September 23, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Mets 1B Pete Alonso going after the media for reporting on his potential departure in free agency, former Lakers star Byron Scott saying that LeBron needs to do more to earn a statue for the Lakers, Brian Callahan responding to accusations his team didn't want to play, Maller's Mountain of Money: Joan Jett Edition, and more!
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Playball. It's our number three. Our number three is ready
for you and me. And here in our number three.
Give me your reaction to New York Mets star Pete
Alonso going after the media for reporting his possible departure
in free agency. Talk about that. Alonso's not happy. Also,
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former Showtime Lakers star Byron Scott says Lebron James still
needs to do more to earn one of those dopey
statues outside the arena. What is he really saying? Byron
Scott will examine that. Also, Titans coach Brian Callahan, of course,
disagrees with the perception that his team did not want
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to play against the Colts. That came from one of
the Colts players. What's really going on here? We'll examine
the evidence. We'll get to that right now here. It
is our number three. It's all about that polar bear.
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back to football because that's what slight some. But I
want to talk some baseball. I don't know. We should talk
about the Podres. They made the playoff. It's not a
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great talk radio story. This is a decent talk radio story.
In I think it's actually a little bit above decent.
So we go to New York where the Mets are
trying to hold on to the playoffs. Here it's the
final few days of the regular season, and the New
York Metropolitans are in a position where if they stink
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up to join here the last couple days of the
regular season, there's some major problems, a major problem. Then
the Mets are technically tied with the Reds for the
final playoff spot, so it's neck and neck down the stretch.
The Diamondbacks are one game back. So those are the
three players the Mets have a chance to miss out
on the playoffs. I bring this up. The Mets have
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the highest payroll in baseball. There's normally a correlation causation
situation where you say, well, the Mets have the highest payroll,
they're gonna make the playoffs. Why didn't they make the
playoffs is because of the payroll. So I bring this
up because Met slugger Pete Alonzo, better known as the
Polar Bear, well, he was upset. He called out the media.
In the Big Apple, Alonzo received a standing ovation from
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the Met faithful on what will likely be if he
does leave his final home game for the second consecutive year,
Pete Alonso was given the serenade we love you, don't
leave us, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and
so he got upset with the media. So he was like,
what are you doing here? And you know, shame on
you and all this stuff. The slugger of Pete Alonso
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calling out the media's fixation with his potential relocation. So
if he didn't see this, maybe not the quote from
Alonso he said recently, quote, if I had a nickel
for how many times everyone in this room, surrounded by
baseball scribes and radio dopes. He said, if I had
a nickel for every time someone in this room has
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said that, and I received it every time someone said
it regarding his departure, I'd be really, really rich. Close
quote from Pete Alonzo. So let us discuss the question.
Give me your reaction, Give me your reaction to the
Mets star slugger Pete Alonzo going after the media for
reporting on his possible departure from the Mets in free agency.
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So I've got LeVar, Invisible inc. And Doomsday, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the
Baba Gousta. First of all, my first thought here, this
whole thing feels like a deja vu situation here. And
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last year was the farewell tour, and then Alonzo was
going to sign with like Cincinnati or Toronto, and then
he ended up going back to the Mets. And so
now this year it's the same act, the same ovation,
the same drama o rama for Peter Alonzo. So how
many final games? How many final games? Is Peter Alonzo. Okay,
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because the Mets, if they do make the playoffs, they'll
have some more games in that ballpark. And you wonder,
anytime I see one of these stories, are the New
York Mets now trying to copy the Dodgers? Are they
going to dig up first base for Peter Alonzo and
have a like a mock hero worshiping sappy segment of
their you know, like fans, how about everyone? They don't
even have a game. They just have the fans come
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out and we can workshop this. But just have the
fans go out and they can all like bow down
the Peter Alonzo and they can dig up first base.
And yeah, Now I do find it hilarious that Alonso
is going after the media for bringing all of this up.
I think that's pretty funny. Here's why he said, if
I had a nickel every time somebody said I was
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leaving in the whole line, how he'd be rich. Well,
this just into the Fox Sports radio newsroom. Peede Alonzo,
You've already made ninety eight million. He's made ninety eight
million swinging a baseball bat. So you're not standing online
at the soup kitchen, you're not, so spare us the
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whole rags to riches and all that stuff. He's pretending
like he's some blue collar chop shop worker over there
in Queens and he's grinding out a paycheck when in reality,
when in reality we know the truth is something much
different here. And he's hitting dingers there in Flushing and
cashing checks that would make some, not all, but some
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on Wall Street blush a little bit. But here's the thing. Now,
here's the thing about Peter Alonzo. The deal he signed
practically guarantees he's going to leave the Mets at the
very LEAs he's gonna opt out nostalgia the Mets. Steve
Carin's a fanboy who owns the team, so maybe he'll
keep Peter Alonzo around. But that's not the media. It's like, oh,
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the media make it a big deal about it. No,
you signed a contract that has so much verbiage and
language and all the fine print where you're gonna opt out,
and so it's not the meaning that's the math.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That is the math. This is a classic case of
an athlete trying to tell the media how to do
your job. Do your job, to quote LeVar Ball, stay
in your light, all right, you're a jock, do the
jock stuff. You're the jock. Hit ball, see ball, hit ball,
run to first base. There you go. The media they
are into a different line of work. They're not hitting
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the ball. They're into cyber cyber farming, if you will.
Farming for clicks is what they're doing here. And that's
the game. That's the industry. That's how it works. You
don't like it, you take it up with who else
but the New York met fancy. That's the part of
this that dumb people don't understand when they say, well,
you're just doing that for click. Yes, yes, I am.
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You see, that's how it works, you stupid moron. And
if you don't want clickbait, stop clicking on it. Nobody
can do it though. You can't help yourself. You cannot.
So if Alonzo has a problem, Peter Alonzo with the
New York media, he really has a problem with the
fans who keep clicking on stories click and eat, click, click,
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and the fans are feeding the beast. That's what they're doing.
They're the ones driving the hole. Is Peter Alonzo leaving
the Mets narrative? And if they stop clicking on that,
the stories stop getting posted online, they stop getting talked about.
But it's supplying to man. It's economics, one on one.
It's all that. It's the oldest trick in the book,
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the oldest trick in the book. You sell hope, and
it's really you're balancing and something. You're selling hope and fear.
You're balancing hope, you're balancing fear. It's all part of
the same package. It's all that and so oh, maybe
Peter alan will stay with the Mets, the story will
have a happy ending, but maybe he bolts and goes
in place for the Red Sox or the Giants or
somewhere like that. It's like a bad soap opera and
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every episode ends with the same cliffhanger developing hot dot
dot dot and and for Pete listen, Peter Alonzo has
a lot of home runs. He's all time home run
king for the Mets and all that congratulations. He's playing
right into it, though, cause Alonzo. I've seen the quotes,
I've seen the interviews online. Alonzo's acting all indignant as
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he talks to the media and like he's somehow the victim,
Like no, you're not. No, it's it's engagement farming, pure
and simple, and Peter Alonzo, you don't even realize you
are the crop. You are the crop in the engagement farming. Congratulations.
