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In January, with 28 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: just a few weeks to go in the NFL season 29 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: before the super Bowl, hype gets cranked up. He got 30 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: this weekend, one more weekend and then it's all two 31 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: weeks of hype and the super Bowl and it's all over. 32 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: But our lead from rich people getting richer. What a story, 33 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: What a day? What if you didn't see this? So 34 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: the Mets owner Steve Cohen, who every Met fan told 35 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: me was God's gift to the Mets that they had 36 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: all those bad years. But this was the guy Steve 37 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 1: Kahn met fanboy, bought the team. Every player wants to 38 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: play for the Mets. So Steve Cohen posted on social media. 39 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: This is a few hours ago. He posted, let me 40 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: know when you see smoke. Vague, vague, vague, old guy 41 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: social media. The indication was that the Mets the implication 42 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: was that in many assumed that that meant the Mets 43 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: were about to add the big kahuna in free agency. 44 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: Psych turns out that was a false alarm if you 45 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: did not keep track of the events of the day 46 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: here in the little sporting world that we live in, 47 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: little box that we're in. Maybe not. We've learned that 48 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker is taking his talents to 49 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 1: the back to back champs, the Dodgers, on a four year, 50 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: two hundred and forty million dollars deal. Of course, nothing 51 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: the Dodgers do is what it seems at Hollywood, everything 52 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: is smoking mirrors. The top free agent who was struggling 53 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: to find a job gets a contract with the Dodgers. 54 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: It contains a bunch of opt outs and loop the 55 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: loops and slides and transfer portal buttons, the press and 56 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: all that stuff. But in the meantime, at least for 57 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: the short term, he will get first two years sixty 58 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: million dollars per year, slightly more than you and I 59 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: make sixty million per year for Kyle Tucker. Okay, that 60 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the 61 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: question why why did free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker agree 62 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: to go to the Dodgers. He had the Mets interested, 63 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. There were several other teams that were 64 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: said to be interest, including the Mystery team. So my 65 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: thoughts on this, I've got political Caucus, Will Ferrell and 66 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 1: Patient zero and we will combine all of these things 67 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: together and we are going to make some pastrami fries 68 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: is what we're going to make. It'll sound pretty good. 69 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: Why not little cheese pastrami, some onions. Put that all together, 70 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: Boom done, and of course the potato. So ay, listen, 71 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: why did Kyle Tucker go to the Dodgers? This is simple. 72 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: You've got geography, gravity, and greed and a little side 73 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 1: of glamour, little side of glamour. He doesn't sell tickets. 74 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: No one's going out to watch Kyle Tucker play baseball, 75 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: which is all the more amazing that he was able 76 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: to finagle sixty million dollars a year out of the Dodgers. Now, 77 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: it's clear, based on a minutes long Mallard deliberation that 78 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: one thing I know, Kyle Tucker did not want to 79 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: make a run for the border. That he had the 80 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: Blue Jays all hot and heavy and Horny playing footsie 81 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: with him, and Toronto tried to woo him. There was 82 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: some chatter of a ten year marriage proposal, ten years, 83 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: ten years, and Tucker said, I don't want poutine with 84 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: my payroll. Hard pass, hard pass. So it became dueling pillows, 85 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: not pianos, dueling pills. Remember that the pillow offer is the 86 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: short term contract that lets you go back to market 87 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: if you don't get the offer you want. So it's 88 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: clear that Tucker did. He didn't get what he wanted, 89 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: which seems crazy to say when the man's going to 90 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: be making sixty million dollars a year average annual value. 91 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: But still he wanted the forever deal. I didn't get it. 92 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: So we had a couple pillow offers, the Mets and 93 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: the Dodgers. So you had the temper pedic cloud versus 94 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: Blue Harmony pillow, and Tucker picked Blue Harmony Southern California 95 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: sixty millions a year. That's a lot of harmony for 96 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: sixty million dollars a year. Kyle Tucker joins the Blue 97 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: Crew political caucus. And the thing about this is it's 98 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: always odd to me when guys do this, like he 99 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 1: could have been the man you can't be the man 100 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: after the Dodger guy, You're not gonna be the man. 101 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 1: This is giving vibes of when Kevin Durant went to 102 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: join the Golden State Warriors. I don't think Tucker's is 103 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: good as Durant, but anyway, now we're close. But anyway, 104 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker, he joined the Big Blue, the Big Blue 105 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: political caucus, and he chose to be the vice president, 106 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: the running mate instead of the president. So now he 107 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: will be the running mate for Sho Hail Tani. And 108 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: that makes Tucker what fourth in the pecking order. Usually 109 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: the vice president his second, but he's fourth in the 110 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: pecking order at Chevez Ravin behind the obviously Tani's at 111 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: the very top. He's like secretariat. And then you got 112 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, and then after that Kyle Tucker. 