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- 0:32Speaker 1: We go to Mowtown, Mowtown and down and bye bye,
- 0:38Speaker 1: see you later. The Tigers doing a very nice mitzvah
- 0:42Speaker 1: for the Dodgers over the weekend. Tremendous big story. Everyone's
- 0:46Speaker 1: talking about this. The Los Angeles Dodgers really suffering this year,
- 0:51Speaker 1: having a bad season, got swept by the Red Sox
- 0:55Speaker 1: at home, playing like a Coast League team, Pacific Coast
- 0:59Speaker 1: League team, and so the Dodgers went out they needed
- 1:02Speaker 1: some help. They went out to the Tigers and said,
- 1:04Speaker 1: can we have your two time al Cy Young winner?
- 1:08Speaker 1: And the Tigers said sure. In fact, don't even give
- 1:11Speaker 1: us that. Anybody really that good. We don't need anything good.
- 1:13Speaker 1: We're the Tigers. And the Dodgers said, okay, we'll let's
- 1:17Speaker 1: do that. Let's make that happen. And so it happened,
- 1:19Speaker 1: and Trek Scooble goes from the Tigers to the Dodgers.
- 1:24Speaker 1: They say it's a blockbuster trade. However, the Tigers didn't
- 1:27Speaker 1: really get much in return. So how's it a blockbuster trade?
- 1:30Speaker 1: If you didn't see it, perhaps not the Detroit Tigers.
- 1:34Speaker 1: The headline return is an outfielder names I ear hope.
- 1:38Speaker 1: You gotta have hope, You gotta have hope. I don't
- 1:42Speaker 1: know who the hell that is? The number five prospect.
- 1:45Speaker 1: I love that. And there's nothing I love more than
- 1:47Speaker 1: hot prospect talk. All you nerds, you love it? Yea?
- 1:51Speaker 1: All get turned on by little prospects, don't you. Yes,
- 1:54Speaker 1: So the number five prospect. And they also got a
- 1:58Speaker 1: couple of other players, players, fringe major league players like
- 2:02Speaker 1: River Ryan. That sounds like a porn name, River Ryan.
- 2:06Speaker 1: And he might be better at that than playing baseball
- 2:10Speaker 1: because all he does is get hurt. River Ryan. So
- 2:13Speaker 1: he was included in the transaction, and Schooble instantly sent
- 2:18Speaker 1: shock waves around the baseball world. Here and he gives
- 2:22Speaker 1: the Dodgers one of the most dominant pitchers in recent years,
- 2:26Speaker 1: A front line, king of the hill, a number one
- 2:30Speaker 1: starting pitcher as the Dodgers, much like a butterball turkey
- 2:34Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving, fatten up before October, building the roster. And
- 2:40Speaker 1: today is our Monday show, and today happens to be
- 2:42Speaker 1: the trade deadline. As tik tik tik tik tik tik
- 2:46Speaker 1: tik tik, tick tick tick, the clock running down. If
- 2:49Speaker 1: anything happens, we are up all night here with live
- 2:53Speaker 1: team coverage, and I'm looking in our newsroom. I'm looking
- 2:56Speaker 1: right down there. They're fast asleeping. There their ghosts. Actually
- 3:00Speaker 1: there's no newsroom. He everybody talking about. But we will
- 3:02Speaker 1: have you covered. Don't worry. We got you covered all
- 3:04Speaker 1: night long here. If anything happens, we will give it
- 3:07Speaker 1: to you before anyone else here, because everyone else is lazy,
- 3:10Speaker 1: and so the only catches. Trek Scooble is a pending
- 3:15Speaker 1: free agent at the end of the year. But there
- 3:17Speaker 1: won't be baseball next year, or at least part of
- 3:19Speaker 1: the year. So that's a issue for another day and
- 3:22Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
- 3:27Speaker 1: how do you grade the Trek Schouble trade from the
- 3:32Speaker 1: Tigers to the Dodgers. So we need to grade all
- 3:37Speaker 1: parties involved, all parties involved. So I've got tax deductible
- 3:41Speaker 1: Dyson and congressional subpoena, and we'll combine all of these
- 3:47Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make a bucket
- 3:51Speaker 1: of tears. This has been the greatest couple of days.
- 3:55Speaker 1: You idiots, you're also stupid. I love it. You morons,
- 4:00Speaker 1: just keep Crying's not fair. Boo, what a bunch of losers,
- 4:07Speaker 1: What a bunch of losers. I love it. It has
- 4:10Speaker 1: been hilarious to watch the reaction. There are so many
- 4:13Speaker 1: weak people, and I hope you're not one of them
- 4:16Speaker 1: that just have this defeatist attitude. It's embarrassing for you,
- 4:21Speaker 1: it's embarrassing for your parents, it's embarrassing if everyone involved.
- 4:25Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. Now ask for the trade Malor report card.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Time on the Trek Schooble trade from the Tigers to
- 4:32Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Let's break out the red pen on this one,
- 4:35Speaker 1: and the Malord score card reads the Detroit Tigers appropriate enough,
- 4:40Speaker 1: get a D. At least it's an old English D
- 4:43Speaker 1: for the Detroit Tigers, as they weren't gonna pay the man.
- 4:49Speaker 1: They didn't want to pay the man, so if you
- 4:51Speaker 1: don't want to pay the man, you gotta get rid
- 4:52Speaker 1: of the man. They refuse to give him a contract
- 4:56Speaker 1: that would not meet the reserve price at the auction.
- 4:59Speaker 1: The auction house said, well, you got to meet the
- 5:01Speaker 1: reserve probably, Well, we're not going to meet the reserve
- 5:02Speaker 1: press okay, fine scruples being auctioned. Tigers didn't want to
- 5:06Speaker 1: pay him, so see you later. And it was not
- 5:09Speaker 1: a trade per se was It really was a donation
- 5:12Speaker 1: situation by the Detroit Tigers, A nice tax deductible donation.
