Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler,
Speaker 3: that's me and Danny G. Radio. It is the sixth
Speaker 3: day of April. A good Saturday to you, Good Saturday
Speaker 3: to you, as we are continuing our in depth team coverage.
Speaker 3: No days off, Danny G. No days off, not from
Speaker 3: the pod, no no, no, as we are hanging out
Speaker 3: Danny Covino and Rich and I of course from the
Speaker 3: The Overnight Show during the week. And we thank you
Speaker 3: for finding the podcast. And all we need is five minutes, Danny, really,
Speaker 3: that's it, right.
Speaker 1: Five minutes of your time, and we get credit for
Speaker 1: it as a download and a listen.
Speaker 3: So if we did just a five minute podcast and
Speaker 3: everyone listened for those five minutes, we'd be good.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, let's do that. We have two and a
Speaker 1: half minutes left to go.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's it just five minutes and then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just sing for two and a half minutes.
Speaker 3: La la la la la la la la la la
Speaker 3: la good bye.
Speaker 1: On second thought, I just remembered your singing abilities.
Speaker 3: Hey, there's a few songs I know. I think I've
Speaker 3: done all of them right now, No one very good?
Speaker 1: How about this one?
Speaker 3: Turn out the last the parties over? Does that work
Speaker 3: for you?
Speaker 1: That's a drop, that's about it. Oh no.
Speaker 3: The other one I know is Die Die Diarrhea. And
Speaker 3: the good thing about that one is that Eddie loves
Speaker 3: that one and he wanted to play it. But Lorraine
Speaker 3: h as marcel I said she couldn't find it, So
Speaker 3: we didn't have that one. So yeah, maybe that got
Speaker 3: a raise from the system.
Speaker 1: It did. I actually looked for that before and couldn't
Speaker 1: find it. So somebody did delete that. They that's a classic.
Speaker 1: I know. I have the Negro drop though you want
Speaker 1: to hear it?
Speaker 3: Uh No, I think I'm I think I'm I'm good
Speaker 3: on that. But all look the same. Now here's a
Speaker 3: fun fact. I'll let you behind the microphone on how
Speaker 3: the Die Die diarrhea song came about. Well, that was
Speaker 3: the Ben Bishop when he put his pants for Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: But that's kind of my that's an homage, Danny. I'm
Speaker 3: paying homage to a song when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: it hanah die Die Dieanu. It was a song we
Speaker 3: would sing. And so I just I use a creative license.
Speaker 1: To Eddie argue with you and say that that wasn't
Speaker 1: what was going on with Bishop Eddie's delusion.
Speaker 3: Okay, he's so far up the tookas of Gary Bettman
Speaker 3: that he does not understand that that's they should embrace that,
Speaker 3: just like when remember Lamar Jackson had the poopies fan
Speaker 3: off the field to go take a pooh.
Speaker 1: Isn't that what happened to was it Paul Pierce?
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, that's that's that legend when he was in
Speaker 3: the wheel the wheelchair legendary. He had to go poo poo.
Speaker 1: It was great to see pooh.
Speaker 3: Oh so good that white home Celtic uniform would have
Speaker 3: been brown and.
Speaker 1: White racist Uh cavaliers Jersey.
Speaker 3: Oh that is uh, that is simply simply wonderful, is
Speaker 3: what that is. So we got a lot to get
Speaker 3: to on the Saturday Pod. I will start with this.
Speaker 3: A few emails this week Danny about something that happened
Speaker 3: on the Coveno and Rich show. Oh yeah, and we'll
Speaker 3: call this one topic cannon fodder.
Speaker 1: So I woke up.
Speaker 3: I was in a bit of a daze. A few
Speaker 3: emails were coming in from people.
Speaker 1: Said, did you hear? Did you hear what.
Speaker 3: Happened on the Coveno and Rich Show? And I'm like, well, no,
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't hear. And then so then you
Speaker 3: would send me. You sent me a link, so then
Speaker 3: I was able to hear the whole thing. But on
Speaker 3: Coveno and Rich, they and I'm actually not upset people.
Speaker 3: Some people thought, you know how the p ones are, Danny.
