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- 0:37Speaker 1: beginning of another hour of the Ben Mahler Show.
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- 1:34Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
- 1:40Speaker 1: We have a follow up to the follow up, follow
- 1:42Speaker 1: up to the follow up. Now, what is the follow
- 1:44Speaker 1: up to the follow up? You asked? Will the follow
- 1:46Speaker 1: up to the follow up? You might remember Terry Bradshaw,
- 1:51Speaker 1: not that long ago. Terry Bradshaw, Yes, the four time
- 1:53Speaker 1: Super Bowl champ, the NFL on Fox Royalty, who's been
- 1:58Speaker 1: doing that forever and ever and ever and ever. So,
- 2:02Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw. He went on a radio show in Arkansas
- 2:07Speaker 1: and said Aaron Rodgers should chew on bark, just chew
- 2:12Speaker 1: on bark. Go ahead now over the weekend. Rogers responded,
- 2:17Speaker 1: he did. He responded to that, not if he saw
- 2:18Speaker 1: this or not or missed it. So Rogers with our
- 2:23Speaker 1: guy Kyle Brandt, who used to work here, part of
- 2:25Speaker 1: the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, And here is Aaron
- 2:29Speaker 1: Rodgers giving his rebuttal to what Terry Bradshaw had to say.
- 2:34Speaker 4: Tigo, Liz, I've known Terry for a long time, being
- 2:36Speaker 4: a part of Fox Terry's a legend.
- 2:39Speaker 1: He's an absolute legend.
- 2:40Speaker 4: He won four Super Bowls, He's had a legendary career
- 2:43Speaker 4: in the media. But Terry, like a lot of people,
- 2:48Speaker 4: doesn't know me, and so he's got an idea of
- 2:51Speaker 4: what he thinks about me based on what I've done,
- 2:55Speaker 4: the documentary, what I've said, Darkness a Tree, whatever the
- 2:58Speaker 4: hell you want to talk about.
- 3:00Speaker 5: I'd love to get to know Terry on a deeper level.
- 3:02Speaker 4: And I feel like if he gave me a chance
- 3:05Speaker 4: to get to know him, they would have a good friendship.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Because for me, I have nothing but the utmost amount
- 3:10Speaker 4: of respect and deference for what the greats have done,
- 3:13Speaker 4: because they laid the foundation for us to be able
- 3:16Speaker 4: to play in this great game, to be paid like kings,
- 3:20Speaker 4: and to carry on the tradition of excellence that guys
- 3:24Speaker 4: like the Bradshaws of the world in the seventies and
- 3:26Speaker 4: Mart Starr in the sixties, and Lombardy and Joe Montana
- 3:30Speaker 4: and Steve Young and Troy Aikman.
- 3:31Speaker 1: A Brett Farb I got jall.
- 3:33Speaker 6: Oh.
- 3:34Speaker 1: The main part of that is he said, Terry's a legend,
- 3:36Speaker 1: and I'd love to get to know him, and he
- 3:38Speaker 1: doesn't know me, and he just knows me from the documentary,
- 3:41Speaker 1: and he knows me from this, that and the other thing.
- 3:43Speaker 1: He said, I think we'd be friends. So let us
- 3:45Speaker 1: discuss the question, what did you make of the rant?
- 3:49Speaker 1: We played most of it? What did you make of
- 3:50Speaker 1: the rant of Steelers quarterback Aaron Rogers Very diplomatic, right,
- 3:55Speaker 1: very diplomatic response to Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw telling
- 3:59Speaker 1: him to goach on bark. All right, So I've got
- 4:03Speaker 1: the spectrum, mannequin, and post office, and we will combine
- 4:08Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to
- 4:11Speaker 1: make Lunch with Terry. Actually followed Lunch with Terry years ago,
- 4:16Speaker 1: a classic LA radio show. Terry Bradshaw did a talk
- 4:20Speaker 1: show for one hour day and it was well, if
- 4:23Speaker 1: you heard it, you know it was an all timer
- 4:26Speaker 1: back in the day. So number one, I said, number one,
- 4:33Speaker 1: This is so on brand for Aaron Rodgers. He's so
- 4:36Speaker 1: perfect for Aaron Rodgers. Here, this is a guy who
- 4:39Speaker 1: essentially lives his life at this point like he's inside
- 4:44Speaker 1: some kind of Sundance documentary. And the whole thing he
- 4:49Speaker 1: mentioned a lot of it, right, He mentioned the Darkness Retreat.
- 4:51Speaker 1: I don't think he mentioned ayahuasca. Later on, we'll get
- 4:54Speaker 1: to the mystery wife that's out there as well, And
- 4:57Speaker 1: so now he's trying to emotionally connect the two Harry
- 5:00Speaker 1: Bradshaw spoiler alert, spiler, Hey, Aaron, I hate to tell
- 5:05Speaker 1: you there, Terry told you to go gnaw on a trait.
