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- 0:00Speaker 1: The Benny Man can. The Benny Man can. It's hour
- 0:03Speaker 1: number three. Hour three of the Ben Maller Show. It's
- 0:09Speaker 1: a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious hour. Talking some baseball. Were Brewers fans with
- 0:16Speaker 1: timeless tickets justified in crying foul over the upper deck
- 0:22Speaker 1: seats they were offered? Or should they have just been
- 0:25Speaker 1: grateful to get into the World Series? We'll answer that question.
- 0:29Speaker 1: The brew crew with the screw for you. And Yankees
- 0:32Speaker 1: owner Hal Steinbrenner, despite being in the biggest market in America,
- 0:38Speaker 1: says he's all on board. A salary cap.
- 0:41Speaker 2: What?
- 0:42Speaker 1: How does that sound to you? And how can Yankees
- 0:46Speaker 1: owner Hal Steinbrenner blame the players in the Bronx when
- 0:50Speaker 1: GM Brian Cashman picked the groceries and Aaron Boone, assuming
- 0:55Speaker 1: he actually has any power, cooked the meal? the most
- 0:59Speaker 1: fundamentally unsound baseball team year in and year out, and
- 1:02Speaker 1: yet these guys don't get canned. They don't get terminated.
- 1:06Speaker 1: No heave-ho. They just continue on and on and on.
- 1:10Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that and more. It's hour number three,
- 1:13Speaker 1: and it's yours right now. The Brew Crew! With the
- 1:19Speaker 1: screw for you. What? Welcome in the beginning of another
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- 2:09Speaker 1: happy that the Brewers and the Rays are playing, I guess.
- 2:14Speaker 1: I know she was happy the Dodgers lost. Jill, the
- 2:16Speaker 1: Yankee fan, I don't know if she'll watch. And Kathy
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- 2:26Speaker 1: is no time like October. And this is what it's
- 2:31Speaker 1: all been for. The World Series is here. It begins
- 2:35Speaker 1: on a Friday night. Streaming live on Fox 1. It's
- 2:40Speaker 1: the Brewers. The Brew Crew versus the Rays on baseball's
- 2:43Speaker 1: biggest stage. We will have a first-time World Series winner.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Either one of these franchises has won the crown, and
- 2:50Speaker 1: they will check that box, one of these teams, and
- 2:54Speaker 1: you can stream it all live on Fox. One, that's
- 2:58Speaker 1: cool stuff, right? That's pretty cool. Yeah, you agree? Okay,
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- 3:36Speaker 1: Slash disclosures. Talk in baseball. Our lead this hour. From Milwaukee.
- 3:45Speaker 1: From Milwaukee. The only buzz, the only buzz for the
- 3:51Speaker 1: World Series has been caused by a ticket policy. Not
- 3:57Speaker 1: the game. Not the game. Not the game. Do you
- 4:00Speaker 1: see this? Yeah, I was going around trying to find
- 4:05Speaker 1: an angle to the World Series. Good talk radio. And
- 4:11Speaker 1: I kept looking. And looking, and I just couldn't find anything.
- 4:17Speaker 1: I guess I'm a bad talk show host. I just
- 4:19Speaker 1: couldn't find anything good other than this. So if you
- 4:24Speaker 1: haven't been paying attention, perhaps you missed this. It's more
- 4:27Speaker 1: of like a Wisconsin story. You're getting screwed if you're
- 4:30Speaker 1: a Brewers fan. So let's go back in the way
- 4:35Speaker 1: back machine. We're going to go back to the year 2015.
- 4:36Speaker 1: I was a little kid. What was I doing in 2015?
- 4:39Speaker 1: I was doing this job.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 4:40Speaker 1: So in 2015, the Brewers sold 1,000 timeless tickets for
- 4:41Speaker 1: $ 1, 000 each. And that's 1,000 and 1,000. So that's a
- 4:42Speaker 1: little bit of a money situation there. 2015, 11 years ago,
- 4:44Speaker 1: and so there you go. So 1,000, and then you
- 4:46Speaker 1: time that. Times 1,000, and you say, all right, that's
- 5:08Speaker 1: what we're doing. So they made a million dollars. Made
- 5:13Speaker 1: a million dollars. It was redeemable. The gimmick was this
- 5:17Speaker 1: timeless ticket is redeemable for any future home game, including
- 5:21Speaker 1: the playoffs in the World Series. Okay, that sounds good.
- 5:25Speaker 1: So here we go. Milwaukee facing Tampa Bay, the first
- 5:28Speaker 1: fall classic for the Brew Crew since 1982. And there's
- 5:32Speaker 1: a number of people that held on to that timeless
- 5:35Speaker 1: ticket waiting, waiting for the World Series. Now, not only
- 5:39Speaker 1: do you get the ticket, you can also buy some
- 5:42Speaker 1: other tickets for your friends. So you can buy, I
- 5:45Speaker 1: think it's three other tickets to get four tickets. You
- 5:47Speaker 1: have to buy them. And fans were promised premium seating,
- 5:52Speaker 1: the best available seats for any of these games. But
- 5:58Speaker 1: the people that have tried to cash in their timeless
- 6:00Speaker 1: tickets have been told, sorry, sucker. They didn't use those words.
- 6:05Speaker 1: But the brewers, the scumbags with the brewers ticketing department said, well,
- 6:08Speaker 1: we have upper deck seats and standing room only. Loser.
