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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: So we start out in the hood in Englewood and
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  Speaker 1: up to no good. The final chapter, the final chapter
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  Speaker 1: of week number five in the NFL as an epic
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  Speaker 1: made-for-TV matchup. A couple of MVPs going at it there.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen leading the Bills Mafia. They rode the bus
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  Speaker 1: and the wheels on the bus go round and round,
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  Speaker 1: round and round, round and round. So the Bills Mafia
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  Speaker 1: rolling into SoFi. A matchup with Matthew Stafford and the L.A. Rams.
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  Speaker 1: You had Joe Bach, Troy Aikman. spewing cliches on television,
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  Speaker 1: as they often do on ABC. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching this or not. I can't imagine you were
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  Speaker 1: locked in on the Guardians and the Rays. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Holy crap. They're actually playing that. They're in the Final Four.
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  Speaker 1: My God. Anyway, we were watching the football. We did
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  Speaker 1: flip over to the baseball. There were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: timeouts in these NFL games. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: know about that. There's a lot of downtime in the NFL. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there are. So we watched, so you would not have to.
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  Speaker 1: And Josh Allen, not exactly lighting the world on fire
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  Speaker 1: through the air. However, he ended up with 331 total yards.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that on the ground. A couple of touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: And Buffalo. gave the game away and still ended up
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  Speaker 1: winning the game. They gave the game away. And the
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  Speaker 1: Rams said, we don't want the game. We can't handle
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  Speaker 1: the game. We don't need the game. We'll give it
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  Speaker 1: back to you. And so the Bills, by the skin
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  Speaker 1: on their chinny-chin-chin, edge the Rams 37-34 in overtime. Allen
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  Speaker 1: had 210 yards. It didn't seem like he even had
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  Speaker 1: that many. 121 yards on the ground. And for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in Josh Allen's career, he's actually not lost
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  Speaker 1: an overtime game. He's lost every overtime game. Finally won
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  Speaker 1: an overtime game. Somebody named Greg Rousseau was credited with
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  Speaker 1: a block. A blocked field goal attempt. The Rams were
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  Speaker 1: set up to win the game in overtime. And then
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  Speaker 1: they're crediting with a block. The kick would have missed anyway.
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  Speaker 1: It was very, if you saw the, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of you are blind, but for those of you that
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  Speaker 1: were able to watch the game-winning field goal attempt by
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  Speaker 1: the thicker kicker, who will soon be the unemployed kicker,
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  Speaker 1: the kick was shanked so much, the block actually made
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  Speaker 1: it seem less ugly. Laughter. Anyway, Buffalo's kicker apparently doesn't suck.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Bass drilled a 45-yard field goal with 155 remaining
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. And turn out the lights, the party's over.
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  Speaker 1: So despite Matthew Stafford throwing for almost 400 yards against
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  Speaker 1: that pathetic Bills defense, that is not a championship defense
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  Speaker 1: in Buffalo. 383 yards, three touchdowns. The better story is
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  Speaker 1: in the Rams' locker room, so we're going to start
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  Speaker 1: with that. My God. Sean McVay, the genius coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, Sean McVay. What was that? What was that
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  Speaker 1: special teams performance by Sean McVay? Holy crap on a cracker.
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  Speaker 1: It was bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Here is McVay.
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  Speaker 1: explaining some of the emotion of the night. This one is,
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  Speaker 1: this is the one, this stings.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to hurt, but we can't afford to
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  Speaker 3: let it, we can't let this team beat us twice.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to have to regroup and reset ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: And it's been a while since I've been this pissed
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  Speaker 3: after a game two. I'm proud of the effort, but
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  Speaker 3: none of, none of it, none of how I feel
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  Speaker 3: is positive other than I'm proud of the resilience, the
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  Speaker 3: guts that our team displayed, but there's no, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know what you want to call it,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, congrats to the bills and I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: about how we freaking move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Freaking move forward. I'm excited about that. All right. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like he's given a similar sentence, very similar to
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  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni. Sirianni says the same thing after the Eagles lose.
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay says the same thing after the Rams lose.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while since I've been this pissed. At
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  Speaker 1: least the Rams didn't fly into the game. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: fly out to Alaska and fly back right before the game.
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  Speaker 1: Good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, what
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  Speaker 1: does Sean McVay do about the latest Rams special teams debacle.
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  Speaker 1: And make no mistake, they are very special there, the
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  Speaker 1: Rams special teams. They drive the little bus. The little bus,
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  Speaker 1: little bus, little bus. All right, so I've got Ray Charles,
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  Speaker 1: La Brea Tar Pits, and DoorDash. And we will combine all.
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  Speaker 1: All of these things together. And we are going to
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  Speaker 1: put foot in mouth, much like the Rams kicker would
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  Speaker 1: have been better off if he put his foot in
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  Speaker 1: his mouth rather than on the football. So my advice
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  Speaker 1: here to Sean McVay and the Rams regarding the special
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  Speaker 1: teams is to practice horticulture. What are you talking about, Maller?
