June 24, 2021 • 39 mins
Ben Maller exposes the frauds in MLB media while talking about Nationals GM Mike Rizzo calling out Joe Girardi after the incident with Max Scherzer, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb or two, our number
two of our radio program, and we go to Major
League Baseball, where this story continues to have legs, involving
the Nationals and the Phillies. Jam Mike Rizzo went on
sports radio with a terrible take on Joe Girardi and
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we also debunk the myth that Max Scherzer. There's no
probable cause to investigate Max Scherzer, and also exposed many
baseball media for being total frauds on this story. It's
a jam packed, extra spicy, our number two and it's
coming your way right now here. It is a whole
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lot of name calling. Well come man, the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mallers Show. We are in
the air everywhere as we go word by word, coast
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Here we are back at it again and the lead
this hour comes from Baseball, a story that continues to
have me captivated and care if you're all that captivated.
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I think it's a great story. It's a story that
continues to have legs. We go back to a baseball
game played the other night between the Washington Nationals and
that natitude against the fighting Phills. The story continues to
breathe here Max Scherzer acting like a fussy baby. We
talked about this in a previous episode of the program.
After Phillies manager Joe Girardi had the umpires do a
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spot check pointed right at him, say check that man
for the foreign substances, check him for the sticky stuff
or something along those lines. It was a wild scene,
wild scene there. Girardi ended up getting ejected and Max
Scherzer was like taunting Girardi, and so the Washington GM
Mike Rizzo, decided to chime and he was asked about
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it the baseball controversy. Now, I don't know if you
heard what he said or not. Maybe not. We actually
have the audio tape. This was from DC Sports Radio
and Mike Rizzo, the general manager of the Washington Nationals,
commenting on the situation between his picture, Max Scherzer and
Joe Girardi. Do you think Girardi was playing games there.
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Of course he was what are we idiots are embarrassing
partner aired embarrassing for Girardi, it's embarrassing for the Phillies,
it's embarrassing for baseball. Yes, he was playing games, and hey,
that's just right. You know, gamesmanship had nothing to do
with substance, says he had no probable cause to ask
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for the up, shouldn't allow have allowed it, but it happened.
Then you got to deal with it. This, this is
the this is what what we're going to have to
deal with. And uh and you know, you think you're
going to intimidate the Max Scherzer and in that type
of thing. Uh, you know, it's it's just not gonna happen,
all right. So that was in a nutshell. You heard
the audio there, the key parts of them. It's a
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bad take. Oh no, no, don't hit the appost it's
a bad take. You don't celebrate bad takes, all right,
So let's discuss here. The last part which got cut
off is Rizzo added he's a con artist. He called
Joe Girardi a con artist. I guess it. Well, we'll
get to we'll get to all this all unpackaged. So
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let us discuss the question where are you at on
these Mike Rizzo comments which you just played for you
spicy hot good audio on the sports talk radio there
and DC comments about Jojie Rice? Where are you at
on this? Now? My observations, You've got the ballad magazine
stand and Haydard and we will combine all of these
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things together in this Malan monologue and make the barbacanoose.
We're gonna make the bb ganos now number Mike Rizzo
needs to go to the deli counter and take a number,
is what he needs to do. Right He joins the
growing list of completely cool, clueless n income poops on
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this story right now. He's biased. He works for the
Washington Nationals. Did you expect him to get on the
radio and say, you know what, Max Scherzer, I would
check him every inning the guys a cheat. Of course,
he's not gonna say that. But the number of buffoons
on this topic is concerning. Joe Girardi's not embarrassing. This
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is not embarrassing for baseball. If anybody should be embarrassed,
it's Max Scherzer, Right. That was good old fashion managing.
Somewhere along the way Baseball the younger baseball fan has
lost their way. They're a bunch of mista softies, right,
And we call it the Ballad of Billy Ball, paying
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homage to x Yankee and as skipper, the late great
Billy Martin and others like him, cut out of that
cloth of Billy Martin that would rock the boat. The
problem as the way I see it, we have now
in baseball. Most managers are pre programmed robots. They're robots,
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their pencil pushing stooches. Even the guys that used to
play that you know, and all these managers played at
some point along the way, but they're so in bed
with the front office and that it's all about the
analytical walking papers that they get every day and the
printouts and all that that these guys keep a low profile.
It's pushbutton managing is what it is in baseball today.
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And Girardi, for better or worse, was flashing back to
the olden days when managers had the audacity to be interactive.
The fellas today are like a bump on a log,
most of them motionless managers. And there was a time
in baseball were anything to get an advantage, as far
as in the dug out of it. I remember for
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years when pictures there were always guys that would go
to the mound sometimes with chains, right, they'd have gold
chains on, and if you really wanted to mess with
the psyche of a picture that wore a lot of chains,
you'd go out to the empire said, you know, our
batteries are distracted by the gold chain. And then they
go out to the mound and they said, well, you
gotta hide the gold chain or take it off. And
it was a big, big production, but it was to
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gain an advantage because your hitters were having problems, so
you try to get the picture off his game, and
that's what Girardi was trying to do here. Now. Secondly,
I have a bone to pick with this Washington National
gym Mike Rizzo who called Joe Girardi a con artist.
And I remember when I was in elementary school on
the playground and I learned it takes one to no one.
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Mike Rizzo is a con artist. I will not forget.
I was on the radio here in twenty twelve when
the Nationals had what was seemingly a World Series worthy team,
and that weasel, that little weasel, Mike Rizzo cost Washington
a chance to get to the twenty twelve World Series
out out of an abundance of caution. Now, a lot
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of people seemingly have forgotten about this outside the belt Way.
I don't know. Inside. I assume people that are National
fans still remember. But he decided Mike Rizzo to shut
down a perfectly healthy Steven Strasburg after one hundred and
sixty innings in twenty twelve. Right around that number, did
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or take one hundred and sixty innings in order to
protect Strasburg's arm in the future. It's another one of
these cases where the front office said, well, we know
if you go over one hundred and sixty innings, your
arm's gonna fall off, and we're gonna protect you because
we're gonna You're not gonna end up on the disabled
list or the injured list what do they call it,
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whatever the PC police call it these days. You're not
gonna be on that at all. Don't worry about it,
because we're gonna protect you. We're gonna babe you. Now.
Not only did the Nationals in the playoffs that year
spoiler alert, it didn't work much of Strasburg's career prior
to that and since then has been defined by the injury.
And so Mike Rizzo's louis he cost the Nationals a
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chance today a deep run in the playoffs because he
was babying a pitcher who then proceeded to land on
the injured list four times. And this is in twenty twelve.
This happened four times in twenty fifteen and twenty fifteen
he had elbow issues. Just a couple years after that,
he missed most of last season with carpal tunnel problems.
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He's been on and off with various injuries. You look
at the injury charts of Steven Strasburg. It's a mess.
So good job by Mike Rizzo correctly predicting back in
twenty twelve that as long as Strasburg doesn't go over
one hundred and sixty innings, I'm gonna protect a long
term health my ass. All right. Now, me one back
to the issue at hand, Mike Rizzo saying that Joe
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Girardi didn't quote didn't have probable cause to check Max Scherzer.
That is crap on a cracker, is what that is. Now,
I can debunk that in five seconds, five seconds, that
there was a there was no probable cause. A number
of people around baseball are totally oblivious of Max Scherzer's
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role in this sorrid chapter in baseball history. And let
me educate you. Let me educate the dumb dumbs Joe
Girardi and anybody else that goes against the Nationals with
Max schers on the mound. They have a smoking gun.
