March 28, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about MLB Opening Day and if Juan Soto deserves the noise for his performance in the Mets opener, Fernando Tatis being caught admiring a fly ball and only getting a single, what else stood out on Opening Day, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hee, we go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
And welcome. It's our number two, floating on a cloud
in our number two Major League Baseball opening day, and
what a start for the Mets. They had the tying
runs on base, the winning run at the plate, and
Juan Soto.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Saw wing and a miss.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So does one Soto deserve the noise he's already getting
for his poor clutch performance in the Mets opener. We'll
discuss that also where you're at on Padre star Fernando
Tatis being caught navel gazing admiring a fly ball he
thought was a home run and he ended up getting
a single ball hit the wall. And what else stood
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out on opening day? Including an Otani home run, the
Angels doing the unimaginable, and a whole lot more. It's
all coming your way right here in our number two,
a whole new ball game. Well come. In the beginning
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So our lead this hour is from baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I had a good time. I don't know if you
saw a bunch of the games. I got up relatively.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Early for me, mainly because I don't sleep well, but
I was excited. I've always loved Opening Day. I used
to ditch school for Opening Day as I felt like
it was a holiday and.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I needed to miss school. It was more important. I
watched some ball.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So the new beginning, and the biggest name to change
teams this offseason was mister Moneybags himself, who made his
debut with his new team. Nobody watches the spring training game,
so this was the game that mattered. We're talking, of course,
of outfielder Wan money Bag Soto, who got to debut
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his New York Mets laundry for the first time in
a regular season game. So I don't know if she's
you're watching this, maybe not. The Metropolitans were playing the
cheating as one one thousand and two, one thousand holes
and one.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Soto.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Now, he did get on base three times, okay, three
times on base. He had a single and a couple
of walks. However, that is not the story. Don't bury
the lead, my man. So the story here the final
at bat, that is the focus. The Mets come to
home plate. They're trailing three to one against the cheating
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astro So down three to one one, Soto steps into
the box. There's two out in the top of the
ninth inning, runners on the corner, so the tying runs
are on.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Soto represents the winning run.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Conceivably would still have to get Houston out in the bottom.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Of the ninth, but the the.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Asstros closer Josh Hater is on the mound, so Soto
steps into the batter's box. Pitch one's a ball, Pitch
two is a ball. Two Ozero count hitters count two
to zero. Pitch three and one. Sodo digs in. He
chokes up on the bat and stands there and watches
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the pitch go by ball three.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So now it's the ultimate ultimate.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Pitchers count or hitters count rather, because the pitcher doesn't
want to walk Sodo because then the tying ronal being
scoring position, and all the Mets would need is a
base hit.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So it's a three to zero count.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Surely one, Sodo is gonna swing the bat, because why
would you not swing the bat?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You your seven hundred and sixty five million dollars man.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So three and zero one, Soto stands there and watches
the pitch zoom by star Reik one, So it's a
it's a three to one, but he's still in good shade.
Three to one. Still, hitters count, So.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Three to one pitch by Josh Hater. He fouls the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Pitch off bab ball all right, So now it's a
three to two count all of a sudden, so he's one.
Soto's gone from a three to zero count hitters count
three to one count.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Hitters count.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Now it's three to two. Not so good, but still
the pitcher has to throw strike. So Josh had settles in.
He throws the pitch and it's a slider lo andohy,
it's ball four, right, ball four, but numb nuts runs.
Juan Soto meekly swings and it wasn't even really a swing,
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like it was like half swing, but it counted as
a swing. He chased a slider that went out of
the zone. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. As
the cheating a holes.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Won the game.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now, following the loss, what do you think happened? It
was a dog pile, dog pile on Juan Soto and
the Metropolitan. So let us discuss the question. I know
it's only it's only one game. We're doing the talk
show today. We're doing the show today. So does one
Soto deserve the noise he's already getting for his lackluster
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performance in the clutch for the Mets. So my observations
on this, I've got boxing, Amazon, Prime, and Alaskan and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make the Gabba ghool.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We're gonna make the Gabba goool, all right? So number one.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Number one?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So to answer the question, does Wan Soto deserve all
the noise for his unclutch performance in the Mets opener?
I am nodding my head, Yes, I am nodding my eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And here's why. All right, you should be nice.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
No, it is a make or miss league, okay, and
sowing about a swing about a whiff.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
He whiffed.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
An opening day is worth like ten games because people
stop paying attention after opening day. They do. These first
games of the season are magnified, they get covered like
they mean more. And so Juan Soto is the leading man,
he is the top performer. He is at the very
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center of the stage. He is in the eye of
the storm. And it's part of the all inclusive package.
Seven one hundred and sixty five million dollars and the
great boxing promoter Don King still alive, somehow still alive,
living in Florida, and Don King one time one of
the great rants of all time. He talked about a boxer.
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But it applies to Juan Soto. When you're in the
position of Juan Soto, you are scrutinized, despised, politicized, dramatized,
chastise analyzed, moralized, stigmatized, sensationalized, and criticized more than anyone else.
So you're getting paid seven hundred and sixty five million,
and so what you do is you go up to
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your penthouse apartment at the very top on for one
hundred and who cares if you're a punching bag and one.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Sodo has always.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Been the kind of guy who's this smug dude.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
He's very easy to hate on.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He's got this smarmy arrogance to him. Like it doesn't
seem like the Mets fan base would really embrace a
guy like Juan Soto. He seems like the antithesis of
the of the Mets fan base, and the Mets fan
base is annoying, but they're not arrogant annoying.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
See that's the Yankees. The Yankees are arrogant annoying now
page two here.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So the one of the other story lights, the Podres
are expected to be a contender, not They're not gonna
win the nationally West. The Dodgers, I think have already
wrapped that up. But one of the funny things that
happened on opening day was in San Diego's win over
the Atlanta Braves. Where are you at on Podre star
Fernando Tatis being caught admiring he was naval gazing a
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fly ball, which would have been fine if it had
gone into the stands, but Instead, it bounced off the
wall and he ended up getting a single, one of
the longest singles in baseball history. So forget the whole
opening day thing. Fernando to tease in mid season form, right,
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he has always been bold and shameless, and why wait
until June or July to get the party started. Bring
the razzle dazzle. You got to bring the razzle dazzle,
you got to. He immediately broke into the checked me
out jog around the bases like the dudes I see
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at the gym when they walked by the mirrors and
they're they're they're flexing and looking at how great they
look in the mirror. It was that kind of thing, right,
which again would have been fine if the ball had
gone in the stands. It did not, And I saw
this same thing happen years ago. A teammate now teammate
of Juan or Fernando Titties, Manny Machado. Manny Machado briefly
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played for the Dodgers. They were playing the Red Sox
in the World Series. This goes back a few years
and Machado hit a ball off the wall in the
World Series against Boston was at Dodger stadium, and he
was just enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He wanted to enjoy the moment. He was smelling himself
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And then he ended up at first base because the
ball hit off the wall and he didn't know what
to do. I had no idea what do? Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, caught Peeker.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now as for Tatis, Fernando Tatis, we believe that what
he's really doing here is waiting for his Amazon Prime
delivery and he's trying to get that shipment of that
ringworm medication.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Wink wink wing.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
See all he needs is that ringworm medication. Then that
ball goes in the stands, if you know, you know,
all right? Now? Final point? So what else wide angle lens,
wide angle lens? What else stood out on opening Day? Well,
we had the Dodgers against the top pitcher in the
American League. Show showtime did it again? Dodgers are now
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three and zero. Otani hit a dinger And at what
point will this become annoying? The story was not the
Otani home run. The story was the ti Oscar Hernandez
three run homer, because that turned the game upside down.