That's the reality when you won't commit. And the Mets
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offered to Alonzo a big contract couple of years ago.
He didn't want to sign. He thought he was worth
more money. Fine, he tested himself, he bet on himself.
He lost, so he didn't do that. And he's got
the opt out hanging over the Mets and all that.
So don't yell at the the gas bags and the
scribes and all the people that are out there talking
about you. You should yell at your agent. You can
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yell at your agent, or yell at Steve Cohen, the owner,
or yell at yourself regardless. Don't come up here and
you're suddenly the media critic. Petere Alonzo media critic. Yeah,
you again, hit baseballs, that's what you do, and the
media stirs the pot and you live side by side.
You sing kumbaya. There you go say division of labor.
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That is what it is, all right. Now. Secondly we
go to pro bouncy ball, but not really pro bouncy ball.
It's about Lebron, all right, so I bring this up
because Byron Scott it was kind of a big deal.
If you're old, you know who Byron Scott is, because
he was a big deal in the nineteen eighties Showtime
of the Lakers, which is like forty years ago, my god,
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Laker Royalty. So he got cornered by TMZ. He forty
miles zone, which has a nice compound there in the
South Bay. So anyway, Byron Scott was confronted by a
paparazzo from TMZ and he said, no statue for Lebron.
Paraphrasing what he said. He said that Lebron needs to
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do more as a Laker. So and then he questions
like one title, six or seven years. Byron Scott said,
that's not statue worthy. Okay, so let us discuss the
question you've got Byron Scott nineteen eighty Showtime Laker. Byron
Scott saying Lebron James still needs to do more to
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earn one of those hokeey little statues they have in
that mausoleum outside that arena on skid Row in La.
So what is he really saying? What is he really saying?
So Byron Scott is holding the line hold that line.
He's holding the line right there, and I actually agree
with him. He's reminding the slow people that the bronze
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Statue club outside the crypt arena that they play at
there is not for tourists passing through. It's not it's
for lifers, right, it's for magic Kareem, Jerry West, Kobe Bryant,
people along those lines, and guys who bled the Laker
dogma for years and years and years. But there is
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a hidden message.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
To me.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That's the interesting part of what Byron Scott said. Because
there's a hidden message. It's written in invisible ink. It's
written in invisible ink, and it's Byron Scott's really saying
that Lebron's bubble ring is Mickey Mouse. It's a Mickey
Mouse special and it was one at Goofy's Playhouse that
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you don't get a statue for that. That's not how
it works. That's not real. That's phony. That's a phony
malooney ring. That's what Byron Scott is saying. And if
you want one of those big shiny statues that birds
can poop on, you don't win your little trinket at
Disney World in Orlando, all right, you win it at
an actual basketball arena like the Forum back in the day,
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or what used to be called Staples is now called
the Crypt or whatever it's called, with real human beings,
real fans in attendance. That's legit, right, not in some
hermantically sealed Orlando lab experiment where they were just throwing
everyone in there. And let's not forget Lebron also is
he's a Ohio guys from Akron, but he's mister Cleveland
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Cavalier and all that he oozes Ohio. That's where he's
gonna get his statue, and that's it. Maybe Miami because
they give a lot of statues. Well, of course Lakers
give a ton of statues too. I like that Byron
Scott though, is at least keeping it real and saying
how ridiculous this is right.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'm not a statue guy, you know that. I'm not
a statue guy. I don't believe in that. But if
you give Lebron a statue and front of where the
Lakers play, it cheapens all the other people that were
legitimately big time as a Laker. It cheapens that by
giving Lebron the championship. It's kind of like if you
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were to go into the Smithsonian Museum there in Washington,
all those different museums in the Smithsonian, and you put
a Madam Tusseau Wax figure in the middle of it. Well, no,
that's just that's not where it belongs. It doesn't belong there,
and what are you doing? So Byron Scott, he's really
spelling it out that Lebron is a rental not a
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real Laker legend. And I listen on this one. I agree.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Now, final thought, we go to football to Nashville, Tennessee,
where bad is good, where bad is good because the
Titans are yet to get whole. They were the worst
team in football last year and they're sitting at zero
and three. I'm told that's not good. Got crushed by
the Indianapolis Colts in a game that was played this
past weekend in a domination situation. How big a blowout.
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That wasn't the worst blowout of all time. But Indianapolis
put up forty one points the Tennessee Titans had just twenty.
So that is a plus twenty one for the team
from Indianapolis, who put up three hundred and sixty five
yards of offense in that particular game. And so I
bring this up because after said game, after that particular
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game ended, one of the participants for the Indianapolis football team,
a whiteout named Michael Pittman Junior, said the Titans didn't
even want to play. Say what, Yeah, they said they
didn't want to play. Do you believe this? He said
he could tell before the game that the players were
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not fired up. They were bouncing around the pregame introductions,
and he basically called them out for not giving a
damn From Michael Pittman, Junior of the Indianapolis football team.
So question, you've got Titans coach Brian Callahan. Now, Brian Callahan,
of course disagrees with Michael Pittman. He disagrees with the
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public perception that his team didn't want to play. He
disagrees with that against the Colts. So what's really going
on on this one? So based on when I flipped
over to the Colts Titans game, based on what I saw,
Michael Pittman hit the bullseye because that's the energy that
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they gave out. And how lucky are the Indianapolis Colts
to begin this year? The Indianapolis Colts the first game
of the year. They played the Miami Dolphins who didn't
want to be there. They just didn't want to be there,
and they fell behind thirty to nothing. Then the Colts
were gifted because of some special team Shenanigans a win
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against the Denver Broncos late and now they've played the
Tennessee Titans and they Titans weren't that interested. So wow,
you talk about living a charmed life. I would say
that's pretty pretty good for Indianapolis start the year. But
the story here is on the Tennessee side of things,
And we mentioned Brian Callahan. He's like, well, of course
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he disagrees with Michael Pittman and the Colts and all that.
I agree with Pittman. He's right. Tennessee looked like they
were walking through molasses early in that game and then
they fell behind. He just had a loof uncaring approach
to the game. And so it's like they'd rather be
anywhere other than at their job on Sunday, like they,
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you know, when they were essentially waving the white flag
as the game was getting underway. It's the football equivalent
to hitting the snooze button on the old alarm clock
and just sleeping all the way through. The Titans rolled
over and they pulled a blanket up. They pulled that
back up and they said, you know what, We're gonna
go back to bed. We're out of here. That's it.
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And meanwhile, Brian Callahan, he's over there in the corner
of the room. He's like, oh, no, no, no, we
wanted to play. My guys wanted to play. We wanted
to play the game. No you didn't. No, you did not.
And if that's you wanting to play, then God help
you when your team does not want to play. Holy crap.
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Right now, the heel a monster in the room. You've
got Brian Callahan who's on borrowed time. He's on borrowed
time now thin ice ice baby for the coach in Tennessee.
