January 9, 2026 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about MLB commissioner Rob Manfred planning to add an in-season tournament and a split-season to MLB, many teams bailing out on their regional cable TV deals, the latest on the Tarik Skubal sweepstakes in Detroit, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka Laca. It's our number three. Hour Number three
is ready to go, talking Bays Ball, and what is
your reaction to Rob Manford, the commissioner planning to add
an in season tournament expansion and a split season along
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with eight divisions in Major League Baseball. There's a lot
going on with this story. We'll talk about it. Why
are Major League Baseball teams bailing out nine of them
on their regional cable sports TV deals? And how do
you see the Trek Schooble sweepstake shaking out in Detroit?
The Yankees claim they tried to get Schooble, the Tigers
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wanted half the roster. We'll talk about that as well.
And we also have lame jokes of the week this
hour with a friend Billy aka weed Man from South Florida.
All that coming your way right now. It's our number three. Yeah,
just chop it up, get your knife out and just
your chop chop chop chop, chop chop chop chop chop
chop chop chop job. What are you talking about? We'll explain.
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And we'll kick it off with a baseball heavy mallar monologue.
It is worthy of much discussion. The lead is from
the Diamond. Now I realize that we are sitting here
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in early January. Pitchers and catchers report spring training in
about a month. About a month. Wow?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But benj League Baseball Commissier Rob Manford, better known by
his nickname Manfraud, the Clown. Rob Manford has a lot
that he still wants to accomplish before he saves the
world by retiring in early twenty twenty nine. So he's
got this year, twenty twenty six, twenty seven, twenty so
three years and essentially that's it. Essentially, that's it. You
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figure sometime in the next year and a half they'll
announce the next commissioner and they'll be the smooth transition
and all that. So if you didn't hear, these are wild,
these are wild? Maybe not? Now One of the things,
one of the things that Rob Manfraud would like to
accomplish is to split up the season. Wants to slice
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up the baseball season and play an in season tournament.
Where have we heard that before? Yes, just like Adam
Silver put in the NBA. Now, there's a lot of soccer,
European soccer that does this, these in season tournaments that
overlap with their play, and of course in America we
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don't do that. But I guess Rob Manford must think
he's living in Europe somewhere. So anyway, he said, quote
this is on WFAN, New York. He did, and then
rare in appropriate. Rob Manford said, We've talked about split seasons.
We've talked about in season tournaments, he said. Manford also
pointed out, we do understand that one hundred and sixty
two games is a long pull. It's a long pull.
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I think the difficulty to accomplish I think the difficulty
to accomplish those sort of in season events, you almost
inevitably start talking about fewer regular season games, he said,
So you cut back on the one hundred and sixty two.
He then also pointed out it's more complicated in baseball
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than it is in other sports. However, because of all
these season long records, you're playing around with something that
people care a lot about, all right, So that is
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
Give me your immediate reaction to Rob Manford planning to
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add an in season tournament and al season to Major
League Baseball. So my views on this. I've got Moby Dick,
the c C Music Factory and Monster Truck, and we
will connect everything together and we are going to have
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the Baba ga nooch is what we're going to have.
We have some baba gonoosh. I'm gonna enjoy that. We'll
have a side of gabba ghul, just a little set
of gobbagool. So my first reaction here, I want to
puke in my mouth. That's my first reaction. I literally
want to puke him. Is there a barf bag around here?
Can we get a barf bag into the studio? I
want to puke in my mouth. This is in the
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same line with Ghost Runners the piece of Metal Energy
from the years ago, when Manford remember never forget, never
ever forget, he's the guy that allowed the e Strauss
to cheat and get away with it. In the twenty
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seventeen World series, those dirty rot and scoundrels jose albouve
Hey up, pat him down, check him for the buzzer,
Alex Bregman, that Punk and George Springer, who at least
had to leave the country and go to Toronto, are
still playing unpunished, unpunished, And Manford's had some other ridiculous
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ideas like the Golden bat. He talked about that, although
that's apparently not going to happen in terms of what
Manford said recently here it is the idea that Rob
Manford is going to cannibalize the sport running from the grind.
When Rob Manford gave the quote and we gave it
to you, when he said, we do understand that one
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hundred and sixty two is a long pull a long pole.
That is Rob Manford treating a one hundred and sixty
two game marathon like it's too hard. It's a grind,
so you run from the ground. Some people want to
do the work, and other people don't want to do
the work. So it's too hard for the people in
the room. So we're gonna make it easy year for
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the players. And so we want to chop it up.
And we figured people don't want to pay attention that much,
so we'll we'll have TikTok length attention spans for the
baseball players and the fans and all that. Keep in mind,
nobody asked for this, No buddy, Baseball last I checked,
isn't broken. Wereth They just bragging about how they did
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very well in the ratings and they had record numbers
of people watching the World Series, and they had Toronto
and the Dodgers and people loved it and all that.
And there's Manford's every day he's like Pinky and the brain.
What are you gonna do? I'm gonna take over the world.
Rob Manford keeps smashing and bashing Major League Baseball and everything.
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It's it's, hey, hey, you know this this whole in
season tournament thing. Well did in the NBA. The NBA started. Yeah,
the NBA has crowned a champion before Christmas the last
couple of years, and they have been turned into a punchline. Right,
is Rob Manford that obtuse that he's unaware of how
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horrific this has been, that people don't care about it,
and it's a joke. And even the Knickerbockers they don't
even unlike the Lakers and the Bucks that were cowards,
the Knickerbockers aren't gonna put up a championship banner because
they know how fugazy this is. And there's Rob Manford
numb nuts over there. Oh no, no, if we should
have an interdual tournament, because they do it in Italy,
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so let's do it here in soccer and Italy, so
we'll do it here in America. No, dummy, It's like
rewriting moby dick into Instagram captions. Why would you do that?
The split season idea is a special kind of monstrosity.
Now Baseball did this when they had a work stoppage
in the nineteen eighties, they had a split season. But
most of the time this has been a minor league deal.
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Like in the old days, the Pacific Coast League, TRIPLEA
Baseball would do it. Now they're talking about thirty two teams,
So they'd add a couple of baseball teams. Eight divisions
of four teams. That's it. Fourteen kind of sounds like
the NFL a little bit, doesn't it. Geographic buddies holding
hands and la la la la la la la la
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la la la la. You'd have the Dodgers and the Angels,
the Mets and the Yankees would be in the same division.
You'd have that. Now, what do you do for the
teams that have no geographical rival You'd have to add
a team. Is that how you do it? You'd have
to like this, who the Red Sox rivalry would be
with the Yankees? Are they guaranteed to be in the
vision with the Yankees? They have to keep those teams together.
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I know you got the Cubs in the White Sox
as well. But what about the teams that are kind
of out there in the fringes, Like, is there a
real rival for the Seattle Manners of the San Diego
Padres or the Arizona Diamondbacks or the Rockies. Doesn't appear
to be right off the top of my head. What's next?
Are we gonna have a rock paper scissors challenge on
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pay per view for playoff spots? Now here's the truth.
This isn't about you the fan, It's not. This is
about This is about trying to make more money. You're
trying to make money. And the other issue is also
the biggest problem with baseball on the day to day
is you've got a lot of dead weight in ownership.
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You've got teams like the Rockies and the Angels and
the Marlins and the Athletics that are not run to win.
