September 24, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about where this Paul Skenes story is going for the Pirates, MLB going to automation replay on balls and strikes, Titans coach Brian Callahan giving up the play calling, Too Much or Not Enough, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball. It's our number three, our number three, and we
talk about baseball this hour. But an interesting story out
of all places, Pennsylvania. Where is this Paul Skens story
headed in Pittsburgh? We parse the latest words of Paul Skeens,
the star pitcher for the Pirates. Also, where are you
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at on Major League Baseball? Going to automation replay on
balls and strikes? It's coming in twenty twenty six. And
how do you interpret the meaning of Titans coach Brian
Callahan giving up the play calling after only three games.
We'll get to all that and more right now here.
It is our number three. A case of those bucko blues.
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What happened? Anyway? All right, we'll go to Pittsburgh. Why not.
We'll go to Pittsburgh, good town. Bad sports teams, but
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good town. You know, Steelers used to be good anyway,
So I'm gonna talk about the Pirates. Well, you're talking
about the Pirates. Know the Yankees and Maners clinched the
playoff signer. So the Pirates upended the Reds in Cincinnati.
This is a big series here, a massive, massive series.
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As these teams, well, the Pirates aren't going anywhere, but
they did beat the Reds, and so that's a blow
to the Cincinnati baseball team. And the story, though, is
not about that individual game on a random Tuesday. That's
not the story. The story here, I think you might
know where it is, maybe not. It is about a
guy who's making it. I believe his final start. I
think I believe it's the final start coming up on Wednesday.
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Paul Skins, so the ace, the face of young pitching
in Major League Baseball. Paul Skins. He recently said that
his club, the Pirates, will have quote wasted the twenty
twenty five season if the team does not learn from
what went wrong during the second straight campaign spent in
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the sewer of the National League's Central Division, the Pittsburgh Pirates.
If you look at your Major League Baseball standings, the
Pirates have sixty eight wins. Sixty eight wins. That's it.
So let us discuss the question where is this Paul
Skins story headed in Pittsburgh? As we parsed the words
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of Paul Skins, so I've got confluence, Japanese and butterfly,
and we'll combine all of these things together, and you know,
it's time to make the baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make
the Babaganoosh. So, first of all, Paul Skins. The way
I parsed the words of Paul Skins when he was
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somewhat delegated well, I'll let be wasted if we don't
learn from this. He was using good table manners. Paul
Skeins was using good table manners. This was a polite
way of saying that I am too good for you losers.
This is a clown show. So he's twenty three. Paul
Skiing means he is built like a steel mill smokestack,
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throws one hundred miles with ease. Is the top young
starting pitcher in baseball. And the Pirates organization, who he
plays for and gets a check for, not a big
one compared to everyone else. But they've been circling the
toilet bowl since before Barry Bonds decided to put needles
in his Tucus back in the day. There, and you
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can listen between the words. And if you listen between
the words, when Paul Skins said wasted, he's not really
saying wasted season. He's saying, please get me out of here.
Blink blank, wink wink, get me out of here. I
do not want to be the East Coast version of
Mike Trout. My life's goal is not to be Mike
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Trout and Shohil Tani on the Angels when they didn't
win anything. The Pirates are on the verge. They're on
the verge of wasting the salad days of Paul Skins.
Now this is in progress, it's in progress there. But
the Pittsburgh Pirates good ballpark, cool town, like Pittsburgh used
to be dump And last time I was there was beautiful.
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I thought it was really cool because I was there
when the weather was good. But anyway, the Pirates, good ballpark,
bad roster. Good ballpark, bad roster. That's the Pittsburgh Pirates
right there. They're treading water and they're in the sewer
and they don't understand why it smells. They don't know
why is it smell? And there are whispers already out there.
We haven't even gotten the playoffs. We're not even the playoffs.
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You have to obviously the run to October. We'll be
able to talk about baseball every night, the playoff games
and all that. But here's the thing. We're not even
at that point. And there's already whispers. There's whispers that
Paul Skins is going to be floated. Teams are going
to be contacting the Pirates in the Hot Stove League,
which is in November and December, and say hey, what's
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it gonna take to get that guy? Paul Skians and
the usual suspects, the teams like the Yankees, the Dodgers,
the Red Sox, the Mets, that Cobbs, maybe the Giants
as well, and the big boys. They're gonna say, well,
we'll give you a godfather offer. Well, what's a godfather
What godfather offers like four or five of our top
minor league players, but every year you have new minor
league plus how do we know those guys are good? Well,
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it's a godfather offer. People say they're gonna be good.
If they say they're gonna be good, they're gonna be good.
Just go take the players, all right, So you know
what that is. We know how this works. We know
the game. This is the vultures smelling blood in the water,
blood in the water, and it's a baseball confluence, is
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what it is. And one of the coolest things. If
you live in Pittsburgh you get to see this every day.
But me visiting Pittsburgh is the confluence. You have the
Mahangahila and the Alleghany that get together and they have
a baby. They have a baby called the Ohio River,
and the baby is consummated right there in Pittsburgh at
their confluence. Right now, you've got the confluence on Paul
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Skeins where you have a lot of things converging. There's
a lot of moving parts converging. You have Paul Skins
rising star power, rising star power. You have the Pirates
who are a dumpster fire roster, and you have the
big money, big market teams sniffing around and I'm like, yes,
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what's it gonna take? You know, what's what's it gonna take.
That is how dynasties get extended or get built, and
then small market teams get stripped and they get spare
parts in return. That's how this usually works here. And
here's the kicker. The kicker on this is unless there
is a treade, whether it happens in the off season
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this year or next year or in the next couple
of year, it's got to happen soon because he is
Paul Skin's hog tied to the buckos. He is below deck.
It's the pirate ship, and he's got a little seasick.
He's gonna vomit one of his lungs up. He is
locked into Pittsburgh. If the Pirates do not trade Paul Skins.
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Then he is there till twenty thirty. Twenty thirty. Arbitration
does not even start until twenty twenty seven. It's a
couple of years away from that sore. You're either going
to have a guy pitching in October wearing pinstripes or
wearing the Dodger blue, or he's going to be rotting
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away in Pittsburgh and he'll be racking up all kinds
of strikeouts and he'll be really cool in front of
twelve thousand people friends and family in Pittsburgh. Some nice
boats out on the waterway there and empty seats, but
you will have you will have the Pirate parrot and
the Pairt'll be there, and so that'll be kind of cool.
But the Pirates are the restaurant. They're the restaurant that's
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got a really nice location and you're like, wow, that
is amazing. We can have a meal and look at
the water. It's only it's so nice. Oh man, it's romantic.
And then you order the food and it's like a
re heated hot pocket and you're like, why did I
don't understand? That's the pirates, that's what that's what they are.
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But Pittsburgh ownership, if you want to call it that.
They have been running this Ponzi scheme, this scam for
decades in Pittsburgh, and they don't really care about winning.
It's a dirty little secret in that profession that just
getting into the brotherhood where you own a team, you
have a path to make all kinds of easy money
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and you can sell these terms that dumb people love rebuilding,
you know, trust the process, these kind of terms, and listen,
dumb people will still support your product. Now. They don't
do it that well in Pittsburgh, which is kind of cool.
