April 3, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Atlanta Braves falling to 0-7 after losing in walk-off fashion to the Dodgers and if manager Brian Snitker is in danger, Mookie Betts saying he's a better athlete than Shohei Ohtani, a number of players agreeing to massive contract extensions, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We go. Welcome. It's our num Berwan talking bays Ball,
the good and the bad. So we start out with
the bad, better story in the losing locker room and
the worst team in professional baseball. Here in twenty twenty five,
the Atlanta Braves lost again. They start out h to
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seven to begin the year. Buy your tickets right now.
So the question after a heartbreaking loss to the Dodgers
last night, is manager Brian Snicker in danger of being
whacked by the Braves. He won the World Series few
years back as skipper the Dodgers. Mookie Betts says he's
a better athlete than show. Hey Otani says, it's not
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even close. How does that strike you? Also, Jackson Merrill
to tell Marte and Christian Campbell all agreed to multi year,
massive contract extensions with their respective teams. What does all
of that say to you? We'll get to that and
more right now here. It is our number one. It
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So the rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate early baseball
season lead and we go where the news of the
day takes us, and that would be Chavez Ravine, better
known bas Dodgers stating the hill over Top downtown Los
Angeles where show Hey oh Tani went cuppaw. That wasn't
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the longest home run, It wasn't the longest home run
in the world, but it was a tie breaking walk
off dinger in the ninth inning on the Bobblehead Night.
More on that later, Mite talk about people being addicted,
and just like that, the Dodgers unbeaten streak continues to
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start the year, the big Blue Wrecking Crew over the
pathetic Atlanta Braves. Those are the Atlanta Braves of my youth.
The Braves lose against six to five, the Blue Crew
spotting Atlanta five runs and then clawed back. And I
can only imagine the Atlanta Braves broadcasters who must have thought, oh,
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our five nothing. You know how rare it is to
blow five nothing leads. Last time I remember a team
blowing a five nothing lead, it was the New York
Yankees in Game five of the World Series. I'm just saying,
so the Dodgers are eight No if that sounds good,
well it is. It's the greatest start ever by defending
World Series champions. So I as well just stop the
season right now and just give the Dodgers another championship.
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I'm told they will not be doing that. But six
of the dodgers eight wins have been agonizing for the opponent.
They've fallen behind, they've come back and won those games.
And the great Rick Monday mo Monday back when I
was allowed out at Dodger games, that was buddies with
the Rick Monday. And Rick has said that the problem
the teams have playing the is the games are too long.
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If the games were five innings, they would have a shot.
But that six, seventh, eighth, ninth inning. That's the problem
for the teams playing the Dodgers. The name's just too
long now. However, as much as I would like to
give you Dodger propaganda, you gotta understand where my roots are. Now.
You understand if you've been with me on the Overnight Show,
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that the better story is in the losing locker room.
And as I check my notes here, there is no
better story in baseball right now than Atlanta if you
like the agony of defeat. The Atlanta Braves starting their
season on the West Coast, beautiful San Diego, America's finest city,
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and then driving up I five to Chavez Ravine Dodger Stadium,
and the Atlanta Braves with their tail between their legs,
getting on a chartered flight, a luxury cross country flight
to the South and they are oh and seven for
the first time since they opened to nine. It wasn't
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I say, it wasn't that long ago. It's been almost
ten years. Twenty sixteen was the last time Holy Tommy
and Atlanta. Wow, no team in Major League baseball history
has ever made the playoffs after starting oh and seven.
It has never happened. In fact, it's been over forty
years since a team that started oh and seven finished
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with a winning record. So even that hasn't happened in
a minute, in a pretty long minute. That's by my math,
two generations since that happened. Now, the the natives are restless,
as you might imagine, the fans calling for manager Brian
Snicker to be fired. They want a pound of flesh,
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and they hadn't even played a home game. Their home
opener is on Friday in Atlanta. So let us discuss
the question for the esteem pan as we go to
Dante's inferno? Is manager Brian Snicker in danger of being
whacked by the braves? So I've got shovel chateau and
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riverboat gamblers, and we will put all of these things
together and we are going to make sweetlue lemon pepper wings.
My good friend Rob Parker tells me that there is
a ballet in Atlanta that has the greatest wings there
and just a really good show good dancers there at
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that ballet. All right, So a to answer the question,
is manager Brian Snicker in danger of being whacked by
the Braves. You do not have to be a baseball
savant to know the answer is three letters. It's can
I get a Y? Can I get an E? And
can I get an S? Yes. In the history of
the Braves, every manager who is started oh and seven
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or worse has been pink slipped within a year, most
of them in season. Now, Brian Snicker, by my analysis,
I took out the Van diagram here. Now Snicker has.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
A little more wiggle room, just a little more wiggle
room here, because he was the manager of the World
Series winning twenty twenty one Braves.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
They were really America's team that year. Remember they beat
the cheating as one one thousand and two one thousand
holes in that World Series. Now that goodwill only buys
you a little more time, just a teeny weeny bit
of more time, Like this homestead. All right, Braves are
going home. They get the home opener on Friday. And
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if they get mollywopped at home, and this thing continues
and we get up to oh and ten and oh
and eleven and twelve, and at that point it's turned
at the last, the parties over. Bye bye. He'll be excommunicated,
somebody has to pay the price. Now, typically in modern baseball,
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they don't do that. That's old school. That's when I
was a kid. You just fire managers. You had a
bad two weeks, fire the manager. That's how they did it.
The nerds don't. They don't do that because the nerds
just have middlemen. The nerds don't care because if you
just fire the manager, you're just gonna replace the manager
with another yes person. Now that being said, that being said,
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the malor advice the think tank has been activated to
help out the Atlanta baseball team. So if you find
yourself in a hole, and make no mistake, the Atlanta
Braves find themselves in all. So if you find yourself
in a hole, you put the shovel down and stop digging.
You just tossed the shovel away and stop digging. And
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may I recommend a nice sturdy ladder a rope that
would also help get yourself out of the hole. But
really it's just baby steps, right, baby steps, I'm gonna
beat Benny Brightside. Now I'm not in Atlanta Braves. So
now I am of the generation I grew up watching
the superstation in the afternoon and I'd scurry home from school.
I was a bad student. Watched the Atlanta Braves and
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they were terrible, But I watched them because I like
baseball and it was the thing to do before the Internet,
and so I watched them a lot. But I'm not
a Braves fan, but I am Benny bright Side. This
will be a historical turnaround the Atlanta Braves, mark my words.
The Atlanta Braves are going to the playoffs even despite
starting on in seven, and no team has ever done that,
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has ever made the playoffs after starting on seven. It
has also never been easier to make the playoffs when
starting on seven. You see baseball keeps adding more teams
to the playoffs. There are now two wildcard teams. The
Braves have only played four point three percent of the schedule.