113 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: With a wink and a nod to the fresh Prince 114 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: of bel Air, there Will Smith. But I don't love 115 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: the player. I don't I don't love the player. I've 116 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: said that I'm not gonna all of a sudden change 117 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: my tune because he's with the Dodge. I hope he 118 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: does well. I hope he plays well for the Dodgers. 119 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: I just I wouldn't have made this move. But it's 120 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: you know, they got so much money. They don't know 121 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: what they're all. They keep jacking up the prices at 122 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium on everything. They got the money from Japan. 123 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: They don't know what to do with all the money. 124 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: And most of the players they're paying it's all deferred 125 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: money anyway, so it's a money making operation. It's even 126 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: more impressive than what the Yankees said back in the 127 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: day with Steinbrenner when they had the old man, not 128 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: the kids who don't even try, but the old man. 129 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: And you talk about an upgrade though, I just had 130 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: that stiff Michael Confordo in the outfield who batted under 131 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: two hundred and sucked for about one hundred games. There 132 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: were a few games he played well. Most of the 133 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: time was terrible. And now they have Tucker coming in 134 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: there and they think he's gonna be hitting missiles. He's 135 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: got no not no pressure, but a lot less pressure 136 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: because again he's not the man. He's way down on 137 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: the list, and a chance to win more championships. And 138 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: there's a bunch of opt outs, which are like gold 139 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: bars up the wazoo. And it didn't join the Dodgers 140 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: to be the guy, because you can't be the guy. 141 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: But you joined them to be a guy who wins. 142 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 1: And there's no reason I think the Dodgers aren't gonna 143 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: be right back in the World Series again. There's nobody 144 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: who can match them talent wise in the National League. 145 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 1: Of course, this roster will be tattered to bits by 146 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: the time we get to the All Star break, so 147 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: everyone gets hurt. That's what happens now page two. So 148 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: the question for page two, what do you like and 149 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: what do you dislike about the big free agent, the 150 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: number one free agent on the Kyle Tucker taking his 151 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: talents to the Dodgers. So let's start. I'll be Benny 152 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: bright Side to start here. It is a supersized combo 153 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: meal deal. This is what the nerds love. They love it. 154 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: They get all aroused when they see the power and 155 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: the speed the combo meal thirty home run power. He'll 156 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: steal a bunch of bases. He's a professional pickpocket. I 157 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: guess the Dodger's gonna have to run more, and he 158 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: does it. He's pit clean, pretty smooth operator. Smooth operator 159 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: out there, and he's had a good success rate stealing 160 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: bases and all that. And he's not a guy that 161 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: strikes out a ton, which is rare in baseball these days. 162 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: He's he's not some kind of free swinging carnival act, 163 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: which like like Max Munsey or somebody like that. He's 164 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: got some plate discipline. He kind of fits a kind 165 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: of he does fit the Dodger way, just kind of 166 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: wait you out and all that, low strikeouts, high walks, 167 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: left handed bat He's the other thing I like is 168 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: he's twenty nine, so he's in the sweet spot of 169 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: his athletic prime. You're buying it's like going to tire 170 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: rack and buying fresh tires. They're not going out to 171 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: some chop shop somewhere and buying retreads. And now to 172 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: be Benny Buzzkill, because why not. He does have astro DNA, 173 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: which makes me want to puke in my mouth. It does. However, 174 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: he was not the poster boy for the cheating Astros 175 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. In fact, he didn't even play for 176 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: the Astros in twenty seventeen. So I want nobody from 177 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen Astros of any prominence on the Dodgers. Ever, 178 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: he wasn't on that twenty seventeen cheating team that was 179 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: allowed to get away with it because the sport of 180 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: baseball has no leadership. They have a spineless, gutless commissioner. 