October 29, 2021 • 34 mins
Rob Parker joins the fellas as baseball season is coming to a close with a World Series that most did not predict. Rob steals the show with some awesome life hacks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich
pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of Hot
takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
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Ben Maller starts right now in a way. We go
on a Friday, Friday, Friday with the World Series going on.
Because hey, four hours a night, five days a week
not enough. We do this eight days a week. The
spin off of the Overnight Show, Ben Mallard and GUESSCN
is actually here this weekend, which is shocking the rest
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of the flow of meeting for the Cloud Wars moll
mean for that and I've exlid. We welcome back this week.
No small talk. We don't have time for small talk.
Okay we don't. I'm sorry. But back in the podcast
Assault Mine a star, radio, you name it. He's all
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over television over the years. He writes about Major League Baseball.
He's been a beat guy for baseball for multiple teams, columnists.
He's a renaissance man, a debonair man, of mystery. You
want to know anything about the Golden Girls or Perry
Mason affiliate the great Rob Parker. Welcome Rob, Good to
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have you back. Hey. First of all, the open to
the fifth Hour is like spectacular, my god, I mean,
did you write that? I wrote it. I wrote it.
Ben fails to ever acknowledge. It's like, I don't listen
that crap when it opens up. So that's an awesome
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open button. Anyway, Ben Maller, it is always great to
be on David Guests got always great to be on.
I'm in my element. It's the World Series time, you know,
I mean, I just it's baseball where you're watching every pitch.
I love it. The postseason. Uh, everything's good, good good.
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So we're as we're talking here, we're two games into
the World Series, and I don't want this podcast to
be dated, but it is Friday. So the World Series
Game three is scheduled for tonight, weather permitting, in suburban Atlanta.
But we're two games. And then, by the way, Atlanta
is the city you love, Rob, right, I mean, I
follow your travels on social media. You are very familiar
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with Atlanta and some of the more exciting entertainment options
in the greater Atlanta area. Yes, uh, yeah, well I
want you to know that I will be there Saturday
for a Game four and Game five because I'm heading
to Atlanta, uh for those two games. And yes, I
will probably make a donation and help put some young
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girls through school at the Magic City and also pick
up some uh Lou Lou Williams uh um lemon pepper
wings while I'm at Magic City. I want you to
know that Magic City is not only known for the
entertainment element and Ben, I'm not kidding you the best wings.
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They have the kitchen there that is humming and bumping
and people are standing in line for the food. It's
it's a business by itself. I'm not kidding you. That's
how good the food is. Yeah. Well, wasn't that what
Luke said? Like he was just he was just going
there for the chicken wings and then you know he
you know, people thought he was there to see some
other things that so now, why is that so much better? Though?
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They just as an entertainment option. Now I've been I
haven't been to one of the ballets in a while.
They're robbed. But every time that comes up, Atlanta and
Magic City are within the top five of everyone's list
and I've never been there, So what what makes it
stand out other than the chicken wings? Other than two
it's like the hundreds of stages, I mean, what what
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what makes it? No, you know what, it's not a
big place. There's just one stage in the middle, but
it's just it's like a landmark in Atlanta. And it's
well run. And what I mean is no monkey business,
no problems, you know what I mean. It's well run.
People coming. I've never had a bad time. I've never
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had any issues in there. I've never seen any issues
like that is the part. And it's friendly and you
know what, it's not ridiculous, like the drinks aren't overpriced
like where you go, oh my god, like what is this?
You don't feel like that? And then the food. So
when you add all of it together, it's a great time.
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If you like hair on your chicken wings, then you
know what, it's a great opportunity. No no, no, rob Rob.
As you go to the eight yell, I have to
ask this before you get into any of your weekend festivities.
What airline did you pick and what was the fair
Because we've had some discussions in the last couple of
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days with a couple of pairs of of jeans. That
might that might boggle the mind of Ben Mallory. That's right, Well,
you know, spirit uh, I got a great fair for
a hundred and some hundred and twenty dollars round trip,
And of course I will not and o t bring
a bag because I'm not paying thirty five dollars to
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bring a bag down and I'm not paying thirty five
dollars to bring a bag back for a little dirty clothes.
So Ben Mallor, here's my here's the way you get
around it on a cheap air airline is I will
carry just some underclothes in my backpack, which they'll allow
me on as So when I get down there, I'll
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go to a Marshall do or t J Max and
buy a shirt and maybe a pair of pants and
maybe some other stuff that I need, and when I
leave on Monday, I'll leave it in the hotel because
I'll still spend less than it would cost me to
bring a bag down for thirty five to bring a
bag up back up for thirty five. So basically, I
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feel like I have seventy dollars to spend on stuff
that I can wear, and I'll just leave it at
the hotel. I'll leave a note on top of it
on my dresser for the maid and it says, either
keep or donate yours truly, And that's how I walk out. Now,
what didn't you do? You gotta you gotta tell you,
gotta tell Ben of your experience the other day though
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with your jeans, I will Ben, what do you think
about the the game plan? Though? No, no, exactly Listen
that that is as a frugal man myself, and and
one of the reasons I don't travel, and I and
I taught my wife's like we should go somewhere, you know,
I a man. It's expensive and because I can't. You
you're flying round trip across the United States. How much
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is that ticket? A hundred bucks or something like that,
hundred and twenty bucks to fly from California to Georgia
and back. I didn't even know that was possible. I know,
like in the nineties seventies, maybe it was, but I
didn't realize the day. That is insane. And I've never
flown Spirit Airlines. I've heard nothing but terrible things about Spirit. Okay, no,
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it's it's let me tell you. You gotta get an
exit row. Okay, you gotta get an exit row. And
you just like I say, uh, as long as you
realize going in not a problem. Is people see the
low fair and then they're trying to sneak a bag on.
And when they get to the door with that bag,
which you can't bring on, and they let you know,
they'll hit with sixty dollars right at the gate, sixty
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dollars if you if you don't check it and you
don't pre buy your bag tag. So that's why people
are always mad. But you get what you pay for.
I've been all over as you know, Ben, I've been traveling.
I've been I've been flying cheaper than that. I mean,
I'm going next week, I'm going to New Orleans. After
that go down there for a Saints game and a
little Emeralds, And then two weeks after that, I'm going
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up to Sacramento, uh to see a King's game and
eat and catch up with some other friends. So and
all those tickets are under two hundred dollars. You know,
you gotta know how to buy them, and uh, you
gotta know how to travel. So I love to see
the country you know, I've been to all seven continents.
