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Hour 3 - Rose Colored Glasses · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Dang, it's our name.
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Speaker 2: Birth three, Our three of the original Recipe podcast.
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Speaker 1: It is the Benny Awards.
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Speaker 2: But we begin with the mal monologue major League Baseball
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Speaker 2: Commissioner Rob Manford reportedly mulling a potential reinstatement of baseball's
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Speaker 2: all time hit king Pete Rose from the ineligible list.
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Speaker 2: Are you surprised by this? Pete's now dead? Also, major
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Speaker 2: League Baseball players Associations are Tony Clark predicting a workstoppage
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Speaker 2: next season.
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Speaker 1: Why the doom and gloom?
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Speaker 2: Also, former Cardinals star Albert Pulos says his ultimate goals
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Speaker 2: to become a manager in.
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Speaker 1: The big leagues.
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Speaker 2: What are the odds If there are any changes since
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Speaker 2: the last time we talked about this, we'll discuss that.
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Speaker 2: so we'll begin with baseball. Why you're to talk baseball, Yes,
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Speaker 2: we're talking baseball. A legend from the past is filling
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Speaker 2: up the content kitty here in twenty twenty five from
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Speaker 2: the Afterlife, five months after the Cincinnati Red Legend all
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Speaker 2: time great fighting Phil in Montreal Expo, Pete Rose died
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Speaker 2: eighty three years of a Pete Rose. Five months after
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Speaker 2: his death, Baseball's Commissioner Rob Manford, what we like to
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Speaker 2: call him man Fraud, is considering a petition submitted by
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Speaker 2: the family of Pete Rose to lift the permanent ban
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Speaker 2: from baseball. I might remember most people know this, but
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Speaker 2: maybe not. Pete Rose was banned way back in nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty nine. He was kicked out of baseball by then
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Speaker 2: commissioner Bart Giamani, who died of a heart attack shortly
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Speaker 2: after that. There have been three Baseball commissioners to follow
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Speaker 2: Bart Giamani who have considered reinstatement. So there've been a
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Speaker 2: bunch you have considered reinstatement on behalf of Pete Rose,
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Speaker 2: including Rob Manford back in twenty fifteen, so ten years ago,
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Speaker 2: and he said, nah, no, I can't.
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Speaker 1: We can't allow this guy back. Cannot do it all right?
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Speaker 2: So let us discuss the question for the Esteem Panel
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Speaker 2: Commissioner Rob Manford reportedly mulling a reinstatement of baseball legend
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Speaker 2: Pete Rose from the ineligible list. Are you surprised by this?
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Speaker 2: Are you surprised by this? So I've got classic board game,
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Speaker 2: Spider Verse, and Dorksville, and we will combine all of
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Speaker 2: these things together and we will present a nice piece
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Speaker 2: of metal, which is what you get if you get
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Speaker 2: to the That's what the commission would say, right, you
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Speaker 2: got a piece of metal if you go to the
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: It's just a piece of metal, all right.
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Speaker 2: So my first thought here, am I surprised at the timing?
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Speaker 1: I am not. Now Baseball is trying to spin.
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Speaker 2: This that it's the family and it's not their idea.
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Speaker 2: The family submitted a proposal, but going back thirty years,
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Speaker 2: going back thirty years, this was always the blueprint. We're
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Speaker 2: at the point now it's like forty years almost. It's
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Speaker 2: always a little bit and Pete Rose was never going
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Speaker 2: to be reinstated. As long as his heart was beating,
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Speaker 2: it was not going to happen.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: And so now that he's gone behind the Pearly Gates
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Speaker 2: and checked out. Charlie Hustle suddenly is under consideration for reinstatement,
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Speaker 2: something that could not have happened when he was among
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Speaker 2: the living.
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Speaker 1: But now, well, isn't that convenient that we're at that.
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Speaker 2: Particular point, almost like it was scripted that way? And
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Speaker 2: is it true that even Pete Rose himself, Even Pete
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Speaker 2: Rose himself, in one of the final interviews he did
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Speaker 2: before his death, talked openly about the fact.
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Speaker 1: That they were going to likely put him in once
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Speaker 1: he was dead.
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Speaker 2: And it's the classic board game trivial pursuit to put
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Speaker 2: Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame after he has died.
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Speaker 2: And Rose is quote he says, and this is right
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Speaker 2: before he passed away, like a couple months before. He says,
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Speaker 2: if I'm gone, it don't matter who the f wants
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Speaker 2: to go in when you're dead. Well, i'll tell you Pete.
