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Hour 1 - Just a Tease · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom! Shakalaka! It's hour number one! Hour one, and a happy,
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Speaker 1: happy Wednesday to you. It is the 14th day of October.
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Speaker 1: It's my younger brother's birthday, so I've got to make
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Speaker 1: sure to give my younger brother a call today. He's
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Speaker 1: the one that lives in Wisconsin, so if you're in Appleton, Wisconsin,
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Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, say hello to my brother. My
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Speaker 1: younger brother, it's his birthday today, so make sure to
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Speaker 1: say hello to him. Here in hour number one, it's
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Speaker 1: the MLB Power Hour. Are you surprised the Dodgers decided not,
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Speaker 1: not to bench Shohei Ohtani against the Brew Crew in
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Speaker 1: game three? We'll talk about that. Also, in the ALCS,
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Speaker 1: did Freddy Peralta and the Rays win game number two,
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Speaker 1: or did Jose Ramirez and the Guardians lose the game?
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Speaker 1: Epic defensive blunder for Cleveland. We'll talk about that. Also,
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Speaker 1: how much stock do you put in Joe Girardi defending
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Speaker 1: current Yankees manager Aaron Boone, also slamming Jazz Chisholm? We'll
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Speaker 1: discuss what Girardi had to say. That and more. It's
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Speaker 1: a baseball-heavy hour. That's baseball, Susan. Here it is, hour
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Speaker 1: number one. It was all just a tease. That's all
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Speaker 1: it was. Welcome in the beginning of another night of
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Speaker 1: like october the nlcs is here streaming live on fox
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Speaker 1: one the back-to-back belly-to-belly world series champion dodgers taking on
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Speaker 1: the top-seeded brewers in an nlcs rematch game three resuming
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Speaker 1: on a wednesday night One series from the World Series
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Speaker 1: our lead. Don't bury the lead, my man. Our lead
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Speaker 1: is from baseball. Talking baseball. Yeah, it's the greatest time
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Speaker 1: of the year.
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Speaker 2: October.
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Speaker 1: And the playoffs going on. And we are heading down
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Speaker 1: an avenue of Armageddon for baseball. And part of me
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Speaker 1: does want this to happen. Part of me does want
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Speaker 1: this to happen because the owners seem hellbent on getting
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Speaker 1: a salary cap. Anybody that knows anything about life knows
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Speaker 1: you don't need a salary cap. Why would anyone endorse
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Speaker 1: a salary cap? Only dumb people endorse a salary cap.
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Speaker 1: But their whole argument in baseball is, hey, we got
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Speaker 1: to give the small guy a chance. The team is
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Speaker 1: too cheap to spend money. Okay, well, we're on the
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Speaker 1: cusp of a Milwaukee versus Cleveland or Tampa Bay World Series.
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Speaker 1: Be careful what you ask for. The NBA is living
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Speaker 1: that same life, by the way. The NBA is living
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Speaker 1: that same life. They did a lot to shut down
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Speaker 1: the smaller teams and all that. Well, the Knicks won.
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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Yeah, but San Antonio, you
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Speaker 1: had Oklahoma City. You got a lot of the smaller,
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Speaker 1: mid-sized markets that are having success in that sport. But
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Speaker 1: our lead this hour from Los Angeles and the baseball
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Speaker 1: playoffs here, the NLCS resumes on Fox 1, game number
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Speaker 1: three on a Wednesday night. At Chavez Ravine, there were
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Speaker 1: some convenient leaks, the Dodgers leaking to their useful idiots
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Speaker 1: in the media, the beat writers, that, hey, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: we might shut down baseball's unicorn. Benching, benching the big bopper.
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Speaker 1: who's a big flopper these days. Well, in the end,
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Speaker 1: Dodgers manager Dave Roberts confirming that if you thought Shohei
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Speaker 1: Ohtani was getting benched, you're a loser. Not happening. He
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Speaker 1: will remain in the lineup to go 0-4, possibly 0-5,
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Speaker 1: depending on how many at-bats he gets against Milwaukee. Roberts
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Speaker 1: said Ohtani was, quote, very convicted and adamant that he's
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Speaker 1: close to rediscovering his form. When I get called by management,
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Speaker 1: they say, you know, the show sucks, Ben. I say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but I'm close to being a good talk show host.
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Speaker 1: I'm real close to being a really good talk show host.
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Speaker 1: And they say, okay, we'll just let you keep talking.