Four point three percent of the schedule. That's it you need.
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By my math, the sweet spot number is ninety wins.
Eighty nine wins gets you in the playoffs last year,
but that was last year, so you got to find
a way to win ninety games. And there are so
many crap bag teams in baseball that aren't even trying.
There are certainly, at the very minimum sixty wins right there,
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So you got to win another thirty against halfway decent opponents.
That is more than manageable. Now turning the page, the Dodgers,
the talk of baseball, the machine, the juggernaut. Very annoying
to the trolls who used to bust my balls about
the Dodgers back in the day. You got no material,
no material. One of the stories I saw about the Dodgers,
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there was a lengthy write up behind a paywall on
the Athletic the old gray lady there owns it the
New York Times, but the Dodgers Mookie Bets. There was
a story about who's the greatest athlete between Mookie Bets
and Otani. Mookie Bets shockingly said that he is a
better athlete than show. Hey, Otani says, not even close.
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So how does that one strike you? So right away
you're like, well, Mooki's pumping his chest out right. He's
a two sports star. He's a baseball star and a
bowling star. Hello bowling. Now I realize bowling is the
number one participation sport. It is also done while consuming
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massive amounts of pizza and beer. But I would argue,
deep down, does it even matter? Who's better. It's it's
like picking between a mega yacht. Do I want to
go in my mega yacht or my chateau on the
French Riviera. Either way, you're doing all right. You're gonna
have jaw dropping Mediterranean views. You're doing pretty good. Now,
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Shootani is my my pick to click on this right.
Shoeyotan is the guy who can pull you out of
a burning car, can then throw you on his back,
and then run and jump through an obstacle course while
carrying you on his back, and then swim across a
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large body of water like the Mississippi River. And since
everything is a reality show, why doesn't Netflix the way
Who's a Better Athlete? Offseason challenge a docu series between
Mookie Betts and Shojo Ton. I'm sure there'll be ten
people that will watch that, all right. Anyway, last word, money, money,
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many big money, big money flying around. If you have
not noticed in the last twenty four hours or so,
Jackson Merrill of the undefeated Padres could tell Marte of
the Diamondbacks who just beat up the Yankees again, and
Christian Campbell, who's been in the major leagues for a
week for the Red Sox have all agreed to multi year,
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massive contract extensions. So what does all that say to you?
Was it all young players? Some have been successful, more successful.
Campbell's barely played in the major leagues. Merrill had great
success last year. To tell Marte's put up some big
numbers early in his career for Arizona. So it tells
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us you got a lot of riverboat gamblers in baseball.
It's all the rates, the triple Crown, it's cost efficiency,
it's team stability, it's fan engagement. Now you lock in
the young players, you have them at a fixed rate,
and the argument is you're gonna save money over the
long run. You build your core players and then fill
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out the roster around the core players. And fans love
homegrown town at oh, they get so horny for that.
Now the entire industry, though, has gone this way. It's
a power of group think. And I'm convinced they all
got together and they watched the same webinar and it's
like the lion king akoona matata, Akuna matata. I'm talking
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about Ronald Lacuna Junior. Remember he signed that eight year
contract for one hundred million dollars with the Bravos, it
was twenty nineteen. I believe, I think I'm right on that. Anyway,
the deal averages like twelve and a half million a year,
and that's chump change in baseball. And if not for
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that deal, Akuna would be making thirty five forty forty
five million dollars a year. But as always these contracts,
the latest one is given out, it is risk versus reward.
And I gave you three examples. Jackson Merrill could tell
Marte and Christian Campbell. One of those guys will be fine,
one of them will be average, and one of them
will be terrible and won't make it and have you
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success over the full contract. The risk is always that
a player will not live up to expectations or they
will just have their career ravaged by injury. The reward
is obviously that you have the next Ronald Lacuna Junior,
and you have an MVP and the players a star.
And it's all about the nerdalytics better known as analytics
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and more, minimizing risk and all this stuff. And they
throw that out there and people get all excitedn't they. Well,
if the computer says it, it must be computer said
it must be true. The computers right there, it's in
the computer. Okay, thank you very much. All right, here
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does the song end? Does it end with a bad word?
Is it a dirty word at the end?
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Oh?
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Yeah, okay, if we want to finish it, we can
finish it. Yeah, okay, all right, we don't need that.
Nobody can hear that anything. I tried to turn it off,
it won't stop, all right. Well, later on GQ Got You,
we began the hour. The Atlanta Braves or the worst
team in baseball. They won on the West Coast and
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didn't do They didn't win one freaking game. They didn't
win one game on a West Coast sojourn to begin
the season. You talk about a cream pie to the
face the Atlanta Braves, who are supposed to be a
playoff tam Non, I'm Benny Brightside on the Braves. I
believe the Braves will still end up making the playoffs
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because there's so many teams to get in the playoffs.
But man, what a disastrous start for the Atlanta Braves.
Milkman Mike in Colorado says a minus on the opening monologue.
I wonder how many of the woke nation believe the
reason the Braves are losers is because they're still insensitive
to the applight of the Indigenous people. I don't know
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those people have They're still there, but we haven't heard
as much of them in the last since January. I
guess it's been pretty quiet on that front now. Milkman Mike. Also,
I am told there was an erroneous mistake. I blamed
Bill Miller for this the song that made its debut
yesterday then and I was contacted by Jay Scoop and
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I failed to mention that Milkman Mike, he was doing
some of the vocals on that with just Josh, that
it was a three legged, three legged Malard Militia confab
on that song. For the Raina like the Love Boat
version of the Lorraina Open, we had three different time
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zones represented. We had just Josh and Cincinnati Milkman Mike,
who's in Colorado. That's Mountain time and Jay Scoop was
on the West coast, so we covered three time zones
in that and those boys produced that song. Good job
by them, outstanding Charlie in Wisconsin, Bad job by Charlie.
He's already answering the who am I game question, which
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we haven't even given out. Shame on you, Yes, ferg
Dog rites and says, are you starting to buy into
the dream of a perfect season yet? Ben? If the
boys can even overcome a terrible start by David Vassay's
boy toy Snell, zilla, who can stop them? Yeah? Man,
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you see, if the Dodgers are gonna lose, and they
will lose, obviously, I hope they lose. When Blake Snell's
I wouldn't feel that bad. You know, they're gonna lose
fifty games at least this year, the Dodgers, So make
sure they lose most of the starts by Blake Snell,
I'd be fine with that. And Snell doesn't have to
worry anything because if, as say, will make him breakfast
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in the morning, so he's fine, and they'll start the
bath for him and make sure the bubble bath is
the right temperature and all that. So he's in good shape.