But I love to travel and see different things. Yeah, no,
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I like to travel too. But the cost, but that
I gotta I gotta run that by the wife. That's
a great thing. I don't think she She usually is
pretty boogie though when it comes to travel, you know,
and all the bells and then you don't it's still Look,
it's a it's a federally regulated airline. They're gonna make
it there. You know, don't have to get the get
the exit role. Pay a little more for the exit
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row so you have comfort once you're in that you're good,
you and your wife. You get the exit row, pay
the extra twelve dollars for that seat or fifteen dollars
and is worth it. And here's the other trick, Ben,
What's what I used to do this before I moved
to California, because you know that every flight is a
long flight when you live in l A. But in
the old days, when I lived in Detroit and I
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was in the middle of the country, how I would
for an Aagle to get the extra extra extra row
seat is I would wait till the very last minute
to to check in the very last minute And here's
the here's how I would would skirt the system. The
system gives out the seats, right, the free seats, but
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at the end of the day, the seats that remain
open are the seats that you have to pay for,
the big seat up front or the exit row. So
if you wait till le end, all the other seats
are filled up and they have to give you an
extra row or a big seat for free because all
the other seats that nobody's willing to pay for already
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you know, booked up. So I used to get up
exit role all the time. Rob, you should write a column,
you know, you write about travel, like a travel blog website,
Like this is very valuable information. I'm not. I mean,
I know you've talked about this on the radio and stuff,
but this is right. You have a hidden you have
a hidden talent, Rob, I mean, this is you can
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help someone. I'm not. You can help so many people
out that's that waste so much money on on things
they don't need to waste when they're traveling big time.
And I told you this to Ben, like even even
like do you like French fries? You like French fries? Yes, okay, Ben,
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the secret on how
to guarantee you get hot fries every time you go
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to a fast food restaurant. You know how you get
hot fries every single time? You always order your fries
with no salt. They have to fry you a fresh
batch with no salt, and then you ask for a
packing as salt once they give you your fries. We
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we have a somewhat similar night because I like obviously fried,
but the steak I think you and me we've talked
about the butterfly cut, right, that's the guest gotta have medium. Well, yeah,
because Gas got over here all the time. Yeah, Gas
gott wanted to be moving on the plate and all
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that that. I like my meat like I like my women. Man. Yeah, well,
butterfly cuts. Me and Rock we stand together on that.
Chefs they don't understand. They don't understand. They you know
many times Rob when I've said I want to steak
like well done, and you probably had it more than me,
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but they come to you like you sure you know
the guy the chef in the kitchens like you really want? Yes,
well done. I that's how I enjoyed my meal. Give
me what I want, right, You gotta have your steak
the way you want and the same thing. I'm a
big steak and lobster guy, and people are always like,
uh oh, I don't eat lobster, and I always say
the same thing, Ben, you know what, more for us,
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so you guys don't have to eat lobster and steak.
And they want to check my cholesterol and everything else.
I'm fine, I'm good, good. Alright, last, wait a minute,
let me tell you about the pants I bought the
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other day. Okay, So I go into I go into
North from Rack. All the time, I'm always looking. You
gotta be you gotta give like like you're checking out
a beautiful woman. You gotta be thorough and checking out
the racks. You just gotta keep going through the racks,
and you gotta look at the price tags and you
gotta like, you gotta be diligent about it. So I
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see a pair of Amani pants, the beautiful original they're
they're they're not marked down. But of course I asked
the person there who's on the racks, I'm like, can
you scan this so I can find out what the
price is, because if the original price was on it
and there wasn't a markdown, so it was marked down
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a hundred and thirty four dollars. I'm like, beautiful, great pants.
I love them. Then I was walking around, I see
another rack and another pair of ramnny pants that are
on that on my side, so I'm like, let me
check these pants out. There were to originally marked down
the one seventy seven, and I take it to the register.
So I take both pair of pants to the register.
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One rings up for one thirty four, the second one
Ben rings up for one penny. The two hundred and
ninety marked down. The one seventy seven is marked down
to a single penny. So I bible pair and you
know I needed a cigarette after I, you know, so
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ring up for a penny. And then of course that
guy can can can can vouch for me because he
saw the receipt. So I take both pair of pants home.
I'm like, what am I doing? Do I really need both? Uh?
And especially since I got in a monty pair for
a penny, I should return the pair that I paid
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one thirty four dollars for. So, of course, Ben, I
returned the one thirty four pants and kept one for
a penny. I believe the bag costs more than the
penny that the pants. That is. So now let me
ask you this, Rob, how long do you keep close?
Because I I you know, I'm back when I lost
a lot of weight. Originally I was always at like
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Ross dressul us because before I never fit in the stuff.
But then I fit in and I'm like, Okay, this
is amazing, this is a gold mine. Right. But then
I realized I bought a lot of stuff, and I
I'm very bad about getting rid of stuff, like when
it seems like once something comes in, it doesn't go
out very easily of the Mallard closet. So I've been
a little reluctant to do that. But but how long
do you keep closing? You've already told us you leave
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clothes at hotels in random cities, right, So right, are
you some of the moving changes your wardrobe quite a bit,
or you hold only yes if something comes in, ben,
something's got to go out. So basically I work on
the premise of eight pair of pants right for like
you fall, and eight pair of pants for the spring
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and summer. That's really what I work on. So if
I go out and I find a great pair of pants, right,
I'm gonna buy them, but one of the one of
the other pair have to go. Okay. So there's a
great website called The Real Real Have you heard of that?
I have not? Okay, So you can sell your stuff
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on it. It's a resale shop. It is unbelievable. I'm
not lying to you, Ben mallor I'm not lying to
you David Gascon. On that site, I have made close
to twenty thousand dollars selling my clothes that I no
longer want anymore. And they like designers stuff, you know
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what I mean. And then they like Nike and stuff
that because this site is all over the world. So Rob, Rob,
you gotta be careful with this though, because you're telling
us this. Ben is gonna make thousands of dollars from
his fanboys when he sells his underwear proposition and nobody
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wants underwear. This is this is because you know, Rob,
I I moved recently, and I will have you over
when we have the holiday party if we haven't. Yes, yes,
are you now? Let me ask you? Are you closer
to the state of California? Are you still? I'm for
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where you are? Rob? When you when you come over
to visit. You're probably gonna have to fly Spirit Airlines. Okay,
but but yeah, no, I I gotta tell around, these
are great life hacks that you've given me. Here and
there's a lot of clothes, you know, and you move
and there's all kinds of stuff. You man, I'm gonna
tell you. Get rid of them, dude. You won't miss
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them that they have, No, you're not attached to them.
The one thing that I learned, and like my other thing,
is i have a a love for sweatpants. But I'm
looking for the perfect pair of sweatpants. So I buy
sweatpants all the time, and I'll I'll buy a pant
and I'm like, oh, these are them, I love them.
Go to stores see another pair. Oh I love these,
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and I'll just get rid of the other ones. I
just let them go. And I'm always trying. I think
maybe that's when I got divorced, and I was like,
I'm trying to upgrade and look for a different wife.