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Speaker 1: You suck right now, but we'll let you keep talking. Sure,
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Speaker 1: why not? So, yeah, that's great. What a load of
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Speaker 1: bull crap. Does anyone buy that? Oh, yeah, he's close
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Speaker 1: to rediscovering his form. And he's healthy enough to play. Well,
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Speaker 1: either way, the Dodgers are in stranger danger zone. Now,
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Speaker 1: you don't go full sky is falling until you lose
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Speaker 1: a game at Dodger Stadium. Then you go sky is falling. Now,
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Speaker 1: you're going to have to win a game in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 1: They've already blown two chances on that. But the loss,
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Speaker 1: they lose the game on Wednesday night, one of these
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Speaker 1: games here at Dodger Stadium, and that's it. They're pretty
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Speaker 1: much cooked. The Blue Crew trailing the Brew Crew in
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Speaker 1: an all-crew matchup. 2-0 Milwaukee with the lead in the
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Speaker 1: National League Championship Series. And the possibility, the Dodgers, if
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Speaker 1: they don't get this done in the game on Wednesday night,
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Speaker 1: the nearly insurmountable 3-0 deficit in terms of Milwaukee being
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Speaker 1: in control here. Now, as far as Otani... They claim
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Speaker 1: he's got all these things wrong with him. Left knee inflammation. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my bicep! That hurts, too. The bicep's all left up
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Speaker 1: and whatnot there. So he's got this, that, and the
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Speaker 1: other thing as he tries to rediscover how to hit
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Speaker 1: a baseball. Okay, that is a good jumping-off point. Let
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Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Are you surprised? Are you surprised
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Speaker 1: that the Dodgers decided not, not to bench Shohei Ohtani?
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Speaker 1: So I've got Old World Mafia, Uzbekistan, and Lego set.
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Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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Speaker 1: we are going to make you a bologna sandwich. Because
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Speaker 1: if you believed that Otani was going to be benched,
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Speaker 1: you were eating the bologna sandwich. I hope you enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: Had some mustard or some ketchup or something like that.
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Speaker 1: because that was a bunch of baloney. The idea that
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Speaker 1: anyone would be surprised Ohtani didn't get benched, I look
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Speaker 1: at you cross-eyed, is what I do. The whole benching
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Speaker 1: story was a dog and pony show from the very beginning.
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Speaker 1: Nobody believed it, who has any common sense, for a second.
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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, the Dodgers are going to bench Shohei
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Speaker 1: Ohtani the same way Disneyland's going to say, you know what,
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Speaker 1: we're going to close Space Mountain because the line's too long. Well, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Ohtani is in this little chapter of Dodger baseball. Shohei
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Speaker 1: Ohtani is the godfather. He is. And following the old
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Speaker 1: world mafia principles of honor, tradition, respect, and dignity. There's
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Speaker 1: no way you can bench him. He deserves to be benched.
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Speaker 1: Is there anyone that disagrees with that? And you take
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Speaker 1: the name away, do a little Pepsi challenge, and you say,
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Speaker 1: all right, we have A and B, A and B,
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Speaker 1: player A, player B, take the names away. Otani be benched.
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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is not benching the boss. He's not benching
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Speaker 1: the boss. It's kind of like the janitor firing the
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Speaker 1: CEO if Dave Roberts were to bench Otani.
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Speaker 2: Come on.
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers, I'm telling you, I know some of the
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Speaker 1: people over there, they would rather play eight players versus
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Speaker 1: nine in the lineup, which is what they're doing, by
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Speaker 1: the way. Actually, it's like seven versus nine because Will
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Speaker 1: Smith sucks also. But they'd rather play shorthanded than disrespect
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Speaker 1: the golden goose, Shohei Ohtani. And they just showed you
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Speaker 1: their hand right now because he deserves to be benched.
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Speaker 1: He's a net negative. He's a liability. And the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: are not going to bench him. He's getting close. He's
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Speaker 1: getting close. Well, maybe he'll find his swing in December. Listen,
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Speaker 1: I understand there's financial ramifications here. The Dodgers are managing
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Speaker 1: a corporate relationship, not just a lineup. That's a factor,
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Speaker 1: whether you want to admit it or not. The boys
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Speaker 1: in blue are not just a baseball team. They are
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Speaker 1: a multi-billion dollar conglomerate. The Otani merchandising operation. It's the
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Speaker 1: Otani merchandising operation. And occasionally they'll play baseball. and whatnot
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Speaker 1: here in Milwaukee. They got to be loving this, right?