That was the game winning mortal blow that did in
the Tigers and their cy young pitcher Schooble did him in.
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But yet the headline is Otani go deep. Dodgers were
beat the Tigers, but Otani nout a couple of home runs.
The Dodgers have played three games, so he's right there.
How about the Chicago White Sox, who are supposed to
be baseball's worst team, but for one day they had
the atomic elbow for the pathetic Angels eight to one,
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that the game was.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Actually closer than that.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
The White Sox put up a five spot in the
eighth inning, they blew the game open. And someone named
Sean Burke who hasn't been around very long, and he
started Opening Day. The White Socks have nobody else and
while he was out there, he shut down that pathetic
Angels lineup. So it was so bad for the Angels.
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How bad was it? Position player Nicki Lopez? That sounds
like a singer. Nicki Lopez pitched in the ninth inning
there the or the eighth inning, rather the for the
Angel He came in a position player pitching against the
White Sox on opening Day, on Opening Day, So how
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would you describe the vibe around the Angels?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
How would you describe that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So the vibe around the Angels after losing to the
White Sox eight to one of the opener, it's like
an Alaskan Alaskan weather report.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Gloomy and gray, gloomy and gray.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You know, Juno Alaska. Fun fact, fun fact, fun fact,
Juno Alaska has the most cloudy days in American territory.
I know it's not north of I know it's not
the continuous forty eight, but Alaska's part of America.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
They have two hundred and eighty days a year with
cloud cover.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
In Juno, Alaska. Shout out to our listeners in Juneo, Alaska. Yeah,
we're hanging out. We're on earlier in Alaska now. Terry
Francona had a very tough opener his day for the
Cincinnati Reds, and I expect Cincinnati to be via a
fringe contender with Francona's leadership.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
They did not get off to a good start, losing
to the Agantes.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You had the phenom of Phenom's Paul Skeens on the
mound for the Buckos the Pirates. He went five and
a third innings and he gave up a couple of
runs left the game and the Pirates were winning, and
they had lost by a walk off to the lowly Marlins.
So we'll be pirate baseball, Paul Skeens and pray for rain.
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You had somebody named wheel Air Abreu who hit a
three run homer in the ninth the Red Sox. That
was his second home run of the game, and they
beat the Rangers five to two. So the Socks off
to a good start there. Austin Wells, remember we had
mentioned Austin Wells, the catcher was batting leadoff. First time
in Yankee history that a catcher was batting leadoff, and
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Wells the first catcher, whether it's the Yankees or anyone else,
to hit an opening day leadoff home run. You usually
catchers don't bat lead off. You're not doing that well
if your catchers bat leadoff. But Austin Wells hit home run,
So first time in baseball history that's happened. The Nationals
had a great pitching performance and then still lost to
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Bryce Harper and the Fighting Phils.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
But for the rest of time, every time Bryce Harper
goes to DC, boom boom.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And rightfully so rightfully fans still booing him at Nationals Park.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
He homered again and that's it.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And how about the story in Seattle, the Seattle baseball
team versus the Sacramento baseball team that's so embarrassed by
being in Sacramento, they don't want to admit they're in Sacramento.
Before that game, though, the story Hall of Famer fifty
one year old echa Row Suzuki. So he threw out
the first pitch. Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
All right, he's he's fifty one. He wears uniform number
fifty one. He came out of the Seattle dugout wearing
a full Mariner uniform. He had the pants, he had,
he had the hat.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
The jersey, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And he went out to the mound and he threw
an eighty four mile an hour opening pitch on the
radar in full uniform, in full uniform, which I think
is faster than half the Marinder pitching staff. I think
he has a better arm than half the Marinder pitching staff.
So very sentimental, sentimental moment there in Seattle. If you
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would like to be part, you can join us right now.
And if I did not mention something that you saw
on opening day that you're like, well, I saw something
that you didn't mention and what I saw is better
and why didn't you mention it? And you're not good
as a talk show host. Now I will go ahead,
tough guy. We'll keep plugging along. You can call up
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nine nine.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Six six three sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Later this hour, we will have coming up in a
little bit, We're gonna have Mallard of the third Degree.
That's right, Maler to the third Degree coming up a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Later in the hour. Very exciting, very exciting. We'll have that.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
We have the Insta Trivia as well coming up a
little bit later in the hour, so we'll get to
that and the whole thing. Eight seven seven ninety nine
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It is all about the respect. It is all about
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the respect. We'll get to that and we will do it.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
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To the show. Well, that's right and uh and Bill
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And I teased this last hour and I did not
pay it off. That's a bad job by me, The
Great Fat Hope, the Great Fat Oh it's not lizo
Lizo jokes are next hour. Do you know who Desmond
Watson is? Are you familiar with his game? No?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You don't know who that. So Desmond Watson is a
defensive tackle from the University of Florida and in Gainesville.
They had their pro day this week and Desmond was,
you know, it's like the underwear Olympics. So they measure
you and they poking Pradia and all that. And when
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you get around my man, Desmond Watson, it's like the
Pillsbury dough boy. You poke him, and there's a lot
to poke. He is six foot six, four hundred and
sixty four pounds, he's almost five hundred pounds, and he
worked out in front of NFL talent evaluators yesterday and
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it is why this guy's he's in true he's like
fit fat, He's in really good as good as shape
as you can be when you're almost five hundred pounds.
He wrapped two hundred and twenty five pounds thirty six times,
thirty six time. Try doing that. Sometimes go to the
gym and try to just randomly put up two hundred
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twenty five pounds thirty six times. By the way, that
means he is stronger at the bench press than anyone
who was at the combine in Indianapolis. This what you
would call a fat ass. This kid Watson is able
to bench press more reps than any player who was
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on the Cool Kids List and invited to the NFL Combine,
which he was not invited to. How fast do you
think he ran the forty yard dashtime? Almost five hundred pounds.
You probably think it took him about ten minutes to
run the forty yard dash. No, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You're absolutely wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Desmond Watson ran the forty yard dash in five point
nine to three seconds. But wait, there's more. He recorded
twenty five inches in the vertical jump. So the forty
yard dash thing always always kills me. The only reason
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they have the forty yard dash is it's a test
to see if you can be on the punt team.
Does anyone think that four hundred and sixty four pound
Desmond Watson is going to be on the punt team.
