August 9, 2021 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about comments from a former Aaron Rodgers teammate that says he's headed to the Saints in 2022, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our number two
of our radio program on the podcast. In this hour,
our lead comes from the speculation Machine. One of Aaron
Rodgers former teammates says he has information on where Rodgers
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is gonna end up in the year twenty twenty two.
He says, he's going to the Bayou. So what are
the odds, What are the odds of the Aaron Rodgers
lands with the Saints. We open up the Mallard Sportsbook.
We do that right now in our number two. No
days off, not for the speculation machine. It never turns off. Well,
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come in the beginning of another hour, the Ben Mallers Show.
We are together in the air everywheares we do, get
out to coast, border to border and beyond on the
vast and powerful microphones of fs are emmanateing live from
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deep in the cave, the bat Cave, the Fox Sports
Radio studios where bats fly and we let them out,
the team lets them out into the night air. Well.
Our lead this hour comes from the NFL. That is
what puts butter on the bread and keeps food on
the plate. So Aaron Rogers, we know he's going to
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play for the Packers this year, but where is he
going to play the following season? That is the speculation
that will not die. It will go on the rest
of Aaron Rodgers time in Green Bay, however long or
short that is, and will have a consistent rat a
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tat tat of speculation about Aaron Rodgers and where he
will play X. Now, one former teammate expects him to
go to a certain destination. So, I don't know if
you saw this or not. We're talking about former defensive
back Will Blackman is not currently in the NFL. He
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played with Aaron Rodgers for not one, not two, how
about three seasons, But he was a defensive guy, not
an offensive guest. I don't know how much he actually
hung out with Aaron Rodgers, doesn't really matter. Don't derail
a good rumor, don't derail facts getting in the way
of a good rumor. Don't do that at all. So anyway,
Will Blackman, he said he expects the teammate, his X
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teammate there, Aaron Rodgers, to head to the Bayou. So
if you didn't see this, the exact quote was and
he told us the TMZ, so it must be true.
Next year, Aaron Rodgers will be a New Orleans Saint
close quote Will Blackman, former NFL player, Now the Saints.
They don't have an established quarterback anymore, right, there's a
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competition quarterback competition, which means you don't have a good
quarterback Jameis Winston and Taysom Hill. This following the retirement,
the long drawn out retirement of Drew Brees, who I
believe is still apologizing for something that he did somewhere
along the way, and whether it's Facebook or somewhere else anyway,
So Aaron Rodgers future with the Packers, we know it
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is up in the air, but not everywhere following the
coming season, and so that allows us wiggle room. You
got a wiggle, wiggle wiggle to talk about this occasionally
during the twenty one regular season. So let us discuss
the question, what are the odds. Let's just address the
Komodo dragon in the room. What are the odds that
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Aaron Rodgers ends up in the Big Easy for the
twenty twenty two seasons. So I will set the number
on this. You're going to set the line at plus
two thousand on the Mallar Sports book, which implies a
five percent chance, a five percent yes, now my observations,
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you've got fine print, romance and Yogi Barra, and we'll
put all these things together and we will will make
a nice, delicious banana cream pie. The greatest pie of
them all is the bana cream pie now number So
Aaron rodgers future, as he said a year ago, was
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a beautiful mystery. That's his quote. It's even more of
a beautiful mystery with the events that have taken place
here recently in the off season, and now his training
camp gets going in the exhibition game start, it would
be the word is ridunculous to think that New Orleans
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is in the driver's seat. So I don't have them
in the driver's seat at all. Rogers. He doesn't even
have a guarantee that he gets to take an off
ramp from Green Bay, and that's a part of the story.
They did not get a lot of attention. It came
out at the end of last week that a lot
of people do not read the fine print. You gotta
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read the fine print. Aaron Rodgers did not get any
kind of language in his contract that said, hey, you
get to go out and leave and you get to
go to Team X. That's there's nothing there and the
fine print. He doesn't have anything in writing. There's nothing
in writing, so if it's not put on paper, even
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when it's put on paper, is not a guarantee. But
you have more of a leg to stand on when
these things are put on paper. What happened here? Let
me tell you all right, the packer brass my you know,
Brian Goodacoonts and the packer Brass. They gave a handshake
deal that I'll do you a solid. You came back
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and played, we'll take care of you. If you don't
want to be here after the season, we'll get you
somewhere else. So if Roger's wines complains and stop his
foot and has a hissy fit, then they will trade
his ass before the twenty twenty two regular season. At
least that's the handshake deal. But handshake deals, as you know,
because you've lived your own life, handshake deals are broken
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all the time. I can't tell you how many times
I have been told that someone's giving me them their
word in the radio business that so and so is
gonna happen. We're gonna take care of you. It doesn't happen. Now,
there are people I've worked with that do take care
of you, and there's other people that don't. But it's
a very fluid situation and it's no different just because
the stakes are a little higher in the NFL. Now,
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the second point here we get wrong. Take that Aaron
Rodgers phone is already blowing up, text phone calls, mostly
text messages, a lot of a lot of evidence, a
lot of evidence, paper trail, however you want to say it.
And we're not talking about just middlemen and intermediaries and
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go betweens. No, I'm talking full on, in your face tampering.
That will continue. It is commonplace now, It's more common
in the NBA than anywhere else. But this is an
NFL story. It's already started. Everyone and their uncle, everyone
and their uncle is trying to get this dreamboat. Quarterbacks,
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attention coaches, executives, rival players looking to entice and persuade
Aaron Rodgers to come to their neighborhood and make it
mister Rogers neighborhood. And if you're the Broncos, the Saints,
the Dolphins, Washington Blanks, whatever their name, is going to
be several other teams. You do the dance of romance
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is what you do right, whatever it takes. To get
Aaron Rodgers to swipe right, not swipe left, swipe right,
and all the bizarre meaning rituals will be used. Most
of them we find nauseating, but they will all be used.
Final point, So the Saints in particular are at a
crossroads at quarterback. Drewery had been regressing as seasons went on.
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He played his worst football in the postseason. He had
a lot of hiccups in these last few playoff runs
for the Saints that ended up with losses, including to
Kirk Cousins. Also Jared Goff Drew Brees lost to the
last few years and the postseason and other bumps along
the way. And so Sean Payton, who has been grooming
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for the last several years, Taysom Hill coaches pet Taysom Hill,
the gadget guy, as the new quarterback. But then he
brought in Jamis Winston last year with the hope that
famous Jamis would put down the crab legs and pick
up the pigskin and blossom in the French quarter. And
early reports are not encouraging. Early reports are not encouraging
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about either one of these guys. And no one has
just giving you the wow factor that is what's the line,
take the bull by the horns. Haven't heard a lot
of that. Maybe I've missed it, maybe you have missed it.
But from what we are being told, the Saints are
not exactly blown away at this point by either player,
which is fine, because how can you really be all
that impressed. It's just practice, not a game, not a game,
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it's practice. And while it's still early, but as Yogi
Berra says, it gets laid early out there, and New
Orleans does not have a weaponized roster. These are not
your daddy's Saints. These aren't you the Saints of last year.
In terms of playmakers, they're top impact playmaker. Michael Thomas
had surgery and he is currently sparring with management. In fact,
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we'll have a separate, rare and appropriate Saints monologue about
Michael Thomas as he's out for a chunk of the
regular season, and the Saints have unloaded the character assassination
at Michael Thomas, who's indirectly a friend of the show
because his relative Holiday used to call the show. I
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haven't heard from Holiday in a while. But the cover
words are bear behind Michael Thomas and you've got players
by the name of Trey Kuan Smith, Marquez Callaway, and
Deonte Harris are the top three receivers at this moment,
not exactly household names at the wide receiver position. Now, meanwhile,
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you have another variable. You have another variable. Aaron Rodgers
at this point is a lease. He's not a purchase.