Speaker 3: They're like, they want to start a civil war. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: between the Overnight Show and Coveno and Rich and I.
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys have always been vocal about how
Speaker 1: they like you and they love your radio show. So
Speaker 1: they pointed that out first before Rich started complaining.
Speaker 3: Before I said a mad dog in me. But no,
Speaker 3: and uh yeah, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 3: In fact, I'm honored, right, I'm honored that a take
Speaker 3: I had is good enough. The take is strong enough
Speaker 3: to still have legs later in the day.
Speaker 4: Poor Ben Mallard. I liked the guy, in fact, one
Speaker 4: of the nicest dudes here at Fox Sports Radio. But
Speaker 4: I saw a clip on our Socials and it was
Speaker 4: his take on Petalonzo and the minute I saw him, like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hate this take, and you know what, you
Speaker 4: could say that Ben Mallow and dummy fishing and caught me.
Speaker 3: WHOA, that's that means that's a quality take, right? That
Speaker 3: takes got a good sholf life. A lot of the
Speaker 3: takes die on the vine. That takes don't survive the day,
Speaker 3: but that take.
Speaker 1: Had a pulse. Yeah. If nobody's talking about you and
Speaker 1: then you're doing something wrong, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And listen, people are entitled to be wrong. I
Speaker 3: of course am not, but other people can be wrong,
Speaker 3: and so I'm fine with it. I think it's it's great.
Speaker 3: And I remember years ago I had an epiphany. It
Speaker 3: was actually when I was filling in at WI I
Speaker 3: was doing. I was like a nighttime filling guy remotely
Speaker 3: for we on Boston, and there were some days and
Speaker 3: you know what this is, like, Daddy, some days you'd
Speaker 3: come in and you're like, man, yes, it's kind of
Speaker 3: like we're in famine right now. You know, It's like
Speaker 3: those things aren't going particularly great now. It's never that bad,
Speaker 3: but when you have a national show, there's always plenty
Speaker 3: of stuff. But if you have to do a central
Speaker 3: show for one city and there's not necessarily a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff going on, you start to freak out little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's say some of those local guys make
Speaker 1: things up sometimes out of necessity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to use we call that the straw man.
Speaker 3: You make a straw man, you make an argument, then
Speaker 3: fight against the argument which was totally made up in
Speaker 3: your head.
Speaker 1: But one of.
Speaker 3: The tricks that I learned is a lot of times
Speaker 3: what they would do is they would just do an
Speaker 3: entire show dedicated to ripping a take that like Skip
Speaker 3: Bayless or Steven Ahad, and it would be it would
Speaker 3: be weaponizing a take, and they would do their entire
Speaker 3: show based on that. Okay, so you know, I don't
Speaker 3: do that that often, but I do dabble in the
Speaker 3: fine art of repurposing a take.
Speaker 1: Gottlieb actually has a feature on the network he does
Speaker 1: weekly called what does the Fox Say? So he actually
Speaker 1: made a segment out of this CNR. They don't do
Speaker 1: this often, but once in a while something will catch
Speaker 1: their attention and they asked me to grab the audio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's all.
Speaker 3: It's all good and not list I will react tongue
Speaker 3: in cheek and make references to Colin Cowherd or Dan
Speaker 3: Patrick or somebody like that, you know, usually about how
Speaker 3: much money they make, but that but that's fine. Whatever,
Speaker 3: it's all.
Speaker 1: That's all good.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, you don't need to send me any more emails.
Speaker 3: And I love the fact that you're listening to Covino
Speaker 3: and Rich and in our show and uh, and that
Speaker 3: you're you're ready to pounce at any moment and send
Speaker 3: me a message, So I appreciate that. I did want
Speaker 3: to also mention on the way back, we talked yesterday
Speaker 3: a little bit about my trip to Vegas and our
Speaker 3: new favorite hotel in Vegas and winning some money and
Speaker 3: yet again leaving town. I ended up i'd bet the
Speaker 3: over in the Dodger Dodger cardinal game last Saturday. Uh,
Speaker 3: bet the bet the over and the game was like scoreless,
Speaker 3: I think going to the fifth inning. So I'm like
Speaker 3: it was like eight and a half and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to win this, you know, no chance.
