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September 18, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about Shohei Ohtani saying he's willing to play the outfield for the Dodgers so they could use his as a relief pitcher, the idea that Marvin Harrison Jr. is lost in the Cardinals offense, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our dumb bird two, our number two, ready for you,
and bye bye baseball.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Shoe Hey Otani hit another home run for the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
They beat the Phillies last night. That's not the story here.
The story is the great debate. Joeyotani says he's willing
to play in the outfield for the Dodgers so they
could use him as a relief pitcher during the playoffs.
What is your initial reaction to that developing story, because
the relief pitchers have.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
To come out of the game.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Normally, the Otani rule only applies to starting pitchers. Also,
is it a silly conversation that Marvin Harrison Junior is
lost in the sauce in the Cardinals offense? Also, and
Carolina's coach Dave Canalis and his confidence in Carolina quarterback
Bryce Young warranted as the coach said really nice things

(00:53):
about his quarterback. We'll talk about that and more right
now here. It is our number two. Oh, what a
relief it is, unless it's not a relief. Welcome in
the beginning, not another hour of the Ben Malor Show.
We are in the air everywhere as we drop in

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(01:39):
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Speaker 1 (01:55):
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Speaker 2 (01:56):
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(02:19):
is from baseball. We're gonna start there the story that
a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Are talking about, not the Cubs, Doc Cubbs, who.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Are in the playoffs now, but the Dodgers who did
beat the Phillies amazingly that's shocking. But the Dodgers are
in a bit of a pickle jar here on how
they're going to handle shohe Otani, who hit another home
run in the game that was played there on Wednesday night,
and he's got fifty one home runs now and getting
close to the end of the season, just about a

(02:49):
ten games or so to go in.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
The regular season. So he didn't see this.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Perhaps not the Dodgers robotic manager buy the book Preordained.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Dave, we should call them Dave Roberts.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Dave Roberts acknowledge that the Dodgers have considered whether or
not sho Hailtani may end up being their salvation to
their crap bag bullpen. The bullpen blows, it's embarrassing. It's
a minor league bullpen. And so the chance, the chances
of Otani going to the bullpen, what are they.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, we don't know what they are.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's being considered, and the shorter series wildcard round. The Dodgers,
the greatest team all time, are gonna be in the
wildcard round because they're.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Not that good.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
So it remains to be seen whether or not this
will happen or not. Otani still will likely end up
being a starting pitcher because of the rule, because of
the rule in baseball, the Otani rule, which was put
in for him as a starting pitcher, not as a reliever.
But the Dodgers say that it is something they're considering,

(03:58):
that Otani would help them out of the bullpen, and
they're talking about it. Otani did say that he's open
to playing the outfield. Oh my god, a guy making
seventy million dollars a year and he's willing to play
the outfield. Holy crap, just to remain in the lineup.
Because the rule is, if you're a reliever and you
leave the game, it's all over. That's it, You're done.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Sky's all right.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
So let us discuss the question. Sho Haltani says that
he is willing to play the outfield. The Dodgers could
use him as a relief pitcher under that scenario.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
What is your initial reaction to all of this.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
So I've got Ricky, Bobby, Greek, and Wyoming, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make your Babushka's favorite peanut butter and jelly
is what we're going to make. So number I said
number Now Otani not just as bad at gambling. But

(04:59):
he's a unicorn and he's a full on one man
marching band. How can one man be a marching band? Well,
there's Otani. He's the drum major, he's playing the trumpet,
he's got the tuba, he's the guy twirling the baton.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
He's all that. But really, what.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
This is is an obvious referendum on the Dodger front office.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
They were bad at their job. They went out.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
They signed a guy in Kirby Yates who's completely washed up.
He should be playing shuffle board somewhere. And Tanner Scott,
whose mind is mush as mashed potatoes.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
This guy blows.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
And so those are the big pickups that they improved
the bullpen, and the bullpen sucks so much that they're
thinking about putting Otani out there and have him strap
a harmonica on in addition to all the other stuff
that he's got going on.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's insane.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
It is insane that the Dodger bullpen, which they thought
was going to be a beachfront luxury condo building, but
it was that, except it was actually built on top
of a sinkle, which is not what you want. And
so now this is major league Baseball's version of Ricky Bobby.
You remember Will Ferrell, the star of that Talladega Knights,
and played all nine positions for ten different teams one

