just have nothing
but old timer's every day and then once a year
play young players.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I'm blanking. I'm like, so, I'm so embarrassing. I think
I'm pretty I'm pretty good at who is?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Who is the guy?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Ben Benji Molina fat cat Benji Alina? Right?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Catch, yeah, who is the I know it starts with
the ass and I'm blankering the set up guy right
before Frankie Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Scott. No, that's just a generic white guy named Scott.
You're just doing no guy.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
God, Oh, now you're going to You're going to the
google a couple of Scott shield Scott shields. Yeah, yeah,
Benji Molina didn't even balloon up. He got pretty big,
did he. Darren Urstad that's a good one. Arren nurse Day, Yeah,
first I think he get the final out of the
Did he catch the final line outfield?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Jared Anderson was on the he was mister Angel for
years there. But of course we're Drew an old man
radio coop because that was a generation.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, that's the last time they were relevant.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's been twenty three years since the Angels won. Twenty
three years. Mike Social is available. He's still around, right,
bring Social back? No?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Why not? He's younger than Ron Washington. I feel about
it all right.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Let's go to the phones, and I do need contestant.
I need two contestants Mallard's amount of money. But let's
say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis, mina sort Hello,
hollering James.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Just qualify me as a good test stand.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yes, you are disqualified, although your name. You should be
very happy, James. I know you were not listening, but
your name came up. I made the rare and appropriate
appearance on the radio on the Big Morning Show on Kman,
and your name was brought up on the Power trip
with them with my guy Chris the Hawk may Hawk.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, yeah, your name came up.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
They they they they apologized on the power Trip for you,
representing the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Your thoughts, Why did they apologize? I am the state
of Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Stayed great job, James.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
The reason and I don't want to speak for them
because they're much more popular than I am. But I
believe the reason that the morning show guys apologize for
you is because, James, they've heard your calls.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
That's because they love your show man. You're the number
one show at TIM Radio.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yes, I'm the number one show when everyone's sleeping right there,
number one at the top.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Yes, hey, do you remember?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well I haven't number one. I haven't been invited back
number two. There's some other places that we have to go, James.
We have to go to some other places before we
do that.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
So, yeah, your agenda at Brittla Rena not Cooper.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Do you want me to come?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
That's so sweet?
Speaker 6 (26:25):
I would love you to come, all right, James, calm down, James.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Doesn't.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Coop said he'll go to Minnesota. Coop told me off
there he'll go as long as you show. You don't
show up he said, as long as you're not there,
he'll show up.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I did not say that.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Coop does talk about you more than anyone else that
calls the show. Your name comes up, just goes down people.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
He knows I love him. My number one.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh, I thought I was your I thought I was
your number one. I'm not your number one.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
All right now, if you were to make a big board,
not a list, not a list, a big board, who
would be who would be at the very top of
your big board?
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Is the number one target?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Man?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Because you said I'm I'm ahead? Wait? Wait, wait, I'm
ahead of Tammy Montana?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Well I believe you have a.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Number? Wow, who's number two? Who's number two? What about Lorraina?
She number two is a Tammy?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I might get off the fence, James, Come on, man,
come on right now, come on, who are you gonna pick? Oh? Wow,
I'm gonna I'm gonna call Tammy Montana right now. She's
gonna be so upset with you with me. You want
(27:52):
to talk to her, all right, I'll put her on
with your shirt. Why Tammy and Montana say hello to
hollering James.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Hey, hey, James, how are you doing tonight? I'm so
glad I got a chance to connect with you.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Hey, is this Blas Scott?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I guess the bad Scott? Blind Scott. You're a little
higher Next time, Scotty.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I could have gone, I could have got a.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, you got too little, too low?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Better with Marcel. Marcel falls for it every time, So
stay no one. I don't know if it's a call today,
but he's Steve falls for that everything.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I play the game? Can I play the game? Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
God?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Are you gonna try?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Yeah? Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah you sure about that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But if you play the game, I can't put you
on again though, that's it? Yeah, okay with you can't.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Put you can't put me on tomorrow night either. This
is the problem I'm running into right.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Oh, you're upset with New You're upset with James? Are
you also upset with New?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Me and I?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
James?
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Wow, there was just a gun shot outside.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I just heard that had to be a gunshot, probably
not the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You could hear it in the door chest. Is anybody
else in boss to listening?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Now?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I get and once was you came on?
Speaker 7 (29:11):
That was it?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I got a genetic counselor Now then it's okay. If
you want to die, you just can't plan it now,
just no planning.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
As long as you you can die, you just can't
plan to die, okay.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
If you tell people you feel like dying, you don't
tell them you're planning. And it's all right, it's all
good that way.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But I mean, you're gonna die, I think you should
just you know, wait till that happens. You don't, don't
think you need to plan earlier?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
What about this newbie knight? Dude, you can't do it?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
What is wrong with you? Part of his day?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You can still send messages on social media and all
that stuff. You can still be very active out.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
There's the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But here's the thing, Like everybody's on vacation now and
you're not on vacation, and like, uh, it's just not
a good idea, you know, because I mean you can't
well you know, I don't. I don't want to call
the Tri State market. I called into the Tri State
market and they got my guy taking away over that.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I'm not doing that, Okay, all right, James, you're okay
with it, though, right, James.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Oh see he's okay, James's coming around.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
James. Let me ask you a question. Why do you
only have thirty seven dollars and sixty four cents a week?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Why because that budget is on a low income by
the federal government, by Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Dude, But you're blaming Donald Trump. All right, this is
the fact that you haven't had a job in years.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
And feed him there, they seed him there, they pay
his friends. He has a lot more benefits than that.
