May 5, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the passing of legendary Yankees broadcaster John Sterling and what the secret sauce was that made Sterling such a great character in baseball, Sterling being a friend of The Ben Maller Show, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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still yap about the NBA playoffs. However, we are going
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lead story is out of the Bronx. We're not going
to break down the Yankee Oriole game on Monday. We're
not doing that. However, we did lose one of the
great voices of baseball. Depending on how old you are,
this guy, someone's been around a long time, did it
very well and has now unfortunately crossed over the pearly gates.
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I assume you've heard by now, but possibly not John Sterling,
the exuberant radio voice of the New York Yankees radio broadcasts.
He did it with a flare and just had his
own spin to it, the home run calls, as he
was known for a big part of Yankee baseball in
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their last glory days when they were winning the World
Series every couple of years there, when they had Jorge
Pasada and Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter and those guys,
and we're winning all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Hey cays waiting me, Hi, guys win all of that.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So that's what he said after wins, when say it
after losses, and he has died crossing over the pearly
gates there on Monday eighty seven, coming in here, there
and everywhere from around baseball, Yankee legends, young and old,
young and old, all had something they wanted to say
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about John Sterling. Seems everyone has a story about John Sterling,
the golden voice of the Yankees for all of those
years on the radio. So that is a good jumping
out point. I would like to join in. I have
some thoughts on this, as some of you know that
we've had John on the podcast, and I had had
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John when I used to do a weekend show here.
We had John Sterling on a few times, very very
kind to me over the years. I didn't interact with
him all that often. I did put me a handful
of times in person and was always really cool.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It was always really cool.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So let's get into it the question how are you
going to remember? How are you going to remember Yankee
broadcaster John Sterling. So there's always the micro and the
macro on this. I've got bedazzled.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Kool aid Man and Rare.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Spice and we'll combine all of these things together.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And we are going to make a Broadway show.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Because that's one of the things that pops in my
head when I think about John Sterling calling Yankee baseball.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Now, number what number one? Number one? Number one?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Okay, I think of John Sterling as what I would
call a broadcasters broadcaster, if you know what I mean. Uh,
And don't kid yourself, and we don't need to go
too deep on this. He wasn't playing it straight down
the middle. That wasn't the way he did it. Many
ways to make a bed, there's more than one, and
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there's more than one way to do a broadcast.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I grew up with Vin Scully who attempted to play
it right down the middle and all that. John Sterling
never attempted to play it right down the middle. You
always knew where John Sterling was in relationship to where
the game was, the score of the game, how the
season was going for the Yankees. And Sterling took that approach,
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the play it down the middle approach, and he took
it like a piece of paper, and.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He kind of.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He crumbled up the piece of paper and he tossed
it into the Hudson possibly the East River, but I
think it was the Hudson and he went full opposite.
He went the other direction there, and it worked for him.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He was a.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Debonair guy, well dressed, obviously charismatic as the Yankee play
by play guy. And in my conversations with John Sterling
the few times that we had him on the radio
and whatnot, he was fully aware that his audience was
not the NPR audience.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
They wanted to show, Okay, they wanted to show.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And you can think who's listening to Yankee Baseball on
the radio as people driving around, people at work that
are working the night shift, because most Yankee games are
at nights, people that don't have access to television blind,
I mean, those are the people that are listening to
Yankee Baseball. So yeah, guys listening to you, they're likely
going home from work, driving to work, they're working the
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late shift and all that. These are Yankee hardos, and
Sterling embraced that he did, and he did that broadcast
for the diehard, the faithful Brox Bomber fans, and he
fed them a study diet of theater. His play by
play technique was theatrical. Is the word I will use
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here he was not a broadcaster per se. He was
a one man Broadway production Yankees winning Yankees, and he
had a press box seat. And most announcers just described
the moment. They just describe what's going on. Sterling decorated it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He did.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
He bedazzled the broadcast and some conversations via text with
some friends of mine who do that kind of work
for a living. And the thing that was noted to me.
And I think it's a fair point. Most of Sterling's
career as a broadcaster was before social media. Yet he
provided In the old days, we used to play a
lot of those those cuts, the play by play cuts
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on the radio. He had updates, live updates. In the
old days, stations had live updates, and so we'd play
those things at night. And the late great Frank Pollock,
May he rest in peace. Frank's probably busting John Stoling's
balls right now at some kind of a buffet on
the other side right there, yapping to each other.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
But Frank Polk was my boardop for years, and Frank
was a legend.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
He was a chick hern the famous Laker broadcaster, his boardop,
and we had so much fun when Frank was my
board up because we would just do the Yankee rundown.
And it wasn't because we were just trying to kill time.
We just loved all the stupid drops that John Sterling
provided us. But he bedazzled the broadcast. He put jazz
hands off the whole thing. He didn't just call the game,
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arised the broadcast and in the Big Apple, you know,
you got a guy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Like Sterling, so well, this is what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's just the Yankees, this is the Wall Street crowd,
like the Mets of the Long Island construction workers and
the Yankees of the Wall Street people and all that.
And he laid that that shtick, as my grandfather would
say that stikla. He laid that on thicker than a
piece of cheesecake, just really thick the New York cheese
cake every night.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And to his credit, and this is the way you're
supposed to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And the people that know what they're doing every night,
you treat it like it's the most important broadcast and
not just Game seventy seven of one hundred and sixty two.
And you're playing in Seattle and it's ten thirty at
night in New York and no one's listening. You treat
it differently, you treat it as it matters. And he
was larger than life, he louder than life and unapologetically
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just gave you more. John Sterling the last true ring
master of the theatrical baseball radio broadcast and people die said.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, they'll never be another one like them, And that's
generally true for all of us.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We're all individuals, right, We're all individuals in terms of
the skill set. Though there can never be another John Sterling.
He would not be allowed to work the corporate bull crap.
John Sterling is a product of his era. Obviously, we're
all products of our era. And he came in when
sports was a mom and pop operation, which meant people
that owned teams were regular people. They weren't conglaborates, they
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weren't hedge funds, and they appreciated that type of work. Now,
oh my god, you're embarrassing the brand. What are you doing?
And even no, George Steinbrenner, the guy that was there
that hired John Sterling, has been dead for many years.
It's still a family business. The kids kept John Sterling
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employed up until just a few years ago when he
could no longer do it. Now flipping the page, but
not far as it is the hour of tribute to
the Great John Sterling, the late great John Sterling, who passed.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Away this week at the age of eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So what was the secret sauce that made John Sterling
such a unique character in Yankee broadcasting. He's just baseball
broadcasting in general, So this is simple. He didn't just
call a game, he performed it. Now, I worked with
a guy and I forget his name. I did a
TV show with him for a couple of years and
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he said to me, this is not John Sterling. But
he said to me, the key is to make it
all about you. I think his name was Looney or
something like that. Well, anyway, it turns out that John
Sterling made it all about him and it worked.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It worked right.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And most broadcasters kind of melted into the background and
you're whispering the game, and you're giving the out of
town scoreboard and you're reading all that like it's a library.