(06:12):
day in the Cactus League.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
He flew around and all that.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
But you look at it and you will have to
get harmonica for Otani there. And he can also juggle
chainsaws just to get them through the Wildcard series, all
just to get them through the walk course. Seris now
a little birdie says. The Dodgers have been lobbying for
a rules change, rules change with Major League Baseball. They

(06:38):
would have to rewrite the constitution. I imagine the letter
goes something like, dear mister Manford, you called the World
Series trophy a hunk of metals, so you clearly don't
care about competition. So surely you'd be willing to change
the rule just before the playoffs to accommodate the Dodgers
to allow Otani to pitch him relief, hit clean up,
and he can shag flies and left field without losing

(06:58):
the designated hitter, Thank you very much. Side Los Angeles Dodgers.
So they want a loop, Andy, loop is what they want.
They want to show hel tany loophole written into the
baseball bylaws because the rest of the roster.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Is not good. And he listen, the.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Dodgers deserve the circus. It would be hilarious. Baseball shouldn't
change the rules. But then the commissioner doesn't care about
the integrity of the game. They don't care about that.
You got two teams playing in minor league stadiums this year.
It's embarrassing. But the Dodgers deserve the circus because they
baby their pitchers into glass figurines.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
They put them all in bubble wrap.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
And then, of course the bullpen's completely cooked at this point.
And now we're closing in, just a couple weeks away
from October, and the hopes rest on Otani pulling a
Will Ferrell, just playing all the positions. Good luck with that,
Good luck with that. All right, Now we go back
to football and to the Valley of the Sun. A

(08:00):
team we normally don't talk about because nobody cares about them,
but this is an interesting story. The Cardinals wide receiver
Marvin Harrison Junior.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Now you told me.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
This guy was going to be great, the spawn of
a Hall of Famer, and he had a few highlights
last year a couple of good games, but it wasn't
consistently great. So Marvin Harrison Junior has been a non
factor to begin the year. Arizona somehow's two and oh
thanks to the schedule gods. But Marvin Harrison Junior says
his lack of targets is a quote silly conversation to

(08:33):
Marvin Harrison says, listen, it's nothing to worry about.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Silly, silly, silly, And he has.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Been targeted just eleven times through the first two games
of the NFL season, and so it obviously stands out
right stands out a lot. This is supposed to be
their big stud wide receiver. This is their forever franchise
wide receiver, the next Larry Fitzgerald, better than Larry Fitzgerald,
and he's not. So the question is it a silly

(09:02):
conversation that Marvin Harrison is lost in the Cardinals offense
right now?

Speaker 3 (09:07):
So absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Do you know how many millions, if not billions of
dollars are exchanged in fantasy football, and then you add
in gambling and all that, and there are prop bets
on production and whatnot, and Marvin Harrison is not living
up to the building. That's a story. It's not a
silly conversation. Harrison was the fourth overall pick in the

(09:29):
twenty twenty four draft. You all worship the draft, right,
You literally say prayers at the tabernacle for the NFL Draft,
And this season so far, all we have to do
is judge him on his actions. This season, Marvin Harrison
Junior has been a stool pigeon. Tell me what company
you keep, and I will tell you what you are.

(09:50):
So Marvin Harrison Junr. Is currently tied with someone named
Josh Downs.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Of the Cult.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Sounds like a relief pitcher for the Giants and the Jaguar.
There's Diamy Brown in targets this year. Let me repeat
that for those of you a little slow in the
back of the room and is an overnight show. So
Marvin Harrison Junior is tied with the Colts wide receiver
Josh Downs and the Jaguars Diami Brown in targets.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
That is not the company that you want to keep. Now,
I didn't play in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I know Ryan Clark will probably be upset that I
have a take because I didn't play in the NFL.
But that is not the company you want to keep.
All right when you're supposed to be the next Jamar
Chase or Justin Jefferson. This is the guy we were
told can't miss, gold plated spawn of a Hall of
Famer blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah yeah,
but yeah, yeahah yeah. So at this part of it,

(10:46):
I'm gonna go fluent in Greek. Marvin Harrison looks like
a dais. Remember the viral photos all he worked out.
He's this guy is amazing. He's built like a Greek god.
He plays like a Greek salad. That's not what you're
looking for. Where's the production, where's the juice? The great
white outs? You know what they do my entire life.

