November 26, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Alex Rodriguez calling out the 'hypocrisy' of Bud Selig being a Hall of Famer while steroid stars aren't, Paul Skenes receiving a record pre-arbitration deal from the Pirates, the Red Sox trading for starter Sonny Gray, Too Much or Not Enough, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball. That's our number three. Our number three is ready
to go and an a bomb from Arod Alex Rodriguez,
washed up former baseball player calling out the hypocrisy of
Bud Selik being in the Hall of Fame while steroids
stars are not welcome to that old boys club? Are
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you with him on this? Are you with Alex Rodriguez? Also?
What is your calculation on this Paul Skens record breaking
pre arbitration deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates getting a lot
of attention in the baseball world and we have a trade? Yeah,
does this Red Sox deal with the Cardinals for starters
Sonny Gray count as a splash move for the Socks.
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We'll talk about that and more right now here. It
is our number three. Have a wonderful Wednesday. This Bud's
not for you now, this Bud's not for you. Welcome
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That's right, little Baseball hot stove, hot stove after Thanksgiving
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But our lead this hour from Baseball as Major League
Baseball's hot stove League heats up players who used steroids yep,
back in the day, the steroid era. They can't get
into Cooperstown, not allowed, not allowed, can't go. Sorry, no, nope, no, nope,
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doors are closed kicking in. However, the person who was
the overlord of the steroid era, that person's a Hall
of Famer, and Alex Rodriguez has opined he's got a
problem with that, and he's not keeping his mouth shut.
The Minnesota Timberwolves bit owner A rod commenting, see this, No, no,
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you didn't. Okay, So former commissioner Bud Selic. You might
not even know who that is if you're of a
younger age, But this guy was the commissioner for years.
He used to own the Milwaukee Brewers. And Bud Celic
was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame eight
years ago. He's a class of twenty seventeen. Meanwhile, Barry
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Bonds is riding a bike around northern California. Roger Clemens
is transversing across the country watching his kids play baseball.
Mark McGuire, I don't know what he's up to. Sammy
Sosa has been like a chameleon, changing his appearance. And
then you got A Rod who's on TV, and Rafael
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palm Merrow and all these guys who have Hall of
Fame stats not in the biggest stars of the steroid
era and the era that Bud Selick was the guardian
of the game. Oh yeah, the guardian of the game
and all that, and he was the commissioner, and these
guys are not allowed it, not allowed it. A Rod,
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in a interview on a satellite radio behind a paywall said,
all of this stuff you're talking about was under bud
Selick's watch. A Rod stated, he said, and the fact
that those two guys you're talking about, Bonds and Clemens,
are not in, but somehow bud Selick is in the
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Hall of Fame, That to me feels like there's a
little bit some hypocrisy around that close quote. That's gonna
be the jumping off points. So let's get into this
right now. We'll discuss the question for the esteem panel.
Alex Rodriguez calling out the hypocrisy of bud Selik being
a Hall of Famer while steroid stars like A Rod
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himself and Bonds and Clemens are not in the Hall
of Fame. Are you with him on this or are
you against A Rod on this one? So I've got termites,
chicken feed, and ibuprofen, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're gonna play connect three, not
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Connect four, Connect three. So first of all, a Rod,
let's just get this out of the way. A Rod
is a walking, talking contradiction. That's just who A Rod is.
He's slumlord, millionaire if you believe the tabloids built an empire,
very wealthy, and that was built on peds, not legit. Right,
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Aro was a good player, very good player.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Was the.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Draft picking that Darren Dreyfert draft back in the day,
and right there at the top. And A Rod worked
out and then really worked out once he started on
the happy sauce, really worked out. So you look at
this from thirty thousand feet in the sky, and on
this one, A Rod's absolutely right He's absolutely right. He
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just nailed the bud Selick right between the eyes. There
you go, right in the schnaz. Bud Selick was and
still still alive, a used car salesman who rose to
the Commissioner's office through the Peter principle. A product of
the Peter principle, which is, you reach your highest level
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of incompetence and stay there forever. Look at me, I've
reached my highest level of incompetence overnight talk radio, and
I've has been here year after year because it's the
Peter principle. It's what is So Bud Sieig oversaw the
steroid era. He originally didn't want to be the commissioner,
and then he became the commissioner, and then he loved
all the attention he got because he's a car salesman,
a used car salesman. So he oversaw the steroid era.
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That was his watch. He profited Baseball profited, revenues went
up because of the steroids, and then look the other
way as all of that was going down, and then
retroactively decided to punish everyone who made the money for
Major League Baseball. That's the rub, that's the inside skinny
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on that Major League Baseball cashed every cartoon sized check.
Every one of them sold every ticket, massive box office,
great ratings on television. They milked the Sosa Maguire home
run race. If you're old enough to remember that, it
was a crazy time and no internet. That was the
biggest story in America. It was a couple of guys
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for a baseball team, one in Chicago and one in
Saint Louis who were here and dingers, and it was
like the top story. It wasn't politics, it wasn't war.
It was that that was the top story, the home
run chase. And then eventually it became inconvenient. There were
people that were reporting about the Shenanigans going on, and
Boom goes to nine and Hite. Suddenly Major League Baseball,
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led by Bud Seelik, decided they had to go to
higher ground. They decided to go to the moral high ground.
They went to the moral high ground, and suddenly Barry
Bonds was for boating. He was persona non grata. No, no,
can't have him. It was red light, green light for
the Hall of Fame. This is the part that annoys me.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Back in the day, we used to talk about it
while this was going on was Oh, this guy's on steroids.
That guy's on steroid. That was the way the shows worked. Well,
we're doing it. And my position was, don't let any
of them in. That was my This is my wheelhouse.
I covered baseball pretty much all the time during the
steroid era, and I spent hours waiting for that jackwagon
Barry Bonds to come out of the back of the
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locker room. And sometimes he did, sometimes he didn't. He
was always a schmuck when he did. But either way,
all right, So this is my wheelhouse, and I said,
don't let any of them in. And the Hall of
Fame when it comes to Bonds and Clemens and a
Rod and mcguiren, Sosen, Paul Merrill, those guys aren't in.
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They got the red light, now the green light. This
is the part that blows my mind. And I've done
a one to eighty on this one. You look at
players who are on we'll call them not definitely steroid
guys on the spectrum. Oh they're on the spectrum. I
can't be suit if I say they're on the spectrum,
because you could go either way. I can't get anyway.
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David Ortiz Hall of Famer, Big Poppy, Hall of Famer,
Mike Piazza, Hall of Famer, Jeff Bagwell. I'm sure that
was all natchirale for Bagwell. Back with the Astros, there's
a bunch of other guys. They all got the green light.