Speaker 1: And there was like a.
Speaker 3: Rain delay and then they ended up and ended up
Speaker 3: going over the total unreal craziness. So I gotta go
Speaker 3: back again. But on the way out of Sin City,
Speaker 3: leaving Vegas, it was kind of a rainy day.
Speaker 1: That kind of it was.
Speaker 3: It was a rainy day, like just a light rain,
Speaker 3: a light drizzle in Vegas on Saturday. Now I had
Speaker 3: told the wife, I said, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 3: we're going to be driving through the desert. It's to cool,
Speaker 3: wet kind of a day. We might end up getting
Speaker 3: some snow. And the wife's like, no, come on. So
Speaker 3: it's late March, not getting any snow. We're fine, nothing
Speaker 3: to worry about. So we're driving through the desert. We
Speaker 3: get out to Prim, beautiful Prim, Nevada right there on
Speaker 3: the border, and we cross over and so light rain.
Speaker 3: It's probably in the low fifties, maybe fifty three degrees.
Speaker 3: In fact, I think it's exactly fifty three degrees as
Speaker 3: I looked at the dashboard. So we're driving, we're driving,
Speaker 3: we're driving, and we get out of Prim. We're in
Speaker 3: the California Desert. Count of your Death Valley not that
Speaker 3: far away from prim by the way, we're not quite
Speaker 3: not in Baker, but we're out in that dead man's
Speaker 3: own and we're going up there's altitude, and it's getting
Speaker 3: colder and colder and colder and colder. And it went
Speaker 3: from fifty three degrees.
Speaker 1: To thirty degrees.
Speaker 3: So I ask you, Danny, as a meteorologist, if there's
Speaker 3: a light rain and it's fifty three degrees, it's a
Speaker 3: light rain. If there's a light rain and it's thirty degrees,
Speaker 3: what happens to that light.
Speaker 1: Rain, Danny? What? We hardly ever see it in California. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was crazy.
Speaker 3: It's like snowing. It wasn't a lot of snow and
Speaker 3: it only lasted for about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: But it was crazy though. Yeah, it was ever say that.
Speaker 3: I was sticking to the cactus on the side of
Speaker 3: the road and stuff, and it was pretty bizarre.
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, that's wild, man.
Speaker 3: I was like, I want to stop and do a
Speaker 3: dopey YouTube video or Instagram whatever it.
Speaker 1: Was, see exactly where you were. I've seen a lightning
Speaker 1: storm before on a road trip with my cousin, and
Speaker 1: that was creepy, you know. You're in the middle of
Speaker 1: nowhere basically, and the lightning was hitting the ground. I
Speaker 1: think it would freak me out more if I saw
Speaker 1: snow falling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not expecting to drive in snow. And then
Speaker 3: you're like, well, do I have the proper tires? Do
Speaker 3: I need to go to tire rack dot com to
Speaker 3: get some new tires. I don't think they'll the libor
Speaker 3: on that quick, you know. Yeah, it's that kind.
Speaker 1: So you could say, you could say, Iowa, Sam says
Speaker 1: you need one more.
Speaker 3: No comment, But you could say that that was a
Speaker 3: Murphy's loss situation, Danny driving back and then having the
Speaker 3: rain come down and in that the snow, and now
Speaker 3: that it wasn't all that, do it.
Speaker 1: We have fifteen minutes left, He'll do it.
Speaker 3: So we got to Baker, home of the Mad Greek
Speaker 3: with the nine dollars Shake the Mad Greek or whatever
Speaker 3: it is, and all lanes on the other side of
Speaker 3: the fifteen freeway that goes from La to Vegas all
Speaker 3: lanes completely closed. There's a massive accident. The backup it went,
Speaker 3: it seemed like it went like for eight or nine miles.
Speaker 3: Cars just backed up. People were out playing catch or
Speaker 3: were having a catch on the side of the road.
Speaker 3: People were standing on their cars, people were chatting with
Speaker 3: each other. It was wild.
Speaker 1: He saw Kevin Costner and his dad throwing the ball around.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was like the Field of Dreams and
Speaker 3: all that. So it's like it was bad enough we
Speaker 3: went through the snow, but it could have been worse.