(11:07):
They demand the ball. They give me the damn ball.
The famous quote from Keishawn Johnson back and then his book.
They don't just sit there smiling and twiddling their thumbs
on the sidelines while they're getting three or four targets
a game. Whether that's DeVante Adams who's getting older with
the ramsde Lamb, or any of these guys. Those guys
all get fed.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
They do.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
And Marvin Harrison, he is a garnish on the plate
right now. He's a partially sprig is essentially what he is.
I mean, listen, he looks nice. Have you really want
him as like the centerfold of a magazine?

Speaker 1 (11:39):
If you're rid of that kind of thing, it.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Doesn't change the flavor. So far, he's half the man
his father was. I don't even know if half is right.
Marvin Harrison Senior, well, he certainly had some issues off
the field, and there was a lot of shady stuff
and we don't know all the details on what was
involved and what didn't happen with Marvin Harrison Senior. But
he was slick, and he was was silk. He was
effortless and when he got the ball, whoever the quarterback

(12:05):
was mostly Peyton Manning.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
It was Velcrow and the kid.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Eh.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
You know, it's like he's running these routes and it
seems like he's stuck in a TSA line at Sky
Harbor Airport or some other airport. All the hype, all
the hype, right changing the franchise.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
You draft this receiver, he's so good blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
And yet he's out there putting up stat lines that
you can get from a fifth round pick out of
Western Michigan. You can get that kind of production. So
Marvin Harrison Jr. Is as good as advertised. The staff
would mandate that he gets the ball. Is that an
accurate state? Right? Again, you look at him and you're saying, well,
there's a guy that looks like a Greek god, but

(12:47):
again it plays like a Greek salad, and you'd say,
scheme him up. You can feed him the ball, bubble screens, slants,
whatever you find, right, you find ways to get him.
Ten looks a game, right, you find ways to get
the ball. Here's the fun sized quarterback, or the alligator

(13:08):
arms as we like to call him. There, here's Kyler Murtry.
You hear the question and the answer on the issue
of targets. Take a listen, throw bl barber be down.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, but do you feel like you should have more
targets in a game?

Speaker 5 (13:19):
Right now?

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Are you asking me? Yeah? You know, I say it
every time, like I wish all of them could get
ten targets a game. Of course, there's only one ball.
You know, we've been playing this game for a long time.
We all understand how it goes. Some days, he's gonna
get ten. Some days he might get three whatever it is,
and Mike might get eight. You know, you never know.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, okay, that's a non answer answer. Again.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
I go back to my point.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
If the player is great, do you think the Vikings
going to a game saying, well, we you know, we
can't get we can't target Justin Jefferson or the Bengals
with with their their star wide receiver mister Chase. There
you get him the ball. And there are trick codes
that you can use, the bubble screen, the slant, whatever
it might be, as I said, to get them open.

(14:06):
And the fact that that Harrison is not getting the
ball that often means either one of two things. Either
he can't separate despite looking like a Greek god, he's
not getting open, or he's not the guy. It's one
of those two things. And if he can't separate, you
could also argue he's not the guy, so it's almost

(14:29):
one of the same. All right, now, final point, falling
quarterback category. We go to Carolina, where the Panthers suck
yet again and their coach Dave Canalis.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Don't learn his name. He won't be there long, but
Dave Canalis.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Announced this week that he has complete confidence in Panthers
quarterback Bryce Young says his confidence is quote super high.
That's his words, not mine. He said, a super high
confidence level despite the zero to two start yet again,
and the Atlanta Falcons are up next in a that
will be regionally broadcast and maybe back in the day

(15:04):
we'd say that's on public access cable, but I guess
it'll be on television somewhere.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
So this is one year.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Remember last season, one of the great sports radio talking
points was the famous benching of Bryce Young following an
zero and two start, and Bryce Young, after Carolina had
been firmly exterminated from any chance of doing anything, put
up some halfway decent games. But here we are back
to square one. So Canallas says he's quote fired up.