He's the kind of lease you want. He's the kind
of least you want because you figure you're gonna have
a shot to win and at least get to a
conference championship game. Probably not the Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers,
but a conference championship game. There's a lot of miles,
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a lot of miles, and by the time he leaves
Green Bay, he's not gonna traded now Rogers, So you're
talking about a thirty eight year old player. Everyone just assumes,
and you know what happens when you assume that these
guys would continue to perform and they don't get old.
With Drew Brees got old with the Saints, he got old.
They had great players around him. He got old. Tom
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Brady has not gotten old, although he did look old
the last couple of years he with the Patriots. He
was a middling quarterback. Tom Brady, people forget about that,
because they came back and won the Super Bowl this
year and also were able to win one of those
years the last couple of years there because of the
incompetence of Jared Goff and the fact that the Rams
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coach there, Sean McVay, was walking around following Bill Belichick
like a puppy dog in heat. It was very, very
annoying anyway. But Roger to me thirty eight, so the
scenes they bring him in, that's not a long term deal.
That's that's a car you ran on the weekend. That's
the convertible, the red convertible. You read your rent on
the weekend to impress people, but then you got to
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get back to your regular car after that. So that's
where we are in the Aaron Rodgers story. All Right,
it is the Ben Maller Show. You want to come
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much bow guarded the entire hour. It's a bad job
by him. But we'll get some more people on some
different voices on so if you've been on hold, I
promise we'll get to you here sooner then later, sooner
then later. So we had an unexpected ending, an unexpected
ending in the world of sports on Sunday. What was it?
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We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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It's Ben Maller. Well, the unexpected ending. We'll get to
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that coming up here momentarily as we get back into
the work week here on the Ben Maller Show, coming
up in a little bit, we'll have Mallard the third
degree for your dancing in dining pleasure, just like that.
Shocking how that works. See money says the New Orleans
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Saints are better off trying to bring Jeff George out
of reti ronment rather than trying to win with crab
Legs Winston or Taysom Hill. Now they should bring back
Bobby Abart, the spicy hot Bobby Abear. I think he's
still doing local radio in the big Easy. I believe
he is partaking in the tools of ignorance sports talk radio.
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Who else do we have? Page down here? Page down?
Can't read that one. On the air, we did see
the guy in Nocal Keith I think it's Keith in NorCal.
He was like, hey, wait a minute, Aaron Rodgers. Keith
in NorCal, says, Aaron Rodgers is coming back to the
to Cal. He's gonna play for the forty Niners. So
that's his show. Didn't the Niners just draft there Forever
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quarterback now in the in the first round, the third
pick overall, they can delay that another year, bringing Aaron Rodgers.
Let's go to the phones, and who do we have?
Is you any meany mighty mo? Pick a caller by
their name. Let's say hello to Sean the Hood Guy. Hello,
Sean the Hood Guy. Hmm. The equipment problems here, we're
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having technical issues with the fun The bat came back.
We killed the bat. It came back. It's now haunting
the phone system. M just it's the box. It's the box.
I mean, I'm just shaking. I think I think we
got what's wrong with the box. What's happening on me?
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There is our man, Sean the Hood Guy. Hey man
as being part of the Madam militia. Man, I had
to do my duties the other night man against a
couple of astro fans. I know you don't like them,
so I had to ride on them for you. Ben.
I was sitting here at work on Tuesday night when
the Dodgers lost that game, and uh seven of them
come walking down the street's chain like na na na na, hey,
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good night. So I walked out on him. I said, hey, man,
y'all taking up too much noise. They were like, why
we just won the game? I said, yeah, y'all won
the game, but y'are not going to win the fight.
They like, what fight? I said, that fight ya gonna
be in because y'all got this Houston ast or stuff on.
Do you know where y'a all at? They were like, yeah,
we're in lost as I said, yeah, in Los Angeles,
a landers of Bloods and the Crypts. I say that
stuff y'all got on this dangerous and it's a game
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that represents that. Where is that out here in LA?
And I said, if some riders ride py in the car,
they're not gonna want to hear that, Oh we just
hit for the baseball game, or no, I don't bang,
I write the good rhymes if they don't want to
hear that. And I told him, I said, hey, you
better get to a destination where you're gonna be safer
and take that stuff off and go inside and get
out of here at night. So when I told him that,
being they was busting toenails to get up out of here,
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they was calling masks like they had got hot watertone
on them. Man. So hey, I just tried to Hey man,
I just try to do my you know, my work
as a madame militia man, the inform everybody. These we
talked being about fifteen years ago. Being we talked and
I told you every every gang represents baseball, but people
don't understand that. It's on YouTube now you know, every gang,
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every hat represents, you know, a gang, and people start
being careful, man, because they're getting hurt and losing their
lives of just being a fan of a team and
knowing they don't have nothing to do with the team,
but just has something to do with the streets out
here representing it. Before I get out of here, being,
I want to get my boys flowers man, Troy Polamala
well deserved, my favorite, my favorite still of all time,
man Bill Kyward Allen Fana cutting them some guys they
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well desired, man, And uh he was the best, you know,
still of all time to me because I punched out
a raven fan yelling in my faith. I'm out. Uh
Ed Reid was better than Troy Polamala. So I wasn't
going for that, but you know, I had to do
my work, man. So another show man, How that y'all
been all right? Thanks showing the hood guy. I like you.
You know, these astro fans I have noticed and I
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saw some of the video. It was like fight night
at Dodger Stadium when the Astros were in town, and
a lot of these Astro fans fake tough guys, right, yeah,
you know what they say, The barking dog never bites
the barking dog, and everybody these guys were walking around
strutting like a peacock. And then of course the Dodger
fans didn't want any part of that. They said, you
can't do that here, and so then they got in
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their face. And then the Astro fans, Yeah, it did
not go well for them. It did not go well
for them at at all. That's pretty funny though, Like
Sean the Hood Guy, given that advice, I could see
these guys running back to their hotel rooms, like taking
their Astros ugly jersey off of their hat and just
like having just just running back with like just their
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pants on and that's it, and and just trying to
get back as quickly as the thing that he says
about the baseball it's true. Man, Like back in the
day my neighborhood, if you wore a Pittsburgh Pirates at
don't get your azz beat, so you couldn't wear the Pirates. Yeah,
and then uh Oakland Oakland a's hat. They wear that
in uh parts of LA. Also, what about like the
Dodger hat, because that's like everywhere? Yeah yeah, is that safe?
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That's ok yeah, yeah, it's okay. It's just the other
teams outside exactly of southern California. Well, there's I think
there's a game that wears the Brooklyn Dodger head though.
Oh yeah, I wear the Brooklyn Dodger head. Oh I
should I be concerned here? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I like
that because it's it's got to be on it. B
for Ben, be for Brooklyn. You know, same thing. That's
why I wear it looks like an eighteen for some gangs.
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Look at that good thing. Ben's you know, always kick
packing heat. That's right, that's right, Eddie. Yeah, I have
a a concealed permit, concealed carry permit. Clearly, let's go
to Blind Seahawk fan. Emmett, who is next up on
the Ben Maller Show. Hello Emmett in Washington summertime? When
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do you go back to school? Emmett? He's gone. Emmett's gone.
He went back to school. Yes, I hate to see
that happen. It's very unfortunate out dare him. That gives
us time though, to talk about the wild and crazy
mom and speaking, we talked about the Dodgers in baseball,
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and the Dodgers beat the angel after losing them and
the extra intings. Dodgers lost one eleven straight extra inning games.