- 5:08Speaker 1: He would like you to find a nice tree out
- 5:11Speaker 1: in the woods and start chewing. Okay, not come over
- 5:16Speaker 1: to have some tea with crystals. I don't think that
- 5:19Speaker 1: was the approach that Bradshaw took. Now, Ry Aaron Rodgers
- 5:24Speaker 1: continues to be great for talk radio. He's also on
- 5:27Speaker 1: the spectrum this weird bizarro spiritual sitcom thing that's going
- 5:33Speaker 1: on here. And I'll go back to the fact that
- 5:36Speaker 1: he's got a wife no one has seen and this
- 5:41Speaker 1: has been been a while now, and who knows, Maybe
- 5:44Speaker 1: she lives in an igloo or something like that. I
- 5:46Speaker 1: don't know. And now he's trying to build bridges rogers
- 5:49Speaker 1: with people who have mocked him, like Terry Bradshaw and listen,
- 5:56Speaker 1: it's it's definitely weak by Aaron Rodgers. And he might
- 5:59Speaker 1: be watching and we all might be watching the NFL's
- 6:03Speaker 1: version of Just an emotionally available quarterback. Normally they're not
- 6:08Speaker 1: that way. But if you take a step back, right
- 6:10Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, who's now trying to make it go, go
- 6:13Speaker 1: one last run, one last moment in the sun in Pittsburgh,
- 6:19Speaker 1: we would not be shocked if next week, not this week,
- 6:22Speaker 1: but next week Aaron Rodgers shows up in some kind
- 6:26Speaker 1: of hemp poncho and offers Terry Bradshaw one of those
- 6:30Speaker 1: forgiveness you know circle things that a retreat in Sedona.
- 6:35Speaker 1: They can just all go together, all expenses paid, and
- 6:38Speaker 1: go hang out in Sedona and have a great time.
- 6:41Speaker 1: So again, buckle up. We know there's a lot of
- 6:45Speaker 1: Steeler fans, y Inser fans, Buckle up. This is the
- 6:47Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers full experience. It's gonna be a long wild
- 6:51Speaker 1: ride with Aaron Rodgers. And I'm there for it. Listen,
- 6:54Speaker 1: I'm there. It's a page turner, every single page. I'm in.
- 6:57Speaker 1: I'm in now for us page number two. Speaking of
- 6:59Speaker 1: very now, we mentioned that Aaron Rodgers has a mystery wife,
- 7:04Speaker 1: and he talked about that. He went on the record
- 7:08Speaker 1: kind of kind of in that same interview, we got
- 7:12Speaker 1: a little more insight, just a little bit more and
- 7:16Speaker 1: he's speaking to state sponsored NFL media at the Steelers
- 7:20Speaker 1: training camp. Rogers opened up about his marriage. Do we
- 7:25Speaker 1: have that? I don't know if we have that. I
- 7:26Speaker 1: guess we don't have that, all right, So, he said,
- 7:28Speaker 1: quote when you meet the right one and you're with
- 7:31Speaker 1: the right one, your whole world changes. In a second,
- 7:35Speaker 1: Rogers said of the mystery woman, supposedly named Brittany, he said,
- 7:40Speaker 1: and to have that person that unconditionally loves you behind
- 7:44Speaker 1: the scenes, there's no better feeling in the world. Rogers said,
- 7:49Speaker 1: And I have the most incredible wife close quote all right,
- 7:52Speaker 1: So does anything stand out? Is there anything here that
- 7:57Speaker 1: stands out about Aaron Rodgers yap loquaciously about his mystery
- 8:04Speaker 1: wife Britney, So, yes, yeah, I guess the whole thing,
- 8:10Speaker 1: the whole damn thing is it's ridiculous, Rogers saying that
- 8:15Speaker 1: he's got the most incredible wife, and yet we still
- 8:18Speaker 1: have no there's no background info, there's no photo, there's
- 8:22Speaker 1: no nothing, there's no there there, there's no there there,
- 8:26Speaker 1: and not one paparazzo. Rogers lives in the off season
- 8:29Speaker 1: in Malibu. He is surrounded by paparazzo and nobody has
- 8:35Speaker 1: a photo, So what is going on? It's like she
- 8:39Speaker 1: doesn't exist, Like seriously, like this supposed woman named Brittany
- 8:44Speaker 1: does not exist. You're telling me that this guy, Aaron Rodgers,
- 8:47Speaker 1: who's been in the public eye for years and year
- 8:50Speaker 1: starting quarterback in the NFL, and there's not one photo out,
- 8:55Speaker 1: not one, not a friend of a friend of a
- 8:59Speaker 1: friend of a friend of a friend's gardener that said, Hey,
- 9:02Speaker 1: I saw so and so and I know who it is. Right,
- 9:06Speaker 1: you realize that in the times we live in, if
- 9:09Speaker 1: you sneeze, right, if you sneeze, TMC's got five different
- 9:15Speaker 1: angles slow mo, five different angles slow mo. It's twenty
- 9:19Speaker 1: twenty five. That's how the world works in twenty twenty five, right,
- 9:23Speaker 1: This one not a single shot, not a single shot.
- 9:26Speaker 1: It's like we can't even get one of those grainy
- 9:28Speaker 1: Bigfoot esque you know that the images of Bigfoot, which
- 9:31Speaker 1: you're always kind of weird, and it's like, it's not
- 9:33Speaker 1: really a clean photo of Bigfoot, and it's like, what's
- 9:35Speaker 1: going on with that? You know? It's that kind of deals,
- 9:38Speaker 1: it's that kind of deal. So Aaron Rodgers has been
- 9:41Speaker 1: going down this anti mainstream pseudo science, like rabbit hole
- 9:48Speaker 1: thing for for a long time, with all the stuff
- 9:51Speaker 1: we've talked about here, the ayahuasca, the darkness, retweets and
- 9:54Speaker 1: all that stuff. And so now is there a chance
- 9:59Speaker 1: that she's a ghast that Britney's a ghost from the
- 10:01Speaker 1: haunted mansion at Disneyland, and that he married a ghost
- 10:04Speaker 1: from the haunted mansion at Disneyland. It's possible, right, she
- 10:08Speaker 1: might be imaginary. You can't totally rule it out, right,
- 10:12Speaker 1: you cannot totally rule it out. And it's a small
- 10:14Speaker 1: percentage chance, but you can't really rule it out. The
- 10:16Speaker 1: odds are low, but the odds are not zero. The
- 10:18Speaker 1: odds are not zero for Aaron rodgers Man. This is
- 10:22Speaker 1: another level.
