April 28, 2021 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about MLB commish Rob Manfred flip-flopping on speeding up baseball because of gambling, Too Much or Not Enough, Cooking w/ Roberto, and more!
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Hello and welcome. It's our nomber three, our number three
of the Ben Maller Radio program, recorded overnight vemity, commercial interruption,
repackage the podcast format soul. This hour, an old punching
bag returns Rob Manford, the Commissioner of Baseball. He has
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done a bit of a flip flop, at least it
sounds that way regarding speeding up the game of baseball.
Why well, because of gambling. Because of gambling. Rob Manford's like,
maybe that's not such a good idea. We should speed
up the game of baseball. We parse the words of
the Commissioner of Professional Baseball, Rob Manford. That and more
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coming your way here in our number three. Slow it down.
You're not in any hurry here. No, no, no, no,
don't go fast. Come on, come on now, well, come on.
In the beginning of another hour, It's the Ben Maller Show.
We are in the air everywhere as we talk in
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radio studio is good to have you along for the ride,
So we'll change it up a little bit. It is
the day before the NFL Draft, but our lead comes
from Major League Baseball, specifically the future of the sport
and Rob Manford, a very popular punching bag in this
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area of radio tile. He has some rather interesting comments
that we need to parse because they go against what
Rob Manford has said has said publicly over the last
couple of years. Now, if you didn't see this, and
maybe you missed it, buckle up, buckle up. Let me
give you the truncated version of events. Squeeze this together.
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So Rob Manford is now loving the snail like speed
of baseball. Of course that is not my opinion. That
is what's coming out of the horse's mouth. He said it,
He said it. Major leagu Commissioner Rob Manford talking gambling
on a sports business program over at Sportaco, a relatively
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new outfit that covers sports business over at Sportaco Live.
I'm not sure what that is, I assume with some
kind of internet show. But Manford said that sports betting
is a massive opportunity for fan engagement, is what he said.
He acknowledged that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has advised him
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commissioner with commissioner advice. The bald, alien looking commis Adam
Silver advising the very punchable Rob Manford in conversations when
they talked about pace of play, pace of the game,
he said, list don't talk about that. This is Adam
Silver giving advice to the people that run baseball. Don't
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worry about the pace of game. Who cares about the
pace of game? And the reason Adam Silver said that
is because Adam Silver's all He's all worried about the
almighty gambling as well, And he said baseball's pace of
game is perfecto for sports betting. To rephrase that, Rob Manford,
the Commissioner Baseball, acknowledged, seemingly agreeing with the quote from
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Adam Silver here that hey, this is actually not a
bad thing because think of all the bets we can
get between pitches when it takes thirty seconds between pitches
because the guy's scratching his nuts and walking around the
mound and all that. All right, so let us discuss
the question, what do you make of I'm Manford's evolving.
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We'll use that we're evolving position on the speed of
the game. So my views on this, You've got this jockey,
hundred and two year war and red light, and we
will connect all of this together. Now, first of all,
considering Major League Baseball's longstanding position that this is the
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most important thing in the entire world of baseball, pace
of play, this is a dramatic juxtaposition. Right. For so
many years now, we have been fed propaganda that Major
League Baseball has a need for speed. Right. They want
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to run, run, run, run, run, run, run. They don't
want to slow walk. They want to run, is what
they want to do. Why, because we are told baseball
is boring, and boring is bad, and you can't have
it slowly. It's too slow for gen z. They don't
like it. They're all into the video games. But if
only baseball is a little faster, the younger crowd would
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show up. It is a precarious situation. Now, as a result,
we were told that Major League Baseball is slowly dying.
Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah. Now we debunked this.
In fact, we pointed out for over a hundred years columnists, newspaper, hacks, radio, blowhards, TV,
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Pretty Boys has said, Baseball's dying, and it continues to
have it. It's the cockroach in the nuclear winter is
major League Baseball, and they've been banging that drum recently.
But Rob Manford has gone as far as to spend
tons of dough in an effort to snaz up the sport.
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To jump start the speed of the game. With much fanfare,
Baseball brought in Boy Wonder, the acclaimed executive from the
Red Sox and Cubs, theo Epstein to oversee a blue
ribbon panel to speed up the game. And there are
a bunch of other things in there as well, but
the main point was we need to get the game
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sped up. And now you toss out the variable of gambling,
which we're not against on this show. We are gamblers.
We support gambling. But Rob Manford's position on this, considering
where he's been coming from, is crazy town. Right now,
he's playing the role of disc jockey Rob Manford the
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word imagine going to the club and you have Rob
Manford as your disc jockey. You talk about the worst
disc jockey in the world. He's changing his tune though,
he's changing the tune in the bat of an eye
again just based on what he has said, parsing the words. Now,
speed of the game, pace of play, not that big
of you. Right. The secret phrase is piggy bank. And
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Major League Baseball is looking at the coinage that could
be theirs, and they're like, wait a minute. They're getting
all bug eyed. They're like, whoa man, Their eyes are huge,
look like like saucers. Now. Secondly, it's always about the
moo law, right, It's always about the moo law, and
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this is no different. You follow the breadcrumb trail, which
is really the trail of money, and we're obviously not
talking about chicken feet. It's it's high stakes, but it
comes at a cost. There is a long drawn out battle.
Many people pointed out like this, in the United States,
there's been this war on drugs which hasn't really worked
out too well and it's been kind of a waste
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of a lot of time and resources. But also Major
League Baseball has fought the one hundred and two year
war against the boogeyman gambling hundred in two years. It
really got jump started in nineteen nineteen, and it took
a couple of years after that for that to be adjudicated.
The famous black Sox game, at least make movies and
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TV shows about that and shoeless Joe Jackson. In that
whole era, eight members of the Chicago White Sox accused
of throwing the nineteen nineteen World Series against the Cincinnati
Reds in exchange for money from a noted professional gambler.
The Mob was involved. There's legendary tales of jurors being
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bought off by the Mob. And ever since that mortification,
we have seen over the last one hundred and two
years a rather consistent stream of anti gambling rhetoric and
integrity of the game. The almighty, all powerful, all omnipresent,
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integrity of the game is what matters most. You must
avoid the monsters, ghost demons and evil spirits of gambling
at all calls. And there have been players since then
that have been dinged for gambling, most famous Pete Rose,
All Time Hit King Charlie Hustle Band for life and
then really banned forever, even when he's dead. I doubt
they'll put him anywhere but integrity of the game. Of course,
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it's ironic considering that under Rob Mansford watch who has
been saying integrity, integrity, integrity, integrity of the game, the
Stros cheated. They were caught red handed in the act
with the smoking gun. On the MLB produced video you
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could see the table where they used to cheat, and
all the videos bang bang, whistle, whistle, all that in
the World Series, and Rob Manford said, you know what,
it's just a little piece of metal. We'll just we'll
let you keep it. So he showed his cards, and
so he's knowing his guys, these these phonies that have
a sliding scale of morality and integrity and all that. Now, finally,
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so Major League Baseball has to take three steps back,
all right, two three, and they're gonna be very methodical
on their next movie. They are stopped at the red
light of an intersection here, and if they go right,
they continue tweaking the rules of the sport. They attempt
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to have the pace of play pickup. Now if they
go to the left, they then make a deal with
the devil. They cease the operation designed to speed things
up immediately and fully embrace get all into bed with
the gambling world. My advice is this, you can do both.