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Speaker 1: You're in Milwaukee. You're like, holy crap. This is great. Like,
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers are so arrogant. They think they can win
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Speaker 1: with one arm tied behind their back with Otani playing
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Speaker 1: the way he's playing right now. And Milwaukee's on the
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Speaker 1: power play, power play, power play in the NLCS. And
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Speaker 1: they are licking their chops. And for so long, teams
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Speaker 1: had the fear factor with Otani. They didn't want to
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Speaker 1: pitch to him. And now you look at it, it's
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Speaker 1: like they can't wait to pitch these Milwaukee Brewer pitchers
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Speaker 1: against Shohei Otani. And I don't blame them. Like, the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers are voluntarily playing without a designated hitter. It's pretty impressive. Otani,
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Speaker 1: by the way, batting 150 with a 411 OPS in
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Speaker 1: the postseason. I'm told that's not good. And one for seven.
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Speaker 1: With three strikeouts in the National League Championship Series, the
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Speaker 1: man is Mr. Automatica. In terms of an automatic out
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Speaker 1: for Shohei Ohtani, who I am convinced the amount of
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Speaker 1: bull crap coming from Dave Roberts that Ohtani could go
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Speaker 1: up to home plate blindfolded, holding a broomstick, and Dave
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Speaker 1: Roberts would call it a productive at-bat. Really liked him
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Speaker 1: in that spot, did you, Dave? Yeah, really did. All right,
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Speaker 1: now to the American League Championship Series. They actually played
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Speaker 1: a game on a Tuesday night there. We head to
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Speaker 1: the Sunshine State with Brian Anderson and Ron Darling and
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Speaker 1: Jeff Franker there on Turner Sports. Yeah, they're still in business.
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Speaker 1: I thought they went out of business when they lost
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Speaker 1: the NBA, but they're still in business. So there they were,
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Speaker 1: Brian Anderson, Brewers broadcaster. Must annoy him that he has
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Speaker 1: to do the other series. and not the Brewer Series,
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Speaker 1: and the Dodger guy gets to do the Dodger Series
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Speaker 1: for Fox, Joe Davis. But Freddy Peralta, who sucked at
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Speaker 1: a time you cannot suck for the Mets after being
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Speaker 1: pretty good for Milwaukee, Freddy Peralta threw not one, not two,
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Speaker 1: not three, not four, not five, six, six innings of
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Speaker 1: four-hit ball, and someone named Liam Hicks, we have no
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Speaker 1: idea who that is, apparently he's a baseball player, and
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Speaker 1: he had a two-run single, compliments of the generosity of
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Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez. Fielding error. And the Rays stun. Well, they
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Speaker 1: didn't really stun. They were supposed to win. But they
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Speaker 1: beat the Guardians 3-1. The final, the American League Championship Series,
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Speaker 1: best of five now tied 1-1. Game three of this
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Speaker 1: epic matchup for friends and family only will be Thursday
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Speaker 1: night back in northern Ohio. Weather permitting, there is some
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Speaker 1: rain today. in the forecast. So there is some rain.
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Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes there. The skipper of the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians. He gets the vote of confidence is what
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Speaker 1: he gets. Well, let's get the state of the Guardians
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Speaker 1: address here. The Cleveland Guardians tied 1-1 after losing. Stephen
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Speaker 1: Vogt is the manager and defensive blunders all over the place.
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Speaker 1: Here's what he had to say. And he rips one
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Speaker 1: to right down Apparently he sounded like a play-by-play guy.
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Speaker 1: That's why we don't play sound. Anyway, Stephen Vogt, 1-1.
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Speaker 1: Usual standard bull crap there from the manager. All right,
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Speaker 1: so here's the question. Did Freddy Peralta and the Rays
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Speaker 1: win this game? Or did Jose Ramirez and the Guardians
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Speaker 1: lose this game? That's the question. All right, so there's
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Speaker 1: only one correct answer, and you know if you've been
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Speaker 1: with the show a long time, the better stories in
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Speaker 1: losing locker room. Most games are lost, not won. This
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Speaker 1: is what kind of punch was this for the team
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Speaker 1: formerly known as the Tribe? This was a body blow,
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Speaker 1: body blow, body blow. October baseball, I am told, is
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Speaker 1: about a lot of things. One of the things it's
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Speaker 1: about is concentration. You got to have concentration. And Jose
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Speaker 1: Ramirez was, it looked like, mentally chasing butterflies while the
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Speaker 1: game was chasing him, which generally is not a good strategy.
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Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta was good. I'm not going to reign all
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Speaker 1: over Freddy Peralta. He was good. He was. Jose Ramirez, though,
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Speaker 1: suffering from a Cat 5 brain fog, a Category 5
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Speaker 1: brain fog that For Jose Ramirez, he had so much
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Speaker 1: fog upstairs. How much fog did he have? Thanks for asking.
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Speaker 1: He had so much fog upstairs that he had enough
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Speaker 1: to qualify to go over to Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights,
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Speaker 1: and he could have gone over there and supplied the fog.
