April 1, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Garrett Crochet's extension with the Red Sox, why the Dodgers utility guy Kike Hernandez has the 16th most popular jersey in baseball despite hitting .229, the Grizzlies firing of Taylor Jenkins, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He we go, it's our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Happy fools Day, It's April first, Happy April fools Day today,
And is there a bigger fool in the Boston front office?
How do you categorize the Garrett Crochet extension? He's only
made one start with the Red Sox and he's got
one hundred and seventy million dollars. Also explaining Layman's terms,
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why the Dodgers two twenty nine hitting utility guy Key
k Hernandez has the sixteenth most popular jersey in baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We'll discuss that.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And in the NBA, did John Morants play a did
Ja Morant play a role in the Grizzlies firing of
coach Taylor Jenkins.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We'll discuss that and more.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Right now here. It is our number two. Oh, this
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some baseball in a massive, massive contractual agreement has been announced.
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Was it Vladimir Guerrero getting his deal with the Toronto
baseball team?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, no it was not.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But our lead this hour is from the rain making
it rain, and that would be the team that plays
in Boston. They have yet to play at the friendly
confines there at Fenway Park this year. They've been on
the road and a man alive. Now, this is not
about Rafael Devers. He's making it rain with strikeouts. More
on him later because that's quite the story. We need
to do a deep dive on that, but we'll save
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that for later in the show. Right now, the story
which popped up late Monday night.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The story if you did not hear.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It possibly not the Boston baseball team. We have learned
the Red Sox have opened up the wallet and they
have taken a giant wad of money and thrown it
at Garrett Crochet, and he has docu signed a six
year contract that is believed to be worth one.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hundred and seventy million.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Dead presidents, a massive contract extension for Garrett Crochet. The
deal includes an opt out. Why not that's for the
twenty thirty season.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
However, if he sucks.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
He won't opt out and he'll stay with the Red
Sox through the twenty thirty one season. Remember, the opt
out only works if you're bad or if you're good. Rather,
if you're bad, you don't opt out because you're not
likely going to get the more money. All right, So
let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
How do you categorize?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
How do you categorize this Garrett Crochet extension with the
Red Sox If you're not familiar with his game, he
is a starting pitcher and he's starting pitcher. So I've
got Tom Cruise, popular vote and loggerheads, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to fly the friendly skis, which Garrett Crochet will not
have to do because he can fly private with one
hundred and seventy million dollar contract. After taxes and the
millionaire's tax and the Commonwealth, that's about ten million. But
it's still a lot of money, about ten million dogs.
So number my first thought is rewarding bad behavior. Rewarding
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bad behavior will explain why the Red Sox are rewarding
bad behavior coming up in a moment. But Boston traded,
They boxed themselves into a corner here. They traded a
bunch of suspects better known in the industry as scratcher
tickets to the Chicago American League Baseball team, the White Sox.
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So the Red Sox to the White Sox, and they
got great Garrett Crochet. And now they are throwing caution
to the wind because they feel like they have have
no choice and they're betting the bank that this is
going to work out. They're betting the bank that this
is all going to work out. Garrett is set to
reach free agency.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Was now he's not.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He would have been a free agent in twenty twenty seven,
So we had all of this year, all of next year,
and then in twenty twenty seven he.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Would have been a free agent, and now.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That's off the table. Instead the Red Sox locking him up.
And he is supposed to be the anchor, whatever that means.
He's supposed to be the anchor of the Red Sox rotation,
front of the rotation, a number one above the fold,
starter for the next at least half a decade in Boston,
if not longer. And Croche He's about to turn twenty
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six this summer, so it must be nicer twenty five.
You hat one hundred and seventy million dollar contract. However,
this is like an early Tom Cruise movie. It is
risky business. It is risky business, and it is also
a case where the Red Sox are rewarding bad behavior
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because last year the White Sox were an abomination. They
attempted to trade Garrett Crochet, and the Dodgers were actually
interested in him, and rather than go to La and
pitch on a team that would go on to win
the World Series, this coward Garrett Crochet said, I ain't
playing unless I get mine. Bro He pulled the Blake Snell,
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that little weasel Blake Snell from the Dodger and so
he refused to trade. He said, I'm not going over
a certain threshold because my arm's gonna fall off because
he's such a mister softy. If he was a cat,
he'd be the pussy willow kind of flower actually.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So anyway, listen that he got rewarded. He got his money.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
For refusing to pitch in a pennant race, and the
Red Sox have no idea.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You don't know what you don't know. You're assuming that
he will.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
A stay healthy and b have that big game pedigree
that go out there and put a catchup pack in
your sock and make it like fake blood like Kurt
Shilly and go out there and dominate, or Pedro Martinez,
that he'll be one of those guys rather than a
guy that goes out there and rides the vomit comment.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So you don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He's already had Tommy John surgery. He's not battle tested
in big games. He's very fragile, and he got paid
the bag. Now, the reason he got paid is because
last year with the White Sox, when he did pitch
on a totally embarrassing baseball team, he had a thirty
five point one percent strikeout rate across one hundred and
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forty six particular innings. And that's the other thing. I
believe he's not pitched more than one hundred and sixty
innings in any season.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You know how many Big league wins.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Garrett Crochet has. He's been with the White Sox for
several years now, he's with the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
How about nine.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
He's been in the major leagues for parts of multiple seasons.
He has nine wins. Woods don't matter, Boomer, Okay, there
was a time. I know I'm dating myself. I'm an
old school I'm from the old country. Well, you had
to show a little more to get that kind of money.
But we're at the point now where you're not in
position to have to show more. You get the money anyway,
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you get the bag. The Red Sox they don't know
what they're getting. They think they know what they're getting.
Eric Corosche is gonna pitch on Wednesday. Can go out
and snap, crackle pop. That's it. No Tommy John. The
odds of coming back and dominating after multiple Tommy John
surgeries are slim and none.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Right, as the old line goes, so good luck on that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But hey, he gets a king's ransom there, and he
is at one start. He has pitched I believe eighty
eight pitches as a Red Sox in a regular season game,
and now he gets the money. Now page two to
the Merchandise Department. The merch Department of Major League Baseball.
The updated updated a list of who's selling and who's
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not selling the most sold Major League Baseball jerseys since
the end of the World Series where the Doyers raised
the trophy in the Bronx and celebrated the championship. Now,
as you might imagine, there is a lot of front running.
The Dodgers have dominated in merchandise sales, people running out
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to buy the Dodger gear. Shohy Otani is number one,
He's right there at the top, and jersey sales, and
Freddie Freeman was second. Freddie Freeman was number two in
all of baseball. So that sounds like a lot of
Atlanta brave fans who miss Freddy went out to buy
the Freddie Freeman jersey just because they love Freddy and
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all that, and the Dodger fans. So that was number
one and two and thirty percent of the top twenty
are Dodgers. If you go by the top sixteen, almost
forty percent of the top sixteen players in terms of
merchandise sales for their jersey are Dodger players. You've got Joeyotani,
Freddie Freeman, Moki bets is number four, Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Who wasn't even all that good.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Number ten, Clayton Kershaw, who doesn't have a Clayton Kershaw jersey.
