Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot
Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere back
Speaker 1: in the Magic podcast do Jo call that from now
Speaker 1: In honor of Victor brick Jacobs, who was on last week.
Speaker 1: It is another edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Mallor and Danny Gen back at it again on a Friday.
Speaker 1: Now normally on Friday, over the last few years we've
Speaker 1: been doing this podcast, we would bring somebody on to ray,
Speaker 1: aunt and rave and give you chills, either positive chills
Speaker 1: or bad chills. But we said, you know what, from
Speaker 1: time to time, we just wanna make it about us.
Speaker 1: It's all about us. And so a rare and appropriate
Speaker 1: appearance by Danny G Radio on a Friday. Look at that,
Speaker 1: Danny G. Yeah, how are you gonna get fired on
Speaker 1: your day off? Bros? Motherfucker. That's that's right. Listen so
Speaker 1: we got a lot of stuff going on. It's been
Speaker 1: a very busy week. I did not have time nor
Speaker 1: did I want to get to some of this stuff
Speaker 1: on the terrestrial radio show, for for many reasons, for
Speaker 1: many reasons. So the menu on Benny's Bistro, the Friday restaurant,
Speaker 1: here's what we're serving up. We've got remember the Alamo
Speaker 1: down range and a hardball brain bender. After all, it's
Speaker 1: opening weekend a major League baseball And clearly, NYG, we
Speaker 1: are both old because we both like baseball, so there
Speaker 1: must be something wrong with us. But I love baseball,
Speaker 1: and I got very lucky years ago to do stuff
Speaker 1: in baseball, which was a lot of fun. And I
Speaker 1: always look forward to Opening Day and you hear that music,
Speaker 1: you know that that that that that that Dodgers. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like that or your your favorite team, just like that.
Speaker 1: You got your Brooklyn hat on. And I'm excited to
Speaker 1: say that I found a couple of season my tender
Speaker 1: Ronie did. Found a couple of seats for Dodgers Opening
Speaker 1: Day next Thursday, opening at home at least, yeah, the
Speaker 1: home opening home open. But it's a night game, it's
Speaker 1: not Yeah, that's why I'm able to go, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let me know how it is. Well, maybe i'll maybe
Speaker 1: I'll make a rare and appropriate appearance out there. It's
Speaker 1: possible it could happen. So let's get right into it, though,
Speaker 1: and we begin. Let me give you a little back
Speaker 1: story before we begin here. So, from time to time
Speaker 1: on the show, it is an opinion based show. When
Speaker 1: opportunity knocks, we take advantage of it on the on
Speaker 1: the radio show, in this show, and normally things go
Speaker 1: according to plan. Every once in a while we will
Speaker 1: have a monologue that resonates and gets an emotional reaction
Speaker 1: out of people that happened earlier. Yes, we ruffled, We
Speaker 1: ruffled some feathers on the radio show. So at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the week. So let's take you back in
Speaker 1: the hot Top time machine to the beginning of the week,
Speaker 1: and we were coming in. It was a Sunday night
Speaker 1: into a Monday. The Final Four had been played on Saturday,
Speaker 1: so there was down to two teams the championship game,
Speaker 1: Kansas and North Carolina. So he had not going on. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the NFL news has started to slow down. We knew
Speaker 1: at some point this was going to happen. We could
Speaker 1: not keep up that pace. We could not keep that
Speaker 1: pace up. And so finally things in the NFL have
Speaker 1: quieted down. It's the calm before the NFL Draft, which
Speaker 1: is later this month, and so fine. So when that
Speaker 1: goes on, as you know, Danny from being a longtime
Speaker 1: member of the show and being in the business, you've
Speaker 1: got to pivot and there's always something to talk about.
Speaker 1: It's just not what we normally talk about. So we
Speaker 1: have to bend the rules a little bit and find
Speaker 1: things to discuss. And so at the beginning of the week,
Speaker 1: the story had come out over the weekend that the
Speaker 1: Basketball Hall of Fame class had been announced, and so
Speaker 1: I actually started getting some messages from our buddy who
Speaker 1: does the morning show at the Fox affiliate in San Antoni.
Speaker 1: And I don't rely know him that well. I just
Speaker 1: know him online a little bit, and he's been doing
Speaker 1: the morning show for a number of years. And so
Speaker 1: sever years back, when Genoble was done with the Spurs,
Speaker 1: I had done a rant about how Jenobley was not
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame player, and I, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I completely forgot about it. You know, I remember talking
Speaker 1: about it at the time, but it's not something that
Speaker 1: was on the front burner. It was in the back burner.
Speaker 1: And that's fine. Whatever. This guy was busting my chops,
Speaker 1: the morning guy in San Antonio, and then some of
Speaker 1: his listeners, some of his minions, we're trying to argue
Speaker 1: with me and trying to goof on me and all that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so I said, you know, okay, everything's perfect here.
Speaker 1: It's got all the ingredients. There's not a big NFL
Speaker 1: news weekend, there's not a whole lot going on in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Baseball doesn't start for another week. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know what, I will throw red meat into the lions.
Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna take the story and come hell or
Speaker 1: high water, I'm gonna do it. And so I went
Speaker 1: on a rant. I don't even remember what hour it was,
Speaker 1: maybe it was Our two or Our three, but I
Speaker 1: went on a rant highlighting the sham of Manu Ginobili
Speaker 1: getting enshrined into the Hall of Fame and Springfield mass
Speaker 1: and I pointed out he was a career back up
Speaker 1: with the Spurs and a good player, but not a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame player. If you have any kind of
Speaker 1: standards as an NBA player, he was had zero all
Speaker 1: NBA first or second teams. He was a backup most
Speaker 1: of his career. I don't need to do the whole
Speaker 1: monologue again, but I'm just giving some reports. If he
Speaker 1: didn't hear it, it's all captain obvious stuff. So and
Speaker 1: he was a backup most of his career, only won
Speaker 1: won six Man of the Year, and he was good player.
Speaker 1: I would not put him in the Hall of Fame. Man,
Speaker 1: what about all the international accomplishments. Yeah, well, I don't
Speaker 1: watch international basketball, so it don't matter to me. I
Speaker 1: watched international basketball during the lyrics. And then the counter
Speaker 1: argument was, well, what about the NBA Championships? And you
Speaker 1: know Danny how I feel about this. We've gone back
Speaker 1: and forth on this over the years. Um, it's it's
Speaker 1: a waste of time to fight with me because I'm
Speaker 1: not changing my position. I know you're not changing your position.
Speaker 1: We're locked in on this. But the championship is a
Speaker 1: team award. It's not an individual awards. A team award.
Speaker 1: Everyone on the team, whether you're the low man on
Speaker 1: the totem pole or the most important player, gets the
Speaker 1: same championship ring. It's not like they give a cheap
Speaker 1: knockoff phony ring to the guy on the bench that
Speaker 1: didn't play, that was outside the rotation. They all get
Speaker 1: the same thing. So whether they tear up the dance
Speaker 1: floor or not, it doesn't matter anyway. So fine, So
Speaker 1: I did my rants. I I go on there. Elijah,
Speaker 1: the guy that runs the social media department for Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, I send him these videos from my studio
Speaker 1: of me doing the rants. I don't pick what he uses.
Speaker 1: He just picks whateveryone. Some days he puts all my
Speaker 1: monologues up. Some days he only puts one up. Some
Speaker 1: days he puts none on. It just happened. Usually Mondays
Speaker 1: are kind of slow days around there, so they put
Speaker 1: a lot of my stuff up on Mondays. And so
Speaker 1: he put the videos up, put a few of them up,
Speaker 1: and this genoboy thing took off like a wildfire. I thought,
Speaker 1: pop up. I watched it. You were totally animated. Bak
Speaker 1: here now, and I was like, uh, I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: right now to hear about what's going on. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: so I did my thing whatever, you know, I was
Speaker 1: into it. I had fun. You know you're gonna do radio.
Speaker 1: I was taught do it, do it with passion, do
Speaker 1: it with the motion. Otherwise, don't do it, because if
Speaker 1: you're gonna listen to an idiot like me or Danny
Speaker 1: g you know, professional and uh, you want to hear
Speaker 1: somebody that's that's into it, invested in it, you know,
Speaker 1: whether that means you're bodacious, whatever your style is. So
Speaker 1: this thing hits the internet and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: it began rather softly because it begins, it started getting
Speaker 1: a little uptick. It's doing pretty well. It's doing better
Speaker 1: than most of the videos that I have. Fine, whatever,
Speaker 1: And this is important because the company keeps track of
Speaker 1: this stuff. And if no one watches, it's bad. If
Speaker 1: people watch, it's good. That's what they want. I don't
Speaker 1: really care if people watch or not, but they want,
Speaker 1: you know, to have people want, So I I do
Speaker 1: the thing. And it starts out with the kind of
Speaker 1: the casual San Antonio, like the local I've been in
Speaker 1: a lot of these local battles, so it was like
Speaker 1: normal San Antonio stuff. It kept going, it didn't stop.
Speaker 1: Usually it goes for a few hours and the people
Speaker 1: move on to the next target. Didn't stop, and so
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now San Antonio, the TV stations
Speaker 1: pick up the story. Then the big websites pick up
Speaker 1: the story. They were they wanted that. We're now the
Speaker 1: floodgates have opened in Now now we're on like Donkey Kong, right,
Speaker 1: it is, it is on. I mean, we are just
Speaker 1: going for it here. And so that began. Then they
Speaker 1: want to hold a war tribune all like the Nuremberg Trials.
Speaker 1: For me in the Alamo, my crime was giving an
Speaker 1: opinion on an overnight Sports Dark Raider show, which is
Speaker 1: so fun. I was gonna kick out of this. Like
Speaker 1: of those people online are not listening to the live show.
Speaker 1: They don't even know what the live shows. But they
Speaker 1: get all worked up into a tizzy and so they're
Speaker 1: all upset and they're furious that I did not give
Speaker 1: Manu Ginobili the manny and the petty, and so they
Speaker 1: they've asked me to shop the fuck up. They've requested
Speaker 1: that over and over again. Now that was at this point,
Speaker 1: we're just at San Antoni. We're just doing the Alumo.
Speaker 1: I can handle that. That's no big deal whatever. I
Speaker 1: don't take back what I said. I believe what I said.
Speaker 1: The Pro Basketball Hall of Fame is the it's the
Speaker 1: easiest Hall of Fame to get into into among the
Speaker 1: major professional sports. So at this point I'm like, all right, whatever,
Speaker 1: this will calm down a little bit. And and then
Speaker 1: I started getting messages from friends of mine that I
Speaker 1: know live in the San Antonio area and they're like, well, no,
Speaker 1: the is like a story, like this is a thing,
Speaker 1: like you're a thing. Like there, it must have been
Speaker 1: a slow newsday, Danny in San Antonio. I'm a thing. No,
Speaker 1: your take wound up on the national feed for I
Speaker 1: Heart Sports. Yeah, it's bind with that viral clip of you.