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain. Cut out the deadwood. Cut out, even
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  Speaker 1: if you're not a green thumb, cut out the deadwood.
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  Speaker 1: This is not complicated. Sean McVay needs to become a
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  Speaker 1: landscape architect. The Rams special teams are not a department.
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  Speaker 1: They're not. They're a government-funded disaster relief program at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And anything good the Rams do on offense and defense
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  Speaker 1: is null and void for When you look at the
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  Speaker 1: special teams, now listen, the Rams should be 3-2. We
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  Speaker 1: all know that. The NFL gave the Broncos a win
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  Speaker 1: they didn't deserve for whatever reason. That's the reality. The
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  Speaker 1: NFL is a corrupt organization, so they're okay with that.
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  Speaker 1: Most organizations would correct a wrong like that. The NFL
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  Speaker 1: does not, much like the big footy in college football.
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  Speaker 1: They don't do that anyway. But the point is not that.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about the Rams special teams here. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're McVay, you go down to Home Depot or Lowe's,
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  Speaker 1: you get some pruning shears, you fire up the wood chipper,
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  Speaker 1: and you start removing the dead branches from the Rams
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  Speaker 1: special team operation. And we're looking at a two-for-one special here.
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  Speaker 1: unsolicited overnight talk radio advice to Sean McVay and the
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  Speaker 1: Rams two for one termination special. Yeah. You bring out
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  Speaker 1: the Turk and you say, Hey Turk, go get me.
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  Speaker 1: Can you get me Bubba Ventrone? Who the F is
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  Speaker 1: Bubba Ventrone? Apparently that is the special teams coordinator for
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. and get him, can you get me the
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  Speaker 1: thicker kicker? Okay, we'll bring him in. Harrison Mivas, who's
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  Speaker 1: just ass, as Cam Ward would say, get both those
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  Speaker 1: guys and invite them into Human Resources, and you say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we have a nice big severance package for you. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your service, and we're going to give
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  Speaker 1: you the thicker kicker, a bigger severance package because you're thick,
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  Speaker 1: and get your cardboard box, You got 30 minutes to
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  Speaker 1: get all your belongings and leave in an orderly fashion.
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  Speaker 1: And as an added bonus, though, we're going to crank
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  Speaker 1: up some Ray Charles playing over the speakers while you
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  Speaker 1: clean out your stuff. And leave to never be seen again.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to play hit the road, Jack. And
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  Speaker 1: don't you come back no more. Get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: We would rather see, at this point, Bubba Gump coach
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  Speaker 1: the Rams special teams. That's how pathetic these losers are
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  Speaker 1: on special teams for the Rams. Bring in Bubba Gump
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  Speaker 1: to coach the special teams. Why not? At least he
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  Speaker 1: knows how to run a shrimp boat. Okay, that's better
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  Speaker 1: than the Rams special teams coach. Holy crap. Like, what
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  Speaker 1: do you practice? Are the players too good to play
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  Speaker 1: special teams? They can't be bothered? Do they even coach it? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? It's been every week, five weeks
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  Speaker 1: of this crap. And the kicking's bad. How about the
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  Speaker 1: coverage units? It's Pop Warner.
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  Speaker 4: Go cover.
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  Speaker 1: You should not be allowing the amount of return yardage,
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  Speaker 1: the punt return, the kick return. It's embarrassing. It's absolutely embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: The defense is not great, but the special teams is worse.
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  Speaker 1: The offense is pretty fine for the Rams. My God.
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  Speaker 1: Just fire them. Fire everyone. You're fired. You're fired. You're fired.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of here. Now, as for who replaces the
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  Speaker 1: thicker kicker, this is what becomes a quagmire for the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: because there is a bunch of slop out there at
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  Speaker 1: the kicker position. There's one guy who's probably washed up,
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  Speaker 1: but his head and shoulders above everyone else, but he's
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  Speaker 1: so taboo, you can't touch him. But would they? Would
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  Speaker 1: they do it? Justin Tucker, late of the Ravens, decorated
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  Speaker 1: kicker in Baltimore. And his career ended because of some massages,
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  Speaker 1: which apparently went sideways. And he didn't get as much
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  Speaker 1: publicity as Deshaun Watson, but there was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: massage activity there. Yeah, Tucker had quite the nicknames there.
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  Speaker 1: So he's the top kicker. He's the top guy available.