John Sterling he broadcast the game as if he was
crashing through a wall like that picture shaped kool aid Man,
shouting oh yeah, loud and proud, and you weren't tuning
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in for the Yankees per se, you were tuning in
for the Sterling cinematic universe, where every at bat, every
at bat was what it was, a brand launch, and
every player had a Marvel style origin story, every one
of them. Right, home run, please, come on? That wasn't
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just a home run? What do you even naive? No,
that was a fireworks show with catchphrases attached.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Hey, mom from a rod, a burn, baby burn, all
of them all rise, Here comes the Judge, the Giambino,
the thriller from Godzilla for Hideki Matsu.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Now, my two favorites are not mentioned very often because
they're not great ballplayers. My two favorite calls that John
Sterling had that I repeated for many years. In fact
I often still repeat them, is one for Curtis Granderson,
the Grandee Man can the Grande Man Can loved it.
And Robbie Cano and all that was when Canoe would
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hit a home run, he'd say, Robbie Cano, don't you know?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And that was it. And when the game dragged, Sterling said,
we need more juice. I'll give you some more juice.
I remember it was visiting my brother who lives in
New York, and I was we were in a with
my car. But we were driving around and the guy
who in the car it was like a taxis a
long time ago. And they had the Yankee game on
and it was just the start of the Yankee broadcast
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and John Sterling did about ten minutes of commercials. At
the start he'd be like, the Yankee baseball is not
to you, I BMW and then you know, you're.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Like seventeen different car dealerships. He'd do a bunch of
financial companies because of the Wall Street crowd.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And all that.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It was just it was hilarious, right, but he was
unapologetically himself.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And you know, why fit in? As the I learned
this from doctor Seuss. Why fit in?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
We were born to stand out right? And Sterling didn't
describe the moment he became the moment. Now, in closing
on this tribute to John Sterling, the question, now, is
is it true that John Sterling was a friend of
the show. So I would say, yes, John Sterling was
not listen. We didn't have him on all the time
and all that. John Sterling, I interviewed him a few
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times and when you chatted with him. The thing I
will say about this Sterling, and I've been lucky enough
to meet some of these people that are big time broadcasters,
and a lot of them are total schmucks. They're just douchebags,
complete a holes. You don't want to deal with these people,
just bad people. John Sterling. My interaction with him was
very positive. I met him in Anaheim at an Angel
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Yankee game back in the glory days of the Yankees,
when I was out of the games all the time,
and I introduced myself and he seemed to genuinely care
what I was doing. I'm sure he didn't give a
rats ask what I was doing, but he seemed he
seemed to care what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And he gave me his.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Phone numbers, say if you never need anything, give me
a call. I'd love to go on your show or whatever.
So I said, okay. And did I use the call
the number all the time? No, it was like a
rare spice, you know, rare spice you don't use all
the time. It's a rare spice. Only certain recipes require
a rare spice. So I didn't call him all the time.
And the fact that just gave me the number and
he always answered or either called back, and that that's
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very and he had.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
To leave a voicemail.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
He didn't do text, didn't do the text, so you
had to do the voicemail and all that. And he'd
call you right back and he'd add, hello, this is
John and all that. And we had him on Fox
Sports Radio a couple times when I was doing some
weekend shows. We had him on the fifth hour a
couple of years back. And every time I reached out
to him, he was like, I can do it. Here's
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the times I can do it. I'd love to do it.
He never turned me down one time, and he certainly
could have and he didn't. And I think part of
it was he was kind of lonely unfortunately at the
end there he was just kind of hanging out watching
reruns of old movies and stuff at night.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I don't know, but he was very nice.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
To me, and I would give him on my report card,
John Sterling. I wrote down mensch with a not a
you know, not a capitol M mench, A mench on
the bench if you will here underline it twice if
you want to just a good just a good guy.
And he once told me, and I mentioned that when
I was driving around, I wasn't driving somebody else's driving.
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We were in New York in a cab and they
had the beginning of the Yankee broadcast and they had
like ten minutes of commercials. Like, my god, was this ridiculous?
Which sometimes sounds like our show during super Bowl week
or whatever, but I was like whatever, And John gave
me this whole lecture about how he's like, listen, the
most important thing. He summed up this tremendous wisdom. He said,
the most important thing is to sell the soap. You
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gotta sell the soap. And that's the line I took
away from that conversation, the last one we had on
the podcast a couple of years ago, and that's it.
I mean nine words. The most important thing is to
sell the soap.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's it. Nine words. That's all you got. And the
Hall of.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Fame wisdom by John Sterling. And you can't do that
with an algorithm. I don't care how great your AI is.
You can't recreate John Sterling and not a focus group.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You can't. You just can't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It will never happen again because until baseball, these sports
leagues go back to the mom and pop days, which
I don't see that ever, happening in my lifetime. The
corporations won't allow it. If you say anything on the edge,
you get a phone call, you get a text message, Hey,
ease up on these guys.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, even when I did it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh, there was a game there was like seven errors
in a game and I was ripping the defense and
I pointed that out and then they they got upset
with me. But anyway, Sterling, good for a life well
lived for John Sterley. Too many broadcasters today sound like
elevator music and they're afraid to wake up the baby, and.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
They're whispering like they're golf announcers. And John Sterling woke
up the whole building and didn't care.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And that was it. And there were some tremendous bloopers.
You know, John's vision wasn't very good effect. The last
time I saw him in person was a Yankee Dodger
game at Yankee Stadium a couple of years at Dodger Stadium,
right a couple years back, and I kind of snuck
in the back of the Yankee radio booth and John
was calling the game off the television, which was fine,
except sometimes the TV is a little delayed on that
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and of course the most famous John Sterling blooper was
when I think it was Justin Turner was playing for
the Red Sox and he fouled the ball back to
the press box and it joinked off John Sterling's head
while he was calling. He didn't even he was like
because he wasn't paying attention. It was like, but rest
in peace, John Sterling. Just a tremendous character in our lives,
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and it was great to I didn't obviously grow up
in New York, didn't live in New York, heard him
on the Internet and whatnot over the years and when
I visited family there, So rest in peace, John Sterling.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
All Right is the.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Ben Mahler Show. If you'd like to add any of
your memories to the life and times of John Stirling,
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so we'll make sure to get you going here in
a minute. We also have ask O weeed Man, our
friend Billy from Hollywood Floor. This guy is so so talented,
(19:19):
such a wild man. He turned down a free trip
to Boston. Can you believe that. Who would do that?
This guy did that. That's how powerful he is. He
doesn't need the trip to Boston. Why would he come
hang out of Mala meet and greet with all the
stars of the other stars of the Mallad Militia. Anyway,
we'll get to that and we will do it next.
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Bell Miller and you It is the Bain Malor Show.
As we work our way through the overnight hours, a
reminder they coming up this Friday, couple days from today, well,
actually more than that. So you gotta get through Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday. Then on Friday it is on the
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next round of Malord Meet and Greech. We are fired up,
so hope you can come out say hello to us. If
you're in the Boston area, you want to come out.
Two nights, two nights night number one that would be Friday.
That's the eighth of May, after the Red Sox game,
probably around ten o'clock, and that'll be Ben, Coop and
(21:00):
Lorrain at the Mighty Squirrel tap room just steps away
from Finway. One of the listeners took a photo I
saw the outside of it posted and on social media.
And then on Saturday, May night, after the WUSOS game,
probably about seven seven ish, hopefully hopefully Coop's worried about
the rain. Well, we got to show up to this event,
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so I mean we you know, we have to be there. Well,
I'm saying hopefully it's at that time. You know, we
don't know off the game or do they postpone theirs.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Minor League Baseball? Who care? Do they just play? I mean,
I don't know, No, I don't think they're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I heard in the miners now they do these like
five game series to save money on travel where they
go for like a week, like teams visit for like
a week and stuff, so they can make it up
another day if they have to. Heyway, we'll be there
after the WUSOS game at Bowland's Irish Bar in Worcester.