That's the worst in a million years in baseball. Yeah,
they're terrible and extras they can't they can't win an
extra inning games anyway, less because they'd think the extrating
rule is different in the playoffs though, Well that'll help out. Yeah,
they don't start with a run around second base. The
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relief pitchers come in, run around second base, they poop
the bed right there. They get they get anxiety. They
can't handle it, and it's disasters anyway. So the Dodgers
were playing the Angels on a lazy sunny Sunday afternoon
at Chavez Ravine and during the game, the game, you know,
going on as normal there, and all of a sudden,
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a fan just says, you know what I would like
to like to run out in the field. I would
like to make a running So this this jamoke runs
out on the field to get his fifteen minutes of
fame or fifteen seconds of fame. And it looks like
the Keystone cops are out there. Now, you know, the
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stadium security acquired taste. And so there's a lot of
security guards and they're all chasing after trying to coil
this guy. All right. So and when I say, oh,
what are we looking at? Half a dozen? All right?
So even more than more than half a dozen, A
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baker's half a dozen seven. And so they're they're running
after the fan and trying to trying to get ahold
of this fan, and the fan is just these people
are diving. The security guys are diving and falling, getting
a face full of grass, uh and do anything. And
so then the guy he gets over, he's run all
the way across a lot of mistackles in the open field,
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in the in the center field area, and then over
in right field. The guy he's making a break for it,
he's about to get into sent bam and the ball
girl unexpected Eddie, they'll ball girl does what these these
security guys could out their kid's own. Now now she's
getting full credit. Now people are saying she laid him
out and all that. I don't I don't think that's it.
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She made enough contact to throw the guy off because
that he couldn't successfully get over the wall. So it
wasn't a full perfect form tackle. But the fact that
she did that and she upstaged all of the Dodgers
security was out, was very impressive. So good job there.
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Now we had a young lady on that had run
out on the field a couple of years ago. She
was a teenager. She wanted to get Cody Bellinger's Yeah. Yeah,
No one now wants to hug Cody. By the way,
the way he's playing lately, I und he's sitting under
two hundreds, so no one wants to he needs a
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hug right now. Nobody wants to hug him. He's he's
been so bad. But I attempted to get the ball
girl on as well. Oh you did, Yes, I found
her social media, sent her a message. It was not
not returned, not returned. Yeah, I bet you won't do
it because the Dodgers, I bet you, the Dodgers, the
Dodger PR people don't want her to do any interviews.
I bet I was thinking about that when I when
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I sent the message. But I mean, I mean, why
not though, like you know, yeah, it's nothing bad I
mean she she did her not really her job, but
she she tackled the dude twenty four years old. By
the way, Oh is that right? How much she get
paid as a ball girl? What do you get paid? You?
No idea? Tips? Right when the players? No, Well that's
the clubhouse, the clubhouse guys. Yeah, yeah, the baseball ETI
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kide the clubhouse guys. Every homestand and every road trip
they pay a write a little check out of their
per diem. Well that guy, remember that guy, Chico, that
guy was he was a ball guy. Last you remember
he was practicing with the Dodgers guys like these guys
on the road with the guys. Wow, I don't know
how reliable this. This sources the Stadium Reviews dot com.
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It says currently the way to pay for bat boys
and ball girls falls within nine to ten dollars per hour.
Well that's below California minimum wage. So I don't know,
that's probably the national average. H Yeah. A lot of
teams take advantage of the fact that people would do
that job without getting paid, so like, well, we don't
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have to pay you. He'll do it without us actually
paying you. So and that's and I don't think the
ball the ball girls and ball boys get like tips
from the it's only the clubhouse people to do that.
At least that's that's how I understand it. But maybe
that's maybe that's changed. So how embarrassing is that this
is the guy, probably the guy that ran out of
the fields like, man, you know, I'm gonna impress all
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my friends. It looks like a kid though, No, no,
but he feel like I'm gonna impress everybody by running
out in the field. And then now he'll never hear
the end of it, right, his buddies will just bust
his chops. Dude, you got tackled by the ball girl. Dude,
I mean you know he did. He did run passed
all of the security though. That was impressive speed there.
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As they were flailing away, I was just thinking, like
what dedication to the job? Like I would I would
imagine like if I was a ball boy a ball girl,
I'd be like, it's not my problem. I'm just I'm
gonna watch this happen. Too bad we didn't have Kevin
Harland on the play by play. He's always good for
those types of things. Yeah, yeah, it would have been
what it was. We were in Philadelphia. We were that
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famous Hisstan a couple of years ago. A Philadelphia police
officer running after a fan and that was what did
he do? I remember we talked about it that we
remember what the guy did, and I'm trying to remember
what the guy did. Was a Philly police officer. Some
the last time I remember somebody on the field was
the naked guy in the rain and like Baltimore or something,
oh and Washington, and he slid into the tarp rollers. Yeah,
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he couldn't get him out. Nobody just started rolling it,
you know. Yeah. And the guy was built like a dinos.
So of course women were trying to go out with
him because you know, there's a good looking guy running
around naked, because one woman wouldn't want to have a
guy that would go buck naked running on the field
and the ball game to twenty ten, the police officer
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uses taser on fant. Was that eleven years ago? Holy crap,
Holy crap, No way, that was eleven years ago. Oh
my god. I remember I got in a fight on
Twitter over that with somebody because I was like, good
they chased his ass and they were like, you're anti fan.
He just wanted to be on the field, bla bla. Well,
that's the last time. That's the last time anyone will
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be tasted on the field. Maybe off the field they'll
be tasted, but that that was the last time. I
can't believe it's been over ten years. That's wild. It
seems like it was just a couple of years ago. Man,
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Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Some not
unexpected but still sad news. Some college football Bobby Bowden
passing away at the age of ninety one. His family
had announced recently that he was diagnosed with a terminal disease,
which turned out to be paint pancreatic cancer. But one
of the all time legends in college football, really built
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Florida State from pretty much a nothing program to a
national power. He won a couple of championships ninety three
and ninety nine. He had one losing season in his
over thirty years with the Seminoles, twenty eighth straight bowl
games they went to. And how about this, At one
point fourteen straight years, Florida State was ranked in the
top five of the final hole in college football. So
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they've they've kind of fallen on lean times a bit
as far as their standards. But Bobby Bowden, college football
Hall of Famer coaching legend, passing away at the age
of nine years. Yeah. I had a few interactions with
Bobby Bowden over the years. A long time ago, and
one of my favorite Bobby Bowden memories was we had
him on I was doing local radio on the Old
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Ben and Dave Show in LA and for some reason
Bobby was promoting something. I don't remember what he was promoting,
but he came on and it was right in the
middle of this is a long forgotten controversy. Remember there
was a picture for the Atlanta Braves named John Rocker, Sure,
and he had done an interview with Sports Illustrated and
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just trash like these New York City and the subways,
the seven train out to Shay Stadium, which was the
men's ballpark for all those years and anyway, so that
the story just kind of came across and we had
Bobby on and we told Bobby Bowden about the story
as we knew it at the time, and Bobby just
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he started laughing at how much trouble to get. He said,
uh dog, you know, it was like dog gammit or
whatever it was, Uh dog gammt uh And then he
just went on, but very big smile. You did you
knew when the guy I was talking, I was a
big smile on his face. And rest in peace, say
life well lived for Bobby Bowden who had Florida State
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right at the very upper end in college football, very
good at his job and made a lot of people
very happy. And it's always tough at the end. But
what was he ninety one Crowden? Yeah, yeah, So rest
in peace, Bobby Bowden, it is the Ben Maller Show.