181 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: So he wasn't on that twenty seventeen The other thing 182 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 1: that I think is hilarious to me as I did 183 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: some monologues if you listen every night during the summer 184 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: in previous episodes of the show summer of twenty twenty five, 185 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: and the story was when Kyle Tucker was playing for 186 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: Tree in Chicago's Cubs and Yapheemi and all those guys 187 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: in Eugene, the story was that Kyle Tucker was going 188 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: to get six hundred million dollars in free agency. Of course, 189 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: it was likely that story was leaked by I don't know, 190 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: Scott Boris, his agent, and then he went out and 191 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker sucked at a time you cannot suck with 192 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: the Cubbies in the friendly confines there in the second 193 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: half of the season. And so now he's taking that 194 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: very expensive Egyptian pillow with the Dodgers, and the reason 195 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: not only did he struggle, but the other thing I 196 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: don't really care for is Humpty dumpty, and you signed 197 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: players nobody else has its take. By the way, you 198 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: sign players who get hurt, they keep getting hurt. You 199 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: can't be surprised the guys should be on the injury 200 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: list or DL whatever it is. He's had the shin problem, 201 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: a hand issue, the calf, he's been banged up like 202 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: a circus cannon ball before they added the safety net 203 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: back in the day. And so defensively, supposedly, he's on 204 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: the decline. He used to be a premium level defensive 205 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: player with the leather. Now it's more like vinyl, and 206 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,959 Speaker 1: so he's serviceable, it's not as good, you know, day 207 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: to day. The other thing about this is he is 208 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 1: a what I call a Will Ferrell type of player 209 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: from old school that remember that old movie Old School There. 210 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: I can't believe it's an old movie now, but it is, 211 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: but Will Ferrell that classic line, we're going streaking. Yeah, 212 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: so he's he's hot for a month and invisible and yeah, 213 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 1: there it is right there. And so they say he's 214 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: a Swiss army knife, which means he's not really great 215 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: in any one area, but he'll be pretty good in 216 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: all areas. Just don't ask him to come out and 217 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: be a chainsaw, because that's not going to be what 218 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 1: he does. Their high floor kinda. The warranty is not 219 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: that great, and so you enjoy the ride. You might 220 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 1: want to keep the receipt. You might want to file 221 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,439 Speaker 1: that away and just make sure you have at least 222 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: a photo of it on your phone or something like that. Now, 223 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: the last word here. This happens every year. Now, it's 224 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: a tradition. Like the Swallows returning to Capistrano. The Dodgers 225 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: make a big move in free agency. They add one 226 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: of the top players on the market, if not the 227 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: top player in the market. And this leads to what 228 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: do you know what? Yeah, okay, you know, primal scream. 229 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 1: Primal scream around baseball. It's not fair. Oh my god, 230 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: we need a salarycap. The Dodger trying to win and 231 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: my team's not trying to win, and I don't like that. 232 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,959 Speaker 1: A bunch of cry babies, all right, So the question, 233 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: do you have any advice for Major League Baseball fans 234 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: suffering from what I call the blue flu over Kyle 235 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: Tucker landing in La La Land. So I look at 236 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 1: the immediate reaction on the socials and the drive by 237 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: sports media who are in total meltdown, and I laugh, 238 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: I laugh, I laugh, I laugh. And so for twenty 239 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 1: twenty six, Kyle Tucker is patient zero. He is the 240 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: one that is spreading the latest wave of the blue 241 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: flu very contagious. If you're a fan of the Pirates 242 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 1: or the Reds or the Athletics or the Diamondbacks or 243 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: the Mariners or one of those teams and it's about 244 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: to become a full blown pandemic against you might want 245 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: to go out and buy some bottled water and some 246 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: toilet paper, because that's what we do in pandemics. I 247 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: learned that in twenty twenty, way back in the day. 248 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: So this is a classic case of Dodger derangement syndrome. DDS. 249 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: You think it's unfair, Oh my god, it's unfair. H yeah, Hey, 250 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: life's unfair that the Dodgers are not just a team. 251 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: They are the death Star with a better dental plan, 252 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: is what they are. And you dopes that are sobbing right, 253 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: Oh it's so bad. Oh my god, the sactuary of 254 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: the game. Give me a freaking break, you'd losers. Okay, 255 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: The reality for those of you with a functioning brain 256 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: is that The Dodgers are at the very top of 257 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: the baseball pyramid. We know that everything goes through They 258 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: are the gold standard. And while the rest of the 259 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: league plays Tiddley Wings, the Boys of Blue every year 260 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: are big game hunting and they're getting shamed for it. 261 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: Imagine a business where you try to win and other 262 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: people look down upon you for doing that. It's not right. 263 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: Give us a chance? Why? Why? And I don't get 264 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: to listen. I would want to work for somebody that 265 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: overpays their employees. Would do you like your boss to 266 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: low ball you? I don't. When my boss is low 267 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: ball me, I get upset. Do you like when they 268 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: lowball you? I don't. I want to work for a 269 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: company that pays their employees top dollar. That's what I want. Now, 270 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: you're a loser and you want to work for somebody 271 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: that is a tightwad. That's on you. That's on you. 272 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: And hey, look if you look at the evidence here, 273 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: it's working. The twenty twenty five World Series between the 274 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Blues. And I love being I want 275 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: on the radio all over Canada right now. We got 276 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: great listenership and big cities all over from Vancouver all 277 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: the way across. Yeah, I'm a big fan, right love. 278 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: Our friends have brothers and sisters in Canada and they 279 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: listen to the show. However, normally, when a Canadian team 280 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: is in a championship in American sports, it doesn't get ratings. 