- 6:13Speaker 1: So the buyers, as we said, also purchased three additional tickets. Now,
- 6:18Speaker 1: a bunch of complaints. People have been up in arms
- 6:20Speaker 1: on social media and raising a ruckus about The team
- 6:24Speaker 1: president of the Brewers admitted the team has failed to
- 6:28Speaker 1: live up to the honor of the promotion. The way
- 6:32Speaker 1: they phrase this crap. Well, the president of the Brewers
- 6:35Speaker 1: admitted the Brewers failed to honor the promotion spirit. So
- 6:40Speaker 1: Milwaukee has attempted to reverse course. They're allowing fans to
- 6:43Speaker 1: attend the World Series in the crappy seats while retaining
- 6:47Speaker 1: the timeless ticket for future use. All right, so that
- 6:51Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Were Brewers fans, with these timeless tickets, justified in crying
- 7:00Speaker 1: foul over upper-deck seats and standing-room-only seats, or should they
- 7:06Speaker 1: have just been grateful to get into the World Series?
- 7:09Speaker 1: Some people are like, what are you doing? You have
- 7:11Speaker 1: a chance to go to the World Series. Just enjoy it.
- 7:14Speaker 1: So my take, I've got Radio Shack. Maya Angelou and Modelo.
- 7:21Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
- 7:26Speaker 1: we will attempt to rise from the dead of the overnight.
- 7:30Speaker 1: To lead off, though, to answer the question, the fans
- 7:34Speaker 1: were rightfully pissed off. I looked at the review, and
- 7:39Speaker 1: good job. Milwaukee got caught here, the Brewers, with their
- 7:44Speaker 1: hand in the cookie jar. Eleven years ago, the people
- 7:47Speaker 1: that were in charge of the Brewers were selling dreams
- 7:50Speaker 1: out of the trunk of a Pontiac Sunfire from the 90s,
- 7:55Speaker 1: and they were peddling hope for $ 1, 000 when hope at
- 7:58Speaker 1: that time for the Brewers was worth about 37 cents.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Got to remember, the 2015 Brewers were not that good.
- 8:06Speaker 1: The Brewers were in the doldrums for a number of years.
- 8:10Speaker 1: And now that hope has appreciated in value, and management
- 8:14Speaker 1: acts like a promise is binding only. The Brewers management
- 8:19Speaker 1: is like, well, the promise is binding only until it
- 8:21Speaker 1: becomes financially inconvenient. Now, they expected fans to pay top
- 8:26Speaker 1: dollar and sit next to the stadium HVAC system. You
- 8:31Speaker 1: know that slide where David Vasse broke his arm? The
- 8:35Speaker 1: Dodger guy, the Bernie Brewer slide? They want you to
- 8:38Speaker 1: sit near that slide. Or that Bob Euchre statue, which
- 8:41Speaker 1: is in the very last row, the upper part of
- 8:43Speaker 1: the stadium. They wanted that. But this is, what it is,
- 8:46Speaker 1: is Wall Street in baseball cleats. These people, and there's
- 8:49Speaker 1: not a lot of them left that paid the $ 1, 000
- 8:51Speaker 1: for the ticket, but the people that bought the ticket,
- 8:54Speaker 1: it's kind of like if you bought Apple tickets at
- 8:58Speaker 1: 50 cents, and then you held that Apple stock for
- 9:02Speaker 1: 11 years, and you went to your broker, if you
- 9:05Speaker 1: had one, you're not using one of these apps, you
- 9:07Speaker 1: went to the broker, and you said, okay, I got
- 9:09Speaker 1: to turn this in. And they said, okay, fine, we'll
- 9:12Speaker 1: certainly take the Apple stock, but we're going to pay
- 9:14Speaker 1: you in Radio Shack gift cards. Well, no, the Apple
- 9:18Speaker 1: stock's worth a lot more than that. I would like
- 9:20Speaker 1: something more than Radio Shack gift cards because they went defunct. Well,
- 9:23Speaker 1: that's all we can do. So the Brewers thought, that
- 9:26Speaker 1: they were only dealing with suckers. They forgot that the
- 9:30Speaker 1: great equalizer is social media. And it's given dumb people
- 9:36Speaker 1: a voice. It's given bots a voice. Elections are decided
- 9:40Speaker 1: because of algorithms and bots and manipulation and things like that.
- 9:43Speaker 1: But it's also given people that get screwed by major
- 9:46Speaker 1: corporations an opportunity to make them look bad, and thus
- 9:51Speaker 1: they panic and all that. So never confuse a corporation's
- 9:55Speaker 1: apology with a change of heart. Do not do that.
- 9:59Speaker 1: Do not do it. The Brewers did not discover morality.
- 10:04Speaker 1: They discovered bad publicity and even their offers like, well,
- 10:07Speaker 1: we're not going to still we're not going to give
- 10:08Speaker 1: you the good tickets, but we'll just let you keep
- 10:10Speaker 1: the thing. So the next time the Brewers get to
- 10:12Speaker 1: the World Series 40 years from now, you might be
- 10:15Speaker 1: dead and you can't use it or, you know, we'll
- 10:20Speaker 1: not give you the tickets then either. All right. Furthermore,
- 10:23Speaker 1: to New York, New York, the Big Apple. A lot
- 10:27Speaker 1: of conversation about what Hal Steinbrenner had to say. He's
- 10:30Speaker 1: living a charmed life, mostly in Florida. Mostly in the
- 10:34Speaker 1: Tampa area there. Occasionally goes up to New York. You're rich.
- 10:37Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want. So Hal Steinbrenner indirectly
- 10:41Speaker 1: has endorsed what? The Yankees owner has endorsed a salary cap.
- 10:48Speaker 4: I know.
- 10:49Speaker 3: I know.