They're just piggybanks. The owners cashing checks knowing that you
make a lot of money in baseball from the TV
revenue and you don't have to worry about fielding a
competitive team. Baseball does not need shortcuts. You have deadwood.
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You cut the dead wood out, and these owners have
they can keep the team as long as they want.
They're stewards of the game, except they're not good stewards.
They're covered in cockroaches. And they need an adult. Baseball
needs an adult. They'll get one in twenty twenty nine.
But how much damage is going to be done? How
much damage is going to be done by then? Right?
And so they need a commissioner who actually likes the sport.
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That would be the only thing I would ask for.
Do you actually like baseball? Because this guy doesn't like baseball?
This guy don't like baseball? All right? All right? Now.
Secondly to TV Land, we go shake up, shake up,
with the Booby Tooby shake up. There, we've learned that
not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
not six, not seven, eight, nine major League Baseball teams
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that are televised by the fan Duel Sports network have terminated.
They pulled the plug on their contracts a month before
the baseball spring training gets going in Florida and Arizona,
grape Fruit League and the Cactus League. They've they pulled
the plug here with the parent company main Street Sports Group.
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The teams are the Atlanta Broys, the Cincinnati Reds, the Tigers,
the Royals, the Angels, the Marlins, the Brewers, Cardinals, and Raizo.
MYI they're all in limbo. Question why why are there
nine MLB teams bailing out, bailing out, jumping ship on
their regional cable TV sports deals. So this is not
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some kind of act of bravery. It is bolt cutters.
It's at nine MLBE teams, as we said, and they're
doing this because they're trying to be one step ahead
of the repo man. And they're like, all, let's park
the car in the garage so they can't get it.
And as I understand it, the parent company of these
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regional sports networks is they've been going back and forth.
It's like a drunken ferry and you don't really want
to get on it there, and nobody wants to be
trapped below deck when bankruptcy starts calling in, because Major
League Baseball would they're trying to get out because the
judge would freeze all assets, and you know, the scales
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of justice move slowly, so the assets would be frozen,
meaning the teams would be locked into whatever deals they
have and they wouldn't be getting the money. They'd be
frozen like left over meat loaf. So you stay in
and you're not a partner your furniture right if you
stay with these teams now, rob manfraud, The commissioner said.
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The goal is to quote maximize revenue ding ding ding
ding ning translation, extract more money while pretending access is
not collapsing. Now, the bigger problem for baseball is the calendar,
the date it is. As Uncle Mo knows, it's not
twenty oh six anymore. No no, no, Back when cable was
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still king and fans waited patiently for the game to
come on channel seven thirty two on your DirecTV. No no, no, Now,
it's crank up the CC music Factory. As in Chord Cutters,
the music of chord Cutters. They won. Newsflash, it's Pirates
of the Caribbean or Pirates of the Dark Web with
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the stream that won out. Major League Baseball is shadow
boxing an opponent who left the arena years ago. And
yet they have taken some teams off regional cable television,
and they've determined that a lot of people don't want
to spend five ten dollars a month to buy baseball
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games on television, not as many as the arrogant hubris
of the people running Baseball thought, so major League Baseball. Now,
if this continues, they own the rights to nine teams
that mostly nobody wants to watch on television, but they
have exclusiveivity. And the other issue I say to somebody
who's working in that world is that in the perfect world,
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baseball would have all the teams under the same umbrella
and they would be able to then shop the television
deal to major companies. But every game on Amazon or
on Apple TV, or Peacock or Fox Sport, whatever the
problem is. The Dodgers, Yankees, and Red Sox all have
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sweetheart deals, especially the Dodgers and the Yankees, and they
and the Cubs now have this too. They will never
ever give up those deals because they will not make
as much. They will not make as much I mean
under the socialism plan. I mean, if the mayor of
New York was running this, they would all be under
the same plan. But the Dodgers and the Yankees make
so much more money than everyone else. It's like, we're
not doing that. Are you stupid? What's wrong with you? All? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Final thought to the Hot Stove League, Well, what's going
on is January? Well, this is the new normal. Now,
remember the new normal. It used to be that all
the deals were done by Christmas, but the last ten years,
this stuff spills all the way into February. So we
are now told that the New York Yankees, the aforementioned
New York Yankees, have reached out to the Detroit Tigers.
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That's a shocker. And they said, you know what, we
like that pitcher. You got that guy, Trek Scooble. Yeah,
we think he's pretty good. Can we get him? Okay?
And so the Yankees then, of course leaked to a
useful idiot in the media behind a paywall that they
were given the impression by the Detroit baseball team that
it would take half the team to get schoobl in
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the Bronx. Now there is an arbitration hearing. I know,
we love arbitration. Schoobol requested thirty two million in arbitration.
The Tiger said, ah, we'll give you nineteen. Now, nineteen's
a good amount of money. Nineteen's like winning the lottery.
But yet this is a massive gap, one of the biggest,
if not the biggest, I've ever seen in arbitration. We're
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talking about thirteen million dollars difference. So Scooble could break
the record if he wins set by David Price and
his dog Astro back in twenty fifteen, becoming the highest
arbitration eligible pitcher in Major League Baseball history. So the question,
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how do you see the Tarrek Schoogle sweepstake shaking out
in Detroit. So, as you know, we don't just decide
these things. We don't just decide these things on the fly.
We have the magic eight ball, and today we're going
to be using the crystal ball, not the magicate ball,
the crystal ball. And if you look at the pressure cooker,
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the lead is a rattling, the lid is a rattling.
And this is not a negotiation, Okay, it's not. This
is two ships passing in the night with binoculars and
middle fingers, is what. This is the biggest arbitration gap
we have again ever seen. So what does that tell us?
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That is a tell It tells us that listen the Tigers,
Yeah they're offering nineteen million, but in that weird baseball business,
they are bargain shopping while Schoobl's window shopping on Rodeo Drive.
Welcome to Bizarro baseball world, where down is up, up
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is down, left is right, right is wrong. Meanwhile, I
love the fact that the Yankees are whining, Oh they
want half the team police performance art. That's Broadway. That's
tell the fans we tried. Uncle Moe knows that. Tell
the fans we tried. They just wanted too much. When
an ace like Terrek Schoobl hits the market, all right,
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you don't sit there and penny pinch. You empty the vault.
And this is why you have a minor league system
to get proven products like this particular player. Now, Detroit,
if I look into my crystal ball again, they're playing
Chicken on a one lane road and Schoobl's driving a
monster truck that's not gonna go very well. And he's
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the one that wears the pants and he can determine
where he ends up. He's got the belt, the championship ring,
even though he hasn't earned one yet with the Tigers.
Either way, if you listen in the background, you can
hear the clock Chicken. The leverage is tilty. It is
right there, and Detroit knows this. So looking further, this
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ends one way. Either Detroit overpays for the player, gives
him a four hundred million dollar contract. Now I wouldn't
gi him a four hundred million dollar contract. I think
it's not my money. Or they trade him, and every
day that goes by, the value goes down because they're
gonna get a mystery box. As everyone knows. Schoogle gets traded,
he's gonna go to market. He's got Scott Boris, I believe,
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is his agent. When you have Scott Boris as your agent,
you don't give it hometown discount. There's no bargain shopping there.