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  Speaker 1: And would the Rams go? There is. sean mcveigh desperate
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  Speaker 1: enough to not have to go for it on fourth
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  Speaker 1: down the rams were the other thing is they knew
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  Speaker 1: their kicker stinks and they still went for oh let's
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  Speaker 1: just you know kind of not go for the touchdown
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  Speaker 1: we'll just try to kick a field goal In overtime. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, they said it was blocked, but he would
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  Speaker 1: have missed it anyway and all that stuff. So does
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  Speaker 1: McVay own a hazmat suit to go out and bring
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  Speaker 1: in Justin Tucker? And would he do that? Would he
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  Speaker 1: venture down Radioactive Highway? Tucker, by the way, lives in
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  Speaker 1: a nice one-bedroom apartment in Chernobyl at this particular point
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of the NFL. All right, now as
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  Speaker 1: for the big picture, the Rams, who should be 3-2
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  Speaker 1: but are not 3-2 thanks to the NFL, they are
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  Speaker 1: instead 2-3. Remember they mentioned the game in Denver, which
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  Speaker 1: was gifted to the Broncos. They did not earn it. So, question,
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  Speaker 1: is this 2026 Rams season a lost cause for Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Donald and friends? Is the 2026 season, the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: under 500, we're five games into the season here, a
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  Speaker 1: lost cause for Aaron Donald's Rams. So I'm shaking my
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  Speaker 1: head no. And there are many of you, based on
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  Speaker 1: the email that I briefly opened, which was a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bad job by me. Many of you are
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  Speaker 1: preparing the funeral. You're making the funeral potatoes. You've got
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  Speaker 1: that ready to go here. However, we checked with the L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County Coroner's Office, and the corpse is still breathing. Much
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  Speaker 1: to the dismay of J.J. and Renton and Nostradinus, who
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure popped a chubby. He was so excited. All
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  Speaker 1: the haters out there, oh, they love it. I get it, schadenfreude.
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  Speaker 1: You guys all rip me, but schadenfreude is really fun.
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  Speaker 1: Schadenfreude is so much fun. Taking joy. out of the
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  Speaker 1: misery of others. It's just great. But everyone acting like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams fell into the La Brea Tar Pits and
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  Speaker 1: there's no getting out. That's it. Relax. We are 30%...
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  Speaker 1: through the NFL season. So, yeah, the Rams can forget
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  Speaker 1: about being an all-time great NFL regular season team. That's
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  Speaker 1: off the table. You don't lose three out of your
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  Speaker 1: first five and become an all-time great team. So this
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be a story of legendary soup-to-nuts
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  Speaker 1: domination for the Rams. That's it. Somehow, the Rams have
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  Speaker 1: done the impossible. They went from, will they go undefeated?
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  Speaker 1: Bill Plasky. Long in the tooth, washed up sports writer
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  Speaker 1: said they'd go 16, 17, 17, you know, there's only
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  Speaker 1: 16 games a few years ago. So 17 and 0
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  Speaker 1: made that bold decree. And they've gone from everyone picking
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  Speaker 1: them to win. Now they're the underdogs. Nobody believes in
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  Speaker 1: the Rams anymore. It's all over. It's all over for
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. Even though literally every man, woman, and child
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  Speaker 1: picked the Rams to win the Super Bowl a month
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  Speaker 1: and a half ago. So Matthew Stafford and friends there,
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  Speaker 1: I recommend going down to Costco, the optical department at Costco.
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  Speaker 1: Go down there. Read the vision chart. Keep your eye
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  Speaker 1: on the Lombardi Prize. The Rams do not need... to
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  Speaker 1: win the NFC West beauty contest. They do not need
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  Speaker 1: to worry about that. They just need to make sure
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  Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs. I don't think you've put yourself
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  Speaker 1: in position to win the Super Bowl if you're not
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. So you have to be in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs there, get a ticket to the dance party. And
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  Speaker 1: unlike the 49ers, who are clearly peaking too soon, the
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  Speaker 1: Rams don't have to worry about peaking too soon. They're not.
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  Speaker 1: They got their eye on the prize, the Lombardi there,
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  Speaker 1: and you cannot win it in September or October. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: you could lose it in September and October, but the
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  Speaker 1: Rams are right in the middle of the pack. Right
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the pack right there. Meanwhile, on
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo side, there's a lot of Bills propaganda going
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  Speaker 1: around right now as the Buffalo Bills get the win
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  Speaker 1: that shouldn't have been a win but was a win
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  Speaker 1: and all that. Everyone's all excited. So the question, does
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  Speaker 1: this victory... Over the LRMs, validate Josh Allen and the
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  Speaker 1: Bills as a legit heavyweight. So that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a no. On this side of the microphone, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: look at that Bills team and think, boy, this team
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  Speaker 1: is ready. They are ready for a playoff matchup with
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City, somebody along those lines. I didn't see that.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to be a no from me, dog,
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  Speaker 1: regarding the elite status of the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo, I
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  Speaker 1: felt like this was a wobbly performance by the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: And if I was in Bills Mafia, I would not
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  Speaker 1: be very happy right now. Now you're probably too intoxicated
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  Speaker 1: to realize that at this point. I get it. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: You're feeling happy and all that. Joe Brady, the new
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  Speaker 1: head coach there, not impressing anyone. At least not on
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  Speaker 1: this side. Maybe you're impressed, but we're not impressed there.