They have a smoking gun. And what Girardi should have
gone out and done is walk out to the mound
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with a magazine stand filled with sports illustrated with Bubba Harkins.
You might not know who that is, but Bubba Harkins
was a longtime clubhouse employee with the Angels for his
entire life, thirty forty years. Something like that, make I
was there forever. He was part of the fabric of
the Big A. And Babba Harkins was fired for being
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the dealer of goo. He wasn't dealing cocaine or heroin.
He was dealing a special sticky ikey that the elites
on the mountain baseball want it. And the reason that
we know that Harkins, the reason we know Scherzer's tied
to Harkins. Harkins, good dude, I don't know him personally.
I dealt with him a little bit years ago in
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another life when I was a radio stringer and I
covered the Angels a lot, and I was out there
and killing time in the clubhouse to try to wait
for these idiots to come talk. But they have bouco
biogenesis essentially of pitchers here because Brian Harkins sang like
a canary and he named names. He showed text messages.
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Garrett Colemack Scherzer, several other big name pitchers, the best
of the best, were on that and Sports Illustrated at
checked that this guy Harkins is suing. He got fired,
he was patient zero. Baseball got rid of him, and
then he started naming names. He's like, well, I'm never
gonna work in baseball again, so let me give all
my phone messages to Sports Illustrated to the media, and
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they got the good stuff and it was all verified
through information fact checking by Sports Illustrated, old fashioned reporting
that that was all legit. Max Scherzer was texting the
clubhouse guy in Anaheim, a place he had never played
as a hometown player, to try to get some stuff
to cheat. That's all the probable cause you need that
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is the smoking gun for Max Scherzer. He's again, as
I said in the previous episode, he's not the victim,
all right. Final point, So the number of finnicky baseball
scribes there is another one of my pet peeves here
if I see one more headline by some dufus who's
offended because major League Baseball and this is bad for
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the game and all this other, this crackdown needs to
stop of these pictures. Have you been reading this nonsense,
this pearl clutching, which is in you know, the baseball
media pages, Shame on baseball. It's mortifying, hideous for the game.
It's become ludicrous. My response is to obviously pump the
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brakes on that. And these are all terrible opinions. This
story is what I call paydirt. Imagine if you will,
a world where you have been marginalized as a sport.
Nobody talks about your sport until the World Series, and
even then they give it a brief mentioned And here
you are. You're sitting on oil reserves if you're Major
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League Baseball. This story paydirt, and it could be worth
trillions of dollars in free media coverage. And then you
complain because you have to. Somebody has to dig a hole.
An oil smells, it's messy, It's gonna make a mess.
That's essentially what is happening here. And I'm talking about
the baseball media more than anybody, the very people whose
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job description they get paid, the baseball writer community to
write about baseball. This is the most interesting thing, the
most stimulating thing, the most provocative thing that's happened in
baseball in years. People are talking about baseball on the
radio in JUNEO. I'm one of the few that still
does it, but I've got buddies of mind that are
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around the country in different markets to do sports radio
and like, yeah, we're talking about this is a great story,
and so of course it's a great story. So the
number of the baseball writers are offended. Let's let's make
sure to nip it in the bud. We don't want
a good story where people talking about baseball. No, we
don't want that at all. No, no, no, no, no,
it's so stupid. The amount of people that are just
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moronic on this one fascinating. But the defenders of Max Scherzer,
the guy that was named it reminds me when you
know Ryan Brown and as Suers hasn't lied and that
he didn't use the sticky stuff. But I remember when
the Biogenesis list came out. I mean that's got you.
We got you, Brian Harkins phone is got you. And
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as much as we goof on Garrett Cole, Max Scherzer
is right next to him. All right. It is the
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SoCal says, so our clubhouse manager was fired because he
was the go to guy to doctor Baseball's Well, why
in the hell have my angels pitching staff been so
crappy over the past ten years. Well, he was helping
everybody out. But he was the visiting clubhouse manager too,
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and Anna, I mean, wasn't the home clubhouse manager. He
took care of the players that came in for the
other teams. But it doesn't guarantee anything, right, It doesn't
guarantee anything at all, because the Barry Bonds never won
a World Series, Sammy Sosa didn't win the World Series.
They were all super human, bigger than life guys when
they were playing, and so no guarantee on that at all.
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the show and to the phones we go. Let's try
again now, second hour in row. Let's see if Andrea
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is ready to go with that cool strawberry moon. Yes, hello,
and hi Ben, how are you? You were so shocked
that I went to you right away that you were
busy doing something else? Yeah, I know, that's my virgo multitasking.
Sorry about that, man, there was some good music. I
don't know what you're listening to. Yeah, I can't. I
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just can't even remember. But with Mercury stationing direct, these
are a little a little funky, but yeah, you know,
this is sort of when I catch up on a
lot of world work and love listening to your show.
So thank you for your patients. Appreciate that. It's very
important these nights the astrology world. This is a big night. Yes,
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we have the strawberry full moon. It's the last supermon
of two thousand twenty one. This is it. We still
got a lot of time left here. It's only June.
We got to go through July and August and September
and October exactly. But it's the last super full moon,
meaning it's the last full moon that will look you know,
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extra large and closer to Earth. And it occurs at
eleven forty one am tomorrow, and a supermon is again
when it's a larger moon, Strawberry moon, as you may know,
because it's strawberry season, so that's when you know supermon
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strawberry season, hence the name. And it's in cap corn
so a little extra boost for those capricorns, and yeah,
it's basically m the last full moon of spring or
the first full moon of summer, because we just had
the summer solstice. Yeah, it's summer, right, it is definitely
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summer exactly. So it's a little more emotional as you
can tell. Actually, try to call in yesterday about um
Max scherz Or. He's such a leo. He took it
all personally, like an insult to his pride in dignity. Yeah. Well,
and Sergio Roma of your Oakland as also, so that
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you know Pisces, they get super emotional. And you know,
he just gave up a home run, you know, full disclosure.
Did you know that he was upset about that? Well,
knowing Sergio Romo, I'm not surprised because usually when he's
on the mound, he's given up home runs. So yeah, well,
you know, I remember when he was really good and
with the giants. But he's a long time ago, a
long time ago. I give him credit. He's getting he's
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fully vested in that mL pension, so he's set for life.
He's fully in. But yeah, I mean, you know, full
moons are a lot more emotional, so everyone was you know,
more emotional and probably not the best time to roll
out this um you know, security check they're doing with
mercury retrograde at the time. You know, it needs fine tuning,
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you know, maybe you know they can fine tune it
or move it to like more of a security I
would argue there's no good time. But they did warn
the pictures. It's not like they blindsided anybody. They said, listen,
knock it off. If you don't knock it off, we're
gonna do this. And they didn't knock it off, and
so here we are. Yeah, I know that's you know,
full moon and Capricorn, the long arm of the loss.
So you do the crime, you do the time, so
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it should be interesting to see. But yeah, he really
kind of pitched a fit and you know, kind of
pulled his bands down. One of the sportscasters here Ben
said the A's game was almost rated X because of
Sergio Romo. They made the joke about it, that's right.
