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Hour 2- Lane Kiffin is in TROUBLE · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's do the Mallarmumbo. It's our number two. And the
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  Speaker 1: return of Benny versus the Penny to radio here in
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  Speaker 1: our number two. How exciting is that? Also, what are
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  Speaker 1: the odds that the Southeastern Conference kicks Lane Kiffin and
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  Speaker 1: LSU out of said conference for flirting with bounce-back NFL players?
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  Speaker 1: They're actually going to have a vote on this. In
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  Speaker 1: the coming days, we'll talk about that. A-Rod says he
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  Speaker 1: We're going to change it up a little bit. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to start with this story. I'm fascinated by the
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  Speaker 1: story in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. So LSU, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you saw this or not. This is bonkers. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: effing bonkers. So LSU is facing a meeting on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: among the Southeastern Conference presidents and chancellors. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: have a vote on Thursday. So today's Wednesday. That would
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  Speaker 1: be tomorrow. And from what we're told, there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a vote on Thursday on whether or not to
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  Speaker 1: terminate the school's conference membership. All of this over a
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  Speaker 1: fight over former NFL players returning to college. Now, it
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  Speaker 1: is interesting to note that LSU did finalize their roster
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  Speaker 1: at 105 players, and the NFL bounce-back players were not
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  Speaker 1: on the roster, although you can certainly change the roster
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  Speaker 1: as you go forward. So if you didn't see this,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Next level. You talk about the legend of Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 1: You imagine if LSU gets kicked out of the Southeastern
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  Speaker 1: Conference because of Lane Kiffin? My God. So anyway, at best,
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  Speaker 1: we're hearing there'll be a significant punishment for both the
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  Speaker 1: school and the coach. They will be a vote, though.
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  Speaker 1: You need a two-thirds vote from what we're reading here
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  Speaker 1: to kick LSU, Louisiana State University, out. of the Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question for the esteemed panel, which you are a
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  Speaker 1: part of. So what are the odds? What are the
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  Speaker 1: odds that the Southeastern Conference gives the boot to Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin and LSU, kicks them out of the conference for
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  Speaker 1: flirting with bounce-back NFL players? So I've got Snapple, Williamsburg Bridge,
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  Speaker 1: and Pinwheel. And we'll combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to scream into the night is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do, just like they're doing right
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  Speaker 1: now at the U.S. Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium there
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  Speaker 1: in Queens. They're screaming into the night as tennis keeps
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  Speaker 1: going on and on and on. And all the rich
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  Speaker 1: celebrities get shot on television. Not shot, but they're shown
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  Speaker 1: on TV. Is that Kevin Hart? I believe Kevin Hart there. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh. Kevin, it's past your bedtime, Kevin. It's 3
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. What are you doing? It's a bad
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  Speaker 1: job of you. All right, so to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: what are the odds that the SEC kicks LSU and
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin out of the conference? They have a meeting
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for Thursday. There will be a vote taking place.
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  Speaker 1: So we go right to the Malarods. The Malarods, Sarray says...
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  Speaker 1: Plus 4,800. What does that mean in layman's terms? That
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  Speaker 1: implies a 2% chance. A 2% chance. Now, the SEC
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  Speaker 1: is threatening. Expulsion. As in, crank up the band. La, la, la, la. La, la, la, la.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, hey.
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  Speaker 1: Goodbye. Just like that. All right. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the way I would describe this. It's like apparently
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  Speaker 1: everyone had this happen when they were a kid. I
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  Speaker 1: had it happen to me. Everyone I know has had
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  Speaker 1: this happen. I'm sure it happened to you. You're going
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  Speaker 1: on a family road trip. You got mom and dad
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  Speaker 1: or maybe just dad or maybe just mom or somebody else,
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  Speaker 1: your guardian, whoever, in the car, driving along, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
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  Speaker 1: You're annoying the F out of your parents. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the parents says, one more time and we are
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  Speaker 1: turning the car around. Yeah. Yeah, Mama Maller used to
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  Speaker 1: say that quite a bit in three boys. It was
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  Speaker 1: middle child. We had a lot of testosterone, and nobody
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  Speaker 1: ever turned the car around. Never happened. Never happened. You'd
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  Speaker 1: be better off, if you think LSU's getting kicked out
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  Speaker 1: of the Southeastern Conference, you would be better off betting
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  Speaker 1: on McDonald's getting rid of the Big Mac and replacing
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  Speaker 1: the Big Mac with steamed kale. Hey, can I get
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  Speaker 1: the Big Mac? No, we don't have the Big Mac. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what do you have instead? Well, we've got this steamed
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  Speaker 1: kale thing. Well, who wants that? Nobody wants that. You're
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  Speaker 1: not going to go to a drive-thru for steamed kale.
