August 10, 2026 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Freddie Freeman's State of the Dodgers address after the team loses yet another series over the weekend, Teddy Bridgewater retiring and what it means for the Lions, former NBA coach Don Nelson passing away, and more!
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So here in hour number one, where are you at
on the Doyers. They're not playing very well for the
last couple of weeks, and Freddie Freeman gave a state
of the Dodgers address during their slump. How did that
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resonate with you? We'll go to football. How big a
loss is Teddy two Gloves Teddy Bridgewater his retirement from
the Detroit Lions. So Jared Goff's got a new backup
quarterback there in Motown? And how are you going to remember?
A bigger than life legend, a real character of the
old days of pro bouncy ball. NBA coach Don Nelson,
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who died over the weekend we'll talk about that as well.
A rare and appropriate Mallard eulogy. We'll get to that.
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but most of the time is correct. So we begin
our lead this hour in the Valley of the Sun, Arizona.
And here we are sitting in relatively early August, about
to pivot over to the middle of August and a
NL West showdown kind of. You had the Diamondbacks and
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the Doyers over the weekend. Now, remember Dave Roberts said
everything would be fine after the Dodgers got their ass
stuffed in by the Cobs. He said, not, everything will
be okay, nothing to worry about. So they went to
Arizona and Survey says, yeah, the d Backs won the
weekend series was despite the hostile takeover, there very many
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Diamondback fans with mostly Dodger fans in that ballpark, and
shockingly it didn't matter, as in the end the Diamondbacks
win the series two out of three, which led to
a State of the Union address if you will by
one of these stalwarts of the Dodgers. If you didn't
hear or see this, perhaps not you might have missed it.
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We have a little taste. Well let's we'll get to
it in a second. But the Dodgers are stuck in
this prolonged slump and there's no the insight. Freddie Freeman,
he I guess he's been with the Dodgers a long
time now. That seems like I always to me be
in Atlanta, brave. But he's been with the Dodgers. I
had one of the biggest World Series home runs in
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Dodger history against the Yankees in Game one of the
World Series. So Freddie Freeman wants you to know there's
no reason to panic, nothing to worry about. Here, just
to prove I'm not lying, we have a Q and A.
Let's go inside the Dodger clubhouse, and here is Freddie
Freeman with some random, lowly played a lowly paid reporter.
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Take a list.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, it's a long season and they're going to
be ups and downs with the offense. But when you
look at just kind of what's been going on with
the group right now, the double plays and just maybe
some kind of unfortunate situation, A long question, are you
seeing personally just right now.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Exactly what you just said. It's face fall, ups and downs.
We're going to go through it. No one's worried in here.
Just goes have to be, you know, during the time
where our pitching has been pitching good the last couple
of games and has an offense for got to do better,
so hopefully starts smart.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
There's been more than just this losing streak in nine
and fifteen in the last month. Is that more of
a cause for concern they're concerning Paronville.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We're a good team, all right, there's something that so
Freeman there pushing back against the doom. And by the way,
whoever that woman, I don't know who that was, but
can she take a class on how to ask a question?
It's short questions, not you don't need to give a
long question. It's just terrible. That's I mean, that's embarrassing. Anyway,
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I don't know who that was. But Freeman pushing back
against the Oh my god, the sky is falling on
the Dodgers. And as you heard, he essentially said, these
things are going to happen over one hundred and sixty
two games. There's no concern here and we're a good team.
So that was the message and the vibe and this
is not just Freddy Freeman. The general vibe around the
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Dodgers is, ah, no, everything's great. There's too much talent
here and we're not going to be defined by this
bad month of baseball they've been playing here of late.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question where are you at on Freddie Freeman's
State of the Dodgers' address during this slump For the
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team that is playing against the entire field in baseball,
it's the Dodgers of the field. Would you rather have
the Dodgers in the playoffs or the field in the playoffs?
That's the bet most are making. But where you at,
Freddie Freeman? You just heard a little bit of it
the State of the Dodger address. So I've got I hop,
Walter White and giant ceramic pig, and we will combine
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all of these things together and we are going to
walk the thin blue line is what we're going to walk.
So A giving this response the rebuttal by Freddie Freeman,
giving this some side eye, little side either the Dodgers,
who have absolutely been sleepwalking going back until right around
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the All Star Game up until now. In fact, it's
more than sleepball walking. They're enjoying their rim sleep here,
the Dodgers, and they even have a nice weighted blankie
that they're enjoying. They're getting some quality sleep here. Freddie
Freeman sounding a bit like that classic scene from nineteen
eighties Hollywood, Leslie Nielsen and the naked gun move on.
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Nothing to see here, please disperse while the fireworks go
off in the background, and all kinds of craziness and
all that stuff. So this has been my problem in
this era of Dodger baseball. I call the Dodger hubris,
which I don't particularly enjoy, I don't care for, don't
like it. If Freeman saying don't panic, don't panic, don't panic,
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which is baseball's version of thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers,
which really fixes nothing and is just annoying, So stop
saying it. Okay, don't say don't panic. You might as
well say, well, thoughts and prayers to us, thoughts and no. Stop.
Lately the Dodgers their sponsorship. I know they've pretty much
on the Japanese sponsorship, and they should have I Hoop
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as a sponsor here because they are serving up pancakes
a night after night after night after night here of late,
How bad is it Mookie Bets? This how soft la
is at time? Mooki Bets is literally stealing money from
the Dodgers. Stealing money from the Dodgers right now. Nobody
has the balls to put it out put it out there,
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but we'll talk about it. Why not, We don't care.
Mookie Bets since July first is batting. I looked it up.
Two hundred since July first through Sunday. Two hundred. So
move over, Mario Mendoza, welcome to the Mooki line, the
Mookie line. He's right on it. Two hundred batting average
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for Mookie Bets. He got that forever contract and it
was great for a while. Right now, the last couple
of years, he has been stealing money from the Dodgers.
Two hundred batting average since July first. It's kind of
like Apple right now. They say, you know we're gonna
we don't releasing a flip phone. Well, why would you
do that? Why would you release a flip phone? Makes
no sense? Everyone's confused. Watching Mookie Bets try to hit
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a baseball makes no sense. Everyone's confused. Everyone's confused. And
for all the swagger of Tiascar Hernandez. He's betting two
to eleven with four home runs since June first, I
didn't play in the major leagues. I don't think that's
particularly good. Andy Piz was mister May for the Dodgers,
one of the great starts in Dodger history through April
and May. Andy Pies, who since the beginning of June
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is now the real Andy Pies with I think he's
got six home runs since the start of June, which
ain't that many. It's now all in August early August here,
so that's not good. How about the pocket Ace Baby
Ace Justin Robleski his last nine starts for the Dodgers.
This guy was great for a few months, last nine starts,
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and he's working in an Italian bistro serving up meatballs
and also an urn run average of four point five
to nine. Ah, you're being mean, Mallard. I'm just pointing
out these are all factual things. You can look them up.
Don't believe me, go back and look yourself. My favorite, though,
is Edwin Diaz. Mister Timmy trumpet. You shove a trumpet up,
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as you know what. Edwin Diaz and mister big free
agent signing got signed a free agent every year, the Dodgers.
So they got him from the Mets, and he pitched
like dog poo pooh, Edwin Diaz did the first part
of the season. So the Dodgers said, up, we figured
it out. We figured it out. It's the loose bodies, poltergeist,
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the loose bodies. Okay, So they had the operation, no problem,
went on a three month sabbatical, probably playing video games
with Blake Sneill and the other malfeasent players on the
Dodgers who don't show up. So Edwin Diaz three months
sabbatical and loose bodies. And since he's come back, his
earn run average is eleven point two the price of popcorn.