Oh yeah, no, listen, it's a new you know, like
anything else's trial and error. It's something new. But you
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can clearly see that the pictures. You know, shirts, I
thought it was on purpose because he had runners on
the base and it was a distraction and Girardi got
thrown out. You know this is going to be you know,
quite some fits and starts before it smooths out. So
it'll be interesting to see that. All right, Well, thank
you Andrea. Get back to your work. We appreciate you. Yes,
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I'm still sending out my summer Socialist newsletter if anyone
would like it. All right, they can track you down
on Twitter. Virgo in service. Thank you Andrea. All right,
there she goes. Ian writes in and says, hey, Ben,
I used to work late nights and I would sit
on my patio with a cold one and listen every
single night. But now I have a nine to six job.
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And he says, the podcast just aren't the same for me.
Out there you in, how dare those podcasts are great?
We love those parties. We leave all the dirty words
in the podcast. You get the unfiltered version of the show.
He says, I need it five and now I am
on medical leave for two months. It's good to be
back in the Miler militia. Welcome back, welcome back now
(22:09):
in good to have you here. You go. He wants
you to know he is not the Australian politician, so
stop emailing him. I don't know. Apparently as an Australian
politician with the same name as he has, I don't
know anything about that. Let's see here, who do we have?
Page down? Page down. Lou from Sokal says what exactly
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is wrong with Kawhi Leonard. I've never seen a pro
athlete sideline for such a long period of time with
no disclosure of injury. All I can guess is he's
suffering from some sort of mental illness. No, I don't
think that's the case. But we know when the Clippers
signed up for Kauai, you knew what you were getting.
I mean, this is a guy that is not going
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to hustle back and he's not in it to get
the glory points for being a tough guy. It's just
much like Anthony Davis. A lot of these guys are
cut out of the same cloth. Where Uh that's but
I'm okay with that, listen. I mean, the Clippers in
the Western Finals and they had a chance to win
the first three game, tried to play with the injury.
I don't, played five minutes and quit. He's a loser, pathetic. Uh,
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you're okay with kawhis city. Now, if he's not hurt,
I'm fine, because listen this Clippers, they're gonna come back
and even up this series. Uh oh yeah, no chance.
You guys said they had no chance. In Game two,
they had a league with one less than one second
left in the game. It was a fluke play where
DeAndre Ayton pushed, pushed, And how come nobody mentioned this?
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All right? Watch the video. DeAndre Ayton shoved zoo bots
into Devin Booker before the play. So you're admitting it
was a foul. You're admitting that I'm correct, Yes, him play,
so let him play. But let him play? Is admitted
an admission that it was a foul, But you don't
call that in the final second. You're admitting. You're admitting,
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I'm right that DeAndre Ayton cheated on the final play.
All right, we agree he cheated. Boom cool, we agree?
Still got an l Yeah, that's fine. Those I know
you guys are worried. Your guys are getting arrested now
and the Lakers are getting ready for the goon squad
and the Clippers are in the Western Finals. So who
would you rather be? The Clips? It's hip to clip.
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They run La. The Clippers run LA. They run LA.
If you're a basketball fan in LA, you want to
see a pro basketball game, you gotta watch the Clippers.
Because there's no Laker game for months. They run LA.
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I know you don't care about this, but we are
twenty nine days away from the opening of the Summer
Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Of course, paused for a year
and Team USA as far as the basketball men's basketball
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announced its final rosters. I know a lot of people
they maybe not like, you know, gymnastics or swimming, but
you know, they like basketball, so maybe they'll watch the
Olympic basketball. I actually like it. I don't like Olympic basket.
The Olympics are about the other crappy sports. About the basketball, well,
I think it probably gets some of the better ratings,
I would guess. I don't work in TV and I'm
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not an advertiser, so I don't care. I'm talking about
the popularity of the sports that are in the Olympics,
all right, No, yeah, no, I disagree with that. I think,
what are the summer Olympics? What sports get the track
and field? What are the sports that do very well well?
The women? Women like to watch the gymnastics, so that
gets always the good jim nastics during the summer and
then in the winter's. Yeah we like that. Can I
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get a hell yeah yeah? Hell yeah? All right, anyway,
we got Zach Lavine of the balls, Jeremy Grant of
the pistons, I don't know who that is, James Harden
of the nets dropped out because of his hamstring injury.
Kevin Durant quit of the Nets, will be there, Draymond
Green of the Warriors. You've got Damian Lillard of the Blazers,
Bradley Bill the Wizards, Bam out of Bayo of the Heat,
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Container of the Celtics, and Kevin Love. I guess is
he still with the Cavaliers. He's somehow he's on this team.
There are three players that are supposed to be on
the roster that are still playing, Chris Middleton to the Bucks,
Drew Holliday of the Hawks, and Devin Booker of the Suns. Now,
if there is a Game seven in the NBA Finals,
the regular season would wrap up on July twenty second.
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July twenty fifth is the date of the first game
for a Team USA as they will face France in
a major tilt there. So there, And I did see
the Tokyo Olympics. We mentioned this the other day. But
they will allow up to fifty percent capacity for fans there,
but only local fans, the only local fans that we
will tend. So if you're planning on going to the
Tokyo Olympics, sorry to turn around, don't go. And those
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local fans in Tokyo. They have to wear masks, daily
temperature checks, no alcohol allowed, no autographs, and no loud cheering.
Sounds like a fun fan experience. You can't drink and
you can't cheer. I did hear rumors, Eddie that there
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were some signs that were taken down at the Fox
Sports radio studios here that were really I didn't see that.
You didn't see that? Uh you notice, Eddy, now the
signs are down. You didn't notice, Edny. How can I
know and you don't know? You didn't I do. I'm
right next to you, Eddie. I'm right down. We can't
see each other. We can't see each other, Eddie because
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we're in different rooms. But I'm right down in the
other room. Yeah I am. But yeah, they took the
signs down. There were signs every ten feet, so we
don't have to wear masks anymore. Correct, Well, if you're vaccinated. Yeah,
I was there. I didn't actually, uh, you know, I
forgot my mask one of the days and then I
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looked around. There was no one with you know, you
guys were there and you're all in other rooms, and
I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you'll be
all right. I think I was there. I don't think
any you know, there's literally not another soul other than
us in the building. Nobody. There's nobody around, all right.
It is the Band Maller Show as we continue here,
chopping down the overnight hours away. And I love these
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marketing stunts. I fall for them all the time. Here's
another one. It involves Major League Baseball. The bounty for
the full Monty we called this one, and an adult
website has decided to interject themselves into the story of
the week here in baseball in adult entertainment. To Webcam
Company has offered a hundred thousand dollars to six big
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league pitchers. And what they need to do here is
to undo their belts and drop their pants, but they
have to do it for one hour. They are offering
a hundred thousand. The list includes Max Scherzer, Sergio Romo,
Jacob Degram, Garritt Cole, Trevor Bauer, Zach Wheeler, and you Darvish.
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So they have to to drop trial under their belts
during the an X rated webcam show. Now, I'm sure
the players are gonna line up and do this right,
because they're all getting paid gazillion dollars and all that stuff. So, yeah,
they need the money. I'm sure they're going to do it. Yeah. Yeah,
like those are a Bauer, Scherzer, to Gram and Garrit
Cole are all ridiculous, you darvish. They all have they've
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all got ridiculous. Yeah, that's the safest story. Is that
true or is that false? Oh? Okay, why you mean
you don't send that to me? Cool? I don't know.
I mean, I haven't no idea how am I supposed to?