So we have a private room a patio which will
be great if it's raining, go to see it out
in the patio. Live band, good food, so come out
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and hang out. I'll post some of this stuff on
social media, so check it out. Also some rumors Fats
in Philadelphia, the guy that lit himself on fire during
the NFL drafting screened My name Fats, is going to
be in the Commonwealth. He's efforting to show up to
the event on Saturday. The problem is he has to
(22:22):
drag his wife because it's their anniversary weekend, so I
don't know that he's going to be able to pull
it off. He says he's going to try to convince
her to come to Worcester because there's nothing quite like
Wooster for an anniversary weekend. So we'll see if that
happens or not. And then there's some chatter maybe moving
man we'll make his appearance there. He's gonna try to
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get there as well. So there's a lot going on
that'll be coming up at the big mall or meet
and greet, but we have before. Then we say hello
to the weed Man, and that would eat Billy who's
hanging out in Hollywood, Florida. It's a little segment called
ask a weed Man, Hello, Billy, Billy, what's going on
with you?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Then two of us needs look no more. We both
are what we were looking for. They don't see you
like I do. I wish we're try to. I'm sure
they take a game if they had a friend like game.
How do you doing?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Day?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I didn't realize we were getting some live music here.
I had no idea. Look at that. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Somebody emailed me and said we should do a meet
and greet in Florida for you weed man.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I don't great.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I don't think you'd show up.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Those definitely not.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I don't think I don't think you would. I don't
think you would.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I definitely show up. Hey, somebody sending food from you?
It had to be from you. Send me more food.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
We have you ever thought about maybe saying please, thank you.
I I you know that kind of stuff you said.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I really appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Who sent it to me?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
We think, don't we tell him? Every time? We tell
you Purto every time? Do we not tell you? Purito
sends you thank.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
You so much. I enjoyed that. I love you. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Super Markets.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Steve Wrights and says, I hate whenever you say that
I'm standing on a certain aisle. He says that I
happen to be standing on at the moment. I really
think you have me on camera somewhere in the store, Supermarket.
Steve says, by the way, he says what he says?
What is blankety blank blake? He says, Okay, I don't
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I don't know what that.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I don't know what you want is going with you?
What's that?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Well?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I wish you were going to. We wanted to make
it happen, but you didn't. You didn't sign up for it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So Jill Wright said, says one of my very favorite
talking collectibles. And then oh it's a it's a bobblehead
with Susan Waldman, Georgie's Girl and John Stirling.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That's pretty good. I like that.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I didn't know they had that. That's pretty neat from Joe.
She's a huge Yankee fan. She lives in Minnesota, but
she loves the Yankees. A right, we have questions? Are
you ready weed Man for questions? I'm going to solve
all of life's quite problems in one segment on talk radio.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Yes, yeah, let's show it. Let's let's shoe the wall,
but make it a better place.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
To all right here, Does weed Man have any big
plans for Cinco de Mayo or for Mother's Day? Yeah,
that's right, today's sinko Tomaya?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
No, I don't. I wish I did.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, no plans. You're not going to go eat some
Mexican food somewhere and get drunking? All right, no plans?
I got you?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
What else do we have? Ferg Dog writes in on
Ask a weed Man? He says, did you smoke weed
when you were in high school? Great question, fer Dog?
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yeah, smoke weed. My whole life walls.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Right out of the womb. Yeah you didn't even no bottle?
Speaker 6 (25:59):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You know, mom?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Mom? Can I get some weed?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Alf the Alien Opiner asks a question. He says, did
you ever meet John Sterling weed Man?
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Back in the day Oh, I wish I did.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He started when the ages were The Aggies were bad.
When he started, they had Stump Merrill was the manager.
I think when he began, they weren't very good. So
m I see what else do we have. I'd say
a call and we say hello to Let's go to
a trans gender fluid Dave. He changed his name gender
(26:33):
fluid Dave is in Houston. Hello, gender fluid Dave, Welcome.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
You know, I don't really have any questions, that's right.
I was just reflecting as you were giving your tribute
to John Sterling and then you went out to meet
Dick and Dayton too. I think might be the world's
nicest human, and I'm kind of getting to suspect that
(26:58):
you might actually be.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
A nice guy.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That about me. Yeah, I don't want people to think
that I'm nice. I want people to think that I'm mean.
I don't people walk over you if they think you're nice.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
We'll never say this again.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
And no one's listening, so we're good. Look what time
it is. Everyone's sleeping.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
By the way, I flew out to La again last night.
I was in my hotel room. I was stark naked,
and the maid walked in Finally. Anyway, Lorena once again
did not show up, and I'm thinking this is the problem.
You know, when she first started working for your show,
(27:37):
she was very professional, very efficient, but people, when people
start sending her stuff, she got really into the gig,
if you noticed, really into it. I guess, And what
can I buy Lorena? They will impress her? And I've
decided to buy Lorena Greenland.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Oh that's great. Now does she have to find it
on a map? Does she have to find it on
a map or just giving it to her?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
No, she just uh. She can imprison her enemies in
the prison towers, she can cut off her heads. Well,
I think she'd really enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Weed men, do you know where Greenland is? Weed men?
We men?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I guess I put them on hold. That's why I'm
sure he was probably yelling. I did you realize I
put them on all?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Weed men? Do you know where Greenland is? Weed men?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
No? Where you dropped me? Why you d I.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Didn't drop you. I did not drop you. I just
roll And now you're upset. So you're upset, right, you're upset.
It's that gender fluid Dave, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So he's gender fluid, whatever he wants to be. I
don't know you anyway.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
I just uh, I want to say congratulations to weed
Man because it's his goal to be pouring love into
the universe. Yeah, and he does it every week.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
I want to change the world. I want to make
a better place. Just too much violence and hatre just
too much. We gotta change the world.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Okay, all right, to go, Thank you, gender fluid Dave.
I appreciate that. There you go, All right, go away.
Oh I just hung up on weed Man.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Oh my god, this is the second time that disaster continues.
He's going to call back, very upset here angry, streaming
and shouting and all that, and there's nothing I can do.
He'll call right back. Dan is in Texas. Hello, Dan, Welcome, Helloa.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
You make late night radio so enjoyable. You do so enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You are number one.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
You are truly number one.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
You make everything so enjoyable at night.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Appreciate great show. There you go, appreciate he there you go.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
So.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Then I I first sard So starting back in the nineties,
and I thought some kind of a choke or a stick,
and I started listening to were the Yankees games on
the radio, and let I'll tell you what what what
a what a character? What flair he had? Like you said,
he brought such just his own genuine trademark to the game.
(30:13):
He is fantastic. So I want to be my favorite.
Could I do it?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, well, your phone's not the connection is not very good.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So if you can do it real quick here so
we can hear it, Dan, hopefully we'll here we go.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I'll do it real quick here, Sabbatia. Deal was a
the pitch called strike three ball game over Yankees win.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yankees win.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah that's great, pretty good. Yeah, not bad. I'm impressed.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Thank you, Dan, Next call man, I'll get I'll get
a better connection. Okay, buddy, all right, thank you'd be
safe driving around weed Man, I I don't know what happened.