I think it was Paul Brown who decided to measure
player's speed on the forty yard dash, because when you
were punting, that's how far you had to usually run
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to cover of punt, was forty yards. Now it's become
a whole thing. It's you know, it's just my guy anyway,
So there it is. That is my player.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I'm pulling for.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Just amazing bench press and massive, massive human being. And
if he is drafted, he will be the fattest player
ever drafted by eighty pounds. By eighty pounds, he will
be the heaviest NFL players ever drafted, worth three hundred
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and eighty pounds. I was an offensive lineman from who's
I played, actually played a long time in the NFL,
Trent Brown, who was three hundred eighty pounds for Florida
back in twenty fifteen. And then there was a player
from the University of Minnesota, Daniel Blalel. I believe it's
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how you say his name. I'm probably butchering that, but
there you go. So Watson. I mean, if you do
the math, it's actually he's they were three eighty and
he's four sixty four, So that's eighty four pounds and
you round up and then you round up to ninety
or one hundred. So, man, I hope the Rams draft
this guy. We need a big fatty. If the Rams
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draft that guy, I'll get his jersey. How about that?
And I think I'm too old to wear jerseys because
I think once you get to a certain age, you
can't wear jerseys anymore, but I'll wear one. I'll wear
a Desmond Watson. He better be like number one hundred.
They should allow him to be number one hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
They should.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
That should be an honor. If you're over four hundred
and fifty pounds, you should get to wear number one hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Does anyone say no? Does anyone say no? If you're
over four point fifty in.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
The NFL you get to wear one hundred. You can
be the first player to wear number one hundred. Be wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Make it happen.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
He's got plenty of room. I mean, the guy's built
like like a mack truck. Why not, man, it is
the Ben Mahler Show. Kathy in Madison says, I need
to sleep, Benny. I'll see you in my dreams. Oh, Kathy,
you're leaving the show. Kathy the hey mona woman leaving
the show? How dare you our ferg dog rights since
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says no team with Mike trout on it sucks, says
Fergy from Siberia in Fullerton. He says, sure, the Angels
lost by seven runs, but Trouty had some good swings
out there. I'm not hitting the panic button. It's great
John Tortorella, who's now unemployed towarts as he was let
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go by the Philadelphia Flyers. Some of the greatest quotes
in the history in the history of hockey, John Toterella.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
And there's more to that story.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
But let's get let's get a call in here, and
who do we have any miney moe uh. Let's say
a load of hollering James in Minnesota. Hello, hollering James.
Oh man, it's like the call of the wild, my man, James,
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dreams do come true. Thirty six pills in the morning,
thirty six pills at night.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Night he takes that. Hey, Jame, you're on the air, James, James.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Tamy in Montana wants you to start talking, James, James,
wake up.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Oh yeah, wow, Yeah, that's all you got.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Okay, thank you, James.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
There's hollering James, our snortastic caller, the great hollering Gyams.
Let's say hello to Anie meanie, miney mo. How about Travis,
who's in the Sunshine State. It's kind of a big state. Hello, Travis, welcome,
big Ben Hey.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Hey yeah, sorry, getting out of my.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Pool must be tough.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, that's awful. It's awful. I almost got my asstick
by tell me Lasorda, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
What happened? He can't kick your ass right now, unfortunately,
but no.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
No, no no, But this was my senior year of
high school and he was.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I was.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
They used to run the bridge and Vera Beach and
UH for spring training and we had two bridges and
they used to run the big bridge. I had a
real piece of crap car and pull up next to
him as they're running it with my friend and UH.
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I said they had just signed Darryl Strawberry. And I
probably shouldn't have said this. I definitely shouldn't have said this,
but I said, hey at coach Disorta, hey, if if
Darryl snorts the ridfield line, you're going to have to
replace it. He said, you get this piece of crap
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off those bridge, or'll throw you out of your damn star.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well that is irony, because if that wasn't that like
a couple of weeks later where Darryl Strawberry went on
a bender and they couldn't find him. He went missing
because he when they got back to La to play
the Freeway series, he disappeared because he went on a
coke bender. I believe that's what he was, some kind
of drug bender.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, pretty well, I.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Wonder, I wonder, I wonder if I triggered him.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, well I bet that was sort of the sort
of had to know, right, he had to know that
everyone in baseball knew that Strawberry that Oh no, no.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
He knew, Yeah, he knew.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
He had to know. Yeah, he had to know. Yeah, well, Tommy,
there were there were you know, Tommy had multiple personalities.
I knew him a little bit, uh, the last probably
like fifteen years of his life or whatever. But he yeah,
he could be like mister sweet guy with the cameras
and then if they if they somebody upset him or
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the Dodgers lost, oh man, he could legendary, legendary.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Two weeks ago, you were talking about the Kerpa and
and I was like, oh my god, I gotta I
gotta call him.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah no, yeah, that's that's great. Yeah, but can hit water.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Limo to get back?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, yeah, Well that's because Kirk Will called him the
U the short fat Italian or something, and the sort
of didn't like that for some reason. And then just
uh just unloaded, just absolutely unloaded. And the other one,
which is more famous is the Kingman's performance. And the
great thing about that is, I.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Mean, what kind of question is that the guy?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That guy went out there and but the funny thing
is that that that got Paul Olden was the radio
stringer and he's been the he's the public address announcer
for the New York Yankees, and he's been doing that
for years and years and years. He's a he's a
buddy and one of my buddies, Ted sobel La radio guys.
So yeah, there you go, all right, enjoy your You're
living the great life there.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
You go out swimming in the middle of the night,
you call it a radio show, you tell your story
about It would have been a better story if for
Sorda had run you off the bridge and you had
fallen into a body of water in in Vero Beach,
or as the players called it back then, zero Beach,
back back in the day. And uh yeah, my Vero
(29:58):
Beach story. Real quick, I've told.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
This many times.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
If you've heard it, just fast forward through the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
So I went to Vera Beach.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I was doing the radio back to La from Vero
Beach and this this guy named Tommy Hawkins, very nice
man was basketball player, was a Dodger executive and so
I had never been to Vera Beach before. So I
got there for spring training. I said, boy, Tommy, this
is exciting. And you know, we had a little time
off on the weekends, and so I'd like to go
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out and enjoy the night life. And what's the hottest bar.
You know, I was a single guy at the time.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
What's the what's the bar.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
To go through with all the beautiful women? And Tommy said,
don't worry, Ben, I got you. Uh, And then he
named this this bar, which was like in the next
town over from Vero Beach. He said, that's the spot,
that's the happening spot. So I was doing this Ben
and Dave show with my partner Dave Smith. So we
we went to this this bar, which again highly recommended
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by by Tommy Hawkins. And we we walked in there.
We were we were feeling pretty good. We're like, oh man,
this is gonna go great. This is the top spot.
We've got the recommendation. And we walked in there and
hand to God, the youngest now keeping right, I was
in my probably late twenties. Maybe I might have been
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even younger than that. I think might have been my mid twenties.
But whatever, I walk in there. The youngest woman in
there was probably about seventy was probably about seventy.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
And that was the that was the happening spot, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Not that I have a problem with seventy year old women,
but when you're twenty five, you're thinking, you know, and
that's the hot spot. You're thinking, Man, things are going
well here, this is gonna you know, maybe maybe someone
under the age of fifty might be in there, but
did not did not happen. So so it's unfortunate. Unfortunate.