(15:31):
He said about where the Panthers are headed. Okay, close quote.
So let us discuss the question. Is coach Dave Canalis
confidence in Carolina quarterback Bryce Young warranted? So you can't
see me unless you're watching the YouTube channel, which is.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
At Ben Mahler's show. You can watch it right there.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
So I'm shaking my head. No, this is wishful thinking.
I love the fact that canallis is fired up about
where the Panthers are going. He must love the NFL draft,
the top ten of the NFL draft, because that's.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Where Carolina is going. They're going to the top ten
of the NFL Draft.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
It's the coach trying to sell you beachfront property in Wyoming,
beautiful beachfront property in Wyoming. Canalis is playing mister Sunshine
and it's mister Canalis in the Sunshine band. They're the
ultimate cheerleader. Give me some pom poms and passing them
over to Dave Canals.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Get him a little skirt and there you go.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
You can lead the keep the faith cheer at the
pep rally while the quarterback looks like one of those
candy bars, you know, the small sized candy bars you
get on Halloween there where you're a little small, those
sweet You take a couple of bites and they're all gone.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Bryce Young, it's like he shrunk in the drier. Now
we goof on.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Kyler Murray because he's terrible too.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
But Bryce Young, I mean he doesn't get as much.
He's not as obtuse as Kyler Murray, so we don't
attack him as much. But you look at him next
to NFL defenders, if you've ever flipped over to a
Carolina game and it's like they put a high school
freshman out and it's like he's in the middle of
the octagon and a Dana White event. You know, he's

(17:12):
the twenty ninth ranked quarterback in the NFL, and even
that is misleading.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
It's only been a couple of games.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
The only time Carolina has successfully moved the ball is
in garbage time. The Cardinals in this last game had
a twenty seven to three lead in that game, and
at that point Carolina then scored three touchdowns. They scored
on three straight possessions. That is not a comeback, by
the way. That is garbage time, Cardio. You're doing garbage

(17:40):
time Cardio, which it's like bragging you scored an empty
net goal in the National Hockey League and the you know,
you don't really get that much credit for the goal.
He pulled himself to go get some gatorade or whatever
it might be. Nobody's impressed by that. Now Carolina is
owing to against Jacksonville and Arizona, who are still who

(18:04):
are still not gonna make the playofy.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Neither want to made the plaoffs lat year.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
They're gonna make the plows this year and they were behind
by three touchdowns. It's like watching a bad cover band,
watching the Carolina Panthers. You show up, they say they're
gonna bring the energy and all that stuff, and then
they butcher you know whatever old song Hotel California or
whatever at the County Fair.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
But that's Bryce Young right now.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Like Bryce Young is essentially the Carolina Panthers tribute act
to real NFL quarterbacks, and they're sending them out there.
And they decided not gonna bench him because he got
some garbage time touchdowns and all that.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
And I'm not real.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Happy about that, particularly because of the points spread. But
we'll see what happens this weekend. It is the Ben
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Speaker 3 (19:19):
Things are not going particularly well.

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That according to mister MVP guy, we'll get to that
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was going to do a monologue about Hawks guard Trey
Young apparently releasing some kind of dis video about Patrick Beverley.
And I have no real interest in that. So no,

(22:45):
I don't know, I don't. That doesn't interest me. Should
that interest me? Should I care that Trey Young and
Patrick Beverley have a problem with each other?

Speaker 11 (22:54):
Is it broadcasting?

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Ben?

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Well, that would be narrow casting because it's Trey Young.
You don't want to he doesn't have a lot of
fans and because he.

Speaker 11 (23:03):
Plays, Oh well, that's good. Or do we really already
have gremlins?

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Are there s the gremlins left there? Lorendo? Yeah, I'll
yell at You'm gonna yell at you, Loraine.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
But but Trey Young isn't not he's a good player,
but he plays on a team that doesn't have a
huge following.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
So and I love Patrick Beverley forever, a Google guy.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Greatest ever celebration to win a playing game, Patrick Beverley
with the Minnesota Timber. All right, it is the Ben
Malors show. The Gremlins are somewhat attacking. Let's go to
the phones and let's see here do we have? I

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got a packed board. Let's go to Whoopee Pie Blair.
Who's in the Great State of Maine. Hello, whoop pe
Pie Blair.

Speaker 10 (24:02):
It's going on band long time, no talk?

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Has your hair grown back?

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Blair?

Speaker 10 (24:08):
Uh? It's my eyebrows are growing that, I tell you
that much. The dumbest mistake I can ever do. Yeah,
because now the Big Jab heard from you and they
were asking them about it.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, well why didn't you tell them? You told me?
Why wouldn't you tell them?