The gremlins are attacking the phones. I clearly I'm I'm
against you. Kathy and Madison says, hey, weed Man, how's
your day today?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
If that's a Kathy and Madison, she's a big fan
of your work.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
My day's really good.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Thank you, Michael writes in. Michael writes in boxers are Briefs.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Great question Boxers all right, boo, I have a question
from Lucky Tony. Okay, go ahead earlier, all right, yeah,
we men.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Lucky Tony wants to know, when you were well off
and successful, what was your favorite meal? And then what
was your favorite meal when you were not so successful
and living on the streets.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
I like McDonald's I was living on the street. I
like steak and potatoes, and I like meat balls the
journey when I was living at home.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
All right, all right, Steve wants to know how many
times have you eaten out of a dumpster? That's not nice, Steven,
never ever, No, I mean no, you never were so
hungry you ate ever dumpster at your lowest point.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You never did that.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
No, it was always McDonald's there.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All right, Boso the district attorney, right, since this is
weed been, Yeah it does it says it's the district attorney.
Does weed man remember who first offered him a joint
that changed his life forever?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Neighbor, my next door neigh when I was.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Young, older neighbor.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah, I used to smoke it out of my bedroom window.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
So if that neighbor had offered you like a cup
of water were your life would have been much different.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You'd be water Water water Man or something like that.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
You would be much I love the Weed that's the show.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah you do, I got you. Uh see you can't
read that on the air.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
All right, we have any other final thoughts here, weed Man,
any other thoughts you would like to show?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
I love you?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Then I wish I was going to Boston with you. Well,
I know, I'll definitely come to I'll definitely come with
you if you come to Florida.
Speaker 9 (32:51):
Even if it's like, uh up up where Judge who
Fled lives. I'm in the Panhandle.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Anywhere anywhere you come, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
You know, I don't think you understand how big Floord is.
Weed Man. Do you understand?
Speaker 6 (33:02):
No, I know you come to she anywhere near Miami.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'll Two seconds later, weed Man, I have a question
for you. Oh look at Loranda would like to ask
you a question, weed Man. I was just wondering, who's
your favorite stoner Cheech or Chong? Okay, a great question.
You'll take that off the air, Loraina.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yes, all right, I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I'm shocked that you would love that movie. I can't
imagine why you would love that movie. Yeah, what was
that one? The Weed movie they made a couple of
years ago. I guess it's been a while now. Pineapple something,
remember that? Yeah, you knew that one. Did you like
that one?
Speaker 8 (33:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I love that all right, Freddie writes in he says,
what was weed Man's favorite job and least favorite job?
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Well?
Speaker 6 (33:54):
I had the toy store, so I was that was great.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Hey, I've played Santa Claus too. It's a fun gig. Right,
You're like a superhero.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
And I used to deliver pizzas and I love that too.
That was great too.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Did you deliver to Mom and Popper chain?
Speaker 6 (34:13):
No, Lenni Lenny's Pizza, Mom and Pop Place, pepper I
love pepperoni. You helped the pizza.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I thought you said you delivered peaches. I didn't think
he said no.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
He just said he delivered pieces, and he'd rip off
the pepperoni from the pies he was delivering and eat them.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
My god, Just Joshays, have you given up on the
idea of ever finding your teeth.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Or have you? Yes, yes, I have no teeth.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And have you thought about going to George Washington Route
and getting yourself some wooden choppers?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Great question.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Just Josh, You're like, no, you know I got The
last time I got teeth was filming.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Three place, and I don't know where they are, which
I could give them again.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I often misplaced. I actually misplaced my right hand the
other day and I was like, I need my right hand.
All right, Well, thank you weed Man, We love you, buddy.
Be safe, okay, yes, all right, be well. There he
is our friend weed Man, hippie from Hollywood floor.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Right hand was getting a workout. I don't need to
play that, please sorright. We will press on.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
We've got the insta trivia, and then we'll get to
Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Here's the instant trivia.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
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above ninety five miles per hour since the start of
the twenty twenty four baseball season. That is two hundred
and thirty four more than any other pitcher in baseball. Again,
Blank has thrown over three thousand pitches at or above
ninety five miles per hour, two hundred thirty four more
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All right, back to our time now for the instad trivia,
and we'll go to baseball for this. Blank has thrown
three two and eleven pitches at or above ninety five
miles per hour since the start of the twenty twenty
four season. That is two hundred and thirty four more
than any other pitcher in the big leagues. That is
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the question. What's the answer? Just Josh and Cincinnati going
with Rick Vaughan. That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Dough nutt Kelly from Shane in Des Moines. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Femi's going with John Sterling is his answer. Susan Waldman
from Alf the alien O Piner.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Milkman Mike and Colorado says you are a Japanese pitching phenom.
Gomera is the answer. Minnesota's own mister Perfect Kurt Henning
from Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Who else do we have?
Henry Rowan Gartner from Rob the goat Man, one of
the all time great owners in baseball history? King Roy
going with Shrek is his answer. Hunter Green from Eke
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and Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
J T.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
The Wingman from Outside Knoxville going with Bartolo Cologne and
Wilbur Wood.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
From BP Unless it's not, who else we have?
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Awesome Kong from Donkeys Sausage, Diana Russini from Michael that's
his answer. Uh, Paige down web Cam Mama Victor's Webcam
Mama from Stebee Meatballs, Charlie Huff guests by Mediocre Kabuki.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Do you have an answer? Lared mister Boosey my favorite
beaver beaver? All right?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Uh No, that isn't correct. The correct answer Tiger's ace
Trek Scooble is the number one hees Trek scoogle here's
the answer. Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we got to the guy.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Is one big gets grilled Kobero.
Speaker 9 (38:39):
Eagles wide receiver Defonta Smith was asked about the prospect
of being the unquestioned number one receiver in Philly if
the team where to trade A. J.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Brown.
Speaker 9 (38:46):
Smith's sidestep by saying he just goes out there and
does his job.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
That's a non answer answer, Coop, that's a non answer answer.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
That's right, Yes, Ben is Smith a number one guy?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
No, but it doesn't matter because they don't throw the
ball like a traditional NFL team throws the ball because
Jalen Hurst doesn't play that way, so it's irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
They don't. The whole reason to get.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Rid of AJ Brown is they don't need a number
one receiver because they don't throw the volume of passes
to even benefit having a number one receiver.
Speaker 9 (39:16):
Next, it was reported on Sunday that the real that
real roster changes are coming to the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
As opposed to fake ones.
Speaker 9 (39:23):
Yeah, I guess ok, And that cause will be accepted
for anyone other than Jokic.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, Ben, do you think Jamal Murray has done in Denver?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Listen the way he played at the end of that game, Okay,
or the last.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I get rid of it. I tried him. I wouldn't
even let him go back to Denver.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
The way he played in that game. So, yeah, they
got to do something. They've got a couple more years
to play with with Jokish before this thing completely goes
to hell, and the Nuggets sucked, so you might as
well do whatever you can to get a championship roster
around him.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
Next, the Oklahoma City Thunder have climbed to sixteen point
favorites over the Lakers in Game one.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Do you really think the matchup is this lopsided coop?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
If they don't win by thirty points in every game,
it's a win for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
You're saying the Thunder are that much better.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
They should win every game by thirty points over the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
No context. How did we fail this this shop?
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You know it's true? What he know?
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It's a reality coup, real talk, real talk.
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still yap about the NBA playoffs. However, we are going
to change it up a little bit here and our
lead story is out of the Bronx. We're not going
to break down the Yankee Oriole game on Monday. We're
not doing that. However, we did lose one of the
great voices of baseball. Depending on how old you are,
this guy, someone's been around a long time, did it
very well and has now unfortunately crossed over the pearly gates.
