1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,120 Speaker 1: He we go. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 2: Welcome, it's our numb ber wan, our number one and 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: oh what fun it is. Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 2: going monol a model, I to eye with Commissioner Rob 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 2: Manford over the salary cap. Whose side are you on? 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: We begin the hour, this hour of the Malor podcast 7 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: on this Tuesday, July twenty ninth, with that story why 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 2: is the salary cap? Chatter from Major League Baseball ultimately 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: a nothing burger, and after the Bryce Harper, Rob Manford 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 2: brew ha ha, former player Mark du Rosa, who works 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: for Major League Baseball warned the Phillies of the Commissioner's power. 12 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: Now this was taken as a threat by some Phillies players. 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 2: Is that how it sounds to you? We'll talk about 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: that as well. All of it's coming your way right 15 00:00:52,400 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: now here. It is our number one, seeing with the 16 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 2: boss and I love it. 17 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 3: I love it. 18 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben 19 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 2: Balor Show. 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We are in 38 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 2: the doghouse with this sport because of this particular person. 39 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 2: But we'll go to the locker room drama ol rama 40 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: in the Delaware Valley. As we have learned through various 41 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 2: reports that the Philadelphia Phillies YouTube kid, he was originally 42 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: the YouTube kid. I remember seeing clips on the Internet 43 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 2: of this guy when he was in high school in Vegas. 44 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 2: But Bryce Harper stood nose to news, belly to belly 45 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 2: with the clown commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfraud. 46 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 2: Now this is during a meeting between the commissioner of 47 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, that would be Manfraud and the team 48 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 2: last week. Now, if you didn't see this or hear 49 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 2: about it, maybe you missed it. We're told that Bryce 50 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,239 Speaker 2: Harper ended up getting in the face of Rob Manford 51 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 2: and telling him to get the f out. It's a 52 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 2: Peter to saf he said the forward. He did not 53 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 2: say f he said the He's a grown up. He 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 2: said the foulk. We're on radio after I got kids work. 55 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 2: He said, get the f out of our clubhouse. He said, 56 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 2: if Manford wanted to talk about the implication of a 57 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 2: salary cap ooh the boogeyman. Now that confrontation came in 58 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 2: a meeting. We are told that the slimy commissioner of 59 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: Major League Baseball is going around trying to improve communication 60 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 2: relationships with every team and all the players. And the 61 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: meeting lasted an hour. Must have been very born. My god, 62 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 2: must have that been boring. Anyway, they talked for an hour. 63 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 2: Manford never said the words salary cap in quotes. You 64 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 2: never said that the discussion was about the economics, and 65 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 2: that is what raised the dander of one Bryce Harper, 66 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 2: who loves the Philly fanatic and I love the Philly fanatics, 67 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 2: so I have that in common with Bryce Harper. So 68 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 2: let us discuss the question. Philly star a multi time MVP, 69 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 2: Bryce Harper going eye to eye mono a mono with 70 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: Commissioner Rob Manford over the salary cap. Who's side of 71 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 2: you on? I am in the side. Now, I'm gonna 72 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 2: tell you who I think you know who side I'm on. 73 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 2: I've got dog Whistle, art of the Covenant and sopranos, 74 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: and we'll put all these things together and we're gonna 75 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 2: make the Gobba gool is what we're gonna make. We're 76 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 2: gonna make the Gobba ghool, all right, So hey, listen, 77 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 2: I am on the side of truth, justice and the 78 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 2: sports talk way. Bryce Harper, Here we go, Price, Here 79 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 2: we go. Yeah, come on, now, I love it. I 80 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: love the visual in the cartoon bubble over my head. 81 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 2: It's great. That little clown weasel, your little weasel, Rob Manford, Right, 82 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,239 Speaker 2: little clown Commissioner Major League Baseball. There he goes down, 83 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 2: you know, sashchets his way into the Phillies clubhouse, saying, 84 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 2: oh man, I'm just gonna go out there and blow 85 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 2: smoke in that clubhouse and boom boom boom boom boom boom, 86 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 2: nose to nose with Bryce Harper. So good, so good, Bravo, Encore, Encore. 87 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 2: I say, someone had to say, now, I love that 88 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 2: it's Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper doesn't need to do this. 89 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: He's already got his money. He's already got the three 90 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 2: hundred million dollar contract. Why is he what's he care? 91 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 2: He got his right. Normally, the way this works is 92 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 2: if you get the bag, you don't care about anyone else. 93 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 2: You got yours, go to each their own, screw everyone else, right, 94 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: you got paid. That's it. Do you know how rare 95 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 2: it is that someone gets that kind of wealth to 96 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 2: play baseball and is still out there screaming and barking 97 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 2: and saying, no, we're not doing a salary cap. Normally, 98 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 2: you know this, When you get the bag, you stop 99 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 2: caring about the other players. Anyone who understands basic math, 100 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 2: by the way, not just malar math. Basic math, understands 101 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 2: the cap is cramp like, no one that knows economics 102 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: wants the salary cap in baseball. It's the worst thing 103 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 2: in the world. Right, you're just announcing you're an idiot 104 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 2: if you say I want a salary cap, I want 105 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 2: the owners to make more money. That's what you're saying. 