And so then if he doesn't get traded, because the
offers are going to get lower and lower and lower,
were don't get traded and just walks away, Congratulations, the
Tigers will get a comp compensation pick in the following draft.
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Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase went viral on his stream.
He was playing a shooter game Arc Raiders, where he
was down and frantically offered blank to one of the
people was playing the game with to revive him, only
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to be ignored and then eliminated again. This is the
Mallar riddle of the Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase. He
went viral on a recent stream. He was playing the
game Arc Raiders there and he got downed. He was
desperately trying to get someone to revive him. He offered
them blank, only to be ignored and eliminated. That is
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the Mallor riddle of the day. The answer, We'll get
to it and we will do it next.
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coming up later this hour. Time now for the Mallord
Riddle of the day. Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase went
to viral recently playing video games on the stream. He's
playing Arc Raiders, a shooter game and he got down.
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Down goes Jamar Chase, and he frantically offered blank to
a teammate, to somebody's playing with her to revive him,
and was completely ignored, completely ignored. That is the question.
What is the answer? All right, let's see here by
the way, Jill says she's a Yankee insider, and she
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says Scooba will never be a New York Yankee. That's
what she says. It's probably not wrong. There's this time
Brenner family. They spend money, but that's the next level money.
What do we have here? The offer the answers Rather
Bobby and Florida's back. He says he offered him a
rusty trombone. There you go. Lifetime supply of Skyline Chili
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for a quick revive from just Josh. What else we have?
Page down? A first edition copy of fifty Shades of
Gray that was guessed by late night drug tester King,
touch jewels from Nick. What else? A piece of banana
laffy taffy from Luke the vanding guy Rich in Vegas
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says it was the offer made by Jamar Chase. Joe
Burrows old jockstrap interesting clam says endless amounts of gold tickets.
You gotta gold and tick, you gotta goall and tick it.
Scrooge in the Bay Area says, a lifetime supply nothing
in a round trip to nowhere. That's his claim there,
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cheese pizza from ferg Dog, the Delicious Cheese Pizza, bag
of Chips, and SpongeBob DVD. Stevie Meatball says comic rubber
Dog Poo was the offer supply of flaming hot dill
pickled Cheetos from our buddy King Rory. Who else do
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we have? Courtesy flesher says this woman. Wow, Okay, that's
that's quite the man. I can't say what I want
to say, all right, Fudgie, what we got here is
guaranteed to go under on all of his prop bets.
Fudgie in Boston. A private ukulele lesson from Dick in Dayton. Well,
look at that nice, very nice. You can create your
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own virtual Dick. He's moving pretty fast there. That's pretty good.
A puppy from Donkey to that Dick. Tickets to the
Phantom of the Opera from Dante, that's his answer. Season
tickets to the ben Gals from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
What else do we have a gallon of whole milk
from filler up Phil game morn jockstrap as well. That
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was tossed out by JT the Wingman. Wow, hot stock
tips from King Me. That's his answer. Smelling salts from
Michael Leprechaun. Do you have an answer, lorain Na, Lorraine,
make sure you talk clearly. Your friend in Oakland is
listening right now. His favorite holy socks, Ben favorite holy socks. No,
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that is incorrect, un fortunate. The correct answer Heke actually
got it right econ Roseveld, Minnesota. The Bengals tomar Chase
offered Cincinnati season tickets, a full season of tickets, and
the person's like, I don't want Why would I want those?
I mean I want I don't want those? Why would
I want? Thugs? Exactly? Let's go to the phones. Let's
say hello to sir scratch offfully he will keep his
(26:00):
mouth clean. Hello, Sir scratch Off.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Hey, buddy, I just want to let you know what
all these hot dolls out here that the word ass
is in the Bible. They rolled the ass across the desert.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Yeah, here's what you here's what here's what you should
do you should You should contact the Federal Communications Commission,
because there's certain you combine the word ass with another
word and suddenly you're not supposed to say it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Get you the scripture and the verse.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Again, I'm not I'm not talking about the church. I'm
not talking about the Bible. I'm talking about the Federal
Communications Commission.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Okay, Well, I don't think they follow it up in
the Bible anywhere with whole.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
They let they let they let people say God dam
on the Bible? Is that wrong?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Now? Is it? Is it possible scratch off? You could
just say, Hey, I fed up and that's it. I
screwed up? Could you say that?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
What's a couple of words too? I said, Man, it'll
be deal, and I'm sorry. I've been I've been on
the station for twenty five years. Dude, I here twenty
eighth March. I mean, I'll wait all night to get
on the phone. If I don't ever get on, what
we do, I'll call back next day like the old
boy wall to go what all this time?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
If you don't want to wait, get the hell off
and go home, stay home, you know, off the phone.
That's why I feel about it. Hey, listen. Let's talk
about something else. Okay, you've got a guy out there
listening in right now. His name is Zach Morton, and
here's your station in the morning, working out.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Morton.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Here's a who and his dad is he does his
family run the Morton Steakhouse?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
No suit. Now they know the town called Paragule. That's
why I'm austters. I told you about listening to you
a long time ago. But his dad, he's been a
buddy of mine for like over fifteen years. We all
talked radio out of Gombro. But his dad used to
play for the Detroit Tigers, mister Morton years ago, and
so it's like a pretty cool but he heard his
talking last night, say, man out hearing you on the radio,
(28:01):
but he listened to you in the morning, that Perry
gou Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, I thank you, I think, mister I thank you
for listening. I thank mister Morton for listening. That's that's
pretty cool. Nice.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
But anyway, let's talk about something important. Let's talk about
the La Rams. Do you think we might have a
chance these Panthers they don't beat us once?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh yeah, they should win. By the way, I mean
the Rams should win The question is are they going
to win by are they going to blow out Carolina
and the Rams? They play with their food a lot.
That's my concern sir, scratch off. That's my my issue
with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
From years ago. We had Dallas Cowboys bout three touchdowns
and they came back and beat us, so it seemed
like we never well just look, they.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Had a nineteen then in Philly they had a nineteen
lead in that game. I know the Grimlins are starting
to acting.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
But.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, that's just crazy. You know, don't even we lost
that one game by touching down. I mean, I'm glad
we got rid of that kid. I don't know if
we did. He's gone. But I don't know, man, I
get hard of getting a win and all of a
sudden something HAPs all of a sudden, we have already lost.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
The Rams have lost three games as an eight point
favorite or bait or greater, and they the nineteen point
leading Philly was sixteen point lead. I think that was
in Seattle. I think they've had some big leads that
they've blown, but that was one by one. Who cares
they will all be why the Hawks to meat?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It's like twice and one point two point games and
that two points diversion was stupid. I didn't get to
watch the game because I either first quarters during the week.
You know, I leave it like it's just crazy. But anyway, man,
I'm will tell you something. If you think I'm ana
suck up at fine, But you got the best ural offer.
I got me a new frankline about three months ago.
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It got the best button on the steering wheel that
I've ever had. When I get rid of moots me something,
I will and I love it. And every time I
hear Moni's voice, I knew her. I can't stand her.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Boy. Okay, well, thanks for sharing that on other people
that work at any of my other coworkers that you hate,
would you like to name them on the air right now?
Go ahead, Thank you, man.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I'll be Tony Station for a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I know all right, you're repeating yourself. Thank you. Let's
go do Lucky Tony. Hello, Lucky Tony in the Bay Area.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Hey, Ben, I wrote you an email for the Real
fifth Hour for this weekend. Hopefully you can read it.