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  Speaker 1: The Bills are an undisciplined football team. They committed 13
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  Speaker 1: penalties for 112 yards. That is a systemic problem that
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  Speaker 1: will absolutely kill you. Mark my words, you're cooked if
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  Speaker 1: you can't straighten that out before the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: So they're not disciplined. And they got that problem. Buffalo's
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  Speaker 1: like a, as a football team, it's like the guy
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  Speaker 1: that has the $ 200, 000 sports car and goes out and
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  Speaker 1: does these drag races and wins the drag races because
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  Speaker 1: the other guy's car keeps blowing a tire. That's essentially
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  Speaker 1: what happened here. The Rams blew a tire is what happened.
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  Speaker 1: James Cook ordered up. Ram victory on DoorDash. He said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: let me go on my phone. I got my app here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go on DoorDash and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: get you a very nice, solid victory. All right. Right
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  Speaker 1: down to the V for victory right there. James Cook
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  Speaker 1: ordered it up on the app and the DoorDash delivery
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  Speaker 1: guy showed up to the door, knocked on the door
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  Speaker 1: and then rang the doorbell just like that. And then
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, the Rams refused to answer the door.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bad job by them. So, meanwhile, the Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Bills offense, it's like a three-ring circus. You've got the
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  Speaker 1: Lion Tamer. Josh Allen's not only the Lion Tamer. He's
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  Speaker 1: the trapeze artist. He's the human cannonball. It's a one-man show.
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  Speaker 1: He only had 12 completions. Josh Allen had 12 completions
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  Speaker 1: in a game that went late into overtime. 50% of
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  Speaker 1: his passing yards. He had 210 passing yards. 50% came
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  Speaker 1: on a couple of broken plays in this game. And
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  Speaker 1: so you look at that, all the rushing yards, it's
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  Speaker 1: like the Rams' containment was terrible, but Josh Allen's a
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  Speaker 1: heavyweight running back masquerading as a quarterback. At least he
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  Speaker 1: was in this game on Monday night against the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: And if it hadn't been for the generosity of the
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  Speaker 1: thicker kicker, we'd be having a much different conversation right
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  Speaker 1: now about the Buffalo Bills. It's just not sustainable. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not impressed with the Bills here at this point.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to win anything, so don't worry about that.
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  Speaker 1: The real story isn't told on the field.
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  Speaker 5: It's written in the lives of the people who left here,
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  Speaker 5: who started as students in Happy Valley and became forces
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  Speaker 5: in the world. This is Who We Are, Penn State,
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  Speaker 5: brought to you by the Penn State Alumni Association, a
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  Speaker 5: show where distinguished graduates return to share their stories. Hosted
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  Speaker 5: by me, College Football Hall of Famer LeVar Arrington. Available
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  Speaker 5: now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: We go to Milwaukee. The early game, they had double
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  Speaker 1: barrel action. The baseball playoff game, number two of the NLCS.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers and the Brewers just up the road from
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  Speaker 1: the Cheese Castle in Kenosha. It was on Fox. You
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  Speaker 1: better watch. Joe Davis, no laryngitis. Some of you wish
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  Speaker 1: he had laryngitis. He did not. Joe Davis and John
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  Speaker 1: Smoltz had the call as L.A. looking to even up
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  Speaker 1: the series at 1-1. Did you watch? Were you engaged
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  Speaker 1: in this? Perhaps not, but William Contreras, getting her done.
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  Speaker 1: Getting her done. William Contreras of the Milwaukee baseball team
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  Speaker 1: hit a tying ding-dong in the fifth inning and singled
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  Speaker 1: home the go-ahead run. An inning later, the Brewers adding
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  Speaker 1: on some insurance runs late. They defeat the once-proud Dodgers 7-4.
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  Speaker 1: In the early game on Monday, Game 2 of the
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  Speaker 1: NL Championship Series on Fox, the relief pitchers, Dustin May,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that looks like Carrot Top, Jojo Romero, whoever
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  Speaker 1: that is, Abner Uribe, and Aaron Ashby, those pitchers combined.