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They all got the green light. The writers said, Okay,
thumbs up, you're in. So you're telling me that we
can split Adams. However, we can't figure out that hypocrisy.
It's like, I remember bud Selix's defining moment and we
were actually here. I was working here, guy, I spent
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a long time. Holy crap, we were here at Fox
Sports Radio. The All Star Game was in Milwaukee in
two thousand and two. Holy crap. So the All Star
Games in Milwaukee, and to me, this was the defining
moment of bud Selik's career. Games tied late in the
game and the bud Selik meets with the umpires and
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bud Seek literally tossed his arms in the air. I
don't know what I was supposed to do. I'm the commissioner.
I don't know what to do. I have no idea.
He tossed his arms in the air like a dad
who just realized he had left his wallet at home,
but he was at the checkout stand and he had
all his groceries. Very embarrassing, very very embarrassing. And so
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the game in and a tie, and that was the
death of the All Star Games. And all of the
All Star games are completely irrelevant now. The NFL got
rid of their Pro Bowl. They played tic tac toe
at their Pro Bowl, which was their All Star game.
The NBA All Star Game is god awful, that's unwatchable.
Hockey's just about the same, and baseball has been irrelevant
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ever since then. And that was under Bud Ceiling. That
was that was really the tipping point that sent everything
down the path that it went all those years ago
in Milwaukee, that the game in and a time that
was back when people cared about the All Star Game.
It was like a big deal. And that was the
jump the shark moment for Baseball's All Star Game and
really all of American sport. And that's the commissioner that's
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a Hall of Famer under his watch, It's like Bud
Ceiling built this house and it was a really nice house, right,
really nice house, and then he let like the termites
got in there and they got into the wood, the
house and all. And then he blamed the termites. He
let him in may he blamed him and a rot nethers.
Is he guilty of it? Certainly looks that that way's
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pretty much admitted to to Futson around with you know
what and all that stuff. But on this one he's
guilty of telling the truth. He just is. All right. Now, second,
we go to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, home of Pete and
Pittsburgh and a legendary call. We have some other guys
that listen in Pittsburgh now who are not active callers
or whatever. Anyway, Paul Skens, Yeah, that guy, Paul Skeens,
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the starting pitcher, has shattered the pre arbitration record. After
winning the Cy Young Award in the National League, Skeens
received a record three point four million dollars from Major
League Baseball. This is pre arbitration. You normally don't make
the big money until after arbitration, or at least in arbitration.
This is from a bonus pool. It was highly promoted.
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Look at that, we're paying Paul Skeens three point four million.
It is the high payout ever given in the history
of the program of baseball, which rewards the top early
career talent in baseball and before they hit arbitration they
can start making some big time money. The previous record
belonged to Bobby Witt Junior of the Royals, and that
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was just last year when he got over just over
three million dollars. So the question what is your calculation
on this Paul Skeens record pre arbitration deal with the Pirates.
So Skins, as we just laid out, he broke the
bank in terms of this part of baseball, and baseball
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wants every man, woman and child that cares about baseball
or even doesn't to hear about this. Relatively speaking, he
broke the record. It's a nice headline. It says that
baseball is giving back to their young stars, and all
that feels kind of big, feels kind of big. That said,
do not confuse the headline or the social media post
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about the cash with real cash. Now, remember this is
a cartoon world major League Baseball. Because I live in Realityville.
You've got baseball, and then you've got Realityville, and I'm
in Realityville, and baseball is in a different world in reality.
He's a three point four million is like, that's a
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lot of money in the baseball world. That's chicken feed.
It is. Paul Skeens is a meal ticket. There is
no reason to watch the Pittsburgh Pirates other than that guy.
That's it. That's all, that's the list whenever. That's all
he must see TV appointment baseball. He's the closest thing
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that Major League Baseball has now to a rock star pitcher.
It used to be the starting pitcher was the biggest
thing in the world, and man, was that a big deal.
You had legends like Pedro Martinez and Randy Johnson back
in the day. And now you got Paul Skeens. He's
the guy. He's carrying the torch there, electric stuff, the
kind of guy who makes you stop scrolling your phone
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and actually watch when he's on the mount, which is
a bold position, a bold position. And yet despite the
record path that Paul Skeen's got, he's being financially smothered
by the system. Now we're not gonna have a bake
sale or a GoFundMe for Paul Skins. If Skings were
post arbitration, forget about free agency, right if he was available,
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he's a fifty million dollars a year ballplayer. Is that correct?
Is that? Yeah, you're nodding your head right. Fifty million,
that's the going rate, right, it's up. I think the
highest starting pitcher salary is Garrett Cole. Yoshinobu Yamamoto of
the Dodgers is right there as well. It's in that neighborhood.
If you do the Malor math, three point four three million,
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which is the amount of money that Paul Skin's got
post arbitration. So he is being paid, used on I'm
using Mallard math here, ninety two percent below what he
would have gotten had he gone to market, been able
to go to market. So he's being paid ninety three
percent less than his talent level. And this is being
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celebrated by Major League Baseball. That his true market value
he's not getting. So that's not it's not a bargain, okay,
it's it really is a heist with a smile. The
pirates are getting a Broadway show for the price of
a bus ticket in that in that business, and that's
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just the way the way it is. It's basically uber
surge pricing is what it is for owners only for
owners own and eventually his skeins will get traded to
the Yankees or the Dodgers of the Red Sox or
somebody like that, and he's gonna have to wait unless
the Pirates bank to break the bad anchor he convinces
them to trade his ass. He's gonna have to wait
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till twenty thirty, which sounds like a long time. But
we're almost into twenty twenty six, with just a month
and a few days away from twenty twenty six, so
it's four more years, four more years, four more years. Meanwhile,
final thought, we go to the High Speed Sports. Why
we got tried? We got it tried, Ye, don't get
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too excited. The Red Sox have acquired right handed starting
pitcher Sonny Gray. Doesn't that sound like a guy that
should be retired in Florida playing playing some kind of
chess game or checkers or something at the park, Sonny Gray.
That sounds like a fake name. That's his name. He's
been around a while. So Sonny Gray and cash considerations
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go to the penny poor Red Sox and the Cardinals
got right handed pitcher Dick Fits, Richard Fits and a
couple of others, well, one other pitcher and then a
player to be named later or cash Sonny Gray had
an ERA of over four last season for the red Birds,
and now he goes to the Red Sox from the
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red Birds. So the question does this Red Sox trade
with the Cardinals for starters? Sonny Gray count as a
splash move, a splish and a splash. So we'll go
right to the Malor report card in this we will
not waste any time. We're not gonna waste your time.
The Mallard report card. Not a splash, splash, not a
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splish splash, more like a ripple in the Charles River.