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No matter what you do with baseball, it's always going
to be slower than the other sports that they're competing
against with basketball a little bit in basketball at the
beginning and the end of the baseball season, and also
the same thing with hockey because of the style of play,
they will have a leg no matter what they do
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compared to basketball and the National Hockey League. And there
are parts of the calendar where they have no competition.
There's nothing other than baseball going on, so for those
months it doesn't really matter. But the sport was hijacked
in recent years, and it's been some time now, hobviously
recent years. It's probably in ten fifteen years with this
great molasses flood on steroids. Right, if only time we
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was the issue here, But it's not really a time thing.
The issue that baseball has is balls in play, right
balls play, the amount of action. There was a study done,
I think it was by the Wall Street Journal a
few years back. They watched a few Major League baseball
games and they determined how much action we actually watched
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and keep it. I love baseball. I worked around baseball,
a very cool job around the Dodgers years ago. Very
lucky to have that job, and I loved it. But
the every amount of action in a nine inning baseball game,
you know how long it is in minutes, you gotta
guess it's less than ten minutes. In fact, it's actually
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less than six minutes. That's ball in play. Think about that.
An average baseball game is about three hours. So for
two hours and fifty four minutes, literally nothing is happening.
And so my issue baseball needs to address that. Now
I'm gonna watch either way, and they can do that.
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They can address that issue while cashing those cartoon checks
from the gambling world. The three true outcomes, which is
what's been around for like the last ten fifteen years,
home run, walk, and the strikeout. That is the bugaboo.
That's the big bug a boo that needs to be addressed.
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But no matter how you speed it up, you're still
gonna have more time to bet on things and more
things to bet on then you will in basketball. But
the comparison, the comp to the NBA, the way the
game of baseball is played, it's it's it's like basketball
has gotten all three point shots and there's little else.
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You know, everyone's just shooting three ball, the three ball,
the money ball, and they don't really try to do
much of anything else. And then it would be like
just shooting foul shots, because baseball it's a lot of
standing around and taking shots really with no one around.
That's that's baseball most of the time. They don't choke
up on the bat, they don't try to hit the
ball away from the shift, like the very basic things.
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But Rob Manford's concerned about the almighty gambling dollar. It
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or so. I'll give or take too much You're not enough.
Also cooking with Roberto coming up a little bit later
in the hour, but right now, after the phones we
go and let's say hello to any meany mighty mo
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bringing home Jerome in Cansa City. Hello, Jerome, Eddie, Roberto, Coop,
Benny the Bopper. What's going on, fellas, How y'all doing well?
Thank you? Thank you for showing me the proper respect
and Cooper Loop questioning my nickname is Benny the Bopper
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who bad job by him? Yeah, I think the meaning
of it, though being may have been a little bit
different back in your day. I don't think it because
it's a home runs you're here. I think it's because
of the number of girls you thought. But that's a
whole different story. We're not going to talk about that. Wow,
look at you man, that right there. Hey. I wanted
to give a shout out to Andrea from last night.
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She really put that thing together about the full moon
last night, the super full moon. Then I could not
figure out for the life of me why I did
not have on any underwear last night. But she said
that strange things would happen to people when that super
full moon would come out. So thank you Andrew for
preparing that up for me. You turned into a commando
all of a sudden, just because the full moon. It's
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the full moon, and then another one tonight. You know, yeah,
I know what happened on tonight's full moon. Congratulations Eddie
to your pirates for winning over the Royals tonight, the
first place in all of baseball. Royals. I would like
to add raise the banner Jolly Roger. Well, listen, being
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you said it quite a few times. You can't. You
can't say anything about baseball in April, but come on,
nobody thought the Royals would be this good at this
time of the year. Come on, you got to give
it up. No, My sources in Kansas City said they're
actually trying to win. They're not trying to suck, which
a lot of the teams invest half the battle. So
many the teams aren't even trying to win the rules,
are actually trying to feel the competitive team, which is
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not now. Eventually they'll suck. They will suck by the
end of the year, but for now, it's great, So
why not ride it out. Ride the wave they're bringing
home Jerome, ride the blue wave. That's what I'm talking about.
Being Hey, listen, the reason for our call tonight being
what are you? Are you standing up or you're sitting down,
doesn't matter. I've got some good news for you, all right.
I love good news. I'm all about good news. Now. Listen,
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you guys know that I am jocking and up until
here recently I thought it was going to be a runaway.
You know. I'm jockeying for the newbie caller of the year.
The dead guy seems to have brought a lot of
attention to himself, and that's great if he's not he's
not dead, and he was a one week wonder. We
don't know that he's going to return to the show.
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That might have been just that's it. And he talked
about washing bodies and he disappeared. The key to being
rookie caller of the year bringing home Jerome is consistency
of performers. You can't just show up and then vanish.
You have to bring it night after night, week after week.
I have another method that I'm going to use, being
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I agree with you, but here's what I say. If
you can't beat them, bribe them. And that has to
do with what my good news is. I'm on my
way to La to see you guys. In a couple
of weeks. I'll be there the last week of May,
and I am willing being I am willing to either
bring some Kansas City barbecue or some Ben Mallard chicken fingers,
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whichever one you guys decide. I will find a way
to get the food on the plane. I'll make arrangements
with Coop to make sure that you guys get the food,
and we will bribe you appropriately so that you guys
can have some Kansas City barbecue. How about that ah Man,
that sounds that sounds tempting, That is very tempting. I
don't mean these guys have had the real Kansas City barbecue,
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which is a game change. Have not, Coop, You've never
had Kansas City barbecue. I haven't either. Only I have
been to the Holy Land of the barbecue. In the
ben Mallow chicken fingers. I've experienced that that z Man
sandwich Man, that is where it's at. That's the the
go to sandwich. I'm trying to think what would travel
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well though in your carry on bag. It's only like
a four or five hour flight. It's like, but you
gotta go by the time you get to the airport
and you know, get your bag checked. If you check
your bag in and all. That's probably like a five
hour process at least. So well, some Williams might travel
well Ben, but well we'll figure the artistics. All right. Well,
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I'm very excited, Jerome, and buying off the talent always
the way to go. So no, thank you, I gotta
go bring it home Jerome. There sea no make the
barbecue sandwhich is what you gotta make. You get packet
some dry eyes out of work. Yeah, yeah, you could,
you could do that, yea, yeah, for sure, be the
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way to go. Uh. Let see, you can't read that
one on the air. Uh. Let's see. Alfhae alienal Pineus
is the only thing in baseball that will be sped
up by Uncle Rob. Collaborating with the Alien will be
his retirement date. According to alf the Alien repiner Double
O Mexican says a plus monologue band Rob Manford proves
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the point that there are stupid people in high places
and only care about money, not the game. Not the game. Now,
speaking of money, the ultimate, the ultimate money grab from
Major League Baseball is coming soon. Now we're not sure
exactly when, but within the next ten years, major League
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Baseball is expected to expand. They currently have thirty teams
and they are looking to add a couple more. That's
has been bounced around. I've heard this for several years,
that baseball was going to expand. But Rob Manford, the commissioner,
who's so well spoken at these big events, he revealed,
the Commissioner of Baseball, how much it's going to cost
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if you would like to bring a baseball team, Say
if you're nashvill Tennessee, or Portland, Oregon, or Vancouver or
Las Vegas or Louisville or maybe Charlotte, any of the
cities that have been mentioned as possible homes for Major
League BASEBALLI they go to like Mexico City, or they
throw a team another team back in Montreal. But here's
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how much it's gonna cost. According to Rob Manford, the
expansion fee, the buy in fee to get a Major
League Baseball team two point two billion dollars two point
two billion, and that is the the buy in fee.