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  Speaker 1: Have you lost your bloody mind?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Or it's like the Southeastern Conference presidents and chantlers voluntarily,
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  Speaker 1: voluntarily saying, you know, we don't need all that television money.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to be greedy. Why don't we give
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  Speaker 1: some back? Let's give some back to the TV people.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need all that money. Good luck. This is
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  Speaker 1: performative outrage with a conference logo stitched to the polo.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. And they don't want LSU gone, the Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 1: They want LSU scared. That's what they want. They want
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  Speaker 1: them scared. They want them fined. They want humiliation, a
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  Speaker 1: little publicly humiliated time for LSU. That's what they want.
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  Speaker 1: And then what's going to happen? I've seen this play
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  Speaker 1: out in my head here, and I'm never wrong. A
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  Speaker 1: distant relative of Nostradamus, friend of Nostradamus. So then they'll
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  Speaker 1: call it unprecedented accountability is what they're going to call it,
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  Speaker 1: which I believe is corporate gobbledygook for please stop asking questions.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's accurate. Just don't ask any questions. So
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  Speaker 1: LSU is like the Southeastern Conference's pebble in the shoe.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a pebble that delivers pretty good TV ratings,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes monster TV ratings, and bags and bags of cashola.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of matters, right? That kind of matters. So
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  Speaker 1: the SEC has a love-hate relationship. They used to make
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  Speaker 1: these things called rom-coms back in the day. Usually rom-coms
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  Speaker 1: were always about love-hate, you know, the girl hates the guy.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's a loser, and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: they fall in love. That's SEC-LSU. Right now SEC hates LSU,
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  Speaker 1: but LSU's the bad boy. They kind of get into
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  Speaker 1: the whole bad boy act and all that stuff. There
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  Speaker 1: you go. Love-hate relationship with LSU. They hate the headaches.
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  Speaker 1: They love the juice. They can't get enough of the juice.
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  Speaker 1: LSU is the Snapple of college football. occasionally it gets
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  Speaker 1: a little sticky. Frequently it's messy. And they do bring it.
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  Speaker 1: They bring that, as we said, they bring the juice
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  Speaker 1: like Snapple. You spill Snapple, it gets all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Looking into the Oracle, and you got to get an
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  Speaker 1: Oracle if you have an overnight talk show. We have
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  Speaker 1: an Oracle, Benny's Oracle, and Lane Kiffin, here's what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. He is going to get suspended. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason Lane's going to be suspended is because somebody has
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  Speaker 1: to be the ceremonial head that the SEC's medieval spike
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  Speaker 1: hits into. And that's going to be Lane Kiffin there.
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  Speaker 1: They have to have a pound of flesh. So they'll
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  Speaker 1: suspend Lane Kiffin. And the punishment, though, here's where they
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  Speaker 1: have to thread a needle. And this is where it
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  Speaker 1: gets a little messy. Because they want to punish Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin for being Lane Kiffin. The issue is the punishment
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  Speaker 1: has to be carefully calibrated, and here's why. They want
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  Speaker 1: to get the headlines. They want to get the attention
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  Speaker 1: that they're disciplined. They're bringing down LSU, bringing down Lane Kiffin. However,
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  Speaker 1: the punishment has to be small enough not to damage
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  Speaker 1: their television pals over there at ABC. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: And the very important date is not LSU's next game.