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I assume you've heard by now, but possibly not John Sterling,
the exuberant radio voice of the New York Yankees radio broadcasts.
He did it with a flare and just had his
own spin to it, the home run calls, as he
was known for a big part of Yankee baseball in
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their last glory days when they were winning the World
Series every couple of years there, when they had Jorge
Pasada and Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter and those guys,
and we're winning all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Hey cays waiting me, Hi, guys win all of that.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So that's what he said after wins, when say it
after losses, and he has died crossing over the pearly
gates there on Monday eighty seven, coming in here, there
and everywhere from around baseball, Yankee legends, young and old,
young and old, all had something they wanted to say
(04:10):
about John Sterling. Seems everyone has a story about John Sterling,
the golden voice of the Yankees for all of those
years on the radio. So that is a good jumping
out point. I would like to join in. I have
some thoughts on this, as some of you know that
we've had John on the podcast, and I had had
(04:31):
John when I used to do a weekend show here.
We had John Sterling on a few times, very very
kind to me over the years. I didn't interact with
him all that often. I did put me a handful
of times in person and was always really cool.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It was always really cool.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So let's get into it the question how are you
going to remember? How are you going to remember Yankee
broadcaster John Sterling. So there's always the micro and the
macro on this. I've got bedazzled.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Kool aid Man and Rare.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Spice and we'll combine all of these things together.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And we are going to make a Broadway show.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Because that's one of the things that pops in my
head when I think about John Sterling calling Yankee baseball.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Now, number what number one? Number one? Number one?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Okay, I think of John Sterling as what I would
call a broadcasters broadcaster, if you know what I mean. Uh,
And don't kid yourself, and we don't need to go
too deep on this. He wasn't playing it straight down
the middle. That wasn't the way he did it. Many
ways to make a bed, there's more than one, and
(05:45):
there's more than one way to do a broadcast.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I grew up with Vin Scully who attempted to play
it right down the middle and all that. John Sterling
never attempted to play it right down the middle. You
always knew where John Sterling was in relationship to where
the game was, the score of the game, how the
season was going for the Yankees. And Sterling took that approach,
(06:08):
the play it down the middle approach, and he took
it like a piece of paper, and.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He kind of.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He crumbled up the piece of paper and he tossed
it into the Hudson possibly the East River, but I
think it was the Hudson and he went full opposite.
He went the other direction there, and it worked for him.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He was a.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Debonair guy, well dressed, obviously charismatic as the Yankee play
by play guy. And in my conversations with John Sterling
the few times that we had him on the radio
and whatnot, he was fully aware that his audience was
not the NPR audience.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
They wanted to show, Okay, they wanted to show.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
And you can think who's listening to Yankee Baseball on
the radio as people driving around, people at work that
are working the night shift, because most Yankee games are
at nights, people that don't have access to television blind,
I mean, those are the people that are listening to
Yankee Baseball. So yeah, guys listening to you, they're likely
going home from work, driving to work, they're working the
(07:11):
late shift and all that. These are Yankee hardos, and
Sterling embraced that he did, and he did that broadcast
for the diehard, the faithful Brox Bomber fans, and he
fed them a study diet of theater. His play by
play technique was theatrical. Is the word I will use
(07:33):
here he was not a broadcaster per se. He was
a one man Broadway production Yankees winning Yankees, and he
had a press box seat. And most announcers just described
the moment. They just describe what's going on. Sterling decorated it.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He did.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
He bedazzled the broadcast and some conversations via text with
some friends of mine who do that kind of work
for a living. And the thing that was noted to me.
And I think it's a fair point. Most of Sterling's
career as a broadcaster was before social media. Yet he
provided In the old days, we used to play a
lot of those those cuts, the play by play cuts
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on the radio. He had updates, live updates. In the
old days, stations had live updates, and so we'd play
those things at night. And the late great Frank Pollock,
May he rest in peace. Frank's probably busting John Stoling's
balls right now at some kind of a buffet on
the other side right there, yapping to each other.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
But Frank Polk was my boardop for years, and Frank
was a legend.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
He was a chick hern the famous Laker broadcaster, his boardop,
and we had so much fun when Frank was my
board up because we would just do the Yankee rundown.
And it wasn't because we were just trying to kill time.
We just loved all the stupid drops that John Sterling
provided us. But he bedazzled the broadcast. He put jazz
hands off the whole thing. He didn't just call the game,
(09:00):
arised the broadcast and in the Big Apple, you know,
you got a guy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Like Sterling, so well, this is what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's just the Yankees, this is the Wall Street crowd,
like the Mets of the Long Island construction workers and
the Yankees of the Wall Street people and all that.
And he laid that that shtick, as my grandfather would
say that stikla. He laid that on thicker than a
piece of cheesecake, just really thick the New York cheese
cake every night.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And to his credit, and this is the way you're
supposed to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And the people that know what they're doing every night,
you treat it like it's the most important broadcast and
not just Game seventy seven of one hundred and sixty two.
And you're playing in Seattle and it's ten thirty at
night in New York and no one's listening. You treat
it differently, you treat it as it matters. And he
was larger than life, he louder than life and unapologetically
(09:54):
just gave you more. John Sterling the last true ring
master of the theatrical baseball radio broadcast and people die said.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, they'll never be another one like them, And that's
generally true for all of us.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We're all individuals, right, We're all individuals in terms of
the skill set. Though there can never be another John Sterling.
He would not be allowed to work the corporate bull crap.
John Sterling is a product of his era. Obviously, we're
all products of our era. And he came in when
sports was a mom and pop operation, which meant people
that owned teams were regular people. They weren't conglaborates, they
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weren't hedge funds, and they appreciated that type of work. Now,
oh my god, you're embarrassing the brand. What are you doing?
And even no, George Steinbrenner, the guy that was there
that hired John Sterling, has been dead for many years.
It's still a family business. The kids kept John Sterling
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employed up until just a few years ago when he
could no longer do it. Now flipping the page, but
not far as it is the hour of tribute to
the Great John Sterling, the late great John Sterling, who passed.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Away this week at the age of eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So what was the secret sauce that made John Sterling
such a unique character in Yankee broadcasting. He's just baseball
broadcasting in general, So this is simple. He didn't just
call a game, he performed it. Now, I worked with
a guy and I forget his name. I did a
TV show with him for a couple of years and
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he said to me, this is not John Sterling. But
he said to me, the key is to make it
all about you. I think his name was Looney or
something like that. Well, anyway, it turns out that John
Sterling made it all about him and it worked.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It worked right.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And most broadcasters kind of melted into the background and
you're whispering the game, and you're giving the out of
town scoreboard and you're reading all that like it's a library.
John Sterling he broadcast the game as if he was
crashing through a wall like that picture shaped kool aid Man,
shouting oh yeah, loud and proud, and you weren't tuning
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in for the Yankees per se, you were tuning in
for the Sterling cinematic universe, where every at bat, every
at bat was what it was, a brand launch, and
every player had a Marvel style origin story, every one
of them. Right, home run, please, come on? That wasn't
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just a home run? What do you even naive? No,
that was a fireworks show with catchphrases attached.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Hey, mom from a rod, a burn, baby burn, all
of them all rise, Here comes the Judge, the Giambino,
the thriller from Godzilla for Hideki Matsu.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Now, my two favorites are not mentioned very often because
they're not great ballplayers. My two favorite calls that John
Sterling had that I repeated for many years. In fact
I often still repeat them, is one for Curtis Granderson,
the Grandee Man can the Grande Man Can loved it.