By now, I'm like, god, guy's been pitching for twenty years.
Who doesn't have one? Well, he was number eleven and
then the one that had many stunned. Key k Hernandez
has the sixteenth most popular jersey in all of Major
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League Baseball. Yeah, that's a hum dinger of a name.
That's a humdinger of a name. So explain, please, in
Layman's terms, why a two twenty nine hitting utility player
named Key k Hernandez was the sixteenth most popular person
in baseball according to jersey sales. So the first I
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have on this is, obviously, regular season stats don't matter.
The fact that you're a backup doesn't matter. That doesn't matter.
But Ki k had a couple things going for him.
The first thing he had going for him is he
is not lacking the clutch gene. He batted almost three
hundred in the playoffs, had a couple of Dingers in
the World Series for the Dodgers, he won the popular vote.
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He's got this quirky personality. I remember when he first
got to the Dodgers, some of the people were rubbed
the wrong way by Key k Aarnan. This guy's kind
of a clown, but he's stuck around. Clearly some of
the Nerds like Key k Hernandez. He's popular with the
Dorks in the Dodger organization, and he obviously appeals to
the masses. The other thing Kik has going for him
is his surname. If you go by the most common
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surnames in the United States, now Smith is number one,
at the very top. More people in America with the
last name Smith with any other name, but Hernandez is
number eleven. It is the eleventh most common surname in
the United States. So you've got a lot of people
that have that last name. And you also have the
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Dodgers who dominate in the Latino community. They are kings
of the hill in that department. Now, you know it
should be upset. Here is Tioscar Hernandez because he's the
good Hernandez. Ti Oscar Hernandez. Right, that guy. He's also
got the last name Hernandez, but he does not have
a top twenty selling jersey in all of baseball.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It's Kiki Arenez. You gotta annoyed by that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
All right, Now, final thought, we're gonna quickly go quick, right, quick, right,
We're gonna go to the NBA story that it happened recently,
and I haven't really delved into it.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I think it's interesting. It would have been a bigger
story had it been in New York or LA or
you know, big market team.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's not, but I still think it's worthy of a
couple of minutes of your time. And the basketball team
known as the Grizzlies, because when I go to Memphis,
I always see a lot of grit Bears in Memphis.
So the Grizzlies recently excommunicated their head coach. They said
bye bye, and there's been a lot of buzz that
this was an inside job, that the star of the
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team made some phone calls, made some connections, and next
thing you know, the coach is gone. Because normally you
don't get rid of a coach with less than ten
games to go in the regular season, which is what
Memphis did here. So question, did Jaw Morant, the gun
Totin Strip club going Memphis star did Jaw Morant play
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a role in the firing of Taylor Jenkins as the
head coach there? And based on an overwhelming amount of
circumstantial evidence, I am nodding my head.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
My opinion is yes that the JAB played a role
in this. And while technically there is no actual direct evidence,
there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that there was some
star player involvement, that this was a.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Power move, power play, power play, power play.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
By Ja Morant. And let me give you my elevator pitch.
I will go over the evidence. I am the prosecutor.
I will go over the evidence as I have attained it.
So you have Jah Morant who publicly was at loggerheads
with Taylor Jenkins, the coach.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Now I don't sit here in obsess with the Grizzlies.
Why would I. It's broadcasting, not narrow casting.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
However, I did a little digging and started snooping around,
and it's pretty public knowledge that he was frustrated with
the offense the Grizzlies were running this year. That was implemented,
but it was supposedly by the front office. They put
it in there, and John Morant had been marginalized. He
was not handling the ball enough to his taste, and
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the pick and roll plays, things that were central to
his playing style had been downgraded, and so he was
annoyed by that, and he had sparred with the head coach.
He's the headliner. John Morant's the face of the franchise,
and so he complained. He complained about the system that
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the Grizzlies were running, even though they had a pretty
good record, and the people around the team said he
was disengaged. So your star players disengaged, doesn't like the
offense the front office. You make the call, you're gonna
fire yourself, or you're gonna blame the coach and fire
the coach. There was obviously some tension there. Now some
reports say that Taylor Jenkins was just following orders, that's
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all he was doing there. And then he actually, at
the very last minute before he got fired, he tried
to pacify John Morant by bringing back some of the
old plays that Jah wanted. But in that business, if
the franchise player is not happy, and he's the one
that's got the suitcase with the nuclear codes and can go.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Kaboom and get rid of the coach.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
So either Ja Morant got Taylor Jenkins fired or Taylor
Jenkins was fired to send a message to Jahn Morant.
If that was the case, then watch out. Then Jahn
Morant's going to be traded this summer. So it's either
Ja Morant got the coach fired or or the opposite
that the team was trying to send a message to him,
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and therefore he's next to go. All right, It is
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that is back to the talk and it is I.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Ben, bad job by you, Bill.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But the Malond Militia a lot to say, a lot
to say here late night drug tester, said Garrett Crochet.
Signing means they will have to add more seats in
Finway Park, maybe turn the Green Monster into a wall
of fans like the Clippers arena has.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Well, yeah, they got the wall, man, that's the way
to do it. Man. The Clippers the greatest arena in
the NBA. Clippers are on a burner right now. There
is no such thing as momentum.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But they're playing very well and everyone is freaking out
in the West, like how they're going to handle the
Clippers in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And I know one thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Lebron and Luca do not want to play the Clippers
in the playoffs because they will be eliminated.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
How embarrassing is that going to be?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Oh my god for them, Holy crap, that would be
so so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Page down, super Marcus Steve says, you're a big man
picking out a fourteen year old Charlie like that. I
didn't think his call was all that bad. Well, Supermarcuts Steve.
Fortunately for the people listening, you don't host the show.
That was a terrible phone call by Charlie. Shane and
the mon write Sin says Jerkson Profar being suspended eighty
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games for a PD violation is as shocking as mercury
being in retrograde.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly are right. Let's go to the
phones and who do we have here, eeny meeny miny mo.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And let's say hello to hmm things that make you go.
Let's say hello to hollering James.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Who's next? Hello, hollering James. You sleeping snoring? Yet he's
got to be sleeping though, you talk right away.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Hey, Tractor Supply knows that a winning season takes practice, teamwork,
and a can do.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
James. I'm trying to do a livery here, James. Is
there a wilder beast in his house?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
James, I'm trying to do a live read for Tractor
Supply and you just interrupted it. Apologize, James, Come on,
say you're sorry.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
James. You got to apology.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I'm doing a live read here and you can't be
interrupting the live Rea. That's a bad job by you.