You've got a new GM Mike Borganzi. You've got a
new head of football ops, this guy, Chad Brinker. Neither
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one of them were were there when in prominent roles
when the coach Callahan was hired, So he's essentially a
sub letter Brian Callahan in the building. At this particular point,
they're just waiting for the least to run out and
then they'll they'll make a change and that's it. But
it's the doomsday clock. You can almost hear it straight
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out of nuclear war talk, like the second hand just
ticked a minute closer to midnight, and you can almost
vaguely see it off in the distance there on the horizon,
like Callahan's sitting there, he's got his head set on,
and you know upstairs, upstairs, they're already whispering, who would
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the next guy be? Do we hire a college coach?
Maybe we hired Danny in Nashville. We'll just hire a
guy named Danny, and Nashville who moved to Miami will
hire him, and then boom, before you know it, it's
eleven fifty nine and fifty nine seconds, and then it's
after that it's midnight. And because you definitely cannot sell apathy,
cannot do it. You cannot sell apathy in the NFA.
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You can sell you can sell a lot of things.
You can't sell indifference. You can't sell that. You can't
sell apathy. You can con some of the people some
of the time, which, as the line goes, is often enough.
But in terms of the greatest con of them all rebuilding,
where you're gonna put an inferior product on the field.
You're not really trying to win, but pay full price
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to watch a crappy product that's rebuilding. But you cannot,
you cannot look like you don't care while you're using
the R word capital R rebuild. Once the players give
off that vibe, once that energy is out there, the
coach is barbecued. That's how that works. Good Tennessee barbecue.
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But here's the malor riddle of the day, and here
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Hurts says, quote, there's no such thing as blank. Again,
Eagles super Bowl hero quarterback Jalen Hurts says, quote, there's
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no such thing as blank. That is the malor riddle
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no such thing as blank the answer right about now,
right about now, let's see here, Bobby and Florida says
there's no such thing as lizard people. That's what he said.
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Know about that? King Rory says there is no ice
cream in the locker room. He said, uh, sensible wardrobe
for Tom Looney from Late Night Drug Testery, I have
nothing to do. Well. We used to have a wardrobe
budget at NBC, but we don't have that anymore. So
Looney is just going through his closet and wearing whatever's there.
Who else we have a page down? Ferg Dog says
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there's no such thing as a perfect man. I disagree.
It's a little creepy for dog, A little creepy. Andy
in Lino Lakes, Minnesota says there is no such thing
as a friendly Philadelphia fan says alf the Alien Opiner
says there is no such thing as a chicken finger.
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Wash your mouth out with soap and water. How dare
you olt? Bill Hoo's Your bill was a yapping about
some solar eclipse viewing party at Griffiths Observatory. I have
no idea what that is? What else do we have
to see? Page that I forty Ian says there's no
such thing as momentum, no such thing as a cheese
whiz cheese steak. Yeah, that's a tough one, and I
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always base my cheese steak knowledge. Wait a minute he said.
Econ Rosal Messo says, cheese whiz. There's no such thing
as cheese wiz on a cheese steak. That's literally what
it's like, original cheese. That is incorrect. Tony Bruno, who
is mister Philadelphia, Who's is South Philadelphia. Tony was my
advisor of our Old Morning Guy, and Tony told me,
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he said, listen to the authentic cheese steak is prolong.
That's the cheese you're supposed to use, Provlo, not the
cheese whiz. The problom Anca Terra says a subpar episode
of The Mallor Show. Very kind of you to say
that there's no such thing as Santa from courtesy Flusher.
How dare you? Oh no, don't say that. No such
thing as match fixing in the NFL. The mister Irrigation.
I love you to death, mister Irrigation, but you're quoting
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a parody account. You keep sending these stories from a
social media account, which is satire. It's not real. But
I appreciate you. You're passionate for that. Attillo says, no
such thing as good Philly Gabba gool. Jersey Baby, that's
where it's at, Jersey Baby, no crying in baseball from
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Donkey Sausage. That's his answer. Who else? The Smurfs? From
JT the Wingman? All right, do you have an answer, Lorraine? Uh? Yes, Ben,
he said, there's no such thing as inflation. Well minded
of that, every time I go to the store, try
to get a raise. No, that is incorrect. The correct
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answer is Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurt says, there is no
such thing as luck. There is no such thing as luck, wisdom.
That's very wise words. Well, he's disrespecting Andrew Luck. And also,
may I add he's disrespecting the Lucky Streak Cigarette Company's
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Lady Luck. Of course that that was their thing, Lady Luck. Right,
and uh and then Sinatra saying Lady Luck as well,
So lady tonight night. There you go. That's the way
it works. All right, let's go to the phones, and
we still need I need some contestants here. If you
guys don't want to play the games anymore, we'll stop
doing it. But the Mallards amount of money eight seven
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seven ninety nine on Foxes, Salo to Moe Joe Rising,
Who's up next? Hello, Mojoe Rising?
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Break gone through to the Ben Mallor show. How you doing, mister.
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Benn, mister Moe Joe. Not potato, not potato, just the
real authentic mojo hanging out there in the bay. And
you got to get up early for work, right, you
know you're on a weird schedule.
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Actually, man, I am my schedules, honestly.
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I love it.
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Man, it's sixty two thirty. You know, it sucks that
I gotta go to BETTERLANDA. I kind of miss your
show half the time I listened to it. In a
half time, I'll be awake and you know all that.
But yeah, man, it's great to be out at two
thirty in the out community and get home do your thing,
you know, start watching the sports shows. But you know
you have plenty of time for the Monday night game,
which is really a good game tonight. Boy, I'll tell
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you Lions and the Ravens, what a game.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That was good. I'm glad you said that because one
of our guys are bringing to your generals. Well, wasn't
that good a game? I'm like, what do you expect
that was? That was back and forth? The Ravens would score,
the Lions would score, back and forth, tie game until
the late in the second half. That was a good
That was his outstanding game? Was tiy I believe going
(29:39):
to the fourth quarter?
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Was it not?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I think it was?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yes, Yeah, absolutely, absolutely outstanding game. Really, the Lions kind
of surprised me because we know that they don't play
that great on the road. But I still say that
the Ravens. The Ravens are I don't know what it
is that I think they could possibly break through this year,
either them or the Bills.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
What are we talking about? They have the worst defense
in football? What are you talking about, Mojo Rising? They're
dead last in defense in the entire NFL.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I know I'm being facetious. I'm a Raider. Fancy you
know how it is. You're just like you think, oh, well, gee,
well's think about it. The Raiders. The Raiders probably still
couldn't beat the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
No, they actually beat him last year, though, which is
very bizarre.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Oh that's true, they did, so how weird is it?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
The Raiders. Gino Smith had this great stat line and
if you saw the game, I assume you watched it
or heard about the game that Gino Smith had one
hundred and sixty five yards and two touchdowns in the
fourth quarter The game was thirty four to ten. That
is the personification, the epitome of stat Bendito Gino Smith
(30:42):
in that particular game.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
My god, yeah, I mean Gino. I mean he's the
middle of the road quarterback. The Raiders are lucky to
be in middle of the road team. I called him
before about their non home field advantage in Vegas, the worst.