- 10:50Speaker 1: It's not good news for Supermarket Steven. Jill the Yankee
- 10:54Speaker 1: fan in Minnesota is not good. That's what happened. Hal
- 10:58Speaker 1: Steinbrenner confirming that he has helped put together the proposal
- 11:02Speaker 1: that includes a salary cap. Major League Baseball wants the
- 11:05Speaker 1: cap and the floor. The players union says that's cap
- 11:11Speaker 1: and the cap is crap. And they're raising fears of
- 11:15Speaker 1: a cold war that will begin December 1st. There will
- 11:19Speaker 1: be no baseball to begin the 2027 season. There'll be
- 11:24Speaker 1: no spring training. And this is likely going to, go
- 11:28Speaker 1: at least, from what I've been hearing, the number that's
- 11:32Speaker 1: been bouncing around is they're going to miss about 60
- 11:34Speaker 1: games of next season. They need to get, I think,
- 11:37Speaker 1: the sweet spot the owners need is 100 games or
- 11:39Speaker 1: else they have to pay back money to TV. They
- 11:42Speaker 1: don't want to pay money back. I've heard a couple
- 11:44Speaker 1: of different versions of that story. I'm not 100% sure.
- 11:49Speaker 1: The latest, I was talking to somebody, I was texting
- 11:51Speaker 1: somebody the other day and they were like, yeah, the numbers,
- 11:55Speaker 1: the owners can miss 62 games They have to have
- 11:59Speaker 1: 100 games, which means they could miss March, April, May,
- 12:05Speaker 1: and then have the season sometime in June, and then
- 12:08Speaker 1: they'd have to play some doubleheaders and all that. But
- 12:10Speaker 1: we have plenty of time to worry about that. This
- 12:13Speaker 1: is about Hal Steinbrenner, the guy that owns the Yankees.
- 12:16Speaker 1: So he was asked how the cap would benefit the Yankees.
- 12:19Speaker 1: You're the Yankees owner. Why would you endorse a cap
- 12:21Speaker 1: unless it benefits the Yankees? Now, what did George Steinbrenner's kid,
- 12:26Speaker 1: Hal Steinbrenner, say? Hal Steinbrenner dodged the question. Whoa, whoa.
- 12:34Speaker 1: The Bronx Bombers spent $ 336 million. They burned that on
- 12:38Speaker 1: fire in luxury tax payroll. That was number three behind
- 12:43Speaker 1: the D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers. Number three. Yes. And the New York Metropolitans.
- 12:51Speaker 1: So the Yankees were number three. in terms of luxury
- 12:54Speaker 1: tax payroll. So here's the question. Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner
- 12:58Speaker 1: says he is in favor of a salary cap. However,
- 13:02Speaker 1: he refused to answer how that would benefit the Yankees.
- 13:06Speaker 1: How does this sound to you? So we imagine somewhere
- 13:13Speaker 1: across the pearly gates, George Steinbrenner is demanding to speak
- 13:18Speaker 1: to the person running the Yankees. Unfortunately, That person is
- 13:22Speaker 1: his kid. In my headphones, in my headphones, it sounds
- 13:29Speaker 1: like Hal Steinbrenner. is not trying to save baseball. He's
- 13:32Speaker 1: trying to save himself from spending too much money, and
- 13:37Speaker 1: he doesn't want to do that. And so he's like, hey, listen,
- 13:40Speaker 1: it won't really help the Yankees, but it'll help Hal
- 13:44Speaker 1: Steinbrenner and the next generation after me, so I'm all in.
- 13:48Speaker 1: And it was Maya Angelou who said, when someone shows
- 13:52Speaker 1: you who they are, believe them the first time. Hal
- 13:55Speaker 1: Steinbrenner has shown Yankee fans who he is. He's the
- 13:59Speaker 1: family accountant with a luxury suite. The Yankees, last I checked,
- 14:03Speaker 1: and I might be wrong on this. You can call
- 14:04Speaker 1: up and correct me. I don't think the Yankees are
- 14:06Speaker 1: some little mom-and-pop operation selling bait and tackle in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
- 14:11Speaker 1: I don't think that's what this is. They're a global
- 14:14Speaker 1: sports empire, the biggest brand in American sports, all that bullcrap.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Yet Hal Steinbrenner wants to voluntarily surrender the one clear
- 14:24Speaker 1: and obvious advantage of that comes with being the biggest
- 14:28Speaker 1: brand in the biggest market. The analogy is this. It
- 14:32Speaker 1: would be like Apple giving up the iPhone because Samsung
- 14:38Speaker 1: complained that they can't compete with the iPhone. So Apple's like, okay, well,
- 14:44Speaker 1: you know, we feel bad for you, so we'll just
- 14:47Speaker 1: stop making the iPhone. No.
- 14:49Speaker 3: No.
- 14:50Speaker 1: Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. It's billionaire socialism saying, Now, the good news is
- 14:55Speaker 1: because Tampa Bay and Milwaukee, a couple of tightwad franchises,
- 14:58Speaker 1: are in the World Series, people are starting to come
- 15:01Speaker 1: around with the reality that you don't need a salary
- 15:03Speaker 1: cap in baseball, that the only vehicle that a salary cap,
- 15:07Speaker 1: the vehicle it would provide would be cost certainty. It's
- 15:11Speaker 1: billionaire socialism. Hal Steinbrenner wants capitalism when the revenue comes in,
- 15:18Speaker 1: and then he wants the socialism when it's time to
- 15:22Speaker 1: pay the players. So just offer free bread. Free bread
- 15:27Speaker 1: to the people. All right, last thing. Staying in the Bronx,
- 15:30Speaker 1: big day for Hal Steinbrenner. The Yankees owner was asked
- 15:34Speaker 1: about the pathetic performance by the baseball team in the playoffs,
- 15:39Speaker 1: and he blamed who? You know? Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Turns out he blamed the players for the playoff debacle yesterday.
- 15:51Speaker 1: declaring that the players did not live up to their
- 15:55Speaker 1: end of the bargain. New York was swept by Tampa Bay.