Hollering James, trying to do a show here and you interrupted.
It's embarrassing. It's a bad job by you. I'm gonna
try again here. Okay, Oh my god, again James, James.
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I know you. I know you like Tractor Supply. Everyone
loves it. I know.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh listen, I can't get enough. Well. Tractor Supply knows
that a.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Winning season takes practice, team working, A can do attitude
now faithfully. When you have a neighbor like track to supply,
teamwork comes easy. Whether you're caring for pets, chickens or
hollering James or a few acres, our team members will
help you succeed season James, I'm not done with the
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livery season after season. Track to supply James, Yes, for
life out here. Tremendous contribution by hollering James, way to go.
Justin and Cincinnati says, I thought this was angry Bill
in his city connect alternative jersey for a minute. Well,
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that is his favorite uniform. I don't think you can
buy that on MLB shop though, I don't think they
sell that on MLB shop. Thank you for that riveting
phone call. Hollering James Trucker Joe Wrights in. I'm still
out here in nowhere, Oklahoma, waiting for my return flight home.
When is the Malard plane going to be here? As
soon as they built an airport. As soon as they
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built an airport there in nowhere, Oklahoma, we will bring
a plane right there for you, right there. Absolutely Yes,
A digital space monkey says, if you're good, you're on steroids.
That's Ben Malar hot take. Ben, I guess the entire
Dodger squad is on pds. That makes you somehow magically
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able to change the laws of physics and sports according
to morons with tiny brains. I have no idea where
that came from. I know the Padres have a PD
culture in San Diego and they haven't been able to
win despite that PED culture. Jerkson Profar, who signed with
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the Atlanta Braves. Profar has only played a few games
with Atlanta in a career renaissance in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I wonder how that worked last year.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
No, I'm sure it did not involve and it would
be wrong to think the Jerks and Profar had anything
like with a trip across the border there to Tijuana
and those great pharmacies in Tijuana.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No, that would never happen. It was.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
It's just a mistake. It's gotta be a mistake. Let's
go to Jed who fled. Speaking of mistakes, Hello Jed
who fled? And so I'm gonaive by.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
What is going on here? We needed that he wanted
to play Mallards Mountain.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Why why did he call now? Why did he call now?
Why would he not wait until we solicit people.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
To call for the game.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It makes no sense. Is anyone out there alive? Eight
seven seven ninety nine?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
What the hell happened? Eight seven seven nine nine six
six three six'. Nine must be something in the air,
tonight Ben In this.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Dope digital space, monkey this dumb dumb he's probably an actual. Monkey,
uh this, LOSER i mean this. GUY i didn't even
mention THE pd things and all. That this guy's getting
all you get out of your take your head out
of your. Tukus, okay how about. That get a, Clue
get a bloody, clue you. Dope all, right let's see page.
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Down justin And cincinnati, says a fourteen year old boy
calling up sports radio to Talk texas women's college basketball
is an indictment of the public school system in This
country's not.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Wrong it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Wrong Sharman harmon, right since says that's no relation To Mike.
Harmon Sharman harmon, Says Rafael devers will hit his weight this,
year three hundred and twenty, five will be his batting,
average the amount of weight that he, has and will
lead the league.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
In broken belt.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Buckles so, so he, Says, so he, Says kathy And
madison the one supporter there Of, charlie Of charlie who
who chimed in? Earlier eight seven seven ninety nine On
fox is the? Number so the shower gone? Bad the
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shower gone bad, Dayline Los. Angeles now we hear all
the time of people when they get. Older you get
to a certain age and taking a shower.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Can be a danger.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Zone you can hurt yourself taking a. Shower, generally professional
athletes do not hurt themselves in the. Shower Freddie, freeman he's.
Claiming Freddie freeman's claiming that he tweaked his surgically repaired
ankle while entering the. Shower he missed The dodger game
against The Atlanta braves On monday night slipping in the.
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Shower do we Believe Freddie? Freeman is there more to this?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Story you've never slipped in the, Shower, Ben, No i've.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Never slipped in the, shower balance in the. Shower i'm
a great shower. Taker i'm really.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Good like the stickies on the. Bottom Uh, NO i mean.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
We have like uh, well the old the old place
we had, that but the new place we live in,
NOW i mean it's it's Just i'm very cautious When
i'm in the. Shower i'm not. Dancing i'm in and.
Out i'm a quick shower. TAKER i get, IN i.
Boom i'm in there And i'm not in there long
and there's not a lot of time to. Slip have
you fallen in the?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Shower, YEAH i don't. Remember if it was my memory
or my, MOM i don't.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Remember well one of us fell and we hit the
the you know the thing that the spat that sticks
out really.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Massive were you drinking massive amounts of alcohol.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Or some other substances when that took. Place is definitely.
Not but you, know bathrooms are, slippery slippery, PICKLE i
have heard that.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Before but, see the cynical part of me thinks there's
something more to the, story because usually you get a
version of the truth and not the whole. Story like
he was in there to say he was in the,
Shower what was he doing in the?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Show think he have been doing something interesting if he
was trying to get out or just get in and
your ankle. Twisted so you're believing this or you think
there's nothing on him? Whangerous, OKAY i take the other.
SIDE i believe there might be more to the. STORY
i think there's something else going on.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Here but baseball players are notorious for the most ridiculous.
Injuries there was a baseball player Named Marty. Cordova Marty,
cordova you don't know this story of The rada never
heard of. Him he was injured in a tanning. Bed
he stayed in a tanning, bed and he was in
there too. Long he fell asleep like Hollering, james and
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his face was burned so badly that he had to
miss multiple, games just playing for The orioles at the,
time and the doctors ordered him to avoid. Sunlight which
if you're a baseball, player how do you avoid? Sunlight
either you play at night. Games they take batting practice
during the, day so there's no way to do your
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job if you have to avoid.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Sunlight, INTERESTING i just looked up how many people get
hurt in the bathroom every?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Year, well, YEAH i know people get hurt in the.