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  Speaker 1: To emasculate the Dodger lineup, one of the most pathetic
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  Speaker 1: playoff showings I've seen in Dodger history, as those guys
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  Speaker 1: combined to retire the final 15 Dodger batters. Embarrassing. Embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: The Milwaukee bullpen. They're good. You're supposed to be as good. Embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: So the Brewers win 2-0. They lead the two-time defending
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: World Series champion, the reigning champions of the World Series.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: They're the Dodgers' best of seven series, which now heads
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to La La Land. And that'll be on Wednesday. wednesday
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: so no dodger brewers game on tuesday even though they
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: could easily play the game they travel all the time
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: it's not that big a deal but they have a
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: day off so that means we're gonna have one game
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to watch baseball wise cleveland and tampa You've been punished. Anyway,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: so the Dodgers and Brewers will wait till Wednesday. The
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. So that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: is where we will begin in a good jumping off point.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers, let's go wide angle lens here, wide angle lens.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: So as we discussed the question, who gets the blame
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: street taco for Dave Roberts, Dodgers losing game two, to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee baseball team. So I've got captain's chair, Wayne Gretzky,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and instructional manual. And we will combine all of these
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to put the biscuit
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: in the basket is what we're going to do. So
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: we always start out with number one. Number one.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: One, one, one, one, one.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Number one. I said one. Number one. So I'm actually
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: going to start on the mound. As embarrassing as the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Dodger offense is, I feel like the story to me
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: was on the mound. And I played a role in this.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Some of you have pointed that out to me, you
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a-holes who email me all the time and I don't
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: write back. So let me explain. So I'm going to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: start with the mound because I feel like that's the story.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers anticipated, I would go as far as to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: say expected, a masterpiece on the mound. What they received
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: was a finger painting from a child. That's what they got.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: There's really no other way to say it. This was
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: supposed to be guaranteed win day for Yoshinobu Yamamoto on
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the mound. It's the one name that you circle there.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And you say, that's going to be a win. Permanent marker.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I'm going to circle that. That's a win. And instead,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: he went from Mr. October, which is what Yoshinobu Yamamoto
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: had been, Mr. Reliable, Dependable, Mr. October, to Mr. Softy
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: in less than three innings. What was that? That was terrible.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Absolutely terrible. Just two and two-thirds inning. 75 pitches. 75
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: pitches for Yamamoto in two and two-thirds innings. He got
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a nice early shower. Job not done. Job not done.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Here is Dave Roberts commenting on Yamamoto and how bad
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: he was.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Obviously wasn't sharp.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: You think?
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Just wasn't sharp today.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: You think?
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: You can see from that contrarious at-bat in the third inning,
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: that really stressed him. Then you follow that up with
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: the powers at-bat. You know, at that point in time,
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: once the breaking ball, Tienk's the breaker, Yelich gets a hit,
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: we've got to find a way to put it out.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: But tonight, he just didn't have it tonight, which is
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: very rare.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: It's actually an afternoon game. At least Dave Roberts didn't
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: say I liked him in that spot, so that's a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: step in the right direction. 75 pitches to get eight outs.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: 75 effing pitches to get eight outs. Yeah. Yamamoto. Now,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: he did get to sit in the captain's chair tonight.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: He was flying the vomit comet. He had the seatbelt
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: fastened right there. Barf bag had been deployed. Turbulence over Wisconsin. God, unbelievable.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: That is wild. 75 pitches for eight outs. That is
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: a vomit comet performance for Yamamoto. And the whammy was
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: sitting on his shoulder. Like a 400-pound wild beast eating
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: cheese curds. Saying, what are you looking at? Well, I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: don't understand. He went down to the haberdashery, Yamamoto, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: he got fitted for a seat for choke. Right there,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: put that on the jacket there. That was a choke job.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And as far as the way that I played a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: role in this, some of you have pointed out that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I had put the whammy on Yamamoto. In a previous
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: episode of the show, we delivered a Mallor monologue pointing
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: out how Yamamoto was the anti-Clayton Kershaw. that this is
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a guy, unlike Kershaw, who caused Dodger fans heartburn and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: cost the franchise at least two World Series because of
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: his incompetence in the postseason. Yamamoto is the antithesis of that,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: that he's not that guy. And then immediately the baseball
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: gods sent us an invoice and said, not so fast,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: my friend. And it was an express delivery, vintage Clayton
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Kershaw October clunker, In fact, if I put the stat
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: line in front of you and I said, is that
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Kershaw or Yamamoto, you'd say, well, that's Kershaw. Well, no, no,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: it was Yamamoto doing a cosplay of Clayton Kershaw at
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the worst possible time. Now, keeping the beat going, the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Dodgers find themselves down two games to none. And the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: problems are all over the place. Here's Dave Roberts commenting
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: on the fact that the Milwaukee lineup, which pales in
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: comparison in terms of name brand value to the Dodgers lineup,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: but they actually have to play the games and the
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Brewers hitters, well, they're just apparently better.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: I think for me, just in total, they saw a
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: ton more pitches than we did. They had much better
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: at bats than we did across the board, top to bottom.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: And then they put the ball in play, created havoc,
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: and that's what they do. And we didn't do that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: And so that's the difference in the game.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers really never do that. Let's be real here.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: That's not the way they play baseball. They just sit
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: around like every modern team run by nerds. Let's just
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: hit as many home runs as we can. And if
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: we hit more home runs than the other team, we're
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: going to win the game. That's the Dodger way of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: playing baseball. It's worked out pretty well. They've won a lot.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: A lot of championships here. This is the dominant team
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: in professional baseball. That's just the way they play. So
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: let's not pretend like they can play any other way.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: That's all they can do. Now the Dodgers are down
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: two games to none. Freddie Freeman, the series is over, right?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: The series is all over, Freddie Freeman.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Now we've got Blake and Glasnow. Still a pretty good
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: scenario we're in. We're just going to Hit better on Wednesday.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: It's going to be a great series. They know they've
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: got a lot on their hands, too. We're just going
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: to come out here on Wednesday and play better. It's
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: hard to win games when you only get three hits.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: So regroup tomorrow and go get them on Wednesday.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Sounds like he's mumbling. Everything okay, Freddie?