He had nothing to worry about. Late Night Drug Tester
writes in, Because I'm not sure if it's a coincidence,
but ever since the Dodgers revoked your media credentials because
of Otani, they are unstoppable. Maybe if the Clippers do
the same thing, they will also overcome the Curse of
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the Vanbino and win the NBA. Time with the Clippers
already made the Final four a couple of years back,
there is no curse of the Vanbino. You're dating yourself,
late Night Drug Tester. The Curse of the Beanbino was
started by a couple of callers. One was MotorCity Mike
and the other was Jihadis John, both of them from Michigan,
and they started this nonsense, the curse of the band,
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you know, But the curse has been broken. The curse
has been broken. Mad Jack writes in, says, nice to
see the Doyers win despite snell Zilla putting every member
of the hapless Braves on base like he was Oprah.
You get a bag, you get a bag. Yeah. The
Dodgers tried to give the game to the Braves. The
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Braves are so bad right now that they gave it back,
and Max Muncy not exactly the second coming of Brooks
Robinson or Michael Jack Schmid or I mean Hew Ken Caminetti.
I can go to any third great defensive third baseman
in baseball history. God, is he a disaster at third base? Defensively?
It doesn't matter because they're so good. But my goodness,
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man alive. All right, let's see who else have page.
Dan Gunner says, good monologue. How about the Wolves Nuggets game? Gunner,
come on, didn't make a monologue, did not make a monologue. Robbie,
the Mariner fan who's got analytics in his blood, says
to tell Marte is already thirty one. I'm not sure
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he fits in with Merrill and Campbell and the younger
players getting extensions before they deserve a discussion. Also, Marte
is currently the best second basement in baseball, at least
in the top three. But it's not allowing them to
go out and test the market now. Big Rick rob
writes in and says, Ben, that was a grade A
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malor monologue. Yet again, the Mookie Banks bets take that
he's a better athlete. I'm gonna buy that, But is
he a better baseball player. That's my addition there. You
may be able to hit, you may be able to run,
but can you play? F al touve our buddy Chip
and the Ques, who's no longer working the deaded night
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shift because of the evil doctors, He says a plus
on the mall monologue. I think Mookie Bets needs to
put down the crack pipe. But he's an accident player,
according to Chip and the Ques. Mookie Bets, but everyone
outside the family knows who the best player on the
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Dowyers is. Nature Boy says, who would have thought the
Sacramento A's would have more wins than the Atlanta Braves
at this point? Well, every team in baseball has more wins,
even the ones that are in minor league ballparks like
Sacramento and Tampa Bay. Well, how about the Athletics. It's
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good to know they're not in Oakland anymore. People used
to goof on the fact that no one went to
A's games, that it was invitation only and they pretty
much allow anyone to just walk in if you want
to go to an A's game when they were in
Oakland and they'd be playing at this cavernous stadium that
had sixty thousand seats and there'd be like ten thousand
people there. And in the finale, the series finale between
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the Cubs and the Athletics and Sacramento, they had an
attendant of nine thousand, three hundred and forty two. That
was the total announced attendance for the initial three game
set of the Sacramento Athletics, thirty one thousand, five hundred
and fifty six. That's in three games, three games in
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their minor league ballpark, which is appropriate because they have
minor league players. I know, Robbie the Meridithith, why don't
have minor league players? They have some of the greatest yoah,
oh my god, they're so good. Yeah, they're so great.
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button and then we get some amazing factoid that is
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going to.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Oh, if you want amazing factoids, I got one for you.
I was shocked because the other network put out a
list of the one hundred best baseball players ever, and
somehow six mirrors made the list. I don't even know,
and four or more pictures, and I don't even know how.
I didn't know most of our pictures were worthy of that.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
So well, the most shocking part of that is that
there's another network. I thought they turned off. I thought
they went off the air years ago. I thought they just.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't listen to them.
I listened to you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Somebody must have told you about that, because I know
you don't listen to them.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I get alerts on my phone.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
On your phone, let's you should turn off all the
alerts on your phone. That's bad news.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I should turn off all the alerts on my phone.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, no I do. I don't have
like a lot of my buddies have the like Instagram
or Twitter, I guess x now Facebook, they have the
they get messaged anytime they get a message, And no
I don't have that. If I want to see what
my messages are, I'll just pop on there.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Somehow four Mariners pictures made them one hundred lists. I don't.
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
There were about there were about seven or eight years.
The Mariners consistently were one of the better teams in baseball,
so they all had to be in that seven eight
Randy Johnson, King Felix, two of them current pictures.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Then I was shocked, Oh well.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I don't. Can I name three Mariner pictures right now?
I can name it?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I can't. Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
We're not playing the game. We're not playing the Mariner game.
We're not playing the Seattle Mariner name a picture game.
We're not doing that. How dare you are you trying
to bogart the show with Seattle Mariner propaganda? Is that
is that? Lorena? Do you think that's a fun game? Lorena?
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Do you think that would be a fun game. Yeah,
she said, no, isn't that your team? Of course I
would hope that you could name them. Well, she is
in though. There's not a lot of Mariner coverage in
the Moye. But the internet you can get whatever you want.
You're really into.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
That, correct, exactly?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, all right, Well I didn't see you when they
got Louis Castilla. They didn't trade him, so they got
I got. That's one Louis Castillo, right, I think that's
the only one I can name.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
We do.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I don't want to play the game. I named Louis Castille.
I don't want to play the game, but I named him.
And they have the big dump right or the dumpster
u cal Raleigh.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
There you go?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And what else they have? Oh? The guy that I
liked in Tampa Bay. That's guy I can I can
literally feel people turning the dial right now. But how
about Randy or Rosa Raina. He was on Tampa Bay.
I liked him in Tampa Bay. That's it. That's the
only Mariners I can name, right. Oh? The other guy
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that center field of Rodriguez is good to I know.
That's it. I'm done. I'm out of Mariners. That's it
no more mariners who can't even name the angels? What
are you talking about? I mean, what are we doing here? Seriously?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I have no idea. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
All right, Well, thank you Kelly, and everything going well
with your situation and everything progressing. She's gone. We don't
really care about that, Kelly. But let no, Kelly's she's
got a bun in the oven. So she's gonna have
a child. How many months along you think she is?
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She's gotta be close to seven now? Is it really
been that long? Has time flown that much? I don't know.
I don't know the math. But that'll be the well,
not the first, because we've had others, but that will
be a child that is produced because of the show.