I put a little more detailed about the prison dream. Also,
a week or two ago, I was watching Benny versus
a Penny, and you described the Bears whipping on another
team and it was like, you know, the Bears chewing
on bones and whatnot. It got me a half chub.
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And speaking of chubs, Penny Nicoles Bears.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Thank you. There's our guy, Lucky Tony. Is Lucky Tony
going to show up at the big meet and greet?
We're hopefully going to have here at some point soon
in the in the Bay Area. I like to meet
Lucky Tony. Some interesting characters now, Steve, he've actually lives
in the Bay Area, but he was on holding hung up.
(31:02):
He said he needed help. I guess he called some
other show to get up. See if call back. I'd
love to give advice and give a lot of advice.
Let's say hello to D Block in Miami. He's in
the D Block. Hello, D Block, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Welcome, good morning, Congratulations to the Miami Hurricanes. I'm a
Chicago born person, Miami Hurricane fan since I was a
kid man and I hate Notre Damon. I'm so glad
and my christ of ball finally stepping up.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Man.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
There was some grumblings down here in Miami a bottom,
but hey, he finally stepping up and the Chicago Bears
will be Green Bay and we'll have a chance this year.
Thank you very much, Happy.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Friday, Thank you d Block. Look at that D Block.
That's that's two hit and run callers right there. Drive by.
We had D Block and Lucky Tony Lucky. That's the
way you do it. And some of these guys there
were boguart all the time and may you're all about
them and uh no, I like that giddy and get
your point. Boom rat a tat tat, rat a tat tat.
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That's how you do it. All right. It is the
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Who's there? Blame week. Blame week too. It's Big Ben's
lame joke of the week. Actual jokes by actual listeners,
by the people there were the Oh there's weed Man.
High weed Man, Hey, Ben, this is my job. I
work with you from Mondays and Thursday nights.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
That's my job, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I work for you ten minutes a week. This man,
what dedication you have to.
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Go.
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We were national, we were all over the world, me
and you weed Man. Unbelievable, the biggest commitment he's made
in the last twenty years. And in many ways, you're
getting paid on your EBT card by the government, so
you are getting paid for this. So congratulations. Sorry, okay,
these are actual jokes again. You want to send jokes
in care of Benmallor Show at gmail dot com. Benmallor
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Show at gmail dot com. What was weed Man's New
Year's resolution? What two words do nothing? That's Brendan from
Boston Exotting News here. Did you hear that weed Man
was in the church choir for Christmas?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
No? Really? Yeah? They needed someone to reach those high
notes and so they brought you in there. That's tom
ad joke by Tom in Indiana. What's more bizarre than
weed Man Hippie losing all of his teeth?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Why?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
John Harbaugh losing an entire locker room? Weed Man? How
is that possible? That's Gordon because it didn't happen. That's
Gordon in Tacoma. Why was weed Man upset when he
learned that what weymo was? Why was he upset when
he known what weymo was?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Why?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Well, because weed Man thought it was the answer to
the question how much money should people send weed Man?
That's Eric and Cam Weimo. Come on, all right, Uh,
that's a good one. Eric, It's a funny Eric's good guy.
What's weed Man hoping? The first question is on a
(36:05):
rebooted malor spelling bee. What spell your email address? That's
Eric in Kansas. Do you have an email address yet?
Weed Man? Have you have you picked up a you
have not no email yet? No? Yeah, yeah, it's hard
to get I know, I gotta do it for you,
(36:27):
all right. Why did weed Man Hippie sign up with
Team Mobile?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Why?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Well, you heard that they're offering two lines for thirty dollars.
He got excited. Two lines of them. George and Yuvaldi Texas. Interesting.
I guess. I guess that guy before was wrong in
Boston because John from Youngstown, Ohio says, have you heard
Weedman hippie made a new New Year's resolution in twenty
twenty six? No?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yeah, apparently you're going to continue to be a lazy,
weed smoking, bust out loser according to John. That's not
very nice John, although you did laugh all right? Why
did weed Man hip me use powdered soap when he
was in jail? Wow? Why, well, apparently takes longer to
pick up in the shower. So I don't know what
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that's about. George and Rvaldi Texas, George, feel good. You
gotta that cerebrale. If if Lizzo is on a seafood diet,
what kind of diet is weed Man on? Wow, Well
he's on a sea weed diet, sea weed and smoke it.
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That's a Noah in Austin, thank you. No, he also
sent this one in What kind of expectations does weed
Man have?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
What kind Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Come on, weed Man, this is We've had this joke before,
very high expectations from all the week. Come on, now
you know that weed Man big Ben's lame jokes of
the week did you hear that as go? Did youar
the weed Man hippie had trouble adjusting after he joined
the newdest colony? Yeah? Yeah, apparently the first few days
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were the hardest for you. But after that things calm down.
There there's a weed man, your roommate good, No problems
with your room man? Everything good there? Yes, now I know,
so that's what I'm saying. You're happier by yourself. So
that's good right now, that's great. You don't need Joey
(38:33):
the bellman to hook you up or anything like that.
Now you're good, heart, I do okay? All right? Why
I know you're never bashful about that. Why did weed
Man quit his job as a Walmart greeter?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Apparently you realize that they wanted you to say hi
all day and not stay high. That's Chip in Maine.
Good joke by Chip. That is a good one, all right.
What is weed Man's favorite food? What baked goods? From
Mike the Leprechaun thinking for that? Why did weed Man
(39:08):
get fired from Amazon? Why you kept stealing all the
cardboard boxes? Why were you doing that? It's Michael Leprechaun,
all right? Did you hear that? Lizzo got into some
legal trouble. Really yeah yeah, well apparent she had to
call her whale bondsman. That's a Brendan from Boston. What
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was Marcel's favorite toy? What was Marcell's favorite toy as
a child?
Speaker 6 (39:35):
What?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Building blocks? Building blocks? And what do you call it?
When the rain up blows out her birthday candles and
Michael Leprechaun disappears. A luck of the wish. There you go.
That's a shipping man. I screwed up the punchline, but
you got the joke. Thank you, weed man.
Boom shaka Laca. It's our number three. Hour Number three
is ready to go, talking Bays Ball, and what is
your reaction to Rob Manford, the commissioner planning to add
an in season tournament expansion and a split season along
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with eight divisions in Major League Baseball. There's a lot
going on with this story. We'll talk about it. Why
are Major League Baseball teams bailing out nine of them
on their regional cable sports TV deals? And how do
you see the Trek Schooble sweepstake shaking out in Detroit?
The Yankees claim they tried to get Schooble, the Tigers
(00:44):
wanted half the roster. We'll talk about that as well.
And we also have lame jokes of the week this
hour with a friend Billy aka weed Man from South Florida.
All that coming your way right now. It's our number three. Yeah,
just chop it up, get your knife out and just
your chop chop chop chop, chop chop chop chop chop
chop chop chop job. What are you talking about? We'll explain.
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And we'll kick it off with a baseball heavy mallar monologue.