They don't really support the team because the team's terrible.
Unless there's a Bobblehead night or something like that, that's it.
But in a lot of places it doesn't even matter
whether you have people who are going to the games.
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You have a TV deal, even that's gone away a
little bit because of the cable television industry being on
thin ice and all that. But the point is you
look at the teams like the Pirates and it's like
all you care about. You say, well, I want payroll flexibility.
We can't compete with the Dodgers and the Mets and
the Cubs, and you know all these teams. So you
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say that, but you get that big, fat, juicy luxury
tax check. So you have the other teams bankroll. You're incompetence,
so you're essentially spam your spam so the other teams
have someone to play. And again occasionally you'll sell out
for some reason. I'll have a good giveaway and people
got But but Paul Skeens and the Pirates is like
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essentially say he listen, the marriage with the Pirates is
not going well. It's it's doomed, is what it is here.
So now the divorce papers aren't filed yet. I am
just getting in front of this. I promise you we
will have more Mallard monologues between now and the hostove
league in baseball where Paul Skeen's name comes up, and
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whether it's in one of the big time baseball writers.
There's some no name as well. There's some chatter at
the winter meetings that teams are calling the Pirates about
Paul Skiins and you know that's happy. Now. Secondly, we
go now to a rules engagement update from Major League Baseball.
So Major League Baseball finally did it. We knew what
was happening. They have finally done it. What do they do?
What do they do? Major League Baseball? We'll have robo
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replay for balls and strikes, a challenge system coming to
a ballpark near you in twenty twenty six. That's right now,
not fully, not fully, not every pitch, not every pitch,
but the so called Automated Ball Strike Challenge System. That's
a mouthful. The ABS ABS coming to Major League Baseball.
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Two challenges per game, that's it, two challenges per game.
Pitcher catcher batter taps their helmet boom. Pitcher catcher batter
taps the helmet boom goes to dynamite and big Brother
in the sky. Big Brother in the Sky there at
Major League Baseball tells you whether it's a strike or
a ball, and that's how the game is going to go.
At some point there will be a World Series decided
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by that. So question, where are you at on Major
League Baseball going to the automation challenge system on replay
on the balls and strikes, balls and strike. So this
one was you knew it was inevitable, right, that's obvious,
not obvious enough for me not to say, But we
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knew it was inevitable. So we're all essentially passengers on
the train full automation, Like this is the Boiling Frog,
the legend of the Boiling Frog. You start out, you
put a frog in some lukewarm water, and the frog
swims around and thinks, man, this is really cool. I
got a nice place to swim and I'm feeling pretty
good about myself. And then you turn up the heat
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a little bit and the frog's like, wow, that's a
little hot, but it's still pretty cool. I kind of
like it. And then you go for the kill shot
and you go as hot as you can go, and
that frog burns up. So this is major League Baseball.
Rob Manford, the evil dictator of Major League Baseball. This
is his master plant. Him and his henchmen like, we'll
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start with this, and then what are we gonna do
next to f up baseball? And eventually it'll be on
every pitch. They'll expand it. It starts with two challenges
and then they'll say, well that's not enough, we need more.
We need more. And someday we'll just have chat GPT
call the game and we'll have the app and then
you can pick that and it's like, well, that's a
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ninety seven mile an hour. That's like like a sinker.
I didn't know you could throw a sinker in ninety
seven miles an hour. Well, that's ball too, And that's
where this is heading. That's where this is heading. Proved
me wrong to me, that's where this is heading, right,
that's where this is heading. And you know you're still
gonna have in this scenario, You're still gonna have the
umpires crouching down, squatting down behind home plate, and the
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umpire's essentially window dressing, and it's only going to get worse, right,
this is how it begins, is going to get worse
and worse. You know, you're an old fashioned You're a boomer.
I'm not a boomer, but on this one I am
old fashioned because I was raised to believe that the
officials were part of the game and that the human
element mattered, and that officials aren't perfect, players aren't perfect.
That's part of the game. And I also recall stories
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about legends like Greg Maddox and Tony gwyn and how
part of their preparation for baseball was studying the umpires.
Greg Maddox knew that Eric Greg the umpire had a
very large strike zone like his appetite, and so there
was a big strike zone there, so you could certain
parts of it, you know, on the outside you get
a little room. Tony Gwynn knew that there were certain
umpires that had a smaller strike zone and certain umpires
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had a bigger strike zone, and so they studied the
quirks and that was what helped make them Hall of
Fame players, that they studied this and they not everything
was uniform, assembly line and it was almost an art
form when you think about it. The imperfection of the
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umpire was part of the beauty of baseball. Oh, they
must get the call right. You have to get everything right.
There's even a word. It's a Japanese word for what
baseball had been. It's going away from this. So we'll
use the word right now because the baseball's going away with.
Wabi Sabi is the word, and it's it means flawed beauty.
I've seen the beauty and things that maybe aren't all
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that beautiful, but that's baseball, right. Bad calls a part
of it, and there's a bit of a toughness to
it where you're supposed to keep your composure. You get
upset with the umpire, but you keep your composure and
that's it, right. You kind of go with the flow
and that's all. And they're moving towards a way where
it's now everything's got to be standardized, reviewed perfect. Every
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call must be right, which is funny to me because
you definitely don't want cops to give everyone that goes
one mile over the speed limit a speeding ticket, but
you want every call in baseball to be right because
you take that lodge, well, I think anyone that speed
should get a ticket, you do. Really, yeah, I need
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a lot more cops to give everyone a speeding ticket,
a lot of patrol officers out there in the highways
and byways to give tickets. But in sports, every call's
got to be exactly right. Really, okay, everything's standardized. Spoiler alert,
spoiler alert, it will not be perfect because there's always
humans involved some way, one way or another. The strike
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zone will be graft by human beings and they'll be
replacing one set of flaws with another set of flaws.
And mark me down. I have on my scorecard lukewarm.
That's my temperature, and it's just one step away from
conveyor belt full automation, which is going to be happening
just like we sound on football. This isn't in football.
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They have just for show. They have the chain game,
but nobody seems to really know how they measure it.
They claim, well, we use this special technology, but they
just put up this weird looking, hokey graphic during NFL games,
which really, to me has cheapened the excitement of the
chain going out. It's not as good as the product
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is not as good in football. It's just not all right.
Final thought, we go to football quick right, and we
go to the land of country music and hot chicken,
Nashville where Tennessee Titans coach Brian Callahan. See we get
some sound of this. I know it's on the cut sheet.
The supposed offensive wizard, the Joe Burrow Whisperer when he
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was in Cincinnati, and he has just been demoted. How
can you demote the head coach, Well, he's still the
head coach in name. He will no longer be calling
the plays, no longer be calling the plays. That's right.
He handed the joystick over to quarterbacks coach somebody named
bo Hardgree. I believe he is his name something like that.