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Edwin dizra So my piece of advice, unsolicited is just
stop hitting the snooze button. And he said, oh, that's
only August, and that's true. However, these things settle in
and he said, well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
a bit. It's not obviously the playoffs. It's just disheartening
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how disheveled and frazzled the Dodgers appear to be, and
how they're just so arrogant about the whole thing. Here
and this thing completely unravels, and then you can't put
it back together, and then what do you do? Meanwhile,
to the NFL, and we go to Detroit. A veteran
quarterback has said bye bye to his career, retirement, training camp, retirement, Teddy,
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two gloves, Teddy no more. As he exit, stays left,
quitting the Detroit Lions. The Teddy Bridgewater, putting his NFL
career on pause yet again. That's it. Dan Campbell, the
man that will eat your kneecap, the head coach of
the Lions, telling reporters Bridgewater's quit. He is stepping away
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from the NFL because he can't play anymore, so he's quitting.
As a result, the Lions immediately went out and replaced
him on the roster, adding quarterback Josh Dobbs. That's right,
that Josh Dobbs. That is correct. Ding ding ding ding
ding ding ding. Chances are Josh Dobbs played for your
favorite team. He's played for thirty percent of the NFL teams,
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thirty percent, three hundred hitter. He's in the Hall of
Fame when it comes to changing laundry. So Dobbs in
Bridgewater out put on the reserve retired list Teddy two
gloves out there. Dobbs signed a one year contract. He
gets an extra four hundred and seventy five thousand gara
on teed sight unseen guaranteed for Josh Dobbs. There thirty
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one years old, and he will now be the number
two quarterback behind Jared Goff in Motown. A question how
big a loss is backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to retirement
for the LNS Lions, So on this one, listen Teddy
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Bridgewar's retirement is it is a minimal move. It just is.
That's just the way. And the Lions are replacing him
with Josh Dobbs, which is by definition a lateral move
that is not a downgrade, that is not an upgrade.
Detroit essentially traded in a night light for a flashlight
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that has dying batteries. That's the transaction, that's the move
that they made. Now Dobbs is the NFL's version at
this point of duct tape. And he's not a flashy guy,
Josh Dobbs, he's not. You'd rather not use him. Your
preference would be not to use the duct tape or
to use Josh Dobbs. You wouldn't want that. And somebody
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always seems to keep duct tape and Josh Dobbs around
very similar, like every junk drawer has some duct tape.
Even if you haven't used it in thirty years, you
still have it. It's very odd now the pastor not,
which is right up there with great nicknames. You think
of the big nickname big board, not a list terry
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in England, the big board when you have legends like
the Amish rifle and the hefty Lefty. The past or
not pretty good? Pretty good there. I studied aerospace engineering.
I think we all know the story by now if
you pay attention to the NFL, chose football and then
became a pig skin hobo traveling to the boondocks of
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the NFL here wandering through nine different teams. Now the
Lions will be Josh dobbs ninth team as he's the
new backup in Detroit and Keimo what he has three
wins in his career. He's earned over fourteen million dollars
Josh Dobbs and he has three career wins to his name,
and so I guess he made the right call because
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otherwise what we do working on like NASA or SpaceX
or something. Right now, if he had gone that other direction,
that's what he would be doing.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I don't think you make that much. You make good money,
but you don't make that much money in that profession.
So there you go, and you look around Jared Goff,
who's still QB number one. Now, if Jared Goff goes down, down, down, down,
down down, if goes goes down, Josh Dobbs is not
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changing the season trajectory in terms of a super Bowl
for the Lions. And he's basically it's like Josh Dobbs
on your team. He said, oh, there, I've been backup
quarterbacks should have got it. Yes, you know, once in
a generation there's a Tom Brady or Nick Foles or
if you go way back, Trent Dilford, Jeff Hosteler, guys
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that have had success as a backup. However, there are
literally Amazon stores, like the warehouses of Amazon, filled with
backup quarterbacks who couldn't get it done. And when you
have Josh Dobbs on your team, it's basically like having
the Walter White breaking bad health plan. Technically you're insured, right,
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Technically you're insured, but when something really bad happens, bad, bad, bad,
bad bad. You're going to have to sell some meth
to pay for it. So that's the problem. Okay, here
you go, and having dobbs. Having dobbs is like it's
like having your emergency parachute. Say, well, can I see it? Yeah,
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I'll show you. It's right here in my duffel back. Okay, good,
thank you. So here's the emergency parachute and it's just
a bed sheet. Well, that's not gonna work. That's not
gonna work at all. All right now, last word, I
did want to spend a couple of minutes because I'll
do old guy radio. Why not do old guy radio?
What the hell? I wanted to spend a few good
minutes talking about the life and times of the second
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winning as coach in NBA history, Don Nelson, a five
time champion as a player for the ball in Celtics,
whose numbers retired by Boston, which is not all that
impressive because anyone who's visited the Garden more than seven
times has had their number retired. Anyway, Don Nelson is dead.
He lived a full life. Don Nelson was eighty six
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years old. The news came out over the weekend that
his death was announced on Sunday. Longtime NBA coach and
someone that I was around in my formative years as
a young radio lad, and I stuck microphones in don
Nelson's face when he was coaching the last few years
of his career as an NBA coach, And so our
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pas crossed, and I wanted to spend a couple of minutes.
Now that this is it for Don Nelson, lights out
video game ends, The question is how are you going
to remember? How are you going to remember former NBA
coach Don Nelson who lived to the full age of
eighty six. So, as I said, when I started doing this,
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he was still walking the sidelines of the and I
will remember, And you can decide how you want to
remember don Nelson, but I will remember Don Nelson as
the I called him, the like the real life nutty
professor of basketball. And that really fits, not exactly like
Eddie Murphy, but the real life nutty professor of basketball,
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the mad scientist who was scribbling potions in basketball formula
on whiteboards. But they were potions, you know, the chalk
Back then they had chalkboards. Actually, if you had white boards,
they had chalkboards and he was doing things thirty plus
years prior that. The rest of the NBA thought, well,
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that's never gonna work. You're just messing around. You're you're
ruining the integrity of the game. You know, the weird
experimentation by the nutty professor Don Nelson back in the
in the day. And then you think about now, in hindsight,
Don Nelson, in all those years ago, Nelly was playing
what is modern NBA twenty twenties, NBA basketball in the
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nineteen eighties and early nineties, he was doing that. I
would point forwards, small ball pays, shooting mismatches, dragging the use.
They used to have these big, useless, lumbering centers like
Alton Lister and players like that. If you know who
that is, typically capty year old. And he put these
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guys out above the basket, and it was unorthodox, as
you always wanted your center to be near the rim
to block shots and get rebounds. That Don Nelson said,
screw that. And so he did not believe in the
traditional positions of the NBA and kind of like he
was using an iPhone when everyone else had rotary phones
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and Don had an iPhone, Well, how can you use
an iPhone because nobody else has them, and that was
the problem. Nobody else had the tech that don Nelson
had back in those days, and he invented what at
the time was called Nelly Ball and one over thirteen
hundred games, don Nelson and never was able to get
a team to the NBA finals, never got to the
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NBA finals as a coach. Despite all those wins, great
regular season coach, could not get it done in the playoffs.
But the sport eventually morphed into this world, his worldview,
don Nelson's worldview of what basketball should be like, and naturally,
of course, a career that was unconventional, unconventional and he
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needed the proper accessories. You got accessorize, and he accessorized.
Don Nelson, this guy coach. He hated having to wear suits.
There was a time where they had to car him
in the NBA and coaches had to wear suits because
it was classy. Now they can just like slobs, and
don Nelson's like, I want to just like a slob.