- 10:24Speaker 5: It really is.
- 10:24Speaker 1: I mean, an incredible wife, but she I just wants
- 10:29Speaker 1: to keep a low profile. Okay, did she even say yes?
- 10:34Speaker 1: Who knows? Could she? Could a ghost say yes? Could it?
- 10:37Speaker 1: I don't know. That's another level of bizarro, just another
- 10:43Speaker 1: level of bizarro. And it's like, hey, did he marry
- 10:50Speaker 1: a mannequin? Did he find her in a display case
- 10:54Speaker 1: somewhere and then took her to a ceremony in Missoula,
- 10:58Speaker 1: Montana to get married? Because there's no one no one
- 11:01Speaker 1: in Montana, and it's like she's under the witness Protection
- 11:05Speaker 1: program or she's under house arrest if she's real. Are
- 11:09Speaker 1: they not living together? Is that what's going on? Like,
- 11:11Speaker 1: what's what's the deal on this? Yet he's walking around
- 11:15Speaker 1: and letting people know they trust me. He's like, it's like,
- 11:18Speaker 1: trust me, bro she's really amazed. Trust me. Broh. Yeah,
- 11:23Speaker 1: you know what it sounds like back when I was
- 11:24Speaker 1: in high school and there'd be the everyone had a
- 11:28Speaker 1: friend who had a girlfriend, but she went to a
- 11:30Speaker 1: different school. She went to a different school, and you know,
- 11:34Speaker 1: you wouldn't know her and never came around you knowing.
- 11:37Speaker 1: You know, they't even are lying. They didn't have a girlfriend,
- 11:40Speaker 1: they didn't go to another school. He's made it up.
- 11:43Speaker 1: So anyway, well see someone'll come out here and we'll
- 11:46Speaker 1: have a different song to sing at that particular point.
- 11:51Speaker 1: But geez, there was also that movie about ten twelve
- 11:54Speaker 1: years ago called called Her, which was not a great movie.
- 12:00Speaker 1: Not a great movie. But it is possible that he's
- 12:04Speaker 1: falling in love Rogers with an Operating System. I think
- 12:07Speaker 1: that was a Scarlet Johansson film, if I remember correctly.
- 12:10Speaker 1: So it's possible that.
- 12:11Speaker 5: Is the case.
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- 14:39Speaker 1: We are back at it and I love this story.
- 14:42Speaker 1: I absolutely love this story from Philadelphia, and it involves
- 14:48Speaker 1: someone we talk a lot about on this show, and
- 14:51Speaker 1: we talked about this person for many, many years. We
- 14:53Speaker 1: are in the doghouse with this sport because of this
- 14:58Speaker 1: particular person. But we'll go to the locker room drama
- 15:02Speaker 1: ol rama in the Delaware Valley. As we have learned
- 15:09Speaker 1: through various reports that the Philadelphia Phillies YouTube kid, he
- 15:14Speaker 1: was originally the YouTube kid. I remember seeing clips on
- 15:17Speaker 1: the Internet of this guy when he was in high
- 15:19Speaker 1: school in Vegas. But Bryce Harper stood nose to news
- 15:23Speaker 1: belly to belly with the clown Commissioner of Major League Baseball,
- 15:28Speaker 1: Rob Manfraud. Now this is during a meeting between the
- 15:32Speaker 1: Commissioner of Major League Baseball, that would be Manfraud and
- 15:36Speaker 1: the team last week. Now, if you didn't see this
- 15:40Speaker 1: or hear about it, maybe you missed it. We're told
- 15:43Speaker 1: that Bryce Harper ended up getting in the face of
- 15:45Speaker 1: Rob Manford and telling him to get the F out
- 15:49Speaker 1: except he to say F. He said, now forward, he
- 15:52Speaker 1: did not say F. He said, he's a grown up.
- 15:55Speaker 1: He said the fault. We're on radio. After I got
- 15:57Speaker 1: kids F word, he said, get the f out of
- 16:00Speaker 1: our clubhouse. He said, if Manford wanted to talk about
- 16:04Speaker 1: the implication of a salary cap, ooh the boogeyman. Now
- 16:10Speaker 1: that confrontation came in a meeting. We are told that
- 16:14Speaker 1: the slimy commissioner of Major League Baseball is going around
- 16:18Speaker 1: trying to improve communication relationships with every team and all
- 16:22Speaker 1: the players. And the meeting lasted an hour. Must have
- 16:26Speaker 1: been very boring. My god, must have that been boring. Anyway,
- 16:31Speaker 1: they talked for an hour. Manford never said the words
- 16:35Speaker 1: salary cap in quotes. You never said that. The discussion
- 16:39Speaker 1: was about the economics. And that is what raised the
- 16:43Speaker 1: dander of one Bryce Harper, who loves the Philly fanatic
- 16:47Speaker 1: and I love the Philly fanatics, so I have that
- 16:49Speaker 1: in common with Bryce Harper. So let us discuss the question.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Philly star a multi time MVP, Bryce Harper going I
- 16:59Speaker 1: to eye mono a mono with Commissioner Rob Manford over
- 17:05Speaker 1: the salary cap who's side on? I am in the side.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna tell you who side. I think you
- 17:11Speaker 1: know who side I'm on. I've got dog Whistle, Art
- 17:14Speaker 1: of the Covenant and sopranos, and we'll put all these
- 17:18Speaker 1: things together and we're gonna make the gobba gool is
- 17:21Speaker 1: what we're gonna make. We're gonna make the gobbagool all right.