Now that's about it. That's about it. Sonny Gray is
heading to Boston. Congratulations on that. And the Cardinals even
threw in a coupon book to facilitate the trade. Reports
if accurate, twenty million dollars. The Cardinals are paying twenty
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million dollars of Sonny Gray's salary to get rid of
Sonny Gray. How good could this guy be? Yeah, my
bosses wouldn't pay ten cents to get rid of me.
So twenty million dollars for Sonny Gray, that's the deal
the Cardinals are paying. That is hedge fund level. Hedge
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fund level financial engineering is what that is here, and
my God. The argument for the deal from what I've
been hearing, is that the Red Sox, if you look
at this, they get a playoff tested starting pitcher, a
savvy veteran, and without a long leash. It's essentially there's
no long term risk. It's I believe, one year left
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on the contract. It's the ultimate voucher deal for the
Red Sox to get this guy. The problem is this
Sonny Gray is what we call a pedestal player, meaning
he's not a pedestal player. He's the antithesis of a
pedestal players. What I'm trying to say here, he's not
the guy you hand the ball to in a big
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game in October and say, dude, you got save our season. Man,
we need you. You know, you got to go out
there and be like big Balls Bob in Vegas and
just get it done, and then I just got to
do it. We need you. He's just not and he's
the guy when he's been off the grid, he's he
played for a team that I don't know if you
remember this, you probably don't remember. There used to be
a team in Oakland that was loved by the locals
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called the Athletics, and then Baseball decided they needed to
go to Sacramento, but not Sacramento proper West Sacramento before
eventually going to Vegas. So Sunny Grade, played in Oakland,
played in Minnesota, played in Saint Louis. He found success
in all those places. When he was pitching for those teams.
He painted the corners like Picasso. He did. He did
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have one opportunity in the big city in the Boogie
Down Bronx, and he melted like a snow cone on
the FDR. It just did not go well. Career worst
numbers pretty much across the board for Sonny Ray with
the Yankees. The knock on him, and it seems like
a pretty big knock. The Red Sox are planning on
going deep in the playoffs and get into the World Series
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and all that. The knock on Sonny Gray is that
for him, pressure situations are his kryptonite. That if you
look at his history, he's got a lot of good
nerd stats. The nerds like him, strikeouts to walks, all
that stuff. He's the guy you want on a Thursday
businessman's getaway game when the Red Sox are in San
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Diego and there's four thousand people watching in their friends
and family, or he's in Washington or somewhere like that. However,
when the crank up the thermostat and everything gets a
little hotter, it's like you're doing hot yoga, which is
across the courtyard here hot yoga, and the streets get loud,
and he just turns into a puddle. And that's that's
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the problem, right. This is middle of the rotation spam.
Sonny Gray is what it is. You've got Garrett Crochet,
who's your number one ace. You got him, Then you
got Brian Bao who's number two, and then after that
Sonny Gray likely number two or number three rather number three,
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and just a modern day bulk inning guy. I said,
modern day. He didn't pish that many innings, but by
baseball standards, oh he's a quality starting pitcher. He'll give
you a five and a third innings and yeah, boy,
that's big. He'll keep you in games as long as
you're playing regular games against Tampa Bay and low pressure
situations and all that. But he just won't win for
you in October. So there you go. So Boston did
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not get a stud in this trade. They bought some
pharmacy grade Ibu profen is what they got, So it's
some temporary relief. Mallow report card grade for the Red Sox.
I give them a C. I give them a sea
because this is a guy that will be fine. And
then when you need him, he's going to go to
the bathroom and vomit is what he's going to do.
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Or he'll not vomit. He'll have die. Die Die is
what he's gonna have. So there you go. It is
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Also your calls. Why should we don't have Lorena? It
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the day here it is the tabloids have been buzzing
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when Travis Kelsey showed up to the Chiefs game over
the weekend wearing a blank, big tabloid fodder. The tabloids
were buzzing because Travis Kelsey showed up to the Chiefs
game wearing a blank. That is the Mallor riddle of
the day. The answer. We'll get to it, and we
will do it next.
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of the day. And here is The tabloids were a buzzin'
with Travis Kelcey news this after Kelsey showed up to
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the recent Chiefs game wearing a blank. It's all over
the tabloids. They were like, oh man, this is like
this is really crazy. This is they got all excited.
Scrooge says he showed up wearing a Dunce cap on
his head. He's not that cool, Scrooge in the younger demo,
not that cool? What else do we have? Page now?
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Wearing a tuxedo shirt from ferg Dog, a hula skirt
from our friend Tammy in Vegas, the great Tammy in Vegas?
Who was you met her a couple of years ago?
To Malameet, she was not at the one we did
last year of Rob the goat man's going with a
vote for Marcel T shirt. Don't encourage him? Who else
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out outfit from Big Greg, one of our offensive linemen
in Iowa. Big Greg and Iowa BP says wearing a
Katie Perry T shirt is the answer. And what else
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I can't read that one on the air. Full Taylor
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cosplay from Alf the Alien Opiner with the makeup and everything.
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A new episode of Benny Versus the Penny will be
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Flusher Well the correct answer to the mall rid of
the day. The tabloids very excited. They were buzzing when
Travis Kelsey showed up to the Chiefs game wearing a
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five hundred thousand dollars Rolex watch is the answer the
Rolex Daytona rainbow Watch. I would never if I had
that money, which I don't. I do overnight talk reader,
but if I had that money, I would never wear
stuff like that. I just asking for something someone to
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come and kind of goof with you and mess with
you all. I mean, what are you doing? I would
never do it. But hey, if you know some people,
I guess he's got probably three guys with guns following
him around protecting him. The play of the day. I
do not pick the play of the day. I would
not have picked this as the player that I don't
think it's a great play. But Coop got all excited,
it was all horny for this. So what games were there?
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And all that mile Milusia out there? Mine you too?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Mament Are you driving for Thanksgiving and taking the day off?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Well, I get off Thursday night, but I gotta go
back Friday. But that changed in Christmas because it's gonna
be on Thursday this year. So we're gonna get off Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Oh that's nice, that'll be good.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir. Hey, what did you have
you heard any of the light. It's about the state
of California. You know, I have a big scratch all
for a lot of years, a mega ball pile ball
California is getting vestigated for some of this mega million
billion dollars just been given away. One of the boys
(30:43):
that got some of that money just kick us over
a year old and you're supposed to Uh, I need
a segment on gambling. But anyway, hard was over a
year old and you're supposed to have one hundred and
twenty days to get that took care of up. So
now they're investigating California about this winning going on.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Uh, well, I have not heard about it. I don't.
I know you love the lottery. Your names are scratch off,
you follow it. I did see a there was a
like a four million dollar jackpot that went unclaimed. Is
that what you're talking about? There was It was actually
bought right now where we do the show from here
in the San Fernando Valley at a liquor store. Somebody
bought a ticket that's worth almost five million dollars and
(31:28):
they still have not come forward, Like what are you
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah? They what happened to Mega Megaball here? Like I
just talked about the other day if he was like whatever?
