June 6, 2022 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks some baseball, specifically the downward spiral that the Anaheim Angels have been in after a hot start to the season. Ben sets the odds on the Halos firing Joe Maddon. Plus, a marketing virtue attempt in baseball has backfired on one team. Andrea the Sports Sorceress checks in. Then, Ben opens the lines for some insta-advice!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, hour three of
our radio program, Major League Baseball, the League. We were
going to talk about the Dodgers and Mats, but we
go where the story takes us and the Angels are
free falling. Halos have now lost eleven straight games. What
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are the chances that Joe Madden is let go as
Angels manager? And how much more rope does Joe Madden have?
And tell me what else the Angels can do to
shake things up? We will tell you that and more
right now in our number three Here it is well
come in the beginning of another hour of the Bannet
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Mallard Show. We are in the air everywhere, just like
next door neighbors, as we bluviate the overnight hours away
keep plugging along here, Yes, we do, coast to coast,
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we avoid a bad quarter of an hour from the
Fox Sports radio studios and a secret location inside the
radio dial. So I lead this hour coming from Baseball Now.
I was planning on doing a rant about the Dodgers
and the match, but I decided this is the better story.
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I loved the losing locker room. And there's no better
losing locker room right now than a matchup in Anaheim
the Heylos. Oh, they're so popular they had no room
for me losers. So anyway, there is no more compelling
story going on right now than a team that thought
they were good, that was off to a nice start
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and has fallen apart. Now, if you have not been
keeping tracking, maybe not. The Angels were sizzling at the
beginning of the year and there was talk that finally
they had found pitching, they had solved their their malaise
in Anaheim. It seems like it's been an over a
decade without good pitching. But after another bullpin melt down
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melt down on Reactor Free in Philadelphia on Sunday, the
Halos have now lost eleven consecutive games. Eleven straight games lost.
Oh yeah, that's that's hard to do. That's hard to do,
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to lose eleven consecutive games. But the Angels have pulled
it off. And you do the math on they said, well,
there's only you know, you look around, it's like, well,
there's how many how many games are there? One hundred
and sixty two and you've lost eleven consecutive about us,
that's a blimp of the radar. Well, no, it's not. No, no,
it's not eleven out of one hundred and sixty two.
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That works out to let me do the math on that.
That is you've lost every single one of your games
for about seven percent of the schedule. So it doesn't
sound like a lot, but that trust me, it's a lot.
It adds up. And the Angels are in a bad
spot now after this, and so this has led in
the way they lost. It's not just losing, it's the
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loss in Philadelphia where the Angels had the game of
the bag and then they cut a hole in the
bottom of the bag and Brights Harper ends up hitting
a grand Slam. Then there was another bomb and then
that's it. So this has led to chatter that manager
Joe Madden, beloved by sportswriters and a good guy I've
not I've known Joel a little bit over the years,
that he is in danger of being whacked as skipper
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in Anaheim, the folksy skipper with all the cute sayings
and slogans and the cowboy hat and all that with
positive vibrations. It's not resonating at this point as the
Angels find themselves now under five hundred. So let us
discuss the question, what are the chances that Joe Madden
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is let go as Angel manager? So I am going
to set the odds on this at plus one eighty.
Now that implies there is a thirty five percent chance.
I still think the odds are in Joe Madden's favor,
but I want thirty five percent chance that Madden is
let go. And this is a big week upcoming. When
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you peek ahead at the schedule, you got the Red
Sox coming into Anaheim for four and then the New
York Metropolitans after that. So even if the Angels were
playing well, this would not be a great series of
games this coming week. But if the Angels, let's say
they go one in six over the next seven, So
now you're looking at one in seventeen over eighteen games.
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Does that get you Madden fire? If they lose all seven,
then I believe Madden was deaf going to be removed.
So I've got plot twist, the law and playing cards,
and we'll combine all these things together. Now, first of all,
Joe Madden still has the support of the upper echelante
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of the Angels Organiza Sean from what I am hearing,
and he was seen as the perfect manager for owner
Artie Marino, and that was the guy they wanted, that
was the guy they needed. Someone who's a baseball lifer.
He spent his early days in baseball toiling in the
minor leagues. He was a scout, He was a minor
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league coach for the Angels. He worked on the big
league staff when Terry Collins was the manager in Anaheim
and then left and when Mike Social took over. He
left to go find success with Tampa Bay and the Cubs,
making the World Series with the Rays and ending the
curse of the Billy Goat for the Cubbies. The script
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called for him to come home and close the circle
of life and end up taking the Angels out of
the darkness and finding the championship light. Unfortunately, unfortunately, this
is not a Hollywood ending. At this point, we have
seen the unexpected plot twist, and the Angels are being
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haunted by their arson squad that they call in out
of the bullpen, bringing in cartons of gasoline from the
bullpen and Molak top cocktails to throw around as it
has been bad? How bad has it been? The Halos
have had the lead in the eighth inning or later
in five of the eleven losses. So five of the
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eleven losses the Angels have had a chance to win,
needing only a few outs to go, and each time
the relievers have seen that trapdoor open up and fallen
into the pit of vipers, just like that. The Sunday
a great example, Angels had a six two lead over
a bad Phillies team in the eighth inning. That went away,
it evaporated. Bryce Harper hit a grain in salari and
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then eventually the Angels finding a new creative way to
lose after that. Now, secondly, how much rope? How much
rope does Joe Madden have? So we gave you the
odds already, we're not changing the odds at plus one
eighty thirty five percent chance. Madden is holding on right
now by the ends of his fingernails, and he's looking
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down the barrels. We said he got four games with
the Red Sox, and this is not a good Red
Sox team this year. It's an average Red Sox team.
But they can score some runs and they've been getting
better pitching lately. How much of that is a bad
Oakland team over the weekend, and how much of that
is Boston getting better three games with the Mets after that.
The other thing working in favor of the Angel's beloved manager,
Joe Madden is the fact that the owner, Artie Marino,
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is a noted tight wad, and so that helps. I
believe Madden's at the end of his contract, though, and
so that might be the great equalizer. But ultimately I
think this comes down to Mike Trout. Mike Out has
the forever contract. It's Trout in the locker room. Has
Joe Madden stick Ala already worn out after two plus
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years at the Helm in Anaheim? And if that's the case,
when that happens, it's time to call you haul and
get somebody else in there. Trout himself has been a
waste of space of late. People around the Angels love
to brag they've got the two top players in baseball
on the same team. How's that working on for you
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during the losing streak? Now, Mike Trout is over twenty six,
but during the eleven game losing streak, he's batting a
highway and Interstate ninety five ninety five is Mike Trout's
batting four forty two, one home run, two RBIs his
partner in crime. Also in the Penalty Box showhy Otani
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the Great Star from Japan. How's Otani doing thirty five
at bats during the losing streak? Six hits. That's a
one seventy one batting average. It's May twenty fifth, two
all runs and four RBIs It's the law. Murphy's law
is what it is. Anything that can go wrong will
go wrong for the Angels. The Halos need to go
out and buy some parachutes to slow down the free
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fall which is going on and has gone on now
for eleven games. The Angels have gone from ten games
over five hundred to one game under five hundred in
a week and a half of bad baseball. The American
League West as a whole has become a clown division.