Let's go to Mojoe Rising, who's in the Bay Area. Hello,
(31:50):
Mojoe Rising to.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
The Ben Mallor Show. Always light your fire? How you doing,
the godfather of overnight radio?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Man, my man, Mowe Joe in the house in the
in the talk is he hey?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
So?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
What I know that I was. I think I was
nominated for wolves a Rookie Caller of the Year. I
don't think I won, but I was honored to be nominated,
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
The Academy, the Academy of the Malad Milisia, thanks you
for acknowledging your nomination.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Well, thank you well Thank you, Andy, and I wanted
to acknowledge the U with the astrology lady out here
in Berkeley. She's like, you know, twenty minutes away. I
live over here in Kess Valley. I just had to say,
I think she won. Didn't she win Female Caller of
the Year?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yes she is.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
She is the top woman caller on the show.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
She's dominated Caller of the Year.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Yeah, yes, she absolutely deserves it. She is like a
gem in the world. Like if there was more people
like her in the world, the world would be such
a better place.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
As a matter of.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Fact, since she's only twenty minutes away, I don't know
if she'd be single or not. Hey, I would love
to take her on.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Her all right, well listen, let me tell you something.
I Hey, what do you think, Cooper Loop, What do
you think we could have a little connection here Andrea
and Mojo Rising? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Potentially, man, that could be. But that would be the
second celebrity. Wait, because we.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Still have in Des Moines, right, We've got Shade and
Kelly in the Moine.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
But maybe we set you up.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'll let her know. I don't know if she's seen
anybody or she's got something going on there Mojo rising.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
But you guys could go over there and you could
be the what.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Would you be the wizard and she'd be the witch
and you'd get together there and you'd create spells and
it would be great.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Hey Trees, Hey.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
There you go. Hey, just like the real Jim Morrison.
I'm a real modern day pull it in profit just
like Jim was, you know, intelligent but then wild and
crazy and all this kind of stuff. But hey, man,
I normally I listen to you guys every night. I know,
I work over here. I have to get up at
five o'clock in the morning, so it's like it's tough
for me to call in. So I said, you know,
(33:56):
I have to call in. It's been so long. I
love mister Ben Maller. I listen almost every night, you know.
I'll listen till I fall asleep, and I'll leave my
radio on and then as soon as your show's over
at three boom, my radio.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Goes all right, Well listen with we thank you for listening,
and we'll get to bed. You're allowed, you've checked in.
You can go to bed right now. Get some sleep,
all right, all right, and.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Just real quick man, lawyers, man, I don't know, Man
smoking mirrors. I think, Man, I think maybe we might,
we might, we might make it to the second round
to play your your your team, right. I want to
get the people's team, the Clippers, man, because they're actually
not so bad. Man's are pretty good.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah, Clippers have turned things around a little bit.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
They're they're gonna get everyone's hopes up and then in
the playoffs they'll turn into a lightweight. But they're they're
playing well right now, and so that's nice. And the
Clips have a shot to avoid the dreaded playing and
the Warriors with Steph Curry out, although there's rumors he's
going to come back. I believe tonight. We'll see what
happens with that.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
But I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Thank you the great Mojo rising And oh man, Andrea,
I know you're listening right now. You know what, do
you think we got an eligible batch there? Mojo Risen
a fan of your work.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Could be could be a connection.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, that's it right there. Anyway, it is the Ben
Mahlor Show. Scrooge in the Bay Area says, I'm not
sure if hollering James is gunning for the worst or
the best caller of the year. Yeah, we don't know
about that time.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Now for the Insta Trivia, and here's.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
The Insta Trivia. We'll pay this off and we're gonna
have coming up in a bit, We're gonna have a
fresh edition of Mallor to the third Degree. Here's the
Insta Trivia. Washington's Mackenzie Gore joined Bob Gibson and blank
is the only pictures with thirteen strikeouts no walks on
opening Day. Again, McKenzie Gore of the Nationals joined Bob
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Gibson and Blank is the only pictures with thirteen strikeouts
no walks on opening Day. That is the Insta Trivia.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
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it's me Ben At time to pay off the Insta trivia.
Washington's Mackenzie Gore joined Bob Gibson and me as the
only pitchers with thirteen strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
And no walks on opening Day.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Keep the mind. Washington lost their game to Philadelphia. But
that is the question. What is the answer? I forty
Ian says wild Thing. Ricky Vaughan, who else read Sonya
from courtesy Flusher page Down. Terry in England says it's
something to do with Andrea and Mojo Mojo Mojo from Milkman,
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going with oil Can Boyd and his answer the Great
Kent to Colby from Stuck in Sacramento. Julia Stiles, who
is forty four today? From Late Night drug tester Troy
the Gambling Man, there's a good name from the past.
Whatever happened to Troy the gambling man from alf the
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alien opiner? All right, do you have an answer?
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Nobody has an answer today? All right? The correct answer
is Astro's legend. J R. Richards Jr. Richard, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
It's maller.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (38:12):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets Gray?
Speaker 6 (38:18):
All right?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Cool well.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
Loop Adam Schefter reported on Wednesday that a Duel Carter
is likely to pick be picked number two overall by
the Cleveland Browns. Then do you think passing on a
quarterback is the right move for Cleveland?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah? Because these guys aren't that good. It's not a
great quarterback draft. The only reason that the conversation is
cam Ward Intruder Sanders at the top is because they're
the most the most important position. Normally they'd be second
round picks, and they're talking about drafting. But at the
top of Duel Carter's the guy's a monster. He's a
great player, and I would take him number one overall
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is what I would do if I was Tennessee. I
would just draft a Duel Carter.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
Next, there's a proposal to move touchbacks out to the
thirty five yard line. Now, the NFL believes that if
this proposal passes, it'll double the number of kickoffs returned, Ben,
do you think those extra five yards will make such
a dramatic difference.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
No, it won't.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
They'd have to put the ball to fifty yard line.
The mischie gos that these coaches do. They're like, no,
we'll just we'll thirty five yards. We'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
The NFL doesn't.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Really care about the kickoff anyway.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
They have absolutely neutered the kickoff. We want more kick stop.
You know, you're just you're talking out of both sides
of your mouth.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Next.
Speaker 7 (39:33):
Now, the White Socks are on pace to win one
hundred and sixty two games, but they've been given a
historically low win total by Vegas oddsmakers fifty three and
a half wins, which is still twelve and a half
more than they had last season.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Ben, you're taking the over the under?