It is worthy of much discussion. The lead is from
the Diamond. Now I realize that we are sitting here
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in early January. Pitchers and catchers report spring training in
about a month. About a month. Wow?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But benj League Baseball Commissier Rob Manford, better known by
his nickname Manfraud, the Clown. Rob Manford has a lot
that he still wants to accomplish before he saves the
world by retiring in early twenty twenty nine. So he's
got this year, twenty twenty six, twenty seven, twenty so
three years and essentially that's it. Essentially, that's it. You
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figure sometime in the next year and a half they'll
announce the next commissioner and they'll be the smooth transition
and all that. So if you didn't hear, these are wild,
these are wild? Maybe not? Now One of the things,
one of the things that Rob Manfraud would like to
accomplish is to split up the season. Wants to slice
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up the baseball season and play an in season tournament.
Where have we heard that before? Yes, just like Adam
Silver put in the NBA. Now, there's a lot of soccer,
European soccer that does this, these in season tournaments that
overlap with their play, and of course in America we
(03:51):
don't do that. But I guess Rob Manford must think
he's living in Europe somewhere. So anyway, he said, quote
this is on WFAN, New York. He did, and then
rare in appropriate. Rob Manford said, We've talked about split seasons.
We've talked about in season tournaments, he said. Manford also
pointed out, we do understand that one hundred and sixty
two games is a long pull. It's a long pull.
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I think the difficulty to accomplish I think the difficulty
to accomplish those sort of in season events, you almost
inevitably start talking about fewer regular season games, he said,
So you cut back on the one hundred and sixty two.
He then also pointed out it's more complicated in baseball
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than it is in other sports. However, because of all
these season long records, you're playing around with something that
people care a lot about, all right, So that is
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
Give me your immediate reaction to Rob Manford planning to
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add an in season tournament and al season to Major
League Baseball. So my views on this. I've got Moby Dick,
the c C Music Factory and Monster Truck, and we
will connect everything together and we are going to have
(05:16):
the Baba ga nooch is what we're going to have.
We have some baba gonoosh. I'm gonna enjoy that. We'll
have a side of gabba ghul, just a little set
of gobbagool. So my first reaction here, I want to
puke in my mouth. That's my first reaction. I literally
want to puke him. Is there a barf bag around here?
Can we get a barf bag into the studio? I
want to puke in my mouth. This is in the
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same line with Ghost Runners the piece of Metal Energy
from the years ago, when Manford remember never forget, never
ever forget, he's the guy that allowed the e Strauss
to cheat and get away with it. In the twenty
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seventeen World series, those dirty rot and scoundrels jose albouve
Hey up, pat him down, check him for the buzzer,
Alex Bregman, that Punk and George Springer, who at least
had to leave the country and go to Toronto, are
still playing unpunished, unpunished, And Manford's had some other ridiculous
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ideas like the Golden bat. He talked about that, although
that's apparently not going to happen in terms of what
Manford said recently here it is the idea that Rob
Manford is going to cannibalize the sport running from the grind.
When Rob Manford gave the quote and we gave it
to you, when he said, we do understand that one
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hundred and sixty two is a long pull a long pole.
That is Rob Manford treating a one hundred and sixty
two game marathon like it's too hard. It's a grind,
so you run from the ground. Some people want to
do the work, and other people don't want to do
the work. So it's too hard for the people in
the room. So we're gonna make it easy year for
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the players. And so we want to chop it up.
And we figured people don't want to pay attention that much,
so we'll we'll have TikTok length attention spans for the
baseball players and the fans and all that. Keep in mind,
nobody asked for this, No buddy, Baseball last I checked,
isn't broken. Wereth They just bragging about how they did
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very well in the ratings and they had record numbers
of people watching the World Series, and they had Toronto
and the Dodgers and people loved it and all that.
And there's Manford's every day he's like Pinky and the brain.
What are you gonna do? I'm gonna take over the world.
Rob Manford keeps smashing and bashing Major League Baseball and everything.
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It's it's, hey, hey, you know this this whole in
season tournament thing. Well did in the NBA. The NBA started. Yeah,
the NBA has crowned a champion before Christmas the last
couple of years, and they have been turned into a punchline. Right,
is Rob Manford that obtuse that he's unaware of how
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horrific this has been, that people don't care about it,
and it's a joke. And even the Knickerbockers they don't
even unlike the Lakers and the Bucks that were cowards,
the Knickerbockers aren't gonna put up a championship banner because
they know how fugazy this is. And there's Rob Manford
numb nuts over there. Oh no, no, if we should
have an interdual tournament, because they do it in Italy,
(08:25):
so let's do it here in soccer and Italy, so
we'll do it here in America. No, dummy, It's like
rewriting moby dick into Instagram captions. Why would you do that?
The split season idea is a special kind of monstrosity.
Now Baseball did this when they had a work stoppage
in the nineteen eighties, they had a split season. But
most of the time this has been a minor league deal.
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Like in the old days, the Pacific Coast League, TRIPLEA
Baseball would do it. Now they're talking about thirty two teams,
So they'd add a couple of baseball teams. Eight divisions
of four teams. That's it. Fourteen kind of sounds like
the NFL a little bit, doesn't it. Geographic buddies holding
hands and la la la la la la la la
(09:08):
la la la la. You'd have the Dodgers and the Angels,
the Mets and the Yankees would be in the same division.
You'd have that. Now, what do you do for the
teams that have no geographical rival You'd have to add
a team. Is that how you do it? You'd have
to like this, who the Red Sox rivalry would be
with the Yankees? Are they guaranteed to be in the
vision with the Yankees? They have to keep those teams together.
(09:30):
I know you got the Cubs in the White Sox
as well. But what about the teams that are kind
of out there in the fringes, Like, is there a
real rival for the Seattle Manners of the San Diego
Padres or the Arizona Diamondbacks or the Rockies. Doesn't appear
to be right off the top of my head. What's next?
Are we gonna have a rock paper scissors challenge on
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pay per view for playoff spots? Now here's the truth.
This isn't about you the fan, It's not. This is
about This is about trying to make more money. You're
trying to make money. And the other issue is also
the biggest problem with baseball on the day to day
is you've got a lot of dead weight in ownership.
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You've got teams like the Rockies and the Angels and
the Marlins and the Athletics that are not run to win.
They're just piggybanks. The owners cashing checks knowing that you
make a lot of money in baseball from the TV
revenue and you don't have to worry about fielding a
competitive team. Baseball does not need shortcuts. You have deadwood.
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You cut the dead wood out, and these owners have
they can keep the team as long as they want.
They're stewards of the game, except they're not good stewards.
They're covered in cockroaches. And they need an adult. Baseball
needs an adult. They'll get one in twenty twenty nine.
But how much damage is going to be done? How
much damage is going to be done by then? Right?
And so they need a commissioner who actually likes the sport.
(11:00):
That would be the only thing I would ask for.
Do you actually like baseball? Because this guy doesn't like baseball?
This guy don't like baseball? All right? All right? Now.
Secondly to TV Land, we go shake up, shake up,
with the Booby Tooby shake up. There, we've learned that
not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
not six, not seven, eight, nine major League Baseball teams
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that are televised by the fan Duel Sports network have terminated.
They pulled the plug on their contracts a month before
the baseball spring training gets going in Florida and Arizona,
grape Fruit League and the Cactus League. They've they pulled
the plug here with the parent company main Street Sports Group.
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The teams are the Atlanta Broys, the Cincinnati Reds, the Tigers,
the Royals, the Angels, the Marlins, the Brewers, Cardinals, and Raizo.