But that hasn't worked out for me. Okay, but let's
worked out of the sweatpants department, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
so you win something, you lose something, right, right, I
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think I'm winning on the ex white part though. You
know what I'm saying, Well that but many you made
twenty grand off that website. That's crazy, how many? How many?
I'm telling you, it's a great website, and you can
even they'll need to come pick the stuff up, you
drop it off. They get and the more you sell,
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the higher your percentages. I like, I'm at the at
the level where I get a seventy return on anything
they sell. And remember it's free money because you're not
wearing the stuff. So if you're not wearing it any longer,
it has no value to you. Anything you get is big,
is money because otherwise it's just sitting there. That's the
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beautiful part of it. And that's the way I look
at it. So I'm I'm definitely into moving on from
stuff and and moving forward and just saying, Okay, I
wore it, don't have any attachment to it. I'm moving
on to the next thing. Yeah, that's creat advice because
another reason, you know, my parents passed away, so I've
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got all of my parents stuff, and my parents kept everything.
We've talked about it on the podcast before, like everything
from your entire lives, which is both a blessing and
a curse because now I'm you know, I'm here, my
brothers are back east, and so I'm kind of going
through everything and it's uh yeah, it's like, yeah, I've
got it, but actually get rid of stuff. You gotta
do it, though, you gotta get past the threshold. I'm
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not quite there yet, but I've gotten rid of a
ton of stuff, and we have a ton more to
go through. Every weekend, Rob, when I'm not working, I'm
I'm going through the garage and storage ships trying to
get rid of random things that you need, let me
tell you, And I get it. That's tough when you
lose your parents and you know what I mean, and
they have stuff and it's sentimental, but the only thing
you should be looking for through those clothes and to
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make sure they distast at the cash in any pockets.
Other than that, you just need to dump it. Now.
You're You're absolutely right, you don't need the old stuff.
But all right, so let's circle background to the World Series.
You're going to Atlanta this weekend to watch the World Church.
I are graphic. I'm sure you saw too. They had,
you know, the usual TV graphic. They have all fifty States,
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and they go state by state who likes team X,
who likes the other team? And so it was forty
seven to three in the United States. The Atlanta Braves
had to support only Texas, Louisiana, and for some reason,
Delaware supported the Astros. So where does Houston rank on
Rob Parker's Big board of sports villains? I have them
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at the very top, But are they the biggest villain
since the nineteen eighties bad boys for different reasons, but
the Pistons. Has there any been anyone since that Pistons
team that has risen to this type of level in sports? Absolutely?
It is the new England Patriots. And all right they
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are the cheat, the biggest cheaters going. We've only tipped
the Tippany Iceberg. We'll find out down the road when
books come out and people start to spill the beans
on how big the cheating scandal was. Robert Roger Goodell,
one of the worst commissioners in the history of sports,
who destroyed the deflate Gate tape, I mean the spy
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Gate tapes. We already know Tom Brady was texting a
boy boy a hundred times, but yet he said he
didn't know the guy. I don't know, when you text
somebody a hundred times, either you know them, Ben, or
you're having a relationship with him. I don't know one
of the two. So we know Brady destroyed his phone
rather than give up the information. And don't get me wrong,
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the Astros are there. And here's what my message to
people matter of fact or my podcast inside the Parker
was drops every Thursday I talked about this. People are
trying to convince fans to, you know, give the Astros
a pass and let it let it go. There's only
four guys from that team still on it, and we
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shouldn't hold them accountable. And you know what I say, Ben,
Hell no, yes, you still hold them able. And the
four guys are the four best guys that they're still
on the team. Right. It ain't like scrubs. It's the
four best guys all Touve and UH Core and UH
Korea and Bregmant what what do you mean forget about it?
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And if fans don't want to, you know, let it go,
they have a right not to let it go. The
reason that the Patriots, Patriots don't get all the love
is because of their cheating scandal. The reason that a
lot of people will never give the Astros their credit.
Uh is because of the cheating scandal ash Yankee fans
who lost to them in seven games in the alcsen
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and asked the Dodger fans who lost the World Series
right when they got killed in Houston, if you remember
that series they got killed. They couldn't they couldn't get
anybody out. Uh So, if I'm one of those teams
or fans, I'm going to hold onto it and not
let them off the hook. If other people want to
say that they're good with it and they want to
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move on, that's fine, But uh, I think fans should
have the right to still hold a grudge. Yeah no,
And I'm right there. Listen, this has been my mission,
you know, on the overnight here. And it's funny, Rob,
because we're on when our affiliate, the Fox Radios Fox
Sports radio affiliate in Houston is the Astros station seven
ninety on the AM dial, And so I'll come on
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sometimes Rob after Astro talk their post games, whatever they did.
And so I'm just killing the Astros. I'm just bashing them,
and so they don't appreciate it. But but Fox showed
a graphic the other night in the World Series, and
you know, I noticed that they're they're probably told by
Baseball not to talk about the cheating thing and all that,
but they showed a graphic of Jose Altuve tying Bernie
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Williams for most their second most playoff home runs behind
Many Ramirez, and they failed to mention that, you know,
he was part of the cheating scam. To me, everything
that these guys have done is tainted. And you know,
you're a Hall of Fame guy, rob a guy like
Jose out who you put him in the Hall of fame?
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I wouldn't put him in the Hall of fame? Would
you put him in the Hall of fame? You have
to look at the entire career. It's a slippery slope.
And I will admit that because he wasn't individually, you know,
ever suspended or ever you know, penalized as an individual.
So I always look at it is I'm not the
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judge and jury, just like I think a lot of
my brethren in the b b W A A have
made mistakes. They've lett they've let guys in who they
have been talked to rumors about, you know, with with
steroid and h G H. Those guys have gotten in,
but they want to hold tight against Bonds and Clemens.
When uh Pudge Rodriguez got in on his first ballot
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and Jose Canseco, can we all say that his book
was real and true. I don't remember any lawsuits against
against him, and he was also uh mentioned uh that
he used to actually uh inject um um. I'm just
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a Pudge rod week as you know what I mean,
like why are you letting Pudge in? Why are you
letting bag Well? And why are you letting Mike Piazza?
And I mean these are all names that we've all
been associated with and and without positive tests. I think
it's wrong that Gary Sheffield has over five hundred home
runs not in I vote for him. I think it's
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wrong for Bonds. I think it's wrong for Clements. I
don't think that's my job. And Bonds is the home
run king never tested positive for steroids and major League Baseball.