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Speaker 2: Rob Manford wants you in when you're dead. He didn't
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Speaker 2: watch you in when you were alive. He had the
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Speaker 2: chance to do it. Rob Manford wants you in when
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Speaker 2: you're dead, Pete. And I would be surprised if Pete
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Speaker 2: Rose doesn't get in the Hall of Fame. Now, Pete
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Speaker 2: Rose obviously is not walking through the doors of Cooper's Town. Now,
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Speaker 2: maybe you can go back there as Slimer from the
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Speaker 2: Ghostbusters and haunt the Baseball Hall of Fame. But these
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Speaker 2: honors are for the living. If you don't honor someone
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Speaker 2: while they're alive, it just seems kind of points a
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Speaker 2: little about the family. Well, that's great for the family,
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Speaker 2: but it's for the individual. And if you're not going
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Speaker 2: to do it for the individual while they're alive, then
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Speaker 2: just knock it off. What's the point was to me? Again,
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Speaker 2: it's rather pointless. It's rather pointless. And I had a
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Speaker 2: great epiphany when it came to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 2: I covered baseball as a radio stringer in the steroid era,
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Speaker 2: and I saw how Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens and
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Speaker 2: Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmer our guys
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Speaker 2: like that.
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Speaker 1: Were not allowed in the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 2: But there were other players that I'm ninety nine point
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Speaker 2: nine percent sure did steroids who are in the Hall
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Speaker 2: of Fame.
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Speaker 1: So if you're gonna put some of these guys in,
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Speaker 1: who I'm really really sure did it.
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Speaker 2: And you're gonna penalize others, like the whole game between
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Speaker 2: Pete Rose. You know, he's an old, fragile man in
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Speaker 2: recent years obviously passed away, and you could have put
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Speaker 2: him in the Hall of Fame and all that you
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Speaker 2: chose not to. And keep in mind that when it
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Speaker 2: was convenient from Major League Baseball, Pete Rose was invited
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Speaker 2: back when it was convenient from Major League Baseball. And
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Speaker 2: if a credit card company sponsored the All Star Game
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Speaker 2: and they wanted Pete Rose out there, Pete Rose would
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Speaker 2: be brought back for that particular man. Now, it does
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Speaker 2: also bear pointing out that Pete Rose did benefit from
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Speaker 2: the notorious nature, being an infamous character in baseball history.
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Speaker 2: He did have some benefit if he had just ended up.
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Speaker 2: If Pete Rose had just ended up going to Hall
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Speaker 2: of Fame after a couple of years away, it would
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Speaker 2: not have been been the same.
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Speaker 1: But that's a different conversation now.
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Speaker 2: Secondly, we head to the labor negotiations room, always a
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Speaker 2: fun topic of conversation. Major League Baseball. The Players Association
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Speaker 2: Executive Director Tony Clark said over the weekend a story
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Speaker 2: they did not get a lot of attention. I'm surprised
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Speaker 2: why I don't quite get it seems like a big deal.
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Speaker 2: So Tony Clark said over the weekend that he expects
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Speaker 2: there to be a lockout, that there will be a
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Speaker 2: workstoppage in Major League Baseball next year, that there will
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Speaker 2: be no agreement, and that they will the baseball owners
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Speaker 2: will lock the players out. If you saw this or not, now,
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Speaker 2: Clark told something called Sportico. We don't really know what
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Speaker 2: that is, he says, unless I'm mistaken, Tony Clark stated,
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Speaker 2: the league has come out and said there's going to
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Speaker 2: be a work stoppage. So I don't think I'm speaking
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Speaker 2: out of school in that regard. So Clark's saying, Hey,
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Speaker 2: it's not me who's saying it. It's baseball. And it
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Speaker 2: is true that Rob manfraud the commissioner of Major League
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Speaker 2: Baseball back in January. So Cole well to Go said
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Speaker 2: that in a bizarre way, it's actually a positive. The
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Speaker 2: great thing about offseason lockouts is the leverage that exists
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Speaker 2: getting applied between the bargaining parties.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so remember.
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Speaker 2: One the last time they had a work stoppage and
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Speaker 2: Rob Manford was practicing his golf swing, the little weasel
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Speaker 2: and then announcing, Oh, by the way, we have a
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Speaker 2: work stoppage and he's working on his golf swing. That's
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Speaker 2: your leader of baseball. So Tony Clark, baseball player associations
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Speaker 2: are predicting a workstoppage next season. Why the doom and
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Speaker 2: gloom from everyone in baseball? Why all the doom and gloom.
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Speaker 2: So we'll answer this from the side of Tony Clark.
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Speaker 2: So Tony Clark laying the groundwork right, laying the groundwork here.
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Speaker 2: The expectation is that Major League Baseball is going to
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Speaker 2: demand the ownership class is going to demand a salary cap,
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Speaker 2: that enough teams are infuriated, inferior, frustrated beyond belief with
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Speaker 2: the Dowyers, the juggernaut Dodgers roster building that they've got
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Speaker 2: enough votes to demand a salary cap.
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Speaker 1: Now, keep in mind a salary.