But Megaball and Pireball is getting October a billion dollars
every time now to get one. Well, California get away
over a billion dollars in the last so many times,
and Caliborny keeps winning this thing, tireball, megaball, and this
(31:53):
was the megaball. And now they're investigating it out because
some of this money has been has been, and Brisault
said and done. If you watch your store, they might
have to end up giving Smith's money back.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, I don't know anything about it. You're telling me
about it. I don't know whatever you're saying it. If
it's true, that's fine. Are you still playing the lottery
obsessively every week, sir scratch off? Are you still, sir
scratch off? Are you buying the hundreds of tickets every week?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
That's where it acts for how you start that little
town called Hey Time?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
It all right?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
And what are we looking at? How many tickets a
week are you buying?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Well, I'll tell you what's going on right now. I'm
up to uh paying I always buy tens and fifteen
twenty dollars tickets. Well, since I got back in Missouri
with another store, now I buy the fifties and the thirties.
They got fifties and thirties in Missouri, Okay, And so
I've already went cashing a thousand dollars one to two
(32:49):
weeks ago in Missouri. In Arkansas, you know, you went
five hundred dollars. You can go to the store there
in town and Arkshall, but Arsaw, you got to you
get your money all that you win, like you a thousand,
you get it all. But Missouri they take off thirty
dollars and then you got to take it to Arkansas,
and I also claim it. Then I'm like, yoh, full
(33:09):
a crap. So I rip up that piece of fayence
going the trash because that's crap.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Well, yeah, well, the great thing about the lottery is
that whoever is running the lottery always wins. The house
always wins a little bit, right, They always get a
little bit money.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
But I tell you what I've been doing. I've been
playing some good money the last three weekends on Saturday,
not stay in a few hours. I've been going to
West Memphis playing twenty one and we got no more
in trouble three weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, Coop was actually Coop was telling me. He says,
I really want to break down in depth. I want
to diagram on Sir scratch Off's lottery habits. And now
we're getting that, that's the content we're going to look to.
Thank you. You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Cool he was dealing from the bottom of the deck
and I caught him because I can count cards, right,
And I'm like.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Sure you can.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
You need to get a you're over here because it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
If you can count cards, why don't we go to
the casino and I'll you know, I'll give you some
money about that, because you are You are allowed to
count cards until they catch you counting cards and then
you're not allowed to catch or then they kick you
out of the casino and ban you. They put you
on the knotty list. Hey, but I gotta go, sir, scratch,
But I love you, man, callmore often. Yes, Happy Thanksgiving
to you and in your famie. That's right, ram it
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(34:48):
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but I'm sure he'll let us know in great detail.
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much or not enough? Let's welcome in our contestant, will
go eeny meeny, miney moll. Let's say hello to Danny.
Who's in Toronto? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Danny?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Welcome?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Hello, mister Ben Maller, Hello to you.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
How's everything in Toronto today? Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
You know, cold and rainy and crappy?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay, other than that chamber of commerce kind today?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah? Perfect, perfect, yes, absolutely all right? Are you heading
to work? Are you headed home? Are you working right now?
What are you up to?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Working right now? Number one Uber driver here in Toronto?
Been doing it for ten years?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Oh cool?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Strangely enough, it's the exact amount of time I've been listening.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
To your show, Kowinkie dink and you chose to call
on this night, and I have to ask I used
to ask this. We used to hear these guys called
cab drivers. Don't know if you've ever heard of those people,
but they don't exist much anymore. So have you had
any famous people in your uber. I've had some like
be er c list celebrities, some famous Canadian celebrities.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Nobody that you guys are any Lee? I have not
had geddy Lee.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
No. All right, well, let's get to the game. Please.
We don't we don't want to leave. We want to
make sure we leave time. Now, Danny, you have to
get three right to win the game. Danny the top
uber driver in all of Toronto. How lucky are we
to have Danny here? My god? Are you ready? Danny?
All right? Here we go. Question one. There have been
six players in NBA history to score fifty five or
(37:39):
more points in a game after turning thirty six years old.
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Let's go with too much?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
All right? Danny says too much? Is he right? That
is correct? Yes, too much. Last weekend, James Harden the
Beard became the fourth player to do it, joining Steph
Lebron and Coche. When's Harden gonna pull a power play
and leave the Clippers because they suck this year? I
don't know. I'm sure that'll happen. All right, you got
that one right? Question number two to Danny in Toronto
on Tuesday against the Clippers. Some guy named Huka Luka
(38:13):
had his thirtieth career forty point double double. Is that
too much or not enough? How many career double doubles?
His thirtieth career forty point double double?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
That is also too much?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Okay? Let's find out now our question three? I know
well it's okay. On Sunday, wide receiver DJ Moore scored
multiple touchdowns for the fifth time since becoming a Chicago Bear.
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
I'm going too much again?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Okay, he's sticking with his too much? Is he right?
That's correct only the third time since joining dub Bears.
Question four, You're doing very good? One more right? Answer, Danny,
you win the game and you can brag to all
your customers there on the Uber You're you're doing good?
All right? So I'm on Ross Saint Brown that's a
football player for the Lions. Just became the fourth wide
(39:06):
receiver ever to have five hundred plus receptions in their
first five seasons. Is that too much or not enough?
This is for the win. Let's say.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
I'm sticking with too much again?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
All right? Let's find out that's so what. You gotta
go the ticke it. You gotta go that take it,
and you saved us from the clock. God bless you. Yeah,
only the second receiver to do it. Michael Thomas of
the Saints did it back in the day. Good job, Danny.
You tip that guy in Toronto.
Playball. That's our number three. Our number three is ready
to go and an a bomb from Arod Alex Rodriguez,
washed up former baseball player calling out the hypocrisy of
Bud Selik being in the Hall of Fame while steroids
stars are not welcome to that old boys club? Are
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you with him on this? Are you with Alex Rodriguez? Also?
What is your calculation on this Paul Skens record breaking
pre arbitration deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates getting a lot
of attention in the baseball world and we have a trade? Yeah,
does this Red Sox deal with the Cardinals for starters
Sonny Gray count as a splash move for the Socks.
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We'll talk about that and more right now here. It
is our number three. Have a wonderful Wednesday. This Bud's
not for you now, this Bud's not for you. Welcome
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we are beginning anew this hour and our lead We're
gonna change it up a little bit talking bays Mall.
That's right, little Baseball hot stove, hot stove after Thanksgiving
at the winter meetings coming up, and that'll be the
big sore where they trade all the players and complain
(02:42):
about a work stoppage. And that's how that's gonna go.