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This also came from that Sportaco live online chat very
Newsworthy there and he says, Rob Manford, these assets baseball
teams are worth an average of two point two billion.
He says, that's uh, Essentially, I'm prifi phrasing what he said,
but essentially said that's that's where the price would be
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around two point two billion, because that's the average price
of a baseball team for an industry which is dying,
which is oh my god. And Manford has said, keep
in mind he's a commissioner, so these guys lie all
the time, but had said in the past that Baseball
was not going to add any teams until they figured
out how to get fans to show up to Tampa
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Bay Rays games, Oakland Athletic games and get them new
stadiums off. I guess they don't care about the Marlins
because the Marlins already have a stadium and no one
shows up. So as long as they have the stadium,
they can squeeze out that money. That's all they care about.
But you look at the cities that could be in
play here. There's, as I mentioned, pretty much all of
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them that have been been tossed out. But they could
go wildcard, the Salt Lake City. You think it's cities
that have NBA teams but don't have a baseball team.
There's a lot of options. They could go to a
state that has no professionals, so it could be like
the first thing in Albert quirqet New Mexico Professional sports.
What be sure to catch live editions of the Ben
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We like college football, but it's not, you know, a
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Dixon Live. If we did, Southern Fried football would be
we'd be leading every show with this. Yes, but these
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spring games to me are really not a big deal
at all. But again, maybe I know like big events.
Here you can see the next generation of players. Well,
apparently Lane Kiffin saw something he didn't like in the
Old Miss spring football game three days ago. As a result,
he has fired his offensive line coach and running game coordinator,
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Randy Clements. Now Old Miss the leading team in the
SEC as far as running the football last year over
two hundred yards per game, believe it or not. And
this guy was just signed last season to be the
offensive line coach. But Kivin claims this has nothing to
do with anything off the field. There's no scandalier. He says,
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this is a football related issue only, and it was
in the best interests of both sides two part ways.
So I don't know what happened in the spring game,
but maybe that was a part of it. Maybe it wasn't.
But the offensive line coach at Old Miss, Randy Clements,
is available if if anybody needs an offensive line. Well,
there's a lot of this time of the year, Eddie,
there's a lot of people looking to hire coaches. Very
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job market for coaching is very big this time of
the year. Clearly, yea, yeah, all right, well thank you
for that, Eddie. Is the Ben Maller Show as we
press out. I don't know if you heard about this,
But the NFL Draft is coming up. For the very
best draft coverage, be sure to tune into Fox Sports
Radio throughout the first round of the draft on Thursday.
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Catch the NFL's best information man, the Great Jay Glazer,
and he's right here on these microphones. Draft analyst Bucky
Brooks has made a lot of headlines. I saw Lamar
Jackson was upset with Bucky Brooks former number two pick,
LaVar Arrington. This guy was a stud with the Washington
Redskins back in the day. And foxes Kevin Burkhardt as well.
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They'll be there with live coverage throughout the first round
beginning at eight pm Eastern Tomorrow on Thursday. They'll have
pick by pick predictions, reactions to all thirty two first
round picks. And you know, Jay Glazer, he's got that
phone working where if there's any kind of trade action,
he will jump in and he'll have that before everyone
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else because he's allowed to. Because we're just lowly radio
slobs over here, we can actually break news. We're not
part of the illuminati that does the television broadcast. So
that's Thursday night, eight pm Eastern with the Great Jay Glazer,
Bucky Brooks, LaVar Arrington and Kevin Burkhart right here on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. It's another
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Ben Meller game. We've endured too many of these. Is
it too much or not enough enough? Already? Not too
much or not enough? It is a radio game show.
We played every week at about this time, and we
hope you enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it, we
only do it once a week. So who cares? Not
that not that bigod deal, not that big a deal
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at all. All right, who do we have playing this
week on? Too much or not enough? Any meany miney mall?
Let's say hello to Paul in the Twin Cities hanging out? Hello, Paul,
what's going on? Then? I haven't seen you in day?
I know, man, I haven't seen you in a while.
Where you been, man? I don't know? Manes and Nicold.
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It's still cold? How cold is it? Oh? Play forty
you're a hearty Minnesota and you get that thick Minnesota blood.
That's not that cold. Come on, yeah it's not. But
it was just like seventy a week ago. Hey, when
does it become cold? Because California cold. It gets cold
when it's like you know, fifty five people say it's cold,
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But in Minnesota, when does it get cold? Single digits
for sure? Single yeah, But I mean I'm just ready
for it to be warm. Man. I want to go
back to Arizona or Vegas. They have this thing called
an airport. You can go down air and then they
have flights and and all. What are you going on
in Manyapps? What kind of work do you do there, Paul?
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What garbage sanitation engineer? Yeah, you make pretty good money
doing that, right, No? Better, Why don't you go to
New York? I heard the New York garbage man make no, no, no, no,
they can miss me with that traffic man. But but well, no,
but they pick up the trash overnight in New York
like in Manhattan. Oh, I know, I've watched them. The
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smell here summer at least in Minnesota's cold most of
the year, so the trash doesn't stink like it does
in New York. They put it on the ground like
because it was a poorly designed city. Yeah, in New
York it was terribly designed. If you go to the
Old Wall, have time for this. But the lower part
of Manhattan, the original part of Manhattan. I go there
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every year every other year because my brother lives there
and it is an shole. Oh my god. All right, anyway,
the way it was designed, let's get to it here, Paul,
and hot garbage talk will have to wait till another day.
I'll ask you a series of questions. Here we go.
Question number one. In the last twenty years, the longest
unanswered scoring run in the NBA is twenty five to nothing.
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Is that too much or not enough? Twenty five to nothing?
I will say that's not enough, and you would be right.
