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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's a small world. After all, it's a.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Small small world, but not when Barry Bonds was playing.
- 0:07Speaker 2: It's our number two of the Ben Malors Show. What
- 0:10Speaker 2: stands out as we talk about it on the podcast?
- 0:13Speaker 2: What stands out to you about Barry Bonds saying he
- 0:17Speaker 2: would have been a Yankee except he somehow hung up
- 0:20Speaker 2: on George Steinbrenner after Steinbrener offered him a contract to
- 0:24Speaker 2: be the highest paid Yankee of high baseball player in
- 0:29Speaker 2: history at the time. Also, how does this naming of
- 0:33Speaker 2: the field benefit Dodger fans and the Japanese sponsored Dodgers
- 0:39Speaker 2: have sold out Dodger Stadium.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Yes, they need the money.
- 0:42Speaker 2: And is Alex Bregman setting the Cubbies up for failure?
- 0:46Speaker 2: After the cheating astro said, it's World Series or bust
- 0:50Speaker 2: at Wrigley Field, the devil in disguise. We'll get to
- 0:53Speaker 2: that and more right now here, it is our number two.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Oh what could have been? Oh what could have been?
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- 2:48Speaker 2: we are back at it. A lot of baseball conversation here,
- 2:51Speaker 2: including we go back to that Giants Yankees game. Not
- 2:56Speaker 2: much of a game, I would say, yeah, I think
- 2:59Speaker 2: you'd agree with not much of a game. Yes, all right,
- 3:01Speaker 2: so the Yankees win seven to nothing. I believe that
- 3:05Speaker 2: would be the personification of not much of a game. Now,
- 3:11Speaker 2: there was something that took place in this game that
- 3:16Speaker 2: cut my attention. Is it's been bouncing around here. Not
- 3:19Speaker 2: that the fact that Bombers pants the Hagantes, That's not it.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Barry Bonds, who treated the baseball media like the tag
- 3:30Speaker 2: on the back of your shirt and just kind of
- 3:35Speaker 2: try to rip it out because he would poke and
- 3:37Speaker 2: tickle with not a lot of tickling ash. But he
- 3:39Speaker 2: made his TV debut. Yeah, Barry Bonds his TV. Look,
- 3:44Speaker 2: it was Netflix. That's TV, right, that's modern TV.
- 3:47Speaker 1: So there he was on.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Netflix doing his thing, and he stepped into the booth.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Now he was on the pregame.
- 3:53Speaker 3: That was.
- 3:55Speaker 2: That was something. We'll talk more about that later. But
- 3:57Speaker 2: Bond stepped into the booth during the six inning. Flix
- 4:00Speaker 2: was trying to kill time because the game was so bad.
- 4:02Speaker 2: They were trying to keep people watching, and Bonds provided
- 4:05Speaker 2: a revelation.
- 4:07Speaker 1: For Baseball Nation. What did he do?
- 4:10Speaker 2: So if he didn't see this or hear about it,
- 4:11Speaker 2: maybe not Barry Bonds reveal. He was asked about you know,
- 4:15Speaker 2: they never played for the Yankees, and Bond said that
- 4:18Speaker 2: he had a.
- 4:19Speaker 1: Deal years ago to join the New York.
- 4:23Speaker 2: Yankees, and that was back in nineteen ninety three. Bonds
- 4:31Speaker 2: was a free agent after the ninety two season with
- 4:34Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Pirates. He told the story of getting a
- 4:37Speaker 2: call from George steinbern He might not know who that
- 4:40Speaker 2: is if you're a younger age, but George Steinberner was
- 4:42Speaker 2: like the biggest figure in all of baseball. Gigantic personality,
- 4:48Speaker 2: classic old school owner and if you watch Seinfeld anyway,
- 4:53Speaker 2: Bond said, quote, I would have been a Yankee. I
- 4:57Speaker 2: would have been a Yankee, said b See that means
- 5:00Speaker 2: everything before. That's a lie. But Steinbrenner got on the
- 5:04Speaker 2: phone and he's telling the Sorry, this is a quote,
- 5:08Speaker 2: he said. Steinbergy got on the phone and he called
- 5:10Speaker 2: us and he told me, Barry, we are going to
- 5:13Speaker 2: give you the money to make you the highest paid
- 5:15Speaker 2: player at the time in baseball, but you have to
- 5:19Speaker 2: sign the contract by two o'clock this afternoon. Well, how
- 5:24Speaker 2: did Bonds respond? He said, excuse me, and he said, quote,
- 5:29Speaker 2: I just hung.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Up the phone and went to have lunch.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Now, of course, said the agent started freaking out, and
- 5:40Speaker 2: Barry ended up pivoting and joining the giants, saying he
- 5:44Speaker 2: was going home to the Giants. So that's a good
- 5:47Speaker 2: jumping off point. Let us discuss We'll do some old
- 5:52Speaker 2: guy radio. Let's discuss the question what stands out to you?
- 5:57Speaker 2: What stands out to you about Barry Bond, saying that
- 6:00Speaker 2: he would have been a Yankee except he hung up
- 6:02Speaker 2: on George Steinbrener because Steinbrenner made.
- 6:04Speaker 1: A demand that Bonds did not like, which was a demand. Hey,
- 6:07Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay you a lot of money, just take
- 6:09Speaker 1: care of this right now.
- 6:10Speaker 2: My observations, I've got crunch, rap burrito, high end boutique,
- 6:15Speaker 2: and traveling cover band, and we will combine all of
- 6:20Speaker 2: these things together and we're gonna have some controlled chaos,
- 6:25Speaker 2: is what we're going to have. But we'll start from
- 6:26Speaker 2: the ground and work our way up.