And should we feel good about that or should we
be disturbed by that? Like I'm not sure how we
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should feel about that. But this is a couple that
is together because of the show, and I would I
would argue, and I don't think I'm wrong in this
that without the show, that doesn't happen, right the odds
of that happening? Fun fact, yes, they put that out.
How come they would not know each other without the show?
(30:57):
Exactly what I'm saying, is that they met because of
the show. Yeah, if it was for you, Ben, they
would not know love. We bring love together and we
have produced a next generation. I should be like the
godfather of the child. I must be the godfather of
the child because you have this, you know, Shane in
the morn and Kelly in the morning. And then they
got together because they met because of the show when
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she was Donut Kelly. And now we've got the magic.
Now we've got the amazing thing, Kevin says. The Mariners
have the third best pitching in baseball. He says, and
then he's he's given me Mariner propaganda. There one name
after another. Nature Boy answering the call to the wild rights,
and he says, Max Munsey, it is all right, he does,
(31:43):
Max Munsey looked like rubber arms. Steve Sachs at third base,
a little rough the first the first throw, the number
sixteen in baseball. He k Hernandez could have should have
made the play, could have picked it out of the dirt.
But the other one was the other monthsI Era was atrocious.
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Nature Boy also says, the only Mariner picture he can
answer is John Halama. That's it. Robbie says, I once
again am begging you to make a couple category for
worst caller of the year. So he is demanding, he
is taking shots, and that's that's what he wants. That's
what he wants. He wants a that is a category
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who Am I Game? This is where we pretend to
be somebody else's. We call it who Am I Game.
Pittsburgh's O'Neil Cruz who O'Neil Cruz became the fourth player
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fourth player with two plus home runs six plus stolen
bases in a team's first seven games of a season.
He joins Ricky Henderson, Eric Davis of the Cincinnati Reds
and me again. O'Neil Cruz of the Pirates just became
the fourth player with two plus home runs, six plus
(33:34):
stolen bases, and a team's first seven games of a season.
Joining Ricky Henderson, Eric Davis and me. Who am I Who?
That is the question the answer, We'll get to it
and we will do it.
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Now back to it, well, back to it. Bill, It's
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What a schmuck. But here's the who am I game?
Pittsburgh's O'Neil Cruz, who looks like he should dominate base.
But he's pretty good. He's pretty good. Who pirates? Sucked though,
But O'Neil Cruz became the fourth player with two or
more home runs, six or more stolen bases in a
team's first seven games. He joins Ricky Henderson, Eric Davis
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and me Who am I?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Who?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
That is the question? What is the answer? And let's
see who do we have? Enie Meani, Miney Mo Psycho
Sid Guess by Andy and Lino Lakes Minnesota. Scrooge says
the most overpriced pitcher of all time Barry Zito, rob
(35:47):
the goat Man going with Robbie the Mariner fan. That's
a good photo of Robbie. Look at that lost a
couple of pounds there, The Tasmanian Devil guess by William
Alf the Alien o Piner go with Don Zimmer. Now
why you gotta do don Zimmer like that? Alf? Come
on man, rest in peace. One of the great characters,
Don Zimmer. He's only been dead for a million Years
(36:09):
A one Pierre guest by Malibu Rubin, Christian McCaffrey from
Miguel on Fire. Who else, Let's see Jared Allen who
is forty three today, Viking Legend from Late Night Drug
Tester Gunner from King Roy. Look at that? Is that Gunner?
And that's his brother on one side and his other brother
(36:30):
on the other. Look at that good job by Gunner.
Who else do we have? Hugh Hefner from Trucker Joe
Ryan Friel guest by Jordan Riley Cooper from Shane in
Des Moines, Donkey sausage tossed out by Malar prop guy.
Who else do we have? Milkman Mike and Colorado, says
Shane and Kelly's kids Godfather Bill Miller, Speedy Claxton from
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Dante poly Diego and Old School Brew Crew with Ben
Ogilvie as his answer. The Mariner fans says, the guy
that stole the World Series ball from four Doug men
Kaevich is the answer. Who else? Uh? Williams Ostido? Whatever
happened to that guy? The Turtle? Whatever happened to him?
(37:16):
I think he's out? Is he out a baseball? Now?
He's not in the majors. I don't think uh, the
TJ spin Patrick has said Luis riz Padre first baseman.
He says, Loreina, do you have an answer? Is not
like Keebler Elf, which was guess b Slim tim or
Juan Pierre from slug in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Hi, buddy, Yeah, No, my guess is the grouch Tony Brothers.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
The Grouse Tony Brothers.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Is that the answer? No, the correct answer is Joe Morgan.
You know it seems Joe Morgan played for the Cowboys.
Well yeah, I mean, if he played football, he would
have played for the Cowboys. But he's most known for
the Cincinnati Reds. But that's a baseball team, and they
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were known as the Big what what were they known
as the Big What? The Big Reds? Well kind of
there was a big Red machine, Big Red. I didn't
want to move. I gotta eat this story real quick.
So the Pirates are not a good baseball team, but
they have one of the young faces of baseball, this
Paul Skeen's character. He's one of the young faces. Pitcher
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really good, so good. It'll be on the Dodgers, the Yankees,
the Red Sox in a few years. But He's also
in a relationship with Libby Dunn, the famous she's like
an internet model now at this point, she's still She's
not a college athlete anymore, I don't think anyway. They
did a photo shoot for GQ and it was very awkward.
And can we play a little bit, Paul, play play
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the clip, coop, we can play it. I want to
play this a little bit on we don't have it
all right? Well, Paul Skins, He said, I just want
to play the beginning of it, because he said he
was shocked by somebody he didn't realize when he signed
up for the photo shoot. Take take a listen, real quick,
listen this Paul skeins of the Pirates. Here, let's see
we can pop this in here in place. He's popping it.
He's popping it. You should hear him pop it. It's
(39:06):
coming right now. It's it's now running into a brick wall. Hey,
you're always well dressed. But we didn't know we're talking
to a GQ model today.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
What's that all about?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Yeah, jeez m yeah, I don't know. It's Uh, I'm
gonna get some flak in the in the locker room.
I know that I'm not I'm not looking forward to that. Yeah. Well,
he also said I didn't we didn't get the best part.
I didn't know what GQ was. He said, I didn't
know what GQ was. How do you not know what
GQ is? Seriously,
We go. Welcome. It's our num Berwan talking bays Ball,
the good and the bad. So we start out with
the bad, better story in the losing locker room and
the worst team in professional baseball. Here in twenty twenty five,
the Atlanta Braves lost again. They start out h to
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seven to begin the year. Buy your tickets right now.
