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The Ben Maller Show

02/16/2021 - Hour 4 - Bore Ball

The Ben Maller Show

Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts

Sports, News, Sports News, Football

4.8864 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ben Maller talks about David Ortiz saying that baseball is boring and if it will be a wake-up call to the industry, Cite the Byte, and much more!

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0:00.0

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0:23.2

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0:28.3

Hello and welcome.

0:30.3

It's our number four, our number four of the podcast.

0:36.3

And we parse the words of a baseball legend.

0:40.7

David Ortiz, the Red Sox icon, Big Poppy.

0:45.1

Did you hear what he had to say?

0:46.0

Big Poppy saying that baseball is the Big B, boring, boring with all the strikeouts and everyone trying to hit home runs.

0:56.6

We parse those words and decide whether or not this will be a wake-up call to the industry of professional baseball.

1:04.7

We'll get to that and more.

1:05.6

Right now, here it is, our number four coming your way.

1:10.5

A ranting and raving, Big Poppy.

1:14.6

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallor show.

1:19.9

We are in the air everywhere as we sermonize coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside the theater.

1:40.4

The theater of the mind.

1:41.4

Charlene this hour comes from baseball.

1:43.6

Pitchers and catchers are going to begin working out in Florida and Arizona in a few

1:47.8

days.

1:48.4

And so I thought it would be a good time to check in with a former baseball legend now

1:53.6

retired.

1:54.4

He moonlights occasionally on Fox.

1:56.7

The last couple of years he's been on television.

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