- 6:28Speaker 1: So Number one.
- 6:35Speaker 2: I cannot emphasis I emphasize this enough. I cannot emphasize
- 6:40Speaker 2: this enough.
- 6:40Speaker 1: This is perfect.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Okay, this is absolutely freaking perfect. Here that hanging up
- 6:47Speaker 2: on the boss and Barry Bonds admitted to hanging up
- 6:51Speaker 2: on the bus. This is the most Verry Bonds story
- 6:54Speaker 2: ever told that the guy treated human interaction. It was
- 7:00Speaker 2: jury duty. He kept trying to get out of it, okay,
- 7:04Speaker 2: but it wasn't just that. Listen, I'm an introvert, I am,
- 7:07Speaker 2: and I understand the introvert life.
- 7:09Speaker 1: I lived that life. However, I try not to be
- 7:12Speaker 1: a total a hole like Bonds.
- 7:14Speaker 2: Just he wanted to be that guy, and so that's
- 7:18Speaker 2: the personality test he failed spectacularly.
- 7:22Speaker 1: It is the epitome of Barry Bonds.
- 7:25Speaker 2: And I dealt with him a lot when I was
- 7:27Speaker 2: a baseball radio reporter back in the day and I
- 7:30Speaker 2: had to get soundbites after games and the Giants played
- 7:32Speaker 2: the Dodgers a ton, and so I saw.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Him quite often, and Barry was.
- 7:37Speaker 2: A tushy to everyone all the time. And the most
- 7:44Speaker 2: famous Berry Bonds story, hands down, would be the classic
- 7:47Speaker 2: one from the late eighties when he was a young
- 7:49Speaker 2: player for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the guy for the
- 7:53Speaker 2: Pirates was going around to get autographs for sick kids
- 7:55Speaker 2: in the children's hospital and Bonds would not signed.
- 8:00Speaker 1: He refused to sign.
- 8:02Speaker 2: He said he thought the guy was gonna steal the
- 8:05Speaker 2: autograph baseballs and sell them, so he wouldn't do it,
- 8:09Speaker 2: but it's not confident. He just weaponized arrogance. He treated
- 8:13Speaker 2: people like we treat voicemail. You just don't check it,
- 8:17Speaker 2: you just say whatever, I'm not listening to that. And
- 8:21Speaker 2: you think hanging up on George Steinbrenner to go have
- 8:25Speaker 2: a crunch rap burrito for lunch, you think that bothers Bonds. No,
- 8:30Speaker 2: that's what he calls a Tuesday or a Wednesday. Now,
- 8:34Speaker 2: to be fair, let's not canonize George Steinbrenner either. The
- 8:37Speaker 2: Boss was a foghorn with a wallet. And what happens
- 8:41Speaker 2: if you put two alphas on the phone. It's a
- 8:44Speaker 2: combustible situation, which leads to cobboom is what it leads to.
- 8:49Speaker 2: So it's wild though that Bonds shows Candlestick Park with
- 8:53Speaker 2: the wind howling like a horror movie instead of that
- 8:59Speaker 2: bandbox in the Bronx. And he would have been part
- 9:03Speaker 2: Think about if he had gone to you know, do
- 9:05Speaker 2: the what if game? What if he had gone to
- 9:08Speaker 2: the Yankees. That was the beginning of the nineties Yankees
- 9:12Speaker 2: dynasty a couple of years after that, so in theory,
- 9:14Speaker 2: Bonds would have been part of that as that core
- 9:18Speaker 2: group of Yankees became became active Yankee player. I mean
- 9:23Speaker 2: in ninety three he had the Blue Jays were the
- 9:27Speaker 2: top team. Ninety four there was no World Series because
- 9:31Speaker 2: of what had happened. Cleveland had some really good teams
- 9:34Speaker 2: with like ninety six, and from that point on, for
- 9:38Speaker 2: the next few years, the Yankees dominated the scene. And
- 9:41Speaker 2: the other thing I thought about, not only that, but Bonds.
- 9:45Speaker 2: The argument has always been, he didn't do steroids with
- 9:48Speaker 2: the Pirates, He only did them when he got to
- 9:49Speaker 2: the Giants. Is it possible that Bonds had he gone
- 9:54Speaker 2: to Yankee Stadium because that's such a little league ballpark,
- 9:56Speaker 2: it's not a legit big league ballpark. That's the old
- 9:59Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium, that he would not have needed the clear
- 10:01Speaker 2: and the cream if he had gone to the Bronx
- 10:04Speaker 2: because of the short porch. That's a cheat code, so
- 10:06Speaker 2: you don't need now. Of course, many Yankees have done
- 10:08Speaker 2: steroids of the NISA need it. Instead. He chose the
- 10:12Speaker 2: Siberian Knights at Candlestick Park and chemical enhancements. All right,
- 10:18Speaker 2: Now turn the page to La La Land, where the
- 10:21Speaker 2: rumor has become reality. Now we are not in mouthpieces
- 10:24Speaker 2: for the Dodgers.
- 10:25Speaker 1: I was at one point. I'm not anymore.
- 10:27Speaker 2: So the field that Dodger Stadium has been sullied. Somebody
- 10:32Speaker 2: defic no, nobody defecated on it. Dodgers have done it.