And Robbie Cano and all that was when Canoe would
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hit a home run, he'd say, Robbie Cano, don't you know?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And that was it. And when the game dragged, Sterling said,
we need more juice. I'll give you some more juice.
I remember it was visiting my brother who lives in
New York, and I was we were in a with
my car. But we were driving around and the guy
who in the car it was like a taxis a
long time ago. And they had the Yankee game on
and it was just the start of the Yankee broadcast
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and John Sterling did about ten minutes of commercials. At
the start he'd be like, the Yankee baseball is not
to you, I BMW and then you know, you're.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Like seventeen different car dealerships. He'd do a bunch of
financial companies because of the Wall Street crowd.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And all that.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
It was just it was hilarious, right, but he was
unapologetically himself.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And you know, why fit in? As the I learned
this from doctor Seuss. Why fit in?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
We were born to stand out right? And Sterling didn't
describe the moment he became the moment. Now, in closing
on this tribute to John Sterling, the question, now, is
is it true that John Sterling was a friend of
the show. So I would say, yes, John Sterling was
not listen. We didn't have him on all the time
and all that. John Sterling, I interviewed him a few
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times and when you chatted with him. The thing I
will say about this Sterling, and I've been lucky enough
to meet some of these people that are big time broadcasters,
and a lot of them are total schmucks. They're just douchebags,
complete a holes. You don't want to deal with these people,
just bad people. John Sterling. My interaction with him was
very positive. I met him in Anaheim at an Angel
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Yankee game back in the glory days of the Yankees,
when I was out of the games all the time,
and I introduced myself and he seemed to genuinely care
what I was doing. I'm sure he didn't give a
rats ask what I was doing, but he seemed he
seemed to care what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And he gave me his.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Phone numbers, say if you never need anything, give me
a call. I'd love to go on your show or whatever.
So I said, okay. And did I use the call
the number all the time? No, it was like a
rare spice, you know, rare spice you don't use all
the time. It's a rare spice. Only certain recipes require
a rare spice. So I didn't call him all the time.
And the fact that just gave me the number and
he always answered or either called back, and that that's
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very and he had.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
To leave a voicemail.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
He didn't do text, didn't do the text, so you
had to do the voicemail and all that. And he'd
call you right back and he'd add, hello, this is
John and all that. And we had him on Fox
Sports Radio a couple times when I was doing some
weekend shows. We had him on the fifth hour a
couple of years back. And every time I reached out
to him, he was like, I can do it. Here's
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the times I can do it. I'd love to do it.
He never turned me down one time, and he certainly
could have and he didn't. And I think part of
it was he was kind of lonely unfortunately at the
end there he was just kind of hanging out watching
reruns of old movies and stuff at night.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I don't know, but he was very nice.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
To me, and I would give him on my report card,
John Sterling. I wrote down mensch with a not a
you know, not a capitol M mench, A mench on
the bench if you will here underline it twice if
you want to just a good just a good guy.
And he once told me, and I mentioned that when
I was driving around, I wasn't driving somebody else's driving.
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We were in New York in a cab and they
had the beginning of the Yankee broadcast and they had
like ten minutes of commercials. Like, my god, was this ridiculous?
Which sometimes sounds like our show during super Bowl week
or whatever, but I was like whatever, And John gave
me this whole lecture about how he's like, listen, the
most important thing. He summed up this tremendous wisdom. He said,
the most important thing is to sell the soap. You
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gotta sell the soap. And that's the line I took
away from that conversation, the last one we had on
the podcast a couple of years ago, and that's it.
I mean nine words. The most important thing is to
sell the soap.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's it. Nine words. That's all you got. And the
Hall of.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Fame wisdom by John Sterling. And you can't do that
with an algorithm. I don't care how great your AI is.
You can't recreate John Sterling and not a focus group.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You can't. You just can't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It will never happen again because until baseball, these sports
leagues go back to the mom and pop days, which
I don't see that ever, happening in my lifetime. The
corporations won't allow it. If you say anything on the edge,
you get a phone call, you get a text message, Hey,
ease up on these guys.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, even when I did it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Uh, there was a game there was like seven errors
in a game and I was ripping the defense and
I pointed that out and then they they got upset
with me. But anyway, Sterling, good for a life well
lived for John Sterley. Too many broadcasters today sound like
elevator music and they're afraid to wake up the baby, and.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
They're whispering like they're golf announcers. And John Sterling woke
up the whole building and didn't care.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And that was it. And there were some tremendous bloopers.
You know, John's vision wasn't very good effect. The last
time I saw him in person was a Yankee Dodger
game at Yankee Stadium a couple of years at Dodger Stadium,
right a couple years back, and I kind of snuck
in the back of the Yankee radio booth and John
was calling the game off the television, which was fine,
except sometimes the TV is a little delayed on that
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and of course the most famous John Sterling blooper was
when I think it was Justin Turner was playing for
the Red Sox and he fouled the ball back to
the press box and it joinked off John Sterling's head
while he was calling. He didn't even he was like
because he wasn't paying attention. It was like, but rest
in peace, John Sterling. Just a tremendous character in our lives,
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and it was great to I didn't obviously grow up
in New York, didn't live in New York, heard him
on the Internet and whatnot over the years and when
I visited family there, So rest in peace, John Sterling.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
All Right is the.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Ben Mahler Show. If you'd like to add any of
your memories to the life and times of John Stirling,
you're more than welcome to join us here at eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox, also on X at
Ben Malerch. Some of you guys have been on holes,
so we'll make sure to get you going here in
a minute. We also have ask O weeed Man, our
friend Billy from Hollywood Floor. This guy is so so talented,
(19:19):
such a wild man. He turned down a free trip
to Boston. Can you believe that. Who would do that?
This guy did that. That's how powerful he is. He
doesn't need the trip to Boston. Why would he come
hang out of Mala meet and greet with all the
stars of the other stars of the Mallad Militia. Anyway,
we'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
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Speaker 1 (19:50):
In addition to hearing us live weekdays from five to
seven pm Eastern two to four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio,
We're excited to announce a brand new YouTube channel for
the show.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yup, that's right.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
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Speaker 1 (20:17):
Bell Miller and you It is the Bain Malor Show.
As we work our way through the overnight hours, a
reminder they coming up this Friday, couple days from today, well,
actually more than that. So you gotta get through Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday. Then on Friday it is on the
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next round of Malord Meet and Greech. We are fired up,
so hope you can come out say hello to us. If
you're in the Boston area, you want to come out.
Two nights, two nights night number one that would be Friday.
That's the eighth of May, after the Red Sox game,
probably around ten o'clock, and that'll be Ben, Coop and
(21:00):
Lorrain at the Mighty Squirrel tap room just steps away
from Finway. One of the listeners took a photo I
saw the outside of it posted and on social media.
And then on Saturday, May night, after the WUSOS game,
probably about seven seven ish, hopefully hopefully Coop's worried about
the rain. Well, we got to show up to this event,
(21:21):
so I mean we you know, we have to be there. Well,
I'm saying hopefully it's at that time. You know, we
don't know off the game or do they postpone theirs.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Minor League Baseball? Who care? Do they just play? I mean,
I don't know, No, I don't think they're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I heard in the miners now they do these like
five game series to save money on travel where they
go for like a week, like teams visit for like
a week and stuff, so they can make it up
another day if they have to. Heyway, we'll be there
after the WUSOS game at Bowland's Irish Bar in Worcester.