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  Speaker 1: I believe they play Louisiana Tech, I think, is who
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  Speaker 1: they have next. It's the game after that. It's the
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  Speaker 1: third game of the season for LSU that matters, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the one. That's the game against Ole Miss made
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  Speaker 1: for TV. You think ESPN, ABC want that shot of
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  Speaker 1: the lane train rolling in there down from Baton Rouge
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  Speaker 1: to Oxford, Mississippi, and lane public enemy number one there
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  Speaker 1: and all that? The SEC doesn't want a divorce game.
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  Speaker 1: From LSU, they just want LSU to sleep on the
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  Speaker 1: couch for a little while. So you either suspend Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin for one game, or if you suspend him for
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  Speaker 1: multiple games, you give him the opportunity to appeal. You
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you don't hear the appeal until after
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  Speaker 1: LSU plays Ole Miss. You see what I'm saying there?
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  Speaker 1: All right. Meanwhile, to the Bronx. That's right, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to baseball. What kind of baseball? Alex Rodriguez, better known
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  Speaker 1: by his gangster name A-Rod. So A-Rod says that he
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  Speaker 1: does not expect the New York Yankees to invite him
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  Speaker 1: back to Yankee Stadium for future old-timer day events, even
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  Speaker 1: though he was one of the more prolific offensive Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Asked whether or not he would attend, A-Rod said bluntly, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I'll get invited back, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a choice. Close quote. Now, Rodriguez stressing that he
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  Speaker 1: has a affection for the franchise. It says he loves
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees and their fans. I thought he was a
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  Speaker 1: Mets fan growing up. Anyway, A-Rod did attend the old-timers
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  Speaker 1: day at Yankee Stadium in 2024. However, that was only
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  Speaker 1: because they honored the 15th anniversary of the 09 Yankee
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  Speaker 1: World Championship, the last time the Yankees won. They have sucked.
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  Speaker 1: For so many years, the Yankees. How embarrassing. They have
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  Speaker 1: not won since 2009. Oh, my God. They're not going
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  Speaker 1: to win this year. I don't know. Is Judge the
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  Speaker 1: new Don Mattingly? Aaron Judge the new Don Mattingly? Boy,
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  Speaker 1: that comeback went great last night. 0-3 against one of
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  Speaker 1: the worst teams in baseball, the Rockies. A couple of
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  Speaker 1: strikeouts there. Judge is in midseason form. Looked like Giancarlo
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  Speaker 1: Stanton coming back from the injury. So the question regarding A-Rod.
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  Speaker 1: A-Rod says he doesn't expect to be welcomed back to
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  Speaker 1: the Yankee family. How does that strike you? From Alex Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 1: So A-Rod is starring in a remake of that classic film,
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  Speaker 1: Dazed and Confused. And having somehow confused being a great
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  Speaker 1: Yankee with being a beloved Yankee. Because he was very productive, A-Rod,
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  Speaker 1: as a Yankee. Was he beloved? No. So what did
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  Speaker 1: A-Rod think? What did he think was going to happen
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  Speaker 1: after going nuclear and fighting everybody? He wanted to fight everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You know that drunk guy that goes in there and
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  Speaker 1: the angry drunk that wants to fight everyone at the bar?
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  Speaker 1: That's A-Rod. That was A-Rod when all that stuff was
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  Speaker 1: going down back in the day. And so he's not
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  Speaker 1: being blackballed, per se. There's some people who say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: A-Rod's being blackballed. No. He's simply experiencing the consequences of
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  Speaker 1: his own behavior. And it's not because of the PEDs.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting to note, some say, well, he's a PED cheat. No,
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  Speaker 1: baseball's welcome back to PED cheats. They like him, except
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. The baseball writers, they'll only put
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  Speaker 1: certain PED cheats in, and the other guys aren't. A-Rod's
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  Speaker 1: on the naughty list, so he doesn't get in. Clemens
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get in. Bonds, those guys can't get in. McGuire
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  Speaker 1: and Sosa. But there's other guys, David Ortiz and others
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  Speaker 1: that were in that world, and they're in the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. They don't have a problem with those guys
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  Speaker 1: being in the Hall of Fame, right? Why not? There's
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  Speaker 1: a cheating a-hole in there. Carlos Beltran, cheating Astro. They
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  Speaker 1: got a cheater in the Hall of Fame, right? Come
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  Speaker 1: on now. So you got all that. He would have
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  Speaker 1: been fine. A-Rod would have been fine. Just the PD thing.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees, here's my evidence. They love Andy Pettit, who's
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  Speaker 1: a steroid cheat. Andy Pettit's a steroid. They love Andy Pettit.