Back i'm not, JUST i Just i'm not.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Two hundred and thirty five thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
People and what is the average age of the people
that get hurt fifteen and?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Older what is the average age?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Though if you say fifteen and, older But i'm gonna
say it's probably close to like sixty.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Plus how about that people who have bad, Hips, well,
yeah that that can be.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That there have been people that oh, my, my my,
ankle my, hip my, name the whole. Thing But Freddie
freeman is thirty five years, Old so he's.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Not he's not an old guy or anything like. That
he's he's in the game of.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Life he's a, baby and so he's you, know it's
just a little odd situation there you fall down some
other amazing BASEBALL i actually this bit back when we
had live updates years. Ago i'm old enough to remember
we had actually live human beings do and. Updates but
with like The sager And, EDDIE i would would go
back and forth on odd baseball, injuries which is a
very fun. Game Uh and at one POINT i knew
(29:02):
every bizarre baseball, injury every odd baseball. Injury but we
would get into an urinating, match like me and the
the update.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
People we'd go back and forth and all.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That, like for, example there was a player Named Sammy
sosa played for The, cubs and he had such a
violent sneeze that he actually ended up on the disabled
list because he hurt his back from. Sneezing he had
a violent sneeze in the. Dougouts, yeah you're gonna but
(29:34):
you're gonna defend. That are you gonna defend the professional
athlete getting hurt from?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
SNEEZING i.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Know it's there was a there was a guy The
Detroit tigers years and years ago who got hurt Playing
is this game's a guitar HERO i mean that's not
even around?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Anymore?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Right is?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
That so it's coming? Back actually really guitar heroes coming?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Back?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Wow so this is like a popular game at the,
time and he was actually playing music on the video
game thing and he got, injured and it was like
during the. Playoffs this was so long, Ago like this
was during the playoffs and HE i think he missed
IF i, remember it's been probably twenty, years BUT i
think he missed The American League championship series because he
kept strumming a video.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Game so.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Stupid, anyway it is The Ben Mahlor. Show as we
are working our way through the. Overnight coming up in
a little, bit we are going to have a new,
edition and, boy this is. Exciting malor to the third.
Degree sir smokes a, lot SAYS i almost drowned by
(30:41):
slipping in the. Shower, yeah you're gonna believe. That To,
lorena you can drown in the shower by slipping down.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Y, yes of course if you have a bad drain
and it only takes two inches of water to drown.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
In uh, huh, okay fall face, first your nose is under.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah digital Space monkey, SAYS i will box you bare.
Knuckle you're a cheating coward who who wast and you
go come down, here tough.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Guy i'll kick your.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Ass come come right down here outside the studio right.
Now i'll fight you on the corner Of venturn and
Some paulvina right here in the. Valley come down here right,
now and the rain will record the whole. Thing we'll
put it, on will go viral on YouTube right. Now,
NO i like, That proop saying we're not allowed to do.
That troop, said we're not allowed to fight listeners to the.
Show you're such a such a. Pop come, On, no
(31:35):
how about one? Punch he punches me? First CAN i
punch him, Back? Coop, yeah, YEAH i can punch him,
back all, Right so come down, here punch me If
i'll give you one punch and THEN i get to punch. You,
okay let's do. That how about that tough? Guy, anyway
it is The Ben Mathers. Show we press on here
and further and further the night. Time now for the instead.
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Trivia and here's the instant. Trivia someone for The Chicago
cubs Named Carson. Kelly doesn't that sound like a golfer
on THE Pga Tour Carson kelly or a late NIGHT
tv Host Carson. Kelly, So Carson kelly became the first
player to hit for the cycle in a road game
versus The athletics since. Blank, Again Carson kelly plays for
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The Chicago cubs in a game played at a minor
league ballpark In. Sacramento although The a's are too embarrassed
to say they play In. Sacramento Carson, kelly are The
cubs the first player to hit for the cycle in
a road game versus The a's since? Blank and that
is the insta. Trivia the. Answer we'll get to it
(32:45):
and we will do it.
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Payoff on The insta, trivia someone Named Carson kelly plays
for The Chicago. Cubs that's a baseball team that doesn't
win very. Often he was the first player to hit
for the cycle in a road game versus The a's since,
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(34:09):
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The king Of Karaoke, Wow i'll found the photo THAT
i took Mister, belding who was a listener to the
SHOW i.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
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time to, time and very nice. MAN i think he
moved To, tennessee THOUGH i don't think he lives In la.
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allow a cycle while.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
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how about a hole the third? Degree this is one gets.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Great ravens President Sashi brown said On sunday That Justin
tucker would remain On baltimore's roster until THE nfl concludes
their investigation of the. Kicker, Ben why do you think
The ravens are even bothering to? Wait, well because they
want to follow the. Book they know they're they're going
to draft a kicker at the end of the, draft
whether it's the sixth or seventh, round the final day
(36:30):
of the. Draft but they're they're going through the formatics of.
It they're following the guidelines of the league.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Office but, yeah there is a better chance that sports
With coleman kicks for The ravens than the, Kicker Justin.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Tucker so he's not going to be.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
There but they're just you, know they're dragging their ass on,
this and they'll they'll release him and they'll do it
on A friday in a news dump and they won't
make a big deal about, it.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Guaranteed Next Pete carroll told reporters over the weekend that
The raiders are quote working on an extension For Gino.
Smith he went on to say That smith is not
a bridge quarterback and that the team traded for him
to be under center long. Term, ben you Think carroll
has tied his fate with The raiders To Gino.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Smith here's the.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Thing when you're seventy three years, old there is no
assisting as a bridge. Quarterback you only Have Pete carroll's
only gonna be there for two or three years at the.
Most So Gino smith will probably be there for two
or three. Years so, yes they are tied. Together like
it's not whether he's a bridge, Quarterback Pete carroll's a bridge,
coach so they're both bridges over troubled. Waters like The
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raiders are so, pathetic they'd be happy if.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
They went eight and nine every. Year they'd be or
nine and? Eight like is what happened In? Seattle all?
Right next pass this edition on tracking The.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Raiders, yeah it's being reported that The Atlanta hawks tried
hard to trade For Kevin durant before the, deadline so,
hard so hard they continue to look for a superstarter
to pair up With Tray. Young, ben do you think
The Durant young duo would have made The hawks serious?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Contenders in The east is much softer than The. West
but LAST i, Checked Kevin durant is a falling. Star
what do we always, Say? Coop do not allow a
falling star to fall on? You and it's an age.
Thing Kevin durant is thirty six years old and maybe
he ends up In atlanta next.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Year he. Doesn't he's like a.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Vagabond he bounces. Around but, NO i do not think
it would have made a. Difference how did we?
Speaker 4 (38:18):
KNOW i?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Won? SCOTT i won Blind. Scott i'm a, winner ye
He we go, it's our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Happy fools Day, It's April first, Happy April fools Day today,
And is there a bigger fool in the Boston front office?
How do you categorize the Garrett Crochet extension? He's only
made one start with the Red Sox and he's got
one hundred and seventy million dollars. Also explaining Layman's terms,
(00:27):
why the Dodgers two twenty nine hitting utility guy Key
k Hernandez has the sixteenth most popular jersey in baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We'll discuss that.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And in the NBA, did John Morants play a did
Ja Morant play a role in the Grizzlies firing of
coach Taylor Jenkins.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We'll discuss that and more.
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some baseball in a massive, massive contractual agreement has been announced.