But our lead this hour from Baseball as Major League
Baseball's hot stove League heats up players who used steroids yep,
back in the day, the steroid era. They can't get
into Cooperstown, not allowed, not allowed, can't go. Sorry, no, nope, no, nope,
(03:06):
doors are closed kicking in. However, the person who was
the overlord of the steroid era, that person's a Hall
of Famer, and Alex Rodriguez has opined he's got a
problem with that, and he's not keeping his mouth shut.
The Minnesota Timberwolves bit owner A rod commenting, see this, No, no,
(03:31):
you didn't. Okay, So former commissioner Bud Selic. You might
not even know who that is if you're of a
younger age, But this guy was the commissioner for years.
He used to own the Milwaukee Brewers. And Bud Celic
was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame eight
years ago. He's a class of twenty seventeen. Meanwhile, Barry
(03:55):
Bonds is riding a bike around northern California. Roger Clemens
is transversing across the country watching his kids play baseball.
Mark McGuire, I don't know what he's up to. Sammy
Sosa has been like a chameleon, changing his appearance. And
then you got A Rod who's on TV, and Rafael
(04:16):
palm Merrow and all these guys who have Hall of
Fame stats not in the biggest stars of the steroid
era and the era that Bud Selick was the guardian
of the game. Oh yeah, the guardian of the game
and all that, and he was the commissioner, and these
guys are not allowed it, not allowed it. A Rod,
(04:40):
in a interview on a satellite radio behind a paywall said,
all of this stuff you're talking about was under bud
Selick's watch. A Rod stated, he said, and the fact
that those two guys you're talking about, Bonds and Clemens,
are not in, but somehow bud Selick is in the
(05:01):
Hall of Fame, That to me feels like there's a
little bit some hypocrisy around that close quote. That's gonna
be the jumping off points. So let's get into this
right now. We'll discuss the question for the esteem panel.
Alex Rodriguez calling out the hypocrisy of bud Selik being
a Hall of Famer while steroid stars like A Rod
(05:25):
himself and Bonds and Clemens are not in the Hall
of Fame. Are you with him on this or are
you against A Rod on this one? So I've got termites,
chicken feed, and ibuprofen, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're gonna play connect three, not
(05:46):
Connect four, Connect three. So first of all, a Rod,
let's just get this out of the way. A Rod
is a walking, talking contradiction. That's just who A Rod is.
He's slumlord, millionaire if you believe the tabloids built an empire,
very wealthy, and that was built on peds, not legit. Right,
(06:09):
Aro was a good player, very good player.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Was the.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Draft picking that Darren Dreyfert draft back in the day,
and right there at the top. And A Rod worked
out and then really worked out once he started on
the happy sauce, really worked out. So you look at
this from thirty thousand feet in the sky, and on
this one, A Rod's absolutely right He's absolutely right. He
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just nailed the bud Selick right between the eyes. There
you go, right in the schnaz. Bud Selick was and
still still alive, a used car salesman who rose to
the Commissioner's office through the Peter principle. A product of
the Peter principle, which is, you reach your highest level
(06:53):
of incompetence and stay there forever. Look at me, I've
reached my highest level of incompetence overnight talk radio, and
I've has been here year after year because it's the
Peter principle. It's what is So Bud Sieig oversaw the
steroid era. He originally didn't want to be the commissioner,
and then he became the commissioner, and then he loved
all the attention he got because he's a car salesman,
a used car salesman. So he oversaw the steroid era.
(07:16):
That was his watch. He profited Baseball profited, revenues went
up because of the steroids, and then look the other
way as all of that was going down, and then
retroactively decided to punish everyone who made the money for
Major League Baseball. That's the rub, that's the inside skinny
(07:36):
on that Major League Baseball cashed every cartoon sized check.
Every one of them sold every ticket, massive box office,
great ratings on television. They milked the Sosa Maguire home
run race. If you're old enough to remember that, it
was a crazy time and no internet. That was the
biggest story in America. It was a couple of guys
(07:56):
for a baseball team, one in Chicago and one in
Saint Louis who were here and dingers, and it was
like the top story. It wasn't politics, it wasn't war.
It was that that was the top story, the home
run chase. And then eventually it became inconvenient. There were
people that were reporting about the Shenanigans going on, and
Boom goes to nine and Hite. Suddenly Major League Baseball,
(08:16):
led by Bud Seelik, decided they had to go to
higher ground. They decided to go to the moral high ground.
They went to the moral high ground, and suddenly Barry
Bonds was for boating. He was persona non grata. No, no,
can't have him. It was red light, green light for
the Hall of Fame. This is the part that annoys me.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Back in the day, we used to talk about it
while this was going on was Oh, this guy's on steroids.
That guy's on steroid. That was the way the shows worked. Well,
we're doing it. And my position was, don't let any
of them in. That was my This is my wheelhouse.
I covered baseball pretty much all the time during the
steroid era, and I spent hours waiting for that jackwagon
Barry Bonds to come out of the back of the
(08:58):
locker room. And sometimes he did, sometimes he didn't. He
was always a schmuck when he did. But either way,
all right, So this is my wheelhouse, and I said,
don't let any of them in. And the Hall of
Fame when it comes to Bonds and Clemens and a
Rod and mcguiren, Sosen, Paul Merrill, those guys aren't in.
(09:18):
They got the red light, now the green light. This
is the part that blows my mind. And I've done
a one to eighty on this one. You look at
players who are on we'll call them not definitely steroid
guys on the spectrum. Oh they're on the spectrum. I
can't be suit if I say they're on the spectrum,
because you could go either way. I can't get anyway.
(09:38):
David Ortiz Hall of Famer, Big Poppy, Hall of Famer,
Mike Piazza, Hall of Famer, Jeff Bagwell. I'm sure that
was all natchirale for Bagwell. Back with the Astros, there's
a bunch of other guys. They all got the green light.
(09:59):
They all got the green light. The writers said, Okay,
thumbs up, you're in. So you're telling me that we
can split Adams. However, we can't figure out that hypocrisy.
It's like, I remember bud Selix's defining moment and we
were actually here. I was working here, guy, I spent
(10:20):
a long time. Holy crap, we were here at Fox
Sports Radio. The All Star Game was in Milwaukee in
two thousand and two. Holy crap. So the All Star
Games in Milwaukee, and to me, this was the defining
moment of bud Selik's career. Games tied late in the
game and the bud Selik meets with the umpires and
(10:41):
bud Seek literally tossed his arms in the air. I
don't know what I was supposed to do. I'm the commissioner.
I don't know what to do. I have no idea.