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you also had Tarek Skubal and Yamamoto,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: and you lost both those games. So, why would we depend?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Blake Snell's going to go, what, four and a third innings?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: If you're lucky? He's a loser. All right. Anyway, let's
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: ask the question. Are the Dave Roberts Dodgers in serious trouble?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Or is everyone overreacting after a couple of losses on
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the road in the playoffs here? So, this team has issues.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: There's really no other way around it. They clearly have
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: some issues here. The Brewers are beating the Dodgers, and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: they're not doing it with smoke and mirrors. This is
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: not some kind of one-off where you say it's not sustainable.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers are losing these games to Milwaukee, and Milwaukee's
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: winning because of well-timed singles here, situational hitting, hitting behind runners.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: The fundamentals, which are not nerd-approved. They are not. You're
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: not supposed to play that way. The Brewers are playing
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: that way, and they've always played that way in recent years,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and it's worked out pretty well for them. The bullpen
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: for Milwaukee turned into Fort Knox. And meanwhile, the Dodgers,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: they roll out a line. I was thinking about this
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: watching the Dodgers attempt to score runs. And you look
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: at the Dodger lineup, and it costs more than the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: GDP of many small island nations. That are out there
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: in the Pacific and the Atlantic, right? They spend a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: lot of money in that lineup. And yet, the way
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: they're hitting right now, they might as well go up
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: there with a nice pool noodle and see what you
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: can do. They look like a bunch of zombies out there.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: And you're not going against the creme de la creme.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: If I said, hey, you got to be really worried
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: here because of Jojo Romero, Journeyman Dustin May, who looks
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: like Carrot Top, Abner Uribe, and Aaron Ashby. You'd be like, what?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Scared of that? What are we doing? So, it's more
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: about the Dodgers approach than anything. They look like zombies.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: That's the word I keep going back to, zombies there.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: It's getting a little toasty. On the Maller scale of panic,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the Maller scale of panic for the D-O-D-G-E-R-S, Dodgers, on
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: a scale of 1 to 10, we are sitting at
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a solid 7 for the Dodgers. Now, some of you
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: seem to think the series is already over. It is not.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I'm here to report it is not a best of three. So,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Just because the Brewers have won two, that does not
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: mean the Dodgers are now eliminated, even though you want
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: that to happen. The Dodgers have been exposed. I think
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: we can say that. Talent is great. The names on
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the back of the uniform are frickin' wonderful. Unfortunately, you
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: still have to play the games, which is problematic at
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: this point. And right now, you could bring in NHL
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: commentator Wayne Gretzky. Terrible TV commentator Wayne Gretzky. You could
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: bring Gretzky in, and Wayne Gretzky would tell you, the
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: boys in blue... are playing NHL hockey. What do I
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: mean by that? The Dodgers lineup has not one but
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: two men in the penalty box. And really three. But
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I'll go with the two to make the point. Shohei
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Otani and Will Smith. The fresh prince of back to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the bench because you just made it out. So those
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: two guys are serving two-minute minor penalties. And it's dragged
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: on now for several playoff games. Tommy Tanks not exactly
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: getting the world.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: The game done there. He's had his issues. He's not performing.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: So the question now, there's some whispers that were clearly
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: leaked by the Dodger people. Everyone knows Otani's been terrible.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: He's the franchise. He's the moneymaker. He's the cash cow
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. They've made so much money from the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: people of Japan off Otani. They feel like they have
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to leave him in the lineup. And so there's this
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: story that was leaked recently. From somebody with the Dodgers
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: to the beat guys saying, hey, we might bench Ohtani
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: for game three. It's the whispers that the front office
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: is debating benching Ohtani. So do the Dodgers have the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: baseballs to do it? I don't buy it for a second.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I don't. Since August 19th, Otani has no home runs.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: He is an automatic out at this point. Nobody's afraid
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: of Otani right now. Will they be afraid of him
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: next year? Probably. They're not afraid of him right now.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: He's earned a benching. The contract and the amount of
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: endorsement money and money the Dodgers have made off him
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: make it highly unlikely they will actually do it. I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong. He does deserve to be benched. He
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: is causing the Dodgers to play shorthanded when he's out there.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: He's just not very good right now at baseball, which
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: seems to be problematic. All right, now final point to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee side of things. So how are things looking
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: for Pat Murphy's brew crew? Well, obviously it's looking pretty good.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Sunny days. Sunny days. Don't get too many of those
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, but sunny days for the Brew Crew. It
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: has been a paint-by-numbers situation. Paint-by-numbers situation. The Brew Crew
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: have followed the instruction manual to a T. Perfection so
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: far for Milwaukee. We mentioned they're not afraid of Otani.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: They're not. They don't pitch around him. They want Otani.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: This is how bad Otani is. The other team wants
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: him up. They know they can get him out. They
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: know they can get him out. There's no decoy, no
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: fear factor with Otani. The Brewers are like, hey, listen,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: we'll put any one of our pitchers out there and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: we'll get this guy out. That's it. And so that's
