WEBVTT - Stuck on Sports 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.440 Boom. If you've thought more hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.200 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.040 break free or something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:29.040 Maller starts right now today here it is the Fifth 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.440 Hour with Ben Maller and David gascon As. We are 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:38.920 here to enlighten you on this non football weekend no NF. Well, 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.479 I don't consider the Pro Bowl. I've been to the 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.320 Pro Bowl kind of years ago. I don't consider the 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.879 Pro Bowl and actual NFL events. So there will be 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.959 no Benny versus the Penny podcast. But you do have 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:56.280 this standby Grab Bass podcast because four hours, five days 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:01.240 a week is not enough of the Ben Maller brand, 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.040 if you want to call that a brand. But we 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.560 are in the air everywhere the vast power of My Heart, 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.880 the global reach of podcasting. This podcast has heard weekly 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.000 on the I Heart podcast network, which you probably already 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.360 figured that out because you're listening to it. But tell 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.280 your friends, Tell your friends want to up the numbers 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.320 here in still earlier in the year obviously, so I 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.520 want to see these podcast numbers go up and maybe 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.080 we'll actually get some money. Um of course me not 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.920 David Gascon, who is right over there. Unfortunately, back again, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.280 we thought you would be gone, but you've survived under 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.960 the week. Yeah. You know what, I will say that 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.560 in all of this with the fifth out with Ben Maller, 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.240 that UM, I welcome you into the studio this entire 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.640 week because I'll tell you what, not only do we 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:50.280 have sportscasters, producers, editors here at Fox Sports Radio, but 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.520 we got some amazing politicians and we got some knowledgeable 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:58.280 attorneys throughout as we are. We're underway in the impeachment 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.360 here inwies so we got Rhodes scholars in here. It's 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.080 a it's a delight to tell you this much, Ben, 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.760 it is a lot of fun to see, um, all 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.280 the intellectuals that are throughout this building so loud and 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.960 proud here we are. You're you're enjoying this, You're you're 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.720 feasting on all of this. Yeah. I think it's I 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.640 think it's entertainment. I think it's good. Um, we have 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.520 like the parlor game. David guest Gun enjoys the parlor 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:29.120 game of the impeachment. I've watched some of it, but 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.399 small doses well earlier in the week. I can only 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.080 handle blow blowhards so much. Yeah, but look at the 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.240 industry we're in. Like I said, I can only handle 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.760 the blowhards so much. I don't hang out with these people. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.480 We don't. It's if it's not one thing, it's another. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.760 Turn your turn your damn phone off. Turn your phone off. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.640 Please put it on silent. You can't be interrupted. I 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.160 gave you an entire hour to sleep, and now you're 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.360 interrupt in this podcast. Your stupid you were fifteen minutes 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.079 late to the podcast, and so you will be deducted 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.440 from your pay. You will be deducted for fifteen minutes. 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.680 That a Demerit is that what that is? Yeah? Do 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.799 you know that you're a bad influence? Like people are 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.840 sending me angry messages from the Bible belt. I know 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.360 that you're getting me to curse, and they do not 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.120 like to hear. I'm like, leave it to beaver. I 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.320 don't curse, but you've gotten me to curse on this 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.920 fucking podcast, and people are upset by that. I don't. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.680 I don't tell you to curse. And it's understandable that 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.400 some people don't want you to use foul language because 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.600 they have kids, they have lives that it's it's not 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.839 a it's not a bomb on. Kids curse more than anybody, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.080 of course, But I learned all these words when I 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.920 was a kid. But they don't do it around their parents. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.960 I understand the last thing they need is you or 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.880 I to be a bad influence on them. So can 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.880 you can you curb the cussing a little bit? Please? 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.000 You curse? If you do a side by a ven diagram, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.480 you curse much more than I curse. But it's usually 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:02.280 at you. Well, yeah, which is called for unnecessary and dumb. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.680 But it's not on air. It's not on a podcast, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.040 it's not on the national radio. It's not on air. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.440 What do you what do you hello? Is this thing on? Well? 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.520 I mean sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. I guess 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.920 it just depends on the time of day, right, I mean, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.080 you're loyal enthusiasts and blow hards aren't really downloading as 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.360 much as they should apparently, But it's all good other 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.920 than the numbers are where they're I guess they're supposed 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.800 to be. I just think they should be higher. I think, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.080 but working with you is a liability, speaking of which 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.279 that you have to overcome, a liability. I heard I 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.160 heard Media did their two thousand nineteen podcast awards just recently, 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.960 and uh, I'm proud to say that you were not 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.599 among the elected podcasts. And there's a reason for that. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.080 And uh, well, the reason is you well look in 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.560 the mirror and you will see why that that we 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.880 cannot be accepted by the mainstream. With David Gascon, that's 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.000 the react. But I don't really want to win awards 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.840 because my whole reputation has been that I am people's champ. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.600 I don't need to be some fugazzi award show. They 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.920 have these awards shows. I have friends of mine to 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.600 go to these luncheons and they get awards, and it 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.359 looks like just the most horrible afternoon you could possibly 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.880 spend hanging around with a bunch of gas bags who 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.080 are also full of themselves, how great they are, patting 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.720 each other on the back, taking bows. Who wants to 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.800 take part in something like that, Well, I think for 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:31.480 the purposes of of professional acknowledgement, maybe a company bonus, 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.320 maybe an advancement in the career. I think, well, you 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.080 can show me where in that contract I get a bonus. 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.200 If I win an I Heeart Podcast award, then I 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.880 will be motivated and I will lick the toes of 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.880 who I need to lick to win the award. Well 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.680 as you did, mention, It's all about enlightenment. It's all 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.880 about making people aware. And when you make people aware, 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:56.280 advertisers come, sponsors come, new friends come along and uh, 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.360 and I won't have to be doing such so much 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.960 of the heavy lifting for us to market outside of 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.760 this building here. So um, I can only do so much. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:07.640 I can only bring it to the water. I can't 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.360 force you to drink at Ben Maller. You know you are. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.320 I'm Lebron James, your Mo Williams, and I'm handing you 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.800 to a championship. At least at least she didn't say 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.839 I was somebody else that was on that team that 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:24.159 is now suffering greatly. So um, I'm I am Kauhai 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:28.200 Leonard and you are Jeremy Lynn and I have won 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.440 a championship for you. But you get a ring? Oh well, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.520 y'all get a ring. One a way or another at 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.400 quarterback championship ring. Doesn't the chief in the championship ring? 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.159 Luke won't want an NBA title with the Lakers. Is 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.440 that take a championships? Does that take away from anything? 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.080 Of course not everybody has a role. I think that 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.440 mine needs to be amplified a little bit more. Um, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.320 but that is your role is to get hemorrhoids role. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.479 Sitting there listening, we can certainly do that. So what 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.919 do we What do we have on the alright venue 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.960 on this Week's a Day into the fifth Hour with 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.400 Ben malloy. We've got the voice of a killer haunting 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.360 from the trash can. We've got that fake it until 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.360 you make it. We'll get that as well. Study this 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:16.239 grab bag, which is the mail bag. We just changed mail. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.000 We grab mail to grab or whatever. Whatever. You get 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.480 the point, uh, and don't stick to sports stories of 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:23.680 the week, So we get those. We've got a lot 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.680 to get to and we'll probably not get to half 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.680 of it, but we begin with this Aaron Hernandez documentary 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.600 which I have been watching on Netflix and I'm not 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.360 all the way through it yet. I've made my way 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:41.160 through most of it. It is pretty good, actually, it's 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:45.280 pretty good, uh on the mall scale of documentaries one 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:50.440 to ten, with ten being the magnum opus. I'm out 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.840 of nine, and it could go up to a ten. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.640 I'm out of nine right now. It's got a chance 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.440 to get to attend. That's not good that there's great 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.800 production value on this, which is important with podcasts. Sometimes 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.520 it's amateur our kind of like the fish Bowl, the 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.160 famous fish Bowl podcast that we did with guests gout 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:14.360 Engineering back in but the podcast that's a different animal. 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:21.400 The documentary with Aaron Hernandez life story, fast moving, somewhat informative, alow. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.840 I knew a lot of it and chilling at times. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:26.840 And that's the thing that I didn't expect this to 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.520 be that great because we were on the radio talking 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.599 about Aaron Hernandez when he was on trial for murder 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.080 and then substantly found guilty of that and all, and 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.199 so we didn't play a monologues. I knew a lot 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:45.679 about it. I was doing some radio in Boston remotely 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.880 during that time, so we talked a lot about it 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.440 on the Boston Show off and on, and I knew 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.640 some of the people that were involved in the story. 