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Limitations apply, and back to the phones we go. Let's
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say hello to our French she is in Berkeley right now,
the sports Sorceress. We talked about Josh Allen and his
massive contract. Good for him with Buffalo. Here we go
Buffalo and now to see if the stars and the
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planets line up and this will be a wonderful relationship.
We say hello to Andrea in Berkeley. Hello Andrea, the
sports Sorceress. Sports Horceress, wishing the mallor militia. We just
had a happy new moon in Leo. Eight eight lions Gate.
(30:54):
How about that eight eight lions Gate. That sounds like
a number call right now? Eight eight eight lions Gate
call right now? Operators are standing by Buddy. Oh, and
that reminds me before I forget. Um, Chris Townsend wanted
me to say hello, I was on his show and
then he mentioned your show as well. Well listen, I
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Chris is an old radio friend whoever, way back, I
used to go on his show, back back, having you
on his show, yes, long ago in another life. Yes,
so kind of small world there. Um. Yeah, the sports
horse dress gets around And how about this, um for um,
the sports astrology for Josh Allen born May twenty one,
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nineteen ninety six. So first day of GEM and I
but you know, for an athlete, excuse me, I always
look at Mars, which is energy, assertion and aggression. And okay,
drumroll please, all right, drum roll please, but that'll work.
(32:02):
Uronics is going to conjunct his mars Ben and that
is very fluctuating erratic energy. This is injury prone, this
is impulsive. I mean, this was really not a well
thought out, long term, expensive deal because this is a
phase characterized by erraticness and things that are very unpredictable
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and aggressive. So I mean he can channel it into
you know, sports to some extent, but basically it's sudden changes,
destructive and explosive. Oh, explosive, like in the fourth and
fourth quarter. It's like it's like the fourth quarter against
the Patriots and the Bills are winning and then carbone
(32:52):
and explode. Kind of the long and short of it is,
it's just very irritable and impulsive. And I mean, on
some level he can channel it in to um, you know, football,
but really it's a very impatient, unpredictable, erratic energy and
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um your honest moves about a degree or two a
year and it retrogrades, so we're looking at two to
three years. Oh yeah, Oh we got a problem. We
have a problem. Cool, can you no buffalo? We have
a problem. Coo, can you tweet? Can you tweet that out? Cool?
We have a problem with the Josh Allen contract. Major.
I'm going on record right now. You're calling your shot here,
(33:33):
I'm calling it. This is really a very combustive transit interesting.
I like it. This is good, this is good information. Here.
We'll keep an eye on this to see. Now, keep
in mind, it's like a it's like a movie. Yeah,
he could come out and play well the first couple
of games, but that doesn't mean anything, right, I mean,
it's the false opening. It's the false opening the full
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body of work, right, they can create arguments, sudden talks, injuries,
goddess forbid, accidents. It's just a very erratic transit happens
once every eighty four years. Been, Oh my god, eighty
four years. That's a that's somebody won't even make it
to eighty four years, say Been. Not everyone gets this
transit in their lifetime. Yeah, so sign a QB for
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this amount of money for the duration is not well
and it's not a good idea. Huh no, No, all right, well,
thank you for the information. Now, Chris, he still he's
still doing stuff for the a's right as he's not
on like a regular radio station. Yeah, and he heard
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I was on your show in the Sports Horse Riss.
He said he used to listen to your show when
he would be done it. I guess it was ninety
five seven. So be like, oh there's been Yeah, yeah,
no I go I go back, Chris, we go back
many years. So send my best to Chris to do that. Ben.
He used to follow me on Twitter, but he doesn't
follow anybody on Twitter, so with his Twitter account, nothing personal.
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I got you. All right, Well, thank you, Andrew, appreciate it.
All right, there you go. All right, there's a friend Andrew. Yeah,
Chris got a great deal. He got hired by the Athletics.
He worked for the team and does a lot of
like podcasting, radio type stuff. Obviously a radio guy. I'm
not sure exactly what that entails, but he's done that
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for several years. So that's a great gig and you
don't have to worry about your overlords. As far as
the radio, you have baseball overlords, which are different. Time
Now for the instant tribua with Mallar to the third
degree on deck. Quarterbacks have averaged forty pass attempts per
game eighteen times since the NFL mergers. Seven of those
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eighteen times were by blank. Again, quarterbacks have averaged forty
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Ben Maller. Quarterbacks have averaged forty pass attempts per game
eighteen times since the AFL NFL merger. Seven of those
were blank. Seven of those were a blank. That is
the question. What is the answer? The Militia Twitter King,
(36:52):
says Frank Costello, mister nice guy going with Draymond Greene
as his answer. Robin Vegas must think it's Friday's. Is
the ravishing Russian Lana? Is the answer? Well, Rob does Vega?
He does every every day. Is a WWE A type person.
(37:14):
Let's go to Ryan Leaf from C Money. That's his answer.
Andrew Walter Raiter Legend Raider's best quarterback of all time.
Andrew Walter guests by Miguel on Fire. Who else we have?
Nathan Peterman from The Screaming Possum, Josh Rosen tossed out
by Oscar Marquis, post from Alf the Alien Opiner, Babe
(37:36):
Laffenburg from Chris in des Moines Charlie Whitehurst from James
the Machinist. That's his answer. Matt the Warrior Raider, AES fan,
got this right, clearly cheating chipping the ques going with
eNCA dare as his answer. Do you have an answer, Eddie?
I do. It's former Texas legend Coult McCoy. No, it's
actually Drew Brees. It's it's Drew Brees of the New
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Orleans Saint Drew Brees is the answer that leads us too.
It's maller. How about that? To the third degree, this
is one big band gets grill. Calvin Johnson reportedly turned
down an offer from the Lions for five hundred thousand
dollars a year for three years, in exchange for twenty
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eight hours of work per year, including mostly promotional appearances.
Now this was to make up for the one point
six million that they forced him to pay back after
he abruptly retired. Ben, you think Megatron is being unreasonable
at this point? Yes, yes, you never leave money on
the table. This was a make good opportunity and as
I understand it, it sounds like an amazing deal. And
(38:41):
he punted on all that money. The arithmetic he would
have made Calvin Johnson seventeen thousand, eight hundred and fifty
seven dollars per hour to shake hands and kiss babies.
My God. Next, Andrea Godala called out Shams for not
giving proper credit in his reporting of Iggy returning to
the Warriors. Now, this isn't the first time that Shams
(39:02):
has been called out for claiming the work of others
as his own. Ben As Sham's a sham. No, the
entire the entire industry is run this way. Shams is
no different. The only people who care about who is
first are media and income poops. The rank and file
don't care. I ran a rumor website. I aggregated rumors.
Nobody cared where they thought it came from me. They
(39:24):
didn't think it came from other people. People get the
news where they get the news. Next, Ohio State versus
Michigan has long been considered one of the best rivalries
in college sports. However, former Ohio State star Joey Galloway
doesn't think so anymore, saying it has been so lopsided
in recent years it can hardly be considered a rivalry
that Ohio State simply doesn't care about. Michigan anymore. Does
he have a point. No, he does not, because if
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Ohio State were to lose the Michigan all hell would
break loose. Who would rain down? Fire? So he's wrong.
How do we do a coup? He passes citizen. There
is that. So now
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our number two
of our radio program on the podcast. In this hour,
our lead comes from the speculation Machine. One of Aaron
Rodgers former teammates says he has information on where Rodgers
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is gonna end up in the year twenty twenty two.
He says, he's going to the Bayou. So what are
the odds, What are the odds of the Aaron Rodgers
lands with the Saints. We open up the Mallard Sportsbook.