This guy is coming to five.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Hours, so you have some James Scott says. He said
that you're making that up, that you're you're embellishing thing.
Would you like a job, James? How about Express Employment professional?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
James? Oh, great idea, Ben Yeah, the only.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Be a good express in my opinion. And he sounds
like black Scott. He's portrayed Black Scott.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Oh hey, James, Oh, there's Tammy there. She is Hi Tammy?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
All right, all right, you always go too far Scott. Alright,
I'm hanging up on James. I mean, we have contestants
trying to get there. Okay, we have people that want
to play the game.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Let's go to Rick in Maryland morning time. Hello, Rick
in Maryland, By the way, I have to. I have
to pay off the riddle of the day. Rick, Are
you okay with me doing that? Right now? Can I
pay off the riddle of the day. I didn't pay
it off, and people are very upset with me. They're
saying nasty things to me on social media. So I
have to pay this off. So the this Iowa Man
went viral revealing an insane blank during the national anthem
(31:50):
and people losing their minds on this.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I'm getting message you didn't do the answer.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Let's see the some of the silly answers here page down.
We've got a lot of angel comments. Sixth toe from
Bobby in Florida. The Iowa Man revealed his impressive cornhole
delivery from Stevie Meatballs in the Sunshine State. The insane
parrot or an insane parrot from Donkey Sausage. That's his answer.
(32:20):
Ferd Dog went with the insane clown posse. He says,
give a shout out there?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Who else? Page down?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Iowa Sam revealed he's from Delaware. That's the answer there that,
according to Late Night drug tester who else page down?
The Mallard Riddle of the day alf said the insane
ability to belch the entire anthem. Well, that's the Boston
Burbon who works the dreaded day shift now does not
(32:51):
call the show. Malcolm and Mike says an angry bill
designed tattoo of Caitlin Clark that that is the answer.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Insane.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
The members from Lady Sideburns Casey went with a cucumber
giant silo from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
JT the Wingman sent with an insane riff on the
dulcimer in Dick and Dayton's honor. From JT the Wingman,
Mark the full name Guy said the ninth, eighteen ninety
nine Cleveland Spiders are more relevant than the WNBA and
soccer okay beer belch by Johnny Qman chipping the Ques
(33:34):
guy to write bad job by him Lorena the riddle.
Today in Iowa man went viral revealing an insane blank
during the national anthem, what is the answer?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I have to go with Bunyan. I can't get Bunyan
out of my head run in finance, so that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Iowa man went viral because of his can his cap
tain cap ten.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
He had put his hat off and he had a
ten because of his cap. Yeah yeah, yeah, no, no, no,
not that not that all. How bad was it? It
was really bad. You can find it's not it's terrible.
I can send it to if you want, but it's
easy to find. It's all over the place.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It's so bad. It's like, dude, you fall asleep outside
like he had. And he had this weird thing like
he said that he had the back of his head
was kind of shaved. The top he had hair, but
then in the back you know how you wear the
hat and it's got that like this.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
It looks like a bowl cut. Yeah. Not good. Not
a good look. Like he lost a bed or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Anyway, it is the Benett Malor Show. We'll pause with
the cause we're gonna have Mallard's amount of money in
its entirety. We'll get to that and we will.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
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It will always pop up at the top of your screen.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Now, Malor's mountain of money. Hell do you have what
it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
And right to the game we go. Let's welcome in
our contestants. We have Who do we have here?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
We have Uncle Ma who's in Jersey now no longer
in Brooklyn, He's moved over to Jersey.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
What's going on, Uncle mal Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Looking forward to the football season, hoping to make bounce
fast as legal Jets might go seventeen to er.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yes, if the other team only plays with ten players,
they might go seven seventeen.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Uh and uh, Uncle, who do you want to partner
with the great Uncle Moe?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I hope I'm not rusty?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Ben I'm gonna go with you, all right, spin a while,
it spin a while?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
All right, you're gonna play and we have JJ in Renton. Hello, JJ,
oh man, have been a long time, big man.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
It has been too long. JJ. You work the dreaded
swing chip. But you're back. You're gonna be with Cooper
loop alright, JJ, right, yeah, all right, I don't have
time to do small talk.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
All right, don't do it, likerocos though.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
That's fine. All right, let's let's play the game here.