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I don't know. I've never heard this guy. Anyway, Nick
Holtz will continue as the offensive coordinator. So question, how
do you interpret the meaning of Titans coach Brian Callahan
giving up the play calling. So let's first of all
hear from the coach. Here's what he had to say
about this.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
A lot of things that you self reflect on at
the start that we've had so far and the things
that we've got to get better at. And one of
the things that I think is going to help our
football team, help me be a better head coach for
our team, is I'm going to hand over the play
calling to both. It's a pretty easy thing to do
when it comes to trying to help the football team
win and do the best thing for you know what
the job is. I got hired to be the head coach,
you know, and part of that process was being involved
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on offense. But my job is to be the head
coach of the football team, and I think that this
allows me to do that job a little bit better,
pay more attention to some things that might require my attention,
and be more present. So all those things are normal.
I think it's all part of you know, where we're at.
We're rowing three, and so we're trying to get better,
all right.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So you actually hear his nose grow when he was
saying that this is a butterfly kiss the kiss of death.
It is Callahan his calling card again, offensive coordinator, play
caller for the Cincinnati Bengals. That was the sales pitch.
And how many quotes did we get out of Nashville saying, well,
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we got the number one pick in the draft and
we got this guy who's a quarterback whisper. And we're
not even twenty percent into the NFL season and ownership
has already yanked away the play sheet said na NAA,
and the suits there pulling the ripcord on Brian Callahan
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before the plane even really leaves the runway. This season, now,
the Titans have been terrible. How bad are they? They're
thirty first in offense in the NFL. I didn't play
in the NFL. I'm told that's not good. That's right.
There's thirty two teams and they are ranked thirty first
in the NFL. Somehow they found a trapdoor and they've
almost hit rock bottom. They're not quite there yet. And
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you have the golden boy, cam Ward, who is the
top pick in the draft, and he looks less like
a messiah, less like a savior for the Tennessee Tides
at this point, more like he is a pinball in
a fun zone arcade. He's down at the mezzanine and
bouncing off every bumper and getting racked up there like
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tilt warning and it's just bad. Ward is the twenty
ninth ranked quarterback in the NFL, which puts him in
the same neighborhood as Bryce Young, who's not good. And
so there he goes a neighborhood you don't want to
be in. You don't want to be there. The lawns
are all dead, people don't take care of their homes,
crime is high, and so there you go, and a
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bigger insult cam Ward. Cam Ward apparently has a worse
quarterback rating than Will Levis last season, So there you go.
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So they must make those with the computer program the
corn maze things, right, Those seem like they would be
very tough to make. If any Farmer listeners of the
show let me know, I like to know how you
make the corn maze. Like to Ben, I've been to
a couple not in a long time. I was a kid,
but they've actually only been around since I think. I
don't think they've been around that long. Oh I think
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they have anyway, Alf says, is it just me? Or
when Ben Maller spoke Japanese the Gremlins started the study,
Well probably, so listen again. I stopped going into the
main studio because you know, I'm too big a person.
I do the show from the remote studio. I would
never be bothered to go into that main studio anymore.
So I don't know.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I mean, we're moving again.
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Are the Gremlins?
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Oh?
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Really? Where are we moving to? Where we're going upstairs there.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
They almost have it done.
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Really, when is that happening?
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I don't know soon. Ash, you've heard it from about
five different employees.
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Now, is that right?
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Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Bobo took me up there to go check it out
the other day.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Is that right? All right? Look at that, So it
looks like.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
We'll be getting some new shnazya area to hang out.
And boy, yeah, that's sound like we'll have to go upstairs,
which kind of suck.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What are they gonna do with this place? Give it
to the cock. That'll be our third studio in like
five years.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Right if they turned it into a Fox Sports radio cafeteria.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No, I bet you'd be another. There'll be another gymnasium
or something over There'll be a swimming pool in this place,
so make it a Danny's again. I'm not sure how
I feel about this. Well, you don't have a say
in it, Coop, you don't have to say it's I
bet it's not gonna be as nice as this though,
I can't imagine. Well, I can go check it out
if you want. I want to go check it out.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Let's go find it during the break.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Okay, Well, I don't know if we have enough time
for that. We'll see anyway, right, it is the Ben
Malor Show. As we press on and on and on
and on, and you know what that means, Well, it's
let's say hello a movie man, Matt first and then
we'll get to the game. Hello movie man, Matt. Welcome activated.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I heard moving. You're moving to a new studio. Immediately
I was.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Activated, So that means you're going to have to come
back again, and that'll be the third different studio. Although
we were actually originally upstairs. When the network started, we
were upstairs, so it's a return to our old stopping grounds.
Very good.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
So I wanted to check in on this robo umpire deal.
Here my old man, who once famously in Lorena could
do some deep dive research. Once famously there was a
drop on this called you a buffoon. However, my old man,
who is ninety four and walks with the cane, is
doing a victory dance somewhere because he has been preaching
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for thirty years that the technology exists for automated umpiring.
So somewhere today he is very happy.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well I'm glad he's happy, and I hope he enjoys it.
It's just the beginning. So it's only going to get
more intrusive, and that's just the way it's gonna be.
How San Diego, by the way, everything okay there, that's great.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And there are photos. But if you want to see
I took a few photos of the mobile billboard.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
I saw them post it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, yes, So if you want to check those out,
you go to the Facebook page or the what the
Instagram pages? So Ben Mallar on Fox Ben Maller Show,
just type all that stuff in. Eventually you'll you'll find
it and you can see some photos. Ben Maller on
Fox is the Instagram page. So I gotta get to
the game, though, Matt, we love you. Giants changed quarterbacks?
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Good luck you're you're in trouble.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
So wrong week to do that?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I agree with you. All right, let's get to it.
Here we go another.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Ben Mallard game.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
We've endured too many of these? Has it too much
or not enough? All right? We already? Weed Man? Are
you there? Weed Man? Hippie Miami Miami? Yeah, I love
you all right, Kim another day? I know we love
you man. Alright, weed Man, you go, how's your Obama phone?
Everything good? Let's get to it here. Yeah, I gotta
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get three, right, weed Man. You can play along as
you listen. Here we go. Question number one. Jose Ramirez
just became only the sixth player ever with multiple seasons
of one hundred runs, thirty home runs and forty steals?
Is that too much or not enough? Not enough? All right?
As fine as weed Man? Right? No, No, it's just
(31:25):
too much. He's only the fourth player ever with multiple seasons,
joins Bobby Bonds, Barry Bonds, and Alfonso Soriano. Wow, okay.
Question number two for weed Man hippies in Miami. He's
the laugh track on Lame Jokes of the Week, which
comes up later this week. Here we go on our
Friday show. There are ten players in NBA history with
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one hundred and fifty or more playoff wins in their career.
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
What's your final answer? Too much? Okay, that's right. Yeah,
they're only they're only they're only five Lebron, Derek Fisher,
Tim Duncan, Robert Rory, and Kareem Aldul Jabbar. You one
and one, weed Man.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
We moved on.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
We move on to question three. There were seven players
with more than one sack in Week three of the
NFL season. Is that too much or not enough? Too much?
All right, let's find out. No, no, we man, You're
you got to get these last two right? There were
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nine players that had multiple sacks in Week three. Comes
down to question four. To stay alive weed Man, hippie
in Miami, always positive, always happy, and famously sat through
a hurricane for the show. We didn't ask him to
do that, but he sat through a hurricane on a
lifeguard stand in Miami. It's the stupidest I'm so glad
you live, weed Man. I would never have heard the
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end of it if you hadn't lived, all right. Question
for Derek Henry now has three fumbles on the season,
and that gives him twenty nine in his ten year
career with the Titans and the Ravens. Is that too
much or not enough? Too much? All Right's find out?