We do that right now in our number two. No
days off, not for the speculation machine. It never turns off. Well,
(00:47):
come in the beginning of another hour, the Ben Mallers Show.
We are together in the air everywheares we do, get
out to coast, border to border and beyond on the
vast and powerful microphones of fs are emmanateing live from
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deep in the cave, the bat Cave, the Fox Sports
Radio studios where bats fly and we let them out,
the team lets them out into the night air. Well.
Our lead this hour comes from the NFL. That is
what puts butter on the bread and keeps food on
the plate. So Aaron Rogers, we know he's going to
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play for the Packers this year, but where is he
going to play the following season? That is the speculation
that will not die. It will go on the rest
of Aaron Rodgers time in Green Bay, however long or
short that is, and will have a consistent rat a
(01:55):
tat tat of speculation about Aaron Rodgers and where he
will play X. Now, one former teammate expects him to
go to a certain destination. So, I don't know if
you saw this or not. We're talking about former defensive
back Will Blackman is not currently in the NFL. He
(02:16):
played with Aaron Rodgers for not one, not two, how
about three seasons, But he was a defensive guy, not
an offensive guest. I don't know how much he actually
hung out with Aaron Rodgers, doesn't really matter. Don't derail
a good rumor, don't derail facts getting in the way
of a good rumor. Don't do that at all. So anyway,
Will Blackman, he said he expects the teammate, his X
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teammate there, Aaron Rodgers, to head to the Bayou. So
if you didn't see this, the exact quote was and
he told us the TMZ, so it must be true.
Next year, Aaron Rodgers will be a New Orleans Saint
close quote Will Blackman, former NFL player, Now the Saints.
They don't have an established quarterback anymore, right, there's a
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competition quarterback competition, which means you don't have a good
quarterback Jameis Winston and Taysom Hill. This following the retirement,
the long drawn out retirement of Drew Brees, who I
believe is still apologizing for something that he did somewhere
along the way, and whether it's Facebook or somewhere else anyway,
So Aaron Rodgers future with the Packers, we know it
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is up in the air, but not everywhere following the
coming season, and so that allows us wiggle room. You
got a wiggle, wiggle wiggle to talk about this occasionally
during the twenty one regular season. So let us discuss
the question, what are the odds. Let's just address the
Komodo dragon in the room. What are the odds that
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Aaron Rodgers ends up in the Big Easy for the
twenty twenty two seasons. So I will set the number
on this. You're going to set the line at plus
two thousand on the Mallar Sports book, which implies a
five percent chance, a five percent yes, now my observations,
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you've got fine print, romance and Yogi Barra, and we'll
put all these things together and we will will make
a nice, delicious banana cream pie. The greatest pie of
them all is the bana cream pie now number So
Aaron rodgers future, as he said a year ago, was
(04:27):
a beautiful mystery. That's his quote. It's even more of
a beautiful mystery with the events that have taken place
here recently in the off season, and now his training
camp gets going in the exhibition game start, it would
be the word is ridunculous to think that New Orleans
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is in the driver's seat. So I don't have them
in the driver's seat at all. Rogers. He doesn't even
have a guarantee that he gets to take an off
ramp from Green Bay, and that's a part of the story.
They did not get a lot of attention. It came
out at the end of last week that a lot
of people do not read the fine print. You gotta
(05:10):
read the fine print. Aaron Rodgers did not get any
kind of language in his contract that said, hey, you
get to go out and leave and you get to
go to Team X. That's there's nothing there and the
fine print. He doesn't have anything in writing. There's nothing
in writing, so if it's not put on paper, even
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when it's put on paper, is not a guarantee. But
you have more of a leg to stand on when
these things are put on paper. What happened here? Let
me tell you all right, the packer brass my you know,
Brian Goodacoonts and the packer Brass. They gave a handshake
deal that I'll do you a solid. You came back
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and played, we'll take care of you. If you don't
want to be here after the season, we'll get you
somewhere else. So if Roger's wines complains and stop his
foot and has a hissy fit, then they will trade
his ass before the twenty twenty two regular season. At
least that's the handshake deal. But handshake deals, as you know,
because you've lived your own life, handshake deals are broken
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all the time. I can't tell you how many times
I have been told that someone's giving me them their
word in the radio business that so and so is
gonna happen. We're gonna take care of you. It doesn't happen. Now,
there are people I've worked with that do take care
of you, and there's other people that don't. But it's
a very fluid situation and it's no different just because
the stakes are a little higher in the NFL. Now,
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the second point here we get wrong. Take that Aaron
Rodgers phone is already blowing up, text phone calls, mostly
text messages, a lot of a lot of evidence, a
lot of evidence, paper trail, however you want to say it.
And we're not talking about just middlemen and intermediaries and
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go betweens. No, I'm talking full on, in your face tampering.
That will continue. It is commonplace now, It's more common
in the NBA than anywhere else. But this is an
NFL story. It's already started. Everyone and their uncle, everyone
and their uncle is trying to get this dreamboat. Quarterbacks,
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attention coaches, executives, rival players looking to entice and persuade
Aaron Rodgers to come to their neighborhood and make it
mister Rogers neighborhood. And if you're the Broncos, the Saints,
the Dolphins, Washington Blanks, whatever their name, is going to
be several other teams. You do the dance of romance
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is what you do right, whatever it takes. To get
Aaron Rodgers to swipe right, not swipe left, swipe right,
and all the bizarre meaning rituals will be used. Most
of them we find nauseating, but they will all be used.
Final point, So the Saints in particular are at a
crossroads at quarterback. Drewery had been regressing as seasons went on.
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He played his worst football in the postseason. He had
a lot of hiccups in these last few playoff runs
for the Saints that ended up with losses, including to
Kirk Cousins. Also Jared Goff Drew Brees lost to the
last few years and the postseason and other bumps along
the way. And so Sean Payton, who has been grooming
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for the last several years, Taysom Hill coaches pet Taysom Hill,
the gadget guy, as the new quarterback. But then he
brought in Jamis Winston last year with the hope that
famous Jamis would put down the crab legs and pick
up the pigskin and blossom in the French quarter. And
early reports are not encouraging. Early reports are not encouraging
(08:50):
about either one of these guys. And no one has
just giving you the wow factor that is what's the line,
take the bull by the horns. Haven't heard a lot
of that. Maybe I've missed it, maybe you have missed it.
But from what we are being told, the Saints are
not exactly blown away at this point by either player,
which is fine, because how can you really be all
that impressed. It's just practice, not a game, not a game,
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it's practice. And while it's still early, but as Yogi
Berra says, it gets laid early out there, and New
Orleans does not have a weaponized roster. These are not
your daddy's Saints. These aren't you the Saints of last year.
In terms of playmakers, they're top impact playmaker. Michael Thomas
had surgery and he is currently sparring with management. In fact,
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we'll have a separate, rare and appropriate Saints monologue about
Michael Thomas as he's out for a chunk of the
regular season, and the Saints have unloaded the character assassination
at Michael Thomas, who's indirectly a friend of the show
because his relative Holiday used to call the show. I
(09:56):
haven't heard from Holiday in a while. But the cover
words are bear behind Michael Thomas and you've got players
by the name of Trey Kuan Smith, Marquez Callaway, and
Deonte Harris are the top three receivers at this moment,
not exactly household names at the wide receiver position. Now, meanwhile,
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you have another variable. You have another variable. Aaron Rodgers
at this point is a lease. He's not a purchase.