- 10:36Speaker 2: They have crossed the rubicon. They have presented a title
- 10:40Speaker 2: sponsor for the first time in the history of what
- 10:43Speaker 2: is the third oldest ballpark in the Big Leagues behind
- 10:47Speaker 2: Finway and Wrigley Field, Dodger Stadium. Dodgers announced a partnership
- 10:51Speaker 2: with some global retail brand you k not glow, I
- 10:55Speaker 2: believe is how you pronounced it. It said Japanese company, a
- 10:58Speaker 2: unique clo all right, Well anyway, I never heard of them,
- 11:01Speaker 2: but they are the title sponsor Unique Low Unique Low
- 11:05Speaker 2: Field at Dodgers Stadium. Now, this of course has led
- 11:09Speaker 2: to backlash, like you were upset, I can't believe this.
- 11:14Speaker 2: So the Dodgers issued a statement saying, this is gonna
- 11:17Speaker 2: benefit the Dodger fans and the LA community with Unique
- 11:22Speaker 2: Low Field at Dodger Stadium. So the question is this,
- 11:25Speaker 2: how does this naming of the field, Unique Cloth Field
- 11:29Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium benefit Dodger fans and the sponsor.
- 11:36Speaker 1: So it's one of these stories. It's really just a
- 11:37Speaker 1: storybook story.
- 11:38Speaker 2: Is there anything more heartwarming than the Dodgers finding a
- 11:42Speaker 2: fresh way to pick your pocket?
- 11:44Speaker 1: It's so good.
- 11:46Speaker 2: They have officially turned over these last couple of years
- 11:48Speaker 2: Blue Heaven on Earth into a high end boutique. That's
- 11:52Speaker 2: what it is. And I'm just asking an innocent question.
- 11:55Speaker 2: How many twenty dollars medellos or twenty five dollars medellos
- 11:58Speaker 2: does it take to pay.
- 12:00Speaker 1: For this, that and the other thing?
- 12:03Speaker 2: And this is just it's not gonna cost the fans
- 12:05Speaker 2: any money, Okay, it's the Japanese clothing company logo is
- 12:10Speaker 2: now all over Dodger Stadium because they paid a lot
- 12:12Speaker 2: of money for it.
- 12:13Speaker 1: I get it.
- 12:14Speaker 2: And for the fans, though, the Dodgers continue to have
- 12:16Speaker 2: this masterclass in its mark up madness is what it is.
- 12:21Speaker 2: The stadium is already the most expensive experience in.
- 12:26Speaker 1: The big leagues. I love that we are in the ear.
- 12:28Speaker 1: It's the experience. It's all about the experience. A place
- 12:32Speaker 1: where a family of fod needs a.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Second mortgage just to park the car, not even get
- 12:37Speaker 2: into the game. And now we get the privilege of
- 12:40Speaker 2: sitting at unique low field at Dodger Stadium. Now does
- 12:44Speaker 2: the name change come with a discount because the Dodgers
- 12:47Speaker 2: in this stateium They're like, hey, listen, this is great.
- 12:50Speaker 2: This is going to help out the Dodger fan and
- 12:52Speaker 2: the LA community. Okay, So does that mean then that
- 12:55Speaker 2: they're gonna discount.
- 12:57Speaker 1: The exploitative ticket prices that they've been you know?
- 13:02Speaker 2: So this is the old lose, lose wrapped in a
- 13:06Speaker 2: very expensive sweater. As for Unique Low, I would say
- 13:10Speaker 2: that I don't know what they're thinking either. They've essentially
- 13:12Speaker 2: dropped their marketing budget into a bonfire somewhere in Santa Monica.
- 13:18Speaker 1: And I don't know anyone's going to call it Unique
- 13:20Speaker 1: Low Field at Dodger Stadium. It's just Dodger Stadium. That's it. Period. Stop.
- 13:24Speaker 1: And what do I know? I just see the overnight show.
- 13:27Speaker 2: But it seems rather frivolous spending for the alleged name recognition.
- 13:33Speaker 2: So it's kind of like buying naming rights and saying, hey,
- 13:36Speaker 2: I'm going to sell the naming rights to the Pacific Ocean. Well, no,
- 13:40Speaker 2: it's already been named the Pacific Ocean. But no, I'm
- 13:43Speaker 2: going to sell you naming rights. What do I get
- 13:45Speaker 2: for that?
- 13:45Speaker 4: Why?
- 13:46Speaker 1: I eat a lot of salt, and we get a
- 13:48Speaker 1: lot of money.
- 13:49Speaker 2: We get a lot of money, and at the end
- 13:52Speaker 2: of the day, it's just water.
- 13:54Speaker 1: That's all. That's all it is.
- 13:57Speaker 2: And but I'm getting old because I remember, and I
- 14:00Speaker 2: started going to Dodger Stadium back in the day O'Malley
- 14:04Speaker 2: still owned the team, and they had one advertisement in
- 14:08Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. As I recall, one prominent advertisement, it was
- 14:12Speaker 2: the seventy six ball that they had the seventy six logo,
- 14:16Speaker 2: which was the reason the seats were orange at Dodger
- 14:19Speaker 2: Stadium was because of that.
- 14:20Speaker 1: But anyway, all.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Right, final point to Chicago we go where your fem's
- 14:23Speaker 2: all fired up, trees excited. I don't know about phase,
- 14:26Speaker 2: but the boys are excited here the Cubbies. Are the
- 14:29Speaker 2: Cubs legit or are they not legit? Well, third basement.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Alex Bregman set the.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Bar high for the Chicago Cubs.