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Speaker 2: Cap actually hurts, like the Yankees the match the Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: It helps the teams that are TIGHTWAT teams. But there's
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Speaker 2: more TIGHTWAT teams than big money teams in baseball. The
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Speaker 2: Layaway plan where the Dodgers have signed all of their
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Speaker 2: star players and almost all of them will be paid
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Speaker 2: deferred money ten fifteen to twenty years down the line.
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Speaker 2: It is not going over well with the Tampa Bay Rays,
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Speaker 2: the Sacramento Athletics, the Cincinnati Reds, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the
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Speaker 2: Milwaukee Burgers, those teams, and as a result, Tony Clark
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Speaker 2: is going He's going Marvel Comics. He's dabbling into the
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Speaker 2: Spider Verse, if you will, and if you expect disappointment,
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Speaker 2: then you can never really be disappointed. So he's like, hey,
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Speaker 2: this is a dog whistle. Bunker down, bunker down, And
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Speaker 2: he's letting the electorate know that it's not us, we
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Speaker 2: don't want to work stoppage, it's the owners, and hey,
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Speaker 2: we're save your pocket change, save your pocket change. Get
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Speaker 2: ready to catch out that rainy day slush fund.
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Speaker 1: All right, final thought.
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Speaker 2: We now head to the dugout where former Saint Louis
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Speaker 2: Cardinals star and a total stiff with the Angels Albert
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Speaker 2: Pullos yet again, Yet again, it's a yearly thing, like
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Speaker 2: the Swallows return to Kapatronto. Albert Poolos says his ultimate
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Speaker 2: goal is to become a manager in the big leagues.
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Speaker 2: So what are the odds? Have they changed it all
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Speaker 2: in the last year on Albert Pools getting a shot?
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Speaker 1: So yes, we talked about this about a year ago.
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Speaker 2: I went back and I looked at some of my
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Speaker 2: notes and this came up in spring training in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four. Here we are in twenty twenty five, so
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Speaker 2: last time we broached this topic almost a year to
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Speaker 2: the day, almost a year.
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Speaker 1: To the day.
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Speaker 2: At that time, the malarodds were minus one ninety on
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Speaker 2: Prince Albert getting a gig as a manager. Now, that
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Speaker 2: implied at the time of sixty five percent chance. But
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Speaker 2: we have reevaluated the landscape and based on what we
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Speaker 2: have seen play out over the last year, we changed
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Speaker 2: our number. The odds now to managing the big leagues
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Speaker 2: for Albert Pools went from one to ninety minus one
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Speaker 2: ninety to minus one twenty. That implies a fifty five
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Speaker 2: percent chance.
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Speaker 1: Why is that, I'll tell you why.
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Speaker 2: Because he is not your prototypical manager, at least in theory,
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Speaker 2: not what you're looking for. And he's highly decorated. He's
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Speaker 2: he's a star. That part of it's a pretty big deal, right,
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Speaker 2: He's a star, he's a name. Has anyone bought a
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Speaker 2: ticket since that old guard of manager to watch a
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Speaker 2: manager manage? No, you know, there used to be bigger
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Speaker 2: than life personalities that manage the game, and those guys
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Speaker 2: are long gone. I mean there's an era with Sparky Anderson,
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Speaker 2: Tommy the Sword of earro Weaver. These are bigger than
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Speaker 2: life personalities. He's the last one was what lou Panella.
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Speaker 2: Bigger than life personality might have been somebody else that
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Speaker 2: I'm forgetting, but it's been been a minute, and so
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Speaker 2: he's decorated, brings cachet. Those are all positive things. Those
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Speaker 2: are all positive things. But ninety five percent of baseball
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Speaker 2: is controlled by the cult of Dorksville, as we like
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Speaker 2: to call it, the cult of Dorksville, And so the
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Speaker 2: Skipper is just a minidal manager like Dave Roberts and
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Speaker 2: Aaron Boone. I'm not really managers and what I grew
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Speaker 2: up with. Maybe you grew up younger, younger than me,
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Speaker 2: and for you this is all you know. But there
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Speaker 2: used to be managers that actually made decisions based on
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Speaker 2: their gut and not based on the three ring binder
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Speaker 2: in the dugout and what the supercomputer tells them to
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Speaker 2: do and what the the head nerd tells.
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Speaker 1: Them to do.
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 2: Most managers today don't do that. They just their main
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Speaker 2: job is to deal with the media and to spin, spin, spin,
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Speaker 2: whatever decisions they're made. And so Pulos would have to
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Speaker 2: show nerd Army that he could be a mindless robot
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Speaker 2: and just follow orders blindly in the dugout. And doesn't
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Speaker 2: seem like he's wired that way. Don't seem like he's
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Speaker 2: wired that way. We'll keep an eye on this. So
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Speaker 2: the odds have gone down. It is the Ben at
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Speaker 2: Mallard Show. If I was Ali Marmal they manager the Cardinals,
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Speaker 2: I'd be a little wor But the Cardinals aren't really trying
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Speaker 1: The Year, Dominy Drop of the Year. Yeah, it's pick
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Speaker 1: the Drop of the Year.