I don't think that that's my right to keep him
out of the Hall of Fame. That's just how When
on that I agree, you know, I'll never have a
Hall of Fame vote like you, But you're right. But
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when I I think the Hall of Fame I was
for years during the Stereota when Bonds and all that
was going on, and that was a big deal with
McGuire and Sosa. When that stuff started coming out, I
was like, all right, none of these guys are getting
all the fame. But then as you just laid out
the road map where there's a bunch of these guys
bag Well and all the cats that were pretty confident
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we're up to some funny business or in the Hall
of Fame. So I don't agree with drawing. I would
put Bonds and Clemens in there too, And I was
I was completely against those guys being in all of Fame,
but they've opened door. But as far as Altobe, to me,
that's a little different. I wouldn't put them in there.
And as you pointed out with the fans, Rob and
how people don't want to forget, and I'm one of
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those people what happened in seventeen. I was at those
games in l A, the Dodgers and Astros. But I
think also you have to that has to follow these
guys around and and and I've had people in Houston
asked me, well, what are you gonna forget about the
astros cheating thing? And I'm like, well, when the last
member of the seventeen Astros is no longer playing, maybe then,
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maybe then I'll move on. But until then, I don't
think it's it's gonna it's gonna be a thing. Still,
So I grew, And that's why I think that people
can't say, well, there's only four guys left, you should
get over it. No, uh, those are four big guys.
There's still a part of that. What they did is
that they went the extra mile and cheating. We always
we know guys are looking for an advantage, and maybe
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the catchers lazy. He doesn't he doesn't cover up his signs.
If you're at second base bend, is it okay? If
if you're at second basically trying to relay and put
your hand on your hip that the curveball is coming
and try to help me out at the plate, that's cool,
that's fair game, that's sportsmanship, right, that's uh, that's okay.
But banging trash cans and and and taping a a
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buzzer to your chest or whatever that was that al
two ray. I mean, you know, I thought the best
part about it is, you know, you could actually do
an on field interview with Altay, you know, without even
adding any equipment to him. I mean, that's how easy
it would have been. My favorite part of this whole
thing was Major League Baseball and you know this, Rob
because you're all over this stuff. So Baseball was told
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by other teams the Astros were cheating. They investigated the
Astros and set up we didn't find any evidence of
anything inappropriate. And it wasn't until that story in the
Athletic came out where you had the whistleblower. If that
hadn't happened, nothing, none of this punishment would have taken
You're right, and that was that was a picture. I
can't forget it. I forgot his name, Mike Fires, Mike
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Fires right right, he was on the team. He mean,
you couldn't ignore that. You couldn't ignore it. And I
think that Baseball was forced and we saw with the
Red Sox, uh and there's which wasn't nearly the same.
But Cora got fired and we hired. I mean, think
about that. Um so it was weird that of course
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in baseball, the two teams with with the cheating scandals
of course made it to the a LCS. You know,
like you know, you can't win sometimes, but it is
what it is. Um the World Series first two games entertaining.
I'm looking forward to this. I think it will go
six or seven games. I picked the Braves in six
and I'm gonna stick with my pick. Well, I from
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your Lips to God's Ears. Let's hope that happens. And
what one final final note Rob on the cheating thing.
So I saw the story that it was behind a
paywall in the Houston Chronicle, so I didn't actually read
the story, but I saw the headline and then I
read more about it on some people that that that
fed the story. So apparently the Astro there was a
group of Astro fans that were heckling in game one.
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Rob Manford, the commissioner there for her punishing the Astros
is like a scapegoat, and I would think this has
gotta be at the very top of the hutzpah scale,
considering none of the players, none of the star players
were punished. The people on the field that we're actually
actively doing it. You know. I know people bring up
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Carlos Beltron, but he was done by the time he
got punished. But the players, none of them were punished.
Do you imagine the Houston fans thinking that Rob Manford
had done them wrong. If why was the commissioner, I
would have banned the Astros in the postseason for five
or ten years. I wouldn't even allow them. And all
those players who have been suspended, they got off easy.
I can't. I can't get it through my head Rob,
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that there's some fans in Houston that think somehow they're
the victims in this. It's unbelievable to me explain this time.
I don't understand it. I agree with you that they
got off very light. But I do understand, like from
from one standpoint, because we saw this in the NFL
with bounty gate bend. But when the coaches are involved, right,
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players are more apt to go along and and the
big thing is when you have a J. Hinch and
the and the general manager and they know what's going on.
It's an organizational thing. A J. Hins when they first
hooked that thing up, could have went and pulled the
plug on that stuff and said, we're not doing that here.
Do you know what I mean? Alright, my man, the
(30:54):
great Rob Parker, you hear him. He's a colleague. I'm
very happy to call him a colleague of ours. David
Gascon here on Fox Sports Radio with Rob and Chris
the Odd Couple every single afternoon or evening, depending on
your time zone. He's got the website. He's a Hall
of Fame voter, he's a renaissance man, and I promise
(31:16):
you that I will pass this by my wife. I
have a no attempt Gascon to travel on Spirit Airlines.
If you can fly coast to coast for a hundred
dollars round or you know, a hundred and twenty or
whatever was round trip, I'm in. I'm in on that.
That's that mallar, that's mallor approved airfare. That is insane
(31:40):
to me. So I'm excited about this. This was a
I did not expect when we when you told me
we had had Rob on the on the podcast, I
was looking forward to talking about. I had no idea
that I would get a life multiple life acts. He
also named that website you can sell clothes on, and
that's great. So random though, because I had worked with
him earlier in the week and during the show he
(32:03):
was talking to Chris and talking to Bob Gara about
something he did, and you know, normally buying stuff and
returning in or getting on the chief and just like
fucking Rob is just digging deep into something else. What
does he got? And then, honest to god, he shows
him the damn receipt and he talks about an air
and I'm like, you know, two three pair of jeans
and he gets him for a penny. I was just
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un unbelievable. So only Rob Parker man, Well, you get
him for a penny, and then what he'll probably do,
he'll wear him for a couple of months and then
he'll put those on the website and sell him for all,
you know, two hundred bucks or something like that. So good,
that's good man. It's a great way to a little
side hustle. Yeah, I gotta get I always like the
(32:46):
site house. I gotta get more of a side house. Yeah.
I did find in the in the Mallard garage here
boxes of old Mallard theme shirts that I am looking.
I'm gonna probably put those up on the interweb for
a nominal fee to cover shipping and things like that.
But thinking about about doing that, it looks are class
(33:07):
of shirts from the Mallard militia of past. Yeah, you
know you need to do I mean you're already late
in the game. But you know, when you want to
buy new stuff for the house, you have your wife
pick it out and then you send it to to Rob.
You said, go find me this, Rob, because they'll get
it on the cheap for you. Rob, I needs back
splash from my kitchen. Can you can you find Rob's
(33:32):
good man? Rob's into it all. Yeah, I listen. I'm impressed, man.