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Was it Vladimir Guerrero getting his deal with the Toronto
baseball team?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, no it was not.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But our lead this hour is from the rain making
it rain, and that would be the team that plays
in Boston. They have yet to play at the friendly
confines there at Fenway Park this year. They've been on
the road and a man alive. Now, this is not
about Rafael Devers. He's making it rain with strikeouts. More
on him later because that's quite the story. We need
to do a deep dive on that, but we'll save
(02:38):
that for later in the show. Right now, the story
which popped up late Monday night.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The story if you did not hear.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It possibly not the Boston baseball team. We have learned
the Red Sox have opened up the wallet and they
have taken a giant wad of money and thrown it
at Garrett Crochet, and he has docu signed a six
year contract that is believed to be worth one.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hundred and seventy million.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Dead presidents, a massive contract extension for Garrett Crochet. The
deal includes an opt out. Why not that's for the
twenty thirty season.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
However, if he sucks.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
He won't opt out and he'll stay with the Red
Sox through the twenty thirty one season. Remember, the opt
out only works if you're bad or if you're good. Rather,
if you're bad, you don't opt out because you're not
likely going to get the more money. All right, So
let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
How do you categorize?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
How do you categorize this Garrett Crochet extension with the
Red Sox If you're not familiar with his game, he
is a starting pitcher and he's starting pitcher. So I've
got Tom Cruise, popular vote and loggerheads, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
(04:08):
to fly the friendly skis, which Garrett Crochet will not
have to do because he can fly private with one
hundred and seventy million dollar contract. After taxes and the
millionaire's tax and the Commonwealth, that's about ten million. But
it's still a lot of money, about ten million dogs.
So number my first thought is rewarding bad behavior. Rewarding
(04:31):
bad behavior will explain why the Red Sox are rewarding
bad behavior coming up in a moment. But Boston traded,
They boxed themselves into a corner here. They traded a
bunch of suspects better known in the industry as scratcher
tickets to the Chicago American League Baseball team, the White Sox.
(04:52):
So the Red Sox to the White Sox, and they
got great Garrett Crochet. And now they are throwing caution
to the wind because they feel like they have have
no choice and they're betting the bank that this is
going to work out. They're betting the bank that this
is all going to work out. Garrett is set to
reach free agency.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Was now he's not.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
He would have been a free agent in twenty twenty seven,
So we had all of this year, all of next year,
and then in twenty twenty seven he.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Would have been a free agent, and now.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That's off the table. Instead the Red Sox locking him up.
And he is supposed to be the anchor, whatever that means.
He's supposed to be the anchor of the Red Sox rotation,
front of the rotation, a number one above the fold,
starter for the next at least half a decade in Boston,
if not longer. And Croche He's about to turn twenty
(05:42):
six this summer, so it must be nicer twenty five.
You hat one hundred and seventy million dollar contract. However,
this is like an early Tom Cruise movie. It is
risky business. It is risky business, and it is also
a case where the Red Sox are rewarding bad behavior
(06:03):
because last year the White Sox were an abomination. They
attempted to trade Garrett Crochet, and the Dodgers were actually
interested in him, and rather than go to La and
pitch on a team that would go on to win
the World Series, this coward Garrett Crochet said, I ain't
playing unless I get mine. Bro He pulled the Blake Snell,
(06:24):
that little weasel Blake Snell from the Dodger and so
he refused to trade. He said, I'm not going over
a certain threshold because my arm's gonna fall off because
he's such a mister softy. If he was a cat,
he'd be the pussy willow kind of flower actually.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So anyway, listen that he got rewarded. He got his money.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
For refusing to pitch in a pennant race, and the
Red Sox have no idea.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You don't know what you don't know. You're assuming that
he will.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
A stay healthy and b have that big game pedigree
that go out there and put a catchup pack in
your sock and make it like fake blood like Kurt
Shilly and go out there and dominate, or Pedro Martinez,
that he'll be one of those guys rather than a
guy that goes out there and rides the vomit comment.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So you don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He's already had Tommy John surgery. He's not battle tested
in big games. He's very fragile, and he got paid
the bag. Now, the reason he got paid is because
last year with the White Sox, when he did pitch
on a totally embarrassing baseball team, he had a thirty
five point one percent strikeout rate across one hundred and
(07:37):
forty six particular innings. And that's the other thing. I
believe he's not pitched more than one hundred and sixty
innings in any season.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You know how many Big league wins.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Garrett Crochet has. He's been with the White Sox for
several years now, he's with the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
How about nine.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
He's been in the major leagues for parts of multiple seasons.
He has nine wins. Woods don't matter, Boomer, Okay, there
was a time. I know I'm dating myself. I'm an
old school I'm from the old country. Well, you had
to show a little more to get that kind of money.
But we're at the point now where you're not in
position to have to show more. You get the money anyway,
(08:21):
you get the bag. The Red Sox they don't know
what they're getting. They think they know what they're getting.
Eric Corosche is gonna pitch on Wednesday. Can go out
and snap, crackle pop. That's it. No Tommy John. The
odds of coming back and dominating after multiple Tommy John
surgeries are slim and none.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Right, as the old line goes, so good luck on that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But hey, he gets a king's ransom there, and he
is at one start. He has pitched I believe eighty
eight pitches as a Red Sox in a regular season game,
and now he gets the money. Now page two to
the Merchandise Department. The merch Department of Major League Baseball.
The updated updated a list of who's selling and who's
(09:03):
not selling the most sold Major League Baseball jerseys since
the end of the World Series where the Doyers raised
the trophy in the Bronx and celebrated the championship. Now,
as you might imagine, there is a lot of front running.
The Dodgers have dominated in merchandise sales, people running out
(09:27):
to buy the Dodger gear. Shohy Otani is number one,
He's right there at the top, and jersey sales, and
Freddie Freeman was second. Freddie Freeman was number two in
all of baseball. So that sounds like a lot of
Atlanta brave fans who miss Freddy went out to buy
the Freddie Freeman jersey just because they love Freddy and
(09:49):
all that, and the Dodger fans. So that was number
one and two and thirty percent of the top twenty
are Dodgers. If you go by the top sixteen, almost
forty percent of the top sixteen players in terms of
merchandise sales for their jersey are Dodger players. You've got Joeyotani,
Freddie Freeman, Moki bets is number four, Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Who wasn't even all that good.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Number ten, Clayton Kershaw, who doesn't have a Clayton Kershaw jersey.
By now, I'm like, god, guy's been pitching for twenty years.
Who doesn't have one? Well, he was number eleven and
then the one that had many stunned. Key k Hernandez
has the sixteenth most popular jersey in all of Major
(10:36):
League Baseball. Yeah, that's a hum dinger of a name.
That's a humdinger of a name. So explain, please, in
Layman's terms, why a two twenty nine hitting utility player
named Key k Hernandez was the sixteenth most popular person
in baseball according to jersey sales. So the first I
(11:00):
have on this is, obviously, regular season stats don't matter.
The fact that you're a backup doesn't matter. That doesn't matter.
But Ki k had a couple things going for him.