106 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 2: You're moron, your dummy, is what you're saying. The salary 107 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 2: cap talk is always a dog whistle, all right, it's 108 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 2: a dog whistle for how can we keep salaries down 109 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 2: from the ownership side, but yet convinced dumb people, the fans, 110 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 2: the idiots, that we're doing the right thing for competitive bounds. 111 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 2: You realize, with no salary cap, baseball has more of 112 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 2: a competitive bounce than any of those sports that have 113 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 2: salary caps. Hello, what does that say? What? The teams 114 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 2: that actually try end up winning have success in baseball. 115 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 2: The problem is not the salarycap. The problem is the 116 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 2: teams that don't give a crap about winning Sacramento or 117 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 2: sacrament of the A is that scumbag John Fisher, the 118 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: Marlins in Miami, the Pirates, teams like that. That's the problem. 119 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 2: You can win the Tampa Bay. They don't spend any 120 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 2: real money playing a minor league ballpark now because the 121 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 2: hurricane took out of their stadium. And I know they're 122 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 2: having the greatest year, but considering the amount of money 123 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 2: they spend, they find ways. The Milwaukee Brewers have been 124 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 2: wonderful in recent years, a consistent playoff contender or playoff 125 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 2: team over the last decade or so. They don't spend 126 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 2: a ton of mone. It can be done right, and 127 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 2: you're not. Really the issue is like teams that don't 128 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 2: want to win, that's the problem. It's not the salarycap. 129 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 2: The salary CAP's not gonna fix anything in terms of 130 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 2: whoa competitive bounds. You already have that right. And the 131 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 2: dirty little secret in Major League baseball is that you 132 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 2: look around and you see that the teams that actually 133 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 2: put an effort into it generally find some success. But 134 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 2: you can make a lot of money and have a 135 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 2: baseball team that is just a golden goose without even 136 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 2: There's like seven people that go to Marlins games, and 137 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 2: I know one of them, Marlin's man, And even he 138 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 2: doesn't go to many Marlins games, and he lives in Miami, 139 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 2: but he'd rather travel around the United States and see 140 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: games in other stadiums that don't involve the Marlins because 141 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: the Marlins blow. And yet the Marlins make money. And 142 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 2: you know, the Athletics left all they made money in Oakland. 143 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 2: Nobody went to the games in Oakland. Nobody's you know, 144 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 2: the Sacramento Minor League ballpark, it's not anyone there. They're 145 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 2: making money because you get the TV money, you get 146 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 2: the national revenue, and in addition, you get the teams 147 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 2: that spend a lot, like the Dodgers and the Mets 148 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 2: and teams like that. They cut your check for not 149 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 2: even trying. Right, you can draw seven hundred and seven thousand, 150 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: whatef doesn't matter. Put a crap product, garbage at first base, 151 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,559 Speaker 2: trash at second, feces at shortstop, and do do it 152 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 2: third and you will make money. You will absolutely make money. 153 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 2: And while teams that try to win, I think the Dodgers, 154 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 2: the Mets, the Yankees, teams like that, they have to 155 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 2: pay a penalty for these other teams and then they 156 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 2: just pocket the money. That's the dirty little secret in baseball. 157 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 2: I'm Rob Manford. He's never going to address that. Why 158 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 2: would he? All right, why would he? 159 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: So? 160 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 2: I love the fact that Bryce Harper got right in 161 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 2: the face of Rob Manford just threw it down right 162 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 2: and should have tossed him right out there on Broad 163 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 2: Street is what he should have done. Now, the second 164 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 2: page on this why is the salary cap chatter which 165 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 2: is being cranked up? The labor negotiations will take place 166 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, so it's not that far away 167 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 2: the end of the twenty twenty six season, which means 168 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 2: they could be there could be a workstoppas prior to that. 169 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: Many in baseball are preparing for the nuclear winter. But 170 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 2: why is this salary cab the chatter in Major League 171 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 2: Baseball ultimately a nothing burger. Let me explain this to 172 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 2: you like you're five years old. The reason that this 173 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 2: is a nothing burger. In order for there to be 174 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 2: a serahcab, you would have to have support of the players. 175 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 2: There is not support of the players. But even if 176 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 2: you could get support of the players, in order for 177 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 2: this to realistically work, you would have to do something 178 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 2: that you will not do. Something you cannot do, something 179 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 2: that you will not do. No matter what happens, you 180 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,599 Speaker 2: won't do it. What is that If you want to 181 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 2: have an honest conversation about a salary cap in Major 182 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 2: League Baseball. The owners would have to open the bucks. 183 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 2: They'd have to open the bucks, the bean counters. That's 184 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 2: never gonna happen, never, ever, ever, never. And here's why, 185 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 2: the reason why, and that most of us know this. 186 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 2: They are every team in baseball is making a profit. Now, 187 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 2: not every team makes a big profit, not every team 188 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 2: makes a big profit, but they're making money, boat loads 189 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 2: of money in Major League Baseball. And these owners who 190 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 2: are making money hand over fist while at the same 191 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: time pretending like they're bleeding cash and Maron's oh, these 192 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 2: poor teams are losing money. No they're not dummy, No 193 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 2: they're not right. And the books are the holy grip. 194 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 2: I've heard some stuff that I'm not allowed to say 195 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 2: because I don't want to get in trouble with certain people. 