I love Rob Parker. All right, anyway, that's it. Guess
we've got a whole weekend of podcast to come and amazingly,
I think you're gonna be with us all weekend, which
is to me. I know this is this is very
frustrating for you having to work all weekend, but we
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(01:32):
have you back. Hey. First of all, the open to
the fifth Hour is like spectacular, my god, I mean,
did you write that? I wrote it. I wrote it.
Ben fails to ever acknowledge. It's like, I don't listen
that crap when it opens up. So that's an awesome
(01:53):
open button. Anyway, Ben Maller, it is always great to
be on David Guests got always great to be on.
I'm in my element. It's the World Series time, you know,
I mean, I just it's baseball where you're watching every pitch.
I love it. The postseason. Uh, everything's good, good good.
(02:15):
So we're as we're talking here, we're two games into
the World Series, and I don't want this podcast to
be dated, but it is Friday. So the World Series
Game three is scheduled for tonight, weather permitting, in suburban Atlanta.
But we're two games. And then, by the way, Atlanta
is the city you love, Rob, right, I mean, I
follow your travels on social media. You are very familiar
(02:37):
with Atlanta and some of the more exciting entertainment options
in the greater Atlanta area. Yes, uh, yeah, well I
want you to know that I will be there Saturday
for a Game four and Game five because I'm heading
to Atlanta, uh for those two games. And yes, I
will probably make a donation and help put some young
(03:00):
girls through school at the Magic City and also pick
up some uh Lou Lou Williams uh um lemon pepper
wings while I'm at Magic City. I want you to
know that Magic City is not only known for the
entertainment element and Ben, I'm not kidding you the best wings.
(03:20):
They have the kitchen there that is humming and bumping
and people are standing in line for the food. It's
it's a business by itself. I'm not kidding you. That's
how good the food is. Yeah. Well, wasn't that what
Luke said? Like he was just he was just going
there for the chicken wings and then you know he
you know, people thought he was there to see some
other things that so now, why is that so much better? Though?
(03:43):
They just as an entertainment option. Now I've been I
haven't been to one of the ballets in a while.
They're robbed. But every time that comes up, Atlanta and
Magic City are within the top five of everyone's list
and I've never been there, So what what makes it
stand out other than the chicken wings? Other than two
it's like the hundreds of stages, I mean, what what
(04:05):
what makes it? No, you know what, it's not a
big place. There's just one stage in the middle, but
it's just it's like a landmark in Atlanta. And it's
well run. And what I mean is no monkey business,
no problems, you know what I mean. It's well run.
People coming. I've never had a bad time. I've never
(04:27):
had any issues in there. I've never seen any issues
like that is the part. And it's friendly and you
know what, it's not ridiculous, like the drinks aren't overpriced
like where you go, oh my god, like what is this?
You don't feel like that? And then the food. So
when you add all of it together, it's a great time.
(04:50):
If you like hair on your chicken wings, then you
know what, it's a great opportunity. No no, no, rob Rob.
As you go to the eight yell, I have to
ask this before you get into any of your weekend festivities.
What airline did you pick and what was the fair
Because we've had some discussions in the last couple of
(05:10):
days with a couple of pairs of of jeans. That
might that might boggle the mind of Ben Mallory. That's right, Well,
you know, spirit uh, I got a great fair for
a hundred and some hundred and twenty dollars round trip,
And of course I will not and o t bring
a bag because I'm not paying thirty five dollars to
(05:33):
bring a bag down and I'm not paying thirty five
dollars to bring a bag back for a little dirty clothes.
So Ben Mallor, here's my here's the way you get
around it on a cheap air airline is I will
carry just some underclothes in my backpack, which they'll allow
me on as So when I get down there, I'll
(05:54):
go to a Marshall do or t J Max and
buy a shirt and maybe a pair of pants and
maybe some other stuff that I need, and when I
leave on Monday, I'll leave it in the hotel because
I'll still spend less than it would cost me to
bring a bag down for thirty five to bring a
bag up back up for thirty five. So basically, I
(06:16):
feel like I have seventy dollars to spend on stuff
that I can wear, and I'll just leave it at
the hotel. I'll leave a note on top of it
on my dresser for the maid and it says, either
keep or donate yours truly, And that's how I walk out. Now,
what didn't you do? You gotta you gotta tell you,
gotta tell Ben of your experience the other day though
(06:37):
with your jeans, I will Ben, what do you think
about the the game plan? Though? No, no, exactly Listen
that that is as a frugal man myself, and and
one of the reasons I don't travel, and I and
I taught my wife's like we should go somewhere, you know,
I a man. It's expensive and because I can't. You
you're flying round trip across the United States. How much
(06:59):
is that ticket? A hundred bucks or something like that,
hundred and twenty bucks to fly from California to Georgia
and back. I didn't even know that was possible. I know,
like in the nineties seventies, maybe it was, but I
didn't realize the day. That is insane. And I've never
flown Spirit Airlines. I've heard nothing but terrible things about Spirit. Okay, no,
(07:22):
it's it's let me tell you. You gotta get an
exit row. Okay, you gotta get an exit row. And
you just like I say, uh, as long as you
realize going in not a problem. Is people see the
low fair and then they're trying to sneak a bag on.
And when they get to the door with that bag,
which you can't bring on, and they let you know,
they'll hit with sixty dollars right at the gate, sixty
(07:45):
dollars if you if you don't check it and you
don't pre buy your bag tag. So that's why people
are always mad. But you get what you pay for.
I've been all over as you know, Ben, I've been traveling.
I've been I've been flying cheaper than that. I mean,
I'm going next week, I'm going to New Orleans. After
that go down there for a Saints game and a
little Emeralds, And then two weeks after that, I'm going
(08:08):
up to Sacramento, uh to see a King's game and
eat and catch up with some other friends. So and
all those tickets are under two hundred dollars. You know,
you gotta know how to buy them, and uh, you
gotta know how to travel. So I love to see
the country you know, I've been to all seven continents.
But I love to travel and see different things. Yeah, no,
(08:29):
I like to travel too. But the cost, but that
I gotta I gotta run that by the wife. That's
a great thing. I don't think she She usually is
pretty boogie though when it comes to travel, you know,
and all the bells and then you don't it's still Look,
it's a it's a federally regulated airline. They're gonna make
it there. You know, don't have to get the get
the exit role. Pay a little more for the exit
(08:50):
row so you have comfort once you're in that you're good,
you and your wife. You get the exit row, pay
the extra twelve dollars for that seat or fifteen dollars
and is worth it. And here's the other trick, Ben,
What's what I used to do this before I moved
to California, because you know that every flight is a
long flight when you live in l A. But in
the old days, when I lived in Detroit and I
(09:11):
was in the middle of the country, how I would
for an Aagle to get the extra extra extra row
seat is I would wait till the very last minute
to to check in the very last minute And here's
the here's how I would would skirt the system. The
system gives out the seats, right, the free seats, but
(09:35):
at the end of the day, the seats that remain
open are the seats that you have to pay for,
the big seat up front or the exit row. So
if you wait till le end, all the other seats
are filled up and they have to give you an
extra row or a big seat for free because all
the other seats that nobody's willing to pay for already
(09:58):
you know, booked up. So I used to get up
exit role all the time. Rob, you should write a column,
you know, you write about travel, like a travel blog website,
Like this is very valuable information. I'm not. I mean,
I know you've talked about this on the radio and stuff,
but this is right. You have a hidden you have
a hidden talent, Rob, I mean, this is you can
(10:19):
help someone. I'm not. You can help so many people
out that's that waste so much money on on things
they don't need to waste when they're traveling big time.