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.760 On the kind of the outskirts of the story. But 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.040 it's just wild. I mean to watch it and hear 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:05.120 the phone calls that this guy was going around killing 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.640 multiple people, and he then show up at the stadium 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.920 on Sunday and rah rah there are a bunch of 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.679 people wearing this jersey cheering him on, not knowing they 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:19.439 were cheering on a killer. Just craziness and the ability 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:26.079 that Internet has had to compartmentalize. He's uh, he's fast. Fascinating. Yeah, 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.000 the way that it was all all laid out, Yeah, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.640 I mean, just what you're hiding guests. Well, just because 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.760 of the way that this wasn't just a regular guy. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.440 This was a high performance athlete at the major Division 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.679 one level at Florida and then eventually in the National 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.760 Football leagues. Sue to maintain that kind of excellence on 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.400 the field, not only physically but also mentally, to stay 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.960 disciplined within the confines of Florida and also at New England. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.959 It was. It was phenomenal. Now, I know you haven't 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.280 finished all of it just yet, so I won't boil 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.080 the end. Well, I know what happens, he dies. I 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.400 am aware of the end of this, but you know, 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.400 what if if that was the case. You know how 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.800 it ends, you wouldn't be watching the damn documentary. So 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.800 I'm saying purpose logistics and how things worked internally with 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.120 New England. I'm not going to spoil it for you. 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.640 Let me let me explain, guest on that when I'm 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.079 watching this documentary, I will be checking it out because 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.760 there's people I know that I have not seen yet 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.280 in the documentary that work or used to work at 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.720 w E. I uh so, people I am casual acquaintances with. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.520 So I want to see that part of the story. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.479 So you don't want to see any kind of background 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:43.920 story on the patriots or I know that the patriots 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.520 look the other way, and they're gonna claim probably in there, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.000 I haven't seen the end of it, but they're gonna 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.120 claim they try to get him help and whatever. I 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.160 don't know how you help somebody like that, but they 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.480 probably are going to say that, how about this? How 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.840 about you wait and watch the entire thing before you 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.400 make those kind of assumptions. How about that? Okay, I mean, 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.480 how about I'll wait for you please. Now. I finished 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.480 it last night. I enjoyed it, and you want a 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.080 cookie congratulations. But as I was getting I mean, if 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:11.680 I if I didn't work during the week, I would 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.520 have watched it last night too. I have a job, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:14.920 I have to work at night. I have to watch 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.719 sports at night. I keep you watching documentaries at night, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.200 manual labor. Well, I have fortunate watch documentaries two days 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.560 a week. What days of those Friday night if my 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.720 wife allows it, depending on if she wants to do 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.040 something else. And then on Saturday, I'll leave a little time. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.920 I will a lot time to watch some documentaries. So 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:36.520 it's like two days a week I catch up on 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.160 my documentaries, and then during the rest of the week, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.880 I'm hard. Oh sports guy, looking for things to talk about, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:43.480 That's what I do. Now this is one of them. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.840 I mean, this is not a topic of conversation in 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.680 the mainstream media, or you couldn't talk about this at 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.440 all in the National Football League with Super Bowl right 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.560 around the corner and the NFL season coming to a 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.880 close and the NFL Draft coming up, the combine coming up, Like, 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:03.720 you couldn't bring that into a top up a conversation. Yeah, 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.040 could you? I mean I could? I mean that would 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.400 require you to cut off your callers, so I know 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.200 you don't want to do that. Why would I have 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.480 to cut off caller because that would mean more, That 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.439 would mean more content for you, like you have to 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.680 talk more and elaborate more on I don't take that 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.480 many calls anymore. I am selective with the calls. I 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.680 do a monologue at the beginning, and then I have 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.680 a you know, a few calls I mixed in throughout 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.720 the hour. And people want to stay on hold, they 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.400 can get on the show. If not, they can hang up. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.600 They're free to do whatever they want. And people don't 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.760 hang on, then that's fine. We just talk, all right, Well, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.439 all right, moving on from the in her Nadez documentaries. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:36.839 You told me I shouldn't talk about it because I 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.360 didn't watch that. Don't make an assumption on the back 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.679 end of it. That's all I'm saying. Because it is enjoyable. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.800 Like you said, he's dead, I'm not sad he's dead. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:50.440 He was a loser, as scumbag, a psychopath and you know, 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.320 go around randomly killing people and they don't feel any 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.800 empathy for you. So you gave this, you gave this 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.160 documentary a nine, and you only want to watch the 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.000 end for the people that you know. Yeah, what else 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.400 that people will be in the documentary, so I want 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.200 to watch and see how they're portrayed in the documentary. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.840 That's just absolutely fascinating to me. Right, I'm moving on. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.720 Haunting from the Trash. Can be sure to catch live 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.400 editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.280 Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.000 I Heart Radio app. So, this Houston Astros story, which 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.880 we have chronicled day in and day out, effortless coverage, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:35.359 endless coverage as well of this story, and I reject 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.760 the notion that Major League Baseball has it They're just 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.280 gonna be able to sweep this under the rug, and 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.200 this is it. That's all it's gonna you know, nothing more. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.360 This is a one month story and by the time 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.920 spring training games get going, people will have moved on. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.920 This is going to come back and haunt them like 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.840 a traumatic experience in your life or some kind of 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.959 disease that keeps popping back up every so often. Uh, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.240 it is going to be the ongoing narrative. I am 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.000 convinced in season and there's nothing that Rob Manford can do. 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.440 There's nothing that Robert Crane, the owner of the Astros, 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.400 can do or any of these other Jamox, These Mama 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:22.480 Lukes are so screwed. Uh. And it's it's an odd 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.360 deal because Baseball made a deal with the devil. The 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.720 I want to use the right terms. I don't want 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.920 to curse anymore guests. Guy, I said the f wort already. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.440 I don't want to upset the people in the Bible 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.240 belt who are offended here. But the way I'll say it, 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.480 I'll say, like this right, the fact that Baseball made 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.720 a deal with the devil for immunity, and they were 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:46.800 the players supposedly that's why none of them got punished. Uh. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.760 These players getting immunity, now, it's like the perfect crime 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:55.000 stealing the Mona Lisa and not getting caught on video 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.360 and no d n a fingerprint evidence. The Dodgers, the 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:04.080 Yankee the A's, the Mariners, the Rangers, pretty much every 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.000 team in the American League other than I guess the 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.920 Red Sox, who are part of this and complicit with it. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.480 It is going to be vicious. I have heard from 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.920 a number of my friends Dodger fans who are looking 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.560 at the schedule for the trips the Astros make to 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:26.520 Anaheim for the sole purpose of booing the Astros and 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.320 goofing on them. And the other part is the other 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.640 reason forget about that. I mean, the fan outrage will 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:37.440 will die down, maybe it won't die down. But what happens? 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.120 Think about this, what happens if Alex Bregman and Jose 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.280 Altuve are frauds and they turn into two forty hitters 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.960 with limited power all of a sudden. Are they gonna 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:53.840 blame injuries? Are they gonna blame some other boogeyman or 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.720 the obvious? No more bang bang, no more buzz buzz, 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.120 no more whistle while you work, Like, what's the spin 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:05.360 gonna be from the Astros a major league baseball? It's 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.560 going to be interesting. I think one of the guys 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.480 that you'll remember this, but going back to a guy 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.560 that was pot for p E d Us was Brady Anderson, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.640 the Baltimore Orioles. That's old school guests on you're dating 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.720 your stuff. That's before my time. I've I've heard about it. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.800 I read him on the Wikipedia. Yeah, but of course, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.880 so you know this. I mean he topped out with 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.400 what fifty home runs and and then all of a 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.520 sudden just fell off a cliff. I think that's exactly 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.880 what's gonna happen to these guys that they don't perform 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.440 at least at an average level. But you hit the 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.240 nail run on the head. And I've got a problem 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:42.480 with it because this is gonna staying Rob Manfred's legacy 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.080 as commissioner of Major League Baseball. And people will say 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.000 that there's no precedent for this, that this is enough 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.800 of a penalty against the general manager, against the manager, 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.400 against the future manager when Carlos beltran, but it's not. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.720 And this dates back to eighteen seventy seven guys got 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.520 banned for life. There's were players, then you got the 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.840 eight players the nineteen nineteen Chicago Black Socks scandal, and 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.400 this is an opportunity for him to drop the hammer, 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.359 and he's not doing that by giving these guys immunity. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.320 It's just dumbfounding to me because these are the ones 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.280 that executed the plan to cheat, to rob the game, 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.000 to steal from other teams, and obviously use technology to 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.879 improve the likelihood of winning a World Series. And I 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.160 think it's gutless to do this or not to take 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.320 any action against these guys, because what's it a turrent 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.199 for these guys in the future. Oh yeah, listen, if 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.680 you told me right now that you could get away 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.600 with it, it's the perfect crime. And all you're gonna 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.359 lose is your dopey manager and your owners are gonna 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:48.000 be fine. Who's worth billions will be fined five dollars essentially? Uh, 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.080 and then your GM has gone okay done? Where do 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.320 I sign the paper with? I'd like the champion. And 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.760 that's exactly if if I gave the common man h 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.920 G h R steroids and I said, hey, you have 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.320 decent athletic ability, but here are P E D s 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.560 now enhancement. There might be an opportunity for you to 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.480 get caught, but you still have a chance to make 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.119 millions of dollars, not only for yourself or your family, 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:14.080 be set for life. Who wouldn't take that kind of action? Well, 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.520 it's like when you if you rob a bank and 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.359 then you get to keep the money, but you have 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.919 to go to jail for a couple of y I 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.159 would do it exactly. Who wouldn't do it? You know? 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.080 Of course you're gonna do it. If you figure about it, 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:28.840 spent a couple of years in jail, it can't be 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.439 that bad. I'll be you know, club fed or whatever, 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.280 and then I'll keep the money when I come out. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.119 And uh, it's just wrong out. Listen. We've talked about 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.520 this when when baseball, in the early days of baseball, 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.240 when guys got suspended, there was no union. Since the 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:49.359 Union got muscle, since the Union got backbone, baseball has 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.280 been a bunch of pussy willows. But even you know, 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.520 you think about bud Selike in the steroid era, bud 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.280 Selick could have easily suspended players based on the best 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:04.080 interest of the game, looking out for the wellness of baseball, 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.600 whatever clause they call it, whatever language and they use. 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.119 But but Seeley didn't do it because he was afraid 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.280 of the Union and he didn't even try to punish 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.320 anybody that was involved in this. Eventually they made a 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.280 compromise because of bad pr and they put the steroid 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.840 rules in. But he could have violated and he could 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.040 have punished these guys, didn't do it. There's a culture 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.239 in baseball of looking the other way, and it's you know, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.080 boys being boys and all that stuff. And but the fact, 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.480 the main reason that Rob Manford looks like a giant 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.920 pussy willow is because of the fact that the Mexican 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:39.080 drug cartels have as much power in Mexico as the 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.760 Union has over major League Baseball right and based most 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.320 Major League Baseball teams, it's a den of inequity. There's 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.720 a lot of shadiness going on with bending the rules, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.679 but it's again, it's it's okay when you hire the 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:56.680 five year old guy that should not be wearing a 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.879 baseball uniform who happens to be good at detecting te 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:04.480 holes from pictures or ripping off signs, that's okay. But 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.080 when you put a camera and bang bang and buzz 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.040 buzz and and all that, that's where you've crossed the line, 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.200 period period. Stop. But but the other thing too, about 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.479 the Astros. When you watch Astros games, Let's say they 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.639 do win some games this year because they have players 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.359 that we think are good, but maybe they're not because 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:25.640 of cheating. Any time the Astros get a big home run, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.800 if there's any kind of oddity, any kind of sound 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.000 thing that goes bump in the night, will be assumed 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.439 to be part of some new age way to to 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.000 tell a hitter when you know when something's coming. Can 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:42.280 you imagine going to like Anaheim or Yankee stadium in 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.680 in here, and when the Astro hitters are the plate, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.040 people will be banging seats, you know, whatever they can 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.520 get to make noise, to make kind of reminiscent and 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.680 make it sound like trash cans and things like that. 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.920 You know that's gonna happen. It reminds me of back 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:59.000 in the day when Bonds would go down to San 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.119 Diego or even law Sandels and people would throw syringes 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.760 or fake syringes onto the diamond. I don't know if 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:06.919 you remember that. I don't remember that. Yeah, I was 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.200 around at games, going to games, and I remember bon 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:14.600 Bonds was like an infamous like he was. He was 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:19.960 a brute of baseball and people just despised him, and 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.760 he was so upset with Barry Bonds. And in the 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.920 media coverage you was crazy. Now, I don't I don't 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:27.439 know how you feel on this, but I don't like 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:31.320 the stance that CC Sabathia took with this about how 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.640