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, I would actually bet the over on this. Last
year was a fluke. They'll be bad.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
But you're still going to win sixty games. How did
we do we pass? That is a win? The Angels
didn't pass?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Who if they failed they've alw s
Hee, we go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
And welcome. It's our number two, floating on a cloud
in our number two Major League Baseball opening day, and
what a start for the Mets. They had the tying
runs on base, the winning run at the plate, and
Juan Soto.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Saw wing and a miss.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So does one Soto deserve the noise he's already getting
for his poor clutch performance in the Mets opener. We'll
discuss that also where you're at on Padre star Fernando
Tatis being caught navel gazing admiring a fly ball he
thought was a home run and he ended up getting
a single ball hit the wall. And what else stood
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out on opening day? Including an Otani home run, the
Angels doing the unimaginable, and a whole lot more. It's
all coming your way right here in our number two,
a whole new ball game. Well come. In the beginning
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So our lead this hour is from baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I had a good time. I don't know if you
saw a bunch of the games. I got up relatively.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Early for me, mainly because I don't sleep well, but
I was excited. I've always loved Opening Day. I used
to ditch school for Opening Day as I felt like
it was a holiday and.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I needed to miss school. It was more important. I
watched some ball.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So the new beginning, and the biggest name to change
teams this offseason was mister Moneybags himself, who made his
debut with his new team. Nobody watches the spring training game,
so this was the game that mattered. We're talking, of course,
of outfielder Wan money Bag Soto, who got to debut
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his New York Mets laundry for the first time in
a regular season game. So I don't know if she's
you're watching this, maybe not. The Metropolitans were playing the
cheating as one one thousand and two, one thousand holes
and one.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Soto.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Now, he did get on base three times, okay, three
times on base. He had a single and a couple
of walks. However, that is not the story. Don't bury
the lead, my man. So the story here the final
at bat, that is the focus. The Mets come to
home plate. They're trailing three to one against the cheating
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astro So down three to one one, Soto steps into
the box. There's two out in the top of the
ninth inning, runners on the corner, so the tying runs
are on.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Soto represents the winning run.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Conceivably would still have to get Houston out in the bottom.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Of the ninth, but the the.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Asstros closer Josh Hater is on the mound, so Soto
steps into the batter's box. Pitch one's a ball, Pitch
two is a ball. Two Ozero count hitters count two
to zero. Pitch three and one. Sodo digs in. He
chokes up on the bat and stands there and watches
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the pitch go by ball three.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
So now it's the ultimate ultimate.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Pitchers count or hitters count rather, because the pitcher doesn't
want to walk Sodo because then the tying ronal being
scoring position, and all the Mets would need is a
base hit.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So it's a three to zero count.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Surely one, Sodo is gonna swing the bat, because why
would you not swing the bat?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You your seven hundred and sixty five million dollars man.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So three and zero one, Soto stands there and watches
the pitch zoom by star Reik one, So it's a
it's a three to one, but he's still in good shade.
Three to one. Still, hitters count, So.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Three to one pitch by Josh Hater. He fouls the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Pitch off bab ball all right, So now it's a
three to two count all of a sudden, so he's one.
Soto's gone from a three to zero count hitters count
three to one count.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Hitters count.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Now it's three to two. Not so good, but still
the pitcher has to throw strike. So Josh had settles in.
He throws the pitch and it's a slider lo andohy,
it's ball four, right, ball four, but numb nuts runs.
Juan Soto meekly swings and it wasn't even really a swing,
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like it was like half swing, but it counted as
a swing. He chased a slider that went out of
the zone. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. As
the cheating a holes.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Won the game.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now, following the loss, what do you think happened? It
was a dog pile, dog pile on Juan Soto and
the Metropolitan. So let us discuss the question. I know
it's only it's only one game. We're doing the talk
show today. We're doing the show today. So does one
Soto deserve the noise he's already getting for his lackluster
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performance in the clutch for the Mets. So my observations
on this, I've got boxing, Amazon, Prime, and Alaskan and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make the Gabba ghool.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We're gonna make the Gabba goool, all right? So number one.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Number one?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So to answer the question, does Wan Soto deserve all
the noise for his unclutch performance in the Mets opener?
I am nodding my head, Yes, I am nodding my eyes.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And here's why. All right, you should be nice.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
No, it is a make or miss league, okay, and
sowing about a swing about a whiff.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
He whiffed.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
An opening day is worth like ten games because people
stop paying attention after opening day. They do. These first
games of the season are magnified, they get covered like
they mean more. And so Juan Soto is the leading man,
he is the top performer. He is at the very
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center of the stage. He is in the eye of
the storm. And it's part of the all inclusive package.
Seven one hundred and sixty five million dollars and the
great boxing promoter Don King still alive, somehow still alive,
living in Florida, and Don King one time one of
the great rants of all time. He talked about a boxer.
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But it applies to Juan Soto. When you're in the
position of Juan Soto, you are scrutinized, despised, politicized, dramatized,
chastise analyzed, moralized, stigmatized, sensationalized, and criticized more than anyone else.
So you're getting paid seven hundred and sixty five million,
and so what you do is you go up to
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your penthouse apartment at the very top on for one
hundred and who cares if you're a punching bag and one.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Sodo has always.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Been the kind of guy who's this smug dude.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
He's very easy to hate on.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He's got this smarmy arrogance to him. Like it doesn't
seem like the Mets fan base would really embrace a
guy like Juan Soto. He seems like the antithesis of
the of the Mets fan base, and the Mets fan
base is annoying, but they're not arrogant annoying.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
See that's the Yankees. The Yankees are arrogant annoying now
page two here.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So the one of the other story lights, the Podres
are expected to be a contender, not They're not gonna
win the nationally West. The Dodgers, I think have already
wrapped that up. But one of the funny things that
happened on opening day was in San Diego's win over
the Atlanta Braves. Where are you at on Podre star
Fernando Tatis being caught admiring he was naval gazing a
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fly ball, which would have been fine if it had
gone into the stands, but Instead, it bounced off the
wall and he ended up getting a single, one of
the longest singles in baseball history. So forget the whole
opening day thing. Fernando to tease in mid season form, right,
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he has always been bold and shameless, and why wait
until June or July to get the party started. Bring
the razzle dazzle. You got to bring the razzle dazzle,
you got to. He immediately broke into the checked me
out jog around the bases like the dudes I see
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at the gym when they walked by the mirrors and
they're they're they're flexing and looking at how great they
look in the mirror. It was that kind of thing, right,
which again would have been fine if the ball had
gone in the stands. It did not, And I saw
this same thing happen years ago. A teammate now teammate
of Juan or Fernando Titties, Manny Machado. Manny Machado briefly
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played for the Dodgers. They were playing the Red Sox
in the World Series. This goes back a few years
and Machado hit a ball off the wall in the
World Series against Boston was at Dodger stadium, and he
was just enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
He wanted to enjoy the moment. He was smelling himself
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And then he ended up at first base because the
ball hit off the wall and he didn't know what
to do. I had no idea what do? Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, caught Peeker.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now as for Tatis, Fernando Tatis, we believe that what
he's really doing here is waiting for his Amazon Prime
delivery and he's trying to get that shipment of that
ringworm medication.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Wink wink wing.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
See all he needs is that ringworm medication. Then that
ball goes in the stands, if you know, you know,
all right? Now? Final point? So what else wide angle lens,
wide angle lens? What else stood out on opening Day? Well,
we had the Dodgers against the top pitcher in the
American League. Show showtime did it again? Dodgers are now
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three and zero. Otani hit a dinger And at what
point will this become annoying? The story was not the
Otani home run. The story was the ti Oscar Hernandez
three run homer, because that turned the game upside down.