MYI they're all in limbo. Question why why are there
nine MLB teams bailing out, bailing out, jumping ship on
their regional cable TV sports deals. So this is not
(12:07):
some kind of act of bravery. It is bolt cutters.
It's at nine MLBE teams, as we said, and they're
doing this because they're trying to be one step ahead
of the repo man. And they're like, all, let's park
the car in the garage so they can't get it.
And as I understand it, the parent company of these
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regional sports networks is they've been going back and forth.
It's like a drunken ferry and you don't really want
to get on it there, and nobody wants to be
trapped below deck when bankruptcy starts calling in, because Major
League Baseball would they're trying to get out because the
judge would freeze all assets, and you know, the scales
(12:50):
of justice move slowly, so the assets would be frozen,
meaning the teams would be locked into whatever deals they
have and they wouldn't be getting the money. They'd be
frozen like left over meat loaf. So you stay in
and you're not a partner your furniture right if you
stay with these teams now, rob manfraud, The commissioner said.
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The goal is to quote maximize revenue ding ding ding
ding ning translation, extract more money while pretending access is
not collapsing. Now, the bigger problem for baseball is the calendar,
the date it is. As Uncle Mo knows, it's not
twenty oh six anymore. No no, no, Back when cable was
(13:32):
still king and fans waited patiently for the game to
come on channel seven thirty two on your DirecTV. No no, no, Now,
it's crank up the CC music Factory. As in Chord Cutters,
the music of chord Cutters. They won. Newsflash, it's Pirates
of the Caribbean or Pirates of the Dark Web with
(13:53):
the stream that won out. Major League Baseball is shadow
boxing an opponent who left the arena years ago. And
yet they have taken some teams off regional cable television,
and they've determined that a lot of people don't want
to spend five ten dollars a month to buy baseball
(14:16):
games on television, not as many as the arrogant hubris
of the people running Baseball thought, so major League Baseball. Now,
if this continues, they own the rights to nine teams
that mostly nobody wants to watch on television, but they
have exclusiveivity. And the other issue I say to somebody
who's working in that world is that in the perfect world,
(14:39):
baseball would have all the teams under the same umbrella
and they would be able to then shop the television
deal to major companies. But every game on Amazon or
on Apple TV, or Peacock or Fox Sport, whatever the
problem is. The Dodgers, Yankees, and Red Sox all have
(15:01):
sweetheart deals, especially the Dodgers and the Yankees, and they
and the Cubs now have this too. They will never
ever give up those deals because they will not make
as much. They will not make as much I mean
under the socialism plan. I mean, if the mayor of
New York was running this, they would all be under
the same plan. But the Dodgers and the Yankees make
so much more money than everyone else. It's like, we're
not doing that. Are you stupid? What's wrong with you? All? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Final thought to the Hot Stove League, Well, what's going
on is January? Well, this is the new normal. Now,
remember the new normal. It used to be that all
the deals were done by Christmas, but the last ten years,
this stuff spills all the way into February. So we
are now told that the New York Yankees, the aforementioned
New York Yankees, have reached out to the Detroit Tigers.
(15:46):
That's a shocker. And they said, you know what, we
like that pitcher. You got that guy, Trek Scooble. Yeah,
we think he's pretty good. Can we get him? Okay?
And so the Yankees then, of course leaked to a
useful idiot in the media behind a paywall that they
were given the impression by the Detroit baseball team that
it would take half the team to get schoobl in
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the Bronx. Now there is an arbitration hearing. I know,
we love arbitration. Schoobol requested thirty two million in arbitration.
The Tiger said, ah, we'll give you nineteen. Now, nineteen's
a good amount of money. Nineteen's like winning the lottery.
But yet this is a massive gap, one of the biggest,
if not the biggest, I've ever seen in arbitration. We're
(16:30):
talking about thirteen million dollars difference. So Scooble could break
the record if he wins set by David Price and
his dog Astro back in twenty fifteen, becoming the highest
arbitration eligible pitcher in Major League Baseball history. So the question,
(16:52):
how do you see the Tarrek Schoogle sweepstake shaking out
in Detroit. So, as you know, we don't just decide
these things. We don't just decide these things on the fly.
We have the magic eight ball, and today we're going
to be using the crystal ball, not the magicate ball,
the crystal ball. And if you look at the pressure cooker,
(17:15):
the lead is a rattling, the lid is a rattling.
And this is not a negotiation, Okay, it's not. This
is two ships passing in the night with binoculars and
middle fingers, is what. This is the biggest arbitration gap
we have again ever seen. So what does that tell us?
(17:36):
That is a tell It tells us that listen the Tigers,
Yeah they're offering nineteen million, but in that weird baseball business,
they are bargain shopping while Schoobl's window shopping on Rodeo Drive.
Welcome to Bizarro baseball world, where down is up, up
(17:57):
is down, left is right, right is wrong. Meanwhile, I
love the fact that the Yankees are whining, Oh they
want half the team police performance art. That's Broadway. That's
tell the fans we tried. Uncle Moe knows that. Tell
the fans we tried. They just wanted too much. When
an ace like Terrek Schoobl hits the market, all right,
(18:20):
you don't sit there and penny pinch. You empty the vault.
And this is why you have a minor league system
to get proven products like this particular player. Now, Detroit,
if I look into my crystal ball again, they're playing
Chicken on a one lane road and Schoobl's driving a
monster truck that's not gonna go very well. And he's
(18:42):
the one that wears the pants and he can determine
where he ends up. He's got the belt, the championship ring,
even though he hasn't earned one yet with the Tigers.
Either way, if you listen in the background, you can
hear the clock Chicken. The leverage is tilty. It is
right there, and Detroit knows this. So looking further, this
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ends one way. Either Detroit overpays for the player, gives
him a four hundred million dollar contract. Now I wouldn't
gi him a four hundred million dollar contract. I think
it's not my money. Or they trade him, and every
day that goes by, the value goes down because they're
gonna get a mystery box. As everyone knows. Schoogle gets traded,
he's gonna go to market. He's got Scott Boris, I believe,
(19:27):
is his agent. When you have Scott Boris as your agent,
you don't give it hometown discount. There's no bargain shopping there.
And so then if he doesn't get traded, because the
offers are going to get lower and lower and lower,
were don't get traded and just walks away, Congratulations, the
Tigers will get a comp compensation pick in the following draft.
(19:47):
Well that doesn't sound very good. No, it does not
sound very good. No, it's not. It is the Ben
Mather Show, which hopefully sounds better than that. Eight seven
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at Ben Maller. If you'd like to be part of
the program. Time now bo for the Mallor Riddle of
(20:09):
the day. And here is the Mallor Riddle of the day,
Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase went viral on his stream.
He was playing a shooter game Arc Raiders, where he
was down and frantically offered blank to one of the
people was playing the game with to revive him, only
(20:30):
to be ignored and then eliminated again. This is the
Mallar riddle of the Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase. He
went viral on a recent stream. He was playing the
game Arc Raiders there and he got downed. He was
desperately trying to get someone to revive him. He offered
them blank, only to be ignored and eliminated. That is
(20:52):
the Mallor riddle of the day. The answer, We'll get
to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
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for the playoffs and you can check that out. All
the picks on the games. The first episode is already up.
There'll be two other episodes to watch this weekend as
we handicap every NFL game in the postseason all the
way up to the Super Bowl in the Bay Area.