He's the kind of lease you want. He's the kind
of least you want because you figure you're gonna have
a shot to win and at least get to a
conference championship game. Probably not the Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers,
but a conference championship game. There's a lot of miles,
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a lot of miles, and by the time he leaves
Green Bay, he's not gonna traded now Rogers, So you're
talking about a thirty eight year old player. Everyone just assumes,
and you know what happens when you assume that these
guys would continue to perform and they don't get old.
With Drew Brees got old with the Saints, he got old.
They had great players around him. He got old. Tom
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Brady has not gotten old, although he did look old
the last couple of years he with the Patriots. He
was a middling quarterback. Tom Brady, people forget about that,
because they came back and won the Super Bowl this
year and also were able to win one of those
years the last couple of years there because of the
incompetence of Jared Goff and the fact that the Rams
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coach there, Sean McVay, was walking around following Bill Belichick
like a puppy dog in heat. It was very, very
annoying anyway. But Roger to me thirty eight, so the
scenes they bring him in, that's not a long term deal.
That's that's a car you ran on the weekend. That's
the convertible, the red convertible. You read your rent on
the weekend to impress people, but then you got to
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get back to your regular car after that. So that's
where we are in the Aaron Rodgers story. All Right,
it is the Ben Maller Show. You want to come
in on that or anything else here, you can join us.
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we we went to beer drinking Brian. We had a
song that we debuted and then beer Drinking Brian pretty
(12:05):
much bow guarded the entire hour. It's a bad job
by him. But we'll get some more people on some
different voices on so if you've been on hold, I
promise we'll get to you here sooner then later, sooner
then later. So we had an unexpected ending, an unexpected
ending in the world of sports on Sunday. What was it?
(12:26):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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It's Ben Maller. Well, the unexpected ending. We'll get to
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that coming up here momentarily as we get back into
the work week here on the Ben Maller Show, coming
up in a little bit, we'll have Mallard the third
degree for your dancing in dining pleasure, just like that.
Shocking how that works. See money says the New Orleans
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Saints are better off trying to bring Jeff George out
of reti ronment rather than trying to win with crab
Legs Winston or Taysom Hill. Now they should bring back
Bobby Abart, the spicy hot Bobby Abear. I think he's
still doing local radio in the big Easy. I believe
he is partaking in the tools of ignorance sports talk radio.
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Who else do we have? Page down here? Page down?
Can't read that one. On the air, we did see
the guy in Nocal Keith I think it's Keith in NorCal.
He was like, hey, wait a minute, Aaron Rodgers. Keith
in NorCal, says, Aaron Rodgers is coming back to the
to Cal. He's gonna play for the forty Niners. So
that's his show. Didn't the Niners just draft there Forever
(14:45):
quarterback now in the in the first round, the third
pick overall, they can delay that another year, bringing Aaron Rodgers.
Let's go to the phones, and who do we have?
Is you any meany mighty mo? Pick a caller by
their name. Let's say hello to Sean the Hood Guy. Hello,
Sean the Hood Guy. Hmm. The equipment problems here, we're
(15:11):
having technical issues with the fun The bat came back.
We killed the bat. It came back. It's now haunting
the phone system. M just it's the box. It's the box.
I mean, I'm just shaking. I think I think we
got what's wrong with the box. What's happening on me?
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There is our man, Sean the Hood Guy. Hey man
as being part of the Madam militia. Man, I had
to do my duties the other night man against a
couple of astro fans. I know you don't like them,
so I had to ride on them for you. Ben.
I was sitting here at work on Tuesday night when
the Dodgers lost that game, and uh seven of them
come walking down the street's chain like na na na na, hey,
(15:57):
good night. So I walked out on him. I said, hey, man,
y'all taking up too much noise. They were like, why
we just won the game? I said, yeah, y'all won
the game, but y'are not going to win the fight.
They like, what fight? I said, that fight ya gonna
be in because y'all got this Houston ast or stuff on.
Do you know where y'a all at? They were like, yeah,
we're in lost as I said, yeah, in Los Angeles,
a landers of Bloods and the Crypts. I say that
stuff y'all got on this dangerous and it's a game
(16:18):
that represents that. Where is that out here in LA?
And I said, if some riders ride py in the car,
they're not gonna want to hear that, Oh we just
hit for the baseball game, or no, I don't bang,
I write the good rhymes if they don't want to
hear that. And I told him, I said, hey, you
better get to a destination where you're gonna be safer
and take that stuff off and go inside and get
out of here at night. So when I told him that,
being they was busting toenails to get up out of here,
(16:43):
they was calling masks like they had got hot watertone
on them. Man. So hey, I just tried to Hey man,
I just try to do my you know, my work
as a madame militia man, the inform everybody. These we
talked being about fifteen years ago. Being we talked and
I told you every every gang represents baseball, but people
don't understand that. It's on YouTube now you know, every gang,
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every hat represents, you know, a gang, and people start
being careful, man, because they're getting hurt and losing their
lives of just being a fan of a team and
knowing they don't have nothing to do with the team,
but just has something to do with the streets out
here representing it. Before I get out of here, being,
I want to get my boys flowers man, Troy Polamala
well deserved, my favorite, my favorite still of all time,
man Bill Kyward Allen Fana cutting them some guys they
(17:26):
well desired, man, And uh he was the best, you know,
still of all time to me because I punched out
a raven fan yelling in my faith. I'm out. Uh
Ed Reid was better than Troy Polamala. So I wasn't
going for that, but you know, I had to do
my work, man. So another show man, How that y'all
been all right? Thanks showing the hood guy. I like you.
You know, these astro fans I have noticed and I
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saw some of the video. It was like fight night
at Dodger Stadium when the Astros were in town, and
a lot of these Astro fans fake tough guys, right, yeah,
you know what they say, The barking dog never bites
the barking dog, and everybody these guys were walking around
strutting like a peacock. And then of course the Dodger
fans didn't want any part of that. They said, you
can't do that here, and so then they got in
(18:07):
their face. And then the Astro fans, Yeah, it did
not go well for them. It did not go well
for them at at all. That's pretty funny though, Like
Sean the Hood Guy, given that advice, I could see
these guys running back to their hotel rooms, like taking
their Astros ugly jersey off of their hat and just
like having just just running back with like just their
(18:29):
pants on and that's it, and and just trying to
get back as quickly as the thing that he says
about the baseball it's true. Man, Like back in the
day my neighborhood, if you wore a Pittsburgh Pirates at
don't get your azz beat, so you couldn't wear the Pirates. Yeah,
and then uh Oakland Oakland a's hat. They wear that
in uh parts of LA. Also, what about like the
Dodger hat, because that's like everywhere? Yeah yeah, is that safe?
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That's ok yeah, yeah, it's okay. It's just the other
teams outside exactly of southern California. Well, there's I think
there's a game that wears the Brooklyn Dodger head though.
Oh yeah, I wear the Brooklyn Dodger head. Oh I
should I be concerned here? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I like
that because it's it's got to be on it. B
for Ben, be for Brooklyn. You know, same thing. That's
why I wear it looks like an eighteen for some gangs.
(19:16):
Look at that good thing. Ben's you know, always kick
packing heat. That's right, that's right, Eddie. Yeah, I have
a a concealed permit, concealed carry permit. Clearly, let's go
to Blind Seahawk fan. Emmett, who is next up on
the Ben Maller Show. Hello Emmett in Washington summertime? When
(19:38):
do you go back to school? Emmett? He's gone. Emmett's gone.
He went back to school. Yes, I hate to see
that happen. It's very unfortunate out dare him. That gives
us time though, to talk about the wild and crazy
mom and speaking, we talked about the Dodgers in baseball,
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and the Dodgers beat the angel after losing them and
the extra intings. Dodgers lost one eleven straight extra inning games.