That was the game winning mortal blow that did in
the Tigers and their cy young pitcher Schooble did him in.
(11:58):
But yet the headline is Otani go deep. Dodgers were
beat the Tigers, but Otani nout a couple of home runs.
The Dodgers have played three games, so he's right there.
How about the Chicago White Sox, who are supposed to
be baseball's worst team, but for one day they had
the atomic elbow for the pathetic Angels eight to one,
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that the game was.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Actually closer than that.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
The White Sox put up a five spot in the
eighth inning, they blew the game open. And someone named
Sean Burke who hasn't been around very long, and he
started Opening Day. The White Socks have nobody else and
while he was out there, he shut down that pathetic
Angels lineup. So it was so bad for the Angels.
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How bad was it? Position player Nicki Lopez? That sounds
like a singer. Nicki Lopez pitched in the ninth inning
there the or the eighth inning, rather the for the
Angel He came in a position player pitching against the
White Sox on opening Day, on Opening Day, So how
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would you describe the vibe around the Angels?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
How would you describe that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So the vibe around the Angels after losing to the
White Sox eight to one of the opener, it's like
an Alaskan Alaskan weather report.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Gloomy and gray, gloomy and gray.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You know, Juno Alaska. Fun fact, fun fact, fun fact,
Juno Alaska has the most cloudy days in American territory.
I know it's not north of I know it's not
the continuous forty eight, but Alaska's part of America.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
They have two hundred and eighty days a year with
cloud cover.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
In Juno, Alaska. Shout out to our listeners in Juneo, Alaska. Yeah,
we're hanging out. We're on earlier in Alaska now. Terry
Francona had a very tough opener his day for the
Cincinnati Reds, and I expect Cincinnati to be via a
fringe contender with Francona's leadership.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
They did not get off to a good start, losing
to the Agantes.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You had the phenom of Phenom's Paul Skeens on the
mound for the Buckos the Pirates. He went five and
a third innings and he gave up a couple of
runs left the game and the Pirates were winning, and
they had lost by a walk off to the lowly Marlins.
So we'll be pirate baseball, Paul Skeens and pray for rain.
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You had somebody named wheel Air Abreu who hit a
three run homer in the ninth the Red Sox. That
was his second home run of the game, and they
beat the Rangers five to two. So the Socks off
to a good start there. Austin Wells, remember we had
mentioned Austin Wells, the catcher was batting leadoff. First time
in Yankee history that a catcher was batting leadoff, and
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Wells the first catcher, whether it's the Yankees or anyone else,
to hit an opening day leadoff home run. You usually
catchers don't bat lead off. You're not doing that well
if your catchers bat leadoff. But Austin Wells hit home run,
So first time in baseball history that's happened. The Nationals
had a great pitching performance and then still lost to
(15:17):
Bryce Harper and the Fighting Phils.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
But for the rest of time, every time Bryce Harper
goes to DC, boom boom.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And rightfully so rightfully fans still booing him at Nationals Park.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
He homered again and that's it.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And how about the story in Seattle, the Seattle baseball
team versus the Sacramento baseball team that's so embarrassed by
being in Sacramento, they don't want to admit they're in Sacramento.
Before that game, though, the story Hall of Famer fifty
one year old echa Row Suzuki. So he threw out
the first pitch. Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
All right, he's he's fifty one. He wears uniform number
fifty one. He came out of the Seattle dugout wearing
a full Mariner uniform. He had the pants, he had,
he had the hat.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
The jersey, the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And he went out to the mound and he threw
an eighty four mile an hour opening pitch on the
radar in full uniform, in full uniform, which I think
is faster than half the Marinder pitching staff. I think
he has a better arm than half the Marinder pitching staff.
So very sentimental, sentimental moment there in Seattle. If you
(16:40):
would like to be part, you can join us right now.
And if I did not mention something that you saw
on opening day that you're like, well, I saw something
that you didn't mention and what I saw is better
and why didn't you mention it? And you're not good
as a talk show host. Now I will go ahead,
tough guy. We'll keep plugging along. You can call up
eight seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven
(17:06):
nine nine.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Six six three sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Later this hour, we will have coming up in a
little bit, We're gonna have Mallard of the third Degree.
That's right, Maler to the third Degree coming up a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Later in the hour. Very exciting, very exciting. We'll have that.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
We have the Insta Trivia as well coming up a
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the respect. We'll get to that and we will do it.
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Next.
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And now back.
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To the show. Well, that's right and uh and Bill
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as well. Your phone calls will have the incht to Trivia,
which will be coming your way a little bit later
this hour or so. A lot, a lot to get to.
(19:18):
And I teased this last hour and I did not
pay it off. That's a bad job by me, The
Great Fat Hope, the Great Fat Oh it's not lizo
Lizo jokes are next hour. Do you know who Desmond
Watson is? Are you familiar with his game? No?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You don't know who that. So Desmond Watson is a
defensive tackle from the University of Florida and in Gainesville.
They had their pro day this week and Desmond was,
you know, it's like the underwear Olympics. So they measure
you and they poking Pradia and all that. And when
(20:01):
you get around my man, Desmond Watson, it's like the
Pillsbury dough boy. You poke him, and there's a lot
to poke. He is six foot six, four hundred and
sixty four pounds, he's almost five hundred pounds, and he
worked out in front of NFL talent evaluators yesterday and
(20:26):
it is why this guy's he's in true he's like
fit fat, He's in really good as good as shape
as you can be when you're almost five hundred pounds.
He wrapped two hundred and twenty five pounds thirty six times,
thirty six time. Try doing that. Sometimes go to the
gym and try to just randomly put up two hundred
(20:48):
twenty five pounds thirty six times. By the way, that
means he is stronger at the bench press than anyone
who was at the combine in Indianapolis. This what you
would call a fat ass. This kid Watson is able
to bench press more reps than any player who was
(21:10):
on the Cool Kids List and invited to the NFL Combine,
which he was not invited to. How fast do you
think he ran the forty yard dashtime? Almost five hundred pounds.
You probably think it took him about ten minutes to
run the forty yard dash. No, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You're absolutely wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Desmond Watson ran the forty yard dash in five point
nine to three seconds. But wait, there's more. He recorded
twenty five inches in the vertical jump. So the forty
yard dash thing always always kills me. The only reason
(21:49):
they have the forty yard dash is it's a test
to see if you can be on the punt team.
Does anyone think that four hundred and sixty four pound
Desmond Watson is going to be on the punt team.