- 14:39Speaker 2: He gave a quote recently here before Opening Day saying
- 14:41Speaker 2: for the season to be a success, we have to
- 14:46Speaker 2: win the whole thing. We being the Cubbies, I say
- 14:49Speaker 2: a quote from Alex Bregman. Now, the question is Alex
- 14:53Speaker 2: Bregman setting the Cubs up for failure to say it's
- 14:59Speaker 2: worse old series or bust.
- 15:03Speaker 1: So I thought about it. I am ambivalent on this one.
- 15:05Speaker 2: On an iPad tablet, that should be the mission statement.
- 15:10Speaker 2: Like you look at the tablet, that should be the
- 15:11Speaker 2: mission statement. Absolutely, you don't enter the season aiming for
- 15:16Speaker 2: a participation trophy and a pad on the back. It's
- 15:20Speaker 2: not like summer camp. It's got to play meaningful games
- 15:24Speaker 2: when it's cold outside in October, and that's it. However,
- 15:29Speaker 2: this is the part where the malor alarm.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Bells start going off, just like that.
- 15:35Speaker 2: The moment Bregman walks walked into Wrigleyville, the moment he
- 15:40Speaker 2: walked into Rigayville, he brought luggage.
- 15:43Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about Lua Vauton.
- 15:46Speaker 2: I'm talking about the haunted suitcase from the cheating Astros
- 15:52Speaker 2: at the trash Cad Symphony that still echoes. That's not
- 15:56Speaker 2: just baggage. That is radioactive material.
- 16:00Speaker 1: What that is.
- 16:00Speaker 2: And so you got Bregman who's now with the Cubs
- 16:02Speaker 2: with Jose Albouve, Carlos Corre. He's a Cheatah, he's back
- 16:07Speaker 2: with the cheaters. George Springer who was sent out of
- 16:10Speaker 2: the country to Toronto. They have spread out some of them.
- 16:13Speaker 2: Correa played for the Twins and then came back to
- 16:16Speaker 2: the cheaters. Al Tuba is the only one that stayed
- 16:19Speaker 2: for the full run in Houston. But these guys who
- 16:22Speaker 2: are still playing from the twenty seventeen a holes, it's
- 16:26Speaker 2: like a traveling cover band.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Is who it is called the stink Bombs.
- 16:31Speaker 2: The real fans remember what happened and cannot unsee the
- 16:36Speaker 2: cheating Astros residue permanent marker on your baseball soul.
- 16:44Speaker 1: And who handed out what? Rob Manford handed out?
- 16:47Speaker 3: What?
- 16:47Speaker 1: No punishment?
- 16:48Speaker 2: Right step right up, rob man Fraud, the spineless, gutless
- 16:52Speaker 2: commissioner of Major League Baseball who treated the World Series
- 16:54Speaker 2: scandal like it was a parking ticket or a jaywalking ticket.
- 16:59Speaker 2: So yeah, when Bregman says World Series or bust it
- 17:03Speaker 2: sounds noble. Yet when you've got that kind of baseball
- 17:09Speaker 2: karma dining with the devil swirling around like a tornado
- 17:15Speaker 2: of doom, it's less of a goal for the Cubbies
- 17:19Speaker 2: and more of like a countdown to combustion. It's impossible
- 17:24Speaker 2: impossible for us to pull for any team that has
- 17:27Speaker 2: a cheating a hole on it. Cannot happen, will not happen. Sorry,
- 17:32Speaker 2: not sorry. So the Cubs went from lovable losers to
- 17:36Speaker 2: just losers with Alex Bregman adding Bregman to the team,
- 17:41Speaker 2: and he was a diminishing asset with the Red Sox
- 17:44Speaker 2: that we're not supposed to talk about that part. He
- 17:46Speaker 2: did not play very well in the second half of
- 17:49Speaker 2: the baseball season in twenty twenty five.
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- 18:16Speaker 2: Are the San Diego Padres that's a baseball team, not
- 18:19Speaker 2: a good one. Are they about to be sold? The Padres?
- 18:22Speaker 2: Some whispers bouncing around here overnight. We'll take a look
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- 20:20Speaker 2: com down, not a burner, right, Sinces. I like your
- 20:23Speaker 2: take that Barry might not have turned to peds.
- 20:27Speaker 1: If he had joined the.
- 20:28Speaker 2: Yankees, he would be a multi time champion and a
- 20:31Speaker 2: first ballot Hall of Fame inductee instead of a pathetic
- 20:35Speaker 2: joke there yo, you Femi says, they had me in
- 20:39Speaker 2: a digital gulag for a few minutes, then they freed me.
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- 21:39Speaker 3: I'm just happy to be on the show.
- 21:40Speaker 2: With you because we're happy.
- 21:44Speaker 3: I'd love to hear your voice every night. Man. So well,
- 21:47Speaker 3: thanks amazing.
- 21:48Speaker 2: I appreciate appreciate that, Joe, I appreciate you.
- 21:51Speaker 3: What do you want to Blackos or not? We want
- 21:54Speaker 3: to talk to Flacos. Let's go.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I dream of talking about, Joe Flacco. So, Joe,
- 22:00Speaker 2: can you blow into the phone right now for me?
- 22:02Speaker 2: Can you blow into the receiver on the phone right there?
- 22:06Speaker 3: It's going to be about a one four if I do.
- 22:09Speaker 2: Let me see, let me see what you got here.
- 22:10Speaker 2: This's just I gotta test this. I haven't tested this
- 22:13Speaker 2: thing out in a while. I gotta test this out.
- 22:14Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead, Joe, Oh, you can do better
- 22:20Speaker 2: than that.
- 22:20Speaker 1: That was not Come on, come on, man, come on, Joe.