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So check out Benny Vspenny on YouTube. Interact with the
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used against you in the court of sports radio. So
please act according Big Ben's lame jokes of the week
coming up later this hour. Time now for the Mallord
Riddle of the day. Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase went
to viral recently playing video games on the stream. He's
playing Arc Raiders, a shooter game and he got down.
(22:44):
Down goes Jamar Chase, and he frantically offered blank to
a teammate, to somebody's playing with her to revive him,
and was completely ignored, completely ignored. That is the question.
What is the answer? All right, let's see here by
the way, Jill says she's a Yankee insider, and she
(23:06):
says Scooba will never be a New York Yankee. That's
what she says. It's probably not wrong. There's this time
Brenner family. They spend money, but that's the next level money.
What do we have here? The offer the answers Rather
Bobby and Florida's back. He says he offered him a
rusty trombone. There you go. Lifetime supply of Skyline Chili
(23:27):
for a quick revive from just Josh. What else we have?
Page down? A first edition copy of fifty Shades of
Gray that was guessed by late night drug tester King,
touch jewels from Nick. What else? A piece of banana
laffy taffy from Luke the vanding guy Rich in Vegas
(23:49):
says it was the offer made by Jamar Chase. Joe
Burrows old jockstrap interesting clam says endless amounts of gold tickets.
You gotta gold and tick, you gotta goall and tick it.
Scrooge in the Bay Area says, a lifetime supply nothing
in a round trip to nowhere. That's his claim there,
(24:11):
cheese pizza from ferg Dog, the Delicious Cheese Pizza, bag
of Chips, and SpongeBob DVD. Stevie Meatball says comic rubber
Dog Poo was the offer supply of flaming hot dill
pickled Cheetos from our buddy King Rory. Who else do
(24:32):
we have? Courtesy flesher says this woman. Wow, Okay, that's
that's quite the man. I can't say what I want
to say, all right, Fudgie, what we got here is
guaranteed to go under on all of his prop bets.
Fudgie in Boston. A private ukulele lesson from Dick in Dayton. Well,
look at that nice, very nice. You can create your
(24:54):
own virtual Dick. He's moving pretty fast there. That's pretty good.
A puppy from Donkey to that Dick. Tickets to the
Phantom of the Opera from Dante, that's his answer. Season
tickets to the ben Gals from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
What else do we have a gallon of whole milk
from filler up Phil game morn jockstrap as well. That
(25:18):
was tossed out by JT the Wingman. Wow, hot stock
tips from King Me. That's his answer. Smelling salts from
Michael Leprechaun. Do you have an answer, lorain Na, Lorraine,
make sure you talk clearly. Your friend in Oakland is
listening right now. His favorite holy socks, Ben favorite holy socks. No,
(25:39):
that is incorrect, un fortunate. The correct answer Heke actually
got it right econ Roseveld, Minnesota. The Bengals tomar Chase
offered Cincinnati season tickets, a full season of tickets, and
the person's like, I don't want Why would I want those?
I mean I want I don't want those? Why would
I want? Thugs? Exactly? Let's go to the phones. Let's
say hello to sir scratch offfully he will keep his
(26:00):
mouth clean. Hello, Sir scratch Off.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Hey, buddy, I just want to let you know what
all these hot dolls out here that the word ass
is in the Bible. They rolled the ass across the desert.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Yeah, here's what you here's what here's what you should
do you should You should contact the Federal Communications Commission,
because there's certain you combine the word ass with another
word and suddenly you're not supposed to say it.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Get you the scripture and the verse.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Again, I'm not I'm not talking about the church. I'm
not talking about the Bible. I'm talking about the Federal
Communications Commission.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Okay, Well, I don't think they follow it up in
the Bible anywhere with whole.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
They let they let they let people say God dam
on the Bible? Is that wrong?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Now? Is it? Is it possible scratch off? You could
just say, Hey, I fed up and that's it. I
screwed up? Could you say that?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
What's a couple of words too? I said, Man, it'll
be deal, and I'm sorry. I've been I've been on
the station for twenty five years. Dude, I here twenty
eighth March. I mean, I'll wait all night to get
on the phone. If I don't ever get on, what
we do, I'll call back next day like the old
boy wall to go what all this time?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
If you don't want to wait, get the hell off
and go home, stay home, you know, off the phone.
That's why I feel about it. Hey, listen. Let's talk
about something else. Okay, you've got a guy out there
listening in right now. His name is Zach Morton, and
here's your station in the morning, working out.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Morton.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Here's a who and his dad is he does his
family run the Morton Steakhouse?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
No suit. Now they know the town called Paragule. That's
why I'm austters. I told you about listening to you
a long time ago. But his dad, he's been a
buddy of mine for like over fifteen years. We all
talked radio out of Gombro. But his dad used to
play for the Detroit Tigers, mister Morton years ago, and
so it's like a pretty cool but he heard his
talking last night, say, man out hearing you on the radio,
(28:01):
but he listened to you in the morning, that Perry
gou Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well, I thank you, I think, mister I thank you
for listening. I thank mister Morton for listening. That's that's
pretty cool. Nice.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
But anyway, let's talk about something important. Let's talk about
the La Rams. Do you think we might have a
chance these Panthers they don't beat us once?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh yeah, they should win. By the way, I mean
the Rams should win The question is are they going
to win by are they going to blow out Carolina
and the Rams? They play with their food a lot.
That's my concern sir, scratch off. That's my my issue
with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
From years ago. We had Dallas Cowboys bout three touchdowns
and they came back and beat us, so it seemed
like we never well just look, they.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Had a nineteen then in Philly they had a nineteen
lead in that game. I know the Grimlins are starting
to acting.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
But.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah, that's just crazy. You know, don't even we lost
that one game by touching down. I mean, I'm glad
we got rid of that kid. I don't know if
we did. He's gone. But I don't know, man, I
get hard of getting a win and all of a
sudden something HAPs all of a sudden, we have already lost.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
The Rams have lost three games as an eight point
favorite or bait or greater, and they the nineteen point
leading Philly was sixteen point lead. I think that was
in Seattle. I think they've had some big leads that
they've blown, but that was one by one. Who cares
they will all be why the Hawks to meat?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It's like twice and one point two point games and
that two points diversion was stupid. I didn't get to
watch the game because I either first quarters during the week.
You know, I leave it like it's just crazy. But anyway, man,
I'm will tell you something. If you think I'm ana
suck up at fine, But you got the best ural offer.
I got me a new frankline about three months ago.
(29:42):
It got the best button on the steering wheel that
I've ever had. When I get rid of moots me something,
I will and I love it. And every time I
hear Moni's voice, I knew her. I can't stand her.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Boy. Okay, well, thanks for sharing that on other people
that work at any of my other coworkers that you hate,
would you like to name them on the air right now?
Go ahead, Thank you, man.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I'll be Tony Station for a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I know all right, you're repeating yourself. Thank you. Let's
go do Lucky Tony. Hello, Lucky Tony in the Bay Area.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Hey, Ben, I wrote you an email for the Real
fifth Hour for this weekend. Hopefully you can read it.
I put a little more detailed about the prison dream. Also,
a week or two ago, I was watching Benny versus
a Penny, and you described the Bears whipping on another
team and it was like, you know, the Bears chewing
on bones and whatnot. It got me a half chub.