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  Speaker 1: They bring Andy Pettit back. It was the litigation situation
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  Speaker 1: that torpedoed Alex Rodriguez's relationship here. He sued Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: More importantly, he sued the Yankees team doctor. a team physician,
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  Speaker 1: those two moves by Alex Rodriguez were lung penetrating toxins
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  Speaker 1: when he did that. And instead of just kind of
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  Speaker 1: going along with the flow and all that, he decided,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go pyro. I'm going to burn the
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  Speaker 1: Williamsburg Bridge, and I'm going to pour gasoline on the ashes,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll complain I don't have a way back.
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  Speaker 1: Because the bridge is now in the water and you've
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  Speaker 1: ruined the bridge and all that. And that's that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: sports writers, of course, often demand, the sports media elites,
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  Speaker 1: they demand that you have to forgive your sports stars.
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  Speaker 1: You have to forgive them. And no matter how miserable
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: those people made the teams they played for, you have
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  Speaker 1: to forgive the star athlete. That's kind of the rule.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a classic carnival trip for A-Rod. You
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  Speaker 1: play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. And the Steinbrenner family,
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  Speaker 1: they're not very good owners, but they're continuing to hold
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  Speaker 1: the grudge against A-Rod. That's one thing they're doing. All right,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: final point. To the expansion game we go. And oh, Canada,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: could we see in our lifetimes the return, like the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: phoenix rising from the ashes, of the Montreal Expos? Could
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the Expos be back in Major League Baseball? Well, Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball planning expansion and the story bouncing around more
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  Speaker 1: than 20 years after they were decommissioned to become the
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  Speaker 1: Washington Nationals' A very wealthy Canadian mogul who runs an
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  Speaker 1: internet video company, someone you've never heard of, is assembling Voltron,
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  Speaker 1: a group of investors, to bring baseball back to Montreal.
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  Speaker 1: The Major League Baseball ownership, according to one of the
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  Speaker 1: panelists who's involved in this, they say that Montreal is
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  Speaker 1: a team, quote, worthy of, or city, worthy of monitoring,
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  Speaker 1: Montreal is. because of the demographics and the baseball history,
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  Speaker 1: they say. Now, expansion is gearing up. The Rays got
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  Speaker 1: a ballpark agreement in the Tampa area, so they're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a new stadium. The Athletics are moving to
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas. We were just in Vegas. They are building
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  Speaker 1: a stadium. In fact, a couple of our boys, at
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  Speaker 1: least one of them, doing the electricity right there in
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  Speaker 1: the stadium as he listens. They work at night because
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  Speaker 1: it's too hot to work during the day, and they're
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  Speaker 1: putting the electricity in that stadium right now. and listening
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  Speaker 1: to our show. So Rob Manfraub, the commissioner and clown
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  Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball, Rob Manford wants two expansion cities.
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  Speaker 1: Selected before he's out in 2029. And he's said to
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  Speaker 1: be the sixth leading candidate. There are six leading candidates.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Montreal, Salt Lake City, Nashville, Raleigh, Orlando, and Portland, Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the six leading candidates to be expansion teams.