Speaker 7 (24:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (24:25):
They were saying that you told them or something.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Well, we did tell them because our shows on the
Big Jab and it was broadcast.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
So that's see, that's what happened. They heard it on
the stage.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yes, they're always listening, they're always monitoring Whoopee Pie Blair.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
They're always mine.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
So are you still talking to fake people on TikTok?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Blair? Are you still in that world?

Speaker 10 (24:47):
I'm on right, I'm on right now getting followers on
my mound Do account.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, how many followers do you have on TikTok?

Speaker 10 (24:55):
Now? Undo, lover one, two, three, I don't know, I don't.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Care what it is. How many do you have?

Speaker 10 (25:04):
One hundred and nine right now? And then I love
the followers?

Speaker 2 (25:09):
One hundred and nine people? You think, okay, congratulations, that's
more than I have on TikTok, because I'm not on TikTok.

Speaker 10 (25:15):
I have more than one. I have more than one account.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Isn't that illegal? You shouldn't be doing that. You're gonna
get arrested for that, Ben.

Speaker 10 (25:23):
I'm not going to get arrested. Good, try.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Good?

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What do you what do you remember? You almost got
arrested for that.

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Let's contact, let's contact, let's contact the government insting.

Speaker 10 (25:42):
What happen When I walked out the bar and that
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That dam't work? God so well. I looked at him,
cross hide, and I say, you know what happens when
you say that to me. I'm never going to get
out of the way, you bleeping white boy. I'm just
going to keep walking right at you and say you're
just a dumby fool.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
You're dumb Blair, Blair, Blair. I was that none of
that happened, Blair, I was there that night. No, that
did not you. You guys left, you left early because
there was some people from you.

Speaker 10 (26:16):
Early And a guy did tell me to get out
of the way. You bleed and white boy, oh yeah,
say that, but he didn't say that word.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
He said who he said something else?

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Really, oh man, And this is a traumatic event for you.
You still remember this year in Boston.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
One guy, one guy didn't like you, And bod doesn't
mean everyone else doesn't like you.

Speaker 12 (26:36):
That one guy didn't like me?

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Is that the only time, Blair? All right, take a bread, Blair?
Is that the only time in your life that someone's
been a douche like that to you? Someone's been mean
to you in person.

Speaker 10 (26:49):
On the top across a lot of people on TikTok
and not.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
I said, I'm talking about the real world. I'm not
talking about TikTok.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
That's fake. I'm talking about the real world.

Speaker 10 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
You call me a dummy, You call me a dummy.
You want to step outside right now, let's go outside.
I'll kick your ass right now. I'm gonna kick your
ass right now. Let's go outside. I'll kick your ass
right now.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Blair. I'll give you one haymaker. That's it.

Speaker 10 (27:15):
Yes, Hermit the Frog one of the piece of me.
And I said no, no, the Patriots are better than
you think. And he said, no, the Patriots sucked. And
I said, no, the Patriots are actually good.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
And he said, wait, wait, wait, wait, how are the
How are the patriots? How are the Patriots good?

Speaker 10 (27:34):
I don't know a puppet can tell me that.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
No way, I don't.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
What do you You're in Blair World. You're doing your
own Blair World world.

Speaker 10 (27:45):
Hermit the Frog might be a freaking puppet, but I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
I always tell me what's his name? What's his name?

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Is it? What's the frog name?

Speaker 10 (27:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:55):
He said, Hermit the Frog? Is that what you said?

Speaker 10 (27:58):
I call it her the frog, but it was a
different one, Puppet the Frog.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I guess would you be willing to date miss.

Speaker 12 (28:09):
Piggy, Miss Piggy, Yeah you would? Four fingers four, five fingers. Next, Wait,
what's your name, Ben maw or is it is it that?

Speaker 10 (28:26):
What is it? The penny? Oh, miss Penny, miss Penny
on Friday Night?

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yes, yeah, well it's you check it out Benny versus
the Penny.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
I'm a YouTuber. Now it's on YouTube. Do you not watch?
You should watch Benny versus the Penny Boy?

Speaker 7 (28:41):
You are?

Speaker 1 (28:42):
What are you drinking? What are we doing tonight? You drinking?

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Are you smoking?

Speaker 10 (28:46):
Was a Tuesday?

Speaker 12 (28:47):
I drank Tuesday and you're still and I wonder what
the hell is going on for me?