That's all right, anyway, you gotta let me know. Yeah, exactly,
it doesn't matter. We've done on fact or fiction the
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last hour. We have literally done a story ten minutes before,
and people still they don't listen. Yeah, that reminds me
of this story about baseball. Reminds me remember a couple
of years back, the Miami Heat had the naming rights
for the arena, and remember the Bang the Bang brothers
were gonna they want. They offered ten million dollars to
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get the naming rights to the Miami Heat Arena. Their
their work, they do some good work over there, but
the Heat turned them down ten million. They could have
offered twenty million dollars. The Heat weren't gonna take They
could have one hundred million dollars the heat. We're not
gonna take it anyway, all right, The Ben Maller Show
on Fox, And let's say hello to Ryan in Sun Diego. Hello,
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Ryan m Ones County though. And you got me all
fired up on the Angels. But the Angels about the angels?
Hold on? Bang brothers? Isn't that the two brothers? What's
his name? Who got caught? Earl Thomas? Earl Thomas? Who
Earl Thomas isn't his brother? Yeah, he started the company,
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That is correct, That is right. We bring up the Olympics.
I didn't even know Kevin Love was still need NBA.
First of all, he's not. He's playing for the Cavaliers.
They're not an NBA team anymore. And in the Astros
have Olympics and all over them, because I mean, it's
not like, uh, any gold medal winners ever cheated in
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the Olympics. But when you talk about the angels and
bad job by management, we're having the clubhouse manager or
our guy who was doctoring baseballs in the visit. He
should have been in our clubhouse, not the visitors. But
I do have a theory and let me give you
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this theory. Seriously, Ben No, I say, now, is this
the this is not this is not a fake theory.
You're not giving me some tipsy theory. It's not a
no no no. Yeah. And by the way, I'm still
trying to figure out you grew up the main streets
of Irvine, but you're a Dodger fan. Now are you?
Are you half in the bag or all the way
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in the bag? Hey? No, seriously checked us out before.
Unfortunately Tyler Stags passed. Yea, my good friend. And I
know we talked Angels, Baseball, good teams, Angels, Lakers, you know,
just like Coop Coop knows the good teams to follow.
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We were questioning, were wandering, I don't I don't know.
I mean, I feel like we need to get to
the point here. I feel like we need to get
here point. Here's the point we're questioning. Why are starting pictures?
Were always injured Garrett Richards, Stags, Hainey, etc. And then
when it came out that the PR guy Eric Kay,
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who was under Tim Meat for so many years was
basically giving out oxycon owns, I seriously, oh, come listen, no, listen, listen.
I think giving them out. He had a drug problem
and the angel pitcher had a drug problem, and they
were they were both doing the drugs. It wasn't like that.
Our starting pitchers have a history of injuries. Garrett Richards
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DAGs Ay, I think, all right, Ryan, you're just rambling.
I love you, right, but you're rambling. You're the rambling man.
How dare you a mallard of the third degree? Is
moment's away. Here is the instad trivia. Here it is
so the son's DeAndre Ayton who illegally pushed off to
get open on that final play the other night against
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the Clippers. DeAndre Ayton has twelve straight playoff games shooting
at least fifty percent end it is now tied. He
is now tied for the longest such streak to start
a player's playoff career in the shot clock era. He
has tied blank. So you gotta film in the blank.
DeAndre eight and of the Suns twelve straight games shooting
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at least fifty percent, and he has tied blank for
the longest such streak to start a player's playoff career
and the shot clock era, which goes back to nineteen
fifty four, that's the instant trivia, the answer, Mallard of
the third degree, next, and stuff like this happens bro
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playoff game shooting at least fifty percent, tying blank for
the longest such streak to start a player's career in
the shot clock era goes back to nineteen fifty four.
That is the instance chevia, The answer is right now
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and the answers pouring in on the magic Twitter machine.
And who do we have some of the guests is here,
Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield got it right, clearly cheating
Michael Cage from Bred Band Bill bred Man Bill occasional
Marginal Show contributor. Who else do we have? Kuk kank Kyrie?
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If I could speak, that would help? Can koon Kyrie?
Stevie Wonder? That was guest by Alfie Eleono Pinter Just
Josh going with Stevie Wonder. Who else do we have here?
Malarprop guy got it right? Rodney Rogers guest by Oscar
Clipper Legend, Joe Klein from Chris in Des Moines, Mike
Smrek from Bill That was his guest Doc Mike's live
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stream from the clam. Who else do we have? Page down?
Page down? Travis be going with Big Ben's nut roll.
You have the salted nut Roll, one of the great
candy bars out there. So I've not seen that two
that two pound version which you sent me. Wow, Dan
Issel guest by Manic Mike Eddie. Do you have an answer, Eddie? Yes?
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I do, Okay. One of the more handsome men ever
to play in the NBA, Hito Turkolo, a great Hito
no So, a former Clipper and a Boston Celtic. He
did it with the Celtics. Cedric Cornbread, Maxwell So DeAndre
Ayton and Cedric Maxwell tied off and that leads us
in too. It's maller how about that? To the third degree,
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this is one big Ben gets grilled cool. And during
yesterday's show, you did a lot of complaining about the
time that the Sun's got to drop a play while
the reps went to replay. Unfortunately, you weren't the only
one complaining about that. What do you think the chances
are that the NBA implements a rule that teams can't
huddle up during replay reviews zero. The NBA has had
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this problem for years. It's a pernicious problem. It's gradually
gotten worse, and it's not just the NBA, but it
adds a layer of professional wrestling. It was like a
professional wrestling match where the officials just kept standing around
and the game was delayed. But instant replay is one
man's inconclusive evidence and another man's no doubt about it.
And as long as you have the human element, mistakes
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are going to be made. It's ridiculous. It's out of control,
but nothing's going to change. It's an endless cycle. Next,
it was reported on Monday that Mike D'Antoni is a
finalist for the Trailblazer's job. Now D'Antoni has been Coach
of the Year twice. He's made many deep playoff runs
with a number of different teams. However, he's never been
able to make it to the finals. Do you think
it would be more of the same and Poorland? Well,
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outside of putting a giant umbrella over Portland and a
heater and cranking him up to eighty five degrees in February,
Portland is not going to be an all inclusive relocation destination,
so they're not going to get superstars there other than
guys they draft. But Mike D'Antoni with Damian Lillard would
be fun. But the problem is just about every team
in the NBA is running a version of the D'Antoni system.
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But I don't think the Blazers would get any further
with D'Antoni than they did under the previous coaches. But
they'd be enjoyable and they'd be a good SoundBite with
D'Antoni next. New Lions coach Dan Campbell said in an
interview recently that he never viewed Jared Goff as a
bridge quarterback and that he sees him as the long
term solution under center Ben How long do you think
Goff will be the Lions starter. Well, Dan Campbell number
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one knows he is stuck with this turd sandwich and
he's got to make the most of it, so he's
gonna put on a half. Even Jared Goff's contract is
so bad the Lions can't get out of that till
twenty twenty three. There's an escape hatch in twenty twenty three.
So the move here, you start Goff, you suck, gets
twenty plus interceptions, get a quarterback in the first round,
and then golf comes back, plays a little bit next year,
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and then that's it. How do we do you pass
this edition? There it is, that's so in out
Hello and welcome. It's our numb or two, our number
two of our radio program, and we go to Major
League Baseball, where this story continues to have legs, involving
the Nationals and the Phillies. Jam Mike Rizzo went on
sports radio with a terrible take on Joe Girardi and
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we also debunk the myth that Max Scherzer. There's no
probable cause to investigate Max Scherzer, and also exposed many
baseball media for being total frauds on this story. It's
a jam packed, extra spicy, our number two and it's
coming your way right now here. It is a whole
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lot of name calling. Well come man, the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mallers Show. We are in
the air everywhere as we go word by word, coast
to coast, order to order, and beyond on the vast
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it's a full moon, a supermon the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Here we are back at it again and the lead
this hour comes from Baseball, a story that continues to
have me captivated and care if you're all that captivated.