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  Speaker 1: They want one in the east and one in the west.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: That's what they want. All right, so... The question, how
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: much of the Montreal expansion chatter, the push for expansion,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: how much of this is legitimate business? It's a good opportunity.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: And how much of this is nostalgia doing the heavy lifting?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: So we activated the Maller think tank on this one
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to fix baseball's expansion, obsession, dilemma, and all that. And
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: while baseball hunts for new markets, here's the Maller plan.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Like Miami's operating a franchise there like it's a pop-up
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: spirit Halloween store, the way they're operating there. So I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: have a simple solution using the Maller think tank here.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: You move the Marlins. You don't excommunicate the Marlins. You
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: move the Marlins out of Miami, and you move the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Marlins to Canada. Oh, Canada. And then that franchise, the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Marlins transition, and they become the new team. You scrub
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: off the fishy smell from the Marlins, and you start
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: over again. You have that solution. You unplug the freezer,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and the Expos have been sitting next to Ted Williams'
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: head for the last 20-plus years there. cryogenically frozen freezer there.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: And after two decades, you bring them back to life.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: And Montreal, the biggest obstacle is not interest. If they
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: built a downtown ballpark, one of these typical beautiful downtown ballparks, granted,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: it'd probably have to have a roof. But if you
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: build that, they will show up. That's not the problem.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: The fans of Montreal, I believe, will show up. The
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: problem is convincing 29 billionaires that You know, Canada's the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: way to go. Well, we should keep it in America.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: There's more money in America and all that. But I
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: say bring the Expos back. That's what I say. Why not?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: And you can have Yuppie return, Yuppie freelancing for all
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: these years with the Montreal Canadiens, the Habs. He's been
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: there long enough. Bring back that fat orange lunatic. Back
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to Expo games. Enemy of the late, great Tommy Lasorda.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Bring Yuppie back. Bring back the red, white, and blue
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: pinwheel hat, that classic Montreal Expo hat with the red, white,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and blue and the Expo's logo. And you can even
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: have Vladimir Guerrero wearing Senior, throw out the first pitch
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: from 340 feet away out in the outfield. You can
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: have that. Bring back Tim Wallach and Andre Dawson and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: all the legends of Montreal baseball. Now, as far as
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the expansion is concerned, we used the Mallard think tank
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: for that. Here are the cities that are going to
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: get expansion teams. Salt Lake City. We can call them
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the Jell-O Belts. We're going to call them the Salt
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Lake Jell-O Belts. It's a unique name. Nobody can be
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: offended by Jell-O, I think. And why not? I have
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: a six-foot-tall mascot named Wiggles for the Jell-O Belts. As
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you know, Utah, because they don't drink much in Utah,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: so it's the state with the highest per capita consumption
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: of Jell-O is Utah. They consume, I think in the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: entire world, they have more Jell-O in Utah than than
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: anywhere else. And now I would also give Nashville the team.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And I thought, well, instead of just calling the Nashville, whatever,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you know what a cool name would be? The music
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: city diddies, right? Like, isn't that good?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: No, can't use diddy. No, no, no, no. I don't
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: mean no, no, no, no. I know you're, you'd say,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I knew you would say that. I knew you would
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: complain about that, but no diddies with a T not
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a P not like P diddy, you know, uh, like
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: a song, like a diddy, you know, a song, it's
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a country music town, you know, diddy, you know, No?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I guess they'd be canceled for that name. That would suck.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: You come out of the bullpen, you have to sign
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a waiver for royalties or something like that. It's the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: whole thing. So the Mallard plan. Montreal gets the Marlins.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And the good thing is nobody in Miami will care
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: because nobody goes to those games anyway. And then Nashville,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: they get a team. And that would break some razzle-dazzle.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And then you've got Salt Lake City. You can call
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: them the Jell-O. Everyone wins. And that would be a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: rival for the Rockies. They don't have any rivalry there
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: in Colorado. There's no rival there. It is the Ben
• 23:57
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• 24:04
  Speaker 1: this hour, Benny versus the Penny returns. We also have
• 24:07
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• 24:10
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• 24:13
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• 24:16
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• 26:37
  Speaker 1: have live sports. And after 3.30 in the morning in
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the Big Apple. This is wild. And we're closing in
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: on an upset here at the U.S. Open. Carlos Alcaraz
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: losing in the final set to an American. Brandon will
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: update on the tennis when it ends here. Brandon's the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: tennis guy. He says it's almost over. So it's exciting.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And they say that New York's the city that never
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: sleeps and all that, which is bull crap. The only
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: thing open, my brother lives in the city, the only
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: thing open at night is like the bodegas. You get
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: turkey sandwich. There's not many bodegas left because they're all
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: weed shops now. A lot of them are weed shops.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Not a lot open. What's a bodega? It's like a deli.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: You've never been to New York?