It's the worst that ever probably in the history of
the NFL team. Now he had the greatest black hole
back in you know, the diehard Raider fans here in
(31:04):
Oakland and now in Vegas. You could play anybody. You
could play the Panthers. As a matter of fact, I
think last year when they played the Panthers, they had
more blue in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, the test, the test is always the Arizona Cardinals.
That's always the test if because they have they have
no real fans. So if the if the Cardinals end
up with more fans, that's that's the bottom. You've reached
the very bottom. All right, Well, Mojo, thank you buddy.
Get to get some rest. That's a great motive you guys,
thank you for listening. The great Mojo rising where he goes,
(31:32):
only he knows there you go. It is the Ben
Malor Show. I think we have some contestants here that
have answered the call. And let's see who we are.
We saylo to Kevin, who's in I believe southern California?
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Kevin?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Welcome? Welcome? Hello, Kevin? What's going You want to play
the game?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Sure, you know how the game works?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I think so I do good?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
When? Okay? So well, all right, that's all right, that's fine.
I'm sure to do find out. Who do you want
to partner up with here? Kevin? Yet?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Me or me?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
All right? Well, we're in it to win it? Very good?
Hold on a shocker. They always choose you, Ben, if
you want, I can have someone choose you. Still working
on my sports knowledge, but maybe in like five years,
five years, Oh my god. So Kevin's gonna play alongside me.
We've got Tyler in Boston. Who's going to play? Hello? Tyler? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
What's going on? Benny?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You out working right now? Tyler? On your way? And
I got you? All right, Well I've already been picked, Tyler.
So who do you want to partner up with here?
You want to go with the Rena or coop as.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Much as I love Lorena. I'll have to take on
that song.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I'm sorry not picked again? All right, fine, now you
know my life in elementary school when I wasn't picked
for kickball? All right, now you know what it's like.
You see you have that that pretty girl privilege. But
right now you don't. You see that that's ugly people.
Privilege is what we have here, is all right?
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Well? Anyway, gentlemen, this is Malard's Mountain of Money, the
jone Jet edition. She turned sixty seven years old on Monday,
happy birthday. Yes, the categories are you don't know what
you've got? Bad reputation. I love rock and roll and
everyday people. Kevin, you were on first, Which category.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Would you like?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I think?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
All right, man loves rock and roll and Tyler, how
about you?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Bad reputation, bad reputation?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
All right, like that might be you, Tyler. All right,
A hold on, gentlemen, do not hang up. We will
pause for the cause, and then we will have in
its entirety, we will have the game. If you're on hold,
you're our backup in case one of these two guys
hangs up. But we'll have Malard's Mountain of Money. We'll
get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
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Speaker 6 (34:44):
Now, Mailor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not, Oh, let's do.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Here we go. We've got Kevin, who's hanging out in
a beautiful Joshua tree in southern California. He's matched up
with me, and we've got Tyler on his way to
work in Boston, and he is matched up with Cooper Loop.
But is the Jones, Jededish and Kevin you picked I
love rock and roll? Is that correct? Kevin? All right?
(35:16):
These athletes have all performed in or with rock bands.
We need the first and last name. Do you understand?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
All right, forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
our way. Go greatest nineteen eighties professional wrestler. He just
passed away blonde hair. Yes, Steelers quarterback in the seventies.
He's on the NFL on Fox right now on the weekend. Yes,
he had a serial named after him. He was a
star at Boston College. A little short quarterback hit a
(35:47):
Hail Mary pass. He's played with the Patriots. Yes, very angry.
Nineteen eighties white guy tennis player yelled at Yes. The
Flying Tomato was his nickname. He was snowboarder in the Olympics.
What's his name? All right? Pitcher for the White Sox
(36:07):
and the Yankees. White guy named black Jack starting pitcher
in the in the nineties. Yeah, yeah, that I don't know.
I mean, you said his first name, I said Blackjack.
That's the That's not his name. His name is part
of his names in the nickname. That's questionable, right, how
many points is that? It should be one hundred? Cheating again?
Speaker 7 (36:30):
Okay, Kevin, some garlic? Okay, Tyler, Tyler, we have bad reputation. Uh,
these sports figures all have a bad reputation.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Are you ready? Will Coop's voice maker?
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
All right?
Speaker 7 (36:45):
Forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. Bill's running
back killed two people? Yes, Patriots tight end killed one person.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yes. Uh, this guy was the head coach of Penn State.
He'd let some Yes. Uh.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
This guy was a running back for the Ravens. He
beat up his wife in an elevator right. Yes, this
was a figure skater. She had her ex husband take
a crowbar to the Nancy Kerrigan's knee. Yes, this guy
was a wide receiver for the Raiders. He drove like
one hundred and ten miles an hour. Yes, this guy
was a on the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
He was in a relationship with a fourteen year old
in the Dominican Republic. Let's go. So that was so easy? God,
it's not easy. That's right, that's right. Good job, that's you.
Shut up job, Tylers. Come on, Kevin ran the blood, Kevin,
that's what I call domination. Get how about you get
(37:45):
a throat laws in? How about that? Get a damn
throat log? Do you sound like Doc Rivers over there?
All right, Kevin?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah? You don't know what you got? Or everyday people,
you don't know what you got? All right, you don't
know what you very good? Forty five seconds on o'clock.
These athletes were all traded before they reached superstardom. Are
you ready, Kevin? I hope so, yeah, all right, here
we go. He was known as the chief of the
nineteen eighties Boston Celtics, the center alongside McHale and yes, uh,
(38:18):
mister big shot for the Pistons. He was drafted by
the Celtics guard. Yes, a closer for the Podres and
the nineties where the all time great Hall of Fame closers. Yeah,
keep talking, Yes uh. The pitcher for the Reds for
the Red Sox and the Expos was traded by the
Dodgers for the Lino de Shields. Yes, uh, forty nine
(38:41):
ers quarterback after Joe Montana. There was yes, uh, the
Bambino for the Yankees. Yes, and the and the beard
for the Clippers. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
We read all right, all right, Tyler, let's go every day, Tyler,
let's go. These athletes all got regular jobs after their
playing careers. Forty five seconds, let's begin, alright. He was
a center for the Milwaukee Bucks and the SuperSonics. He's
an assistant coach on the Bucks right now. His last
name is like what you do to cookies. Yes, all right,
(39:19):
you were a cheater. You were a cheater, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
You would a cook
Playball. It's our number three. Our number three is ready
for you and me. And here in our number three.
Give me your reaction to New York Mets star Pete
Alonso going after the media for reporting his possible departure
in free agency. Talk about that. Alonso's not happy. Also,
(00:22):
former Showtime Lakers star Byron Scott says Lebron James still
needs to do more to earn one of those dopey
statues outside the arena. What is he really saying? Byron
Scott will examine that. Also, Titans coach Brian Callahan, of course,
disagrees with the perception that his team did not want
(00:43):
to play against the Colts. That came from one of
the Colts players. What's really going on here? We'll examine
the evidence. We'll get to that right now here. It
is our number three. It's all about that polar bear.