So we have a private room a patio which will
be great if it's raining, go to see it out
in the patio. Live band, good food, so come out
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and hang out. I'll post some of this stuff on
social media, so check it out. Also some rumors Fats
in Philadelphia, the guy that lit himself on fire during
the NFL drafting screened My name Fats, is going to
be in the Commonwealth. He's efforting to show up to
the event on Saturday. The problem is he has to
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drag his wife because it's their anniversary weekend, so I
don't know that he's going to be able to pull
it off. He says he's going to try to convince
her to come to Worcester because there's nothing quite like
Wooster for an anniversary weekend. So we'll see if that
happens or not. And then there's some chatter maybe moving
man we'll make his appearance there. He's gonna try to
(22:43):
get there as well. So there's a lot going on
that'll be coming up at the big mall or meet
and greet, but we have before. Then we say hello
to the weed Man, and that would eat Billy who's
hanging out in Hollywood, Florida. It's a little segment called
ask a weed Man, Hello, Billy, Billy, what's going on
with you?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Then two of us needs look no more. We both
are what we were looking for. They don't see you
like I do. I wish we're try to. I'm sure
they take a game if they had a friend like game.
How do you doing?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Day?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I didn't realize we were getting some live music here.
I had no idea. Look at that. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Somebody emailed me and said we should do a meet
and greet in Florida for you weed man.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I don't great.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I don't think you'd show up.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Those definitely not.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I don't think I don't think you would. I don't
think you would.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I definitely show up. Hey, somebody sending food from you?
It had to be from you. Send me more food.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
We have you ever thought about maybe saying please, thank you.
I I you know that kind of stuff you said.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I really appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Who sent it to me?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
We think, don't we tell him? Every time? We tell
you Purto every time? Do we not tell you? Purito
sends you thank.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
You so much. I enjoyed that. I love you. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Super Markets.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Steve Wrights and says, I hate whenever you say that
I'm standing on a certain aisle. He says that I
happen to be standing on at the moment. I really
think you have me on camera somewhere in the store, Supermarket.
Steve says, by the way, he says what he says?
What is blankety blank blake? He says, Okay, I don't
(24:34):
I don't know what that.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I don't know what you want is going with you?
What's that?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Well?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I wish you were going to. We wanted to make
it happen, but you didn't. You didn't sign up for it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So Jill Wright said, says one of my very favorite
talking collectibles. And then oh it's a it's a bobblehead
with Susan Waldman, Georgie's Girl and John Stirling.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That's pretty good. I like that.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I didn't know they had that. That's pretty neat from Joe.
She's a huge Yankee fan. She lives in Minnesota, but
she loves the Yankees. A right, we have questions? Are
you ready weed Man for questions? I'm going to solve
all of life's quite problems in one segment on talk radio.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Yes, yeah, let's show it. Let's let's shoe the wall,
but make it a better place.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
To all right here, Does weed Man have any big
plans for Cinco de Mayo or for Mother's Day? Yeah,
that's right, today's sinko Tomaya?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
No, I don't. I wish I did.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, no plans. You're not going to go eat some
Mexican food somewhere and get drunking? All right, no plans?
I got you?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
What else do we have? Ferg Dog writes in on
Ask a weed Man? He says, did you smoke weed
when you were in high school? Great question, fer Dog?
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yeah, smoke weed. My whole life walls.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Right out of the womb. Yeah you didn't even no bottle?
Speaker 6 (25:59):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You know, mom?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Mom? Can I get some weed?
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Alf the Alien Opiner asks a question. He says, did
you ever meet John Sterling weed Man?
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Back in the day Oh, I wish I did.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He started when the ages were The Aggies were bad.
When he started, they had Stump Merrill was the manager.
I think when he began, they weren't very good. So
m I see what else do we have. I'd say
a call and we say hello to Let's go to
a trans gender fluid Dave. He changed his name gender
(26:33):
fluid Dave is in Houston. Hello, gender fluid Dave, Welcome.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
You know, I don't really have any questions, that's right.
I was just reflecting as you were giving your tribute
to John Sterling and then you went out to meet
Dick and Dayton too. I think might be the world's
nicest human, and I'm kind of getting to suspect that
(26:58):
you might actually be.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
A nice guy.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That about me. Yeah, I don't want people to think
that I'm nice. I want people to think that I'm mean.
I don't people walk over you if they think you're nice.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
We'll never say this again.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
And no one's listening, so we're good. Look what time
it is. Everyone's sleeping.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
By the way, I flew out to La again last night.
I was in my hotel room. I was stark naked,
and the maid walked in Finally. Anyway, Lorena once again
did not show up, and I'm thinking this is the problem.
You know, when she first started working for your show,
(27:37):
she was very professional, very efficient, but people, when people
start sending her stuff, she got really into the gig,
if you noticed, really into it. I guess, And what
can I buy Lorena? They will impress her? And I've
decided to buy Lorena Greenland.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Oh that's great. Now does she have to find it
on a map? Does she have to find it on
a map or just giving it to her?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
No, she just uh. She can imprison her enemies in
the prison towers, she can cut off her heads. Well,
I think she'd really enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Weed men, do you know where Greenland is? Weed men?
We men?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I guess I put them on hold. That's why I'm
sure he was probably yelling. I did you realize I
put them on all?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Weed men? Do you know where Greenland is? Weed men?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
No? Where you dropped me? Why you d I.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Didn't drop you. I did not drop you. I just
roll And now you're upset. So you're upset, right, you're upset.
It's that gender fluid Dave, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Dave?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So he's gender fluid, whatever he wants to be. I
don't know you anyway.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
I just uh, I want to say congratulations to weed
Man because it's his goal to be pouring love into
the universe. Yeah, and he does it every week.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
I want to change the world. I want to make
a better place. Just too much violence and hatre just
too much. We gotta change the world.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Okay, all right, to go, Thank you, gender fluid Dave.
I appreciate that. There you go, All right, go away.
Oh I just hung up on weed Man.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Oh my god, this is the second time that disaster continues.
He's going to call back, very upset here angry, streaming
and shouting and all that, and there's nothing I can do.
He'll call right back. Dan is in Texas. Hello, Dan, Welcome, Helloa.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
You make late night radio so enjoyable. You do so enjoyable.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You are number one.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
You are truly number one.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
You make everything so enjoyable at night.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Appreciate great show. There you go, appreciate he there you go.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
So.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Then I I first sard So starting back in the nineties,
and I thought some kind of a choke or a stick,
and I started listening to were the Yankees games on
the radio, and let I'll tell you what what what
a what a character? What flair he had? Like you said,
he brought such just his own genuine trademark to the game.
(30:13):
He is fantastic. So I want to be my favorite.
Could I do it?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, well, your phone's not the connection is not very good.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So if you can do it real quick here so
we can hear it, Dan, hopefully we'll here we go.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I'll do it real quick here, Sabbatia. Deal was a
the pitch called strike three ball game over Yankees win.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yankees win.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah that's great, pretty good. Yeah, not bad. I'm impressed.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Thank you, Dan, Next call man, I'll get I'll get
a better connection. Okay, buddy, all right, thank you'd be
safe driving around weed Man, I I don't know what happened.