He was ahead of his time there too, all these
coaches just like slobs. Now, don Nelson he was forced
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to wear a suit, so he'd occasionally take his tie
off he'd get fined for that. Then he wore one
point a fish tie that used to be a thing,
a tie that looks like a fish, and that was
part of his shtikola. And at one point when he
was coaching the Milwaukee Bucks, the famous story that's been
passed down, who knows if it's true or not that
don Nelson would drive around trying to raise money for
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charity and he had a giant ceramic pig. He was
raising money for farmers who were down on their luck
in Wisconsin and then completed the zany wackadoodle career life
arc and went out the right way. For many, many years,
don Nelson has been embedded in the Hawaiian Islands. I
believe he was living in Maui, and there's some amazing
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stories about him and Willie Nelson gambling and smoking weed
all the time and just living the life that you'd
want to live most people when they get to their
eighties and just enjoy life and do whatever the hell
you want. But you land on the beach somewhere. And
he also became in his later years a marijuana farmer.
Don Nelson was selling drugs in his life later years,
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but again five championships as a Celtic and did not
get it done there as a coach winning a championship,
but had the all time wins record up until Popovich
passing it by. And the most amazing thing is all
those zany crazy ideas. And I remember the conversation when
Don Nelson was doing that stuff. I watching minute ball
shoot three point shots. It was the dumbest thing in
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the world. And now you look at it, it's like, well,
everyone's doing what he did thirty forty years ago. His ideas.
You know, the NBA caved into don Nelson's ideas on
how to play basketball and he was just ahead everybody else.
And so if basketball were a movie, if it were
a movie, don Nelson was the director who got absolutely
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panned on the release of the film and then won
an Oscar years later, won the Oscar.
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a coincidence that the Dodgers' power numbers and winning percentage
of both significantly decreased since California Governor Newsom's anti sunflower
seed celebration Showers was initiated, his policy doesn't seem to
have affected the Giants nor the Padres. Now I understand, well,
that's somebody to look into for sure. Late Night Drug
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Tester writes in and says, don't worry Dodgers fans. The
cure for all those struggling teams is here a home
series with the twenty twenty seven AL Central Champions, the
Royals that'll fix them? Alf the alien o piner right,
sinceays I'm sorry that your Dodgers are struggling, But more importantly,
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who were these men and women in dress shirts, ties
and suspenders behind home play? Well, as much as I
like to know every person that sits behind home play,
the only one I actually do know, Alf is Marlin's man.
And I don't see Marlin's man in the crowd. I
have no idea why you would wear in that stadium
suspenders and dress shirts and ties. I do, I do
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not know, And that's not That's not a very cool stadium.
It's in Arizona, where's one hundred degrees at night and
all that, And that stadium they have a dome, but
as I remember, maybe they changed it since I was there,
but I will was last there. They would leave the
dome open during the day for batting practice, and then
they'd close it like ninety minutes or an hour before
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the game, so it was still pretty warm, still still
pretty warm in there by the time the game started.
Because you know what, it's expensive. Air conditionings are very expensive,
Doc dan Wright, since says winner gets to play, Bill Miller. Yes,
the winner gets to play for sure. Let's see, I
think this is the Bill's mafia. Guy who changed his
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name says. If don Nelson is the professor but the
professor is always learning, then does don Nelson actually know anything?
We've officially entered the Mallard paradox. Well, he's the nutty professor.
See that's it. Chip in the cues right since, says
a Plus monologue. Duct tape is usually one of those
things you only readily have it on hand when you
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have no current use for it. It's only when you
find you really need it that you don't have it.
It's a fair point. Also, electrical tape would be in
the same category. You know that black electrical tape that
you can wrap things like wires, if your phone cables
a little fritzy, you can wrap it around and you
can't find that when you need it.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
You have it.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
You know you have it. Yeah. Nature Boy answering the
call in the wild, says, you make the phrase having
dobbs sound like a disease. You know it's not. Keith
and NorCal says, I had to check if I accidentally
hit a podcast from last year after this monologue about
the fledgling Dodgers. Deja vu, here come the Pods. Yeah, well, Keith,
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as you know the mantra of the show, we have
a daily talk show to do. We have to worry
about the show that day. We won't wait until later on.
That's how this works. So nothing to see here. Everything's fine,
That's what Freddie Freeman's doing. The reality is that the
Dodgers right now, in this moment, suck. Anthony in Anaheim,
retired celebrity caller, couldn't handle the rigors of being a
(29:34):
celebrity caller, the paparazzo and all that. Says Mookie Betts
is going to have to change his name to Mookman
Mike when he starts calling the show. Yeah, I'm sure
that'll happen right away. What else do you have? See?
Can't a lot of reaction to Joshua Dobs the Baltimore
Media Freeloader account right since says that lady still asking
(29:57):
a question inside the dodge of locker room should be
he denied any type of free meal until she learns
how to condense her question. We're in a world of
look at me media, when focused should be on the
next free meal. Isn't that why you got in the base. Yeah, well,
back in the old days, as you know Baltimore Free
Loader account, we had unbelievable copious amounts of free food.
(30:20):
Not anymore, No, not anymore. But yeah, that question triggered
me because I had many a program director in my
early days in radio who said, Ben, the quickest question
is the greatest question. It Larry King, who's been dead
for a number of years. But Larry would always for
Larry didn't prepare. I love Larry. Larry was very good
to me when he was alive, But Larry King never
(30:41):
really prepared for anything. He just kind of winged it.
And the greatest question is like why you know somebody says, well,
it's give it an answer, going on, like let's just
do Freddie Freeman saying, well, you know, it's a long season.
There's a lot of ways to go, you know, a
lot a lot of games ago. We're gonna be perfectly fine.
Why not, Well, you know this has happened, that's happened.
(31:03):
You know, you scratch your ass, you beat one eighty,
you don't scratch your ass. You bet two ten. Maybe
shouldn't scratch your ass. What do you have to say, Freddy,
what are you doing? Seriously?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Let mean hold, I got to move this? All I said, computer,
move that so I can see it. Hold on SEC
live coverage. The computer was for some reason placed up
on the table. Let's say hello to eeny meeny miney mall.
Let's say how to David, who's in Lost Wages, Nevada.
Hello David, welcome, Hey byey.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Three weeks at the steakhouse.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Do every time we'll be hanging out, it's gonna be
a what a night? That's gonna be what's afternoon? It's
gonna be late afternoon.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
But hey, I just wanted to say something kind of
personal about Don Nelson because, as you know, I'm of
a certain age. Yeah, so when I think of Don Nelson,
it's not as a basketball coach. It's not even as
a player for the Boston Celtics, which he was for
many years. But I'm so old that I go back
(32:12):
to when he was a forward and the star of
the Iowa Hawkeyes from nineteen fifty nine to nineteen sixty two.
And I was a kid growing up in Iowa City
a Hawkeye fan, and as such, he was a He
was my first ever sports hero of any sport, college
(32:34):
or pro baseball, basketball, football, whatever. Everybody's got a first
sports hero in their life. I was six years old.
My parents let me go to sleep with a radio
and I could listen to the Hawkeye games when I
go to sleep, and my older brother taught me, hey,
this is the star of our our team. And that's
my memory of Don Nelson going way back then. But
(32:57):
it's kind of a fun priority anybody else that calls
him tonight. Let's say, who do you remember who your
first ever sports hero was in life?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Uh? Yeah, no, no, he cool? There you go. It's cool,
cool memory when you were a little kid back in
the day and you saw the whole life of Don
Nelson all the way up until retiring and MAUI hanging
out with Willie Nelson living the life in his final days.
What a way to go out right? Come on? Amazing? Yeah,
all right, so I'll see it a couple of weeks.