196 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 2: But I've heard things over the years involving the books 197 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 2: and the lengths that Major League Baseball has gone to 198 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 2: to make sure the financials don't get out. Some mind 199 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 2: blowing things have passed through my head from people who 200 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 2: work in baseball, the efforts that they have gone to 201 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 2: avoid opening the books. Right, Like, imagine if you peaked 202 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 2: inside John Fisher's financials and realized the Athletics didn't have 203 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 2: to leave Oakland. He was making a lot of money. 204 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 2: He just wants to make more money. And so it's 205 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 2: that whole thing. Right, You're more likely to see the 206 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 2: arc of the covenant than you are the financials of 207 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 2: these these owners that cry they don't have any money. 208 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 2: They treat the financials in baseball like the nuclear launch codes. Okay, 209 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 2: that's what they treat it like. And it is such 210 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 2: a scam. It is such a scam. We need a 211 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 2: cap for parody. We want to have every tream. How 212 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 2: about transformin. It reminds me of that used car salesman 213 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 2: Bud Selik was going around in the early two thousands, 214 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 2: in the nineties and saying, well, we need new stadiums 215 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati so we can have good teams 216 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 2: on the field. These teams can win the World Series 217 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 2: if they get those stadiums. They built new stadiums. Guess what, 218 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 2: spoiler alert. The teams blow chunks in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Right, 219 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 2: they suck. And they were taught, all you need is 220 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 2: a new stadium. This is the magic the magic pill. 221 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 2: That's all you need, right, That's all you need. And 222 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 2: so come on, it's nonsense. You don't have it. You 223 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 2: don't have it right now, and yet more teams if 224 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 2: you try, If the Reds and Pirates actually tried, they 225 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 2: would actually find a way to make the postseason. And 226 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 2: we know in baseball just making the postseasons all you 227 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 2: have to do. It's one of those things. It's not 228 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 2: like basketball where or even football where if you're like 229 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 2: a one or two seed you have a very good 230 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 2: chance of going to the NBA Finals, to the super Bowl. 231 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 2: In baseball it doesn't work that way. But again, it 232 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 2: all goes back. You're not going to open the books. 233 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 2: So no matter how much you said, we need to 234 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 2: sell recap and you try to get the dumb fans 235 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 2: behind the morons, all right, people with IQs blow thirty 236 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 2: and you say, okay, it doesn't matter. Right, they're sitting 237 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 2: on gold mines, these owners and crying poverty. Now, I 238 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 2: don't doubt that Scott Boris was behind this leak of 239 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 2: the Bryce Harper story that Scott my opinion. Can't sue 240 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 2: me for my opinion that Scott Boris and his team 241 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 2: leaked that story, because why would Major League Baseball leak 242 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 2: a story about Rob Manford getting into a confrontation with 243 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 2: one of the star players in baseball would never do that, 244 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 2: So it had to come from Bryce Harper's camp, and 245 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 2: Scott Boris is his guy, So it makes a lot 246 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 2: of sense. But look at everything. I mean, they make 247 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 2: so much money in baseball, owning the stadium, the parking lots, 248 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 2: A lot of these teams have their own TV channels. 249 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 2: They've monetized everything. Remember, I went to Wrigley Field when 250 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 2: I was doing stuff in another life, when I did 251 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 2: stuff with the Dodgers. We went there in the nineties 252 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 2: and it was still had the charm of the old 253 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 2: Wrigley Field the way it had always been. I went 254 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 2: there a couple of years ago and it was like 255 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 2: downtown Disney. The Cubs had bought all the property around 256 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 2: wrigley Field ownership and they had put their own branding 257 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 2: on everything and all that, and so it was a 258 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 2: much different experience than it had been in the mom 259 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 2: and pop days. Now final thought, so after the Bryce 260 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 2: Harper Rob Manford confrontation took place. After that, a former 261 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 2: Big league player and now turned gas bag and schill 262 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 2: from Major League Baseball, Mark de Rosa, who works for 263 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. According to a story on The Athletic 264 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 2: buried behind a paywall, the Old Gray Lady. The New 265 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 2: York Times owns the Athletic anyway, Mark de Rosa, I 266 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 2: was reading this story earlier. I just saw it. So 267 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 2: the story says that he warned. Mark de Rosa warned 268 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Phillies players of the commissioner's power. He warned them. Now, 269 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 2: this was taken as a threat, according to the way 270 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 2: the story was reported by Evan Drelik, who I briefly 271 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 2: did a radio show with years ago. So is that 272 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 2: how it sounds to you? Mark de ross According to 273 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 2: this story, Mark de Rosa, who works for MLB, he 274 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 2: warned the players that essentially they're messing with the wrong guy. 275 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 2: You're messing with Robmanford. What are you doing? All right? 276 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 2: So the answer to this, how does Yes, it sounds 277 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 2: like a threat. I would absolutely take that as a threat. 