That is correct. The longest unanswered run is twenty nine
to zero by the O nine Cavaliers back before they
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became the Cadavers. Again, the Mavericks just missed that mark.
They had a twenty eight nothing run against the formally
elite Golden State Warriors. All right, you're one an old.
Question number two. Voladi Junior Vladimir Guerrero Junior of the
dun Eden Blue Jays is now one of six players
since two thousand hit three plus Grand slams before his
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twenty third birthday. Is that too much or not enough? Oh?
Six players before two thousand, I'll say that's uh. Since
two thousand. Since two thousand, yeah, since two thousand. That's
not enough. All right, let's find out, Yeah, too much?
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He is only one of one of only four, only
four to do it. Ozzie Albie's of Atlanta, Jean Carlos
Stanton back in his Miami days, and Albert Yet Nah, No,
he's older though he went to college, so he's a
little older. All right, here we go. Question number three
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Monday night was Buster Poseys of the Higant's fifteenth career
four hit game? Is that too much or not enough
for the San Francisco slugger? Buster Posey is? And how many?
Did you say? Fifteenth career four hit game? He's been
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up the big leagues for a fair amount of time.
But yeah, yeah, I don't know baseball that well. Man, um,
let's go with that's too much? You're sure you want
to do that? No, let's going not enough? You talk, man,
I'm just holding your hand, carrying you through. Let's see.
Did I lead you astray? Did I horn swoggle you,
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did I bamboozle you? Or did I help you? That's right?
Not enough? Buster putt. Now, I'm gonna if you win
the game, I'm gonna ask you a very important question.
You're gonna have to answer the question. Okay, Buster Posty
has now had nineteen four hit games. Barry Bonds the
only hit Dante in the last fifty years with more,
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but he was cheating. Question number four. This is for
the win, This is for the win. Here we go
earlier this week, Chris Bryant. Here's another baseball question. Chris
Bryant became the sixth player to hit at least six
Grand Slams for the Cubbies. Is that too much or
not enough? All time? The sixth player? Yeah, that's all time? Yea, don't.
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I don't see a time or strains sixth player to
hit six Grand plays up? Sixer six? You think too much? Really?
I mean it comes you've been playing since like the
eighteen eighties though I know, I know, but that's so
a lot of players and six players, all right, So
what's your what's your answer? Uh, let's go not aten.
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They've been around a while, al right, right, yeah, alright,
let's find out. Dang it. Yeah, you got it right there,
you go. Good job. I had to be answering that
you went with my gut more than your gut. But
and I got a bigger gut than you. I bet. Anyway,
he is the eighth player Chris Bryant to hit six
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Grand Slams for the Cubs. His teammate Hobby Bayes, who
sucks this year, is also one of them. So the
big question here, Paul, real quick, you're a trash man
in Minnesota, which means you probably smell pretty foul at
the end of the day. Kind of what kind of
soap do you use? Paul? What's the greatest soap out
there that get you really nice, smelling fresh? I mean
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I just used the Axe body wash man, that's uh.
And the Dove, the Dove shampoo conditioner with the caffeine
and alcohol in it. Yep, all right, so there's nothing
there's snow like special like secret code soap garbage guys,
deep scrubs and stuff you can get like that. But yeah,
I don't know. Okay, here you just like like I
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got you the as the body straight there and the
Dove and very good. All right, Well, thank you, Paul.
You have a good night. All right, there goes Paul.
You get a golden ticket. There. We've got cooking with Roberto.
What are we making today, Roberto? A grilled cheese hot dog?
All right? Well, that sounds good. A grilled cheese weener.
Very exciting cooking with a this is an old family recipe, Roberto.
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Yeah right, all right, we'll go into the kitchen cooking
with Roberto. You're gonna be making the grilled cheese hot
dog this weekend. We'll get to that. We'll do it
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sleeves in the kitchen, got his hands dirty, and has
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dominated domination. That's right, the Great Roberto cooking with Roberto.
Very exciting here, Roberto, what are we making today? We're
making a grilled cheese hot dog. We talked about hot
dogs yesterday, so you know what I make. Let's make
something with the hot dog. Yeah. We talked about the
death of the Dodger dog, at least the Farmer John version.
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No more, it's gone there. But but Farmer John, I'll
beef hot dogs, good quality hot dog. Okay, well, they'll
have a new corporate sponsor here. But a grilled cheese
hot dog. Combining that, my taste buds are excited, right,
This is a very appetizing. These are things I love.
Depending how old you are, just have only one of these, Okay,
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so I only had one? Yeah, or your doctor will
have a problem. Yeah, all right, grilled cheese hot dog.
Pretty simple. Six hot dog buns, preferably top slice buns.
These buns are like better quality hot dog buns because
they're gonna leave them. You're gonna have them on the
grill for a few minutes. Or how is there any
particular bun that you would appreciate that you have a
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funness for My favorite bun is the Hawaan, the King's Hawaiians,
because it's like eating candy. Yeah, I love that. I
love using those. Yeah yeah. If you can't get a
hold of those top slice buns, good quality, all right.
Six hot dogs whatever you like. Hebrew Nationals great, farmer John,
only here in California. Hebrew Nationals great though, Okay, mon
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erate jack cheese, cheddar cheese. Six tablespoons of soft butter
for brushing those buns. Baby, you're gonna brush some buns,
all right. Twelve ounce beer logo or Amber. It's a
family radio show. Oh sorry, one third of white onion.
Chop chop chop chop chop chop chop. Yeah, that's the thing.
You gotta boil. You got to boil them. You gotta
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have that beer. All right. We're gonna we're gonna boil
these otherwise it will taste disgusting and you want yeah, yeah,
you get them boil hot, palatable experience. Ye man, don't
cut corners, is what you're saying, exactly. All right, So
we're gonna add the hot dogs and beer to a
medium size to a medium size pot on medium heat. Yeah,
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all right, until the beer comes to it. Boil. Once
it comes to the boil, turn the pod off and
set aside. Okay, all right, you gotta do that, Okay,
you gotta boil the hot dogs, and beer gives it
a better flavor, all right, not a water, not water
if you're if you're worried about alcohol. Once you cook
the beer, like alcohol goes out of that's amateure hour. Yeah,
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you know what amateur hour. When I used to h
just get a fork and just get the hot put it,
put it, put in the hot dog and just cook
it over the over the stove, just like just like that. Yeah,
to do that back in the days ghetto when you're
in a hurry, Yeah exactly, all right, you could be
like Marcel and just put in the microwave exactly. We're
gonna heat it on stick, skill it over medium heat,
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all right, all right, Open and roll each hot dog
bun flat with the rolling pins. Spread the outside of
each bun with one table spoon up butter. Place it
on the skillet, butter side down, and sprinkle top evenly
with one third cup shredded cheese and onions. All right, yeah, yes, right,
all right, using tongues because the hot dogs are gonna
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be hot from from being boiled in beer. Slice each
hot dog lengthwhites to where it's still connected, but when
they flat on the grill, place hot dog flat side
down on the grill next to the bun. Grill for
two minutes on the flat side, or until it starts
to brown, and then flip over a net grill for
another minute on the other side. All right, Transfer the
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hot dog on one side of the bun and sprinkle
it with three tablespoons up cheddar cheese. All right, all right,
close bun over hot dog and let it grill until
cheese is completely melted. Boom, it's done, and enjoy cut
up in the mustard if you want. But I didn't.