- 16:00Speaker 1: A pathetic 130 batting average, a 239 slugging percentage, unbecoming
- 16:05Speaker 1: of the Bronx Bombers. Aaron Judge was broken down and
- 16:10Speaker 1: unable to play. Now, Hal Steinbrenner blaming the offense, not
- 16:14Speaker 1: the pitching. And we are heading towards an 18-year, I
- 16:17Speaker 1: believe the number is 18 now, 18-year World Series drought.
- 16:22Speaker 1: And Brian Cashman got a new contract. Of course he did.
- 16:26Speaker 1: And Aaron Boone is going to be back as well.
- 16:29Speaker 1: So the Yankees carried the third largest salary cap number,
- 16:32Speaker 1: as we told you, and they lost to a low-budget
- 16:36Speaker 1: operation in Tampa Bay. So the question, how can Yankees
- 16:40Speaker 1: owner Hal Steinbrenner blame the players when Brian Cashman picked
- 16:45Speaker 1: the groceries and Aaron Boone cooked the meal with help
- 16:49Speaker 1: from the nerds? All right, so the theory on this. Now,
- 16:53Speaker 1: how can Hal Steinbrenner do it? Well, he's clearly not
- 16:56Speaker 1: that invested in the Yankees, if you know what I mean.
- 17:00Speaker 1: It's become part of the new franchise charter there. Hal
- 17:03Speaker 1: Steinbrenner has turned the Yankees into a billion-dollar buddy system.
- 17:09Speaker 1: That's what the Yankees are, where the organizational chart is
- 17:14Speaker 1: a friendship bracelet. Brian Cashman has a friendship bracelet. Aaron
- 17:19Speaker 1: Judge obviously does as a player. But Brian Cashman, he's
- 17:22Speaker 1: got a couple of friendship bracelets. And Hal has all
- 17:26Speaker 1: of his father's money because George Steinbrenner died. You can't
- 17:30Speaker 1: take it with you. And he's got none of his appetite, though,
- 17:34Speaker 1: for confrontation, holding people accountable. Hal Steinbrenner doesn't care about
- 17:39Speaker 1: that stuff. If he did, Brian Cashman would have been
- 17:42Speaker 1: let go 10 years ago. Aaron Boone would have been
- 17:44Speaker 1: let go four years ago. But no. No. That does
- 17:48Speaker 1: not go on. The boss, those that are old enough
- 17:51Speaker 1: to remember George Steinbrenner, the boss, he ran the Yankees
- 17:53Speaker 1: like a military dictatorship. His kid runs it like a
- 17:57Speaker 1: neighborhood HOA. Brian Cashman, he goes out, he gets the groceries,
- 18:02Speaker 1: he picks the groceries. Aaron Boone, as we said, he
- 18:05Speaker 1: burns the meal and Steinbrenner blames the customers for complaining
- 18:08Speaker 1: about the food. And everybody's accountable, right? Everyone's accountable around here.
- 18:13Speaker 1: Everyone's accountable in the Bronx, except the people who actually
- 18:17Speaker 1: make the decisions. And as the church lady used to say, well,
- 18:21Speaker 1: isn't that convenient? Isn't that convenient? And Cashman and Boone
- 18:25Speaker 1: have better job security than Supreme Court justices. And somebody
- 18:30Speaker 1: needs to send Hal Steinbrenner A case of Modelo. The
- 18:34Speaker 1: man is suffering from a terminal shortage of the fighting spirit.
- 18:39Speaker 1: Does not have the fighting spirit. Bad job by him.
- 18:45Speaker 1: It is the Ben Maller show. The Ben Maller show
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- 18:53Speaker 1: Coming up later this hour, we have a managerial change,
- 18:55Speaker 1: another managerial change in Major League Baseball. We have a
- 18:58Speaker 1: shakeup there. We'll talk about that a little bit later.
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- 22:27Speaker 1: good AI. That's a bad hat, though. You've got to
- 22:28Speaker 1: change the hat, Alf. That's a glitch in the AI.
- 22:31Speaker 1: I would never wear that hat. King Rory going with
- 22:33Speaker 1: Pickle Handbag. That's his answer. From KFC. Letting the potato
- 22:40Speaker 1: salad get too warm. From Late Night Drug Test. There's
- 22:42Speaker 1: always a problem with the potato salad. The fly's buzzing
- 22:46Speaker 1: around because it gets warm. It's disgusting. What else do
- 22:48Speaker 1: we have? Let's see. Page down. A dispute over a
- 22:51Speaker 1: bottle of spooky ranch dressing. From Not A Burner. Not
- 22:56Speaker 1: A Burner. What else do we have? Andy and Lionel Lakes.
- 22:59Speaker 1: That's too long. Kung Fu Fight from Donkey Sausage. A
- 23:03Speaker 1: Tomahawk Steak. Guest by Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Jerry in
- 23:08Speaker 1: a Jar said Warren Sapp kicked someone over the scent
- 23:14Speaker 1: of his flatulence. A Ring Pop from Mrs. Ben Maller.
- 23:18Speaker 1: Guest by JT the Wingman. What else do we have?
- 23:21Speaker 1: Let's see. Kev Atomic from Alaska says, over an authenticated
- 23:25Speaker 1: jersey signed by Anthony in Louisiana. A mustard squirt from
- 23:31Speaker 1: Courtesy Flusher. Corn dog guessed by our pal Neil from
- 23:36Speaker 1: Fall River. In the Commonwealth, what else do we have?
- 23:39Speaker 1: Arturo said Warren Sapp kicked that guy over a baggie
- 23:43Speaker 1: of booger sugar. Peanuts, of course, from Filler Up Phil.