278 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 2: This is Sopranos style, is what it is. It's organized 279 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 2: baseball crime. If you will, Manford is the mob boss. 280 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 2: How long have we talked about Rob Manford essentially being 281 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 2: a mob boss of organized baseball? Right? And there you've 282 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 2: got Mark de Rosa, Where is he at? Here. So 283 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 2: you've got Mark de Rosa, who played a Major League 284 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 2: baseball career. Now he works from Major League Baseball. He's 285 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 2: the conciliary, right, He's the he's the fixer, he's the 286 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 2: whisper in this right, and he's he goes in there, 287 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 2: he delivers the message for the mob. Boss is what 288 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: he does. And he gets his hands dirty and all that, 289 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 2: but not too dirty. Right, Let's not forget who we're 290 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 2: dealing with here, a right, and what kind of power 291 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 2: Rob Manford has. This is the same Rob Manford, If 292 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 2: I'm wrong, correct me, who shielded the cheating Astros after 293 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 2: the biggest cheating scandal in modern times. A team cheated 294 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 2: in the World Series, not just to get to the 295 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: World Chairs. In the World Chairs. It was in the 296 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 2: MLB video highlighting the World Series. And what did Rob 297 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 2: Manford do? He let the players walk free? Al Boovey, 298 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 2: that punk Bregman. Now with the Red Sox Springer, there's 299 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 2: still a few left. He's in Toronto. I let him 300 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 2: all walk free. And why is that? There's a theory 301 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 2: that baseball needed the business partners in Houston to be happy, 302 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 2: and they would have been upset if those guys had 303 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 2: been suspended. There's one theory that's out there. So if 304 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 2: Manford likes you, if he likes you, he'll protect you 305 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:02,120 Speaker 2: like family, just like a good mob movie, right, your family. 306 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 2: Now if you cross him, what happens if you're crossing 307 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 2: Let's see here. Oh, I have an example. Trevor Bauer. 308 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 2: Remember Trevor Bauer, Cy Young winning pitcher, Trevor Bauer. Yeah, 309 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 2: Trevor Bauer, who I think right now is sipping some 310 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 2: saki in Japan rather than pitching in Major League Baseball. 311 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 2: When starting pitching blows Rob Manford commissioner. Now, technically Bauer 312 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 2: is allowed back, but he Bauer did something you're not 313 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 2: supposed to do. He trashed Trevor. Trevor r trashed Rob 314 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 2: Manford every chance he got. So now he's in Japan, 315 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 2: he's pitching on dusty mounds in Mexico. He's probably trying 316 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 2: to get a work visa to pitch in Afghanistan at 317 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 2: this particular point. And that's because he messed with Rob Manford. 318 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 2: No one will touch him because Manford doesn't want him 319 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 2: in baseball. That's the theory, right, and so Manford plays favorites. 320 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 2: And as far as this other guy DeRosa. He doesn't 321 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 2: work for the players anymore. He's a former player. He's 322 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 2: on the payroll for Major League Baseball, all right. He's 323 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 2: sitting there at the MLB Network commentating and apparently giving 324 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 2: friendly warnings. Wink wink, nod nod, like he's reading some 325 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 2: kind of bedtime story. While the message is rather loud 326 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 2: and clear. I think the message is rather loud and 327 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 2: clear here that you don't talk back to the boss 328 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 2: where the boss will get you. Right, you'll be sleeping 329 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 2: with the baseballs if you talk to the boss that 330 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 2: strikes on. We can still, we can still manipulate the 331 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 2: strikes on. We can. You know, next year we can't 332 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 2: do it. But this year we can still manipulate it. 333 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 2: You know, fifty to fifty calls suddenly the empires might 334 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 2: be going going away from Bryce Harper. You're not gonna 335 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 2: get those calls anymore, right, just saying you come at 336 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 2: the King, You come at the King, and they say 337 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 2: your best not miss it is the Ben Malor Show. 338 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 2: What do you think about all that? We'll take your thoughts. 339 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 2: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number 340 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 2: eight seven seven nine nine six six three six, and 341 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 2: also on X at Ben Mahler. If you'd like to 342 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 2: be part of the program, we'll talk a lot about 343 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 2: this sort. It's a good story. Got one of the 344 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 2: highest paid people in baseball, Bryce Harper going after Rob 345 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 2: manfor giving him a dirty word. Dirty word and Rob 346 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 2: Manford lives in a bubble there. This guy, you know, 347 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 2: he is a labor lawyer that was hired in a 348 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 2: labor negotiation as outside council and he just never left. 349 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 2: And he rows up the ranks to become the commissioner 350 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball and has been poop pooing and 351 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 2: spitting loogi's all over the game ever since. Then eight 352 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 2: seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We love new voices. 353 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,479 Speaker 2: We don't need the same seven people calling, although they 354 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 2: probably will. You can avoid them calling for a little 355 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 2: bit by stonewalling them at eight seven seven ninety nine 356 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 2: on Fox. Also on X at Ben Mahler, we'll talk 357 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 2: some other things as well, including is John Gruden returning 358 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 2: to coach? Could John Gruden be back the old Raider 359 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 2: coach from back in the day. 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In the meantime, you can interact 397 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 2: with us on the phones at eight seven seven ninety 398 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 2: nine on Fox, also on X at Ben Mahlor that's 399 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 2: at Ben Mallor can say at Lorena the FSR Tech 400 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 2: Queen Lady Party, Queen the Cheese Curds, and also at 401 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 2: a Brocco fan coming up later this hour, the who 402 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 2: Am I? Game? But right now back to it. We 403 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 2: go all right back to it, and we'd like to 404 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 2: announce all the affiliates. So in the we never really break. 