281 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: The World Series of twenty twenty five between the Dodgers 282 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: and the Blue Jays set new records for viewership and ratings. 283 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: So you think people tuned in it. I was like 284 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: fifty something million people tuned into Game seven Dodgers and 285 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: Jays to see the spirit of the game from the 286 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: Blue Jays. No, people watched because they wanted to see 287 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: the empire fall. They wanted to see the Dodgers choke, 288 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: and they almost did. They almost did. It almost doesn't count. 289 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: And the other thing a lot of people don't understand, 290 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: I guess they're not really baseball fans, is baseball has 291 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: been a weak link sport, the weak link of baseball, 292 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: meaning that you can have five amazing players and then 293 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: you get the Game seven of the World Series. You're 294 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: a couple outs away from being eliminated. It's the ninth 295 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: inning and you got this scrub, thirty six year old 296 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 1: stiff a two sixty career hitter, just to average baseball 297 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: player Miguel Rojas, who man's off, puts big balls, bob 298 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: pants on and goes out there and hits a dinger 299 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: to tie the game. The Dagger, all right, the Dodge 300 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: didn't win the World Series. They couldn't without a basically 301 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 1: scrub hitting a home run. And everyone's all up in arms, 302 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: and so come on, just stop. It's I do, and 303 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 1: I do get a kick out of it. I like 304 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 1: the the reaction because it's kind of a it's kind 305 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: of amusing to me, the freak out factor. 306 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller 307 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 308 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Fox Sports Radio 309 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 2: is taking over YouTube, and you can be a part 310 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 2: of it. 311 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: Touch Just go to YouTube and search Fox. 312 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 3: Sports Radio, hit that subscribe button and smash that notification 313 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 3: bill and catch all the videos from your favorite shows. 314 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 3: Due Pro's and a Cup of Joe, Dan Patrick, Colin Coward, 315 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 3: Doug Gottlieb Cavino and Rich, The Odd Couple with Parker 316 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 3: and Kelvin Washington, The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, 317 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 3: and The Ben Mallor show Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. 318 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,959 Speaker 1: Subscribe, hit that thumbs up icon and comment away. So 319 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: our lead this, I'll get back to the football conversation. 320 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: The big story in baseball was Kyle Tucker as he's 321 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 1: heading to the Dodgers. It's not fair, it's not right. 322 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 1: It was all up at arms to chill out, relax. Okay, 323 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: what a loser attitude. But our lead this hour from 324 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest, as we are not that far away. 325 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: This is now Friday, so you know what that means tomorrow? 326 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: It's there. They are sleepless in Seattle. Are they really 327 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: sleepless in Seattle? Injury Scare? Injury Scare Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest. 328 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: The Seahawks quarterback. Is it true? Sam Donald popped up 329 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: on the injury list? Oh MJ see this you did? Okay? 330 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: Maybe not all right? So Sam Donald has a bleak injury. 331 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 1: That's a side, that's the side of your body. He 332 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 1: has oblique injury and has been listed as questionable Capital 333 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: C Holy No stredenis batman. Now we are told that 334 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 1: Donald is anticipating and planning on playing in the game 335 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: tomorrow in the divisional round against the forty nine ers 336 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: despite the injury on his side. Now, from what we 337 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: are told, the injury occurred during practice on Thursday. Donald 338 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: said he quote felt a little something, Oh sounds kinky. 339 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: That was in the left side, you know, bleak the 340 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 1: side of the muscles on the side of your bi 341 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 1: so left side in the kind of like above your 342 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 1: waist a little bit, you know, And that's it's kind 343 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: of important, kind of important. I was throwing during the 344 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: you know, obviously the practice period. He left practice precautionary 345 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 1: measures blah blah blah blah blah. So that is a 346 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss. Seems like kind 347 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: of a big deal that a starting quarterback in the 348 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: NFL a couple of days before a playoff game ends 349 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: up on the injured list as questionable. So my question 350 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: to the steam panel, how concerned should the twelfth man 351 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 1: the twelves? How concerned should the twelves be about Sam 352 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: Donald reporting an oblique injury for the Seahawks. So my observations, 353 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: I have capture the flag, purouette on the catwalk, and 354 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: Sega pinball machine, and we will combine all of these 355 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: three things together. We're gonna play Connect three one two three, 356 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 1: ABC is what we're going to do. So number I stop, 357 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 1: all right, So let me dig my clause into this. 358 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,959 Speaker 1: Check out the Malor panic O meter, which is never wrong, 359 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: the Malor Panicometer scale of one to ten. And I 360 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: have the Mallard Panico meter pegged at an eight an eight. 