Brawl a clown division the American League West, and much
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to our dismay, only the cheating a Stros are above
five hundred. The long National nightmare continues, and the dummies
with the Angels, the Rangers, and the Mariners and the
A's all all are different shades of crap so far
here in June Professional Baseball art final fun. Imagine if
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you will, a world where Artie Marino really wants to
keep Joe Madden around. I believe that's going on. It okay, then,
so tell me what else the Angels can do to
shake things up. Historically, there are three options when your
team blows like this all of a sudden. The obvious
one is to just fire the manager and say that
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that's the guy that team sucks because that But if
you pull out the deck of playing cards, what other
cards are available to you in the deck of cards
where there are two other moves, two other cards to
play here that can be made. The Angels can make
a big time trade sending away one of their core players. Now,
they're not gonna trade Mike Trout or they're not gonna
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trade Shoheo Tani. Those guys are untouchables, but everyone else
on that roster would be in play. Trade away one
of the core players not named Trout or Annie and
shape him shake him. Now you can also look to
patch the bullpen together by trying to find people in
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the minor leagues or sign somebody out of the Mexican League.
At this point go somewhere like that. The other option
would involve a human sacrifice of one of Joe Madden's
close personal friends, one of his underlings getting rid of
a coach, the pitching coach. Matt Wise that he could
be the guy to go that the hitting coach. I
didn't realize. Paul Sorrento. It's a name I remember from
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back in the day with the Cleveland Indians. He's hitting coach.
But one of those guys get rid of the coach
and say, that's that's the person that's responsible. That's the
shockwave kind of move to restart the engine. Or the
Angels can contact me, although I'm not really interested this
point because the Halos ban me from because they were
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so arrogant in Anaheim this year. They said, you know,
we don't have room for you, big man. We just
don't have room for you. We're such a hot, hot team,
we just can't letch him. And how's that working? Pr staff?
Are you hacks in Anaheim? How's that working for it? Yeah? Now,
it's not because of me at all, But we have
a lot of clearance on this show. We're on five
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almost five hundred radio stations right now all over the
United States, all over Europe on the American Forces Network.
Can hear my voice right now, Oliver, Canada, parts of Mexico,
and the Angels could not find room, could not find room.
It's a really a shame that a team like that,
a well run organization, we'd lose eleven games in a row.
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Lizzie suck, the Angels suck, and they could not happen
to a nicer group of people. Maybe you'll have room
next year. Maybe you'll room next year, idiots. Anyway, all right,
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Ben Maller. So a spicy hot malon monologue on the
Halos that have lost eleven kid second of games. You
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hate to see it, don't you? Justin in Cincinnati says
maybe the Angels are paying off a lawsuit from the
drug dealer in the clubhouse thing and can't afford to
give you credentials. It's possible. Fur Dog from so Cal,
he's a long flyball away from the big A which
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could be hit by any opposing player, says that was
a pretty harsh from all or monologue on the state
of my and Coop's Angels. But I appreciate the tough
love you were giving them. If the Angels start hitting
and pitching better, I think they still have a shot
at the playoffs. Very Dick and Dayton like analysis there.
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What about defense. If the Angels played good defense, hit
the ball well and pitch well, they got a shot.
They got a shot. Yeah, guy named Autry rights and
he says, as I'm sure you could have predicted from
my name. I give your monologue four thumbs down. Yeah,
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I think that's uh, that's history right there. I don't
think we've ever had a four thumbs down from someone. Yeah,
that's it right there, four thumbs down. He got named Autrey,
that's his name. But he's related to yeah, old old
Angels owner Gene Autrey singing cowboy. No chance, right, there's
no chance he's related Gene Autrey. Did gen Autre even
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have kids? I don't know. I have no idea. Pretty
hard to be well, you hard to be related if
you're If you didn't, Craig says, if Shohoy he marries
this pretty fan girl or the cute girl with the glasses.
He sent me a video here of a bunch of
very attractive young ladies who love Shoho Tani and he
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says if he marries any of them, his family will
cry their eyes out. Well, he says, Mason, the Millennial
from the Bay Air says, man, you could not wait
for the time to pounce on the angels like a
caged lion throwing a Tomahawks steak. Well done, well, thank
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you Mason. It had to be done. It had to
be done. And I believe I was totally fair in
that Mallard monologue. I was completely fair. I didn't side
one way or the other. And Shrucker Joe writes and
he says, hey, Mallard, you haul is not your moving
sponsor on the show. It's moving Man Matt and the
mobile Mallard billboard. That's a bad job by you. Yeah.
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I did see a comment over the weekend from moving
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work done on one of the rigs he has, and
he claimed that the guy at the shop he was
buying some parts at as a fan of our show.
And he said that, yeah, the guy's like, hey, are
you moving man? Matt from The Mallor Show, and he said,
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yes I am. Now, of course I am moved man. Man,
who else do you think that would be? My good
Drew Drewson writes in he says he's a Wisconsin badgery's
as the Angels sucked. That's the analysis. Well, let's go
to the phones and the NBA Finals are also going
on game two. Not much of a talker, but somebody
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that will talk about it because she has insight and analysis.
We go out in the cosmos right now, into into
the outer outer realm where the stars are, and Andrea
joins us little Sports Astrology Virgo in service on Twitter.
Hello Andrea, Hello Ben Hell are you? If I was
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any better, I'd be a Horford, but not Al Horford
because he was a bomb bomb and Mercury not in
retrograde anymore. So bad job by him and Marcus Smart.
Although you did tell us was it Mark? It was
it shade some kind of ship, Yeah, spend exactly. It's
technically out of retrograde, but it's in retro shade, meaning
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it's a full two weeks before it gets back to
the degree it first retrograded at. But that's what I'm
here for him here for the details. So fall intention purposes,
it's out of retrograde and things are better, but not
quite a hundred percent, Yes, clearly not. But the series
is one one Now you are right down the way
from across the bridge from where the Warriors play now, yes,
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and the level of confidence obviously going up here Andrea
for the Warriors and one two. Yeah, I'm writing a
big article for astrology dot com and the Battle of
the Pisces. Steph Curry March fourteen, nineteen eighty eight, ten
years his junior is Jason Tatum March third, nineteen ninety eight.
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And Steph Schwart looks quite strong. Mars, you know, is
always an important platform. An athlete rules energy, a search
in aggression, and Mars is going into his tenth house
of career, which is really giving him a lot more
energy and momentum. And I think I mentioned that he's
born at the same hospital in Akron, Ohio as Lebron James,
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the new billionaire. Yes, yes, the same hospital. Do the
nurses get paid in the extra because of that? Are
people like I could see how you're crazy sports fans?
Are people like going to that hospital driving around Ohio
or elsewhere to fly go into that hospital because that's
a magical hospital. Because your kid might end up in
the NBA someday if they're born in that hospital. Yeah,
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that's interesting from interesting mojo to keep in mind. Let's see,
he's born one fifty one PM, So Mars going in
the tenth house once every two years. So you strike
when the iron's hot. Consider to drive to reach the top,
taking risks in and for your career, else for standing,
fighting for position and authority. So he's you know, really
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going for it. And what's really interesting. You know the birthdate.
I was a colleague of mine was doing some research.
The Warriors and the Celtics birthday is tomorrow. Band it's
June sixteenth. They were both incarnated in nineteen forty six. Oh, well,
the teams have birthdays, though. What do you do for
a team birthday? You get a really large cake with balloons, noisemakers.