Speaker 3: It could have been worse, but that was for them.
Speaker 3: It wasn't Murphy's law situation.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm calling this Murphy's Law because of our
Speaker 1: text messaging. While I was in Las Vegas, I made
Speaker 1: the executive decision that I was not going to gamble
Speaker 1: again on boxing because my very first bet, my very
Speaker 1: first legal bet in Los Wages, Nevada. It was last
Speaker 1: September when I was there for another boxing match with
Speaker 1: Covino and Rich and we broadcasted live from the radio
Speaker 1: row there inside MGM, and it was this great Canelo
Speaker 1: fight that wasn't great, but we lost the bet. So
Speaker 1: all of us left that fight with our heads down.
Speaker 1: The previous two fights prior to that, the guys had won.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess we got some money here.
Speaker 1: They each like put fifty bucks in and I think
Speaker 1: the payout was like seven hundred or something like that,
Speaker 1: and they split the winnings. So I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll do that, and of course we lost. Nobody made money.
Speaker 1: I actually, the second time I gambled in Vegas, I
Speaker 1: won some money on football, so that was great. But
Speaker 1: with boxing, I'm like, I'm going to stay away from it.
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about boxing. You know, Coveno is
Speaker 1: a box guy, so I was listening to what he
Speaker 1: had to say. Kil you get more rotation with two hands.
Speaker 1: This guy named Roly Romero. What would you call a
Speaker 1: loud mouth in sports? Ben uh? Blow hard? A blowhard,
Speaker 1: perfect way to describe Roi. So he gets on our
Speaker 1: live broadcast Friday, grabs his headset and he says, this
Speaker 1: is now the ROI show. Pound in his chest and
Speaker 1: he's calling this pit bull guy he was gonna fight against.
Speaker 1: He calls him a bum, talks about how short his
Speaker 1: arms are, that he's not even gonna be able to
Speaker 1: reach him in the ring, and he said he was
Speaker 1: a midget. All this stuff on the air. We had
Speaker 1: to dump this guy like five times, by the way.
Speaker 1: So he's just going on and on about how amazing
Speaker 1: he is and how much this pit bull guy is
Speaker 1: a scrub. Well, afterwards, Covino said, Hey, you know, I
Speaker 1: know he's very convincing, but this little pit bull boxer
Speaker 1: out of Mexico, he has a compact punch like Mike Tyson.
Speaker 1: He's coming to knock, roll, block off. So I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna put my money on him. So right after the
Speaker 1: live broadcast, Coveno looks for the sports book and he says,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna make this bet. Now you choose.
Speaker 1: Do I go left and follow Coveno and get in
Speaker 1: on it, or do I go right and get a
Speaker 1: slice of pie and go back up to my hotel room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're thinking the pie.
Speaker 3: You're going pie?
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah?
Speaker 3: Pie?
Speaker 1: I went pie. So I got a slice of New
Speaker 1: York pizza there, what they called New York pizza. The
Speaker 1: whole time I'm thinking though, like dang it. But I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: stay away from it, Just stay away from it. We
Speaker 1: get to the fight Saturday evening. Officially it was a
Speaker 1: technical knockout, and it was Roly face down, crying almost
Speaker 1: because this pit bull kid just obliterated him. From the
Speaker 1: first round. Roly had wobbly legs. He rebounded nicely, to
Speaker 1: turn it into an eight round fight, but Roly in
Speaker 1: his big mouth lost slap me around a little bit.
Speaker 1: Coveno one for one on his parlay. Now the next fight,
Speaker 1: this big tall Fundora dude from Mexico against the short
Speaker 1: Australian guy. The Australian guy gets a cut on his
Speaker 1: head from an elbow. That's a lot, there's It was
Speaker 1: a literal bloodbath, ben, So we don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Is is the medical team gonna stop this thing? They
Speaker 1: did not. The guys went the distance. Big Fundora wins.
Speaker 1: He now gets the belt, and that was the other guy.