- 22:24Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta, you gotta take it back in
- 22:26Speaker 1: your lungs. Okay, take a.
- 22:28Speaker 2: Deep break, got really give it out right in diaphragm.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Yeah, otherwise we won't get a proper reading.
- 22:36Speaker 3: Okay, I love it, I love it.
- 22:37Speaker 2: All right, go ahead, here we go. This is Joe
- 22:39Speaker 2: in Arkansas. Everybody, here we go, Here we go.
- 22:45Speaker 1: All right, that was.
- 22:46Speaker 2: Better than Hold on, let's see there we go on, Loraina,
- 22:53Speaker 2: can you check the and coop? Can you check the
- 22:56Speaker 2: blood alcohol? Uh content the B A C. I believe
- 23:00Speaker 2: it's called now the BAC.
- 23:01Speaker 1: It's not looking good.
- 23:03Speaker 2: Let's see here, hold on now legally the amount of
- 23:07Speaker 2: blood bloody alcohol kind of a back. Oh my god,
- 23:14Speaker 2: oh my god, sir, you've.
- 23:18Speaker 1: Been in bombs. Sir.
- 23:20Speaker 2: Congratulations, my god, you have no more blood. It's all
- 23:23Speaker 2: it's all alcohol right there, my god, amazing, amazing.
- 23:27Speaker 1: Do not leave your home.
- 23:28Speaker 2: Whatever you do to stay there, continue to consume alcohol,
- 23:31Speaker 2: but do not leave your home.
- 23:33Speaker 1: Please. I beg of you to not leave your home.
- 23:35Speaker 3: Take an uber as long as you're as long as
- 23:38Speaker 3: when when when it hits hour number two, she goes
- 23:41Speaker 3: hour number two, that'll be just fine.
- 23:45Speaker 1: I don't think she doesn't really do that until our four.
- 23:48Speaker 1: Then she starts singing. In our hour four she sings,
- 23:51Speaker 1: but not.
- 23:53Speaker 2: You didn't really want to talk about Joe Flaka, right,
- 23:55Speaker 2: you're just busting my balls, right, you know, I mean
- 23:58Speaker 2: you don't really talk.
- 24:00Speaker 3: That's amazing forty one. Come on, that's an.
- 24:06Speaker 1: Amazing backup quarterback. You know that's it. I did like
- 24:10Speaker 1: the quote, though Flacco, would you.
- 24:12Speaker 3: Not sign up for that career at forty one? I
- 24:14Speaker 3: would sign up for that career forty one.
- 24:17Speaker 2: I think he's already had enough money probably just like
- 24:19Speaker 2: hang out and retire or whatever.
- 24:21Speaker 3: He doesn't have enough money, or he wouldn't do it anymore.
- 24:26Speaker 2: He just gets bored. He just wants stuff to do.
- 24:29Speaker 2: He did say, though this is great, you see the quote. Flacco,
- 24:32Speaker 2: who re signed with the Bengals on Wednesday, said it
- 24:36Speaker 2: pisses him off that the Bengals give him a contract.
- 24:40Speaker 1: Nobody would give him a chance to start. He said,
- 24:42Speaker 1: it's dumb.
- 24:43Speaker 2: The teams, some NFL teams are dumb because they.
- 24:46Speaker 3: Would not allow he could still start.
- 24:49Speaker 1: Oh, everyone's it's magic.
- 24:51Speaker 3: Is still start if he really wanted to.
- 24:55Speaker 2: I think you've had a lot of I think you've
- 24:57Speaker 2: had a lot of alcohol.
- 24:58Speaker 1: I think, yeah, you've had a lot of a lot
- 25:01Speaker 1: of alcohol.
- 25:02Speaker 3: Didn't learn systems faster than anybody else.
- 25:05Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe Flackle, when he's played has not been good.
- 25:08Speaker 2: People only remember that he has like one or two
- 25:10Speaker 2: good games, and then the rest of them are pretty bad,
- 25:13Speaker 2: and then people only remember the good. It's kind of
- 25:15Speaker 2: like you try to block out a car accident. You're like, well,
- 25:18Speaker 2: that's that wasn't good. That was an accident. I'll try
- 25:20Speaker 2: to block that out.
- 25:21Speaker 3: Hey, but he had a great run. He got a
- 25:23Speaker 3: Super Bowl win for him, right, he got a trophy.
- 25:26Speaker 2: Well, I didn't got a trophy. He suckered the Ravens.
- 25:29Speaker 2: The Ravens knew he wasn't that good. Then he had
- 25:30Speaker 2: this ridiculous playoff the record.
- 25:33Speaker 3: Because them it suckered by Lamar Jackson for how many
- 25:36Speaker 3: years now, because every time that he gets into the
- 25:39Speaker 3: contract he gets hurt all of a sudden, Oh hamstring,
- 25:44Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
- 25:46Speaker 2: Well there's I mean, all right, well you had a
- 25:48Speaker 2: lot of airtime here, there's other people on hold your
- 25:50Speaker 2: ball guarding all the time. They want to talk, what's
- 25:52Speaker 2: up with that? They want to talk?
- 25:53Speaker 3: Hey, but you know I'm right on the Lamar Jackson thing.
- 25:56Speaker 3: Come on, I mean, I'm okay, I'm I threw you
- 25:59Speaker 3: a bone right there you go.
- 26:01Speaker 1: I gotta go chase the get out of here, go
- 26:03Speaker 1: with thank you.
- 26:04Speaker 2: It is the first time caller Joe and Arkansas completely
- 26:07Speaker 2: smashed hammered calls our show.