Seg you, David, the great David there in Vegas, who'll
(33:28):
be hanging out with us. We look forward to that.
Let's say hello to Enie Meanie miney mo. Let's go
hi to Anthony, who's in Louisiana. Very rare that Anthony
calls on a Sunday into a Monday, but here he is.
Hello Anthony and Louisiana. Hello, how you doing well? Thanks Mesty.
I had a whirl one weekend. I went very far
(33:52):
from the Malor mansion. Uh for for a very brief
amount of time. I will save that story for the
podcast later on, but I quite the whirlwind trip. How
was your weekend, Anthony? Good?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
It was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
It did.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
What was the highlight of Anthony? Because we we really
I think all the men, women and children in America
are dying to know what happened to Anthony in Louisiana.
It was a beautiful day. I went outside and enjoyed
the sunshine. Was it human? It was weird?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Nice? But you liked?
Speaker 5 (34:24):
You liked.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You live in Louisiana, right. You gotta like the humidity
where you are. You can't not like it. You have
to embrace it. Yeah, you know, we had a little
rank yesterday. But it all okay, that's good. Did you
go Petta gator or something in the bayo?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
No, you did not?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Okay? What's that? Oh? My pen of the ranks on vacation. Huh,
I don't know. She didn't say she was not even here,
but she's not here, so I don't know she did.
She didn't tell me, but she's somewhere. Yeah, I don't know.
She is my other Mark. Yeah, hey, ma, Markeye Mark,
the pride of Chicago. Here he is right over there,
Marky Mark. I will let him know. He he's very
(35:00):
excited that you said hello to him. It means he's
upset you're not family. He wanted to be family with you,
but you're not family.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
So you know what happened to the dogs? What happened
to him?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
They've sucked at a time you cannot suck there, and
they're not getting good enough pitching and their offense is futile.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Can you hit? Can you?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Can you swing the bat? Can you swing the lumber
a little? I used to when I when I went
out to see, Well, the way they're hitting, I think
you're better right now, even as a blind man, than
the Dodgers, the way you're swinging the bat. So, uh,
all right with Anthony fan you and you know, we'll
check back in later. I'm sure Lorene will be here
later in the week, Okay, okay, I'll let her know. Yes,
absent what about Kathy and Madison, about Queen rox Anne
(35:43):
in Denver. Yes, all right, I lean, okay, I'll jot
it down. I'll make sure to let one thank you
got go way. There is our friend Anthony in Louisiana.
It is the ban mall Or show. We are just
said Lee and there's a lot of that amazing content
continue on through the overnight. Well, we want Hollywood, we
don't want too much Hollywood. So Netflix is planning on
(36:05):
broadcasting this Field of Dreams game, which is Baseball's been
doing this for a few years and they have confirmed
this is great. So they don't want too much Field
of Dreams, you know, they want too much of the
Field of Dreams in the Field of Dream games. So
they're going to have Kevin Costner appear. The broadcast is
coming up here a few days from now. So what
(36:27):
are you going to have him do? Like, I know,
he's been in a bunch of baseball movies, but he's
an old actor, hadn't been much recently, right, very odd.
So Netflix wants to not do too much with Field
of Dreams yet is bringing in Kevin Coster. Make it
make sense? Make it make sense. Time now for the
who am I Game. This is where we pretend to
be somebody else else. We call it the who am I?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
The mess is Jacob Miseraski reached two hundred strikeouts in
only one hundred and twenty nine and a third innings
pitch this season. He is the second fastest pitcher in
Major League Baseball history to reach that mark, only trailing me.
Who am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll
(37:10):
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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Ben Maller Show, Fox Sports Radio as we roll on
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check out the Fifth Hour podcast. New episodes all weekend long,
including the very popular mail Bag on Sunday, another yet
another appearance by Robbie the Mariner Fan. Always ready, Robbie
(37:41):
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And you hear the mail bag on some from the
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(38:03):
radio stuff that's on, and then you can enjoy that
and knock yourself out and have a great time. It's
amazing and way to go. All right back to it
we go, and time now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Game?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Milwaukee Brewers as Jacob Miserawski, reaching two hundred strikeouts in
only one hundred and twenty nine and third innings pitch
this season, he's the second fastest pitcher in the history
of baseball to reach that mark, only trailing me. Who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
(38:41):
And let's see does anyone know the answer? Alf the
alien Opiners, says bedraggled Benny and his bent by vocals. Yes, yes,
I blame JT the wingman for that. He had asked
if I had ever fallen downstairs, and then shortly after that,
in a desperate attempt to protect the sanctity of the
mal mansion and stop moxy from an illegal act of contraband.
(39:04):
I quickly high tailed it to try to get a
hold of Moxie and then insanity ensued. You can hear
that on one of the episodes of the Fifth Hour
podcast This Weekend, Hunter Hurst Helmsley from King Rory, that's
his answer. Frank Tanana the banana from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
Little League Softball MVP Anna Lynn Clark, guest by ferg
(39:29):
Dog get out and touch the grass for a dog.
Femi's going with Kevin Costner as his answer. Malard Prop
Guy says it's slug in Vegas. Now will Mallard Prop
Guy make an appearance at a Malard meet and greet?
There are some rumors that he may show up. Michael
also says the answer is the Mayflower, the Pilgrims and beer.
(39:50):
You know, yeah, there is a theory, and Michael points
out as a Mallard plus subscriber, unlike Wayne the curmudgeon
in Duluth and his apparently wife, I think that's fake.
But those two Malard plus subscribers know that one of
the theories is the reason the Mayflower landed there in
Plymouth Rock is because they ran out of beer and
(40:11):
they just needed to try to get some more beer.
Who else we have, nature Boy says Chico Eskella is
the answer, lang Langley, Mark Langston from Poly d Jesse
Pinkman from Dat Dude, Big Lou. He's on number two
and he goes with Reggie Theis as his answer. Bob
(40:32):
Feller from Analog Awls Steelers Nasty going with the legendary
Sid Finch, one of my all time favorite Mets. Was
a huge fan of Sid Finch and really was the
talk of baseball. He went viral without social media, Sid Finch.
If you don't know the history of Sid Finch and
didn't have a long career. Didn't have a long career,
but a very memorable career for Sid Finch. On the
(40:53):
mound for the New York Metropolitans. Marlowe guessed by just
Josh Satchel Paige from Chip in the Huse. Bob Gibson
tossed out by Johnny Q Derek in Buffalo the Bills Monster.
Gotta change your handle on that Bill's monster, he says
Edwin Diaz, Yeah, he stinks. Who else? Dwight Doc Gooden
from Fat Daddy and Manuel and Guardina says Nelson from
(41:17):
The Simpsons.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Ha ha.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
The correct answer Jacob Mezerowski second now all time in
most to two hundred strikeouts, quickest strikeouts, and Spencer Streider
The Braves, Spencer Streider, Schreider Spencer Streider
That's baseball, Susan the Bennyman Can the Bennyman Can. It's
our number one of the Bain Mallershow podcast. But you
already knew that. And we are together united for one
common goal to provide spicy hot takes on the sporting world.
We stayed up all night doing this podcast. Now people say, oh,
(00:20):
you're an overnight radio shows. No, no, no, we are
podcasters much cooler, and you're listening to our podcast. Thank
you for that. Yeah, we're very cool. We're very hip.
So here in hour number one, where are you at
on the Doyers. They're not playing very well for the
last couple of weeks, and Freddie Freeman gave a state
of the Dodgers address during their slump. How did that
(00:42):
resonate with you? We'll go to football. How big a
loss is Teddy two Gloves Teddy Bridgewater his retirement from
the Detroit Lions. So Jared Goff's got a new backup
quarterback there in Motown? And how are you going to remember?