- 17:23Speaker 1: So hey, listen, I am on the side of truth,
- 17:26Speaker 1: justice and the sports talk way. Bryce Harper. Here we go, prize,
- 17:31Speaker 1: here we go. Yeah, come on, Now, I love it.
- 17:34Speaker 1: I love the visual in the cartoon bubble over my head. Uh,
- 17:38Speaker 1: it's great. That little clown weasel, your little weasel, Rob Manford, right,
- 17:45Speaker 1: little clown commissioner Major League Baseball. There he goes down
- 17:48Speaker 1: you sashch is his way into the Phillies clubhouse saying,
- 17:52Speaker 1: oh man, I'm just gonna go in there and blow
- 17:54Speaker 1: smoke in that clubhouse and boom boom boom boom boom boom,
- 18:00Speaker 1: nose to nose with Bryce Harper. So good, so good, Bravo, Encore, Encore.
- 18:09Speaker 1: I say, someone had to say, now I love that.
- 18:13Speaker 1: It's Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper doesn't need to do this.
- 18:15Speaker 1: He's already got his money. He's already got the three
- 18:18Speaker 1: hundred million dollar contract. Why is he what's he care?
- 18:22Speaker 1: He got his Normally, the way this works is if
- 18:27Speaker 1: you get the bag, you don't care about anyone else.
- 18:30Speaker 1: You got yours. You don't go to each their own,
- 18:33Speaker 1: screw everyone else. Right, you got paid. That's it. Do
- 18:36Speaker 1: you know how rare it is that someone gets that
- 18:40Speaker 1: kind of wealth to play baseball and is still out
- 18:44Speaker 1: there screaming and barking and saying, no, we're not doing
- 18:47Speaker 1: a salary cap. Normally, you know this, when you get
- 18:50Speaker 1: the bag, just stop caring about the other players. Anyone
- 18:54Speaker 1: who understands basic math, by the way, not just malar math,
- 18:58Speaker 1: basic mathunderstands the cap is cramp like. No one that
- 19:04Speaker 1: knows economics wants the salary cap, and baseball is the
- 19:07Speaker 1: worst thing in the world. Right, you're just announcing you're
- 19:11Speaker 1: an idiot. If you said I want a salary cap,
- 19:13Speaker 1: he says I want the owners to make more money.
- 19:15Speaker 1: That's what you're saying. You're moron, your dummy, is what
- 19:18Speaker 1: you're saying. The salary cap talk is always a dog whistle,
- 19:23Speaker 1: all right. It's a dog whistle for how can we
- 19:25Speaker 1: keep salaries down from the ownership side, but yet convince
- 19:29Speaker 1: dumb people, the fans, the idiots, that we're doing the
- 19:33Speaker 1: right thing for competitive bounce. You realize, with no salary cap,
- 19:36Speaker 1: baseball has more of a competitive bounce than any of
- 19:38Speaker 1: those sports that have salary caps. Hello, what does that say?
- 19:43Speaker 1: What The teams that actually try end up winning have
- 19:47Speaker 1: success in baseball. The problem is not the salary cap.
- 19:50Speaker 1: The problem is the teams that don't give a crap
- 19:53Speaker 1: about winning. Sacramento or Sacramento of the A. Is that
- 19:56Speaker 1: scumbag John Fisher, the Marlins in Miami, the Pirates, teams
- 20:01Speaker 1: like that. That's the problem. You can win the Tampa
- 20:04Speaker 1: Bay they don't spend any real money playing a minor
- 20:07Speaker 1: league ballpark now because the hurricane took out their stadium.
- 20:10Speaker 1: And I know they're having the greatest year, but considering
- 20:13Speaker 1: the amount of money they spend, they find ways. The
- 20:17Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers have been wonderful in recent years, a consistent
- 20:22Speaker 1: playoff contender or playoff team over the last decade or so.
- 20:26Speaker 1: They don't spend a ton of money. It can be
- 20:28Speaker 1: done right, and you're not. Really The issue is like
- 20:33Speaker 1: teams that don't want to win. That's the problem. It's
- 20:36Speaker 1: not the salarycap. The salary CAP's not going to fix
- 20:38Speaker 1: anything in terms of well competitive bounds. You already have
- 20:44Speaker 1: that right. And the dirty little secret in Major League
- 20:49Speaker 1: Baseball is that you look around and you see that
- 20:54Speaker 1: the teams that actually put an effort into it generally
- 20:57Speaker 1: find some success. But you can make a lot of
- 21:00Speaker 1: money and have a baseball team that is just a
- 21:05Speaker 1: golden goose without even There's like seven people that go
- 21:08Speaker 1: to Marlins games, and I know one of them, Marlin's man,
- 21:11Speaker 1: and even he doesn't go to many Marlins games, and
- 21:14Speaker 1: he lives in Miami, but he'd rather travel around the
- 21:17Speaker 1: United States and see games in other stadiums that don't
- 21:19Speaker 1: involve the Marlins because the Marlins blow. And yet the
- 21:23Speaker 1: Marlins make money. And you know, the Athletics left Oakland.