- 26:11Speaker 1: How great? How lucky are we?
- 26:14Speaker 2: Let's go now to the Astrology Insider and we go
- 26:17Speaker 2: to the Bay Area.
- 26:18Speaker 1: We go to Berkeley and we say hello to Andrea, Hello.
- 26:27Speaker 7: Ben, how are you?
- 26:29Speaker 2: If I was any better, I'd be a Giant, but
- 26:31Speaker 2: not a San Francisco Giant because they stunk.
- 26:36Speaker 1: They were bad.
- 26:38Speaker 7: Yeah, I gotta tell you. You know, maybe I'm old school,
- 26:41Speaker 7: but you know, seeing the game on Netflix, it just
- 26:45Speaker 7: didn't have its like sense of urgency for like an
- 26:48Speaker 7: opening day game. It was, you know, a lot of
- 26:52Speaker 7: you know, talking chatter, and Barry Bones is on one
- 26:56Speaker 7: of the panels in pregame and so on, and uh,
- 27:00Speaker 7: you know, Hunter Pants he brought some areas fire energy,
- 27:04Speaker 7: but outside of that, it was like watching a TV show.
- 27:08Speaker 7: I really didn't seem to you know, feel the sense
- 27:13Speaker 7: of opening day urgency from it, and then you know,
- 27:18Speaker 7: seeing the uh lopsided score, it just was kind of
- 27:25Speaker 7: you know, Aaron Judge fellow Taurus striking out. Was it
- 27:30Speaker 7: three or four things?
- 27:31Speaker 2: Yeah, that was well the first four times he struck
- 27:34Speaker 2: he want zero for five?
- 27:36Speaker 1: Yeah, game and yeah, this.
- 27:38Speaker 2: Was If this was a Netflix original, it would have
- 27:41Speaker 2: been one episode and they would have pulled it off
- 27:43Speaker 2: Netflix because it was not not not this is.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Not the is not this is not the Crown.
- 27:50Speaker 2: Right, it's stranger things, but really strange, like not good
- 27:54Speaker 2: that kind.
- 27:54Speaker 7: Of thing, right, I know, because it kept saying you know,
- 27:56Speaker 7: it was like watching Netflix like, oh, that's right, sex
- 27:59Speaker 7: and this I should catch up on that. It was
- 28:01Speaker 7: just really distracting seeing it on Netflix. But I did
- 28:05Speaker 7: look at Tony Vitello's astrology chart the New Manager. He's
- 28:10Speaker 7: a Libra October ninth, nineteen seventy eight, Saint Louis, Missouri
- 28:15Speaker 7: and interesting. He's a Libra, which is out you know,
- 28:18Speaker 7: relationships and relating, but he has three planets in Scorpio.
- 28:23Speaker 7: He's like has that intensity, talks about you know, good
- 28:26Speaker 7: vibes and you know intensity. People talk about his passions,
- 28:31Speaker 7: so I kind of liken him to like a smiling
- 28:34Speaker 7: Scorpio because he's a Libra, but he has a lot
- 28:37Speaker 7: more Scorpio planets, and he has this way about him
- 28:41Speaker 7: that you know, has this intensity, but he has this
- 28:46Speaker 7: you know, let's have a lot of good relationships in
- 28:50Speaker 7: the clubhouse and with players, and let's all be balanced
- 28:53Speaker 7: and so on, so it'll be interesting. You know, he
- 28:57Speaker 7: took responsibility certainly for the loss, so he was there
- 29:01Speaker 7: for that. And it's the first game of one hundred
- 29:04Speaker 7: and sixty two. As we all know, it's a long season,
- 29:09Speaker 7: and you know, Mercury is fresh out of retrograde and
- 29:13Speaker 7: it's you know, we just had the spring equinox, so
- 29:16Speaker 7: you know, we got to kind of be patient. But like,
- 29:19Speaker 7: you know, when I was younger, I remember like taking
- 29:21Speaker 7: my radio to school to like listen to Old sneak k.
- 29:24Speaker 7: It just had all this holiday vibe and this was
- 29:28Speaker 7: just like a Netflix TV show.
- 29:31Speaker 1: Yeah it was not. It's just they were trying too hard.
- 29:35Speaker 3: I I.
- 29:35Speaker 2: You know, everyone's like, well, baseball broadcasts are born, so
- 29:38Speaker 2: we've got to redo the broadcast. Well okay, fine, but
- 29:41Speaker 2: you just know, do we need John Cena on there.
- 29:43Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe we do. Somebody loves John Cena.
- 29:45Speaker 2: That's great. They had a comedian on there. And I
- 29:48Speaker 2: love Jameis Winston. I'm a big fan. I don't know
- 29:51Speaker 2: that I need to see him on the grounds crew
- 29:54Speaker 2: or whatever, but that's fine anyway.
- 29:55Speaker 1: All right, well, Andrew, thank you.
- 29:57Speaker 2: And there's plenty of baseball for months and months and
- 29:59Speaker 2: months Togo, we got lots of baseball, all right.
- 30:04Speaker 1: There she goes Virgo and service Andrea.
- 30:07Speaker 2: She's on that X machine the astrology Insider check in.
- 30:12Speaker 2: So Barry Bonds gave us a monologue here, said that
- 30:15Speaker 2: he hung up on George Steinbrenner and the Yankees offering
- 30:18Speaker 2: him the contract he wanted, and he was going to
- 30:20Speaker 2: go join the Yankees. And then because stein Brenner said
- 30:23Speaker 2: you got to sign the contract by two o'clock, he said,
- 30:25Speaker 2: I ain't doing that, hung up, boom out, went and
- 30:28Speaker 2: had lunch. And so he also said Bonds, I love
- 30:33Speaker 2: this the I'll get to him.