And I told you this to Ben, like even even
like do you like French fries? You like French fries? Yes, okay, Ben,
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the secret on how
to guarantee you get hot fries every time you go
(10:43):
to a fast food restaurant. You know how you get
hot fries every single time? You always order your fries
with no salt. They have to fry you a fresh
batch with no salt, and then you ask for a
packing as salt once they give you your fries. We
(11:07):
we have a somewhat similar night because I like obviously fried,
but the steak I think you and me we've talked
about the butterfly cut, right, that's the guest gotta have medium. Well, yeah,
because Gas got over here all the time. Yeah, Gas
gott wanted to be moving on the plate and all
(11:28):
that that. I like my meat like I like my women. Man. Yeah, well,
butterfly cuts. Me and Rock we stand together on that.
Chefs they don't understand. They don't understand. They you know
many times Rob when I've said I want to steak
like well done, and you probably had it more than me,
(11:50):
but they come to you like you sure you know
the guy the chef in the kitchens like you really want? Yes,
well done. I that's how I enjoyed my meal. Give
me what I want, right, You gotta have your steak
the way you want and the same thing. I'm a
big steak and lobster guy, and people are always like,
uh oh, I don't eat lobster, and I always say
the same thing, Ben, you know what, more for us,
(12:12):
so you guys don't have to eat lobster and steak.
And they want to check my cholesterol and everything else.
I'm fine, I'm good, good. Alright, last, wait a minute,
let me tell you about the pants I bought the
(12:33):
other day. Okay, So I go into I go into
North from Rack. All the time, I'm always looking. You
gotta be you gotta give like like you're checking out
a beautiful woman. You gotta be thorough and checking out
the racks. You just gotta keep going through the racks,
and you gotta look at the price tags and you
gotta like, you gotta be diligent about it. So I
(12:54):
see a pair of Amani pants, the beautiful original they're
they're they're not marked down. But of course I asked
the person there who's on the racks, I'm like, can
you scan this so I can find out what the
price is, because if the original price was on it
and there wasn't a markdown, so it was marked down
(13:15):
a hundred and thirty four dollars. I'm like, beautiful, great pants.
I love them. Then I was walking around, I see
another rack and another pair of ramnny pants that are
on that on my side, so I'm like, let me
check these pants out. There were to originally marked down
the one seventy seven, and I take it to the register.
So I take both pair of pants to the register.
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One rings up for one thirty four, the second one
Ben rings up for one penny. The two hundred and
ninety marked down. The one seventy seven is marked down
to a single penny. So I bible pair and you
know I needed a cigarette after I, you know, so
(13:57):
ring up for a penny. And then of course that
guy can can can can vouch for me because he
saw the receipt. So I take both pair of pants home.
I'm like, what am I doing? Do I really need both? Uh?
And especially since I got in a monty pair for
a penny, I should return the pair that I paid
(14:18):
one thirty four dollars for. So, of course, Ben, I
returned the one thirty four pants and kept one for
a penny. I believe the bag costs more than the
penny that the pants. That is. So now let me
ask you this, Rob, how long do you keep close?
Because I I you know, I'm back when I lost
a lot of weight. Originally I was always at like
(14:41):
Ross dressul us because before I never fit in the stuff.
But then I fit in and I'm like, Okay, this
is amazing, this is a gold mine. Right. But then
I realized I bought a lot of stuff, and I
I'm very bad about getting rid of stuff, like when
it seems like once something comes in, it doesn't go
out very easily of the Mallard closet. So I've been
a little reluctant to do that. But but how long
do you keep closing? You've already told us you leave
(15:01):
clothes at hotels in random cities, right, So right, are
you some of the moving changes your wardrobe quite a bit,
or you hold only yes if something comes in, ben,
something's got to go out. So basically I work on
the premise of eight pair of pants right for like
you fall, and eight pair of pants for the spring
(15:23):
and summer. That's really what I work on. So if
I go out and I find a great pair of pants, right,
I'm gonna buy them, but one of the one of
the other pair have to go. Okay. So there's a
great website called The Real Real Have you heard of that?
I have not? Okay, So you can sell your stuff
(15:45):
on it. It's a resale shop. It is unbelievable. I'm
not lying to you, Ben mallor I'm not lying to
you David Gascon. On that site, I have made close
to twenty thousand dollars selling my clothes that I no
longer want anymore. And they like designers stuff, you know
(16:07):
what I mean. And then they like Nike and stuff
that because this site is all over the world. So Rob, Rob,
you gotta be careful with this though, because you're telling
us this. Ben is gonna make thousands of dollars from
his fanboys when he sells his underwear proposition and nobody
(16:27):
wants underwear. This is this is because you know, Rob,
I I moved recently, and I will have you over
when we have the holiday party if we haven't. Yes, yes,
are you now? Let me ask you? Are you closer
to the state of California? Are you still? I'm for
(16:48):
where you are? Rob? When you when you come over
to visit. You're probably gonna have to fly Spirit Airlines. Okay,
but but yeah, no, I I gotta tell around, these
are great life hacks that you've given me. Here and
there's a lot of clothes, you know, and you move
and there's all kinds of stuff. You man, I'm gonna
tell you. Get rid of them, dude. You won't miss
(17:10):
them that they have, No, you're not attached to them.
The one thing that I learned, and like my other thing,
is i have a a love for sweatpants. But I'm
looking for the perfect pair of sweatpants. So I buy
sweatpants all the time, and I'll I'll buy a pant
and I'm like, oh, these are them, I love them.
Go to stores see another pair. Oh I love these,
(17:32):
and I'll just get rid of the other ones. I
just let them go. And I'm always trying. I think
maybe that's when I got divorced, and I was like,
I'm trying to upgrade and look for a different wife.
But that hasn't worked out for me. Okay, but let's
worked out of the sweatpants department, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
so you win something, you lose something, right, right, I
(17:53):
think I'm winning on the ex white part though. You
know what I'm saying, Well that but many you made
twenty grand off that website. That's crazy, how many? How many?