I didn't use it. It's gooey goodness, is what it is.
It's gooey goodness. You'll tweet out the rest if real.
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Jeeze baby,
Hello and welcome. It's our nomber three, our number three
of the Ben Maller Radio program, recorded overnight vemity, commercial interruption,
repackage the podcast format soul. This hour, an old punching
bag returns Rob Manford, the Commissioner of Baseball. He has
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done a bit of a flip flop, at least it
sounds that way regarding speeding up the game of baseball.
Why well, because of gambling. Because of gambling. Rob Manford's like,
maybe that's not such a good idea. We should speed
up the game of baseball. We parse the words of
the Commissioner of Professional Baseball, Rob Manford. That and more
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coming your way here in our number three. Slow it down.
You're not in any hurry here. No, no, no, no,
don't go fast. Come on, come on now, well, come on.
In the beginning of another hour, It's the Ben Maller Show.
We are in the air everywhere as we talk in
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radio studio is good to have you along for the ride,
So we'll change it up a little bit. It is
the day before the NFL Draft, but our lead comes
from Major League Baseball, specifically the future of the sport
and Rob Manford, a very popular punching bag in this
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area of radio tile. He has some rather interesting comments
that we need to parse because they go against what
Rob Manford has said has said publicly over the last
couple of years. Now, if you didn't see this, and
maybe you missed it, buckle up, buckle up. Let me
give you the truncated version of events. Squeeze this together.
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So Rob Manford is now loving the snail like speed
of baseball. Of course that is not my opinion. That
is what's coming out of the horse's mouth. He said it,
He said it. Major leagu Commissioner Rob Manford talking gambling
on a sports business program over at Sportaco, a relatively
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new outfit that covers sports business over at Sportaco Live.
I'm not sure what that is, I assume with some
kind of internet show. But Manford said that sports betting
is a massive opportunity for fan engagement, is what he said.
He acknowledged that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has advised him
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commissioner with commissioner advice. The bald, alien looking commis Adam
Silver advising the very punchable Rob Manford in conversations when
they talked about pace of play, pace of the game,
he said, list don't talk about that. This is Adam
Silver giving advice to the people that run baseball. Don't
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worry about the pace of game. Who cares about the
pace of game? And the reason Adam Silver said that
is because Adam Silver's all He's all worried about the
almighty gambling as well, And he said baseball's pace of
game is perfecto for sports betting. To rephrase that, Rob Manford,
the Commissioner Baseball, acknowledged, seemingly agreeing with the quote from
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Adam Silver here that hey, this is actually not a
bad thing because think of all the bets we can
get between pitches when it takes thirty seconds between pitches
because the guy's scratching his nuts and walking around the
mound and all that. All right, so let us discuss
the question, what do you make of I'm Manford's evolving.
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We'll use that we're evolving position on the speed of
the game. So my views on this, You've got this jockey,
hundred and two year war and red light, and we
will connect all of this together. Now, first of all,
considering Major League Baseball's longstanding position that this is the
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most important thing in the entire world of baseball, pace
of play, this is a dramatic juxtaposition. Right. For so
many years now, we have been fed propaganda that Major
League Baseball has a need for speed. Right. They want
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to run, run, run, run, run, run, run. They don't
want to slow walk. They want to run, is what
they want to do. Why, because we are told baseball
is boring, and boring is bad, and you can't have
it slowly. It's too slow for gen z. They don't
like it. They're all into the video games. But if
only baseball is a little faster, the younger crowd would
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show up. It is a precarious situation. Now, as a result,
we were told that Major League Baseball is slowly dying.
Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah. Now we debunked this.
In fact, we pointed out for over a hundred years columnists, newspaper, hacks, radio, blowhards, TV,
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Pretty Boys has said, Baseball's dying, and it continues to
have it. It's the cockroach in the nuclear winter is
major League Baseball, and they've been banging that drum recently.
But Rob Manford has gone as far as to spend
tons of dough in an effort to snaz up the sport.
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To jump start the speed of the game. With much fanfare,
Baseball brought in Boy Wonder, the acclaimed executive from the
Red Sox and Cubs, theo Epstein to oversee a blue
ribbon panel to speed up the game. And there are
a bunch of other things in there as well, but
the main point was we need to get the game
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sped up. And now you toss out the variable of gambling,
which we're not against on this show. We are gamblers.
We support gambling. But Rob Manford's position on this, considering
where he's been coming from, is crazy town. Right now,
he's playing the role of disc jockey Rob Manford the
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word imagine going to the club and you have Rob
Manford as your disc jockey. You talk about the worst
disc jockey in the world. He's changing his tune though,
he's changing the tune in the bat of an eye
again just based on what he has said, parsing the words. Now,
speed of the game, pace of play, not that big
of you. Right. The secret phrase is piggy bank. And
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Major League Baseball is looking at the coinage that could
be theirs, and they're like, wait a minute. They're getting
all bug eyed. They're like, whoa man, Their eyes are huge,
look like like saucers. Now. Secondly, it's always about the
moo law, right, It's always about the moo law, and
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this is no different. You follow the breadcrumb trail, which
is really the trail of money, and we're obviously not
talking about chicken feet. It's it's high stakes, but it
comes at a cost. There is a long drawn out battle.
Many people pointed out like this, in the United States,
there's been this war on drugs which hasn't really worked
out too well and it's been kind of a waste
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of a lot of time and resources. But also Major
League Baseball has fought the one hundred and two year
war against the boogeyman gambling hundred in two years. It
really got jump started in nineteen nineteen, and it took
a couple of years after that for that to be adjudicated.
The famous black Sox game, at least make movies and
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TV shows about that and shoeless Joe Jackson. In that
whole era, eight members of the Chicago White Sox accused
of throwing the nineteen nineteen World Series against the Cincinnati
Reds in exchange for money from a noted professional gambler.