Lock everyone in? What the categories? Quickly? Cool? All right?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
This is the Melissa McCarthy addition, she turns fifty five
years old today. Categories are the third Wheel, the Nines, bride'smaids,
and this is forty? Uncle, know you run first? Which
category would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Third wheel? The third wheel? Alright? And JJ, how about you?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Man?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So what is the object?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Do you want? The Nines Brian's maids? Or this is forty?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
This?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
All right, all right, very good, let's go forty? What
are forty five seconds o'clock? These athletes were typically overshadowed
by a duo of teammates.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Uncle more, are you ready? Yes? All right, here we
go known as the Beard.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He plays with the Clippers now he was with the
Rock Yes, he was with the Miami Heat with Dwayne
Wade Yes, point guard from France for the Spurs when
they had Duncan Yes. Wide receiver for the Patriots. He's
on Fox now slot wide receiver. Yes, running back for
the forty nine ers. Also the same name of the
(37:40):
manager of the Giants in the eighties, the San Francisco
Giants running back for the Knights with Joe Bartana.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
All right, No wide receiver for the Packers.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Last name is like a salad with Brett Farb and
Aaron Rodgers last names like a salad. The scooter for
the Yankees in the nineteen Yes, all right, you got
that one wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. Last
name like a famous Hey.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Cool Seaton again, man, because I could family here here, Man,
he's fund the robot.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Roger Craig was what you missed and Randall Ky I
like that. JJ knows he's going to lose, All right, JJ, JJ,
We've got this is forty. These athletes are currently forty
years old, whether retired or active, they're forty years.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Old right now? Are you ready? JJ? Yeah, we'll go
all right, forty five seconds to begin.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Quarterback for the Falcons, he threw to Julio Jones. He's
retired now, Matt Ryan, Yes, this guy was one of
the all time great running backs. He was on the Vikings,
ran for two thousand yards. He hit his son with
a with a stick.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Oh, yes, all right.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
This guy was the point guard for the Lob City Clippers.
He's still in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
It's not Klay Thompson. It's I can't remember.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
He's on State farm commercials. All right, all right, all right,
this guy, this guy was POW's brother, Powe from the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Kyle.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
No, all right, this guy had the same name as
pac Man in the NFL, but he was in me
an MLB player.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Man J just wants to say I'm cheating, all right,
he sucked at the game. Chris, Chris Paul is who
you missed all.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
That?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
You want the nines or bridesmaids? You want nines or bridesmaids?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
JJ.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I'll go to nine.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
All right, the athletes all were number nine. Let's go.
Current quarterback for the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Yes, this guy was the quarterback for the Saints. He's
gonna be in the Hall of Fame. Yes, this guy
was the kicker for the Ravens. He likes the massage Parlors.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
This guy was the point guard for the Celtics championship
team with Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
It was uh.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
He later came to the Lakers. Hits the point guard.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Board.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Yeah, jeez, guy hit for the last got to hit
four hundred in baseball, the.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Last guy to hit four Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Ound we had a little time.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
You sucked. You sucked.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
J You never never played this game again, I didn't
she you didn't get any right brides made. Here we go.
These athletes all made it to the championship game but
never won.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Here we go quickly. We have a full board. But
let's go.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Uh. Uncle Moe play with the Red Sox. Was a
rookie year played with the California Angels. Also hit the
first Grand Slam in an All Star game in the
No white guy, No, yeah, you gotta right the guy.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
We want the guy. Uncle
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three hour, number three, a grab bag hour,
a grab bag hour. We start with baseball. Should Ron
Washington return to manage in twenty twenty six after triple bypass?
Or is this the perfect time for the Angels to
hit the old reset button in the dugout?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What did you make of the Redbirds Wilson Contreras being
given the boot in traumatic fashion in a game against
the Pirates that went viral. Also in addition to all that,
we'll go to the labor negotiating room. What stands out
about the WNBA players punctoring down for a workstoppage? Say what,
(00:43):
We'll go there as well, right now, give it up
for our number three wash on, wash off?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
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hour from baseball Now. I could have done another monologue
about cal Raley hitting his fiftieth home run the Mariners
beat the Padres, but they decided we've already touched cal
Raley's success in a previous steps. The story that caught
(02:25):
my attention in baseball is from Anaheim. Now that is shocking, right,
Who the hell cares about the Angels. That's a morbid franchise.
They blow this good story though. Angels manager Ron Washington,
who's on sabbatical. Ron Washington revealed that he is recovering.
We now know why he was way. Ron Washington had
(02:49):
quadruple bypass.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, that's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Like that's a big I mean, that is a rip
you open and operation for a long time, and he
had heart surgery, triple bypass art surgery. So if he
didn't see this, maybe you missed it. Ron Washington made
an appearance the Angels Traveling Circus in Arlington, and for
the first time he publicly addressed the health issue and
then why he was away. Has been gone since late June.
(03:17):
Here we are in late August. Washington made the anascement
while visiting the Angel clubhouse in Texas.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
He lives.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
His offseason home is in New Orleans, where he has
been recovering from his situation. He said he looked forward
to recovering and the operation was eight weeks ago in California.
And he's not coming back this year. Why would you?
This season ended for the Angels about the time that
Ron Washington left the dugout, so he's not returning to
(03:44):
manage the very mediocre Angel team, but hopes to have
the opportunity to come back and manage the team again
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
He says.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Doctors say he'll be fully recovered Ron Washington from triple
bypass surgery in December. So that's a good jump off point.
Let us discuss question, should Ron Washington return to manage
the Angels in twenty twenty six or after that triple
bypass surgery? Is this the perfect opportunity for Arti Marino
(04:15):
and the Angels to yet again hit the reset button
and bring in some other Jabbroni to be the Angel's manager.
So in this one, I've got Marvel Universe, Yosemite, sam
and mind tricks, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make the gobbaool. We're gonna
(04:38):
make the gobbagool, just like Mama would make the gobagoo.