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Speaker 1: That's it. The man had a complete cranial power outage.
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Speaker 1: as Jose Ramirez's brain buffering like a pirated NFL stream
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Speaker 1: from Uzbekistan. I'm sure no one watches those streams. You
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Speaker 1: should not do that. Bad job by you. And Jose Ramirez,
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Speaker 1: you live by Jose Ramirez's bat, you die by Jose
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Speaker 1: Ramirez's glove, and you see how it all turns out.
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Speaker 1: But he's an elite player who temporarily... temporarily turned into
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Speaker 1: a guy trying to remember, you know, you ever walked
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Speaker 1: into the kitchen? You get old enough to walk into
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Speaker 1: the kitchen. It's like, why did I walk here? Why
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Speaker 1: am I in the kitchen? I don't understand. Like, what
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Speaker 1: am I supposed to do here? I must have left something.
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Speaker 1: I don't get it. So he was caught napping. That's it. Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they're not good enough to give a
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Speaker 1: game away. And we will never know whether the Guardians
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Speaker 1: would have won this game had they played a clean game.
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Speaker 1: But we do know they lost it because they gave
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Speaker 1: the game to Tampa Bay. They did. This game was
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Speaker 1: delivered by Jose Ramirez, United States Postal Service. Congratulations there.
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Speaker 1: And all Tampa Bay had to do was sign the
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Speaker 1: certified mail, little thingamajig there, and they got the W.
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Speaker 1: And they did. So that said, this series too close
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Speaker 1: to call after two games. And these teams, are they exciting?
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Speaker 1: Hell no! They're not that exciting, but they are separated
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Speaker 1: by millimeters.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Yes. And people have said, well, are you going to
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Speaker 1: talk about the World Series if it's Tampa Bay, Cleveland
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Speaker 1: versus Milwaukee, one of those two? And I said, well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we might do it on the Fifth Hour podcast. We
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Speaker 1: might have to do that. Anyway, last word to the Bronx,
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Speaker 1: where former Yankee manager Joe Girardi passionately defending Aaron Boone.
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Speaker 1: Do you see this? Now, Girardi suggesting that this past
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Speaker 1: season might have been the best managerial season for Aaron Boone.
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Speaker 1: And we thought this was originally at the improv. This
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Speaker 1: was some stand-up comedy here. Apparently he was not joking.
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Speaker 1: Girardi praising Aaron Boone for overcoming adversity. All the adversity. Oh, my.
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Speaker 1: And shifting from an offensive-driven team to a pitching-heavy team,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees, and juggling the bullpen and all that. But
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Speaker 1: it wasn't all sunshine, rainbows, and lollipops. As Girardi did
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Speaker 1: get out his Astro Blaster and take some shots at
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Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm. for saying that his reckless defensive play there
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Speaker 1: in Game 2 of the ALCS, he was going to
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Speaker 1: do that again. Girardi said, no, you can't do the
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Speaker 1: same thing. It didn't work. Girardi also questioning the lack
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Speaker 1: of accountability in the Yankee clubhouse as he cited the
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Speaker 1: repeated mental mistakes that the Yankees had this past season,
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Speaker 1: base-running blunders and players sliding past bases. Just a dumb
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Speaker 1: baseball team. Just a dumb baseball team. All right, so
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Speaker 1: the question. How much stalk do you put on Joe
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Speaker 1: Girardi defending the Yankees manager Aaron Boone and slamming Jazz Chisholm?
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Speaker 1: So I put down zero, zilch, nada as the Girardi
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Speaker 1: endorsement of Aaron Boone. is worth less than expired Chuck E.
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Speaker 1: Cheese tokens from back in the day when they used
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Speaker 1: to have tokens. It's an absolute no-purchasing-power situation. Now, the
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Speaker 1: most interesting part in many ways is Joe Girardi talking
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Speaker 1: about the lack of accountability in the Yankee locker room,
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Speaker 1: which is really calling out Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is
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Speaker 1: the El Capitan of the Yankees. So when you say
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Speaker 1: there's a lack of accountability in the clubhouse, you're really
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Speaker 1: calling out Aaron Judge. Are you not? That's how I
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Speaker 1: heard it. He's the captain. So if there's lack of accountability,
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Speaker 1: it falls on his shoulders. Now, that being said, Joe
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Speaker 1: Girardi is a card-carrying member of the Brotherhood of Managers,
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Speaker 1: whether active or former managers. And he's also collecting a
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Speaker 1: Yankee broadcasting check. He does some Yankee games. Not a lot,
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Speaker 1: but he does some Yankee games on TV on the
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Speaker 1: YES Network, the propaganda arm of Yankee baseball. And he's
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Speaker 1: collecting that check, and you expect Joe Girardi to toss
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Speaker 1: Aaron Boone under the No. 4 train? Come on. Please.