He tossed his arms in the air like a dad
who just realized he had left his wallet at home,
but he was at the checkout stand and he had
all his groceries. Very embarrassing, very very embarrassing. And so
(11:02):
the game in and a tie, and that was the
death of the All Star Games. And all of the
All Star games are completely irrelevant now. The NFL got
rid of their Pro Bowl. They played tic tac toe
at their Pro Bowl, which was their All Star game.
The NBA All Star Game is god awful, that's unwatchable.
Hockey's just about the same, and baseball has been irrelevant
(11:24):
ever since then. And that was under Bud Ceiling. That
was that was really the tipping point that sent everything
down the path that it went all those years ago
in Milwaukee, that the game in and a time that
was back when people cared about the All Star Game.
It was like a big deal. And that was the
jump the shark moment for Baseball's All Star Game and
really all of American sport. And that's the commissioner that's
(11:48):
a Hall of Famer under his watch, It's like Bud
Ceiling built this house and it was a really nice house, right,
really nice house, and then he let like the termites
got in there and they got into the wood, the
house and all. And then he blamed the termites. He
let him in may he blamed him and a rot nethers.
Is he guilty of it? Certainly looks that that way's
(12:10):
pretty much admitted to to Futson around with you know
what and all that stuff. But on this one he's
guilty of telling the truth. He just is. All right. Now, second,
we go to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, home of Pete and
Pittsburgh and a legendary call. We have some other guys
that listen in Pittsburgh now who are not active callers
or whatever. Anyway, Paul Skens, Yeah, that guy, Paul Skeens,
(12:34):
the starting pitcher, has shattered the pre arbitration record. After
winning the Cy Young Award in the National League, Skeens
received a record three point four million dollars from Major
League Baseball. This is pre arbitration. You normally don't make
the big money until after arbitration, or at least in arbitration.
This is from a bonus pool. It was highly promoted.
(12:56):
Look at that, we're paying Paul Skeens three point four million.
It is the high payout ever given in the history
of the program of baseball, which rewards the top early
career talent in baseball and before they hit arbitration they
can start making some big time money. The previous record
belonged to Bobby Witt Junior of the Royals, and that
(13:19):
was just last year when he got over just over
three million dollars. So the question what is your calculation
on this Paul Skeens record pre arbitration deal with the Pirates.
So Skins, as we just laid out, he broke the
bank in terms of this part of baseball, and baseball
(13:40):
wants every man, woman and child that cares about baseball
or even doesn't to hear about this. Relatively speaking, he
broke the record. It's a nice headline. It says that
baseball is giving back to their young stars, and all
that feels kind of big, feels kind of big. That said,
do not confuse the headline or the social media post
(14:03):
about the cash with real cash. Now, remember this is
a cartoon world major League Baseball. Because I live in Realityville.
You've got baseball, and then you've got Realityville, and I'm
in Realityville, and baseball is in a different world in reality.
He's a three point four million is like, that's a
(14:23):
lot of money in the baseball world. That's chicken feed.
It is. Paul Skeens is a meal ticket. There is
no reason to watch the Pittsburgh Pirates other than that guy.
That's it. That's all, that's the list whenever. That's all
he must see TV appointment baseball. He's the closest thing
(14:47):
that Major League Baseball has now to a rock star pitcher.
It used to be the starting pitcher was the biggest
thing in the world, and man, was that a big deal.
You had legends like Pedro Martinez and Randy Johnson back
in the day. And now you got Paul Skeens. He's
the guy. He's carrying the torch there, electric stuff, the
kind of guy who makes you stop scrolling your phone
(15:11):
and actually watch when he's on the mount, which is
a bold position, a bold position. And yet despite the
record path that Paul Skeen's got, he's being financially smothered
by the system. Now we're not gonna have a bake
sale or a GoFundMe for Paul Skins. If Skings were
post arbitration, forget about free agency, right if he was available,
(15:40):
he's a fifty million dollars a year ballplayer. Is that correct?
Is that? Yeah, you're nodding your head right. Fifty million,
that's the going rate, right, it's up. I think the
highest starting pitcher salary is Garrett Cole. Yoshinobu Yamamoto of
the Dodgers is right there as well. It's in that neighborhood.
If you do the Malor math, three point four three million,
(16:01):
which is the amount of money that Paul Skin's got
post arbitration. So he is being paid, used on I'm
using Mallard math here, ninety two percent below what he
would have gotten had he gone to market, been able
to go to market. So he's being paid ninety three
percent less than his talent level. And this is being
(16:21):
celebrated by Major League Baseball. That his true market value
he's not getting. So that's not it's not a bargain, okay,
it's it really is a heist with a smile. The
pirates are getting a Broadway show for the price of
a bus ticket in that in that business, and that's
(16:42):
just the way the way it is. It's basically uber
surge pricing is what it is for owners only for
owners own and eventually his skeins will get traded to
the Yankees or the Dodgers of the Red Sox or
somebody like that, and he's gonna have to wait unless
the Pirates bank to break the bad anchor he convinces
them to trade his ass. He's gonna have to wait
(17:03):
till twenty thirty, which sounds like a long time. But
we're almost into twenty twenty six, with just a month
and a few days away from twenty twenty six, so
it's four more years, four more years, four more years. Meanwhile,
final thought, we go to the High Speed Sports. Why
we got tried? We got it tried, Ye, don't get
(17:23):
too excited. The Red Sox have acquired right handed starting
pitcher Sonny Gray. Doesn't that sound like a guy that
should be retired in Florida playing playing some kind of
chess game or checkers or something at the park, Sonny Gray.
That sounds like a fake name. That's his name. He's
been around a while. So Sonny Gray and cash considerations
(17:45):
go to the penny poor Red Sox and the Cardinals
got right handed pitcher Dick Fits, Richard Fits and a
couple of others, well, one other pitcher and then a
player to be named later or cash Sonny Gray had
an ERA of over four last season for the red Birds,
and now he goes to the Red Sox from the
(18:06):
red Birds. So the question does this Red Sox trade
with the Cardinals for starters? Sonny Gray count as a
splash move, a splish and a splash. So we'll go
right to the Malor report card in this we will
not waste any time. We're not gonna waste your time.
The Mallard report card. Not a splash, splash, not a
(18:31):
splish splash, more like a ripple in the Charles River.
Now that's about it. That's about it. Sonny Gray is
heading to Boston. Congratulations on that. And the Cardinals even
threw in a coupon book to facilitate the trade. Reports
if accurate, twenty million dollars. The Cardinals are paying twenty
(18:54):
million dollars of Sonny Gray's salary to get rid of
Sonny Gray. How good could this guy be? Yeah, my
bosses wouldn't pay ten cents to get rid of me.