Look at that weed Man right again, Henry, as he
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has twenty three fumbles in his career. It comes down
to question five. This is for the win, Yes we can?
Are you ready? Yeah? Make that Obama phone proud. Question five.
There are five players with twenty or more receptions, so
far this season in the National Football League? Is that
too much or not enough?
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
All right, let's find out that's a good job. There
are eight players with twenty or more receptions. Phoka Nakula
leads the NFL with twenty nine. You get a golden ticket.
Thank you. Weed Man. You gotta go cool, all right,
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call them on, go away. All right, there's the great
weed Man. Hippie straight ahead, you are, I hope you're prepared.
We are going to have the Queen of Hearts with Loreya.
We'll get to that eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
You want to call in for that or Queen of
Hearts hashtag Queen of Hearts. We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
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help you, dear Rye. Gear ride to night, Gear right
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to night, dear Rye.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
That's right, you heard the man. It's time for love
here on the Ben Malae Show. And you know, I
usually have a little snippet of advice at the beginning
of my segments. And I just want to say, who
was our caller earlier this week who said that he's
out with a cougar who was like seventy three.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Oh, well that was mouthwashing. That was mouthwashed, Mike. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
And I just I just want to promote love of
all ages as long.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I think they're legal.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
You can date if we don't discriminate.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
It might be something other than love.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Don't I don't know, but but yes, uh, there is
no restrictions on age as long as you have a
good connection, go and enjoy someone's time.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
All right. Well, Ferd Dog writes in and says, will
you be watching the new season of The Golden Bachelor
starring NFL legend mel Owens. I have no idea. Who
that is?
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Oh my gosh, I thought about watching that, But I'm
going to be honest with you. I heard the first
season was horribly depressing, and I'm used to them being
more fun, light hearted and a little slutty, so it.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Was I don't know if it was appointing. You want
more sluttiness, Okay, I got you, Yeah, I understand. Mike
the Leprechon says, should you trust a girlfriend to drive
through a city, especially if she has no sense of direction?
Someone I heard about knew nothing about Lake Michigan in Chicago?
He says, that's.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Oh yeah, you know, having your girl drive around a
city she's never been to is probably not the best
idea car rentals, but I've seen some men do a
pretty bad job around new cities as well, So maybe
check yourself before you wreck yourself. Huh?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
All right? Shane and the moyn write since says, what
is the best way to break up with someone who
ruined your life and has no one in the state
of Iowa? But you Oh, oh no, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
I'm not trying to do there.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'm just saying, you know that my key in to
the side.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
There's what you looking at me like that. I'm just
they really did something bad to you, get them back.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
No, I don't know. I'm not going there. JT. The
wingman says, I am trying to step to the front
of the line for my lady. What a style of
shoe should I get to make this happen? And then
he's got all the men's shoes here. The he's stepping
to the front of the what. No, he wants you
to choose which shoes women like? Like loafers or Oxford
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style shoes, derby shoes, slip on sandals. You know, I
think boat shoes. You know I don't. I'm not a
big fan of boat shoes. Okay, boat shoes are.
Speaker 6 (37:42):
A little lame to me. Slides can be good on occasion,
but you know more, just like a nice clean pair
of shoes. I don't really think it matters what kind
as long as your shoes are clean.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
If you have.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Scuffs and dirt marks and holes in your shoes, it's
not looking good for you.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Okay, all right? Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota, SISI Lorena
And by being selfish, my girlfriend has been hinting about
marriage with life expectancy of men being aged seventy five
and me being sixty one. Why the hell would I
want to spend the last fourteen years of my life
in fear and anguish?
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Well, I do want to also remind you, those last
fourteen years of your life, you could go downhill in
your health. So having someone there who could take care
of you is actually not that.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
There's no ninety there's no guarantee that they will stay
with you.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
That is true as well, but you know, love, love
should be able to break those boundaries no matter how
old you are.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Key Drinking Steve is on the phone. Hello, key drinking Steve.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
Oh, good morning America.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I got a great question for Spin it Up? What
you got to spen it out? Well?
Speaker 7 (38:42):
Tom Brady is.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
All right, BP says, are the queens of diamonds, clubs
and spades jealous of Lorena? Do you think that?
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (38:54):
Being the queen of hearts is a little you know,
it's a lot some.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Times not that easy, right. People don't realize what goes
into this segment. They think you just show up here
and just the research love all.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Day, all week and every week. I'm like the bachelorette
out on these streets into research.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
In Chicago, you were studying love while you were in Chicago.
The whole time, the whole weekend, was a love of kidding,
all right,
Playball. It's our number three, our number three, and we
talk about baseball this hour. But an interesting story out
of all places, Pennsylvania. Where is this Paul Skens story
headed in Pittsburgh? We parse the latest words of Paul Skeens,
the star pitcher for the Pirates. Also, where are you
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at on Major League Baseball? Going to automation replay on
balls and strikes? It's coming in twenty twenty six. And
how do you interpret the meaning of Titans coach Brian
Callahan giving up the play calling after only three games.
We'll get to all that and more right now here.
It is our number three. A case of those bucko blues.
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That's expresspros dot com. Now, as they say, on with
the show and shows becoming too popular, what happened? We
used to have no advertisers. All of a sudden, I
have always advertisers. Why people must be listening to the show.
What happened? Anyway? All right, we'll go to Pittsburgh. Why not.
We'll go to Pittsburgh, good town. Bad sports teams, but
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good town. You know, Steelers used to be good anyway,
So I'm gonna talk about the Pirates. Well, you're talking
about the Pirates. Know the Yankees and Maners clinched the
playoff signer. So the Pirates upended the Reds in Cincinnati.
This is a big series here, a massive, massive series.
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As these teams, well, the Pirates aren't going anywhere, but
they did beat the Reds, and so that's a blow
to the Cincinnati baseball team. And the story, though, is
not about that individual game on a random Tuesday. That's
not the story. The story here, I think you might
know where it is, maybe not. It is about a
guy who's making it. I believe his final start. I
think I believe it's the final start coming up on Wednesday.
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Paul Skins, so the ace, the face of young pitching
in Major League Baseball. Paul Skins. He recently said that
his club, the Pirates, will have quote wasted the twenty
twenty five season if the team does not learn from
what went wrong during the second straight campaign spent in
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the sewer of the National League's Central Division, the Pittsburgh Pirates.
If you look at your Major League Baseball standings, the
Pirates have sixty eight wins. Sixty eight wins. That's it.
So let us discuss the question where is this Paul
Skins story headed in Pittsburgh? As we parsed the words
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of Paul Skins, so I've got confluence, Japanese and butterfly,
and we'll combine all of these things together, and you know,
it's time to make the baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make
the Babaganoosh. So, first of all, Paul Skins. The way
I parsed the words of Paul Skins when he was
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somewhat delegated well, I'll let be wasted if we don't
learn from this. He was using good table manners. Paul
Skeins was using good table manners. This was a polite
way of saying that I am too good for you losers.
