Hour 1 - Forever Tarnished
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Ben Maller talks about Carlos Beltran & Andruw Jones getting elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and what message Beltran's inclusion into the Hall is sending, what changed for Jones to get the extra 72 votes he needed, if MLB owners should be "raging" for a salary cap, 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! |
| 0:05.7 | It's our number one. |
| 0:08.3 | Hour number one. |
| 0:09.9 | And oh, what fun it is here. |
| 0:12.4 | And hour number one on this Wednesday, the 21st day of January and the Ben Maller show, reacting to the news of the end of the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
| 0:22.0 | It's pretty much all over for the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
| 0:24.1 | The writers have done it. |
| 0:25.0 | They have ruined the Hall of Fame with cheating Astro. |
| 0:29.6 | Carlos Beltron being elected to Coopersdown. |
| 0:31.9 | What message are the baseball scribes sending to the convicted cheat from Houston. |
| 0:38.4 | Also, what changed for Andrew Jones, who had less than 10% of the vote, |
| 0:44.1 | he picked up an extra 72 votes needed to go to Cooperstown. |
| 0:49.4 | And should Major League Baseball owners be raging as they are said to be |
| 0:53.5 | or just calm over the salary cap? |
| 0:56.8 | They're raging for a salary cap. |
| 0:58.1 | Very upset by the Dodgers. |
| 1:00.1 | We'll talk about all that and more right now. |
| 1:02.5 | Here it is our number one. |
| 1:07.3 | Another amazing institution of sport has been tarnished. |
| 1:13.3 | It is all over for something in my youth that I was told was holier than now, |
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