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: where we are. The fear factor is completely gone with Otani.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: The Brewers are loving it. And they've turned the Dodgers'
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: supposedly dominant starting pitching, Tarek Skubal, all those accolades, all
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: those awards, and Yamamoto, the first two games. And these
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: guys have been Jags. Not Jacksonville Jags, just a guy.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: And just a guy. And the Milwaukee Bullpen, big numbers,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: great stats, all that stuff. They go in there throwing
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: darts and a bunch of no-names and a bunch of
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: chain-smoking hustlers at an Irish pub, and they're getting it done.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Absolutely getting it done, and everything's coming up cheese curds
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: right now for the Milwaukee baseball team. But I would
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: tell you to hold the champagne just yet. As bleak
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: as things look for the Dodgers, and as good as
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee looks, the good news is there is no such
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: thing as momentum. Otherwise, the Padres would have gotten to
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: this point. You all told me they had all the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: momentum and won all those games at the end of
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the season. But there is no such thing as momentum,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: so it doesn't really matter. The Brewers have won a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: couple games, and that's great and wonderful and all that stuff.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: But as the old baseball proverb goes, a playoff series
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: does not start until somebody wins on the road. For example,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the ALCS has started because the Cleveland, used to be
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: called Indians, won a game on the road. So that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: has begun that series. Milwaukee has yet to win on
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the road. So now comes a business trip to La
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: La Land. And the Brewers, good luck. Maybe they'll have
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: some success down your skid row there. Win one at
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. You win one at Dodger Stadium, and then
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: you can start taking the champagne out of the ice bucket.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Just win one game at Dodger Stadium. And the Dodgers
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: are up against it. They are up against it. Until then, though,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy, who we like, the Brewers manager, he's still
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: got to get those two wins. Then he gets the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: boarding pass. To the World Series. So some unfinished business here.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Things are going well right now. Let's not get too
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: carried away with this. Too carried away with this.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Be sure to.
• 34:42
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• 34:45
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• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Pacific. Here we go.
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: It's Maler.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: How about that? To the third degree. Are you ready?
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: All right, Koobaloo.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: The Arizona Cardinals ended up getting a second round pick
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: from the Texans for Marvin Harrison Jr., which has many
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: calling out Houston on social media. Ben, is this one
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: of the worst trades of all time? Calling out Houston
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: or Arizona?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Houston. Houston. giving a second-round pick? No, I mean, that's
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: not the worst trade of all time. He's not going
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: to do anything. We're going to talk more about this
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: actually next hour. He's not going to do much. Who cares?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I don't care about draft picks. You're asking the wrong guy.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I would trade all. I'd be Mike Ditka and trade
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: all my draft picks. I don't care about draft picks.
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: Next!
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: All I've heard since the Patriots beat up on the
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Raiders is that Drake May is back.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Looking like he's one of the best quarterbacks in the
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: NFL again. Ben, do you think this will serve as
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: a get-right game for May?
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: It's a good confidence booster for Drake May. They ran
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: up the score on the Raiders. It's always nice to
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: beat up a tomato can like the pathetic Raiders, but
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: we'll see how he does when they play a real
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: good team. The Raiders are not that.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Next! Brock Purdy is on pace to have his best
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: NFL season yet, and he has the 49ers off to
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: a 5-0 start.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Can we officially say that Purdy has proven the doubters
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: wrong at this point?
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: No, because he's not a good playoff quarterback. He's been
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: fine in the regular season. He sucks in the playoffs.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: You remember?
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: You forget about that. How'd we do, Kubalu? He passed.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: That is a way to put it on the bar!
• 36:07
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• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Welcome in our contestants. What do we got here for
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Mallard's Mountain of Money? We have Slug in Vegas, going
• 36:30
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• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the king of mashed potatoes? Hello, Slug. What's up?
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: You got the master recipe, right?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I do. I thank you for that. I have not
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: made it yet, but I do have the recipe, so
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I need to get on that because I did harass you.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: You know who else just had it the other night?
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Who's that?
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, really? He came by?
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: That's cool.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, no Cabroni that I worked with even recognized him. Well,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: he does look like a regular. He looks like a tourist, probably.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: But you think that the VIP chit that said cousins
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: would give.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: It away, but apparently it didn't. Not sports people? No.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: You work with not a lot of people. All right, well,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: who would you like to partner with? Slug, you got me, Coop,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: or Lorena?
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  Speaker 5: I've got to go with the master.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're in it. Very good. Lorena, pick one, two,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: or three, Lorena.
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  Speaker 4: Number one.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: All right, you have picked Brian in Minneapolis. Hello, Brian. Welcome.
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  Speaker 6: Hi, how are you guys doing?