361 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: Now keep in mind the Mallard Panico meter is not 362 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: at an eight because Sam Donald is actually somehow broken. 363 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no no. It's because this 364 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 1: smells like you smell that. That's capture the flag. It's 365 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: a lot of sweat. There's a lot of phlegm, a 366 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: lot of mucus the flag. When Sam's plan capture the flag, 367 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: the flag is embroidered with excuses. This is what's known 368 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: as a preemptive spin job by the Seattle Seahawks. In 369 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: Sam Donald, Sam Donald's oblique is the perfect alibi, the 370 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: perfect alibi when he commandeers the Vomit comet. And when 371 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: he commandeers the vomit commet, he throws a couple of 372 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: wobblers and that tip pass that bounces off the receiver's 373 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: hands and is intercepted, and then he throws is that 374 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: he fumbles the ball there and he walks off the field, 375 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: and then he goes into the news conference room and say, well, Sam, 376 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: you didn't play very well. What happened? And you know? 377 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: And then he he points to his left side. He 378 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: points to his left side, and he says, hey man, 379 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: you know, dude, what do you want me to do? 380 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: I mean, what do you want? What do you want 381 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: from me? I got you know, the side thing? You 382 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 1: get the thing on the side. Now, if Seattle wins, 383 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: of course, this injury will vanish faster than free nachos 384 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: and a press box. It's insurance. It's troll insurance. Here's 385 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 1: the problem. Now, I know it works for low information fans. 386 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure no. Streudenas already has his excuse posts ready 387 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: to go on social media when Seattle loses. When you 388 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 1: suit up and you're listed as you're you're hurt. Oh 389 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: he's hurt. What you're doing is actually signing a silent 390 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: contract with your teammates and your fan base that you're 391 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: good enough to win that day. That's what you're doing 392 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: when you agree to play when you suit up and 393 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 1: you're hurt. Now you're injured, you don't play. But if 394 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: you're hurt, you're supposed to play. It you rub some 395 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: dirt on it, put a little ice pack, pharmacy greade, ibuprofen, 396 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 1: And it's a high stake situation. But availability, as always, 397 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: availability is the best ability. Blah blah blah blah. However, 398 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: the quote that I think applies here, the great Lou 399 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: Holtz back in the day, says, don't tell me how 400 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: rocky the sea is. Bring the ship in. And if 401 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: Sam Donald goes out there and plays like he normally 402 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 1: does in big games, the ship be sinking. So do 403 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: your job, as Belichick used to say back in the 404 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 1: day when he was good. Now page so we zoom 405 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: off to the windy city of Chicago, the Monsters of 406 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 1: the Midway, the Bears taking on the Rams in an 407 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 1: NFC match up this weekend. And as the Rams and 408 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: Bears get ready for a matchup in an ice box 409 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: at Soldier Field, the Rams were practicing this week in 410 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: eighty degree weather. Eighty degree weather, the Rams practicing in 411 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: so that's kind kind of good for them, I guess. Yeah. Sure. 412 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: And the Bears practicing inside the bubble thing they have 413 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,640 Speaker 1: and all that. Well, Matthew Stafford is planning on fighting 414 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: back against mother Nature. Did you see this? No, maybe not. 415 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: But we learned that Matthew Stafford is going to follow 416 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: the lead of Tom Brady and he will be donning 417 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: what he will be wearing a scuba suit. Guess yeah, 418 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: he's gonna wear a scuba suit for the for the 419 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 1: elements there in Chicago. So the question, here's the question. 420 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: Should Matthew Stafford wearing a scuba outfit in the Windy 421 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 1: City give ram fans pause? All Right, So I spent 422 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: about thirty seconds of my life. Someday I'll be dead 423 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,439 Speaker 1: and I wish I had that thirty seconds. May I 424 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: spent thirty seconds of my life deliberating? And I say no, 425 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: I say no, this is nothing to get worked up about. 426 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 1: It's the boy scout mottol be prepared. And I couldn't 427 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: give a cockroach's ass if Matthew Stafford does cosplay as 428 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: Aquaman from the Lost Kingdom out there running around, as 429 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,199 Speaker 1: long as he's throwing the football effectively not turning the 430 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: ball over, keeping the Rams offense, matriculating down the field, 431 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: just don't go out there and pretend like you're SpongeBob SquarePants. 432 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: We don't want that. We don't want that. And look, 433 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. From what I have deciphered, he's worn the 434 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: wetsuit before, so it's not like he hasn't done this before. 