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Speaker 1: This is the easiest endorsement in all of baseball. It is.
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Speaker 1: Joe Girardi knows that Aaron Boone is going to be back.
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Speaker 1: next season. And he's going to do the games on TV.
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Speaker 1: So you think you're going to kowtow to Aaron Boone?
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Speaker 1: He thinks he probably would. And he's also operating under
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Speaker 1: the assumption that whenever baseball ends its work stoppage, Jazz
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Speaker 1: Chisholm will be headed to a different outpost. And we
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Speaker 1: all know Aaron Boone is just a middle manager with
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Speaker 1: a tablet. And as long as the tablet has power,
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Speaker 1: he's okay. He's not some visionary. He's not. Aaron Boone
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Speaker 1: is essentially assembling the Yankee Stadium Lego set piece by piece.
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Speaker 1: You give him the instructions and you say, all right,
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Speaker 1: here's what you got to do to build the ballpark. Okay.
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Speaker 1: He will build a lovely replica with those Legos. Just great.
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Speaker 1: You take away the instruction manual. And Aaron Boone will
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Speaker 1: be sitting on the carpet chewing on those plastic Lego bricks.
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Speaker 1: Just crunching away. Oh, this is interesting. It's very crunchy.
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Speaker 1: It's extra crunchy peanut butter is what it is. And
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Speaker 1: the Yankees have been for many years here the most expensive,
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Speaker 1: underachieving country club in American sport. So congratulations to the
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Speaker 1: Yankees on that. They have spent years years and years
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Speaker 1: talking about fundamentals while playing baseball like nobody bothered to
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Speaker 1: read the manual on the fundamentals you feel me on
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Speaker 1: the Maller Militia with a lot to say. A late-night
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Speaker 1: drug tester says Otani's slump is just a marketing ploy.
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Speaker 1: He will get six runs batted in and claim he
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Speaker 1: changed his pregame drink, which the Dodgers will sell for
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Speaker 1: 50 bucks a bottle in game four. Well, that's a
25:46
Speaker 1: good story. However, if you think it's just $ 50 a bottle,
25:48
Speaker 1: you don't understand the price gouging at Dodger Stadium. That'll
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Speaker 1: be $ 250. You kidding me? They're charging like $ 150 for
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Speaker 1: a cheeseburger. What are you talking about? They have no
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Speaker 1: shame over their bottle. Did that burger better feed like
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Speaker 1: seven people? It feeds like small island nations can live
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Speaker 1: off that burger for a month. Bob writes and says, hey, Ben,
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Speaker 1: thanks for telling me Otani's OPS stat is not good.
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Speaker 1: Where do they come up with these stats that nobody
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Speaker 1: knows what they are? That's from Bob in Glen Allen, Virginia.
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Speaker 1: That's a pretty basic stat. Yeah, OPS, Bob, has been
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Speaker 1: around for a while. Now, I think you're talking more
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Speaker 1: about spin rate, exit velo, and some of the other stats.
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Speaker 1: There is literally a stat for everything. I have a
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Speaker 1: friend of mine who has worked around baseball who swears
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Speaker 1: that the analytic revolution in sports is because the younger
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Speaker 1: generations grew up with everyone just kissing their ass, and
26:46
Speaker 1: so they have to find a stat that they lead
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Speaker 1: the league in. So they have so many stats that
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Speaker 1: guaranteed you lead the league in something. Fergdog writes in, says,
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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is never going to bench Ohtani. He likes
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Speaker 1: him in that spot going 0 for 4 every game
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Speaker 1: too much. The Dodgers will never overcome the 100-win curse,
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Speaker 1: the wicked witch placed on them. Yeah, I'm sure they
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Speaker 1: can't win because of that. Clearly. Clearly. Clearly, clearly, clearly.
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Speaker 1: Zach writes in, I assume he's from Colorado, he says,
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Speaker 1: what would you do to fix the Rockies? Well, first
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Speaker 1: of all, I'd actually try. They haven't tried. Because when
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Speaker 1: you try, you can actually put a competitive team on
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Speaker 1: the field. You're only a few players away. Like, it's
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Speaker 1: always the argument. A couple of starting pitchers, halfway decent
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Speaker 1: major league starting pitchers, a couple of good relief pitchers,
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Speaker 1: and a couple of good hitters. So you're like six players.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, that's a lot of players. But it
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that much. You don't have to replace
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Speaker 1: the entire roster. You get a couple of competent starting pitchers,
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Speaker 1: a couple of competent relief pitchers, and a couple of
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Speaker 1: decent hitters, and you're on your way. Just try. Just try. Yes.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: All right. Jill writes in, says, I love Joe Girardi.