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Speaker 2: nominees are, Oh, look at this, I'm nominated.
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Speaker 1: Give me a little uh, forget that. I forget the
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Speaker 1: that is. There, that's one nominee we have, Loreina. We
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Speaker 1: know what I forget.
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Speaker 2: I don't know something. A little taste of something. Give
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Speaker 2: me a little taste of that dick. All right, it's
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Speaker 2: obviously that's a I Loraina. Congratulates your nominated Lorena, your
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Speaker 2: Bro, well, all right right now, bro oh look I'm nominated.
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Speaker 2: I'm nominated again, Lorena. Something about chewing something. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what that's about?
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Speaker 1: Here, no idea? How about an he didn't get nominated?
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Speaker 2: And Hollering James the only caller to make a drop
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Speaker 2: worthy of Drop of the Year. He's nominated. Hollering James,
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Speaker 2: and this is when he called up and at the
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Speaker 2: body talking about testing the boundary of the human boundery.
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Speaker 2: We didn't know this was even possible. He farted and
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Speaker 2: it again. He's got a win, right, James has got
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Speaker 2: a win. I mean as unbelievable, but no, no, I
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Speaker 2: have the envelope envelope.
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Speaker 1: Place here we go.
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Speaker 2: It's just the drop of the year, her medically sealed envelope.
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Speaker 1: And the benny goes to me bad. Everybody show me
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Speaker 1: the world. I would like to thank my mom, my dad,
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Speaker 1: my brother. Would which drop it?
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Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter. It's a taste of something. I
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Speaker 2: don't give me a little taste of.
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Speaker 1: That, dick. That's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: That's an a taste of that.
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Speaker 1: You don't need to keep playing it.
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Speaker 2: You don't need to keep playing the stupid drop.
20:23
Speaker 1: Okay, little taste. I'm a grown up. I'm a middle
20:27
Speaker 1: aged man. I would never say that on the radio.
20:30
Speaker 1: To that, Okay, this is amazing. I'm on six hundred
20:32
Speaker 1: radio stations.
20:33
Speaker 2: Do you think I'm gonna act at juvenile and elementary
20:36
Speaker 2: like that and say something stupid on the radio. That's
20:38
Speaker 2: ai sounds like you want, I'm a grown ass man
20:41
Speaker 2: taste of that. Do you understand I'm a man, I'm
20:43
Speaker 2: over forty. Come on, it's ridiculous and I'd like to rip.
20:49
Speaker 2: I want to rip the voters to what kind of
20:52
Speaker 2: bull crap? How does hollering James not win? The man
20:56
Speaker 2: snored and farted at the same time and he did
21:00
Speaker 2: not win the Benny. That is bull crap. That is
21:04
Speaker 2: a little taste of that dick. That is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous, unreal.
21:11
Speaker 2: All right, well, I guess congratulations to me.
21:19
Speaker 1: So I'll call the show.
21:21
Speaker 2: You know, next time I take the rare and appropriate
21:23
Speaker 2: night off, I'll just call in and I'll pest.
21:24
Speaker 1: Your weekend at Bernie's or the no show, and I'll
21:27
Speaker 1: just arrest them.
21:28
Speaker 2: It'll be how we do it anyway, all right, Uh,
21:32
Speaker 2: it is the Ben Mavers Show and the Benny Awards
21:35
Speaker 2: are continuing, and it's all night long, having a grand
21:40
Speaker 2: old time here on the Benny Awards. And we're gonna
21:44
Speaker 2: get back to the awards in a moment because it's
21:47
Speaker 2: an award show. It's all about the awards. But I
21:51
Speaker 2: didn't want to take a little bit of time. Since
21:53
Speaker 2: tonight the overnight is a celebration. Do I have any
21:56
Speaker 2: sappy sad music, Lena? Can you give me some sappy
21:59
Speaker 2: sad music?
21:59
Speaker 1: Here? This is our in memoriam.
22:02
Speaker 2: Here are in memorium you listen to our live coverage
22:04
Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty five Benny Awards, the one hundred
22:07
Speaker 2: and fifth edition of the Benny Awards, live from just
22:10
Speaker 2: outside Hollywood all night long, celebrating the nocturnal listeners to
22:14
Speaker 2: the show.
22:16
Speaker 1: Here we go straight down a little bittle bit. Since
22:20
Speaker 1: tonight is a celebration.
22:22
Speaker 2: Of the work and the many accomplishments of the members
22:25
Speaker 2: of the Malord Militia from the past year, it is
22:29
Speaker 2: only fitting that we celebrate those that we have lost
22:32
Speaker 2: who dedicated their existence They're overnights to providing content and
22:38
Speaker 2: entertaining their fellow insomniac in this mortal coil, and through
22:43
Speaker 2: their immeasurable contributions, each and every one of them doing
22:48
Speaker 2: something special.
22:51
Speaker 1: They left a mark.