The Mob was involved. There's legendary tales of jurors being
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bought off by the Mob. And ever since that mortification,
we have seen over the last one hundred and two
years a rather consistent stream of anti gambling rhetoric and
integrity of the game. The almighty, all powerful, all omnipresent,
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integrity of the game is what matters most. You must
avoid the monsters, ghost demons and evil spirits of gambling
at all calls. And there have been players since then
that have been dinged for gambling, most famous Pete Rose,
All Time Hit King Charlie Hustle Band for life and
then really banned forever, even when he's dead. I doubt
they'll put him anywhere but integrity of the game. Of course,
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it's ironic considering that under Rob Mansford watch who has
been saying integrity, integrity, integrity, integrity of the game, the
Stros cheated. They were caught red handed in the act
with the smoking gun. On the MLB produced video you
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could see the table where they used to cheat, and
all the videos bang bang, whistle, whistle, all that in
the World Series, and Rob Manford said, you know what,
it's just a little piece of metal. We'll just we'll
let you keep it. So he showed his cards, and
so he's knowing his guys, these these phonies that have
a sliding scale of morality and integrity and all that. Now, finally,
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so Major League Baseball has to take three steps back,
all right, two three, and they're gonna be very methodical
on their next movie. They are stopped at the red
light of an intersection here, and if they go right,
they continue tweaking the rules of the sport. They attempt
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to have the pace of play pickup. Now if they
go to the left, they then make a deal with
the devil. They cease the operation designed to speed things
up immediately and fully embrace get all into bed with
the gambling world. My advice is this, you can do both.
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No matter what you do with baseball, it's always going
to be slower than the other sports that they're competing
against with basketball a little bit in basketball at the
beginning and the end of the baseball season, and also
the same thing with hockey because of the style of play,
they will have a leg no matter what they do
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compared to basketball and the National Hockey League. And there
are parts of the calendar where they have no competition.
There's nothing other than baseball going on, so for those
months it doesn't really matter. But the sport was hijacked
in recent years, and it's been some time now, hobviously
recent years. It's probably in ten fifteen years with this
great molasses flood on steroids. Right, if only time we
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was the issue here, But it's not really a time thing.
The issue that baseball has is balls in play, right
balls play, the amount of action. There was a study done,
I think it was by the Wall Street Journal a
few years back. They watched a few Major League baseball
games and they determined how much action we actually watched
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and keep it. I love baseball. I worked around baseball,
a very cool job around the Dodgers years ago. Very
lucky to have that job, and I loved it. But
the every amount of action in a nine inning baseball game,
you know how long it is in minutes, you gotta
guess it's less than ten minutes. In fact, it's actually
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less than six minutes. That's ball in play. Think about that.
An average baseball game is about three hours. So for
two hours and fifty four minutes, literally nothing is happening.
And so my issue baseball needs to address that. Now
I'm gonna watch either way, and they can do that.
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They can address that issue while cashing those cartoon checks
from the gambling world. The three true outcomes, which is
what's been around for like the last ten fifteen years,
home run, walk, and the strikeout. That is the bugaboo.
That's the big bug a boo that needs to be addressed.
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But no matter how you speed it up, you're still
gonna have more time to bet on things and more
things to bet on then you will in basketball. But
the comparison, the comp to the NBA, the way the
game of baseball is played, it's it's it's like basketball
has gotten all three point shots and there's little else.
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You know, everyone's just shooting three ball, the three ball,
the money ball, and they don't really try to do
much of anything else. And then it would be like
just shooting foul shots, because baseball it's a lot of
standing around and taking shots really with no one around.
That's that's baseball most of the time. They don't choke
up on the bat, they don't try to hit the
ball away from the shift, like the very basic things.
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But Rob Manford's concerned about the almighty gambling dollar. It
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or so. I'll give or take too much You're not enough.
Also cooking with Roberto coming up a little bit later
in the hour, but right now, after the phones we
go and let's say hello to any meany mighty mo
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bringing home Jerome in Cansa City. Hello, Jerome, Eddie, Roberto, Coop,
Benny the Bopper. What's going on, fellas, How y'all doing well?
Thank you? Thank you for showing me the proper respect
and Cooper Loop questioning my nickname is Benny the Bopper
(16:37):
who bad job by him? Yeah, I think the meaning
of it, though being may have been a little bit
different back in your day. I don't think it because
it's a home runs you're here. I think it's because
of the number of girls you thought. But that's a
whole different story. We're not going to talk about that. Wow,
look at you man, that right there. Hey. I wanted
to give a shout out to Andrea from last night.
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She really put that thing together about the full moon
last night, the super full moon. Then I could not
figure out for the life of me why I did
not have on any underwear last night. But she said
that strange things would happen to people when that super
full moon would come out. So thank you Andrew for
preparing that up for me. You turned into a commando
all of a sudden, just because the full moon. It's
(17:19):
the full moon, and then another one tonight. You know, yeah,
I know what happened on tonight's full moon. Congratulations Eddie
to your pirates for winning over the Royals tonight, the
first place in all of baseball. Royals. I would like
to add raise the banner Jolly Roger. Well, listen, being
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you said it quite a few times. You can't. You
can't say anything about baseball in April, but come on,
nobody thought the Royals would be this good at this
time of the year. Come on, you got to give
it up. No, My sources in Kansas City said they're
actually trying to win. They're not trying to suck, which
a lot of the teams invest half the battle. So
many the teams aren't even trying to win the rules,
are actually trying to feel the competitive team, which is
(18:02):
not now. Eventually they'll suck. They will suck by the
end of the year, but for now, it's great, So
why not ride it out. Ride the wave they're bringing
home Jerome, ride the blue wave. That's what I'm talking about.
Being Hey, listen, the reason for our call tonight being
what are you? Are you standing up or you're sitting down,
doesn't matter. I've got some good news for you, all right.
I love good news. I'm all about good news. Now. Listen,
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you guys know that I am jocking and up until
here recently I thought it was going to be a runaway.
You know. I'm jockeying for the newbie caller of the year.
The dead guy seems to have brought a lot of
attention to himself, and that's great if he's not he's
not dead, and he was a one week wonder. We
don't know that he's going to return to the show.
(18:44):
That might have been just that's it. And he talked
about washing bodies and he disappeared. The key to being
rookie caller of the year bringing home Jerome is consistency
of performers. You can't just show up and then vanish.
You have to bring it night after night, week after week.
