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The Ben Maller Show

Hour 3 - MVP of MVPs

The Ben Maller Show

Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts

Sports, News, Sports News, Football

4.8864 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Brian Noe fills in for Ben Maller and talks about why despite all he is accomplishing, Shohei Ohtani is not the most valuable athlete in all of sports, the terrible position the Angels are in regarding his free agency, and much more!

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0:00.0

The MVP of all sports?

0:06.3

We will dive into that here momentarily.

0:08.9

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0:27.7

You know, it is insane what Otani is doing here.

0:31.4

And I've been talking to Coup, diehard Angels fan, here and there off the air.

0:37.3

And I'll give you a CliffsNotes version here.

0:41.4

First, when I hear Eddie in his update rattling off the stats of what Otani did on Tuesday

0:48.5

night, it doesn't even sound real, where he hit two home runs, he's leading Major League Baseball and home runs hit.

0:56.5

He also struck out 10 batters as the winning starting pitcher against the White Sox on Tuesday.

1:06.6

And like Coop just told me off the air a second ago, he's like, you look at the team stats,

1:11.3

he's leading everything. He's leading. Home runs, RBIs, wins, strikeouts. It's freaking

1:17.9

insane. And so I just started thinking about if you move beyond baseball, if you look at the sports world in this country, who's the MVP of all

1:32.7

sports? So if you look at Otani what he's doing in the American League, he's an absolute

1:40.8

shoeing to win AL MVP.

1:49.0

Even if he got traded, this is going to sound radical, but stay with me for a second,

2:00.3

even if Otani got traded to an NL team at the deadline, what he has done in the first half of the season has been so extraordinary.

2:03.7

He would still be in the race to win AL MVP.

2:08.1

He would be in the race.

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