- 5:17Speaker 1: You'll thank the Tigers when they have to fill out
- 5:20Speaker 1: taxes and when tax day comes around here, that tax
- 5:24Speaker 1: deduction goes to the Detroit Tigers Charitable Foundation. So very
- 5:29Speaker 1: nice of them. Prospects for the poor in this case,
- 5:34Speaker 1: the pathetic, My goodness. Sure. So Detroit is only three
- 5:40Speaker 1: games back of the time they made the move, There
- 5:42Speaker 1: were three games back of the wild card in the
- 5:46Speaker 1: American League. But you know what that means under five hundred,
- 5:51Speaker 1: and when you're under five hundred, you are a contender.
- 5:55Speaker 1: You are a faux contender. You're a faux contender, is
- 6:00Speaker 1: what you are. And as for the return that the
- 6:04Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers got back the return. Every prospect, every single
- 6:10Speaker 1: fin prospect, and I've heard about since I was a kid.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Every one of these prospects is treated like bitcoin in
- 6:17Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, right, all hype, no reality, and they're all
- 6:22Speaker 1: over hyped. A prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise.
- 6:26Speaker 1: And so who cares now, la, And I'm listen, I'm
- 6:29Speaker 1: not going to be mister rah Rod Dodger guy because
- 6:32Speaker 1: they banned me over there, the Dodgers. They'll get in
- 6:35Speaker 1: a plus plus plus on the Malard scorecard. That's for
- 6:40Speaker 1: those of you in the back of the room not
- 6:41Speaker 1: paying attention, picking you no stop that that's disgusting. A
- 6:45Speaker 1: plus plus plus for the Dodgers. And this is what
- 6:48Speaker 1: the great teams do. The Dodgers of the ultimate team
- 6:53Speaker 1: living in the goldilocks own right now. Here's stories about
- 6:55Speaker 1: those Yankee teams back in the day and how they
- 6:57Speaker 1: just kept winning, and say, oh, man, are obviously different
- 7:01Speaker 1: back in those days. But the Dodgers right now, they
- 7:03Speaker 1: are in the goldilock zone. Even their problems have solutions,
- 7:09Speaker 1: and they operate kind of like Amazon operates. At this
- 7:12Speaker 1: particular point. They don't care what it costs it doesn't matter.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Just do what you have to do. And it's nice
- 7:18Speaker 1: when you get teams like they're Tigers who are on
- 7:21Speaker 1: board and they're like, hey, we'll help you out. Why not,
- 7:24Speaker 1: let's do it. Okay, sounds good Detroit, the Ewoks and
- 7:29Speaker 1: the Dodgers, the evil Empire. Dude, dude, yeah, the whole thing.
- 7:35Speaker 1: So they just casually added the Dodgers over the weekend
- 7:38Speaker 1: a Thermo nuclear warhead and they added that to the
- 7:43Speaker 1: inner galactical arms race of the baseball trade deadline. Here,
- 7:48Speaker 1: it's like a side dish in Musso and Franks. They
- 7:50Speaker 1: just added some potatoes, some rice or something like that there,
- 7:54Speaker 1: and the happy days keep on going. The happy days
- 7:57Speaker 1: keep on going for the Dodgers. Now page two here,
- 8:01Speaker 1: So the move, let's talk about the visceral reaction, which
- 8:05Speaker 1: is still ongoing. We are in the middle of this
- 8:08Speaker 1: visceral reaction from the dingle berries that are out there, right,
- 8:12Speaker 1: they absolute dingle berries amongst us here hyperventilating. Oh it's
- 8:17Speaker 1: not right. Oh, my goodness, I'm never watching baseball again.
- 8:22Speaker 1: It's not fair. My god, get a grip, you freaking morons,
- 8:29Speaker 1: my goodness. All right, So the question what do you
- 8:33Speaker 1: say to the people, and that may be you. What
- 8:38Speaker 1: do you say to the people who claim the Trek
- 8:41Speaker 1: Scooble trade shows that Dodgers have run baseball. It's not right.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Baseball's ruin. Yeah, you pearl clutching lunatics. How do you
- 8:53Speaker 1: live your life seriously? Right? You're clutching pearls over a
- 8:58Speaker 1: baseball trade. And your team could have made the trade.
- 9:04Speaker 1: Yankee Braves, or Brewers or Phillies any they could have
- 9:07Speaker 1: made the same exact trade. You didn't make the trade.
- 9:10Speaker 1: You could have, You should have, you would have. You
- 9:13Speaker 1: didn't make the trade. The Dodgers didn't do this alone.
- 9:17Speaker 1: And that's the part many of you are too stupid
- 9:19Speaker 1: to understand. The Dodgers did not do this alone. Okay, uh,
- 9:23Speaker 1: this was not done in a Dison vacuum cleaner. It
- 9:25Speaker 1: was not. It takes two to tango. Last I checked
- 9:28Speaker 1: here and so Detroit. They had options. They could have
- 9:32Speaker 1: gone and said all right, we'll trade school to the Yankees,
- 9:35Speaker 1: could have gone to the brew Crew. They had bids
- 9:38Speaker 1: in the Phillies if they wanted them, could have gotten
- 9:40Speaker 1: them the Atlanta Braves and a bunch of other teams
- 9:44Speaker 1: that are in contention, and they made proposals the Tigers
- 9:49Speaker 1: unless the Dodgers put a gun to the head of
- 9:51Speaker 1: the front office. The Tigers said, okay, we'll take the
- 9:54Speaker 1: sloppy Joe's from la Is. That's what we want. We
- 9:57Speaker 1: want to sloppy Joe's. And so they or not the Tigers,
- 10:01Speaker 1: last I checked, they were not brainwashed. They weren't hypnotized
- 10:05Speaker 1: by the lawyers. They said, yes, that's what we want.
- 10:09Speaker 1: That is what we would like. We would like to
- 10:11Speaker 1: get the super villains and help them out. Give them
- 10:14Speaker 1: our best player. Sounds good. Now, the best of us
- 10:17Speaker 1: means as good as all the rest. We know that's
- 10:19Speaker 1: not quite true. So blame the people that actually did it.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Blame them, Blame their asses, Blame the ones that did it.
- 10:25Speaker 1: It's not the Dodgers. It's not the Dodgers. It's the
- 10:28Speaker 1: team that has the old English tea, the Tigers. That's
- 10:31Speaker 1: the team right there. Detroit made a business decision. Is
- 10:34Speaker 1: it a bad business decision? Now, there's a theory that
- 10:37Speaker 1: Scooba wanted to go play for the Dodgers, and so
- 10:39Speaker 1: the Tigers did him a solid. They did him. Hey,
- 10:42Speaker 1: you know a way to go. We like you helped
- 10:44Speaker 1: us out. You want some Saion awards, so we'll do
- 10:46Speaker 1: it good for you and send you out to LA.
- 10:49Speaker 1: But whatever the case, right, bad business is still business.
- 10:53Speaker 1: It's still business. That's the way it is. So the
- 10:55Speaker 1: Tigers gift wrapped Terrek Schooble, and you should be upset.
- 11:01Speaker 1: You should be upset if you're you're a Tiger fan
- 11:03Speaker 1: because you didn't get seemingly much in return. If you're
- 11:06Speaker 1: a fan of another team, then just look at the
- 11:09Speaker 1: gift rapping there and be upset about that if you want.
- 11:12Speaker 1: But it's I believe it's a net positive. As we've maintained,
- 11:16Speaker 1: baseball needs villains. The Dodgers are the villains, and it's
- 11:20Speaker 1: fricking great. They lead baseball and road attendants, they lead
- 11:24Speaker 1: baseball and home attendants. Everyone said, I've never watching baseball
- 11:27Speaker 1: again because the Dodgers. Well, you're all a bunch of liars.
- 11:30Speaker 1: Because if either that or there's so many other people
- 11:32Speaker 1: that want to watch, you don't matter. You're irrelevant. You're
- 11:35Speaker 1: a grain of sand on the beach. Get out of here,
- 11:38Speaker 1: because the Dodgers are hot, and that's where it's at.
- 11:42Speaker 1: And the Dodgers go out there and just by doing
- 11:46Speaker 1: this with every team supplied, apparently wishes they could have
- 11:49Speaker 1: Terrek Scubl here. The Dodgers become the quinn essential w
- 11:55Speaker 1: WE soiling. You get the heels and the pretty boys, right,
- 11:59Speaker 1: and the baby faces, and you got the Dodgers out there,
- 12:02Speaker 1: who are the heels. Every great story needs a heel,
- 12:06Speaker 1: and the Dodgers of that. The villains are the ones
- 12:08Speaker 1: that feed the algorithm. And that's what the Dodgers are
- 12:12Speaker 1: in this. And the louder the booze boom boom boom
- 12:14Speaker 1: boom boom boom, the louder the boast, the bigger the
- 12:18Speaker 1: box office baby, and the bigger the ratings and all
- 12:21Speaker 1: that stuff. And so the fact that the Dodgers go
- 12:24Speaker 1: out there, now this will guarantee you they go they
- 12:26Speaker 1: go out and somehow choke this away. All right, the
- 12:29Speaker 1: primal scream, the absolute primal scream, will will be over
- 12:35Speaker 1: the top, right, it will listen. Boo hoo hoo. The
- 12:41Speaker 1: twenty nine other fan bases complaining, well, really not twenty nine,
- 12:45Speaker 1: because there's like fifteen teams in baseball. They aren't even
- 12:47Speaker 1: really trying. How we doing Rockies, U A's Angels. Teams
- 12:54Speaker 1: like that the yeah, the primal scream will happen if
- 12:57Speaker 1: the Dodgers don't win, and then you'll get this or
- 13:01Speaker 1: gasmic bliss from everyone. Oh it's so great that it's
- 13:06Speaker 1: kind of like when the Miami Heat lost to the
- 13:08Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks when they had Lebron and Wade and Bosh
- 13:11Speaker 1: and they gagged against the Mavericks with Dirk Novinski. The joy,
- 13:16Speaker 1: the pure joy that so many people had. That'll be
- 13:19Speaker 1: the same baseball version of that. And so it will
- 13:24Speaker 1: be biblical to Dodgers not win. And if they win,
- 13:26Speaker 1: it's great because everyone will be complaining, Oh didn't watch Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
- 13:31Speaker 1: So to the haters out there, I say, Philly is
- 13:36Speaker 1: what I say. Capital Pay Philly is what I say.
- 13:39Speaker 1: All right now, last word. So the Internet has decided.
- 13:43Speaker 1: The Interweb has decided that Listen twenty twenty six is
- 13:49Speaker 1: all over and turn out the last. It's all done
- 13:54Speaker 1: with the party. So it's last I checked. It's early August.
- 13:59Speaker 1: It's trade deadline day in Major League Baseball, and they
- 14:04Speaker 1: should just hand out the piece of metal now and
- 14:06Speaker 1: commence with the Workstop it. That's the mindset of these Neanderthals.
- 14:11Speaker 1: That's the mindset right there. Again, they were raised by
- 14:15Speaker 1: poor parents who did not teach them the fighting spirit
- 14:19Speaker 1: of competition, and the bigger they are, the harder they fall,
- 14:23Speaker 1: and how sweet it would be. A team will become
- 14:26Speaker 1: legends immediately if they beat the Dodgers in the playoffs
- 14:30Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. So here's the other question, and
- 14:33Speaker 1: really the bottom line question. Does adding trek Schouble to
- 14:37Speaker 1: the front of the Dodger rotation wrap things up for
- 14:41Speaker 1: the World Series? Now? For the Dodgers, does this wrap
- 14:44Speaker 1: things up? So? On the way I answer is on
- 14:47Speaker 1: a simulation, you're like, oh, yeah, sure, why not they win? Okay, fine,
- 14:52Speaker 1: all that, but you don't. Unfortunately, you don't win titles
- 14:56Speaker 1: by winning the transaction. Unfortunately. I know this is you
- 15:00Speaker 1: might be dazed and confused by this, but you actually
- 15:02Speaker 1: still have to play the games. And Scooball could go
- 15:05Speaker 1: out his first start as a Dodger and have snap
- 15:07Speaker 1: crackle pop and be done for the season. You know,
- 15:11Speaker 1: these pitchers are fragile, and scoop Ball was already hurt
- 15:14Speaker 1: earlier this year. For the Tigers, there's no guarantee even
- 15:17Speaker 1: plays the whole way. For the Tigers, for the Dodgers
- 15:20Speaker 1: coming over from the Tigers. So that there's the injury
- 15:23Speaker 1: factor and the fact that baseball continues to be a
- 15:27Speaker 1: weak link sport. Even the big bed Blue crew. They
- 15:32Speaker 1: needed a home run from a guy that sucks in
- 15:35Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas against Toronto. He blows. Not a very good
- 15:38Speaker 1: baseball player, but he a big home run. And that
- 15:40Speaker 1: is the baseball at his essence is it's a weak
- 15:44Speaker 1: link sport. You need a stiff like like Miguel Rojas
- 15:48Speaker 1: to hit home run, just like the you know, as
- 15:51Speaker 1: much as Otani and those guys, you need Rojas. And
- 15:54Speaker 1: that's the way it works. And so Scooble, he doesn't
- 15:57Speaker 1: guarantee anything. Does it look better? Sure, look, but you
- 16:00Speaker 1: look at your tablet. You're like, man, that's great. My
- 16:02Speaker 1: eyeballs are popping out of my head and that's really
- 16:04Speaker 1: cool and all that, and it makes it harder to
- 16:07Speaker 1: screw things up when you have Schooble in your rotation. Again,
- 16:11Speaker 1: it doesn't guarantee a Diddley squat, you know, Didley squad.
- 16:17Speaker 1: And that's it. And we will address the copy barra,
- 16:20Speaker 1: the kappy bar in the room here when you talk
- 16:23Speaker 1: about this and and the people that say, well, the
- 16:25Speaker 1: Dodgers didn't really need Schooble, this is a luxury add on,
- 16:29Speaker 1: they didn't really need him and all that stuff. Well
- 16:32Speaker 1: to that, my rebuttal is counsel. My rebuttal is you
- 16:36Speaker 1: don't know ball. Because all the wins the Dodgers got,
- 16:39Speaker 1: they got their ass kicked by the Red Sox this weekend.
- 16:41Speaker 1: But all the wins the Dodgers are put up, all
- 16:44Speaker 1: of them scoople. Not a luxury, a necessity, not a
- 16:49Speaker 1: bar necessity, but a necessity. And here's why. If you
- 16:53Speaker 1: look behind Yoshinobu Yamamoto and that Dodger rotation, it is
- 16:58Speaker 1: a house of cards. Show is damage goods on the mound.
- 17:03Speaker 1: Blake Snell, don't get me started on Blakeson. Bro. I
- 17:05Speaker 1: ain't pitching unless I get mine, Bro, I'm risking my life.
- 17:08Speaker 3: Bro.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Yeah, Blake Snell, that schmuck king of all schmucks. Blake
- 17:13Speaker 1: Snell and Tyler Glass. Now who's not as annoying, But
- 17:17Speaker 1: they're mono a modo, these two. I can't say what
- 17:20Speaker 1: I want to say. Malingering, malingering Tyler Snell and Tyler Glass.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Now they got paid and the Dodgers got played. Who
- 17:30Speaker 1: could have told them to stay away, especially from Blake Snell.
- 17:33Speaker 1: My god, these guys are basically twitch streamers and who
- 17:37Speaker 1: occasionally pitch, and very infrequently do they pitch, these two guys. So,
- 17:43Speaker 1: now with Yamamoto at the top and you've got schooball,
- 17:46Speaker 1: the Dodgers have that lethal one to two punch going
- 17:50Speaker 1: into a playoff situation, a two man congressional subpoena, if
- 17:55Speaker 1: you will, for the Dodgers. And they haven't clinched anything.
- 18:00Speaker 1: We know that, and the only thing I guess, the
- 18:03Speaker 1: only thing they've really wrapped up is more talk radio segments.
- 18:07Speaker 1: There'll be a lot of talk radio segments and a
- 18:09Speaker 1: lot of trending topics on social media. And that's it.
- 18:13Speaker 1: And now they have to go out there and not
- 18:15Speaker 1: ride the vomit comet and win the third one and
- 18:19Speaker 1: next time they play in a couple of years, whenever
- 18:21Speaker 1: they can win a fourth in a row.
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- 19:04Speaker 1: Some new whispers about the future of Toe n row Mo. Yes,
- 19:10Speaker 1: the driving wal boozing incident heard around the Western world,
- 19:15Speaker 1: around the Western world. If you've not heard the latest
- 19:18Speaker 1: developments over the weekend, perhaps not sumis well. This happened
- 19:23Speaker 1: back on Friday. CBS removing Tony Romo from the lead
- 19:27Speaker 1: NFL broadcast team after initially showing support for Romo. He
- 19:31Speaker 1: is currently on hiatus. He's on a sabbatical from the
- 19:35Speaker 1: CBS booth with JJ Watt the Golden Boy, jj Watt
- 19:41Speaker 1: stepping into the number one analyst role alongside Jim Nance
- 19:47Speaker 1: as a Romo is out on leave and I'm sure
- 19:51Speaker 1: he'll go get some therapy. Mayor Tiger Woods got therapy.
- 19:54Speaker 1: He went somewhere on a did he go to a bed?
- 19:57Speaker 1: And breakfast somewhere in Europe to get his alcohol therapy
- 20:00Speaker 1: I think so yes, or medication therapy. Where's Romo gonna go?
- 20:03Speaker 1: Can Coon gonna get a little alcohol therapy in CanCon? No?
- 20:07Speaker 1: How about south of France? Anything there? Okay, we'll see Burma.
- 20:11Speaker 1: Can he go to Burma? How about Bora Bora? Romo
- 20:14Speaker 1: in Bora Bora? Who says no? Anyway? So that's where
- 20:18Speaker 1: we are. The word making the rounds over the weekend,
- 20:22Speaker 1: the media Insider Nerds Media Insider Nerds claiming that CBS
- 20:29Speaker 1: is having some internal issues. There are factions that are
- 20:34Speaker 1: done done dne with Romo. It is not universal, and
- 20:40Speaker 1: the concern is now do we get rid of him?
- 20:42Speaker 1: Because there are people that love Romo and think he's
- 20:44Speaker 1: great and want to keep him. There's others that think, eh,
- 20:47Speaker 1: we can do better. And we paid him a lot
- 20:49Speaker 1: of money. He's not living up to the contract and
- 20:52Speaker 1: so there's some internal strife over there. And this also
- 20:57Speaker 1: is set up for a massive lead brew ha ha,
- 21:02Speaker 1: a massive legal brew haha. We're talking about as much
- 21:06Speaker 1: as seventy plus million. That's a lot of pesos seventy
- 21:12Speaker 1: plus million remaining on Tony Romo's contract after the network
- 21:17Speaker 1: placed him on indefinite leave over the weekend. So that
- 21:21Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question,
- 21:26Speaker 1: what are the odds? Give me the odds that Tony
- 21:29Speaker 1: Romo is out, that he loses his cushy no show
- 21:33Speaker 1: job at CBS calling NFL games all because of his
- 21:39Speaker 1: documented arrest in Wisconsin for boozing around. So I've got Billboard,
- 21:45Speaker 1: Hot one hundred, Gondola, and hot pocket, and we will
- 21:52Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we're going to
- 21:57Speaker 1: have some ice water, because you gotta have ice water
- 22:00Speaker 1: in your veins. Ice water in your veins when you're
- 22:03Speaker 1: Tony Romo right now. So number jump the gun number
- 22:08Speaker 1: on there we go. See you gotta wait for the
- 22:12Speaker 1: one and practice. Okay, let's try it. Number one number.
- 22:19Speaker 1: So I'm gonna set the Malard Sportsbook odds on this
- 22:22Speaker 1: at minus one fifty minus one fifty that Tony Romo
- 22:28Speaker 1: is Gonzo, like the Muppet Gonzo. That gives him a
- 22:33Speaker 1: sixty percent chance that his ass is grass at CBS.
- 22:38Speaker 1: So it's sixty forty split. This is the opportunity if
- 22:42Speaker 1: CBS truly does have internal issues with Romo which I'm
- 22:46Speaker 1: skeptical of. That's the reporting. If you buy that this
- 22:49Speaker 1: is the opportunity to put Romo into the portal, the
- 22:52Speaker 1: transfer portal, and get out of it. Now do they
- 22:55Speaker 1: do that? Do they use the transfer portal and have
- 22:59Speaker 1: CBS calling a professional having Romo called professional wrestling somewhere else?
- 23:04Speaker 1: If he's out now he completely blew up the whole
- 23:08Speaker 1: America's nice guy image thing. That the narrative that CBS
- 23:13Speaker 1: had spent what eight years, over eight years manufacturing about
- 23:18Speaker 1: Romo and all this stuff. Now, he was mostly polite,
- 23:22Speaker 1: he didn't want to contact his lawyer when he got
- 23:24Speaker 1: pulled over, well hammered, it would appear he was very nice.
- 23:28Speaker 1: But it's pretty simple here. You don't get hammered drive
- 23:33Speaker 1: then apparently lie to the police and expect them to
- 23:36Speaker 1: say at CBS, so you know, accidents, mistakes happened. That
- 23:42Speaker 1: this is that now, so both you there are again
- 23:44Speaker 1: there are some CBS brass. This is the reporting that
- 23:48Speaker 1: think that Romo is lazy. He doesn't prepare for the broadcast,
- 23:53Speaker 1: he just shows up, doesn't do his homework. And now
- 23:56Speaker 1: you can add on to that a raging alcoholic and
- 23:59Speaker 1: a liar and a seventy two million dollar liability. All right,
- 24:04Speaker 1: So in Romo's golf lingo, that is what you call
- 24:08Speaker 1: a quadruple bogie. That's a quadruple bogie, which is I
- 24:12Speaker 1: don't think good. Now, Romo's golden parachute, and what a
- 24:15Speaker 1: golden parachute it is. Just got the factory recall notice
- 24:19Speaker 1: which is not good from the manufacturer that Golden Forever
- 24:23Speaker 1: contract that he signed over at CBS. So he told
- 24:28Speaker 1: the cops that he was visiting his grandparents. It's now
- 24:30Speaker 1: been confirmed that all four of his grandparents are across
- 24:35Speaker 1: the Pearly Gates. So unless Romo was planning to cross
- 24:37Speaker 1: over the Great Beyond or possibly go to I don't know,
- 24:41Speaker 1: the cemetery in Wisconsin to see his grandparents. I don't
- 24:44Speaker 1: think his babushka was going to give him a thing
- 24:47Speaker 1: of vodka from the graveyard, but what do I know.