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Speaker 1: He says what he feels. Aaron Boone did have a
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Speaker 1: decent season, considering all the injuries, Aaron Judge, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: But I agree, there is no accountability, and I can't
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Speaker 1: stand jazz. It's from our friend Jill. I'd say she's
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Speaker 1: a long-suffering New York sports fan, but she is a
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Speaker 1: Knicks fan, and the Knickerbockers just did win. The championship
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Speaker 1: nature boy answering the call to the wild says, Brian
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Speaker 1: Anderson is way better than Joe Davis at baseball. Can
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Speaker 1: you ask Anthony to say hey to Brian? No, because
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Speaker 1: Anthony is not a baseball guy. Anthony, what do you
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Speaker 1: like again, Anthony? Can you tell me what you like?
28:42
Speaker 1: I like football. All right. Well, thank you. Appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: Bagel Boy says, excellent monologue, Big Ben, a realist. Unlike
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Speaker 1: Cowboy fans, he says. Unlike Cowboy fans. All right. What
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Speaker 1: do we got here? Who else do we have? Let's see.
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Speaker 1: One more, and then we'll get to the calls. Jason
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Speaker 1: the Diamond Man writes in. He says, I do not
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Speaker 1: hate Maller's idea that the Rams would sign Justin Tucker
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Speaker 1: as their new place kicker. Well, bad news, Jason. The
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Speaker 1: Rams have passed on Justin Tucker. They signed a guy
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Speaker 1: who's the size of a garden gnome as their– I
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Speaker 1: guess he's going to be their kicker. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if they're going to have a tryout or not. The
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Speaker 1: Rams did sign a kicker off the Jets practice squad.
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Speaker 1: They released the thicker kicker who didn't deserve to be
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Speaker 1: on the team. He was on thin ice to start
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Speaker 1: with and then went out and had a disastrous performance
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Speaker 1: for the Rams. So they have waved. They have fired
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Speaker 1: the thicker kicker after a couple of shanks against Buffalo.
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Speaker 1: And they keep saying, well, that last kick was blocked.
29:48
Speaker 1: It was such a bad kick. How bad was it
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Speaker 1: that the only reason it was able to be blocked
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Speaker 1: 877-99-ON-FOX is the number. And to the phones we go.
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Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Drew, who's in Coral Gables in
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Speaker 1: beautiful Florida. What's going on?
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Speaker 3: Hi, Drew. Listen, I am really aggravated at watching these
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Speaker 3: Dodgers once strike out like crazy. And another thing is,
30:21
Speaker 3: let's take Otani out of the conversation here. If it
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Speaker 3: was any other of the eight players on that team
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Speaker 3: outside of the pitcher, he would have benched him. But
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Speaker 3: he ain't going to bench Ohtani because he's got too
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Speaker 3: much power. And he screws around with that lineup. Everybody's
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Speaker 3: got a different order and watch their, you know, every game.
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Speaker 3: It's like where Tanya will hit fifth, Freeman sixth, Muncie third.
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Speaker 3: There's just no consistency. And I look back on their season.
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Speaker 3: To me, it looks like the August 31st series where
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Speaker 3: they came off a road trip. They played the Red
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Speaker 3: Sox and they got swept. Then they get swept by
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Speaker 3: the Braves. Then they get swept by the Cubs. They're
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Speaker 3: losing two out of three to the Arizona. Now, maybe
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Speaker 3: that's because they had such a fricking big lead before
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Speaker 3: the all-star break. They didn't have anything to play for.
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Speaker 3: And yet that's when Robert should have put, I don't,
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Speaker 3: I can't pronounce it. The kid number 95, that the
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Speaker 3: rookie is, sit over Tammy's ass down and put that
31:40
Speaker 3: kid in there. At least the kid has some enthusiasm
31:44
Speaker 3: because from what I'm seeing, the only two people on
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Speaker 3: that team that has any kind of enthusiasm is Mookie
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Speaker 3: and and Edmond. They're the only two. The rest of them,
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Speaker 3: I don't know if they're too old.
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Speaker 1: Well, they look terrible. Now, listen, you're going full panic.
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Speaker 1: It's premature for a panic. Bad job by you. You
32:04
Speaker 1: can't go full panic yet, Drew. You've got to wait
32:06
Speaker 1: until they lose a game at Dodger Stadium. Then you
32:08
Speaker 1: can go full panic. If they lose the game on
32:11
Speaker 1: Wednesday night or whatever Thursday here, then you go full panic.