The first thing he had going for him is he
is not lacking the clutch gene. He batted almost three
hundred in the playoffs, had a couple of Dingers in
the World Series for the Dodgers, he won the popular vote.
(11:24):
He's got this quirky personality. I remember when he first
got to the Dodgers, some of the people were rubbed
the wrong way by Key k Aarnan. This guy's kind
of a clown, but he's stuck around. Clearly some of
the Nerds like Key k Hernandez. He's popular with the
Dorks in the Dodger organization, and he obviously appeals to
the masses. The other thing Kik has going for him
is his surname. If you go by the most common
(11:50):
surnames in the United States, now Smith is number one,
at the very top. More people in America with the
last name Smith with any other name, but Hernandez is
number eleven. It is the eleventh most common surname in
the United States. So you've got a lot of people
that have that last name. And you also have the
(12:13):
Dodgers who dominate in the Latino community. They are kings
of the hill in that department. Now, you know it
should be upset. Here is Tioscar Hernandez because he's the
good Hernandez. Ti Oscar Hernandez. Right, that guy. He's also
got the last name Hernandez, but he does not have
a top twenty selling jersey in all of baseball.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
It's Kiki Arenez. You gotta annoyed by that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
All right, Now, final thought, we're gonna quickly go quick, right, quick, right,
We're gonna go to the NBA story that it happened recently,
and I haven't really delved into it.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I think it's interesting. It would have been a bigger
story had it been in New York or LA or
you know, big market team.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's not, but I still think it's worthy of a
couple of minutes of your time. And the basketball team
known as the Grizzlies, because when I go to Memphis,
I always see a lot of grit Bears in Memphis.
So the Grizzlies recently excommunicated their head coach. They said
bye bye, and there's been a lot of buzz that
this was an inside job, that the star of the
(13:13):
team made some phone calls, made some connections, and next
thing you know, the coach is gone. Because normally you
don't get rid of a coach with less than ten
games to go in the regular season, which is what
Memphis did here. So question, did Jaw Morant, the gun
Totin Strip club going Memphis star did Jaw Morant play
(13:39):
a role in the firing of Taylor Jenkins as the
head coach there? And based on an overwhelming amount of
circumstantial evidence, I am nodding my head.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
My opinion is yes that the JAB played a role
in this. And while technically there is no actual direct evidence,
there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that there was some
star player involvement, that this was a.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Power move, power play, power play, power play.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
By Ja Morant. And let me give you my elevator pitch.
I will go over the evidence. I am the prosecutor.
I will go over the evidence as I have attained it.
So you have Jah Morant who publicly was at loggerheads
with Taylor Jenkins, the coach.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Now I don't sit here in obsess with the Grizzlies.
Why would I. It's broadcasting, not narrow casting.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
However, I did a little digging and started snooping around,
and it's pretty public knowledge that he was frustrated with
the offense the Grizzlies were running this year. That was implemented,
but it was supposedly by the front office. They put
it in there, and John Morant had been marginalized. He
was not handling the ball enough to his taste, and
(14:58):
the pick and roll plays, things that were central to
his playing style had been downgraded, and so he was
annoyed by that, and he had sparred with the head coach.
He's the headliner. John Morant's the face of the franchise,
and so he complained. He complained about the system that
(15:19):
the Grizzlies were running, even though they had a pretty
good record, and the people around the team said he
was disengaged. So your star players disengaged, doesn't like the
offense the front office. You make the call, you're gonna
fire yourself, or you're gonna blame the coach and fire
the coach. There was obviously some tension there. Now some
reports say that Taylor Jenkins was just following orders, that's
(15:40):
all he was doing there. And then he actually, at
the very last minute before he got fired, he tried
to pacify John Morant by bringing back some of the
old plays that Jah wanted. But in that business, if
the franchise player is not happy, and he's the one
that's got the suitcase with the nuclear codes and can go.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Kaboom and get rid of the coach.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
So either Ja Morant got Taylor Jenkins fired or Taylor
Jenkins was fired to send a message to Jahn Morant.
If that was the case, then watch out. Then Jahn
Morant's going to be traded this summer. So it's either
Ja Morant got the coach fired or or the opposite
that the team was trying to send a message to him,
(16:25):
and therefore he's next to go. All right, It is
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that is back to the talk and it is I.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Ben, bad job by you, Bill.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But the Malond Militia a lot to say, a lot
to say here late night drug tester, said Garrett Crochet.
Signing means they will have to add more seats in
Finway Park, maybe turn the Green Monster into a wall
of fans like the Clippers arena has.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Well, yeah, they got the wall, man, that's the way
to do it. Man. The Clippers the greatest arena in
the NBA. Clippers are on a burner right now. There
is no such thing as momentum.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But they're playing very well and everyone is freaking out
in the West, like how they're going to handle the
Clippers in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And I know one thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Lebron and Luca do not want to play the Clippers
in the playoffs because they will be eliminated.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
How embarrassing is that going to be?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Oh my god for them, Holy crap, that would be
so so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Page down, super Marcus Steve says, you're a big man
picking out a fourteen year old Charlie like that. I
didn't think his call was all that bad. Well, Supermarcuts Steve.
Fortunately for the people listening, you don't host the show.
That was a terrible phone call by Charlie. Shane and
the mon write Sin says Jerkson Profar being suspended eighty
(19:25):
games for a PD violation is as shocking as mercury
being in retrograde.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly are right. Let's go to the
phones and who do we have here, eeny meeny miny mo.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And let's say hello to hmm things that make you go.
Let's say hello to hollering James.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Who's next? Hello, hollering James. You sleeping snoring? Yet he's
got to be sleeping though, you talk right away.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Hey, Tractor Supply knows that a winning season takes practice, teamwork,
and a can do.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
James. I'm trying to do a livery here, James. Is
there a wilder beast in his house?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
James, I'm trying to do a live read for Tractor
Supply and you just interrupted it. Apologize, James, Come on,
say you're sorry.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
James. You got to apology.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I'm doing a live read here and you can't be
interrupting the live Rea. That's a bad job by you.
Hollering James, trying to do a show here and you interrupted.
It's embarrassing. It's a bad job by you. I'm gonna
try again here. Okay, Oh my god, again James, James.
(20:56):
I know you. I know you like Tractor Supply. Everyone
loves it. I know.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh listen, I can't get enough. Well. Tractor Supply knows
that a.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Winning season takes practice, team working, A can do attitude
now faithfully. When you have a neighbor like track to supply,
teamwork comes easy. Whether you're caring for pets, chickens or
hollering James or a few acres, our team members will
help you succeed season James, I'm not done with the
(21:26):
livery season after season. Track to supply James, Yes, for
life out here. Tremendous contribution by hollering James, way to go.
