Hour 1 - Fired in Philly

The Ben Maller Show

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4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Ben Maller talks about Rob Thomson getting fired as manager of the Phillies and GM Dave Dombrowski saying they "needed a different voice", the odds that interim manager Don Mattingly can oversee a turnaround, Alex Cora rejecting the Phillies, and more!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	Play ball.
0:05.8	It's our number one, hour one.
0:09.9	Ready for some fun.
0:10.8	Happy Wednesday.
0:11.7	It's hump day, the 29th day of April.
0:14.5	And we're talking baseball.
0:17.3	That's right.
0:17.6	The Ben Mallor show podcast available every single day on demand.
0:22.7	You can listen to however you want.
0:24.6	Listen to the whole thing. You can listen to certain parts of it. You can cannibalize the podcast.
0:29.0	There's a best of version, which is 5.2 seconds long.
0:32.2	But here in our number one, what does Dave Dombrowski mean?
0:36.7	The GM there in Philly when he says the Phillies needed a different voice as he whacked the manager, Mr. Thompson.
0:46.6	Also, give me the odds that the interim skipper, Don Mattingley, Donny Baseball, a Yankee legend back in the day, can oversee a Philadelphia Phillies miracle comeback and explain the message that former Red Sox manager Alex Cora is giving to baseball by rejecting the Phillies job.
1:07.2	Cora was offered the Philadelphia Phillies managerial job and said no.
1:11.6	We'll talk about all that and more right now.
1:16.0	Settling all the fixings here in our number one.
1:21.1	Well, it seemed like for a long time, a long time that you could play really bad and you didn't have any kind of punishment.
1:29.9	Well, that's changing a little bit in the sport of baseball.
1:33.3	Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben Mallor show.
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