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It's interesting. It's known as an incorporation date. Well did
you know that the Clippers when they moved from Buffalo
to San Diego. Oh, they there was a deal made
between the owner of the Celtics and the guy that
owned the Clippers when they moved to the West Coast,
so the Clippers became business wise, they took over all
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the financial problems of the Celtics, and the Buffalo Braves
became the Celtics. There was a paperwork deal financially when
the team moved to the West Coast from Buffalo. Yes,
it's a lot of these incorporation dates. According to the
Basketball Association of America, other teams born on the same
day as the Warriors and the Boston Celtics were the
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New York Knickerbockers. How about that. So yeah, so that's
June six. It's interesting. It's both their birthdays. So it
should be interesting to see what ends up happening. All right,
Well we'll leave it there, and Andrew, you old team. Yes,
many five, right, many many more games to go? Yes, yeah, no,
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I look forward to It should to be an exciting series.
And it is nice at mercuries at least out of retrograde,
because that fourth quarter was really that was that was
really something that was the beginning of retro shaking. Yes,
it was all right, Andrew, thank you had virgo and
service on Twitter. Yes, thank you, all right, thank you,
all right, very nice. Stevie meat Balls writes in from Florida.
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He says, Amen, brother, excellent mal monologue. Screw of the Angels,
my x fion say his name was Angel. She left
me because I was going blind. Really, oh man, well
that's not good man. She straight up said, I don't
know if I can spend the rest of my life
with someone who's losing their eyesight. Wow. All right, what
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a total pizza chip, she says, Stevie meatballs. All right,
let's get over to Eddie Garcia right now, find out
everything going on, and we're gonna have all take another car.
We also have the instant of Iceland. But here's Eddie.
All right, thank you, Ben. We start with the little
postseason basketball, the Game two of the NBA Finals where
the Warriors beat the Celtics one oh seven eighty eight.
It was a big fourth quarter that got the Celtics
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the game one victory. This one a big third quarter
for Golden State where they outscored Boston thirty five to
thirteen and root to the nineteen point victory. Steph Curry
led the Warriors with twenty nine points. Jordan Pool off
the bench, chipped in with seventeen points. Jason Tatum was
the Celtics leading score. He had twenty eight points. Al
Horford the leading scorer for Boston their game when victory,
he finished with just two points. A matter of fact,
three of the five starters for the Celtics finished with
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two points. Series is tied at won one Game three
in Boston on Wednesday. And also we had Game three
Eastern Conference Finals in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, with
the Light being routing to get a big three two
win over the Rangers. Tampa Bay was down to nothing
in the game. Andre Polott scored the game winner with
just forty two seconds to play home teams whenever game
is so far in the series, which is still being
led by New York, they have the two one advantage
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game for in Tampa on two. How those Eton Oilers doing, Eddie,
They are about done. They're down three out to Colorado
and could see a great comeback. Phil, Come on, Eddie,
very very give up on the Oilers. I've already well,
I gave up on him before the seasons you got started.
I took the Avalanche. Well, you got a bet on
bet on oil, EDDI. If there's one thing we learned
every time I go to the gas station, bet on oil.
Now there's no it never goes down, It only goes up.
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Now halfway to a victory over that would be the
first loss for oil. And that's not the loss for
oil we need, Eddie, that's not the loss of oil
we need. We need a different loss of oils. I agree,
I agree, thank you. We had in Major League Baseball,
the Keys winning again, beating the Tigers five four in ten,
walkoff win for New York. They're on top of the Alias.
They get a three game series over Detroit. They won
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six straight overall, right now, the best record in baseball
at thirty fifteen. You're never gonna hear the end of this.
The both New York teams have the top record in baseball.
Those annoying New Yorkers will never let us forget that, Eddie.
If we just get rid of Jason Smith, somehow, we
wouldn't have to hear about it, right because Mets propaganda. Yeah,
I don't. I can't really brag because the Mets and
Dodgers split the series, so you don't really get bragging
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rights if you split the series. That's true, but he'll
still be annoying. I don't think we I don't know
if any Yankee fans that we have here. I certainly
could be. I don't know everyone, but no, the rule
is Yankee fans getting get real high paying jobs. Mets
fans become sports radio guys. That's what happened, I see,
all right. Rule everywhere I worked, Daddy for twenty plus
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years in sports radio has always been Mets fans. And
it's the Mets, the Knicks, and the Jets. It's never
the Giants. Range is an interesting dicogm. Yeah, it's it's
it's the Yankees, the yan Yankees, Giants and Rangers. Yeah, Mets,
Jets and Island. Yeah. Usually they're the sports radio people.
Very bizarre, bizarre. JT. The Brick used to work. He
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was a Yankee fan. He still is. I'm sure you
think JT is gonna get the Raider play by play job.
I hear he's up for is he really? Well, that's
what I hear. I don't know if he's gonna get
it and on. But now, over the week Musberger retired, Yeah,
he asked. Over the weekend, he's out, Wow as the
Raider play by play? No more, you're looking live. No,
that's it. He's eighty three and user turn half what
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do you think Roberto is saying, Yeah, maybe I get
tickets somehow. Yeah, we have a relationship. I'm not saying
he's getting a job. And I just heard from somebody
over the weekend that he is a I'll tell you what,
get a job. He gets, get a job of Fox
Sports Radio. And that's the pipeline to do and play
by play. Right. We have a lot of play by
play guys that used to work here as radio dudes
and just moved on to play by play. So hopefully
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he'll get that job. Good luck to JT. We hope
he gets Yeah, well you mentioned it earlier. Mets Dodgers
did split their four game series. The Mets win the
final game on Sunday five four in ten innings. That's
a battle of the NL East leaders against the NLS leaders.
J D. Davis with an RBI double in the tenth
after La scored two in the ninth to tie it up.
Cardinals Sunday night beat the Cubs in Chicago five three
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and eleven innings, say luis now just the game back
in Milwaukee for the top spot in the NIL Central
because the Brewers lost. The Cardinals are coming, they are.
Padres beat the brew Crew six four and ten. Jake
cronin Worth three run homer on the tenth was the difference,
as Milwaukee dropped three or four in that series against
San Diego Twins. On top of the AL Central outscored
the Blue Jays for an eight six win. Astros leading
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the AL West, beat the Royal seven four. Phillis beat
the Angels nine seven. Bryson stopped three run walk off
homer for Philadelphia. They sweep the three game series. Stop
the trot Eddy, that's not good. The Angels have dropped
eleven in a row. As we just heard on the
Yes the Braves swept a four game series in Denver
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with eight eight seven win over the Rockies. We had
the Red Socks rop pick up a sweep of the
A's with the five two win Oaklands dropped six in
a row. White Sox get by the Raise six to five,
Giants over the Marlins five to one, Pirates blanked the
Diamondbacks three nothing. Guardians get by the Orioles three to two.
Was the Nationals over the Reds five four, and the
Maritors on a wild pitch in the tenth beat the
Rangers six to five. And I'd like to Ben Maller
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in the Fox Sports Radio studios right over there. Yes,
no you're not. You're a liar. I'm looking that way.
I just can't see you can't see it. I'm looking
at the wall, Eddie. I'm staring at the wall. If
people only knew, I see you as much when I'm
in the north Woods as I am here, Eddie, as
far as our eye communication. But none of that. I
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did the Mallard Town podcast over there. Oh you did,
congratulations as my as my episode aired yet not yet.
