Hour 1 - Turning Japanese
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Brian Noe fills in for Ben Maller and talks about the Rams beating the Saints on TNF, Yoshi Yamamoto signing with the Dodgers and how they're hurting baseball, the Chargers head coach prospects, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Maler Show podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | It's me, Ben. |
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| 0:29.0 | Oh, what's going on, everybody? |
| 0:30.9 | Man, Eddie Garcia, we've got major news, as you just mentioned it right there. |
| 0:34.8 | Yamamoto, the Japanese superstar pitcher joining the Dodgers for, |
| 0:42.8 | it seems like jump change, right? |
| 0:45.1 | After Otani in his $700 million contract, |
| 0:48.5 | a mere $325 million for Yamamoto over here, |
| 0:54.1 | as the Dodgers are just loading up with all these high-priced stars. |
| 0:58.7 | It's insane what's going on here in La La Land. |
| 1:03.8 | I look at both Otani and Yamamoto joining the same team, and I don't know how you feel about this. |
| 1:12.6 | But I look at it and it's like, I don't fault the Dodgers for signing Otani and most of its deferred payments, right? |
| 1:21.6 | $680 million of the $700 million contract is deferred payments. |
| 1:28.4 | They don't really have to pay this guy for the next 10 years. |
| 1:31.9 | They pay him $2 million per season. |
| 1:35.1 | And then after those 10 years come and go, |
| 1:37.5 | then it's $68 million for the next 10 years is what they owe this guy. |
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