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back to football because that's what slight some. But I
want to talk some baseball. I don't know. We should talk
about the Podres. They made the playoff. It's not a
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great talk radio story. This is a decent talk radio story.
In I think it's actually a little bit above decent.
So we go to New York where the Mets are
trying to hold on to the playoffs. Here it's the
final few days of the regular season, and the New
York Metropolitans are in a position where if they stink
(03:32):
up to join here the last couple days of the
regular season, there's some major problems, a major problem. Then
the Mets are technically tied with the Reds for the
final playoff spot, so it's neck and neck down the stretch.
The Diamondbacks are one game back. So those are the
three players the Mets have a chance to miss out
on the playoffs. I bring this up. The Mets have
(03:54):
the highest payroll in baseball. There's normally a correlation causation
situation where you say, well, the Mets have the highest payroll,
they're gonna make the playoffs. Why didn't they make the
playoffs is because of the payroll. So I bring this
up because Met slugger Pete Alonzo, better known as the
Polar Bear, well, he was upset. He called out the media.
In the Big Apple, Alonzo received a standing ovation from
(04:17):
the Met faithful on what will likely be if he
does leave his final home game for the second consecutive year,
Pete Alonso was given the serenade we love you, don't
leave us, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and
so he got upset with the media. So he was like,
what are you doing here? And you know, shame on
you and all this stuff. The slugger of Pete Alonso
(04:41):
calling out the media's fixation with his potential relocation. So
if he didn't see this, maybe not the quote from
Alonso he said recently, quote, if I had a nickel
for how many times everyone in this room, surrounded by
baseball scribes and radio dopes. He said, if I had
a nickel for every time someone in this room has
(05:04):
said that, and I received it every time someone said
it regarding his departure, I'd be really, really rich. Close
quote from Pete Alonzo. So let us discuss the question.
Give me your reaction, Give me your reaction to the
Mets star slugger Pete Alonzo going after the media for
reporting on his possible departure from the Mets in free agency.
(05:29):
So I've got LeVar, Invisible inc. And Doomsday, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the
Baba Gousta. First of all, my first thought here, this
whole thing feels like a deja vu situation here. And
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last year was the farewell tour, and then Alonzo was
going to sign with like Cincinnati or Toronto, and then
he ended up going back to the Mets. And so
now this year it's the same act, the same ovation,
the same drama o rama for Peter Alonzo. So how
many final games? How many final games? Is Peter Alonzo. Okay,
(06:13):
because the Mets, if they do make the playoffs, they'll
have some more games in that ballpark. And you wonder,
anytime I see one of these stories, are the New
York Mets now trying to copy the Dodgers? Are they
going to dig up first base for Peter Alonzo and
have a like a mock hero worshiping sappy segment of
their you know, like fans, how about everyone? They don't
even have a game. They just have the fans come
(06:34):
out and we can workshop this. But just have the
fans go out and they can all like bow down
the Peter Alonzo and they can dig up first base.
And yeah, Now I do find it hilarious that Alonso
is going after the media for bringing all of this up.
I think that's pretty funny. Here's why he said, if
I had a nickel every time somebody said I was
(06:56):
leaving in the whole line, how he'd be rich. Well,
this just into the Fox Sports radio newsroom. Peede Alonzo,
You've already made ninety eight million. He's made ninety eight
million swinging a baseball bat. So you're not standing online
at the soup kitchen, you're not, so spare us the
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whole rags to riches and all that stuff. He's pretending
like he's some blue collar chop shop worker over there
in Queens and he's grinding out a paycheck when in reality,
when in reality we know the truth is something much
different here. And he's hitting dingers there in Flushing and
cashing checks that would make some, not all, but some
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on Wall Street blush a little bit. But here's the thing. Now,
here's the thing about Peter Alonzo. The deal he signed
practically guarantees he's going to leave the Mets at the
very LEAs he's gonna opt out nostalgia the Mets. Steve
Carin's a fanboy who owns the team, so maybe he'll
keep Peter Alonzo around. But that's not the media. It's like, oh,
(08:02):
the media make it a big deal about it. No,
you signed a contract that has so much verbiage and
language and all the fine print where you're gonna opt out,
and so it's not the meaning that's the math.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That is the math. This is a classic case of
an athlete trying to tell the media how to do
your job. Do your job, to quote LeVar Ball, stay
in your light, all right, you're a jock, do the
jock stuff. You're the jock. Hit ball, see ball, hit ball,
run to first base. There you go. The media they
are into a different line of work. They're not hitting
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the ball. They're into cyber cyber farming, if you will.
Farming for clicks is what they're doing here. And that's
the game. That's the industry. That's how it works. You
don't like it, you take it up with who else
but the New York met fancy. That's the part of
this that dumb people don't understand when they say, well,
you're just doing that for click. Yes, yes, I am.
(09:03):
You see, that's how it works, you stupid moron. And
if you don't want clickbait, stop clicking on it. Nobody
can do it though. You can't help yourself. You cannot.
So if Alonzo has a problem, Peter Alonzo with the
New York media, he really has a problem with the
fans who keep clicking on stories click and eat, click, click,
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and the fans are feeding the beast. That's what they're doing.
They're the ones driving the hole. Is Peter Alonzo leaving
the Mets narrative? And if they stop clicking on that,
the stories stop getting posted online, they stop getting talked about.
But it's supplying to man. It's economics, one on one.
It's all that. It's the oldest trick in the book,
(09:47):
the oldest trick in the book. You sell hope, and
it's really you're balancing and something. You're selling hope and fear.
You're balancing hope, you're balancing fear. It's all part of
the same package. It's all that and so oh, maybe
Peter alan will stay with the Mets, the story will
have a happy ending, but maybe he bolts and goes
in place for the Red Sox or the Giants or
somewhere like that. It's like a bad soap opera and
(10:11):
every episode ends with the same cliffhanger developing hot dot
dot dot and and for Pete listen, Peter Alonzo has
a lot of home runs. He's all time home run
king for the Mets and all that congratulations. He's playing
right into it, though, cause Alonzo. I've seen the quotes,
I've seen the interviews online. Alonzo's acting all indignant as
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he talks to the media and like he's somehow the victim,
Like no, you're not. No, it's it's engagement farming, pure
and simple, and Peter Alonzo, you don't even realize you
are the crop. You are the crop in the engagement farming. Congratulations.
That's the reality when you won't commit. And the Mets
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offered to Alonzo a big contract couple of years ago.
He didn't want to sign. He thought he was worth
more money. Fine, he tested himself, he bet on himself.
He lost, so he didn't do that. And he's got
the opt out hanging over the Mets and all that.
So don't yell at the the gas bags and the
scribes and all the people that are out there talking
about you. You should yell at your agent. You can
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yell at your agent, or yell at Steve Cohen, the owner,
or yell at yourself regardless. Don't come up here and
you're suddenly the media critic. Petere Alonzo media critic. Yeah,
you again, hit baseballs, that's what you do, and the
media stirs the pot and you live side by side.
You sing kumbaya. There you go say division of labor.