So the question after a heartbreaking loss to the Dodgers
last night, is manager Brian Snicker in danger of being
whacked by the Braves. He won the World Series few
years back as skipper the Dodgers. Mookie Betts says he's
a better athlete than show. Hey Otani says, it's not
(00:43):
even close. How does that strike you? Also, Jackson Merrill
to tell Marte and Christian Campbell all agreed to multi year,
massive contract extensions with their respective teams. What does all
of that say to you? We'll get to that and
more right now here. It is our number one. It
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So the rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate early baseball
season lead and we go where the news of the
day takes us, and that would be Chavez Ravine, better
known bas Dodgers stating the hill over Top downtown Los
Angeles where show Hey oh Tani went cuppaw. That wasn't
(02:37):
the longest home run, It wasn't the longest home run
in the world, but it was a tie breaking walk
off dinger in the ninth inning on the Bobblehead Night.
More on that later, Mite talk about people being addicted,
and just like that, the Dodgers unbeaten streak continues to
(02:57):
start the year, the big Blue Wrecking Crew over the
pathetic Atlanta Braves. Those are the Atlanta Braves of my youth.
The Braves lose against six to five, the Blue Crew
spotting Atlanta five runs and then clawed back. And I
can only imagine the Atlanta Braves broadcasters who must have thought, oh,
(03:19):
our five nothing. You know how rare it is to
blow five nothing leads. Last time I remember a team
blowing a five nothing lead, it was the New York
Yankees in Game five of the World Series. I'm just saying,
so the Dodgers are eight No if that sounds good,
well it is. It's the greatest start ever by defending
World Series champions. So I as well just stop the
season right now and just give the Dodgers another championship.
(03:40):
I'm told they will not be doing that. But six
of the dodgers eight wins have been agonizing for the opponent.
They've fallen behind, they've come back and won those games.
And the great Rick Monday mo Monday back when I
was allowed out at Dodger games, that was buddies with
the Rick Monday. And Rick has said that the problem
the teams have playing the is the games are too long.
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If the games were five innings, they would have a shot.
But that six, seventh, eighth, ninth inning. That's the problem
for the teams playing the Dodgers. The name's just too
long now. However, as much as I would like to
give you Dodger propaganda, you gotta understand where my roots are. Now.
You understand if you've been with me on the Overnight Show,
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that the better story is in the losing locker room.
And as I check my notes here, there is no
better story in baseball right now than Atlanta if you
like the agony of defeat. The Atlanta Braves starting their
season on the West Coast, beautiful San Diego, America's finest city,
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and then driving up I five to Chavez Ravine Dodger Stadium,
and the Atlanta Braves with their tail between their legs,
getting on a chartered flight, a luxury cross country flight
to the South and they are oh and seven for
the first time since they opened to nine. It wasn't
(05:09):
I say, it wasn't that long ago. It's been almost
ten years. Twenty sixteen was the last time Holy Tommy
and Atlanta. Wow, no team in Major League baseball history
has ever made the playoffs after starting oh and seven.
It has never happened. In fact, it's been over forty
years since a team that started oh and seven finished
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with a winning record. So even that hasn't happened in
a minute, in a pretty long minute. That's by my math,
two generations since that happened. Now, the the natives are restless,
as you might imagine, the fans calling for manager Brian
Snicker to be fired. They want a pound of flesh,
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and they hadn't even played a home game. Their home
opener is on Friday in Atlanta. So let us discuss
the question for the esteem pan as we go to
Dante's inferno? Is manager Brian Snicker in danger of being
whacked by the braves? So I've got shovel chateau and
(06:17):
riverboat gamblers, and we will put all of these things
together and we are going to make sweetlue lemon pepper wings.
My good friend Rob Parker tells me that there is
a ballet in Atlanta that has the greatest wings there
and just a really good show good dancers there at
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that ballet. All right, So a to answer the question,
is manager Brian Snicker in danger of being whacked by
the Braves. You do not have to be a baseball
savant to know the answer is three letters. It's can
I get a Y? Can I get an E? And
can I get an S? Yes. In the history of
the Braves, every manager who is started oh and seven
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or worse has been pink slipped within a year, most
of them in season. Now, Brian Snicker, by my analysis,
I took out the Van diagram here. Now Snicker has.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
A little more wiggle room, just a little more wiggle
room here, because he was the manager of the World
Series winning twenty twenty one Braves.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
They were really America's team that year. Remember they beat
the cheating as one one thousand and two one thousand
holes in that World Series. Now that goodwill only buys
you a little more time, just a teeny weeny bit
of more time, Like this homestead. All right, Braves are
going home. They get the home opener on Friday. And
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if they get mollywopped at home, and this thing continues
and we get up to oh and ten and oh
and eleven and twelve, and at that point it's turned
at the last, the parties over. Bye bye. He'll be excommunicated,
somebody has to pay the price. Now, typically in modern baseball,
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they don't do that. That's old school. That's when I
was a kid. You just fire managers. You had a
bad two weeks, fire the manager. That's how they did it.
The nerds don't. They don't do that because the nerds
just have middlemen. The nerds don't care because if you
just fire the manager, you're just gonna replace the manager
with another yes person. Now that being said, that being said,
(08:28):
the malor advice the think tank has been activated to
help out the Atlanta baseball team. So if you find
yourself in a hole, and make no mistake, the Atlanta
Braves find themselves in all. So if you find yourself
in a hole, you put the shovel down and stop digging.
You just tossed the shovel away and stop digging. And
(08:50):
may I recommend a nice sturdy ladder a rope that
would also help get yourself out of the hole. But
really it's just baby steps, right, baby steps, I'm gonna
beat Benny Brightside. Now I'm not in Atlanta Braves. So
now I am of the generation I grew up watching
the superstation in the afternoon and I'd scurry home from school.
I was a bad student. Watched the Atlanta Braves and
(09:13):
they were terrible, But I watched them because I like
baseball and it was the thing to do before the Internet,
and so I watched them a lot. But I'm not
a Braves fan, but I am Benny bright Side. This
will be a historical turnaround the Atlanta Braves, mark my words.
The Atlanta Braves are going to the playoffs even despite
starting on in seven, and no team has ever done that,
(09:37):
has ever made the playoffs after starting on seven. It
has also never been easier to make the playoffs when
starting on seven. You see baseball keeps adding more teams
to the playoffs. There are now two wildcard teams. The
Braves have only played four point three percent of the schedule.
Four point three percent of the schedule. That's it you need.
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By my math, the sweet spot number is ninety wins.
Eighty nine wins gets you in the playoffs last year,
but that was last year, so you got to find
a way to win ninety games. And there are so
many crap bag teams in baseball that aren't even trying.
There are certainly, at the very minimum sixty wins right there,
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So you got to win another thirty against halfway decent opponents.