A bigger than life legend, a real character of the
old days of pro bouncy ball. NBA coach Don Nelson,
(01:03):
who died over the weekend we'll talk about that as well.
A rare and appropriate Mallard eulogy. We'll get to that.
And here it is our number one suffering from a
case of the blue flu. How do you do? Welcome
in the beginning of another week of the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We are in the air everywhere in Unison as we
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to clean them out.
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There's some orange gunk in there, and we're just saying hello,
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(02:21):
just celebrated his ninety fifth birth and hates the show.
We're very happy about that, very excited that he does
not like the show. But all of them said, we
demand hot takes. We don't want lukewarm takes. We want
hot takes. Give us hot takes, malor give us the
hot tags. They're screaming and the customer not always right,
(02:43):
but most of the time is correct. So we begin
our lead this hour in the Valley of the Sun, Arizona.
And here we are sitting in relatively early August, about
to pivot over to the middle of August and a
NL West showdown kind of. You had the Diamondbacks and
(03:05):
the Doyers over the weekend. Now, remember Dave Roberts said
everything would be fine after the Dodgers got their ass
stuffed in by the Cobs. He said, not, everything will
be okay, nothing to worry about. So they went to
Arizona and Survey says, yeah, the d Backs won the
weekend series was despite the hostile takeover, there very many
(03:27):
Diamondback fans with mostly Dodger fans in that ballpark, and
shockingly it didn't matter, as in the end the Diamondbacks
win the series two out of three, which led to
a State of the Union address if you will by
one of these stalwarts of the Dodgers. If you didn't
hear or see this, perhaps not you might have missed it.
(03:49):
We have a little taste. Well let's we'll get to
it in a second. But the Dodgers are stuck in
this prolonged slump and there's no the insight. Freddie Freeman,
he I guess he's been with the Dodgers a long
time now. That seems like I always to me be
in Atlanta, brave. But he's been with the Dodgers. I
had one of the biggest World Series home runs in
(04:11):
Dodger history against the Yankees in Game one of the
World Series. So Freddie Freeman wants you to know there's
no reason to panic, nothing to worry about. Here, just
to prove I'm not lying, we have a Q and A.
Let's go inside the Dodger clubhouse, and here is Freddie
Freeman with some random, lowly played a lowly paid reporter.
(04:31):
Take a list.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, it's a long season and they're going to
be ups and downs with the offense. But when you
look at just kind of what's been going on with
the group right now, the double plays and just maybe
some kind of unfortunate situation, A long question, are you
seeing personally just right now.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Exactly what you just said. It's face fall, ups and downs.
We're going to go through it. No one's worried in here.
Just goes have to be, you know, during the time
where our pitching has been pitching good the last couple
of games and has an offense for got to do better,
so hopefully starts smart.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
There's been more than just this losing streak in nine
and fifteen in the last month. Is that more of
a cause for concern they're concerning Paronville.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We're a good team, all right, there's something that so
Freeman there pushing back against the doom. And by the way,
whoever that woman, I don't know who that was, but
can she take a class on how to ask a question?
It's short questions, not you don't need to give a
long question. It's just terrible. That's I mean, that's embarrassing. Anyway,
(05:33):
I don't know who that was. But Freeman pushing back
against the Oh my god, the sky is falling on
the Dodgers. And as you heard, he essentially said, these
things are going to happen over one hundred and sixty
two games. There's no concern here and we're a good team.
So that was the message and the vibe and this
is not just Freddy Freeman. The general vibe around the
(05:54):
Dodgers is, ah, no, everything's great. There's too much talent
here and we're not going to be defined by this
bad month of baseball they've been playing here of late.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question where are you at on Freddie Freeman's
State of the Dodgers' address during this slump For the
(06:17):
team that is playing against the entire field in baseball,
it's the Dodgers of the field. Would you rather have
the Dodgers in the playoffs or the field in the playoffs?
That's the bet most are making. But where you at,
Freddie Freeman? You just heard a little bit of it
the State of the Dodger address. So I've got I hop,
Walter White and giant ceramic pig, and we will combine
(06:39):
all of these things together and we are going to
walk the thin blue line is what we're going to walk.
So A giving this response the rebuttal by Freddie Freeman,
giving this some side eye, little side either the Dodgers,
who have absolutely been sleepwalking going back until right around
(06:59):
the All Star Game up until now. In fact, it's
more than sleepball walking. They're enjoying their rim sleep here,
the Dodgers, and they even have a nice weighted blankie
that they're enjoying. They're getting some quality sleep here. Freddie
Freeman sounding a bit like that classic scene from nineteen
eighties Hollywood, Leslie Nielsen and the naked gun move on.
(07:21):
Nothing to see here, please disperse while the fireworks go
off in the background, and all kinds of craziness and
all that stuff. So this has been my problem in
this era of Dodger baseball. I call the Dodger hubris,
which I don't particularly enjoy, I don't care for, don't
like it. If Freeman saying don't panic, don't panic, don't panic,
(07:42):
which is baseball's version of thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers,
which really fixes nothing and is just annoying, So stop
saying it. Okay, don't say don't panic. You might as
well say, well, thoughts and prayers to us, thoughts and no. Stop.
Lately the Dodgers their sponsorship. I know they've pretty much
on the Japanese sponsorship, and they should have I Hoop
(08:02):
as a sponsor here because they are serving up pancakes
a night after night after night after night here of late,
How bad is it Mookie Bets? This how soft la
is at time? Mooki Bets is literally stealing money from
the Dodgers. Stealing money from the Dodgers right now. Nobody
has the balls to put it out put it out there,
(08:23):
but we'll talk about it. Why not, We don't care.
Mookie Bets since July first is batting. I looked it up.
Two hundred since July first through Sunday. Two hundred. So
move over, Mario Mendoza, welcome to the Mooki line, the
Mookie line. He's right on it. Two hundred batting average
(08:45):
for Mookie Bets. He got that forever contract and it
was great for a while. Right now, the last couple
of years, he has been stealing money from the Dodgers.
Two hundred batting average since July first. It's kind of
like Apple right now. They say, you know we're gonna
we don't releasing a flip phone. Well, why would you
do that? Why would you release a flip phone? Makes
no sense? Everyone's confused. Watching Mookie Bets try to hit
(09:05):
a baseball makes no sense. Everyone's confused. Everyone's confused. And
for all the swagger of Tiascar Hernandez. He's betting two
to eleven with four home runs since June first, I
didn't play in the major leagues. I don't think that's
particularly good. Andy Piz was mister May for the Dodgers,
one of the great starts in Dodger history through April
and May. Andy Pies, who since the beginning of June
(09:29):
is now the real Andy Pies with I think he's
got six home runs since the start of June, which
ain't that many. It's now all in August early August here,
so that's not good. How about the pocket Ace Baby
Ace Justin Robleski his last nine starts for the Dodgers.
This guy was great for a few months, last nine starts,
(09:51):
and he's working in an Italian bistro serving up meatballs
and also an urn run average of four point five
to nine. Ah, you're being mean, Mallard. I'm just pointing
out these are all factual things. You can look them up.
Don't believe me, go back and look yourself. My favorite, though,
is Edwin Diaz. Mister Timmy trumpet. You shove a trumpet up,
(10:12):
as you know what. Edwin Diaz and mister big free
agent signing got signed a free agent every year, the Dodgers.
So they got him from the Mets, and he pitched
like dog poo pooh, Edwin Diaz did the first part
of the season. So the Dodgers said, up, we figured
it out. We figured it out. It's the loose bodies, poltergeist,
(10:33):
the loose bodies. Okay, So they had the operation, no problem,
went on a three month sabbatical, probably playing video games
with Blake Sneill and the other malfeasent players on the
Dodgers who don't show up. So Edwin Diaz three months
sabbatical and loose bodies. And since he's come back, his
earn run average is eleven point two the price of popcorn.