The gremlins are attacking the phones. I clearly I'm I'm
against you. Kathy and Madison says, hey, weed Man, how's
your day today?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
If that's a Kathy and Madison, she's a big fan
of your work.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
My day's really good.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Thank you, Michael writes in. Michael writes in boxers are Briefs.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Great question Boxers all right, boo, I have a question
from Lucky Tony. Okay, go ahead earlier, all right, yeah,
we men.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Lucky Tony wants to know, when you were well off
and successful, what was your favorite meal? And then what
was your favorite meal when you were not so successful
and living on the streets.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
I like McDonald's I was living on the street. I
like steak and potatoes, and I like meat balls the
journey when I was living at home.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
All right, all right, Steve wants to know how many
times have you eaten out of a dumpster? That's not nice, Steven,
never ever, No, I mean no, you never were so
hungry you ate ever dumpster at your lowest point.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You never did that.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
No, it was always McDonald's there.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All right, Boso the district attorney, right, since this is
weed been, Yeah it does it says it's the district attorney.
Does weed man remember who first offered him a joint
that changed his life forever?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Neighbor, my next door neigh when I was.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Young, older neighbor.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Yeah, I used to smoke it out of my bedroom window.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
So if that neighbor had offered you like a cup
of water were your life would have been much different.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You'd be water Water water Man or something like that.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
You would be much I love the Weed that's the show.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah you do, I got you. Uh see you can't
read that on the air.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
All right, we have any other final thoughts here, weed Man,
any other thoughts you would like to show?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
I love you?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Then I wish I was going to Boston with you. Well,
I know, I'll definitely come to I'll definitely come with
you if you come to Florida.
Speaker 9 (32:51):
Even if it's like, uh up up where Judge who
Fled lives. I'm in the Panhandle.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Anywhere anywhere you come, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
You know, I don't think you understand how big Floord is.
Weed Man. Do you understand?
Speaker 6 (33:02):
No, I know you come to she anywhere near Miami.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'll Two seconds later, weed Man, I have a question
for you. Oh look at Loranda would like to ask
you a question, weed Man. I was just wondering, who's
your favorite stoner Cheech or Chong? Okay, a great question.
You'll take that off the air, Loraina.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yes, all right, I love that movie.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I'm shocked that you would love that movie. I can't
imagine why you would love that movie. Yeah, what was
that one? The Weed movie they made a couple of
years ago. I guess it's been a while now. Pineapple something,
remember that? Yeah, you knew that one. Did you like
that one?
Speaker 8 (33:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I love that all right, Freddie writes in he says,
what was weed Man's favorite job and least favorite job?
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Well?
Speaker 6 (33:54):
I had the toy store, so I was that was great.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Hey, I've played Santa Claus too. It's a fun gig. Right,
You're like a superhero.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
And I used to deliver pizzas and I love that too.
That was great too.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Did you deliver to Mom and Popper chain?
Speaker 6 (34:13):
No, Lenni Lenny's Pizza, Mom and Pop Place, pepper I
love pepperoni. You helped the pizza.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I thought you said you delivered peaches. I didn't think
he said no.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
He just said he delivered pieces, and he'd rip off
the pepperoni from the pies he was delivering and eat them.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
My god, Just Joshays, have you given up on the
idea of ever finding your teeth.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Or have you? Yes, yes, I have no teeth.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And have you thought about going to George Washington Route
and getting yourself some wooden choppers?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Great question.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Just Josh, You're like, no, you know I got The
last time I got teeth was filming.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Three place, and I don't know where they are, which
I could give them again.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I often misplaced. I actually misplaced my right hand the
other day and I was like, I need my right hand.
All right, Well, thank you weed Man, We love you, buddy.
Be safe, okay, yes, all right, be well. There he
is our friend weed Man, hippie from Hollywood floor.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Right hand was getting a workout. I don't need to
play that, please sorright. We will press on.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
We've got the insta trivia, and then we'll get to
Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Here's the instant trivia.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Blank has thrown three two hundred eleven pitches at or
above ninety five miles per hour since the start of
the twenty twenty four baseball season. That is two hundred
and thirty four more than any other pitcher in baseball. Again,
Blank has thrown over three thousand pitches at or above
ninety five miles per hour, two hundred thirty four more
(35:50):
than any other big league pitcher.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
That is the instant trivia. The answer next.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
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Speaker 2 (36:41):
It transitions into a podcast.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
All right, back to our time now for the instad trivia,
and we'll go to baseball for this. Blank has thrown
three two and eleven pitches at or above ninety five
miles per hour since the start of the twenty twenty
four season. That is two hundred and thirty four more
than any other pitcher in the big leagues. That is
(37:08):
the question. What's the answer? Just Josh and Cincinnati going
with Rick Vaughan. That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Dough nutt Kelly from Shane in Des Moines. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Femi's going with John Sterling is his answer. Susan Waldman
from Alf the alien O Piner.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Milkman Mike and Colorado says you are a Japanese pitching phenom.
Gomera is the answer. Minnesota's own mister Perfect Kurt Henning
from Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Who else do we have?
Henry Rowan Gartner from Rob the goat Man, one of
the all time great owners in baseball history? King Roy
going with Shrek is his answer. Hunter Green from Eke
(37:47):
and Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
J T.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
The Wingman from Outside Knoxville going with Bartolo Cologne and
Wilbur Wood.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
From BP Unless it's not, who else we have?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Awesome Kong from Donkeys Sausage, Diana Russini from Michael that's
his answer. Uh, Paige down web Cam Mama Victor's Webcam
Mama from Stebee Meatballs, Charlie Huff guests by Mediocre Kabuki.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Do you have an answer? Lared mister Boosey my favorite
beaver beaver? All right?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Uh No, that isn't correct. The correct answer Tiger's ace
Trek Scooble is the number one hees Trek scoogle here's
the answer. Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we got to the guy.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Is one big gets grilled Kobero.
Speaker 9 (38:39):
Eagles wide receiver Defonta Smith was asked about the prospect
of being the unquestioned number one receiver in Philly if
the team where to trade A. J.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Brown.
Speaker 9 (38:46):
Smith's sidestep by saying he just goes out there and
does his job.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
That's a non answer answer, Coop, that's a non answer answer.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
That's right, Yes, Ben is Smith a number one guy?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
No, but it doesn't matter because they don't throw the
ball like a traditional NFL team throws the ball because
Jalen Hurst doesn't play that way, so it's irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
They don't. The whole reason to get.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Rid of AJ Brown is they don't need a number
one receiver because they don't throw the volume of passes
to even benefit having a number one receiver.
Speaker 9 (39:16):
Next, it was reported on Sunday that the real that
real roster changes are coming to the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
As opposed to fake ones.
Speaker 9 (39:23):
Yeah, I guess ok, And that cause will be accepted
for anyone other than Jokic.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, Ben, do you think Jamal Murray has done in Denver?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Listen the way he played at the end of that game, Okay,
or the last.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I get rid of it. I tried him. I wouldn't
even let him go back to Denver.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
The way he played in that game. So, yeah, they
got to do something. They've got a couple more years
to play with with Jokish before this thing completely goes
to hell, and the Nuggets sucked, so you might as
well do whatever you can to get a championship roster
around him.
Speaker 9 (39:49):
Next, the Oklahoma City Thunder have climbed to sixteen point
favorites over the Lakers in Game one.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Do you really think the matchup is this lopsided coop?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
If they don't win by thirty points in every game,
it's a win for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
You're saying the Thunder are that much better.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
They should win every game by thirty points over the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
No context. How did we fail this this shop?
Speaker 4 (40:12):
You know it's true? What he know?
Speaker 3 (40:15):
It's a reality coup, real talk, real talk.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Not the guy that called the show.
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