22:53
Speaker 2: Maybe they made us laugh, made us cry, or made
22:57
Speaker 2: us wish we worked the dreaded day shift instead of
22:59
Speaker 2: the overnight shift. They touched our hearts, some of them
23:03
Speaker 2: in a smile.
23:05
Speaker 1: They did.
23:06
Speaker 2: Some of these people became our friends bike just calling
23:09
Speaker 2: the radio show or sending messages in on social media,
23:13
Speaker 2: and for that we thanked them, and we send them
23:15
Speaker 2: a fair goodbye. Well goodbye to legends like Rachel and Montabello,
23:22
Speaker 2: Parker the snow Dog, the unofficial Broncos mascot. We lost Parker.
23:28
Speaker 2: We learned about that recently. But we lost him at
23:29
Speaker 2: the end of twenty twenty four. Callagan Tim in Michigan.
23:33
Speaker 2: What a great guy. Calligan Tim in Michigan. And he
23:37
Speaker 2: a battled He duked it out right until the end.
23:39
Speaker 2: Skeeter in Montana, the man responsible for the Malard militia. Oh,
23:44
Speaker 2: Skeeter in Montana. Masshole Mickey, I went to Boston. We
23:51
Speaker 2: do the TV show. We record a bunch of stuff
23:53
Speaker 2: in Boston. So I sent out a message at like
23:57
Speaker 2: I don't know, nine o'clock at night. The weather sucked,
23:59
Speaker 2: I said, and I'm gonna be outside this bakery on
24:02
Speaker 2: the North end of Boston in like an hour and
24:04
Speaker 2: a half and just show up. And Masshole Mickey, God
24:07
Speaker 2: love him. He drove there. It was all disheveled. He
24:10
Speaker 2: drove there and hung out with us and Lion Scott
24:13
Speaker 2: was there and a couple of other people showed up
24:15
Speaker 2: at the very last minute, and we lost mass Whole
24:18
Speaker 2: Mickey in a car accident.
24:20
Speaker 1: So rest in peace.
24:21
Speaker 2: Also Matt the Warrior Raider and Tom Brady Roseman, this
24:25
Speaker 2: guy holding me in check, great social media contributor, didn't
24:30
Speaker 2: call the show very much, but loves his contribution to
24:33
Speaker 2: the show and it is a big part of what
24:35
Speaker 2: we did and always would react to the monologues and
24:37
Speaker 2: call me out of my bull crap and all that.
24:39
Speaker 2: So thank you all for making our late nights a
24:41
Speaker 2: little more fun. Rest in peace, or if you really
24:44
Speaker 2: want to have a good time, come back and haunt us.
24:46
Speaker 2: But we thank you for your contributions and you are
24:49
Speaker 2: all missed. We're all missed for your contributions to the show.
24:54
Speaker 1: You know, Ben, we really could use some ghosts here
24:56
Speaker 1: in the studio. Yeah.
24:58
Speaker 2: In fact, if you guys want to come back Rachel
25:00
Speaker 2: Park of the snow Dog, Calgan, Tim Skeeter, Masshole, Mickey
25:03
Speaker 2: and Matt and get rid of the cockroaches, that you
25:06
Speaker 2: can haunt them.
25:06
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll go away.
25:08
Speaker 2: That would be good, right, Yeah, Or maybe we could
25:11
Speaker 2: use them and like have like a ghost part of
25:14
Speaker 2: the Mallard Militia. It could have a ghost wing in
25:16
Speaker 2: the Mallad Militia, be big, right, Yeah, there was some
25:21
Speaker 2: Genie in Medford's hanging out up there. Jimmy Ray from
25:24
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay. There's some real icons icons in this show
25:28
Speaker 2: that we've lost over the years. But anyway, there it
25:30
Speaker 2: is our special tribute to those that have left us.
25:33
Speaker 2: And we do have more of the Benny Awards. In fact,
25:37
Speaker 2: I think we should give out another war. I think
25:39
Speaker 2: we should get right back to what do you say?
25:42
Speaker 2: All right, here we go the next category and this
25:49
Speaker 2: is a I believe this is a new category that
25:52
Speaker 2: we did not have in previous years. It is back
25:55
Speaker 2: the Blind Collar of the Year, the Blind Collar of
26:00
Speaker 2: the Year.
26:02
Speaker 1: The nominees for Blind Caller of the Year.
26:05
Speaker 2: The Ben Malor Show has more blind people that love
26:08
Speaker 2: our show and contribute to any other show. Take that,
26:10
Speaker 2: Colin Coward so Blind Caller of the Year. The nominees
26:15
Speaker 2: are blind Scott inca Terror from Rochester, Legally, Blind Christopher
26:25
Speaker 2: from the Carolinas, Emmett the Blind Seahawk Fan from the
26:31
Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest, and the Great Stevie Meatballs from the Sunshine State.
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Speaker 1: Those are the nominees. The envelope please all right here.