- 23:48Speaker 1: Page then, a bottle of Irish Wild Rose from Via
- 23:53Speaker 1: the Right. Page then, well, that's enough. Lorena, do you
- 23:57Speaker 1: have an answer? The Mallard Riddle of the Day, former
- 23:59Speaker 1: Tampa Bay star with the Bucs. And Miami Hurricanes star
- 24:03Speaker 1: Warren Sapp appeared to kick a Florida State fan during
- 24:07Speaker 1: a tailgate dispute over a blank.
- 24:09Speaker 3: Over a Snickers-wrapped hot dog.
- 24:13Speaker 2: Snickers?
- 24:13Speaker 1: How would you wrap a hot dog with a Snickers?
- 24:15Speaker 1: How would that work? It's science.
- 24:16Speaker 3: You melt down the Snickers, and then you dip the
- 24:18Speaker 3: hot dog in it.
- 24:18Speaker 1: But then it's not a Snickers, though, right? It's the
- 24:21Speaker 1: melted goo of the.
- 24:22Speaker 2: All right.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Anyway, that is incorrect. The correct answer, of all things,
- 24:26Speaker 1: an umbrella. An umbrella. He got into a fight over
- 24:31Speaker 1: an umbrella. Yeah, you got to check this out. Now,
- 24:36Speaker 1: for our blind listeners, Warren Sapp, who's a pro football
- 24:38Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, he's 53, so he's around my age.
- 24:41Speaker 1: He was caught on video getting into a dust-up, a kerfluffle,
- 24:46Speaker 1: with a Florida State fan. This happened during the Miami
- 24:50Speaker 1: game where they played like crap most of the game,
- 24:52Speaker 1: but they still pulled it out in the end there.
- 24:54Speaker 1: The fan apparently attempted to take shelter beneath Warren Sapp's
- 25:00Speaker 1: umbrella when it was raining. And Warren Sapp did not
- 25:05Speaker 1: appreciate that. Sapp snapped. He lost his temper. And he
- 25:11Speaker 1: warned the man, don't touch my umbrella, bro, before he
- 25:16Speaker 1: apparently kicked him. And I got to tell you, I
- 25:20Speaker 1: think there's, we need to have rules over proper umbrella etiquette.
- 25:25Speaker 1: And it is a little, you shouldn't kick someone and
- 25:28Speaker 1: all that, but it's a little bit of an odd move.
- 25:31Speaker 1: If you did not bring an umbrella to just assume
- 25:34Speaker 1: that you can take shelter under another man's umbrella, that's
- 25:38Speaker 1: a very tight situation. It's a very tight situation. What
- 25:41Speaker 1: I do, let me tell you what I do. When
- 25:43Speaker 1: I go somewhere and I don't have an umbrella, there's usually,
- 25:46Speaker 1: whenever it rains, wherever I've been, I travel all over
- 25:48Speaker 1: the country, whenever it rains, there's always some dude there.
- 25:55Speaker 1: that pops up with 12 umbrellas trying to sell them.
- 25:59Speaker 1: Even this past weekend, it was raining, I was in
- 26:02Speaker 1: Mexico City, and even there, some dude showed up, some
- 26:07Speaker 1: guy walked out, some hombre walked out with a bunch
- 26:09Speaker 1: of umbrellas. It happens everywhere. It's just buy an umbrella.
- 26:14Speaker 1: But anyway, the confrontation occurred in front of the fan's daughter.
- 26:20Speaker 1: Of course, the video has gone viral. The man told
- 26:23Speaker 1: Sapp that he had been a longtime fan. And there
- 26:27Speaker 1: you go. So Sapp apparently did not appreciate that. The
- 26:30Speaker 1: video does not capture the entire situation. Apparently no one
- 26:35Speaker 1: was injured. The cops were not involved, which is shocking.
- 26:38Speaker 1: And to my knowledge, there has been no lawsuit. You
- 26:41Speaker 1: know how many thirsty, horny lawyers are out there saying, oh, man,
- 26:43Speaker 1: we could sue Warren Sapp? That's assault and battery. That
- 26:47Speaker 1: is assault and battery is what that is. Come on now.
- 26:52Speaker 3: Going under someone's umbrella is weird.
- 26:54Speaker 4: Right?
- 26:54Speaker 3: Right.
- 26:55Speaker 1: I think the only ones that can get away with
- 26:57Speaker 1: that are hot chicks, Coop, right? Like, anyone else can't get–
- 27:00Speaker 1: ugly women can't get away with it. Men can't get
- 27:03Speaker 1: away with it. Like, only really hot women could get
- 27:05Speaker 1: away with it.
- 27:05Speaker 3: I mean, look, I feel like most people have, like,
- 27:09Speaker 3: individual-size umbrellas, and at most couple-sized if you're, like, walking hand-in-hand.
- 27:17Speaker 3: I mean, unless somebody's holding, like, a giant, you know,
- 27:22Speaker 3: beach family size umbrella that you can stand under while
- 27:27Speaker 3: still being like three feet away from them what are
- 27:30Speaker 3: you doing i agree.
- 27:33Speaker 1: I think that's a bad job by that guy now
- 27:35Speaker 1: did he deserve to get kicked i'm more of like
- 27:37Speaker 1: a shove possibly like a light shove get the hell
- 27:40Speaker 1: out of here dummy all right let's go to the
- 27:43Speaker 1: phones we got a first time caller it's not even
- 27:45Speaker 1: a newbie we got a new newbie night How about
- 27:48Speaker 1: next week we do a newbie night? Next week we'll
- 27:50Speaker 1: pick a night we'll do a newbie night. Let's say
- 27:51Speaker 1: hello to Bill who's in Colorado. Hello, Bill. First time caller.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Long time listener. Hello, Bill.
- 27:58Speaker 2: Welcome.
- 28:00Speaker 1: Bill. Bill. Bill. Oh, come on, Bill. I don't hear
- 28:08Speaker 1: him snoring. Yeah, I don't even hear him moving.