Speaker 1: I got a friend of mine lives in that area
Speaker 1: said you're you're the second most despised man in San
Speaker 1: Antonio behind Charles Barkley. So I'm like, okay, you know
Speaker 1: that's good. And it was real. It was really funny.
Speaker 1: I had like women messaging me on Twitter saying I'm ugly.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I know that already. You don't need to
Speaker 1: tell me that. I had already know that. I always
Speaker 1: love the people you're on overnights. You know no one listens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And my position is if you're not a first or
Speaker 1: second team in your sport, you're probably not a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer because while you were playing, you were never
Speaker 1: recognized as one of the great players, one of the
Speaker 1: top ten players, or one of the five best players,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. Uh, And so that that's a
Speaker 1: red flag to me. And when I was watching the
Speaker 1: Spurs and I watched that, we all watched a lot
Speaker 1: of usps. I never thought Jenoboley's all of favorite. Duncan sure,
Speaker 1: Tony Parker, sure, I never thought of Genobley as a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, But I have higher standards in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame anyway. So, at this point is a
Speaker 1: local story, typical tribalism, ripped the hometown team rally around
Speaker 1: the washed up former star who's back in the glory days.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, things flitted and it
Speaker 1: went from just a local San Antonio story all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, now it becomes a geo political crisis because
Speaker 1: words start spreading back to Argentina, where man Wu is from.
Speaker 1: And so now we're on like Donkey Kong in the
Speaker 1: country I've never been to, Yeah, and it's it's going
Speaker 1: crazy here. So I start getting and I'm not on
Speaker 1: social media a lot, but I do check it, you know,
Speaker 1: before the show. I'll check it. When I go to bed,
Speaker 1: I'll check whatever. So I'm getting messages from random dudes
Speaker 1: in Buenos Aires who are attacking me in Spanish, and
Speaker 1: I'm using Google Translate to try to, you know, figure
Speaker 1: out my Spanish. Isn't that good. It's exactly so, Benito,
Speaker 1: I saw they're they're attacking me, and this keeps going
Speaker 1: and going. Now the basketball sports bloggers and Argentina get
Speaker 1: word of the story and they're ranting and raving, and
Speaker 1: they're they're using me as this big boogeyman and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, and it was it was quite amusing. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I had a cheshire Cat smile from here.
Speaker 1: I said, you gotta be kid you you idiots. And
Speaker 1: it's like I as you know, Danny, and we just
Speaker 1: want people to consume the content how they whether they
Speaker 1: like the content or not. We'd sure be more fun
Speaker 1: if everyone loved Jen kissed your ass and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But uh, the smell of trouble is not a bad
Speaker 1: thing either. Remember that line from the Howard Stern movie.
Speaker 1: The people that didn't like Stern listened longer than the
Speaker 1: people that liked him because they wanted to hear they
Speaker 1: wanted to be upset, and they wanted more things to
Speaker 1: be upset about, or something that they wanted to hear
Speaker 1: what he was gonna do next, Yeah, exactly. Now, speaking
Speaker 1: of that, so this is this comes to I've got
Speaker 1: San Antonio, major US city, and I've got Argentina attacking me.
Speaker 1: Mentioned the geo political christ has meant a little overboard
Speaker 1: on that. But so people in Argentina are circling, circling
Speaker 1: the wagons. And I had no idea that man who
Speaker 1: was that big a demigod? I had knowed. I knew
Speaker 1: it was popular, but my goodness, it's like I'm attacking Jesus. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I never underestimate the power of the hero worship of
Speaker 1: Manu and it was. And then back in San Antonio,
Speaker 1: this was bizarre. This one had never happened before. Danny.
Speaker 1: We had this guy like a Ron Burgundy of San
Speaker 1: Antonio Television who wanted to go on. He invited himself
Speaker 1: on the show and he wanted to debate me on
Speaker 1: Janobody's Hall of Fame credentials. What I should have done
Speaker 1: is I said, all right, how about this, I'll go
Speaker 1: on your TV station and you can get a satellite
Speaker 1: hook up and pay me a rate and I'll go
Speaker 1: on there. I would have done that. Plus, I don't
Speaker 1: think that that Ron Burgundy guy knows. Like when the
Speaker 1: show's on, it was hilarious, like I'm the big TV guy.
Speaker 1: I'm the big guy. I love the local teams, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my teeth and bite into Mallard And
Speaker 1: it was hilarious. Now, the TV station that ran with this,
Speaker 1: did you hear from their newsroom? Of course not. No,
Speaker 1: they took they took the feed. There were it was
Speaker 1: multiple TV stations, Dandy, there were multiple TV stations in
Speaker 1: San Antonio that ran a similar version of the story.
Speaker 1: And it was it was really it was very amusing,
Speaker 1: very very amusing. And so we can now add saying
Speaker 1: in Tony my first international anger, our friends in Argentina.
Speaker 1: By the way, I love Argentinian food. I love some
Speaker 1: grilled chicken and the rice and wonderful. It calls for
Speaker 1: a new nickname for you, like the Argentinan Disaster or
Speaker 1: something to the effect of you really bothering the people there,
Speaker 1: the Argentinian Master of Disaster or something like. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure a listener will come up with something along those lines.