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I think it's a great story. It's a story that
continues to have legs. We go back to a baseball
game played the other night between the Washington Nationals and
that natitude against the fighting Phills. The story continues to
breathe here Max Scherzer acting like a fussy baby. We
talked about this in a previous episode of the program.
After Phillies manager Joe Girardi had the umpires do a
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spot check pointed right at him, say check that man
for the foreign substances, check him for the sticky stuff
or something along those lines. It was a wild scene,
wild scene there. Girardi ended up getting ejected and Max
Scherzer was like taunting Girardi, and so the Washington GM
Mike Rizzo, decided to chime and he was asked about
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it the baseball controversy. Now, I don't know if you
heard what he said or not. Maybe not. We actually
have the audio tape. This was from DC Sports Radio
and Mike Rizzo, the general manager of the Washington Nationals,
commenting on the situation between his picture, Max Scherzer and
Joe Girardi. Do you think Girardi was playing games there.
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Of course he was what are we idiots are embarrassing
partner aired embarrassing for Girardi, it's embarrassing for the Phillies,
it's embarrassing for baseball. Yes, he was playing games, and hey,
that's just right. You know, gamesmanship had nothing to do
with substance, says he had no probable cause to ask
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for the up, shouldn't allow have allowed it, but it happened.
Then you got to deal with it. This, this is
the this is what what we're going to have to
deal with. And uh and you know, you think you're
going to intimidate the Max Scherzer and in that type
of thing. Uh, you know, it's it's just not gonna happen,
all right. So that was in a nutshell. You heard
the audio there, the key parts of them. It's a
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bad take. Oh no, no, don't hit the appost it's
a bad take. You don't celebrate bad takes, all right,
So let's discuss here. The last part which got cut
off is Rizzo added he's a con artist. He called
Joe Girardi a con artist. I guess it. Well, we'll
get to we'll get to all this all unpackaged. So
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let us discuss the question where are you at on
these Mike Rizzo comments which you just played for you
spicy hot good audio on the sports talk radio there
and DC comments about Jojie Rice? Where are you at
on this? Now? My observations, You've got the ballad magazine
stand and Haydard and we will combine all of these
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things together in this Malan monologue and make the barbacanoose.
We're gonna make the bb ganos now number Mike Rizzo
needs to go to the deli counter and take a number,
is what he needs to do. Right He joins the
growing list of completely cool, clueless n income poops on
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this story right now. He's biased. He works for the
Washington Nationals. Did you expect him to get on the
radio and say, you know what, Max Scherzer, I would
check him every inning the guys a cheat. Of course,
he's not gonna say that. But the number of buffoons
on this topic is concerning. Joe Girardi's not embarrassing. This
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is not embarrassing for baseball. If anybody should be embarrassed,
it's Max Scherzer, Right. That was good old fashion managing.
Somewhere along the way Baseball the younger baseball fan has
lost their way. They're a bunch of mista softies, right,
And we call it the Ballad of Billy Ball, paying
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homage to x Yankee and as skipper, the late great
Billy Martin and others like him, cut out of that
cloth of Billy Martin that would rock the boat. The
problem as the way I see it, we have now
in baseball. Most managers are pre programmed robots. They're robots,
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their pencil pushing stooches. Even the guys that used to
play that you know, and all these managers played at
some point along the way, but they're so in bed
with the front office and that it's all about the
analytical walking papers that they get every day and the
printouts and all that that these guys keep a low profile.
It's pushbutton managing is what it is in baseball today.
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And Girardi, for better or worse, was flashing back to
the olden days when managers had the audacity to be interactive.
The fellas today are like a bump on a log,
most of them motionless managers. And there was a time
in baseball were anything to get an advantage, as far
as in the dug out of it. I remember for
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years when pictures there were always guys that would go
to the mound sometimes with chains, right, they'd have gold
chains on, and if you really wanted to mess with
the psyche of a picture that wore a lot of chains,
you'd go out to the empire said, you know, our
batteries are distracted by the gold chain. And then they
go out to the mound and they said, well, you
gotta hide the gold chain or take it off. And
it was a big, big production, but it was to
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gain an advantage because your hitters were having problems, so
you try to get the picture off his game, and
that's what Girardi was trying to do here. Now. Secondly,
I have a bone to pick with this Washington National
gym Mike Rizzo who called Joe Girardi a con artist.
And I remember when I was in elementary school on
the playground and I learned it takes one to no one.
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Mike Rizzo is a con artist. I will not forget.
I was on the radio here in twenty twelve when
the Nationals had what was seemingly a World Series worthy team,
and that weasel, that little weasel, Mike Rizzo cost Washington
a chance to get to the twenty twelve World Series
out out of an abundance of caution. Now, a lot
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of people seemingly have forgotten about this outside the belt Way.
I don't know. Inside. I assume people that are National
fans still remember. But he decided Mike Rizzo to shut
down a perfectly healthy Steven Strasburg after one hundred and
sixty innings in twenty twelve. Right around that number, did
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or take one hundred and sixty innings in order to
protect Strasburg's arm in the future. It's another one of
these cases where the front office said, well, we know
if you go over one hundred and sixty innings, your
arm's gonna fall off, and we're gonna protect you because
we're gonna You're not gonna end up on the disabled
list or the injured list what do they call it,
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whatever the PC police call it these days. You're not
gonna be on that at all. Don't worry about it,
because we're gonna protect you. We're gonna babe you. Now.
Not only did the Nationals in the playoffs that year
spoiler alert, it didn't work much of Strasburg's career prior
to that and since then has been defined by the injury.
And so Mike Rizzo's louis he cost the Nationals a
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chance today a deep run in the playoffs because he
was babying a pitcher who then proceeded to land on
the injured list four times. And this is in twenty twelve.
This happened four times in twenty fifteen and twenty fifteen
he had elbow issues. Just a couple years after that,
he missed most of last season with carpal tunnel problems.
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He's been on and off with various injuries. You look
at the injury charts of Steven Strasburg. It's a mess.
So good job by Mike Rizzo correctly predicting back in
twenty twelve that as long as Strasburg doesn't go over
one hundred and sixty innings, I'm gonna protect a long
term health my ass. All right. Now, me one back
to the issue at hand, Mike Rizzo saying that Joe
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Girardi didn't quote didn't have probable cause to check Max Scherzer.
That is crap on a cracker, is what that is. Now,
I can debunk that in five seconds, five seconds, that
there was a there was no probable cause. A number
of people around baseball are totally oblivious of Max Scherzer's
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role in this sorrid chapter in baseball history. And let
me educate you. Let me educate the dumb dumbs Joe
Girardi and anybody else that goes against the Nationals with
Max schers on the mound. They have a smoking gun.
They have a smoking gun. And what Girardi should have
gone out and done is walk out to the mound
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with a magazine stand filled with sports illustrated with Bubba Harkins.
You might not know who that is, but Bubba Harkins
was a longtime clubhouse employee with the Angels for his
entire life, thirty forty years. Something like that, make I
was there forever. He was part of the fabric of
the Big A. And Babba Harkins was fired for being
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the dealer of goo. He wasn't dealing cocaine or heroin.