All right, So first of all, answer the question. You
make the call Arti Marinos to come back to get
rid of him. He's in his seventies. He's the oldest
management in baseball. I would bring him back. I'm gonna
be Benny Bright said on this one again, Wash, you
know what he's like. He's like the cool uncle, like
(05:00):
the cool uncle who's seen everything. He just lived a
full life and all this, And I mean you think
about Washington in baseball. He was playing in the nineteen
seventies when everyone was on anfetamines.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
They call them greenies.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They were on phetamines in the nineteen seventies and the eighties.
In the seventies they were doing greenies. In the eighties
they were snorting coke. In the nineties, they were doing steroids.
In the two thousand, you had the whole money ball thing,
they were still doing steroids. But in the two thousands,
that's the cool uncle, like He's lived through all of
(05:36):
that stuff in baseball, all of it. And if baseball
had a Marvel universe, Washington would be like Nick Fury
right with a fun go back, just walking around telling
stories and all. And he is absolutely beloved. He's absolutely beloved.
Every player swears by Ron Washington. He's been gone from
Atlanta for a couple of years, and the brave players
(05:57):
are we wish we had Ron Washington.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
He love him.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Every baseball scribes got ten Ron Washington stories, unless they're
new then they only have five. And he's he's one
of the last. He's not the last, but he's one
of the last old school baseball guys. Although he's forced
to do the whole analytical bull crap. But I'm talking
old school, I'm talking cigars, bourbon, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Bad back, bad knee, bad heart.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And yet he is still sharper at baseball than all
these forty year old dudes who are managing teams.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
He just gets.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And and it's not Listen, if the Angels were this
close to being a good team, I'd be like, oh,
this is a good time to change managers. But it's
not like the Angels have any reason to dump Ron
Washington because they're about to turn things around.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They're not even rebuilding. I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I mean, they're just they're they're they're just it's it's
we talked about the floating thing of trash out in
the Pacific. That's the Angels. There's no oxygen. It's it's
like gravity. They're just kind of just I don't know
what's going on. And so when the doctors clear him,
if I'm already Marino, I bring him back, because, hey,
your team stinks. We all know that the Angels stink.
(07:10):
You're not a contender, you're not even a pretender. You're
just kind of there. And at least you've got a
good storyteller. So that's kind of cool. He's an ambassador.
The Angels suck, but Ron Washington's a cool guy. He's
a spokesman. It's like having Morgan Freeman narrate a ninety
loss baseball team. It makes it more compelling. I said, well,
(07:31):
that's kind of more interesting. And I was like, yeah,
you're not watching the Angels because you want to see
them in the standings and move up the standings and
all that. Even Ferg Dog told me that off the record.
He won't say that on the record, but off the
record he told me that you're watching, maybe you'll hear
a funny Ron Washington story, you know, some amusing antidote
or something like that. But back in the day when
he was managing the Dominican Republican and there was a
(07:52):
big storm there and there was only one light bulb
in the clubhouse and it burned out, and then they
had to light a match on a candle and they
had to they by candlelight, and then they know they
didn't have anything to.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Eat, and all those stories.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That is better content than anything anything that they're doing
on the field. The Angels need him, and you know,
baseball is better when they have guys like Ron Washington,
because the next couple of generations, a lot of those
guys are pretty boring and they're just they're buttoned up
and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Now, Secondly, we go to Saint Louis and I was
flipping around the baseball games last night, and somehow I
stopped on the Cardinal Pirates game, don't ask me why,
and I saw this. I said, well, that's kind of cool,
and then it went viral. Cardinals first baseman Wilson Contreras.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He might not know who that is.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Wilson Contrera's he in the seventh inning I believe it
was the seventh inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wilson Contreras
began he was at in the battles box and was
called out. He began walking towards the team's dugout. The
Redbirds dug out. There was wrung up on a pitch
that if you looked at the TV box, the strikes
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on box on television, it was a strike on the
on the TV broadcast. And so he walked back and
then he began to look back at the home plate umpire.
Somebody named Derek Thomas. It's a generic name. I remember
he had a good career in the NFL years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The umpire then ejected Wilson Contrellers get out of here.
And then boy, it was like Jack in the box.
This thing popped open and it was on.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It was on. So question, what did you make?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What did you make of the Cardinals first baseman Wilson
Contreras being given the boot in very dramatic fashion in
a random game on a random night, a random random
Monday into it Tuesday now, So this was with Ras Mataz.
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It was styling the most looney Tunes old school ejection
that I have seen in some time. And for those
of you that are blind or just chose not to
waste your eyeballs on watching this game. So Contreras gets
called out, he walks to the dugout. Then he turns
around like there's something that was said, and then he
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chucks in the middle of this brew haha. He tries
to throw his bat. He ends up hitting one of
the coaches for the Cardinals with his bat. I think
he wanted to hit the umpire, hit the coach. He
then starts he goes on the dugout, he starts throwing
bubblegum onto the field. So then the game's delayed because
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the ball boys have to go out in their hands
and knees and pick up the bubble gum piece by
piece out near the first base coaches box. Well that's
going on. The Cardinals manager Ali Marmal gets he gets ejected.
So this was I'll tell you what it was. It
was like a for those that are not that old,
it was like a time warp. It was like, you
don't see that much anymore, or in baseball you don't.