Justin and Cincinnati says, I thought this was angry Bill
in his city connect alternative jersey for a minute. Well,
(21:48):
that is his favorite uniform. I don't think you can
buy that on MLB shop though, I don't think they
sell that on MLB shop. Thank you for that riveting
phone call. Hollering James Trucker Joe Wrights in. I'm still
out here in nowhere, Oklahoma, waiting for my return flight home.
When is the Malard plane going to be here? As
soon as they built an airport. As soon as they
(22:09):
built an airport there in nowhere, Oklahoma, we will bring
a plane right there for you, right there. Absolutely Yes,
A digital space monkey says, if you're good, you're on steroids.
That's Ben Malar hot take. Ben, I guess the entire
Dodger squad is on pds. That makes you somehow magically
(22:30):
able to change the laws of physics and sports according
to morons with tiny brains. I have no idea where
that came from. I know the Padres have a PD
culture in San Diego and they haven't been able to
win despite that PED culture. Jerkson Profar, who signed with
(22:50):
the Atlanta Braves. Profar has only played a few games
with Atlanta in a career renaissance in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I wonder how that worked last year.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
No, I'm sure it did not involve and it would
be wrong to think the Jerks and Profar had anything
like with a trip across the border there to Tijuana
and those great pharmacies in Tijuana.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No, that would never happen. It was.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
It's just a mistake. It's gotta be a mistake. Let's
go to Jed who fled. Speaking of mistakes, Hello Jed
who fled? And so I'm gonaive by.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
What is going on here? We needed that he wanted
to play Mallards Mountain.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Why why did he call now? Why did he call now?
Why would he not wait until we solicit people.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
To call for the game.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It makes no sense. Is anyone out there alive? Eight
seven seven ninety nine?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
What the hell happened? Eight seven seven nine nine six
six three six'. Nine must be something in the air,
tonight Ben In this.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Dope digital space, monkey this dumb dumb he's probably an actual. Monkey,
uh this, LOSER i mean this. GUY i didn't even
mention THE pd things and all. That this guy's getting
all you get out of your take your head out
of your. Tukus, okay how about. That get a, Clue
get a bloody, clue you. Dope all, right let's see page.
(24:18):
Down justin And cincinnati, says a fourteen year old boy
calling up sports radio to Talk texas women's college basketball
is an indictment of the public school system in This
country's not.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Wrong it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Wrong Sharman harmon, right since says that's no relation To Mike.
Harmon Sharman harmon, Says Rafael devers will hit his weight this,
year three hundred and twenty, five will be his batting,
average the amount of weight that he, has and will
lead the league.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
In broken belt.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Buckles so, so he, Says, so he, Says kathy And
madison the one supporter there Of, charlie Of charlie who
who chimed in? Earlier eight seven seven ninety nine On
fox is the? Number so the shower gone? Bad the
(25:10):
shower gone bad, Dayline Los. Angeles now we hear all
the time of people when they get. Older you get
to a certain age and taking a shower.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Can be a danger.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Zone you can hurt yourself taking a. Shower, generally professional
athletes do not hurt themselves in the. Shower Freddie, freeman he's.
Claiming Freddie freeman's claiming that he tweaked his surgically repaired
ankle while entering the. Shower he missed The dodger game
against The Atlanta braves On monday night slipping in the.
(25:48):
Shower do we Believe Freddie? Freeman is there more to this?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Story you've never slipped in the, Shower, Ben, No i've.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Never slipped in the, shower balance in the. Shower i'm
a great shower. Taker i'm really.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Good like the stickies on the. Bottom Uh, NO i mean.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
We have like uh, well the old the old place
we had, that but the new place we live in,
NOW i mean it's it's Just i'm very cautious When
i'm in the. Shower i'm not. Dancing i'm in and.
Out i'm a quick shower. TAKER i get, IN i.
Boom i'm in there And i'm not in there long
and there's not a lot of time to. Slip have
you fallen in the?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Shower, YEAH i don't. Remember if it was my memory
or my, MOM i don't.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Remember well one of us fell and we hit the
the you know the thing that the spat that sticks
out really.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Massive were you drinking massive amounts of alcohol.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Or some other substances when that took. Place is definitely.
Not but you, know bathrooms are, slippery slippery, PICKLE i
have heard that.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Before but, see the cynical part of me thinks there's
something more to the, story because usually you get a
version of the truth and not the whole. Story like
he was in there to say he was in the,
Shower what was he doing in the?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Show think he have been doing something interesting if he
was trying to get out or just get in and
your ankle. Twisted so you're believing this or you think
there's nothing on him? Whangerous, OKAY i take the other.
SIDE i believe there might be more to the. STORY
i think there's something else going on.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Here but baseball players are notorious for the most ridiculous.
Injuries there was a baseball player Named Marty. Cordova Marty,
cordova you don't know this story of The rada never
heard of. Him he was injured in a tanning. Bed
he stayed in a tanning, bed and he was in
there too. Long he fell asleep like Hollering, james and
(27:36):
his face was burned so badly that he had to
miss multiple, games just playing for The orioles at the,
time and the doctors ordered him to avoid. Sunlight which
if you're a baseball, player how do you avoid? Sunlight
either you play at night. Games they take batting practice
during the, day so there's no way to do your
(27:57):
job if you have to avoid.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Sunlight, INTERESTING i just looked up how many people get
hurt in the bathroom every?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Year, well, YEAH i know people get hurt in the.
Back i'm not, JUST i Just i'm not.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Two hundred and thirty five thousand.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
People and what is the average age of the people
that get hurt fifteen and?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Older what is the average age?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Though if you say fifteen and, older But i'm gonna
say it's probably close to like sixty.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Plus how about that people who have bad, Hips, well,
yeah that that can be.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That there have been people that oh, my, my my,
ankle my, hip my, name the whole. Thing But Freddie
freeman is thirty five years, Old so he's.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Not he's not an old guy or anything like. That
he's he's in the game of.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Life he's a, baby and so he's you, know it's
just a little odd situation there you fall down some
other amazing BASEBALL i actually this bit back when we
had live updates years. Ago i'm old enough to remember
we had actually live human beings do and. Updates but
with like The sager And, EDDIE i would would go
back and forth on odd baseball, injuries which is a
very fun. Game Uh and at one POINT i knew
(29:02):
every bizarre baseball, injury every odd baseball. Injury but we
would get into an urinating, match like me and the
the update.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
People we'd go back and forth and all.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
That, like for, example there was a player Named Sammy
sosa played for The, cubs and he had such a
violent sneeze that he actually ended up on the disabled
list because he hurt his back from. Sneezing he had
a violent sneeze in the. Dougouts, yeah you're gonna but
(29:34):
you're gonna defend. That are you gonna defend the professional
athlete getting hurt from?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
SNEEZING i.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Know it's there was a there was a guy The
Detroit tigers years and years ago who got hurt Playing
is this game's a guitar HERO i mean that's not
even around?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Anymore?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Right is?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
That so it's coming? Back actually really guitar heroes coming?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Back?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Wow so this is like a popular game at the,
time and he was actually playing music on the video
game thing and he got, injured and it was like
during the. Playoffs this was so long, Ago like this
was during the playoffs and HE i think he missed
IF i, remember it's been probably twenty, years BUT i
think he missed The American League championship series because he
kept strumming a video.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Game so.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Stupid, anyway it is The Ben Mahlor. Show as we
are working our way through the. Overnight coming up in
a little, bit we are going to have a new,
edition and, boy this is. Exciting malor to the third.