I'm telling you, it's a great website, and you can
even they'll need to come pick the stuff up, you
drop it off. They get and the more you sell,
(18:16):
the higher your percentages. I like, I'm at the at
the level where I get a seventy return on anything
they sell. And remember it's free money because you're not
wearing the stuff. So if you're not wearing it any longer,
it has no value to you. Anything you get is big,
is money because otherwise it's just sitting there. That's the
(18:38):
beautiful part of it. And that's the way I look
at it. So I'm I'm definitely into moving on from
stuff and and moving forward and just saying, Okay, I
wore it, don't have any attachment to it. I'm moving
on to the next thing. Yeah, that's creat advice because
another reason, you know, my parents passed away, so I've
(18:59):
got all of my parents stuff, and my parents kept everything.
We've talked about it on the podcast before, like everything
from your entire lives, which is both a blessing and
a curse because now I'm you know, I'm here, my
brothers are back east, and so I'm kind of going
through everything and it's uh yeah, it's like, yeah, I've
got it, but actually get rid of stuff. You gotta
do it, though, you gotta get past the threshold. I'm
(19:21):
not quite there yet, but I've gotten rid of a
ton of stuff, and we have a ton more to
go through. Every weekend, Rob, when I'm not working, I'm
I'm going through the garage and storage ships trying to
get rid of random things that you need, let me
tell you, And I get it. That's tough when you
lose your parents and you know what I mean, and
they have stuff and it's sentimental, but the only thing
you should be looking for through those clothes and to
(19:43):
make sure they distast at the cash in any pockets.
Other than that, you just need to dump it. Now.
You're You're absolutely right, you don't need the old stuff.
But all right, so let's circle background to the World Series.
You're going to Atlanta this weekend to watch the World Church.
I are graphic. I'm sure you saw too. They had,
you know, the usual TV graphic. They have all fifty States,
(20:05):
and they go state by state who likes team X,
who likes the other team? And so it was forty
seven to three in the United States. The Atlanta Braves
had to support only Texas, Louisiana, and for some reason,
Delaware supported the Astros. So where does Houston rank on
Rob Parker's Big board of sports villains? I have them
(20:27):
at the very top, But are they the biggest villain
since the nineteen eighties bad boys for different reasons, but
the Pistons. Has there any been anyone since that Pistons
team that has risen to this type of level in sports? Absolutely?
It is the new England Patriots. And all right they
(20:49):
are the cheat, the biggest cheaters going. We've only tipped
the Tippany Iceberg. We'll find out down the road when
books come out and people start to spill the beans
on how big the cheating scandal was. Robert Roger Goodell,
one of the worst commissioners in the history of sports,
who destroyed the deflate Gate tape, I mean the spy
(21:12):
Gate tapes. We already know Tom Brady was texting a
boy boy a hundred times, but yet he said he
didn't know the guy. I don't know, when you text
somebody a hundred times, either you know them, Ben, or
you're having a relationship with him. I don't know one
of the two. So we know Brady destroyed his phone
rather than give up the information. And don't get me wrong,
(21:33):
the Astros are there. And here's what my message to
people matter of fact or my podcast inside the Parker
was drops every Thursday I talked about this. People are
trying to convince fans to, you know, give the Astros
a pass and let it let it go. There's only
four guys from that team still on it, and we
(21:53):
shouldn't hold them accountable. And you know what I say, Ben,
Hell no, yes, you still hold them able. And the
four guys are the four best guys that they're still
on the team. Right. It ain't like scrubs. It's the
four best guys all Touve and UH Core and UH
Korea and Bregmant what what do you mean forget about it?
(22:16):
And if fans don't want to, you know, let it go,
they have a right not to let it go. The
reason that the Patriots, Patriots don't get all the love
is because of their cheating scandal. The reason that a
lot of people will never give the Astros their credit.
Uh is because of the cheating scandal ash Yankee fans
who lost to them in seven games in the alcsen
(22:38):
and asked the Dodger fans who lost the World Series
right when they got killed in Houston, if you remember
that series they got killed. They couldn't they couldn't get
anybody out. Uh So, if I'm one of those teams
or fans, I'm going to hold onto it and not
let them off the hook. If other people want to
say that they're good with it and they want to
(22:59):
move on, that's fine, But uh, I think fans should
have the right to still hold a grudge. Yeah no,
And I'm right there. Listen, this has been my mission,
you know, on the overnight here. And it's funny, Rob,
because we're on when our affiliate, the Fox Radios Fox
Sports radio affiliate in Houston is the Astros station seven
ninety on the AM dial, And so I'll come on
(23:20):
sometimes Rob after Astro talk their post games, whatever they did.
And so I'm just killing the Astros. I'm just bashing them,
and so they don't appreciate it. But but Fox showed
a graphic the other night in the World Series, and
you know, I noticed that they're they're probably told by
Baseball not to talk about the cheating thing and all that,
but they showed a graphic of Jose Altuve tying Bernie
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Williams for most their second most playoff home runs behind
Many Ramirez, and they failed to mention that, you know,
he was part of the cheating scam. To me, everything
that these guys have done is tainted. And you know,
you're a Hall of Fame guy, rob a guy like
Jose out who you put him in the Hall of fame?
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I wouldn't put him in the Hall of fame? Would
you put him in the Hall of fame? You have
to look at the entire career. It's a slippery slope.
And I will admit that because he wasn't individually, you know,
ever suspended or ever you know, penalized as an individual.
So I always look at it is I'm not the
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judge and jury, just like I think a lot of
my brethren in the b b W A A have
made mistakes. They've lett they've let guys in who they
have been talked to rumors about, you know, with with
steroid and h G H. Those guys have gotten in,
but they want to hold tight against Bonds and Clemens.
When uh Pudge Rodriguez got in on his first ballot
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and Jose Canseco, can we all say that his book
was real and true. I don't remember any lawsuits against
against him, and he was also uh mentioned uh that
he used to actually uh inject um um. I'm just
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a Pudge rod week as you know what I mean,
like why are you letting Pudge in? Why are you
letting bag Well? And why are you letting Mike Piazza?
And I mean these are all names that we've all
been associated with and and without positive tests. I think
it's wrong that Gary Sheffield has over five hundred home
runs not in I vote for him. I think it's
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wrong for Bonds. I think it's wrong for Clements. I
don't think that's my job. And Bonds is the home
run king never tested positive for steroids and major League Baseball.