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: No?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: It's like a deli. Well, no, it's a store that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: sells like knickknacks. I was going to say, does it
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: sell like purses and earrings? It's kind of like a 7-Eleven,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: but with a sandwich thing. They sell like hoagies and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: all that. He won! Who is he?
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Ben Shelton won.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Ben Shelton, your big winner. How about that? USA, USA.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I'm wrapping myself in a flag right now. Ben Shelton. America.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Ben Shelton. How pissed are those broadcasters? They had to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: stay till 3.30 in the morning there.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: What a night.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: And a decent amount of people in that stadium. But
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: there you go. So Ben Shelton, the winner of that match.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And so they just might as well stay up all night.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Why not? Don't go to bed. It's already 3.30 there.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Just listen to our show. Oh, look at that. There's
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: love right there. Wow, I was watching the wrong guy
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: play the whole time. I thought it was the longer-haired guy.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: It's the shorter-haired guy?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Oops.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Getting some love there from some woman. Yeah, he is.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I hope that's not his sister because they were giving
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: kiss signs and all that. So I hope that's not.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I heard that's someone's daughter. That's Dennis Rodman's daughter. Dennis
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Rodman's daughter. Oh, Dennis Rodman's daughter. That's his girlfriend, yeah. Really? Yeah,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: she's also an athlete. Is that right? Yeah. Boy, Rodman,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, that guy. Look at that. Knucklehead that guy was.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I was around him. He was the weirdest dude. Anyway, well,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: everyone knows he's weird. I don't need to tell that.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. It is the Ben Maller Show.
• 28:52
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• 28:53
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• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And Lorena, FSR Tech Queen.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Hi, Bill.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Don't talk to me. And you can hear Brandon there, Mr. Tennis.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: giving us tennis updates. You can find Brandon on the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: X Machine at BSD Takes. And why don't we get
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to Benny versus the Penny real quick, then we'll take
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: some calls. Yes, that sounds good. All right, here we go.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Welcome, players.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: You're welcome.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Are you up for more Malheur Mayhem?
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah!
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: It's time now. Benny versus the Penny.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Back on radio where it all started. And we'll do
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the Wednesday night game. The Wednesday night game here. You've
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: got the New England Patriots Roadshow taking on the Seattle
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Seahawks on DraftKings. The Patriots are an underdog. And Seattle
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: favored by three points at home. It was four points.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: It was three and a half. As of right now,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the line is three for Seattle favored. Now, the wise
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: guys in this game, the Sharps, are leaning towards the Patriots.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: The public betting heavier on the Seattle Seahawks. based on
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the information that we have as doing Benny versus the Penny.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: And so you've got the rematch of the Super Bowl
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: back in February, Super Bowl LX, which we know Seattle
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: won not much of a great Super Bowl there. And
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: this is the rare Wednesday night game at Lumen Field.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I believe that's the corporate sponsor these days for the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Seahawks stadium there as the 12s will be out. And
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: survey says, I'm going to take the Patriots here. The
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Patriots are going to cover the spread. I'll take the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: three points here. It'll be a low-scoring physical game. Well, no,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: we're not flipping the penny yet. Well, you're prematurely flipping
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the penny. Oh, my bad. I don't know when to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: flip it. That's a bad job by you. I'll say,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: knock that flip out. You don't need that flip. All right.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Very good. Yes. So here's the key of the game.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: We call this the breakdown arena, the game breakdown here.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: This is a very important part of Benny versus the penny.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: So we'll clean this up in post. Don't worry. We'll
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: clean this up in post. So early in the season,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: typically takes a little while to get the engine started.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: So low scoring, physical game. And the Patriots will be
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: plays to be made with A.J. Brown. There's some injuries
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to the running game for the Patriots. But Ramondre Stevenson,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: et cetera, all that. Seattle's secondary is not very good.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: So I would think A.J. Brown and Drake May should
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: have some fun here against a weakling. Seattle's secondary is
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: so bad. How bad are they? They signed a dude
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: facing life in prison. That's how bad they are. I mean,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: you've got to suck to do that. And so as
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: far as the home field and all that, Lumen Field,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the 12-man, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They're going to
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: have the banner-raising ceremony tomorrow. So it's up to the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: New England defense. But the good news is I'm not
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: convinced that Sam Darnold has killed all of his demons.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I think there's still ghosts out there. So if you
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: can disrupt the run, limit Jackson Smith and Jigba, and