(11:02):
Baseball is so corporate now, it is so corporate, so robotic,
that this was unhinged. This was anti what baseball is today.
It was reckless. You can't throw a bat right, he
cannot do it, cannot do it. I gotta tell you though,
it was entertaining. I was entertained by this, and I
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do miss that kind of nonsense, and I, oh.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
We're just gonna have it in the next couple of years.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Next season, we're gonna have the robot strike zone and
all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But for one night, on a random night, it was.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Actually cool in Saint Louis. Usually it's a million degrees
in late August. Guess that global Warming took the day
off there in Saint Louis. So at Bush Stadium there
it was a cartoon show. It was a cartoon show.
I like it, is this the new Cardinal way? I
know they're not really doing anything of note. The Cardinals
are kind of like blah, They're kind of in the middle.
Wilson's out there and he's like Yosementy Sam with his
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six shooters, just going nuts. And Cantrara's he went full
this week in Baseball around the Majors. I could hear
the voice of mel Allen right old school. Could hear
mel Allen and his voice saying, temperatures rising in Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
How about that? You know? Going on?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
So, Look, the Cardinals are irrelevant. They've been irrelevant for
a couple of seasons. That is a miserable baseball team.
Not as bad as the Angels, but they're pretty bad.
But at least Contrera's made the Cardinals watchable a little bit.
You for five minutes, five good minutes. Cardinals were watchable.
So give me more of that. I'd like to see
more of that, and give me less of the boring
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standard nonsense that we get. And I'm good all right,
final thought, we move now away from baseball and we
go to the boardroom.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I saw this.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Story, and even if I hadn't seen it, I want
to thank Jim, who lives in Central California, who sent
this to me where I actually was.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I was just in central California. I was in.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Slow not that long a couple days ago, but actually
I guess it was. We were in Vegas last week
and so it was the weekend before that. Anyway, he
sent me the story and as I saw it anyway,
and the story is if you didn't see, it's about
the w NBA.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh, you shouldn't talk about the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I don't want to talk about it's a good story, though,
I don't want to talk about good story. Go where
the story is. So they have just over sixty days.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Tic tic tic tic tic tic tick.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Sixty days to hammer out a new deal, labor deal,
all eyes work stoppage. Let me repeat that for those
of you in the back of the room, work stoppage,
stoppage of work. So question, what stands out about the
report that the w NBA players are bunkering down, down, down,
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and preparing for a work stoppage. So my first thought
is who exactly on planet Earth would notice it if
the WNBA shut down. If today they announced we're going
out of business. I don't know anyone that would be
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upset by that. Maybe you do, maybe you're that person,
but I don't. I mean, if you're actually honest. Outside
of again, one woman, Caitlin Clark, and I'll give her
her due, you know who is really the only reason,
by the way, the only reason to pretend to care,
to pretend to give a rats ask about the WNBA.
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The rest of the entire league. They're in the witness
protection program is what they're in.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You couldn't pick these players out if I put them
in a lineup and I offered you ten million dollars
to name these players without having their name on the graphic,
you wouldn't know who these people are. And so in
some ways, the WNBA is still in the pandemic. When
Caitlin Clark's not playing, they're still practicing social distancing in
the WNBA, and it's well documented. I don't need to
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remind you that it's a product that the American people
have said for a generation they don't want, they don't
make money. The league's bled money for every single year.
It's not profitable. Listen, they're businesses that some years are profitable,
some years or not. But if you're not profitable every year,
you've done something terribly wrong. Right, You've done something terribly wrong.
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And there's no clear evidence that they're ever going to
be profitable. Like, the only reason the league still exists
is because the sugar daddies at the NBA have been bankrolling.
It's a bad business model. And if they were saying, hey,
you stand up on your own, the league would have
been gone fifteen years ago if the NBA said, we
refuse to continue to waste our money and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And there's tax reasons they do it.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
And when you make a lot of money, and the
NBA team makes a lot of money, it's good to
have a lost leader on the other side and you
can kind of finagle the taxes and all that stuff.
That being said, all right, the illusion. The thing that
I'm fatated about it. I was actually texting a.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Buddy of mine that works in radio. We were going
back and forth about this.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
The the thing about the w NB is is the
illusion is strong. It's mind tricks, is what it is.
And we've seen it a lot in the last year
and a half where all of a sudden, the w
NB is all over ESPN, right, you get the It's
plastered on social media. Even the company I work for,
forcing the few update anchors, we have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The w n b A. I remember when Eddie worked here,
so they told me I had to talk about the
w n v A. It's like, well, why nobody watched it?
He told me, it's wild.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You You get all these these think pieces, you know,
these these hype think pieces that are written about the
w n b A shoved into you know, every highlight package,
all that stuff, and it just just my entire I
was like manufactured popularity.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I continue to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Think it's not real based on going out. We do
these meet and greets, and I meet fans of the show,
and I meet people around and I I just don't
get the feedback from the customers that this is what
they want, that this is what they're consuming. Now, maybe
it's just our show, and you know, we have a
bunch of people that just don't care, but everyone else cares.
Maybe that's true. I'm just going by boots on the ground.