Speaker 1: Covino shows. So Coveno's jumping up and down because he
Speaker 1: just won four hundred and fifty dollars. I am such
Speaker 1: a radio loser, damn it. I had told you prior
Speaker 1: to the trip, I said, I don't think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bet with the guys this time. And what did you
Speaker 1: tell me? Yeah, I said you.
Speaker 3: I don't remember exactly what I said, but I think
Speaker 3: it was something, why, well, you're gonna end up winning,
Speaker 3: They're gonna win the bet or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you said they're gonna definitely win it's
Speaker 1: Murphy's law.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well I used Murphy's I don't remember using
Speaker 3: Murphy's law, but yeah, yeah, And that happens. I can't
Speaker 3: tell you how many times that has happened over the years,
Speaker 3: where like I'm thinking, Okay, there's something I like, a
Speaker 3: game I like, and then I don't bet it because
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm afraid I'm gonna lose. And then the
Speaker 3: games you don't bet you almost always win.
Speaker 1: You almost always win. It's nuts and the question learned
Speaker 1: my lesson. Look, I could live without that fifty dollars,
Speaker 1: but can I live without the four hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: The question is this, though, next time you go to
Speaker 3: Vegas with Colvino and Rich, will you be back in
Speaker 3: or are the odds now against you? Since they won
Speaker 3: this time, they probably won't win the next time because
Speaker 3: you don't usually win back to back.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to borrow Looney from you as my penny,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna flip loony. Yeah, it's a coin flip.
Speaker 3: It's always a maybe he'll bring the penny shirt that
Speaker 3: he wore on TV that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or maybe he'll wear his green shirt against a green.
Speaker 3: Street, which he did multiple times. I had to bring
Speaker 3: bring multiple shirts because you didn't know. You couldn't tell
Speaker 3: whether there was enough green in it.
Speaker 1: It would ruin the greens. Benny Benny in the Floating Head.
Speaker 3: Tom Looney owns me I'm his bitch, clearly without a doubt.
Speaker 3: Oh god, unreal. Uh oh, you know I I did
Speaker 3: have a person email me this week, Danny that said
Speaker 3: they wanted me to go back in depth on the
Speaker 3: pink Box. Put in the box, the pink Box. So
Speaker 3: we've talked about this in the past. I'll just do
Speaker 3: it real quick. So this is a great southern California story, Danny,
Speaker 3: the donut shops.
Speaker 1: Pink Box. I remember you explaining this. Yeah, we've we've
Speaker 1: done it.
Speaker 3: We did a while ago, and uh I briefly mentioned
Speaker 3: it on the Overnight Show this week. And so, of course,
Speaker 3: as always happens, inevitably, somebody will email this podcast.
Speaker 1: And say, hey, you kind of mentioned that, but you
Speaker 1: didn't really get a detail. I want to hear more
Speaker 1: about that, And rather.
Speaker 3: Than me telling them to go back download a podcasts
Speaker 3: from two years ago, I'm just you know, I'm doing
Speaker 3: it right now. So the legend that in the the
Speaker 3: not the early days, because this was you know, Southern
Speaker 3: California has been around for a long time, but years
Speaker 3: and years ago. It's probably goes back around fifty years ago,
Speaker 3: maybe forty five years around fifty. So the donut shops,
Speaker 3: there were a large group of Cambodian refugees that all
Speaker 3: got into donut shops. This was their way to make
Speaker 3: a lot of money in America. So they owned a
Speaker 3: bunch of donut shops.
Speaker 1: They saw the fat Asses and Copps here in La.
Speaker 3: So and one of the donut shop owners in Southern California,
Speaker 3: he asked west Co Printing West Co Printing. He said, listen,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm a struggling business owner. I don't have
Speaker 3: a lot of money. Is there any way I can
Speaker 3: get a cheaper box, because they were using the regular
Speaker 3: white box for donuts, the standard white cardboard box. And
Speaker 3: they're like, anything, you can cut me a break. I can't.
Speaker 3: I just we don't have a lot of money. And
Speaker 3: so the one of the people there, the vendor, said
Speaker 3: you know what I think, I think we I can.
Speaker 1: Cut you a deal.