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Seahawks offense is all that great.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Patriots under Mike Rabel have, and just Rabel going back
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to his days in Tennessee, I know he's a little
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: different coach now because of all the canoodling with Diana Rossini.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: But Vrabel's been great in prime time in his career,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: 16-8 against the spread since 2018. Also, if you look
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: at Vrabel straight up as an underdog of three points
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: or more since 2018, he's got a winning record as
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: a dog in that spot. So, again, I'm going to
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: take the Patriots. I don't need the points, but I'm
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: going to take the points. And that Sam Darnold, what
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: are you thinking moments going to happen there? as the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: glass slipper breaks. And now we can flip the penny,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: and let's find out. Brandon, you are in the chair
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: representing the Pennies. Flip the penny in the air everywhere. Now,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the way this works, if you're new to Benny vs.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the Penny, the last couple years been on TV, heads
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and tails, obviously. Tails is the road team. Heads is
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the home team. So let's flip it up in the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: air everywhere. Here we go. And, Brandon, who is the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: penny picking? The road team.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Tails.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Do you know who the road team is? The Patriots?
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: We're still talking Patriots here, right? Am I tripping?
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I just was seeing if anyone was paying attention because
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm the only one. Yes, the New
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: England Patriots. All right. Well, this is a fine, smooth
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: oil operation.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Well, anyway, so we agree. So the Penny and me, Ben,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: picking the Patriots. Plus the points. All right. And we'll
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: have tomorrow more of Benny versus the Penny. Let's go
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to the phones right now, and let's say hello to Montreal.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: We'll say hello to Tony in Montreal. What's going on, Tony? Welcome. Tony. Tony. Tony.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I think he's sleeping. Tony. He fell asleep there. He's
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: dreaming of the Expos right now. He's dreaming of Warren Cromartie.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And is it, well, Rock Raines. No, Gary Cart, that's right.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: No.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Hmm, who else? He's a quiet sleeper. Yeah, he is.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I like when they have sleep apnea. He's in good shape, clearly.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll hang up on him. Let's say hello
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: to Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre. Andre, Andre, welcome.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: What's going on, Ben? Willis is up.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: The dogs are barking. The dogs are barking.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's acting up. He's going to calm down now
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: because we have a record. We got history in the mix.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: This is history right now, Ben. You see what Ben
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Shelton just did?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's on every TV in the studio.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: And people are up, and then we got a quick turnaround.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: But if it's history, then we have to have these
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: quick turnarounds. I mean, when you're pushing yourself, you can
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: get two, three hours of sleep. You just have to
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: get the power nap in. What you have to do
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: is because you're going to get up because that's like
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: the morning rush, you know, to get out there and
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: get your cup of morning joe. But obviously you're going
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: to hit a wall, usually around noontime that you're going
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: to have to fight through when you have the low sleep.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: But then you say, I'm going to get a power
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: nap in around like four or five and then push through.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: But then the difficult part is getting to sleep that
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: night after the power nap. But you should be kind
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: of exhausted because you pushed and strained. Listen, Mr. Ben
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Shelton there. He's doing it for the ATL. I don't
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: know if I saw Ludacris there, but Kevin Hart was
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: in the building then.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I did see Kevin Hart. He stayed to the end.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Kevin Hart was there. Ben Shelton, your big winner at
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the U.S. Open there, and they're celebrating. Now, when's he
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: playing next? Do you know? Are you a tennis guy? Andre,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: come on now.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Come on now. Come on now. Huge, huge group.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Really? All right. We're going back.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: We're talking. We're talking Johnny McEnroe. We're talking.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, when does Ben Shelton play next? So
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: this thing ended after 3.30 in the morning in New York.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: And does he have a day off? Does he go
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: right back to the court later on tonight? He's on Friday, Ben.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: All Friday.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: He's at an All-American semifinals.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: He's on Friday. America. I'm wrapping myself in the flag
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: right now. Ben Shelton won nine consecutive games. What a performance.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Down goes Alcatraz. Down goes Alcatraz.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Alcaraz, and you want to talk about a true gentleman
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: and a scholar, all right, because he's, Alcaraz is out
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: of this world, and we.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Got a powerhouse.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Man, he went out of there, smile on his face, clapping,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: all right? You see what happens when somebody, first of all,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: you see what happens when some of these tennis folks lose?