435 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 1: And there are rumors that Sean McVeigh it's gonna make 436 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: it like a combo thing, like a tandem deal. He's 437 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: also gonna wear a wetsuit on the sidelines so they 438 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: can get together and you can do a pirouette on 439 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 1: the catwalk at Soldier Field. Now, I do have an 440 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: unpopular opinion. It's not part of the orthodoxy of the 441 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: sporting world right now. The NFL media, my brothers and 442 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: sisters in the NFL media love love the cold weather narrative. 443 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: You learn it when you go to sports writer clown college, 444 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: the cold weather narrative. However, as I have gotten older, 445 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: I believe the impact has been lessened, and that that 446 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: narrative of the cold weather and how big an impact 447 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: it is, I believe it's greatly exaggerated and it really 448 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 1: only rattles the mentally weak player, the guys who are 449 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: already defeated when they see their breath. Oh my god, 450 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 1: I see, here's the deal. It's not nineteen sixty seven 451 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 1: last I checked anymore. It's just not and Van the 452 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: one legged Bama Man might disagree, but they've got advanced 453 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: bells and whistles. Now, they've always kind of had heated benches, 454 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: but those are like top level. You got the next 455 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: generation of handwarmers. You've got the portable saunas. For God's sakes, 456 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: they're sipping the chicken bra off the hot chocolate at 457 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 1: halftime and even during the game. It's like a it's 458 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: like they're at a ski resort out there. To me, 459 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: the cold weather narrative still applies to one group the 460 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: real heroes. The real heroes are the fans, the people 461 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: that sit sedentary in a feels like nine degree day 462 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: in Chicago and there will be many of them in 463 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:26,199 Speaker 1: Siberia for four hours without moving much at all. The 464 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 1: players have every possible creature comfort you could have to 465 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: deal with cold weather. And if you're a fan, you 466 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: got to do it yourself, right, do it yourself, diy. 467 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: You got to bring your own stuff, and a lot 468 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: of that stuff's not allowed in the stadium. So that's 469 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: where I am on this game. And hey, after the 470 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: Rams beat the Bears, the team should get together and 471 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,479 Speaker 1: they should celebrate and do a polar plunge. Into Lake Michigan. 472 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,199 Speaker 1: I think that would be a wonderful thing. Who says no? 473 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: All right, final point to the Bay Area we go 474 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 1: in un unusual unusual theory has emerged. Some prominent prominent 475 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: agents believe that the forty nine ers have a big 476 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: problem on their hands, and they have a theory as 477 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 1: to why there are so many players getting injured with 478 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Did you see this? If not, 479 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 1: buckle up, bukaroo. The forty nine ers practice facility is 480 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: next to an electrical substation operated by the Silicon Valley 481 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: Power Company. Now, the hypothesis is that since the players 482 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: spend most of their time at the facility and it's 483 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: in close proximity to low frequency electromagnetic fields, do. 484 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 3: Do do do do Do Do Do Do doo? 485 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: That that that that weakens tendons and causes soft tissue damage, 486 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: and that is why the forty nine ers are leading 487 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: the world in injuries every single year. Yeah, this should 488 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: be talked about on coast to coast, but we'll talk 489 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: about it right here. So the question is, do you 490 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 1: believe an electrical substation is to blame for the forty 491 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: nine ers having an infestation of injuries. 492 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 3: Do do do do do do Do Do Do Do 493 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 3: Do Do Do do. 494 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: Do do do do do do? Uh? Sure, why not 495 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: that that humming electrical substation next to the practice facility, 496 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: courtesy of the Silicon Valley Power Group is zapping the 497 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:40,959 Speaker 1: players with low frequency electromagnetic fields and they're turning tendons 498 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: into wet spaghetti. It's wet spaghetti, is what it is here. Uh, 499 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: that's the ticket, unless it's not. Come on, people, come on, now, 500 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: what are we doing? Are there still people? I remember 501 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: a few years back there was the five G crowd 502 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: that was convinced that five G was going to be 503 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: the death of all of us. And so now I 504 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: don't totally dismiss all all conspiracies. I don't, I don't. 505 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: This one doesn't seem legit to me. This is the 506 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: the Sega pinball machine, wack a doodle do, wack a 507 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: noodle do on steroids and the science you know, who 508 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: knows what science is. These days were kind of ruined 509 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: science in twenty twenty. But the science says no, that 510 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: low frequency that that substation, the levels that that facility 511 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: sends out does not apparently shred ligaments. Of course, that's 512 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: what they're saying. There's no credible evidence that that is legit. 513 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: It appears to be just some kind of Internet fever 514 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: dream kind of thing. I don't know, Jay Scoop cooked 515 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 1: that up or not, I don't know, or Nesto in 516 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: the Bay Area. I have to check with that. Well. 517 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: The Niners have been in that general location practicing there 518 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: since Ronald Reagan was in the White House in the 519 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: late eighties, and they have won multiple Super Bowls. Montana 520 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: was in that building, Steve Young was in that building. 