- 21:27Speaker 1: They made money in Oakland. Nobody went to the games
- 21:29Speaker 1: in Oakland. Nobody's you know, the Sacramento a minor league
- 21:32Speaker 1: ballparks aren't even there. They're making money because you get
- 21:36Speaker 1: the TV money, you get the national revenue, and in addition,
- 21:40Speaker 1: you get the teams that spend a lot, like the
- 21:43Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Mets and teams like that. They cut
- 21:46Speaker 1: your check for not even trying. Right. You can draw
- 21:49Speaker 1: seven hundred and seven thousand, whatever, doesn't matter. Put a
- 21:53Speaker 1: crap product, garbage at first base, trash at second, feces
- 21:57Speaker 1: at shortstop, and do doo third and you will make money.
- 22:02Speaker 1: You will absolutely make money. And while teams that try
- 22:05Speaker 1: to win, iind the Dodgers, the Mets, the Yankees, teams
- 22:09Speaker 1: like that, they have to pay a penalty for these
- 22:12Speaker 1: other teams, and then they just pocket the money. That's
- 22:15Speaker 1: the dirty little secret in baseball. I'm Rob Manford. He's
- 22:18Speaker 1: never going to address that. Why would he? All right,
- 22:21Speaker 1: why would he?
- 22:22Speaker 7: So?
- 22:22Speaker 1: I love the fact that Bryce Harper got right in
- 22:25Speaker 1: the face of Rob Manford and just threw it down
- 22:28Speaker 1: right and should have tossed him right out there on
- 22:30Speaker 1: Broad Street is what he should have done. Now, the
- 22:33Speaker 1: second page on this why is the salary cap chatter
- 22:38Speaker 1: which is being cranked up. The labor negotiations will take
- 22:41Speaker 1: place in twenty twenty six, so it's not that far
- 22:44Speaker 1: away the end of the twenty twenty six season, which
- 22:46Speaker 1: means they could be there could be a workstoppage prior
- 22:48Speaker 1: to that. Many in Baseball are preparing for the nuclear winter.
- 22:54Speaker 1: But why is this salary cap the chatter Inmajor League
- 22:59Speaker 1: Baseball ultimately a burger. Let me explain this to you
- 23:03Speaker 1: like you're five years old. The reason that this is
- 23:07Speaker 1: a nothing burger. In order for there to be a serahcap,
- 23:11Speaker 1: you would have to have support of the players. There
- 23:13Speaker 1: is not support of the players. But even if you
- 23:15Speaker 1: could get support of the players, in order for this
- 23:17Speaker 1: to realistically work, you would have to do something that
- 23:20Speaker 1: you will not do. Something you cannot do, something that
- 23:23Speaker 1: you will not do. No matter what happens, you won't
- 23:26Speaker 1: do it. And what is that If you want to
- 23:29Speaker 1: have an honest conversation about a salary cap in Major
- 23:32Speaker 1: League baseball, the owners would have to open the bucks.
- 23:36Speaker 1: They'd have to open the bucks, the bean counters. That's
- 23:40Speaker 1: never gonna happen, never ever, ever, never. And here's why,
- 23:44Speaker 1: the reason why, and most of us know this. They
- 23:48Speaker 1: are every team in baseball is making a profit. Now,
- 23:50Speaker 1: not every team makes a big profit, not every team
- 23:52Speaker 1: makes a big profit, but they're making money, boat loads
- 23:56Speaker 1: of money in Major League Baseball. And these owners who
- 23:59Speaker 1: are making money hand over fist while at the same
- 24:02Speaker 1: time pretending like they're bleeding cash and morons. Oh, these
- 24:06Speaker 1: poor teams are losing money. No they're not dummy, No
- 24:10Speaker 1: they're not right. And the books are the holy grip.
- 24:13Speaker 1: I've heard some stuff that I'm not allowed to say
- 24:15Speaker 1: because I don't want to get in trouble with certain people.
- 24:18Speaker 1: But I've heard things over the years involving the books
- 24:20Speaker 1: and the lengths that Major League Baseball has gone to
- 24:23Speaker 1: to make sure the financials don't get out. Some mind
- 24:28Speaker 1: blowing things have passed through my head from people who
- 24:30Speaker 1: work in baseball, the efforts that they have gone to
- 24:34Speaker 1: avoid opening the books. Right, Like, imagine if you peeked
- 24:36Speaker 1: inside John Fisher's financials and realized the Athletics didn't have
- 24:40Speaker 1: to leave Oakwood. He was making a lot of money.
- 24:43Speaker 1: He just wants to make more money. And you know,
- 24:45Speaker 1: so it's that whole thing. Right, You're more likely to
- 24:48Speaker 1: see the arc of the covenant than you are the
- 24:51Speaker 1: financials of these these owners that cry they don't have
- 24:54Speaker 1: any money. They treat the financials in baseball like the
- 25:01Speaker 1: nuclear launch codes. Okay, that's what they treated it like.
- 25:04Speaker 1: And it is such a scam. It is such a scam.
- 25:08Speaker 1: We need a cap for parody. We want to have
- 25:11Speaker 1: every tream. How about chance to win. It reminds me
- 25:13Speaker 1: of that used car salesman Bud Selik was going around
- 25:17Speaker 1: in the early two thousands, in the nineties and saying, well,
- 25:20Speaker 1: we need new stadiums in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati so we
- 25:25Speaker 1: can have good teams on the field. These teams can
- 25:27Speaker 1: win the World Series if they get those stadiums. They
- 25:29Speaker 1: built new stadiums. Guess what, spoiler alert. The teams blow
- 25:33Speaker 1: chunks in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, right, they suck And they
- 25:38Speaker 1: were taught, all you need is a new stadium. This
- 25:40Speaker 1: is the magic the magic pill. That's all you need,
- 25:44Speaker 1: right that's all you need. And so come on, it's nonsense.