- 28:11Speaker 3: Bill, are you accidentally did you put your phone on mute?
- 28:13Speaker 1: Yeah, Bill, you got to talk. We can't hear you, Bill.
- 28:17Speaker 1: That's disappointing. I got all excited for nothing. That sucks.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Lucky Tony never disappoints. Big day for the Bears. They
- 28:24Speaker 1: got Bears, and we've got the Patriots, Soldier Field, downtown Chicago,
- 28:29Speaker 1: the shores of Lake Michigan. Hello, Lucky Tony.
- 28:33Speaker 3: Hey, Ben.
- 28:34Speaker 2: I'm not trying to steal your cameo thunder because I
- 28:37Speaker 2: don't know how it works, but to the kids at St.
- 28:39Speaker 3: Jude's Hospital, Want a.
- 28:42Speaker 1: Plane that loops to loop. Me, I want a hula hoop. Thanks, Ben.
- 28:52Speaker 1: Joey is in Amarillo, Texas, and Joey is next on
- 28:56Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Hello, Joey. Welcome. Hey, Ben.
- 29:03Speaker 1: I got a couple things for you. Number one, if.
- 29:07Speaker 4: We get a salary cap to baseball... How are they
- 29:10Speaker 4: going to deal with.
- 29:11Speaker 2: The deferred contracts of the Dodgers?
- 29:13Speaker 4: That's one question. Question number two is, how about my
- 29:16Speaker 4: Rays right there?
- 29:17Speaker 1: And I know you're.
- 29:18Speaker 2: Pulling for them, right?
- 29:20Speaker 1: No, no, I'm pulling for the Brewers. Yeah, I want
- 29:22Speaker 1: the Brewers to win.
- 29:23Speaker 3: Boo!
- 29:26Speaker 1: Well, screw you. My brother lives in Wisconsin. I've got
- 29:29Speaker 1: to pull for him, his team. You're a Rays fan?
- 29:32Speaker 3: What was the first question?
- 29:34Speaker 1: Why are you a Rays fan?
- 29:36Speaker 4: I've been a Rays fan since I lived in Tampa.
- 29:38Speaker 3: I've been in Amarillo for a year.
- 29:39Speaker 1: Oh, okay. You're a newbie. For 27 years. Oh, I
- 29:44Speaker 1: got you. I'm going to make the playoffs in the
- 29:46Speaker 1: World Series this time around when I'm not there. Normally
- 29:52Speaker 1: people move from Amarillo to Florida. You went opposite. That's weird.
- 29:57Speaker 2: Well, my brother had cancer, so that's why he came here.
- 29:59Speaker 1: Okay, now you've made me feel bad. Now you've made
- 30:03Speaker 1: me feel bad. So now I feel bad. It's all right.
- 30:06Speaker 2: You can make it up.
- 30:08Speaker 3: You can erase it and answer my other question.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Yeah, well, what they're going to have to do is
- 30:12Speaker 1: they're going to have to grandfather in whatever contracts. If
- 30:15Speaker 1: they get a salary cap, which, by the way, they're
- 30:17Speaker 1: not going to get. There's not going to be a
- 30:18Speaker 1: salary cap. But if there was a salary cap, then
- 30:23Speaker 1: they would have to grandfather in all these other contracts.
- 30:27Speaker 1: And no one else would be able to get that
- 30:29Speaker 1: kind of deal. Yeah, so that's a simple solution to
- 30:31Speaker 1: the problem. The problem is these things go on for, like,
- 30:34Speaker 1: 20 years. So we're talking about, like, 2045, 2050, some
- 30:39Speaker 1: ridiculous amount of time. Are you moving back to Florida?
- 30:45Speaker 1: Are you moving back to Florida, or do you like Amarillo?
- 30:48Speaker 4: I hate Amarillo.
- 30:49Speaker 2: I hate it. Okay.
- 30:50Speaker 1: I'm trying to move back in about a year.
- 30:55Speaker 4: All right.
- 30:55Speaker 1: Well, good luck, Joey. I hope you get back to Florida.
- 30:57Speaker 1: Thank you. I call you quite often.
- 30:59Speaker 4: I've been on your games a couple different times.
- 31:02Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you. Thanks for supporting the show.
- 31:04Speaker 1: We appreciate it, Joey. All right. There's Joey, not part
- 31:07Speaker 1: of the Chamber of Commerce of Amarillo, Texas. Much different
- 31:11Speaker 1: lifestyle there than in Florida. Much, much different. I would say.
- 31:17Speaker 1: Bill has called back, by the way. Apparently, he had
- 31:21Speaker 1: discovered there is a mute button on the phone. Hello, Bill.
- 31:26Speaker 1: First time caller and longtime listener in Colorado. What's going on?
- 31:35Speaker 1: No way. Is Bill a thousand years old, Coop? Is
- 31:41Speaker 1: it possible that Bill.
- 31:42Speaker 3: He didn't sound like it.
- 31:43Speaker 1: He didn't sound that old.
- 31:44Speaker 3: Do you think this is.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Phony phone call or something. It's the worst phony phone
- 31:49Speaker 1: call of all time if they don't even talk.
- 31:50Speaker 3: No, like a victim of not realizing that there's a delay.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah. The I don't know the delay guy.
- 31:58Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Which is always a good caller. It's one of the
- 32:01Speaker 1: classics in talk radio.
- 32:02Speaker 3: He's listening on the radio waiting for his name to
- 32:04Speaker 3: be called.
- 32:05Speaker 1: So it's waiting. Yeah. Yeah. And as we have pointed out,
- 32:10Speaker 1: the delay in radio has been around. It started in Allentown, Pennsylvania,
- 32:15Speaker 1: WKAP radio. It was introduced in 1952. There has been
- 32:22Speaker 1: some form of delay on radio. Now, originally it was
- 32:24Speaker 1: only like one station, and then I think he realizes
- 32:28Speaker 1: he's now on the radio. Hello, Bill. I'm here. Can
- 32:31Speaker 1: you hear me?