Speaker 3: And so he he went in the bag and there
Speaker 3: were some leftover pink cardboard boxes in the corner of
Speaker 3: the warehouse and he's like, oh, yeah, i'll give you
Speaker 3: these for you know, I'll give you these for less,
Speaker 3: because you know, we have to throw these away. And
Speaker 3: he's like, well, why do you why do you have
Speaker 3: to throw them away? As as well? These were supposed
Speaker 3: to be red boxes, but the there was a printer
Speaker 3: error and they didn't put enough of the right mix
Speaker 3: of the color in there, so they came back pink.
Speaker 3: So instead of read, they were pink, and so the
Speaker 3: customer didn't want them. So we just have all these
Speaker 3: pink boxes, and so we'll give them to you for
Speaker 3: whatever it was, I don't know exact price. And so
Speaker 3: the guy took it and then it was a very
Speaker 3: popular donut shop and it just over the years it
Speaker 3: just became associated with baked goods.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's always you're always jealous, Like when I
Speaker 1: see somebody walking with a pink box to their car,
Speaker 1: you know, leaving a little plaza here in La Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm always like, man, what kind of donuts do they
Speaker 1: pick in that box?
Speaker 3: Well, and I know you're on a diet, and good
Speaker 3: for you, Danny. But in Vegas, the one of the
Speaker 3: donut shop chains there is pink Box, which they just
Speaker 3: named it, and it's really good. It's a good donut
Speaker 3: chain in Vegas, and I think it's in some other cities.
Speaker 3: But yeah, my new tradition since we drive to Vegas
Speaker 3: is in prim we normally stopped to go to the
Speaker 3: bathroom and then they have a Pink Box donut shop.
Speaker 3: But unfortunately, we drove back on Easter weekend and it
Speaker 3: turns out people really like to give donuts on Easter
Speaker 3: because there were they were totally empty. There was hardly
Speaker 3: any donuts left by the time we got in there,
Speaker 3: and I was like, it's crazy. I was like, I
Speaker 3: was like, I want my apple fritter, and there was
Speaker 3: no apple fritter. They were out of everything.
Speaker 1: You got crickets.
Speaker 3: So we had to go to a different donut shop
Speaker 3: to get my my fix, my apple fritter fix.
Speaker 1: For the day.
Speaker 3: So what else do we have? There's a few other
Speaker 3: things I wanted to get to on the Saturday.
Speaker 1: Pod daydreaming about apple fritters. Now, thank you, I'm so bastard.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 3: They're my new favorite. I was always team cinnamon Roll,
Speaker 3: but now I've crossed over.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely in the closet.
Speaker 3: Let's get to the idiom of the week.
Speaker 1: Idiom of the week, not idiot, idiom idiot.
Speaker 3: Now let me point out, Danny that this is something
Speaker 3: that you might not even know what this term is,
Speaker 3: but it's an old colloquial baseball term.
Speaker 1: And since yesterday.
Speaker 3: Alf Alf had me go down a rabbit hole for
Speaker 3: the phrase of the week, which was a Texas leaguer.
Speaker 3: And if you forgot, we mentioned this guy, Ollie Pickering,
Speaker 3: who great player from the Texas League, and they named
Speaker 3: the Texas Leaguer is named after Olie.
Speaker 1: Right after the show yesterday, I went down and got
Speaker 1: his baseball card. Yeah, I'm sure you.
Speaker 3: So today on the Saturday Pod, we have a Baltimore chop.
Speaker 1: Do you even know what that is?
Speaker 3: It's a baseball term, Danny, Do you know what a
Speaker 3: Baltimore chop is? A Baltimore chop is a chopper that
Speaker 3: takes a high bounce right in front of home plate
Speaker 3: and allows the rudder to reach first. Basically goes so
Speaker 3: far up in the air. Just imagine hitting the ball
Speaker 3: so hard into the ground. It bounces up like it's
Speaker 3: a fly, but it hit the ground, so you still
Speaker 3: have to catch it and throw and all that. It's
Speaker 3: called the Baltimore chop. So, as you might imagine, it
Speaker 3: actually originated from Indianapolis, Indiana. No, it came from Baltimore,
Speaker 3: of course. And this is from the late nineteenth century,
Speaker 3: the Orioles. All right, so you realize you're like the
Speaker 3: only guy left that uses that technology. Yeah, what do
Speaker 3: you think about the oil?