(17:13):
People I talk to in the different meat and greets
that I've done. And it's a social contagion, is what
it is. What's going on in the WMBA, Like, I'm
convinced there's a lot of bots pumping this fake engagement,
which is easy to do if you've got the money
and the where to do it. With the fake engagement
by followers, by likes, all that stuff, you've got corporate
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media that has investment in it that is also pumping
out fake interest. Right, we're not giving the viewer what
they want. We're giving them what we want them to want.
And it shoved, it shoved down your throat. And how
dare you if you ever say, if you ever say
in a polite room that hey, this isn't a very
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good product, then what happens you're sexest? Oh my god,
your sexss That is the default get out of jail
free card. Rather than address the issue, rather than address
the Kimodo dragon in the room that it isn't a
very good product, Instead it's well, you're just your sexist.
It's impossible to have a conversation with these people. You
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cannot do it because their default is that, of course,
my position is spare me on that, right, I'll talk
about Caplin Clark because there's interest there other than that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Forget about it, forget about it.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I don't care how much the bots try to get
get the interest up, and ESPN shoves it down your throat.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I don't care, right.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Instead, instead of reality, we get a game of chure rates.
It's like the w NBA is just one step, one
step away from exploding in popularity. You know what it
reminds me of reminds me of soccer, Like I get
the same from soccer people, the cult of soccer. Oh, Ben,
soccer is going to take over America.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Oh you just wait.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I was all right and people told me that I'm
old now and they're still telling me the same bull crap. Okay,
no one's fuled by that. No one's fulled by the WNBA.
Outside of Caitlin Clark. The league is invisible. It continues
to be and the minute Caitlin Clark decides I've had enough,
I'm out, that's it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It's a game over for the WNBA. It is the
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And now back to it, back to what we go.
Ferg Dog says, tough pill to swallow. But the Angels
part of your monologue was spot on. Everything you said
it was true, says Ferg Dog. Who else we have
page Dan Eileen from San Francisco says Ron Washington should
come back and play for the Angels. Yes, I think
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what the Angels should do is bring back all the
legends and have them play. Have Bobby Gritch play second base,
Doug de sins As could play third base. They can
bring back Mike wait on the Mount, all the old
Angels back when they were in the World Series and
all that in the eighties. Or if you want to
go two thousand, Tim Salmon, you make Tim Salmon back right,
bring him in there. Throw him out there. Adam Kennedy,
Adam Kennedy, why not? Sean Figgins bring him back? And
(22:54):
what are the John Lackey can bring the fried Chicken.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You can have him on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Stein x Stein of course, little slap hitter, bring him
out there. Uh, Troy Gloss put him out there at
third base?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Why not? Scott Spiezio, who says, no, is Scott Spiezio?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So that's a great idea, good marketing, cross promotion. Rather
than just have an old timers game, just have nothing
but old timer's every day and then once a year
play young players.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I'm blanking. I'm like, so, I'm so embarrassing. I think
I'm pretty I'm pretty good at who is?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Who is the guy?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Ben Benji Molina fat cat Benji Alina? Right?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Catch, yeah, who is the I know it starts with
the ass and I'm blankering the set up guy right
before Frankie Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Scott. No, that's just a generic white guy named Scott.
You're just doing no guy.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
God, Oh, now you're going to You're going to the
google a couple of Scott shield Scott shields. Yeah, yeah,
Benji Molina didn't even balloon up. He got pretty big,
did he. Darren Urstad that's a good one. Arren nurse Day, Yeah,
first I think he get the final out of the
Did he catch the final line outfield?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Jared Anderson was on the he was mister Angel for
years there. But of course we're Drew an old man
radio coop because that was a generation.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, that's the last time they were relevant.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's been twenty three years since the Angels won. Twenty
three years. Mike Social is available. He's still around, right,
bring Social back? No?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Why not? He's younger than Ron Washington. I feel about
it all right.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Let's go to the phones, and I do need contestant.
I need two contestants Mallard's amount of money. But let's
say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis, mina sort Hello,
hollering James.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Just qualify me as a good test stand.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yes, you are disqualified, although your name. You should be
very happy, James. I know you were not listening, but
your name came up. I made the rare and appropriate
appearance on the radio on the Big Morning Show on Kman,
and your name was brought up on the Power trip
with them with my guy Chris the Hawk may Hawk.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, yeah, your name came up.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
They they they they apologized on the power Trip for you,
representing the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Your thoughts, Why did they apologize? I am the state
of Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Stayed great job, James.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
The reason and I don't want to speak for them
because they're much more popular than I am. But I
believe the reason that the morning show guys apologize for
you is because, James, they've heard your calls.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
That's because they love your show man. You're the number
one show at TIM Radio.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yes, I'm the number one show when everyone's sleeping right there,
number one at the top.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Yes, hey, do you remember?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well I haven't number one. I haven't been invited back
number two. There's some other places that we have to go, James.
We have to go to some other places before we
do that.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
So, yeah, your agenda at Brittla Rena not Cooper.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Do you want me to come?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
That's so sweet?
Speaker 6 (26:25):
I would love you to come, all right, James, calm down, James.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Doesn't.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Coop said he'll go to Minnesota. Coop told me off
there he'll go as long as you show. You don't
show up he said, as long as you're not there,
he'll show up.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I did not say that.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Coop does talk about you more than anyone else that
calls the show. Your name comes up, just goes down people.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
He knows I love him. My number one.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh, I thought I was your I thought I was
your number one. I'm not your number one.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
All right now, if you were to make a big board,
not a list, not a list, a big board, who
would be who would be at the very top of
your big board?