32:14
Speaker 1: You're prematurely going full panic. The Dodgers, they just win
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Speaker 1: these games at home and they give themselves a chance
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Speaker 1: to win the series, obviously. So they look terrible right now.
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Speaker 1: What do you want me to say? They're terrible. I
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Speaker 1: would bench Ohtani.
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Speaker 3: No, I agree with you. Okay. Ben, I agree with
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Speaker 3: you 100%.
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Speaker 1: It's just.
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Speaker 3: It just seems like ever since that series against Boston,
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Speaker 3: they have been going down and they strike out like
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Speaker 3: fricking five out of ten times. They can't even get
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Speaker 3: the fricking ball out of the infield.
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Speaker 1: No, it's futile. They're limp. It's pathetic. They do look old.
32:54
Speaker 1: They look like an old team. Yes, they do. All right.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Drew. You feel better?
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Speaker 3: Ben?
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Speaker 1: You the man, buddy. All right, thank you, buddy. There
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Speaker 1: you go. There's Drew. Unloading. I unload, too, but I
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Speaker 1: wait a little bit. I go to Blind Scott, who
33:10
Speaker 1: was on the mailbag this past weekend. Many of you
33:13
Speaker 1: enjoyed that. Others, you hated it. Hello, Blind Scott in Boston.
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Speaker 5: I want to come on the mailbag again. That was
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Speaker 5: That's the greatest accomplishment in my life going on there.
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Speaker 5: I like how it went. I'll be available at the
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Speaker 5: same time if you want to call me. I deleted
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Speaker 5: the Twitter app on Friday. Dude, I wanted to come
33:32
Speaker 5: on the fifth hour to talk about Walter's son. I
33:34
Speaker 5: understand disability very well, cerebral palsy and genetic diseases, and
33:39
Speaker 5: I think it would be great for us to discuss.
33:40
Speaker 5: We have a lot of disabled people listening in the audience,
33:43
Speaker 5: and I just want to tell you all, if you're struggling,
33:46
Speaker 5: you can call 988. I mean, you could email Ben Maller.
33:49
Speaker 5: His mother-in-law is a nurse. We would do anything to
33:52
Speaker 5: help anybody with disability on this show that might be
33:55
Speaker 5: struggling with mental illness or might be just struggling in general.
33:59
Speaker 5: We don't want to lose any listeners like we lost
34:02
Speaker 5: Walter's son. If you remember Walter's son, when Walter first
34:05
Speaker 5: started selling Crystal Mess, he was very engaged and he
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Speaker 5: was happy. But then at the end of the show,
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Speaker 5: he was very much against it and thought it was
34:12
Speaker 5: a bad thing. I'm very sorry that we lost him,
34:14
Speaker 5: and I consider him part of the Mallard militia. And
34:17
Speaker 5: we have a childhood star on this show. And if
34:20
Speaker 5: Ben's not interested in the fifth-hour email bag, I might
34:23
Speaker 5: go on the six-hour email bag with Justin Cooper. And
34:26
Speaker 5: that's about Ben Mallard. That's going to be about Ben Mallard.
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Speaker 1: Is that right? Okay, that'll be big. There was rumors,
34:32
Speaker 1: and I guess they were going to bring it back,
34:34
Speaker 1: Robbie the Mariner. I know you love Robbie, and you're
34:36
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Speaker 5: Queen Roxanne.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were doing the Mallertown podcast was going to
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Speaker 1: come back.
34:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they don't really like me. So a lot
34:47
Speaker 5: of these people just hate me, and they prefer that.
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Speaker 1: Why would they hate you? I don't understand. Why would
34:51
Speaker 1: they hate you?
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Speaker 5: Well, because you make them hate me because you use
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Speaker 5: my wrong pronouns and you don't support me and you
34:59
Speaker 5: gaslight me.
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Speaker 1: I just had you on the Fifth Hour Podcast. That's
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Speaker 1: the ultimate. Did he just do a 180 right there?
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Speaker 1: Totally did. Did he not start the call by saying
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Speaker 1: the greatest accomplishment of his life? I was so excited.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, look, he doesn't hate you anymore.
35:14
Speaker 3: I'm glad.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm going to give him a pass because Blind
35:17
Speaker 1: Scott's off the meds. But I've heard. I don't know.
35:20
Speaker 1: He's not taking the meds. And so that happened. See,
35:25
Speaker 1: the problem is I brought up Robbie and these other people.