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Brian? Welcome to the show. Good to
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: have you here. What do you do in the Twin Cities,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: real quick? I'm a demolition. I'm the demo guy. Oh,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the demo man. I got you. All right, well, who
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with?
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Coop.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Bad choice.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Good choice.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Bad choice.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: I love that again.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: All right, gentlemen.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: That's the winning recipe right there.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: No, it's not. That's a loser's recipe.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: I've won like the last five weeks in a row.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Slug makes the greatest match.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Mallard's Mountain of Money, the Paul Simon edition. He turns
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: 85 years old today.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Categories are The Sound of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water,
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: The Boxer, and Homeward Bound. Slug, which category would you like?
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The first one.
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  Speaker 4: The Sound of Silence.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that one. All right.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Brian, you got the Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Boxer,
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: or Homeward Bound?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: The Boxer. All right. All right, everyone hold on. We'll
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: have Mallard's Mountain of Money in its entirety. We'll get
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: to that, and we will do it next.
• 38:25
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• 38:33
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• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Mallard's Mountain of Money.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: All right, right to it. Slug, are you ready? This
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: is the Paul Simon edition. You picked the Sound of Silence,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I believe, yes? Yes, sir. All right. I'm with Slug.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Coop is with Brian, the demo guy from Minnesota. These
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: athletes let their play do the talking for them. 45
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: seconds on the clock. We need the first and last
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: name Slug from Vegas. We're on our way and go.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Japanese star for the Dodgers who's not playing well now.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Tom.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Yes. The star of the Denver Nuggets. He loves horses
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: and won a bunch of MVPs. They called it Jokic. Yes.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: All right. Star of the Claw. He was with the Clippers.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: He got in trouble with the salary. Why loser Leonard?
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Greatest wide receiver in Arizona Cardinals history. Larry Pitcher. Yes.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Fear the Fro with the Pistons back in the early 2000s.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Center for the Detroit Pistons.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Doug Wallace.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Yes. Greatest defensive shortstop for the Cleveland Indians. Played with
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners from Venezuela. Carlos All right. Washington Nationals
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: legend played with the Angels. Second baseman won the World Series.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: 160.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: It was Howie Kendrick and Omar Vizquel. Omar Vizquel.
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: I should have got Vizquel.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. All right. Go ahead.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: All right, Brian. We've got the boxer. These athletes never
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: hesitate to throw hands. Are you ready?
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I'm ready.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: 45 seconds. Let's begin.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Long time a warrior. He kicks people in the balls.
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  Speaker 4: uh uh raymond green yes all right uh this guy's
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: a wide receiver for the giants he just got let
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: go uh had the one-handed catch odell backham jr yes
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: uh this guy's nickname was the worm he was like
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: the enforcer on the bulls dennis rodman yes uh this
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: guy is on the san diego padres he started his
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: career with the baltimore orioles uh third baseman.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I'd pass. All right.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: This guy was a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: their best wide receiver of all time.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Steve Smith.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: Yes. This guy was a cornerback for the Patriots and
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: the Broncos. He snatched the chain off Michael Crabtree.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: All right. What was that?
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: 120. 120.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: All right. You're up again. Steve Smith, junior. Yeah. All right.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Coop.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: What do you want?
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: All right, Brian.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Do you want bridge over troubled water or homeward bound?
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: Homeward Bones.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: These athletes all return home to play for their hometown team.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: 45 seconds. Let's begin. The King from Cleveland.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: LeBron James.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Beast Mode running back for the Seattle Seahawks.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Marshawn Lance. Yes.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: The all-time hit king for the Cincinnati Reds.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Pete Rollins.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: The Rocket, pitcher for the Yankees and the Astros. Roger Clements.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: This guy was the Glide. He played for the Trail
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Blazers and the Houston Rockets. Clyde Drexler.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: This guy was a slugger for the Cleveland Indians. He
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: played for the White Sox also. Big white guy.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Jim Tomey.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: This guy was a Laker. He has like a female's name.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: All right. Long hair in the 70s?
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: No chance.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: No. Gail Goodrich, but good job.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: 360.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Slug. Bridge over troubled waters.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: These athletes are all considered great teammates. Are you ready, Slug?
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, 45 seconds. Greatest quarterback in
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Saints history. Yes, Big Poppy for the Red Sox. Somebody
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: turned down the radio. What else do we have? The
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: star for the San Antonio Spurs after David Robinson, the center.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: Big fundamental, Tim Duncan.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Yes. The guy for the Phillies. White guy for the Phillies.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Hits all the home runs. He played for the Red
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Sox and the Cubs. Came up with the Cubs. Go next.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: All right. Great. Longest tenured royal of all time. Dominican catcher.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: He's still with us.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: No chance.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Guard from UCLA. Played for the Celtics. Won
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: a championship with the Bucs, I believe, as well. In
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: the NBA right now, defensive star guard.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: No?
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's too bad. Oh, Slug, you didn't get Salvador Perez,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Drew Holiday, Kyle Schwarber. How do you not get Kyle Schwarber?
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: Kyle Schwarber!
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber!