Rob Manfred Makes It Worse
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 155 minutes
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Summary
Another day, another embarrassing moment for Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros! Ben Maller breaks down MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s awful double down in his first real statement on the scandal that has engulfed baseball! Dusty Baker has expressed concern about his players being intentionally thrown at, and Ben lets you know how the league should handle those concerns! Plus, find out why the Lakers public memorial for Kobe Bryant is setting a dangerous precedent!
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| 0:00.0 | experiencing the news each day can feel like a journey with up first from npr though it doesn't have to be welcome to 15 easy minutes of breaking news clarity on international and national affairs and a casual tone that you can take in with breakfast begin your day informed ready and refreshed Begin your day with Up First. |
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| 0:34.1 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
| 0:39.3 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. In our first season, |
| 0:45.0 | Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, |
| 0:50.8 | which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. |
| 0:59.9 | So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hey, it's Ben. I hope you're having a wonderful day today, and I'm glad you have decided |
| 1:05.1 | on this President's Day to listen to the podcast. And as you know, I work most holidays during |
| 1:10.7 | the year. And then I take some time off at the end of the year. And as you know, I work most holidays during the year. |
| 1:11.6 | And then I take some time off at the end of the year. |
| 1:13.8 | So we have a live show. |
| 1:15.7 | Some of the corporate guys not here, corporate coop, and of course corporate Garcia, |
| 1:20.8 | not part of the show. |
| 1:22.0 | But we had a good team. |
| 1:24.8 | And coming up on today's edition of the podcast, a lot of ranting and raving |
| 1:31.8 | about Rob Manford, who doubled down on giving a pardon to the cheating Astros and tried |
| 1:38.2 | to explain why this was the right thing to do, and he looked like a bigger schmuck with every |
| 1:43.4 | word he said. |
| 1:50.3 | Dusty Baker, who played in the 1960s and the 1970s mostly, has admitted his team in Houston this year's just filled with scared of cats. |
| 1:54.4 | Filled with scared of cats. |
| 1:55.9 | Kobe Bryant, he is going to be laid to rest publicly. |
| 1:59.9 | He's already been buried, but publicly memorial is set a celebration of life in a week. |
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