405 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 2: But there was a pause and my favorite part of 406 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 2: the show is the commercials. I love the commercials. I 407 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 2: want more commercials. I tell management to play more commercials. 408 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 2: So I went out of the main studio. I went 409 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 2: out the door. There's a big bank vault door here. 410 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 2: I went down a couple of steps and then I 411 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 2: turned left and then I went down the hall. And 412 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 2: I had two things on my agenda. So I went 413 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 2: down the hall. I went past the little production studio 414 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 2: and no one's there this ghost town here at night now. 415 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 2: So I walked by there, and there's two doors, and 416 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 2: so I walked by both. So then I went to 417 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 2: the bathroom, which is on the right. So I went 418 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 2: to the bathroom and then I washed my hands, and 419 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,080 Speaker 2: then I came out of the bathroom and then I 420 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 2: I tried to fill up my cup with water, and uh, 421 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 2: and was grabbed the water. Grabbed the cup and go 422 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 2: fill it up. And so as I was grabbing it, 423 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 2: the cup fell and there is now water all over 424 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 2: the U all over. I was wondering what that calamity 425 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,919 Speaker 2: out there was. Yes, yes, there was a loud thump 426 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 2: and my delicious ice water, which I love so much, 427 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 2: and just completely gone. The worst part is we don't 428 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 2: have a mop during the nighttime. We only paper towels. Yeah, 429 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 2: and uh, there's cameras all over this place, so I'm 430 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 2: sure it's recorded. Somebody can go back and look at it. Well, 431 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 2: it's just water. It's a lot of water. I'm gonna 432 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 2: I'm I mean here in a second, it's a lot 433 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 2: of water. It's on the carpet though, so it's not 434 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 2: it's on the carpet. It And uh, yeah, I mean 435 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 2: I think we're the only ones here. There's no one 436 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 2: really else in the building, and if someone else is 437 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 2: in the building, we're going to get in trouble. So 438 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 2: I think we're okay. I literally had no time. Just 439 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,919 Speaker 2: right moments before Bill Miller started talking, all of a 440 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 2: sudden there was this major calamity, which is quite quite unfortunate. 441 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 2: So I'd like to have a moment of sounds for 442 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 2: my cup of water that we lost. It was a 443 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 2: good cup of water. It would have helped me out 444 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 2: a lot. But unfortunately that cup of water has bit 445 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 2: the dust and will never be had again. So there 446 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 2: is that. Anyway, we began this hour ranting about Rob 447 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 2: Manford and Bryce Harper having there back and forth as 448 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 2: we yap away here and ferg Dog says the way 449 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 2: Bryce Harper stood up to Rob Manford reminds me a 450 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 2: lot of you. Ben. I remember when you cussed out 451 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 2: Don Martin after he removed the popcorn machine from fsr's 452 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 2: break room. I was very brave of you. I was 453 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 2: not Don Martin. That was somebody else. But we used 454 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 2: to have a boss here that would not allow popcorn. 455 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 2: That was the one rule they had. Who it doesn't 456 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 2: work here anymore. I get it, though, because if you 457 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 2: burn pops microwave, its stained. That's why he would not 458 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 2: allow popcorn. And everyone said the greatest boss ever but 459 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 2: did not like popcorn. Late Night Drug tester says, I 460 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 2: stand with Bryce Harper and the players. If he has 461 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 2: time in the off season, could he talk to my 462 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 2: bosses and see if my paychecks can get off the 463 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 2: salary cap for hey, I'm right there with you. I 464 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 2: don't understand people that want a salary cap. I think 465 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 2: there's a lot of dumb people out there. That's why 466 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: it is. I just don't get it. I just don't understand. 467 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 2: King Rory writes and says the brewers owner is so cheap? 468 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 2: How chimp is he? He was caught stealing sand for 469 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 2: his own California house. I remember that story. If he 470 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 2: was they needed Sandy stole it. If he doesn't want 471 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 2: to buy sand, I don't expect him to open up 472 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 2: the check book for the big name players. Yet, thanks 473 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 2: to the farm system and great coaching, the Brewers find 474 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 2: a way to win. Stuck in Sacramento, rights In and 475 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 2: says a magical A plus on the Mallard monologue, Rob 476 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 2: manfraud was lucky it was Bryce Harper in his face. 477 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 2: If it were me and he was at the Sacramento 478 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 2: Grade School ballpark, I'd pay homeless people on crack to 479 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 2: pin the pos if you know what I mean. Commish 480 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 2: down while some bum gives him a Sacramento A's tattoo 481 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 2: on his neck. All right, Very nice, Chip and the 482 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 2: Q says A plus on the Malta of monologue. Someone 483 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 2: claim the Arc of the Covenant is located in an 484 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 2: Ethiopian church? Is that right? Is there really okay? Brock writes, 485 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 2: In says another great night here on the Ben Mather Show, 486 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 2: and uh says Dion Sanders seems like he's doing all right. 487 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 2: I saw that the Big Review revealed the Dion had cancer, 488 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 2: says Aaron Rodgers is just gonna suck it up from 489 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 2: Terry Bradshaw. I think he's coming on last night show. 490 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 2: We've moved on, Brock. That's like we're doing a lot 491 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 2: of you're doing that Aaron Rodgers thing was last night. 492 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 2: So with that, all right, what else do we have. 493 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 2: Let's go to the phone. So let's say hello, Ja Dominic. 