- 25:48Speaker 1: You don't have it. You don't have it right now.
- 25:50Speaker 1: And yet more teams if you try, If the Reds
- 25:52Speaker 1: and Pirates actually tried, they would actually find a way
- 25:56Speaker 1: to make the postseason. And we know in baseball, just
- 25:59Speaker 1: making the postseasons all you have to do. It's one
- 26:00Speaker 1: of those things. It's not like basketball where or even
- 26:03Speaker 1: football where if you're like a one or two seed
- 26:06Speaker 1: you have a very good chance of going to the
- 26:08Speaker 1: NBA Finals. With the super Bowl. In baseball, it doesn't
- 26:11Speaker 1: work that way. But again, it all goes back. You're
- 26:13Speaker 1: not going to open the books, so no matter how
- 26:15Speaker 1: much you said, when you're to show recap and you
- 26:16Speaker 1: try to get the dumb fans behind him, morons, all right,
- 26:20Speaker 1: people with IQ's below thirty, and you say, okay, it
- 26:23Speaker 1: doesn't matter right, they're sitting on gold mines, these owners
- 26:27Speaker 1: and crying poverty. Now, I don't doubt that Scott Boris
- 26:31Speaker 1: was behind this leak of the Bryce Harper story. That's Scott.
- 26:34Speaker 1: It's my opinion. Can't sue me for my opinion that
- 26:37Speaker 1: Scott Boris and his team leaked that story, because why
- 26:40Speaker 1: would Major League Baseball leak a story about Rob Manford
- 26:43Speaker 1: getting into a confrontation with one of the star players
- 26:46Speaker 1: in baseball? Would never do that. So it had to
- 26:49Speaker 1: come from Bryce Harper's camp, and Scott Boris is his guy,
- 26:53Speaker 1: So it makes a lot of sense. But you look
- 26:56Speaker 1: at everything. I mean, they make so much money in baseball,
- 27:00Speaker 1: owning the stadium, the parking lots, A lot of these
- 27:03Speaker 1: teams have their own TV channels. They've monetized everything. Remember
- 27:08Speaker 1: I went to Wrigley Field when I was doing stuff
- 27:10Speaker 1: in another life. When I did stuff with the Dodgers,
- 27:12Speaker 1: we went there in the nineties and it was still
- 27:15Speaker 1: had the charm of the old Wrigley Field the way
- 27:18Speaker 1: it had always been. I went there a couple of
- 27:20Speaker 1: years ago, and it was like Downtown Disney. The Cubs
- 27:24Speaker 1: had bought all the property around Wrigley Field, the Cub ownership,
- 27:28Speaker 1: and they had put their own branding on everything and
- 27:30Speaker 1: all that, and so it was a much different experience
- 27:32Speaker 1: than it had been in the mom and pop days.
- 27:34Speaker 1: Now final fun so after the Bryce Harper rob Manford
- 27:40Speaker 1: confrontation took place. After that, a former Big league player
- 27:45Speaker 1: and now turned gas bag and schill for Major League Baseball,
- 27:50Speaker 1: Mark de Rosa, who works for Major League Baseball. According
- 27:55Speaker 1: to a story on The Athletic buried behind a paywall,
- 28:00Speaker 1: the Old Gray Lady, The New York Times owns the Athletic. Anyway,
- 28:03Speaker 1: Mark de Rosa, I was reading this story earlier. I
- 28:06Speaker 1: just saw it. So the story says that he warned.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Mark de Rosa warned the Philadelphia Phillies players of the
- 28:15Speaker 1: commissioner's power. He warned them. Now this was taken as
- 28:21Speaker 1: a threat. According to the way the story was reported
- 28:25Speaker 1: by Evan Drelik, who I briefly did a radio show
- 28:27Speaker 1: with years ago. So is that how it sounds to you?
- 28:31Speaker 1: Mark de ross acord to this story. Mark de Rosa,
- 28:33Speaker 1: who works for MLB. He warned the players that essentially
- 28:38Speaker 1: they're messing with the wrong guy. You're messing with Roubmanford.
- 28:42Speaker 5: What are you doing?
- 28:44Speaker 1: All? Right? So the answer to this how does Yes,
- 28:47Speaker 1: it sounds like a threat. I would absolutely take that
- 28:49Speaker 1: as a threat. This is Sopranos style, is what it is.
- 28:52Speaker 1: It's organized baseball crime. If you will. Manford is the
- 28:58Speaker 1: mob boss. How long have we talked about Rob Manford
- 29:00Speaker 1: essentially being a mob boss of organized baseball?
- 29:03Speaker 6: Right?
- 29:04Speaker 1: And there you've got Mark de Rosa. Where is he
- 29:06Speaker 1: at here? So you've got Mark de Rosa, who played
- 29:09Speaker 1: a Major League baseball career, now he works from Major
- 29:13Speaker 1: League Baseball. He's the conciliary, right, He's he's the fixer,
- 29:17Speaker 1: he's the whisper in this right, and he's he goes
- 29:19Speaker 1: in there, he delivers the message for the mob boss
- 29:22Speaker 1: is what he does. And he gets his hands dirty
- 29:26Speaker 1: and all that, but not too dirty. Right, Let's not
- 29:28Speaker 1: forget who we're dealing with. Here, all right, And what
- 29:30Speaker 1: kind of power Rob Manford has? This is the same
- 29:34Speaker 1: Rob Manford If I'm wrong, correct me? Who shielded the
- 29:37Speaker 1: cheating Astros after the biggest cheating scandal in modern times.