35:28
Speaker 1: You made him jealous. Yeah, that triggered him. That was
35:32
Speaker 1: painful for Scott. It was unfortunate. Anyway, it is the
35:37
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. By the way, Don Mattingly, Donnie Baseball,
35:41
Speaker 1: by default, because apparently nobody else wants the Phillies job,
35:44
Speaker 1: Don Mattingly, apparently what we're hearing, the job is his
35:51
Speaker 1: if he wants. He's going to remain the Phillies manager
35:54
Speaker 1: 2027 after Alex Cora said, I ain't going there. Mattingly
35:59
Speaker 1: and the Phillies started terribly under Rob Thompson, then turned
36:03
Speaker 1: things around, although they tanked in the playoffs. So he's
36:08
Speaker 1: supposedly in line, Don Mattingly, to get that job full-time.
36:12
Speaker 1: Good for him. Here's the Who Am I game. I
36:14
Speaker 1: was a sixth-round pick. I threw the most famous lateral
36:18
Speaker 1: in NFL playoff history, and I also even appeared in
36:23
Speaker 1: professional wrestling for TNA at the Slam-a-versi. I believe that's
36:28
Speaker 1: what it was called. Anyway, sixth-round pick. I threw the
36:31
Speaker 1: most famous lateral pass in NFL playoff history. and appeared
36:36
Speaker 1: in TNA Wrestling back during my career. Who am I?
36:40
Speaker 1: That is the question. The answer. We'll get to it,
36:44
Speaker 1: and we will do it! next.
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Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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37:15
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37:48
Speaker 1: it is. Thank you. All right, back to it we go.
37:52
Speaker 1: And we'll pay off the somewhat popular, somewhat popular, Who
37:56
Speaker 1: Am I?
37:56
Speaker 4: Who?
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Speaker 1: That's where we pretend to be somebody else. And here
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Speaker 1: we go. I was a sixth-round draft pick. I threw
38:04
Speaker 1: the most famous lateral in NFL playoff history. I also
38:08
Speaker 1: appeared in TNA Wrestling. Back in the day, who am I?
38:14
Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? And let's see,
38:17
Speaker 1: does anyone in the Mallard Militia know the answer? Femi,
38:21
Speaker 1: the top Uber Eats driver in the Twin Cities, is
38:23
Speaker 1: going with Rob Gronkowski as his answer. What else do
38:28
Speaker 1: we have? Let's see here. Alf the Alien O'Piner says,
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Speaker 1: Eli Herring. The high draft pick turned down millions to
38:37
Speaker 1: not work in the NFL on the Sabbath.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
38:40
Speaker 1: That's from our buddy. Who else? Terry Bradshaw, guest by
38:44
Speaker 1: Mal or Prop Guy. Page down. Jesse the Body Ventura
38:48
Speaker 1: from Not Blind Austin. Lawrence got it right. Obviously cheating.
38:52
Speaker 1: Jerome Bettis, the bus goes round and round. The wheels
38:56
Speaker 1: on the bus go round and round. That's from Analog
38:58
Speaker 1: Al for Jerome Bettis. His answer, Frank Hauser. Going with
39:04
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears great Hard Pierce is his answer. King Kong
39:08
Speaker 1: Bundy from our friend Natron who lives up in Stockton
39:13
Speaker 1: and comes to the Mallard meet and greet with his
39:15
Speaker 1: lady there every year. He's in Vegas. We get to
39:17
Speaker 1: hang out with Natron. Tree from the 773. He got
39:21
Speaker 1: it right. Obviously cheating. Who else do we have? Page down.
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Speaker 1: Analog Al says Blind Scott is awesome in Blind Scott's head.
39:28
Speaker 1: So he says El Rey says we need to go
39:35
Speaker 1: back to Worcester. I would love to go back to Worcester.
39:37
Speaker 1: I had a great time in Worcester. The people at
39:38
Speaker 1: the Woo Sox were very nice the next day. We
39:40
Speaker 1: had a wonderful night out, met a lot of friends
39:43
Speaker 1: of the show. It was a great time. We have
39:45
Speaker 1: no plans to go back to Worcester, but we'll love to.
39:48
Speaker 1: I love hanging out in Boston. I need to go
39:50
Speaker 1: there more.
39:51
Speaker 3: All right.
39:51
Speaker 1: And one more time. Here's the Who Am I game.
39:52
Speaker 1: I was a six-round pick. I threw the most famous
39:54
Speaker 1: lateral in NFL playoff history. I also appeared in TNA Wrestling.
39:58
Speaker 1: Who am I? Lorraine, no! It's obviously Hulk Hogan. No.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: That would be the man who completed the illegal lateral,
40:06
Speaker 1: Frank Wycheck, the late Frank Wycheck to Kevin Dyson. New
40:09
Speaker 1: York City, Music City Miracle. He had a good passing career.
40:13
Speaker 1: Didn't pass much, but he completed most of his passes.
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Speaker 1: Frank Wycheck, Frank Wycheck.