Speaker 1: That is a classic.
Speaker 3: The Orioles. This was in the dead ball era, and
Speaker 3: nobody was scoring many runs in the dead ball era,
Speaker 3: and so the Orioles came up with this conniving plan.
Speaker 3: They had this brilliant plan, the Orioles. And what they
Speaker 3: did is they instructed the grounds crew. Of course I
Speaker 3: say grounds crew. There was probably one guy that was
Speaker 3: like a gardener that they had on the payroll. But
Speaker 3: they instructed the groundskeeper to pack the dirt in front
Speaker 3: of home plate so that the guys that were really
Speaker 3: fast could just hit the ball on the ground. And
Speaker 3: they had John McGraw second, John McGrath reference this weekend
Speaker 3: and we Willie Heeler, healer we Willy Keeler, I believe
Speaker 3: it is how he was called. Now, the legend is
Speaker 3: that the Baltimore Orioles actually put a concrete slab. They
Speaker 3: put dirt over it, but they put a concrete slab in.
Speaker 1: Front of home plate a bunch of cheaters.
Speaker 3: That's like something the ass holes. I don't have to pause,
Speaker 3: it's a podcast and I can just say a holes
Speaker 3: sounds sounds. It's not gonna be careful because then next
Speaker 3: week on the radio say.
Speaker 1: As holes in your head.
Speaker 3: Lyn Loraino will freak out, But I don't think she'll
Speaker 3: freak out. The only one that used to freak out
Speaker 3: was Iowa Sam. I don't think she'll freak out.
Speaker 1: I think she'll be She'll be okay, She'll just belly
Speaker 1: laugh and then hit the dump button.
Speaker 3: Yeah after after. That's like my favorite show. When I
Speaker 3: was a kid, My favorite radio show this Jim Healy Show.
Speaker 3: And he would play all these sound bites and he
Speaker 3: learned actually I met a few people that worked with him,
Speaker 3: and and heally knew that as long as there was
Speaker 3: a bleep in there somewhere, people would just assume that
Speaker 3: the word was bleep. But he would often put the
Speaker 3: bleep after the word, like the word fuck, and he
Speaker 3: hear it fuck and then you hear the bleep.
Speaker 1: And he got away with it, he.
Speaker 3: Got away with it, he was able to finagle the system.
Speaker 1: I've actually I've you told that story a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, so as an ode to him, I've done
Speaker 1: that on this very podcast before. Fuck yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: way to go.
Speaker 3: It's it's you know, it's comedy, comedy gold come on,
Speaker 3: why now so again Baltimore Chop the idiom over the
Speaker 3: week and this has been a good weekend, Danny, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna pat each other on the back here because we
Speaker 3: had on the Friday Pod we had that thing I
Speaker 3: found about the white elephant for.
Speaker 1: The A's Yep, very racist from nineteen oh two.
Speaker 3: So that's that was kind of cool. And then we
Speaker 3: also had Texas Leaguer and then today on the Saturday Pot,
Speaker 3: we've got the Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Chop, so really good if you're a nerd dude. And
Speaker 1: show hey hit his first Dodger home run a few
Speaker 1: days back, so it was a beautiful week for baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, beautiful, beautiful Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then they pressured the girl who caught the ball.
Speaker 3: And for a couple of hats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boys and girls, world, Boys and girls, if you
Speaker 1: ever catch a home run ball that you know was
Speaker 1: hit by a superstar and it's a meaningful baseball. Don't
Speaker 1: do anything with it until you can call one of
Speaker 1: those attorneys on a big billboard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's got to be a lawsuit coming out of that, right,
Speaker 3: there's got to be a lawsuit. It says on the
Speaker 3: ticket that if a ball goes into the stands, you're
Speaker 3: allowed to keep the ball. Everyone knows the rules, right,
Speaker 3: that's the rule.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Oh?
Speaker 3: I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know. We I ranted about that a little bit
Speaker 3: this week too. I'm a I'm a fan, fan rights advocate, Danny.