They're they're saving it for a special occasional Okay, but
I told them that the crew doesn't really talk much
to each other unless it's on the air. Yeah, we
save it for the show. Yeah, people, I find that bizarre,
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but it works for us. I don't know. You're doing
your thing in there. I'm doing my thing. Yeah, Well
we don't. You don't want to use the good stuff
off the aar not that we ever really have good stuff,
but don't you don't. It's a possibility we do a
really great thing off here, and then we'd be like,
well we should have done that on the ear, And
then when you do it on the ear, it's not
the same if you've already done an off the ear, yeah,
(31:23):
usually say hi and then buy Yeah. Everything else is
a conversation. We are socially distancing in different rooms. We
were socially distancing before it was cool, the socially distance,
and that's how we operate. There. Inca Tera rights and
he says, hey, there are plenty of beautiful women who
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can forget that X. And that's from Inca Tarr who's
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blind and living a great life and traveling all over
the globe singing music performance, singing. He's performing with the
piano and he does a wonderful job. There's a great
advice from one blind guy to another blind guy, and
we appreciate that. That's call the Phones. And Keith is
in Oakland and now Eddie Keith is the guy who
(32:08):
plans the name a strain of weed. After all of
us on the show, remember this guy Keith. Well, no, no,
he's got a good reason. I'm gonna let him tell
his story here. But he sent me a video and
I'm looking at this and I'm like, oh man, that's terrible.
So Keith, please help us out here. What happened that
caused you to have to delay all of this? Yeah,
(32:34):
so I as usual, you know Oakland, you know, it
is what it is up here, and uh, we unfortunately
got robbed and you know, they took like i'd say
about two point six million dollars worth of stuff. Wow,
and they this this was it looked like and I'm
not a police expert, but it did look like they
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had this well planned out here. There were one he posted.
He posted on twitter ed and I liked it. You
can check it out on Twitter. Keith posted it and
it's like four or five dudes and hoodies running through
there and they kind of knew what they were looking for.
Hunt Keith appears anyway, based on the video. Well, the
thing is is the same place that I've talked to
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you guys before from you know, it's a complex and
we had thirteen cannabis companies in that complex and that
was the third time we had been attempted. That was
the first time they actually got through. And if you look,
they actually like ripped the door jam off of the front,
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you know, so that it bypassed any security we had.
I have I have some question. I have some questions,
right I assume you have insurance, right, but how does that?
How does that you don't have insurance? You? Yeah? No,
see that is that is that That is where America
just needs to come on, you know, wake up. Like
the NBA, NFL, everyone's you know, taking back these rules
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that they had forever. Why because they're asinine, you know.
I mean, these players, you'd rather have them, you know,
taken bike it in and oxicon instead of smoking a
joint to relax and and and and get that pain away.
And so yet we cannot get federal banking. So you know,
our checks are in cash, you know usually you know,
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makes you a target. And so what do you do? Keith?
You're you're this is your business. You've they've been robbed
over two million dollars. What do you do? Now? Yeah?
Well now now now we now we wait for the
building and California, thank god, you know, they back us
up a little bit. You know, well we'll see what
they have to say about it. But we're still in works,
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you know, with all that, but still it all boils
down to the federal government, because that's the federal government. Actually,
you know just said yeah, you know, we'll start taxing
every one you know, even more than we already are.
And you know they'll get theirs and everyone can be happy.
But instead we can't just go down to triple aw.
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You know, sucks, man. I feel bad for you, Keith.
That's terrible, your business owner. The reason why, that's the
reason why even though we but we always rebound and
we still have y'all in mind. I just didn't want
you guys to think that, you know, oh well you
have a good excuse you. You've showed me the video
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that that's terrible, and I know that happens a lot
when you're in that business because you got a lot
of cash and people criminals love cash and all that,
and the weed doesn't hurt as well. So well, good luck,
good luck Keithing in there, man, I hope everything. I'll
talk about you all right, but it'd be good. There's
the great Keith. He's the weed benefactor there in the
Bay area. Was going to name a strain of weed
after everyone on the show, and he got robbed over
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two and a half million. Man. Now the good news
is with me, I don't own two and a half
million dollars with the stuff, so you couldn't really get
two and a half million out of me. But man,
oh man, oh man, all right, So a little virtue
signaling gone bad by Major League Baseball. They have gotten
on the bandwagon the marketing this month here over the
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last month, month of June, Basic League Baseball. This past weekend,
it was a pride event, and so a number of teams.
I think, did everyone do this in baseball? I know
the Dodgers did it. I think most of the teams did,
if not all the teams. But they wore lb LGBTQ.
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I think that's right. I like hats and jerseys and
whatnot or logos. And the Tampa Bay Rays players refused
to go along with the virtue signaling, at least a
group of them said no, we are not doing that.
And this led to some awk moments for the Tampa
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Bay Rays because they had promoted not that many people
even care about the Tampa Bay Rays, but they had
promoted that the Pride Night logo and that this was
a big deal and whatnot, and so a number of
the players said, for religious reasons, they were not going
to wear said hat and said logo. And the Rays
then backed down and said, okay, you don't have it's optional,
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but Now what's happening. As you might imagine, the players
that chose not to wear the logo are now being
attacked online. So that is the story there in Tampa Bay.
A virtue signaling event for baseball gone bad. And now
we wait for this story. We'll see how if it
has legs or not as Tampa Bay. So it's not
a big high profile team, it's Tampa Bay Rays. But
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that's the story out of Tampa. See what comes out
of that. Straight ahead, we're gonna have the instant AdviceLine
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advice this week? Is it a coach? Is it a players?
It a team? Is it a prominent media member? Well,
there's one team in baseball, flust I'm in consecutive game,
So why don't we give some advice to the Angels
the Halos on how to end at eleven game losing streak.
We'll start with you on line one, eight seven, seven
ninety nine. Line one, you're on the air. Advice to
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the Angels, please go. Don't sleep on the Angels. Man,
this is our year. We're going all the way. All right,
go away for dog. I'll hang up on you. Let's
go to you on a line three. Hello, line three,
you're an Next, you're on the air. Go advice to
the Angels. Ay rabrutu, I ain't get on all right,
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come the mike sting. Line four is next, Hello, Line four,
you're on the air advice to the Angels on how
to end their eleven game losing streak. How has anyone
done a wellness check on Coop. I'd be on forty
eight hour suicide Watch if I lost to the Phillies
in a sweep. Yeah, that's pretty embarrassing, supermarket Steve. Hello,
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line number five, you're next, line five, Go long, they
need a new skipper. Call Scott tissue. Al right, Everyboddy's sean.
The hood gut checking in line is six. Hello, line six,
you're on the airline six. Go. My name is Lee.
My friends called me mobidly and as you made him guess,
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I am Obie. All right, thank you. That's a new
a new caller on the incident vice line. I'm exciting.
Is that line one? You're on the Hello line one.
I know what's up? He's back Line two. Hello, line too,
you're on the airline too. Got some bones and black
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cowboy lines matter. There you go. That's good, cowboy, John Brad.
Line number three at eight seven seven ninety nine. Hello,
line three, you're on the air. Go Incident Vice line
for the Angels. Okay, Line four, Hello, line four. Line four,
you're on the air not anymore, will blow up? Line four.
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Line one. We'll go back to line one. Hello, line one,
you're on the Advice to the Angels. Line one. Were
you doing? No? Alright? Line two, Hello, Line two, I
don't care. I hang up on all your line too. Hello,
this is me too, teg man. Alright. Line three, Hello,
line three, you're on the Airline three, go, I just
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want a tone because that rests on well the world
by ahright? Come do any will end on that? No,
there you go, Fudgie got on. That's all that matters.
There we go, alright, amazing,
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, hour three of
our radio program, Major League Baseball, the League. We were
going to talk about the Dodgers and Mats, but we
go where the story takes us and the Angels are
free falling. Halos have now lost eleven straight games. What
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are the chances that Joe Madden is let go as
Angels manager? And how much more rope does Joe Madden have?