I think it was Paul Brown who decided to measure
player's speed on the forty yard dash, because when you
were punting, that's how far you had to usually run
(22:11):
to cover of punt, was forty yards. Now it's become
a whole thing. It's you know, it's just my guy anyway,
So there it is. That is my player.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I'm pulling for.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Just amazing bench press and massive, massive human being. And
if he is drafted, he will be the fattest player
ever drafted by eighty pounds. By eighty pounds, he will
be the heaviest NFL players ever drafted, worth three hundred
(22:44):
and eighty pounds. I was an offensive lineman from who's
I played, actually played a long time in the NFL,
Trent Brown, who was three hundred eighty pounds for Florida
back in twenty fifteen. And then there was a player
from the University of Minnesota, Daniel Blalel. I believe it's
(23:05):
how you say his name. I'm probably butchering that, but
there you go. So Watson. I mean, if you do
the math, it's actually he's they were three eighty and
he's four sixty four, So that's eighty four pounds and
you round up and then you round up to ninety
or one hundred. So, man, I hope the Rams draft
this guy. We need a big fatty. If the Rams
(23:26):
draft that guy, I'll get his jersey. How about that?
And I think I'm too old to wear jerseys because
I think once you get to a certain age, you
can't wear jerseys anymore, but I'll wear one. I'll wear
a Desmond Watson. He better be like number one hundred.
They should allow him to be number one hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
They should.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
That should be an honor. If you're over four hundred
and fifty pounds, you should get to wear number one hundred.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Does anyone say no? Does anyone say no? If you're
over four point fifty in.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
The NFL you get to wear one hundred. You can
be the first player to wear number one hundred. Be wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Make it happen.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
He's got plenty of room. I mean, the guy's built
like like a mack truck. Why not, man, it is
the Ben Mahler Show. Kathy in Madison says, I need
to sleep, Benny. I'll see you in my dreams. Oh, Kathy,
you're leaving the show. Kathy the hey mona woman leaving
the show? How dare you our ferg dog rights since
(24:20):
says no team with Mike trout on it sucks, says
Fergy from Siberia in Fullerton. He says, sure, the Angels
lost by seven runs, but Trouty had some good swings
out there. I'm not hitting the panic button. It's great
John Tortorella, who's now unemployed towarts as he was let
(24:44):
go by the Philadelphia Flyers. Some of the greatest quotes
in the history in the history of hockey, John Toterella.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
And there's more to that story.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
But let's get let's get a call in here, and
who do we have any miney moe uh. Let's say
a load of hollering James in Minnesota. Hello, hollering James.
Oh man, it's like the call of the wild, my man, James,
(25:20):
dreams do come true. Thirty six pills in the morning,
thirty six pills at night.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Night he takes that. Hey, Jame, you're on the air, James, James.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Tamy in Montana wants you to start talking, James, James,
wake up.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Oh yeah, wow, Yeah, that's all you got.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Okay, thank you, James.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
There's hollering James, our snortastic caller, the great hollering Gyams.
Let's say hello to Anie meanie, miney mo. How about Travis,
who's in the Sunshine State. It's kind of a big state. Hello, Travis, welcome,
big Ben Hey.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Hey yeah, sorry, getting out of my.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Pool must be tough.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, that's awful. It's awful. I almost got my asstick
by tell me Lasorda, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
What happened? He can't kick your ass right now, unfortunately,
but no.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
No, no no, But this was my senior year of
high school and he was.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I was.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
They used to run the bridge and Vera Beach and
UH for spring training and we had two bridges and
they used to run the big bridge. I had a
real piece of crap car and pull up next to
him as they're running it with my friend and UH.
(27:11):
I said they had just signed Darryl Strawberry. And I
probably shouldn't have said this. I definitely shouldn't have said this,
but I said, hey at coach Disorta, hey, if if
Darryl snorts the ridfield line, you're going to have to
replace it. He said, you get this piece of crap
(27:35):
off those bridge, or'll throw you out of your damn star.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well that is irony, because if that wasn't that like
a couple of weeks later where Darryl Strawberry went on
a bender and they couldn't find him. He went missing
because he when they got back to La to play
the Freeway series, he disappeared because he went on a
coke bender. I believe that's what he was, some kind
of drug bender.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, pretty well, I.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Wonder, I wonder, I wonder if I triggered him.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, well I bet that was sort of the sort
of had to know, right, he had to know that
everyone in baseball knew that Strawberry that Oh no, no.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
He knew, Yeah, he knew.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
He had to know. Yeah, he had to know. Yeah, well, Tommy,
there were there were you know, Tommy had multiple personalities.
I knew him a little bit, uh, the last probably
like fifteen years of his life or whatever. But he yeah,
he could be like mister sweet guy with the cameras
and then if they if they somebody upset him or
(28:32):
the Dodgers lost, oh man, he could legendary, legendary.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Two weeks ago, you were talking about the Kerpa and
and I was like, oh my god, I gotta I
gotta call him.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah no, yeah, that's that's great. Yeah, but can hit water.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Limo to get back?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, yeah, Well that's because Kirk Will called him the
U the short fat Italian or something, and the sort
of didn't like that for some reason. And then just
uh just unloaded, just absolutely unloaded. And the other one,
which is more famous is the Kingman's performance. And the
great thing about that is, I.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Mean, what kind of question is that the guy?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That guy went out there and but the funny thing
is that that that got Paul Olden was the radio
stringer and he's been the he's the public address announcer
for the New York Yankees, and he's been doing that
for years and years and years. He's a he's a
buddy and one of my buddies, Ted sobel La radio guys.
So yeah, there you go, all right, enjoy your You're
living the great life there.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Man.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
You go out swimming in the middle of the night,
you call it a radio show, you tell your story
about It would have been a better story if for
Sorda had run you off the bridge and you had
fallen into a body of water in in Vero Beach,
or as the players called it back then, zero Beach,
back back in the day. And uh yeah, my Vero
(29:58):
Beach story. Real quick, I've told.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
This many times.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
If you've heard it, just fast forward through the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
So I went to Vera Beach.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I was doing the radio back to La from Vero
Beach and this this guy named Tommy Hawkins, very nice
man was basketball player, was a Dodger executive and so
I had never been to Vera Beach before. So I
got there for spring training. I said, boy, Tommy, this
is exciting. And you know, we had a little time
off on the weekends, and so I'd like to go
(30:26):
out and enjoy the night life. And what's the hottest bar.
You know, I was a single guy at the time.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
What's the what's the bar.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
To go through with all the beautiful women? And Tommy said,
don't worry, Ben, I got you. Uh, And then he
named this this bar, which was like in the next
town over from Vero Beach. He said, that's the spot,
that's the happening spot. So I was doing this Ben
and Dave show with my partner Dave Smith. So we
we went to this this bar, which again highly recommended
(30:55):
by by Tommy Hawkins. And we we walked in there.
We were we were feeling pretty good. We're like, oh man,
this is gonna go great. This is the top spot.
We've got the recommendation. And we walked in there and
hand to God, the youngest now keeping right, I was
in my probably late twenties. Maybe I might have been
(31:16):
even younger than that. I think might have been my mid twenties.
But whatever, I walk in there. The youngest woman in
there was probably about seventy was probably about seventy.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
And that was the that was the happening spot, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Not that I have a problem with seventy year old women,
but when you're twenty five, you're thinking, you know, and
that's the hot spot. You're thinking, Man, things are going
well here, this is gonna you know, maybe maybe someone
under the age of fifty might be in there, but
did not did not happen. So so it's unfortunate. Unfortunate.