So twenty million dollars for Sonny Gray, that's the deal
the Cardinals are paying. That is hedge fund level. Hedge
(19:15):
fund level financial engineering is what that is here, and
my God. The argument for the deal from what I've
been hearing, is that the Red Sox, if you look
at this, they get a playoff tested starting pitcher, a
savvy veteran, and without a long leash. It's essentially there's
no long term risk. It's I believe, one year left
(19:37):
on the contract. It's the ultimate voucher deal for the
Red Sox to get this guy. The problem is this
Sonny Gray is what we call a pedestal player, meaning
he's not a pedestal player. He's the antithesis of a
pedestal players. What I'm trying to say here, he's not
the guy you hand the ball to in a big
(19:58):
game in October and say, dude, you got save our season. Man,
we need you. You know, you got to go out
there and be like big Balls Bob in Vegas and
just get it done, and then I just got to
do it. We need you. He's just not and he's
the guy when he's been off the grid, he's he
played for a team that I don't know if you
remember this, you probably don't remember. There used to be
a team in Oakland that was loved by the locals
(20:21):
called the Athletics, and then Baseball decided they needed to
go to Sacramento, but not Sacramento proper West Sacramento before
eventually going to Vegas. So Sunny Grade, played in Oakland,
played in Minnesota, played in Saint Louis. He found success
in all those places. When he was pitching for those teams.
He painted the corners like Picasso. He did. He did
(20:41):
have one opportunity in the big city in the Boogie
Down Bronx, and he melted like a snow cone on
the FDR. It just did not go well. Career worst
numbers pretty much across the board for Sonny Ray with
the Yankees. The knock on him, and it seems like
a pretty big knock. The Red Sox are planning on
going deep in the playoffs and get into the World Series
(21:04):
and all that. The knock on Sonny Gray is that
for him, pressure situations are his kryptonite. That if you
look at his history, he's got a lot of good
nerd stats. The nerds like him, strikeouts to walks, all
that stuff. He's the guy you want on a Thursday
businessman's getaway game when the Red Sox are in San
(21:27):
Diego and there's four thousand people watching in their friends
and family, or he's in Washington or somewhere like that. However,
when the crank up the thermostat and everything gets a
little hotter, it's like you're doing hot yoga, which is
across the courtyard here hot yoga, and the streets get loud,
and he just turns into a puddle. And that's that's
(21:50):
the problem, right. This is middle of the rotation spam.
Sonny Gray is what it is. You've got Garrett Crochet,
who's your number one ace. You got him, Then you
got Brian Bao who's number two, and then after that
Sonny Gray likely number two or number three rather number three,
(22:11):
and just a modern day bulk inning guy. I said,
modern day. He didn't pish that many innings, but by
baseball standards, oh he's a quality starting pitcher. He'll give
you a five and a third innings and yeah, boy,
that's big. He'll keep you in games as long as
you're playing regular games against Tampa Bay and low pressure
situations and all that. But he just won't win for
you in October. So there you go. So Boston did
(22:33):
not get a stud in this trade. They bought some
pharmacy grade Ibu profen is what they got, So it's
some temporary relief. Mallow report card grade for the Red Sox.
I give them a C. I give them a sea
because this is a guy that will be fine. And
then when you need him, he's going to go to
the bathroom and vomit is what he's going to do.
(22:56):
Or he'll not vomit. He'll have die. Die Die is
what he's gonna have. So there you go. It is
the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are hanging out with you,
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Also your calls. Why should we don't have Lorena? It
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the day here it is the tabloids have been buzzing
(23:39):
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with Travis Kelcey news this after Kelsey showed up to
(25:52):
the recent Chiefs game wearing a blank. It's all over
the tabloids. They were like, oh man, this is like
this is really crazy. This is they got all excited.
Scrooge says he showed up wearing a Dunce cap on
his head. He's not that cool, Scrooge in the younger demo,
not that cool? What else do we have? Page now?
(26:12):
Wearing a tuxedo shirt from ferg Dog, a hula skirt
from our friend Tammy in Vegas, the great Tammy in Vegas?
Who was you met her a couple of years ago?
To Malameet, she was not at the one we did
last year of Rob the goat man's going with a
vote for Marcel T shirt. Don't encourage him? Who else
do we have a page down? Let's see an elf
(26:35):
out outfit from Big Greg, one of our offensive linemen
in Iowa. Big Greg and Iowa BP says wearing a
Katie Perry T shirt is the answer. And what else
do we have? Page down? Blown bridges from Lady Sideburns.
I can't read that one on the air. Full Taylor
(26:57):
cosplay from Alf the Alien Opiner with the makeup and everything.
Who else do we have page then? I can't see
that Tom Looney's penny shirt from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
A new episode of Benny Versus the Penny will be
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(27:19):
for that Nate Hammer going with a Baywatch shirt as
his answer hand scarfs from Donkey Sausage Attillo. The Gobba
Gool guy says he wore shorts made of Broscuito and
Gobba Gool. All Right, Bill says he wore Taylor Swift's
lingerie under his uniform. See what else you have? That
(27:43):
page down chastity belt was guessed by Nick and Wisconsin.
Who's up up with us? A banana hammock from Doug
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Flusher Well the correct answer to the mall rid of
the day. The tabloids very excited. They were buzzing when
Travis Kelsey showed up to the Chiefs game wearing a
(28:07):
five hundred thousand dollars Rolex watch is the answer the
Rolex Daytona rainbow Watch. I would never if I had
that money, which I don't. I do overnight talk reader,
but if I had that money, I would never wear
stuff like that. I just asking for something someone to
(28:29):
come and kind of goof with you and mess with
you all. I mean, what are you doing? I would
never do it. But hey, if you know some people,
I guess he's got probably three guys with guns following
him around protecting him. The play of the day. I
do not pick the play of the day. I would
not have picked this as the player that I don't
think it's a great play. But Coop got all excited,
it was all horny for this. So what games were there?
(28:50):
You could have done Orlando Magic one by fifty points.
We're on Orlando. What about you ripping Orlando Cadanti a
forty route. That's why you would take don't care about it?
Who cares? It's Rega says, who cares? Play the super high?
You go ahead, play the dumb hoty Luca Lacus up
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after long distances magic, Luca Magic, I'm so magical. Oh
my god. Anyway VP, Yeah, okay, yeah, sure, all right.
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(29:56):
sir scratch Off, Welcome, it's been a while to scratch Off.
What's what's going on with you?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
What's going on, buddy man? How've your tanskgiving to you? Buddy?
And all that mile Milusia out there? Mine you too?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Mament Are you driving for Thanksgiving and taking the day off?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Well, I get off Thursday night, but I gotta go
back Friday. But that changed in Christmas because it's gonna
be on Thursday this year. So we're gonna get off Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Oh that's nice, that'll be good.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir. Hey, what did you have
you heard any of the light. It's about the state
of California. You know, I have a big scratch all
for a lot of years, a mega ball pile ball
California is getting vestigated for some of this mega million
billion dollars just been given away. One of the boys
(30:43):
that got some of that money just kick us over
a year old and you're supposed to Uh, I need
a segment on gambling. But anyway, hard was over a
year old and you're supposed to have one hundred and
twenty days to get that took care of up. So
now they're investigating California about this winning going on.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Uh, well, I have not heard about it. I don't.