26:52
Speaker 2: And the benny goes to Blind Scott from the North
26:58
Speaker 2: end of the Boston Congratulations, blind Scott, you have picked
27:04
Speaker 2: up the Blind.
27:05
Speaker 1: Caller of the Year Many award.
27:09
Speaker 2: What an amazing, amazing accomplishment to be the blind the
27:14
Speaker 2: Blind call of the Year and now to.
27:16
Speaker 1: Accept his award, we say hello to blind Scott.
27:19
Speaker 2: Congratulations blind Scott, what a win for you.
27:23
Speaker 5: Oh thanks Ben. You know, I try pretty hard at
27:25
Speaker 5: these calls to entertain people. I work pretty hard. I
27:27
Speaker 5: stay up all night. You know. The biggest thing I
27:30
Speaker 5: worry about is that I'm gonna, you know, run out
27:32
Speaker 5: of drugs. Well, I'm listening to the show and not
27:35
Speaker 5: be able to get more drugs. Could you have to
27:37
Speaker 5: walk to get drugs? Like if you run out and
27:39
Speaker 5: then you're on drugs, So you did all the drugs
27:41
Speaker 5: so you can't get them.
27:42
Speaker 2: So so you're saying you're doing drugs for the show.
27:44
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
27:45
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, you got to get a little bit of paranoid.
27:48
Speaker 5: But dude, one more thing I'd like to thank Fred Toucher,
27:51
Speaker 5: Lorena Adam twelve, Hardy, John Wallack, I'm Celtia senergy drinks.
27:57
Speaker 5: I'd like to take Medicare like to. I'd like to
28:01
Speaker 5: thank my prescription medication. What about it?
28:03
Speaker 2: Just all the all the taxpayers in the Commonwealth, you'd
28:05
Speaker 2: like to thank.
28:06
Speaker 5: I'd like to thank the six surgeries I got in
28:08
Speaker 5: the past three years. I was the wife from the
28:10
Speaker 5: show a little bit. I'd like to just thank so
28:11
Speaker 5: many people who voted for me. I'd like to take
28:13
Speaker 5: all my haters, so I throw explains that all the time.
28:15
Speaker 5: Guys just keep hating. Man, you got stuck. I love it.
28:19
Speaker 5: You feed me. I'll be on the show every night forever.
28:21
Speaker 5: I'm not going in where I'm never going back to work.
28:23
Speaker 5: I don't care. This is my full time job. Me
28:26
Speaker 5: and Ben will go to another network if.
28:27
Speaker 3: We have to.
28:28
Speaker 5: You know, I'll be at the Great Los Angeles. You
28:30
Speaker 5: can listen. Anybody can have my you know, whatever they want,
28:34
Speaker 5: you can. You know my family they do no contact
28:37
Speaker 5: with me. So this is the best I got.
28:39
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, we are your family, and we we appreciate you.
28:43
Speaker 2: You're wacky and you're perfect for our show, which we love.
28:48
Speaker 5: I represent your show, so, like you know, I.
28:50
Speaker 1: Don't care it doesn't matter to bother you. No, none
28:53
Speaker 1: bother me at all. I don't care. Yeah, all right, listen,
28:56
Speaker 1: that's friend forever.
28:56
Speaker 5: Me and you. We're going well.
28:57
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I mean we're radio friends.
29:00
Speaker 1: I don't know.
29:00
Speaker 2: I think I think Fred Toucher, Fred Tucher is a
29:03
Speaker 2: bigger friend.
29:03
Speaker 1: To you than me. Yeah, exactly. You don't know where
29:07
Speaker 1: I live. All right, thank you. I gotta go.
29:08
Speaker 2: There's Blind Scott Blind Caller of the Year, our first
29:12
Speaker 2: acceptance speech. We have another acceptance speech now, also in
29:15
Speaker 2: the Boston area.
29:16
Speaker 1: And if you were listening earlier, you heard.
29:19
Speaker 2: A win for the Rookie Caller of the Year and
29:24
Speaker 2: it went to Mike the Leprecaun and he is now
29:27
Speaker 2: on to accept his award.
29:29
Speaker 1: Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
29:31
Speaker 6: We are the Chapions, my friend.
29:35
Speaker 2: And you did not know. You did not realize. You
29:40
Speaker 2: slept right through your such a you're such a diva.
29:43
Speaker 2: You slept right through the award show.
29:45
Speaker 6: I have to go. I go to work. I want
29:49
Speaker 6: to thank my mom and my dad in the box
29:50
Speaker 6: of Celtics and my kids. And I won't say if
29:53
Speaker 6: by Robert de Niro said tonight at the Oscar.
29:55
Speaker 1: Did you hear that I did not watch the Oscars? No,
29:58
Speaker 1: I did not.
29:58
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, look up for Robert he let out.
30:02
Speaker 1: Is it true that you make cookies in a tree somewhere?