521 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: They've been to six Super Bowls. And yet and yet 522 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: they've had that same kind of area right near the power, 523 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: right near the power and frying hamstrings like cheap bacon 524 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: right at the forty nine er facility. And we all 525 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: know the cliche that injuries happen all the time in 526 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: the NFL, and the Niners have had more injuries than 527 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: other teams on average. They're in the upper percentile for injuries. 528 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: And it is a violent game, and human beings are 529 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: participating last I checked, and a couple of years, we 530 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: won't have to worry about this because they'll be cyborgs, 531 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: and the cyborgs will be out there in that's it. 532 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: But blaming a substation is kind of like blaming your 533 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: toaster for burning the toast while you were sleepwalking and 534 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: you were wandering around like a zombie in the kitchen. 535 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,959 Speaker 1: Now the x that any part, and this is the 536 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: part which you cannot ignore, is, even though it's pretty 537 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: much been debunked, the theory that the Niners facility is 538 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: responsible for the injuries that are taking place here. The 539 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: truth does not matter when people start believing this. When 540 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: the root of belief takes over, like if the people 541 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 1: in the locker room or people around the NFL that 542 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: could end up going to the forty nine ers believe 543 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: the legend, it becomes their reality. Is we like to say, 544 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: the man who shot Liberty balance. When the legend becomes 545 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: the fact, you print the legend. So it is a 546 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 1: bit of an issue. And knowing how expensive real estate 547 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: is in the Bay area, good luck. I'm sure the 548 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: Niners will just find a play. Maybe they'll move to 549 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 1: Fresno and get something in Fresno and practice there. That'll 550 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,720 Speaker 1: go go well. Yes, it is the Ben Mallor Show. 551 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: If you'd like to be part, you can join us 552 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: right now at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox 553 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: that's eight seven seven nine nine six six, and also 554 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: on ex at Ben Mahler, the big news of the 555 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: overnight Kyle Tucker, who is that that's a baseball player, 556 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: and he's gonna get sixty million dollars per years. It's 557 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: a good amount of money. That's a that's a fair 558 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: amount of money. But not just the sixty million dollars 559 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: a year. We are told also there's some little things 560 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 1: dripping in here on the Kyle Tucker deal with the Dodgers. 561 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: And Tucker also will be getting a sixty four million 562 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 1: dollars signing bonus. Of course, it sounds impressive, but after 563 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: California taxes and the People's Republic of California and Los Angeles, 564 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker will walk away with two dollars and seventy 565 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: three cents. So that's a good luck on that. But hey, 566 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: it starts out at sixty four million, and then you 567 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: got to pay for this that, you know that and 568 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:51,880 Speaker 1: the other thing, and so there you go. 569 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 570 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 571 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 3: Here we all, here we go. 572 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 2: This is one big fent gets grilled. 573 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 4: Cool believe Patriots left tackle Will Campbell did not have 574 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,240 Speaker 4: a great game against the Chargers. He allowed several pressures, 575 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 4: one of which turned into a strip sack of Drake May. 576 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 4: Campbell said he can't worry about last week and just 577 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 4: needs to move on and keep playing. He'll have an 578 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 4: even tougher test against the Texans. Ben, should Pat's fans 579 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 4: be worried? 580 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, the guy was their first round draft pick. 581 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: He's supposed to be the state and forget it tackle. 582 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 1: He used to leave him there And if he can't 583 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: play in the playoffs at a high level like this 584 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,359 Speaker 1: is this is a big def He goes out there 585 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 1: and gets spit roasted and eviscerated by the Texans defense, 586 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 1: then what's gonna happen on sports radio and on social media. 587 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,800 Speaker 1: He's gonna be disemboweled for the rest of the offseason. 588 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,879 Speaker 1: So yeah, get it done, dude. This is why they 589 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: your first round draft pick. Step up performed next. 590 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 4: Former NBA champ Tony Allen recently issued an apology of 591 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,439 Speaker 4: sorts to Cooper Flag. Allen said he was completely wrong 592 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 4: about him and see signs of superstardom. Ben, do you 593 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 4: think Flag is the real deal. 594 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 1: Uh no, it's too soon to determine that he has 595 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: played great with The Mavericks are a terrible team. I 596 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,720 Speaker 1: know they killed the Jazz, but he's he's been better. 