(11:41):
That is what it is, all right. Now. Secondly we
go to pro bouncy ball, but not really pro bouncy ball.
It's about Lebron, all right, so I bring this up
because Byron Scott it was kind of a big deal.
If you're old, you know who Byron Scott is, because
he was a big deal in the nineteen eighties Showtime
of the Lakers, which is like forty years ago, my god,
(12:03):
Laker Royalty. So he got cornered by TMZ. He forty
miles zone, which has a nice compound there in the
South Bay. So anyway, Byron Scott was confronted by a
paparazzo from TMZ and he said, no statue for Lebron.
Paraphrasing what he said. He said that Lebron needs to
(12:26):
do more as a Laker. So and then he questions
like one title, six or seven years. Byron Scott said,
that's not statue worthy. Okay, so let us discuss the
question you've got Byron Scott nineteen eighty Showtime Laker. Byron
Scott saying Lebron James still needs to do more to
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earn one of those hokeey little statues they have in
that mausoleum outside that arena on skid Row in La.
So what is he really saying? What is he really saying?
So Byron Scott is holding the line hold that line.
He's holding the line right there, and I actually agree
with him. He's reminding the slow people that the bronze
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Statue club outside the crypt arena that they play at
there is not for tourists passing through. It's not it's
for lifers, right, it's for magic Kareem, Jerry West, Kobe Bryant,
people along those lines, and guys who bled the Laker
dogma for years and years and years. But there is
(13:35):
a hidden message.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
To me.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That's the interesting part of what Byron Scott said. Because
there's a hidden message. It's written in invisible ink. It's
written in invisible ink, and it's Byron Scott's really saying
that Lebron's bubble ring is Mickey Mouse. It's a Mickey
Mouse special and it was one at Goofy's Playhouse that
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you don't get a statue for that. That's not how
it works. That's not real. That's phony. That's a phony
malooney ring. That's what Byron Scott is saying. And if
you want one of those big shiny statues that birds
can poop on, you don't win your little trinket at
Disney World in Orlando, all right, you win it at
an actual basketball arena like the Forum back in the day,
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or what used to be called Staples is now called
the Crypt or whatever it's called, with real human beings,
real fans in attendance. That's legit, right, not in some
hermantically sealed Orlando lab experiment where they were just throwing
everyone in there. And let's not forget Lebron also is
he's a Ohio guys from Akron, but he's mister Cleveland
(14:43):
Cavalier and all that he oozes Ohio. That's where he's
gonna get his statue, and that's it. Maybe Miami because
they give a lot of statues. Well, of course Lakers
give a ton of statues too. I like that Byron
Scott though, is at least keeping it real and saying
how ridiculous this is right.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'm not a statue guy, you know that. I'm not
a statue guy. I don't believe in that. But if
you give Lebron a statue and front of where the
Lakers play, it cheapens all the other people that were
legitimately big time as a Laker. It cheapens that by
giving Lebron the championship. It's kind of like if you
(15:22):
were to go into the Smithsonian Museum there in Washington,
all those different museums in the Smithsonian, and you put
a Madam Tusseau Wax figure in the middle of it. Well, no,
that's just that's not where it belongs. It doesn't belong there,
and what are you doing? So Byron Scott, he's really
spelling it out that Lebron is a rental not a
(15:45):
real Laker legend. And I listen on this one. I agree.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
All right.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Now, final thought, we go to football to Nashville, Tennessee,
where bad is good, where bad is good because the
Titans are yet to get whole. They were the worst
team in football last year and they're sitting at zero
and three. I'm told that's not good. Got crushed by
the Indianapolis Colts in a game that was played this
past weekend in a domination situation. How big a blowout.
(16:15):
That wasn't the worst blowout of all time. But Indianapolis
put up forty one points the Tennessee Titans had just twenty.
So that is a plus twenty one for the team
from Indianapolis, who put up three hundred and sixty five
yards of offense in that particular game. And so I
bring this up because after said game, after that particular
(16:37):
game ended, one of the participants for the Indianapolis football team,
a whiteout named Michael Pittman Junior, said the Titans didn't
even want to play. Say what, Yeah, they said they
didn't want to play. Do you believe this? He said
he could tell before the game that the players were
(16:59):
not fired up. They were bouncing around the pregame introductions,
and he basically called them out for not giving a
damn From Michael Pittman, Junior of the Indianapolis football team.
So question, you've got Titans coach Brian Callahan. Now, Brian Callahan,
of course disagrees with Michael Pittman. He disagrees with the
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public perception that his team didn't want to play. He
disagrees with that against the Colts. So what's really going
on on this one? So based on when I flipped
over to the Colts Titans game, based on what I saw,
Michael Pittman hit the bullseye because that's the energy that
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they gave out. And how lucky are the Indianapolis Colts
to begin this year? The Indianapolis Colts the first game
of the year. They played the Miami Dolphins who didn't
want to be there. They just didn't want to be there,
and they fell behind thirty to nothing. Then the Colts
were gifted because of some special team Shenanigans a win
(18:07):
against the Denver Broncos late and now they've played the
Tennessee Titans and they Titans weren't that interested. So wow,
you talk about living a charmed life. I would say
that's pretty pretty good for Indianapolis start the year. But
the story here is on the Tennessee side of things,
And we mentioned Brian Callahan. He's like, well, of course
(18:29):
he disagrees with Michael Pittman and the Colts and all that.
I agree with Pittman. He's right. Tennessee looked like they
were walking through molasses early in that game and then
they fell behind. He just had a loof uncaring approach
to the game. And so it's like they'd rather be
anywhere other than at their job on Sunday, like they,
(18:51):
you know, when they were essentially waving the white flag
as the game was getting underway. It's the football equivalent
to hitting the snooze button on the old alarm clock
and just sleeping all the way through. The Titans rolled
over and they pulled a blanket up. They pulled that
back up and they said, you know what, We're gonna
go back to bed. We're out of here. That's it.
(19:12):
And meanwhile, Brian Callahan, he's over there in the corner
of the room. He's like, oh, no, no, no, we
wanted to play. My guys wanted to play. We wanted
to play the game. No you didn't. No, you did not.
And if that's you wanting to play, then God help
you when your team does not want to play. Holy crap.
(19:37):
Right now, the heel a monster in the room. You've
got Brian Callahan who's on borrowed time. He's on borrowed
time now thin ice ice baby for the coach in Tennessee.
You've got a new GM Mike Borganzi. You've got a
new head of football ops, this guy, Chad Brinker. Neither
(19:58):
one of them were were there when in prominent roles
when the coach Callahan was hired, So he's essentially a
sub letter Brian Callahan in the building. At this particular point,
they're just waiting for the least to run out and
then they'll they'll make a change and that's it. But
it's the doomsday clock. You can almost hear it straight
(20:24):
out of nuclear war talk, like the second hand just
ticked a minute closer to midnight, and you can almost
vaguely see it off in the distance there on the horizon,
like Callahan's sitting there, he's got his head set on,
and you know upstairs, upstairs, they're already whispering, who would
(20:44):
the next guy be? Do we hire a college coach?