Let's go to Mojoe Rising, who's in the Bay Area. Hello,
(31:50):
Mojoe Rising to.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
The Ben Mallor Show. Always light your fire? How you doing,
the godfather of overnight radio?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Man, my man, Mowe Joe in the house in the
in the talk is he hey?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
So?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
What I know that I was. I think I was
nominated for wolves a Rookie Caller of the Year. I
don't think I won, but I was honored to be nominated,
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
The Academy, the Academy of the Malad Milisia, thanks you
for acknowledging your nomination.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Well, thank you well Thank you, Andy, and I wanted
to acknowledge the U with the astrology lady out here
in Berkeley. She's like, you know, twenty minutes away. I
live over here in Kess Valley. I just had to say,
I think she won. Didn't she win Female Caller of
the Year?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yes she is.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
She is the top woman caller on the show.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
She's dominated Caller of the Year.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Yeah, yes, she absolutely deserves it. She is like a
gem in the world. Like if there was more people
like her in the world, the world would be such
a better place.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
As a matter of.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Fact, since she's only twenty minutes away, I don't know
if she'd be single or not. Hey, I would love
to take her on.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Her all right, well listen, let me tell you something.
I Hey, what do you think, Cooper Loop, What do
you think we could have a little connection here Andrea
and Mojo Rising? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Potentially, man, that could be. But that would be the
second celebrity. Wait, because we.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Still have in Des Moines, right, We've got Shade and
Kelly in the Moine.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
But maybe we set you up.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'll let her know. I don't know if she's seen
anybody or she's got something going on there Mojo rising.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
But you guys could go over there and you could
be the what.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Would you be the wizard and she'd be the witch
and you'd get together there and you'd create spells and
it would be great.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Hey Trees, Hey.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
There you go. Hey, just like the real Jim Morrison.
I'm a real modern day pull it in profit just
like Jim was, you know, intelligent but then wild and
crazy and all this kind of stuff. But hey, man,
I normally I listen to you guys every night. I know,
I work over here. I have to get up at
five o'clock in the morning, so it's like it's tough
for me to call in. So I said, you know,
(33:56):
I have to call in. It's been so long. I
love mister Ben Maller. I listen almost every night, you know.
I'll listen till I fall asleep, and I'll leave my
radio on and then as soon as your show's over
at three boom, my radio.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Goes all right, Well listen with we thank you for listening,
and we'll get to bed. You're allowed, you've checked in.
You can go to bed right now. Get some sleep,
all right, all right, and.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Just real quick man, lawyers, man, I don't know, Man
smoking mirrors. I think, Man, I think maybe we might,
we might, we might make it to the second round
to play your your your team, right. I want to
get the people's team, the Clippers, man, because they're actually
not so bad. Man's are pretty good.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah, Clippers have turned things around a little bit.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
They're they're gonna get everyone's hopes up and then in
the playoffs they'll turn into a lightweight. But they're they're
playing well right now, and so that's nice. And the
Clips have a shot to avoid the dreaded playing and
the Warriors with Steph Curry out, although there's rumors he's
going to come back. I believe tonight. We'll see what
happens with that.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
But I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Thank you the great Mojo rising And oh man, Andrea,
I know you're listening right now. You know what, do
you think we got an eligible batch there? Mojo Risen
a fan of your work.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Could be could be a connection.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, that's it right there. Anyway, it is the Ben
Mahlor Show. Scrooge in the Bay Area says, I'm not
sure if hollering James is gunning for the worst or
the best caller of the year. Yeah, we don't know
about that time.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Now for the Insta Trivia, and here's.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
The Insta Trivia. We'll pay this off and we're gonna
have coming up in a bit, We're gonna have a
fresh edition of Mallor to the third Degree. Here's the
Insta Trivia. Washington's Mackenzie Gore joined Bob Gibson and blank
is the only pictures with thirteen strikeouts no walks on
opening Day. Again, McKenzie Gore of the Nationals joined Bob
(35:47):
Gibson and Blank is the only pictures with thirteen strikeouts
no walks on opening Day. That is the Insta Trivia.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live, Bill Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
It is the Ben Mahler Show up all night, every
single night. And you can stream this show and all
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Radio in the app, stream us live and one of
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(36:31):
Sports Radio. One of your presets become a p one
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be sure to preset Fox Sports Radio Ben Maler Show
Fifth Hour Podcast in the iHeartRadio app and it will
always pop up at the top of your screen. Well, Bill,
(36:54):
it's me Ben At time to pay off the Insta trivia.
Washington's Mackenzie Gore joined Bob Gibson and me as the
only pitchers with thirteen strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
And no walks on opening Day.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Keep the mind. Washington lost their game to Philadelphia. But
that is the question. What is the answer? I forty
Ian says wild Thing. Ricky Vaughan, who else read Sonya
from courtesy Flusher page Down. Terry in England says it's
something to do with Andrea and Mojo Mojo Mojo from Milkman,
(37:33):
Mike in Colorado and the in Line o' Lakes Minnesota
going with oil Can Boyd and his answer the Great
Kent to Colby from Stuck in Sacramento. Julia Stiles, who
is forty four today? From Late Night drug tester Troy
the Gambling Man, there's a good name from the past.
Whatever happened to Troy the gambling man from alf the
(37:55):
alien opiner? All right, do you have an answer?
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Nobody has an answer today? All right? The correct answer
is Astro's legend. J R. Richards Jr. Richard, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
It's maller.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (38:12):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets Gray?
Speaker 6 (38:18):
All right?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Cool well.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
Loop Adam Schefter reported on Wednesday that a Duel Carter
is likely to pick be picked number two overall by
the Cleveland Browns. Then do you think passing on a
quarterback is the right move for Cleveland?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah? Because these guys aren't that good. It's not a
great quarterback draft. The only reason that the conversation is
cam Ward Intruder Sanders at the top is because they're
the most the most important position. Normally they'd be second
round picks, and they're talking about drafting. But at the
top of Duel Carter's the guy's a monster. He's a
great player, and I would take him number one overall
(38:52):
is what I would do if I was Tennessee. I
would just draft a Duel Carter.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
Next, there's a proposal to move touchbacks out to the
thirty five yard line. Now, the NFL believes that if
this proposal passes, it'll double the number of kickoffs returned, Ben,
do you think those extra five yards will make such
a dramatic difference.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
No, it won't.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
They'd have to put the ball to fifty yard line.
The mischie gos that these coaches do. They're like, no,
we'll just we'll thirty five yards. We'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
The NFL doesn't.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Really care about the kickoff anyway.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
They have absolutely neutered the kickoff. We want more kick stop.
You know, you're just you're talking out of both sides
of your mouth.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Next.
Speaker 7 (39:33):
Now, the White Socks are on pace to win one
hundred and sixty two games, but they've been given a
historically low win total by Vegas oddsmakers fifty three and
a half wins, which is still twelve and a half
more than they had last season.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Ben, you're taking the over the under?
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, I would actually bet the over on this. Last
year was a fluke. They'll be bad.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
But you're still going to win sixty games. How did
we do we pass? That is a win? The Angels
didn't pass?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Who if they failed they've alw s
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