He was dealing a special sticky ikey that the elites
on the mountain baseball want it. And the reason that
we know that Harkins, the reason we know Scherzer's tied
to Harkins. Harkins, good dude, I don't know him personally.
I dealt with him a little bit years ago in
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another life when I was a radio stringer and I
covered the Angels a lot, and I was out there
and killing time in the clubhouse to try to wait
for these idiots to come talk. But they have bouco
biogenesis essentially of pitchers here because Brian Harkins sang like
a canary and he named names. He showed text messages.
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Garrett Colemack Scherzer, several other big name pitchers, the best
of the best, were on that and Sports Illustrated at
checked that this guy Harkins is suing. He got fired,
he was patient zero. Baseball got rid of him, and
then he started naming names. He's like, well, I'm never
gonna work in baseball again, so let me give all
my phone messages to Sports Illustrated to the media, and
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they got the good stuff and it was all verified
through information fact checking by Sports Illustrated, old fashioned reporting
that that was all legit. Max Scherzer was texting the
clubhouse guy in Anaheim, a place he had never played
as a hometown player, to try to get some stuff
to cheat. That's all the probable cause you need that
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is the smoking gun for Max Scherzer. He's again, as
I said in the previous episode, he's not the victim,
all right. Final point, So the number of finnicky baseball
scribes there is another one of my pet peeves here
if I see one more headline by some dufus who's
offended because major League Baseball and this is bad for
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the game and all this other, this crackdown needs to
stop of these pictures. Have you been reading this nonsense,
this pearl clutching, which is in you know, the baseball
media pages, Shame on baseball. It's mortifying, hideous for the game.
It's become ludicrous. My response is to obviously pump the
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brakes on that. And these are all terrible opinions. This
story is what I call paydirt. Imagine if you will,
a world where you have been marginalized as a sport.
Nobody talks about your sport until the World Series, and
even then they give it a brief mentioned And here
you are. You're sitting on oil reserves if you're Major
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League Baseball. This story paydirt, and it could be worth
trillions of dollars in free media coverage. And then you
complain because you have to. Somebody has to dig a hole.
An oil smells, it's messy, It's gonna make a mess.
That's essentially what is happening here. And I'm talking about
the baseball media more than anybody, the very people whose
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job description they get paid, the baseball writer community to
write about baseball. This is the most interesting thing, the
most stimulating thing, the most provocative thing that's happened in
baseball in years. People are talking about baseball on the
radio in JUNEO. I'm one of the few that still
does it, but I've got buddies of mind that are
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around the country in different markets to do sports radio
and like, yeah, we're talking about this is a great story,
and so of course it's a great story. So the
number of the baseball writers are offended. Let's let's make
sure to nip it in the bud. We don't want
a good story where people talking about baseball. No, we
don't want that at all. No, no, no, no, no,
it's so stupid. The amount of people that are just
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moronic on this one fascinating. But the defenders of Max Scherzer,
the guy that was named it reminds me when you
know Ryan Brown and as Suers hasn't lied and that
he didn't use the sticky stuff. But I remember when
the Biogenesis list came out. I mean that's got you.
We got you, Brian Harkins phone is got you. And
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as much as we goof on Garrett Cole, Max Scherzer
is right next to him. All right. It is the
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(15:59):
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Troy in Seattle, but his hearts in Minnesota says you
get an a on that solid Mallard monologue. Ryan in
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SoCal says, so our clubhouse manager was fired because he
was the go to guy to doctor Baseball's Well, why
in the hell have my angels pitching staff been so
crappy over the past ten years. Well, he was helping
everybody out. But he was the visiting clubhouse manager too,
(16:44):
and Anna, I mean, wasn't the home clubhouse manager. He
took care of the players that came in for the
other teams. But it doesn't guarantee anything, right, It doesn't
guarantee anything at all, because the Barry Bonds never won
a World Series, Sammy Sosa didn't win the World Series.
They were all super human, bigger than life guys when
they were playing, and so no guarantee on that at all.
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is ready to go with that cool strawberry moon. Yes, hello,
and hi Ben, how are you? You were so shocked
that I went to you right away that you were
busy doing something else? Yeah, I know, that's my virgo multitasking.
Sorry about that, man, there was some good music. I
don't know what you're listening to. Yeah, I can't. I
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just can't even remember. But with Mercury stationing direct, these
are a little a little funky, but yeah, you know,
this is sort of when I catch up on a
lot of world work and love listening to your show.
So thank you for your patients. Appreciate that. It's very
important these nights the astrology world. This is a big night. Yes,
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we have the strawberry full moon. It's the last supermon
of two thousand twenty one. This is it. We still
got a lot of time left here. It's only June.
We got to go through July and August and September
and October exactly. But it's the last super full moon,
meaning it's the last full moon that will look you know,
(18:34):
extra large and closer to Earth. And it occurs at
eleven forty one am tomorrow, and a supermon is again
when it's a larger moon, Strawberry moon, as you may know,
because it's strawberry season, so that's when you know supermon
(18:54):
strawberry season, hence the name. And it's in cap corn
so a little extra boost for those capricorns, and yeah,
it's basically m the last full moon of spring or
the first full moon of summer, because we just had
the summer solstice. Yeah, it's summer, right, it is definitely
(19:17):
summer exactly. So it's a little more emotional as you
can tell. Actually, try to call in yesterday about um
Max scherz Or. He's such a leo. He took it
all personally, like an insult to his pride in dignity. Yeah. Well,
and Sergio Roma of your Oakland as also, so that
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you know Pisces, they get super emotional. And you know,
he just gave up a home run, you know, full disclosure.
Did you know that he was upset about that? Well,
knowing Sergio Romo, I'm not surprised because usually when he's
on the mound, he's given up home runs. So yeah, well,
you know, I remember when he was really good and
with the giants. But he's a long time ago, a
long time ago. I give him credit. He's getting he's
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fully vested in that mL pension, so he's set for life.
He's fully in. But yeah, I mean, you know, full
moons are a lot more emotional, so everyone was you know,
more emotional and probably not the best time to roll
out this um you know, security check they're doing with
mercury retrograde at the time. You know, it needs fine tuning,
(20:18):
you know, maybe you know they can fine tune it
or move it to like more of a security I
would argue there's no good time. But they did warn
the pictures. It's not like they blindsided anybody. They said, listen,
knock it off. If you don't knock it off, we're
gonna do this. And they didn't knock it off, and
so here we are. Yeah, I know that's you know,
full moon and Capricorn, the long arm of the loss.
So you do the crime, you do the time, so
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it should be interesting to see. But yeah, he really
kind of pitched a fit and you know, kind of
pulled his bands down. One of the sportscasters here Ben
said the A's game was almost rated X because of
Sergio Romo. They made the joke about it, that's right.
Oh yeah, no, listen, it's a new you know, like
anything else's trial and error. It's something new. But you
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can clearly see that the pictures. You know, shirts, I
thought it was on purpose because he had runners on
the base and it was a distraction and Girardi got
thrown out. You know this is going to be you know,
quite some fits and starts before it smooths out. So
it'll be interesting to see that. All right, Well, thank
you Andrea. Get back to your work. We appreciate you. Yes,
(21:26):
I'm still sending out my summer Socialist newsletter if anyone
would like it. All right, they can track you down
on Twitter. Virgo in service. Thank you Andrea. All right,
there she goes. Ian writes in and says, hey, Ben,
I used to work late nights and I would sit
on my patio with a cold one and listen every
single night. But now I have a nine to six job.