That is more than manageable. Now turning the page, the Dodgers,
the talk of baseball, the machine, the juggernaut. Very annoying
to the trolls who used to bust my balls about
the Dodgers back in the day. You got no material,
no material. One of the stories I saw about the Dodgers,
(10:45):
there was a lengthy write up behind a paywall on
the Athletic the old gray lady there owns it the
New York Times, but the Dodgers Mookie Bets. There was
a story about who's the greatest athlete between Mookie Bets
and Otani. Mookie Bets shockingly said that he is a
better athlete than show. Hey, Otani says, not even close.
(11:06):
So how does that one strike you? So right away
you're like, well, Mooki's pumping his chest out right. He's
a two sports star. He's a baseball star and a
bowling star. Hello bowling. Now I realize bowling is the
number one participation sport. It is also done while consuming
(11:27):
massive amounts of pizza and beer. But I would argue,
deep down, does it even matter? Who's better. It's it's
like picking between a mega yacht. Do I want to
go in my mega yacht or my chateau on the
French Riviera. Either way, you're doing all right. You're gonna
have jaw dropping Mediterranean views. You're doing pretty good. Now,
(11:48):
Shootani is my my pick to click on this right.
Shoeyotan is the guy who can pull you out of
a burning car, can then throw you on his back,
and then run and jump through an obstacle course while
carrying you on his back, and then swim across a
(12:09):
large body of water like the Mississippi River. And since
everything is a reality show, why doesn't Netflix the way
Who's a Better Athlete? Offseason challenge a docu series between
Mookie Betts and Shojo Ton. I'm sure there'll be ten
people that will watch that, all right. Anyway, last word, money, money,
(12:30):
many big money, big money flying around. If you have
not noticed in the last twenty four hours or so,
Jackson Merrill of the undefeated Padres could tell Marte of
the Diamondbacks who just beat up the Yankees again, and
Christian Campbell, who's been in the major leagues for a
week for the Red Sox have all agreed to multi year,
(12:55):
massive contract extensions. So what does all that say to you?
Was it all young players? Some have been successful, more successful.
Campbell's barely played in the major leagues. Merrill had great
success last year. To tell Marte's put up some big
numbers early in his career for Arizona. So it tells
(13:15):
us you got a lot of riverboat gamblers in baseball.
It's all the rates, the triple Crown, it's cost efficiency,
it's team stability, it's fan engagement. Now you lock in
the young players, you have them at a fixed rate,
and the argument is you're gonna save money over the
long run. You build your core players and then fill
(13:38):
out the roster around the core players. And fans love
homegrown town at oh, they get so horny for that.
Now the entire industry, though, has gone this way. It's
a power of group think. And I'm convinced they all
got together and they watched the same webinar and it's
like the lion king akoona matata, Akuna matata. I'm talking
(14:03):
about Ronald Lacuna Junior. Remember he signed that eight year
contract for one hundred million dollars with the Bravos, it
was twenty nineteen. I believe, I think I'm right on that. Anyway,
the deal averages like twelve and a half million a year,
and that's chump change in baseball. And if not for
(14:24):
that deal, Akuna would be making thirty five forty forty
five million dollars a year. But as always these contracts,
the latest one is given out, it is risk versus reward.
And I gave you three examples. Jackson Merrill could tell
Marte and Christian Campbell. One of those guys will be fine,
one of them will be average, and one of them
will be terrible and won't make it and have you
(14:48):
success over the full contract. The risk is always that
a player will not live up to expectations or they
will just have their career ravaged by injury. The reward
is obviously that you have the next Ronald Lacuna Junior,
and you have an MVP and the players a star.
And it's all about the nerdalytics better known as analytics
(15:08):
and more, minimizing risk and all this stuff. And they
throw that out there and people get all excitedn't they. Well,
if the computer says it, it must be computer said
it must be true. The computers right there, it's in
the computer. Okay, thank you very much. All right, here
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(16:17):
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way as well, and amazing other random bits throughout the night.
But now back to the show, because the music has stopped. Well,
you talk too much at Bill, and you didn't say
my name is a bad job. But you should not. Really,
there was only twenty seconds left in the song. I
thought I should end it. That's embarrassing it. Why how
does the song end? Does it end with a bad word?
Is it a dirty word at the end?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, okay, if we want to finish it, we can
finish it. Yeah, okay, all right, we don't need that.
Nobody can hear that anything. I tried to turn it off,
it won't stop, all right. Well, later on GQ Got You,
we began the hour. The Atlanta Braves or the worst
team in baseball. They won on the West Coast and
(18:47):
didn't do They didn't win one freaking game. They didn't
win one game on a West Coast sojourn to begin
the season. You talk about a cream pie to the
face the Atlanta Braves, who are supposed to be a
playoff tam Non, I'm Benny Brightside on the Braves. I
believe the Braves will still end up making the playoffs
(19:10):
because there's so many teams to get in the playoffs.
But man, what a disastrous start for the Atlanta Braves.
Milkman Mike in Colorado says a minus on the opening monologue.
I wonder how many of the woke nation believe the
reason the Braves are losers is because they're still insensitive
to the applight of the Indigenous people. I don't know
(19:30):
those people have They're still there, but we haven't heard
as much of them in the last since January. I
guess it's been pretty quiet on that front now. Milkman Mike. Also,
I am told there was an erroneous mistake. I blamed
Bill Miller for this the song that made its debut
yesterday then and I was contacted by Jay Scoop and
(19:52):
I failed to mention that Milkman Mike, he was doing
some of the vocals on that with just Josh, that
it was a three legged, three legged Malard Militia confab
on that song. For the Raina like the Love Boat
version of the Lorraina Open, we had three different time
(20:13):
zones represented. We had just Josh and Cincinnati Milkman Mike,
who's in Colorado. That's Mountain time and Jay Scoop was
on the West coast, so we covered three time zones
in that and those boys produced that song. Good job
by them, outstanding Charlie in Wisconsin, Bad job by Charlie.
He's already answering the who am I game question, which
(20:35):
we haven't even given out. Shame on you, Yes, ferg
Dog rites and says, are you starting to buy into
the dream of a perfect season yet? Ben? If the
boys can even overcome a terrible start by David Vassay's
boy toy Snell, zilla, who can stop them? Yeah? Man,
(20:55):
you see, if the Dodgers are gonna lose, and they
will lose, obviously, I hope they lose. When Blake Snell's
I wouldn't feel that bad. You know, they're gonna lose
fifty games at least this year, the Dodgers, So make
sure they lose most of the starts by Blake Snell,
I'd be fine with that. And Snell doesn't have to
worry anything because if, as say, will make him breakfast
(21:15):
in the morning, so he's fine, and they'll start the
bath for him and make sure the bubble bath is
the right temperature and all that. So he's in good shape.