494 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 2: Who's in Seen City? And Dominic is next? What's going on? Dominic? Welcome, 495 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 2: you're on Fox. 496 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: How's it going? 497 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 2: Welcome? What's going on? Talk to. 498 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: It's a little bit about what you were talking with. 499 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: These players, everybody's making it out. Players are the bad guys, 500 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: they're the greedy ones. How about these owners. Guy out 501 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,679 Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, I remember seeing something hasn't given a multi 502 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: year contract in about ten years. 503 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, yeah, yeah, And they have a beautiful 504 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 2: ballpark in Pittsburgh. It's unbelievable, it's awesome. And the teams blows. 505 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 2: But yeah, no, listen, these teams are making money they 506 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 2: won't talk about and I'd like to think the majority 507 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 2: are on the side every business. I'm not saying you 508 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 2: should just frivolously spend money. Everyone's got a budget, right, 509 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 2: Dominic like, whatever you do, whether your mom and pop 510 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 2: pizza Rea or a major league baseball team, you have 511 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 2: a budget. But you shouldn't have a hardline budget and 512 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 2: it shouldn't be a salary cap. You don't need it. 513 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 2: It's unnecessary. 514 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: And then what it kind of sucks about baseball is 515 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: you get these teams that you said about Milwaukee. They 516 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: don't spend, they don't spend, but they produce every year. 517 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay doesn't spend, doesn't spend. They got these guys 518 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: coming up every year that's end up trading off in 519 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: great paintings. So yeah, because they gets the way when 520 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: not spending. And then they say, oh, well look at 521 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, look at Milwaukee's. It's not that they're not spending. 522 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 1: It's that they have some coaches, they have a good 523 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: box to send, they have the right brains in place 524 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: to get away with it. 525 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 2: Well, that's true. And the other thing that annoys me, 526 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 2: Dominic is have you noticed teams like the Red Sox 527 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 2: and the Dodgers try to copy Tampa Bay and some 528 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 2: of these other teams what they're doing. Like the Dodgers 529 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 2: they just flat out hired the guy from Tampa Bay, 530 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 2: except they got money, so they spend money. But then 531 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 2: they still try they try to do they try to 532 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 2: do it both ways. They try to do it like 533 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 2: Tampa Bay, but then they a big money mm hmm. 534 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: So here you man, is that the age don't come 535 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: here because it's how cheap that this guy is. I'm 536 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: so excited with this team. They got so many great, great, 537 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: great players if they were to come out to Vegas day. 538 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: But the John Fisher guys find a way to mess 539 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:18,479 Speaker 1: you up. 540 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 2: Oh, they'll spend some money when they get to Vegas 541 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 2: because they have to. They'll sign a free agent or 542 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 2: two because they'll try to. It'll sign some of these 543 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 2: young guys to extensions because they have to have to 544 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 2: try to give the illusion John Fisher that they're in 545 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 2: it and they're gonna win in Vegas and they're committed 546 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 2: to Vegas. And they'll say, well, we got all this 547 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 2: money in Vegas and all that. So yeah, all right, 548 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 2: two things. First of all, I love that you're a 549 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 2: new voice. That's great, you're not one of the regulars. 550 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 2: And number two, your phone blows, so please get a 551 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 2: better phone. Okay, I thank you, all right, buddy, go away, Dotty, 552 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 2: thank you all right, that's a terrible phone. Good call, 553 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 2: terrible phone. Is that possible to have a good call 554 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 2: on the terrible phone? Is it conceivable that both those 555 00:30:59,120 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 2: things could be true? 556 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 4: No? 557 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 2: Possibly not possibly not? Uh fird dog says, rest in 558 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 2: peace to the cup of water, and he's a morning 559 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 2: the ice water, delicious ice water that is now soaking 560 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 2: into the carpet. It lived a good life. The ice 561 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 2: melting in the water. What a waste of good hyation. 562 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 2: It's not right. There's a drought. That water could have 563 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 2: helped someone starving for water, dehydrating out in the desert, 564 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 2: but instead that water met its demise at the Premiere 565 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 2: Networks in the kitchen that looks like a smurf kitchen, 566 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 2: and just fell down in a panic mood, trying to 567 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 2: grab the cop It's gonna be okay, Lorain. It is 568 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 2: gonna be missed, but I'm gonna go hang out with 569 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 2: one of its relatives. Another cup of water, and I'll 570 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 2: fill that cup with delicious ice and more water, and 571 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 2: we will say God bless that cup of water, and 572 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 2: we'll move on, but we'll never forget the water we 573 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 2: left behind. Hellelujah, helllllujah. All right, let's say hello to 574 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 2: any meaning money. But let's go to Flexus, America's favorite 575 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 2: drag queen caller, never on topic. Felexis is an agenda caller. 576 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 2: There's an agenda caller. Felexus only wants to talk about 577 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 2: what Felexus wants to talk about. Hello, Felexus, Welcome, Hello, 578 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 2: then Hilo Rena Hello TV Fromontana in Hello world. But 579 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 2: you know, I looked at the schedule for Ben. 580 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 4: You know, I am the queen of the mafia. 