Speaker 10 (28:53):
Why am I so?

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Blair? Give me your email. I'm gonna I know you.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
I'm actually a Nigerian prince. I want to email you
and see if I can get some help you out.
You just have to send me a little bit of
money and then I'll help you out. I am a
Nigerian prince. I have friends from Nigeria. I do a
freaking what.

Speaker 10 (29:15):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (29:20):
You know what you're rude to me? I'm the only
friend you have, Blair. How dare you?

Speaker 1 (29:27):
You know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna put you in
time Blair. I'm gonna'm gonna you can't say that I'm
gonna put you in time out.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Blair.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
You're in time out. You can't say that I was
wrong with you. Hijack all right? And Blair, and this
is you know you don't what I want to end
up like Jimmy Kimmel here I mean, what are you doing, dude.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
It's a bad job by you.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Shame on you.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
We're in the public airwaves here to protect the public
airwaves at all costs. Absolutely absolutely, let's see here. Late
night drug tester writs in from parts of and says,
Marvin Harrison Junior wants more targets. He should ask his
dad to show Kyler he is packing the same gun
for the for his car wash.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Well, there's a.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Famous Marvin Harrison Senior story.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Famous.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Nothing ever came of that, right, there was just like
he was in the Philadelphia area.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
There was like a shooting and.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
I remember we did a monologue about it, and then
he just kind of the story went away, and You're like,
where did it go?

Speaker 1 (30:26):
And it just there was nothing happened. I guess everyone
kept quiet. They never found anything.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Shane and de Moyin writes, and he says, if the
Bills are eleven after a twelve and a half point
Home favored against Miami, with the over under said at
forty nine and a half, I'd wager on the Bills
to win and cover. Well, if you want my pick,
go to Bennie versus Penny bet at BENNI Vspenny on YouTube.
I got my pick for that game. We'll have all
the other big primetime games later today. As the tradition
of Benny versus the Penny, we started right here on

(30:52):
the airwaves with Fox Sports Radio back in the day,
will continue with all the big matchups, all of them
in the NFL. Eight seven to seven ninety nine on
Fox is the number eight seven, seven nine nine six
six three six nine. So mister MVP admitting things are
not going particularly well, and that would be Jalen Hurts,

(31:14):
the super.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Bowl Hero for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Jalen Hurts addressing the horrific passing offense of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Now we're on in Philadelphia and fortunately you guys are
all passed out in the gutter before you call my show.
You very rarely do we get some lunatic from the
Philadelphia area that calls the show. But the Philadelphia Eagles,

(31:38):
you talk about a one trick point.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Now, we'll talk more.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
About this later as there's more calls to ban the
toush push and all this stuff. But if you look
at the passing offense of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
And you look at where they are on.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
The spectrum of the NFL. There they are on the spectrum.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
What a hot mess there in terms of what they
are getting from their passing offense. You think the passing
yards per game, the Philadelphia Eagles are the second worst
passing offense.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
In the NFL. So well, it's only been two games.
It doesn't really matter that much. Okay, last year, I
know they won the Super Bowl. They were thirtieth in
the NFL last season in terms of passing yards per game.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Anyway, Jalen Hurts get to the point, please, the super
Bowl hero says, quote, I take accountability for a lot
of it.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Hurt said.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Speaking with the assembled fourth estate there on Wednesday, he says,
just how we go out there, because it's my job
to go out there and be the general to orchestrate
everything and ultimately make plays given the opportunity. Yeah, this
is going to be fascinating. And I still don't think
they're going to get rid of the touch push.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
We'll talk more about it later in the Show's on
my notes.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
That being said, if they did get rid of it,
is Jalen Hurts out of the NFL in three years.
He is apparently just a terrible throwing quarterback. He's I mean,
that's just the way that you hide him with the
running game and the one thing the Eagles do great.
We've said this and we compared them. We used the
analogy that they're like Milli Vanilly.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
This is a very.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Popular music group years ago that was lip Sync. They
convert on short yardage situations ninety six percent of the time.
Ninety six percent of the time they convert on the
touch push, So ninety six percent you take that away,
and let's say they convert fifty percent of the time,
which is still good. Fifty percent conversion on short yardage

(33:41):
is still good. That means though they are almost fifty
percent worse on short yards than they are now. And
so you know, it's nice that Jalen. We do want
accountability and all that. But the Eagle apologists out.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
There, oh, it's not his fault.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
He didn't he had a good passing game in the
Super Bowl and all this stuff, and they always have
the excuses in their back pocket. But the Eagles have
had just three pass plays at least ten yards this season,
and they have this high priced wide receiver named AJ
Brown who's a star, and he's completely useless in this offense.