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Is the number one target?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Man?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Because you said I'm I'm ahead? Wait? Wait, wait, I'm
ahead of Tammy Montana?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Well I believe you have a.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Number? Wow, who's number two? Who's number two? What about Lorraina?
She number two is a Tammy?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I might get off the fence, James, Come on, man,
come on right now, come on, who are you gonna pick? Oh? Wow,
I'm gonna I'm gonna call Tammy Montana right now. She's
gonna be so upset with you with me. You want
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to talk to her, all right, I'll put her on
with your shirt. Why Tammy and Montana say hello to
hollering James.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Hey, hey, James, how are you doing tonight? I'm so
glad I got a chance to connect with you.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Hey, is this Blas Scott?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I guess the bad Scott? Blind Scott. You're a little
higher Next time, Scotty.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I could have gone, I could have got a.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, you got too little, too low?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Better with Marcel. Marcel falls for it every time, So
stay no one. I don't know if it's a call today,
but he's Steve falls for that everything.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I play the game? Can I play the game? Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
God?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Are you gonna try?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Yeah? Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah you sure about that.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But if you play the game, I can't put you
on again though, that's it? Yeah, okay with you can't.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Put you can't put me on tomorrow night either. This
is the problem I'm running into right.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Oh, you're upset with New You're upset with James? Are
you also upset with New?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Me and I?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
James?
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Wow, there was just a gun shot outside.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I just heard that had to be a gunshot, probably
not the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You could hear it in the door chest. Is anybody
else in boss to listening?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Now?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I get and once was you came on?
Speaker 7 (29:11):
That was it?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I got a genetic counselor Now then it's okay. If
you want to die, you just can't plan it now,
just no planning.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
As long as you you can die, you just can't
plan to die, okay.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
If you tell people you feel like dying, you don't
tell them you're planning. And it's all right, it's all
good that way.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But I mean, you're gonna die, I think you should
just you know, wait till that happens. You don't, don't
think you need to plan earlier?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
What about this newbie knight? Dude, you can't do it?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
What is wrong with you? Part of his day?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You can still send messages on social media and all
that stuff. You can still be very active out.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
There's the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But here's the thing, Like everybody's on vacation now and
you're not on vacation, and like, uh, it's just not
a good idea, you know, because I mean you can't
well you know, I don't. I don't want to call
the Tri State market. I called into the Tri State
market and they got my guy taking away over that.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I'm not doing that, Okay, all right, James, you're okay
with it, though, right, James.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Oh see he's okay, James's coming around.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
James. Let me ask you a question. Why do you
only have thirty seven dollars and sixty four cents a week?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Why because that budget is on a low income by
the federal government, by Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Dude, But you're blaming Donald Trump. All right, this is
the fact that you haven't had a job in years.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
And feed him there, they seed him there, they pay
his friends. He has a lot more benefits than that.
This guy is coming to five.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Hours, so you have some James Scott says. He said
that you're making that up, that you're you're embellishing thing.
Would you like a job, James? How about Express Employment professional?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
James? Oh, great idea, Ben Yeah, the only.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Be a good express in my opinion. And he sounds
like black Scott. He's portrayed Black Scott.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Oh hey, James, Oh, there's Tammy there. She is Hi Tammy?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
All right, all right, you always go too far Scott. Alright,
I'm hanging up on James. I mean, we have contestants
trying to get there. Okay, we have people that want
to play the game.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Let's go to Rick in Maryland morning time. Hello, Rick
in Maryland, By the way, I have to. I have
to pay off the riddle of the day. Rick, Are
you okay with me doing that? Right now? Can I
pay off the riddle of the day. I didn't pay
it off, and people are very upset with me. They're
saying nasty things to me on social media. So I
have to pay this off. So the this Iowa Man
went viral revealing an insane blank during the national anthem
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and people losing their minds on this.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I'm getting message you didn't do the answer.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Let's see the some of the silly answers here page down.
We've got a lot of angel comments. Sixth toe from
Bobby in Florida. The Iowa Man revealed his impressive cornhole
delivery from Stevie Meatballs in the Sunshine State. The insane
parrot or an insane parrot from Donkey Sausage. That's his answer.
(32:20):
Ferd Dog went with the insane clown posse. He says,
give a shout out there?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Who else? Page down?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Iowa Sam revealed he's from Delaware. That's the answer there that,
according to Late Night drug tester who else page down?
The Mallard Riddle of the day alf said the insane
ability to belch the entire anthem. Well, that's the Boston
Burbon who works the dreaded day shift now does not
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call the show. Malcolm and Mike says an angry bill
designed tattoo of Caitlin Clark that that is the answer.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Insane.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
The members from Lady Sideburns Casey went with a cucumber
giant silo from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
JT the Wingman sent with an insane riff on the
dulcimer in Dick and Dayton's honor. From JT the Wingman,
Mark the full name Guy said the ninth, eighteen ninety
nine Cleveland Spiders are more relevant than the WNBA and
soccer okay beer belch by Johnny Qman chipping the Ques
(33:34):
guy to write bad job by him Lorena the riddle.