581 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 2: Yes, you're part of Bill's, part of Bill's mafia. So 582 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 2: you just decided to look at the schedule. The schedule 583 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 2: has been out since like April, but you just are 584 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 2: I assumed that March. Maybe you just decided to look 585 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 2: at the Bill schedule. So you're a real Bills fan, 586 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 2: man I am. Yeah, So you want to play the 587 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 2: Bill schedule a game? You want to do that? 588 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 5: Yeah? 589 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 2: Fifteen three is so they're gonna go fifteen and three. Yeah, 590 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 2: because they are eighteen games. Oh, I didn't know they 591 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 2: added And you see that they added an eighteenth game. 592 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 2: Nobody else has that. We're the only ones. We're the 593 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 2: only ones that have that. Nobody else has that. So 594 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 2: the Bills. They're so good they're gonna play eighteen games. 595 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 2: The other team's gonna play seventeen games. Oh man, you 596 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 2: have a sports show. 597 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 3: You don't know. 598 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 2: Oh, you know what, that's right. I forgot. In week 599 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 2: seven the Bills play bye week. That's who they play. 600 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 2: They play the bye week in week seven, that's right now. 601 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 2: The only way you lose the bye week is if 602 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 2: a couple of starters get arrested or get injured, so 603 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 2: then you lose the bye week. But outside of that, 604 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 2: you're gonna win the bye week. So that's a win. 605 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 3: Okay. 606 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,239 Speaker 2: And two or three or whatever. You don't even know 607 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 2: you You just want to get your voice on the air. 608 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 2: You have nothing to say. Admit that right now, right 609 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 2: I want to give my voice, and your voice is 610 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 2: on the air. And that's not true. That's a lie. 611 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,799 Speaker 2: We love you, you loves a strong emotion. I don't 612 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,919 Speaker 2: know that I would use the emotion love. I don't 613 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:16,200 Speaker 2: know that I would say that. You show you are 614 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 2: You've been on the show so long. I look at 615 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 2: a drawing of you that the mad clown made. If 616 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 2: I when I go into my my home remote studio, there, 617 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 2: don't go there don't go there. You don't like that drawing. 618 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 2: It's not very it's not very flattering, But there is 619 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 2: a drawing of what you just depiction of what you 620 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,760 Speaker 2: possibly look like. You're a you're a person of mystery. 621 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 2: You would admit that flexis. We don't know a lot 622 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 2: about you in terms of your appearance, but we know 623 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 2: you're a drag queen. We know you're you're hanging out 624 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 2: there and in the Buffalo area, so we know that 625 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 2: about you and you you have been calling a long 626 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 2: time though you go way back. Many people retire from 627 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 2: the show. What what I am the grandma of this 628 00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:59,479 Speaker 2: show and. 629 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 4: You've been thank grandma. 630 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you never messed with grandma. You never mess man. 631 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 2: So I had two Russian grandmas. You definitely don't miss 632 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 2: with a You don't mess with a Russian grandma, don't scary. Yeah, 633 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 2: my dad's mom was born in a place called Chernobyl. 634 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,280 Speaker 2: You know what happened in Chernobyl? Bombs boom, a nuclear 635 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 2: power reactor malfunction. Gone, can't visit Chernobyl. The other one. 636 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 2: I don't even know what town she was born in. 637 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,520 Speaker 2: But yeah, so there you go. Anyway, all right, thank 638 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,919 Speaker 2: you all right, I'm done with you, go away. There's 639 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 2: a felexus outstanding. So John Gruden, John Gruden exiled, suing 640 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 2: the NFL. That's not going particularly well. So what's going 641 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 2: on with John Gruden. Well, he's revealed a plan to 642 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 2: return to coaching. Gruden was hired by the Raiders before 643 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,919 Speaker 2: the twenty eighteen season. He was fired and a as 644 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 2: Brent Musburger said, a takedown like a mob style hit job. 645 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,920 Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, and he made a guest appearing 646 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 2: at Lions training camp on Monday, and he talked about 647 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 2: his plan to return to coaching. He said, hopefully I'm 648 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 2: not done. I'm about to make a comeback. I'm working 649 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 2: hard and maybe get one more shot. But hopefully some 650 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,359 Speaker 2: of these guys that fell off my branch, if you 651 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 2: say it that way, maybe they can hire me because 652 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 2: I am looking for a job. So that's Gruden saying, Hey, 653 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 2: I'd like to get out of this whole barstool thing 654 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,760 Speaker 2: and I'd like to get a coaching job in the NFL. 655 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,960 Speaker 2: So he wants one of his old mentors. When there 656 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 2: are a lot of Gruden people in the NFL. Could 657 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,840 Speaker 2: Sean McVay with the Rams hire John Gruden to be 658 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,240 Speaker 2: an assistant for the la Rams developing hot dot dot. 659 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,920 Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. Time now for the who am I? Game? 660 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,799 Speaker 2: This is where we pretend to be somebody else. So 661 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,960 Speaker 2: I've got twenty six career home runs of four hundred 662 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,360 Speaker 2: and fifty feet including the playoffs. This goes back to 663 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,919 Speaker 2: the start of twenty eighteen. That is though, that's four 664 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 2: more than any else since the start of the twenty 665 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 2: eighteen season. Who am I again? I've got twenty six 666 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,760 Speaker 2: career home runs of four hundred and fifty plus feet 667 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,879 Speaker 2: including the playoffs. That's four more than anyone else since 668 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,080 Speaker 2: the start of twenty eighteen. Who am I who? We'll 669 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 2: get to that the answer if you know it on 670 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 2: x at Ben Maller and we will do it next. 671 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 672 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 4: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 673 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 2: Bill Miller. Here it is the Ben Maler Show, up 674 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 2: all night, every single night. Be sure to subscribe to 675 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,680 Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. To justify the lights 676 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:37,240 Speaker 2: and cameras in the studio, Just search Fox Sports Radio 677 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,239 Speaker 2: on YouTube. You'll see the very best. That means as goes. 678 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,560 Speaker 2: All the rest videos of gasbags, blowhards, and know it 679 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,480 Speaker 2: all is after you subscribe to Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. 