This is a clown show. So he's twenty three. Paul
Skiing means he is built like a steel mill smokestack,
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throws one hundred miles with ease. Is the top young
starting pitcher in baseball. And the Pirates organization, who he
plays for and gets a check for, not a big
one compared to everyone else. But they've been circling the
toilet bowl since before Barry Bonds decided to put needles
in his Tucus back in the day. There, and you
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can listen between the words. And if you listen between
the words, when Paul Skins said wasted, he's not really
saying wasted season. He's saying, please get me out of here.
Blink blank, wink wink, get me out of here. I
do not want to be the East Coast version of
Mike Trout. My life's goal is not to be Mike
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Trout and Shohil Tani on the Angels when they didn't
win anything. The Pirates are on the verge. They're on
the verge of wasting the salad days of Paul Skins.
Now this is in progress, it's in progress there. But
the Pittsburgh Pirates good ballpark, cool town, like Pittsburgh used
to be dump And last time I was there was beautiful.
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I thought it was really cool because I was there
when the weather was good. But anyway, the Pirates, good ballpark,
bad roster. Good ballpark, bad roster. That's the Pittsburgh Pirates
right there. They're treading water and they're in the sewer
and they don't understand why it smells. They don't know
why is it smell? And there are whispers already out there.
We haven't even gotten the playoffs. We're not even the playoffs.
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You have to obviously the run to October. We'll be
able to talk about baseball every night, the playoff games
and all that. But here's the thing. We're not even
at that point. And there's already whispers. There's whispers that
Paul Skins is going to be floated. Teams are going
to be contacting the Pirates in the Hot Stove League,
which is in November and December, and say hey, what's
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it gonna take to get that guy? Paul Skians and
the usual suspects, the teams like the Yankees, the Dodgers,
the Red Sox, the Mets, that Cobbs, maybe the Giants
as well, and the big boys. They're gonna say, well,
we'll give you a godfather offer. Well, what's a godfather
What godfather offers like four or five of our top
minor league players, but every year you have new minor
league plus how do we know those guys are good? Well,
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it's a godfather offer. People say they're gonna be good.
If they say they're gonna be good, they're gonna be good.
Just go take the players, all right, So you know
what that is. We know how this works. We know
the game. This is the vultures smelling blood in the water,
blood in the water, and it's a baseball confluence, is
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what it is. And one of the coolest things. If
you live in Pittsburgh you get to see this every day.
But me visiting Pittsburgh is the confluence. You have the
Mahangahila and the Alleghany that get together and they have
a baby. They have a baby called the Ohio River,
and the baby is consummated right there in Pittsburgh at
their confluence. Right now, you've got the confluence on Paul
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Skeins where you have a lot of things converging. There's
a lot of moving parts converging. You have Paul Skins
rising star power, rising star power. You have the Pirates
who are a dumpster fire roster, and you have the
big money, big market teams sniffing around and I'm like, yes,
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what's it gonna take? You know, what's what's it gonna take.
That is how dynasties get extended or get built, and
then small market teams get stripped and they get spare
parts in return. That's how this usually works here. And
here's the kicker. The kicker on this is unless there
is a treade, whether it happens in the off season
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this year or next year or in the next couple
of year, it's got to happen soon because he is
Paul Skin's hog tied to the buckos. He is below deck.
It's the pirate ship, and he's got a little seasick.
He's gonna vomit one of his lungs up. He is
locked into Pittsburgh. If the Pirates do not trade Paul Skins.
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Then he is there till twenty thirty. Twenty thirty. Arbitration
does not even start until twenty twenty seven. It's a
couple of years away from that sore. You're either going
to have a guy pitching in October wearing pinstripes or
wearing the Dodger blue, or he's going to be rotting
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away in Pittsburgh and he'll be racking up all kinds
of strikeouts and he'll be really cool in front of
twelve thousand people friends and family in Pittsburgh. Some nice
boats out on the waterway there and empty seats, but
you will have you will have the Pirate parrot and
the Pairt'll be there, and so that'll be kind of cool.
But the Pirates are the restaurant. They're the restaurant that's
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got a really nice location and you're like, wow, that
is amazing. We can have a meal and look at
the water. It's only it's so nice. Oh man, it's romantic.
And then you order the food and it's like a
re heated hot pocket and you're like, why did I
don't understand? That's the pirates, that's what that's what they are.
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But Pittsburgh ownership, if you want to call it that.
They have been running this Ponzi scheme, this scam for
decades in Pittsburgh, and they don't really care about winning.
It's a dirty little secret in that profession that just
getting into the brotherhood where you own a team, you
have a path to make all kinds of easy money
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and you can sell these terms that dumb people love rebuilding,
you know, trust the process, these kind of terms, and listen,
dumb people will still support your product. Now. They don't
do it that well in Pittsburgh, which is kind of cool.
They don't really support the team because the team's terrible.
Unless there's a Bobblehead night or something like that, that's it.
But in a lot of places it doesn't even matter
whether you have people who are going to the games.
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You have a TV deal, even that's gone away a
little bit because of the cable television industry being on
thin ice and all that. But the point is you
look at the teams like the Pirates and it's like
all you care about. You say, well, I want payroll flexibility.
We can't compete with the Dodgers and the Mets and
the Cubs, and you know all these teams. So you
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say that, but you get that big, fat, juicy luxury
tax check. So you have the other teams bankroll. You're incompetence,
so you're essentially spam your spam so the other teams
have someone to play. And again occasionally you'll sell out
for some reason. I'll have a good giveaway and people
got But but Paul Skeens and the Pirates is like
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essentially say he listen, the marriage with the Pirates is
not going well. It's it's doomed, is what it is here.
So now the divorce papers aren't filed yet. I am
just getting in front of this. I promise you we
will have more Mallard monologues between now and the hostove
league in baseball where Paul Skeen's name comes up, and
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whether it's in one of the big time baseball writers.
There's some no name as well. There's some chatter at
the winter meetings that teams are calling the Pirates about
Paul Skiins and you know that's happy. Now. Secondly, we
go now to a rules engagement update from Major League Baseball.
So Major League Baseball finally did it. We knew what
was happening. They have finally done it. What do they do?
What do they do? Major League Baseball? We'll have robo
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replay for balls and strikes, a challenge system coming to
a ballpark near you in twenty twenty six. That's right now,
not fully, not fully, not every pitch, not every pitch,
but the so called Automated Ball Strike Challenge System. That's
a mouthful. The ABS ABS coming to Major League Baseball.
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Two challenges per game, that's it, two challenges per game.
Pitcher catcher batter taps their helmet boom. Pitcher catcher batter
taps the helmet boom goes to dynamite and big Brother
in the sky. Big Brother in the Sky there at
Major League Baseball tells you whether it's a strike or
a ball, and that's how the game is going to go.