(30:36):
And speaking of chubs, Penny Nicoles Bears.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Thank you. There's our guy, Lucky Tony. Is Lucky Tony
going to show up at the big meet and greet?
We're hopefully going to have here at some point soon
in the in the Bay Area. I like to meet
Lucky Tony. Some interesting characters now, Steve, he've actually lives
in the Bay Area, but he was on holding hung up.
(31:02):
He said he needed help. I guess he called some
other show to get up. See if call back. I'd
love to give advice and give a lot of advice.
Let's say hello to D Block in Miami. He's in
the D Block. Hello, D Block, Welcome.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Welcome, good morning, Congratulations to the Miami Hurricanes. I'm a
Chicago born person, Miami Hurricane fan since I was a
kid man and I hate Notre Damon. I'm so glad
and my christ of ball finally stepping up.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Man.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
There was some grumblings down here in Miami a bottom,
but hey, he finally stepping up and the Chicago Bears
will be Green Bay and we'll have a chance this year.
Thank you very much, Happy.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Friday, Thank you d Block. Look at that D Block.
That's that's two hit and run callers right there. Drive by.
We had D Block and Lucky Tony Lucky. That's the
way you do it. And some of these guys there
were boguart all the time and may you're all about
them and uh no, I like that giddy and get
your point. Boom rat a tat tat, rat a tat tat.
(32:05):
That's how you do it. All right. It is the
Ben Mallard Show. We are not that far away from
Big Ben's lame jokes. Is weed man there? Do we
need weed man? Do we need a fake weed man?
Do we have the he's there? Are he's there by
this guy there's like a job for him. He shows
up and it's wonderful every week. Wow man, uh man alive?
All right? Mallard prop guy says, do I hear gremlins
(32:28):
near the remote studio? I think that's only when Ferg
Dog calls or not. Ferg Dog sorry doesn't call very often.
That's when Sir Scratchoff calls. When Sir scratchof calls. That's
a that's a thing. Absolutely all right, Uh time time
now to remind you big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
All the best singers, all the best warning liners are
(32:50):
moments away. We'll get to that and we'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
As we are hanging out together every night. Try the podcast,
the Fifth Hour Podcast. The Audio Sweatshop does not stop
producing content even on the weekends. We'll have a new
episode up later today. All the p ones are listening.
Every once in a while, somebody gets exposed, whether it's
King Rory or somebody else. We're not being a real
(33:26):
p one because they don't listen to the Fifth Hour Podcast.
So you can avoid that by listening to the Fifth
Hour Podcast. Will be a new episode up today, tomorrow
and Sunday with me and Ben. It's the Bill Miller
Ben Malor Show. That's right there. You go. Check that
out and also YouTube Benny Versus the Penny available as well,
(33:48):
and the Ben Maller Show page on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Knock knock.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Who's there? Blame week. Blame week too. It's Big Ben's
lame joke of the week. Actual jokes by actual listeners,
by the people there were the Oh there's weed Man.
High weed Man, Hey, Ben, this is my job. I
work with you from Mondays and Thursday nights.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
That's my job, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I work for you ten minutes a week. This man,
what dedication you have to.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Go.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
We were national, we were all over the world, me
and you weed Man. Unbelievable, the biggest commitment he's made
in the last twenty years. And in many ways, you're
getting paid on your EBT card by the government, so
you are getting paid for this. So congratulations. Sorry, okay,
these are actual jokes again. You want to send jokes
in care of Benmallor Show at gmail dot com. Benmallor
(34:48):
Show at gmail dot com. What was weed Man's New
Year's resolution? What two words do nothing? That's Brendan from
Boston Exotting News here. Did you hear that weed Man
was in the church choir for Christmas?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
No? Really? Yeah? They needed someone to reach those high
notes and so they brought you in there. That's tom
ad joke by Tom in Indiana. What's more bizarre than
weed Man Hippie losing all of his teeth?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Why?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
John Harbaugh losing an entire locker room? Weed Man? How
is that possible? That's Gordon because it didn't happen. That's
Gordon in Tacoma. Why was weed Man upset when he
learned that what weymo was? Why was he upset when
he known what weymo was?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Why?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Well, because weed Man thought it was the answer to
the question how much money should people send weed Man?
That's Eric and Cam Weimo. Come on, all right, Uh,
that's a good one. Eric, It's a funny Eric's good guy.
What's weed Man hoping? The first question is on a
(36:05):
rebooted malor spelling bee. What spell your email address? That's
Eric in Kansas. Do you have an email address yet?
Weed Man? Have you have you picked up a you
have not no email yet? No? Yeah, yeah, it's hard
to get I know, I gotta do it for you,
(36:27):
all right. Why did weed Man Hippie sign up with
Team Mobile?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Why?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Well, you heard that they're offering two lines for thirty dollars.
He got excited. Two lines of them. George and Yuvaldi Texas. Interesting.
I guess. I guess that guy before was wrong in
Boston because John from Youngstown, Ohio says, have you heard
Weedman hippie made a new New Year's resolution in twenty
twenty six? No?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yeah, apparently you're going to continue to be a lazy,
weed smoking, bust out loser according to John. That's not
very nice John, although you did laugh all right? Why
did weed Man hip me use powdered soap when he
was in jail? Wow? Why, well, apparently takes longer to
pick up in the shower. So I don't know what
(37:15):
that's about. George and Rvaldi Texas, George, feel good. You
gotta that cerebrale. If if Lizzo is on a seafood diet,
what kind of diet is weed Man on? Wow, Well
he's on a sea weed diet, sea weed and smoke it.
(37:37):
That's a Noah in Austin, thank you. No, he also
sent this one in What kind of expectations does weed
Man have?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
What kind Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Come on, weed Man, this is We've had this joke before,
very high expectations from all the week. Come on, now
you know that weed Man big Ben's lame jokes of
the week did you hear that as go? Did youar
the weed Man hippie had trouble adjusting after he joined
the newdest colony? Yeah? Yeah, apparently the first few days
(38:11):
were the hardest for you. But after that things calm down.
There there's a weed man, your roommate good, No problems
with your room man? Everything good there? Yes, now I know,
so that's what I'm saying. You're happier by yourself. So
that's good right now, that's great. You don't need Joey
(38:33):
the bellman to hook you up or anything like that.
Now you're good, heart, I do okay? All right? Why
I know you're never bashful about that. Why did weed
Man quit his job as a Walmart greeter?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Apparently you realize that they wanted you to say hi
all day and not stay high. That's Chip in Maine.
Good joke by Chip. That is a good one, all right.
What is weed Man's favorite food? What baked goods? From
Mike the Leprechaun thinking for that? Why did weed Man
(39:08):
get fired from Amazon? Why you kept stealing all the
cardboard boxes? Why were you doing that? It's Michael Leprechaun,
all right? Did you hear that? Lizzo got into some
legal trouble. Really yeah yeah, well apparent she had to
call her whale bondsman. That's a Brendan from Boston. What
(39:31):
was Marcel's favorite toy? What was Marcell's favorite toy as
a child?
Speaker 6 (39:35):
What?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Building blocks? Building blocks? And what do you call it?
When the rain up blows out her birthday candles and
Michael Leprechaun disappears. A luck of the wish. There you go.
That's a shipping man. I screwed up the punchline, but
you got the joke. Thank you, weed man.
Host
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