Speaker 1: But so San Antonio. Over the years, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of all the different cities We've had kur fluffles with.
Speaker 1: We had Phoenix, We've had multiple with Phoenix over alligator arms,
Speaker 1: Murray Houston, local media blow ups with the Strows and
Speaker 1: former quarterback to Shaun Watson. Cleveland. There was a big
Speaker 1: one in Cleveland years ago, got into it with the
Speaker 1: the then Cleveland Indian fans right over the CC Sabathia Trade.
Speaker 1: I think that was the thing that they got upset about.
Speaker 1: We had one with Baltimore. Ray Lewis Todd pods are amazing.
Speaker 1: I ripped ray Lewis after the Super Bowl. That got
Speaker 1: a lot of places. Have there been a few of these?
Speaker 1: There you go. Danny add sant Antonio to the list,
Speaker 1: and it still hasn't calmed down. As we are in
Speaker 1: the podcast Dojo, I'm still looking at messages of angry
Speaker 1: people and it's great because of the time zones, Like
Speaker 1: when we record this, it's prime time in Argentina, so
Speaker 1: I'm getting a lot of people who are at work
Speaker 1: or at school who are just absolutely dropping a bomb
Speaker 1: on me, just letting out the emotion and very upset,
Speaker 1: screaming at me just like that, and I'm like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, Yeah, but no, it won't. I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta think it ends eventually at some point here. This
Speaker 1: is not gonna go on. It's been an entire week,
Speaker 1: an entire week of this. It's insane. Well a lot
Speaker 1: of people in that country. Yeah, that is true. It's
Speaker 1: a big country. Again to nobody I do. It was
Speaker 1: a big deal. I didn't realize the level of uh,
Speaker 1: the level of love. But I mean, I'm I'm going
Speaker 1: on I peak every once in a while. My social
Speaker 1: media sounds like this, you know, don't know the power side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, all right, there you go. So is
Speaker 1: that on your list now to go visit to get
Speaker 1: your passport? Punch there in Argentina. I'd love to go
Speaker 1: to Argentina. It's beautiful. Yeah, they'd give you the red
Speaker 1: carpet treatment. I don't know about that. It would assassinate you.
Speaker 1: What if I'm gonna do not intererlist not Argentina, Like
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm banned from going to the to the
Speaker 1: country because the stuff I've I doubt most people like whatever.
Speaker 1: So it's a radio get all worked up here. That's wrong.
Speaker 1: With you, all right, So we've got down wind, down
Speaker 1: wind as we turned the page here, so that this
Speaker 1: past week, I had my neighbors at the Mallard Mansion,
Speaker 1: the Mallard Zendo as VIC would say, that moved away.
Speaker 1: They sold their house. The house was sli sold. That
Speaker 1: they're leaving the People's Republic of California. They are moving
Speaker 1: to the Free State of Texas. They'll be just north
Speaker 1: of Dallas. I know so many people from California that
Speaker 1: have moved to Texas in the Dallas area. In particular,
Speaker 1: one of my good friends from elementary school works for
Speaker 1: the I R S In He lives in Dallas. And
Speaker 1: I've had a bunch of other people have radio friends,
Speaker 1: some some in Houston, lot in Dallas. The exodus from California.
Speaker 1: And so per the sale out the reason I'm bringing
Speaker 1: this up, per the sale of the house, the new
Speaker 1: neighbors who haven't moved in yet, the people that bought
Speaker 1: the house. It's part of the request. A lot of
Speaker 1: termites here because we're in the north Woods, and so hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta tent the house, kill all the termines. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that was going on next door, and on Wednesday
Speaker 1: eight I was preparing for the show Crack a Lock lacking,
Speaker 1: doing my thing. It was just a normal Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: I like to sit outside. It all not son and
Speaker 1: I sit in the shade, but I'd like to get
Speaker 1: some fresh air, enjoy the great outdoors and all that.
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting outside, minding my own. Yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: my you know, I got my laptop going. I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of checking things out, looking for things that would
Speaker 1: inspire me to do a monologue and jot down a
Speaker 1: few bullet points and whatnot for the monologue. So I'm
Speaker 1: doing my thing, getting ready for the show. It's kind
Speaker 1: of it's whatever I get. I got some games on
Speaker 1: my laptop. I'll watch from john to time. It's picturesque
Speaker 1: day in the north Woods. And so I'm sitting down.
Speaker 1: About an hour after I sit down, I start getting
Speaker 1: this nasty migraine headache, and it kept getting worse, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell happened. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: that I eat anything. No, I didn't anything unusual. Is
Speaker 1: there something going on here? Am I having some kind
Speaker 1: medical ailment? And then I had an aha moment and
Speaker 1: I realized while I was joined the California son and
Speaker 1: the trees and all that. I was down wind, Danny,
Speaker 1: as they I guess in the military, they say, down
Speaker 1: range from this toxic vapor cloud of turmoite termite poison.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that had I leaked out of the house,
Speaker 1: I guess, And so yeah, that's what gave me the headache.
Speaker 1: So I I hide tailed it out of there. I went,
Speaker 1: you have a dabad and get the hell out of there,
Speaker 1: and went into scramble mode. And we will see if
Speaker 1: the termite, guess ends up messing up the old body anymore.
Speaker 1: But so far it's only been a headache, So all
Speaker 1: things considered, that's not I can deal with a headache.