I know you love the lottery. Your names are scratch off,
you follow it. I did see a there was a
like a four million dollar jackpot that went unclaimed. Is
that what you're talking about? There was It was actually
bought right now where we do the show from here
in the San Fernando Valley at a liquor store. Somebody
bought a ticket that's worth almost five million dollars and
(31:28):
they still have not come forward, Like what are you
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah? They what happened to Mega Megaball here? Like I
just talked about the other day if he was like whatever?
But Megaball and Pireball is getting October a billion dollars
every time now to get one. Well, California get away
over a billion dollars in the last so many times,
and Caliborny keeps winning this thing, tireball, megaball, and this
(31:53):
was the megaball. And now they're investigating it out because
some of this money has been has been, and Brisault
said and done. If you watch your store, they might
have to end up giving Smith's money back.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Well, I don't know anything about it. You're telling me
about it. I don't know whatever you're saying it. If
it's true, that's fine. Are you still playing the lottery
obsessively every week, sir scratch off? Are you still, sir
scratch off? Are you buying the hundreds of tickets every week?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
That's where it acts for how you start that little
town called Hey Time?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Is there?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
It all right?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
And what are we looking at? How many tickets a
week are you buying?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Well, I'll tell you what's going on right now. I'm
up to uh paying I always buy tens and fifteen
twenty dollars tickets. Well, since I got back in Missouri
with another store, now I buy the fifties and the thirties.
They got fifties and thirties in Missouri, Okay, And so
I've already went cashing a thousand dollars one to two
(32:49):
weeks ago in Missouri. In Arkansas, you know, you went
five hundred dollars. You can go to the store there
in town and Arkshall, but Arsaw, you got to you
get your money all that you win, like you a thousand,
you get it all. But Missouri they take off thirty
dollars and then you got to take it to Arkansas,
and I also claim it. Then I'm like, yoh, full
(33:09):
a crap. So I rip up that piece of fayence
going the trash because that's crap.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Well, yeah, well, the great thing about the lottery is
that whoever is running the lottery always wins. The house
always wins a little bit, right, They always get a
little bit money.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
But I tell you what I've been doing. I've been
playing some good money the last three weekends on Saturday,
not stay in a few hours. I've been going to
West Memphis playing twenty one and we got no more
in trouble three weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, Coop was actually Coop was telling me. He says,
I really want to break down in depth. I want
to diagram on Sir scratch Off's lottery habits. And now
we're getting that, that's the content we're going to look to.
Thank you. You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Cool he was dealing from the bottom of the deck
and I caught him because I can count cards, right,
And I'm like.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Sure you can.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
You need to get a you're over here because it's wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
If you can count cards, why don't we go to
the casino and I'll you know, I'll give you some
money about that, because you are You are allowed to
count cards until they catch you counting cards and then
you're not allowed to catch or then they kick you
out of the casino and ban you. They put you
on the knotty list. Hey, but I gotta go, sir, scratch,
But I love you, man, callmore often. Yes, Happy Thanksgiving
to you and in your famie. That's right, ram it
(34:26):
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Michael says, who do you think will have a better
Thanksgiving dinner? Mouthwash Mic or weed man hippie God bless
(34:48):
both of them. Well mouthwash Mike said he's going to
eat some powdered mashed potatoes and a turkey sandwich. So
that's that's his. I don't know what weed Man's eating,
but I'm sure he'll let us know in great detail.
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We've endored too many of these. Is it too much
or not enough enough? Already? So here we go too
much or not enough? Let's welcome in our contestant, will
go eeny meeny, miney moll. Let's say hello to Danny.
Who's in Toronto? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Danny?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Welcome?
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Hello, mister Ben Maller, Hello to you.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
How's everything in Toronto today? Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
You know, cold and rainy and crappy?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay, other than that chamber of commerce kind today?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah? Perfect, perfect, yes, absolutely all right? Are you heading
to work? Are you headed home? Are you working right now?
What are you up to?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Working right now? Number one Uber driver here in Toronto?
Been doing it for ten years?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Oh cool?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Strangely enough, it's the exact amount of time I've been listening.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
To your show, Kowinkie dink and you chose to call
on this night, and I have to ask I used
to ask this. We used to hear these guys called
cab drivers. Don't know if you've ever heard of those people,
but they don't exist much anymore. So have you had
any famous people in your uber. I've had some like
be er c list celebrities, some famous Canadian celebrities.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Nobody that you guys are any Lee? I have not
had geddy Lee.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
No. All right, well, let's get to the game. Please.
We don't we don't want to leave. We want to
make sure we leave time. Now, Danny, you have to
get three right to win the game. Danny the top
uber driver in all of Toronto. How lucky are we
to have Danny here? My god? Are you ready? Danny?
All right? Here we go. Question one. There have been
six players in NBA history to score fifty five or
(37:39):
more points in a game after turning thirty six years old.
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Let's go with too much?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
All right? Danny says too much? Is he right? That
is correct? Yes, too much. Last weekend, James Harden the
Beard became the fourth player to do it, joining Steph
Lebron and Coche. When's Harden gonna pull a power play
and leave the Clippers because they suck this year? I
don't know. I'm sure that'll happen. All right, you got
that one right? Question number two to Danny in Toronto
on Tuesday against the Clippers. Some guy named Huka Luka
(38:13):
had his thirtieth career forty point double double. Is that
too much or not enough? How many career double doubles?
His thirtieth career forty point double double?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
That is also too much?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Okay? Let's find out now our question three? I know
well it's okay. On Sunday, wide receiver DJ Moore scored
multiple touchdowns for the fifth time since becoming a Chicago Bear.
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
I'm going too much again?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Okay, he's sticking with his too much? Is he right?
That's correct only the third time since joining dub Bears.
Question four, You're doing very good? One more right? Answer, Danny,
you win the game and you can brag to all
your customers there on the Uber You're you're doing good?
All right? So I'm on Ross Saint Brown that's a
football player for the Lions. Just became the fourth wide
(39:06):
receiver ever to have five hundred plus receptions in their
first five seasons. Is that too much or not enough?
This is for the win. Let's say.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
I'm sticking with too much again?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
All right? Let's find out that's so what. You gotta
go the ticke it. You gotta go that take it,
and you saved us from the clock. God bless you. Yeah,
only the second receiver to do it. Michael Thomas of
the Saints did it back in the day. Good job, Danny.
You tip that guy in Toronto.
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