- 30:35Speaker 1: So Bonds goes on.
- 30:38Speaker 2: The Netflix deal and he says on the broadcast quote,
- 30:44Speaker 2: I may not I may not have talked to anybody
- 30:48Speaker 2: off the field, but on the field. I was probably
- 30:51Speaker 2: the best teammate you would ever have. He said, I
- 30:56Speaker 2: took more walks from my team, got on for my team.
- 31:02Speaker 2: And that's what baseball is about.
- 31:05Speaker 1: Clothes quote.
- 31:07Speaker 2: So Bonds is admitting that baseball is not about camaraderie,
- 31:11Speaker 2: it is not about the brotherhood of getting along. And
- 31:15Speaker 2: these guys are essentially a family for months. Planes, trains
- 31:18Speaker 2: and automobiles, the whole thing. Hotels, of course, they're five
- 31:21Speaker 2: star hotels with police escorts and whatnot. But Zil Bonds
- 31:27Speaker 2: is going on and on here talking about, Hey, I'm
- 31:30Speaker 2: a teammate.
- 31:30Speaker 1: I took all those watchs if.
- 31:31Speaker 2: I remember not using revisionist history, if I'm not mistaken,
- 31:37Speaker 2: wasn't one of the knocks on barry bars. Now, some
- 31:39Speaker 2: of those he would be intentionally walked. But he took
- 31:42Speaker 2: walks where the Giants there were spots, the Giants there
- 31:46Speaker 2: were hit able pitches, and he did not swing at them,
- 31:49Speaker 2: instead choosing to put the pressure on his teammates to
- 31:53Speaker 2: get those big hits.
- 31:54Speaker 1: And it didn't really work out all that well.
- 31:59Speaker 2: The Giants only started winning World Series after Bonds was
- 32:03Speaker 2: off the team, and then they started having an era
- 32:07Speaker 2: of great success with bonds.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Not part of it.
- 32:12Speaker 2: Also, I did want to mention this, the San Diego
- 32:14Speaker 2: Padres are for sale.
- 32:17Speaker 1: I may or may not have made an offer. I
- 32:19Speaker 1: may or may not have made an offer.
- 32:22Speaker 2: It does appear though that at this point they're in
- 32:25Speaker 2: the final stages of the bidding. And the guy that
- 32:30Speaker 2: owns the Detroit Pistons, is it Tom Gores?
- 32:33Speaker 1: Is that his name?
- 32:34Speaker 2: He looks like he spent a lot of time getting
- 32:36Speaker 2: sun tan. Yeah, And so the Pistons owner, and there's
- 32:41Speaker 2: three others investors, three other investors who are neck and
- 32:47Speaker 2: neck the final bidders to buy the Podres, to buy
- 32:53Speaker 2: the Padres, and so the guy from the Pistons. I
- 32:56Speaker 2: believe one of the Golden State Warriors owners is also
- 33:00Speaker 2: oh part of that or a part of a different
- 33:03Speaker 2: group who's trying to buy the Padres. Joe Lacomb is
- 33:08Speaker 2: his name us out there? But I think Tom Gores
- 33:13Speaker 2: is the leading they're saying he's the leading contender, and
- 33:16Speaker 2: and Joe lakeb is part of a different group. Someone
- 33:19Speaker 2: named Josef Alice, y'all know, I have no idea who
- 33:22Speaker 2: that is. And Dan Friedkin, I have no idea who
- 33:24Speaker 2: that is. I just know they're richer than me, and
- 33:26Speaker 2: they can buy and sell me. That's all I know.
- 33:29Speaker 2: And they were also the finals. So one of those people,
- 33:31Speaker 2: one of those groups will end up owning the Padres.
- 33:34Speaker 2: So and then they'll go back to when I was
- 33:36Speaker 2: in San Diego starting out in radio, and they'll have
- 33:39Speaker 2: buy it, buy the cheapest ticket. I used to go
- 33:41Speaker 2: when I when I worked in San Diego radio, I
- 33:43Speaker 2: would buy the cheapest ticket. The Padres had these fire sales,
- 33:47Speaker 2: they get rid of all their good plays. They alway
- 33:48Speaker 2: kept Tony Gwynn and Bip Roberts. That was about it.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Second basement, like a speedy second basement bit Roberts, and
- 33:56Speaker 2: I'd buy the the most or the least expensive ticket.
- 33:59Speaker 2: I'd sit right behind which you ever dug out I wanted.
- 34:01Speaker 2: And they used to have these Thursday Businessman special games.
- 34:04Speaker 2: It was great, such fond memories. I just was great,
- 34:07Speaker 2: ran the ball with the putters terrible, but it was a
- 34:09Speaker 2: lot of fun, a lot of fun.
- 34:11Speaker 1: We have mallardly third degree Mallard of the.
- 34:13Speaker 2: Third degree that'll be coming up in a little bit
- 34:17Speaker 2: time now though for the Insta trivia. As we lean
- 34:20Speaker 2: into that, Yankee Giants game. Not much of a game,
- 34:23Speaker 2: but here's the Insta tribute. So Aaron Judge, congratulations, Aaron.
- 34:28Speaker 2: You became just the second Yankee player to go hitless
- 34:32Speaker 2: with four or more strikeouts on opening Day. It's only
- 34:36Speaker 2: happened one other time in Yankee history on opening Day.