(10:57):
Edwin dizra So my piece of advice, unsolicited is just
stop hitting the snooze button. And he said, oh, that's
only August, and that's true. However, these things settle in
and he said, well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
a bit. It's not obviously the playoffs. It's just disheartening
(11:18):
how disheveled and frazzled the Dodgers appear to be, and
how they're just so arrogant about the whole thing. Here
and this thing completely unravels, and then you can't put
it back together, and then what do you do? Meanwhile,
to the NFL, and we go to Detroit. A veteran
quarterback has said bye bye to his career, retirement, training camp, retirement, Teddy,
(11:45):
two gloves, Teddy no more. As he exit, stays left,
quitting the Detroit Lions. The Teddy Bridgewater, putting his NFL
career on pause yet again. That's it. Dan Campbell, the
man that will eat your kneecap, the head coach of
the Lions, telling reporters Bridgewater's quit. He is stepping away
(12:06):
from the NFL because he can't play anymore, so he's quitting.
As a result, the Lions immediately went out and replaced
him on the roster, adding quarterback Josh Dobbs. That's right,
that Josh Dobbs. That is correct. Ding ding ding ding
ding ding ding. Chances are Josh Dobbs played for your
favorite team. He's played for thirty percent of the NFL teams,
(12:29):
thirty percent, three hundred hitter. He's in the Hall of
Fame when it comes to changing laundry. So Dobbs in
Bridgewater out put on the reserve retired list Teddy two
gloves out there. Dobbs signed a one year contract. He
gets an extra four hundred and seventy five thousand gara
on teed sight unseen guaranteed for Josh Dobbs. There thirty
(12:50):
one years old, and he will now be the number
two quarterback behind Jared Goff in Motown. A question how
big a loss is backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to retirement
for the LNS Lions, So on this one, listen Teddy
(13:13):
Bridgewar's retirement is it is a minimal move. It just is.
That's just the way. And the Lions are replacing him
with Josh Dobbs, which is by definition a lateral move
that is not a downgrade, that is not an upgrade.
Detroit essentially traded in a night light for a flashlight
(13:36):
that has dying batteries. That's the transaction, that's the move
that they made. Now Dobbs is the NFL's version at
this point of duct tape. And he's not a flashy guy,
Josh Dobbs, he's not. You'd rather not use him. Your
preference would be not to use the duct tape or
to use Josh Dobbs. You wouldn't want that. And somebody
(14:00):
always seems to keep duct tape and Josh Dobbs around
very similar, like every junk drawer has some duct tape.
Even if you haven't used it in thirty years, you
still have it. It's very odd now the pastor not,
which is right up there with great nicknames. You think
of the big nickname big board, not a list terry
(14:22):
in England, the big board when you have legends like
the Amish rifle and the hefty Lefty. The past or
not pretty good? Pretty good there. I studied aerospace engineering.
I think we all know the story by now if
you pay attention to the NFL, chose football and then
became a pig skin hobo traveling to the boondocks of
(14:43):
the NFL here wandering through nine different teams. Now the
Lions will be Josh dobbs ninth team as he's the
new backup in Detroit and Keimo what he has three
wins in his career. He's earned over fourteen million dollars
Josh Dobbs and he has three career wins to his name,
and so I guess he made the right call because
(15:05):
otherwise what we do working on like NASA or SpaceX
or something. Right now, if he had gone that other direction,
that's what he would be doing.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I don't think you make that much. You make good money,
but you don't make that much money in that profession.
So there you go, and you look around Jared Goff,
who's still QB number one. Now, if Jared Goff goes down, down, down, down,
down down, if goes goes down, Josh Dobbs is not
(15:31):
changing the season trajectory in terms of a super Bowl
for the Lions. And he's basically it's like Josh Dobbs
on your team. He said, oh, there, I've been backup
quarterbacks should have got it. Yes, you know, once in
a generation there's a Tom Brady or Nick Foles or
if you go way back, Trent Dilford, Jeff Hosteler, guys
(15:52):
that have had success as a backup. However, there are
literally Amazon stores, like the warehouses of Amazon, filled with
backup quarterbacks who couldn't get it done. And when you
have Josh Dobbs on your team, it's basically like having
the Walter White breaking bad health plan. Technically you're insured, right,
(16:13):
Technically you're insured, but when something really bad happens, bad, bad, bad,
bad bad. You're going to have to sell some meth
to pay for it. So that's the problem. Okay, here
you go, and having dobbs. Having dobbs is like it's
like having your emergency parachute. Say, well, can I see it? Yeah,
(16:33):
I'll show you. It's right here in my duffel back. Okay, good,
thank you. So here's the emergency parachute and it's just
a bed sheet. Well, that's not gonna work. That's not
gonna work at all. All right now, last word, I
did want to spend a couple of minutes because I'll
do old guy radio. Why not do old guy radio?
What the hell? I wanted to spend a few good
minutes talking about the life and times of the second
(16:54):
winning as coach in NBA history, Don Nelson, a five
time champion as a player for the ball in Celtics,
whose numbers retired by Boston, which is not all that
impressive because anyone who's visited the Garden more than seven
times has had their number retired. Anyway, Don Nelson is dead.
He lived a full life. Don Nelson was eighty six
(17:15):
years old. The news came out over the weekend that
his death was announced on Sunday. Longtime NBA coach and
someone that I was around in my formative years as
a young radio lad, and I stuck microphones in don
Nelson's face when he was coaching the last few years
of his career as an NBA coach, And so our
(17:36):
pas crossed, and I wanted to spend a couple of minutes.
Now that this is it for Don Nelson, lights out
video game ends, The question is how are you going
to remember? How are you going to remember former NBA
coach Don Nelson who lived to the full age of
eighty six. So, as I said, when I started doing this,
(17:57):
he was still walking the sidelines of the and I
will remember, And you can decide how you want to
remember don Nelson, but I will remember Don Nelson as
the I called him, the like the real life nutty
professor of basketball. And that really fits, not exactly like
Eddie Murphy, but the real life nutty professor of basketball,
(18:18):
the mad scientist who was scribbling potions in basketball formula
on whiteboards. But they were potions, you know, the chalk
Back then they had chalkboards. Actually, if you had white boards,
they had chalkboards and he was doing things thirty plus
years prior that. The rest of the NBA thought, well,
(18:39):
that's never gonna work. You're just messing around. You're you're
ruining the integrity of the game. You know, the weird
experimentation by the nutty professor Don Nelson back in the
in the day. And then you think about now, in hindsight,
Don Nelson, in all those years ago, Nelly was playing
what is modern NBA twenty twenties, NBA basketball in the
(19:05):
nineteen eighties and early nineties, he was doing that. I
would point forwards, small ball pays, shooting mismatches, dragging the use.
They used to have these big, useless, lumbering centers like
Alton Lister and players like that. If you know who
that is, typically capty year old. And he put these
(19:25):
guys out above the basket, and it was unorthodox, as
you always wanted your center to be near the rim
to block shots and get rebounds. That Don Nelson said,
screw that. And so he did not believe in the
traditional positions of the NBA and kind of like he
was using an iPhone when everyone else had rotary phones
(19:46):
and Don had an iPhone, Well, how can you use
an iPhone because nobody else has them, and that was
the problem. Nobody else had the tech that don Nelson
had back in those days, and he invented what at
the time was called Nelly Ball and one over thirteen
hundred games, don Nelson and never was able to get
a team to the NBA finals, never got to the
(20:07):
NBA finals as a coach. Despite all those wins, great
regular season coach, could not get it done in the playoffs.