I have another method that I'm going to use, being
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I agree with you, but here's what I say. If
you can't beat them, bribe them. And that has to
do with what my good news is. I'm on my
way to La to see you guys. In a couple
of weeks. I'll be there the last week of May,
and I am willing being I am willing to either
bring some Kansas City barbecue or some Ben Mallard chicken fingers,
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whichever one you guys decide. I will find a way
to get the food on the plane. I'll make arrangements
with Coop to make sure that you guys get the food,
and we will bribe you appropriately so that you guys
can have some Kansas City barbecue. How about that ah Man,
that sounds that sounds tempting, That is very tempting. I
don't mean these guys have had the real Kansas City barbecue,
(19:50):
which is a game change. Have not, Coop, You've never
had Kansas City barbecue. I haven't either. Only I have
been to the Holy Land of the barbecue. In the
ben Mallow chicken fingers. I've experienced that that z Man
sandwich Man, that is where it's at. That's the the
go to sandwich. I'm trying to think what would travel
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well though in your carry on bag. It's only like
a four or five hour flight. It's like, but you
gotta go by the time you get to the airport
and you know, get your bag checked. If you check
your bag in and all. That's probably like a five
hour process at least. So well, some Williams might travel
well Ben, but well we'll figure the artistics. All right. Well,
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I'm very excited, Jerome, and buying off the talent always
the way to go. So no, thank you, I gotta
go bring it home Jerome. There sea no make the
barbecue sandwhich is what you gotta make. You get packet
some dry eyes out of work. Yeah, yeah, you could,
you could do that, yea, yeah, for sure, be the
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way to go. Uh. Let see, you can't read that
one on the air. Uh. Let's see. Alfhae alienal Pineus
is the only thing in baseball that will be sped
up by Uncle Rob. Collaborating with the Alien will be
his retirement date. According to alf the Alien repiner Double
O Mexican says a plus monologue band Rob Manford proves
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the point that there are stupid people in high places
and only care about money, not the game. Not the game. Now,
speaking of money, the ultimate, the ultimate money grab from
Major League Baseball is coming soon. Now we're not sure
exactly when, but within the next ten years, major League
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Baseball is expected to expand. They currently have thirty teams
and they are looking to add a couple more. That's
has been bounced around. I've heard this for several years,
that baseball was going to expand. But Rob Manford, the commissioner,
who's so well spoken at these big events, he revealed,
the Commissioner of Baseball, how much it's going to cost
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if you would like to bring a baseball team, Say
if you're nashvill Tennessee, or Portland, Oregon, or Vancouver or
Las Vegas or Louisville or maybe Charlotte, any of the
cities that have been mentioned as possible homes for Major
League BASEBALLI they go to like Mexico City, or they
throw a team another team back in Montreal. But here's
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how much it's gonna cost. According to Rob Manford, the
expansion fee, the buy in fee to get a Major
League Baseball team two point two billion dollars two point
two billion, and that is the the buy in fee.
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This also came from that Sportaco live online chat very
Newsworthy there and he says, Rob Manford, these assets baseball
teams are worth an average of two point two billion.
He says, that's uh, Essentially, I'm prifi phrasing what he said,
but essentially said that's that's where the price would be
(23:01):
around two point two billion, because that's the average price
of a baseball team for an industry which is dying,
which is oh my god. And Manford has said, keep
in mind he's a commissioner, so these guys lie all
the time, but had said in the past that Baseball
was not going to add any teams until they figured
out how to get fans to show up to Tampa
(23:22):
Bay Rays games, Oakland Athletic games and get them new
stadiums off. I guess they don't care about the Marlins
because the Marlins already have a stadium and no one
shows up. So as long as they have the stadium,
they can squeeze out that money. That's all they care about.
But you look at the cities that could be in
play here. There's, as I mentioned, pretty much all of
(23:46):
them that have been been tossed out. But they could
go wildcard, the Salt Lake City. You think it's cities
that have NBA teams but don't have a baseball team.
There's a lot of options. They could go to a
state that has no professionals, so it could be like
the first thing in Albert quirqet New Mexico Professional sports.
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spring games to me are really not a big deal
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Here you can see the next generation of players. Well,
apparently Lane Kiffin saw something he didn't like in the
Old Miss spring football game three days ago. As a result,
he has fired his offensive line coach and running game coordinator,
(25:16):
Randy Clements. Now Old Miss the leading team in the
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this guy was just signed last season to be the
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do with anything off the field. There's no scandalier. He says,
(25:38):
this is a football related issue only, and it was
in the best interests of both sides two part ways.
So I don't know what happened in the spring game,
but maybe that was a part of it. Maybe it wasn't.
But the offensive line coach at Old Miss, Randy Clements,
is available if if anybody needs an offensive line. Well,
there's a lot of this time of the year, Eddie,
there's a lot of people looking to hire coaches. Very
(26:00):
job market for coaching is very big this time of
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(27:28):
Ben Meller game. We've endured too many of these. Is
it too much or not enough enough? Already? Not too
much or not enough? It is a radio game show.
We played every week at about this time, and we
hope you enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it, we
only do it once a week. So who cares? Not
that not that bigod deal, not that big a deal
(27:52):
at all. All right, who do we have playing this
week on? Too much or not enough? Any meany miney mall?
Let's say hello to Paul in the Twin Cities hanging out? Hello, Paul,
what's going on? Then? I haven't seen you in day?
I know, man, I haven't seen you in a while.
Where you been, man? I don't know? Manes and Nicold.
(28:18):
It's still cold? How cold is it? Oh? Play forty
you're a hearty Minnesota and you get that thick Minnesota blood.
That's not that cold. Come on, yeah it's not. But
it was just like seventy a week ago. Hey, when
does it become cold? Because California cold. It gets cold
when it's like you know, fifty five people say it's cold,
(28:38):
But in Minnesota, when does it get cold? Single digits
for sure? Single yeah, But I mean I'm just ready
for it to be warm. Man. I want to go
back to Arizona or Vegas. They have this thing called
an airport. You can go down air and then they
have flights and and all. What are you going on
in Manyapps? What kind of work do you do there, Paul?
(28:59):
What garbage sanitation engineer? Yeah, you make pretty good money
doing that, right, No? Better, Why don't you go to
New York? I heard the New York garbage man make no, no, no, no,
they can miss me with that traffic man. But but well, no,
but they pick up the trash overnight in New York
like in Manhattan. Oh, I know, I've watched them. The
(29:22):
smell here summer at least in Minnesota's cold most of
the year, so the trash doesn't stink like it does
in New York. They put it on the ground like
because it was a poorly designed city. Yeah, in New
York it was terribly designed. If you go to the
Old Wall, have time for this. But the lower part
of Manhattan, the original part of Manhattan. I go there
(29:44):
every year every other year because my brother lives there
and it is an shole. Oh my god. All right, anyway,
the way it was designed, let's get to it here, Paul,
and hot garbage talk will have to wait till another day.
I'll ask you a series of questions. Here we go.
Question number one. In the last twenty years, the longest
unanswered scoring run in the NBA is twenty five to nothing.
(30:08):
Is that too much or not enough? Twenty five to nothing?
I will say that's not enough, and you would be right.
That is correct. The longest unanswered run is twenty nine
to zero by the O nine Cavaliers back before they
(30:32):
became the Cadavers. Again, the Mavericks just missed that mark.
They had a twenty eight nothing run against the formally
elite Golden State Warriors. All right, you're one an old.
Question number two. Voladi Junior Vladimir Guerrero Junior of the
dun Eden Blue Jays is now one of six players
since two thousand hit three plus Grand slams before his
(30:56):
twenty third birthday. Is that too much or not enough? Oh?
Six players before two thousand, I'll say that's uh. Since
two thousand. Since two thousand, yeah, since two thousand. That's
not enough. All right, let's find out, Yeah, too much?
(31:17):
He is only one of one of only four, only
four to do it. Ozzie Albie's of Atlanta, Jean Carlos
Stanton back in his Miami days, and Albert Yet Nah, No,
he's older though he went to college, so he's a
little older. All right, here we go. Question number three
(31:37):
Monday night was Buster Poseys of the Higant's fifteenth career
four hit game? Is that too much or not enough
for the San Francisco slugger? Buster Posey is? And how many?