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Are we going back to Garth Brooks? They smashed their
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  Speaker 3: tennis racket. Those things are expensive. Do they recycle the
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  Speaker 3: metal after you smash it?
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  Speaker 1: No, they probably, guys like, when they break a racket,
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  Speaker 1: guys like Darren Revell buy it on the internet. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what happens. It goes to the auction.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so they buy the smashed up racket. I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: those things aren't cheap.
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  Speaker 1: No, they're not. They're priced.
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  Speaker 3: You don't just throw that away. What are we doing here?
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  Speaker 3: And then how long, remember Garth Brooks? He went through
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  Speaker 3: that phase. We have phases in our life where he
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  Speaker 3: used to smash the guitars after the show.
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  Speaker 1: Those things are, what are you doing? That's part of
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  Speaker 3: I don't do the waste. I'm a heavy-duty recycler. I
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  Speaker 3: grew up with Captain Planet. We don't do that. And
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  Speaker 3: we compost, so it come out.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Planet. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Awesome 80s baby. So we
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  Speaker 3: got to get that in order. But Alcaraz was a
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  Speaker 3: gentleman and a scholar. Ben Shelton, tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: The Rockies are a minor league team. Yeah, absolutely. There
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  Speaker 1: only Emmitt Smith and LaDainian Tomlinson. That's the question. What's
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  Speaker 1: I can't read that. Lorraine, do you have an answer?
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Allen. Raider legend Marcus Allen is the answer. third
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  Speaker 4: Already with packers running back jordan love on the commissioners
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  Speaker 4: except or jordan love josh jacobs sorry yeah i got
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  Speaker 4: this from coop coop might.
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  Speaker 1: Have been sleeping i like that you immediately threw coop
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  Speaker 1: under the bus i love that you know what you
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  Speaker 1: we pass mallard to the third degree yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you passed yeah no no but basically uh coop
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  Speaker 4: An NFL insider that believes that Jordan Love can win
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  Speaker 4: an MVP.
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  Speaker 1: That's where he mixed up.
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  Speaker 4: He was comparing the two. Because some of the goal
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: line runs by Jacobs will be passes by Love.
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  Speaker 1: No, because Jordan Love will not be consistent enough to
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: win an MVP award, so no. Next!
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  Speaker 4: All right, it was reported this week that Pukunuku is
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: unlikely to face discipline stemming from the offseason lawsuit in
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: which he was accused of biting a woman.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Ben, are you shocked? Like Dracula. Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they were both into kinky stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, it's a civil matter, right? It's not a
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: criminal matter, so the NFL usually kind of looks away
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: from civil matters.
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  Speaker 2: Next!
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  Speaker 4: Next! An NBA insider speculated this week that Houston Rockets
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: haven't traded Kevin Durant simply because there isn't a trade
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: market for him.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's the case? Yeah. Well, he's older.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of internal issues, Durant. He's an
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: acquired taste. I think somebody would take him because he'll
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: still sell some tickets, but it's not a great market
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: for Kevin Durant. I like the Kevin Durant slander, though.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Brandon, you win because you ripped
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop right away. So you're the winner. I love it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Two seconds he took
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: a shot at Koop.