- 29:46Speaker 1: A team cheated in the World Series, not just to
- 29:50Speaker 1: get to the World Chairs in the World Series. It
- 29:52Speaker 1: was in the MLB video highlighting the World Series. And
- 29:56Speaker 1: what did Rob Manford do? He let the players walk free?
- 29:58Speaker 1: Ol boo oove that punk Bregman. Now with the Red
- 30:03Speaker 1: Sox Springer, there's still a few left. He's in Toronto.
- 30:07Speaker 1: I let him all walk free. And why is that?
- 30:10Speaker 1: There's a theory that baseball needed the business partners in
- 30:13Speaker 1: Houston to be happy, and they would have been upset
- 30:16Speaker 1: if those guys had been suspended. There's one theory that's
- 30:18Speaker 1: out there. So if Manford likes you, if he likes you,
- 30:24Speaker 1: he'll protect you like family, just like a good mob movie.
- 30:28Speaker 1: Right your family? Now, if you cross him? What happens
- 30:33Speaker 1: if you crossing? Let's see here? Oh, I have an example.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer. Remember Trevor Bauer, Cy young winning pitcher, Trevor Bauer. Yeah,
- 30:41Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer, who I think right now is sipping some
- 30:44Speaker 1: saki in Japan rather than pitching in Major League Baseball.
- 30:48Speaker 1: When starting pitching blows, Rob Manford, commissioner. Now technically Bauer
- 30:54Speaker 1: is allowed back. But he Bauer did something you're not
- 30:56Speaker 1: supposed to do. He trashed Trevor. Trevor Are trashed Rob
- 31:00Speaker 1: man for every chance he got. So now he's in Japan,
- 31:04Speaker 1: he's pitching on dusty mounds in Mexico. He's probably trying
- 31:07Speaker 1: to get a work visa to pitch in Afghanistan at
- 31:09Speaker 1: this particular point. And that's because he messed with Rob Manford.
- 31:15Speaker 1: No one will touch him because Manford don't want him
- 31:16Speaker 1: in baseball. That's the theory, right, And so Manford plays favorites.
- 31:20Speaker 1: And as far as this other guy DeRosa, he doesn't
- 31:23Speaker 1: work for the players anymore. He's a former player. He's
- 31:26Speaker 1: on the payroll for Major League Baseball a right. And
- 31:29Speaker 1: he's sitting there at the MLB network commentating and apparently
- 31:35Speaker 1: giving friendly warnings wink wink, nod nod, like he's reading
- 31:39Speaker 1: some kind of bedtime story. While the message is rather
- 31:43Speaker 1: loud and clear. I think the message is rather loud
- 31:45Speaker 1: and clear here that you don't talk back to the
- 31:48Speaker 1: boss where the boss will get you. Right, you'll be
- 31:51Speaker 1: sleeping with the baseballs. If you talk to the boss
- 31:56Speaker 1: that strikes on. We can still we can still manipulate
- 31:58Speaker 1: the strikes on. We can. You know, next year we
- 32:00Speaker 1: can't do it. But this year we can still manipulate it.
- 32:01Speaker 1: You know, fifty to fifty calls something the empires might
- 32:04Speaker 1: be going going away from Bryce Harper. You're not gonna
- 32:07Speaker 1: get those calls anymore. Right, I'm just saying, you come
- 32:11Speaker 1: at the King, You come at the King, and they
- 32:14Speaker 1: say your best not missing.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
- 32:18Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Nowhe
- 32:23Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
- 32:28Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably not.
- 32:32Speaker 1: Let's do it quickly. Jacob in Delaware, who do you
- 32:35Speaker 1: want to partner up with? Jake? Have you got me?
- 32:36Speaker 1: Or Coop? Who do you want?
- 32:39Speaker 5: You're a loser?
- 32:40Speaker 1: And Jay in Cincinnati, j Who do you want to
- 32:43Speaker 1: partner up with?
- 32:44Speaker 6: Jay?
- 32:46Speaker 1: Okay, you ain't Loraina going?
- 32:49Speaker 5: You don't want to team up with Loraina?
- 32:51Speaker 2: I was practicing in the break.
- 32:53Speaker 1: It's bad, it would be entertaining, but Unfortunately, I'm told
- 32:57Speaker 1: you have to play with me. We'd have you play
- 33:01Speaker 1: with Eddie, but the company whacked him, so he's not here.
- 33:03Speaker 1: All right, let's do it.
- 33:04Speaker 6: Here we go.
- 33:06Speaker 1: What are the categoriesquick? Right?
- 33:07Speaker 6: This is the Lori Laughlin addition. She turned sixty one
- 33:10Speaker 6: years old today. The categories are the new Kids, full House,
- 33:14Speaker 6: Hudson Street, and Critical Mass. Jacob, which category do you want?
- 33:18Speaker 1: Full House?
- 33:19Speaker 5: Full House? Alright? And Jay? How about you.
- 33:23Speaker 1: Do I pick a bit on?
- 33:25Speaker 5: Yeah, Hudson Street, Critical Mass? Are the new Kids?
- 33:30Speaker 1: Critical Mass?
- 33:31Speaker 5: All right?
- 33:32Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, you're up well forty five seconds on
- 33:34Speaker 1: the clock, Coop, right, yes.
- 33:35Speaker 6: Yes, forty five seconds. I need the first and last name, Jacob.
- 33:38Speaker 6: These athletes have lots of children. Forty five seconds. Let's begin.