(34:20):
Like a total like, why are they paying him? What
are they paying him for? What a great job. He's
like a backup quarterback because he's not getting the ball
very often and he's not really contributing and helping the
team win. It is the Ben Malord Show. We're gonna
have Mallard of the third degree. Here's the inch to trivia,
and here it is Giants. We're talking baseball now. San

(34:41):
Francisco Giants starter Justin Verlander. Justin Verlander joined Blank as
the only pitchers forty two years or older to not
allow more than one run in four consecutive starts. This
is in the last one hundred and twenty five years
of baseball. Again, Giant starter Justin Verlander joined Blank as

(35:04):
the only pitchers forty two years or older to not
allow more than one run in four consecutive starts in
the last one hundred and twenty five.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Years of baseball.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
That is the insta trivia, the answer. We'll get to it.
We will do it.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Next.

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Speaker 1 (36:06):
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Speaker 3 (36:12):
Back to it?

Speaker 1 (36:12):
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Mallard to the third degree. As giant starter, Justin Verlander

(36:37):
joined Blank as the only pitchers forty two years or
older to not allow more than one run in four
consecutive starts in the last one hundred and twenty five seasons.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
That is the question. What is the answer?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Let's see does anyone in the Maelard Militia know the answer?
We go page down, Hermit the Frog, Blair's Nemesis from
Alfhiellien Pinter, Johnny Fever greatest dj J of all time
from Bobby in Florida.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Who else do we have?

Speaker 2 (37:04):
The grill Sergeant going with Boog Powell as his answer
for Lexus and that's the answer for Milkman Mike.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Who else?

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Jada Pinkett Smith is fifty four.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Today from Late Night Drug Tester, Rowdy Roddy Piper the
Legend from Rob in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Who else do you have?

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Page down?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Crazy Cat Lady aka Justin and Cincinnati. Well that is true,
Salvador Perez from Shane and the Moine. What say you, Lorraine?

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Oh, it's so hard to go with Rich Hill? Ben
not Rich Hill?

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Sorry not Kurt Schilling, Mark from Queen's Guess That or
Pee Wee Herman from Eloy from Compton.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
It's Rocket Roger Clemens. Clemens is in.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
George's Box Rogers in George's box a.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
Smaller.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
How about olcome to the third degree.

Speaker 7 (37:51):
This is one Big Ben gets grilled.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Coop Dalop Ben. There aren't ten to two teams in
the NFL heading into Week three, how embarrassing. Well, aside
from the Chiefs, are there any others that you believe
can turn their season around?

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Obviously Kansas City's on that. But the teams that are
owing too are supposed to be ohing two right, They're
supposed to be the only one that I would say
is the clear obvious one would be the Texans. It's
not because I think the Texans are good. It's because
the Texans play in the right division. They play in
the AFC South. And even though the culture to and oh,

(38:28):
at some point Daniel Jones is gonna realize he's Daniel Jones.
So I would say Houston's the only other one because
somebody's gonna make the playoffs in that division. It's not
gonna be Tennessee, it won't be Jacksonville. So it's either
Indy or Houston next.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Joey Bosa said this week that he's feeling as good
as he ever has in his career, and it's showing
on the field after forcing a fumble in Week one,
Bosa had a sack in two forced fumbles in Week two.
Do you think Bosa can be the key for the
Bills to get over the hump?

Speaker 2 (38:53):
No, because he's gonna get hurt in the game on
Thursday night. When you come out and talk about how
great you're feeling, how wonderful you're doing, all that boom,
you're snake bit.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
You put the wami on yourself. So no. Next.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
Jim Harbaugh is known to slobber all over his quarterback,
but he's doing it with his defense too. Harball called
German James the best safety I've ever seen in the
history of the National Football League after the game on
Monday be is this crazy hyperbole or do you think
James could be in that discussion?

Speaker 2 (39:19):
No, it's coach hyperble. Harball played against Steve Atwater and
Ronnie Lott.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
I think they were a little bit better, all right,
that's a wayIn. I'm counting that as a win right there,
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