And tell me what else the Angels can do to
shake things up? We will tell you that and more
right now in our number three Here it is well
come in the beginning of another hour of the Bannet
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Mallard Show. We are in the air everywhere, just like
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keep plugging along here, Yes, we do, coast to coast,
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radio dial. So I lead this hour coming from Baseball Now.
I was planning on doing a rant about the Dodgers
and the match, but I decided this is the better story.
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I loved the losing locker room. And there's no better
losing locker room right now than a matchup in Anaheim
the Heylos. Oh, they're so popular they had no room
for me losers. So anyway, there is no more compelling
story going on right now than a team that thought
they were good, that was off to a nice start
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and has fallen apart. Now, if you have not been
keeping tracking, maybe not. The Angels were sizzling at the
beginning of the year and there was talk that finally
they had found pitching, they had solved their their malaise
in Anaheim. It seems like it's been an over a
decade without good pitching. But after another bullpin melt down
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melt down on Reactor Free in Philadelphia on Sunday, the
Halos have now lost eleven consecutive games. Eleven straight games lost.
Oh yeah, that's that's hard to do. That's hard to do,
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to lose eleven consecutive games. But the Angels have pulled
it off. And you do the math on they said, well,
there's only you know, you look around, it's like, well,
there's how many how many games are there? One hundred
and sixty two and you've lost eleven consecutive about us,
that's a blimp of the radar. Well, no, it's not. No, no,
it's not eleven out of one hundred and sixty two.
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That works out to let me do the math on that.
That is you've lost every single one of your games
for about seven percent of the schedule. So it doesn't
sound like a lot, but that trust me, it's a lot.
It adds up. And the Angels are in a bad
spot now after this, and so this has led in
the way they lost. It's not just losing, it's the
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loss in Philadelphia where the Angels had the game of
the bag and then they cut a hole in the
bottom of the bag and Brights Harper ends up hitting
a grand Slam. Then there was another bomb and then
that's it. So this has led to chatter that manager
Joe Madden, beloved by sportswriters and a good guy I've
not I've known Joel a little bit over the years,
that he is in danger of being whacked as skipper
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in Anaheim, the folksy skipper with all the cute sayings
and slogans and the cowboy hat and all that with
positive vibrations. It's not resonating at this point as the
Angels find themselves now under five hundred. So let us
discuss the question, what are the chances that Joe Madden
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is let go as Angel manager? So I am going
to set the odds on this at plus one eighty.
Now that implies there is a thirty five percent chance.
I still think the odds are in Joe Madden's favor,
but I want thirty five percent chance that Madden is
let go. And this is a big week upcoming. When
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you peek ahead at the schedule, you got the Red
Sox coming into Anaheim for four and then the New
York Metropolitans after that. So even if the Angels were
playing well, this would not be a great series of
games this coming week. But if the Angels, let's say
they go one in six over the next seven, So
now you're looking at one in seventeen over eighteen games.
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Does that get you Madden fire? If they lose all seven,
then I believe Madden was deaf going to be removed.
So I've got plot twist, the law and playing cards,
and we'll combine all these things together. Now, first of all,
Joe Madden still has the support of the upper echelante
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of the Angels Organiza Sean from what I am hearing,
and he was seen as the perfect manager for owner
Artie Marino, and that was the guy they wanted, that
was the guy they needed. Someone who's a baseball lifer.
He spent his early days in baseball toiling in the
minor leagues. He was a scout, He was a minor
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league coach for the Angels. He worked on the big
league staff when Terry Collins was the manager in Anaheim
and then left and when Mike Social took over. He
left to go find success with Tampa Bay and the Cubs,
making the World Series with the Rays and ending the
curse of the Billy Goat for the Cubbies. The script
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called for him to come home and close the circle
of life and end up taking the Angels out of
the darkness and finding the championship light. Unfortunately, unfortunately, this
is not a Hollywood ending. At this point, we have
seen the unexpected plot twist, and the Angels are being
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haunted by their arson squad that they call in out
of the bullpen, bringing in cartons of gasoline from the
bullpen and Molak top cocktails to throw around as it
has been bad? How bad has it been? The Halos
have had the lead in the eighth inning or later
in five of the eleven losses. So five of the
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eleven losses the Angels have had a chance to win,
needing only a few outs to go, and each time
the relievers have seen that trapdoor open up and fallen
into the pit of vipers, just like that. The Sunday
a great example, Angels had a six two lead over
a bad Phillies team in the eighth inning. That went away,
it evaporated. Bryce Harper hit a grain in salari and
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then eventually the Angels finding a new creative way to
lose after that. Now, secondly, how much rope? How much
rope does Joe Madden have? So we gave you the
odds already, we're not changing the odds at plus one
eighty thirty five percent chance. Madden is holding on right
now by the ends of his fingernails, and he's looking
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down the barrels. We said he got four games with
the Red Sox, and this is not a good Red
Sox team this year. It's an average Red Sox team.
But they can score some runs and they've been getting
better pitching lately. How much of that is a bad
Oakland team over the weekend, and how much of that
is Boston getting better three games with the Mets after that.
The other thing working in favor of the Angel's beloved manager,
Joe Madden is the fact that the owner, Artie Marino,
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is a noted tight wad, and so that helps. I
believe Madden's at the end of his contract, though, and
so that might be the great equalizer. But ultimately I
think this comes down to Mike Trout. Mike Out has
the forever contract. It's Trout in the locker room. Has
Joe Madden stick Ala already worn out after two plus
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years at the Helm in Anaheim? And if that's the case,
when that happens, it's time to call you haul and
get somebody else in there. Trout himself has been a
waste of space of late. People around the Angels love
to brag they've got the two top players in baseball
on the same team. How's that working on for you
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during the losing streak? Now, Mike Trout is over twenty six,
but during the eleven game losing streak, he's batting a
highway and Interstate ninety five ninety five is Mike Trout's
batting four forty two, one home run, two RBIs his
partner in crime. Also in the Penalty Box showhy Otani
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the Great Star from Japan. How's Otani doing thirty five
at bats during the losing streak? Six hits. That's a
one seventy one batting average. It's May twenty fifth, two
all runs and four RBIs It's the law. Murphy's law
is what it is. Anything that can go wrong will
go wrong for the Angels. The Halos need to go
out and buy some parachutes to slow down the free
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fall which is going on and has gone on now
for eleven games. The Angels have gone from ten games
over five hundred to one game under five hundred in
a week and a half of bad baseball. The American
League West as a whole has become a clown division.
Brawl a clown division the American League West, and much
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to our dismay, only the cheating a Stros are above
five hundred. The long National nightmare continues, and the dummies
with the Angels, the Rangers, and the Mariners and the
A's all all are different shades of crap so far
here in June Professional Baseball art final fun. Imagine if
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you will, a world where Artie Marino really wants to
keep Joe Madden around. I believe that's going on. It okay, then,
so tell me what else the Angels can do to
shake things up. Historically, there are three options when your
team blows like this all of a sudden. The obvious
one is to just fire the manager and say that
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that's the guy that team sucks because that But if
you pull out the deck of playing cards, what other
cards are available to you in the deck of cards
where there are two other moves, two other cards to
play here that can be made. The Angels can make
a big time trade sending away one of their core players. Now,
they're not gonna trade Mike Trout or they're not gonna
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trade Shoheo Tani. Those guys are untouchables, but everyone else
on that roster would be in play. Trade away one
of the core players not named Trout or Annie and
shape him shake him. Now you can also look to
patch the bullpen together by trying to find people in
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the minor leagues or sign somebody out of the Mexican League.