- 33:42Speaker 6: Current wide receiver for the Dolphins. Yes, this guy was
- 33:46Speaker 6: the quarterback for the Rams when they won the Super
- 33:48Speaker 6: Bowl in Saint Louis, Kurt Owner. Yes, this guy was
- 33:52Speaker 6: the running back for those teams. Yes, this guy is
- 33:56Speaker 6: the current head coach of Michigan basketball. Okay, this guy
- 34:03Speaker 6: was an MVP for the Angels. His son is now
- 34:06Speaker 6: in the Toronto Blue Jays. Yes, this guy had like
- 34:10Speaker 6: fourteen children. He couldn't even remember all their names. He
- 34:13Speaker 6: was a cornerback for the Jets. Yes, this guy has
- 34:18Speaker 6: the NBA record for most assists in the game. He
- 34:20Speaker 6: was also a head coach.
- 34:24Speaker 1: All right, we're no, all right, all right, you didn't
- 34:27Speaker 1: get by the way, Joan Howard no longer the coach
- 34:30Speaker 1: of Michigan. No, he's.
- 34:33Speaker 2: No.
- 34:33Speaker 5: Yes, and Scott Sky all right, here.
- 34:35Speaker 1: We go, Jay forty if you picked their critical mass.
- 34:37Speaker 1: He's a big fatties okay, people out of shape? Yes,
- 34:40Speaker 1: you ready? Jay? Yeah, first and last name, all right.
- 34:43Speaker 1: I came to the Lakers from the Mavericks in the
- 34:45Speaker 1: trade this year. Luca don Yes, the big Diesel he's
- 34:52Speaker 1: on TNT. Was with Kobe with the Lakers. Yes, the
- 34:56Speaker 1: Bambino for the Yankees. Yes, just got in the Hall
- 35:00Speaker 1: of Fame African American picture for the Yankees. Played with
- 35:03Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians as well. Yes, Fat quarterback for the Raiders.
- 35:08Speaker 1: Out of ls. You threw the ball really far, didn't
- 35:12Speaker 1: watch fil Yes, fat running back for the Green Bay Packers.
- 35:18Speaker 1: Bowling ball guy in the two thousands. Last name is
- 35:22Speaker 1: like a girl's name. Okay, the panda for the Giants.
- 35:26Speaker 1: Third baseman when they were when they're winning.
- 35:29Speaker 2: The World Panda.
- 35:34Speaker 6: I said that Eddie Lacy was the running back that
- 35:38Speaker 6: he missed and Pablo Sandoval the panda.
- 35:41Speaker 1: What's the score? Sixties?
- 35:43Speaker 5: All right? So your back up? Jay and Ben? Do
- 35:45Speaker 5: you want the New Kids or Hudson Street?
- 35:49Speaker 1: Jayd all right, these athletes all won Rookie of the Year.
- 35:54Speaker 1: You know what that award is, Jay, Yes, sir, okay,
- 35:58Speaker 1: let's go forty five second of the clock. We're all
- 36:00Speaker 1: on our way.
- 36:01Speaker 7: Go.
- 36:01Speaker 1: Current running back for the New Orleans Saints right now,
- 36:05Speaker 1: he got in a bar fight in Vegas at a casino. Yes,
- 36:09Speaker 1: Philadelphia Philly star got into it with with the commissioner
- 36:13Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball. We talked about him. Yes, he
- 36:17Speaker 1: won a championship with the Celtics, but he came over
- 36:19Speaker 1: from the Oh no, that's what incorrect. He's currently playing
- 36:22Speaker 1: for the Rockets. He starred with Golden State, played in
- 36:25Speaker 1: Oklahoma City with the Sonics. Star forward catcher for the
- 36:31Speaker 1: Giants when they won the World Series all those years ago. Yes,
- 36:35Speaker 1: Japanese pitcher for the Dodgers in the nineties, started a
- 36:38Speaker 1: mania with the well no different first name, A white
- 36:43Speaker 1: guy three point shooter for the Mia Yeah, you got
- 36:46Speaker 1: it right, that's good. He got it all right, we'll
- 36:48Speaker 1: give you a Dyl Melmo. Now it counts.
- 36:50Speaker 6: Hi.
- 36:51Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. So he
- 36:53Speaker 1: got three of them, right, he got Bryce Harper, Alvanning.
- 36:56Speaker 6: That's three seventy. All right, let's let's go Jacob. We've
- 36:59Speaker 6: got Hudson Street. These athletes were all born in New Jersey.
- 37:01Speaker 5: Are you ready? Let's begin?
- 37:03Speaker 6: All right, he's in the star for the Angels. He's
- 37:06Speaker 6: like native to the playoffs once. Yes, this guy is
- 37:09Speaker 6: a star on the Knicks. Not Jalen Brunson, the other
- 37:11Speaker 6: guy down. Yes, this guy was a quarterback for the Ravens.
- 37:18Speaker 6: He won a Super Bowl. But he's not that good.
- 37:21Speaker 6: No more recently. Yes, uh, this guy's a running back
- 37:28Speaker 6: for the Colts right now. He was a bonkers Yes,
- 37:32Speaker 6: this guy was forward for the Warriors back in the day.
- 37:36Speaker 6: He shot a free throw underhanded?
- 37:40Speaker 4: That enough?
- 37:41Speaker 5: Did I get it?
- 37:42Speaker 1: Lorena?
- 37:43Speaker 8: I count it?
- 37:44Speaker 1: Lrea wantcaming score? What are you doing doing? One job?
- 37:50Speaker 1: Keep score? Lorena? I counted.
- 37:53Speaker 5: Then I win.
- 37:53Speaker 1: If she didn't keep score, I won. That's a win
- 37:56Speaker 1: for us.