Speaker 1: But who knows the long term effects of spending an
Speaker 1: hour breathing termite poison in whether that's gonna affect me
Speaker 1: down the line. But the point that's only it's only
Speaker 1: a headache. I thought I was far enough away a
Speaker 1: b there was a tent on it. But upon further review, Danny,
Speaker 1: the tent, you know, those those metal clips, those big
Speaker 1: metal clips. They were using the metal clips to tape
Speaker 1: the big plastic that they were wrapping the house with together.
Speaker 1: So I think that that allowed the poison to get
Speaker 1: out because they didn't do a good job on that.
Speaker 1: I I think, I don't know. I've never been that
Speaker 1: close to it house that was termite wrapped like that,
Speaker 1: and hope to never be again. Hope to never be
Speaker 1: again that close to a house like that, because it
Speaker 1: did not feel particularly good. Well, you have the address
Speaker 1: exactly where to drop off your medical bills. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: If I need to sue someone, I'll contact my my
Speaker 1: lawyer there and I will immediately I call up Sal.
Speaker 1: You better call Sal. Isn't that it's one of those
Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, Saul, there you go, or so
Speaker 1: there you go? All right, So we have the baseball
Speaker 1: brain buster. It's opening weekend in Major League Baseball and
Speaker 1: baseball from Freddie Freeman to Aaron Judge. Oh boy, that
Speaker 1: was terrible anyway, I'm sorry, Mr President's bat. Everybody in
Speaker 1: southern California is hyped up about that Miller kid throwing
Speaker 1: a hundred miles per hour and no viral game against
Speaker 1: the Angels with half not even half field Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: But that was a impressive moment. So the way this
Speaker 1: will work, then we'll just kind of go through and
Speaker 1: see who we like and who we don't like, and
Speaker 1: right it's it's the brainbuster, the baseball brain buster, which
Speaker 1: is very exciting. This is this is the kind of
Speaker 1: content people need, but they don't realize they needed. It's
Speaker 1: like when I used to work with Mike North and
Speaker 1: there would be days where Andy Ferman couldn't make it
Speaker 1: to the show, and so Mike would just opened up
Speaker 1: the old school newspaper and read baseball box scores. So
Speaker 1: that is so nineteen nineties, early nineties, late eighties and
Speaker 1: early nineties radio. It's huge, game by game, buck score
Speaker 1: by buck score. My favorite was Mike Francessa when I
Speaker 1: would go to New York to visit my brother, and
Speaker 1: you're all excited because w FAN is the biggest sports
Speaker 1: radio station in the country, and you're like, Wow, this
Speaker 1: is the gold standard. And I want to be just
Speaker 1: like those guys on w f And you know, I
Speaker 1: was a kid, and so I listen to the station
Speaker 1: on my way in from the airport, and to be
Speaker 1: Mike Francessa at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: here's the Yankee lineup. You got g in the lead
Speaker 1: off spot, and then you got Soho batting say, you know,
Speaker 1: he's like, oh my god, sound it's scary. It's just painful.
Speaker 1: Make it stop. And this is the guy, this is
Speaker 1: the star of New York radio. This is the guy.
Speaker 1: This is what he's doing. Brutal anyway, So now, should
Speaker 1: we just do a world series? Should we do divisions? Penance?
Speaker 1: What are we looking at you? Aren't you afraid it
Speaker 1: might go off? Accidentally? I used to have that problem.
Speaker 1: What did you do about it? I just think about baseball.
Speaker 1: Why don't we just go through the divisions? We have
Speaker 1: some time, it's the pods. We have a little bit
Speaker 1: of time. We have too much time, all right, So
Speaker 1: we'll go through the the odds. I have the odds here,
Speaker 1: and we'll each pick, and then at the end of
Speaker 1: the baseball season, you can go back and download this
Speaker 1: podcast and see what we got right and how we
Speaker 1: flet Okay, fair enough, sounds good, all right, So we're
Speaker 1: both Dodger fans. So we'll start with the nationally West. Gee,
Speaker 1: I wonder what we're gonna pick here. That's a hard one.
Speaker 1: Not to me. The most interesting story in the nationally
Speaker 1: West of the Giants. I feel like they overachieved tremendously
Speaker 1: last year. They're not that good, so they should be
Speaker 1: crawling back to reality this year. And the odds indicate
Speaker 1: that because the Giants. Back in January, the Giants were
Speaker 1: a seven to two pick. They were one of the
Speaker 1: favorites to make the playoffs and all that just when
Speaker 1: the you know, compete with the division. Now they are
Speaker 1: in the red, so their odds have gone down. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we're both taking the Dodgers, right, Dodgers for sure. Something
Speaker 1: about the Giants, though, they're like cockroaches. They just don't
Speaker 1: go away. And they put this rag tag group together
Speaker 1: and these these guys who are not big names just
Speaker 1: come through. It's crazy. Yeah, And even when the Giants
Speaker 1: are bad and the Dodges are good or vice versa,
Speaker 1: those games head to head still are very, very closet annoying.
Speaker 1: Although the Dodgers did get the ultimate f you to
Speaker 1: the Giants way back. If you're old enough to remember,
Speaker 1: was that ninety three or ninety two was the early
Speaker 1: nineties Giants is before the wild card. Giants won over
Speaker 1: a hundred games, And remember they lost the last couple
Speaker 1: of games at Dodger Stadium and they didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I do remember that. Ye. Now, any Padre prediction from you, like,
Speaker 1: do you think Tat Jr. Will actually play a full
Speaker 1: season or well, no, he's always gonna be out for
Speaker 1: half the year at least. Yeah, So no, I do
Speaker 1: think the Potters still are good enough to make the place.