30:05
Speaker 1: Is that true?
30:07
Speaker 6: That's a that's a that's.
30:08
Speaker 1: A lot, that's an elf. Alf I'm sorry, I'm sick.
30:12
Speaker 6: Congratulations.
30:13
Speaker 1: What's the difference between an elf and a lepre Seriously,
30:16
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think elves are a little bit taller,
30:18
Speaker 1: a little bigger.
30:19
Speaker 6: Okay, I lived, I lived. I lived last year in
30:23
Speaker 6: West Newton, right next to the movie theater that Blind
30:27
Speaker 6: Scott talked about.
30:28
Speaker 2: Oh it's a small world, after all, it's a small
30:33
Speaker 2: small world.
30:34
Speaker 6: Maybe I'll call it back in an hour if I
30:36
Speaker 6: get the work.
30:36
Speaker 2: Call ear Well, Well, you do have a couple of
30:40
Speaker 2: You got a couple of golden tickets as a winner,
30:43
Speaker 2: so you get two golden.
30:45
Speaker 6: For the first time. Okay, the bad jokes? Where did
30:47
Speaker 6: the Boston service?
30:50
Speaker 1: I don't know?
30:52
Speaker 6: Duncan donuts?
30:54
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, never do that again, go away, hang
30:57
Speaker 2: up and your.
31:02
Speaker 1: Now we know why Loraina feels the way she does.
31:05
Speaker 2: All We have two more awards to give out this
31:07
Speaker 2: hour on the Benny's. We've got the International Caller of
31:10
Speaker 2: the Year. That is straight ahead, the International Caller of
31:14
Speaker 2: the Year, and we also have the Intoxicated.
31:19
Speaker 1: Caller of the Year. Now that is a big one
31:22
Speaker 1: that we do more to keep intoxication alive and well
31:27
Speaker 1: than anyone can.
31:28
Speaker 2: We even decide so many options, it's like it's like
31:32
Speaker 2: sand on the beach. It's just plentiful. We have so
31:36
Speaker 2: many different directions you can go, so we will press on.
31:38
Speaker 2: It is the twenty twenty five edition of the Bennies.
31:40
Speaker 2: This will be the most downloaded podcast we do the
31:43
Speaker 2: first quarter of the year, as everyone wants to hear
31:47
Speaker 2: who wins the award, the reaction, the speeches, the glitz,
31:51
Speaker 2: the glamour, the razmatazz, all of that and straight ahead
31:56
Speaker 2: again we will hand out the International Call of the Year,
32:01
Speaker 2: also the Intoxicated Call of the Year.
32:04
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty five Benny Awards.
32:07
Speaker 2: Rolling on and on and on and on, We'll keep
32:10
Speaker 2: it going.
32:10
Speaker 3: Next be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
32:13
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32:16
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32:19
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32:55
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33:01
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33:05
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33:16
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33:23
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Speaker 2: from the shadow of Hollywood is the twenty twenty five
33:46
Speaker 2: Benny Awards and the next category International.
33:52
Speaker 1: Caller of the Year. International Caller of the Year.
33:55
Speaker 2: The nominees are Auto bon Butch from Germany, Hank in Tokyo.
34:05
Speaker 1: Hank the ex pat lives in Tokyo.
34:07
Speaker 2: Ozzie Wa was from the Outback in Australia surrounded by kangaroos.
34:14
Speaker 2: Ozzie Momentum be Pride of Perth, Terry in England but
34:20
Speaker 2: not London, No, no, no, far away from London. And
34:24
Speaker 2: mister Hurt from Montreal. Those are the nominees for International
34:31
Speaker 2: Caller of the Year. The envelope please thank you Lorena.
34:33
Speaker 2: All right, here we go.
34:35
Speaker 1: The envelope please. International Caller of the Year. That's right open,
34:42
Speaker 1: this bad boy up right now. Set year and the
34:51
Speaker 1: winner of the Benny Award goes to Ozzie Wa.
34:57
Speaker 6: Was.
34:58
Speaker 2: Congratulations Was. Your dedication has been rewarded. You are the
35:05
Speaker 2: winner of the International Call of the You know Ozzie
35:08
Speaker 2: Was is the gentleman that loves the show so much
35:10
Speaker 2: he bought one of those Elon Musk pop up satellite
35:14
Speaker 2: things so he could get internet out. He lives so
35:17
Speaker 2: far off the grid in Australia. It's fascinating for those
35:20
Speaker 2: of us that live in big cities. He's in Australia,
35:22
Speaker 2: but he's on the part of Australia where there's like
35:24
Speaker 2: no water, so like nobody lives there. He has to
35:26
Speaker 2: go buy food for his family that lasts like a
35:30
Speaker 2: month because he's so far away from everybody, so when
35:33
Speaker 2: he goes to the store, it's gonna I might be
35:35
Speaker 2: embellishing that, but Ozzie was loves the show so much
35:38
Speaker 2: that he listens. We're a daytime show, so for him,
35:40
Speaker 2: we're not an overnight show. But thank you Ozzi wasn't
35:42
Speaker 2: And thanks also to Ozzie. Momentum Terry in England. What
35:47
Speaker 2: a schmucky is Mister Hurt from Montreal, Hank in Tokyo
35:51
Speaker 2: and Ottobon Butch, who will not be eligible anytime in
35:54
Speaker 2: the near future for International Call of the Year. At
35:57
Speaker 2: the very end of last year's start of this year,
36:00
Speaker 2: we found out that Autobon Butsch moving his family back
36:02
Speaker 2: to California. But we thank all of those gentlemen in
36:06
Speaker 2: z was won by four votes, by the way, four votes.