Maybe we hired Danny in Nashville. We'll just hire a
guy named Danny, and Nashville who moved to Miami will
hire him, and then boom, before you know it, it's
eleven fifty nine and fifty nine seconds, and then it's
after that it's midnight. And because you definitely cannot sell apathy,
cannot do it. You cannot sell apathy in the NFA.
(21:07):
You can sell you can sell a lot of things.
You can't sell indifference. You can't sell that. You can't
sell apathy. You can con some of the people some
of the time, which, as the line goes, is often enough.
But in terms of the greatest con of them all rebuilding,
where you're gonna put an inferior product on the field.
You're not really trying to win, but pay full price
(21:28):
to watch a crappy product that's rebuilding. But you cannot,
you cannot look like you don't care while you're using
the R word capital R rebuild. Once the players give
off that vibe, once that energy is out there, the
coach is barbecued. That's how that works. Good Tennessee barbecue.
(21:50):
It is the Ben Maler Show. If you'd like to
be part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, that's
eight seven seven six three six nine. If you want
to be part of the live show. We still got
some business from last hour to take care of the
rules changes, and later on we'll have Mallard's amount of money.
(22:11):
But here's the malor riddle of the day, and here
it is Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts. I've heard him. Jalen
Hurts says, quote, there's no such thing as blank. Again,
Eagles super Bowl hero quarterback Jalen Hurts says, quote, there's
(22:32):
no such thing as blank. That is the malor riddle
of the day. The answer, we'll get to it and
we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (23:25):
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single night. Coming up later this hour, it'll be Mallard's
amount of money pay off on the Riddle straight Ahead.
If you'd like to give it a shot and answer
the Riddle of the day, you can do that on
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against you in the court of sports radio, so act
accordingly and now back to it. Back to it, and
(24:05):
we do need some people for Mallor's amount of money.
And if we don't get new people, we'll get some
of the rejects that have played all the games all
the time, the game show. We call them game show horse.
They call up for every game show because you know,
the same people, they're dialed in every time. So we'd
like to get some new people. And if you'd like
to participate. Eight seven seven ninety nine one Fox time
(24:27):
now though the Mallor Riddle of the day. That's right,
the Malor Riddle of the day. It is that time
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should be. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts recently said that there's
no such thing as blank the answer right about now,
right about now, let's see here, Bobby and Florida says
there's no such thing as lizard people. That's what he said.
(25:10):
Know about that? King Rory says there is no ice
cream in the locker room. He said, uh, sensible wardrobe
for Tom Looney from Late Night Drug Testery, I have
nothing to do. Well. We used to have a wardrobe
budget at NBC, but we don't have that anymore. So
Looney is just going through his closet and wearing whatever's there.
Who else we have a page down? Ferg Dog says
(25:33):
there's no such thing as a perfect man. I disagree.
It's a little creepy for dog, A little creepy. Andy
in Lino Lakes, Minnesota says there is no such thing
as a friendly Philadelphia fan says alf the Alien Opiner
says there is no such thing as a chicken finger.
(25:53):
Wash your mouth out with soap and water. How dare
you olt? Bill Hoo's Your bill was a yapping about
some solar eclipse viewing party at Griffiths Observatory. I have
no idea what that is? What else do we have
to see? Page that I forty Ian says there's no
such thing as momentum, no such thing as a cheese
whiz cheese steak. Yeah, that's a tough one, and I
(26:17):
always base my cheese steak knowledge. Wait a minute he said.
Econ Rosal Messo says, cheese whiz. There's no such thing
as cheese wiz on a cheese steak. That's literally what
it's like, original cheese. That is incorrect. Tony Bruno, who
is mister Philadelphia, Who's is South Philadelphia. Tony was my
advisor of our Old Morning Guy, and Tony told me,
(26:37):
he said, listen to the authentic cheese steak is prolong.
That's the cheese you're supposed to use, Provlo, not the
cheese whiz. The problom Anca Terra says a subpar episode
of The Mallor Show. Very kind of you to say
that there's no such thing as Santa from courtesy Flusher.
How dare you? Oh no, don't say that. No such
thing as match fixing in the NFL. The mister Irrigation.
I love you to death, mister Irrigation, but you're quoting
(26:59):
a parody account. You keep sending these stories from a
social media account, which is satire. It's not real. But
I appreciate you. You're passionate for that. Attillo says, no
such thing as good Philly Gabba gool. Jersey Baby, that's
where it's at, Jersey Baby, no crying in baseball from
(27:20):
Donkey Sausage. That's his answer. Who else? The Smurfs? From
JT the Wingman? All right, do you have an answer, Lorraine? Uh? Yes, Ben,
he said, there's no such thing as inflation. Well minded
of that, every time I go to the store, try
to get a raise. No, that is incorrect. The correct
(27:41):
answer is Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurt says, there is no
such thing as luck. There is no such thing as luck, wisdom.
That's very wise words. Well, he's disrespecting Andrew Luck. And also,
may I add he's disrespecting the Lucky Streak Cigarette Company's
(28:03):
Lady Luck. Of course that that was their thing, Lady Luck. Right,
and uh and then Sinatra saying Lady Luck as well,
So lady tonight night. There you go. That's the way
it works. All right, let's go to the phones, and
we still need I need some contestants here. If you
guys don't want to play the games anymore, we'll stop
doing it. But the Mallards amount of money eight seven
(28:24):
seven ninety nine on Foxes, Salo to Moe Joe Rising,
Who's up next? Hello, Mojoe Rising?
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Break gone through to the Ben Mallor show. How you doing, mister.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Benn, mister Moe Joe. Not potato, not potato, just the
real authentic mojo hanging out there in the bay. And
you got to get up early for work, right, you
know you're on a weird schedule.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Actually, man, I am my schedules, honestly.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Man, it's sixty two thirty. You know, it sucks that
I gotta go to BETTERLANDA. I kind of miss your
show half the time I listened to it. In a
half time, I'll be awake and you know all that.
But yeah, man, it's great to be out at two
thirty in the out community and get home do your thing,
you know, start watching the sports shows. But you know
you have plenty of time for the Monday night game,
which is really a good game tonight. Boy, I'll tell
(29:16):
you Lions and the Ravens, what a game.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That was good. I'm glad you said that because one
of our guys are bringing to your generals. Well, wasn't
that good a game? I'm like, what do you expect
that was? That was back and forth? The Ravens would score,
the Lions would score, back and forth, tie game until
the late in the second half. That was a good
That was his outstanding game? Was tiy I believe going
(29:39):
to the fourth quarter?
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Was it not?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I think it was?