Speaker 1: They added an extra team, and you do the math
Speaker 1: on this. I look at the nationally right now, and
Speaker 1: I can immedia eliminate on opening weekend the Diamondbacks, Rockies, Pirates,
Speaker 1: the Reds. I'm also going to eliminate the Cubs or
Speaker 1: up to five teams. I'm gonna eliminate the Nationals and
Speaker 1: the Marlins. So that's seven teams. So that means, if
Speaker 1: my math is correct, you've got eight teams for six
Speaker 1: spots in the nationally a total of six three division winners,
Speaker 1: three wild card winners, so the next three records after that,
Speaker 1: so yeah, six out of eight, you have a six
Speaker 1: out of eight chance if you're just trying. So that
Speaker 1: means the Giants. Out of the Giants, Padres, Dodgers, Brewers, Cardinals, Braves, Mets,
Speaker 1: and Phillies, six of those eight teams make the plan.
Speaker 1: You agree with that, I would push back a little
Speaker 1: bit on the Reds. The Reds are terrible if you
Speaker 1: see what they've done. But they're horrible. They're horrible, Danny Trained,
Speaker 1: anybody you've ever heard of other than Joey Bottom. They
Speaker 1: all they're gone. They're all gone. There's no one left.
Speaker 1: I feel like they could still be a scrappy bunch. Possibly, No,
Speaker 1: I don't see that. I could see the clubs of
Speaker 1: that group of also rans. I can see the clubs
Speaker 1: being annoying. I mean, I'm thinking of what the Giants
Speaker 1: do in our division. I'm wondering if there's a team
Speaker 1: that will be like that be comparable to the Giants
Speaker 1: of last season. Yeah, well we don't. Yeah, of course
Speaker 1: there will be somebody that we're like that team was
Speaker 1: supposed to suck. But I'm betting it's not the Reds.
Speaker 1: So I've got I think the Braves will actually end
Speaker 1: up beating out the Mets in the Nationally East. So
Speaker 1: I'll take the Braves. I've got the brew Crew. I
Speaker 1: think the brew Crew should run away, although they have
Speaker 1: no offense there, but they should run away with the
Speaker 1: Nationally Central. The Brewers are actually the favorite that the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: They have a couple of stars kind of rag tag.
Speaker 1: You some questions about the pitching staff there in St. Louis,
Speaker 1: whether there there's some guys long in the tooth. Also
Speaker 1: in the lineup, they brought back Albert Poojos. Ye, so
Speaker 1: I am going I'm going very chalk here, going very
Speaker 1: chalk with Dodgers, Brewers and Braves. I'd like to see
Speaker 1: the Mets not make the playoffs because my cousin is
Speaker 1: a big Mets fan, and it's always fun when I
Speaker 1: can annoy him. Yeah, I don't feel like hearing Jay's
Speaker 1: and smith on before you going on and on about
Speaker 1: how the Mets are winning, so it would be better
Speaker 1: if they lose. Yeah, I agree. All right, So American League,
Speaker 1: we'll starting the American Lely West. You got the cheating
Speaker 1: as Strows, they're the favorite Angels and Mariners. After that
Speaker 1: you got Texas in Oakland. I like Seattle. Actually, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Robbie the Mariner fans. This is the year.
Speaker 1: This is the year the Mariners were closing in last year.
Speaker 1: They didn't have a great offseason. But I'm taking Seattle
Speaker 1: to win the American League West. It happens when someone
Speaker 1: says they're gonna send us acts that's right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And I need the other thing I need here is
Speaker 1: the Angels to be a little bit better because I
Speaker 1: want to find a way the Astros don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I don't see a way they don't because they're gonna
Speaker 1: play the Rangers and the Athletics that are minor league teams. Well,
Speaker 1: Corey Seeger they got the Rangers got two or three guys,
Speaker 1: that's it. But they're not. What about Syndergard. I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't hear much about him being in that red
Speaker 1: uniform now because he's an Anahi. They don't. I don't
Speaker 1: want the attention to Anna, but I yeah, Syndergard, if
Speaker 1: he's healthy. That's the ifs and butts game though, right, Danny,
Speaker 1: you don't play the ifs and bucks game. Now. The
Speaker 1: American League Central, you got the favorite, the White Sox.
Speaker 1: The Twins have actually had their odds improved. They signed
Speaker 1: beating Astro Carlos Correa. You got the Tigers who have
Speaker 1: actually fallen off a little bit from January. And then
Speaker 1: after that the Guardians and my buddies in Kansas City
Speaker 1: who stink. But I did, I did talk to my
Speaker 1: friends in Kansas City. Actually, Uh, yesterday. It wasn't there,
Speaker 1: like that's a great ball I told him it's a
Speaker 1: great ballpark. The White Sox are the favorite. The Twins
Speaker 1: of the second pick Twin White Sox are are one
Speaker 1: to two favorites, the Twins or fifteen to for. I
Speaker 1: want to pull for the Twins because of our guys
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, but I can't do it with Carlos Correa
Speaker 1: right now. I can't. I'm sorry, You're just hateable. Uh.
Speaker 1: I like what the Tigers were trying to put together
Speaker 1: last season. Yeah, the Tigers have a sneaky good team.
Speaker 1: Well not even really sneak. They had a couple of pictures.