But the sport eventually morphed into this world, his worldview,
don Nelson's worldview of what basketball should be like, and naturally,
of course, a career that was unconventional, unconventional and he
(20:33):
needed the proper accessories. You got accessorize, and he accessorized.
Don Nelson, this guy coach. He hated having to wear suits.
There was a time where they had to car him
in the NBA and coaches had to wear suits because
it was classy. Now they can just like slobs, and
don Nelson's like, I want to just like a slob.
He was ahead of his time there too, all these
coaches just like slobs. Now, don Nelson he was forced
(20:53):
to wear a suit, so he'd occasionally take his tie
off he'd get fined for that. Then he wore one
point a fish tie that used to be a thing,
a tie that looks like a fish, and that was
part of his shtikola. And at one point when he
was coaching the Milwaukee Bucks, the famous story that's been
passed down, who knows if it's true or not that
don Nelson would drive around trying to raise money for
(21:14):
charity and he had a giant ceramic pig. He was
raising money for farmers who were down on their luck
in Wisconsin and then completed the zany wackadoodle career life
arc and went out the right way. For many, many years,
don Nelson has been embedded in the Hawaiian Islands. I
believe he was living in Maui, and there's some amazing
(21:36):
stories about him and Willie Nelson gambling and smoking weed
all the time and just living the life that you'd
want to live most people when they get to their
eighties and just enjoy life and do whatever the hell
you want. But you land on the beach somewhere. And
he also became in his later years a marijuana farmer.
Don Nelson was selling drugs in his life later years,
(22:01):
but again five championships as a Celtic and did not
get it done there as a coach winning a championship,
but had the all time wins record up until Popovich
passing it by. And the most amazing thing is all
those zany crazy ideas. And I remember the conversation when
Don Nelson was doing that stuff. I watching minute ball
shoot three point shots. It was the dumbest thing in
(22:23):
the world. And now you look at it, it's like, well,
everyone's doing what he did thirty forty years ago. His ideas.
You know, the NBA caved into don Nelson's ideas on
how to play basketball and he was just ahead everybody else.
And so if basketball were a movie, if it were
a movie, don Nelson was the director who got absolutely
(22:43):
panned on the release of the film and then won
an Oscar years later, won the Oscar.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
A right.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
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All right, Mala prop guy. Right. Since there is there
(26:19):
a coincidence that the Dodgers' power numbers and winning percentage
of both significantly decreased since California Governor Newsom's anti sunflower
seed celebration Showers was initiated, his policy doesn't seem to
have affected the Giants nor the Padres. Now I understand, well,
that's somebody to look into for sure. Late Night Drug
(26:41):
Tester writes in and says, don't worry Dodgers fans. The
cure for all those struggling teams is here a home
series with the twenty twenty seven AL Central Champions, the
Royals that'll fix them? Alf the alien o piner right,
sinceays I'm sorry that your Dodgers are struggling, But more importantly,
(27:01):
who were these men and women in dress shirts, ties
and suspenders behind home play? Well, as much as I
like to know every person that sits behind home play,
the only one I actually do know, Alf is Marlin's man.
And I don't see Marlin's man in the crowd. I
have no idea why you would wear in that stadium
suspenders and dress shirts and ties. I do, I do
(27:26):
not know, And that's not That's not a very cool stadium.
It's in Arizona, where's one hundred degrees at night and
all that, And that stadium they have a dome, but
as I remember, maybe they changed it since I was there,
but I will was last there. They would leave the
dome open during the day for batting practice, and then
they'd close it like ninety minutes or an hour before
(27:46):
the game, so it was still pretty warm, still still
pretty warm in there by the time the game started.
Because you know what, it's expensive. Air conditionings are very expensive,
Doc dan Wright, since says winner gets to play, Bill Miller. Yes,
the winner gets to play for sure. Let's see, I
think this is the Bill's mafia. Guy who changed his
(28:08):
name says. If don Nelson is the professor but the
professor is always learning, then does don Nelson actually know anything?
We've officially entered the Mallard paradox. Well, he's the nutty professor.
See that's it. Chip in the cues right since, says
a Plus monologue. Duct tape is usually one of those
things you only readily have it on hand when you
(28:29):
have no current use for it. It's only when you
find you really need it that you don't have it.
It's a fair point. Also, electrical tape would be in
the same category. You know that black electrical tape that
you can wrap things like wires, if your phone cables
a little fritzy, you can wrap it around and you
can't find that when you need it.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
You have it.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
You know you have it. Yeah. Nature Boy answering the
call in the wild, says, you make the phrase having
dobbs sound like a disease. You know it's not. Keith
and NorCal says, I had to check if I accidentally
hit a podcast from last year after this monologue about
the fledgling Dodgers. Deja vu, here come the Pods. Yeah, well, Keith,
(29:13):
as you know the mantra of the show, we have
a daily talk show to do. We have to worry
about the show that day. We won't wait until later on.
That's how this works. So nothing to see here. Everything's fine,
That's what Freddie Freeman's doing. The reality is that the
Dodgers right now, in this moment, suck. Anthony in Anaheim,
retired celebrity caller, couldn't handle the rigors of being a
(29:34):
celebrity caller, the paparazzo and all that. Says Mookie Betts
is going to have to change his name to Mookman
Mike when he starts calling the show. Yeah, I'm sure
that'll happen right away. What else do you have? See?
Can't a lot of reaction to Joshua Dobs the Baltimore
Media Freeloader account right since says that lady still asking
(29:57):
a question inside the dodge of locker room should be
he denied any type of free meal until she learns
how to condense her question. We're in a world of
look at me media, when focused should be on the
next free meal. Isn't that why you got in the base. Yeah, well,
back in the old days, as you know Baltimore Free
Loader account, we had unbelievable copious amounts of free food.
(30:20):
Not anymore, No, not anymore. But yeah, that question triggered
me because I had many a program director in my
early days in radio who said, Ben, the quickest question
is the greatest question. It Larry King, who's been dead
for a number of years. But Larry would always for
Larry didn't prepare. I love Larry. Larry was very good
to me when he was alive, But Larry King never
(30:41):
really prepared for anything. He just kind of winged it.
And the greatest question is like why you know somebody says, well,
it's give it an answer, going on, like let's just
do Freddie Freeman saying, well, you know, it's a long season.
There's a lot of ways to go, you know, a
lot a lot of games ago. We're gonna be perfectly fine.
Why not, Well, you know this has happened, that's happened.
(31:03):
You know, you scratch your ass, you beat one eighty,
you don't scratch your ass. You bet two ten. Maybe
shouldn't scratch your ass. What do you have to say, Freddy,
what are you doing? Seriously?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Let mean hold, I got to move this? All I said, computer,
move that so I can see it. Hold on SEC
live coverage. The computer was for some reason placed up
on the table. Let's say hello to eeny meeny miney mall.
Let's say how to David, who's in Lost Wages, Nevada.
Hello David, welcome, Hey byey.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Three weeks at the steakhouse.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Do every time we'll be hanging out, it's gonna be
a what a night? That's gonna be what's afternoon? It's
gonna be late afternoon.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
But hey, I just wanted to say something kind of
personal about Don Nelson because, as you know, I'm of
a certain age. Yeah, so when I think of Don Nelson,
it's not as a basketball coach. It's not even as
a player for the Boston Celtics, which he was for
many years. But I'm so old that I go back
(32:12):
to when he was a forward and the star of
the Iowa Hawkeyes from nineteen fifty nine to nineteen sixty two.
And I was a kid growing up in Iowa City
a Hawkeye fan, and as such, he was a He
was my first ever sports hero of any sport, college
(32:34):
or pro baseball, basketball, football, whatever. Everybody's got a first
sports hero in their life. I was six years old.