That's the worst in a million years in baseball. Yeah,
they're terrible and extras they can't they can't win an
extra inning games anyway, less because they'd think the extrating
rule is different in the playoffs though, Well that'll help out. Yeah,
they don't start with a run around second base. The
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relief pitchers come in, run around second base, they poop
the bed right there. They get they get anxiety. They
can't handle it, and it's disasters anyway. So the Dodgers
were playing the Angels on a lazy sunny Sunday afternoon
at Chavez Ravine and during the game, the game, you know,
going on as normal there, and all of a sudden,
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a fan just says, you know what I would like
to like to run out in the field. I would
like to make a running So this this jamoke runs
out on the field to get his fifteen minutes of
fame or fifteen seconds of fame. And it looks like
the Keystone cops are out there. Now, you know, the
(21:05):
stadium security acquired taste. And so there's a lot of
security guards and they're all chasing after trying to coil
this guy. All right. So and when I say, oh,
what are we looking at? Half a dozen? All right?
So even more than more than half a dozen, A
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baker's half a dozen seven. And so they're they're running
after the fan and trying to trying to get ahold
of this fan, and the fan is just these people
are diving. The security guys are diving and falling, getting
a face full of grass, uh and do anything. And
so then the guy he gets over, he's run all
the way across a lot of mistackles in the open field,
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in the in the center field area, and then over
in right field. The guy he's making a break for it,
he's about to get into sent bam and the ball
girl unexpected Eddie, they'll ball girl does what these these
security guys could out their kid's own. Now now she's
getting full credit. Now people are saying she laid him
out and all that. I don't I don't think that's it.
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She made enough contact to throw the guy off because
that he couldn't successfully get over the wall. So it
wasn't a full perfect form tackle. But the fact that
she did that and she upstaged all of the Dodgers
security was out, was very impressive. So good job there.
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Now we had a young lady on that had run
out on the field a couple of years ago. She
was a teenager. She wanted to get Cody Bellinger's Yeah. Yeah,
No one now wants to hug Cody. By the way,
the way he's playing lately, I und he's sitting under
two hundreds, so no one wants to he needs a
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hug right now. Nobody wants to hug him. He's he's
been so bad. But I attempted to get the ball
girl on as well. Oh you did, Yes, I found
her social media, sent her a message. It was not
not returned, not returned. Yeah, I bet you won't do
it because the Dodgers, I bet you, the Dodgers, the
Dodger PR people don't want her to do any interviews.
I bet I was thinking about that when I when
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I sent the message. But I mean, I mean, why
not though, like you know, yeah, it's nothing bad I
mean she she did her not really her job, but
she she tackled the dude twenty four years old. By
the way, Oh is that right? How much she get
paid as a ball girl? What do you get paid? You?
No idea? Tips? Right when the players? No, Well that's
the clubhouse, the clubhouse guys. Yeah, yeah, the baseball ETI
(23:37):
kide the clubhouse guys. Every homestand and every road trip
they pay a write a little check out of their
per diem. Well that guy, remember that guy, Chico, that
guy was he was a ball guy. Last you remember
he was practicing with the Dodgers guys like these guys
on the road with the guys. Wow, I don't know
how reliable this. This sources the Stadium Reviews dot com.
(24:00):
It says currently the way to pay for bat boys
and ball girls falls within nine to ten dollars per hour.
Well that's below California minimum wage. So I don't know,
that's probably the national average. H Yeah. A lot of
teams take advantage of the fact that people would do
that job without getting paid, so like, well, we don't
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have to pay you. He'll do it without us actually
paying you. So and that's and I don't think the
ball the ball girls and ball boys get like tips
from the it's only the clubhouse people to do that.
At least that's that's how I understand it. But maybe
that's maybe that's changed. So how embarrassing is that this
is the guy, probably the guy that ran out of
the fields like, man, you know, I'm gonna impress all
(24:42):
my friends. It looks like a kid though, No, no,
but he feel like I'm gonna impress everybody by running
out in the field. And then now he'll never hear
the end of it, right, his buddies will just bust
his chops. Dude, you got tackled by the ball girl. Dude,
I mean you know he did. He did run passed
all of the security though. That was impressive speed there.
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As they were flailing away, I was just thinking, like
what dedication to the job? Like I would I would
imagine like if I was a ball boy a ball girl,
I'd be like, it's not my problem. I'm just I'm
gonna watch this happen. Too bad we didn't have Kevin
Harland on the play by play. He's always good for
those types of things. Yeah, yeah, it would have been
what it was. We were in Philadelphia. We were that
(25:26):
famous Hisstan a couple of years ago. A Philadelphia police
officer running after a fan and that was what did
he do? I remember we talked about it that we
remember what the guy did, and I'm trying to remember
what the guy did. Was a Philly police officer. Some
the last time I remember somebody on the field was
the naked guy in the rain and like Baltimore or something,
oh and Washington, and he slid into the tarp rollers. Yeah,
(25:49):
he couldn't get him out. Nobody just started rolling it,
you know. Yeah. And the guy was built like a dinos.
So of course women were trying to go out with
him because you know, there's a good looking guy running
around naked, because one woman wouldn't want to have a
guy that would go buck naked running on the field
and the ball game to twenty ten, the police officer
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uses taser on fant. Was that eleven years ago? Holy crap,
Holy crap, No way, that was eleven years ago. Oh
my god. I remember I got in a fight on
Twitter over that with somebody because I was like, good
they chased his ass and they were like, you're anti fan.
He just wanted to be on the field, bla bla. Well,
that's the last time. That's the last time anyone will
(26:33):
be tasted on the field. Maybe off the field they'll
be tasted, but that that was the last time. I
can't believe it's been over ten years. That's wild. It
seems like it was just a couple of years ago. Man,
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Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Some not
unexpected but still sad news. Some college football Bobby Bowden
passing away at the age of ninety one. His family
had announced recently that he was diagnosed with a terminal disease,
which turned out to be paint pancreatic cancer. But one
of the all time legends in college football, really built
(27:39):
Florida State from pretty much a nothing program to a
national power. He won a couple of championships ninety three
and ninety nine. He had one losing season in his
over thirty years with the Seminoles, twenty eighth straight bowl
games they went to. And how about this, At one
point fourteen straight years, Florida State was ranked in the
top five of the final hole in college football. So
(28:02):
they've they've kind of fallen on lean times a bit
as far as their standards. But Bobby Bowden, college football
Hall of Famer coaching legend, passing away at the age
of nine years. Yeah. I had a few interactions with
Bobby Bowden over the years. A long time ago, and
one of my favorite Bobby Bowden memories was we had
him on I was doing local radio on the Old
(28:23):
Ben and Dave Show in LA and for some reason
Bobby was promoting something. I don't remember what he was promoting,
but he came on and it was right in the
middle of this is a long forgotten controversy. Remember there
was a picture for the Atlanta Braves named John Rocker, Sure,
and he had done an interview with Sports Illustrated and
(28:44):
just trash like these New York City and the subways,
the seven train out to Shay Stadium, which was the
men's ballpark for all those years and anyway, so that
the story just kind of came across and we had
Bobby on and we told Bobby Bowden about the story
as we knew it at the time, and Bobby just
(29:05):
he started laughing at how much trouble to get. He said,
uh dog, you know, it was like dog gammit or
whatever it was, Uh dog gammt uh And then he
just went on, but very big smile. You did you
knew when the guy I was talking, I was a
big smile on his face. And rest in peace, say
life well lived for Bobby Bowden who had Florida State
(29:28):
right at the very upper end in college football, very
good at his job and made a lot of people
very happy. And it's always tough at the end. But
what was he ninety one Crowden? Yeah, yeah, So rest
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Limitations apply, and back to the phones we go. Let's
(30:13):
say hello to our French she is in Berkeley right now,
the sports Sorceress. We talked about Josh Allen and his
massive contract. Good for him with Buffalo. Here we go
Buffalo and now to see if the stars and the
(30:34):
planets line up and this will be a wonderful relationship.