Today in Iowa man went viral revealing an insane blank
during the national anthem, what is the answer?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I have to go with Bunyan. I can't get Bunyan
out of my head run in finance, so that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Iowa man went viral because of his can his cap
tain cap ten.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
He had put his hat off and he had a
ten because of his cap. Yeah yeah, yeah, no, no, no,
not that not that all. How bad was it? It
was really bad. You can find it's not it's terrible.
I can send it to if you want, but it's
easy to find. It's all over the place.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It's so bad. It's like, dude, you fall asleep outside
like he had. And he had this weird thing like
he said that he had the back of his head
was kind of shaved. The top he had hair, but
then in the back you know how you wear the
hat and it's got that like this.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
It looks like a bowl cut. Yeah. Not good. Not
a good look. Like he lost a bed or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Anyway, it is the Benett Malor Show. We'll pause with
the cause we're gonna have Mallard's amount of money in
its entirety. We'll get to that and we will.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
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Speaker 4 (35:26):
Now, Malor's mountain of money. Hell do you have what
it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
And right to the game we go. Let's welcome in
our contestants. We have Who do we have here?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
We have Uncle Ma who's in Jersey now no longer
in Brooklyn, He's moved over to Jersey.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
What's going on, Uncle mal Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Looking forward to the football season, hoping to make bounce
fast as legal Jets might go seventeen to er.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Yes, if the other team only plays with ten players,
they might go seven seventeen.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Uh and uh, Uncle, who do you want to partner
with the great Uncle Moe?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I hope I'm not rusty?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Ben I'm gonna go with you, all right, spin a while,
it spin a while?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
All right, you're gonna play and we have JJ in Renton. Hello, JJ,
oh man, have been a long time, big man.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
It has been too long. JJ. You work the dreaded
swing chip. But you're back. You're gonna be with Cooper
loop alright, JJ, right, yeah, all right, I don't have
time to do small talk.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
All right, don't do it, likerocos though.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
That's fine. All right, let's let's play the game here.
Lock everyone in? What the categories? Quickly? Cool? All right?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
This is the Melissa McCarthy addition, she turns fifty five
years old today. Categories are the third Wheel, the Nines, bride'smaids,
and this is forty? Uncle, know you run first? Which
category would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Third wheel? The third wheel? Alright? And JJ, how about you?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Man?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
So what is the object?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Do you want? The Nines Brian's maids? Or this is forty?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
This?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
All right, all right, very good, let's go forty? What
are forty five seconds o'clock? These athletes were typically overshadowed
by a duo of teammates.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Uncle more, are you ready? Yes? All right, here we
go known as the Beard.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He plays with the Clippers now he was with the
Rock Yes, he was with the Miami Heat with Dwayne
Wade Yes, point guard from France for the Spurs when
they had Duncan Yes. Wide receiver for the Patriots. He's
on Fox now slot wide receiver. Yes, running back for
the forty nine ers. Also the same name of the
(37:40):
manager of the Giants in the eighties, the San Francisco
Giants running back for the Knights with Joe Bartana.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
All right, No wide receiver for the Packers.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Last name is like a salad with Brett Farb and
Aaron Rodgers last names like a salad. The scooter for
the Yankees in the nineteen Yes, all right, you got
that one wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. Last
name like a famous Hey.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Cool Seaton again, man, because I could family here here, Man,
he's fund the robot.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Roger Craig was what you missed and Randall Ky I
like that. JJ knows he's going to lose, All right, JJ, JJ,
We've got this is forty. These athletes are currently forty
years old, whether retired or active, they're forty years.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Old right now? Are you ready? JJ? Yeah, we'll go
all right, forty five seconds to begin.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Quarterback for the Falcons, he threw to Julio Jones. He's
retired now, Matt Ryan, Yes, this guy was one of
the all time great running backs. He was on the Vikings,
ran for two thousand yards. He hit his son with
a with a stick.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Oh, yes, all right.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
This guy was the point guard for the Lob City Clippers.
He's still in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
It's not Klay Thompson. It's I can't remember.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
He's on State farm commercials. All right, all right, all right,
this guy, this guy was POW's brother, Powe from the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Kyle.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
No, all right, this guy had the same name as
pac Man in the NFL, but he was in me
an MLB player.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Man J just wants to say I'm cheating, all right,
he sucked at the game. Chris, Chris Paul is who
you missed all.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
That?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
You want the nines or bridesmaids? You want nines or bridesmaids?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
JJ.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I'll go to nine.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
All right, the athletes all were number nine. Let's go.
Current quarterback for the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Yes, this guy was the quarterback for the Saints. He's
gonna be in the Hall of Fame. Yes, this guy
was the kicker for the Ravens. He likes the massage Parlors.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
This guy was the point guard for the Celtics championship
team with Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
It was uh.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
He later came to the Lakers. Hits the point guard.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Board.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Yeah, jeez, guy hit for the last got to hit
four hundred in baseball, the.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Last guy to hit four Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Ound we had a little time.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
You sucked. You sucked.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
J You never never played this game again, I didn't
she you didn't get any right brides made. Here we go.
These athletes all made it to the championship game but
never won.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Here we go quickly. We have a full board. But
let's go.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Uh. Uncle Moe play with the Red Sox. Was a
rookie year played with the California Angels. Also hit the
first Grand Slam in an All Star game in the
No white guy, No, yeah, you gotta right the guy.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
We want the guy. Uncle
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