I don't think that that's my right to keep him
out of the Hall of Fame. That's just how When
on that I agree, you know, I'll never have a
Hall of Fame vote like you, But you're right. But
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when I I think the Hall of Fame I was
for years during the Stereota when Bonds and all that
was going on, and that was a big deal with
McGuire and Sosa. When that stuff started coming out, I
was like, all right, none of these guys are getting
all the fame. But then as you just laid out
the road map where there's a bunch of these guys
bag Well and all the cats that were pretty confident
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we're up to some funny business or in the Hall
of Fame. So I don't agree with drawing. I would
put Bonds and Clemens in there too, And I was
I was completely against those guys being in all of Fame,
but they've opened door. But as far as Altobe, to me,
that's a little different. I wouldn't put them in there.
And as you pointed out with the fans, Rob and
how people don't want to forget, and I'm one of
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those people what happened in seventeen. I was at those
games in l A, the Dodgers and Astros. But I
think also you have to that has to follow these
guys around and and and I've had people in Houston
asked me, well, what are you gonna forget about the
astros cheating thing? And I'm like, well, when the last
member of the seventeen Astros is no longer playing, maybe then,
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maybe then I'll move on. But until then, I don't
think it's it's gonna it's gonna be a thing. Still,
So I grew, And that's why I think that people
can't say, well, there's only four guys left, you should
get over it. No, uh, those are four big guys.
There's still a part of that. What they did is
that they went the extra mile and cheating. We always
we know guys are looking for an advantage, and maybe
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the catchers lazy. He doesn't he doesn't cover up his signs.
If you're at second base bend, is it okay? If
if you're at second basically trying to relay and put
your hand on your hip that the curveball is coming
and try to help me out at the plate, that's cool,
that's fair game, that's sportsmanship, right, that's uh, that's okay.
But banging trash cans and and and taping a a
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buzzer to your chest or whatever that was that al
two ray. I mean, you know, I thought the best
part about it is, you know, you could actually do
an on field interview with Altay, you know, without even
adding any equipment to him. I mean, that's how easy
it would have been. My favorite part of this whole
thing was Major League Baseball and you know this, Rob
because you're all over this stuff. So Baseball was told
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by other teams the Astros were cheating. They investigated the
Astros and set up we didn't find any evidence of
anything inappropriate. And it wasn't until that story in the
Athletic came out where you had the whistleblower. If that
hadn't happened, nothing, none of this punishment would have taken
You're right, and that was that was a picture. I
can't forget it. I forgot his name, Mike Fires, Mike
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Fires right right, he was on the team. He mean,
you couldn't ignore that. You couldn't ignore it. And I
think that Baseball was forced and we saw with the
Red Sox, uh and there's which wasn't nearly the same.
But Cora got fired and we hired. I mean, think
about that. Um so it was weird that of course
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in baseball, the two teams with with the cheating scandals
of course made it to the a LCS. You know,
like you know, you can't win sometimes, but it is
what it is. Um the World Series first two games entertaining.
I'm looking forward to this. I think it will go
six or seven games. I picked the Braves in six
and I'm gonna stick with my pick. Well, I from
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your Lips to God's Ears. Let's hope that happens. And
what one final final note Rob on the cheating thing.
So I saw the story that it was behind a
paywall in the Houston Chronicle, so I didn't actually read
the story, but I saw the headline and then I
read more about it on some people that that that
fed the story. So apparently the Astro there was a
group of Astro fans that were heckling in game one.
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Rob Manford, the commissioner there for her punishing the Astros
is like a scapegoat, and I would think this has
gotta be at the very top of the hutzpah scale,
considering none of the players, none of the star players
were punished. The people on the field that we're actually
actively doing it. You know. I know people bring up
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Carlos Beltron, but he was done by the time he
got punished. But the players, none of them were punished.
Do you imagine the Houston fans thinking that Rob Manford
had done them wrong. If why was the commissioner, I
would have banned the Astros in the postseason for five
or ten years. I wouldn't even allow them. And all
those players who have been suspended, they got off easy.
I can't. I can't get it through my head Rob,
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that there's some fans in Houston that think somehow they're
the victims in this. It's unbelievable to me explain this time.
I don't understand it. I agree with you that they
got off very light. But I do understand, like from
from one standpoint, because we saw this in the NFL
with bounty gate bend. But when the coaches are involved, right,
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players are more apt to go along and and the
big thing is when you have a J. Hinch and
the and the general manager and they know what's going on.
It's an organizational thing. A J. Hins when they first
hooked that thing up, could have went and pulled the
plug on that stuff and said, we're not doing that here.
Do you know what I mean? Alright, my man, the
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great Rob Parker, you hear him. He's a colleague. I'm
very happy to call him a colleague of ours. David
Gascon here on Fox Sports Radio with Rob and Chris
the Odd Couple every single afternoon or evening, depending on
your time zone. He's got the website. He's a Hall
of Fame voter, he's a renaissance man, and I promise
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you that I will pass this by my wife. I
have a no attempt Gascon to travel on Spirit Airlines.
If you can fly coast to coast for a hundred
dollars round or you know, a hundred and twenty or
whatever was round trip, I'm in. I'm in on that.
That's that mallar, that's mallor approved airfare. That is insane
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to me. So I'm excited about this. This was a
I did not expect when we when you told me
we had had Rob on the on the podcast, I
was looking forward to talking about. I had no idea
that I would get a life multiple life acts. He
also named that website you can sell clothes on, and
that's great. So random though, because I had worked with
him earlier in the week and during the show he
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was talking to Chris and talking to Bob Gara about
something he did, and you know, normally buying stuff and
returning in or getting on the chief and just like
fucking Rob is just digging deep into something else. What
does he got? And then, honest to god, he shows
him the damn receipt and he talks about an air
and I'm like, you know, two three pair of jeans
and he gets him for a penny. I was just
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un unbelievable. So only Rob Parker man, Well, you get
him for a penny, and then what he'll probably do,
he'll wear him for a couple of months and then
he'll put those on the website and sell him for all,
you know, two hundred bucks or something like that. So good,
that's good man. It's a great way to a little
side hustle. Yeah, I gotta get I always like the
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site house. I gotta get more of a side house. Yeah.
I did find in the in the Mallard garage here
boxes of old Mallard theme shirts that I am looking.
I'm gonna probably put those up on the interweb for
a nominal fee to cover shipping and things like that.
But thinking about about doing that, it looks are class
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of shirts from the Mallard militia of past. Yeah, you
know you need to do I mean you're already late
in the game. But you know, when you want to
buy new stuff for the house, you have your wife
pick it out and then you send it to to Rob.
You said, go find me this, Rob, because they'll get
it on the cheap for you. Rob, I needs back
splash from my kitchen. Can you can you find Rob's
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good man? Rob's into it all. Yeah, I listen. I'm impressed, man.
I love Rob Parker. All right, anyway, that's it. Guess
we've got a whole weekend of podcast to come and amazingly,
I think you're gonna be with us all weekend, which
is to me. I know this is this is very
frustrating for you having to work all weekend, but we
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