(21:47):
And he says, the podcast just aren't the same for me.
Out there you in, how dare those podcasts are great?
We love those parties. We leave all the dirty words
in the podcast. You get the unfiltered version of the show.
He says, I need it five and now I am
on medical leave for two months. It's good to be
back in the Miler militia. Welcome back, welcome back now
(22:09):
in good to have you here. You go. He wants
you to know he is not the Australian politician, so
stop emailing him. I don't know. Apparently as an Australian
politician with the same name as he has, I don't
know anything about that. Let's see here, who do we have?
Page down? Page down. Lou from Sokal says what exactly
(22:29):
is wrong with Kawhi Leonard. I've never seen a pro
athlete sideline for such a long period of time with
no disclosure of injury. All I can guess is he's
suffering from some sort of mental illness. No, I don't
think that's the case. But we know when the Clippers
signed up for Kauai, you knew what you were getting.
I mean, this is a guy that is not going
(22:50):
to hustle back and he's not in it to get
the glory points for being a tough guy. It's just
much like Anthony Davis. A lot of these guys are
cut out of the same cloth. Where Uh that's but
I'm okay with that, listen. I mean, the Clippers in
the Western Finals and they had a chance to win
the first three game, tried to play with the injury.
I don't, played five minutes and quit. He's a loser, pathetic. Uh,
(23:15):
you're okay with kawhis city. Now, if he's not hurt,
I'm fine, because listen this Clippers, they're gonna come back
and even up this series. Uh oh yeah, no chance.
You guys said they had no chance. In Game two,
they had a league with one less than one second
left in the game. It was a fluke play where
DeAndre Ayton pushed, pushed, And how come nobody mentioned this?
(23:36):
All right? Watch the video. DeAndre Ayton shoved zoo bots
into Devin Booker before the play. So you're admitting it
was a foul. You're admitting that I'm correct, Yes, him play,
so let him play. But let him play? Is admitted
an admission that it was a foul, But you don't
call that in the final second. You're admitting. You're admitting,
(23:56):
I'm right that DeAndre Ayton cheated on the final play.
All right, we agree he cheated. Boom cool, we agree?
Still got an l Yeah, that's fine. Those I know
you guys are worried. Your guys are getting arrested now
and the Lakers are getting ready for the goon squad
and the Clippers are in the Western Finals. So who
would you rather be? The Clips? It's hip to clip.
(24:16):
They run La. The Clippers run LA. They run LA.
If you're a basketball fan in LA, you want to
see a pro basketball game, you gotta watch the Clippers.
Because there's no Laker game for months. They run LA.
That's the way it is. Be sure to catch live
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(24:39):
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(25:02):
facts about the human nature and more. Let's sen to
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Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast now, Ben,
I know you don't care about this, but we are
twenty nine days away from the opening of the Summer
Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Of course, paused for a year
and Team USA as far as the basketball men's basketball
(25:23):
announced its final rosters. I know a lot of people
they maybe not like, you know, gymnastics or swimming, but
you know, they like basketball, so maybe they'll watch the
Olympic basketball. I actually like it. I don't like Olympic basket.
The Olympics are about the other crappy sports. About the basketball, well,
I think it probably gets some of the better ratings,
I would guess. I don't work in TV and I'm
(25:44):
not an advertiser, so I don't care. I'm talking about
the popularity of the sports that are in the Olympics,
all right, No, yeah, no, I disagree with that. I think,
what are the summer Olympics? What sports get the track
and field? What are the sports that do very well well?
The women? Women like to watch the gymnastics, so that
gets always the good jim nastics during the summer and
then in the winter's. Yeah we like that. Can I
(26:06):
get a hell yeah yeah? Hell yeah? All right, anyway,
we got Zach Lavine of the balls, Jeremy Grant of
the pistons, I don't know who that is, James Harden
of the nets dropped out because of his hamstring injury.
Kevin Durant quit of the Nets, will be there, Draymond
Green of the Warriors. You've got Damian Lillard of the Blazers,
Bradley Bill the Wizards, Bam out of Bayo of the Heat,
(26:27):
Container of the Celtics, and Kevin Love. I guess is
he still with the Cavaliers. He's somehow he's on this team.
There are three players that are supposed to be on
the roster that are still playing, Chris Middleton to the Bucks,
Drew Holliday of the Hawks, and Devin Booker of the Suns. Now,
if there is a Game seven in the NBA Finals,
the regular season would wrap up on July twenty second.
(26:50):
July twenty fifth is the date of the first game
for a Team USA as they will face France in
a major tilt there. So there, And I did see
the Tokyo Olympics. We mentioned this the other day. But
they will allow up to fifty percent capacity for fans there,
but only local fans, the only local fans that we
will tend. So if you're planning on going to the
Tokyo Olympics, sorry to turn around, don't go. And those
(27:14):
local fans in Tokyo. They have to wear masks, daily
temperature checks, no alcohol allowed, no autographs, and no loud cheering.
Sounds like a fun fan experience. You can't drink and
you can't cheer. I did hear rumors, Eddie that there
(27:34):
were some signs that were taken down at the Fox
Sports radio studios here that were really I didn't see that.
You didn't see that? Uh you notice, Eddy, now the
signs are down. You didn't notice, Edny. How can I
know and you don't know? You didn't I do. I'm
right next to you, Eddie. I'm right down. We can't
see each other. We can't see each other, Eddie because
(27:54):
we're in different rooms. But I'm right down in the
other room. Yeah I am. But yeah, they took the
signs down. There were signs every ten feet, so we
don't have to wear masks anymore. Correct, Well, if you're vaccinated. Yeah,
I was there. I didn't actually, uh, you know, I
forgot my mask one of the days and then I
(28:15):
looked around. There was no one with you know, you
guys were there and you're all in other rooms, and
I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you'll be
all right. I think I was there. I don't think
any you know, there's literally not another soul other than
us in the building. Nobody. There's nobody around, all right.
It is the Band Maller Show as we continue here,
chopping down the overnight hours away. And I love these
(28:36):
marketing stunts. I fall for them all the time. Here's
another one. It involves Major League Baseball. The bounty for
the full Monty we called this one, and an adult
website has decided to interject themselves into the story of
the week here in baseball in adult entertainment. To Webcam
Company has offered a hundred thousand dollars to six big
(29:01):
league pitchers. And what they need to do here is
to undo their belts and drop their pants, but they
have to do it for one hour. They are offering
a hundred thousand. The list includes Max Scherzer, Sergio Romo,
Jacob Degram, Garritt Cole, Trevor Bauer, Zach Wheeler, and you Darvish.
(29:26):
So they have to to drop trial under their belts
during the an X rated webcam show. Now, I'm sure
the players are gonna line up and do this right,
because they're all getting paid gazillion dollars and all that stuff. So, yeah,
they need the money. I'm sure they're going to do it. Yeah. Yeah,
like those are a Bauer, Scherzer, to Gram and Garrit
Cole are all ridiculous, you darvish. They all have they've
(29:49):
all got ridiculous. Yeah, that's the safest story. Is that
true or is that false? Oh? Okay, why you mean
you don't send that to me? Cool? I don't know.
I mean, I haven't no idea how am I supposed to?