- 32:32Speaker 2: Can you hear me?
- 32:33Speaker 1: You know why there's a delay? Because people say bad words.
- 32:36Speaker 1: That's why there's a delay.
- 32:37Speaker 2: That's right, bro. And I'm a kind person. Can you
- 32:39Speaker 2: hear me?
- 32:40Speaker 1: For real? No, I can't. I can't hear you.
- 32:44Speaker 2: I can't hear you. I'm going to say what I'm
- 32:46Speaker 2: going to say. I'm a Buggle fan, long-time Buggle fan
- 32:48Speaker 2: from a long time ago. I appreciate your show. Sometimes
- 32:53Speaker 2: it keeps me alive, bro, in a way. I love
- 32:56Speaker 2: this shit because it's some real funny shit.
- 32:59Speaker 1: All right. Thank you.
- 33:01Speaker 3: Watch your mouth.
- 33:06Speaker 1: Lorena, this is how men talk, Lorena. We're just a
- 33:09Speaker 1: couple of men. That's how we talk, okay? Why can't
- 33:12Speaker 1: we say that word? I guess we won't be able
- 33:17Speaker 1: to take calls for a little while after that fine situation. Well,
- 33:22Speaker 1: that gives us some time.
- 33:24Speaker 3: That's why there's a delay?
- 33:25Speaker 1: Yes. For him. There's a delay for him. That's why
- 33:29Speaker 1: there's a delay. For Bill. Bill in Colorado, who I
- 33:34Speaker 1: don't want to speculate, Coop. Is it true that Bill
- 33:37Speaker 1: might be hitting the open bar? You think he might
- 33:41Speaker 1: have hit the liquor store? I hope so.
- 33:42Speaker 3: Otherwise, he is a poor representation of Broncos fans.
- 33:46Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough one. Well, we have a managerial
- 33:49Speaker 1: change in baseball. I know Ferg Dogg and Coop are
- 33:53Speaker 1: having a tough time dealing with this. The Angels have
- 33:55Speaker 1: declined Kurt Suzuki's option, which is a nice way of
- 33:59Speaker 1: saying he's gone. They whacked him. And he did something
- 34:03Speaker 1: that had never happened before in Angel history. Congratulations to
- 34:06Speaker 1: Kurt Suzuki. He led the franchise through their first 100-loss season,
- 34:11Speaker 1: the worst year in Angel baseball. One of the few things,
- 34:15Speaker 1: one of the few things they could brag about is that, well,
- 34:17Speaker 1: we've been bad, but we haven't lost 100 games. Well,
- 34:19Speaker 1: they can't say that anymore. 62-100, first time in franchise history,
- 34:25Speaker 1: and pretty much everyone's gone. The interim GM, John Mazalek,
- 34:29Speaker 1: the old Cardinal guy, He's not going to be retained
- 34:32Speaker 1: as well. He's not coming back. And Stan Kroenke, the
- 34:35Speaker 1: Rams owner and the Nuggets owner and all that, he
- 34:39Speaker 1: is going to take over the team here soon. Does
- 34:42Speaker 1: not have complete control yet. And there will be sweeping changes,
- 34:48Speaker 1: a organizational reset in Anaheim. Now, here's where it gets
- 34:52Speaker 1: a little odd. Suzuki, who did a terrible job. As manager,
- 34:58Speaker 1: the Angels offered him a special assistant position. Here's the problem.
- 35:03Speaker 1: They're not going to keep the current front office, so
- 35:06Speaker 1: that means whoever the next GM of the Angels is
- 35:10Speaker 1: is going to have to inherit Kurt Suzuki. But what
- 35:12Speaker 1: if they don't want Kurt Suzuki? He's undecided whether he'll
- 35:16Speaker 1: stay with the Angels. He says other teams have offered
- 35:18Speaker 1: him deals. I don't know why they would offer him
- 35:20Speaker 1: a deal. He didn't seem to know what he was
- 35:22Speaker 1: doing as manager of the Angels. And so there you go.
- 35:25Speaker 1: How about this? The revolving door in Anaheim. The next
- 35:29Speaker 1: manager of the Halos will be the sixth manager since
- 35:32Speaker 1: they whacked Mike Socha in 2018.
- 35:35Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 35:37Speaker 1: They've not reached the playoffs since 2014, have not won
- 35:40Speaker 1: a postseason game since 2009. That's crazy. We're a few
- 35:47Speaker 1: years away, Coop, from 20 years without a playoff win
- 35:49Speaker 1: for the Angels.
- 35:50Speaker 3: Since it's a new ownership, can Joe Maddon come back,
- 35:53Speaker 3: give that another go?
- 35:55Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be cool. I like Joe Maddon. He's a
- 35:57Speaker 1: cool guy. Bring him back. I'm all for that. So
- 36:00Speaker 1: Kurt Suzuki out in Anaheim. That's the third managerial opening
- 36:04Speaker 1: in professional baseball. We have Ask Ben coming up for
- 36:08Speaker 1: the rest of the hour. Your questions, our answers. If
- 36:10Speaker 1: you want to send a question, hashtag AskBen on X.
- 36:13Speaker 1: We'll get to that. Ask Ben, and we will do it!
- 36:19Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
- 36:21Speaker 4: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Pacific. Ben Maller Show, Fox Sports Radio, as we work
- 36:28Speaker 1: our way through the overnight. We know you have options,
- 36:29Speaker 1: not good ones, but we thank you for listening to
- 36:31Speaker 1: our show. Try the podcast, the Ben Maller Show podcast.