Did you say? Fifteenth career four hit game? He's been
(31:59):
up the big leagues for a fair amount of time.
But yeah, yeah, I don't know baseball that well. Man, um,
let's go with that's too much? You're sure you want
to do that? No, let's going not enough? You talk, man,
I'm just holding your hand, carrying you through. Let's see.
Did I lead you astray? Did I horn swoggle you,
(32:21):
did I bamboozle you? Or did I help you? That's right?
Not enough? Buster putt. Now, I'm gonna if you win
the game, I'm gonna ask you a very important question.
You're gonna have to answer the question. Okay, Buster Posty
has now had nineteen four hit games. Barry Bonds the
only hit Dante in the last fifty years with more,
(32:42):
but he was cheating. Question number four. This is for
the win, This is for the win. Here we go
earlier this week, Chris Bryant. Here's another baseball question. Chris
Bryant became the sixth player to hit at least six
Grand Slams for the Cubbies. Is that too much or
not enough? All time? The sixth player? Yeah, that's all time? Yea, don't.
(33:09):
I don't see a time or strains sixth player to
hit six Grand plays up? Sixer six? You think too much? Really?
I mean it comes you've been playing since like the
eighteen eighties though I know, I know, but that's so
a lot of players and six players, all right, So
what's your what's your answer? Uh, let's go not aten.
(33:33):
They've been around a while, al right, right, yeah, alright,
let's find out. Dang it. Yeah, you got it right there,
you go. Good job. I had to be answering that
you went with my gut more than your gut. But
and I got a bigger gut than you. I bet. Anyway,
he is the eighth player Chris Bryant to hit six
(33:55):
Grand Slams for the Cubs. His teammate Hobby Bayes, who
sucks this year, is also one of them. So the
big question here, Paul, real quick, you're a trash man
in Minnesota, which means you probably smell pretty foul at
the end of the day. Kind of what kind of
soap do you use? Paul? What's the greatest soap out
there that get you really nice, smelling fresh? I mean
(34:17):
I just used the Axe body wash man, that's uh.
And the Dove, the Dove shampoo conditioner with the caffeine
and alcohol in it. Yep, all right, so there's nothing
there's snow like special like secret code soap garbage guys,
deep scrubs and stuff you can get like that. But yeah,
I don't know. Okay, here you just like like I
(34:38):
got you the as the body straight there and the
Dove and very good. All right, Well, thank you, Paul.
You have a good night. All right, there goes Paul.
You get a golden ticket. There. We've got cooking with Roberto.
What are we making today, Roberto? A grilled cheese hot dog?
All right? Well, that sounds good. A grilled cheese weener.
Very exciting cooking with a this is an old family recipe, Roberto.
(35:01):
Yeah right, all right, we'll go into the kitchen cooking
with Roberto. You're gonna be making the grilled cheese hot
dog this weekend. We'll get to that. We'll do it
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Maller into the kitchen. We go cooking with Roberto, a
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weekly staple, the only place in the overnight on Fox
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a self made man. He didn't have to go to
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sleeves in the kitchen, got his hands dirty, and has
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dominated domination. That's right, the Great Roberto cooking with Roberto.
Very exciting here, Roberto, what are we making today? We're
making a grilled cheese hot dog. We talked about hot
dogs yesterday, so you know what I make. Let's make
something with the hot dog. Yeah. We talked about the
death of the Dodger dog, at least the Farmer John version.
(36:32):
No more, it's gone there. But but Farmer John, I'll
beef hot dogs, good quality hot dog. Okay, well, they'll
have a new corporate sponsor here. But a grilled cheese
hot dog. Combining that, my taste buds are excited, right,
This is a very appetizing. These are things I love.
Depending how old you are, just have only one of these, Okay,
(36:55):
so I only had one? Yeah, or your doctor will
have a problem. Yeah, all right, grilled cheese hot dog.
Pretty simple. Six hot dog buns, preferably top slice buns.
These buns are like better quality hot dog buns because
they're gonna leave them. You're gonna have them on the
grill for a few minutes. Or how is there any
particular bun that you would appreciate that you have a
(37:17):
funness for My favorite bun is the Hawaan, the King's Hawaiians,
because it's like eating candy. Yeah, I love that. I
love using those. Yeah yeah. If you can't get a
hold of those top slice buns, good quality, all right.
Six hot dogs whatever you like. Hebrew Nationals great, farmer John,
only here in California. Hebrew Nationals great though, Okay, mon
(37:39):
erate jack cheese, cheddar cheese. Six tablespoons of soft butter
for brushing those buns. Baby, you're gonna brush some buns,
all right. Twelve ounce beer logo or Amber. It's a
family radio show. Oh sorry, one third of white onion.
Chop chop chop chop chop chop chop. Yeah, that's the thing.
You gotta boil. You got to boil them. You gotta
(38:01):
have that beer. All right. We're gonna we're gonna boil
these otherwise it will taste disgusting and you want yeah, yeah,
you get them boil hot, palatable experience. Ye man, don't
cut corners, is what you're saying, exactly. All right, So
we're gonna add the hot dogs and beer to a
medium size to a medium size pot on medium heat. Yeah,
(38:21):
all right, until the beer comes to it. Boil. Once
it comes to the boil, turn the pod off and
set aside. Okay, all right, you gotta do that, Okay,
you gotta boil the hot dogs, and beer gives it
a better flavor, all right, not a water, not water
if you're if you're worried about alcohol. Once you cook
the beer, like alcohol goes out of that's amateure hour. Yeah,
(38:42):
you know what amateur hour. When I used to h
just get a fork and just get the hot put it,
put it, put in the hot dog and just cook
it over the over the stove, just like just like that. Yeah,
to do that back in the days ghetto when you're
in a hurry, Yeah exactly, all right, you could be
like Marcel and just put in the microwave exactly. We're
gonna heat it on stick, skill it over medium heat,
(39:03):
all right, all right, Open and roll each hot dog
bun flat with the rolling pins. Spread the outside of
each bun with one table spoon up butter. Place it
on the skillet, butter side down, and sprinkle top evenly
with one third cup shredded cheese and onions. All right, yeah, yes, right,
all right, using tongues because the hot dogs are gonna
(39:24):
be hot from from being boiled in beer. Slice each
hot dog lengthwhites to where it's still connected, but when
they flat on the grill, place hot dog flat side
down on the grill next to the bun. Grill for
two minutes on the flat side, or until it starts
to brown, and then flip over a net grill for
another minute on the other side. All right, Transfer the
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hot dog on one side of the bun and sprinkle
it with three tablespoons up cheddar cheese. All right, all right,
close bun over hot dog and let it grill until
cheese is completely melted. Boom, it's done, and enjoy cut
up in the mustard if you want. But I didn't.
I didn't use it. It's gooey goodness, is what it is.
It's gooey goodness. You'll tweet out the rest if real.
(40:06):
Jeeze baby,
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