My parents let me go to sleep with a radio
and I could listen to the Hawkeye games when I
go to sleep, and my older brother taught me, hey,
this is the star of our our team. And that's
my memory of Don Nelson going way back then. But
(32:57):
it's kind of a fun priority anybody else that calls
him tonight. Let's say, who do you remember who your
first ever sports hero was in life?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Uh? Yeah, no, no, he cool? There you go. It's cool,
cool memory when you were a little kid back in
the day and you saw the whole life of Don
Nelson all the way up until retiring and MAUI hanging
out with Willie Nelson living the life in his final days.
What a way to go out right? Come on? Amazing? Yeah,
all right, so I'll see it a couple of weeks.
Seg you, David, the great David there in Vegas, who'll
(33:28):
be hanging out with us. We look forward to that.
Let's say hello to Enie Meanie miney mo. Let's go
hi to Anthony, who's in Louisiana. Very rare that Anthony
calls on a Sunday into a Monday, but here he is.
Hello Anthony and Louisiana. Hello, how you doing well? Thanks Mesty.
I had a whirl one weekend. I went very far
(33:52):
from the Malor mansion. Uh for for a very brief
amount of time. I will save that story for the
podcast later on, but I quite the whirlwind trip. How
was your weekend, Anthony? Good?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
It was pretty good.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
It did.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
What was the highlight of Anthony? Because we we really
I think all the men, women and children in America
are dying to know what happened to Anthony in Louisiana.
It was a beautiful day. I went outside and enjoyed
the sunshine. Was it human? It was weird?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Nice? But you liked?
Speaker 5 (34:24):
You liked.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You live in Louisiana, right. You gotta like the humidity
where you are. You can't not like it. You have
to embrace it. Yeah, you know, we had a little
rank yesterday. But it all okay, that's good. Did you
go Petta gator or something in the bayo?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
No, you did not?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Okay? What's that? Oh? My pen of the ranks on vacation. Huh,
I don't know. She didn't say she was not even here,
but she's not here, so I don't know she did.
She didn't tell me, but she's somewhere. Yeah, I don't know.
She is my other Mark. Yeah, hey, ma, Markeye Mark,
the pride of Chicago. Here he is right over there,
Marky Mark. I will let him know. He he's very
(35:00):
excited that you said hello to him. It means he's
upset you're not family. He wanted to be family with you,
but you're not family.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
So you know what happened to the dogs? What happened
to him?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
They've sucked at a time you cannot suck there, and
they're not getting good enough pitching and their offense is futile.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Can you hit? Can you?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Can you swing the bat? Can you swing the lumber
a little? I used to when I when I went
out to see, Well, the way they're hitting, I think
you're better right now, even as a blind man, than
the Dodgers, the way you're swinging the bat. So, uh,
all right with Anthony fan you and you know, we'll
check back in later. I'm sure Lorene will be here
later in the week, Okay, okay, I'll let her know. Yes,
absent what about Kathy and Madison, about Queen rox Anne
(35:43):
in Denver. Yes, all right, I lean, okay, I'll jot
it down. I'll make sure to let one thank you
got go way. There is our friend Anthony in Louisiana.
It is the ban mall Or show. We are just
said Lee and there's a lot of that amazing content
continue on through the overnight. Well, we want Hollywood, we
don't want too much Hollywood. So Netflix is planning on
(36:05):
broadcasting this Field of Dreams game, which is Baseball's been
doing this for a few years and they have confirmed
this is great. So they don't want too much Field
of Dreams, you know, they want too much of the
Field of Dreams in the Field of Dream games. So
they're going to have Kevin Costner appear. The broadcast is
coming up here a few days from now. So what
(36:27):
are you going to have him do? Like, I know,
he's been in a bunch of baseball movies, but he's
an old actor, hadn't been much recently, right, very odd.
So Netflix wants to not do too much with Field
of Dreams yet is bringing in Kevin Coster. Make it
make sense? Make it make sense. Time now for the
who am I Game. This is where we pretend to
be somebody else else. We call it the who am I?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
The mess is Jacob Miseraski reached two hundred strikeouts in
only one hundred and twenty nine and a third innings
pitch this season. He is the second fastest pitcher in
Major League Baseball history to reach that mark, only trailing me.
Who am I? That is the question. The answer. We'll
(37:10):
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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Ben Maller Show, Fox Sports Radio as we roll on
through the overnight hours. A programming note a reminder to
check out the Fifth Hour podcast. New episodes all weekend long,
including the very popular mail Bag on Sunday, another yet
another appearance by Robbie the Mariner Fan. Always ready, Robbie
(37:41):
the Mariner fan, and he was on the mail bag
as the Mallard militia, very social, non want you available
to do the mail bags, but Robbie always available, so
he gets opportunities. You don't get your opportunities, and Robbie does.
And you hear the mail bag on some from the
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(38:03):
radio stuff that's on, and then you can enjoy that
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we go, and time now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Game?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Milwaukee Brewers as Jacob Miserawski, reaching two hundred strikeouts in
only one hundred and twenty nine and third innings pitch
this season, he's the second fastest pitcher in the history
of baseball to reach that mark, only trailing me. Who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
(38:41):
And let's see does anyone know the answer? Alf the
alien Opiners, says bedraggled Benny and his bent by vocals. Yes, yes,
I blame JT the wingman for that. He had asked
if I had ever fallen downstairs, and then shortly after that,
in a desperate attempt to protect the sanctity of the
mal mansion and stop moxy from an illegal act of contraband.
(39:04):
I quickly high tailed it to try to get a
hold of Moxie and then insanity ensued. You can hear
that on one of the episodes of the Fifth Hour
podcast This Weekend, Hunter Hurst Helmsley from King Rory, that's
his answer. Frank Tanana the banana from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
Little League Softball MVP Anna Lynn Clark, guest by ferg
(39:29):
Dog get out and touch the grass for a dog.
Femi's going with Kevin Costner as his answer. Malard Prop
Guy says it's slug in Vegas. Now will Mallard Prop
Guy make an appearance at a Malard meet and greet?
There are some rumors that he may show up. Michael
also says the answer is the Mayflower, the Pilgrims and beer.
(39:50):
You know, yeah, there is a theory, and Michael points
out as a Mallard plus subscriber, unlike Wayne the curmudgeon
in Duluth and his apparently wife, I think that's fake.
But those two Malard plus subscribers know that one of
the theories is the reason the Mayflower landed there in
Plymouth Rock is because they ran out of beer and
(40:11):
they just needed to try to get some more beer.
Who else we have, nature Boy says Chico Eskella is
the answer, lang Langley, Mark Langston from Poly d Jesse
Pinkman from Dat Dude, Big Lou. He's on number two
and he goes with Reggie Theis as his answer. Bob
(40:32):
Feller from Analog Awls Steelers Nasty going with the legendary
Sid Finch, one of my all time favorite Mets. Was
a huge fan of Sid Finch and really was the
talk of baseball. He went viral without social media, Sid Finch.
If you don't know the history of Sid Finch and
didn't have a long career. Didn't have a long career,
but a very memorable career for Sid Finch. On the
(40:53):
mound for the New York Metropolitans. Marlowe guessed by just
Josh Satchel Paige from Chip in the Huse. Bob Gibson
tossed out by Johnny Q Derek in Buffalo the Bills Monster.
Gotta change your handle on that Bill's monster, he says
Edwin Diaz, Yeah, he stinks. Who else? Dwight Doc Gooden
from Fat Daddy and Manuel and Guardina says Nelson from
(41:17):
The Simpsons.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Ha ha.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
The correct answer Jacob Mezerowski second now all time in
most to two hundred strikeouts, quickest strikeouts, and Spencer Streider
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