That's all right, anyway, you gotta let me know. Yeah, exactly,
it doesn't matter. We've done on fact or fiction the
(30:11):
last hour. We have literally done a story ten minutes before,
and people still they don't listen. Yeah, that reminds me
of this story about baseball. Reminds me remember a couple
of years back, the Miami Heat had the naming rights
for the arena, and remember the Bang the Bang brothers
were gonna they want. They offered ten million dollars to
(30:33):
get the naming rights to the Miami Heat Arena. Their
their work, they do some good work over there, but
the Heat turned them down ten million. They could have
offered twenty million dollars. The Heat weren't gonna take They
could have one hundred million dollars the heat. We're not
gonna take it anyway, all right, The Ben Maller Show
on Fox, And let's say hello to Ryan in Sun Diego. Hello,
(30:58):
Ryan m Ones County though. And you got me all
fired up on the Angels. But the Angels about the angels?
Hold on? Bang brothers? Isn't that the two brothers? What's
his name? Who got caught? Earl Thomas? Earl Thomas? Who
Earl Thomas isn't his brother? Yeah, he started the company,
(31:21):
That is correct, That is right. We bring up the Olympics.
I didn't even know Kevin Love was still need NBA.
First of all, he's not. He's playing for the Cavaliers.
They're not an NBA team anymore. And in the Astros
have Olympics and all over them, because I mean, it's
not like, uh, any gold medal winners ever cheated in
(31:45):
the Olympics. But when you talk about the angels and
bad job by management, we're having the clubhouse manager or
our guy who was doctoring baseballs in the visit. He
should have been in our clubhouse, not the visitors. But
I do have a theory and let me give you
(32:06):
this theory. Seriously, Ben No, I say, now, is this
the this is not this is not a fake theory.
You're not giving me some tipsy theory. It's not a
no no no. Yeah. And by the way, I'm still
trying to figure out you grew up the main streets
of Irvine, but you're a Dodger fan. Now are you?
Are you half in the bag or all the way
(32:26):
in the bag? Hey? No, seriously checked us out before.
Unfortunately Tyler Stags passed. Yea, my good friend. And I
know we talked Angels, Baseball, good teams, Angels, Lakers, you know,
just like Coop Coop knows the good teams to follow.
(32:50):
We were questioning, were wandering, I don't I don't know.
I mean, I feel like we need to get to
the point here. I feel like we need to get
here point. Here's the point we're questioning. Why are starting pictures?
Were always injured Garrett Richards, Stags, Hainey, etc. And then
when it came out that the PR guy Eric Kay,
(33:10):
who was under Tim Meat for so many years was
basically giving out oxycon owns, I seriously, oh, come listen, no, listen, listen.
I think giving them out. He had a drug problem
and the angel pitcher had a drug problem, and they
were they were both doing the drugs. It wasn't like that.
Our starting pitchers have a history of injuries. Garrett Richards
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DAGs Ay, I think, all right, Ryan, you're just rambling.
I love you, right, but you're rambling. You're the rambling man.
How dare you a mallard of the third degree? Is
moment's away. Here is the instad trivia. Here it is
so the son's DeAndre Ayton who illegally pushed off to
get open on that final play the other night against
(33:55):
the Clippers. DeAndre Ayton has twelve straight playoff games shooting
at least fifty percent end it is now tied. He
is now tied for the longest such streak to start
a player's playoff career in the shot clock era. He
has tied blank. So you gotta film in the blank.
DeAndre eight and of the Suns twelve straight games shooting
(34:16):
at least fifty percent, and he has tied blank for
the longest such streak to start a player's playoff career
and the shot clock era, which goes back to nineteen
fifty four, that's the instant trivia, the answer, Mallard of
the third degree, next, and stuff like this happens bro
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It's Bett Maller. So the Son's DeAndre Ayton twelve straight
playoff game shooting at least fifty percent, tying blank for
the longest such streak to start a player's career in
the shot clock era goes back to nineteen fifty four.
That is the instance chevia, The answer is right now
(35:23):
and the answers pouring in on the magic Twitter machine.
And who do we have some of the guests is here,
Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield got it right, clearly cheating
Michael Cage from Bred Band Bill bred Man Bill occasional
Marginal Show contributor. Who else do we have? Kuk kank Kyrie?
(35:44):
If I could speak, that would help? Can koon Kyrie?
Stevie Wonder? That was guest by Alfie Eleono Pinter Just
Josh going with Stevie Wonder. Who else do we have here?
Malarprop guy got it right? Rodney Rogers guest by Oscar
Clipper Legend, Joe Klein from Chris in Des Moines, Mike
Smrek from Bill That was his guest Doc Mike's live
(36:09):
stream from the clam. Who else do we have? Page down?
Page down? Travis be going with Big Ben's nut roll.
You have the salted nut Roll, one of the great
candy bars out there. So I've not seen that two
that two pound version which you sent me. Wow, Dan
Issel guest by Manic Mike Eddie. Do you have an answer, Eddie? Yes?
(36:30):
I do, Okay. One of the more handsome men ever
to play in the NBA, Hito Turkolo, a great Hito
no So, a former Clipper and a Boston Celtic. He
did it with the Celtics. Cedric Cornbread, Maxwell So DeAndre
Ayton and Cedric Maxwell tied off and that leads us
in too. It's maller how about that? To the third degree,
(36:56):
this is one big Ben gets grilled cool. And during
yesterday's show, you did a lot of complaining about the
time that the Sun's got to drop a play while
the reps went to replay. Unfortunately, you weren't the only
one complaining about that. What do you think the chances
are that the NBA implements a rule that teams can't
huddle up during replay reviews zero. The NBA has had
(37:18):
this problem for years. It's a pernicious problem. It's gradually
gotten worse, and it's not just the NBA, but it
adds a layer of professional wrestling. It was like a
professional wrestling match where the officials just kept standing around
and the game was delayed. But instant replay is one
man's inconclusive evidence and another man's no doubt about it.
And as long as you have the human element, mistakes
(37:39):
are going to be made. It's ridiculous. It's out of control,
but nothing's going to change. It's an endless cycle. Next,
it was reported on Monday that Mike D'Antoni is a
finalist for the Trailblazer's job. Now D'Antoni has been Coach
of the Year twice. He's made many deep playoff runs
with a number of different teams. However, he's never been
able to make it to the finals. Do you think
it would be more of the same and Poorland? Well,
(38:01):
outside of putting a giant umbrella over Portland and a
heater and cranking him up to eighty five degrees in February,
Portland is not going to be an all inclusive relocation destination,
so they're not going to get superstars there other than
guys they draft. But Mike D'Antoni with Damian Lillard would
be fun. But the problem is just about every team
in the NBA is running a version of the D'Antoni system.
(38:23):
But I don't think the Blazers would get any further
with D'Antoni than they did under the previous coaches. But
they'd be enjoyable and they'd be a good SoundBite with
D'Antoni next. New Lions coach Dan Campbell said in an
interview recently that he never viewed Jared Goff as a
bridge quarterback and that he sees him as the long
term solution under center Ben How long do you think
Goff will be the Lions starter. Well, Dan Campbell number
(38:44):
one knows he is stuck with this turd sandwich and
he's got to make the most of it, so he's
gonna put on a half. Even Jared Goff's contract is
so bad the Lions can't get out of that till
twenty twenty three. There's an escape hatch in twenty twenty three.
So the move here, you start Goff, you suck, gets
twenty plus interceptions, get a quarterback in the first round,
and then golf comes back, plays a little bit next year,
(39:04):
and then that's it. How do we do you pass
this edition? There it is, that's so in out
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