At this point go somewhere like that. The other option
would involve a human sacrifice of one of Joe Madden's
close personal friends, one of his underlings getting rid of
a coach, the pitching coach. Matt Wise that he could
be the guy to go that the hitting coach. I
didn't realize. Paul Sorrento. It's a name I remember from
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back in the day with the Cleveland Indians. He's hitting coach.
But one of those guys get rid of the coach
and say, that's that's the person that's responsible. That's the
shockwave kind of move to restart the engine. Or the
Angels can contact me, although I'm not really interested this
point because the Halos ban me from because they were
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so arrogant in Anaheim this year. They said, you know,
we don't have room for you, big man. We just
don't have room for you. We're such a hot, hot team,
we just can't letch him. And how's that working? Pr staff?
Are you hacks in Anaheim? How's that working for it? Yeah? Now,
it's not because of me at all, But we have
a lot of clearance on this show. We're on five
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almost five hundred radio stations right now all over the
United States, all over Europe on the American Forces Network.
Can hear my voice right now, Oliver, Canada, parts of Mexico,
and the Angels could not find room, could not find room.
It's a really a shame that a team like that,
a well run organization, we'd lose eleven games in a row.
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Lizzie suck, the Angels suck, and they could not happen
to a nicer group of people. Maybe you'll have room
next year. Maybe you'll room next year, idiots. Anyway, all right,
it is the Bannet Mallers Show. As we press on here,
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That's eight seven seven ninety nine six sixty three six nine. Well,
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We will get to it and if you'd like to
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Ben Maller. So a spicy hot malon monologue on the
Halos that have lost eleven kid second of games. You
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hate to see it, don't you? Justin in Cincinnati says
maybe the Angels are paying off a lawsuit from the
drug dealer in the clubhouse thing and can't afford to
give you credentials. It's possible. Fur Dog from so Cal,
he's a long flyball away from the big A which
(17:19):
could be hit by any opposing player, says that was
a pretty harsh from all or monologue on the state
of my and Coop's Angels. But I appreciate the tough
love you were giving them. If the Angels start hitting
and pitching better, I think they still have a shot
at the playoffs. Very Dick and Dayton like analysis there.
(17:42):
What about defense. If the Angels played good defense, hit
the ball well and pitch well, they got a shot.
They got a shot. Yeah, guy named Autry rights and
he says, as I'm sure you could have predicted from
my name. I give your monologue four thumbs down. Yeah,
(18:05):
I think that's uh, that's history right there. I don't
think we've ever had a four thumbs down from someone. Yeah,
that's it right there, four thumbs down. He got named Autrey,
that's his name. But he's related to yeah, old old
Angels owner Gene Autrey singing cowboy. No chance, right, there's
no chance he's related Gene Autrey. Did gen Autre even
(18:28):
have kids? I don't know. I have no idea. Pretty
hard to be well, you hard to be related if
you're If you didn't, Craig says, if Shohoy he marries
this pretty fan girl or the cute girl with the glasses.
He sent me a video here of a bunch of
very attractive young ladies who love Shoho Tani and he
(18:49):
says if he marries any of them, his family will
cry their eyes out. Well, he says, Mason, the Millennial
from the Bay Air says, man, you could not wait
for the time to pounce on the angels like a
caged lion throwing a Tomahawks steak. Well done, well, thank
(19:09):
you Mason. It had to be done. It had to
be done. And I believe I was totally fair in
that Mallard monologue. I was completely fair. I didn't side
one way or the other. And Shrucker Joe writes and
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(19:34):
I did see a comment over the weekend from moving
Man mattter Buddy out of Boston. He was getting some
work done on one of the rigs he has, and
he claimed that the guy at the shop he was
buying some parts at as a fan of our show.
And he said that, yeah, the guy's like, hey, are
you moving man? Matt from The Mallor Show, and he said,
(19:56):
yes I am. Now, of course I am moved man. Man,
who else do you think that would be? My good
Drew Drewson writes in he says he's a Wisconsin badgery's
as the Angels sucked. That's the analysis. Well, let's go
to the phones and the NBA Finals are also going
on game two. Not much of a talker, but somebody
(20:17):
that will talk about it because she has insight and analysis.
We go out in the cosmos right now, into into
the outer outer realm where the stars are, and Andrea
joins us little Sports Astrology Virgo in service on Twitter.
Hello Andrea, Hello Ben Hell are you? If I was
(20:41):
any better, I'd be a Horford, but not Al Horford
because he was a bomb bomb and Mercury not in
retrograde anymore. So bad job by him and Marcus Smart.
Although you did tell us was it Mark? It was
it shade some kind of ship, Yeah, spend exactly. It's
technically out of retrograde, but it's in retro shade, meaning
(21:05):
it's a full two weeks before it gets back to
the degree it first retrograded at. But that's what I'm
here for him here for the details. So fall intention purposes,
it's out of retrograde and things are better, but not
quite a hundred percent, Yes, clearly not. But the series
is one one Now you are right down the way
from across the bridge from where the Warriors play now, yes,
(21:29):
and the level of confidence obviously going up here Andrea
for the Warriors and one two. Yeah, I'm writing a
big article for astrology dot com and the Battle of
the Pisces. Steph Curry March fourteen, nineteen eighty eight, ten
years his junior is Jason Tatum March third, nineteen ninety eight.
(21:52):
And Steph Schwart looks quite strong. Mars, you know, is
always an important platform. An athlete rules energy, a search
in aggression, and Mars is going into his tenth house
of career, which is really giving him a lot more
energy and momentum. And I think I mentioned that he's
born at the same hospital in Akron, Ohio as Lebron James,
(22:15):
the new billionaire. Yes, yes, the same hospital. Do the
nurses get paid in the extra because of that? Are
people like I could see how you're crazy sports fans?
Are people like going to that hospital driving around Ohio
or elsewhere to fly go into that hospital because that's
a magical hospital. Because your kid might end up in
the NBA someday if they're born in that hospital. Yeah,
(22:37):
that's interesting from interesting mojo to keep in mind. Let's see,
he's born one fifty one PM, So Mars going in
the tenth house once every two years. So you strike
when the iron's hot. Consider to drive to reach the top,
taking risks in and for your career, else for standing,
fighting for position and authority. So he's you know, really
(23:00):
going for it. And what's really interesting. You know the birthdate.
I was a colleague of mine was doing some research.
The Warriors and the Celtics birthday is tomorrow. Band it's
June sixteenth. They were both incarnated in nineteen forty six. Oh, well,
the teams have birthdays, though. What do you do for
a team birthday? You get a really large cake with balloons, noisemakers.
(23:25):
It's interesting. It's known as an incorporation date. Well did
you know that the Clippers when they moved from Buffalo
to San Diego. Oh, they there was a deal made
between the owner of the Celtics and the guy that
owned the Clippers when they moved to the West Coast,
so the Clippers became business wise, they took over all
(23:45):
the financial problems of the Celtics, and the Buffalo Braves
became the Celtics. There was a paperwork deal financially when
the team moved to the West Coast from Buffalo. Yes,
it's a lot of these incorporation dates. According to the
Basketball Association of America, other teams born on the same
day as the Warriors and the Boston Celtics were the
(24:09):
New York Knickerbockers. How about that. So yeah, so that's
June six. It's interesting. It's both their birthdays. So it
should be interesting to see what ends up happening. All right,
Well we'll leave it there, and Andrew, you old team. Yes,
many five, right, many many more games to go? Yes, yeah, no,
(24:32):
I look forward to It should to be an exciting series.