Speaker 1: I stand with the fan. That's what I stand with.
Speaker 1: You're a people's person. What are the Dodgers something like that?
Speaker 3: I mean, the way that story was written, it sounded
Speaker 3: like the Dodgers are like the mob running a casino
Speaker 3: in the in the nineteen forties. You know, it's like,
Speaker 3: what are you in Vegas?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: You know what they told her? They said, We're going
Speaker 1: to make you an offer that you cannot refuse.
Speaker 3: I mean, would it come on, hey man.
Speaker 1: You got a job baseball and two hats? Oh maybe
Speaker 1: to get season tickets out.
Speaker 3: I would at least season tickets.
Speaker 1: I would have demanded season seats, a weekend trip with
Speaker 1: show Hey to the Shoemash Casino, because you know he
Speaker 1: would have a fun time with you there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't have a sports book, so you'd have
Speaker 3: to go to.
Speaker 1: And I would have I would have demanded credentials, media
Speaker 1: credentials for Ben Maller and Danny g Yeah. Well, I
Speaker 1: forget that.
Speaker 3: I'm boycotting. Unless Marlon Man, Marlin's Man brings me out there,
Speaker 3: then maybe I'll show up. But other than that, I'm good.
Speaker 1: And that ball, Danny.
Speaker 3: You think about Otani and how crazy people are in
Speaker 3: Japan for Otani?
Speaker 1: Oh, can you imagine that?
Speaker 3: Is if you auction that baseball off, that's that's a
Speaker 3: that's a six figure I'd say two hundred thousand at least.
Speaker 1: I heard in his native country within a couple of
Speaker 1: hours they replayed that home run on TV there thirty
Speaker 1: five times. They are obsessed with him, like we can't
Speaker 1: even describe how I mean, it would be like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Bo Jackson. What's even more more than that?
Speaker 1: What's one cutting into broadcasts? Yes, that's what it reminds
Speaker 1: me of exactly.
Speaker 3: You tell people, First of all, you tell people that
Speaker 3: there was a point everyone watched the nightly news. People
Speaker 3: are blown away by that. People watch the nightly news. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: they They had Peter Jennings on ABC. They had Dan
Speaker 3: Rather and Tom Broka and those were the big big
Speaker 3: ankles anchors at the CBO.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're if you're too young to remember this.
Speaker 1: We would be watching whatever it was on TV and
Speaker 1: they would interrupt the program and say Mark McGuire is
Speaker 1: stepping up to the plate right now. It was so cool.
Speaker 3: But even at the nightly news, they'd say, here's the
Speaker 3: news in America. Home run Chase at Bush Stadium in
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, and it was it was wild, wild and crazy.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll get out on that. That's a great
Speaker 3: Saturday today, day of rest, the day of nothing, and
Speaker 3: I will take full advantage of the nothingness and Danny
Speaker 3: anything special going on? You want to promote.
Speaker 1: Anything after that story? We just told it's weird. I'm
Speaker 1: craving steroids right now, the clear of the cream.
Speaker 3: Which one would you like?
Speaker 1: We're actually both. You have the weather permits. We were
Speaker 1: going to take baby CoA out for a walk. There's this,
Speaker 1: you'd like this. They just renovated a duck Pond that's
Speaker 1: a couple blocks away from where we live, and it's
Speaker 1: really Yeah, they did a nice job with it. It had
Speaker 1: been closed for months and months while the city renovated it.
Speaker 1: And there are a ton of ducks in there right now. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's my duck. You think these ducks are looking around,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh man, they did a good job on
Speaker 1: this place. It used to be a shit show here.
Speaker 3: No, they're like, this is a blank canvas and I
Speaker 3: can paint it with my shit everywhere. All right, having
Speaker 3: wonderful day. We got a fresh pod tomorrow as well.
Speaker 3: We'll have a big mail bag and answer your questions
Speaker 3: and all that. So enjoy the weekend, watch some baseball
Speaker 3: and the Final four today. In the Final four, be
Speaker 3: down to the final two by the end of today
Speaker 3: and we'll see what that matchup looks like. Anyway, have
Speaker 3: a great day and we'll catch you tomorrow.
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