- 36:35Speaker 1: You can also take the Ben Maller Show with you
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- 36:40Speaker 1: if you have the iHeartRadio app, you can hear all
- 36:42Speaker 1: our stupid tangents on the overnight show. When the drunk
- 36:45Speaker 1: guys call up and say bad words, you hear all
- 36:47Speaker 1: of that stuff on the iHeartRadio app covering all the bases.
- 36:52Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's now time for.
- 36:56Speaker 1: Time for. Hurry, hurry.
- 36:57Speaker 3: I can hardly wait.
- 36:59Speaker 1: Ask Ben.
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- 37:00Speaker 1: Send us your questions on Twitter now.
- 37:03Speaker 4: All right.
- 37:03Speaker 1: Here we go. It's Ask Ben. Your questions are answers
- 37:07Speaker 1: for the rest of the hour. Hashtag Ask Ben. Over
- 37:10Speaker 1: to the Koopa Loop for the reading of the questions.
- 37:13Speaker 3: All right, Ben, this might be a tough one for you,
- 37:16Speaker 3: but maybe you know off the top of your head.
- 37:19Speaker 3: Alf the Alien O'Piner wants to know, what is your
- 37:21Speaker 3: favorite meme?
- 37:25Speaker 1: My favorite meme. That's a good question. What is mine? Well,
- 37:28Speaker 1: the ones I'm in. There's some mallard memes out there. No.
- 37:32Speaker 1: What's the one with Leonardo DiCaprio pointing? Yes. Standing up
- 37:35Speaker 1: and pointing. I like that one. That's a good one.
- 37:37Speaker 1: Pointing at the TV. I like that one. Yeah. I'm
- 37:39Speaker 1: going to go with that one. Lorena?
- 37:41Speaker 3: I like the one where everything's burning around them and
- 37:45Speaker 3: they're sitting at a table.
- 37:46Speaker 1: Everything's fine.
- 37:47Speaker 3: Everything's fine.
- 37:49Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 37:50Speaker 1: That's a good one. You know the one where the
- 37:51Speaker 1: guys are shoveling money? The two sailor guys, they're shoveling money.
- 37:57Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about, Coop? Have you seen
- 37:58Speaker 1: that one? I don't know that one. You haven't seen
- 38:01Speaker 1: that one? It's kind of like, it's not Popeye, but
- 38:05Speaker 1: it's from some Nickelodeon show in the 2000s. And it's
- 38:11Speaker 1: pretty good. I'm sure you've seen it. Two guys with
- 38:13Speaker 1: shovels shoveling money into a... Oh, yeah, yeah.
- 38:15Speaker 3: Into the furnace.
- 38:17Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 38:18Speaker 3: Okay. That's a good one. I like the Jennifer Lawrence
- 38:23Speaker 3: one where she's going, yeah, okay. And I also like
- 38:27Speaker 3: the guy pointing at his head.
- 38:31Speaker 2: Okay.
- 38:32Speaker 3: That was a smart move.
- 38:33Speaker 1: That one.
- 38:33Speaker 2: Gotcha.
- 38:34Speaker 1: All right. What is next? It's Ask Ben. Your questions
- 38:37Speaker 1: are answered. All right. All right.
- 38:40Speaker 3: Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, wants to know, have you,
- 38:46Speaker 3: this is just a question for you. Have you always
- 38:48Speaker 3: had a short fuse or is that a bit? I
- 38:50Speaker 3: get a kick out of the classic Maller meltdown. Still
- 38:53Speaker 3: love the show after all these years.
- 38:54Speaker 1: I don't think I have a short fuse. I think
- 38:56Speaker 1: I'm pretty level-headed. Some of these idiots like Gunner piss
- 38:59Speaker 1: me off. And, you know, you talk to these same people,
- 39:02Speaker 1: and they bitch about the same... Oh, I was on
- 39:04Speaker 1: hold for... I get email every day. I was on hold.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Nobody screamed my... What do you want me to do?
- 39:09Speaker 4: What do you.
- 39:09Speaker 1: What the F do you want me to do? Seriously. Like, what...
- 39:13Speaker 1: I mean, what are you... I don't know what to
- 39:15Speaker 1: do with this. I.
- 39:20Speaker 3: This is another question for you, Ben. Kev Atomic says,
- 39:23Speaker 3: the heating element in my dryer went out. How much
- 39:25Speaker 3: would Maller Mechanical charge to fix it?
- 39:29Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you just have to. fly me to Alaska
- 39:31Speaker 1: and I'll do two things for you. I'll kick it
- 39:34Speaker 1: and then I'll spit a big loogie with a lot
- 39:36Speaker 1: of phlegm right in there and that'll fix it. Yeah.
- 39:42Speaker 1: My razor broke and I fixed it. I hit it.
- 39:44Speaker 1: I did the old tap. I hit it a couple times. Okay, quick.
- 39:48Speaker 3: I love this one. Creative questions. Sensei Thunderfist wants to know,
- 39:54Speaker 3: if you could punch any famous magician throughout history, who
- 39:57Speaker 3: would it be?
- 39:58Speaker 1: Oh, I was. Oh, God. The guy in Vegas. I
- 40:02Speaker 1: can't think of his name. There was a plant. Is
- 40:06Speaker 1: it Criss Angel? I forget. I think it might be
- 40:08Speaker 1: Criss Angel.
- 40:08Speaker 3: Lorena, quickly.
- 40:09Speaker 1: Hey! I don't even know.
- 40:11Speaker 2: Magician?
- 40:12Speaker 3: David Copperfield, definitely.
- 40:14Speaker 1: Oh, Copperfield. F that guy.
- 40:16Speaker 3: He watches magicians.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Yeah, I love magic. I went to a magic. Yeah,
- 40:19Speaker 1: magicians are fun. This plant will show right in front
- 40:24Speaker 1: of me.