And it is nice at mercuries at least out of retrograde,
because that fourth quarter was really that was that was
really something that was the beginning of retro shaking. Yes,
it was all right, Andrew, thank you had virgo and
service on Twitter. Yes, thank you, all right, thank you,
all right, very nice. Stevie meat Balls writes in from Florida.
(24:54):
He says, Amen, brother, excellent mal monologue. Screw of the Angels,
my x fion say his name was Angel. She left
me because I was going blind. Really, oh man, well
that's not good man. She straight up said, I don't
know if I can spend the rest of my life
with someone who's losing their eyesight. Wow. All right, what
(25:17):
a total pizza chip, she says, Stevie meatballs. All right,
let's get over to Eddie Garcia right now, find out
everything going on, and we're gonna have all take another car.
We also have the instant of Iceland. But here's Eddie.
All right, thank you, Ben. We start with the little
postseason basketball, the Game two of the NBA Finals where
the Warriors beat the Celtics one oh seven eighty eight.
It was a big fourth quarter that got the Celtics
(25:39):
the game one victory. This one a big third quarter
for Golden State where they outscored Boston thirty five to
thirteen and root to the nineteen point victory. Steph Curry
led the Warriors with twenty nine points. Jordan Pool off
the bench, chipped in with seventeen points. Jason Tatum was
the Celtics leading score. He had twenty eight points. Al
Horford the leading scorer for Boston their game when victory,
he finished with just two points. A matter of fact,
three of the five starters for the Celtics finished with
(26:01):
two points. Series is tied at won one Game three
in Boston on Wednesday. And also we had Game three
Eastern Conference Finals in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, with
the Light being routing to get a big three two
win over the Rangers. Tampa Bay was down to nothing
in the game. Andre Polott scored the game winner with
just forty two seconds to play home teams whenever game
is so far in the series, which is still being
led by New York, they have the two one advantage
(26:23):
game for in Tampa on two. How those Eton Oilers doing, Eddie,
They are about done. They're down three out to Colorado
and could see a great comeback. Phil, Come on, Eddie,
very very give up on the Oilers. I've already well,
I gave up on him before the seasons you got started.
I took the Avalanche. Well, you got a bet on
bet on oil, EDDI. If there's one thing we learned
every time I go to the gas station, bet on oil.
Now there's no it never goes down, It only goes up.
(26:45):
Now halfway to a victory over that would be the
first loss for oil. And that's not the loss for
oil we need, Eddie, that's not the loss of oil
we need. We need a different loss of oils. I agree,
I agree, thank you. We had in Major League Baseball,
the Keys winning again, beating the Tigers five four in ten,
walkoff win for New York. They're on top of the Alias.
They get a three game series over Detroit. They won
(27:07):
six straight overall, right now, the best record in baseball
at thirty fifteen. You're never gonna hear the end of this.
The both New York teams have the top record in baseball.
Those annoying New Yorkers will never let us forget that, Eddie.
If we just get rid of Jason Smith, somehow, we
wouldn't have to hear about it, right because Mets propaganda. Yeah,
I don't. I can't really brag because the Mets and
Dodgers split the series, so you don't really get bragging
(27:28):
rights if you split the series. That's true, but he'll
still be annoying. I don't think we I don't know
if any Yankee fans that we have here. I certainly
could be. I don't know everyone, but no, the rule
is Yankee fans getting get real high paying jobs. Mets
fans become sports radio guys. That's what happened, I see,
all right. Rule everywhere I worked, Daddy for twenty plus
(27:48):
years in sports radio has always been Mets fans. And
it's the Mets, the Knicks, and the Jets. It's never
the Giants. Range is an interesting dicogm. Yeah, it's it's
it's the Yankees, the yan Yankees, Giants and Rangers. Yeah, Mets,
Jets and Island. Yeah. Usually they're the sports radio people.
Very bizarre, bizarre. JT. The Brick used to work. He
(28:10):
was a Yankee fan. He still is. I'm sure you
think JT is gonna get the Raider play by play job.
I hear he's up for is he really? Well, that's
what I hear. I don't know if he's gonna get
it and on. But now, over the week Musberger retired, Yeah,
he asked. Over the weekend, he's out, Wow as the
Raider play by play? No more, you're looking live. No,
that's it. He's eighty three and user turn half what
(28:31):
do you think Roberto is saying, Yeah, maybe I get
tickets somehow. Yeah, we have a relationship. I'm not saying
he's getting a job. And I just heard from somebody
over the weekend that he is a I'll tell you what,
get a job. He gets, get a job of Fox
Sports Radio. And that's the pipeline to do and play
by play. Right. We have a lot of play by
play guys that used to work here as radio dudes
and just moved on to play by play. So hopefully
(28:52):
he'll get that job. Good luck to JT. We hope
he gets Yeah, well you mentioned it earlier. Mets Dodgers
did split their four game series. The Mets win the
final game on Sunday five four in ten innings. That's
a battle of the NL East leaders against the NLS leaders.
J D. Davis with an RBI double in the tenth
after La scored two in the ninth to tie it up.
Cardinals Sunday night beat the Cubs in Chicago five three
(29:14):
and eleven innings, say luis now just the game back
in Milwaukee for the top spot in the NIL Central
because the Brewers lost. The Cardinals are coming, they are.
Padres beat the brew Crew six four and ten. Jake
cronin Worth three run homer on the tenth was the difference,
as Milwaukee dropped three or four in that series against
San Diego Twins. On top of the AL Central outscored
the Blue Jays for an eight six win. Astros leading
(29:35):
the AL West, beat the Royal seven four. Phillis beat
the Angels nine seven. Bryson stopped three run walk off
homer for Philadelphia. They sweep the three game series. Stop
the trot Eddy, that's not good. The Angels have dropped
eleven in a row. As we just heard on the
Yes the Braves swept a four game series in Denver
(29:57):
with eight eight seven win over the Rockies. We had
the Red Socks rop pick up a sweep of the
A's with the five two win Oaklands dropped six in
a row. White Sox get by the Raise six to five,
Giants over the Marlins five to one, Pirates blanked the
Diamondbacks three nothing. Guardians get by the Orioles three to two.
Was the Nationals over the Reds five four, and the
Maritors on a wild pitch in the tenth beat the
Rangers six to five. And I'd like to Ben Maller
(30:19):
in the Fox Sports Radio studios right over there. Yes,
no you're not. You're a liar. I'm looking that way.
I just can't see you can't see it. I'm looking
at the wall, Eddie. I'm staring at the wall. If
people only knew, I see you as much when I'm
in the north Woods as I am here, Eddie, as
far as our eye communication. But none of that. I
(30:39):
did the Mallard Town podcast over there. Oh you did,
congratulations as my as my episode aired yet not yet.
They're they're saving it for a special occasional Okay, but
I told them that the crew doesn't really talk much
to each other unless it's on the air. Yeah, we
save it for the show. Yeah, people, I find that bizarre,
(31:01):
but it works for us. I don't know. You're doing
your thing in there. I'm doing my thing. Yeah, Well
we don't. You don't want to use the good stuff
off the aar not that we ever really have good stuff,
but don't you don't. It's a possibility we do a
really great thing off here, and then we'd be like,
well we should have done that on the ear, And
then when you do it on the ear, it's not
the same if you've already done an off the ear, yeah,
(31:23):
usually say hi and then buy Yeah. Everything else is
a conversation. We are socially distancing in different rooms. We
were socially distancing before it was cool, the socially distance,
and that's how we operate. There. Inca Tera rights and
he says, hey, there are plenty of beautiful women who
don't mind whether one sees or not. Stevie meat Balls
can forget that X. And that's from Inca Tarr who's
(31:45):
blind and living a great life and traveling all over
the globe singing music performance, singing. He's performing with the
piano and he does a wonderful job. There's a great
advice from one blind guy to another blind guy, and
we appreciate that. That's call the Phones. And Keith is
in Oakland and now Eddie Keith is the guy who
(32:08):
plans the name a strain of weed. After all of
us on the show, remember this guy Keith. Well, no, no,
he's got a good reason. I'm gonna let him tell
his story here. But he sent me a video and
I'm looking at this and I'm like, oh man, that's terrible.