- 24:50Speaker 1: That would be quite the story if the babushka said,
- 24:52Speaker 1: you know, I've been dead for about ten years, but
- 24:53Speaker 1: I'm gonna hook you up, Tony. I got a great
- 24:56Speaker 1: bartender here at the cemetery and we're going to take
- 24:58Speaker 1: care of you. Boy. That would be great, and that'd
- 25:00Speaker 1: be fun at night when the cemetery is all dark
- 25:02Speaker 1: and they just pass out boost all the dead people,
- 25:03Speaker 1: and they called drink there and have a great time.
- 25:05Speaker 1: That'd be wonderful. It would be absolutely good. So unless
- 25:08Speaker 1: the lawyer can prove and Romo's lawyered up, unless the
- 25:11Speaker 1: lawyers can prove that he was again driving to see
- 25:14Speaker 1: Grandma and Grandpa's graves, he's pretty much porked on the
- 25:19Speaker 1: morals claus which every contract has, every single one of
- 25:24Speaker 1: these contracts, the standard boilerplate contract. I've worked in the
- 25:29Speaker 1: entertainment business for many, many years, and every contract I've signed,
- 25:32Speaker 1: whether it's here at Fox or CBS or the NBC
- 25:35Speaker 1: rather where I worked a couple of times, or other places,
- 25:39Speaker 1: it's all the same. There's all the standard moral clause
- 25:41Speaker 1: contract language which is just written by one law firm
- 25:45Speaker 1: in New York and then given to all the other lawyers.
- 25:47Speaker 1: And it's the same birth basic thing that they put
- 25:50Speaker 1: into all these contracts. So Romo, it would appear if
- 25:55Speaker 1: you don't like Romo, he crossed the line. In fact,
- 25:57Speaker 1: he didn't just cross the line. He pulled vaulted over
- 26:01Speaker 1: the line, and he held onto his beer and didn't
- 26:04Speaker 1: even spill anything. That's pretty impressive, right, I mean it's
- 26:09Speaker 1: right over the pole vault thing, and that's it. Now,
- 26:12Speaker 1: it's not all bad news. It's not all bad news
- 26:15Speaker 1: for Tony Romo. Here Romo is now the inspiration around
- 26:20Speaker 1: the music nation for Bosha's updated Billboard Hot one hundred
- 26:26Speaker 1: hit Cruising and Boozing Morals clause mix. It's, of course
- 26:32Speaker 1: a continuation of the classic song. This is the new version.
- 26:36Speaker 1: It's Cruising and Boozing by Bosher. CBS can if they want,
- 26:42Speaker 1: they can ditch the Blockbuster contract, get rid of that Romo.
- 26:47Speaker 1: The lawyer will help at this point, based on the
- 26:50Speaker 1: video evidence and whatnot. It's more like a divine intervention situation.
- 26:56Speaker 1: So there you go, all right now. Meanwhile, to the
- 26:59Speaker 1: video game world, more outrage caused by a freaking video game.
- 27:03Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? You bloody morons? What's wrong with you? Well?
- 27:07Speaker 1: EA Sports in hot water in the game, well, apparently
- 27:11Speaker 1: out of the game, as they're getting a lot of pushback,
- 27:13Speaker 1: a lot of blowback. I don't if you saw this
- 27:16Speaker 1: or not good story. So EA Sports recently sparking a major,
- 27:21Speaker 1: major brushfire, major backlash after ranking the reigning Super Bowl
- 27:27Speaker 1: champions of the National Football League. Those Seattle Seahawks as
- 27:31Speaker 1: just the tenth tenth best team in Madden NFL twenty seven,
- 27:37Speaker 1: number ten, number ten. That's it. Despite Seattle entering the
- 27:44Speaker 1: season with that championship roster, that hangover, that glow the
- 27:50Speaker 1: whole thing. Yeah, Seattle received an eighty four overall team rating.
- 27:55Speaker 1: We are told that Trails Division rivals you can arrame
- 28:01Speaker 1: at all day and you can Arram at all night
- 28:03Speaker 1: by seven points. And the Seahawks are not just behind
- 28:07Speaker 1: the Rams, they trail a total of four NFC teams overall.
- 28:12Speaker 1: So Seattle got the bling bling, and yet you look
- 28:17Speaker 1: at it and you're like, well, according to this, they're
- 28:19Speaker 1: the fourth ranked team in the National Football Conference. The
- 28:24Speaker 1: controversy also worsening as EA's social media team sent out
- 28:31Speaker 1: a graphic recently where they made a mistake in mentioning
- 28:37Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, and the mistake was they didn't sell
- 28:40Speaker 1: They didn't spell the Seahawks correctly. They spelled it sea
- 28:45Speaker 1: wha wkas, which is not anywhere close to how you
- 28:50Speaker 1: would spell Seahawks. Like, I'm not that good at spelling,
- 28:54Speaker 1: and we all are not great at spelling, because we
- 28:56Speaker 1: have this thing called spell check on our smartphones and
- 28:58Speaker 1: things like that. Even I know how to spell Seahawks there.