597 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:13,800 Speaker 1: I gotta see more. Next. 598 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 4: Alabama quarterback Tys Simpson is heading to the NFL Draft 599 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,759 Speaker 4: on the advice of Nick Saban. He was offered a 600 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,919 Speaker 4: lot to stay in school, but Saban said, take money 601 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,359 Speaker 4: out of the equation and do what you would want 602 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,839 Speaker 4: to if no one offered you anything. Benas Saban giving 603 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,439 Speaker 4: good advice. Uh no, I. 604 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 1: Think Simpson is gonna be bad. He first round pick. 605 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,480 Speaker 1: He'll be okay. I don't think he is gonna be 606 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: a first round pick. So had we know? How we know? 607 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 1: And we know he fail? 608 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:40,479 Speaker 2: Oh still you you're Fox Sports Radio has the best 609 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 2: sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our 610 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,799 Speaker 2: shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. 611 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:54,799 Speaker 2: Search FSR to listen live. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame Week, 612 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 2: Blame week too. It's Big Man's lame joke of the week. 613 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,759 Speaker 1: Here we go. It's Big Man's lame jokes a week, 614 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: every single week. At about this time, it's the jokes 615 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: of the week. And let's see did he successfully call. 616 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:08,880 Speaker 2: In or not? 617 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 1: Weed Man. Let's see you there, money Bow. Oh there 618 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: you are we men. I'm not your mother, dude. I 619 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 1: gotta wake you up. What's going on here? What are 620 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 1: you doing? You were not cool? Was he calling? He 621 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:32,280 Speaker 1: wasn't calling? Well, I called you there, Lisa, Hey, happy 622 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 1: to Lisa. It's January sixteenth, Lisa. Can you make sure 623 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 1: weed Man shows up on time? We're gonna have to 624 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:42,480 Speaker 1: deduct his pay. Okay, we're gonna have we man. You're 625 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna get less than zero. 626 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:49,160 Speaker 4: Now we've been in an official with HR. 627 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,240 Speaker 2: Yeah you got. 628 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, and now that weed Man we're gonna give you 629 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 1: a lifetime supply nothing. So you get that. We all right? 630 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,879 Speaker 1: Here we go. Big Ban's on jokes a week. Did 631 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 1: you know that weed Man hit he had to quit 632 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 1: his construction job because he was not strong enough to 633 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,879 Speaker 1: do it. Did you hear about that? No? 634 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:07,759 Speaker 2: Really? Yeah? 635 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, apparently you gave them a two week notice. 636 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:19,839 Speaker 1: You see what a George and your Valdi. It's lame jokes. 637 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: These are mostly dad jokes. FedEx Mike. FedEx Mike from 638 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 1: Kansas City, the home of the Ben Mather Chicken figures right, 639 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 1: since says, why was weed Man staring at the orange 640 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 1: juice carton? Why? Because it said concentrate, So you were 641 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:37,320 Speaker 1: just you were staring at it? 642 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,440 Speaker 2: You want know all right? 643 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,920 Speaker 1: Big Ben's lame jokes in the week. This one is 644 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,759 Speaker 1: from Noah in Austin. Why did weed Man give up 645 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:45,880 Speaker 1: on learning Braille? 646 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 3: Why? 647 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,920 Speaker 1: Apparently you were just not feeling it. You were just 648 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:57,960 Speaker 1: not feeling it unfortunately. Answer. It's Noah in Austin, Texas. 649 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: What's a difference between Justin Cooper and weed Man? 650 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 3: What? 651 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,320 Speaker 1: Well, someday Cooper will have a star on the Hollywood 652 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: Walk of Fame and weed Man will have a star 653 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,439 Speaker 1: on the Hollywood, Florida Walk of Shame. That's from Eke 654 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:17,560 Speaker 1: and Rose with some surprising news. But the rumor on 655 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,600 Speaker 1: the internet is that weed Man wants to move to Denver. 656 00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:21,280 Speaker 1: You know why? 657 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 3: Wow? 658 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:27,400 Speaker 1: Why it's the Mile High City Baby. That's Michael leprecaon 659 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 1: That wasn't that funny? What's the best part about an 660 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:39,120 Speaker 1: e dog phone call? What when he hangs up? That's 661 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:40,799 Speaker 1: Noah in Austin as well. 662 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 4: Was that in? 663 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 1: Why did it? Why did weed Man play with a kite? 664 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 1: When he was young. Why he liked the phrase high 665 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:57,440 Speaker 1: as a kite. That's Mike again. All right? What else 666 00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 1: were we have Big Ben's lame jokes for the week. 667 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,480 Speaker 1: Last weekend, Justin in Cincinnati was invited by a female 668 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 1: janitor to smoke weed in or apartment. How about that 669 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: weed man? Wow? Yeah, he declined, He said he can't. 670 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 1: He can't hang out with high maintenance women. He cannot 671 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:20,239 Speaker 1: do it. So what's the difference between an what's the 672 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:25,239 Speaker 1: difference between the NFL and the Kardashian family? What the 673 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:31,600 Speaker 1: Kardashians have never needed a head coach? They've never needed that. 674 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,319 Speaker 1: That's a Gordon and Tacoma sent that one in? Uh, Paige, Dan? 675 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 1: What else have we got here? I got one more? 676 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:42,399 Speaker 1: Have you ever been to an engagement in Ohio? No? Yeah, 677 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:47,080 Speaker 1: you're halfway between Dayton and Marion. That's from Ken that's 678 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 1: from fashion. Howage like thanke? You weed man? And Lisa? 679 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,279 Speaker 1: Thank you two kids? All right? Thank you so much. 680 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:55,640 Speaker 1: There you