Speaker 1: They got a hobby bias. I'm not a big hobby
Speaker 1: bias guy. He's a good regular season players. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pull for the Tigers. Yeah, that's what I have
Speaker 1: written down on my sheet here, all right. So I
Speaker 1: got the Tigers, I got Mariners of West, Tigers in
Speaker 1: the Central, and then I'm going shalk in the American
Speaker 1: League East, I'm going with the blue Jays. I look
Speaker 1: at that Blue Jay team. I think that's a threat
Speaker 1: to beat the Dodgers in the World Series. That's a
Speaker 1: good blue Jay team right there. That is a team
Speaker 1: that is stacked. I've been hearing you talk about Toronto.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised. They'd have to have some injuries
Speaker 1: and some things really break bad for them to uh
Speaker 1: poop all over the field in the mound. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: look at the projections and a big projection guy or whatever.
Speaker 1: But if you you look at that, just the lineup
Speaker 1: that the Blue Jays, the projected lineup and the pitching
Speaker 1: staff they've got, that is a team that is just
Speaker 1: made to win a hundred games. Now the playoffs. As
Speaker 1: you know, Danny, We've learned this firsthand over the years
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers. You can have the most impressive team
Speaker 1: and then you get a pesky, scrappy team with gump
Speaker 1: ship like the Atlanta Braves for example this past year,
Speaker 1: or the Washington Nationals a couple of years ago. They
Speaker 1: end up hijacking your fund and and ruining, ruining the
Speaker 1: good times. Vladimir gil Jr. You go down the list there,
Speaker 1: Bo Bishette, what's his name, ti Oscar Hernandez. That's not
Speaker 1: his name, Jeff d That guy's nobody even knows who
Speaker 1: he is outside of the hardcore Blue Jay fans. But
Speaker 1: you look at the the roster like, wow, that is
Speaker 1: that is something One Blue Jays fan on my Twitter
Speaker 1: feed and every day he's highlighting a different player on
Speaker 1: the team. So I feel like I'm connected. And they
Speaker 1: got our old guy reu Reusing there. He's still hanging
Speaker 1: out in Toronto. So I got the Blue Jays and
Speaker 1: what else here? We do a few more and uh,
Speaker 1: of course we gotta get to the big stuff, which
Speaker 1: is on my list. The big stuff is on my list. Uh,
Speaker 1: so let's go nationally. We're taking the Dodgers, Uh I think,
Speaker 1: Am I right? You're picking anybody but the Dodgers? Okay,
Speaker 1: Dodgers Dodgers, and I'm taking Toronto the American League. You
Speaker 1: want to pick anybody other that other than the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1: You got the word, I can't argue against Toronto, alright,
Speaker 1: So we're going chalk on that. Anybody but the Astros,
Speaker 1: blank my blank and blank you it's the American League
Speaker 1: Championship Series of Toronto is not in and the Astros
Speaker 1: are in. I'll take the White Sox, Yankees, raised Blue Jays,
Speaker 1: Red Sox, you know, any of those so uh and
Speaker 1: to win the World Series Dodgers. Right, yeah, come on,
Speaker 1: I mean we're both like. This is like that, you know,
Speaker 1: this is like that Saturday Night Live skit with the Bears,
Speaker 1: the Bears, Dodgers, Dodgers. Yes, exactly, the Dodgers. I know.
Speaker 1: What about the individual stuff, Now, some of these guys
Speaker 1: are names were not that familiar with. We'll start with
Speaker 1: the American League MVP. The two favorites are show hey,
Speaker 1: oh Tony, and a lot of people have Mike Trout
Speaker 1: as a co favorite, always coming off an injury. You've
Speaker 1: got Byron buckst into the Twins getting a lot of yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of love. I've been reading about him. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a name that's he's been around for a little bit. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's another guy from the Chicago White Sox named Lewis.
Speaker 1: Uh is it Robert? Is that it looks like Robert
Speaker 1: Perhaps it's some weird way. Uh. He's an outfielder from Cuba.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about him. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: much about him either, but he's supposed to be like
Speaker 1: a total stud, monster at the plate and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So so he's someone's getting a lot of love from
Speaker 1: the the gambling world. Another name the guy came up
Speaker 1: last year with Tampa Bay wander Franco Okay, the shortstop
Speaker 1: named l Patron from the Dominican Republic, and he's he
Speaker 1: got off to a great start last year, so that
Speaker 1: he's also Yeah, I remember seeing his highlights last season. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So my theory on the m v P is pretty simple.
Speaker 1: You gotta be on a good team to win the
Speaker 1: m v P. So I'm gonna generally speak. I know
Speaker 1: there are exceptions like Otani and whatnot, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, you gotta be had a good team.
Speaker 1: And the Angels are like a middling team and they
Speaker 1: don't really like to give it back to back, belly
Speaker 1: to belly. I'm gonna take Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Who was
Speaker 1: close last year. So I'm gonna take the Blue Jay's
Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero. There's also other names on this list. You've
Speaker 1: got Raphael Devers of the Red Sox and Judge Bobachter
Speaker 1: old Buddy Corey. See you're the Rangers now that cheating
Speaker 1: a stro Carlos Carea is on the odds, Gian Carlos Standon,
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker who's in Seattle now one of the reasons.