- 29:01Speaker 1: And so of course this led to disrespect. You don't
- 29:05Speaker 1: respect the champions of the NFL. How dare you? How
- 29:09Speaker 1: dare you that? Aldit pointing many pointing on. The Seattle
- 29:15Speaker 1: franchise finished last season by defeating the forty nine ers
- 29:20Speaker 1: in the division round, the Rams they got helped for that,
- 29:22Speaker 1: and then the Patriots. Yet Madden still ranked all three
- 29:26Speaker 1: ahead of the Seahawks in the latest game. So the
- 29:31Speaker 1: question for the esteem panel, the question for the esteam panel,
- 29:36Speaker 1: the Seahawks being ranked a tenth best team on Madden
- 29:40Speaker 1: NFL twenty seven. Is this unfair? Is it unfit? At
- 29:45Speaker 1: EA Sports crossed the line? Is this unfair what they
- 29:49Speaker 1: did here? So, after a minutes long deliberation and review
- 29:53Speaker 1: of the available information, we have determined the court of
- 29:56Speaker 1: Ben Malach Show, the court of the Ben Males Show,
- 29:57Speaker 1: is determined that yes, ees, did they go full ac
- 30:01Speaker 1: DC here? Yes they did, and I love it, big balls,
- 30:04Speaker 1: no apologies. They went ac DC, big balls, no apology,
- 30:10Speaker 1: And Seattle being ranked tenp is not unfair. According to
- 30:14Speaker 1: the Court of Mallar. It is not unfair. It is
- 30:18Speaker 1: a RC situation, not the cola that would be a
- 30:22Speaker 1: reality check. A reality check. Seattle fans can file formal
- 30:27Speaker 1: complaints with the Department of Imaginary Grievances. However, however, Madden
- 30:35Speaker 1: is just a lighthouse. All it is is like a
- 30:38Speaker 1: lighthouse in Maine, guiding the twelves, guiding the twelves away
- 30:44Speaker 1: from the rocks of delusion. Stay way, stair way, stair way,
- 30:49Speaker 1: stay away from the rocks of thelus. The Super Bowl
- 30:53Speaker 1: run of last football season by the Seattle Seahawks, that
- 30:58Speaker 1: is what's known as a glitch. It was a glitch,
- 31:02Speaker 1: That's what happened. Remember that fugazy two point conversion that
- 31:07Speaker 1: was handed erroneously during a TV timeout. During a TV
- 31:11Speaker 1: timeout to Seattle, the Seahawks did not climb Mount Everest.
- 31:18Speaker 1: They took the gondola, is what they did. And the
- 31:21Speaker 1: people at EA Sports had the intestinal fortitude to point
- 31:26Speaker 1: that out. Winning that Super Bowl was the sporting equivalent
- 31:33Speaker 1: of you know how you like your iPhone will auto
- 31:35Speaker 1: correct turning meh into magnificent. That's essentially what happened here, right.
- 31:42Speaker 1: They didn't build a fortress in the Pacific Northwest. They
- 31:46Speaker 1: built the kiosk is what they built, that's all. And
- 31:49Speaker 1: even the village idiot wins Bingo. Even the village idiot
- 31:53Speaker 1: wins Bingo when the machine jams and they just congratulations,
- 31:56Speaker 1: you're a winner at Bengo. Way to go. So, yes,
- 32:00Speaker 1: Sports did not come to lick the toes of the
- 32:03Speaker 1: fans of the Seattle Seahawks. There the rating is actually
- 32:07Speaker 1: a PSA. It's a public service announcement. It's not unfair,
- 32:11Speaker 1: it's accurate. That's about where the Seahawks are. They don't
- 32:14Speaker 1: have a good quarterback, Sam Darnold's a stiff. Nobody wants them.
- 32:17Speaker 1: They don't have many name brand players around that team.
- 32:20Speaker 1: And so that's where you are. You're at number ten.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Enjoy your number ten.
- 32:25Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
- 32:27Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
- 32:32Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of money. Hell, do you have what it
- 32:37Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably not.
- 32:41Speaker 1: And right to the game we go. We say Viva Mexico,
- 32:45Speaker 1: and we say hello to Mike who is in Mexico. Hello, Mike, Welcome,
- 32:52Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Well, it's good to know. Your
- 32:54Speaker 1: phone sounds like you're in Mexico, so that's solid. It
- 32:57Speaker 1: wasn't like that before. But do you go on speakerphone?
- 32:59Speaker 1: Take it off speaker speak? All right, all right, and
- 33:02Speaker 1: what part of Mexico are you in? Mike, Mexico? Moo, Mexico. Monterey,
- 33:08Speaker 1: Mexico are beautiful. And Mike, what do you do you're
- 33:11Speaker 1: working there? What are you doing there?
- 33:14Speaker 4: Uh?
- 33:14Speaker 1: No, I work in the US.
- 33:15Speaker 2: I'm on.
- 33:16Speaker 1: Uh, I guess sure, well I live in Mexico.
- 33:19Speaker 2: I'm off work right now though.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Oh cool? All right, well, very thanks for calling in.
- 33:23Speaker 1: Let's have you play the game you want to play
- 33:24Speaker 1: with me, Ben Cooper, if you really want a good
- 33:26Speaker 1: time lorainer. Uh, I'll go with you. Ben. I need
- 33:33Speaker 1: a little more excitement, Mike, I need Wow.
- 33:35Speaker 4: I couldn't say Loraina, but I don't know if that's
- 33:37Speaker 4: a good idea.
- 33:38Speaker 1: It's not. It's the worst idea. Yeah, we don't have
- 33:42Speaker 1: I do a bit. I don't have time to do
- 33:44Speaker 1: the bit, so we'll just move on. Okay, hold on
- 33:45Speaker 1: a sec, Mike, you are going to play, and don't
- 33:48Speaker 1: hang up. Don't hang up, don't hang up. In Monterey, Mexico,
- 33:51Speaker 1: and we have Tyler in Boston. Who's gonna play. Hello Tyler,
- 33:54Speaker 1: Tyler's a regular. Hello, Tyler, Welcome Mona, Benny sound excited?
- 34:00Speaker 1: Did you just wake up? I'm out my wadwork, so
- 34:04Speaker 1: you just woke up? Okay, but I got you. It's okay.
- 34:08Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with?
- 34:10Speaker 4: There?
- 34:10Speaker 1: Tyler? I think, manop, we're going to take you down again.
- 34:13Speaker 1: That's right. Of course, we are not going to happen
- 34:16Speaker 1: at all, so we'll lock you in. And we've got
- 34:18Speaker 1: Mike and Monterey Mexico.
- 34:19Speaker 4: All right, cool board, all right, and gentlemen, this is
- 34:21Speaker 4: the Barack Obama edition of Malerd's Amount of Money. He
- 34:24Speaker 4: turns sixty five years old today. Yes we can, No,
- 34:28Speaker 4: you can't, you're sixty five. The categories are Aloha, the
- 34:33Speaker 4: Windy City, Yes we can, and forty fourth President, Mike, which.
- 34:39Speaker 1: Category would you like? Wendy City? Wendy City? All right?
- 34:43Speaker 1: And Tyler, how about you? Forty fourth president? All right? Fourth? Alright?
- 34:49Speaker 4: Mike and Ben, you guys are up first, Okay, which
- 34:53Speaker 4: will we picked? Wendy City?
- 34:54Speaker 1: That's correct, right. These athletes, here we go, Mike and Moderate.
- 34:57Speaker 1: These athletes made a name for themselves Chicago. Are you ready, Mike,
- 35:02Speaker 1: I'm ready. All right, here we go. First and last
- 35:05Speaker 1: name are required forty five seconds on the scoreboard. Please,
- 35:08Speaker 1: and here we go. His Airness for the Bulls. Michael
- 35:12Speaker 1: Jordan's all right. It was neck and neck with Mark
- 35:16Speaker 1: McGuire in the Great Home Run. Yes, his last name
- 35:21Speaker 1: is like a flower for the Chicago Bulls. He won
- 35:23Speaker 1: an MVP Award in Chicago and then got hurt guard.
- 35:28Speaker 1: Yes that is correct, linebacker, white guy from New Mexico,
- 35:32Speaker 1: Look at you. His nickname was Sweetness for the Bears
- 35:36Speaker 1: in the seventies and the eighties. And Runner, Yes, greatest
- 35:40Speaker 1: second basement in Cubs history. Died at a young age.
- 35:46Speaker 1: What's his first name? Come on, say it? A hockey player.
- 35:50Speaker 1: His other his kid was named Brett. Damn it? Technically
- 35:56Speaker 1: just one then, right? Yeah? Ryan Sandberg, Ryan Sambering Are no, no,
- 36:04Speaker 1: I think you should get.
- 36:07Speaker 4: Hundred and sixty parts. All right, Tyler, here's where we dominate.
- 36:11Speaker 4: Our category is forty fourth. President.
- 36:13Speaker 1: You're not getting the eighty point one he's getting.
- 36:15Speaker 4: These athletes all wore number forty four. Are you ready, Tyler?
- 36:20Speaker 1: Hey, don't choke Tyler? All right? Don't choke. Let's get
- 36:24Speaker 1: choke Tyler, all right.
- 36:26Speaker 4: He was the home run leader before Barry Bonds. Hey, yes,
- 36:32Speaker 4: this guy is the logo of the NBA.
- 36:34Speaker 1: Jerry West. Yes, mister October red Shack. Yes.
- 36:39Speaker 4: Uh, this guy's named the Diesel fullback for the Washington Redskins.
- 36:43Speaker 4: Can't say that, all right. This guy's nickname was Iceman
- 36:49Speaker 4: on the Spurs. Yes, this guy was a running back
- 36:52Speaker 4: for the Denver Broncos. He's in the Hall of Fame.
- 36:55Speaker 4: Chanced Nope, another one before him?
- 36:59Speaker 1: Are all right? Let's skip it.
- 37:00Speaker 4: This guy was a slugger for the reds His nickname
- 37:03Speaker 4: was Big Donkey. Yeah, a good one. All right, this
- 37:09Speaker 4: we'll go back to the Okay, I know you won't.
- 37:12Speaker 1: All right. No one knows who Floyd Little is.
- 37:14Speaker 4: Unfortunately, John Riggins was the other one that you should
- 37:19Speaker 4: have gotten.
- 37:19Speaker 1: Riggins. Yeah, what was that what they did? Twenty to twenty? Okay,
- 37:24Speaker 1: that means we get to go again. Mike in Monterey, Mexico.
- 37:27Speaker 1: We've got what we have, yes, sweet Cane and Aloha Aloha?
- 37:35Speaker 1: All right, Aloha means goodbye. These athletes were all born
- 37:38Speaker 1: in Hawaii. E are you ready? Mike in Monterey megg
- 37:43Speaker 1: All right, here we go, first and last name. Forty
- 37:45Speaker 1: five seconds on the scoreboard, and here we go. Quarterback
- 37:48Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. He's now on the Atlanta Falcon. Yes,
- 37:51Speaker 1: that is correct. It was the second pick in the
- 37:53Speaker 1: draft out of Oregon. Was a Heisman guy for the
- 37:57Speaker 1: Oregon Docks. He's bounced around as a backup in the NFL.
- 38:00Speaker 1: He's on Washington lately oh Man, all right, line Yes,
- 38:07Speaker 1: linebacker with the fake dead girlfriend for Notre Dame. Yes,
- 38:12Speaker 1: a pitcher for the Mets in the nineteen eighties. He's
- 38:14Speaker 1: a broadcaster now. His last name is like something you'd
- 38:17Speaker 1: say to a hot girl. No, all right, UFC fighter,
- 38:24Speaker 1: nickname blessed, kind of, he says, blessed m m A
- 38:28Speaker 1: won some chat? All right, club with lake shut off.
- 38:33Speaker 1: Nobody knows who Max Holloway is. Just beat Color McGregor, Look, Mike,
- 38:39Speaker 1: do you watch UFC? All right?
- 38:41Speaker 4: Uh, Tyler, let's go. Yes, we don't choke. He's a
- 38:44Speaker 4: big underdogs that overcame the odds. Yes, forty five seconds,
- 38:47Speaker 4: this begin, all right. He's the younger brothers Peyton. Don't choke,
- 38:51Speaker 4: don't choke.
- 38:52Speaker 1: Yeah, my life, it's a live name. His name is
- 38:56Speaker 1: a live show. That is not his name. That is Elison,
- 39:01Speaker 1: that is not his legal name. It is Elijah, that
- 39:04Speaker 1: is his name. That is a disqualification. We win, Mik
- 39:07Speaker 1: in moderay, we win, win, a win, and what a