At some point there will be a World Series decided
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by that. So question, where are you at on Major
League Baseball going to the automation challenge system on replay
on the balls and strikes, balls and strike. So this
one was you knew it was inevitable, right, that's obvious,
not obvious enough for me not to say, But we
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knew it was inevitable. So we're all essentially passengers on
the train full automation, Like this is the Boiling Frog,
the legend of the Boiling Frog. You start out, you
put a frog in some lukewarm water, and the frog
swims around and thinks, man, this is really cool. I
got a nice place to swim and I'm feeling pretty
good about myself. And then you turn up the heat
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a little bit and the frog's like, wow, that's a
little hot, but it's still pretty cool. I kind of
like it. And then you go for the kill shot
and you go as hot as you can go, and
that frog burns up. So this is major League Baseball.
Rob Manford, the evil dictator of Major League Baseball. This
is his master plant. Him and his henchmen like, we'll
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start with this, and then what are we gonna do
next to f up baseball? And eventually it'll be on
every pitch. They'll expand it. It starts with two challenges
and then they'll say, well that's not enough, we need more.
We need more. And someday we'll just have chat GPT
call the game and we'll have the app and then
you can pick that and it's like, well, that's a
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ninety seven mile an hour. That's like like a sinker.
I didn't know you could throw a sinker in ninety
seven miles an hour. Well, that's ball too, And that's
where this is heading. That's where this is heading. Proved
me wrong to me, that's where this is heading, right,
that's where this is heading. And you know you're still
gonna have in this scenario, You're still gonna have the
umpires crouching down, squatting down behind home plate, and the
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umpire's essentially window dressing, and it's only going to get worse, right,
this is how it begins, is going to get worse
and worse. You know, you're an old fashioned You're a boomer.
I'm not a boomer, but on this one I am
old fashioned because I was raised to believe that the
officials were part of the game and that the human
element mattered, and that officials aren't perfect, players aren't perfect.
That's part of the game. And I also recall stories
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about legends like Greg Maddox and Tony gwyn and how
part of their preparation for baseball was studying the umpires.
Greg Maddox knew that Eric Greg the umpire had a
very large strike zone like his appetite, and so there
was a big strike zone there, so you could certain
parts of it, you know, on the outside you get
a little room. Tony Gwynn knew that there were certain
umpires that had a smaller strike zone and certain umpires
(15:39):
had a bigger strike zone, and so they studied the
quirks and that was what helped make them Hall of
Fame players, that they studied this and they not everything
was uniform, assembly line and it was almost an art
form when you think about it. The imperfection of the
(16:00):
umpire was part of the beauty of baseball. Oh, they
must get the call right. You have to get everything right.
There's even a word. It's a Japanese word for what
baseball had been. It's going away from this. So we'll
use the word right now because the baseball's going away with.
Wabi Sabi is the word, and it's it means flawed beauty.
I've seen the beauty and things that maybe aren't all
(16:21):
that beautiful, but that's baseball, right. Bad calls a part
of it, and there's a bit of a toughness to
it where you're supposed to keep your composure. You get
upset with the umpire, but you keep your composure and
that's it, right. You kind of go with the flow
and that's all. And they're moving towards a way where
it's now everything's got to be standardized, reviewed perfect. Every
(16:49):
call must be right, which is funny to me because
you definitely don't want cops to give everyone that goes
one mile over the speed limit a speeding ticket, but
you want every call in baseball to be right because
you take that lodge, well, I think anyone that speed
should get a ticket, you do. Really, yeah, I need
(17:10):
a lot more cops to give everyone a speeding ticket,
a lot of patrol officers out there in the highways
and byways to give tickets. But in sports, every call's
got to be exactly right. Really, okay, everything's standardized. Spoiler alert,
spoiler alert, it will not be perfect because there's always
humans involved some way, one way or another. The strike
(17:31):
zone will be graft by human beings and they'll be
replacing one set of flaws with another set of flaws.
And mark me down. I have on my scorecard lukewarm.
That's my temperature, and it's just one step away from
conveyor belt full automation, which is going to be happening
just like we sound on football. This isn't in football.
(17:53):
They have just for show. They have the chain game,
but nobody seems to really know how they measure it.
They claim, well, we use this special technology, but they
just put up this weird looking, hokey graphic during NFL games,
which really, to me has cheapened the excitement of the
chain going out. It's not as good as the product
(18:14):
is not as good in football. It's just not all right.
Final thought, we go to football quick right, and we
go to the land of country music and hot chicken,
Nashville where Tennessee Titans coach Brian Callahan. See we get
some sound of this. I know it's on the cut sheet.
The supposed offensive wizard, the Joe Burrow Whisperer when he
(18:37):
was in Cincinnati, and he has just been demoted. How
can you demote the head coach, Well, he's still the
head coach in name. He will no longer be calling
the plays, no longer be calling the plays. That's right.
He handed the joystick over to quarterbacks coach somebody named
bo Hardgree. I believe he is his name something like that.
(18:58):
I don't know. I've never heard this guy. Anyway, Nick
Holtz will continue as the offensive coordinator. So question, how
do you interpret the meaning of Titans coach Brian Callahan
giving up the play calling. So let's first of all
hear from the coach. Here's what he had to say
about this.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
A lot of things that you self reflect on at
the start that we've had so far and the things
that we've got to get better at. And one of
the things that I think is going to help our
football team, help me be a better head coach for
our team, is I'm going to hand over the play
calling to both. It's a pretty easy thing to do
when it comes to trying to help the football team
win and do the best thing for you know what
the job is. I got hired to be the head coach,
you know, and part of that process was being involved
(19:36):
on offense. But my job is to be the head
coach of the football team, and I think that this
allows me to do that job a little bit better,
pay more attention to some things that might require my attention,
and be more present. So all those things are normal.
I think it's all part of you know, where we're at.
We're rowing three, and so we're trying to get better,
all right.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So you actually hear his nose grow when he was
saying that this is a butterfly kiss the kiss of death.
It is Callahan his calling card again, offensive coordinator, play
caller for the Cincinnati Bengals. That was the sales pitch.
And how many quotes did we get out of Nashville saying, well,
(20:14):
we got the number one pick in the draft and
we got this guy who's a quarterback whisper. And we're
not even twenty percent into the NFL season and ownership
has already yanked away the play sheet said na NAA,
and the suits there pulling the ripcord on Brian Callahan
(20:35):
before the plane even really leaves the runway. This season, now,
the Titans have been terrible. How bad are they? They're
thirty first in offense in the NFL. I didn't play
in the NFL. I'm told that's not good. That's right.
There's thirty two teams and they are ranked thirty first
in the NFL. Somehow they found a trapdoor and they've
almost hit rock bottom. They're not quite there yet. And
(20:57):
you have the golden boy, cam Ward, who is the
top pick in the draft, and he looks less like
a messiah, less like a savior for the Tennessee Tides
at this point, more like he is a pinball in
a fun zone arcade. He's down at the mezzanine and
bouncing off every bumper and getting racked up there like
(21:21):
tilt warning and it's just bad. Ward is the twenty
ninth ranked quarterback in the NFL, which puts him in
the same neighborhood as Bryce Young, who's not good. And
so there he goes a neighborhood you don't want to
be in. You don't want to be there. The lawns
are all dead, people don't take care of their homes,
crime is high, and so there you go, and a
(21:43):
bigger insult cam Ward. Cam Ward apparently has a worse
quarterback rating than Will Levis last season, So there you go.
There is that anyway, it is the Ben Mahler Shows.