Degree sir smokes a, lot SAYS i almost drowned by
(30:41):
slipping in the. Shower, yeah you're gonna believe. That To,
lorena you can drown in the shower by slipping down.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Y, yes of course if you have a bad drain
and it only takes two inches of water to drown.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
In uh, huh, okay fall face, first your nose is under.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah digital Space monkey, SAYS i will box you bare.
Knuckle you're a cheating coward who who wast and you
go come down, here tough.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Guy i'll kick your.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Ass come come right down here outside the studio right.
Now i'll fight you on the corner Of venturn and
Some paulvina right here in the. Valley come down here right,
now and the rain will record the whole. Thing we'll
put it, on will go viral on YouTube right. Now,
NO i like, That proop saying we're not allowed to do.
That troop, said we're not allowed to fight listeners to the.
Show you're such a such a. Pop come, On, no
(31:35):
how about one? Punch he punches me? First CAN i
punch him, Back? Coop, yeah, YEAH i can punch him,
back all, Right so come down, here punch me If
i'll give you one punch and THEN i get to punch. You,
okay let's do. That how about that tough? Guy, anyway
it is The Ben Mathers. Show we press on here
and further and further the night. Time now for the instead.
(31:57):
Trivia and here's the instant. Trivia someone for The Chicago
cubs Named Carson. Kelly doesn't that sound like a golfer
on THE Pga Tour Carson kelly or a late NIGHT
tv Host Carson. Kelly, So Carson kelly became the first
player to hit for the cycle in a road game
versus The athletics since. Blank, Again Carson kelly plays for
(32:22):
The Chicago cubs in a game played at a minor
league ballpark In. Sacramento although The a's are too embarrassed
to say they play In. Sacramento Carson, kelly are The
cubs the first player to hit for the cycle in
a road game versus The a's since? Blank and that
is the insta. Trivia the. Answer we'll get to it
(32:45):
and we will do it.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
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Channel.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Well and, also don't Forget bill coming up here in a.
Minute it is Me. Ben we Have.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Mallor to the third. Degree but first the.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Payoff on The insta, trivia someone Named Carson kelly plays
for The Chicago. Cubs that's a baseball team that doesn't
win very. Often he was the first player to hit
for the cycle in a road game versus The a's since,
Blank and that is The insta. Trivia what is the?
(34:09):
Answer Magilla gorilla From Milkman mike In. Colorado Mister, belding
The king Of Karaoke, Wow i'll found the photo THAT
i took Mister, belding who was a listener to the
SHOW i.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Met Mister belding used to. Run he owned this.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Place Called dimples In burbank and we'd go there from
time to, time and very nice. MAN i think he
moved To, tennessee THOUGH i don't think he lives In la.
Anymore scrooge went With Roger dorn as his. Answer who
else do we?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Have page?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Down Donkey sausage Says San francisco legend unless he's. Not
randy mccammitt is the answer page, Down Mark, jackson who
is sixty?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Today?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Mama there goes that, Man Jake taylor From King. Rory
who else do you? Have page? Down Richard fennemin From
shane And, Demoy Tommy Lostella guess By robbie The mariner.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Fan who else do we? Have A Yogi? Bear FROM
jt The.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Wingman that's his, Answer Eddie goodell FROM Bp page down since.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
The Life Alert lady is the?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Answer from truck Or Joe Nelly Fox guess By ike
And Roseville. Minnesota Slim tim the Cheese head is going
With Carson dalius his, answer who else do we have page,
Down big Rig rob says A Ragnar loathbrook is the?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Answer do you have an, ANSWER.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Larae Laen, Martian marvin The? Martian is It marvin The
martian for the wind? Rong someone Named Lou clinton who
did it for The Red sox in nineteen sixty two
At Kansas. City never In. Oakland The a's did not
(35:58):
allow a cycle while.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
They played In.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Oaklan they're In. Sacramento now here we, go it's. Mall
how about a hole the third? Degree this is one gets.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Great ravens President Sashi brown said On sunday That Justin
tucker would remain On baltimore's roster until THE nfl concludes
their investigation of the. Kicker, Ben why do you think
The ravens are even bothering to? Wait, well because they
want to follow the. Book they know they're they're going
to draft a kicker at the end of the, draft
whether it's the sixth or seventh, round the final day
(36:30):
of the. Draft but they're they're going through the formatics of.
It they're following the guidelines of the league.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Office but, yeah there is a better chance that sports
With coleman kicks for The ravens than the, Kicker Justin.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Tucker so he's not going to be.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
There but they're just you, know they're dragging their ass on,
this and they'll they'll release him and they'll do it
on A friday in a news dump and they won't
make a big deal about, it.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Guaranteed Next Pete carroll told reporters over the weekend that
The raiders are quote working on an extension For Gino.
Smith he went on to say That smith is not
a bridge quarterback and that the team traded for him
to be under center long. Term, ben you Think carroll
has tied his fate with The raiders To Gino.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Smith here's the.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Thing when you're seventy three years, old there is no
assisting as a bridge. Quarterback you only Have Pete carroll's
only gonna be there for two or three years at the.
Most So Gino smith will probably be there for two
or three. Years so, yes they are tied. Together like
it's not whether he's a bridge, Quarterback Pete carroll's a bridge,
coach so they're both bridges over troubled. Waters like The
(37:33):
raiders are so, pathetic they'd be happy if.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
They went eight and nine every. Year they'd be or
nine and? Eight like is what happened In? Seattle all?
Right next pass this edition on tracking The.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Raiders, yeah it's being reported that The Atlanta hawks tried
hard to trade For Kevin durant before the, deadline so,
hard so hard they continue to look for a superstarter
to pair up With Tray. Young, ben do you think
The Durant young duo would have made The hawks serious?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Contenders in The east is much softer than The. West
but LAST i, Checked Kevin durant is a falling. Star
what do we always, Say? Coop do not allow a
falling star to fall on? You and it's an age.
Thing Kevin durant is thirty six years old and maybe
he ends up In atlanta next.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Year he. Doesn't he's like a.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Vagabond he bounces. Around but, NO i do not think
it would have made a. Difference how did we?
Speaker 4 (38:18):
KNOW i?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Won? SCOTT i won Blind. Scott i'm a, winner ye
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