680 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 2: Click that little bell icon, Yeah you know what I'm 681 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 2: talking about on the homepage turns on all the notifications 682 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,840 Speaker 2: so you have easy access to future Mallard monologues and 683 00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 2: other blowhards. Now back to it Hi, Back to here 684 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 2: we go, and before we get to the payoff on 685 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,400 Speaker 2: the whom I game, we have the tire rack play 686 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 2: of the night. The tire rack play the night we 687 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 2: go to Major League Baseball The men is Soult twins 688 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:21,839 Speaker 2: taken on the Boston Red Sox and one brooks Lee 689 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:23,399 Speaker 2: getting it done. 690 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,200 Speaker 5: Take a listen the pitch swung on and looked into 691 00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 5: left field, that has a chance that finds the grass picked. 692 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,440 Speaker 2: Up by the end one run scores. 693 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:35,279 Speaker 5: Here comes Willie Castro Hill score and Brooksley on the 694 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,879 Speaker 5: same day as Buddy gets traded to Detroit ends up 695 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 5: celebrating a walk off victory over the Boston Red Sox. 696 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 2: All right, the great Jordan Hicks coughing up the fur 697 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,919 Speaker 2: ball for the Red Sox as he continues to suck 698 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 2: with different teams. But brooks Lee the two run single 699 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,319 Speaker 2: there for the Twinkies bottom of the ninth and the 700 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,359 Speaker 2: Twins win at a ninety minute rain delay prior to 701 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 2: that game or in that game all right time now, 702 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,839 Speaker 2: that was the ti Iraq play today. For over forty years, 703 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 2: ty iraq has been helping customers find the right tires 704 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,360 Speaker 2: for how, what and where they drive. Ship fast and 705 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 2: freeback by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options 706 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,319 Speaker 2: like mobile tire installation. Ty iraq dot Com the way 707 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,520 Speaker 2: tire buying should be. And here we go with a 708 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 2: who am I? Game? So I've got twenty six twenty 709 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,600 Speaker 2: six career home runs of four hundred and fifty feet 710 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,680 Speaker 2: or better including the playoffs. That is four more than 711 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,280 Speaker 2: anyone else since the start of the twenty eighteen season. 712 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,360 Speaker 2: I was barely alive in twenty eighteen. That was so 713 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,239 Speaker 2: long ago. Who am I? That is the question? What 714 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,360 Speaker 2: is the answer? Scrooge in the Bay Area going with 715 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 2: the iconic porn collector Hideki Matsui. Who else do we have? 716 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:48,040 Speaker 2: Bobby and Florida says Jimmy Superflies snooker is the answer? 717 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,879 Speaker 2: Great name? Milkman Mike in Colorado says the batman Joe 718 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,560 Speaker 2: Clark is the answer. Michael Pennex Junior from Shane and 719 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:59,239 Speaker 2: Des Moines just Josh as the w NBA is the 720 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,000 Speaker 2: Who else do we have? A cup of waters cousin 721 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,880 Speaker 2: cup of Juice from ferg Dog. Who else you have out? 722 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 2: Benito says, the answer is Benny versus the Penny Season 723 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,840 Speaker 2: three from Your Lips to God's Ears? Benito? May that happen? 724 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,920 Speaker 2: What else do we have? Andy in Line o' lakes says, 725 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,839 Speaker 2: I'm going with the Boogeyman. He is, well, that does 726 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,360 Speaker 2: look like the Boogeyman. Andy, that's my interpretation of the Boogeyman, 727 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,640 Speaker 2: mister nice guy. Going with the guy that had one 728 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,120 Speaker 2: of the great porn mustaches of all time for the 729 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,200 Speaker 2: Minnesota Twins. Shane Mack was an outfielder for the Twins 730 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,640 Speaker 2: Back and Shane in the nineties. Shane Mack look him up, 731 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,040 Speaker 2: Alf the Alien Opiner Going with David Hasselhoff, the greatest 732 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,880 Speaker 2: lifeguard in the history of lifeguards? Who else do we have? Brewers? 733 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:46,600 Speaker 2: Beryl Man from King Rory Dak Prescott, who is thirty 734 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:51,240 Speaker 2: two today? Here we go Bay City, Tony says one 735 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,479 Speaker 2: Baron Gear one of the great fat athletes of My Life, 736 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,600 Speaker 2: Juan Baron Gear the Hulk from Big Greg in Iowa. 737 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,040 Speaker 2: Tim McCarver from I forty eight. A man that could 738 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,719 Speaker 2: do you asked Tim McCarver, I interviewed years. You know 739 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,960 Speaker 2: a few times over the years. You'd asked him one question, 740 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,240 Speaker 2: he'd give you about three or four minutes on one question. 741 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,799 Speaker 2: It was great. We love those kind of guys. Could 742 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 2: just keep going on. He'd ask himself questions. Eileen says, 743 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,040 Speaker 2: I would prefer to hear Felex's his voice on Dominic 744 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:25,600 Speaker 2: in Sin City's phone. Wow, that's a low blow by Eileen. 745 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,799 Speaker 2: John Jaha from James, Spike Dudley from Far Out, Dave 746 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 2: Andrew and the Bear says Ryan Samberg, who passed away today. 747 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,479 Speaker 2: That's true. We'll talk more about him later. What about 748 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,000 Speaker 2: you have the right off Vin Diesel? Then Vin Diesel. No, 749 00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,800 Speaker 2: it is Ronald Akuda Junior or the Atlanta Raves is 750 00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:46,000 Speaker 2: the biggest our guy post long home runs, and he's 751 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,080 Speaker 2: dancing somewhere. He's dancing right now.