He had nothing to worry about. Late Night Drug Tester
writes in, Because I'm not sure if it's a coincidence,
but ever since the Dodgers revoked your media credentials because
of Otani, they are unstoppable. Maybe if the Clippers do
the same thing, they will also overcome the Curse of
(21:38):
the Vanbino and win the NBA. Time with the Clippers
already made the Final four a couple of years back,
there is no curse of the Vanbino. You're dating yourself,
late Night Drug Tester. The Curse of the Beanbino was
started by a couple of callers. One was MotorCity Mike
and the other was Jihadis John, both of them from Michigan,
and they started this nonsense, the curse of the band,
(22:00):
you know, But the curse has been broken. The curse
has been broken. Mad Jack writes in, says, nice to
see the Doyers win despite snell Zilla putting every member
of the hapless Braves on base like he was Oprah.
You get a bag, you get a bag. Yeah. The
Dodgers tried to give the game to the Braves. The
(22:20):
Braves are so bad right now that they gave it back,
and Max Muncy not exactly the second coming of Brooks
Robinson or Michael Jack Schmid or I mean Hew Ken Caminetti.
I can go to any third great defensive third baseman
in baseball history. God, is he a disaster at third base? Defensively?
It doesn't matter because they're so good. But my goodness,
(22:43):
man alive. All right, let's see who else have page.
Dan Gunner says, good monologue. How about the Wolves Nuggets game? Gunner,
come on, didn't make a monologue, did not make a monologue. Robbie,
the Mariner fan who's got analytics in his blood, says
to tell Marte is already thirty one. I'm not sure
(23:05):
he fits in with Merrill and Campbell and the younger
players getting extensions before they deserve a discussion. Also, Marte
is currently the best second basement in baseball, at least
in the top three. But it's not allowing them to
go out and test the market now. Big Rick rob
writes in and says, Ben, that was a grade A
(23:25):
malor monologue. Yet again, the Mookie Banks bets take that
he's a better athlete. I'm gonna buy that, But is
he a better baseball player. That's my addition there. You
may be able to hit, you may be able to run,
but can you play? F al touve our buddy Chip
and the Ques, who's no longer working the deaded night
(23:47):
shift because of the evil doctors, He says a plus
on the mall monologue. I think Mookie Bets needs to
put down the crack pipe. But he's an accident player,
according to Chip and the Ques. Mookie Bets, but everyone
outside the family knows who the best player on the
(24:09):
Dowyers is. Nature Boy says, who would have thought the
Sacramento A's would have more wins than the Atlanta Braves
at this point? Well, every team in baseball has more wins,
even the ones that are in minor league ballparks like
Sacramento and Tampa Bay. Well, how about the Athletics. It's
(24:32):
good to know they're not in Oakland anymore. People used
to goof on the fact that no one went to
A's games, that it was invitation only and they pretty
much allow anyone to just walk in if you want
to go to an A's game when they were in
Oakland and they'd be playing at this cavernous stadium that
had sixty thousand seats and there'd be like ten thousand
people there. And in the finale, the series finale between
(24:56):
the Cubs and the Athletics and Sacramento, they had an
attendant of nine thousand, three hundred and forty two. That
was the total announced attendance for the initial three game
set of the Sacramento Athletics, thirty one thousand, five hundred
and fifty six. That's in three games, three games in
(25:17):
their minor league ballpark, which is appropriate because they have
minor league players. I know, Robbie the Meridithith, why don't
have minor league players? They have some of the greatest yoah,
oh my god, they're so good. Yeah, they're so great.
Oh yeah, they're just wondering if you'd like to be part.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.
That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
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say hello to Kelly in de Moin. Hello Kelly in
the Moin. This is the part where we punched the
button and then we get some amazing factoid that is
(26:25):
going to.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Oh, if you want amazing factoids, I got one for you.
I was shocked because the other network put out a
list of the one hundred best baseball players ever, and
somehow six mirrors made the list. I don't even know,
and four or more pictures, and I don't even know how.
I didn't know most of our pictures were worthy of that.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
So well, the most shocking part of that is that
there's another network. I thought they turned off. I thought
they went off the air years ago. I thought they just.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't listen to them.
I listened to you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Somebody must have told you about that, because I know
you don't listen to them.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I get alerts on my phone.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
On your phone, let's you should turn off all the
alerts on your phone. That's bad news.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I should turn off all the alerts on my phone.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, no I do. I don't have
like a lot of my buddies have the like Instagram
or Twitter, I guess x now Facebook, they have the
they get messaged anytime they get a message, And no
I don't have that. If I want to see what
my messages are, I'll just pop on there.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Somehow four Mariners pictures made them one hundred lists. I don't.
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
There were about there were about seven or eight years.
The Mariners consistently were one of the better teams in baseball,
so they all had to be in that seven eight
Randy Johnson, King Felix, two of them current pictures.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Then I was shocked, Oh well.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I don't. Can I name three Mariner pictures right now?
I can name it?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I can't. Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
We're not playing the game. We're not playing the Mariner game.
We're not playing the Seattle Mariner name a picture game.
We're not doing that. How dare you are you trying
to bogart the show with Seattle Mariner propaganda? Is that
is that? Lorena? Do you think that's a fun game? Lorena?
(28:21):
Do you think that would be a fun game. Yeah,
she said, no, isn't that your team? Of course I
would hope that you could name them. Well, she is
in though. There's not a lot of Mariner coverage in
the Moye. But the internet you can get whatever you want.
You're really into.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
That, correct, exactly?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, all right, Well I didn't see you when they
got Louis Castilla. They didn't trade him, so they got
I got. That's one Louis Castillo, right, I think that's
the only one I can name.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
We do.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I don't want to play the game. I named Louis Castille.
I don't want to play the game, but I named him.
And they have the big dump right or the dumpster
u cal Raleigh.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
There you go?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And what else they have? Oh? The guy that I
liked in Tampa Bay. That's guy I can I can
literally feel people turning the dial right now. But how
about Randy or Rosa Raina. He was on Tampa Bay.
I liked him in Tampa Bay. That's it. That's the
only Mariners I can name, right. Oh? The other guy
(29:26):
that center field of Rodriguez is good to I know.
That's it. I'm done. I'm out of Mariners. That's it
no more mariners who can't even name the angels? What
are you talking about? I mean, what are we doing here? Seriously?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
I have no idea. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
All right, Well, thank you Kelly, and everything going well
with your situation and everything progressing. She's gone. We don't
really care about that, Kelly. But let no, Kelly's she's
got a bun in the oven. So she's gonna have
a child. How many months along you think she is?
(30:13):
She's gotta be close to seven now? Is it really
been that long? Has time flown that much? I don't know.