36:10
Speaker 1: That's it.
36:10
Speaker 2: Four votes, insanely, insanely close.
36:19
Speaker 1: So thank you all.
36:20
Speaker 2: And I believe we have one more category to get
36:22
Speaker 2: to right now, and that category this hour in the
36:27
Speaker 2: hour with this, oh man, is there a more competitive
36:30
Speaker 2: category than this one?
36:31
Speaker 1: Do we have more candidates?
36:33
Speaker 2: More nominees Intoxicated Caller of the Year the Greatest Night
36:37
Speaker 2: in Overnight Sports Radio the Beny Awards. The nominees for
36:41
Speaker 2: Intoxicated Caller of the Year twenty twenty five are Keg
36:46
Speaker 2: Drinking Steve from Cansa City, j Dot from Utah, mouth
36:57
Speaker 2: Wash Mike, mouth Washed, Mike from Las Vegas. He's the
37:02
Speaker 2: guy that likes to swim in the founds of the Blagio,
37:05
Speaker 2: the Black Irishman. Now he really tried to sway the
37:08
Speaker 2: vote last week. The Blash Irishman called up and said
37:11
Speaker 2: he doesn't understand why people bet on games before they're played.
37:14
Speaker 2: He thinks we should bet on them after they're played.
37:17
Speaker 2: Nobody else has that take. And the final nominee for
37:20
Speaker 2: Intoxicated call of the Year the Og the old Gangster.
37:24
Speaker 2: When it comes to calling in on intoxicated Jed who fled?
37:29
Speaker 2: All right, envelope, please, envelope.
37:33
Speaker 1: Please, all right, try not to tear this one, ben, No,
37:38
Speaker 1: it's all point.
37:39
Speaker 2: Are they supposed to open the envelope without their sealed gracefully?
37:45
Speaker 1: All right?
37:46
Speaker 3: Ed?
37:47
Speaker 1: The benny goes to Jed who fled.
37:52
Speaker 2: Congratulations Jed who fled. A dominating wind by Jed as
38:00
Speaker 2: he stands out now, Jed calls up. He probably curses
38:05
Speaker 2: all the time. I can't keep track of what he says.
38:08
Speaker 2: I try to listen to him, but he's got a
38:12
Speaker 2: motor mouth.
38:12
Speaker 1: Jedhu fled. I can't keep track of the things he's saying.
38:16
Speaker 2: And so therefore it's up to Loraina or Coop to
38:20
Speaker 2: monitor Jed's phone calls.
38:21
Speaker 1: And it's very difficult to figure out what he's saying.
38:24
Speaker 2: He packs about eight minutes of content into a forty
38:28
Speaker 2: five second phone call. And he is the winner, Jed
38:32
Speaker 2: who fled? Anounce you pronounce Jed who fled? There as
38:35
Speaker 2: the winner of Intoxicated Call of the Year. But really,
38:39
Speaker 2: so many great candidates you could not go wrong with
38:42
Speaker 2: Mouthwash Mike or Jay Dodding, Utah and the Black Irishmen
38:46
Speaker 2: or Keg durking Steve, all these guys raging in, I
38:50
Speaker 2: want to say, well, some of them drink, others of
38:52
Speaker 2: them do pharmaceuticals and self medication or whatever. But all
38:56
Speaker 2: of them, all of them went above and beyond in
39:00
Speaker 2: the year twenty twenty four, and we celebrate that here
39:02
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty five Benny Awards. And we still
39:06
Speaker 2: have three more awards to give out next hour.
39:10
Speaker 1: If you stay with us.
39:11
Speaker 2: Next hour, we have the Female Caller of the Year,
39:14
Speaker 2: but even if you're not listening, we're still gonna do it.
39:16
Speaker 2: Female Caller of the Year, the beer drinking Brian, Worst
39:21
Speaker 2: Caller of the Year, Oh my god, another very competitive category,
39:25
Speaker 2: Worst call of the Year, and the Genie and Medford
39:27
Speaker 2: Memorial Caller of the Year, the highest honor in overnight
39:31
Speaker 2: sports talk radio.
39:32
Speaker 1: Someone's gonna walk off the big winner.