We are settling in this out if you'd like to
be part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox that's
(22:06):
eight seven seven nine nine six six three six and
I we'll have too much or not enough. That'll be
coming up a little bit later in the show. Also
the Queen of Hearts with Lorrain up. We'll have that
as well. Hashtag hashtag Queen of Hearts hashtag Queen of Hearts.
We'll get to that time now, though. For the malor
riddle of the day, Detroit Lions wide receiver I'm on
Ross Saint Brown was honored with a blank tribute. Again,
(22:30):
Lions wide receiver I'm on Rossaint Brown was honored with
a blank tribute this week. That is the mallor riddle
of the day. The answer, We'll get to it. We
will do it next.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 4 (22:55):
Hey, we're Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio every day
five to seven pm Eastern. But here's the thing, we
never have enough time to get to everything we want
to get to.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
And that's why we have a brand new podcast called
over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun in
our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
time for. Yeah, you blubber list jam in me.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Well, you know what it's called over promise. You should
be good at it because you've been over promising women
for years.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Well, it's a Covino and Rich after show, and we
want you to be a part of it. We're gonna
be talking sports, of course, but we're also gonna talk
life and relationships. And if Rich and I are arguing
about something or we didn't have enough time, it will
continue on our after show called over Promised.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Well, if you don't get enough Covino and Rich, make
sure you check out over Promised and also uncensored, by
the way, so maybe we'll go at it even a
little harder. It's gonna be the best after show podcast
of all time.
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on YouTube, but definitely join us. Listen Over Promised with
Coavino and Rich on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or
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Speaker 1 (23:58):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben mal Show,
up all night, every single night. Coming up in a
little bit, we'll have too much or not enough. Also
later this hour the always popular well we'll see about that,
but no Queen of Hearts with Lorena that'll be coming
up next hour password the word Game of the Stars.
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But time now to remind you to interact with the
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(24:42):
want to send a question in for the Queen of
Hearts hashtag Queen of Hearts and now back to it. Wow,
now here's the riddle mal riddle of today. Lions Wide Receiver.
I'm on Ross. Saint Brown was honored with a blank tribute.
That is the malor riddle of the and ferg Dog
says a lego tattoo tribute. And Scrooge in the Bay Area,
(25:07):
who's in the younger demo says a loving tribute. Well,
that's very loving, very loving. I deceased some salted Sauer
Kraut from Milkman Mike in Colorado? Who else do we
have a UPS tribute? What can Brown do for you?
From BP? Lady Sideburns going with a moist tribute. Late
(25:30):
Night drug Testers says honored with a UPS truck named
after him. A lot of ups and none of these
from Tree, none of these from Tree in Chicago, and
he and Lina Lake says riddle of the day. They
honored the lion with a fresh zebra carcass to chew on.
All right, what do we have here? Let's see your page,
Dan Monkey Biz Doug in South Korea says for the
(25:56):
best hold my beer moment. There you go. Robin Minnesota
honored the Malor Show six. Was honored with a Mallard
Show six callers salute, which we cannot do anymore because
the phones are different. Alf the Alien Opiner says he
was honored with a pumpkin spice lap dance tribute. That
sounds interesting, sounds yummy. A belch and a fart salute
(26:18):
from Donkey Sausage. That's his answer. J T the Wingman says,
A toilet flush tribute. Wow, that's a little much. Twenty
one gun salute from courtesy Flusher, twenty one moon salute
from Johnny Q. That's his answer. Who else that page?
Lollipop guild from mad Jack LORRAINA. Do you have an answer? Lorraine?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Oh, I thought to be creative with this, so maybe
a drone tribute.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
A drone tribute, well, that would be that would be interesting. No,
as incorrect. The correct answer to the Malard riddle of
the day Lions wide receiver I'm on Rossain Brown was
honored with a wild corn Maze headstand Tribune a corn
Maze tribute. You saw the game against Baltimore, you go headstand.
(27:05):
So they must make those with the computer program the
corn maze things, right, Those seem like they would be
very tough to make. If any Farmer listeners of the
show let me know, I like to know how you
make the corn maze. Like to Ben, I've been to
a couple not in a long time. I was a kid,
but they've actually only been around since I think. I
don't think they've been around that long. Oh I think
(27:27):
they have anyway, Alf says, is it just me? Or
when Ben Maller spoke Japanese the Gremlins started the study,
Well probably, so listen again. I stopped going into the
main studio because you know, I'm too big a person.
I do the show from the remote studio. I would
never be bothered to go into that main studio anymore.
So I don't know.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
I mean, we're moving again.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Are the Gremlins?
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Really? Where are we moving to? Where we're going upstairs there.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
They almost have it done.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Really, when is that happening?
Speaker 6 (27:53):
I don't know soon. Ash, you've heard it from about
five different employees.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Now, is that right?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Bobo took me up there to go check it out
the other day.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Is that right? All right? Look at that, So it
looks like.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
We'll be getting some new shnazya area to hang out.
And boy, yeah, that's sound like we'll have to go upstairs,
which kind of suck.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
What are they gonna do with this place? Give it
to the cock. That'll be our third studio in like
five years.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Right if they turned it into a Fox Sports radio cafeteria.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No, I bet you'd be another. There'll be another gymnasium
or something over There'll be a swimming pool in this place,
so make it a Danny's again. I'm not sure how
I feel about this. Well, you don't have a say
in it, Coop, you don't have to say it's I
bet it's not gonna be as nice as this though,
I can't imagine. Well, I can go check it out
if you want. I want to go check it out.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Let's go find it during the break.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Okay, Well, I don't know if we have enough time
for that. We'll see anyway, right, it is the Ben
Malor Show. As we press on and on and on
and on, and you know what that means, Well, it's
let's say hello a movie man, Matt first and then
we'll get to the game. Hello movie man, Matt. Welcome activated.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I heard moving. You're moving to a new studio. Immediately
I was.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Activated, So that means you're going to have to come
back again, and that'll be the third different studio. Although
we were actually originally upstairs. When the network started, we
were upstairs, so it's a return to our old stopping grounds.
Very good.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
So I wanted to check in on this robo umpire deal.
Here my old man, who once famously in Lorena could
do some deep dive research. Once famously there was a
drop on this called you a buffoon. However, my old man,
who is ninety four and walks with the cane, is
doing a victory dance somewhere because he has been preaching
(29:42):
for thirty years that the technology exists for automated umpiring.
So somewhere today he is very happy.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Well I'm glad he's happy, and I hope he enjoys it.
It's just the beginning. So it's only going to get
more intrusive, and that's just the way it's gonna be.
How San Diego, by the way, everything okay there, that's great.
Speaker 7 (30:05):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And there are photos. But if you want to see
I took a few photos of the mobile billboard.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
I saw them post it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, yes, So if you want to check those out,
you go to the Facebook page or the what the
Instagram pages? So Ben Mallar on Fox Ben Maller Show,
just type all that stuff in. Eventually you'll you'll find
it and you can see some photos. Ben Maller on
Fox is the Instagram page. So I gotta get to
the game, though, Matt, we love you. Giants changed quarterbacks?