So Keith, please help us out here. What happened that
caused you to have to delay all of this? Yeah,
(32:34):
so I as usual, you know Oakland, you know, it
is what it is up here, and uh, we unfortunately
got robbed and you know, they took like i'd say
about two point six million dollars worth of stuff. Wow,
and they this this was it looked like and I'm
not a police expert, but it did look like they
(32:56):
had this well planned out here. There were one he posted.
He posted on twitter ed and I liked it. You
can check it out on Twitter. Keith posted it and
it's like four or five dudes and hoodies running through
there and they kind of knew what they were looking for.
Hunt Keith appears anyway, based on the video. Well, the
thing is is the same place that I've talked to
(33:18):
you guys before from you know, it's a complex and
we had thirteen cannabis companies in that complex and that
was the third time we had been attempted. That was
the first time they actually got through. And if you look,
they actually like ripped the door jam off of the front,
(33:39):
you know, so that it bypassed any security we had.
I have I have some question. I have some questions,
right I assume you have insurance, right, but how does that?
How does that you don't have insurance? You? Yeah? No,
see that is that is that That is where America
just needs to come on, you know, wake up. Like
the NBA, NFL, everyone's you know, taking back these rules
(34:04):
that they had forever. Why because they're asinine, you know.
I mean, these players, you'd rather have them, you know,
taken bike it in and oxicon instead of smoking a
joint to relax and and and and get that pain away.
And so yet we cannot get federal banking. So you know,
our checks are in cash, you know usually you know,
(34:29):
makes you a target. And so what do you do? Keith?
You're you're this is your business. You've they've been robbed
over two million dollars. What do you do? Now? Yeah?
Well now now now we now we wait for the
building and California, thank god, you know, they back us
up a little bit. You know, well we'll see what
they have to say about it. But we're still in works,
(34:50):
you know, with all that, but still it all boils
down to the federal government, because that's the federal government. Actually,
you know just said yeah, you know, we'll start taxing
every one you know, even more than we already are.
And you know they'll get theirs and everyone can be happy.
But instead we can't just go down to triple aw.
(35:10):
You know, sucks, man. I feel bad for you, Keith.
That's terrible, your business owner. The reason why, that's the
reason why even though we but we always rebound and
we still have y'all in mind. I just didn't want
you guys to think that, you know, oh well you
have a good excuse you. You've showed me the video
(35:30):
that that's terrible, and I know that happens a lot
when you're in that business because you got a lot
of cash and people criminals love cash and all that,
and the weed doesn't hurt as well. So well, good luck,
good luck Keithing in there, man, I hope everything. I'll
talk about you all right, but it'd be good. There's
the great Keith. He's the weed benefactor there in the
Bay area. Was going to name a strain of weed
after everyone on the show, and he got robbed over
(35:52):
two and a half million. Man. Now the good news
is with me, I don't own two and a half
million dollars with the stuff, so you couldn't really get
two and a half million out of me. But man,
oh man, oh man, all right, So a little virtue
signaling gone bad by Major League Baseball. They have gotten
on the bandwagon the marketing this month here over the
(36:16):
last month, month of June, Basic League Baseball. This past weekend,
it was a pride event, and so a number of teams.
I think, did everyone do this in baseball? I know
the Dodgers did it. I think most of the teams did,
if not all the teams. But they wore lb LGBTQ.
(36:36):
I think that's right. I like hats and jerseys and
whatnot or logos. And the Tampa Bay Rays players refused
to go along with the virtue signaling, at least a
group of them said no, we are not doing that.
And this led to some awk moments for the Tampa
(37:01):
Bay Rays because they had promoted not that many people
even care about the Tampa Bay Rays, but they had
promoted that the Pride Night logo and that this was
a big deal and whatnot, and so a number of
the players said, for religious reasons, they were not going
to wear said hat and said logo. And the Rays
then backed down and said, okay, you don't have it's optional,
(37:24):
but Now what's happening. As you might imagine, the players
that chose not to wear the logo are now being
attacked online. So that is the story there in Tampa Bay.
A virtue signaling event for baseball gone bad. And now
we wait for this story. We'll see how if it
has legs or not as Tampa Bay. So it's not
a big high profile team, it's Tampa Bay Rays. But
(37:46):
that's the story out of Tampa. See what comes out
of that. Straight ahead, we're gonna have the instant AdviceLine
who needs our advice. We'll get to that and we
will do it next. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
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(38:08):
After Ben Night, we let it all hang down on
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(38:29):
the Fox Sports radio studios. It's Ben Maller. Hey you
sports figure, guy or girl? Will you talking to son?
Here's some instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid
attention to me for ten whole seconds. And if you
don't like it, hey away. We goes time now for
the instant AdviceLine unscreened radio. Who in sports needs her
(38:52):
advice this week? Is it a coach? Is it a players?
It a team? Is it a prominent media member? Well,
there's one team in baseball, flust I'm in consecutive game,
So why don't we give some advice to the Angels
the Halos on how to end at eleven game losing streak.
We'll start with you on line one, eight seven, seven
ninety nine. Line one, you're on the air. Advice to
(39:12):
the Angels, please go. Don't sleep on the Angels. Man,
this is our year. We're going all the way. All right,
go away for dog. I'll hang up on you. Let's
go to you on a line three. Hello, line three,
you're an Next, you're on the air. Go advice to
the Angels. Ay rabrutu, I ain't get on all right,
(39:32):
come the mike sting. Line four is next, Hello, Line four,
you're on the air advice to the Angels on how
to end their eleven game losing streak. How has anyone
done a wellness check on Coop. I'd be on forty
eight hour suicide Watch if I lost to the Phillies
in a sweep. Yeah, that's pretty embarrassing, supermarket Steve. Hello,
(39:53):
line number five, you're next, line five, Go long, they
need a new skipper. Call Scott tissue. Al right, Everyboddy's sean.
The hood gut checking in line is six. Hello, line six,
you're on the airline six. Go. My name is Lee.
My friends called me mobidly and as you made him guess,
(40:15):
I am Obie. All right, thank you. That's a new
a new caller on the incident vice line. I'm exciting.
Is that line one? You're on the Hello line one.
I know what's up? He's back Line two. Hello, line too,
you're on the airline too. Got some bones and black
(40:36):
cowboy lines matter. There you go. That's good, cowboy, John Brad.
Line number three at eight seven seven ninety nine. Hello,
line three, you're on the air. Go Incident Vice line
for the Angels. Okay, Line four, Hello, line four. Line four,
you're on the air not anymore, will blow up? Line four.
(40:58):
Line one. We'll go back to line one. Hello, line one,
you're on the Advice to the Angels. Line one. Were
you doing? No? Alright? Line two, Hello, Line two, I
don't care. I hang up on all your line too. Hello,
this is me too, teg man. Alright. Line three, Hello,
line three, you're on the Airline three, go, I just
(41:21):
want a tone because that rests on well the world
by ahright? Come do any will end on that? No,
there you go, Fudgie got on. That's all that matters.
There we go, alright, amazing,
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