Speaker 1: I like the Mariners. Anybody pop there, anyone you want
Speaker 1: to go with, you wanna, You're gonna go with Byron Buxton,
Speaker 1: all right, sucking up to the people in Minnesota white women. Well,
Speaker 1: he was the best player in baseball on a per
Speaker 1: game basis last season. I think that with that lineup
Speaker 1: around him, he's going to continue to blow things up
Speaker 1: there in a good way, all right. Now. In the
Speaker 1: National League, the favorite is Juan Soto of the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1: He's got that nattitude. Ronald the Coner Jr. At seven
Speaker 1: o one. You've got Bryce Harper at ten to one,
Speaker 1: the reigning m v P. And then there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of Dodgers after that, Mookie Bets, Freddie free Men, Trade Turner,
Speaker 1: you go down. And then then you got the other names.
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor's on their Manny Machado, the Padres, Matt Olsen
Speaker 1: of the Braves, Peter Alonso, the Mets. So those are
Speaker 1: the top choices for the m v P award. Boy
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets has actually not been that great the last
Speaker 1: the last year, he didn't play that great. Last year.
Speaker 1: He was quietly dealing with a nagging injury. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: hopefully he's all the way back healthy. But I could
Speaker 1: totally see Freddie Freeman taking this. Yeah, I was leaning
Speaker 1: towards Freeman, but back to back. They don't like to
Speaker 1: usually go back to back. I'm gonna take I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go off the board a little bit. Although he's listed here,
Speaker 1: trade Turner mark plug guy, gonna steal some basses. He
Speaker 1: hits for a high average. He won the batting title
Speaker 1: right last year. I think he did. I believe he
Speaker 1: won the batting title last year with the Nationals. Mostly
Speaker 1: in a little bit with the Dodgers. Uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: I I I'm going I think Turner is gonna be
Speaker 1: a really exciting player. Is a spark plug guy. He
Speaker 1: really took a ride on a vomit comment in the
Speaker 1: playoffs for the Dodgers, unfortunately. But it's the regular season.
Speaker 1: So that's my pick and I'm sticking to it. Cy
Speaker 1: Young American League, Cy Young, anybody anybody stand out? You've
Speaker 1: got the usual suspects, Garrett Cole, Lucas Giolito, the White Sox,
Speaker 1: the Bebe, Shane Bieber of the Guardians, Robbie Ray who's
Speaker 1: now on the Mariners, Otani Verlander, I'm gonna toss the
Speaker 1: name out. How about Jose Barrio so the Blue Jays,
Speaker 1: that's not a bad pick. I'm gonna go Otani here
Speaker 1: so you can go Tani. Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of love for Otani, right, National League, Cy
Speaker 1: Young and again usual chalk favorite at the top. You
Speaker 1: got Max Scherzer who's the favorite from the Mets. Corbin
Speaker 1: Burns very good picture for the brew Where is Jacob
Speaker 1: de Gram, Carlos Radon? Uh we have Walker Bueller, Brandon
Speaker 1: Woodruff who's the favorite? Um Shures is the favorite? Uh? Man,
Speaker 1: oh man? This is Sandy Alcantera of the Marlins is
Speaker 1: listed here at fourteen to one. What do you think
Speaker 1: about sers health? Do you think he'll be okay throughout
Speaker 1: the entire season? No, no, no, always been on pictures
Speaker 1: getting hurt. If he's not hurt, I like him there
Speaker 1: even as the favorite with the Metropolitans. A you take
Speaker 1: Sures or I'm gonna take Corbin Burns the Brewers. This
Speaker 1: guy is nasty. And the pitching that's the strength of
Speaker 1: the Brewers. They got good starting pitching, which is that
Speaker 1: really a big deal these days because starters don't go
Speaker 1: the third time through the rotation. So does it really
Speaker 1: matter that much? Not really. Yeah, I tend to agree
Speaker 1: with you on that. I'm not even gonna do Rookie
Speaker 1: the I don't know America. We know Bobby Witt of
Speaker 1: the I know him from the Royals. But are you
Speaker 1: familiar with Spencer torkleson of the Tigers, Julio Rodriguez and
Speaker 1: the marriage. These are guys that will learn about. But
Speaker 1: I don't really know much about these guys. And I
Speaker 1: don't base any of my opinions off the scouting reports
Speaker 1: because they're almost always wrong. Yeah, we just gotta flip
Speaker 1: your benny the penny for those, Yeah, exactly. So in
Speaker 1: the National League, the well, the favorite was O'Neil Cruz.
Speaker 1: It is now someone named C. J Abrams. Oh I
Speaker 1: know that, dude. No, I don't. He went to high
Speaker 1: school with him bottom in high school probably, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Who is C. J Abrams? C j Abrams. That's the
Speaker 1: year Page Dan Page Dan. He's with the San Diego
Speaker 1: Padres organized and he is one of the favorites for
Speaker 1: the nl A Rookie of the Year. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: put the baby to bed and anything you got me
Speaker 1: all hyped up for base ball. Right now. I'm looking forward.
Speaker 1: I'll be watching. I was watching the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: I'll keep watching. It's great to get up. I love
Speaker 1: the day games when I wake up from a slumber
Speaker 1: and there's a game and like the fourth inning on
Speaker 1: the East Coast and I can check it out and
Speaker 1: then the West Coast game start. And he didn to
Speaker 1: promote Danny any gigs coming up. It's Friday. Anything on
Speaker 1: a Friday year going on here? Today is Friday, and
Speaker 1: no I have the evening off, thank god. Alright, have
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Speaker 1: involving a professional sports franchise showing tremendous disrespect to our
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