- 34:38Speaker 2: Aaron Judge became just the second Yankee player to go
- 34:41Speaker 2: hitless with four or more strikeouts.
- 34:44Speaker 1: On opening day. Blank is the only other Bronx bomber
- 34:49Speaker 1: to do it. That is the.
- 34:51Speaker 2: Install trivia with Mallard of the third degree right around
- 34:56Speaker 2: the corner.
- 34:57Speaker 1: We'll get to that and we will do next.
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- 36:16Speaker 1: check it out.
- 36:20Speaker 2: Back to it time now for the somewhat popular Insta
- 36:24Speaker 2: trivia Eirin Judge just the second Yankee.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Player to go hit list with four or more strikeouts
- 36:31Speaker 1: on opening day.
- 36:33Speaker 8: Blank is the only other, the only other Bronx bomber
- 36:39Speaker 8: to have such a dreadful, such a dreadful.
- 36:44Speaker 1: Opening day in a Yankee history.
- 36:47Speaker 2: Let's see, does anyone know the correct answer? We do
- 36:50Speaker 2: have Mallard the third Degree coming up. Flanders guests by
- 36:52Speaker 2: Ya fee Me Bob Ross. A happy mistake there from
- 36:58Speaker 2: Alf the Alien Opineer, Willie Fisterbottom from Random, Ryan and
- 37:02Speaker 2: Carolina Boogey Boogety Boogie, Danny Tanner from Rob the goat Man,
- 37:07Speaker 2: Bobby Keyline Pop Bobby and Flora's going with Alan Dershowitz,
- 37:11Speaker 2: Dylan McKay from ferg Dog.
- 37:13Speaker 1: Let's see who else do we have?
- 37:15Speaker 2: Jill the Yankee fan from Shane in Des Moines. Fat
- 37:19Speaker 2: Joe guests by Eloy from Compton Analog Album, Babe Ruth,
- 37:23Speaker 2: James Gandal Foeni from Eileen in San Francisco, Don Mattingly
- 37:26Speaker 2: from Jason Paul.
- 37:28Speaker 1: Went with Reggie Jackson.
- 37:29Speaker 2: What do you say, quick, Gray, I'm Pamela Anderson legend,
- 37:33Speaker 2: but no and also not Stump Merril guests by Bay
- 37:36Speaker 2: City Tony. The correct answer Oswaldo Cabrera just a few
- 37:41Speaker 2: years ago in twenty twenty three, Aaron Judge and as
- 37:44Speaker 2: Waldo Cabrera, Here we go, Here we.
- 37:46Speaker 1: Go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
- 37:47Speaker 5: Smeller, how about that to the third degree? This is
- 37:52Speaker 5: one big fan gets grilled cool.
- 37:57Speaker 4: Earlier this week, Victor webbin Yama gave reporters three reason
- 38:00Speaker 4: why he should be NBA MVP. They were that fifty
- 38:03Speaker 4: percent of the game is defense, their record against the
- 38:06Speaker 4: Thunder and his overall impact on offense.
- 38:08Speaker 1: Ben will Wemby win MVP.
- 38:11Speaker 2: Well, he will win many MVPs in his career. He
- 38:13Speaker 2: will not win the MVP this year, although there's only
- 38:16Speaker 2: a few games to go in the NBA seasons. I
- 38:18Speaker 2: think Shaye Jogis, Alexander a Jalen Brown, Wemby are all
- 38:22Speaker 2: a neck and neck and know Lucas getting some late
- 38:25Speaker 2: love here, but he will now he's not gonna win
- 38:27Speaker 2: it this year.
- 38:27Speaker 1: Next.
- 38:28Speaker 4: Speaking of winning MVP, Cad Cunningham's collapse lung will likely
- 38:31Speaker 4: cause him to fall short of the newly required sixty
- 38:33Speaker 4: five game mark to be eligible for season awards. This
- 38:36Speaker 4: has caused the NBA Players Association to demand that the
- 38:39Speaker 4: league either abolishes or reforms the rule. Ben, do you
- 38:42Speaker 4: think the league will get rid of the requirement?
- 38:45Speaker 1: No, they shouldn't get rid of it the players.
- 38:48Speaker 2: If you can't play sixty five games, you should not
- 38:50Speaker 2: be the MVP.
- 38:51Speaker 1: This is not that hard. Everyone's having a hissy fit.
- 38:54Speaker 1: You're a bunch of losers.
- 38:56Speaker 2: Okay, how about you show up to work at Maron's
- 38:59Speaker 2: next It's.
- 39:00Speaker 4: Been twenty years since Artie Marino decided that the team
- 39:03Speaker 4: would be known as the Los Angeles Angels rather than
- 39:05Speaker 4: Anaheim Angels.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Marketing move. Yeah.
- 39:08Speaker 4: An assemblyman has introduced legislation that could require any sale
- 39:11Speaker 4: or new lease of stadium property to be conditioned upon
- 39:13Speaker 4: the team reverting back to the Anaheim Angels name, Ben,
- 39:16Speaker 4: you think it'll happen, Well.
- 39:18Speaker 2: I don't know how that legally is allowed. Like, I
- 39:20Speaker 2: don't think that's legally allowed. Or they should be called like.
- 39:23Speaker 1: The Orange County Angels or something like the OC Angels
- 39:26Speaker 1: or something like that.
- 39:26Speaker 5: I don't know that.
- 39:27Speaker 1: This is stupid. How do we do? Koobolo? You pass
- 39:29Speaker 1: this decision?
- 39:30Speaker 2: That is they went putting it on the barn
- 39:35Speaker 1: Chicken, Da da