(30:33):
Good luck you're you're in trouble.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
So wrong week to do that?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I agree with you. All right, let's get to it.
Here we go another.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Ben Mallard game.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
We've endured too many of these? Has it too much
or not enough? All right? We already? Weed Man? Are
you there? Weed Man? Hippie Miami Miami? Yeah, I love
you all right, Kim another day? I know we love
you man. Alright, weed Man, you go, how's your Obama phone?
Everything good? Let's get to it here. Yeah, I gotta
(31:04):
get three, right, weed Man. You can play along as
you listen. Here we go. Question number one. Jose Ramirez
just became only the sixth player ever with multiple seasons
of one hundred runs, thirty home runs and forty steals?
Is that too much or not enough? Not enough? All right?
As fine as weed Man? Right? No, No, it's just
(31:25):
too much. He's only the fourth player ever with multiple seasons,
joins Bobby Bonds, Barry Bonds, and Alfonso Soriano. Wow, okay.
Question number two for weed Man hippies in Miami. He's
the laugh track on Lame Jokes of the Week, which
comes up later this week. Here we go on our
Friday show. There are ten players in NBA history with
(31:46):
one hundred and fifty or more playoff wins in their career.
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
What's your final answer? Too much? Okay, that's right. Yeah,
they're only they're only they're only five Lebron, Derek Fisher,
Tim Duncan, Robert Rory, and Kareem Aldul Jabbar. You one
and one, weed Man.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
We moved on.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
We move on to question three. There were seven players
with more than one sack in Week three of the
NFL season. Is that too much or not enough? Too much?
All right, let's find out. No, no, we man, You're
you got to get these last two right? There were
(32:36):
nine players that had multiple sacks in Week three. Comes
down to question four. To stay alive weed Man, hippie
in Miami, always positive, always happy, and famously sat through
a hurricane for the show. We didn't ask him to
do that, but he sat through a hurricane on a
lifeguard stand in Miami. It's the stupidest I'm so glad
you live, weed Man. I would never have heard the
(32:57):
end of it if you hadn't lived, all right. Question
for Derek Henry now has three fumbles on the season,
and that gives him twenty nine in his ten year
career with the Titans and the Ravens. Is that too
much or not enough? Too much? All Right's find out?
Look at that weed Man right again, Henry, as he
(33:21):
has twenty three fumbles in his career. It comes down
to question five. This is for the win, Yes we can?
Are you ready? Yeah? Make that Obama phone proud. Question five.
There are five players with twenty or more receptions, so
far this season in the National Football League? Is that
too much or not enough?
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
All right, let's find out that's a good job. There
are eight players with twenty or more receptions. Phoka Nakula
leads the NFL with twenty nine. You get a golden ticket.
Thank you. Weed Man. You gotta go cool, all right,
(34:03):
call them on, go away. All right, there's the great
weed Man. Hippie straight ahead, you are, I hope you're prepared.
We are going to have the Queen of Hearts with Loreya.
We'll get to that eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
You want to call in for that or Queen of
Hearts hashtag Queen of Hearts. We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
It is the Ben Mahler Show up all night, every
single night. Don't forget that podcast. Missed any of the
overnight show. Catch the podcast just search Ben Maller. Right
after the show, pot will be going up. Give that
five star rating. Ride a witty review. Those corporate weasels
upstairs they love that kind of stuff, and you'll find
(34:47):
the full show best of version posted right after the
end of the Ben Mallor Show. It's of it. Buzes
with little rain at tenn clean up hearts going to
help you, dear Rye. Gear ride to night, Gear right
(35:10):
to night, dear Rye.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
That's right, you heard the man. It's time for love
here on the Ben Malae Show. And you know, I
usually have a little snippet of advice at the beginning
of my segments. And I just want to say, who
was our caller earlier this week who said that he's
out with a cougar who was like seventy three.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Oh, well that was mouthwashing. That was mouthwashed, Mike. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
And I just I just want to promote love of
all ages as long.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I think they're legal.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
You can date if we don't discriminate.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
It might be something other than love.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Don't I don't know, but but yes, uh, there is
no restrictions on age as long as you have a
good connection, go and enjoy someone's time.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
All right. Well, Ferd Dog writes in and says, will
you be watching the new season of The Golden Bachelor
starring NFL legend mel Owens. I have no idea. Who
that is?
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Oh my gosh, I thought about watching that, But I'm
going to be honest with you. I heard the first
season was horribly depressing, and I'm used to them being
more fun, light hearted and a little slutty, so it.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Was I don't know if it was appointing. You want
more sluttiness, Okay, I got you, Yeah, I understand. Mike
the Leprechon says, should you trust a girlfriend to drive
through a city, especially if she has no sense of direction?
Someone I heard about knew nothing about Lake Michigan in Chicago?
He says, that's.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Oh yeah, you know, having your girl drive around a
city she's never been to is probably not the best
idea car rentals, but I've seen some men do a
pretty bad job around new cities as well, So maybe
check yourself before you wreck yourself. Huh?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
All right? Shane and the moyn write since says, what
is the best way to break up with someone who
ruined your life and has no one in the state
of Iowa? But you Oh, oh no, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
I'm not trying to do there.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'm just saying, you know that my key in to
the side.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
There's what you looking at me like that. I'm just
they really did something bad to you, get them back.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
No, I don't know. I'm not going there. JT. The
wingman says, I am trying to step to the front
of the line for my lady. What a style of
shoe should I get to make this happen? And then
he's got all the men's shoes here. The he's stepping
to the front of the what. No, he wants you
to choose which shoes women like? Like loafers or Oxford
(37:33):
style shoes, derby shoes, slip on sandals. You know, I
think boat shoes. You know I don't. I'm not a
big fan of boat shoes. Okay, boat shoes are.
Speaker 6 (37:42):
A little lame to me. Slides can be good on occasion,
but you know more, just like a nice clean pair
of shoes. I don't really think it matters what kind
as long as your shoes are clean.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
If you have.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Scuffs and dirt marks and holes in your shoes, it's
not looking good for you.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Okay, all right? Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota, SISI Lorena
And by being selfish, my girlfriend has been hinting about
marriage with life expectancy of men being aged seventy five
and me being sixty one. Why the hell would I
want to spend the last fourteen years of my life
in fear and anguish?
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Well, I do want to also remind you, those last
fourteen years of your life, you could go downhill in
your health. So having someone there who could take care
of you is actually not that.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
There's no ninety there's no guarantee that they will stay
with you.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
That is true as well, but you know, love, love
should be able to break those boundaries no matter how
old you are.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Key Drinking Steve is on the phone. Hello, key drinking Steve.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
Oh, good morning America.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I got a great question for Spin it Up? What
you got to spen it out? Well?
Speaker 7 (38:42):
Tom Brady is.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
All right, BP says, are the queens of diamonds, clubs
and spades jealous of Lorena? Do you think that?
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (38:54):
Being the queen of hearts is a little you know,
it's a lot some.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Times not that easy, right. People don't realize what goes
into this segment. They think you just show up here
and just the research love all.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Day, all week and every week. I'm like the bachelorette
out on these streets into research.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
In Chicago, you were studying love while you were in Chicago.
The whole time, the whole weekend, was a love of kidding,
all right,
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