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yes, Yeah, absolutely, absolutely outstanding game. Really, the Lions kind
of surprised me because we know that they don't play
that great on the road. But I still say that
the Ravens. The Ravens are I don't know what it
is that I think they could possibly break through this year,
either them or the Bills.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
What are we talking about? They have the worst defense
in football? What are you talking about, Mojo Rising? They're
dead last in defense in the entire NFL.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I know I'm being facetious. I'm a Raider. Fancy you
know how it is. You're just like you think, oh, well, gee,
well's think about it. The Raiders. The Raiders probably still
couldn't beat the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
No, they actually beat him last year, though, which is
very bizarre.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Oh that's true, they did, so how weird is it?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
The Raiders. Gino Smith had this great stat line and
if you saw the game, I assume you watched it
or heard about the game that Gino Smith had one
hundred and sixty five yards and two touchdowns in the
fourth quarter The game was thirty four to ten. That
is the personification, the epitome of stat Bendito Gino Smith
(30:42):
in that particular game.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
My god, yeah, I mean Gino. I mean he's the
middle of the road quarterback. The Raiders are lucky to
be in middle of the road team. I called him
before about their non home field advantage in Vegas, the worst.
It's the worst that ever probably in the history of
the NFL team. Now he had the greatest black hole
back in you know, the diehard Raider fans here in
(31:04):
Oakland and now in Vegas. You could play anybody. You
could play the Panthers. As a matter of fact, I
think last year when they played the Panthers, they had
more blue in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, the test, the test is always the Arizona Cardinals.
That's always the test if because they have they have
no real fans. So if the if the Cardinals end
up with more fans, that's that's the bottom. You've reached
the very bottom. All right, Well, Mojo, thank you buddy.
Get to get some rest. That's a great motive you guys,
thank you for listening. The great Mojo rising where he goes,
(31:32):
only he knows there you go. It is the Ben
Malor Show. I think we have some contestants here that
have answered the call. And let's see who we are.
We saylo to Kevin, who's in I believe southern California?
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Kevin?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Welcome? Welcome? Hello, Kevin? What's going You want to play
the game?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Sure, you know how the game works?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I think so I do good?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
When? Okay? So well, all right, that's all right, that's fine.
I'm sure to do find out. Who do you want
to partner up with here? Kevin? Yet?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Me or me?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
All right? Well, we're in it to win it? Very good?
Hold on a shocker. They always choose you, Ben, if
you want, I can have someone choose you. Still working
on my sports knowledge, but maybe in like five years,
five years, Oh my god. So Kevin's gonna play alongside me.
We've got Tyler in Boston. Who's going to play? Hello? Tyler? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
What's going on? Benny?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You out working right now? Tyler? On your way? And
I got you? All right, Well I've already been picked, Tyler.
So who do you want to partner up with here?
You want to go with the Rena or coop as.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Much as I love Lorena. I'll have to take on
that song.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I'm sorry not picked again? All right, fine, now you
know my life in elementary school when I wasn't picked
for kickball? All right, now you know what it's like.
You see you have that that pretty girl privilege. But
right now you don't. You see that that's ugly people.
Privilege is what we have here, is all right?
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Well? Anyway, gentlemen, this is Malard's Mountain of Money, the
jone Jet edition. She turned sixty seven years old on Monday,
happy birthday. Yes, the categories are you don't know what
you've got? Bad reputation. I love rock and roll and
everyday people. Kevin, you were on first, Which category.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Would you like?
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I think?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
All right, man loves rock and roll and Tyler, how
about you?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Bad reputation, bad reputation?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
All right, like that might be you, Tyler. All right,
A hold on, gentlemen, do not hang up. We will
pause for the cause, and then we will have in
its entirety, we will have the game. If you're on hold,
you're our backup in case one of these two guys
hangs up. But we'll have Malard's Mountain of Money. We'll
get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
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Speaker 6 (34:44):
Now, Mailor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not, Oh, let's do.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Here we go. We've got Kevin, who's hanging out in
a beautiful Joshua tree in southern California. He's matched up
with me, and we've got Tyler on his way to
work in Boston, and he is matched up with Cooper Loop.
But is the Jones, Jededish and Kevin you picked I
love rock and roll? Is that correct? Kevin? All right?
(35:16):
These athletes have all performed in or with rock bands.
We need the first and last name. Do you understand?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
All right, forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
our way. Go greatest nineteen eighties professional wrestler. He just
passed away blonde hair. Yes, Steelers quarterback in the seventies.
He's on the NFL on Fox right now on the weekend. Yes,
he had a serial named after him. He was a
star at Boston College. A little short quarterback hit a
(35:47):
Hail Mary pass. He's played with the Patriots. Yes, very angry.
Nineteen eighties white guy tennis player yelled at Yes. The
Flying Tomato was his nickname. He was snowboarder in the Olympics.
What's his name? All right? Pitcher for the White Sox
(36:07):
and the Yankees. White guy named black Jack starting pitcher
in the in the nineties. Yeah, yeah, that I don't know.
I mean, you said his first name, I said Blackjack.
That's the That's not his name. His name is part
of his names in the nickname. That's questionable, right, how
many points is that? It should be one hundred? Cheating again?
Speaker 7 (36:30):
Okay, Kevin, some garlic? Okay, Tyler, Tyler, we have bad reputation. Uh,
these sports figures all have a bad reputation.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Are you ready? Will Coop's voice maker?
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
All right?
Speaker 7 (36:45):
Forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. Bill's running
back killed two people? Yes, Patriots tight end killed one person.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yes. Uh, this guy was the head coach of Penn State.
He'd let some Yes. Uh.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
This guy was a running back for the Ravens. He
beat up his wife in an elevator right. Yes, this
was a figure skater. She had her ex husband take
a crowbar to the Nancy Kerrigan's knee. Yes, this guy
was a wide receiver for the Raiders. He drove like
one hundred and ten miles an hour. Yes, this guy
was a on the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
He was in a relationship with a fourteen year old
in the Dominican Republic. Let's go. So that was so easy? God,
it's not easy. That's right, that's right. Good job, that's you.
Shut up job, Tylers. Come on, Kevin ran the blood, Kevin,
that's what I call domination. Get how about you get
(37:45):
a throat laws in? How about that? Get a damn
throat log? Do you sound like Doc Rivers over there?
All right, Kevin?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah? You don't know what you got? Or everyday people,
you don't know what you got? All right, you don't
know what you very good? Forty five seconds on o'clock.
These athletes were all traded before they reached superstardom. Are
you ready, Kevin? I hope so, yeah, all right, here
we go. He was known as the chief of the
nineteen eighties Boston Celtics, the center alongside McHale and yes, uh,
(38:18):
mister big shot for the Pistons. He was drafted by
the Celtics guard. Yes, a closer for the Podres and
the nineties where the all time great Hall of Fame closers. Yeah,
keep talking, Yes uh. The pitcher for the Reds for
the Red Sox and the Expos was traded by the
Dodgers for the Lino de Shields. Yes, uh, forty nine
(38:41):
ers quarterback after Joe Montana. There was yes, uh, the
Bambino for the Yankees. Yes, and the and the beard
for the Clippers. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
We read all right, all right, Tyler, let's go every day, Tyler,
let's go. These athletes all got regular jobs after their
playing careers. Forty five seconds, let's begin, alright. He was
a center for the Milwaukee Bucks and the SuperSonics. He's
an assistant coach on the Bucks right now. His last
name is like what you do to cookies. Yes, all right,
(39:19):
you were a cheater. You were a cheater, Tyler.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
You would a cook
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