We say hello to Andrea in Berkeley. Hello Andrea, the
sports Sorceress. Sports Horceress, wishing the mallor militia. We just
had a happy new moon in Leo. Eight eight lions Gate.
(30:54):
How about that eight eight lions Gate. That sounds like
a number call right now? Eight eight eight lions Gate
call right now? Operators are standing by Buddy. Oh, and
that reminds me before I forget. Um, Chris Townsend wanted
me to say hello, I was on his show and
then he mentioned your show as well. Well listen, I
(31:14):
Chris is an old radio friend whoever, way back, I
used to go on his show, back back, having you
on his show, yes, long ago in another life. Yes,
so kind of small world there. Um. Yeah, the sports
horse dress gets around And how about this, um for um,
the sports astrology for Josh Allen born May twenty one,
(31:39):
nineteen ninety six. So first day of GEM and I
but you know, for an athlete, excuse me, I always
look at Mars, which is energy, assertion and aggression. And okay,
drumroll please, all right, drum roll please, but that'll work.
(32:02):
Uronics is going to conjunct his mars Ben and that
is very fluctuating erratic energy. This is injury prone, this
is impulsive. I mean, this was really not a well
thought out, long term, expensive deal because this is a
phase characterized by erraticness and things that are very unpredictable
(32:27):
and aggressive. So I mean he can channel it into
you know, sports to some extent, but basically it's sudden changes,
destructive and explosive. Oh, explosive, like in the fourth and
fourth quarter. It's like it's like the fourth quarter against
the Patriots and the Bills are winning and then carbone
(32:52):
and explode. Kind of the long and short of it is,
it's just very irritable and impulsive. And I mean, on
some level he can channel it in to um, you know, football,
but really it's a very impatient, unpredictable, erratic energy and
(33:12):
um your honest moves about a degree or two a
year and it retrogrades, so we're looking at two to
three years. Oh yeah, Oh we got a problem. We
have a problem. Cool, can you no buffalo? We have
a problem. Coo, can you tweet? Can you tweet that out? Cool?
We have a problem with the Josh Allen contract. Major.
I'm going on record right now. You're calling your shot here,
(33:33):
I'm calling it. This is really a very combustive transit interesting.
I like it. This is good, this is good information. Here.
We'll keep an eye on this to see. Now, keep
in mind, it's like a it's like a movie. Yeah,
he could come out and play well the first couple
of games, but that doesn't mean anything, right, I mean,
it's the false opening. It's the false opening the full
(33:53):
body of work, right, they can create arguments, sudden talks, injuries,
goddess forbid, accidents. It's just a very erratic transit happens
once every eighty four years. Been, Oh my god, eighty
four years. That's a that's somebody won't even make it
to eighty four years, say Been. Not everyone gets this
transit in their lifetime. Yeah, so sign a QB for
(34:18):
this amount of money for the duration is not well
and it's not a good idea. Huh no, No, all right, well,
thank you for the information. Now, Chris, he still he's
still doing stuff for the a's right as he's not
on like a regular radio station. Yeah, and he heard
(34:39):
I was on your show in the Sports Horse Riss.
He said he used to listen to your show when
he would be done it. I guess it was ninety
five seven. So be like, oh there's been Yeah, yeah,
no I go I go back, Chris, we go back
many years. So send my best to Chris to do that. Ben.
He used to follow me on Twitter, but he doesn't
follow anybody on Twitter, so with his Twitter account, nothing personal.
(35:00):
I got you. All right, Well, thank you, Andrew, appreciate it.
All right, there you go. All right, there's a friend Andrew. Yeah,
Chris got a great deal. He got hired by the Athletics.
He worked for the team and does a lot of
like podcasting, radio type stuff. Obviously a radio guy. I'm
not sure exactly what that entails, but he's done that
(35:21):
for several years. So that's a great gig and you
don't have to worry about your overlords. As far as
the radio, you have baseball overlords, which are different. Time
Now for the instant tribua with Mallar to the third
degree on deck. Quarterbacks have averaged forty pass attempts per
game eighteen times since the NFL mergers. Seven of those
(35:44):
eighteen times were by blank. Again, quarterbacks have averaged forty
pass attempts per game eighteen times over a season since
the NFL merger. Seven of those were by blank. That's
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(36:28):
Ben Maller. Quarterbacks have averaged forty pass attempts per game
eighteen times since the AFL NFL merger. Seven of those
were blank. Seven of those were a blank. That is
the question. What is the answer? The Militia Twitter King,
(36:52):
says Frank Costello, mister nice guy going with Draymond Greene
as his answer. Robin Vegas must think it's Friday's. Is
the ravishing Russian Lana? Is the answer? Well, Rob does Vega?
He does every every day. Is a WWE A type person.
(37:14):
Let's go to Ryan Leaf from C Money. That's his answer.
Andrew Walter Raiter Legend Raider's best quarterback of all time.
Andrew Walter guests by Miguel on Fire. Who else we have?
Nathan Peterman from The Screaming Possum, Josh Rosen tossed out
by Oscar Marquis, post from Alf the Alien Opiner, Babe
(37:36):
Laffenburg from Chris in des Moines Charlie Whitehurst from James
the Machinist. That's his answer. Matt the Warrior Raider, AES fan,
got this right, clearly cheating chipping the ques going with
eNCA dare as his answer. Do you have an answer, Eddie?
I do. It's former Texas legend Coult McCoy. No, it's
actually Drew Brees. It's it's Drew Brees of the New
(37:58):
Orleans Saint Drew Brees is the answer that leads us too.
It's maller. How about that? To the third degree, this
is one big band gets grill. Calvin Johnson reportedly turned
down an offer from the Lions for five hundred thousand
dollars a year for three years, in exchange for twenty
(38:20):
eight hours of work per year, including mostly promotional appearances.
Now this was to make up for the one point
six million that they forced him to pay back after
he abruptly retired. Ben, you think Megatron is being unreasonable
at this point? Yes, yes, you never leave money on
the table. This was a make good opportunity and as
I understand it, it sounds like an amazing deal. And
(38:41):
he punted on all that money. The arithmetic he would
have made Calvin Johnson seventeen thousand, eight hundred and fifty
seven dollars per hour to shake hands and kiss babies.
My God. Next, Andrea Godala called out Shams for not
giving proper credit in his reporting of Iggy returning to
the Warriors. Now, this isn't the first time that Shams
(39:02):
has been called out for claiming the work of others
as his own. Ben As Sham's a sham. No, the
entire the entire industry is run this way. Shams is
no different. The only people who care about who is
first are media and income poops. The rank and file
don't care. I ran a rumor website. I aggregated rumors.
Nobody cared where they thought it came from me. They
(39:24):
didn't think it came from other people. People get the
news where they get the news. Next, Ohio State versus
Michigan has long been considered one of the best rivalries
in college sports. However, former Ohio State star Joey Galloway
doesn't think so anymore, saying it has been so lopsided
in recent years it can hardly be considered a rivalry
that Ohio State simply doesn't care about. Michigan anymore. Does
he have a point. No, he does not, because if
(39:47):
Ohio State were to lose the Michigan all hell would
break loose. Who would rain down? Fire? So he's wrong.
How do we do a coup? He passes citizen. There
is that. So now
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