I don't know the math. But that'll be the well,
not the first, because we've had others, but that will
be a child that is produced because of the show.
And should we feel good about that or should we
be disturbed by that? Like I'm not sure how we
(30:34):
should feel about that. But this is a couple that
is together because of the show, and I would I
would argue, and I don't think I'm wrong in this
that without the show, that doesn't happen, right the odds
of that happening? Fun fact, yes, they put that out.
How come they would not know each other without the show?
(30:57):
Exactly what I'm saying, is that they met because of
the show. Yeah, if it was for you, Ben, they
would not know love. We bring love together and we
have produced a next generation. I should be like the
godfather of the child. I must be the godfather of
the child because you have this, you know, Shane in
the morn and Kelly in the morning. And then they
got together because they met because of the show when
(31:18):
she was Donut Kelly. And now we've got the magic.
Now we've got the amazing thing, Kevin says. The Mariners
have the third best pitching in baseball. He says, and
then he's he's given me Mariner propaganda. There one name
after another. Nature Boy answering the call to the wild rights,
and he says, Max Munsey, it is all right, he does,
(31:43):
Max Munsey looked like rubber arms. Steve Sachs at third base,
a little rough the first the first throw, the number
sixteen in baseball. He k Hernandez could have should have
made the play, could have picked it out of the dirt.
But the other one was the other monthsI Era was atrocious.
(32:06):
Nature Boy also says, the only Mariner picture he can
answer is John Halama. That's it. Robbie says, I once
again am begging you to make a couple category for
worst caller of the year. So he is demanding, he
is taking shots, and that's that's what he wants. That's
what he wants. He wants a that is a category
(32:29):
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who Am I Game? This is where we pretend to
be somebody else's. We call it who Am I Game.
Pittsburgh's O'Neil Cruz who O'Neil Cruz became the fourth player
(33:13):
fourth player with two plus home runs six plus stolen
bases in a team's first seven games of a season.
He joins Ricky Henderson, Eric Davis of the Cincinnati Reds
and me again. O'Neil Cruz of the Pirates just became
the fourth player with two plus home runs, six plus
(33:34):
stolen bases, and a team's first seven games of a season.
Joining Ricky Henderson, Eric Davis and me. Who am I Who?
That is the question the answer, We'll get to it
and we will do it.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
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Now back to it, well, back to it. Bill, It's
me Ben and he keeps forgetting to say my name.
(35:01):
What a schmuck. But here's the who am I game?
Pittsburgh's O'Neil Cruz, who looks like he should dominate base.
But he's pretty good. He's pretty good. Who pirates? Sucked though,
But O'Neil Cruz became the fourth player with two or
more home runs, six or more stolen bases in a
team's first seven games. He joins Ricky Henderson, Eric Davis
(35:23):
and me Who am I?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Who?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
That is the question? What is the answer? And let's
see who do we have? Enie Meani, Miney Mo Psycho
Sid Guess by Andy and Lino Lakes Minnesota. Scrooge says
the most overpriced pitcher of all time Barry Zito, rob
(35:47):
the goat Man going with Robbie the Mariner fan. That's
a good photo of Robbie. Look at that lost a
couple of pounds there, The Tasmanian Devil guess by William
Alf the Alien o Piner go with Don Zimmer. Now
why you gotta do don Zimmer like that? Alf? Come
on man, rest in peace. One of the great characters,
Don Zimmer. He's only been dead for a million Years
(36:09):
A one Pierre guest by Malibu Rubin, Christian McCaffrey from
Miguel on Fire. Who else, Let's see Jared Allen who
is forty three today, Viking Legend from Late Night Drug
Tester Gunner from King Roy. Look at that? Is that Gunner?
And that's his brother on one side and his other brother
(36:30):
on the other. Look at that good job by Gunner.
Who else do we have? Hugh Hefner from Trucker Joe
Ryan Friel guest by Jordan Riley Cooper from Shane in
Des Moines, Donkey sausage tossed out by Malar prop guy.
Who else do we have? Milkman Mike and Colorado, says
Shane and Kelly's kids Godfather Bill Miller, Speedy Claxton from
(36:54):
Dante poly Diego and Old School Brew Crew with Ben
Ogilvie as his answer. The Mariner fans says, the guy
that stole the World Series ball from four Doug men
Kaevich is the answer. Who else? Uh? Williams Ostido? Whatever
happened to that guy? The Turtle? Whatever happened to him?
(37:16):
I think he's out? Is he out a baseball? Now?
He's not in the majors. I don't think uh, the
TJ spin Patrick has said Luis riz Padre first baseman.
He says, Loreina, do you have an answer? Is not
like Keebler Elf, which was guess b Slim tim or
Juan Pierre from slug in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Hi, buddy, Yeah, No, my guess is the grouch Tony Brothers.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
The Grouse Tony Brothers.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Is that the answer? No, the correct answer is Joe Morgan.
You know it seems Joe Morgan played for the Cowboys.
Well yeah, I mean, if he played football, he would
have played for the Cowboys. But he's most known for
the Cincinnati Reds. But that's a baseball team, and they
(38:02):
were known as the Big what what were they known
as the Big What? The Big Reds? Well kind of
there was a big Red machine, Big Red. I didn't
want to move. I gotta eat this story real quick.
So the Pirates are not a good baseball team, but
they have one of the young faces of baseball, this
Paul Skeen's character. He's one of the young faces. Pitcher
(38:25):
really good, so good. It'll be on the Dodgers, the Yankees,
the Red Sox in a few years. But He's also
in a relationship with Libby Dunn, the famous she's like
an internet model now at this point, she's still She's
not a college athlete anymore, I don't think anyway. They
did a photo shoot for GQ and it was very awkward.
And can we play a little bit, Paul, play play
(38:45):
the clip, coop, we can play it. I want to
play this a little bit on we don't have it
all right? Well, Paul Skins, He said, I just want
to play the beginning of it, because he said he
was shocked by somebody he didn't realize when he signed
up for the photo shoot. Take take a listen, real quick,
listen this Paul skeins of the Pirates. Here, let's see
we can pop this in here in place. He's popping it.
He's popping it. You should hear him pop it. It's
(39:06):
coming right now. It's it's now running into a brick wall. Hey,
you're always well dressed. But we didn't know we're talking
to a GQ model today.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
What's that all about?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Yeah, jeez m yeah, I don't know. It's Uh, I'm
gonna get some flak in the in the locker room.
I know that I'm not I'm not looking forward to that. Yeah. Well,
he also said I didn't we didn't get the best part.
I didn't know what GQ was. He said, I didn't
know what GQ was. How do you not know what
GQ is? Seriously,
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